Friday, January 17th, 2003
With word that Beachwood Sparks are on permenant hiatus, I am looking into their offshoot project, The Tyde. Anyone know anything about em? I haven’t had time to read through their website yet.
Elliott Smith is apparently releasing a double album this summer, perhaps to make up for the dog’s age we’ve been waiting for From A Basement On The Hill. Of course, by that reasoning, Liz Phair owes us a 10-disc box set. Either way, I’m glad to see Elliott is back being productive, I’d heard some of the rumours about the various reasons he’d become derailed (drugs, drink) and was pretty concerned.
Supergrass is coming to the Guvernment on March 9. I don’t know if this is of interest to me – I’m not sure where I stand on the whole Britpop thing anymore. I haven’t felt compelled to get their latest album, at any rate.
I am very excited that the reissue of Uncle Tupelo’s Still Feel Gone will feature the cover of The Soft Boys’ “I Wanna Destroy You”, which I had been looking for for ages to no avail. It was a b-side on the “Gun” 7″, I think.
np – East River Pipe / Poor Fricky
Friday, January 17th, 2003
The weather forecast calls for highs of -15 Celcius for at least the next five days. I am never going outside again.
Thursday, January 16th, 2003
I think days where I don’t go home after work take an abnormal amount out of me. I am way bushed. After work, I was going to meet Kyle and Fran for dinner before they went to the home show (!), so I picked up Sleater-Kinney tickets and also found East River Pipe’s Poor Fricky. I had never actually heard any ERP before, and bought it on a hunch. Good instincts – very cool and lush pop songs with a charming lo-fi edge.
I handed off another stack of CDs to Kyle, the last of his Boxing Day purchases (made by proxy – me), and got to borrow the first season DVDs of 24. Just have to find myself a day-long block of time to sit down and watch television!
After dinner, went straight to band practice – we sounded much better than on Monday, I’m glad to see that last rehearsal was an aberration. Went through the five or six songs we did with Clay before and they were sounding much better so we tried out a new one. “Radial Tires” will be our big breakthrough hit, you heard it here first. That, or we’ll be sued by Syd Barrett. Either way, noteriety, and that’s all that really matters, isn’t it?
np – The Pernice Brothers / Australia 2002
Thursday, January 16th, 2003
The new Harry Potter book is 768 pages. That’s madness. I like Don McKellar’s analysis of J.K. Rowling’s next magnum opus.
“What could Harry possibly be doing? Does he turn out to be the Messiah battling the Antichrist?”
NME is reporting that there will two double-disc collections of Spiritualized rarities coming out this year, the first in March. I like Spiritualized as much as the next orch-rock obsessed indie boy, but that’s a LOT of material. If it’s actual new songs, I would probably get em. If it’s remixes remixes remixes… err.
np – Dinosaur Jr. / Whatever’s Cool With Me
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