Monthly Archives: January 2007
The death of Hobo Bill, rock snot algae warnings and toll-free funeral announcements
A Love Letter
Memorial jazz parade planned for murder victim | Chronicle Herald (Help out if you can)
“Love Letter To Helen and Paul” (Al Tuck, 2001)
Goodbye, so long, farewell for now
You’re gonna leave a big hole around here
But it’s up to us to fill it up again somehow
It’s up to us to fill it up again somehowYou live each day as if it was your last
May you have so many more and more and more
If we only will it, it may come to pass
If we only will it, it may come to passHope to see you in New Orleans
Sit by the fountain of your love sweet love
You’re like a couple of love-struck doves
Come over here, and give us a hug….
links for 2007-01-09
links for 2007-01-08
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Got Rowan a cough…thought we would save the Kissing Disease, Ulcer, Ebola, Flesh Eating, H.I.V. and Hepatitis to when she’s older.
Krazy Keywords Vol. 1
The last post got me thinking….what words bring people to this site? According to Google Analytics, here are some of the keywords that reel ‘em in:
- rappers from eskasoni
- halifax dog snared dead
- leaf jokes
- how to dress for outdoors at 45 degrees
- south west margaree post office
- joey macintrye boys band
- great white north ringtone
- cows as a dowry
- breastfeeding “boob tubes”
- insane clown posse’s possum kids
- who is jimmy kimmel dating
- tillsonburg, Ontario
- muskrat meat for sale
- jellied salads
- weebles wave file
- “bob odenkirk” pens
- dead or alive wedgie
My Old School Super Duper Spam List
I have been saving a draft message in my e-mail for a couple years now and just noticed I haven’t updated it in quite a long time. It was a list of spam subjects that, for better or for worse, caught my eye.
I am not exactly sure why I stopped updating it. It sure isn’t because I am getting less Spam (I regularly flush the spam folder when it hits about 250 messages…which is every couple of hours). Has spam just become less interesting? Have I matured from a grade nine sense of humour? I doubt it. I think it started to go down hill when they went 1337 and started to replace letters with numbers (V1@GR@), got robots to place random nonsensical words together (still a potential recipe for hilarity, but who wants to shift through the crap?) and, of course, the dreaded image spam that has been plaguing people as of late.
I am not saying a spam won’t ever catch my eye again, but it seems like the glory days of semi-amusing spamage are behind us. The list is inside if you are bored…reader discretion is advised:
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I have been updating my main site (boostventilator.com) and I want to see if this cross-posting thingy works.
links for 2007-01-07
HD2
Holly Dazed 2! Well, we didn’t win this year, but we did successfully add to the franchise.
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On January 4th, filmmaker Helen Hill was shot to death and her husband Paul Gailiunas was injured in their New Orleans home (News: CBC | The Times-Picayune | WWLTV). They moved to Lousiana about 5 years ago, and while I did not spend much time with them, they were overwhelmingly respected and loved in Halifax and I have yet to hear a disparaging word about either of them. There is an ongoing thread on locals, full of shock and disbelief alongside stories and well wishes to the family. I really don’t know what to say about this. It seems to me to be the very definition of tragedy. Here is a review of Piggy (Paul’s band) I wrote in February of 2000:
Piggy, Don’t Stop The Calypso (Cinnamon Toast Records)
“The political arena leaves one no alternatives, one must be either a dunce or a rogue.” To append Emma Goldman’s comments, don’t forget you can also be a Piggy. Since 1994, this calypsonian collective have released a small avalanche of indie releases, some crazy cassettes and oh-so pleasing vinyl. Ideology aside, help wash your social problems away with these 11 new and 12 experienced songs of love and liberation. This little Piggy released a first rate par-tay in a jewel case from the countdown to “She’s Stepping Out” to the carnival worthy blend of sax, flute, accordion, clarinet, guitar, keyboards, bass, percussion, violin, infectious concoction of beats, etc. that is to follow. Your capitalist cohorts might even catch themselves singing “Money is King” like some lost verse from the backwards reality of “Opposite Machine.” The underage blues of “The Kids are Gonna Make it” will gear you up to the catchy mix of jangling guitar and rollicking percussion on “Gottingen Street.” “Swing and Turn” and “Dude Ranch” will have you kicking up your heels and you will picture yourself dancing with your sweetheart at a neighbourhood sock-hop to “Atheist.” “Two Buddies” features the distinctive voice of Mr. Al Tuck and would fit nicely on Sesame Street in a hip alternate universe. If there was an ECMA for Calypso Orchestra, there would be no second guessing my vote. “Don’t Stop The Calypso”…as if somebody possibly could?! –Iain K. MacLeod
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Making a Scene
Just for fun, I decided to amend this piece (feel free to add your own spin to The Coast site as well!):
Windom Earle has a Matt Pacman (Catholic Gaydar, Sharp Like Knives) on keyboards and and a Matt Mongraw (SS Cardiacs, the Jeff Coll Five and Juan Love) who plays drums with the band…but no Matt King.
To puff up this piece a little, here is a half a year’s worth of Windom Earle news that followed Doug Taylor’s review of the “A Series of Minor Personal Tragedies” compilation (”What is arguably the most exciting live act to surface recently in Halifax backs it up on record…Windom Earle gives techno such a wedgie, it might be more human”) that appear in the June 8th issue.
JULY
Began a cross-Canada tour with Sharp Like Knives and only ran out of gas once…launched Windom Earle Podcast to document various tour moments (episode 4 is one of the funniest things you will hear) and post live recordings of band in action…CD Review in Montreal Mirror proclaims Goldwave is made up of “motifs worked to perfection, grafting together surf, new wave, math rock and the aforementioned orch-pop element to excellent, energetic, harmonious effect” … the song “I Saw The Way You Looked At Me” featured as day 185 off CC:365 (website for Creative Commons music).
AUGUST
Played with LA’s Shiny Toy Guns at Stage Nine…appeared at Sappy Fest in Sackville, New Brunswick (so did Chad Van Gaalen, Shotgun & Jaybird, and the actual Eric’s Trip) …music featured in Andrew Bush directed short film (It’s called “Later Daze” and is on YouTube)… had a song played on worst CBC Show ever, Freestyle as well as the CBC Radio 3 station on Sirius Radio…Rolling Chowder Review rolled through the Maritimes with BA Johnson, Sailboats are White, and Cottonfoot.
SEPTEMBER
Toured Maritimes with the Maynards and had pancakes at my mom’s in PEI…received a plug from Shane and Tom on their Squeezebox podcast…Goldwave named Eye Weekly’s Disc-overy of the Week in Toronto: “Not only worth seeking out; worth writing the band to beg them to tour this way”…song requested on the CBC Radio 3 podcast…and music featured in “Later That Stevening” (A Mark Palermo film) that premiered at the 26th Atlantic Film Festival.
OCTOBER
Played live on-the-air at the Dalhousie Student Union Building for CKDU’s annual fundraiser and co-hosted a Locals-only Karaoke Party…reviewed in Exclaim: “a lot of fun”…Stephan had his 26th birthday (I think…I am a bad brother).
NOVEMBER
Songs played on CBC’s Brave New Waves, based in Montreal…accepted to play SXSW in Austin, Texas…songs licensed and set to appear on The Food Network’s Food Jammers in the new year.
DECEMBER
Goldwave CD Release Party in Halifax (Stage Nine)…band profile in HFX (not sure who this is more embarrassing for…the band or The Coast???)…Goldwave named the number 1 album of the year according to Halifax’s CKDU…”Kittens vs. Pegasus” named the 14th Best Pop song of the year and the 31st best song overall by CBC Radio 3…band is scheduled to perform at the inaugural FasionEASTa event at the East Coast Music Awards, but you probably can’t afford a ticket.
