"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.'"

The Return of 10 Random Tracks..

Audioscrobbler :: User :: prosonik:
1 Barenaked Ladies - Be My Yoko Ono 07:26:27 PDT, April 26 2005
2 Elliott Smith - Twilight 07:22:57 PDT, April 26 2005
3 Dropkick Murphys - As One 07:19:16 PDT, April 26 2005
4 Tom Petty - Learning to Fly 07:15:56 PDT, April 26 2005
5 Ramones - The KKK Took My Baby Away 07:12:36 PDT, April 26 2005
6 Elvis Presley - Hound Dog 07:10:16 PDT, April 26 2005
7 Blur - Girls & Boys 07:06:56 PDT, April 26 2005
8 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away 07:02:16 PDT, April 26 2005
9 Chuck Berry - Johnny B Goode 06:57:16 PDT, April 26 2005
10 Yo La Tengo - Cherry Chapstick 06:53:06 PDT, April 26 2005

Where trees meet technology

Trail Repository - Main: "the Trail Repository, a database with many trails and routes in Canada"

I'm not really up on the whole GPS/mapping thing. For all of my training, It was all done using map and compass, with little or no use of a GPS. Over the last couple of years, I have seen more and more interesting uses for GPS.. I have been thinking of investing in at least USB GPS transponder for my laptop, but I haven't really looked into the Linux based options for it.

A interesting read on P2P in Canada..

Piercing the peer–to–peer myths: An examination of the Canadian experience: "Although faced with significant pressure to reform Canadian copyright law, it is increasingly apparent that the industry’s ills are not the result of peer–to–peer downloading. Moreover, the Canadian experience with private copying suggests that a levy system may provide an effective alternative to adequately compensate artists for lost royalties that may occur due to the current popularity of file sharing services."

--
I'm know everybody is all up in arms over liberal handouts in the 90's, however I think there are newer burning issues like Copyright, that need to be debated.. I know most Canadians think "Ho-hum, so we can't pir8 anymore.. " However, the larger issue here is the fact the Canadian government has decided to ignore fact, and give-in to the powerful lobbying efforts of the (Global) Recording Industry/Film Industry, and not (Publicly) actively investigate the issue for itself..

It's Somebody's Birthday Somewhere (and they are sad)

prosonik says:
unhappy?
unhappy birthday says:
it is a song. which has been in my head since the telephone rang this morning
unhappy birthday says:
at 5:45 am
prosonik says:
oh
prosonik says:
yeah
prosonik says:
what type of an asshole would do that
unhappy birthday says:
you have no idea which song i'm thinking of do you?
prosonik says:
no
unhappy birthday says:
when i heard your voice i immediately thought of it.
prosonik says:
i can only think of the cracker version
unhappy birthday says:
http://www.davemcnally.com/lyrics/TheSmiths/UNHAPPYBIRTHDAY.asp

The Smiths Lyrics: "UNHAPPY BIRTHDAY Lyrics - The Smiths"
Cracker Lyrics: "Happy Birthday To Me (Lowery)"

CBC's "The Hour" is in Vancouver this week

I'm a big fan of "The Hour". I'm sure die hard CBC lovers, and pop-culture haters loath the ADD rapid fire format, but it fits Georges personality perfectly, and it keeps ADD/pop-culture/news junkies watching. When 'The Hour' first started a couple months ago, I Canadian media made more of Georges nose ring, then admitting has the show has merits.

CBC.ca - The Hour: "The Hour will be broadcasting live, April 18-21, from the Firehall Arts Centre in Vancouver. In addition to all the regular features you've come to expect, George will also be visiting some of his favourite haunts."

Napster/Itunes Fair Use

The concept of buying DRM music has pissed me off for awhile. A couple years ago, when record companies were all hyped up over pushing DRM protected cds, I stopped by any cd that had any sort of DRM on it. The majority of my music colleciton has been converted into mp3, so why would a buy a cd that i couldn't rip?

Fastforward to 2005, and we are now living generation I(pod). I personally have not bought anything from online stores. I have two major reasons why 1. Buying the album vrs downloading it, I have the physical album. What Happens to all purchased music if you have harddrive failure? 2. I'm slowly moving everything over to Linux, alot of DRM'd music simply don't support linux.

That being said, i'm increaslying tempted d/l music from a pay service, when i can't find a good copy of the floating around. A great example of this is "Beverly Hills" by Weezer. I am making a spring mixed cd, and I'd like to include it. However, the album is not out yet, so i can't rip it. The versions I have downloaded from various file-sharing services are radio-rips or are damaged. Finally, I don't want a broken DRM'd version of the song that i can't listen to on my laptop or Mythbox. I would be happy to pay $.50->$.99 for a good clean version of Beverly Hills - In a format I can use such as MP3 or OGG

It looks like this may be the case in future if i want to circumvent the drm from napster or itunes (The itunes hack has been around for awile, but itunes only became avaible in Canada in the last 6 months). Musik release seems to be a result of reversing both the itunes and napster clients, and allows linux users to use the songs that they have legally purchased on their platform of choice. What a concept!

Realm of the BlackBlade Clan » Musik Release

Fark Beat Me to the Punch Line

FARK.com: (1445834) Limp Bizkit plans to be more like Rage Against the Machine. Only with less hair, a worse guitar player and bad lyrics

Every indie kid likes a pop culture reference..
I stumbled across this track on pitchfork. A CN tower reference, Hidden Cameras feel, and some fun organ loop and bell chime. Sounds like indie-snob-rock heaven to me.

Pitchfork: Free Downloads: "MP3: Final Fantasy: 'The CN Tower Belongs To The Dead'"

I don't think I could find more fitting lyrics..

This song just about wraps up how I'm feeling these days.

The Scientist Lyrics - Coldplay

Come up to meet you, Tell you I’m sorry, You don’t know how lovely you are

I had to find you, Tell you I need you, Tell you I set you apart

Tell me your secrets, And ask me your questions, Aww let’s go back to the start

Runnin’ in circles, [sounds like] Comin’ our tails, Heads on the science apart

Nobody said it was easy
It’s such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard
Aww take me back to the start

I was just guessin’, At numbers and figures, Pullin’ the puzzles apart

Questions of science, Science and progress, Do not speak as loud as my heart

Tell me you love me, Come back to haunt me, Oh when I rush to the start

Runnin’ in circles, [sounds like] Chasin’ our tails, Comin’ back as we are

Nobody said it was easy
Aww It’s such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be so hard
I’m goin’ back to the start

Ahhooooooooooooooooo
Ahhooooooooooooooooo
Ahhooooooooooooooooo
Ahhooooooooooooooooo

You are being Watched

I put up a hit counter yesturday, because honstely, I thought i was talking to myself, well, Inturn I guess I'm not... So I had a a look at where people came from before this blog.. (Refering Links).. And I don't have a damn clue on how they got here from there. However, whoever you are, and if you can actually read english. Welcome!. However, I'm preety sure people are coming here as a mistake, becasue the majority of hits are less then 5 seconds.. Just enough time to release how much of a moran i am (If they need real proof, email one girlfriend, I'm sure she'll lay witness to that)

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Looks Like My Sloan Catalog is going to double.




I (heart) Sloan. I have been a fan ever since hearing the indie version of "Underwhelmed". I'd like to say that i was too cool for school, and bought Peppermint.. But the first Sloan album i bought was "Smeared". Now, to date myself, I'm almost 100% sure, I first owned smeared on cassette. How's that for too cool for school? After "Twice Removed", my love for Sloan was solidified. Thirteen years have passed since the release of Smeared, and I now hold their entire catalog in both CD and MP3 format. My collection is missing a few gems such as the plexi single from Edgefest 3 in 96.. (interestingly Enough, the Official Sloan Discography does not list this as a single, but I swear it was from 96) My collection does contain such rarities as the original 7 inch of "Stove/Smother"

However, it looks like I will have a chance to fill in the gaps in my collection. According to the MTV article they are re-releasing all their albums in the States, complete with bonus tracks. Bonus track that I don't own. So I suppose my collection is about to double. Hopefully they will be fully re-mastered, in all the rock and roll glory that is Sloan.

mtv.com - News - Sloan Get Nostalgic With Greatest-Hits Release, U.S. Reissues

and from Tofu Hut, Sloan "False Alarm"

Sloan is playing across Canada this spring with a stop at the Commodore on Thursday, May 5, 2005

Mythbuster - Smashing Phones
After watching Cellular, Alex proves that you can infact dial out on a smashed up phone.
alnemosophy: Cellular

America, We love your processed Cheese..




Hot on the heels of Mr. T talking about not dissing your mother, Scenestars brings us this gem. I'd love to write an essay on the topic of this guys hair. However, I'm withdrawing on the heaving bashing as it's obviously some post-911 song. That being said, it is some well processed American cheese.

America We Stand As One

However, just a side note; Why Have we not seen any cheese rock on crisis in Dafur?

Mr T says 'Treat your mother right... Fool!

(From stereogum: I Pity The Fool Who Doesn't Watch This Video )

AudioScrobbler

I had totatly forgot that I had this winamp plug-in installed. AudioScrobbler collects stats based on the music you listen to. The site also performs the expected tricks. It displays other simular users to your listening habbits, and other band you may like. However, It's the nice clean interface that i like.

Perhaps I can figure out a way to feed the rss into this site, for some phat-ass realtime rock and roll stats.
Audioscrobbler :: User :: prosonik

My Top 3 Artists for the week: (Number of Plays to the right)

1	Beck	24
2	Nouvelle Vague	19
3	Queens of the Stone Age	16

B-U-S-Y

My parents are here this week. Life seems to be busy. I haven't touched on the death of the pope or shrivo at all. I'm sure there is lots of blogland stuff about it already. Maybe I'll blog on it next week, way after the fires have settled.

I came across this gem. From the EFF, the ins and out of blogging without getting fired..
How to Blog Safely

CHUM-FM Launches PODCAST
Okay, I'm am not at all a fan of Chum-Fm (Other then the fact that ex-CFNY DJ Maie Pauts seems to work there now). However, I am pleased to see that they are launching a podcast. To really impress me, they would use Bittorrent to speed up the distribution, but it is good to see mainstream media types to offer cutting edge concepts like podcasts.

What I would really like to see is CBC RADIO 3 go the same way. I truely believe that if you could get it on demand, that it would greatly increase it's listenership.

Here is the link to the pulse24 article:

Pulse24 - Toronto's News: "as of May 2, those of you with an MP3 player will be able to listen to more than just your favourite catalogue of tunes on your way to the office. CHUM FM is offering fans a downloadable version of the Roger, Rick and Marilyn morning show"

WTF? Now, If Mc's was actually marketing savy, not only would they not of let this story break, but they would pay me (yes, that's prosonik at hotNoSpammail.com) for postive product placements.. However, as Charlie Brown best puts it.. 'Good Grief!

The Globe and Mail: Ronald McDonald recruits a new posse

This one is for you Rex

I'll skip any more articles to post a cup half empty post. Stacey is here this weekend, and I'm absolutely delighted to have her here. I have not seen her since Valentines day. Unfortunately, Its 10:00pm (PST), she is currently jet legged and sleeping, and instead of going in there and 'waking her up, I'm here bloggin. How retarded is that? We should be midway through a bottle of wine, well into the Miles Davis, and doing anything but blogging. I'm not sure what that says about our relationship. We have defiantly got to that "comfortable" stage.

Speaking of the "comfortable stage", I knew we had hit that stage, when she started to pull the freaky mutant hairs out of my back, and I started to fart in front of her. But I digress..

Canadian File Swappers Unite!
Time to call your local MP and voice your anger of this one.

The Globe and Mail: Proposed changes to track file swappers

A bunch of Unrelated random news items.

CANOE -- SLAM! Sports - Hockey AHL Baby Leafs now Marlies: "TORONTO (CP) - The Toronto Marlies are back.
Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment Ltd. announced Tuesday its American Hockey League team would take on the name of the former Toronto junior team of the 1980s."

TheStar.com - `Party-goer' accused in HIV assault of CFB Borden soldier: "`Party-goer' accused in HIV assault of CFB Borden soldier". As well, a google news link:
Google Search: HIV Assault

The Globe and Mail: Man's chat room friendship leads to abduction ordeal

CTV.ca | Fraser River sockeye fishery in crisis: report: "Fraser River sockeye fishery in crisis: report

GEEK ROCK SUNDAY NIGHT

New Beck! The entire album streaming from NME.COM (Registration Required)

and,

New Weezer single "Beverly Hills", from albumfive.com. Unfortunately the quality is a little weak, but it is a good taste of things to come.

as to quote Beck, 'Hell Yah!'

I (heart) Lego

Oh My, I want to be 12 again. My birthday is coming soon. I know this isn't out until September, but I can only hope and dream.

LEGO Shop: Death Star II™

Sunday and Feeling Blue...
Last year, I was on Johnny Cash kick. I still love the cash, but this year, Hank Seems to convey the blue note that' I have been feeling.

(Mp3)Hank Williams Sr.-They'll Never Take Her Love from Me

VOIP in Trouble?
An interesting Article concerning VOIP service, and broadband giving their own products preferential treatment on their networks. I love my vonage. I'm not sure iif there is a way to see if Shaw is going to give priority to their soon to be launched voip product. I will have to do more research into the topic.

PBS | I, Cringely . Archived Column: "The Best days of Voice-over-IP Telephone Service May Already Have Passed

By Robert X. Cringely

These are heady days for Voice-over-IP (VoIP) phone services. From Vonage to Packet8 to Skype and a hundred more besides, several million people around the world are enjoying really cheap phone calls that are carried primarily over the Internet. But that fun may be diminishing soon because the big Internet service providers, which is to say the big telephone and cable TV companies, are about to start taking back that third-party VoIP traffic, leaving Vonage and the others at a distinct disadvantage."

Decemberists new video! (torrent)
decemberists news » The video for 16 Military Wives is now available via bittorrent
The torrent:
Decemberists: 16 Military Wives

I (heart) KEXP
An hour of songs that explain entirely why I support to KEXP.

KEXP 90.3 FM - where the music matters:
KEXP Playlist Archived Playlists Friday, March 18, 2005 - 5 pm
DJ: Kevin Cole
Show: The Afternoon Show
DJ Requests: Email

5:39 Aretha Franklin Respect The Best Of Aretha Franklin Atlantic
5:35 Aretha Franklin I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You) I Never Loved A Man The Way I Loved You Atlantic Recording Corporation
5:29 Arethat Franklin Skylarking Queen In Waiting Columbia
----- air break -----
5:18 The Wedding Present Interstate 5[Extended Version] Take Fountain Manifesto Records Inc.
DJ Comments: The Wedding Present at Neumo's, Sunday April 17th
5:14 The Shins Kissing The Lipless Chutes Too Narrow Sub Pop
5:12 Pixies Wave Of Mutilation Doolittle 4AD/Elektra
5:07 Placebo Special Needs Sleeping With Ghosts Hut / Astralwerks
DJ Comments: Playing in South America and Mexico: http://www.placeboworld.co.uk/tour/index.html
----- air break -----
5:00 The Decemberists The Engine Driver Live @ KEXP KEXP"

Mmmh. Sexy.

Official Ticketmaster site. Exclaim 13th Anniversary: Stars, Feist, Apostle of Hustle & Montag tickets Commodore Ballroom Vancouver, BC, Directions, seating chart.: "Exclaim 13th Anniversary: Stars, Feist, Apostle of Hustle & Montag
Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC
Thu, Mar 31, 2005 08:00 PM"

More Fun with MythTv.. Playing with .iso's

I wanted to play .isos. Myth used to play them directly using mplayer.. but in Knoppmyth R5A10, it wasn't working properly.. So here is my quest and answer..

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Post subject: Problems with XINE and iso's
Hi All,

I know this has been discussed to death, but I'm having a problem with xine and playing isos.. Using r10, I'm trying to watch isos.. with past version, (in my experiences), you didn't even need to setup mplayer.. You just dumped the iso into the directly, and played it like a normal avi.. However, it's not working now. After a quick check of the threads, it looks like people are adding a .iso extention to the file type menu and then using 'xine %s'. However, I have had no luck getting this to work. xine fires up, and then freezes on the splash, and that's it. I checked and I'm using .99 version of xine. I know 1.0 is out, but I don't see debs around..

So I guess its a two part question
1)Has anybody else experienced this? did i miss a setting?
or
2)Will building xine 1.0 from scratch resolve my problems?

thanks
prsnk

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 2:11 pm Post subject: Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post
I actually did some more digging, and I was missing a few options.. It also disbles the logo, goes fullscreen and sets some other junk up.

i had

xine dvd:/%s

and needed

xine -pq -V Xv -f -r anamorphic -g --no-splash --no-logo dvd://%s/

anyway here is the link

http://gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/101504?search_string=Kevin%20Denniss;#101504


prsnk

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New Fiona Apple... (.torrent)

Everybody else seems to be jumping on the band wagon, so I will too.. Hopefully, this result in the album getting it's release. I haven't had a chance to listen to it..
"Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine (CD-quality) zip" - TorrentBox.com

I have found my true calling...

Six figure job: Watch Dukes of Hazzard - Mar. 2, 2005: "Watch Dukes, earn $100,000
Job requirements include knowing lyrics to 'Dukes of Hazzard' theme song, driving the General Lee."

Yeeehaww!!

(This message was inspired by the arrival of Dukes Of Hazzard Season 1 - From Zip.ca)

Maroon 5 and the black keetle..
Isn't this a case of a the pot calling the kettle black?

From stereogum: "Maroon 5: 'We Suck Less Than Creed'

Hot on the heels of last week's 50 Cent/Game feud, Maroon 5's Adam Levine is picking a fight with another bland creation, albeit one that disbanded last year. Via LA Times...

Adam Levine: 'People hated Creed. They don't hate us. At worst, they just don't really like us. Creed ... had that attitude, they pontificated about how great they were, they had a horribly generic band. They were easy to hate and we're just, you know, easy to disregard.'

Can't really argue with that."

William Shatner/Joe Jackson/Ben Folds Covering Pulps "Common People", Live on Leno

Joe Jackson - Videos

Argha. My Inet Connection has been complete crap over the last week. I finally got mad, and phoned up Shaw. However, I'd was quite impressed with the person on the other side. He knew his shit, and even more important, he recognized that it was a problem (my entire neighborhood was out), and didn't bother to ask the traditional stupid question (Have you rebooted your modem?.. Doh!!)

Anyways, the only bad thing when your have your entire house wired, is when the net goes down, everything goes down (including the phone).

Tuesday Rock and Roll.. Mr Joel Plaskett and a couple tracks from his new album. Unfortunately it's a stream, not a download :(

I Love This Town *
From La De Da © 2005 Joel Plaskett

Happen Now *
From La De Da © 2005 Joel Plaskett

And Some Older Stuff;


The sounds: "Work Out Fine*
From Truthfully, Truthfully © 2003 Joel Plaskett

You Came Along*
From Truthfully, Truthfully © 2003 Joel Plaskett "


The low tech answer to monday's Myth(ical) question.. Replace the onboard soundcard, with the SB audigy from my XP box. The lowtech process was; Insert card, disable onboard sound in bios, run alsaconf, run alsamixer confirm all channels are turned on, and presto, 5.1 Sound. I believe even XINE is working. I will test it further to confirm. The only funky issues was with my MSI KM4M, in the bios there is a "AUTODETECT" setting for on board sound. It had to be turned "off", and not the autodetect for alsaconf to probably detect the audigy.. Wierd..

Mondays' Myth(ical)quest for 5.1 Audio

Currently I have my Mythbox running out the line-out, to the line of my main XP computer, however, since the mythbox is the device i will be a)watching most of my movies and b)listening to music and d) I'm not big gamer, so i don't really care about sound, I have decided to hook my altec lansing 5.1 (analog) speaker up to my mythbox. However, if there was no 5.1 capabilty, there is no reason to do it. So, I have found this from the Xine website.. (I use xine within myth to play dvd's)..

xine - A Free Video Player: "Can xine produce 4-/5-channel surround audio output?

Yep, it can do that using OSS or ALSA drivers, provided that the driver supports it. However, since xine cannot detect if there are actually speakers connected to the additional channels, you'll have to activate that feature manually.

You can do this either in the config dialog while xine is running (press the config button on the xine panel and go to the AUDIO tab) or have it the complicated way by editing the config file yourself which is located in your home directory in .gxine or .xine:

audio.output.speaker_arrangement:Surround 4.0
audio.output.speaker_arrangement:Surround 4.1
audio.output.speaker_arrangement:Surround 5.1"

Finally, on recent dvd i have watched, I have noticed, they look like crap, looking into it further, it looks like i can post-process the signal, to get a sharper, cleaner picture. I would like to do this with mplayer, playing xvid's as well.. (I'm not sure about that, it will require some more research)

The death of CBC RADIO 3?

I should of caught this earlier. Listening, to CBC Radio3 over the past couple weeks, and i noticed they were making some changes. I'm a big fan Radio3 radio. I'm not such a big fan of website. I thought the weekly web magazine was a alittle much. Perhaps the backend engine allowed for the easy posting of articles. But the articles were all gloss and no depth. I welcome change. Postive Change. But I fear that this will not be postive change.

I am a fan "This Hour - with George Stromboulopoulos", and I do to wonder if he thinks the radio3 resturcting would "totaly suck". Infact, I'm going email him, and DNTO and the rest of the hipster - GenXYZ targeted CBC shows and ask them their thoughts on the changes at CBC. I think it's time to see really how "Hip, and edgy" the GenXYZ targeted CBC Shows are. They say the best way to invoke change, is to invoke change from within. I think it's time to test this.

Pregnant Without Intercourse: Radio 3 R.I.P. in today's Globe

What the fuck is going with Vancouver? Do they know the Promotors know can't afford to go to all the shows? I know what's going to happen, mid-July, there is going to be NO SHOWs ON.. Nothing, everybody will have came through.. Starting today.. Kings, M. Ward, Joseph Arthur SoTW and Me First (Go to Me First, then SoTW the Next night i guess), Joel Plasket, Low, Ben Lee.. Gah. .And the list goes on.. Lowest of the Low.. Doh!

Anyways, I guess i should happy it's going to be a rock and roll month. However, I have to stick around Abbey Easter Weekend, so I won't get to see any of the shows (Unless I can swing something).. Doh.

(From Pollstar.com)
Pollstar -- The Concert Hotwire: " CONCERT SCHEDULE


post an ad for Vancouver, BC
Date Schedule sorted by date Artist Schedule sorted by Artist. Venue Schedule sorted by Venue.
Fri 03/11/05 Kings Of Convenience Richard's On Richards
Sat 03/12/05 Craig Cardiff Railway Club
Sat 03/12/05 Jack Connolly Railway Club
Sat 03/12/05 Authority Zero Richard's On Richards
Sat 03/12/05 Pepper Richard's On Richards
Sun 03/13/05 M. Ward Richard's On Richards
Mon 03/14/05 Black Mountain Richard's On Richards
Mon 03/14/05 Oneida Richard's On Richards
Mon 03/14/05 Kalan Porter Vogue Theatre
Tue 03/15/05 Jorane Richard's On Richards
Wed 03/16/05 Brant Bjork The Brickyard
Wed 03/16/05 Vic duMonte's Idiot Prayer The Brickyard
Thu 03/17/05 Joseph Arthur Red Room @ The Drink
Fri 03/18/05 Spirit Of The West Commodore Ballroom
Fri 03/18/05 Me First & The Gimme Gimmes Richard's On Richards
Sat 03/19/05 Spirit Of The West Commodore Ballroom
Sat 03/19/05 Decemberists Richard's On Richards
Sat 03/19/05 Okkervil River Richard's On Richards
Sat 03/19/05 Tom Russell St. James Hall
Sun 03/20/05 B.B. King Orpheum Theatre
Sun 03/20/05 Gift Of Gab Richard's On Richards
Sun 03/20/05 Lateef The Truth Speaker Richard's On Richards
Mon 03/21/05 The Wilders Anza Club
Thu 03/24/05 Carlos Del Junco Yale Hotel Pub
Fri 03/25/05 Joel Plaskett Media Club
Fri 03/25/05 Mono Media Club
Fri 03/25/05 Peter Elkas Media Club
Fri 03/25/05 'Taste Of Chaos' PNE/ Forum
Fri 03/25/05 A Static Lullaby PNE/ Forum
Fri 03/25/05 Idiot Pilot PNE/ Forum
Fri 03/25/05 My Chemical Romance PNE/ Foru"

F U C K M E

Jetsgo provided cheap airflights between Toronto and Vancouver. They were the backbone of my relationship to Stacey, without a low-cost way of seeing each, I don't know where we would be today. I hope they can just enter bankrupcty protection, restructure and keep there pricing scheme, but I just don't think that's in the works.

Stacey was suppose to fly down easter using her Jetsgo airmiles. My parents were coming down in april. All via Jetsgo.

This is not good.

CBC News: Jetsgo ceases operations; travellers stranded

Give Your Love to SXSW
Holly Fuck Kids, Give your love to the organizers/bands @ SXSW,
Pick Up 2.6 Gigs (Yes, 2.6 Gigs) of mp3's from the bands that are playing. According to the Wired article:

"For the bands, providing a free MP3 of their music is optional. Of the more than 1,350 bands scheduled to play the festival, 758 offered an MP3. The songs can also be downloaded individually from the conference website."

This is amazing. SXSW is the premier even for up and coming bands. This is a great, legal use for technology like bittorrent. As a geek, I commend everybody involved. I am currently downloading it, and looking forward to listening to the collection.

South by Southwest festivals + conferences


20 Random Tracks
Finally the World famous (Not really) 20 random tracks. OneclickPlay picked well today. It's a fine collection, excluding the Christiana with such fine lyrical content as: "I'm a genie in a bottle, baby, you've got to rub me the right way". GBV, Lemonheads, Ben Folds, Sonic Youth, Placebo, BAD... Very, very good.

1. Guided By Voices - Teenage FBI (2:56)
2. Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray (3:07)
3. Ben Folds Five - Jackson Cannery (4:01)
4. The B-52's - Love Shack (4:19)
5. B.T.K. - Peppyrock (3:38)
6. Story of the Year - And the Hero will Drown (3:13)
7. Stereophonics - Have A Nice Day (3:25)
8. Sloan - Lucky For Me (3:11)
9. Jamiroquai - Love Foolsophy (3:45)
10. Tears For Fears - Mad World (3:35)
11. Flogging Molly - The Ol' Beggars Bush (4:33)
12. Kid Rock - Only God Knows Why (5:27)
13. The Raveonettes - Heartbreak Stroll (2:26)
14. Placebo - Every You Every Me (3:33)
15. Sonic Youth - Androgynous Mind (3:30)
16. Foo Fighters - See You (2:26)
17. Big Audio Dynamite - The Globe (6:03)
18. Violent Femmes - Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah (Means I Love You) - Violent Femmes - Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah (Means I Love You) (3:21)
19. The Sundays - Goodbye (4:46)
20. Christina Aguilera - Genie In A Bottle (3:37)

Am I a lout?

I guess this is all the talk in Edmonton.
Military attracts violent louts - study
CANOE -- CNEWS - Canada: Que. soldiers have different views on role

Ben Folds!: I have been meaning to post up some new Ben Folds, and i just hadn't got around to it. Welp, here it is: Ben Fold covering Dr. Dre's "Bitches Ain't Shit" (From Stereogum). "Landed" is the offical new signal from "Songs For Silverman"

This has been all over the net, new Ted Leo. I only discovered him last year while listening to KEXP. However, I was an instant convert. Here is Ted Leo covering American Idol Kelly Clarkson. Stereogum was the first site who actually had mp3's of it up, instead of having to visit the ugo site.
Stereogum: Ted Leo Covers Kelly Clarkson

Mmhh, This was one of my favorite songs of last year. Fluxblog doens't give it a good review, but for me it's up there with Kings X's "Detachable penis"..

Fluxblog: Enemies Of Fun, Stand Down! WE WILL FIGHT YOU!

Teehee..
newmapBG.jpg (JPEG Image, 736x615 pixels) - Scaled (97%)

Audioblog #1
Are you bored of reading my blog? Listen to it!
Audioblog #1, Inspired by

Acts of Volition and using Audioblogger

Useless Info
Slashdot | Israeli Army Frowns on D&D

Well, you may not get shot in Gaza, but at least you'd have a a job, the CF has to recruit 5,000 soldiers, I'm pretty sure they aren't screening out D&D types.

Tuesday, Tired. Didn't go to futureheads last night. :(

B/C I'm lazy, and tired.. Here are:

20 Random Generated Tracks from my Collection

1. Billy Bragg And Wilco - Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key (4:06)
2. Groove Armada - Superstylin (6:16)
3. Calexico - Clothes Of Sand (3:44)
4. Eels - Love of the Loveless (3:35)
5. Neil Diamond - Red, Red Wine (2:41)
6. Beth Orton - Touch Me With Your Love (7:27)
7. The Rondelles - Safety In Numbers (2:13)
8. Tricky - Black Steel (5:40)
9. Johnny Cash - I See A Darkness (3:42)
10. Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus (9:11)
11. Liz Phair - Whip-Smart (4:18)
12. Joss Stone - Right To Be Wrong (4:41)
13. The Smiths - Hang The DJ (2:12)
14. Edwin - Alive (6:10)
15. Liz Phair - Nashville (4:42)
16. Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire (Live) (2:45)
17. Axodry - You (5:44)
18. urge overkill - sister havana (3:50)
19. Deftones - Be Quiet And Drive (5:08)
20. Neko Case - Soulful Shade Of Blue (2:33)"

Black Steel, Urge Overkill and Liz Phair, Groove Armada, I woke up to some 90's alternatcool this morning.

This is the unspelled/grammar checked version of this posting

Saturday,

I Went to the "Fraser Valley Boat & Sportsmen's Show, BC Hunting Show & Country Living Show". It was a good way to kill the afternoon, but I was less then impressed. It should be called "Big Boys, who love big toys and especially TRUCKS". I've always been curious when people say that are outdoors types, then the load into there mutherfucking huge ass trucks, pulling huge ass boats, and tons of electronic gear. Maybe I'm jealous because I can't afford all that gear, or maybe It's because I find all the crap a bit offensive. I like to get out into nature to enjoy, not to run it over and with my big ass truck and big ass boat. Mind you, I love toys, and there was tons of toys there.

I have been thinking about upgrading some of my outdoors gear. Stacey and I have talked about getting each other a good tent for our birthdays. As well, I'm still half looking around for a new canoe, GPS and compass. I doubt I will get all this gear this year. Especially the canoe. I'd like to get an ultra-light kevlar, one that I can portage by myself, in case Stacey can't help.

I watched Mean Creek, tonight. I recommend it for anybody who likes the classic "Stand by Me". I would definitely say this was a "hidden gem" of 2004

I'm resetting up my MythBox. However, as usual, I've been getting lost in wonderful tangents. I stumbled over this article on O'Reilly Linux Dev. (As a side note, I'm a huge fan of the O'Reilly sites and books, constantly I find myself turning to them). I found the article below on the site.

"Freevo: Freedom For Your TV by Howard Wen -- PVRs may be the next big thing in home entertainment, but relying on a closed box leaves you few options for customization. The Freevo project is building a platform for developing television-aware applications, whether recording, timeshifting, or general-purpose mayhem. Howard Wen explains the Freevo project and interviews its developers"

It's Late, I'm stupid. I can't remeber what i was going to talk about. I just got done watching "Going the Distance". It's a stupid, Road Trip/Porkys kind of movie, and other the the fact it's a running ad for the "Much" lifestyle, it was actually preety fun and well done.

Stacey and I were talking about Lego today. I love Lego.

News
There has been alot of debate about joining the States for Missle Defence. Unfortuantely, I'm not informed on the subject. I have some reading to do.
Google News - Missile Defence

In RochFort Bridge, Alta. 4 Mounties Slain. Mapquest link

20 Random Tracks

1. Alice cooper - Poison (4:23)
2. Tori Amos - A Sorta Fairytale (5:29)
3. Thrush Hermit - Come On Teacher (4:26)
4. The Singles - He Can Go, You Can't Stay (3:23)
5. Transplants - Tall Cans In The Air (3:43)
6. Boo Radleys - There she goes (2:19)
7. Hot Hot Heat - Get In Or Get Out (2:50)
8. Dave Matthews Band - Too Much (4:21)
9. The Cure - The Walk (3:26)
10. The Vees - Seven Thirty (2:16)
11. Alicia Keys - Fallin (3:30)
12. Ron Sexsmith - Just My Heart Talkin' (2:22)
13. The Tragically Hip - 38 Years Old (4:20)
14. Depeche Mode - Walking In My Shoes (4:58)
15. Kings of Convenience - The Weight Of My Words (4:07)
16. Mazzy Star - Into Dust (5:36)
17. Tenacious D - Tribute (4:07)
18. Sloan - Don't You Believe a Word (3:15)
19. Tori Amos - Crucify (4:57)
20. Sting - If I Ever Lose My Faith in You (4:27)

I just finishing watching: I Heart Huckabees

Excellent. A little patience is required to watch it. I would recommend the movie for anybody who likes a little witty slightly offbeat movies, perhaps like Magnolia

Well, the sunshine has finally left us. But after two weeks of sunshine, I shouldn't complain. I manged to jog another 4 km today.

Mhh. To talk about. Somehow I managed to kill my Mythbox by not properly exporting by the LVM volume. I'm sure there is a way of fixing. I just haven't figured it out.

Rock and Roll Shit

• I'm off to see the Futureheads at Richards on Richards Monday.
• Stacey wants to see Low w/Pedro the Lion 26 Mar 04 at Richards on Richards

A couple of CanCon releases.

Kathleen Edwards Released "Back To Me" on March 1st.

and

- - - The Hugh Dillon Redemption Choir - - - As an added bonus, you can purchase the HDRC album in MP3 format. No Itunes crap, or silly Microsoft DRM infested file.


Finally, while browsing, I stumbled across this on MapleMusic.com

Save Canadian Music: "On March 31, 2005, FACTOR's contract with the Department of Canadian Heritage expires.

Since 1986, the Government of Canada has supported the Canadian Music Industry with Grants and Loans through the Canada Music Fund Council which are administered through FACTOR-funded programs, and include Artist Development and Industry Infrastructure programs that have been crucial to developing, producing and marketing Canadian talent around the world."


Todays 25 Random Songs

Godamn, It looks like a ripped off the playlist at Mix 99.9.

1. Digable Planets - 9th Wonder (4:27)
2. Headstones - Judy (4:07)
3. Audioslave - Like a Stone (4:54)
4. Veruca Salt - Spiderman '79 (5:16)
5. Sloan - Iggy and Angus (2:49)
6. Controller.Controller - Disco Blackout (5:22)
7. Beach Boys - You Still Believe in Me (2:31)
8. Bad Religion - 21st Century Digital Boy (2:48)
9. rammstein - feuer frei (3:09)
10. Blue Rodeo - Dark Angel (5:18)
11. Black Box Recorder - The Facts Of Life (3:11)
12. Kathleen Edwards - Six O'Clock News (4:28)
13. The Cure - LoveSong (3:30)
14. Motely Crue - Dr. Feelgood.mp3
15. Vanessa Carlton - Ordinary Day.mp3
16. Everclear - AM Radio.mp3
17. Radiohead - Talk Show Host.mp3
18. Sarah McLachlan - Fear.mp3
19. Johnny Cash - Kneeling Drunkard's Plea.mp3
20. Jackson - Fell Into.mp3

Wednesday..

A quick PSA from NHLFA (NHL Fans Association). If your a hockey fan, spread the link, make the point.

NHLFA.com - NHLFA's 30 second PSA video

Uhhh... From the pages of "Copy right?"

"Baby Got Book'.

- Yeah, I know.

Well, I don't have much to talk about. I suppose a recap of my weekend is due, since well, I might get old and forget my life one day.

1. It was 16c-20c all weekend.
2. I golfed FraserGlen and Valley Golf this week.
3. I was golfing in shorts, in february. How glorious is that?
4. I won 20 bucks at poker. If i had limped out early, I would of won 40-60.
5. Stacey and I tried to watch "Saw", and we simutanously turned it off.
6. We watched most of the Oscars over the phone, before Stacey got bored of beyonce's 10,000 performance, and went to sleep.
7. I downloaded albums Montreal' "The Stars" and Britain's "The Kills"


Maybe I can find a list of the cancon that picked up awards.

From the pages of The Superficial,

Petition Spot - Ashlee Simpson rules!!!She is AWSOME!!!!

Please sign. How else are you going to waste the next 30 seconds of your life? Create world peace? Feed the Poor? Fix Sudan? Solve the gay marriage debate?

I don't talk about my Vonage voice service alot, because, it just works. I love it. From web based Voicemail to automatic ring-down to my cell phone, it's just works amazing. Plus, at 19.99 a month (around 24 after taxes), how can i go wrong? I have had a few funky experiences. Today when I called Fed-ex, it was routed to the states call center instead of Canada, and I've heard that calling Pizza Hut (310-1010) doesn't work either, but in both cases, they can easily overcome. Anyways, here is some propaganda that Vonage canada sent me today. More area codes, WIFI Phones and Videophones. Sweet.

Vonage Email Snippets:



More New Area Codes Available

Vonage Canada is expanding our service so that we can offer customers the widest possible selection of Canadian area codes. We already offer 15 different Canadian area codes in 6 provinces. By the middle of this year, we expect to have a wide selection of local 905 numbers to better serve our customers in the Greater Toronto area.
"By the end of this year, you should be able to get a local number with Vonage Canada in virtually every major Canadian city," said Bill Rainey, President, Vonage Canada.
CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE



The Vonage Videophone, Coming to a Home Near You Later This Year!

Vonage has partnered with videophone maker Viseon to bring you videophone service that's simple, innovative and fun. The service will allow Vonage customers to experience corporate-quality videoconferencing between friends, family or business colleagues. You can look forward to living like the Jetsons as you have “face-to-face” conversations in real-time, whether across town, across the country or around the globe. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE.



WiFi Phone Service Coming to Canada in 2005

Welcome to the future of communications!
WiFi phone service will allow you to roam around your home WiFi hot spot, as well as hotspots at your office, airports, hotels, coffee shops and anywhere else you can access a WiFi Internet connection.

Okay, one last post about the weather.. Right from The Weather Network

Mission, BC
Clear
17°C

Yeeho. However, Next week, back to reality, rain-rain and more rain.

Today's Rock and Roll 20 Random Tracks.. Funny, I swore I woke up to LFO - Summer Girls, and then I thought I'd have to admit to the world that I actually listen to that crap. Perhaps I was dreaming. I hope not. I don't want to dream about LFO. However, I do remember dancing around to Land Of 1000 Dances. I love that song. It's such a summer cottage song. I associate it with "The Great Outdoors", which is one of my all time favorite movies. It's a great song to wake up. I like to Do the mash potato. I have no idea how to do the mash potato, but I like to do it.

1. Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence (4:14)
2. Modest Mouse - I've Got it All (Most) (3:08)
3. Joel Plaskett Emergency - Waiting To Be Discovered (4:17)
4. Nine Inch Nails - sanctified (5:48)
5. Wilson Picket - Land Of 1000 Dances (2:25)
6. Blue Rodeo - Dark Angel (5:18)
7. The Deathray Davies - I Regret the Day I Tried To St (4:04)
8. Ramones - Spiderman - Ramones - Spiderman (2:07)
9. David Bowie - Rebel, Rebel (4:30)
10. Transplants - Tall Cans In The Air (3:43)
11. Linkin Park - Somewhere I Belong (3:33)
12. Beastie Boys - Shake Your Rump (3:19)
13. Dinosaur Jr - Whatever's Cool With Me (4:30)
14. Lit - My Own Worst Enemy (2:48)
15. The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So (3:22)
16. Eels - Saturday Morning (2:57)
17. Moby - Bodyrock (3:34)
18. Badly Drawn Boy - Something To Talk About (3:41)
19. Sarah Mclachlan - I Will Remember You (4:53)
20. The Romantics - What I Like About You (2:57)

and Stacey was so nice finish the survey, so here it is:

1. What time did you get up this morning?
5:35 AM or sometime around then. My clock is never right.

2. Diamonds or pearls? Diamonds.
diamonds, they are my birthstone (& pearls are for old ladies)

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema?
dunno

4. What is your favorite TV shows?

5. What did you have for breakfast?
banana muffin and hortons ex large coffee

6. What is your middle name?
pleading the "fifth on that one

7. What is your favorite cuisine?
at home eatting lobster with ian.

8. What foods do you dislike?
meatloaf (& i don't care how good you think your Mothers is), liver,
stew and potatos from a box

9. What is your favorite chip flavor?
I tell myself i don't like chips. But if forced (drunk or camping)
it appears that i'll suffer with miss Vickies - Jalepeno

10. What is your favorite CD at the moment?
all time favorite cd remains - talk, talk - the spirit of eden

11. What kind of car do you drive?
my ex boyfriends. it's free and purple, don't get much better then that!

12. Favorite sandwich?
peanut butter. peanut butter and jam or peanut butter and bannana

13. What characteristics do you despise?
meek women

14. Favorite item of clothing?
that depends on the occasion.

15. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would it be?
the almafi coast

17. Favorite brand of clothing?
i hate shopping so it's likely from the gap or jacob.

19. Favorite time of day?
saturday morning, in bed with stupid.

20. What is your most memorable birthday?
no comment

21. Number of candles on last birthday cake?
no candles. :(

22. Where were you born?
North Bay, Ontario.

23. Who do you least expect to send this back to you?
I don't send these and am only doing it cuz i'm on a conference call and bored.

24. Person you expect to send it back first?
see answer above.

25. What Fabric detergent do you use?
dunno. it's blue and smells nice. my mommy gave it too me.

26. Coke or Pepsi?
coke

27. Name on Birth Certificate?
sadgirl

28. Nick Names? See above

29. Favorite sport to watch?
dunno.

30. Favorite Color?
purple, red

31. Favorite Drink?
coffee or Australian wine.

32. Pets?
George and a crazy hampster

33. Usual Bedtime?
early ...

34. Are you in love? Yes
35. What color are your eyes?
brown

36. When is your birthday?
April
37. Are you happy?
Yes. As happy as anyone named sadgirl can be.

38. If you could change one thing in your life, what would it be?
make certain people like each other.

Round 2 of postings.. Here are todays 20 random songs. TLC? I'm really not sure where that came from. Everybody has their cheesepop, and I certinaly, have more then my share of it, but TLC? Mhh. Perhaps, this is where my liberal misgivings start.

1. U2 - I Still Have Not Found What I'm Looking For (4:38)
2. Styrofoam - Couches In Alleys (Ft. Ben Gibbard) (4:46)
3. Dropkick Murphys - Black Velvet Band (3:03)
4. The Kite-Eating Tree - Sighs of the curator (3:38)
5. Propellerheads - History Repeating (Featuring Miss Shirley Bassey) (4:02)
6. Loretta Lynn - Story Of My Life (2:40)
7. The Cure - Why Cant I Be You (3:29)
8. Godsmack - Greed (3:29)
9. The Wrens - Miss Me (4:16)
10. Dropkick Murphys - World Full of Hate (2:22)
11. The Tragically Hip - If New Orleans is Beat (3:15)
12. The Pixies - Wave of Mutalation (2:04)
13. Mighty, Mighty Bosstones - Simmer Down (3:35)
14. Sass Jordan - You Don't Have To Remind Me (4:06)
15. Chuck Berry - Johnny B Goode (2:39)
16. Flashing Lights - Highschool (2:22)
17. treble charger - sick friend called (3:27)
18. TLC - Waterfalls (4:36)
19. Royal City - Can't You (4:09)
20. Barenaked Ladies - Get in Line (3:39)

and from my selection of daily fowards and emails. I hate these things, but I'm blog content whore, so here we go:

Email
--
Welcome to the Winter 2005 edition of getting to know your friends.
What you are supposed to do is copy (not forward) this entire e-mail
and
paste it into a new e-mail that you'll send. Change all the answers so
that they apply to you, and then send this to a whole bunch of people
including the person who sent it to you. The goal is that you will
learn a lot of little things about your friends, if you did
not know
them
already.

1. What time did you get up this morning? Woke up at around 6:30 or so, pulled out of bed just after 7
2. Diamonds or pearls? Diamonds. I think they are birthstone.

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Elektra or Assault on precinct 13
4. What is your favorite TV shows? Scrubs, Two and Half Men, Veronica Mars, The O.C (Gah.....)
5. What did you have for breakfast? Mini-Wheats, Apple Juice and Coffee
6. What is your middle name? James
7. What is your favorite cuisine? I'll go with the popular Montforts Chicken. If you've had it, you understand.
8. What foods do you dislike? Liver, Triple Meat lovers pizza with nuclear sausage
9. What is your favorite chip flavor? Again, I'll agree with ray, Mrs. Vickies - Jalepeno
10. What is your favorite CD at the moment? Mmmh. A couple. Still addicted to The Postal Service LP from a couple years ago. Neko Case - Tiger have spoken I have a punk-blue grass cd I just bought in the car, which is preety damn good. Kings Of Convenience. And finally Ike and Tina Turner. Yeah!!
11. What kind of car do you drive? Toyota Matrix.
12. Favorite sandwich? I had 90% of sandwiches. However, I gotta go with the old standbye of Penaut butter and strawberry (My homemade) jam
13. What characteristics do you despise? Stupidity
14. Favorite item of clothing? My spongebob squarepants pj's Stacey bought me for christmas :)
15. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would it be? Vacation? I live in BC, Life is a vacation!! But I'd like to see alaska and Ireland.
16. What color is your bathroom? Bright yellow. It's a nasty ass color.
17. Favorite brand of clothing? The CF
19. Favorite time of day? Talking to Stacey
20. What is your most memorable birthday? I'll go with ray on this one. 19.
21. Number of candles on last birthday cake? 27.
22. Where were you born? Burlington
23. Who do you least expect to send this back to you? I don't know, but I can gauntree If somebody takes the time too, i'll blog it :)
never do these
24. Person you expect to send it back first? No damn idea.
25. What Fabric detergent do you use? Baby Soft for my sensitve skin :)
26. Coke or Pepsi? I don't drink either. However, Coke goes with Jack.
27. Name on Birth Certificate? Prosonik. Biatch.
28. Nick Names? Jackass/Asshole/Ditch Diggin' Bitch/Various others.
29. Favorite sport to watch? .. I really don't know anymore?
30. Favorite Color? 3 way tie. Green/Blue/Oranage
31. Favorite Drink? Depends on my mood. Chocolate Milk, and for alchol: Guinness, Merlot (But i can't drink red's because they mess me up!), Rock Mountian Bear-fucker (Southern Comfort and Jack Daniels shaken with ice), Jack and Coke. Rum and Ginger. Anything that burns.
32. Pets? No, but i'd like something that feeds on the dustballs under my bed.
33. Usual Bedtime? 12 a.m. - 1 a.m.
34. Are you in love? Yes
35. What color are your eyes? Blue
36. When is your birthday? Green
37. Are you happy? Yes.
38. If you could change one thing in your life, what would it be?
Make Stacey move here, or move back to Ontario.

It's 4pm, 16c and sunny in Abby. How can I complain? So, some quick news hits.
Okay, So stacey thinks, my blog is a wee too polictical. Welp.

Here is the after-edit version of todays banter.

Day Old News: Christian Groups boycot Shrek2
Shrek2 Google News links

More discussings on gay marriage in Canada
Gay Marriage in Canada Debate


CF getting a boost from 2005 Budget
Canada Budget 2005

Increase in funding for the Canadian Forces

That's it for now. I'm going to go for a walk or jog, in the last hour of this awesome weather.

Today's 20 Random Tracks from my playlist:

1. Oh Susanna - Alabaster (5:14)
2. The Cure - Young Americans (6:23)
3. The Gossip - Don't Make Waves (2:41)
4. AC/DC - Stiff Upper Lip (3:34)
5. Sum 41 - Pain For Pleasure (1:45)
6. Depeche Mode - Policy Of Truth (4:55)
7. Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone (3:35)
8. Gowan - Moonlight Desires (4:13)
9. David Bowie - Life On Mars (3:43)
10. Juliana Hatfield - Some Rainy Sunday (3:11)
11. Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction (2:20)
12. Gordon Downie - Pascal's Submarine (4:38)
13. UNKLE - Berry Meditation (7:33)
14. Supergrass - Pumping on your stereo (3:11)
15. Ramones - I Want You Around (3:02)
16. Big Sugar - If I Had My Way (5:13)
17. Jimmy Buffett - Margaritaville (4:11)
18. Cracker - Get Off This (4:26)
19. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Counting Down the Hours (3:07)
20. Mazzy Star - Into Dust (5:36)

A little more of the alt-rock slant today.. I have to say "Life on Mars" is still a favorite. I can't seem to get enough of it.

Today was release day. New Discs from Tori, Ben Lee, and others.. Maybe I'll find a complete release link. Hopefully, I'll be able to source copies of Tori and Ben Lee.

Todays 20 randomly generated songs from my collection:

1. Underworld - M.E. (7:08)
2. American Hi-Fi - Flavor of The Weak (3:11)
3. Madonna - Nothing Really Matters (4:26)
4. Scratching Post - Rock Past It (3:20)
5. Dropkick Murphys - Time to Go (2:53)
6. Goldfinger - Is She Really Going Out With H (3:08)
7. Nirvana - Pennyroyal Tea (3:40)
8. Sum41 - Makes No Difference (3:12)
9. Beck - Nitemare Hippy Girl (2:55)
10. Starling - Don't Deflate (4:35)
11. The Black Crows - A Conspiracy (4:46)
12. Groove Armada (Vocals by MAD) - Rap (4:15)
13. Plumtree - Fatherhood (2:46)
14. Lee Aaron - Hands On (4:15)
15. Rancid - Otherside (1:53)
16. Madonna - American Life (Oakenfold Downtempo Remix) (4:01)
17. Cowboy Junkies - Southern Rain (4:50)
18. Jack Johnson - The Horizon Has Been Defeated (2:32)
19. Candy Butchers (Mike Viola and - No Surprises (3:33)
20. The Parka 3 - Music makers (2:06)


Wow, Lee Aaron and Madonna. I'm not sure what to say to that. Nitemare Hippy girl is great track that was totaly overlooked on Mellow Gold.

Currently listening to Dead Weight - Beck

Monday Afternoon, Its 12c and sunny in abbey. Rumor has it that the golden horseshoe got hit by a snowstorm. Gotta love that! :) I should be golfing instead of posting, however, I'm trying to continue my streak of posting here.

1. I have been told that grammar and spelling on my postings suck. As a rule, I try to spell check, and proof read my postings. However, sometimes like yesterday, I leave the blogs open for a long period of time, so instead of losing them, I just post them up. I suppose I could set them as draft, but then I might never post them or even worse, they loose that "In the moment" feeling. Anyways, yes, Stacey I will try harder to correct my grammar and spelling.

2. Speaking of Blogs, recently there has been a ton of hype around them . I guess they are the "thing of the moment". Time magazine covered blogging, and this past weekends Vancouver Sun (link?) there was quite a spread on blogging. However, I hope all this hype does not burn blogs out. I really enjoy blogging and reading blogs. All this attention to blogging has already attracted the eyes of the big boys, the corporate whores and the people who generally pollute the net. For instance, all this hype has lead to a large increase in blog comment spam. The Vancouver sun article quoted somebody (I wish I had the quote) as saying that blogs might lead to the end of corporate media. I shutter every time I hear this sort of crap. Mp3's haven't caused the downfall of the music industry (Yet, maybe someday..), the web store hasn't caused the death of retail, instead we've seen more of a convergence to a clicks' and mortar concept. As far as blogs go, I think that people are still timid to post their actually thoughts. Now that we are all given a forum to speak, we get up on are soap boxes, and edit ourselves. I rarely post blogs that have any sort of personal sediment. With this idea, I do think we will start to see the blog locked down a little more to create more communities of bloggers. I could possibly see the blog morf into a forum/BBS style system, where it's a group of people with common interests blogging, and we start to chose who can read our blogs. In this more intimate setting, bloggers will probably get out shells and actually express their thoughts.

To summarize, It's funny, now that we are empowered with a soap box to shout from,
we are all chicken shit to say what we are actually thinking. :)


Song at end of post Elastica - Line Up

Sunday morning. Arf. 4 posts yesturday. Can You tell I'm back in BC and bored/lonely?


Last summer, CBC Radio did "50 Tracks list of essential popular music".

Now they are back with 50 Tracks of Canadian pop songs

So far, they are up the 80's round 1. I'd have to say comparing the 80s, where they picked such songs (so far) as "Rise Up", "High School Confidential", to the 70s where they introduced such classics as "Takin' Care Of Business", "Heart of Gold", "American Women" and "Sundown", the 70's seem to still define "Candian Rock" as we know it. It's still preety hard to go a down and listen to rock radio in canada an not hear at least 1 of the songs from the 70s. I will agree that songs like "Try" by Blue Rodeo are amazing songs, and truely define a time in canadian music, I'm just not sure (unfortunally) if they have made the lasting impact like "American Women". Only "I'm and adult now", from the list has seemed to make a lasting impact on canadian music. I belive another eposide of the 80's is still to come. I'd like to see some early Tragically Hip, Bryan Adams, Rush, perhaps (laugh if you will) Men with out Hats or Glass Tiger. Can anybody question the fact the moronic "Safety Dance" is sill being played on Radio?

Anyway, Iove the "50 Songs" series. Again, CBC Radio does it again with a compelling reason for me to actually listen to the radio.

Le Tigre is on CBCRADIO3 (Actually on CBC RADIO2 Saturday Nights). I'm listening to the Toronto webcast, and the concert is P-h-a-t. (I think that word went out years ago). Anyways, It's a great performance.


| 12:00 am

In concert: Girl-power lives on as Le Tigre rocks the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver.


ARTIST | Track Title | Album | Label
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LE TIGRE | TKO | CBC Radio 3 Concert | n/a
LE TIGRE | F.Y.R. | CBC Radio 3 Concert | n/a
LE TIGRE | Le Tigre Anthem | CBC Radio 3 Concert | n/a
LE TIGRE | After Dark | CBC Radio 3 Concert | n/a
LE TIGRE | Well Well Well | CBC Radio 3 Concert | n/a
LE TIGRE | Keep On Livin' | CBC Radio 3 Concert | n/a
LE TIGRE | On the Verge | CBC Radio 3 Concert | n/a
LE TIGRE | The The Empty | CBC Radio 3 Concert | n/a
LE TIGRE | What's Yr Take on Cassavetes | CBC Radio 3 Concert | n/a
LE TIGRE | This Island | CBC Radio 3 Concert | n/a
LE TIGRE | Viz | CBC Radio 3 Concert | n/a
LE TIGRE | Seconds | CBC Radio 3 Concert | n/a
LE TIGRE | Punker Plus | CBC Radio 3 Concert | n/a
LE TIGRE | Hot Topic | CBC Radio 3 Concert | n/a
LE TIGRE | Nanny Nanny Boo Boo | CBC Radio 3 Concert | n/a
LE TIGRE | Deceptacon | CBC Radio 3 Concert | n/a
LE TIGRE | I'm So Excited | CBC Radio 3 Concert | n/a

A email conversation today between Stacey and I concerning my "Pathetic" choice of 5 songs. They aren't my favorite songs, but the first 5 tracks I could think of that meant something to me. Note, the numero uno choice, the lemonheads, which means, I was thinking of YOU first and foremost. Yes, you can publicly say "sorry".

Email
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Stacey, I expect more to.

You have been blogged. You are warned.

1. Lemonheads - US
2. Dr. Feelgood, My all time favorite hair rock song
3. Don't you forget about me - Theme song to my all time favorite movie, if you understand the movie, you understand me
4. Solitary Man - Johnny Cash - The state of mood, I'm in most days, far away from home, and not knowing anybody. It's sort of my theme song
5. Killing in the Name Of - Mad props to the day' of old. It represents so much of a day gone by, and a pit i used to instigate.

:-)


>
>5. Write down five songs you often listen to or that mean a lot to you.
>
>1. Anything by the Lemonheads
>2. Dr. Feelgood - Motley Crue
>3. Don't you forget About Me - Simple Minds
>4. Solitary Man - Johnny Cash
>5. Killing in the Name Of - Rage against the machine
>
>
>- - - - - -
>
>That is a very pathetic list of songs that "mean a lot to you".
>
>I expected more.
>

Stacey and I, Peggy's Cove Nova Scotia. 6 Feb 05 

From the Mythtv mailing list. John C. Dvorak's article from the latest PC Magazine:


Message: 2
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 00:39:13 -0600
From: Andy Long
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users]Article on MythTV in the latest PC
Magazine - Article included

To: Discussion about mythtv


I disagree with your assessment of Dvorak's article. I sometimes
disagree with him, but I really don't think he paints MythTV in a
negative light whatsoever. This is posted for the purposes of
academic discussion about the article and its implications.

------BEGIN ARTICLE-------

While you have surely read about HP Media Centers and new DVRs from
cable providers, the real action is underground: a slow and steady
invasion of incredible products created by slick young coders who are
sick of products designed not to make life easier but to appease a
Hollywood preoccupied with digital rights management. The leader in
this effort is MythTV, perhaps the most powerful DVR yet devised.

MythTV is all the rage among high-level engineering types in Silicon
Valley. It's the brainchild of 26-year-old Isaac Richards, who told me
he started it two and a half years ago because he "was bored." MythTV
is a free software system written in C++ that, when combined with
various TV tuner, audio, and other cards, will turn a small computer
into a slick, powerful, feature-rich DVR. Do you hate commercials? You
can set it up so that it doesn't just skip commercials in playback but
never records them in the first place, so there's nothing to skip.

The software also incorporates MP3/Ogg features, along with slide
shows and everything else you can imagine, including WebTV-like
functionality for the TV set. While Richards has carefully avoided
adding any illegal features, such as DeCSS for ripping DVDs, the
architecture of the product works with plug-ins. In no time, someone
anonymously threw a plug-in into the ether that allows a MythTV box to
rip DVDs and strip out both CSS and Macrovision code so the material
can be transcoded. This means that MPEG-2 DVDs can easily be turned
into MPEG-4 files and watched on a laptop or even passed around
trading networks. Worried about country codes? Forget it, they're
gone.

Richards is working on the 17th version of the software and has about
15 coders working with the source code, adding features, debugging,
and tweaking.

What do the MythTV folks get out of all this, besides praise? If you
listen to them (and the users), they get TV the way they want it.

This movement doesn't stop here. MythTV is just the tip of a
multimedia iceberg that has managed to float under the radar so far.
For example, at CES, as far as I could tell only Transmeta was showing
a MythTV lash-up. Few showgoers had a clue as to what they were
looking at.

MythTV is a Linux-based system and requires some knowledge to set up.
Windows users are seeing a similar effort called myHTPC (my Home
Theater Personal Computer), a much looser initiative that first
appeared in detail in 2002. myHTPC is not a wide-open architecture
like MythTV, and it seems to emphasize quality imagery, especially by
incorporating various line doublers and other tweaks that are out
there if you look hard enough.

Probably the most interesting of these is DScaler, found at
http://www.dscaler.com www.dscaler.com . According to its Web site,
the project has a simple goal: "The DScaler project is an ongoing
attempt to get the best video quality possible from a Windows PC."
Like the MythTV team, these folks are essentially using the
open-source approach to public development. Headed by deinterlacing
expert John Adcock, they're producing code that gives you the
image-improvement power that was once the domain of Faroudja, whose
line doublers used to cost thousands of dollars.

All this activity within the video-image realm is a result of needing
to find a purpose for the wasted power of today's processors. We've
been waiting for a jazzy new direction in personal computing, and this
appears to be it. This is the real convergence we've been told about.
And what's interesting is, yet again, it's the small shops with the
smart young coders doing all the heavy lifting.

Everyone I know who has ever seen or played with MythTV wants it, but
it's a do-it-yourself project and not for the timid. Eventually that
will change as packagers appear and bundle prebuilt systems together.
There are other implications of all this. In a changing universe,
technologists will refuse to be hemmed in by artificial roadblocks
created for the purpose of maintaining the status quo. Microsoft and
Hollywood and whoever else can create all the DRM schemes they want;
they can sue college kids for trading songs, block trading networks,
shut down BitTorrent systems-but it won't do them any good. The forces
of "We want it our way" will overpower them again and again, because
that's the way technology works.

And this will all be shared. In a networked, computer-based world, the
sense of community breeds a socialistic desire to share, not covet.
This mentality is at the root of all the open-source activity and
cannot be ignored or denied. I want my MythTV.

------END ARTICLE-------

I love my MythTV. I use KnoppMyth as the basis for my box. It lets me record Smurfs and The National, and watch them back to back for a surreal experience.

From SledgeBlog, One of them damn 5 question things. But it's on music, so It's all good.
sledgeblog: January 2005 Archives

1. Random 10 consecutive tracks from iTunes

I don't use iTunes, and I'm scared of the iTunes loving freaks. Instead, I bring you 10 random tracks from my winamp. I have it set to fire off each morning, creating a random playlist for the day. Here's the first 20 tracks of what it generated today.

1. Inspiral Carpets - Two Worlds Collide (4:37)
2. Modest Mouse - I've Got it All (Most) (3:08)
3. Travis - Why Does It Always Rain On Me? (4:25)
4. Ladytron - Ladybird (4:38)
5. Ben Folds - Zak & Sara (3:11)
6. Magnapop - Slowly, Slowly (3:34)
7. Goldfinger - 99 Red Balloons (4:11)
8. The Thrills - Not For All The Love In The World (4:06)
9. Citizen King - Better Days (And The Bottom Dr (6:25)
10. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Love Burns (3:40)
11. The Distillers - The Young Crazed Peeling (3:16)
12. The Clash - Wrong 'Em Boyo (3:10)
13. Mystic Chords Of Memory - Golden Dome (2:52)
14. Finley Quaye And William Orbit - Missing You (8:27)
15. Moist - Leave it Alone (4:27)
16. Fun Lovin' Criminals - Passive / Agressive (3:33)
17. High Water Marks - Queen of Verlaine (3:24)
18. Jale - Not Happy (2:54)
19. The Who - My Generation (3:16)
20. Cranes - Here Comes the Day (3:08)

That's sort of fun. The only really sucky song it picked is moist "leave it alone". As well, I have no idea who "Mystic Chords Of Memory" are. However, If they are in my collection, I put them there. I'm sure they are good :)

2. What is the total amount of music files on your computer?

Around 80 Gigs. I use my PC as a digital Jukebox.

3. The last CD you bought is:

Ike and Tina Turner - Too Hot to Hold

4. What is the song you last listened to before this posting?

The Kings of Convenience-I Don't Know What I Can Save You From

5. Write down five songs you often listen to or that mean a lot to you.

1. Anything by the Lemonheads
2. Dr. Feelgood - Motley Crue
3. Don't you forget About Me - Simple Minds
4. Solitary Man - Johnny Cash
5. Killing in the Name Of - Rage against the machine

6. Who are you gonna pass this shtick to?

Anybody who reads my blog. (Which means probably nobody!)

7. Add a question:
Name one new song from your collection that nobody else seems to love expect for you
Catch My Disease - Ben Lee

8. What song are you currently listening to at the end of this questionnaire?
Ben Folds - Zak & Sara

For some reason, the Ultra-Cool Mp3 Bloggers have not mentioned that Tori Amos has a new album called "Beekeeper" slated for release next tueday. The early reviews on Amazon say;

"The Beekeeper returns the quirky singer to the same whimsical terrain of 1992's Little Earthquakes, but with much stronger storylines, and a much more assured and nuanced voice. Her best yet"

As a long time Tori fan, and a fan of of her early work, I'm excited to hear what she come with.

Tori Amos - The Beekeeper

Amazon.com: Music: The Beekeeper (Special Limited Edition) [LIMITED EDITION]: "The Beekeeper returns the quirky singer to the same whimsical terrain of 1992's Little Earthquakes, but with much stronger storylines, and a much more assured and nuanced voice. Her best yet"

A warm sunny day in Abbostford, running the Matsqui Trail.

Halifax Snow Storm 

Well, no talk of Halifax today. I'll get on that sometime this week. Instead, on the eve of the cancellation of the NHL season, I think it's time to talk about it. Some how, up to this point, i haven't talked at all about the NHL Lockout. Perhaps, I'm like every other good canadian hockey fan. I love the game, but I don't give a fuck about the business side of it. I want hockey back, i want the NHL and the NHLPA to come to an agreement. I don't care about contraction and salary caps or salary taxes. I care about hockey in hockey markets, such as Winnipeg, Hamilton and Halifax. I care about ticket prices, and resonsible conession prices. Most of all, I care about quality, old-time hockey night on Saturday night on the cbc. As for whatever Gary Bettman and Bob Goodenow think. I really, don't care, I wish they'd get together, have a few beers, perhaps scrap it out and get the deal done, like canadian. Leave it to the lawyers and the suits to figure out the detials.

Here is a email i got today from the NHL Fans’ Association (NHLFA):

February 15, 2005

Bob Goodenow
Executive Director
National Hockey League Players’ Association
777 Bay Street, Suite 2400
Toronto, Ontario
M5G 2C8


Dear Mr. Goodenow:

After reviewing Commissioner’s Gary Bettman’s letter delivered earlier today
to the NHL Players’ Association, the membership of the NHL Fans’ Association
(NHLFA) appeals to you in the strongest possible terms to accept this
proposal and put NHL players back on the ice.

It has never been the desire of the NHLFA to take sides in this dispute; our
role is to present to you and to the NHL the views of hockey fans who
support the National Hockey League and pay your members’ salaries. We
believe the revenues coming into professional hockey are more than enough
for both players and owners to receive fair compensation.

However, the majority of our 26,700 members feel the NHL Players’
Association must be willing to concede to reasonable terms, which we believe
have been presented to you, by the NHL today.

Remember, this conflict has taxed fans’ generosity and patience to the limit
and there will be serious consequences if your association chooses not to
accept the NHL’s offer.

Sincerely,
Jim Boone
Co-founder
NHL Fans’ Association
www.nhlfa.com


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