A Few Things I Like And Some That Really Sink My Battleship
1. Like: Meanderthal, the new album by Torche. Aside from being a really cute and clever album name, this is a throwback to the time right before grunge became huge. Its got serious shades of The Melvins, Dinosaur Jr., Grant Hart-style Husker Du and early Sloan with a much heavier and slightly more metallic backing sound. Think Queens of the Stone Age with indie pop harmonies on the vocals or Foo Fighters covering Metallica's Black Album.
2. You Sunk My Battleship!: I lost a filling a couple of weeks ago and have been putting off going to the dentist for a long time. Damn tooth is sharp and jagged and I can't keep from running my tongue over it. Damn I hate my mouth some times.
3. Like: Having time-shift channels from the east coast on my cable package which allows me to watch The Daily Show at 8pm and virtually non-stop Simpsons and Family Guy syndication programming.
4. You Sunk My Battleship!: Being Marketed to. If I see one more car commercial that operates on the unspoken logic that you will never have fun or adventure unless you own this specific car or another cell phone commercial that fails to point out that spending your day with a phone glued to your head pretty much makes you a douchebag, I am going to find a cave where I can be a hermit for the rest of my life. A Rogers Mobility commercial up here recently showed 5 kids in an SUV way too expensive for them. The girl in the front passenger seat took a picture of her boyfriend making a funny face with her Blackberry, posted it to her Facebook page so her friends IN THE BACK SEAT OF THE SAME SUV could look at on their Blackberries and make comments so that the girl in the front seat OF THE SAME DAMN SUV could read them and say "oh that is funny". If I had kids that did that, I'd beat them mercilessly day and night.
5. Like: Summer concerts in Vancouver. Iron Maiden, Opeth and the Gigantour (with Megadeth, Children of Bodom, In Flames and Job For A Cowboy) are all must sees. I would love to make it up to Whistler to see the Pemberton Festival (JayZ, Coldplay, Tom Petty, Nine Inch Nails, Tragically Hip, Flaming Lips, Interpol, Wolfmother, Death Cab For Cutie, Serj Tankian, N.E.R.D., Metric, MSTRKRFT, Sia, etc...) but I'm sure the accomodation is going to be hell to come by and WAY too expensive. I'll stick to the metal shows, I guess.
6. You Sunk My Battleship!: Stupid Movies. There was a commercial for a movie about street fighting called "Never Give Up" or something truly lame like that. One of the lines of dialogue in the trailer was as follows:
floosie girl: There's a difference between giving up and walking away.
emo bro: Good 'cos I'm not doing either.
WTFFF?!?!? (What the freakin', flyin' F***). Seriously, if I were the soulless vagina who had green-lighted that tripe, I would be burying that dialogue so deep in the movie between car crashes and bloody fights that it wouldn't even register in anyone's memory....not put front and centre!!! What does that even mean?!?!
7. Like: Jackie Chan and Jet Li in the same movie. The Forbidden Kingdom starts next week. I shall be there.
Thats it for now
2. You Sunk My Battleship!: I lost a filling a couple of weeks ago and have been putting off going to the dentist for a long time. Damn tooth is sharp and jagged and I can't keep from running my tongue over it. Damn I hate my mouth some times.
3. Like: Having time-shift channels from the east coast on my cable package which allows me to watch The Daily Show at 8pm and virtually non-stop Simpsons and Family Guy syndication programming.
4. You Sunk My Battleship!: Being Marketed to. If I see one more car commercial that operates on the unspoken logic that you will never have fun or adventure unless you own this specific car or another cell phone commercial that fails to point out that spending your day with a phone glued to your head pretty much makes you a douchebag, I am going to find a cave where I can be a hermit for the rest of my life. A Rogers Mobility commercial up here recently showed 5 kids in an SUV way too expensive for them. The girl in the front passenger seat took a picture of her boyfriend making a funny face with her Blackberry, posted it to her Facebook page so her friends IN THE BACK SEAT OF THE SAME SUV could look at on their Blackberries and make comments so that the girl in the front seat OF THE SAME DAMN SUV could read them and say "oh that is funny". If I had kids that did that, I'd beat them mercilessly day and night.
5. Like: Summer concerts in Vancouver. Iron Maiden, Opeth and the Gigantour (with Megadeth, Children of Bodom, In Flames and Job For A Cowboy) are all must sees. I would love to make it up to Whistler to see the Pemberton Festival (JayZ, Coldplay, Tom Petty, Nine Inch Nails, Tragically Hip, Flaming Lips, Interpol, Wolfmother, Death Cab For Cutie, Serj Tankian, N.E.R.D., Metric, MSTRKRFT, Sia, etc...) but I'm sure the accomodation is going to be hell to come by and WAY too expensive. I'll stick to the metal shows, I guess.
6. You Sunk My Battleship!: Stupid Movies. There was a commercial for a movie about street fighting called "Never Give Up" or something truly lame like that. One of the lines of dialogue in the trailer was as follows:
floosie girl: There's a difference between giving up and walking away.
emo bro: Good 'cos I'm not doing either.
WTFFF?!?!? (What the freakin', flyin' F***). Seriously, if I were the soulless vagina who had green-lighted that tripe, I would be burying that dialogue so deep in the movie between car crashes and bloody fights that it wouldn't even register in anyone's memory....not put front and centre!!! What does that even mean?!?!
7. Like: Jackie Chan and Jet Li in the same movie. The Forbidden Kingdom starts next week. I shall be there.
Thats it for now