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Your Host in 1973 Lately I’ve been digging through my old Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention CDs, ripping them to my iPod — while it’s still not a crime in Canada — and rediscovering the musical brilliance and cheeky, peurile polemics of this towering figure of American 20th century music. He was a [...] May 11th, 2009 | Categories: Awesome, Bad Behaviour, Bliss, Celebrities, Heroes, Stupidity, This Hear, What Time Is It? |
 5 commentsBill C-61 is an absurd new law, touted as “made in Canada” but crafted by greedy American corporations and brought to the table by Canadian legislator — uninformed fools who, for want of a better expression, don’t know shit about fuck (that would be Stephen Harper’s Conservatives). Michael Geist writes often (and relentlessly) about the absurdity [...] May 7th, 2009 | Categories: Bad Behaviour, Canada v. USA, Celebrities, Duh, News for Moms, Stupidity, This Hear, War on Science, What Time Is It?, WTF? |
 One commentMetric’s Fantasies Do me a favour and scroll to “Gold Guns Girls” in the above widget? Then press PLAY. Thanks. April 19th, 2009 | Categories: Bad Behaviour, Bliss, IntoxiBlogging™, This Hear, Toronto |
3 commentsTomas Nilsson is Swedish and cheeky and awesome. And this is his retelling of “Little Red Riding Hood”, with music by Slagsmålsklubben: Video: Slagsmålsklubben – Sponsored by destiny (by Tomas Nilsson ) For JR. (H/T: Sully) So what do you do when you’re a broken city on the edge — like the rest of the world — of a giant economic depression? What do you do when you’re a city with a public transit system that doesn’t work, a traffic grid that doesn’t work, increasing unemployment, construction halted at several major [...] March 14th, 2009 | Categories: Bad Behaviour, IntoxiBlogging™, Sarcasm, Stupidity, This Hear, Toronto |
9 commentsHah. I’ll bet you thought I was going to talk about Brian Eno for, what, the eleventieth time this week, right? Wrong. Depeche Mode has a new album coming out next month and the first — and deeply, disturbingly rewatchable — video is “Wrong”:
So getting the album next month. If only there was some music television [...] March 6th, 2009 | Categories: Awesome, Bad Behaviour, Bliss, Celebrities, This Hear, WTF? |
6 commentsOf all the versions of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” — Rufus Wainwright’s gorgeously romantic take, Damien Rice’s scraggly push to the chest, Jeff Buckley’s soul-corroding mumble following that heartbreaking guitar intro — I think John Cale’s chamber orchestra performance speaks to me the most. I got into him via Brian Eno, long after I should’ve climbed [...] Cripes, what a busy week it’s been, and my bad for the limited posting here. So, by way of apology… I’ve spoken before about Cabaret Voltaire and the brilliant minds behind it — Richard H. Kirk and Stephen Mallinder — and here’s an opportunity to sample Kirk’s work under one of his many pseudonyms, Al Jabr. Some [...] February 18th, 2009 | Categories: Awesome, Bad Behaviour, Bliss, Heroes, IntoxiBlogging™, This Hear |
One commentMy favourite The The song, “GIANT” (from Soul Mining, 1981): Downtown Toronto, 13 February 2009, 9PM Not for the last time I’ll be including some Cabaret Voltaire in this space. “Keep On” from Nick Cope on Vimeo. In the summer of 1990, iconic group Cabaret Voltaire bridged a Dada gap between the industrial Sheffield sound which they’d pioneered — featuring percussive tape loops, found sounds and samples (bringing Brion Gysin’s cut-up technique [...] February 13th, 2009 | Categories: Awesome, Bliss, Celebrities, This Hear, What Time Is It? |
2 comments1989? Fuck! M|A|R|R|S, “Pump up the Volume” (1989 1987; cf. Joe.My.God.) Magnetic, genetic, dement your soul. February 6th, 2009 | Categories: Awesome, Bad Behaviour, Bliss, IntoxiBlogging™, This Hear, What Time Is It? |
6 comments1979? Fuck! Cheap Trick, “Dream Police” (1979) Not everything has — or needs — an explanation. February 6th, 2009 | Categories: Awesome, Bad Behaviour, Bliss, Celebrities, IntoxiBlogging™, This Hear, Toronto |
One commentDon’t even start. Placebo: “Pure Morning” January 30th, 2009 | Categories: Awesome, Bad Behaviour, Bliss, IntoxiBlogging™, This Hear |
6 commentsOh, the howls of derision which accompanied the release of the staggeringly-awful promotional video for Microsoft’s Songsmith software. And yesterday’s New York Times was only half-heartedly defending not just the breathtaking ineptitude of the video and the product itself but, more to the point here, didn’t even bother to defend the nightmarish results of feeding [...] January 25th, 2009 | Categories: Bad Ads, Bad Behaviour, Celebrities, Stupidity, This Hear |
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Come in Out of the Rain I’m not to blame, no cracks in my shell so far, January 25th, 2009 | Categories: This Hear |
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