Wednesday Bullets: (Final) Fantasy Videos ... No, its not porno.

• Owen Pallet (aka Final Fantasy) covers Mariah Carey.
  

• Dan Bejar (New Pornographers, Destroyer) preforms 'An Actor's Revenge' from Destroyer's Your Blues [2004] with Owen Pallet and Cadence Weapon. This video makes me remember why the Bejar songs are always my favourites on New Pornos albums.

• I can't believe I haven't mentioned this before, but if you like yourself a good mash-up you should visit the hood internet. My personal favourite is still R. Kelly vs. Broken Social Scene "I'm A Flirt (shoreline)" from the archives April 2007.

• Wow, were the Raptors disappointing again tonight.
  

Thursday Bullets: 'Getting Laid is my forte... '

Before I mention anything else, its a great week for shows in and around London. Some bands that I can recommend strongly seeing include: Dragonette, The Most Serene Republic, Joel Plaskett Emergency (especially if you're partial to stuff that feels like the Tragically Hip), Amos the Transparent, and The Weakerthans. I have the dates posted for London, but I've linked to each of these bands myspace where show dates are available, and chances are if they're coming to London - their probably going to be at where you live.

• 'I Guess I'm Floating' has an awesome cover of BlackStreet's 'No Diggity' by Klaxons.

• The soundtrack for I'm Not There gets an 8.0 on Pitchfork, which means the whole thing is probably as good as the tracks they have up on myspace.

• Chromewaves has a copy of Amos the Transparent's duet with Amy Millan (Stars and Broken Social Scene) 'After all that, its come to this'.
  

Lastly, the Raps won last night, which is good. Sam Mitchell proved that he cannot manage a game or call a time when he his team is in the middle of blowing a 20 point lead, which is bad. All in all I'm excited for the game on Sunday, which if I haven't mentioned to you individually, I will be attending.

Hopefully posts on Malajube (maybe), and Hayden at the beginning of the week.

Thursday Bullets: When Monkeys Attack!

• My friend Rosie thought everyone should see this. I suppose as a pseudo-journalist I have a pseudo-responsibility for public safety. Hey, if the mayor of New Delhi can die from a monkey attack then so can you. Stay vigilant heros.
  

• Slate also had a really nice article about Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman after the release of his third album Night Falls Over Kortedala. At first, the topics of Lekman's songs - about some extraodinarily quirky subjects see: Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo - don't seem to match up with the style of his music. You can visit his myspace here. No that isn't a mistake. Pitchfork is streaming one of his songs here.

• The Black Lips, who somehow channel a little bit of Bob Dylan for me, have a version of 'Veni Vidi Vici' remixed by Diplo for download here. Very highly recommended.

• Speaking of Dylan, the soundtrack for Todd Haynes' movie I'm Not There is streaming a couple of songs on, its myspace. The soundtrack has an outstanding list of artists including Sufjan Stevens (apparently writing a symphony isn't as time consuming as you'd think), Cat Power, Jeff Tweedy (Wilco), etc. You can view the trailer for the film here. Jim James (My Morning Jacket) and Calexico's cover of 'Going to Acapulco' is outstanding and streaming on the myspace.
  

It was kind of a disappointing weekend, given that on Saturday I thought I was going to see two of my favourite local (read: Toronto) bands, Ohbijou and Cuff the Duke at the London Music Club. However, that didn't happen, mostly because there seemed to be some miscue between their management and the club. By Saturday, they had been replaced by Emm Gryner and the Fugitives - neither of which I'll comment on because it wouldn't be fair either artist - although I will say, because I can't stop myself, that Emm Gryner did have a wonderful voice.

In other news:

• Devendra Banhart does the theme for Weeds "Little Boxes", streaming here.

• I've missed out on a dance craze. If you're interested, there's an instructional video. But, to be honest, I think I prefer the macarena.
  

• After suggesting that Patrick Watson, may not have deserved the Polaris Music Prize, I'm starting to come around on his album. At this point I'm willing to say that its pretty uneven, but includes some really interesting moments that sometimes sound like, M.Ward, Jenny Lewis, and even Chris Martin.