Ice Fallen

Twenty one year old Don Sanderson of Ontario’s Whitby Dunlops died this January. He got into a brawl on December 12th and after spending a month in hospital, succumbed to his head injuries this past January, becoming a parents’ past, becoming a memory because violence on the rink is condoned and encouraged.

TVProfile | Skins

I watch a lot of television, a lot of movies. One of the perks of being more or less self-employed is that I have a lot of spare time on my hands. With that spare time, I tend to immerse myself in the ridiculously vast and equally narrow pop-culture world that surrounds us. I spend more time in front of a TV or with a book in my hands than is likely humanly healthy. Billy Bob Thornton once said, “There’s a lot of losers out there,” and upsettingly, most of them are writing, directing, or acting in the most mind-numbingly irrelevant drivel you can imagine. On that rare occasion though, often when we least suspect it, some form of art will drag us into its world, immerse us in its culture and prosecute our emotions. If we’re luckier still, we’ll finish thrown out, relinquished and charged with a count of awakening.

TUNEProfile | The Rosebuds

The Rosebuds are an indie rock/dance/folk band from Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Its current members are Ivan Howard (vocals/guitar/ drums/ bass/keyboards/programming) and Kelly Crisp (vocals/keyboard/drums/guitar/accordion). Billy Alphin had played drums on the album The Rosebuds Make Out, Wes Phillips played drums on the E.P.”Unwind“, Lee Waters played drums on the record Birds Make Good Neighbors, and Matt McCaughan played the drums on both “Night of the Furies‘ and “Life Like“.