Check this out – Hassslehoff music videos… There’s no accounting for taste, but the Germans are just NUTS.

Kevin Shields talks about scoring Lost In Translation.

My Morning Jacket do a free instore at Soundscapes at 7pm next Friday, the same night as their show at Lee’s Palace.

That Universal Music price slash I mentioned yesterday? It’s not just Universal Music Canada – it’s Universal Music worldwide. Universal is the largest major label in the world, by the way. Price war! Price war! Price war!

Things I have at the end of the day that I did not at the start of the day:

– a toaster (thanks mom!)

– my own phone number (thanks Bell guy!)

– three fully opening windows instead of two (thanks building maintenance guy!)

– a working vacuum cleaner (thanks guy who sold me a new belt for my vacuum cleaner!)

Tomorrow – to Ikea. Seems that next-day delivery only works if you go to the store and purchase said items. Over the phone, they ship from Quebec and it takes 11-14 days. Um, no.

np – Nada Surf / Let Go

Something curious happening with my phone line. The previous tenant has moved his phone number to his new address, and my line isn’t due to be installed until tomorrow. However, I plugged my phone into the jack on a lark and voila – dialtone. I can make outgoing calls, take incoming calls (I called a friend with call display to find out what the number was)… and I have no idea who this number belongs to. Bell doesn’t know – the previous tenant was with another local phone provider. So yes, we can get all the requisite “call porn lines!” jokes out of the way now. Hell, I just took a phone survey on this mystery line…

Jessica Simpson as the Invisible Girl in a Fantastic Four movie? Um, okay.

Wheat’s long-awaited, oft-delayed Per Second Per Second Every Second has been – wait for it – delayed again. The October 7 release date is now an October 28 release date. Sigh. I don’t think the album really exists.

Velocette Records has some mp3s from the new Beulah album for your approval. Yoko! September 9! Linkie from Catty Birdy Seatie.

Time Magazine – yes, Time – declares Spoon your “new favorite band” and a title for the new album – Captured To Be Cooked is revealed. Expect it in Spring 04. Link from Traveler’s Diagram.

Universal Music has announced they are lowering their wholesale and list prices on CDs in response to music downloading. That’s great guys, glad to hear it. Now how about concentrating on putting out music that DOESN’T SUCK?

np – Beulah / The Coast Is Never Clear

So yes, happy anniversary to me. It was one year ago that I decided to give the blogging thing a go. I had been poking my webhosting with a stick for a few months, trying to figure out what to do with it besides host a list of my CD collection, some random photos and mp3s, and after checking out Vic’s blog, I thought a similar exercise in self-indulgence might be fun.

The first iteration of the blog was pretentiously titled Universal Truths And Cycles and run on/hosted by Blogger. That lasted a week – keeping two autonomous sites running didn’t make much sense to me so very quickly I was using the FTP function to publish directly to the Chromewaves site. You can still see the old chromewaves.blogspot.com site. Ahh, memories.

Since then, things have gotten more refined here. Blogger was ditched for the much slicker Nucleus CMS. The secondary blog title was also dropped. I found my feet, figuratively speaking, in regards to writing style and deciding what and what was not blog-worthy. I’ve been gratified to see my readership increase exponentially over time… A very validating experience to be sure, even if half of it is from people doing Google searches on things that I’ve never ever talked about. I’ve met many new and interesting people, both online and in real life, and made some good friends. It’s been a great time, thanks to everyone who’s been part of it.

I should note that I’m writing this post from the couch in my new apartment. I’m considerably unpacked, the remaining boxes can’t be unloaded until I get some more shelves and a desk. The place is looking alright, if I do say so myself. Four days of moving has finally mostly come to an end, and I couldn’t be happier about it. I will take some pictures of the new place in the next couple days – I’d prefer to have some shots of it all laid out proper like instead of barely contained chaos.

I have no food. I have to go get my bike. I’m tired. But I am MOVED. Yay me.

So congratulate me, already.

I am so tired. I don’t want to move any more boxes. But if I don’t, I won’t have any clothes. And that’s sure to come back to haunt me at some point. I think I still have one more load of stuff to move tonight… I have to go back to my new place anyway, since I need a wrench to disassemble the coffee table and I have apparently already moved my wrench. MY WRENCH. I don’t know how my wrench got moved and the rest of my tools did not. Actually I do. Fuck.

Two things have come to my attention today. I’ve realized that A) my new digs are squarely within the University Of Toronto ghetto, and B) that it’s Frosh Week. Utilizing my highly developed engineer math skills, I’ve combined points A) and B) and determined that there are likely to be numerous instances of drunken students wandering my street going, “Whoooo!” for no reason. Goddamn students.

Radiohead has been rescheduled for October 15 at the Air Canada Centre, or so my sources would have me believe. This may not be any more accurate than the last resched date I posted, so take it with a grain of salt. Or better yet, find out if it’s true and then let me know. I wonder how they will handle the assigned seats with the new venue? Fairly, I hope. What I’m more curious about is whether Stephen “My crappy-ass website only works in Internet Explorer” Malkmus will still be opening.

Deposed indie queen Liz Phair brings her MILF-rock dog and pony show to the Guvernment November 15. It will be interesting to see who shows up to this – will her old fanbase, feeling dissed and abandoned by her latest album, show up to praise her or bury her? Or will they not show up at all? And considering Liz Phair has sorta tanked, will that highly coveted ‘mainstream’ come out to see her? Questions, questions.

Happy Labour Day to all those Labour-minded people out there. Me, I’m on vacation. More moving on tap for today.

Death Wish-er Charles Bronson dies at age 81. A moment of silence for the ugliest man to ever inexplicably become an action movie star.

Barring catastrophe (meaning as long as the cable guy shows up on time and I’m online), tomorrow I will be celebrating not only moving into my own digs but the ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of the Chromewaves blog. That’s right, I’ve been spewing inanities and bringing you the best in news that’s of interest to me and me only for a full year now. What sort of festivities do I have planned? Well, probably nothing. Not even a half-assed ‘best moments from’ clip show. Just some thoughts on the past year of blogging and an open invitation for people to wish me well. If I wasn’t knee deep in moving, I would have done up a new interface or something but the truth is, this current one still doesn’t bug me, even after a few months, which is unprecedented.

But if you’re looking for something new, Largehearted Boy has given himself a September 1st makeover.

np – The New Year / Newness Ends