Little Joy

Summer's definitely on its way in Brandon Manitoba. I refuse to believe that we are going to get more snow. Refuse. Little Joy reminds me of summer and cruising around Brandon on bikes with shorts and sunglasses, drinking beer with pals and getting into a suffocatingly hot car and driving up to the lake, all the windows down and hair flyin errwhurr.

Little Joy is comprised of Rodrigo Amarante, every gal's Strokes crush Fabrizio Moretti (god dzamn), and the cutest lil lady, Binki Shapiro. Their self titled album is the most pleasant, adorable and easy listening music I've heard in a long time. It was released in 2008 and unfortunately there's been no word on anything new coming up from the trio. But every spring I fall back into a "Little Joy Hole" and it gets me excited for the months to come.

One of my favorite things, maybe in the whole world, is listening to "The Next Time Around" with Katy, and laughing my ass off when she sings Binki's Portuguese part, hitting maybe two words correctly.

There's a couple of really great live performances of "The Next Time Around" but this video is too perfect for the song and how it makes me feel.



Viva Verão!