I was browsing my Mommyblogs as I am known to do. An interesting discussion on Redneck Mommy’s blog about the little tykes walking in during adult play time. It made me laugh. I’ll just tell Madelyn the truth:
“Mommy and me are making a bigger, faster, better, stronger version of YOU! We have the technology…”
Redneck Mommy: I’m A Supa-Staar
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A Day late a bucks short. I get it.
Ok, so Beast was on the show last Wednesday and I am a lazy fuck… so here is the interview today.
Interview: Beast
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Our baby girl Madelyn turned one on Tuesday.
And because I yap on the radio for a living, I talked about oranges (and Madelyn). Dad better send one out to Maddy O on her birthday during the Picks @ 6!
Have a Listen: I am Happy For Two Reasons
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Right near the end of my time broadcasting The Morning After Show at CiTR, I fell into it with a band called All State Champion. I had the chance to see them live a few times and even played a song of theirs on The Zone late at night when no one was listening.
ASC would go their separate ways, but leader Daniel Sioui would continue with a new project called Carpenter. I might like Carpenter even more. Coral likes to tell the story of the time I ignored her at a show at Logans! (duh, boys ignore girls that they like, that is biology!)
Today on Capital Rock City I talk to Daniel and play the music of both All State Champion and Carpenter. You can see Carpenter live in Victoria on Friday when they open for Gob at Lucky Bar.
Download: Capital Rock City #46
You can also subscribe to Capital Rock City in the podcast section of the iTunes store or use this handy dandy RSS feed.
DJ Notes:
01) All State Champion – “Regret’s a Bitter Taste”
02) Carpenter – “Best Place”
03) Carpenter – “You Can’t Keep a Good Man Down”
I hope you enjoy the show as much as I enjoyed crafting it.
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I was cruising around my Facebook the other day, and there was Daniel Wesley facebooking away the status of his new album. I messaged him and asked him to call my radio show. He did. Here is the audio.
Interview: Daniel Wesley On The ZAS
“Facebooking” is that a verb? Not as a cute as “twittering.”
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Lots of emails today.
Interviews being scheduled including this gem in march.
starring: FEMINEM & T-BAG
Yeah, pretty awesome.
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Maddy O is one year old today! Huzzah! Coral and I managed to keep her alive, fed and in diapers for a whole year.
We had a big party with all our family and friends at Moxies on Sunday. Thank you to everyone that took some time on a Sunday afternoon to spend it with us.
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The starter button on my scooter hasn’t worked in a couple months. I’ve had to kick start the beast everyday. Yesterday on my drive into the Zone, the scooter stalled out on Blanshard. Yikes! I was worried I’d have to get off my bike, put it up on the stand and kick start it right in the middle of traffic. How embarrassing! As a sign of desperation, I hit the starter button and eureka! it worked. Now it works again. funny little Honda, it fixed itself.
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David Armano is my social media guru and he posted this very interesting paper about customer service.
If you work in the service industry (and most North American trades these days have a boat load of service involved) then you might want to read it.
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That’s all I got for now, going to hop into the studio and try to get my Capital Rock City #46 done before 3PM! Its going to sound so good! Interview with Carpenter with a couple Carpenter tracks AND an older cut from All State Champion.
Go with yourself.
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That Pearl Jam song “Jeremy” ends with Eddie Vedder going, “arararrRRRrRRRrrAAaaaaRRRR.”
I think that’s cool, get it out Eddie, get all those demons out.
I am listening to a 90s playlist on my iTunes right now… can you tell?
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Last night, I watched a documentary on Arthur “Killer” Kane of the New York Dolls. (on the CBC of all places!) I didn’t really know too much about the tragic story of the group. In the early 70s, the band a wee bit before curve of popular culture. They started a style of rock and roll that would dominate punk and 80s glam metal right into the 90s. But the band disintegrated before they could cash in on any of the success. They had a series of Spinal Tap-esque tragedies with members dying and eventually went their separate ways. The front man, David Johansen actually saw some success in the 80s as a joke act. Remember that song “Hot Hot Hot?” Yeah, the former front man of The New York Dolls.
um yeah… that dude invented punk rock in 1973! And the crazy ghost cab driver from the Bill Murray classic Scrooged? yup you can guess it, David Johansen.
But the documentary, “New York Doll,” is not about David Johansen… it is about Arthur Kane. The New York Dolls called it a band in the mid 70s and Kane tried to keep something going. He bounced between coasts and eventually settled in LA. One day he got completely blasted and attacked his wife! He tore all her clothes off her and she ran away. Kane thought the the best way to head her off at the pass was to jump out a third story window. And as he says in the documentary, “In AA, they call that hitting rock bottom.”
Kane’s wife left him and he found god… well the Mormon version of God. He then would live most of his life in relative obscurity working in the Family History center for the Latter Day Saints, fixing copiers (the scene that brought the LOLz was when he talked about how hard it is to pick up Mormons). He rode the bus, he lived off welfare, his bass guitars were in the pawn shop.
Then in 2004, Morrissey (who was a huge fan in 1970, heading up the groups UK fan club and everything) called him up and said, “hey get the band back together… I got a show in London for you.)
The Mormons gave him a few hundred bucks to get his bass outta the pawn shop and a plane ticket to New York. There he would meet up with the two surviving members of the group Sylvain Sylvain and Johansen.
Kane has a hard time with Johansen because he has many unresolved feelings about the break up of the Dolls and Johansen’s later commercial success while he lived in poverty. The boys manage to reconcile their difference, rehearse and have an excellent show. Kane is exuberant and plans to tour with the New York Dolls.
The documentary ends sadly when Kane gets leukemia and suddenly dies.
Serious downer to an excellent story, yet also uplifting. Kane discovers religion which brings him a measure of peace and he did get that final shot at the prize to end his life on an up.
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Go with yourself.
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According to my Last FM page, here is what has been getting the most play at home over the past 7 days.
01) The National
02) Jimmy Eat World
03) Face to Face
04) By A Thread
05) Explosions in The Sky
06) Coheed and Cambria
07) Led Zeppelin
07) Braid
07) Fleet Foxes
10) The Frames
10) Grand Archives
That sounds about right. As you might notice, heavily influenced by the top 20n records thing I wrote the other day, revisiting some albums. And Explosions in the Sky get played all the time. They’d be higher on the list, but their songs are about 8 minutes each, so they get half the spins of say… Face to Face.
In car, its all the new Franz Ferdinand or even some Gaslight Anthem.
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Madelyn turns one next Tuesday. The big birthday party in on Sunday, fun.
She almost walks, she almost talks… but almost doesn’t pay the bills! do better baby!
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I was thinking about adding some work to make some more money. Before I even advertised that I was looking for work (kinda, there were some emails and some rejections or no replies…), two companies contacted me looking for my expertise. Neat. No deals closed so no job attained yet. But if it happens then I can’t wait to share some future projects on here.
The work will be welcome.
We decided to up our level of catering for the wedding a few notches (OK a bunch of notches!). Our good friend Alix works for a company called Feys and Hobbs and they do A-list event food. We had a fairly frugal budget but they asked to make a bid anyways. Sure enough, their price was above what we could pay but the quality is way above… so two things happened… we asked our friend Alix to get on her knees (as in begged, nothing sexual you filthies!) to her boss for us to get us a better price (achieved) and Coral’s father stepped up with a contribution for our catering. So Coral and I are basically back to our old financial commitment for the B-level food but we can deliver the A-level experience to our family and friends. Needless to say, Coral and I are very happy and grateful.
Thank you Alix and Rob and Roberta!
This generosity comes on top of money already contributed by my folks which (depending how much people drink) should cover the bar… so the next morning when you’re puking up my Feys and Hobbs in the toilet cuz you’re so hung over, you can cheers, Grandma Mom and Grandpa Jack!
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It has been a challenging month for me but is now looking up. The Clubhouse had a great crowd on Tuesday which I hope is the start of some momentum heading into Spring. I have some stellar ideas and some contacts to try and make those ideas reality and finally a couple promising leads on some more work so I can pays me bills and save for our wedding. Actually last night I started sketching out a game changer concept for wi-fi radio! whoa, blew my own mind last night. Bad cuz I didn’t get much sleep, good because… well its a good idea.
Next week, an interview with the local author of the book “Becoming Batman,” Dr. Paul Zehr. Capital Rock City has an interview with Carpenter, in town Friday to open for Gob @ Lucky Bar. I am working on interviews with Chixdiggit and John Franco of By A Thread.
Go with yourself.
Posted in ...this is your father speaking, music, neat-O gang | Tagged Becoming Batman, By A Thread, Carpenter, Chixdiggit, Feys and Hobbs, Gob, Last FM, Wedding | 1 Comment »
“In almost every market, the boring slot is filled. The product designed to appeal to the largest possible audience already exists, and displacing it is awfully difficult. The real growth comes with products that annoy, offend, don’t appeal, are too expensive, too cheap, too heavy, too complicated, too simple — too something.”
– Seth Godin from his book ‘Purple Cow.’
I was reading THIS BLOG post last night. I thought it was pretty amazing. The branding gurus are talking about coffee, but they could easily be talking about radio. I found it very inspiring.
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The Morning After 