A picture says a 1000 Words..

But I think i'm going to skip the visual. I was dog sitting joe tonight. He decided to puke up on my front entrance. The good thing it was on tile. The bad thing, it made me puke up when i was cleaning his puke up.

I can gut a fish, I can stand the sight of blood. However, when it comes to the smell of any type of puke, I just can't keep myself togther..

A taste of WOXY Vintage




I really want to see WOXY succeed. I'm just too much of a music junkie not to love it. So, here is another attempt at WOXY Vintage propaganda. However, when it comes the music woxy plays, I guess it's best to do let the music do the talking.. So at 31 May 05 100 EST WOXY Vintage was playing:

1:37am The Sugarcubes - Eat The Menu
1:34am Siouxsie And The Banshees - Cities In Dust
1:29am Swervedriver - Rave Down
1:22am Love And Rockets - Ball Of Confusion (12' mix)
1:17am Peter Gabriel - Digging In The Dirt
1:13am Vitamin Z - Burning Flame
1:10am Husker Du - Don't Want To Know If You...
1:08am The Wonder Stuff - A Wish Away
1:03am Cock Robin - When Your Heart Is Weak
12:57am The Afghan Whigs - Mr. Superlove

A case for flag waving?

The Globe and Mail: Canadian named Miss Universe

I guess this is just as much of a reason to flag wave as hockey. However, I don't think Stacey will agree..

WOXY EXPANDS!

I find my online listening time these days divided 2.1 Ways.. 1.KEXP 2.WOXY and .1 CBC RADIO3.. It looks like that will expand into 3.1 with the addition of WOXY's Vintage channel.
The have kicked off the stream by playing the annual Modern Rock 500. This is great news from a radio station, that only a year ago looked like it was on the brink of extinction. I'm glad they have decided to expand the WOXY brand, buy focusing what they do best - play a great variety of intresting and exciting music.

Everybody has been looking for it..

EIII, looks like it's in widespread release. I haven't seen the quality of the rip yet.

myBittorrent - Bittorrent Downloads: "myBittorrent.com > Movies > Release #70460"

Testing Azureus distributed Client

Mike Doughty - Busting Up a Starbucks

Of late, "Busting Up a Starbucks" one my favorite tracks. It's from his new album
"Haughty Melodic". There is another version of this track from a live set he did a couple years back, where he admits that he goes to starbucks everyday. I sort of relate to that, because like Tim Hortons, Starbucks is something that a)I'm addicted to and b)I hate the fact that I'm addicted to. However, Tim horton's addiction is something widely accepted in Canada, whereas starbucks addicts are still considered white-upper-middle-class snobs..

This is my first attempt at using the Azureus distributed tracker. If it works well, I'll be posting links regularly.

Just in time for the End of the 2-4 Weekend



Well, I'm not sure if it's time to be thinking about drinking beer, and and soaking up the last day of the 2-4. The events of this last week, are hardly "Party It Up" Sort of stuff:

• Stacey's Parent's have disowned her over our relationship
• We will find out the status of her job Tuesday
• Sean's grandmother passed away Friday.

Party, Party, Party

Anyway, for a bit more lighted hearted read/watch, check out the excellent CBC Archive on selling Beer in Canada.

Selling Suds: The Beer Industry in Canada - Politics and Economy - CBC Archives: "Selling Suds: The Beer Industry in Canada"

Distributed tracking, the sexy new torrent feature..

Since the death of SuperNova.org, many people in the file-sharing community have been rushing to provide solutions. While Products like EXEEM have filled the gap, some people (like me) have stayed away due to it as closed source nature. However, that has all recently whe n Azureus was the first torrent client to provide support for embedded tracking. Now, the official Bittorrent client is getting in the game.

That being said, I'm looking forward to being able to use these clients to provided the type of multimedia content that I've been to cheap to buy hosting for. I suspect allot of other bloggers will jump on the band wagon as well. I suspect the community will see an even greater increase to the podcast community.. (When is the podcast bubble going to burst?)

BitTorrent - Trackerless: "BitTorrent Goes Trackerless: Publishing with BitTorrent gets easier!"
Azureus : Java BitTorrent Client: "Azureus now features an embedded tracker easily set up and ready to use."

PodCast - Because all the Kids are doing it (Pt.1)

(Not Grammer/Spelled Checked - I'm tired)

I really don't have alot of use for podcasts. I'm not a "commuter", so i don't find myself with hunks of time for listening to radios shows. However, there is a few media sources, that i have allways wished that i could get on demand.. Today, It turns out one of them has listen to me.

I have been a Fan of the "Anti-Hit List" for many years. It was a music blog, before the blog was even thought of. I started to read it in the SUN. I allways found it sort of funny that it was in the sun, because the elite hipster music fan are probably much more the Globe and Mail readers the Sun. That being said, when It moved over to "EYE", i was quite happy. It seemed to fit in well with the EYE theme. However, I allways thought that it deserved a higher profile then a free entertianment rag. Starting in January, it's has found it's way into the Toronto Star, which at first i thought was great.. Now they have locked it up, and you have to register to login.. However, It doesn't seem all bad, if they are going to continue to push boundries with technology like the podcast..

Toronto Star Podcasting: "Anti-Hit List for May 14, 2005"

"G-Unit Brand"...


I know that mainstream music is not music, but just a marketing tool. I'm not sure when that happened. I think the transition was around 2000 or so. It was about the time when Muchmusic/MuchMore stopped playing music, and started with "Lifestyle Programming", Whatever the fuck that is. However, when was transition that artists stopped being artists, and just a vehicle or an icon to sell shit? What the fuck is a "G-Unit" brand? And what the fuck does the G-Unit Brand have to do with Mobile phones? I know I'm not in the "urban-youth" market. I love hip-hop, but I hate the bling. From what I understand (I stopped keeping track of urban music sometime ago, G-Unit is a huge seller.. But a seller of what? A fake urban image manufactured by the heads of record and clothing companies? What ever happen to Chuck D? Do the Urban youth of today listen to Air America? Is chuck D even on it anymore? We need a does of "Fight the Power" And "9-1-1 is A joke".. More like "5-0 cent is a hoax".. Argh. There is good hip-hop out there. There is hip-hop-stars that aren't marketing tools. I will find them. I will promote them. Hip Hop needs to be refocused on the music and not the marketing.


50 Cent Shocks Toronto Club Concert Crowd With Appearance: "50 told Billboard.com that 'Zingy is a proven innovator in the mobile entertainment market,' and that they're the only company he'd trust to represent the G-Unit brand as they move into the lucrative mobile market."

Predator Awareness? Heartless Bastard?

Maybe if Mr. Sellers had a family, especially with a teenage daughter who lived in the golden horseshoe during this period, he's opinion would be a bit different then "Predator Awareness".

My memorys of this period is vivid. It was like the city was in locked down. No mother/daughter/wife/co-worker/sister whoever felt safe. Nobody walked the streets alone. If this Hollywood producer could feel 1/1000th of the fear that the area had, I think he'd have a different opinion. And that's even to mention the pain and the suffering that the family's of the victims went through, and are still going through today. I'm not for censorship, but I really do hope that the movie watchers of Canada will pass this one over.


andPOP | The Barbie And Ken Of Serial Killers To Be Chronicled In Deadly: "Hollywood producer Michael Sellers acknowledges the controversy of his film, but also feels that true crime films are merited in Hollywood tradition, as was Oscar-winning film Monster, which chronicled the real life story of a female serial killer’s heinous acts of violence. Sellers has emphasized that our intention behind this movie is to encourage 'Predator Awareness.'"