Thursday, November 28th, 2002
Interesting bit in The Star today about how Dubya’s not a moron, but is actually a sociopath.
It’s amazing how quiet the Internet gets on American holidays. All my usual haunts are conspicuously silent today. Everyone devouring bird and watching football, I guess. Thanksgiving has also trumped band practice tonight (that’s two weeks off now…) as Mr Brad has the nerve to be of Yankee blood. I hope they at least made him work today.
This is turning out to be a very slow day. S-L-O-W.
np – Love / Forever Changes
Thursday, November 28th, 2002
So my Best of 2002 list is up – click on the banner up top or here to have a gander.
And just so this isn’t a totally vacuous post, a fun link:
Exploding Dog
Oh yeah – Happy Thanksgiving to all our American viewers!
Wednesday, November 27th, 2002
Just watched Derek’s segment on Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet about cracking copy-protected CDs. How often do you get to see one of your friends introduced on national television with the leader, “Is this man a criminal?”
The Velvet Underground box set is a nice piece of work – the remastering definitely yields a better sounding result than the original Verve-edition CDs I had. It’s particularly noticable on the last two albums. The fifth disc of really early demos are… um… of archival interest only. Not particularly listenable. A lot of the extra material on the other discs is great though.
Currently compiling my 2002 Best Of music list, it should be done tonight, maybe tomorrow.
np – The Velvet Underground / Peel Slowly And See – Loaded
Wednesday, November 27th, 2002
Picked up my Velvet Underground box set from the post office. Nice package! The banana on the front of the box is peelable! The liner notes/book is pretty mighty as well. I think I’m going to have to gather together all the books from the box sets I own and put them on a shelf or something. I’ve no idea where most of them are.
The new Fountains Of Wayne is out in April.
np – Sigur Ros / ( )
Wednesday, November 27th, 2002
So Johnny Marr’s new band The Healers are finally releasing their debut album Boomslang on Feb 3 and are touring – they’re at Lee’s on Jan 26, a show with a hefty $25 pre-service charge price tag.
I think it’s sort of inevitable that I approach this release with some trepidation. While one of my all-time guitar heroes, Marr’s post-Smiths work has been spotty and the Healers stuff I have heard was underwhelming. I don’t know what I expect from Marr… obviously it’s unfair to want the second coming of the Smiths, but as I recall this stuff sounded pretty trad rock, Oasis-like.
I will definitely give the new stuff a listen, won’t say I’ll rush out and buy it on the day of release or anything, but I will give it a shot. I was listening to the last Electronic album this weekend… again, I probably have unrealistic expectationst but I would have liked to think that Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr could come up with something less patchy than they did.
I probably hold my heroes to too high a standard.
As for the show, I don’t know if I’ll be going – it’ll probably be a bunch of middle-aged mooks shouting out requests for Smiths stuff, anyway. And that I do not need.
np – Galaxie 500 / This Is Our Music
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