Interpol is one of my favourite bands. No getting around that fact. Something surprising for me personally; I usually don’t “get” an Interpol record right away. It sometimes takes a moment to percolate in my head. I am only now, just getting into “Our Love to Admire” and the record came out in what? [...]
Archive for April, 2010
I’m on the dancefloor/watching you kiss her/in the corner
Posted in food, music, tagged BBQ, Big Baby, Interpol, Pallers, Smoker on April 29, 2010 | 4 Comments »
MIX: two types
Posted in music, tagged Caribou, College, Crystal Castles, desert, Dom, FM Belfast, mix, MixCloud, Phoenix, The Good The Bad and The Ugly on April 28, 2010 | 4 Comments »
As I’ve blogged about before I have had a minor obsession with the desert of the American southwest, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, and what it might have been like growing up in a suburb of Phoenix. Here is the soundtrack to those thoughts swirling around the grey matter of my brain. My [...]
Expo ’86
Posted in history 101, music, tagged British Columbia, Expo '86, Expo Ernie, Rainbow Wars, Sub pop, Vancouver, Wolf Parade on April 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Add this album to my list of “looking forwards to…” The new Wolf Parade album will be out in June (or maybe July from Sub Pop) and is named after one of my earliest memories growing up, Expo ’86. Anyone in my age bracket or older that lived in British Columbia in 1986 likely has [...]
Its good to be back
Posted in music, tagged M.I.A., Tokyo Police Club on April 26, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Back from a whirlwind trip to Vancouver to see my buddy Bob and bring Maddy to see Grandma and Grandpa. Watched some hockey(go Nucks!), ate a mondo Tuna taco on Lonsdale and rolled into the Zone to a few interesting developments. one. New music from Tokyo Police Club. They have a new single on the [...]
infinite desert
Posted in life or something like it, music, tagged Delorean, Pitchfork, record collecting, record stores, Subiza, taxes on April 22, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Up early today. I thought I was supposed to meet the fire inspector for my condo building, but I obviously got that date wrong. No worries, I had a lot of out-standing emails to answer, and some tax stuff to organize. Now it is just past 9 AM and i feel good. Maybe I should [...]
Bobby first of all is an actor, Clint first of all is a star. Bobby suffers, Clint yawns.
Posted in history 101, neat-O gang, playlist, tagged desert, The Good The Bad and The Ugly on April 20, 2010 | 3 Comments »
If you look at the top of my wordpress blog, you’ll see on the header a picture of Clint Eastwood from the movie, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. The movie is considered a (the best) spaghetti western (of all time). A spaghetti western is a weird hic-up in history where during the 1960s, [...]
MIX: Don’t wait for the needle to drop
Posted in music, tagged mix, Serato Itch, Vestax VCI-300 on April 19, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Playing around with the Vestax VCI-300 controller for Serato Itch while I also low roast some ribs and experiment with an epic coleslaw. I love a good slaw, but I absolutely hate bad slaw. Really detest it. Lots of pretty songs including the new one from Holy Fuck to lead off the set. The set [...]
What a time to pick a fight / the world is full of those tonight.
Posted in music, tagged Numark NS7, Serato, Serato Itch, Vestax VCI-300 on April 18, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Friday night at Veneto, my sound started glitching out. Very stressful thing to have happen to a DJ. Saturday I took my Numark NS7 in to Long and McQuade for a check up, and while they cut her open to operate they lent me the Vestax VCI-300 Serato Itch controller. When I was shopping for [...]
My right eye and my left eye
Posted in life or something like it, tagged eyes, Keratoconus on April 16, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I went to the eye doctor finally. I have a bad eye. Its my right, it doesn’t work worth shit. The doctor said if something happened to my left eye, I’d be legally blind. I have some condition… hmmm, what was it called again? I better look this up. Wiki go! I think it is [...]
Why We Fight
Posted in music, politics, radio, tagged HMCS Rock & Roll, Mogadishu, Pearl Jam, Somalia on April 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I had a “why we fight” moment last night reading Alan Cross’ website. He posted an article about extremist groups and warlords in Somalia sending warning to the local radio stations: “stop playing music or we’ll kill you!” CBC: Islamists force Somali stations to turn off music Here is what i don’t get about this [...]
