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I've been at IFRS training this month - all my skills in traditional Canadian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles are getting updated - whee. Everyone's gearing up to help companies convert their financial reporting to the new international accounting standards. But I'm not writing about IFRS because I don't have any cool photos of IFRS to share, nor do I have any exciting IFRS-related music to rave about. I do, however, have both photos and music from Metric I will gladly rave about; few people ever complain about my tangents, particularly the Metric tangents, so enjoy. I have Metric's song Blindness stuck on repeat. It's an awesome bit of melancholy. I'm feeling great but sometimes it's just fun to listen to something that might on the surface be a total downer. This may be how I can find some audit work fun. Yes, it's potentially incredibly complicated and tedious to calculate, but you can find fun in that too. Or maybe dealing with something...
I have to spend more time away from the clackety computer keyboard and back at the piano. Emily Haines rocking out with Jimmy Shaw turned away with his guitar at the April 2, 2009 Secret Show I have a hearty backlog of things to write about. My need to catch up on sleep and also follow up on my vow to get back into music mean that the backlog won't be pared down quickly. Sifting through photos won't help either, but at least it helps encourage me to write more - nothing like finding a good topic to write about with a vaguely related illustration to go with it.
That Metric show at the Great Hall was beyond amazing. The fancy deluxe edition of their new album Fantasies is now officially declared the Best Purchase Ever . Lead singer Emily Haines, rocking out. I'll keep myself from gushing on and on, but... wow. I'll just leave it at that for now. Photos will follow in the next day or so - my data transfer gear is sitting securely at work at the moment, and sleep won't come too soon - wow, it's only Thursday.
Read the biography about Metric here on thesixtyone - there are some really interesting insights into the process behind the creation of the new album, Fantasies. When I was still a student journalist Metric was just getting started - and I the only reason I didn't try and set up an interview for my newspaper was because it just didn't seem right for some stupid reason to use that as a cheap excuse to meet the band - but I love the interview clips here, regardless of whether the site author got them from an actual interview or just from a press kit put out by the band. I've inserted some choice quotes with my commentary here: When you hand over your money for a concert ticket, what are you really paying for: some idea of the performer you've gleaned from gazing longingly at album covers and compulsively clicking YouTube videos, or the performer as they choose to express themselves on that given day? Is the consumer entitled to a certain expectation of the performance —...
Just yesterday I wrote about an example of extreme price discrimination . As cool as it was, I didn't actually spend money because as good as Josh is, I'm not a big fan or anything. I just thought the story was cool. Last November, however, I wrote about the new album coming out for a band I do care about - Metric! Before we get into the sales - there's even a freebie. An acoustic version of the new single "Help I'm Alive" is available as a free download. It's very different in its own way - listening to the 'real' version I can imagine the missing echo of the acoustic version's supporting vocals. Interesting. They've been offering pre-ordering for a while now - turns out the digital download copy of "Help I'm Alive" is about a minute longer than the radio edit people have heard so far. But now comes the musical marketplace's version of shock and awe: The name of the album has been confirmed - they announced it's called...
On the unusually long drive home from my client tonight - curse you Friday night volume - the silver lining to sitting forever in the car was the fact that I got to hear my favourite band's new single - Metric 's new single "Help Me I'm Alive". Bless you Lezzy McGuire for doing the awesome-fantastic. The moment I see this in stores I'm buying the album - I will blindly assume the rest of the album will be this awesome. I also have to get tickets for their show next month . Above: certainly not me. Someone had to take the picture The first single is transcendent. I had some more insightful analysis of the elegant ending, Emily Haines' strong vocals and the return to earlier 'classic' Metric instrumentation but I somehow lost that paragraph. Oops. No matter. I know I'm a horribly biased reviewer. I mean Metric's last album cover is on the wall behind me. They would have to endorse Palin as a wisened stateswoman and declare themselves Nickelback...