I know that it isn’t much, but today I found out just how easy it is to beat the American Greetings system (they sell memberships for online e-cards).

After taking full advantage of my 30-day free trial (I sent 4 e-cards), I called to cancel my subscription before I was charged the annual fee of $15.99.

Jim, my American Greetings representative, enthusiastically informed me that not only was he was willing to extend my trial period by an additional 2 weeks, but he also wanted to give me a full year’s membership for $15.99 $11.99!

I politely told Jim of my real intentions in signing up with American Greetings, at which point we severed ties.

Best of luck in the future Jim.

Here’s my favorite track from The Killers new album “Day & Age”, released last Monday.

With respect to the album as a whole…it’s pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good. Not great.

I think a friend of mine summed it up pretty well when he said that if this was an LP record, side A would be on constant repeat and side B would almost never get played.

Anyway, check out A Dustland Fairytale below.

Best lyrics: change came in disguise of revelation; saw cinderella in a party dress.

…that I can always just buy one of these if I don’t get my G license by April. NO LICENSE REQUIRED - that’s my kind of motor vehicle.

I was walking down Princess Street in Kingston a few days ago when I spotted it. I realize that it’s perfectly legal. It just seems mildly funny to me.

Chromeo’s remix of Vampire Weekend’s The Kids Don’t Stand A Chance has been one of the most blogged-about tracks of the past week, and deservingly so.

I hereby declare it my new party anthem of December/08.

Check out the track below.

For another really great Vampire Weekend remix, check out The Teenagers’ remix of Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa. A link is available via my Hype Machine widget on the right-side of the estebanwasEATEN homepage. 

Enjoy!

Bon Iver just announced that they’ll be releasing a new EP, entitled “Blood Bank”, on January 20 in Canada and the U.S. I was lucky enough to catch Bon Iver play two of the EP’s tracks this past summer in New York and I have to admit that I wasn’t immediately blown away. A friend of mine described the tracks as sounding very Coldplay-ish. Regretfully, I think that’s a pretty accurate statement. I’m sure that they’ll begin to grow on me once I accept the fact that Justin Vernon’s heart can’t stay broken forever. It can’t be easy to try and write a followup to something like “For Emma, Forever Ago”, so I’ll cut him some slack until the next LP.

The tracklisting for “Blood Bank” is as follows:

1. Blood Bank
2. Beach Baby (really Bon Iver?)
3. Babys
4. Woods

In the meantime, check out an early recording called Hazelton. It was written by Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon before the band found any kind of success. I kind of love it.

(Also, the last two weeks of class are absolutely the hardest)