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? […]
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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. […]
Was sending a ranting email to a friend bitching once again about the stupid sexist “femcom” bullshit at college radio and joked that I should erase all references to me being female from the next maQLu record’s bio etc. and see if it still charts the same way across the […]
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 […]
So, something that dawned on me once or twice in recent months but never really got too focused on til today when I was stocking up on bras at the La Senza sale: when did almost all bras start being made out of thicker cups such that there is exactly […]
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. […]
Too funny: getting emails from spammers whose mailing lists I never signed up for and who have ignored my attempts to click their “unsubscribe” buttons (or for whatever reason they keep emailing me anyway) begging me to opt-in so I can “stay in touch” ie continue getting the spam I […]
A: (blathering about his book on “mixed relationships”) blah blah blah, yeah, so there are more and more of these sorts of relationships today… B: um, you mean interracial relationships, right? A: (a little stunned at having to spell that out) Well, yes. And also intercultural ones, for example when […]
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 […]