CYSI:3 A Collection of Kintrasts

You wanted it and you got it! (Well maybe you didn't want it, but now you have it, or at least you sort of have it...) It's Can You Say Indie? Volume 3: A Collection of Kintrasts!
This is truly an eclectic smattering of songs. I guarantee that you will not like some of the songs. Well maybe I shouldn't guarantee that because I like all the songs. Ok, disclaimer: You will not like all the songs on this disc unless your subconscious wants to be exactly like me. There is a very large genre range here as well, something I like in any mixed cd. And the subject matter is all over the place too. We have songs about dropping a cell phone, searching for your friends in various places, a duet about two people falling through the ice, love songs, a touching (could even be described as teary eyed) song about a nurse of sorts, a couple covered songs (both Radiohead and Beyonce), a song featured on Grey's Anatomy, one featuring a clarinet where they sing about being silent, and many, many more jems. So you want the song list? Ya you do.

CYSI:3 Kintrasts

1 Acceptable In The 80's - Calvin Harris
2 Drop The Phone - Shy Child
3 White On White Crime - The Jai-Alai Savant
4 Charlotte - Air Traffic
5 You Are The One - Shiny Toy Guns
6 Transylvania - Mcfly
7 Black Shoes - The Films
8 The City, The Airport (Remix) - Loney, Dear
9 Pink Light - Laura Veirs
10 Crazy In Love - The Magic Numbers
11 Rose - The Feeling
12 Creep - Damien Rice
13 A Bitter Song - Butterfly Boucher
14 The Sky Opened Wide Like The Tide (Remix) - The Blow
15 Silence Teaches You How To Sing - Underwater Sleeping Society
16 Fire It Up - Modest Mouse
17 Rosia - Kelly Jones
18 Lost And Found - Last Days Of April
19 When We Fell Through The Ice - Fireworks Night
20 Elephant Gun - Beirut
21 Street Of Dreams - Sofia Talvik

And, like always, a cd can be made available upon request. And, in a limited time special offer, I can burn you a compilation cd featuring every song from CYSI 1, 2 and 3 in mp3 format.

The Soundtrack of Matt's Life

Ok, I should be writing a paper, but I couldn't help my self. I started to peruse Facebook (I know... don't lecture me, I only took 20 mins or so... it's not a big deal...) and I saw this in my brother's notes. His was too hilarious so I had to try it for myself. You be the judge.

Soundtrack of Your Life

So, here's how it works:
1. Open your music library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie (don't worry, you will want to many times...) and try to pretend you're cool... and a lot of the songs fit with the setting

Opening Credits:
Get Through – Mark Joseph

Waking Up:
You’ll Be In My Heart – Phil Collins (does that call into question my manliness?)

First Day At School:
bittersweet – The Echoing Green

Falling In Love:
Unsung – Helmet (The hardest song of the bunch…)

Fight Song:
Signal to Noise (Acoustic Version) – The Cure

Breaking Up:
Rapper’s Delight – The Sugarhill Gang (Breaking up makes me turn to oldie rap I guess)

Prom:
So Long Jimmy – James Blunt

Life:
Opening the Mouth – Boards of Canada

Mental Breakdown:
Fat Bottomed Girls – Queen (Hilarious!)

Driving:
Mardy Bum – Artic Monkeys (Great driving song for sure)

Flashback:
Strangers in the Night – Frank Sinatra

Getting back together:
High Voltage – Linkin Park

Wedding:
Let the Truth Sting – David Gray (don’t ask me what that means…)

Birth of Child:
Pornography (live) – The Cure (I’m scared to make a comment)

Final Battle:
Love is Better Than a Warm Trombone – Gomez (Make love not war?)

Death Scene:
All We Have - Disciple

Funeral Song:
Rie’s Wagon - Gomez

End Credits:
Two Left Feet – The Holloways (A nice upbeat jig inducing song to finish it off, that worked quite well.)

Check out Mike's in his Facebook profile.

It has been far too long

Writing a blog entry after watching a good “romantic comedy” will surely effect its content (I just finished watching The Holiday. Jack Black definitely added a great deal to the movie. I think I will sing more often while renting movies). But, I think I will anyway.

I have not written on this thing in a very long time, as I’m sure you have noticed. I apologize. I was in no way trying to show disregard for you, faithful reader. Many things have happened since we last met. Although you may think Can You Say Indie? Volume 2 was the latest highlight from my lack of writing, it surely could not compare to Jamaica. I left for Jamaica almost one month ago, it seems like it was just last week. I still think I am recuperating from Jamaica time, but in a good way. Actually, I have been getting up earlier and going to bed earlier since getting back from Jamaica. It has been a good thing; I don’t find it too difficult to endure the ridicule from my friends when I get tired at 10. Jamaica was an amazing experience. I absolutely loved the kids in Jamaica. We spent most of our time there just one-on-one with them. I am convinced that it was the best way to influence their lives and was most changed by the time I spent with them. The world seems like a smaller place now. I like it.

I feel like I might do the trip injustice to give you a quick overview, and I fear writing it all in a blog entry would take far too long and no one would read it. But, that’s how it should be. I just wrote that one-on-one time was huge to me in Jamaica, why would that change now that I am here? So, feel free to ask me out for coffee to hear about my experience because you just wouldn’t feel the impact if I only wrote it down here. You wouldn’t see me display the actions we did singing “Walk all over you.” You wouldn’t watch my eyes start to tear up as I remember how amazing of a friend Kevin was. You wouldn’t hear my poor attempt at a Jamaican accent or the pause as I searched for the words to describe the Joy displayed by Cynthia. Yeah, it was an amazing experience.

learned so many things from my time surrounding Jamaica. The most significant thing that I brought home was an emphasis on prayer. Really, I just started to pray more when I was there. It just made sense. I mean, there we were, going from seemingly unconnected place to place singing songs, giving testimonies and hanging out. As we would drive away, I wondered if we really made an impact. Then God would assure me that I made absolutely zero impact on anyone. He was the one who did it all. That was humbling and reassuring at the same time. I learnt what it meant to boast in my weakness. My brother and I were talking the other night and he explained the importance of changing lives as opposed to imparting knowledge. I agree, and I realize that I have no hope of making a change in someone’s life if God is not a part of it. The only way that I can assure that God is involved is to pray. So I have learned that I need to pray more. I need to pray a lot. Really, I need to pray constantly; you know, without ceasing. I think I heard that somewhere once…

I am getting tired, and it is only 11. (Or, from my perspective, it is 11?! Why have I not fallen asleep yet?) There is so much more to say. I haven’t even started to tell you about the amazing times I have had with Von. I changed Von’s diaper for the first time yesterday. I’m glad it contained no surprises. Anyways, you might have to just check back later. This is all you are going to get today.

P.S. Happy St. Patrick's Day! I hope you wore green and were proud of it. The world could use more colour themed holidays. Let's see... April Fool's Day is the next holiday in Canada... we should all wear a certain colour... or stripes! That seems to be more "foolish" than any one colour. The most colourful stripes win. Yeah, that sounds just about right.