Week of hell at school is over with only moderate damage.
The new Cure album fucking rocks! I won't elaborate too much until I've given it another dozen or so listens.. :)
This track Scream is so great! The studio version kicks this version's ass as well.
Seriously, this is another one of those 'special tracks'. Within the opening bars I had experienced the gamut of pleasurable physical reactions to a song. ;) I love it!!! A definite touch of Forever/All I have to do is kill her/All Mine.
This has always been my favorite kind of Cure song, and that's why I love this new album so much. Screw the keyboards, give me more guitar!! haha. I put Scream up there with the likes of FTEOTDGS, The Kiss, in terms of massive buildup. This song is way to epic to clock in a 4 and a half mins!
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
he's off the grid, man
so many weird dreams last night.
they're ripping up the street in front of my place...construction, how i loathe thee.
going to skip the second half of my sociolinguistics class tonight to make it to HMV before 9.
new cure album!!!! ahhhhh!!!! oh happy day!!!
...fuck, i'm tired.
they're ripping up the street in front of my place...construction, how i loathe thee.
going to skip the second half of my sociolinguistics class tonight to make it to HMV before 9.
new cure album!!!! ahhhhh!!!! oh happy day!!!
...fuck, i'm tired.
4:13 Dream
The new Cure album is out today! WOOOOOOO! ;)
I'm so inundated with school work that I probably won't even get a chance to to listen to it right away, I have to wait for that special moment. hehe. Its a shame that they released 4 singles and played 3 other songs live on the last tour. It means that there are only 6 tracks on the album that I haven't heard yet. But hey, an event of this magnitude only comes round every 4 years or so... I'll be sure to detail exactly how I feel about the album once I've given it a few proper listens.
Jess is going to cut my hair and give me bangs on thursday and I managed to snag a skirt and ladies business jacket at Village des Valeurs for 20$. My costume is coming together nicely... mouhahaha..
I'm so inundated with school work that I probably won't even get a chance to to listen to it right away, I have to wait for that special moment. hehe. Its a shame that they released 4 singles and played 3 other songs live on the last tour. It means that there are only 6 tracks on the album that I haven't heard yet. But hey, an event of this magnitude only comes round every 4 years or so... I'll be sure to detail exactly how I feel about the album once I've given it a few proper listens.
Jess is going to cut my hair and give me bangs on thursday and I managed to snag a skirt and ladies business jacket at Village des Valeurs for 20$. My costume is coming together nicely... mouhahaha..
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
with my poisoned arms around you
it was five years ago today that Elliott Smith stabbed himself in the heart.
live from Olympia, WA
One of the most important songwriters of the 90's who never really got his due.
Heroin is such a scary drug. The only person that I ever knew who got hooked on it is dead (at 22 years old - such a tragedy). This review of Smith's show at North Eastern University is eerie:
Just Say Yes
By Jake Brown
May 3, 2002
Just Say Yes
Elliott Smith Live at the Riviera Theater
Thursday, April 2, 2002
"I love Elliott Smith, but man, he was a mess last night opening up for Wilco at an unannounced show in Chicago. It was really sad. He apparently slept funny on the plane and a couple of his fingers had fallen asleep and would not wake up. He told us this probably 75 times in the hour or so he was on stage. "Fuck! I keep concentrating on my fingers." He would start a song, play the first few bars, maybe sing one line or two, and then stop, apologize, and tell us he couldn't feel his fingers. "I keep concentrating on my fingers instead of the song, and I'm not going to play it if I'm not into the song." I think he played a total of three songs all the way through, no shit. He probably started 30. "Just let me try to think of a song I can play with only two fingers." If someone taped this, it's going to be one of those monumentally tragic recordings that show a great artist totally bottoming out.
I kept thinking how that must have been what it was like to see Bukowski do a reading, but without the meanness toward the audience. Just the messiness of someone who's fucked up.
I seriously hope he's okay and that he gets his shit together. But it would not surprise me at all if Elliott Smith ends up dead within a year."
----
So sad... he didn't even make it that long; he was dead 6 months later.
Still, I can't help but be reminded of that photospread from Vice magazine that Sharon had hanging in our bathroom and which still hangs there to this day:
10 Things to do With a Dead Rat
live from Olympia, WA
One of the most important songwriters of the 90's who never really got his due.
Heroin is such a scary drug. The only person that I ever knew who got hooked on it is dead (at 22 years old - such a tragedy). This review of Smith's show at North Eastern University is eerie:
Just Say Yes
By Jake Brown
May 3, 2002
Just Say Yes
Elliott Smith Live at the Riviera Theater
Thursday, April 2, 2002
"I love Elliott Smith, but man, he was a mess last night opening up for Wilco at an unannounced show in Chicago. It was really sad. He apparently slept funny on the plane and a couple of his fingers had fallen asleep and would not wake up. He told us this probably 75 times in the hour or so he was on stage. "Fuck! I keep concentrating on my fingers." He would start a song, play the first few bars, maybe sing one line or two, and then stop, apologize, and tell us he couldn't feel his fingers. "I keep concentrating on my fingers instead of the song, and I'm not going to play it if I'm not into the song." I think he played a total of three songs all the way through, no shit. He probably started 30. "Just let me try to think of a song I can play with only two fingers." If someone taped this, it's going to be one of those monumentally tragic recordings that show a great artist totally bottoming out.
I kept thinking how that must have been what it was like to see Bukowski do a reading, but without the meanness toward the audience. Just the messiness of someone who's fucked up.
I seriously hope he's okay and that he gets his shit together. But it would not surprise me at all if Elliott Smith ends up dead within a year."
----
So sad... he didn't even make it that long; he was dead 6 months later.
Still, I can't help but be reminded of that photospread from Vice magazine that Sharon had hanging in our bathroom and which still hangs there to this day:
10 Things to do With a Dead Rat
Sunday, October 19, 2008
i don't need your moral majority
John F. Kennedy
Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association
delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX
"...I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute; where no Catholic prelate would tell the President -- should he be Catholic -- how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote; where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference, and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him, or the people who might elect him.
I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accept instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials, and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.
For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been -- and may someday be again -- a Jew, or a Quaker, or a Unitarian, or a Baptist. It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that led to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom. Today, I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you -- until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped apart at a time of great national peril.
Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end, where all men and all churches are treated as equals, where every man has the same right to attend or not to attend the church of his choice, where there is no Catholic vote, no anti-Catholic vote, no bloc voting of any kind, and where Catholics, Protestants, and Jews, at both the lay and the pastoral levels, will refrain from those attitudes of disdain and division which have so often marred their works in the past, and promote instead the American ideal of brotherhood.
That is the kind of America in which I believe. And it represents the kind of Presidency in which I believe, a great office that must be neither humbled by making it the instrument of any religious group nor tarnished by arbitrarily withholding it -- its occupancy from the members of any one religious group. I believe in a President whose views on religion are his own private affair, neither imposed upon him by the nation, nor imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office..."
Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association
delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX
"...I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute; where no Catholic prelate would tell the President -- should he be Catholic -- how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote; where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference, and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him, or the people who might elect him.
I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accept instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials, and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.
For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been -- and may someday be again -- a Jew, or a Quaker, or a Unitarian, or a Baptist. It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that led to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom. Today, I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you -- until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped apart at a time of great national peril.
Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end, where all men and all churches are treated as equals, where every man has the same right to attend or not to attend the church of his choice, where there is no Catholic vote, no anti-Catholic vote, no bloc voting of any kind, and where Catholics, Protestants, and Jews, at both the lay and the pastoral levels, will refrain from those attitudes of disdain and division which have so often marred their works in the past, and promote instead the American ideal of brotherhood.
That is the kind of America in which I believe. And it represents the kind of Presidency in which I believe, a great office that must be neither humbled by making it the instrument of any religious group nor tarnished by arbitrarily withholding it -- its occupancy from the members of any one religious group. I believe in a President whose views on religion are his own private affair, neither imposed upon him by the nation, nor imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office..."
untitled
like a feeling that i'm down
deep inside my heart
like i'm looking out through
splitting blood red
windows in my heart
from a higher up than heaven
and a harder down than stone
shake the fear that always clawing
pulls me clawing down alone
as i spitting splitting blood red
breaking windows in my heart
and the past is taunting
fear of ghosts
is forcing me apart
and the further i get
from the things that i care about
the less i care about
how much further away i get...
Fear of Ghosts - the Cure
nights like these make me feel as though i'll never sleep again.
deep inside my heart
like i'm looking out through
splitting blood red
windows in my heart
from a higher up than heaven
and a harder down than stone
shake the fear that always clawing
pulls me clawing down alone
as i spitting splitting blood red
breaking windows in my heart
and the past is taunting
fear of ghosts
is forcing me apart
and the further i get
from the things that i care about
the less i care about
how much further away i get...
Fear of Ghosts - the Cure
nights like these make me feel as though i'll never sleep again.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
right back where we started
Conservative minority - a few more seats for the Conservatives than last time.
I think that this could actually be good for the country; Dion's bound to get sacked as Liberal leader and we can only hope that he's replaced by someone who can actually communicate in both official languages. Someone like....
too bad he's such a douche. I loved his father, but there's no way that a majority of Quebec will ever vote for a Trudeau. It's a shame.
The Bloc dude won my riding, which is also a shame - but the cool thing is that Thomas Mulcair won a seat in Montreal, just edging his Liberal opponent in the Outremont riding. It's the first time in history that an NDP candidate wins a seat in Quebec in a feral election.
That little wedge of orange is one of the few bright spots of this election for me. Ah well, at least montreal is still a comforting majority of red among the sea of blue that is quebec.
and here's the bigger picture:
I think that this could actually be good for the country; Dion's bound to get sacked as Liberal leader and we can only hope that he's replaced by someone who can actually communicate in both official languages. Someone like....
too bad he's such a douche. I loved his father, but there's no way that a majority of Quebec will ever vote for a Trudeau. It's a shame.
The Bloc dude won my riding, which is also a shame - but the cool thing is that Thomas Mulcair won a seat in Montreal, just edging his Liberal opponent in the Outremont riding. It's the first time in history that an NDP candidate wins a seat in Quebec in a feral election.
That little wedge of orange is one of the few bright spots of this election for me. Ah well, at least montreal is still a comforting majority of red among the sea of blue that is quebec.
and here's the bigger picture:
Monday, October 13, 2008
Yay Turkey Day!
Thanksgiving is always nice. This was the first family dinner we've had at my mom and Paul's house since they moved to the country. I keep telling them that they're practically living in Ontario, but it was a really nice drive out there and getting to see all the yellow and red leaves was a bonus. I've decided to go up north for a hiking day trip before it gets too cold - just have to put some new tunes on my MP3 player and i'm set.
I had a few rye and gingers before dinner and during the turkey dinner wound up giving my mom a hard time because she said that "she liked" Sarah Palin. I couldn't believe it. I proceeded to launch a tirade outlining all the reasons why she is an evil lady. Despite that, a good time was had by all - well, maybe not the turkey.
You know that feeling that you get when you hear a really, really good song for the first time? It doesn't happen that often for me, but when it does I relish the moment completely. This song is something very special to me - it really showcases my favorite guitar and drumming styles fused together. I've come to expect nothing but quality from all the Factory Records bands, and I had heard the Durutti Column before from 24 Hr Party People but i was sure that it was just the guitarist Vinni Reilly. This song came outta nowhere and absolutely FLOORED me. Anyway, here is one of the greatest songs ever written, imo, that was recorded 27 years ago and which I discovered today, the 13th of October, 2008.
Anyone wanna guess what the drummer was on? I'd say LSD or Ecstasy! haha...
When they switch to four on the floor around the 6 mins mark...that just does indescribable things to my body. Yes, I'll admit it - I'm turned on by a 4/4 time signature. sooo goood.
Oh man, I know what I'm doing tomorrow - I'm tuning up the Les Paul and breaking out my digi delay pedal and I am gonna learn this song if it takes me all day. It's gonna be so, so sweet. Life is all about the simple pleasures.
I had a few rye and gingers before dinner and during the turkey dinner wound up giving my mom a hard time because she said that "she liked" Sarah Palin. I couldn't believe it. I proceeded to launch a tirade outlining all the reasons why she is an evil lady. Despite that, a good time was had by all - well, maybe not the turkey.
You know that feeling that you get when you hear a really, really good song for the first time? It doesn't happen that often for me, but when it does I relish the moment completely. This song is something very special to me - it really showcases my favorite guitar and drumming styles fused together. I've come to expect nothing but quality from all the Factory Records bands, and I had heard the Durutti Column before from 24 Hr Party People but i was sure that it was just the guitarist Vinni Reilly. This song came outta nowhere and absolutely FLOORED me. Anyway, here is one of the greatest songs ever written, imo, that was recorded 27 years ago and which I discovered today, the 13th of October, 2008.
Anyone wanna guess what the drummer was on? I'd say LSD or Ecstasy! haha...
When they switch to four on the floor around the 6 mins mark...that just does indescribable things to my body. Yes, I'll admit it - I'm turned on by a 4/4 time signature. sooo goood.
Oh man, I know what I'm doing tomorrow - I'm tuning up the Les Paul and breaking out my digi delay pedal and I am gonna learn this song if it takes me all day. It's gonna be so, so sweet. Life is all about the simple pleasures.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
"Ever Wonder what people are talking about across the room"?
hahaha..wow.
I just saw this commercial on TV for a product called Listen In, its this little sound amplifier. Another perfect example of a useless commodity and waste of plastic, but the commercial is golden!! If you go to the address here the little infomercial will pop up. It provided me with any a chuckle.
I just saw this commercial on TV for a product called Listen In, its this little sound amplifier. Another perfect example of a useless commodity and waste of plastic, but the commercial is golden!! If you go to the address here the little infomercial will pop up. It provided me with any a chuckle.
Friday, October 10, 2008
moving on...
My three-year relationship is over. Technically, it's been over for almost a year, but we've finally made things official. I should probably be sad, but i can't seem to feel anything at all. Actually, thats not true - i feel like a massive weight has been lifted from my shoulders. It's not as if I'm dying to put myself back on the market or anything, but it's a really liberating feeling knowing that should any opportunity present itself I don't have any reason hold back. I've been trying to put an end to this for months, but I'm a real pussy (please forgive the vulgarity :P) about these sorts of things.
Anyway, just got back from work - very pleased to have not found out the score of the hockey game, seeing as I recorded it. It's never fun watching a hockey game when you know what the outcome will be. So, time to settle back, crack open a bottle of Kronenburg and watch the first match of the Canadiens' centennial season.
I'm such a horrible person to be this happy about being broken up with! hahaha
oh well! :D
Anyway, just got back from work - very pleased to have not found out the score of the hockey game, seeing as I recorded it. It's never fun watching a hockey game when you know what the outcome will be. So, time to settle back, crack open a bottle of Kronenburg and watch the first match of the Canadiens' centennial season.
I'm such a horrible person to be this happy about being broken up with! hahaha
oh well! :D
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Round 2
watching the second US presidential candidates' debate... if McCain says 'my friends' one more time, I'm changing the channel! As much as i like Brokaw, I would have loved to see Gwen moderate this one!
It's fun to actually be able to watch evening TV - i guess semi-unemployment has its perks! Seriously though, I need a job; I've been watching far too many leftist documentaries/propaganda and I'm starting to get very angry with the status quo. Alas, I don't have the moral fiber to be a revolutionary.
There's a great site out that calculates the most strategic anti-harper's conservatives vote by your electoral riding: http://www.voterpourlenvironnement.org/
The area I just moved to has an incumbent from the Bloc Quebecois (having a separatist party in federal politics HAS to be the most ridiculous thing ever!) with the Liberal guy having placed a close second. Basically, it means there's no conservative threat in Jeanne-le-ber (ugliest riding name ever... i miss Ville-Marie! haha) so i'm free to vote with my heart. Now all i have to do is decide whether i want to support the New Democrats or the Green Party. Elizabeth May did do the best in the English debate and the green's will get 75c for every vote they get to contribute towards their next platform, so i'm leaning in that direction.
New Cure album in exactly 3 weeks from today!!! WEEEEEE!!
I'm beginning to prep my Sarah Palin costume - anyone have a rifle to spare for one evening? Ammo isn't strictly necessary! ;) Also looking for a ladies' business suit jacket.
I think i've finally committed the Phonetic Alphabet chart to memory.
What do i win?
feel my pain
It's fun to actually be able to watch evening TV - i guess semi-unemployment has its perks! Seriously though, I need a job; I've been watching far too many leftist documentaries/propaganda and I'm starting to get very angry with the status quo. Alas, I don't have the moral fiber to be a revolutionary.
There's a great site out that calculates the most strategic anti-harper's conservatives vote by your electoral riding: http://www.voterpourlenvironnement.org/
The area I just moved to has an incumbent from the Bloc Quebecois (having a separatist party in federal politics HAS to be the most ridiculous thing ever!) with the Liberal guy having placed a close second. Basically, it means there's no conservative threat in Jeanne-le-ber (ugliest riding name ever... i miss Ville-Marie! haha) so i'm free to vote with my heart. Now all i have to do is decide whether i want to support the New Democrats or the Green Party. Elizabeth May did do the best in the English debate and the green's will get 75c for every vote they get to contribute towards their next platform, so i'm leaning in that direction.
New Cure album in exactly 3 weeks from today!!! WEEEEEE!!
I'm beginning to prep my Sarah Palin costume - anyone have a rifle to spare for one evening? Ammo isn't strictly necessary! ;) Also looking for a ladies' business suit jacket.
I think i've finally committed the Phonetic Alphabet chart to memory.
What do i win?
feel my pain
Sunday, October 5, 2008
"There is a place in hell reserved for women who don't support other women"
Palin cites a quote from Madeleine Albright that she saw on her 'Starbucks Mocha Cup' *insert clapping and faint cheering here* why are you cheering at the mere mention of starbuck's?? Pathetic. speaking of, here's the clip from her speech:
She's really giving Ann Coulter some competition for my most hated harpy.
She's really giving Ann Coulter some competition for my most hated harpy.
completely spent
Went to the weird punk show last night. Neptune canceled at the last minute, citing 'incurable van problems'. I was really disappointed as they were the main reason i had bought tickets. the deathset were fun and boisterous, shearing pinx weren't bad and AIDS Wolf (getting Laids Wolf, as they called themselves last night due to a guitarist being out with food poisoning) were, well... i left 20 mins into their set while the singer was on the floor in the crowd in fetal position with the mic in her mouth.
All in all, I got my 10 bucks worth and had some good company.
Decided to meet up with Sharon at Vinyl afterwards and she force-fed me mdma. Okay, well, it was more like: 'Open your mouth and swallow this', so obviously i did. things get a little fuzzy after that, but i do remember cabbing it to my place after we realized she had no booze in her apartment - the cabbie was blaring salsa music - like a few hundred decibels over comfortable blaring. Kicked her out shortly before 7am after hours of pointless blethering. I am completely destroyed. This is gonna be a crazy busy week at school, the job hunt continues (tower.com haven't called back - bastards!... i just wanna climb in to bed and sleep till it warm outside again.
All in all, I got my 10 bucks worth and had some good company.
Decided to meet up with Sharon at Vinyl afterwards and she force-fed me mdma. Okay, well, it was more like: 'Open your mouth and swallow this', so obviously i did. things get a little fuzzy after that, but i do remember cabbing it to my place after we realized she had no booze in her apartment - the cabbie was blaring salsa music - like a few hundred decibels over comfortable blaring. Kicked her out shortly before 7am after hours of pointless blethering. I am completely destroyed. This is gonna be a crazy busy week at school, the job hunt continues (tower.com haven't called back - bastards!... i just wanna climb in to bed and sleep till it warm outside again.
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