One of these days I’ll get around to making some new music, but in the meantime, check out one of my comedy projects: The Nick White Show. Nick White is the second-biggest rock star from the 1980s, and in the interests of getting his manager off his back whilst in […]
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Originally published on my other blog, blahblahblah.pyradraculea.com “I’m, like, so punk rock today. You like my boots?” It was the early to mid 2000s. The news director of our college radio looked at me with an expectant look in her eye as the gold spray-painted bust of Lenin looked on […]
Originally published on my other blog, blahblahblah.pyradraculea.com Looky looky what just arrived from Amazon 10 minutes ago! Limited edition vinyl rerelease of Izzy Stradlin’s 117° – #000079 to be exact. Can’t help but notice that numbering system allows for up to 999999 copies in this limited edition, which is […]
[Or, maybe that wasn’t the point at all, as I figured out as I looked at it more…] This crossed my Facebook feed today: First impression: “OK, shirt off? Check. Fly open? Check. Guitar headstock suggestively placed? Check. OK, Johnny, now… Can you try to look sexy? It’s just that […]
So, I knew Slash was touring with Aerosmith in the US, but thought there were no tour dates in Canada. Then I had the following exchange with my guitar teacher, Rich, yesterday, towards the end of the lesson: Rich: so, you going to see Slash? Me: oh, when’s he coming? […]
Not going to name names, but I saw possibly the most retarded thing ever in my Facebook feed today. It was a discussion related to the issue of whether one thought carrying a weapon was a good idea, which devolved into a shitfit about what one would and would not […]
So… another acquaintance of mine has gone and declared themselves a DJ, apparently thinking that standing around twiddling knobs will make their non-DJing music career succeed where sitting on their ass twiddling their thumbs didn’t. Just one problem with that: wouldn’t getting off your ass and playing gigs and touring […]
In the last week or so there’s been some fun chatter about a group of idiots at Arizona State getting extra credit in their women’s studies waste of tuition in exchange for not shaving for the term. And worse, thinking it makes some grandiose and noble statement of some sort. […]
Spambot for some bullshit goth dating website is now following me on Twitter. Don’t bother kiddies, I’ve long since left goth behind, if I could have ever been said to be one in the first place. As I type this, iTune just switched from ZZ Top’s “Cheap Sunglasses” to Van […]
The Cure: “Hot Hot Hot”: Because the summer weather has found its way to Vancouver. Stevie Ray Vaughan: “Couldn’t Stand the Weather”: Black Label Society: “Phoney Smiles & Fake Hellos”: Frank Zappa: “Willie the Pimp”: Billy Idol: “Wasteland”: Louise Burns: “What Do You Wanna Do?”: […]
On July 2, 2013 I almost drowned on an afternoon kayaking expedition in Sechelt Inlet. I hadn’t quite gotten the rudder pedals adjusted correctly, so I wasn’t able to steer right, and as I was drifting off course I ended up sideways to the incoming waves and got turned over. […]
It’s Canada Day today here in the Great White North, so while I generally eschew all these special days as a bunch of crap, I figure I might as well do an all-Canuck version of this week’s favorite tracks… if only to give Johnny Thunders’s ghost a week off. […]
Spending some quality time watching lectures from the Nixon Library on YouTube. Saw the Dennis Prager roast, Ann Coulter talking about one of her books, Dinesh D’Souza and Andrew Breitbart as well. So, let’s start off this week’s favorite tracks with this: Love & Rockets: “An American Dream”: Johnny […]