hot Bunny Radio Playlist for March 4th

CKLU 96.7 FM

6-8pm (18:00 - 20:00)

* denotes Canadian talent

italics denotes a new release

CLICK HERE FOR PODCASTY GOODNESS OF TONIGHT'S SHOW!!!!

• Supergrass -- Alright -- Clueless OSR
• Camera Obscura -- Other Towns & Cities -- My Maudlin Career
• Whiskeytown -- Barlights -- Pneumonia
• Calexico -- Gypsy's Curse -- The Black Light (VINYL)
• Sarah Harmer -- Coffee Stain -- You Were Here *
• Jenny Whiteley -- Heart of Gold -- Dear *
• Jason Collett - Papercut Hearts -- Here's to Being Here *
• Big Star -- Black Car -- Third/Sister Lovers
• Elliott -- Pretty Mary K -- Figure 8
• Jale -- Nebulous -- Dreamcake *
• Tegan and Sara -- Hell On -- Sainthood *
• Rock Plaza Central -- My Children, Be Joyful -- Are We Not Horses? *
• My Morning Jacket -- Librarian -- Evil Urges (VINYL)
• The Kinks -- This Time Tomorrow -- Lola versus Powerman and The Moneygoround Pt.1
• Dinosaur Jr -- Keep the Glove -- Fossils
• Uncle Tupelo -- Watch Me Fall -- Still Feel Gone
• The Magnetic Fields -- Seduced and Abandoned -- Realism
• Nathan Lawr -- Put Your Money -- Secret Carpentry *
• Jenn Grant -- Don't Worry Baby -- Orchestra for the Moon *
• Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band -- Ten Women -- Outer South (VINYL)
• David Bowie -- Five Years -- Ziggy Stardust
• Jenny Lewis -- Acid Tongue -- Acid Tongue
• Thurston Moore -- Pretty Bad -- Psychic Hearts
• Zeus -- Kindergarten -- Say Us *
• New York Dolls -- Bad Girl -- New York Dolls
• Blur -- Death of a Party -- Blur
• Dead Letter Chorus -- Down in Your Valley -- The August Magnificent
• Regina Spektor -- Us -- (500) Days of Summer OSR
• The Pinecones -- I Think You're Blind (Starlit One) -- Sage *

NOTES THIS WEEK:

• Started with the Supergrass cuz that's a song that ALWAYS makes me feel clappy and I needed something to shake the dust off;
• That's it, I'm listening to "Pneumonia" in its entirety at work tomorrow. It's been far, far too long to go without;
• Listening to Calexico makes me feel dusty...
• Man, i haven't listened to any Sarah Harmer in a really long time...must be spring;
• Let's take a 6 minute long Rock Plaza Central appreciation moment.....
• Brand new Zeus!!!!! So good!!!! So far anyway. God bless advance copies...

annual oscar rant

So maybe I need to rant about the Oscar race to help make me feel all jazzy again? Who knows but we'll give it a try. This year especially given my hate-on for Avatar? Oh yeah, I got LOTS to say...

Best Picture

Ok so there's 10 nominees this year which I think is just silly but what do I know? What movie do I WANT it to be? An Education. Which movie do think it will be if people vote with their brains? The Hurt Locker. Which movie will it be if the "drunk on special effects" public gets its way? Avatar of course. The way I see it, a movie absolutely should not be listed in Best Picture if it also doesn't have any acting nominations or writing nominations. After all, the best picture should be just that -- the best of all categories. Avatar can win every single technical category and that will be entirely justified. Even I will admit that. But the movie is written like a soap opera, the acting was cringe-worthy, the storyline borderline insulting. The Hurt Locker on the other hand? I think that if I liked it as much as I did - and keep in mind that I don't watch war movies as a rule and only made an exception for this cuz it was on TV - well that says a lot for me. The movie is crafted brilliantly from start to finish, it's heart-pumping, it's character driven and one of the best directed films I've seen all year. So it can win and I'll be happy even though An Education has a special place in my heart.

Best Actor

This category has got to go to Jeff Bridges hands down. Crazy Heart is a really, really good movie -- not an amazing movie -- but Jeff Bridges is totally what made that movie for me. And outside of The Big Lebowski, I've never really liked anything he's done. George Clooney? Well we all know I loved Up in the Air but he was nowhere near as good as Jeff. Not this time George..

Best Actress

Since I think Carey Mulligan is just the most adorable thing to grace a screen in a very long time and since I loved An Education so much, I'd LOVE it to be her. But unfortunately, we all know it's gonna be Sandra Bullock no matter how many times she says there's no way she'll win. The thought of Sandra Bullock beating out Meryl Streep and Helen Mirren though? That's just not right. Even though Julie & Julia was just an awful movie. And guaranteed she'll wear a bad dress. Ugh. I just think Sandra winning is the most boring and predictable choice ever.

Best Supporting Actor

Christoph Waltz, for me, was the absolute only good thing about Inglorious Basterds. But man, what a good thing he was. Just perfection.

Best Supporting Actress

Normally I can't fathom picking anyone over Maggie Gyllenhaal but she was just kinda "meh" in Crazy Heart. In my heart I want it to be Anna Kendrick but I just think she's way too new and still way too close to Twilight for people to vote for her. It's gonna be Mo'Nique for sure I think.

Best Director

Kathryn Bigelow -- it just has to be, if only to save us all from the inevitable horror that will be James Cameron's acceptance speech. Did you hear him at the Golden Globes when in the midst of the Haiti disaster he said "let's have a hand for all of us -- let's hear it for us!!!" What an asshole. James can direct his movies but he should never be allowed to write them. I just wish someone would tell him that. Speeches aside, Bigelow made a brilliant film and deserves to be recognized for it.

Best Cinematography, Best Editor, Best Art Direction, Best Sound Mixing and Editing, Best Visual Effects

This has to go to Avatar hands down. The other nominees shouldn't even show up. Or if they do show up they should just go ahead and get really drunk cuz they certainly don't have to worry about making a speech on international television. Even though I hated most things about this movie, even I must admit that it was GORGEOUS to watch and that fact frankly kept me from leaving the theatre. They crafted every single blade of grass, every flower petal, the night scenes are amazing and the technical team behind this film is truly, truly a gifted bunch and should get every single award they make. But that is all. The craftsmanship behind this film is what tricked people into thinking they were watching an amazing film. As my friend posted about this film "Artists: Working Hard So Writers Don't Have To."

Best Original Song

First of all, I think it's a total rip-off that the Best Song nominees aren't performing during the show this year. Seriously what's up with that?? It's the best part! Remember last year when "It's Hard Out There For a Pimp" busted out?? That song saved the whole telecast!! BUT, it's not going to happen so we must move on. My choice? Hands down, "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart. What a great song that is perfect for the film.

Best Animated Feature

It's going to be Up. Of course it is. Especially because it's nominated as Best Picture too and it's obviously not going to win that. And I guess I'm alright with Up winning cuz I've only heard amazing things about it. But I just loved Fantastic Mr. Fox SO much that my heart gets all happy when I think that maybe other people liked it that much too.

And that is all for me this year. I didn't see all the films this year. As I've said a million times, the Coen brothers are right up there in my top 3 favourite filmmakers so I imagine I'd be picking that film for Best Picture had I seen it but what can you do?

bad blogger

Yup I'm a bad blogger and I think the above picture pretty much sums up why. I've been feeling like death on two feet for weeks now. I'm exhausted every minute of the day and when I sleep I either sleep horribly or I sleep like the dead and am unable to wake up in the morning. Work is busy so the last thing I want to do when I get home is turn on another computer. I can barely hold a conversation past 8pm so socialization has felt impossible.

But I'm trying to get back in the groove and I promise to try and be a better blogger.

*photo taken by Jordon*

Hot Bunny Radio Playlist for February 11th: Anti-Valentines Day show!!!

CKLU 96.7 fm

6-8pm (18:00 - 20:00)

* denotes Canadian talent

italics denotes a new release

CLICK HERE FOR PODCASTY GOODNESS OF TONIGHT'S SHOW!!!!!

Tonight is the much-loved (by me) annual Anti-Valentines Day Show here at Hot Bunny Radio! Enjoy lots of kiss-off songs and likely a few sad ones too...

• The Beatles -- Not A Second Time -- With the Beatles
• Blake Babies -- Take Your Head Off My Shoulder --earwig
• Bob Dylan -- Idiot Wind -- Blood on the Tracks
• Camera Obscura -- Careless Love -- My Maudlin Career
• The Damned -- So Messed Up -- Damned, Damned, Damned
• Eric's Trip -- Hate Song -- Forever Again *
• The Jam -- So Sad About Us -- Setting Sons
• Jason Bajada -- Sad Song About You #2 -- Loveshit
• Jim Bryson -- Mean Streak -- The North Side Benches *
• Johnny Thunders -- Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory -- So Alone
• Julie Doiron -- Dont Wannabe/Liked By You -- Woke Myself Up *
• The Knickerbockers -- Lies -- Quivers Down the Backbone Birthday Compilation
• Langhorne Slim -- Hummingbird -- Langhorne Slim
• Liz Phair -- Girls! Girls! Girls! -- Exile in Guyville
• Nancy Sinatra -- How Does That Grab You Darlin' -- How Does That Grab You?
• Neko Case -- Runnin' Out of Fools -- Blacklisted
• Okkervil River -- Calling and Not Calling My Ex -- The Stand Ins
• The Queers -- No Tit -- Don't Back Down *
• The Ramones -- I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You -- Ramones
• The Replacements -- Answering Machine -- Let It Be
• Rilo Kiley -- Does He Love You? -- More Adventurous
• Ryan Adams -- Come Pick Me Up -- Heartbreaker
• Sarah Harmer & Jason Euringer -- Your Cheatin' Heart -- Songs for Clem *
• She & Him -- Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want -- (500) Days of Summer OSR
• The Shins -- Gone For Good -- Chutes Too Narrow
• The Smiths -- Unhappy Birthday -- Strangeways, Here We Come
• Supersuckers -- 400 Bucks -- Reverend Horton Heat/Supersuckers
• Thrush Hermit -- Before You Leave -- Clayton Park *
• Violent Femmes -- Fat -- 3
• Ween -- Piss Up A Rope -- 12 Golden Country Greats
• The White Wires -- You're No Good For Me -- Girly, Girly, Girly *
• The 5.6.7.8's -- I Don't Need You No More -- The 5.6.7.8's
• P.J. Harvey -- Who The Fuck? -- Uh Huh Her

NOTES THIS WEEK:

• Blake Babies -- an annual favourite cuz it's got lines like "all my tears are gonna be from joy."
• Oh Bob, "you're an idiot babe, it's a wonder you still know how to breathe..."
• "I think I'd rather F**K her mom" -- if that's not an anti-valentines day line I don't know what is....
• That Johnny Thunders song makes me wanna give him a great big hug. You know, if he wasn't dead....
• That Knickerbockers song makes me feel much tougher than I am in reality...
• "I'm dreaming of leaving of my demons and the first one I'm leaving is you." Damn you Langhorne Slim.....so harsh and so sad...
• Every time I hear "How Does that Grab You Darlin'" I'm reminded of why it's one of my all-time favourite songs ever.
• It's like, alien-like freaky, that Neko can hit those notes in "Runnin Out of Fools" and make it sound like nothin'...
• Okkervil River: a song about dating and breaking up with a Hollywood starlet. Oh we've all been there....
• You're right Ramones, I wouldn't to walk around with someone who didn't want to walk around with me.
• Nothing's more romantic than a girl stealing all your records, sleeping with all your friends and then doing it all over again...
• I think cuz "you're evil and you lie" is a good reason to wish someone an unhappy birthday;
• Maybe the Ween is the song you don't play with the kids around. It's just for the grown ups...

hello new dresses

Lord bless Kaili who made a very successful Anthropologie run for us yesterday!! Say hello to my new friends...

The All Seasons Shirtdress

The Reed Shirtdress

felted elephant

Dear anybody: Please have a baby so I have an excuse to make this little felted elephant for you.

*via Indie Icing

love you deerly

Love it -- so my kind of Valentine....

*via Something's Hiding In Here

weekend round-up: derby and An Education

So I kind of got away from doing my weekend round-ups over the Christmas holidays basically because I was off for so long that my weekend round-ups would pretty much sound like every other day I was having. But now that I'm back in the swing of 2010, well heck let's start gabbing about the weekends again!

Friday started the weekend a bit early for me as I was treated to a lovely lunch with my Mom. Yay for lunches with Mom!!

Friday night took a bit of a turn for the strange. Strange but kind of fun. We had a fundraiser for our Nickel City Roller Derby League and so us derby gals headed out to a "club" here in town. I say "club" cuz it's exactly the kind of place I hate going -- bad music, frat boys and gals trying way too hard in far too few clothes. But in the spirit of derby -- off we went! Thank goodness for a pile of my friends that all showed up cuz that certainly made the night bearable. Man, I know we were all those girls at some point but leaving that place just made me feel bad for them -- they were trying SO hard and wearing SO little -- you know the majority of them went home alone after all that. Anyway, Marc and I were very happy to go home together and fall into a couch-full of pillows and put the driving bass behind us.

Saturday brought a really lovely walk in the conservation area with Sadie, some errand running and record shopping. After leaving with our arms full o'vinyl, we stuffed our bellies with croissants and cookies at a local bakery, ran some more errands and headed home for a delightful family nap.

Post-nap, Marc made me a delicious dinner of squash and pancetta risotto and took me out on date to see An Education, a really great movie. Not a new story - your standard young wide-eyed girl meets worldly exciting older man -- but it's a really smart story and one that is well told with some really meaty characters. And with a screenplay by Nick Hornby, of course it's quite witty and moves along at a great pace. And let's just talk about the adorable Carey Mulligan. She is just the most adorable thing I've seen since Audrey Tautou in Amelie. You just want to scoop her up and put her in your pocket. And on an even girlier note? Let's take a moment to appreciate the styling of this film. It made me want to slap on some pearls, sweep my hair up into a chignon and step into a fabulous printed shift dress. Gorgeous!! See this film and you won't be sorry.

Sunday we greeted the glorious sunshine with a nice long hike on the snowshoe trail up at the conservation area. It was such a stunning day it really seemed a shame not to spend it communing with nature. Marc even fed the chickadees right out of his hand. He's so zen. Spent the rest of the day in domestic bliss -- I cleaned, did laundry, baked muffins, and did all kinds of other domestic-y things. We did not watch the Superbowl but we DID watch the PuppyBowl (which Sadie actually watched with us - no joke) and ate nachos.

All in all, a truly great weekend with lots of great outside fun and some good couple-y-ness. Which I never complain about really....

puppy bowl

I know it's Super Bowl this weekend but frankly, this is WAY better....

Hot Bunny Radio Playlist for February 4th

CKLU 96.7fm

6-8pm (18:00 - 20:00)

* denotes Canadian talent

italics denotes a new release

CLICK HERE FOR PODCASTY GOODNESS OF TONIGHT'S SHOW!!!

• Thee Headcoatees -- Boysville -- Girlsville
• Pretty Girls Make Graves -- Pictures of a Night Scene -- Elan Vital
• Pixies -- Mr. Grieves -- Doolittle
• M Ward -- Chinese Translation -- Post-War (VINYL)
• Juliana Hatfield -- The Lights -- Hey Babe
• Los Campesinos! -- Romance Is Boring -- Romance Is Boring
• Gram Parsons & The Fallen Angels -- Sleepless Nights -- Sacred Hearts & Fallen Angels
• Neko Case -- People Gotta Lot of Nerve -- Middle Cyclone (VINYL)
• Jale -- Nebulous -- Dreamcake *
• Paul Westerberg -- Knockin' Em Back -- Come Feel Me Tremble
• Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds -- Get Ready For Love -- Abattoir Blues
• Little Girls -- Tambourine -- Concepts *
• Morrissey -- The Father Who Must Be Killed -- Ringleaders of the Tormentors
• The Clash -- Somebody Got Murdered -- Sandinista! (VINYL)
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs -- Runaway -- It's Blitz!
• Built To Spill -- Life's A Dream -- There Is No Enemy
• Calexico & Iron and Wine -- Sixteen, Maybe Less -- In The Reins
• FemBots -- Variations 123 -- Mucho Cuidado *
• The Statues -- Quality Assurance -- New People Make Us Nervous *
• Purple Hill -- The Ballad of Roomate #2 -- Beechnut St *
• The Kinks -- Tin Soldier Man -- Something Else by the Kinks
• The Damned -- I Just Can't Be Happy Today -- Final Damnation
• Yukon Blonde -- Rather Be With You -- Yukon Blonde *
• Jenn Grant - Rainy Day -- Orchestra For The Moon *
• Ruth Minnikin & her Bandwagon -- The Theme Song -- Depend on This *
• Billy Bragg & Wilco -- Feed of Man -- Mermaid Avenue Volume 2
• Kate Maki -- Rip Out The Moon -- Two Song Wedding (VINYL) *
• Magnetic Fields -- Always Already Gone -- Realism
• Yeasayer -- Tightrope -- Dark Was the Night
• You Say Party! We Say Die! -- Cosmic Wanship Avengers - XXXX *
• Gordon Lightfoot -- Slide on Over -- Cold On The Shoulder (VINYL) *

NOTES THIS WEEK:

• What's wrong with Thee Headcoatees you ask? Not one single thing...
• New Los Campesinos!!!! So adorable with their little accents....
• Neko Case on vinyl should be the only format her music comes in'
• Talk about bands from my younger days --honestly how good was Jale?? Canadian indie didn't get much better..
• Nobody tell Morrissey I have real fur on my moccasins...
• Karen O may be my "Woman of 2009"
• Jenn Grant playing the Townehouse Tavern tomorrow night!!!!!
• I've gotta get my hands on some more Yeasayer -- that song blows my mind!
• Ending with some Gordon Lightfoot for my Pa who's driving the heck outta the buses at the Olympics as we speak!

if it's good enough for audrey..

....then how come I can't have a pet deer to take grocery shopping with me?

*found via Hooray Design Blog

excellent tv math

How's this for a formula to Tara's heart?

Take one Zooey Deschanel...

Add "I'm With the Band" by Pamela Des Barres - one of my all-time favourite trashy reads,

...and throw in HBO, my fave TV network.

This is already my new favourite show in the history of television shows and it hasn't even aired yet. Thanks to Big City Kelly for the heads up!!!

you are all i need

More Valentine's Day love. From Roll and Tumble press I think this print hanging in a bedroom is just the sweetest.

one gal's mid-century modern is another gal's everyday

Saw this in blogland today and it made me laugh right out loud. On Modish Vintage's shop update they're touting the "vintage Noritake Primastone stoneware oval serving platter with geometric design" as one of their latest mid-century modern finds up for grabs.

These are my use everyday dishes! I have an entire set of these complete with tea cups and a butter dish. The only thing I don't have strangely is this serving platter.

I inherited my dishes from my parents who bought them when they first got married in 1969!

Don't you find it strange when something you see and use everyday is viewed by another as a collector's item?

grow old with me

Doing some serious swooning over this print by Lisa Congdon. Looking for that perfect Valentine's Day gift people?

*Found via Design Is Mine

sunshine pictures

I love this grouping of pictures from Anna Aden. I just really want to be the girl in these photos.



*found via Design is Mine

Hot Bunny Radio Playlist for January 28th

CKLU 96.7FM

6-8pm (18:00 - 20:00)

* denotes Canadian talent

italics denotes a new release

CLICK HERE FOR PODCASTY GOODNESS OF TONIGHT'S SHOW!!!!

• Diana Ross & the Supremes -- Keep Me Hangin' On -- Greatest Hits (VINYL)
• The Sadies -- Back Off -- The Sadies Live in Concert *
• Teenage Head -- You're the One I'm Crazy For -- Teenage Head with Marky Ramone *
• Loose Fur -- Answers to Your Questions -- Born Again in the USA
• Volumizer -- Two Words -- Gaga For Gigi *
• Violent Femmes -- He Likes Me -- Why Do Birds Sing?
• The Low Anthem -- To Ohio -- Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
• Cat Power -- Lost Someone -- Jukebox
• Generation X -- Kiss Me Deadly -- Generation X (VINYL)
• Four Tops -- I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) -- Motown 1's
• Junction Creek -- That Old Love Train -- Twigs and Branches *
• Paul Westerberg -- Self-Defense -- Suicaine Gratification
• Sloan -- Stove/Smother -- DGC Rarities Volume 1
• FInal Fantasy -- Red Sun No.5 -- Twelve Songs *
• Arcade Fire -- Black Mirror -- Neon Bible *
• Sonic Youth -- The Empty Page -- Murray Street
• Tom Waits -- On A Foggy Night -- Nighthawks at the Diner
• Woodhands -- CP24 -- Remorsecapade *
• Fleet Foxes -- Tiger Mountain Peasant Song -- Fleet Foxes
• Johnny Cash -- First Time Ever I Saw Your Face -- American IV: The Man Comes Around
• The Magnetic Fields -- You Must Be Out Of Your Mind -- Realism
• Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs -- Burn Your Fun -- Dirt Don't Hurt
• The Ramones -- Beat on the Brat -- Ramones
• PJ Harvey -- The Mess We're In -- Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
• The Paperbacks -- Stars (for Claire Massey) -- Lit From Within *
• Thao -- Swimming Pools -- Paste Sampler 40
• Kate Maki -- Bloodshot & Blistered -- Two Song Wedding *
• Monsters of Folk -- Temazcal -- Monsters of Folk
• Basia Bulat -- Sparrow -- Heart Of My Own *
• Hall & Oates -- You Make My Dreams -- (500) Days of Summer OSR

Notes this week:

• Let's revel again in the greatness that is that Teenage Head record;
• That Violent Femmes song never fails to make me shake my bum;
• What is it about Cat Power that makes you want to behave......unladylike?
• Oh Billy Idol -- remember when you made real music? Remember when you were in a great band??
• Not only my fave song by a local band but also one of my top 20 fave songs ever. Long live Junction Creek!
• Are you listening to the new Woodhands for your knickers dance parties?? We are!
• New Magnetic Fields = really, really good so far;
• I want to put Basia Bulat in my pocket.
• The Hall & Oates is for Big City Kelly. An apology for the weepy Johnny Cash...

ridonkulous

This post is for Kaili who is a big fan of this word. Now she just needs this cute little illustration from Virginia Kraljevic to complete the experience.

blood orange tart

Dear somebody: If this Blood Orange tart were to magically show up on a plate in front of me I would kiss you right on the mouth.


*Recipe via the mouth-wateringly amazing Lottie & Doof

too pretty for cutting

Who knew one day I'd be writing a post about cutting boards and how excited I was about them? Well here we are and here are some pretty cutting boards from Elisabeth Dunker of Fine Little Shop. I fancy the bird in the wee little cap myself.

*found via Lushlee