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Friday’s post comes early this week, because this may be a very time-sensitive manner. Yorkrules has finally hit the big time, having recently received its first copyright infringement notice. The item in question is a Far Side comic I included in a post in October of 2006. I disagree … (read more)
Goodbye, Ten to Try, Required Listening has been reformatted for 2008. Friend Zach previously suggested that one post featuring ten new music tracks each month was too much too infrequently. I agree, and so I’ll now be highlighting individual singles (it sounds redundant, but I don’t think it is?!) throughout the month.
But I couldn’t go the whole nine yards and nix nine entire tracks cold turkey! I’ve just discovered two more songs from last year on someone else’s Best of 2007 compilation that I want you to hear before we listen to what 2008 has got in store for us. First, Mother Mother (I dare you to not move to the beat!)
Artist: Mother Mother
Track: Dirty Town
This track is available on 
Mother Mother’s fellow Vancouverians (or are they Vancouverites?) The New Pornographers are very likely the last artists I will knowingly feature as creators of outstanding music in 2007 (but I’ve included several loopholes in that statement just in case.)
Artist: The New Pornographers
Track: Myriad Harbour
This track is available on
That brings us back to the present, with Vampire Weekend’s Oxford Comma. I actually discovered this on that aforementioned Best of 2007 collection, but the album doesn’t come out until next Tuesday, so it’s close enough for yorkrules.
Artist: Vampire Weekend
Track: Oxford Comma
This artist is available on
Moments after Steve Jobs removed the MacBook Air from its instantly iconic envelope to the gasping applause of Apple’s discretionary income demographic, a creative couple were offering their aptly-inspired notebook sleeve online. Doing something with a great idea first … (read more)
Here’s one last Christmas item then we’re moving into 2008. But for this, we actually need to go back to Christmas 2006, when Charlie’s dad Luckey sent out an e-mail to close friends and extended family offering up a suggestion from the kids. Charlie forwarded it to me so that … (read more)
Dad was a Republican. That’s probably where my antipathy took root. The daily news cycle cringes began with the Republican Revolution of ‘94, and the loathing was elected in 2000.
But with the present administration in full fiasco, who will point the way forward for the Grand Old Party? … (read more)
Recipes are an odd fit for yorkrules. Julie My Love is our in-house gourmand, but she doesn’t have a website, so Cookoo is a unique opportunity for us to work together creatively. My self-assigned responsibilities are typically restricted to naming and photographing whatever she … (read more)
Misogyny, along with alcoholism, is part of my inheritance as a Funston Family man, so it’s taken me some time to appreciate women as musical artists on par with men. I still find a great deal girllogical about the ladies, but some of the misses’ music this year was absolutely femme-fabulous.
Here’s what I consider the ten music tracks to definitely try for 2007. Some you’ll recognize as recommendations from earlier this year. Others may be new to you.
Give each song a few listens, and if you like one, click on the icon to the track’s right to buy it on iTunes. You’ll be supporting the artist (and I may earn a few cents with this sinkhole of a blog.)