Oh Canada

As I prepare to celebrate my first Japanada Day with my Canadian pal Perry from a couple of towns over, I started the day with the following kicking tune from MSTRKRFT (or Mastercraft, if you like vowels, or Death From Above 1979, if you like history), an outfit out of Toronto and some good Canadian theme music to get you going on a Canada Day (also, the video is rad).

Heartbreaker by MSTRKRFT (featuring John Legend)

Sure, John Legend's a Yank, but I'll allow it. As Perry and I quest for what little Canadian content there is in Hokkaido fishing towns tonight, the following will be beating in the back of my mind.

"You're in my mind

You're in my heart

I wish I knew right from the start..."

And then tonight, after we've drunkenly taken in Transformers the Animated Movie and all of its 80s Rock singalong wonderfulness ("You've got the TOUCH!"), as is tradition on Japanada Day, I will lay my head down to rest with the following running through it from the fine boys of Said The Whale out in Vancouver...

"Fighting with the currents of the Georgia Strait

Fighting with the wind and the tidal wave

I lost my love that day..."

Curse of the Currents by Said The Whale

It should be noted that I have Mark Rostrup to thank for the musical portions of the above.