I feel kind of bad, because the Joel Plaskett Emergency played at the Grand Theatre in Ellsworth last year and I totally slept on it. I shouldn't have. I just came across this single from his new album "Ashtray Rock," and I'm kind of in love with it. It's called "Fashionable People," and it's so catchy I can't even deal with it. Catchy, and clever too. Power pop. He's kind of dorky, and yet cool. He is, after all, Canadian (Nova Scotia, to be exact). I wish I'd heard him sooner, but it serves me right for not writing about him or listening to his album when he was in my area. Bad Emily.