Thursday, June 19th, 2003
I’m feeling compelled to offer a little commentary on some of the headlines in today’s paper.
‘No court martial’ for U.S. airmen. All of those who are surprised by this, hands up. You’re excused. No sir, gotta support our boys in uniform during these troubled times. Even the drugged-up, homicidal ones who don’t follow orders. After all, they only killed four Canadians, and last we checked they weren’t it the “With us” column – it was probably only a matter of time before someone decided the Canucks were hiding weapons of mass destruction in our beaver tails and hockey rinks and came up here to bomb us anyway.
Coffin linked to Jesus is a fraud, experts rule. Now I’m not religious by any stretch of the imagination, but I have to admit I was excited when this ossuary first made the news last year, and I’m disappointed now that it’s likely a hoax. I’m always willing to have my notions of things challenged – even the veracity of Christianity – particularly with something resembling hard concrete proof. Maybe next time, guys.
Why Ottawa said yes to making it legal. The ‘it’ in question being gay marraige. Based on the timing of the Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision last week (a week and a half before Pride Week), I can only surmise it was to try and boost tourism dollars as gay couples from all over North America and tie the knot. Very canny, fellows. And congratulations to everyone to whom this is a victory.
I am an official BLUE STAR ebay-er. 50 happy transactioins for me! I would like to take this opportunity to dedicate this blue star to those out there who, because of circumstances beyond their control, will never even get the chance to acquire 50 positive feedbacks… You know who you are…
William Katt. Why on earth do I have the name of the actor from The Greatest American Hero at my instant disposal? In my utility belt of useless facts and trivia? Surely that sector of my grey matter can be better used for stuff like, oh, shopping lists or something.
You know what’s creepy? Baby corn, that’s what. I mean, they taste fine and all, but they’re certainly not naturally occurring. And whose sick idea was it to genetically engineer such a thing? “Man, this corn is good. But you know what would make it even better? If it was TINY…”
Fucked up.
np – Pavement / Westing (By Musket And Sextant)
Wednesday, June 18th, 2003
Lisa Cholodenko’s Laurel Canyon is about a straight-laced couple (Christian Bale and Kate Beckinsale) who move to California to temporarily stay with Bale’s successful and eccentric record producer mother (Frances McDormand). The two are slowly absorbed into McDormand’s bohemian lifestyle – Beckinsale willingly, Bale not so much – with predictable results.
A reasonably enjoyable movie, mostly for McDormand’s performance, with some pretty cool scenes/reference points. Choice among them: The band McDormand is recording (which sounds like Chris Martin from Coldplay fronting the Folk Implosion – mostly because if IS some British mook with Lou Barlow and Russ Pollard as his backing band) playing Sparklehorse’s “Someday I Will Treat You Good”. Kate Beckinsale doing a striptease to Serge Gainsbourg’s “Bonnie & Clyde”. Mark Linkous and Daniel Lanois playing guitar together at a CD wrap party. Kate Beckinsale frolicking in a pool in her underwear. A really impressive soundtrack featuring Mercury Rev, Sparklehorse (Linkous was all over this film), Baxter Drury and Anna Waronker, among others. And Kate Beckinsale. Oh sorry, did I already mention her?
Wednesday, June 18th, 2003
See the trailer for Masked And Anonymous starring Bob Dylan here. This may be the first time I’ve ever heard him speak a coherent sentence. A pretty all-star cast surrounding the peculiarly-mustachioed one – I suppose one of the perks of being Bob Dylan is that you can have Penelope Cruz cast as your love interest and no one would question it.
In case I never mentioned it, Tiny Mix Tapes is a terrific music site for as-it-happens music news and tour dates.
Speaking of other blog links, thanks to Done Waiting and The Minor Fall, The Major Lift for funnelling all sorts of traffic here over the last couple days. I feel loved.
Some cool Flash experiments.
np – Pernice Brothers / The World Won’t End
Tuesday, June 17th, 2003
It’s a Saddle Creek kinda morning. Bright Eyes and Rilo Kiley to get the day off on the right foot. I think I’ve seen the Saddle Creek 50 comp around town used – is this worth picking up?
The day actually started with the mp3 of Velocity Girl covering New Order’s “Your Silent Face” that 517 generously gave me. Soooo good. Look for that one as mp3 of the week very soon. Like, Saturday, probably.
The long long long awaited (by me, anyway) and oft-postponed new record from Wheat, Per Second Per Second Per Second Every Second FINALLY has a release date in the first week of October, which by my calendar puts it at October 7. While based on past history I wouldn’t make plans to camp out in front of a record store yet, that’s a far firmer street date than the album has had in its long history. While I still have some fears about what effect label machinations have had on the finished product, advance reviews from some trusted sources have been overwhelmingly positive. They’re hoping to do some touring in late summer – Here’s hoping.
And finally, congratulations to Joe Pernice and Laura Stein on their upcoming wedding. They will be tying the knot here in Toronto right around the date of the July 22 Pernice Brothers show. Ain’t nothing more romantic than SARS.
np – Rilo Kiley / The Execution Of All Things
Monday, June 16th, 2003
What does two weeks of rust sound like? Pretty bad, to be honest. Sloppy, uninspired and just not altogether there… and that was just me! I had some trouble adjusting to hearing everything again, and it showed. I’m not too worried though, we always suck ass through a straw the first rehearsal after a long layoff. We should be much more on the ball on Thursday. And if not, well… there’s still most of a mickey of rye in the space. That’ll make us sound better.
Radiohead tickets are $48.75 and $58.75? I’m sorry? That can’t possible include lawns, because $50 for LAWNS is a fucking crime.
Today’s Bitchfork column is ‘post-breakup debacles’, and for talking smack about Mojave 3 and to a lesser extent, Cracker, Chris Ott needs a size-12 Doc Marten up the ass.
np – Wilco / The Complete Singles
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