The Ladder to Canada's Lungs: 2010

December 3, 2010

I love you more than people

Here's a DecadeSelector mashup I've been working on for awhile. Like I mean a year or two! I finally cut it up so that the new lyrics make sense. Check it out:

Don't stop I love you more than 69 people by DecadeSelector

When you were my small-town girl string
living you lonely money
after my fingers bled going anywhere
me and a trained boy
born and raised
friends real hard
you were so strange going anywhere far

Singer, you were mine
I smell of wine
and where are all
of my clothes
for a smile so fine, on and on
that's the reason that it hurt me
strangers, when i look back
going with another summer
down the boulevard
their shadows
had the choice
baby that's no lie
I always want to be there

I love you more than people

the night

workin' hard, you were... complaining
“everybody wants my best friend”

evenings down at the dice,
one more,
that's when i met you

i never cared
some are born to sing
to make a fuss
the movie there,
it goes on and on
the two

strangers
on your momma's porch
with another
up and down the boulevard
I don't care
so you held my hand
in the night
it was now or never
I love you more than the best days of my life
oh yeah
hiding back in the summer of 69

And now the times are changing
you were all I ever wanted to do
now I spend my old six string
think about you with him
whenever he's with you

I know
on your momma's porch
with another guy
forever
I don't care, so you held my hand
baby that's no lie, it was now or never
I love you more than the best days of my life

stop believing
I love you more than that feeling!

September 3, 2010

Excellent Birds

June 21, 2010

So I want to start on this pretty quick, it's my design for the simplest possible DJ mixer ever, running on batteries, no crossfader, just a switch, and the cueing and master channels are both controlled by the switch, so when you switch it to put channel A into the speakers, channel B goes into the headphones, and there's nothing you can do about it.

I still have to find a place for the audio outs. This is something I actually think I can accomplish with a bit of help at Sketch Studios.

June 4, 2010

Getting my Audio Software!

May 20, 2010

ground floor, ladies' clothes, sportswear, stationery
first floor, kitchenware, furnishings, confectionary
second floor, children's toys, back to school, and many more
fourth floor, electronic, fake antiques, and lingerie
I saw your face on a black-and-white screen
I knew your name from the checkout machine
you don't have to spend, you just have to pretend

May 18, 2010

Almost as good as being there!!!

April 21, 2010

Skip to 1:20 and this is my favourite metal song ever

Ride the dragon toward the crimson eye
Flap the wings under Mars red sky
The reptile pushes itself out into space
Leaving behind, the human race

Swim inside the solar seas
The Nebula cries out to me
Passing where I've gone before
I fly through the crimson door

Ride the dragon toward the crimson eye
Flap the wings under Mars red sky

April 13, 2010

Kim & Jessie

Kim and Jessie were two girls who grew up in Kensington Market.

They looked like sisters, but they weren't. They did have the same mother, but she didn't raise them. They were officially raised by the village.

The most popular and supported rumor about their mother was that she died during childbirth in the largest of the market's parks. She apparently went to the hospital but was denied entry for unknown reasons. She said nothing as she left the hospital, and her silence continued until, as she was dying from blood loss after delivering her two twin girls, she whispered "don't let them leave," and then passed on to the next life (or hell). During the few minutes of her life after the delivery, she avoided physical or eye contact with the newborns.

Despite being born at once, the girls were not twins. They had not equally shared the womb's resources and so Kim was significantly smaller, was terrifically colourblind (only green was a colour, everything else was monotone), and was mentally unstable. When she was six months of age it was discovered that she was somewhat clairvoyant.

Jesse had an overactive brain. She was perpetually tall for her age, with strong, lean muscles and a sharp tongue. Jesse's ADD was the subject of some award-winning literature by a specialist at the College St. CAMH facility, who had to visit her in one of the market's parks to do his evaluations.

He had to come into the market to see the girls because they would not leave. Their mother had arrived in Kensington Market four years before the girls' birth and had left only twice, to visit a Canadian man in Buffalo who could not cross the border. He was rumored to be wanted by both Canadian and American police, in connection with some trafficking and spousal assault charges, respectively.

The girls' mother gave a different name each time she was asked, and since no-one could develop a nickname that stuck, it was difficult to talk about her or gather information. The girls were named after a song that was playing at a nearby club after Jesse had been born, and before Kim's little head emerged from her mother, surprising the group of cannabis dealers who had been assisting three nuns from St. Felix on Augusta Ave in delivering the children.

As babies, if Kim or Jesse were taken near the boundaries of the market, they would become histerical and spasmotic, producing terrifying yelps and shrieks (although the children both cried for the first time when, at three years of age, they were told their mother's known history.

The man from Buffalo, who was assumed to be the father, had not arrived or sent any message about the children. Since the nuns could not take the girls back to the nunnery, the drug dealers who had aided them brought the girls to their loft at Kensington and Baldwin, their first official home.

Kim and Jesse were taken care of by the dealers, and their many girlfriends, until they were six, when they decided, together, that they would live in the Market's many trees until they started to menstruate, and then they would join the Daoists on College, just east of Augusta.

When I selected tunes for a White House party in March...

XAV

CONTROL TOP

D-VohX'n

THE LADDER

April 12, 2010

tammy wynette stand by your man

Stand By Your Man

I Like Chopin

Remember that piano
So delightful unusual
That classic sensation
Sentimental confusion

BRIDGE:
Used to say
I like Chopin
Love me now and again

CHORUS:
Rainy days never say goodbye
To desire when we are together
Rainy days growing in your eyes
Tell me where's my way

Imagine your face
In a sunshine reflection
A vision of blue skies
Forever distractions

BRIDGE.

CHORUS.

And if I could, I'd post ISLAND GIANT "Must be Heaven" ...but it's not in the digital realm yet.

April 9, 2010

We're playing at Disgraceland on Saturday

For Matt's awesome "Everyone's A DJ" weekly "open decks" concept night.

We've been doing this one and the "DJ On A Dime" thing at The Beaver off and on for like six months, and it's been fun so we're keeping it up!

http://everyonesadj.ca/schedule.php

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April 6, 2010

Last Last Last Last Heartbeat Show!!!

Here's the facebook link for the last heartbeat show

Here's where it is:

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Here's why you should come: It's a fun place to party at! Both in terms of location and the space - it's got a basement and shit! Plus you can just spill out into the park when you're bored.

Plus The Ladder to Canada's Lungs will be there! Or at least I'll be there. And probably Sarah. Xavier might have to be elsewhere, we're still not sure.

Love,
Dorian