The Morning After

sovereignty

June 24, 2009 by morningaftershow

Finally finished John Steinbeck’s East of Eden. Only took me forever to get through it!

Now I am rocking Hugh MacLeod’s Ignore Everybody. This book is a pretty easy read and I’ll finish it tonight. So many great one liners and quotes and general inspiration!

“The sovereignty you have over your work will inspire far more people than the actual content ever will.”

I am hoping that Chris Anderson picks me, picks me! picks me! to get a copy of his new book… Free.

I loved the Long Tail and still check his blog on a regular basis. He is doing a contest where you send him an email and maybe he sends you a book for… get this… FREE!

“When scarce resources become abundant, smart people treat them differently, exploiting them rather than conserving them. It feels wrong, but done right it can change the world.”

Lots of great ideas in Hugh’s book, that when added to some principles from other books I’ve read, help me chill out a bit. Make me happy. Enjoy the ride more.

Chris talks about giving shit away for free, and then somehow making money… SWA? His blog posts have always been convincing for me. I work in radio and my product gets “given” away and somehow the paycheck doesn’t bounce twice a month so there must be something to it.

Go with yourself.

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Capital Rock City #62 // Franco, Oh Snap, Blue Violets, Jets Overhead

June 23, 2009 by morningaftershow

Its Tuesday, so that means time for another poignant episode of Capital Rock City from me and your friends at The Zone @ 91-3.

Come Get Some: Capital Rock City #62

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DJ Notes

01) Franco – “Date With Destiny”
02) Oh Snap – “Involuntary”
03) Blue Violets – “You Said”
04) Jets Overhead – “Heading For Nowhere”

I didn’t get too much new music this week, so instead of scraping something together I decided to reflect on some of the ZBOTM’s from 2009 (so far).

I started with February’s band, Franco. Cruising their MySpace page, I saw they played a CD release show last week in Vancouver… in support? The band Missing Starla! SWA?

Now I hope I don’t tell this story wrong, Irene or Derrick or Paul or whoever knows it can correct it but the gist is this:

Many moons ago, my Buddhist friend Irene had a cat named Starla. She (or the cat at least) lived in the West End of Vancouver. Somehow Starla JUMPED off the balcony as cats are wont to do and went missing.

Irene was sad. She had a graphic designer friend make up some visually stunning “Missing Starla” posters and Irene went to work covering the city in missing cat posters. By all accounts, the posters were very eye catching and you could not live in the West End at the time and miss them.

Weeks later, a sickly but living Starla was found and nursed back to health.

Time marches on, and Irene sees posters up around the West End advertising an upcoming indie rocker show featuring, “Missing Starla!”

That is where the Vancouver band Missing Starla got their name.

And part of me thinks Irene named the cat Starla after a Smashing Pumpkins song? hmmm

Go with yourself.

Posted in Capital Rock City | Tagged Blue Violtes, cat, Franco, Jets Overhead, Missing Starla, Oh Snap!, Podcast, Smashing Pumpkins, Vancouver, Victoria, West End | 2 Comments »

Watching: The Tragically Hip – “Love is a First” (Live, June 20th, 2009, Victoria)

June 23, 2009 by morningaftershow

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?

Two’s Pictures

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Are you afraid?

June 22, 2009 by morningaftershow

Oh wow. Coral showed this to me today and it brought the lolz.

The ladies are all collectively obsessing over a greasy, awkward, creepy, fake American accented Vampire named Edward. Us boys used to have an obsession, with a blond, perky tittied, stretchy, ass-kicking vampire slayer!

It was a video mash-up made in heaven!

At the end, look for the random Harry Potter clip thrown in. SWA?

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Its 4, 3, 2, 1

June 22, 2009 by morningaftershow

I feel great so far. I woke up and slayed so many dragons last week that looking ahead, I have so few things to get up to.

I suppose I should get Mads a SIN and get started on her RESP and get the ball rolling on a little baby passport, pay this month’s bills and lay some money down on the credit card.

I need to move forward with my self taught graphic design and student loan stuff.

And somewhere amongst all that, sign up for MMA fighting, Kung-Fu or something physical… I checked out a bunch of MMA studios and they are all really expensive and full of… well… not my kind of people to put it politely. Might have to try a more traditional martial art. My friends all laugh at me when I say I want to rock the octagon… but maybe that will be my armour? While my opponent is laughing himself out of position I will kung-fu chop him down to the ground.

My buddy Paul was the only guy who didn’t laugh. He said I should take something basic like Kung-Fu or even Karate. Apparently some Karate master ripped it at UFC 100 this past weekend?

On Father’s Day, I bought myself a present… the movie Passchendaele.

Most of the movie is a little slow, the dialogue is weak, the whole premise is almost silly, but then near the end, the third battle of Ypres lights up, the movie is worth the price of admission. When I watch the film, I generally jam out the opening village battle sequence, then fast forward to the end.

I had this crazy dream Friday night (likely Red Bull fueled) where I was in World War One. I was in the trench with some dude who wasn’t a very good shot. We’re all huddled around and the Germans attack. As I am sitting there dropping German after German, the man huddled in the trench is called, “Jeremy…. Jeremy…” I keep snapping back at him… “just stay down or shoot, I don’t care!”

Turns out it was Coral trying to wake me up to get ready for the ferry!

The dream stayed in my brain all weekend, so when we go back from Coquitlam, I found a previously viewed copy of Passchendaele at Blockbuster. score.

After the film, I dusted off my copy of Pierre Berton’s “Vimy.” I am pretty down with my Canadian History circa WWI, but I thought I’d revisit it while I wait for my next book to show up in the mail.

This blog isn’t really about anything, just wanted to write the week out and then get to it.

Go with yourself.

Posted in history 101, life or something like it | Tagged Canada, dreams, Karate, Kung-Fu, MMA, Passchendaele, passport, Paul Gross, Pierre Berton, Social Insurance Number, UFC, Vimy, World War One | 5 Comments »

Lets Get Fired Up

June 19, 2009 by morningaftershow

Coming Soon…. a David Eleanor // Morning After Show joint

The Blog of Steak

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Daniel From Vendr.tv

June 18, 2009 by morningaftershow

I blogged about the fine man, Daniel Delaney last week. He is the guy who has the mighty job of traveling North America and reviewing street food. Lucky!

Check out his show: Vendr.tv

We ended up becoming BFFs on Twitter and we unleashed its awesome power to hook up a quick Q&A.

Do you care to listen? then click right…. HERE

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Capital Rock City #61 // Jell, Listening Party, Goodbye Beatdown, The Matinee

June 18, 2009 by morningaftershow

Wow, a couple days late with the DJ notes. bad radio DJ, bad!

Please tuck into: Capital Rock City #61

I continue my march to 1,000 weekly downloads on Capital Rock City. Webmeister Bud is still on mat leave celebrating the birth of his daughter! Huzzah Bud! So I don’t know the stats, the last I checked it was in the neighbourhood of a 100 a week. Not bad, but as you can see, lots of work ahead of me to get the podcast to a sustainable audience. You can do your part in supporting the fine music of Victoria by sharing the link of the podcast with a friend(s) or posting on your social network (Facebook, Twitter, Myspace).

You can also subscribe to the podcast, two ways, RSS Feed or in the iTunes Store podcast section. Just search for ‘Capital Rock City’ and don’t forget to rate and comment please.

You’ll also find Capital Rock City at Raised on Indie!

Sales pitch aside, let’s get to it.

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DJ Notes

01) Jell – “Watch Yourself”
02) Listening Party – “Pachina”
03) Goodbye Beatdown – “The Grudge”
04) The Matinee – “The Road”

Jell sent me a link for their new music video. Pretty decent. Have a look.

I was surprised to see that Jell has actually made a few videos for their songs. All a very good DIY quality. Jell’s Youtube Page

Here is yet another from Jon Middleton’s Listening Party. This song is a little more lo-fi than the last LP song I featured. Not sure what I think about it. i like the quirkyness of it.

The Listening Party will be in Duncan on June 27th and in Vancouver opening for one of my favourite bands, Japandroids, at Richards on August 7th.

The Goodbye Beatdown are playing Zoner Gina’s party on July 4th. You’re totally invited (no seriously, email me if you want to go…).

The show ends with The Matinee. A band I have known since highschool. they’ve changed their name like a hundred times (well three) and this latest incarnation has a slight country/folky twang. Matt sent me a slate of new tunes and I felt that “the Road” was by far the strongest.

Thank you for finding Capital Rock City, let’s do it again sometime shall we?

Go with yourself.

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Where did my body go?

June 16, 2009 by morningaftershow

whoa, I need to blog. Last week was a hard long week, this week is actually twice that. So the blog might be a bit spotty this week. Sorry. Thank you for reading.

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