Saturday, March 22nd, 2003
Check it out. In honour of the start of Spring, I’ve redesigned. Well that and the fact that I got envious of Val’s latest redesign. I like the colours – there actually are some now! The search function is currently pooched, I’m going to try and get that fixed. I also want to put some sort of image in the background of the page, just for a little more visual interest. But most of all I’ve redone the backend file structure to be a lot tidier, which should make future redesigns easier.
If anyone finds any bugs, please let me know.
np – Yo La Tengo / President Yo La Tengo / New Wave Hot Dogs
Friday, March 21st, 2003
This is a bit of a treat. Lake Holiday’s debut split 7″ from last Fall has garnered a couple reviews, and they’re even positive. There’s one here and another here (3rd one down the page). While this is only mildy exciting because I didn’t play on either of these tracks (they’re Brad’s demos from before the band was assembled), it’s encouraging because our stuff now sounds loads better than those tracks.
I left work a little early today on account of a splitting headache that just wouldn’t go away. I suspect it’s some kind of barometric-related thing, I seem to have these spates of headaches around the start of Spring and the end of Summer, basically when it goes from cold to warm and from warm to cold.
I’ve spent the first part of this evening cleaning up all the code on 517’s Teenbeat Mailing List archive pages, which now reside on my server. He’s also offering a weekly rare mp3 from the Teenbeat archives. This man owns everything that label ever put out – no mean feat. His My Mean Magpie site will be migrating over soon enough as well. I think we’re also FINALLY getting the Lake Holiday website out of cobwebs.
np – The Electric Soft Parade / Holes In The Wall
Thursday, March 20th, 2003
I’d intended to go to the protest at the US Consulate this afternoon – at least pass by to show support – but I was tied up on a conference call to Seattle until 5:30 and thus lost the window of opportunity I had to huck a tomato. Something that’s surprised me since the war officially began last night is how jaded everyone seems to be about the whole thing. I’m not sure if this is primarily a defence mechanism people are using to deal with the horrors taking place halfway around the world or if they genuinely can’t see this as anything more than source material for jokes and exercises in irony. Probably a little bit of column A and a little bit of column B. I’m just as guilty of this as anyone, but I know in my case that it’s primarily a coping mechanism. Thinking too hard on all this just turns my stomach.
I’m of many many minds about this whole thing – the war, that is. Optimist Frank wants to believe that global protests will eventually make a difference on a grassroots level. Pessimist Frank believes that the short- and long-term reprecussions from this invasion will be far more fearsome than the powers-that-be imagine and this really is the beginning of the end. Pragmatist Frank believes that nothing he does will really make a difference one way or another. Realist Frank accepts the fact that like it or not (and he does not), this war is happening and isn’t going to stop, and that the best thing to do is to actually pull for Bush (as abhorrent as that thought is) and hope that the American forces are successful and finish this quickly and with a minimum loss of life on all sides (Pessimist Frank overhears this and scoffs, loudly). Attention Deficit Disorder Frank is already bored with the whole shebang. And all Franks are in agreement that if coverage of this war pre-empts any episodes of Buffy, 24 or The West Wing, then someone, somewhere, is going to pay.
Anyway. Back to more music geekery.
The Dismemberment Plan is bringing their farewell tour to Toronto on July 19th, venue to be announced. Do not do not do not miss this show, the Plan are fantastic live. This will be terrific and yet so very sad.
The new Radiohead album is called Moving: Target, released on June 10 in North America. Thanks to Audrey for the news. She’s got the tracklist on her site as well.
np – Whiskeytown / Faithless Street
Thursday, March 20th, 2003
Sure sign you are getting old – albums you bought new are being reissued in expanded and remastered format. Pavement and Uncle Tupelo have had their kicks at the archival release can, now Liz Phair wants to rerelease Exile In Guyville with remixing, extra demo tracks, big fat liner notes, etc etc. Though how she’s going to top those original pics of herself prancing around in her underwear, I don’t know.
And of course, the new album has been re-titled and delayed. Again. Now it’s just Liz Phair, out on June 24. Full news from Pitchfork.
Jay Farrar’s new one, Terroir Blues, ships on May 20. It’s a good bet that this one will sound like the last one, which sounded like the last Son Volt album, which wasn’t too far off the second Son Volt album, which was in the same vein as the first Son Volt album. But Trace kicked ass, so that’s alright.
So in good news, my brother is no longer amongst the ranks of the unemployed. What this means for yours truly is that my rent is no longer his sole revenue stream and I can again think about moving out on my own. Unless paying off my taxes for last year ruin me, of course.
np – Jay Farrar / Sebastapol
Wednesday, March 19th, 2003
The Postal Service are taking their dog-and-pony show on the road next month, but nothing anywhere near T.O. on a non-weekday night. And so the fallout from our refusal to particpate in the invasion of Iraq begins.
This Broken Social Scene is the first copy-protected CD I’ve ever owned. I had to install all sorts of nefarious codecs on my computer at work to listen to it. I feel vaguely violated by all this.
I have just decided I am naming my first-born “Chachi”.
np – Broken Social Scene / You Forgot it In People
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