What is Stephen Harper Reading?

This is an excert from one of the letters that Yan Martel wrote to Stephen Harper on his site:
What is Stephen Harper Reading

"So, self-knowledge—must I write?—is useful not only in writing but in living. And solitude bears fruit not only for the one who aspires to write poetry but for anyone who aspires to anything. Whereas, to take a counter-example, I thinks it’s rare that advice to do with commerce has much use beyond commerce. Our deepest way of examining life, of getting to our existential core, is through the artistic. At its best, such an examination has nearly a religious feel."

~Yann Martel

Gibberish and Dre Correlation

Graph displaying relationship between gibberish and forgetting about Dre

Caribou

Caribou on Tuesday night was phenom and also educational.

I learned a few things:

1. More bands should have two drummers
2. Drummers should more frequently be up front
3. A sheet and light show can really kick it up a notch.
4. Even if you are tired and have already had two fun-filled nights and it is only Tuesday and you are thinking that maybe you should just stay home and sleep... resist the urge...as what you are missing could be as genius as Dan Snaith (and not just because he has his doctorate in math from Cambridge- so I learned from LastFM).

Silver Lining ~ Rilo Kiley

My latest obsession:




Also, "Moneymaker"- actually the entire album Under the Blacklight is rad.

Local Art

A great piece done by an anonymous local artist: