What I learned this week: being sick while maintaining a blog stinks.

It’s incredible how a couple of days with a really bad fever can totally throw you out of any and all loops you have going. People always talk about “the” loop, but I’m of the opinion that there are many loops, loops for all sorts of different realities. Some are easier to jump back into than others. Some are more forgiving than others. Some you just hate more than others.

Just a thought. I may still be delirious from fever, so I’ll just move along and sound off the list of my five favourite songs I wrote about in the past week, in order of appearance:

• Sloan - I’m Not A Kid Anymore
• The Young Sinclairs - Cancelled Flight
• Junior Pantherz - On And Off
• Bart Davenport - Miami Afternoon
• Pomegranates - Thunder Island

Does anyone else have issues with vestmental appropriateness? I have a terrible, terrible time getting my mind to settle on what should be appropriate in such-and-such a situation. Especially when it pertains with the business side of things.

I’m a very jeans-and-T-shirt guy. Sometimes, a groovy button-shirt makes it work, too. But usually, I slap on a nicely designed Tee with a pair of jeans and I am set. Totally against whatever they teach us on What Not To Wear, if you know what I mean. However, I do have an issue when it comes to meeting business clients, because anything that requires suit-like apparel just isn’t me. It doesn’t represent me. If I’m meeting a client, I’d go for a neatly cut, high-range pair of dark jeans, with a nice, pressed shirt and a blazer. But sometimes I wonder if it’s too inappropriate. But then again they’re hiring me to be creative, so that’s something I have to present as well, right? Would you hire someone to be creative if he dressed like a Republican?

And that’s just one example. Another dresscode issue would pop up if I were to go see The Young Sinclairs perform. What do I wear then? After all, musically, they draw from mid-1960s psychedelia with enough hallucinatory haze to take you on a trippy, far out rock jangle. The soft-spoken vocals are invitingly entrancing and easygoing throughout this treble-friendly, tambourine-sporting recording, which features poised instrumentation, refusing to go overboard in their execution or their effects, while being generous in feeling and colour. As the track ends with a beautiful, vibrating melodious guitar solo, the dulcet, spacey tune hangs around your consciousness like a star, as perfectly executed as any love-in era tune could have wished to make happen. So considering that, does that mean I have to pull out some sort of brightly coloured petticoat and combine it with a fluffy-sleeved shirt to be appropriate to see them live? God, the decisions, the decisions!

You know, I blame all my wardrobe insecurities on casualwear at the office, what with hippies becoming CEO’s and whatnot. I’m looking at you, Steve Jobs.

MP3: The Young Sinclairs - Cancelled Flight

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