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I was there on Sunday and it was fantastic. The Hip are a band I've really only followed in passing - I don't own any albums other than Fully Completely and Day For Night, but listened to a lot of their stuff because my parents listened to it when I was growing up, so for me it was a lot of recognizing things and just reconciling it with my childhood, so the fact that I didn't know any of the new stuff didn't bug me all that much. I was very incredibly and happily surprised by Thugs and Locked in The Trunk of a Car getting played. Those are 2 of my favorite Hip songs and I was totally floored that I got to hear them.

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers. Holy shit this book is awesome.

Started the Witcher 2 on the weekend and am quite a ways through act 2 (I think I am anyways). Very fun game - enjoying it a lot more on PC than I did on 360 (thank you combat rebalancing mod).

Going to Thrice in September. September is an okay month for shows.

And I think more might be coming from the initial pre-sale and on-sale, as it appears ticketmaster is retroactively verifying purchases. When I got my tickets, the QR code for them was available immediately via the ticketmaster app, but now the code is gone and I got a pop up saying they will be delivered at a later date (which is what happened when I ordered Sigur Ros tickets, except, you know, immediately).

At The Drive-In was fantastic last night. Sounded really tight, had lots of good energy AND they announced they're going to release a new album.

I also managed to get nosebleeders for the first show in Vancouver through the pre-sale. Spent 40 minutes trying. And got paid for it because I did it at work! Ticketmaster doesn't own StubHub, ebay does. EDIT: Here's an article/interview w/ a StubHub rep from Alan Cross's site: http://ajournalofmusicalthings.com/stubhub-behind-scenes-giving-empathetic-liars/

I got a record player today! Tested out 99%, had one little skip, but kept going. Sounds fantastic though, even through less than ideal speakers.

Explosions in the Sky - Sept 4 Sigur Ros - Sept 19 :D

If you want more Canadian stuff, may I direct you to: Dan Mangan Mounties Limblifter Ryan Dahle Age of Electric Stars Kandle Osborne Louise Burns Metric Mad June

I just have everything saved in iTunes under Matthew Good because that makes it easier for me. Sort of a Protest Song - 617 A Single Exploson - 474 99% of Us is Failure - 373 Born Losers - 358 Giant - 353 Odette - 352 Suburbia - 347 Tripoli - 343 The Workers Sing a Song of Mass Production - 335 Weapon - 330 There was a time when I wasn't using last.fm (and still don't really use it now) so I imagine in the grand scheme of things, I think songs like Mildred and Lights of Endangered Species would have a crack at the top 10. I think what this chart shows for me (other than my love for BM and AOB) is that Hospital Music is probably my third most listened to album of Matt's career. I know all time, I've probably listened to SOAPS well over 1000 times, and I think I would probably be close to 1000 on A Single Explosion.

I saw Spy a couple of weekends ago. Like Kingsmen, it caught me by surprise with how good it was.

The Witch, again. Black Phillip for best supporting actor 2016. I don't care that he's a goat. Seriously this movie is so good.

Those Union Tube and Transistor fuzz pedals are worth the $300 though. I have the sub buzz for my bass and it's easily one of the best fuzz pedals I've ever used.

10 Cloverfield Lane was the most recent I saw in the theater and it was fantastic. Between it and the Witch, that's 2 movies this year with limited cast/locations that just absolutely nail it. I watched Martyrs today for the first time in about 5 years, and holy fuck that movie does not get any easier to watch.

Walking simulators for the the win! I also enjoy "visual novel" style games are also great if you just want a good story.

Shay and I saw The Witch last weekend and it was awesome. It reminded a lot of "It Follows" (which was my third favorite 2015 movie) in the sense that there's just a pervasive sense of dread throughout the whole thing. Great visuals, great acting, creepy soundtrack. If you like slow burn horror type movies, see it!

I loved it. It was a lot of fun and it was nice that it didn't take itself so seriously.

I haven't yet started Firewatch and I need to finish the last episode of Life Is Strange. Also need to play Read Only Memories, Kentucky Route Zero (waiting for the last 2 episodes to come out), Her Story, Charnel House Trilogy and a bunch of other stuff (I like indie games if this was apparent). I am probably gonna go through Firewatch this weekend though.

Personally, I would actually pick Club Meds over anything else for Rock Album of the year. CN is pretty damn good, but Mangan is on another level right now.

Instead of Dan Mangan? Fucking ludicrous.

Rise of the Tomb Raider - so pretty, so many sweet bow skills - fuck guns The Division beta - I feel like this will fill the Destiny sized hole in my heart when it comes out Slowly getting through Hyperdimension Neptunia Rebirth Vol 1 and so anime, very fanservice, kinda interesting combat

Well now I have an extra copy of CN to give away.

And I got my ATDI ticket. Yesssssss

Facebook pre-sale code for At The Drive In is APPLAUSE - not sure if this applies to all dates or just the Vancouver date. Pre-sale starts Jan 27 at 10am.