Music Monday: Off the Wall

So this is gonna be another one of the short Music Monday posts. Sorry, but spring means end of term, so I have papers to write and finals to study for. Well, one final, but that's beside the point. Suffice to say I am a very busy boy (or at least try to be), with academics and graduation and job hunting and moving at the end of April. Aieah.

So here's another spring-y song that I fell in love with the moment I saw the video. It's "Off the Wall" by French electronic artist Yuksek. The video is below, as well of the making of video, which is almost just as good and quite intriguing to watch. You'll see what I mean if you take the time to watch both of them. Cheers!

Bees on the Blog

So I mentioned in my last post that it's finally starting to feel a little like spring here in the Valley. Meaning that it's generally sunny and above zero, but my standards have changed drastically over the winter. With the arrival of what I consider spring-ish temperatures and weather, I've done a little bit of cleaning on the interweb. Yup, I've been busy.

The most dramatic change is probably to this blog. I know I just redid it over the summer before leaving to Singapore, but the plain black and gray was starting to feel drab. That, and I broke the layout and formatting while "previewing" new Dynamic Blogger templates. Yah, I may or may not have hit the "apply to blog" button by accident. Oops.

Really, only the background and some of the colours have changed. I switched to the Picturesque template and added a photo of mine from Cambodia as the background, and I also cleaned out most of the sidebar junk that was still on the old yellow colour scheme. Cleaned out as in deleted. So if you want to stalk my Last.fm, Flickr, or Hype Machine you'll have to make one extra click to the About Me page. Oh, the humanity, woe is you.

I also changed my Tumblr microblog. It once claimed to be "the microblog companion to my main blog," but it was starting to feel redundant. So I've remotivated that space to be a showcase of one of my interests, urban and architectural photography. Just call it me gathering inspiration for my career one day.

Oh, one last thing: I'd love some feedback on this blog layout. So, how's it look?

photos by me

Music Monday: Glamour Puss

Alight, this one is just gonna be a quickie, I''m supposed to be writing a second research proposal right now. Huzzah for procrastination!

So, this week you're getting "Glamour Puss" by KT Tunstall. KT is one of my favourite female vocalists, right up there with Emily Haines, and her most recent album Tiger Suit is by far my favourite of her's to date. I featured another song from the album, "Uummannaq Song," in a January Music Monday post.

"Glamour Puss" feels spring-y to me, as in the season. It's starting to look rather spring-ish in the Okanagan, and I hope the trend continues. I've got my fingers crossed and a spring playlist in the wings. And that's all I have to say. Enjoy!