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Summer Heights High debuts on HBO (US) and The Movie Channel in Canada around November 9th, though it’s 7 episodes were recommended by a fellow Spikedhumor user showing me a few episodes and making me laugh hysterically.

Chris Tilley plays 3 characters, Mr. G – an overeccentric and somewhat stereotypical drama teacher, Ja’ime a schoolgirl who’s a total bitch (for the lack of a better term) and Jonah a 13-year old illiterate problematic child. Jonah in my opinion is by far the funniest character with excessive foul language.

Here’s a clip (Jonah getting his dick touched):

Here’s a playlist dedicated to Jonah Takalua (it’ll make sense if you watch the season):
Boy From School by Maritime (Hot Chip cover)
Gun Mouth by Laurel Collective
Hate Me Now by Nas ft. Puff Daddy (Jonah loves rap and he is hated)
Angry by The Bug
Suspended in Gaffa by Ra Ra Riot
Dance Dance Dance by Lykke Li
Pictures in an Exhibition by Death Cab For Cutie
Stay Away by Nirvana
Here Should Be My Home by No Age
We Are All Accelerated Readers by Los Campesinos

This playlist was REALLY hard to think of. I didn’t have any tracks that included “leap” and that makes me sad lol.

1. Drift Away by Uncle Kracker (only title in my library with “drift” as our calendar would drift off if there were no
2. I Stand Corrected by Vampire Weekend (the point of leap years is to correct our calendar as approximately 1 year has an extra 6 hours)
3. Calendar Girl by Stars
4. Hours That You Keep by Maritime
5. Pace is the Trick by Interpol
6. Common People by Pulp (Doesn’t a leap year wish it wasn’t the black sheep and be a common year?)
7. The Happy Birthday Song by Andrew Bird (February 29 is arguably the coolest day to have a birthday on!)
8. Holla, Holla by Ja Rule (other then Saul Williams there aren’t many other musicians with February 29 as a birthday)

Only 8 tracks but enjoy!

I did hate uploading tracks though and the linking stuff (takes forever). I also had to re-upload some tracks after annoying my friend Jack with bandwidth usage. Look out for the rest tomorrow.

50. A Girl in Port by Okkervil River
49. Shirin by Jens Lekman (link)
48. I Know I’ll See You by A Place To Bury Strangers (link)
47. For Science Fiction by Maritime (link)
46. Freak Out by Liars (link)
45. Phantom by Justice (link)
44. Sleep Deprivation by Simian Mobile Disco
43. Take Me To the Ballroom by the Moonbabies
42. Tthhee Ppaarrttyy by Justice (link)
41. Myriad Harbour by The New Pornographers (link)
40. Objects of My Affection by Peter, Bjorn and John
39. Blue Headlights by The Shout Out Louds (link)
38. No I in Threesome by Interpol
37. My Moon, My Man by Feist
36. Kookaburra by John Vanderslice
35. Paper Birds by Siberian (link)
34. Make A Plan To Love Me by the Bright Eyes
33. Philadelphia Grand Jury by the Fiery Furnaces
32. I Believe by Simian Mobile Disco
31. You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb by Spoon
30. I’m Not Going to Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You by the Black Kids
29. You Can’t Hold the Hand of the Rock and Roll Man by Okkervil River
28. Airship by Siberian (link)
27. Turn On Me by The Shins (link)
26. White Winter Hymnal by the Fleet Foxes (link)

I ended up hearing just one song and it was enough to convince me to buy the album. That song was “For Science Fiction”, I bookmarked the wikipedia entry for their band just promising I’d check out after hearing their song on The Hype Machine’s radio. I eventually forgot about Maritime and when going through my bookmarks I totally forgot why I would bookmark them. I put “For Science Fiction” back onto my media player and I just went on the label’s website to order the album.

Anyway Maritime was formed from bands that broke up namely The Promise Ring and The Dismemberment Plan. I never really listened to them before and like all new music I find, it’s random but I just dig deeper to find more stuff I like.

Maritime is considered a pop rock band but to me they have elements of punk sound that has me disagreeing with the label of “pop”. Heresy and the Hotel Choir switches back and forth from pop rock sounding to that pop punk sound. I don’t know if I like the transitions between the two but I would say most hate on the purely indie pop rock genre so it’s clear that Maritime is very talented. I feel like the change gave me a headache and I didn’t really feel that smooth consistency but I can like almost every song depending on the mood.

I’ll give this album a 3.75 out of 5. Solid, great vocals, shows some musical talent but I feel like it’s not clear as to what direction the band is going to and thus has my brain not digging the album as a whole.

First person to comment (with a valid e-mail) gets 12 free tracks from bands on the label Flameshovel including Maritime, The Narrator, Mannequin Men, The Race, The Subjects, Phon, Jonathan Messinger and Zach Plague.

Here are two tracks to check out (including my favorite “For Science Fiction”):

For Science Fiction By Maritime

Hand Over Hannover by Maritime