We won’t run out of things to sell, we’ll run out of people to sell things to.
USS or the Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker were in Victoria last night for another Zone Show. Before the rock was brought to a sold out Lucky Bar, the boys came on the Zone Afternoon Show for a live performance. have a listen.
Song: “2 and 15/16th”
Song: “Hollow Point Sniper Hyperbole”
Song: “Laces Out”
Song: “Anti-Venom”
Interview and complete Performance: USS on The Radio
It was nice, Ash (the lead singer guy) was into my scooter, so I let him rip around after the set. He mentioned that today he would pull the ultimate tourist move and rent one from that place downtown. We shared a moment indeed.
I feel like a piece of ass because I flaked on the show last night. I went home after my show to watch some hockey. I ordered a pizza, cracked a beer. One turned into almost a six-pack, Nucks win… and I just wanted to cuddle a pillow on my couch. That and I was in no condition to drive, so no USS at Lucky Bar for me… bad radio DJ, bad. Next time.
Go with yourself.
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and I wanted to include the Silversun Pickups but they did not want to be included as they “disabled embedding by request.” c’est dommage Silversun Pickups.
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I had a great night at The Clubhouse last night. Lots of Zoners came by to make request, jibber jabber about rock and roll, have birthdays, not say hi to me, and one even told how much , “she LOVES me.” Apparently I make her laugh every morning when she wakes up. SWA?
Anyways, thank you for coming out on a Tuesday.
Let’s go.
Please Download: Capital Rock City #53
and remember kids, when you subscribe to Capital Rock City from the iTunes store in the podcast section (for free) or RSS this audio dynomo, Jian Ghomeshi gets to have Billy Bob berate him for another minute (lucky guy).
DJ Notes:
01) Aegis Fang – “Foot Down”
02) Aegis Fang – “Small Town”
03) Orange Aeroplane – “Begin Again”
04) Orange Aeroplane – “The Getaway”
05) Fineas Gage – “Track 1”
06) Greg Wolfe – “Maybe Not For Sure Sometimes”
Aegis Fang are a couple might groovy fella’s who are part of the Zone’s Amalgamated Team Zone 24 Hour Relay for The Kids… Team. (psst, click the link and please donate a couple nickles… pretty please). The boys in Aegis Fang are performing Thursday, April 16th at The Cambie in Esquimalt. I’ll see you there!
Orange Aeroplane is very new to me. I can’t even find their website online right now… but Miranda of The Paper Cranes like them and she turned me onto the band, so they are good by me. Very interesting airy, melodic “indie” rock sound.
Fineas Gage are a few (or all) of the ladies from an old Vic band called Big Muff. They kinda sound like Veruca Salt.. kinda sorta… don’t they?
Greg Wolfe is another new performer. From what I can gather, it seems like Greg is still getting his songs crafted and working on building his career. He was brave enough to share a song with us on Capital Rock City and I think it sounds pretty good. Folky.
That’s all I got. Thank you for downloading… if you like the show please share the link or my blog with a friend.
Go with yourself.
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Corj, Mads and I are back from a great weekend visiting Grandma and Grandpa (and Grandpa Rob and Roberta too! AND uncles and Aunts! and COUSINS! so many cousins and even a one Mr. David Eleanor Sawchuk! and a Tim, twice on the ferry!) and feeding our one-year-old way too much chocolate. Good times.
On the boat ride home, Mads just wanted to walk and walk and walk. So that means that I must walk and walk and walk. I am kinda hunched over while I do the walking like the hunchback fella from lore. On the outside deck, Madelyn took a spill and didn’t catch herself grinding her little face along the cheese grater deck of the ship. That was a blood nose and a lesson learned. I am sure she’ll be quicker next time!
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My quest to become a doctor continues to grind forward. The “doctor” part is just a bold hyperbolic manifestation of the greater goal of continuing my education and then earning more money. As my Mom says, there are lots of different kinds of doctors and medical is just one (and maybe one that I am not too suited too, though, I think I’d make one hell of a GP).
This week I should have the money to apply to a couple schools here in Victoria to weigh some options.
School is built for kids that have unlimited credit, time and an insatiable ability to “do what they’re told.” I have little of the above.
To have a family, a career and a limited budget means that I can’t do exactly what many of the schools require. Should have got at it when I was 19 I guess. I come from the school of thought, that’s its never too late to start your life. I’ll just have to make a way.
The problem I face up front is funding. I can’t get a student loan if I take the Royal Roads courses online and continue to work. Royal Roads says that its for working people, but then they require you to do a 3 week full time on campus thing and I can’t afford to take a month to “play school” for three weeks then get married. I *could* afford it if I got a student loan, but because its part-time according to the government, no loan.
I could quit the Zone and go to school full time at Royal Roads and get my degree in one year. That is attractive except the student loan wouldn’t be enough to keep Coral and Mads fed and roofed and I like my job and don’t see the value in leaving the workforce to go to school to… get.. a… job? weird.
That leaves UVic, and taking three years (at least) to hammer out a degree, but taking my classes in the AM and then rocking the Zone in the afternoon. Might wear me done, but as I said, where there is a will, there is a way.
Then I think I could get the student loans to pay for class, work to pay the bills and keep working and one day end up with a degree.
yeesh, so stressful to think about.
Couple all this with the fact that in all honestly, some of the skills I want, none of the school teach and I wonder.
I do want to improve my graphic design and internet skills and I don’t think the courses I’ll take for my degree will cover that. I will hopefully get lots of research skills which I want, but I need more balance. No business will want a researcher that can’t present the facts, and no business will hire a kid that makes pretty graphs with no facts to graph. In a previous blog post I talked about creating a Bachelor of Jeremy Studies which hits everything I want to learn (and some medieval history to boot) and still get me accredited but thus far, no honourable school offers it. For shame.
The short term, I’ll apply this week to school(s) and see what my options are.
I’ll continue to work on my podcasting and make some killer documentaries. My podcast on farming will begin production in May so that is exciting.
I’ll need to self teach myself graphic design and I have a project to give myself to achieve it. I’ll be using these resources to get there and maybe spend a little money in books and/or programs which I’ll earn programming music for restaurants or voicing TV commercials.
The project: A Press Kit Promoting Me
Resources: Seth is the man
Now, all I need is a time machine to create some more hours in the day and a winning lottery ticket and I’m good to go.
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New Capital Rock City tonight, I better go change the baby’s bum, she stinks.
Go with yourself.
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Just before we take off for the Easter Weekend I wanted to share this tragic story with you.
The other day, Zoey Jane posted this on her blog.
I was up late after DJing at The Clubhouse so I clicked the link to the story of baby Maddie, and wow, sad. Everyone that has taken the time to read has felt for this family.
It *might* be a challenge to get on the site because the blog is traveling around the web and overloading the server.
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Coral, Mads and I are off to Lower Mainland to solve all the gangland murders and look for chocolate eggs (maybe catch a Gaslight Anthem concert and hit the Morning After Show 10th Anniversary Party too), so no blogs till at least Monday next week.
Go with yourself.
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Capital Rock City #52 has been birthed and wants you so badly to download it… or him… or I guess her, download her. sure.
Download and Love: Capital Rock City #52
and remember my friends, when you subscribe to Capital Rock City from the iTunes podcast section or RSS the program, the HMCS Winnipeg foils another batch of savage Somali pirates!
01) Eat The Weeds – In My Fading Memory
02) TV Heart Attack – A/O
03) Oh Snap! – Involuntary
04) Jell – Pin Me Down
05) Cheers in the Belfry – Alcoholism
06) The Paper Cranes – I’ll Love You Till My Veins Explode
Gosh darn it, those kids in the Paper Cranes look down right adorable, and I recognize a couple from???… Tha Racoons!
Thank you to Miranda for taking the time to gossip about The Paper Cranes having a couple songs featured in a new MTV Canada Hills wannabe show? alright then. As blogged on Perez Hilton.
But this is getting ahead of ourselves, the interview with Miranda is at the end of the show.
I start CRC 52 with a surprisingly wonderful song from a performer that goes by Eat The Weeds. I posted her story the other day on this here blog.
Sara P discovered this band from Vancouver, TV Heart Attack and wanted to share it on the podcast.
Oh Snap! used to be the band Sanijav which is Vajinas with a ‘J’ spelled backwards. Yup. So they changed their name and became the Zone Band of the Month. See you at Evo on April 30th for showcase performance.
New Jell takes the band in a poppier direction. If I remember, these boys used to have a more classic grungy sound. But maybe I’m getting old and forget.
The Belfry is a performance space in scenic Fernwood… also the name of this Vic band that had spent some time in Montreal. But now they are back jamming out their folksy alt rock.
and that’s that. Please download my podcast and if you like it, please tell a friend.
Go with yourself.
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Zoner Gina sent me a link on Facebook for this video from Metric. Its the new single “Gimmie Sympathy” done all acoustic like. Very pretty rendition.
Trolling Youtube after Metric and I came across this old video of Acres of Lions on my show… over a year ago, performing “Working.”
Youtube then recommend I check out this clip about “Flutter,” then new Twitter. What can I say, it brought the lolz.
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Nice, “Sweet Jane” came on the stereo… and by stereo I mean laptop. I like using the old music jargon, even in the year 2009. The other word I’ve been feeling is vapid. Vapid, good word.
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