And I am going to be trolling this site over the next couple days: Visit Las Vegas
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There has been some talk of booking somewhere other than Mandalay Bay, but whenever we start thinking about it, I’ll get an email from a family member or friend with the latest deal (which so far has never been for early October) that makes MB affordable. When Coral and I get back from Sasquatch, we’ll make the invites but where we stay will still likely be undecided.
I wish there was a website where I could post my plans and the hotels compete or bid on our business. That would make this process so much more fun!
In other fun and exciting news… The Wedding weekend also happens to be Tyson Yerex’s birthday! And Ryan Rae’s is also in early October, so there will be a birthday celebration thrown into the weekend!
and thus is how half a dozen phone calls on the Zone begin for me each and everyday.
The majority of people that rock the radio every day only half listen to what is going on (heck I work on the radio and I only half listen!). One of the most popular songs in modern rock right now repeats the line “What do you know?” a whole bunch so you can be forgiven to think the track is called “What Do You Know?”
The song is actually called “The Mission” and it is from Puscifer.
I know right… the same guy that brought us so many fine rock songs from Tool and A Perfect Circle and even provided the vocals to best song off The Deftones White Pony record, “Passenger.”
Now Maynard rocks a vineyard in Arizona’s Verde Valley (verde means green in Spanish!) and has a Puscifer store on top of some tattoo parlour in Jerome, Arizona.
Hang on a second, Puscifer sure don’t sound like Tool! there is some chick singing!
Oh you bet… that lovely is none other than Milla Jovovich. She’s an actress best known for playing the hot one in The 5th Element and the hot one in that video game movie. But I’ll always remember her as ‘Michele’ in Dazed and Confused.
Puscifer? … that sure is a funny name.
It IS a funny name. Maynard lifted it from the first episode of Mr. Show, a funny show.
Thank you for finding my Victoria rock internet show Capital Rock City. Lots of great music this week (just like every week right). Find Capital Rock City in the iTunes store for a free weekly subscription or use the Zone’s handy dandy RSS Feed.
I met the boys in Doc Currie last week at Logan’s opening for The CFC (not to be confused with the Couples for Christ). DC is just two just guys doing the drums and guitar thing. Lots of audio weirdness. Two was thinking they sounded like Modest Mouse, I disagreed and pulled some threads of Japanadroids out. But listening to “Eastern Shore” again on Capital Rock City… it is a little more noisy and experimental.
Aegis Fang! Lets do it, this Thursday at Sugar for Beats and Babes 2!
The good kids in Saul asked me a couple weeks ago if they could use a clip form the Zone Afternoon Show in an intro to a song on their new record. I said, “yuppers!” And now you’re hearing it on Capital Rock City. man, those were some good oranges. I still remember them. And to tie CRC 57 in to The Paper Cranes, Miranda went to Save-On and bought some oranges too.
The Racoons are on tour right now… Ontario maybe? They’ll be back in Victoria for a show at Sugar on June 12th. new ep, “Islomania” is out in Early June as well.
The “secret song” at the end of the “I’d Rather Be Sailing with” ep is a song that lead singer Matt describes as their “National sounding song.” The National are taking FOREVER to follow up Boxer, so the Racoons will have to scratch that itch for me.
That’s all I got. Thank you for downloading Capital Rock City. If you like the show, please share the fine music of Victoria with your friends and pass the link on your social networks.
The new song is called “Two Weeks” and in the couple days I’ve had it on the laptop I have developed a minor obsession. The Fred Falke remix will get some love tonight at The Clubhouse. I don’t really know how to explain the song, probably best if you just click the link above and listen. Indie rock? I guess that’s what it is all called these days. I like the remix a better.
Maybe a little on the bizarre, but there is something about this guy’s style that captivates. “Sleepyhead” so far has been the stand-out off his recentish ep Chunk of Change.
Pitchfork hates this band, I love them. I missed ATE at Pemberton because they were on some side stage early in the day and I didn’t get over to the stage very often (or maybe they were mainstage, or late, or…). I was weighed down with my baby in tow and it was hard to move about from stage-to-stage all day and still keep the baby Rampage saited.
Sasquatch, Corj and I are leaving Mads with Nana and I’ll be bringing my walking shoes and thermos of Vodka/red bulls.
Speaking of the baby Rampage… she awakens and I must go.
“It puts me to fucking sleep to be quite honest, I don’t really see the technical merit in playing two songs at the same speed together and it bores me to fucking tears and hopefully with all due respect to the DJ type that will fucking go the way of the dinosaur id like them to dis-a-fucking-pear. It’s so middle man, they’re like fucking lawyers. You need them, but they’re fucking cunts. God bless them they’re my number one customer right so I’m not gonna go dis every fucking DJ. But to say you become this massive up on a podium performer by playing other peoples productions at the same speed as someone else’s productions and fading between the two of them, I don’t get it.” – Deadmau5
01) The Dudes
02) Japanadroids
03) The Airborne Toxic Event
04) The Replacements
05) Peter Gabriel
06) James Taylor
07) Phoenix
08) Reverend Horton Heat
09) Flo Rida
10) Pinback
Some of my faves spinning on the home hard drive according my Last FM page.
The new Dudes song “Pretty Lies” is so darn good, it has inspired me to fire up anything Dudes that I have at home, anytime I am at home. The only reason I don’t listen to the dudes right now, is if I have Vancouver fuzz masters Japanadroids going, or “1901” from Phoenix.
Ringtones are dumbest (or maybe greatest?) invention.
Now, I value my money. When I am walking down Douglas Street and some man puts out his hand to ask for money, I say, “sorry man, I value my money.” You’d never catch me… maybe… lighting money on fire. Wouldn’t happen. Coral wanted to buy some jars today to put the coffee in to keep it fresh, they cost like, $3 or $4 bux maybe? maybe? I was all, “no, I value my money.” And after all that… the Airborne Toxic Event battles through my strong defense and I download “Sometime Around Midnight.” The charge? Three dollars and fifty cents. What do I get? 15 seconds of the intro! WTF? I can download the song, all of it, in stunning MP3 quality for a buck!
Burned… I had to download another ringtone… so yeah, now when you phone, 15 seconds of “Panic Switch” blares at me and I’m $7 poorer. And hopefully wiser. RINGTONE!
I think, when I’m hanging out with the Airborne Toxic Event at the Sasquatch Music fesitval next weekend, I’ll mention something to them.
The Replacements are a band I play when I am sad. I was sad after the Canucks lost to Chicago last week.
My cousin Monica is getting married! whoa! to a cop! whoa. Chris (the cop) is a good man, he showed me how to make a grown man cry with a simple maneuver to the nose. Seriously, he made me cry, it works. On their wedding website I A: RSVP’d (I’ll be rocking the stuffed chicken) and B: listened to some Peter Gabriel. They have one of my favourite songs, “In Your Eyes” streaming.
James Taylor? SWA? I like him… but I don’t know why I played so much last week. weird.
Phoenix is so hawt right now on The Zone @ 91-3. Sometimes I bring my work home with me. The video is that Youtube clip waiting for you at the top, great view… so if you skipped it because you think your time is more valuable than that three minute gem, your wrong, its not, click the video already.
The Rev came on after something else I was listening to, and I kept that party going.
I don’t know if this will be a regular feature or not, but the above audio snip is from some “tape” that I had for a commercial I made for Soprano’s. Everyday before my radio show, I come a few hours early, and sometimes our producer Sheldon gives me a couple commercials to make. Helps me keep my skills up in case I need to fill in for Sheldon. I’m not very good so I generally get basic spots to craft… and usually Sheldon has already recorded the announcer. When I get the audio to make the spot, it is never edited or a simple read of the copy. There is always some sort of story or banter that Sheldon has with the “talent.” I always chop it out to make the commercial obviously, but sometimes the little stories are interesting and the people telling them forget they’re being recorded. Since the announcers are very comfortable and having a real one-on-one conversation with Sheldon, the style is different than you might find on a radio show and I personally find them interesting.
As I find stuff worth sharing, I’ll post it here as “Inside the Producers Studio.”
The Morning After 