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Meghan

since then its been a book you read in reverse; so you understand less as the pages turn

About Me

i am nothing if not unique.

old enough to know better, still young enough to get away with it

My Interests

concert-going, horse-showing, painting, procrastinating, trouble-making, risk-taking, tree-hugging, (occasional) beer-chugging, veganism, skepticism

I'd like to meet:

someone with a purpose.

Music:


a plethora of genres, anything with lyricial and compositional brilliance

Arcade Fire*
Athlete
Albert Hammond Jr.*
The Annuals
Apostle of Hustle*
Bob Dylan*
Bright Eyes*
Beck
Beatles
Born Ruffians
Bloc Party*
Band of Horses*
Blonde Redhead*
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Jeff Buckley
Buck 65*
The Buzzcocks
Johnny Cash
The Clash
The Constantines*
The Cure
The Cribs*
Contrived
cold war kids
!!!
Death Cab*
DFA 1979
Destroyer*
The Dears*
eels
Editors*
Explosions in the sky*
The Format*
The Faint*
The Flaming Lips*
The Futureheads*
The French Kicks*
Final Fantasy*
Golden Dogs*
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
Grizzly Bear*
Hard Fi
Holy Fuck*
Hot Hot Heat*
The Hylozoists
Handsome Furs*
Hawksley*
Islands*
Interpol*
The (International) Noise Conspiracy
In-Flight Safety*
Joel Plaskett*
Joy Divison
The Killers*
The Kooks*
The Kinks
killthelights*
The Libertines
Lonely, Dear
Motion City*
Muse*
Modest Mouse
Magic Numbers*
Most Serene Republic*
Men, Women and Children*
Matt Good*
Midlake
Mooney Suzuki
Mogwai
Miracle Fortress*
The New Pornographers*
The National*
Ok Go*
Of Montreal*
The Postal Service
Pilate*
People in Planes*
Peter Bjorn & John
Propaghandi
Parts and Labour
Queen
Rolling Stones
Lou Reed
Razorlight*
Reindeer Section
Radiohead
The Raconteurs*
Rheostatics*
Ron Sexsmith*
Springsteen*
The Strokes*
Small Sins
Stars*
Sonic Youth*
Swan Lake
Sunset Rubdown*
Sparklehorse*
Regina Spektor*
Tapes n' Tapes*
Tokyo Police Club*
Two Hours Traffic*
The Violent Femmes
The Weakerthans*
The White Stripes*
We Are Scientists*
Wolf Parade*
Wintersleep*
Wilco
Tom Waits
Neil Young
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Youth Group
Zeppelin
Baroque music (esp the Harpsichord)
Miles Davis, Chet Baker, Benny Goodman, Muddy Waters... the greats
and the list grows everyday...

*-bands i've seen live and further proved their awesomeness ;)

Television:

House, The Office, The Wedge, The Daily Show.

Books:

Aside from the classic literature of Calvin and Hobbes? Singer, Kerouac, Palahnuik, Coupland, Thompson, Coelho, Vonnegut and more...

Heroes:

anyone and everyone who has the balls to fight for their dreams (except if your name is George Bush and you dream in oil slicks and innocent blood)

My Blog

tired and wired, we ruin too easy

hold ourselves together with our arms around the stereo for hourswhile it sings to itself or whatever it does when it sings to itself of its long lost lovesi'm getting tied, I'm forgetting whySo after...
Posted by Meghan on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:38:00 PST

we’ve evolved through a series of accidents

go back to sleepif i could only sleep if i could stop imaginingif my dreams weren't after me So I've been a little lax in '08, neglecting all my far off peeps by failing to post general and completely...
Posted by Meghan on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:30:00 PST

wait for the year to drown...

a little more stupid,a little more scaredevery night more unprepared. Upon discussions of movie soundtracks and various film enhancing abilities, we managed to get on the topic of our own personal ye...
Posted by Meghan on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:52:00 PST

you can try and try and try but there’s no way around

we can get you anything you wantanytime you want but you'll wonder what its for Plague Park is definatley one of my favorite albums of 2007, but I was a little wary of how well it would translate live...
Posted by Meghan on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:42:00 PST

the clouds are dark and the storm is comin

All the leaves are gone, I don't give a fuck Let the winter come on, I think I'll try my luck Always knew it could be bad, though I must admit If I thought it'd be this bad, I woulda split The last ...
Posted by Meghan on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:36:00 PST

i think i need a big vacation, out of this place

this party isn't working, oh nowe need to find days like we used tolivin' off a shoestringnever, never knew what the night would bring Maybe I'm getting old and cranky, but live music in Toronto just ...
Posted by Meghan on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:12:00 PST

trust none of what you hear, less of what you see

are you with me or am i wrong? these silly old songs do they mean anything or am i just wrong? am i just wrong? After POP and the other few awesome outdoor shows I've been to of late, it's a bit weir...
Posted by Meghan on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:01:00 PST

there are snakes out in the night

and now for a completely random runaway train of thought: Upstate New York accents are probably the most annoying and caustic dialect out there. Definatley made worse when you are surrounded by a drun...
Posted by Meghan on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:08:00 PST

yesterday will break your heart, tomorrow will strike you dead

the shell of busted ex-rocker just looking to get laid, the season's new rock hopefuls just hoping to get paidstilted sharkskin boys picking game bird out of their teeth:It's a lottery of promise, it'...
Posted by Meghan on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:19:00 PST

were not dressed right for the season and were smiling for no reason

counting all my relevant friendsthis keeps coming up again and againif everybody knows how it's gonna endwhy doesn't someone stop me? Back from a whirlwind weekend at Osheaga... it certainly feels lik...
Posted by Meghan on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:49:00 PST