Monthly Archives: June 2005
Music
Column
Atlantic News Perspective #147 (June 27, 2005)
Gross National Happiness, drive-by paintballing and attack of the ants.
By: Iain K. MacLeod
Music
Ween are releasing “Shinola Vol. 1″ (a collection of odds, ends, and leftovers from around our studio and contains killer new mixes of a lot of songs that have been floating around the web in really crappy fidelity for a long time…12 songs deemed “too brown” to be put on any of their commercial CDs) on July 19th on their own Chocodog label. The CD can be Pre-Ordered here and will be available through their own site shortly.
Skeptics
Remember Flim-Flam | Slate
How to be a modern skeptic. By Daniel Engber
Religion?
Word on the Street
So I broke both his ribs.
–some girl on Spring Garden Road commenting on how she handled it when her boyfriend called her a stunned cunt.
It’s not a boob job. It’s a boob career.
–me commenting on the latest incarnation of Pamela Anderson on the cover some men’s mag.
Buckle tuckle.
–Beth’s description of a guy wearing a t-shirt that is only tucked in such a way that you can see his belt buckle.
Who has more fun than people?
–a co-worker recalled this phrase from his youth.
Magazines
50 Best Magazines | Chicago Tribune
Note: Local magazine focusing on “Buddhism, culture, meditation, life” comes in at number 29.
Comic
Toothpaste for Dinner | Slate
A slide-show tour of the most addictive comic on the Web. By Sam Anderson
Film
Broken Flowers | d. Jim Jarmusch
Note: The trailor features a great track (”My Own Memory” by Yègellé Tezeta) that I have always liked from Ethiopiques, Vol. 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale, 1969-1974.
Halifax Locals
What do you get when you take one deep fry cook, four bands, six pairs of pants and one shared passion for seafood? If you’re lucky, you’ll get The Rolling Chowder Travelling Revue featuring BA Johnston, Windom Earle, The Intesteens, Away Ri’o and a huge assortment of other bands sailing across the Maritimes this summer in search of buried treasure and great discounts on seafood.
Sincerely,
Frank W. Peterson
President of the Rolling Chowder Chain of Family Restaurants
The Rolling Chowder Travelling Revue
1) any of various usually burrowing marine and freshwater bivalve mollusks of the class Pelecypoda, including members of the genera Venus and Mya, many of which are edible.
2) a thick soup containing fish or shellfish, especially clams, and vegetables, such as potatoes and onions, in a milk or tomato base.
3) remarkably full-featured and sturdy wheel that brings a lot to the driving experience.
In unrelated news, The Lost Tape of Dan Norman Cummings has been unearthed and digitized.
Column
Atlantic News Perspective #146 (June 20, 2005)
Returning the rock, perfect attendance and stealing cars.
By: Iain K. MacLeod
Music?
Fact
I have never (nor will I ever be) a member of the Scottish Mountaineering Club.
WWW
Prank
Architecture students created a stir Friday by erecting a sign announcing Wal-Mart was coming to downtown Halifax. (CBC Nova Scotia)
Halifax Locals
The Halifax Pop Explosion wants you…to apply yourself.
File under Viral Videos:
DJ scratches The Imperial March. (starring Skratch Bastid and featuring The Centaur)
NXNE Blog by Jon Bruhm
Ermine tour Blog by Chuck Teed
Content courtesy of The Coast.
