Audio Bits
1.) "What Will The Community Think" by Cat Power is my currently favourite album by that band. Have you listened to it? If you're looking for a soundtrack to accompany a day that went horribly wrong, and has turned into a night of self pity and alcohol enhanced by the physical effects of hard walls and high ceilings ... well, this is what what you're looking for. Just add "Ice Water" (album: Myra Lee) and you're set.
2.) Go now. Find the music of this woman: MIRAH. She's like the alternative/indie rock version of Amelie. You'll experience her once and then decide that you want to love her forever. You'll actually find that you have no choice in the matter. The simple and sometimes primary guitar that she plays means nothing and everything. Where did the drums go? This is the type of question Mike, a friend of mine, has asked. The drums went where the voice came from; heaven. On the live tracks, like those taped at KAOS in Washington and at Amherst in Massecheusetts (sp?), Mirah's solo. The sound is her and her guitar. And, to my ears, this set up leaves nothing lacking. Add in a little distortion, some banter with the audience, and her it-means-love-forever voice and you have a series of tracks that can make you a fan before you've even made it to the second verse.
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October 16, 2003

 
Cactapus
I've been to a few volunteering sessions at CHRW 94.7 this week. It will be quite a while before I qualify for my super cool 'radio volunteer in good standing' ID card though.
Check back in with aotp on October 26th for a special announcement. I can't say anything. My lips are sealed. Really. But because you're such a special reader, and you have such a nice way about you, I'll give something away: there's going to be wambam webzine launch. And YOU are going to LOVE it. Maybe if you're really good, and you send me one hundred dollars, I'll give you the url ahead of time. If you send me one hundred thousand dollars I'll make an online shrine to you and allow you to spread the rumour (without the threat of a libel suit) that I have, on more than one occasion, begged you for the exclusive rights to produce a biographical motion picture based on the true story of your shabamakhazi self. Really. Rio never even crossed my mind.
- posted by K. @ 10:27 p.m. |

October 11, 2003

 

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October 08, 2003

 
LESS IS LESS.
Black Market Births is an article found at Hour.ca. I learnt more about the home birthing crisis during a play this spring called Turks and Infidels.
- posted by K. @ 2:00 p.m. |

 
Afternoon Me Boooorrrrring.
Let's all go and read NOW. If Santa doesn't realize that we've all been little bastards this past week maybe he'll leave a bundle of new issues at CityLights tomorrow afternoon. Hiphip. Hooooray!
- posted by K. @ 1:46 p.m. |

October 06, 2003

 
WML...
get ready, readers.
- posted by K. @ 10:38 p.m. |

October 04, 2003

 

8:33pm
i can't believe there's only one instance
of cuff the duke on soulseek.
what's the difference between us?

8:57pm
people do stupid things like sit in the middle of two passing subway trains when they're drunk and impatient in downtown toronto. then they go on the radio and broadcast their story to the entire country and think we'll be awed because they lived, instead of bored because we expected a better story.

9:25pm
do i really look so bad that
you won't even shake my hand?
can i tell you that the problem's not me?
it's not my fault - will you believe?
please can we just move on!

10:15pm
Dan won't leave me alone about poop. he has threatened to add me to his hate list along with the likes of Mike Bullard and god only knows who else he's got up there right now. go to his blog, soundscientist.blogspot.com, and chew him out. or at least make fun of him because he has actually posted 'the shit list'.

11:02pm
the Datsuns are endlessly annoying (bland,unimaginative,generally lame could serve as substitutes). CBC has given a recording of one of their shows an eternity of attention tonight. why CBC? why?

11:25pm
pitchfork, don't lie to me. i know you're out there. reviewing and construing. shelling out the word to music readers. it's frustrating to find you hidden behind a white page with excuses in verdana. come through, pitchfork. come through!
- posted by K. @ 8:33 p.m. |

October 03, 2003

 
CONNECT THE DOTS, MARGARET
"You'd better listen up, Frankie, because I've got something important to tell you -- that's the last time you call me doll face, and I mean it. Oh if I were to complain to Buzz about all the 'sugar pies and sweet-things' I have to put up with in an afternoon with you he'd, he'd --"

"He'd what, kiddo? Can I call you kiddo?"

"He'd fire you for starters, that's for sure. And no, I don't want you to call me kiddo either. My name is Margaret, and that's what I want you to call me. Lemme tell ya buster, things are go--"

"Ahem...buster? I thought you said you'd had it with the nicknames, Mar-ga-ret.."

"--things are going to change -- they're going to change tonight! From now on when I'm up on this stage and you're down there pretending not to peek up my skirt every chance you get - oh I see you trying, Frank - you are not going to say 'Wouldja mind just twirling around a little when you come to that part, sweetheart?'. No. ...From now on you'll say Margaret."

"Alright then, Margaret. I'll do my darndest. Anything to make my lead girl happy. Now, would you be a dear and pass me that script we were looking at? I've carelessly left it on the first step down the trap exit."

"Here."

"We'll have to have a word with Mister O'Shea about those stockings of yours...runs that reach to the most indecent heights. Wouldn't you say, Margie?"

"Margaret."


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Yesterday was all bright and glistening so i took a couple of pictures w/the camera i borrowed from my dad (which i might have broken; let's hope it's just the batteries).
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Last year I put a frumpy little presentation together for Hasdeep, who was having some roommate issues. I had no idea of how to use Flash, but I muddled my way through the basics and produced this.

Damn English and its linguistic greed and vocab envy. It can't just be happy with its own words and phrases -- oh no -- it has to go and steal from other languages. Well, you'll look like an idiot without the proper accents over and under the appropriate letters when it comes to typing out all those co-opted French words, so here's a handy site; French Characters: Keyboarding and HTML Sequences.
- posted by K. @ 12:25 a.m. |

October 01, 2003

 
SHOE SHINE ONLINE
This morning I logged onto the Nothing But Net server for the first time. I can now check my email, access WebCT, check out my alarmingly low bank account balance, and chat without the long distance bills while at home. Hooray! But it's just slow enough to keep me focussed on what I'm actually looking for, which is what I had hoped for. Dial-up is wholesome, I've decided.

- posted by K. @ 7:49 p.m. |


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