o my heart is a fish out of water...

things i'd rather talk about than your kids:

1] roller derby

2] mother mother's latest album

3] the best music venues in vancouver

4] good homemade soup recipes

5] record store day

6] internet memes

7] last night's movies on TCM

8] blue demon wheels vs. radar shadows for indoor skating

9] upcoming shows at the habitat

10] sasquatch festival


i miss working with people my own age :(

sasquatch 2010 lineup.

A-Trak, Avi Buffalo, Band of Horses, Booka Shade, Boys Noize, Broken Social Scene, Brother Ali, Camera Obscura, Caribou, City and Colour, Craig Robinson, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Dam-Funk, Deadmau5, Dirty Projectors, DJ Z-Trip, Dr. Dog, Drive-By Truckers, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Fool’s Gold, Freelance Whales, Fresh Espresso, Fruit Bats, Garfunkel & Oates, Girls, Hudson Mohawke, Japandroids, Jets Overhead, Kid Cudi, Laura Marling, LCD Soundsystem, Local Natives, Luke Burbank, Massive Attack, Mayer Hawthorne, MGMT, Midlake, Miike Snow, Minus the Bear, Morning Teleportation, Mumford & Sons, My Morning Jacket, Nada Surf, Neon Indian, No Age, Nurses, OK Go, Passion Pit, Past Lives, Patrick Watson, Pavement, Phantogram, Portugal. The Man, Public Enemy, Quasi, Rob Riggle, Shabazz Palaces, She & Him, Simian Mobile Disco, Tegan & Sara, Telekinesis, The Hold Steady, The Lonely Forest, the long winters, The Low Anthem, The Middle East, The Mountain Goats, The National, The New Pornographers, The Tallest Man On Earth, The Temper Trap, The Very Best, The xx, tUnE-YaRdS, Vampire Weekend, Veviter, Wale, Ween, Why?, YACHT, Yes Giantess

[according to http://sasquatchmusicfestival.blogspot.com/]

i can't believe how disappointed i am with this list. i'm really disappointed. we already bought our 3-day tickets too, and decided to forgo coachella for this. it's like paying almost $200 to watch 'the wedge'.

the only band i'm actually excited about is the new pornographers. the rest, for the most part, is all that jumbly electronic music that's really popular these days, which i sadly can't get into at all :(

no monsters of folk? decemberists? calexico? spoon?

this is more of a paul list than a melissa list. maybe next year will be my year? last year certainly was and now i'm more sad than ever that i missed it...

why i love radio pt. 1

while every station i've ever worked at, and every station i will work at in the future, has experienced this problem, this is probably the best station-wide email about it i've ever read:


Hey everyone,

There appears to be a tiny bit of confusion in regards to how the kitchen works on the third floor as I found the cupboard packed with dirty cups and dishes with coffee spilled everywhere. (gasp!)

I cleaned it up, but thought I'd offer a few tips to help stem the confusion...

First, if you spot dirty dishes: don't panic! There is an emergency dishwasher located under the counter. (You can spot it by its emergency white colour.)

If full - and this is important - take stock of whether the dishes inside are clean or dirty. If clean, do not pack dirty dishes into the clean dishwasher! This will only make things worse!

At this point, it may seem logical to stuff the dirty dishes into the next available hole - the cupboard!

Although I admire your can-do attitude - the best way to handle it is to replace clean dishes in the dishwasher with dirty ones by placing the clean ones in the cupboard.

By following these tips - you can help make a difference!

Thanks!


i love my coworkers.