Frank Black was entertaining for the first 15 minutes of his set tonight. The guy really needs a band behind him though. Great songs, but they don’t have nearly the power when it’s just him and his guitar.
GET THE CATHOLICS BACK TOGETHER YOU SONOFABITCH!
Having seen them 3 times this summer I’ve become entranced by the soulful sounds of the Fleet Foxes. They’re like a folky version of the Beach Boys, especially when the whole band starts harmonizing on a chorus. Now I’m listening to them daily and expect their album and ep to be a key part of my cross Canada trip.
There’s a car wash company that started in Edmonton called Bubbles. Their logo features a frog standing waist-deep in bubbles with a towel on one arm, his other hand hidden by the bubbles, and a glazed look in his eyes.
Go to their website right now to see the frog: http://www.bubbles.ca/
Does it not look like the Frog is masturbating?
We used to laugh every time we passed a picture of the frog in Edmonton. Now they’ve expanded their franchise to Kelowna and Calgary and I laughed when we passed their billboard on our way into Kelowna the other day.
Tomorrow I take my car in to the home of the masturbating frog to get it cleaned.
On the way home from Reilly’s today some jackass parked his SUV in one lane of Gastown which forced a load of traffic to dangerously merge into the other lane. Amanda reached over and held down my horn for a while and then when I got beside the sonofabitch who did this I discovered the driver’s seat was empty. The driver left some bimbo girlfriend in the passenger seat though and so I shouted some obscenities at her before speeding past. Hopefully she’s so mortified at all the horn honking and swearing that she yells at her boyfriend and refuses to fuck him for at least a couple of weeks.
In music news, one of my favorite bands of late, Be Your Own Pet, has broken up. Thankfully we caught them at the Commodore a couple of months back. In hindsight, the band seemed kinda weird and pissed off that night so it was probably a precursor of things to come.
I’m also disappointed that both Stephen Malkmus and Of Montreal are touring and neither of them are hitting Vancouver. Stephen Malkmus is even going to go to the backwaters of Calgary and Edmonton! But not here!?! WTF! What assmonkey planned this tour?!?
The world is full of assmonkeys. Please don’t be one of them!
We’re back from Pemberton and heading over to the island right now. It was fun hanging out with Josh and Shan. Josh is the only person I know that can quote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas from start to finish. Most conversations with Josh are thick with F&L quotes.
“The more you have sex with a girl the more relationshipee it seems to get” — quote from one of Amanda’s drunken friends she ran into at the festival.
Favorite quote from the Serj Tankian show was when he screamed, “What would happen if you took Borat and Romeo and Juliet and MADE THEM FUCK EACH OTHER!?!” Apparently he’s written a song about it.
I’m listening to Alien Nation on CBC which follows a 40 year old mother as she tries to understand her son who left home when he was 16.
It reminds me a lot of my life growing up. There was a lot of bullshit happening at that time and I can identify with this kid, who had been dragged home by the police, experimented with drugs, and was doing poorly at school. I pretty much went through all that, save the drugs, which I never really got into. I did drink though, starting in grade 9.
This is part of the reason I’m not into having kids. I don’t have a good sense of how to raise someone properly since I’ve never seen it done firsthand. Obviously there are many kids that turned out fine, but I don’t have any idea what their home life looked like as they were raised. Most of my friends came from fucked up places (some more so than others, so please don’t take offense if you’re reading this!) so I don’t have an understanding of the elements in home life that contribute to producing well-adjusted, healthy, and smart children.
Anyhow, Alien Nation is an interesting show about kids today and they interview a number of teenagers throughout so you get the real situations through their stories. Took me back to places I hadn’t thought about in years. It also brought on the little epiphany I just shared with you.
I’ve finally set up my public facing blog. Obviously I don’t want to link to it from here since this is my super-sneaky blog where I talk about what really goes on. If you want the address just email or facebook me. It’s a domain that I originally had when I started blogging back in 2000.
Yesterday’s adventure was posted there, so you’ll all have to subscribe to two blogs now to get the full picture of what’s going on.
This afternoon I’m skittering over to work that I don’t work at this summer to attend the end of quarter get together. After the meeting and so forth we’ll be heading over to the racetrack to bet on some ponies. I’ve never been to a pony race before and I’m curious about it. I’m most interested in seeing the shady characters who hang out at the racetrack on a Friday afternoon. I expect to see fedoras, old drunken men in plaid suits, and pudgy encyclopedia salesmen who fall to the floor weeping after their horse comes in dead last. “The mortgage! I’m ruined!”
I expect a feast of dashed hopes and drunken bellowing.
I just watched Party Monster and I don’t think I’ll ever be the same again. Never did I imagine that Seth Green and Macaulay Culkin would play drugged up ambiguously gay party freaks. And a murder as shown by a giant rat who appears in the midst of a drug frenzy.
This has given me a strange craving to hear Of Montreal’s last album.
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