This ad caught my eye… I have no idea if its any good, but it looks pretty (and costs more than I think I could sell me kidney for… why? do you know someone buying a kidney?).
Archive for the ‘music’ Category
I like things I can’t afford
Posted in music, tagged D-Beat pro, Open labs on June 25, 2009| 1 Comment »
Watching: The Tragically Hip – “Love is a First” (Live, June 20th, 2009, Victoria)
Posted in music, tagged Concert, Live, Love is a First, Tragically Hip, Victoria, video on June 23, 2009| 2 Comments »
Zoner Adam sent me a link to a video he edited from Saturday’s Tragically Hip concert. This is a great quality DIY video from the show and must watch for all the Hip fans (and losers like me that missed the shows).
Adam will be uploading 13 more videos to his Youtube channel over the next few days. nice.
Two sent me a link to his Flickr page. The thing with Flikr or Flicr or whatever the site is, I can link to any pictures or save image as?
Watching: Acres of Lions – “Closer”
Posted in music, tagged Acres of Lions, Closer, music video, slr camera, stop-motion, video, youtube on June 12, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Teeth and Food and Rock and Roll
Posted in food, music, neat-O gang, tagged Mike Devlin, movie trailer, Pitchfork, teeth, The Racoons, The Vic Burger Blog, Times-Colonist, Vendor TV on June 11, 2009| 6 Comments »
Oh Sara P, this is way too weird. This is why 14 year old boys should not be allowed to write movies.
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How is this for raddest job alive! The other day on the ZAS I was talking about Against Me! drummer Warren Oakes getting fired/quiting amicably with the band to open a burrito shop in Gainsville, FLA. Today I get word that former Shins drummer Jesse Sandoval left the band to open a mexican food cart?
Nice. I love mexican food and I love rock and roll, so far, so good, I like these stories. BUT then I continue to read the story, and there is a man that travels the WORLD America trying out street vendor food.
Watch it, its good: Vendor TV – Portland
I have often spoke of my dream to open a sandwich cart called “The Paper Bag Princess” but now, if it ever happens… I’ll be so yesterday’s news.
Closer to home, there is a dude that has a blog that talks nothing but burgers… and next week, I’ll be meeting with Donald to review a burger! fun.
After sandwiches, my next passion is a good burger. Maybe I should have Donald come over sometime and make him a burger! mmm. I wanted to review the Canoe burger and that was our original plan, but the dude ended up hitting that place last week, so next week I want to do Pluto’s and then Coral and come too and we’ll eat burgers and talk about them all intellegent like.
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and lastly on a non-food related front, just a great article from my man Devlin at the TC about one of my fave Vic bands, the Racoons.
That’s all I got, go with yourself.
Watching: Jell – “Watch Yourself”
Posted in music, tagged Jell, music video, Toronto, Victoria, Watch Yourself, youtube on June 11, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Spinning As We Go
Posted in music, tagged Alcohaulin' Ass, chewing gum, excel, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, gum, Hell Yeah, Hello Gumption, Spinning As We Go, tv commercial on June 9, 2009| 2 Comments »
This TV Commercial is cute. It must come on a half dozen times while I am watching TV because the song is always stuck in my head.
The band or artist is Hello Gumption and the song is “Spinning As We Go” which I have the feeling was written for the commercial. On iTunes, the man/men only have two songs and they are both TV commercial songs. I always thought it might be a fun living to be a jingle writer, you know if I had any musical skills. Reminds me of the guy from Forgetting Sarah Marshall. As someone that occasionally produces radio commercials, the music beds that we use are brutal. I am sure it is more a budget thing, but man, if someone could make joyous contemporary beds for commercial use, I’d think you’d be able to find a market for it.
ha, after Hello Gumption playing on the iTunes, Hell Yeah sings “Alcohaulin’ Ass.”
Go with yourself.
The Fashionable Guns
Posted in music, neat-O gang, tagged 24 Hour Relay for The Kids, Aegis Fang, BC Smoke Shop, Boxcar Racer, Bulletproof Babes, Canoe Brewpub, Passion Pit, Sometime Around Midnight, The Airborne Toxic Event, The Reeling, The Sharpies, Wasted Talent on June 8, 2009| 2 Comments »
First day back after another fantastic 24 Hour Relay for The Kids. The Amalgamated Team Zone over came some serious setbacks and a crushing recession to pull together and raise an astonishing $8262! A big thank you to so many Zoners who came together to help send kids to camp, but especially Captain Rhaye, BC Smoke Shop, The Bulletproof Babes, and Aegis Fang.
A few highlights… well off the top, the team Wasted Talent has a Drinko Plinko board game in tent city that crushed. I enjoyed tipping pints with members of the Sharpies and The Canoe Brewpub. Wayne from the BC Smokeshop brought a keg, so that makes him a pretty special humanitarian in my world.
Allie The Zone Ranger and Bank Girl somehow managed to rally hard late, and stay up with me when it was my turn to jock the Zone @ 91-3’s water station during the witching hours of 4-7AM.
I think the key for me actually surviving the weekend and not dry heaving in my parking lot at 11 AM while unpacking; was the fact that I went home for a square dinner and a nap before coming back for the late night shenanigans.
Already, we’re talking about next year ‘round these parts. Part of me want sot form TWO teams. I don’t think Coral will be too into that idea. But I think it would be cool to have a team of athletes and kids to compete in the running aspect of the 24 Hour Relay and leave the drinking of general hippy drum circles to the Amalgamated Team Zone.
I want to call the Kids team, The Junior Zees or The Fashionable Guns. What do you think?
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From the Emailz:
—–Original Message—–
From: Lauren [mailto:***@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 9:39 AM
To: jeremy@TheZone.fm
Subject:
Hey Jeremy,
You have to help me out! You played a song last week during my drive home, I dunno, maybe around 5ish, it was by a band called Sex Ed I thought, it is driving me crazy, they were really good but I can’t find anything on YouTube or anywhere…..I think they are from Van and he had written the songs for his girlfriend while he was in college and then they kind of got discovered when his songs got distributed somehow around his campus.
Thanks so much,
Lauren
Hey Lauren,
You’re awesome. That song/band is one of my favourites right now. From what you’re told me, I think it was Passion Pit (that’s the artist that wrote all the music for his girl while in college and he’s from Massachusetts) and the song we’re featuring on the Zone is called “The Reeling” from the record Manners.
I hope that helps. If it is incorrect, let me know and we’ll try something else or I’ll need more info.
Thank you for the email.
Rock.
Jeremy
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And because I don’t always get it right the first time.
—–Original Message—–
From: Jaime [mailto:***]
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 6:26 PM
To: jeremy@TheZone.fm
Subject: Thursday’s connect three!
Hi Jeremy,
I meant to write down the name of the first song/band you played yesterday on connect three but I flailed! Can you tell me what it was? It really was epic.
Jaime
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On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Jeremy Baker <Jeremy@thezone.fm> wrote:
Hey Jaime,
It was Boxcar Racer – “I Feel So.”
I hope that helps. Thank you for listening to my radio show.
Jeremy
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Thanks Jeremy –
I must have screwed the date or the placement up or something, I meant the Airborn Toxic Event! But I found it and thanks for the great new music!
Jaime
Watching: Theset – “Echohead”
Posted in music, tagged echohead, music video, theset, youtube on June 8, 2009| 1 Comment »
Pretty Amazing: MGMT – “Kids”
Posted in music, tagged Joanna Newsom, Kids, MGMT, MILF, modern rock countdown, music video, youtube, Yummy Mummy on June 4, 2009| 3 Comments »
This video is darn wonderful. Makes me like the song again… that is how good this video is. “Kids” enjoyed many weeks at Number1 on the Modern rock Countdown and now is number one in my heart with this whimsical tale.
The “mom” is the lovely Joanna Newsom, I don’t know if she has a kid in real life, but my-oh-my, she sure can portray a yummy mummy.
Glen Campbell is a Treasure
Posted in music, tagged Calgary, Calgary Folk Festival, Edmonton, Festivals, Galveston, Glen Campbell, Witchita Lineman on June 2, 2009| 2 Comments »
Oh Victoria, remember when you used to have a world class Folk Music Festival? Ahh goodtimes… if it wasn’t for Nick and Dimitri and Piers and Coral at Atomique putting on Rifflandia (plug in 3,2,1…details this afternoon on the show) we4’d having nothing fun to do…
Now this festival looks like something I could get into more than any damn Stampede!
Now part of me thinks that Coral, Mads and I will be in Deadmonton in and around these dates. Is Calgary an arduous ordeal from the Champion City? I mean, Glen Campbell?
I’d see him in Vancouver or Victoria, you know… if either city had a reason for the hero of Galveston to come, but sadly, there are more pressing concerns in Medicine Hat and Spokane.
Time to head to the show… go with yourself.
The Morning After 