Tuesday, May 20th, 2003
Currently conquering Europe with the zeal of Napleon, The Hidden Cameras will allegedly be back on home turf in June as part of the CBC Radiosonic showcase at the Horseshoe for NXNE, June 7. Now THAT will be an impossible show to get into.
Hmm, I’m feeling some early 90s indie rock nostalgia. I miss Velocity Girl!!
Mmm, tired now. Quite tired. By rights my day should be over. Yes, I will stop complaining about the summer hours the first time I bolt on Friday at noon.
np – Velocity Girl / Gilded Stars And Zealous Hearts
Tuesday, May 20th, 2003
8AM and I was here. I may have stared blankly at my monitor for the next 30 minutes, but I was here, dammit. Take that, summer hours.
New Pernice Brothers today! The summer has begun.
Preview a couple of the new tracks from GBV’s Earthquake Glue here. They sound good. Real good. Could Bob be undergoing a second renaissance? We shall see.
np – Fruit Bats / Mouthfuls
Monday, May 19th, 2003
People outside are blowing shit up. God bless Victoria Day.
Full band rehearsal tonight after essentially a two-week layoff. The rust was in full effect – even the rock equivalent of a pressure washer dose of CLR wasn’t quite enough to get things back into sync, but it helped. One more rehearsal and we should be back in the groove… just in time for Brad to go to Chicago for a week. Of course.
Damn my ears are ringing. The time off and they thought they’d get a chance to heal…
Okay – there has GOT to be a way to keep people not in my contact list from spamming me on MSN. It’s simply not conceivable that THAT many college co-eds have set up webcams in the past week and they really want me to come by and have a look. I mean come on.
Oh goodie, tomorrow marks the start of summer hours. Instead of 9-5 days, we go to 8-5 with the payoff being a half day Fridays. It goes without saying that I’m not getting this Friday afternoon of because I have a meeting.
On the remote chance anyone is interested, there’s a big honking repository of Weddoes chords, lyrics and guitar tab here.
np – The Wedding Present / Hit Parade 1
Sunday, May 18th, 2003
Once again, a compilation has proven insufficient to satisfy me and I am going out in search of individual albums. The latest winners of a full back catalog hunt? The Posies, though I saw this one coming. The stuff on the Dream All Day comp is really good – I just generally wait till the amount of crap on my list of stuff to get is at an ebb before I load on more stuff. Well, it’s ebb time. Gimme some mo’ Posies.
First Luther Vandross goes down with a stroke, now Barry White is felled by a stroke (though he’s expected to recover!!). Dammit. If things really do happen in threes, Isaac Hayes must be very nervous right now.
Went for a good ol bike ride around Toronto today. Not too far, just my usual haunts, but it was neat getting around so quickly. I think I’ve definitely narrowed down my target neighbourhoods for moving out. Five will get you six that I’ll be off of College somewhere, around Bathurst. Little Italy-like. It’s a cool area and is really central to everywhere I usually go. Lots of apartments around, too. Though I may end up a basement dweller. Still, it’s good to narrow things down.
np – The Replacements / Pleased To Meet Me
Saturday, May 17th, 2003
So my computer was hijacked last night by the bastiches at lop.com. Without getting to much into the nitty gritty, I’ve managed to clean up most of their crap but the one thing I haven’t managed to undo is the co-opting of my domain guessing function on Mozilla. In a nutshell, what used to happen was if I typed in a single word in the location line, it would wrap a “www.” and “.com” around the term to try that URL. Handy for lazy folk like me. Now any DNS error redirects me to www.lop.com. I found some alleged fixes on Usenet but nothing has actually worked yet. I am pissed off. For more info on these fucknuts, check out their entry on Spywareinfo. Asswipes.
Met up with Bryan and Andrea last night, just over a month away from their wedding day. Today was utterly wasted, as befits the first day of a long weekend. I did replace the quick releases on my bike with regular old bolts, significantly increasing my piece of mind about parts getting ripped off. Went out and bought some clothes and played far too much Neverwinter Nights. My eyes were going all buggy. Tonight is Five Seventeen’s 5/17 party. Which reminds me, I need to burn him a copy of the Wilco EP.
See the lovely video for The Postal Service’s “Such Great Heights” here. Link from ze Catbirdseat.
np – Elvis Costello & The Attractions / Get Happy!!
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