Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Archive for the ‘neat-O gang’ Category

Discover Something New

Posted in ...this is your father speaking, neat-O gang, tagged , , , , , , on December 16, 2008| 2 Comments »

I wake up and make a bottle for Madelyn.  Turn on the fire to chase the chill out of the room. Put the TV to A Morning.  Lay a bottle in Madelyn grabby hands.

And I am laughing so hard.  As I begin typing Madelyn is farting like an old man. ewwwww.

One of her favourite things to do when she is all by herself, is to jibber jabber… pause…. laugh… continue jibber jabber… pause… laugh… and she continues to do this till Coral and I can’t contain ourselves and burst out laughing.  Coral wants to try and film it.  We figure she is mimicking the ebb and flow of a conversation in our house.

***

I was writing last night about some recent downloads and one that I did not get to was a cool from a band called Fear of Music.  You’ll know this Manchester group is you have a TV and have seen the Sirius commercial about discover music.  Such a great spot.

The first time I saw this commercial it gave me tingles.  Then it was for Sirius and I went all wet noodle.  The song is amazing… so at least Sirius gave me that.  Oh and they sent me a sticker once.

***

I just finished a book that David Eleanor lent me from autor Hubert Selby Jr. called “Last Exit to Brooklyn.”

Wow… a pretty extreme book.  Maybe click the link above to get an idea of what its about.  It has a bizarre style of presentation.  Selby’s writing is almost physical and takes awhile to get used.  But give it time, because once you enter Selby’s world, you learn things.

Selby also worte “Requiem for a Dream.”  When I first saw that movie back in 2000, it changed my world view.  Selby says his most disturbing book is one called “The Room.”  Now that I know his idea of disturbing vastly different then mine, I am going to have to find and read that book.

Go with yourself.

Read Full Post »

Let’s Get Fired Up

Posted in neat-O gang, tagged on December 14, 2008| 2 Comments »

Coral showed me this video last night and I laughed and laughed… then stopped laughing and felt inspired.

Funny story, Braveheart was on A&E this morning. Neat.

Read Full Post »

why throw your money out the window

Posted in neat-O gang, tagged on December 12, 2008| Leave a Comment »

this commercial makes me want to punch a kitten.  The worst part is, I sorta think the dark haired one is cute.  I am so conflicted.

Read Full Post »

Can you lecture it hard / so

Posted in neat-O gang, tagged , , , on December 11, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Man… now that I am reading other Top 10 and Top 50 lists… I am remembering more great records that I have missed.

Vancityrockgirl reminded me about TV on the Radio.

They topped Rolling Stone’s list of the Top 50 of the year.

Albums of the Year

Vampire Weekend, Of Montreal, Hot Chip, Metallica, The Black Keys, Santogold, kaiser Chiefs… man all records I jammed out in 2008.  I should have made a top 50.

And the more I think about it, the more I really should have included Beck’s Modern Guilt.  Bastard.

***

Hey, here is a story.

You can resell your MP3s?  neat-O.

***

The Sean Penn movie Milk is out soon (if it isn’t out already).  Based on a true story!

Truth is more fucked up than fiction.

OK, I gotta get to work.  Go with yourself.

Read Full Post »

ho ho ho

Posted in neat-O gang, tagged , on December 10, 2008| 2 Comments »

This is an older clip.  Maybe from the Christmas of 2006?  Maybe 2005?  But I just remembered it and laughed and laughed.  All you media workers will get a kick out of it I’m sure.

Read Full Post »

I fought the war / but the war won

Posted in neat-O gang, tagged on December 4, 2008| 2 Comments »

Living Life on NO Money?

Read Full Post »

he’s holding on to what we had before

Posted in music, neat-O gang, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 4, 2008| 1 Comment »

Mongol was pretty good.  Tells the story of Genghis Khan in his early life.  Follows him as a boy that kinda gets the short end of the stick.  Then as a young man fighting to first regain his freedom, and later to rescue his wife, and later still he fights for freedom (he gets captured again and put in a Zoo… SWA?).  then he unites all the Mongols into a glorious fighting forces and heads West to Russia.  End of epic film.

Part 2 is supposed to come out in 2010.  hmmm, Olympics or Genghis Khan laying into some Christian Knights?

The thing with the movie that sorta irked me is, how come Genghis Khan was such a rad warrior.  When I watched Batman, it made sense… Christian Bale goes off to some secret monastery of shadowy ninjas and beats the shit out of Liam Neeson and swims in ice water.

Granted, Genghis Khan did swim in ice water and live… but the fighting doesn’t make sense.  In the early part of the story, he is little more than a slave or hobo.  Then they fast forward and he’s Heath Ledger in a Knight’s Tale.  They don’t connect the lines.

i-demand-an-explanation

Oh man… I just watched the Knight’s Tale trailer again and it brought the LOLz.

***

In G n’ R news, this story made me giggle.

***

Prodigy are putting out a new record, and my man Dave Grohl is drumming.  Like me, he is a Dad and rocks the facial hair.  We’re like twins.

***

James posted this video on his Facebook. Some dude dancing to Beyonce’s “Put a Ring on it.”

I am not too sure if James does a whole heck of a lot of programming at The Peak, or just watches quirky videos all day.

***

This commercial got sent to me from a Zoner named Gina.  It is four minutes long, but I think worth it.

In the Doghouse

***

I do spend a lot of time of Facebook, but I am not member of no Facebook army.  WTF is wrong with society?

Facebook Hooligans Trash Brit Ad Exec’s Home

That story is reason #25 why Madelyn is NEVER going on the internet.

***

Nine Inch Nails is tomorrow night!

Coral and I got a babysitter and are jazzed on the show.

***

Thank you for hitting my Purevolume site.  I posted some audio there the other day and put the link on my blog and I got a few hits.  Thank you for taking the time.

Go with yourself.

Read Full Post »

One toke over the line sweet Jesus / one toke over the line

Posted in neat-O gang, tagged , , on December 4, 2008| Leave a Comment »

I love this picture.

***

mmm, coffee and toast.  That is what I got brewing at 6:30 in the AM.  Madelyn decided that she would like to be awake at 4 AM.  She is a bit sick so I got up.  I was thinking she might be in for a little cuddle on the couch and we’d fall back asleep but no dice.  Coral isn’t much of a cuddler and Maddy O is her mother’s daughter ergo, I slept on the couch alone and Madelyn explored the living room.  Finally at 6, thankfully afer the conclusion of a mysterious CSI, the monster wished to return to bed.  I went back to my room.  Coral was dead to the world and I laid there for a few moments and relized, “fuck, I’m not tired.”

This is not good, I’ll come down hard later.  Hopefully at the end of my radio show… however the Movember party might get the ace if I am not feeling well.  Maybe there can be a nap.

I think I’ll use this time to watch a movie I’ve always wanted to see.  Mongol.  oh, my coffee just finished the movie is two hous so if I’m to sneek it in before the monstr rises I better get on it.

Go with yourself.

Read Full Post »

that makes about as much sense as a cat wearing pajamas

Posted in Dave Babych, music, neat-O gang, tagged , , , , , , , on November 29, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Johnny B. Shields is pulling away on the Movember race and is crushing me.  Boitano has also pulled in front of me too!

***

Priestess‘ Mikey Heppner stopped by the Zone today… we chatted about a bunch things that he had recently blogged about.  He is such a dude.  New record from Priestess is coming soon and you better believe you’ll hear it on my show when there is something to play.

***

Band of Horses is also working on some new music which gets all of us here at Casa La CorJ hot and bothered.  When I talk fave bands, Band of Horses is near the top of that list.

***

I got a call on the Zone phone today from some guy completely outraged that I went on the radio yesterday saying I wasn’t so jazzed on the new Guns N Roses. I don’t think he is a regular listener of the show.  He had “heard” through the grapevine that I had “slammed” G ‘n R so this knight had risen to the challenge to defend Axl’s honour and tell me off.  Turns out my head needs to be “shaked” because it wasn’t clear to me that Chinese Democracy was the “BEST record of the last few years.”  O RLY? He got many facts wrong and we talked it out… I think its all good now.  Maybe its good that people talk about my show with their friends, but getting the facts so off… yikes, I don’t think they were saying nice things about my show.  So I guess they are forgiven for never finding the blog either… then they’d know, I am trying to like G ‘n R and I am an odyssey of discovery.  I downloaded “Better” today.  Kinda good.

One good song on the new G n’ R record… to me that is a triumph as I expected zero.

***
Heard some Mother Mother on the modern rock inbox the other day.  very nice.  The main dude grew up on Quadra Island.

***

Corj and I are taking Madelyn to visit Grandma Mom and Grandpa Jack this weekend, so I’ll rap at cha on Monday.  On Monday I am taking a turn driving the Desert Bus!  Tuesday is Straight Up Modern Rock night at The Clubhouse, giving away some Nine Inch Nail Tickets; Thursday is the Movember gala; Friday I shave my stache and then it is the NIN show at the arena; I’ll be broadcasting live outside; Saturday is the Zone’s Christmas Party!

Have a good weekend.

Read Full Post »

forever trust in who you are

Posted in Dave Babych, neat-O gang, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on November 28, 2008| 2 Comments »

jeremy-week-4

Movember is quickly winding down.  I am just a handful of dollars away from $500, so if you have the time, please hit my Movember page and drop a few virtual pennies into my virtual jar.

My Movember Page

***

I went onto Movember to find my page and I entered “Jeremy Baker” into the search.  There are two other Jeremy Bakers on this planet growing an ugly moustache for prostate cancer.

They are:

Jeremy Baker from Turner, ACT, Australia.  I am not too sure what ‘ACT’ is?  Australia Capital Territory?

The dude hasn’t done much with his Movember page… but has raised $100, so good on him.

and,

Jeremy Baker from Wantage, Oxfordshire, England.  He is doing a little better than our Aussie cousin and has raised $200!

Wantage is famous for being the birth place of King Alfred the Great!

***

Zoner Capt. Kirk sent me a startling public service youtube video today.

***

I went and listened to, then downloaded a couple a Guns & Roses tracks yesterday.  At first I hated the record, but DW and David Eleanor swear by it… so I gacve it another spin.  I don’t hate it now… but I still don’t like it.  Sorta average.  The track “Chinese Democracy” is growing on me.  Dave says I need to get the song “Better” which is number 3 on the album.   He is telling about an insane guitar part that sounds like a xylophone.

Then he told me about this book “Last Exit to Brooklyn.”  whoa… I think I’ll need to check it out. He no steered me wrong with his last recommendation, “Night.”

We need a David Eleanor Book club to battle Oprah!
***

Go with yourself.

Read Full Post »

« Newer Posts - Older Posts »