Little Argument With Myself

I am blog surfing right now, checking out what other people do with their soapboxes. Interesting stuff. I’m finding that other folks are quite willing to put more personal stuff in their journals, beyond the ‘I bought this CD, I read this news article, I ate this for dinner, neener neener neener’ I seem to favour.

Why don’t I post more personal stuff? Why don’t I bare my soul to the faceless masses of the internet? Is it because I have trouble opening up? Is it because I know who reads this and I don’t want to share? Is it because I don’t know if blogs are admissable as evidence in a court of law? Or is it because my life is such a desolate, barren void that there’s simply nothing to tell?

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The new Primal Scream gets a domestic release next Tuesday…

np – Low / Trust

Radio Cure

Surfing through my MP3 folders just now, it seems that I never got around to deleting my mp3s of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot I downloaded last Fall, though I’ve had the CD for over seven months now. I got a lot of mileage out of those mp3s… bye bye.

One of those days at work. Just crunching HTML all day will do things to your mind. So glad that’s over with. Apparently we’re supposed to dress all nice-like tomorrow for a promo photo we’re taking of all the staff. Good thing my white polyester leisure suit is back from the cleaners and the ketchup stains are just about gone.

Picked up the new issue of Guitarist today. Funny, I used to be compulsive about the things but I think this year I’ve bought maybe three guitar magazines including this one. I stop reading about playing about the same time I start actually playing in a band. Coincidence? This one was a must-pick-up not for the John Squire cover (aside : once upon a time it might have been, I still hold the first Stone Roses disc in ridiculously high esteem, but everything he’s done since then has diminished his lustre. Haven’t heard anything off his new solo album and I can’t say I’m clamoring too. End aside.), but for the transcription of The Pretenders’ classic ‘Kid’. I’m not big on learning other people’s stuff note-for-note but James Honeyman-Scott’s lead parts are to die for. It’s been impossible to find a transcription on line, so after more than a few years I’m more than happy to pony up a few bucks for a proper lesson. And there’s lots of pretty pictures of guitars and whatnot in it as well.

Site tweaks continue. I’ve created a little blogger section in the sidebar over to the left, with links to other blogs I visit and some of the blog portals I’m connected to. I am going to start making a concerted effort to steer traffic to my site. And if I have to pretend I’ve got naked pictures of Britney Spears here, then by god I will.

Can’t wait to see how many Google referrers I get with searches for ‘naked Britney Spears’ now…

np – Wilco / Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Skyway

The TTC was conspiring to keep me from work today. The later-than-usual departure time was my fault, but I can’t be held resonsible when the driver says, “Next stop Union Station, this train is out of service at Union Station”. And then after I trudge the three blocks back up to King and barely squeeze on the streetcar, I decide I need some McCrap breakfast so I ride on down to Bathurst, and get my mcmuffin. Then I hop on a streetcar back the other way, and it would have been Bob’s my uncle if some loony hadn’t decided that driving backwards very slowly down the eastbound lane thus holding up oncoming traffic was a good idea. Turns out it was a TTC maintenance truck…

Pitchfork’s part 2 of the top 100 albums of the 80s is up. As predicted, I do a little better with the head of the class – a big 20 out of 50. Considering that there’s genres represented that I just don’t have interest in, that’s not bad. My net Pitchfork 80s hip-o-meter is a respecatble 0.280. Wouldn’t win any batting titles but I might stay in the starting lineup.

49 – Mission Of Burma / Vs
48 – R.E.M. / Document
40 – Dinosaur Jr / You’re Living All Over Me
39 – The Stone Roses / The Stone Roses
37 – The Replacements / Time
32 – Husker Du / Zen Arcade
30 – U2 / The Joshua Tree
29 – The Replacements / Let It Be
28 – New Order / Power, Corruption And Lies
26 – Elvis Costello & The Attractions / Get Happy
23 – The Jesus And Mary Chain / Psychocandy
22 – My Bloody Valentine / Isn’t Anything
16 – Galaxie 500 / On Fire
15 – XTC / Skylarking
10 – Joy Division / Closer
7 – Pixies / Surfer Rosa
6 – The Smiths / The Queen Is Dead
5 – R.E.M. / Murmur
4 – Pixies / Dolittle
1 – Sonic Youth / Daydream Nation

np – Superchunk / Here’s To Shutting Up

Off The Pedestal

Looks like I will spending most of the work day hashing out HTML. Page after page of cutting and pasting text from Word documents to HTML files. Wheeeeee.

np – Wheat / Hope And Adams

A Better Version Of Me

Notice anything different? No? That’s probably because I couldn’t come up with any sort of design changes of any earth-shattering ideas, and really – if you’re not shattering the earth, then what’s the point? So I’ve settled for tweaking the colours – the background grey is a little lighter now and the text against it is more readable (hopefully) and there’s snazzy blue trim – lets call them racing stripes – between the black header and footer.

It’s Malibu Stacy, and she’s got a new hat!

I still intend to overhaul this thing completely, though.

No band practice this week, which suits me fine, as I’m pretty beat after work. Apparently Pheobe Electric Shoes has consented to be our drummer, this is good news. What this’ll do to our rehearsal schedule, I dunno, but if actually start making progress musically then I’ll show up at midnights on Saturday nights if need be.

I am just tired. Geez.

np – Beulah / When Your Heartstrings Break