Today is the day I had to bring our leased Jeep back to the dealership. I was not prepared for the emotional weight of the situation. They should have have warned me when I signed the papers that I’d take on a love for my car. Also you have to pay a bunch of money [...]
Archive for July, 2011
bye bye Jeep
Posted in life or something like it, tagged Jeep on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It is what it is
Posted in music, tagged Brother, Spin Magazine, Viva Brother on July 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Humility is not a virtue of Kanye West or Britpop bands… the latest floppy haired four piece and angular guitar stabbers is a group called Viva Brother. The buzz machine is operating at 100% for the latest foray into the lad-rock arena. Viva Brother are from an area of England called Slough… famous for being [...]
Steam Powered German Trench Zombies
Posted in music, tagged Emily Browning, Pixies, Sucker Punch, Where is My Mind, White Rabbit on July 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Coral and I watched Sucker Punch last night. What a strange little film. A misogynistic geek film where a hot blond in a short skirt almost gets raped a bunch and fights German Trench zombies with a machine gun and samurai sword. It was fun to look at and the music was great. The story [...]
Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks
Posted in music, tagged She's The One, Tom Petty on July 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I had a Tom Petty weekend. Growing up, I loved Tom Petty. I remember being in like grade 6 and going on the weekly Elementary ski trip up to Cypress (yeah I grew up in a well-to-do-middle-class-suburb) and on the bus ride home, “Free Falling” would come on and the whole bus of grade 6 [...]
I gotta phone
Posted in life or something like it on July 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Yeah, so I totally got an iPhone the other day. Now I can take pictures from a phone built in 2011 and filter them to look like it came from the 70s. I don’t have a lot of apps or anything like that yet. But this Instagram is pretty fun. And my ukulele tuner… well [...]
Stay Away
Posted in music, tagged Amanda Palmer, Charles Bradley, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Meat puppets, Nevermind, Nirvana, Spin, Surfer Blood on July 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Woke up and did some push-ups and sit-ups this morning… yessh, that is hard work. Reminds me of bootcamp, which, come to think of it, I should try again! Yesterday, the internets were all aflutter over the Spin Magazine’s Nirvana tribute record, Newermind. So on over I headed to Spin’s Facebook page… liked, then really [...]
Blood into Wine into Rock
Posted in music, tagged Man Overboard, Puscifer on July 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
All Hands on deck and turn it up to 11…. new Puscifer. The new song we’re going to listen to is called “Man Overboard” from a record out on October 18th, Conditions of my Parole. Is this song the next “The Mission?” Probably not… but its still a slinky Maynard jam. A little sinister, spooky, [...]
Sound Capital
Posted in music, tagged Dan Boekner, Handsome Furs, Sound Kapital on July 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
As I was talking about yesterday, a bunch of new records from SubPop showed up on the Zone music desk. One of those discs was former Lake Cowichan native Dan Boeckner’s band Handsome Furs. Now that his previous band Wolf Parade is on the hiatus train, this husband/wife duo scratches that itch nicely. Song 8, [...]
Some people kiss, some people makeout
Posted in music, tagged Rascal Flatts, Washed Out, Withinand Without on July 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I am a romantic. I listen to way too much Rascal Flatts, more than any red-blooded male should ever admit to. Coral is into texting and the W network… I wanna sit in the rain and makeout. Fucking weird shit like that. Its probably why I gravitated to chillwave. Its just a genre dedicated to [...]
the lady in red, is dancing with me… cheek to cheek
Posted in music, tagged Chris De Burgh, The Lady in Red on July 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
wow…. Chris De Burgh – “The Lady in Red” Wipe the tears away and listen to this… trolling Picker’s Consignment Store today for a Zone broadcast I discovered a treasure trove of 45s. I ended up snagging 10 and one was Chris De Burgh’s 1986 number 1 hit… “The Lady in Red.” Some people think [...]
