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Man, all the good stuff happens in the Morning

Posted in music, neat-O gang, tagged , , , , , on January 22, 2009| 1 Comment »

I do watch me lots of morning television but I can not always be up first thing to see it, especially after a night of DJing at the Clubhouse, and I missed Erick’s coffee snafu!  Astrid’s reaction is well worth the price of admission.  Oh live television…

no worries Erick, despite your lubberly moment, our bromance lives on.

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Thank you for taking the time to download Capital Rock City.  I am chit-chatting with a band and a venue to create the first live-to-tape Capital Rock City.  If you like CRC you might also jive on Pol’s Polcast.

Have a listen: Oh, Fluffernutters!

If you dig it, maybe consider subscribing to the Polcast on Itunes in the podcast section.

and also for your downloading please, direct from The Zone dot F-M, some live Nine Inch Nail tracks from their Victoria show.  Some gooders too, like:

Closer
and Only
and even The Hand that Feeds…

plus so much more.  Go get some.

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Go with yourself

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is someone getting the best, the best, the best of you

Posted in food, neat-O gang, tagged , , , , on January 21, 2009| 1 Comment »

whoa… where did the days go?

I took a couple days off the internets and social networking and radio broadcasting… well not all radio.  I went into the Zone on Saturday to finish up my bestest promo EVAR .  But other than that, it was just me and Maddy for the last few days before Coral came home from London.

We fought off Blue Jackets, feisty toddlers on the ferry, nasty colds, and more than a couple tumbles to make it to Day 13.  Alive.  Huzzah to baby.

I am back on the Zone tomorrow and back to blogging and an all new Capital Rock City.

There are also a couple exciting ideas I am batting around and they’ll be shared or hashed on here over the next few days.  Plus I want to deconstruct another recipe from somewhere yummy, so if you have an idea post it, and I’ll get the answers.  Coral ate the BEST Caesar dressing in her life in Paris a week ago and because I have operatives spread throughout the world (I do, its scary) I will have him go under cover to get the goods on this dressing.  And maybe she’ll let me post a pic or two of her trip on here over the next few days if you care to see pictures of building in older cities than this one.

Until tomorrow I wanted to talk about Pearls and Oysters.

Have a Listen: How are Pearls Made?

The blog still managed to generate a hit or two despite the fact I haven’t blogged in like 5 days, so thank you!

Go with yourself.

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Its a bird! Its a Plane! Its a Boat?

Posted in neat-O gang, tagged , , , on January 15, 2009| Leave a Comment »

A plane crashed today in New York after it hit a flock of seagulls.  One Zoner called up after talking about the heroic landing and hilarity ensued.

Download: A Plane Crash in New York

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Oslo. Wow!

Posted in neat-O gang, tagged , , on January 15, 2009| 2 Comments »

I was talking about Laura’s blog on my radio show yesterday.  Her husband Dan is a former UVic PhD guy who got a gig in Switzerland crafting Blackholes and whatnots… and part of his job takes him around Europe.  They recently took a trip to Oslo, Norway.  Their adventure sounded pretty rad and Laura also took lots of pictures if you’re interested.  They saw a riot!

Laura’s Blog
Make sure you read THIS post!

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I Want to Pimp My Ride (Scooter Edition)

Posted in neat-O gang, tagged , , on January 15, 2009| 2 Comments »

yikes, Did I just say “pimp my ride?”  What is this?  2005?

Peters sent this link to me today and I went wow.

Scooter Stereos!

Damn you Christmas!  Why did you already have to have just happened!

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The Zone on Facebook

Posted in neat-O gang, tagged , , , on January 13, 2009| Leave a Comment »

Neat.

I was cyber stalking your profile when I came across an ad for The Zone on Facebook.

The Zone’s Ad

If you’re on Facebook, don’t be shy, add me up and find the Zone’s facebook group.

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Day Two

Posted in neat-O gang, tagged , , , , , on January 8, 2009| Leave a Comment »

The top referrers to my blog this past week (outside of social media networks) are:

01) Pretty Much Amazing
02) Miranda
03) Radio West
04) Dutch Blitz (because of a comment made by Emily)
05) Puget Sound Radio

Thank you for finding my website.

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Madelyn has just went down for bed and I have a pizza in the oven.  I am righteously tuckered out after only two days as single Dad.  And I am only HALF a single Dad.  Coral`s Mom aka Nana and my sister Andrea have come up mighty clutch in looking after Mads so I can go to work.  But I am still a little worn out… I think it has to do with the cold I am battling.  I am still in good spirits however.  I had a very pleasant meeting with Sara today and she had lots of positive things to say and I got to interview some of my favourite people today.  That was cool.

I interviewed Sam Roberts, Glasvegas and a pair of Salmon Kings this afternoon.  After my interview with Sam, he left to do his next engagement and I wandered down the hall to mix up a chai latte.  I love the powdered Oregon Chai stuff when I am working.  As I went into the Zone kitchen, Sam Roberts was there enjoying a cup of water.  He said that his next interview on the Q had to be delayed so he was just hanging out.  We got to chit-chatting.  He mentioned how jazzed he is on his first shows on 2009 and how they are both sold out here in Victoria.  I asked where his rock star life was taking him next and he replied, (um I somehow turned the alternative characters on my laptop and I don`t know how to toggle them off… for example, I can`t rock a question mark.  It comes out as É… SWAÉ)… so Sam replied that he`d be in Vancouver on Saturday.

My birthday.

The man took my name and said I could be a guest.  Rad.

I am a little down that I`d be celebrating my birthday with Coral being a trillion kilometers away in Paris but Grandman Mom said she`d look after Madelyn and I can hit the Sam show in Vancouver with my buddy Bob.  Fun.

On Sunday Glasvegas plays at Richards on Richards so I think I`ll do that the next night.

Coral did touch down safely last night.  She called me at about 2 AM which would have been 10 AM there.  She was in the airport.  Said the airport area of La Ville-Lumière looks like Edmonton.  Ha.  All-in-all the trip was good, long, but good and she is super excited to explore the city over the next week with her best friend Alix.  Alix has a buddy from work at a co-op or something, so they are crashing at his bachelor pad in the `second district` if that makes sense.

FUCK, I wish I knew how to toggle the alt character button off.  I seem pretty adept at turning it on, but I don`t know how I do it so I can`t turn it off.

Coral told me about the flight and how the dude she sat beside was pleasant enough but when he fell asleep he kept dropping ass.  ewwww, man farts.

Maybe Coral will call me again tonight.

Saturday is also Nana`s birthday so Madelyn is going to take her out for her birthday tomorrow.  Good baby.

Right… so my pizza beeped and is ready to come out of the oven so I am going to put that back and figure out how to turn the alt characters off as I can not handle anymore É or ,'<« or whatever.

Day Two

Baby is still alive.

Dad: 02
Taliban: 00

Go with yourself.

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The Mega DJ

Posted in neat-O gang, tagged , , , on January 3, 2009| Leave a Comment »

djvirgin

I am excited, I got the answer I am looking for.

I wrote about the impending flip of a Vancouver radio station from Crave to the British mega brand Virgin.  And I wondered, “why?”

John  answered the call in the comment section and made many good points about how no one cares about Crave but how they might care about Virgin because it is such a dynamic brand.  He recommended the book “The Power of Cult Branding: How 9 Magnetic Brands Turned Customers into Cult Followers.”

Um, well according to the book’s synopsis it says nothing about painting another corporations brand on your product.  It seems to me the book will tell me 9 ways to:

1) Create a good product that people want or need
2) Passionately grind away for many years delivering on the promise

My favourite part of John’s comment was this:

“Comparing Telus and Virgin are like comparing White Spot and McDonalds. One has only local recognition; the other has an international brand with recognition in just about any country in the world.”

Right.  Now, lets pretend I live 60 km to the west.  And there are two restaurants side-by-side.  One is McDonalds and one is White Spot.  Where do I eat?

John is right, Virgin is the McDonalds.  I do eat there sometimes, but I am not passionate about it.  I don’t follow it like a cult.

But I do have some homework.  My next book after Seth Godin’s “Tribes” will be the book that will sell me on the mega brand.  And who knows, maybe when I am done reading it, I will be DJ Virgin, the mega DJ!

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I don’t come to your work and knock the dicks out of your mouth

Posted in neat-O gang, tagged , , , on January 2, 2009| Leave a Comment »

um wow.  Sara P showed me this today as I rolled into the radio shop.

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Viva Las Vegas

Posted in neat-O gang, tagged , , , on December 18, 2008| 1 Comment »

Whoa, Tyson twittered up this story outta Vegas.  I thought Vancityrockgirl would get a kick out of it.

Rare Snow in Las Vegas

Wow, my Mom just informed me that my brother Matt is in Vegas right now!  Cool.  I’d love to be in Vegas during a desert snow storm.

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My blog has been picked up by some aggregator called AlphaInventions.  The beast has generated lots of hits today so if you found the blog from there… thank you for checking it out.

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I need to get ready for work now.  I have an epic day in front of me… and another tomorrow… but then the weekend, and I am looking forward to it.

Go with yourself.

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