November 2011
1 post
Freelancing in Uganda: True patriot love →
millennialnomads:
Back in Canada for a couple of days at this point and upon reflection of our time in the UK, Sarah and I both regretted not doing our graduate work there. The sights are wonderful and one cannot help but be caught up in the history that permeates everything. It’s an incredible contrast considering…
August 2011
1 post
February 2011
2 posts
A crass, uncritically examined thought I hold very...
I don’t get this “multiculturalism has failed” argument. It seems to me its only failed if you’re an ignorant douchebag.
January 2011
5 posts
I'd think people were awful if I didn't recognize...
I’m really wary of my own apathy.
Its hardly a revolutionary statement, but its fucking true. It sits with me while I watch the news lately, and is borne out of my frustration that human nature just isn’t living up to my expectations.
I’m trying to write about it so that I feel better about it, so that this disappointment makes sense, but blogging about one’s feelings is just such a...
Scared White People
Talking about how the Hamilton steel workers protest is like what is happening in Egypt.
Don't be Denied.
The guy on the front of “Time Fades Away” looks like my dad. A sort of world-weariness grows on that album instead of mildew. The front gets browner every time I look at it, I understand why they won’t re-release it, its cursed. This quarter-shelf of memories, some imported and some homegrown, some original pressings, some new ones they’re kind of like my family. We...
All singing a country song soft and low.
I think I’m going to have to learn to accept my flaws for what they are, rather than what I’d like them to be.
That is all.
Oh, and “Long May You Run” is the nicest song ever written about a car.
You Know That Time Fades Away
Neil Young writes the best music for when you’re sad. He’s great because he doesn’t mock or make light of sadness, but is rather able to put it in perspective. I think it’s because he’s one of the only songwriters that writes realistically about learning and changing. Whenever I’m truly bummed about something, there has been a Neil Young album that’s been...
December 2010
2 posts
Manufactured E.P
Cross Country Canada is a band that I have been in for years, but is latent 99% of the time due to geographical distance between band members. It consists of Chris Cooper, Justin Han and myself. It’s a little grittier than my usual fare.
Christmas is a wonderful time of year then, since it allows everyone to get together and jam a bit. This time we thought we should record some of...
Dear Folk Music
Dear Folk Music,
We’ve been going steady for a while now. I first noticed you when I was in Prince Edward Island by myself, watching Martin Scorsese’s Bob Dylan documentary. I was transfixed by how Dylan managed to say so much with just an acoustic guitar, holding people silent and spellbound with nothing but chords and words.
I went backwards and forwards in your history, from...
September 2010
3 posts
“Polling, together with related forms of market research, tries to tell us what...”
– Publics and Counterpublics, Warner, Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2002
Chris Martin Believes His Own Bullshit EP
August 2010
1 post
June 2010
2 posts
An Honest Song, so Its not by me.
I recorded a version of Basia Bulat’s “Before I knew” for your listening enjoyment, or unenjoyment (that part’s up to you!).
http://soundcloud.com/chrismartinn/before-i-knew-basia-bulat-cover
New, not-music blog.
Hey,
I have made a new blog about garage sales. It is available for your enjoyment at http://allthingsmustgo.tumblr.com.
-Chris
May 2010
1 post
April 2010
3 posts
Fuck people/I love people.
The human condition, I have discovered, is being continually disappointed and inspired by other human beings.
The trick is finding out where you are as a person in all of that. Actually, I’m not sure if thats a trick, or a trap.
I’m not sure if it really is better to be self-aware. It has its benefits, but its also kind of a shackle.
Does anyone else ever feel like their head...
A suggestion:
Today I was feeling a lot of hurt. I then made a list of all the things I like about myself. Its a fantastic exercise and really helps you feel better and put things in perspective.
Here’s one I recorded a while ago, but for...
March 2010
6 posts
I put on a record a little while ago. I the got so...
There is no song that can dilute your pain. There...
I watched my organs get mixed up with chives on tv. I’d be more excited about this if I wasn’t a salad of sorts myself.
Listening to my family talk about life through a lens. I wish I could find a lens right now, but I’m stuck here digesting every little impression that enters my eyes and ears. Every thought, image, idea and sound reflects off of the canyons forged into my brain...
February 2010
5 posts
From my office in LA I will be your private...
slow down harsh judge
why wont you speak with me
...
Love on the Side of an Art Gallery:
art is an...
January 2010
1 post
May 2009
1 post
A song I started working on a while ago. I’m...
April 2009
9 posts
This is a song my friend Chris and I wrote a...
So, last week I woke up at 6:00 AM after having...
I recorded an acoustic version of Patriots. Its a...
About getting elected, and still having hope.
Just last weekend, I was elected Vice-President (Education) of the McMaster Students Union. Its a full-time job I’m incredibly excited for. I get to spend the next year of my life talking about/dealing with education, a subject I am incredibly interested in and passionate about.
It also means I’m on the Board of Directors for one of the largest student organizaitons in Canada, which...
