Friday, October 4th, 2002
Dinosaur Act
The above title comes from a peculiar bit of synchronicity. Whilst in Second Spin this afternoon, I found a copy of Low’s ‘Things We Lost In The Fire’, which I’ve been looking for for a while and which has a track called ‘Dinosaur Act’. At the time, I was listening to Matthew Sweet, who also has a track called ‘Dinosaur Act’. Coincidence? I think not. Mind you, I wasn’t listening to Altered Beast, the Matthew Sweet album with that song on it, but that’s not the point. Something is up. The Illuminati are behind it all, I’m sure.
I am downloading zips of the Dismemberment Plan remix mp3s (follow the link at the top of this page). They’re providing instrumental and vocal tracks for fans to download and remix as they see fit. Pretty cool. If I manage to get anything sounding decent, I will post them here for my loyal fans to inspect.
I intended to go see ‘Minority Report’ this afternoon. It was a Happy Hour matinee at the Bloor, and those start at 4:30. No problem. Hung out in Sonic Boom for about half an hour and then headed next door… On the sign : “Minority Report – 4:00 – NOTE EARLY START TIME”. Sonofabitch. It was simply not meant to be. Maybe I’ll try again tonight.
np – Low / Things We Lost In The Fire
Thursday, October 3rd, 2002
You’re Either In Or You’re Out
Watched Ocean’s Eleven this evening. Good flick – it is possible to create entertaining popcorn movies without being utterly brainless (are you paying attention Michael Bay?).
It is only Thursday, but it feels like Friday. Not much feeling like going to work tomorrow. Blech.
Ron MacLean has returned to the CBC. Not that they had any choice in the matter, this was the only way.
np – The Go-Betweens / Bellavista Terrace : The Best Of…
Thursday, October 3rd, 2002
How Soon Is NOW?
Spent the afternoon having lunch with my friends from my time at NOW magazine. Went to the Red Tea Box, home to some truly funky Asian fusion cuisine in an excellent setting (and a really cute waitress!). It’s nice to have some unconventional food once in a while, exercise some taste buds that may otherwise be getting stagnant. That was the thing about working at NOW – Jen and Nicci have excellent taste in food, not to mention expensive. I ate well but that $10 per diem didn’t quite do the trick. I was intending to treat them to lunch but they’re expensing it back to NOW as a business expense (ha!). Which is just as well, as our tab came to over $150 for four people! Yikes.
On the way into work today, Mark got sick and threw up. On a crowded subway car. I don’t think he made any friends.
Finally I have gotten the two issues of TapeOp I ordered two months ago. Worth the wait, though. The one issue has – get this – Dave Fridmann, the Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev and Olivia Tremor Control. In one issue. Does it get better than that? I just need those last two issues from Paul and I’ve got an (almost) full set.
np – J Mascis & The Fog / More Light
Thursday, October 3rd, 2002
Stump The Chump
The high point of my day has been reached – I defeated the might CDDatabase with the Elf Power covers compilation! My reward was getting to enter the album and track info for the disc into their database.
I am such a geek.
np – Elf Power / Nothing’s Going To Happen
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