Friday, June 13th, 2003
Friday the 13th! Oooooooooh.
Dubya can’t work the Segway. Apparently he couldn’t get a handle on leaning forward to make it go – he kept pulling too far to the right and falling on his ass.
The Radiohead/Stephen Malkmus show on the 16th has been confirmed by the Molson Amphitheatre. Don’t yet know when tickets will be available.
A quick pass through the used CD stores this afternoon yielded a copy of the three-day old Grandaddy album. It’s pretty.
Broken Social Scene continue to rack up the accolades on the international stage. Tonight’s show at Lee’s is sold out and it’ll probably be the last time for a while they’ll be playing around town (not counting the Guelph Hillside Festival), so hopefully it’ll be a good one. They are on hella late so I’ve taken a nap in preparation. And now I am groggy.
np – Grandaddy / Sumday
Thursday, June 12th, 2003
You are looking at the net result of the past four weeknights. Version 5.0 of my site is good to go… I’d originally intended it to be a more drastic overhaul, at least in terms of interface approach, but I settled for keeping most of the changes behind the scenes. This is a much leaner site than it’s predecessor, particularly in terms of the CSS and the Nucleus templates. It’s also more graphic intensive, and to my eye, sharper looking. I’m pretty happy with it for now, and will continue tweaking this and that as time goes by, but I think this one might last a while. Or at least until I come up with that ‘drastic overhaul’ idea.
UPDATE – whoops, comments were broken. Now fixed.
np – Pavement / Wowee Zowee
Thursday, June 12th, 2003
On a whim (and on the high ranking in this week’s Anti-Hit List), I’ve ordered the Ben Gibbard/Andrew Kenney split album, Home: Volume 5. It was actually pretty cheap, even after shipping and exchange. Less than it would sell for in a store up here, anyway.
I am playing with a trackback plugin that’s available for Nucleus. I’m not sure how it’s going so far – I might have more luck if I actually knew what this thing was supposed to do…
np – Ted Leo & The Pharmacists / Hearts Of Oak
Wednesday, June 11th, 2003
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club motor into Lee’s Palace on July 5, a little early to support the new album Take Them On, On Your Own which isn’t out till September 2. I damn near fell asleep the last time they were here, which wasn’t entirely their fault but it wasn’t NOT entirely their fault either. Anyway, I am not going to bother but it might be of interest to someone else.
What is cooler is The Tyde are opening for Pernice Brothers on the upcoming tour. The Tyde are 3/5 of Beachwood Sparks with the 70s psych-country influences ratcheted down a notch in favour of more 80s and 90s British indie influences. Should be a good show.
Mojave 3’s Spoon And Rafter will be released in the UK on either the 1st or 8th of September. No word on whether the North American release will coincide with this date or come later.
The redesign continues in earnest. I might be able to get v5.0 up and running tomorrow night. Stay tuned.
np – Rainer Maria / Long Knives Drawn
Wednesday, June 11th, 2003
There’s a dark horse candidate for my oft-discussed September holiday… Bumbershoot in Seattle, over the Labour Day weekend. REM, Wilco and The Shins to name a few, and only $55 for four days. Compounded with the big steaming heaps of uncertainty surrounding ATP NYC, maybe a contingency plan is in order. And I know some people out in Vancouver. Well, one. I think, if he’s still there.
UPDATE: ATP NYC is officially postponed till early ’04. So I am soliciting suggestions on what to do with my damned vacation time.
np – New Order / Substance
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