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 […]
Bitching and complaining
Requesting your own music on a radio show is the musical equivalent of autoerotic asphyxiation: You’re the only one who gets off, and you’re gambling with your future prospects. Especially when the DJ knows it’s your band and you’re acting like it’s a regular request. “Well, I was thinking of […]
Got a Facebook friend request from the creep I unfriended after he got me in a headlock and tried to make me kiss him. Which happened when discussing a potential video project I was going to do sound engineering for him on, ie: a fucking business discussion, not anything even […]
Alright, well, I did give the new MySpace a bit of a chance. Signed up, loaded up a bunch of songs [a major pain in the ass as most of it had to be uploaded 3 or 4 times as the tracks just didn’t show up, so right off the […]
Happy Bitch At Your Male Co-Workers Who Like Tosh.0 While Turning A Blind Eye To Real Women’s Issues Like Girls Getting Shot For Wanting To Go To School, Female Genital Mutilation, And Women Getting Acid Thrown In Their Faces If They Reject A Suitor Day! Barf. Equal means quit patting […]
Sitting at the door with a friend for someone else’s show tonight. Cover is $10, which is more than this venue usually charges but obviously it’s what the headliners felt was fair to demand. Bimbo and her friend walk up and ask me what the cover is. “Ten dollars.” “What?! […]
So I arrive in the synth cave today soaking wet from the rain after walking in from a couple blocks away where I left my car. Why would I park a couple blocks away? Especially as there’s adequate parking in the little lot off the back alley and more spaces […]
So today is “SOCAN Day,” that quarterly payout of artist royalties for airplay on radio, TV, etc. through Canada’s performing rights society (equivalent to ASCAP). I fucking hate SOCAN Day, because for me as for anyone else getting airplay primarily through Canadian college radio, it’s pretty much a big middle […]
Jesus… so a couple days ago in the midst of the hysteria I made a post on my personal Facebook about ignore the media hype, the sky’s not falling and you’re more likely to get hit by a bus than shot in a movie theatre by a Bad Man With […]
Whenever I hear someone bitch and moan about horrible things that happened to their ancestors 200+ years ago all I can think is “wow, you actually know where you came from that far into the past?” [also a liberal dose of “you really have nothing better to do than to […]