Quiz- Who is this? Hint- his reunited band is playing in Halifax tomorrow for Canada Day. How fast can I get there from AZ?
Thursday, June 30, 2005
Jennifer Good always has pix of her dogs on her blog so I thought it time to include a pix of my three babies together, riding in the RV to the Dunes back in Dec. Della ate my brand new CD that was cover songs of the band Bread. I am not pleased that she now eats CDs. Need to be extra careful where I leave them. Love my puppy but ugh, she needs to get past the chewing of everything, including my carpet!
Action Pact day
Live 8 is going to be broadcast on XM, including one channel from Barrie, ONT. I think tonight, I am finally inspired to set up my XM... The Bear says they are just broadcasting 6 hours of it. I am so in love with internet radio and my ipod, I haven't set up my XM I got for my b-day back in March. I think I want to get the boombox to insert the XM receiver in as I don;t drive enough to have it specifically in the car.
Today I heard the new OLP on The Bear. It was really good, it had a really poppy chorus for them. They also interviewed Jeremy, he said they almost broke up recording it.
In Sloan news today, (can you believe I can find Sloan news daily?) I was at ASU's record store, Hoodlums today and turns out their manager is a huge fan. He was one of the wild guys requesting tunes at the show. He is on vacation, but I am going to go bug him about them soon. The owner Kristian was telling me that they are all fans of Canadian bands at Hoodlums! It came up because I was looking for The Vanity Project from Steven Page and Stephen Duffy. Then I asked if they knew if The Stripper Union Local was out in the states. (it is not) So we started talking Hip, etc... Then they said that......are you ready for this..... that Matt Good did an in store there...... could this be right or true? Andrew would have known or told me....weird!
Remember to vote for what artist I should make a purse of, any artist, as all I have to do is provide the LP! I think I have a few to choose from. I certainly have collected LPs for years. I haven't counted lately, maybe 3000? In my blessed life, Dan designed a closet specifically for my music collection. When we got our home addition, the closet was fitted for all my CDs and LPs. While working at Rockaway, I acquired alot more vinyl and now have more that I have shelves.
Today I had lunch with a gal who is in charge of the living learning communities here at ASU. She is newer to ASU but I have felt a bond to her right away. I don't feel that way about a lot of girls as basically, I don't trust a lot of girls. After a few girlfriends screw you over, you don't trust many girls to be genuine. Anyway, I could tell I liked her. She and I ended up talking as her dad is suffering from cancer. It is so hard to hear others going through the pain of seeing their parent suffer. I hope to think I helped her some, even if just an ear to bend. I sometimes wonder how strong I could be, being able to handle the type of loss I did in a short amount of time. I wanted to be strong for her and say the right things. I am hardly fine about things, just know others can benefit from talking to me about the things I also dealt with. She made me wonder why I didn't need more psychiatric help, maybe some day I still will. I just told her I watched how strong my mom was and knew I had to be that strong also and would always want to emulate that strength. It also made me remember again as I need a reminder sometimes, as to how strong Dan was through everything and how much he helped me get through everything. God truly placed Dan into my life with incredible timing!
Well, my blog got all serious today but I feel good as I feel she and I are now friends! Time for the whistle to blow-time to go home! Maybe tomorrow I will get my desk in my office clean. I got a second shelf of Star Wars started-yep they pay me for this stuff!! hahaha
Mod Maid herself!
Today I heard the new OLP on The Bear. It was really good, it had a really poppy chorus for them. They also interviewed Jeremy, he said they almost broke up recording it.
In Sloan news today, (can you believe I can find Sloan news daily?) I was at ASU's record store, Hoodlums today and turns out their manager is a huge fan. He was one of the wild guys requesting tunes at the show. He is on vacation, but I am going to go bug him about them soon. The owner Kristian was telling me that they are all fans of Canadian bands at Hoodlums! It came up because I was looking for The Vanity Project from Steven Page and Stephen Duffy. Then I asked if they knew if The Stripper Union Local was out in the states. (it is not) So we started talking Hip, etc... Then they said that......are you ready for this..... that Matt Good did an in store there...... could this be right or true? Andrew would have known or told me....weird!
Remember to vote for what artist I should make a purse of, any artist, as all I have to do is provide the LP! I think I have a few to choose from. I certainly have collected LPs for years. I haven't counted lately, maybe 3000? In my blessed life, Dan designed a closet specifically for my music collection. When we got our home addition, the closet was fitted for all my CDs and LPs. While working at Rockaway, I acquired alot more vinyl and now have more that I have shelves.
Today I had lunch with a gal who is in charge of the living learning communities here at ASU. She is newer to ASU but I have felt a bond to her right away. I don't feel that way about a lot of girls as basically, I don't trust a lot of girls. After a few girlfriends screw you over, you don't trust many girls to be genuine. Anyway, I could tell I liked her. She and I ended up talking as her dad is suffering from cancer. It is so hard to hear others going through the pain of seeing their parent suffer. I hope to think I helped her some, even if just an ear to bend. I sometimes wonder how strong I could be, being able to handle the type of loss I did in a short amount of time. I wanted to be strong for her and say the right things. I am hardly fine about things, just know others can benefit from talking to me about the things I also dealt with. She made me wonder why I didn't need more psychiatric help, maybe some day I still will. I just told her I watched how strong my mom was and knew I had to be that strong also and would always want to emulate that strength. It also made me remember again as I need a reminder sometimes, as to how strong Dan was through everything and how much he helped me get through everything. God truly placed Dan into my life with incredible timing!
Well, my blog got all serious today but I feel good as I feel she and I are now friends! Time for the whistle to blow-time to go home! Maybe tomorrow I will get my desk in my office clean. I got a second shelf of Star Wars started-yep they pay me for this stuff!! hahaha
Mod Maid herself!
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
A lady at work's son actually makes these. I attempted to make one but not entirely pleased. So I can order one, my choice of LP cover but I love so many bands! I need my friends to help me choose. Please add a suggestion! I so much loved the one Cathy Swafford was carrying at the Sloan show of Cheap Trick . CanCon band? Blossoms? Posies? Cutting Crew? So hard to choose! Help!
School Kids
Whisper to a Scream cover by a Edmonton band called Social Code is on The Bear as I begin to write. I tune in and no more than 5 minutes in, they are talking about Sloan opening up for the Foo Fighters! I checked their dates yesterday and that was not true. They are now on the Canadian Foo dates! Awesome for them, how about those dates in the states... I guess I don't know if the foos are coming here. I did just get the Foo's CD and loaded it into the ipod.
I should write an ode to my beloved ipod. I suppose everyone loves their ipod, I used to have my walkman with me all the time when we would travel to drag boat races across the country. I would pack this huge case of tapes, mainly ones I taped stuff off of radio on. I have tapes and tapes of Detroit and Windsor radio stations playing New Wave in the 80's. It was how I listened to music until my mom started driving me to Harmony House or that cool Indy store on Northwestern. My grandma used to let me get 45's and the occassional LP at Kmart trips but it certainly wasn't until college that my collection began to grow seriously. I remember so fondly when Karen and I would ride a bus from Ypsilanti to Ann Arbor to record shop. (Neither of us drove until our 20's) I suppose those were the beginnings of she and I's many times shopping together in the almost 20 years we have been friends. Although she and I battled on time for an OMD 12inch mix of "If you leave" I think I have it? She probably remembers the names of the stores, I only remember School Kids. She and I were just recently talking of the stores we used to go to in Windsor. I think Dr. Disc is still there but the rest of downtown Windsor is pretty dead except a huge casino they built. I went to Dr Disc in London a few years back but it was not so great. In fact that is one of my fave stories. Dan had been so patient as Iwas in a shop called Speed City(?) for 3 hours looking at all their boxes on the floor. I even found a Bitter Sweet Alley record there. Anyway, he was so sweet and patient, then carried the heavy box full of records back to the car. As we were walking to Dr. Disc, he expressed not really feeling like another record store. We walked by a tattoo shop and I said, do you want one? I figured him getting a tattoo would keep him busy while I shopped more for Canadian records. Turns out the Dr. Disc was weird because the record guy wouldn't let me look at the vinyl. He made me give him my list and he would look them up. He admittedly had a mess but part of the fun is the search and maybe finding something that is not on your list! So I wasn't there long. It was the first store I ever saw Canadian band bootlegs but they were super expensive and only 5 or 6 tracks. So I went back to the tat place. Dan wasn't nearly done so they directed me to some other stores. I love his tattoo he got on our trip to London, it is his SS. He later got me a necklace to match as I don't have the nerve for a tattoo. It was a wonderful trip and one of our better vacations. I also remember it was the first time I ever heard Sam Roberts as I was listening to London radio (probably FM96)
Not too much else for excitement, I did some more pre-writing for the novel. Just been writing scene ideas and some details to each. I want to get some software that assists in writing. They make some that pretty much write for you but I found one that just helps get you to write profiles of characters and piece your scenes together. I may ask Dan if I can buy it, it costs $129. One of my pals said, use Word...yeah, I know but a little guidance would be nice if I am finally going to honestly write a novel. I used to write all the time when I was a teen, I have pages of stories I wrote back then. I just need to say I finally did something I always wanted to do, even if it is just for me. It feels good to stretch my mind and write so much. Yesterday I was even doing so while waiting for Dan at the inlaws. Made good use of my time by having my laptop with me!
Was at The Blaze for a while today, I so much love seeing and hearing new directors so excited for the school year. I wish I could keep any bad things from happening, keeping them fresh and not end up beat to death by the end of the school year. I still have high hopes for a lack of controversy this year... I have to keep my optimism.
July 4th holiday is coming up, as is Canada Day (wink) Dan now thinks he may have to work all but the 4th. Probably not doing anything, maybe not even a day at the lake if he does have to work. He is so exhausted. July 2 is Live8, I guess I can listen all day on a Canadian station. I don't get why they wouldn't ask Matt Good, he is such a hard worker for poverty and Amnesty International. He is perfect for their show. The line up is weak for the Canadian show even for someone like me who likes so many Canadian artists. It is at Molson Park in Barrie, ONT. We went there to see a show when we Pre-teens were in Toronto last (humm, 91 or 92?) We saw Bryan Adams, Extreme, Steve Miller, Sass Jordan. We missed Moxy Fruvious (bummer now!)
It was a big drive from TO as I recall, I also backed into a fence with the rental car. (fortunately I never got charged) Oddly I mostly remember hearing "Buzz" by Haywire while waiting like 3 hours to get out of the parking lot. We have some fun pix from then. Nina had never heard any of Steve Miller's songs.
Nuff blogging rambles for now... ;0 LMC
I should write an ode to my beloved ipod. I suppose everyone loves their ipod, I used to have my walkman with me all the time when we would travel to drag boat races across the country. I would pack this huge case of tapes, mainly ones I taped stuff off of radio on. I have tapes and tapes of Detroit and Windsor radio stations playing New Wave in the 80's. It was how I listened to music until my mom started driving me to Harmony House or that cool Indy store on Northwestern. My grandma used to let me get 45's and the occassional LP at Kmart trips but it certainly wasn't until college that my collection began to grow seriously. I remember so fondly when Karen and I would ride a bus from Ypsilanti to Ann Arbor to record shop. (Neither of us drove until our 20's) I suppose those were the beginnings of she and I's many times shopping together in the almost 20 years we have been friends. Although she and I battled on time for an OMD 12inch mix of "If you leave" I think I have it? She probably remembers the names of the stores, I only remember School Kids. She and I were just recently talking of the stores we used to go to in Windsor. I think Dr. Disc is still there but the rest of downtown Windsor is pretty dead except a huge casino they built. I went to Dr Disc in London a few years back but it was not so great. In fact that is one of my fave stories. Dan had been so patient as Iwas in a shop called Speed City(?) for 3 hours looking at all their boxes on the floor. I even found a Bitter Sweet Alley record there. Anyway, he was so sweet and patient, then carried the heavy box full of records back to the car. As we were walking to Dr. Disc, he expressed not really feeling like another record store. We walked by a tattoo shop and I said, do you want one? I figured him getting a tattoo would keep him busy while I shopped more for Canadian records. Turns out the Dr. Disc was weird because the record guy wouldn't let me look at the vinyl. He made me give him my list and he would look them up. He admittedly had a mess but part of the fun is the search and maybe finding something that is not on your list! So I wasn't there long. It was the first store I ever saw Canadian band bootlegs but they were super expensive and only 5 or 6 tracks. So I went back to the tat place. Dan wasn't nearly done so they directed me to some other stores. I love his tattoo he got on our trip to London, it is his SS. He later got me a necklace to match as I don't have the nerve for a tattoo. It was a wonderful trip and one of our better vacations. I also remember it was the first time I ever heard Sam Roberts as I was listening to London radio (probably FM96)
Not too much else for excitement, I did some more pre-writing for the novel. Just been writing scene ideas and some details to each. I want to get some software that assists in writing. They make some that pretty much write for you but I found one that just helps get you to write profiles of characters and piece your scenes together. I may ask Dan if I can buy it, it costs $129. One of my pals said, use Word...yeah, I know but a little guidance would be nice if I am finally going to honestly write a novel. I used to write all the time when I was a teen, I have pages of stories I wrote back then. I just need to say I finally did something I always wanted to do, even if it is just for me. It feels good to stretch my mind and write so much. Yesterday I was even doing so while waiting for Dan at the inlaws. Made good use of my time by having my laptop with me!
Was at The Blaze for a while today, I so much love seeing and hearing new directors so excited for the school year. I wish I could keep any bad things from happening, keeping them fresh and not end up beat to death by the end of the school year. I still have high hopes for a lack of controversy this year... I have to keep my optimism.
July 4th holiday is coming up, as is Canada Day (wink) Dan now thinks he may have to work all but the 4th. Probably not doing anything, maybe not even a day at the lake if he does have to work. He is so exhausted. July 2 is Live8, I guess I can listen all day on a Canadian station. I don't get why they wouldn't ask Matt Good, he is such a hard worker for poverty and Amnesty International. He is perfect for their show. The line up is weak for the Canadian show even for someone like me who likes so many Canadian artists. It is at Molson Park in Barrie, ONT. We went there to see a show when we Pre-teens were in Toronto last (humm, 91 or 92?) We saw Bryan Adams, Extreme, Steve Miller, Sass Jordan. We missed Moxy Fruvious (bummer now!)
It was a big drive from TO as I recall, I also backed into a fence with the rental car. (fortunately I never got charged) Oddly I mostly remember hearing "Buzz" by Haywire while waiting like 3 hours to get out of the parking lot. We have some fun pix from then. Nina had never heard any of Steve Miller's songs.
Nuff blogging rambles for now... ;0 LMC
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Spits and sputterings
Things have been terribly dull lately, not that I am looking for drama or stress, things are just duldrums of summer I guess. Listening to BOB, they are playing things like Great Big Sea and Spirit of the West today, very traditional sounding Can-con. Dan is working 7 days a week, so we haven't really gone out or done anything. Nor have I raced since the May team race, I just knew I would finally get my car back and something else would hold me up from racing. I figured it would be him going out of town. I am glad that is not true!
Some random spouts:
Today is the last day of student orientations, I like them but I am glad they will be done. I want to get back to my projects for Blaze and Cronkite Village. Pretty soon someone will move into the office next to me, I have enjoyed having the hall to myself, I will have to turn down my Canadian radio-boo!
I discovered a new station I have been listening to - The Bear in Edmonton. They play alternative tracks by Matt and the first day I listened, they played Matt then an ID from Patrick into "All used up" Speaking of, there is a second video for that track and it is funny, Patrick plays a stuck up rock star, big fur coat and all. Watch it at http://www.vikrecordings.com/sloan/asides/
Sloan is everywhere lately for me. It has been nearly a year since I saw them but I can't seem to get over them. It is nice to discover a new band to love, although I certainly knew about them just didn't get it til now.... In fact, oddly I distinctly remember the Geffen rep working me on it when I was music director at KUKQ.. They were hyped as the Canadan Nirvana. The rep was pushing them hard on us and I honestly remember listening to "Underwhelmed' and Curtiss Johnson saying it left us underwhelmed. I wish I would have caught on then so I could have chased them around to a few cities to see them back then. I am still not a huge fan of that song but then I remember being in Vancouver listening to this amazingly cool AM station cira summer 1992. They played "I am the Cancer" as if it was a single. I changed my mind some about Sloan and picked up their CDs throughout the years. Dan likes to tease me that I had all their CDs but never listened to them til now. Oh I have a few of those bands in my collection. Even Moist was a later learn to love band for me. Tea Party is still growing, so it is not uncommon for me. Anyway, I was reading the new US mag with Denise Richards on the cover and I am looking at this pix of Alannis Morrisette because her bangs look dorky and I suddenly realize the woman next to her in the pix is wearing a Sloan shirt- in US mag! They are everywhere for me....lately! As I mentioned before, One of my students went to Coachella and got me an autographed shirt. I finally got a chance to thank him for it and he said they were old and one of them was an ass. I pressed for which but he could remember, I showed him a pix and he says, "They don't look like that anymore" It's the grey hair I like the best..... hahaha! Back the day, Karen and I would make fun of Nina for liking the older guy types like David Foster(!) , now I find greying attractive, my, how things change!
I am building a website for alumni of KASR/KASC. It has been a fun project and should be ready to view in a few weeks. I have gotten a lot of responses but it will get more difficult to locate people after a while. I am trying to think of creative ways to find people. I may do a mailing if my boss agrees. I am kinda unsure of some of the mid 90's staff as I was not as connected with the station at the time until I came back for the advisorory board.
BOB is playing this 1985 song, while I am a grad of that fine year, I think this song is just trying to capitalize on the new preoccupation with the 80's. It is pretty lame. I ran into my invite to the big 20 year reunion while cleaning my desk Saturday. Part of me wishes I could just go and see what people look like now without having to communicate with anyone. I hope I can get the book at least to hear what people do now. I doubt I will go although if I did, I could sneak a trip to Canada with it. Wish I could talk Dan into a drive to TO. Hmm, maybe I will work on it.
We have been talking about going on a cruise that features Tempe bands! GBs are headlining of course. It is three days to Mexico. It would be fun and a chance to check out a cruise to see if we would like it enough to go on the Alaska one. We'll see, a few other vacation ideas are starting to lure me away. Dan kinda nodded to BC, maybe we could work it out with a Matt date. That would be nice too, I want Dan to see the Pacific Northwest.
I will try to blog more often, I love doing it, never have enough time, damn work getting in the way.... I have a list of tales to tell of my days of yore. It is ok if life gets dull in your 30's, it is better than too much drama!!!
Some random spouts:
Today is the last day of student orientations, I like them but I am glad they will be done. I want to get back to my projects for Blaze and Cronkite Village. Pretty soon someone will move into the office next to me, I have enjoyed having the hall to myself, I will have to turn down my Canadian radio-boo!
I discovered a new station I have been listening to - The Bear in Edmonton. They play alternative tracks by Matt and the first day I listened, they played Matt then an ID from Patrick into "All used up" Speaking of, there is a second video for that track and it is funny, Patrick plays a stuck up rock star, big fur coat and all. Watch it at http://www.vikrecordings.com/sloan/asides/
Sloan is everywhere lately for me. It has been nearly a year since I saw them but I can't seem to get over them. It is nice to discover a new band to love, although I certainly knew about them just didn't get it til now.... In fact, oddly I distinctly remember the Geffen rep working me on it when I was music director at KUKQ.. They were hyped as the Canadan Nirvana. The rep was pushing them hard on us and I honestly remember listening to "Underwhelmed' and Curtiss Johnson saying it left us underwhelmed. I wish I would have caught on then so I could have chased them around to a few cities to see them back then. I am still not a huge fan of that song but then I remember being in Vancouver listening to this amazingly cool AM station cira summer 1992. They played "I am the Cancer" as if it was a single. I changed my mind some about Sloan and picked up their CDs throughout the years. Dan likes to tease me that I had all their CDs but never listened to them til now. Oh I have a few of those bands in my collection. Even Moist was a later learn to love band for me. Tea Party is still growing, so it is not uncommon for me. Anyway, I was reading the new US mag with Denise Richards on the cover and I am looking at this pix of Alannis Morrisette because her bangs look dorky and I suddenly realize the woman next to her in the pix is wearing a Sloan shirt- in US mag! They are everywhere for me....lately! As I mentioned before, One of my students went to Coachella and got me an autographed shirt. I finally got a chance to thank him for it and he said they were old and one of them was an ass. I pressed for which but he could remember, I showed him a pix and he says, "They don't look like that anymore" It's the grey hair I like the best..... hahaha! Back the day, Karen and I would make fun of Nina for liking the older guy types like David Foster(!) , now I find greying attractive, my, how things change!
I am building a website for alumni of KASR/KASC. It has been a fun project and should be ready to view in a few weeks. I have gotten a lot of responses but it will get more difficult to locate people after a while. I am trying to think of creative ways to find people. I may do a mailing if my boss agrees. I am kinda unsure of some of the mid 90's staff as I was not as connected with the station at the time until I came back for the advisorory board.
BOB is playing this 1985 song, while I am a grad of that fine year, I think this song is just trying to capitalize on the new preoccupation with the 80's. It is pretty lame. I ran into my invite to the big 20 year reunion while cleaning my desk Saturday. Part of me wishes I could just go and see what people look like now without having to communicate with anyone. I hope I can get the book at least to hear what people do now. I doubt I will go although if I did, I could sneak a trip to Canada with it. Wish I could talk Dan into a drive to TO. Hmm, maybe I will work on it.
We have been talking about going on a cruise that features Tempe bands! GBs are headlining of course. It is three days to Mexico. It would be fun and a chance to check out a cruise to see if we would like it enough to go on the Alaska one. We'll see, a few other vacation ideas are starting to lure me away. Dan kinda nodded to BC, maybe we could work it out with a Matt date. That would be nice too, I want Dan to see the Pacific Northwest.
I will try to blog more often, I love doing it, never have enough time, damn work getting in the way.... I have a list of tales to tell of my days of yore. It is ok if life gets dull in your 30's, it is better than too much drama!!!
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