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Tag: band

  • the name of my band will be the radiological accident in tammiku

  • Stewart & His Constant Search for Patterns in Randomness

    Three consecutive tracks in today’s the automatic podcast from “& His” artists:

    1. May Flower — Mike Shaw & His Alabama Entertainers
    2. Call On Me — Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
    3. Reset — Casper Fandango & His Tiny Sick Tears

  • You know you’ve been studying engineering law too much when …

    … you think that you’d want to start a band called The Tortfeasors, with stage names derived from precedents: Hedley Byrne, Rivtow Marine, Junior Books, Donoghue Stevenson, Lambert V. Lastoplex …

    Then you realise that would be a bad idea. On every level. Not least that I wouldn’t know what to do in (or with) a band.

    I’m resitting the legal part of my PPE for the PEO next Saturday. Was somewhat taken aback when I heard I’d failed it first time, but now studying again, and seeing my notes and sample answers from last time — what, if anything, was I thinking?

  • Ys what it be

    Joanna Newsom‘s Ys is utterly charming. Warning: may contain harps, swooping caterwauling, and VanDyke Parks-induced orchestral lushness.

  • damp bandit

    I was busy making Möbius strips out of till roll, when I became aware of a little face watching me at the window. A very damp raccoon had one paw up on the window sill, and was looking at me as if to ask, “What are you doing making single-sided paper figures on a night like this?”

  • the late bp helium rocked the boat

    the late bp helium played The Boat last night, and as a wise man once said, the crowd roared like a lion. I love that psych guitar sound that he has, and the band is really tight together. I got a chance to chat with Bryan — whom I know from fegmaniax — and he’s a fine bloke. He has mad guitar skills, to boot; reminds me of The Soft Boys, with serious effects pedals.
    Jack & Ginger were excellent too, as were Henri Fabergé & The Adorables.

  • we’re talking fish

    Called in at Finatics Aquarium (599 Kennedy Rd, Scarborough, ON, M1K 2B2 – 416-265-2026) yesterday. The owner, Mike Bandura, was very helpful for the complete novice fishkeeper. I think we’ll be stocking our new aquarium from there.

  • bandits in the backyard

    momma raccoon climbed up the tree and walked along the back wall — followed by her three little ones. They were very sweet.

  • ididn’tBook

    For a truly soulless evening, take yourself down to the BestBuy at Scarborough Town Centre.

    STC is a mega-mall, with the obligatory huge concrete and asphalt deadzone around it. Its current sales slogan is For what defines you, which must mean that its denizens are in a pretty parlous state, existentially speaking. Its only slightly attractive feature is its derelict KrispyKreme store, which opened as a flagship, then frazzled almost as quickly as a KK’s dextrose rush. Abandoned donut shops are Canada’s ruined abbeys; places of worship gone to seed.

    BestBuy itself is an outcast from the mall, in an especially ped-unfriendly way. Perhaps the only defined route there is through a monster split-level Wal-Mart, but I didn’t have enough hitpoints to make it through that particular slough.

    I’d checked their website, and it said that the store had iBooks in stock, at $50 below retail. Did the store have any on display? No. The Apple section was set behind the customer service desk, which was a scrum of slightly disgruntled shoppers. So I left without seeing one.

    I wandered in a bit of a post big-box haze to McCowan RT, a weird little station at the very end of the rails. At least I was rewarded with a beautiful sunset over the 401 at McCowan; all boiling red and purple. That’s about the best you’ll get near STC, and for free, too.

  • 3hive: Of Montreal

    One of my favourite bands made 3hive today: Of Montreal

  • There’s no justice

    If a band like Hinkley remain unsigned. They rock, in a sunny AiS way.

    Thanks for alerting me, 3hive!