In my Kura barn studio (wearing a zip up cardigan) some months after returning from a trip to former home city of Vancouver, Canada, I *finally* flip through some of the stacks of #records
Expressing my love of gatefolds & coloured vinyl, waving flag of Canadian bands, and expressing frustration about lousy international distribution and crappy shipping costs
Anyway, the #vinyl – along with possibly unnecessarily detailed yet charmingly inaccurate soliloquies – include releases from:
- * The National
- * War on Drugs
- * Björk
- * Lorde
- * Gord Downie x2
- * The Arkells
- * Yukon Blonde
- * The Linda Lindas
- * Johnny 99 (#TracksonTracks trip co-conspirator)
- * John Sinclair (before he passed away)
- * New Pornographers (several from them and a special hello to Kathryn Calder)
- * Belly (signed)
* Juliana Hatfield
Plus flashes of records I didn’t quite get to including:
- * Ornette Coleman
- * Buffalo Tom
- * Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros (benefit)
- * Sound Effects (missing)
- * Mike Watt
- * Courtney Barnett (7″)
- * Iron & Wine
- * Hüsker Dü
- * Sleater-Kinney
- * St Vincent
- * mxmtoon
- * Jesse Bernstein (soundtrack)
- * DOA (picture disk)
- * REM
- * Buffalo Tom, again (signed 7″)
- * Lois
- * The Muffs
- * Emma Swift
- * The Minutemen
- * Stars
- * Oingo Boingo
Yup, i maxed out the ANA airline luggage allowance… Really, is there a better way to haul stuff like this across oceans? Anyone know about international freight forwarding?
Also name checks from my buddy Jay in Olympia & Mac in Okayama
And note to myself that gratefully I simply have too much awesome stuff, books, records, ephemera, stickers, pageants, gifts, food treats to properly document although much are shockingly documented elsewhere in this archive if you are curious – & I know you are
