After the Thursday morning meeting, DW showed me this crazy video of a ginormous ant colony that scientists excavated in like Africa or Australia or PEI ( I dunno, somewhere with red soil).
Pol, Jason and I were all huddled around the computer in awe. Then I thought, “damn you science! you killed all these cute little ants!”
Turns out they “evacuated” the ants before their experiment. Still, they did pour a few tons of cement into their megalopolis. Nature, pretty cool.
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yikes, Did I just say “pimp my ride?” What is this? 2005?
Peters sent this link to me today and I went wow.
Damn you Christmas! Why did you already have to have just happened!
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Day Eight was a suburb day. It began with a busy work schedule, but after the show I bought some groceries and picked Mads up from Nana’s cottage type house. She has four teeth now! um, all on the bottom. I hope four grow on the top in the next few days before Coral gets home, or I’ll be totally embarrassed.
We came home and played. The I cleaned up her RAMPAGE while she was still up and exploring. That was a bad idea. As a toured around the room putting things away, Mads followed destroying my order. That baby anarchist.
We read the “Gruffalo” book which is something that Coral normally reads her then she was ready to KO. I took her to her room and whoa, the smell. It is like a racoon stumbled in through a window and died. I guess I got to deal with the diaper genie. Its not even full! The diaper genie is a chore I despise. Its like taking out the garbage but with 157,732,734,87y,821 more steps.
David Eleanor and I hit the ice to play some puck with Razer so Lindsay was kind enough to monitor the baby’s lifeforce. I was a little worried, not in Lindsay’s skill at operating 911 in the event the baby turned blue, but rather something far more sinister. That’s what I get for watching Criminal Minds (no worries Coral, I recorded it for you, it was new, and soooooooooo good).
Day Eight
Baby is alive.
Dad: 08
A vicious tribe of marauding Racoons: 00
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Go with yourself.
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This is pretty groovy. I am watching Erick Thompson yesterday morning and at the end of the show he is hyping the next day and he teases “The Matinee” on the show. SWA? I know those guys! They perform a song called “The Maggie Cox Song.” Awesome.
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Today is Day Eight, but I did not update Day Seven. Day Seven was pretty easy for me as single dadness goes. I dropped Mads off with Nana in the morning and went about crafting a Capital Rock City and getting ready for the show. After work, some American Idol and dinner with my brother and Caitlin then DJing at the Clubhouse.
Not a whole heck of a lot of parenting there. So from what I’ve heard, and it could be an elaborate smokescreen, but Madelyn is still alive.
Day 07
Dad: 07
New Jersey Devils: 00
The test will be tonight when once again, I pick up the reins and steer my daughters development. I hope I make no mistakes that could jeopardize her future as a Doctor on a Spaceship.
She does have a new tooth! that brings her total amount of teeth to three. huzzah to chompers! huzzah!
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Miranda posted a clip of her band The Paper Cranes being featured on a Nissan Commercial. I’ve seen this commercial a dozen times but never noticed that it is the song “Rabbit in a Snare.”
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Capital Rock City #40 is done.
Download: Capital Rock City #40
On the show today I was very lucky to get the chance to talk with Dan, Lewis and Tyson from Acres of Lions. They brought the new record “Working” and we fired up three tracks from the album. If interviews with bands are not your bag, fast forward to 3 minutes to get right to it.
Set List
01) Acres of Lions – “Closer”
02) Acres of Lions – “Working”
03) Acres of Lions – “Entertainment”
04) theset – “Little Ones”
05) Said the Whale – “This City’s a Mess”
06) Everyone Everywhere – “Oxberry”
Lewis’ brother Elliot is in theset and he chose “Little Ones” to fire up on the show.
Said The Whale is fronted by this cat named Tyler and I know Tyler from way back in 1999-2000ish when I was in a band. Tyler was 15 and in a band called My Buddy Dave. I used to play them on my CiTR show, The Morning After Show. Tyler has always been a quality guy and its great that he is still making music. Take a moment to track down some Said the Whale.
That’s it for this week.
Next week some Justin Hewitt, Bronze Age, maybe something from Edmonton… and who knows. If you’re in a band and want to be featured… email works, jeremy@thezone.fm.
Go with yourself.
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Neat.
I was cyber stalking your profile when I came across an ad for The Zone on Facebook.
If you’re on Facebook, don’t be shy, add me up and find the Zone’s facebook group.
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Huzzah birthday cake!
What day am I on? I am losing track… six? Friday was three so this must be six.
The weekend was spent in Coquitlam which was a sea of work to pull off. My girl is a trillion miles away drinking 3 euro bottles of wine in Paris and I was left to fend for myself. Saturday was my 29th birthday. I decided to spend it in Coquitlam with Grandma Mom and Grandpa Jack (who wants to be referred to as the Father of the Father or Faf? SWA?). It was an early morning for Mads and I. Thankfully I had packed the night before so we got up and hit the road first thing.
My buddy Bob came over Saturdat night with his girl Jen and they had a present for Madelyn.
Yeah, they brought her an Oiler’s track suit. Bob was like, “she could walk into the arena with Ethan Moreau and people would think she was on the team.” ha, too funny (and adorable).
Jen drove Bob and I downtown to catch the Sam Roberts show. Randomly we bumped into Marisa who we went to high school with.
The show was pretty rad. Sam brings the noise. After the set, some pints in Yaletown and then a late night dash to reach skytrain before the last train.
Sunday, my brother Matt and I rolled into the Glasvegas show at Richards. They are moving the club to the old A&B Sound on Seymour which is neat but sad. I walking around that part of town with Matt telling him what used to be where back in my day. I am not even that old but the physical geography of Vancouver has changed so much.
Glasvegas was an interesting juxtaposition of sounds and style. Matt and I sensed something was up when the we walked in and some dude that thought he was a a cotton picker from the 1930s Deep South was jamming away at the guitar and singing about “pain.”
After his set, the music they played was 1950’s Dirty Dancing type music. like this song from 1957.
The boys (and girl) in Glasvegas took the stage and they didn’t look at all like my preconception. I was expecting an Interpol-y / Franz Ferindand-esque group of hipsters, but what I got was some Rockabilly looking Scottish dudes. They were very striking on stage. Their music is epic and grandiose. Richards was full and the band elicits a passionate fan. Many times I heard the audience sing with group. They added to the whole experience for me as I really only know the song we play on the Zone, “Geraldine.”
They got to “Geraldine” about half way through the set and the song lit the club up. The next song after the radio hit was maybe the band’s weakest song, so they let me down a bit. Their drummer is also very awkward. The guitar player and bassist however bring some energy. They whirl around the stage banging and attacking their instruments or barking and howling their harmonies.
The lights added to their mystique. They had bright yellow flood lights behind them that made the stage look like there were shadow puppets on stage performing.
The music sounded like a mix of 50’s pop songs and Interpol. Unique and interesting.
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Six or so hours after Matt and I got back from Richards, Madelyn and I were up and battling Vancouver traffic to the ferry. By the end of the weekend, I was a veteran of ferry travel with Mads. We worked it with the old ladies, played with the kids and devoured some ferry breakfast (mmm eggs scooped from a warm vat).
Day Six
Baby is still alive
Dad: 06
Davey Jone’s Locker: 00
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I sat down with Tyson, Lewis and Dan this evening. Their band, Acres of Lions, has a new record out in February. They brought an advanced copy and we played three new songs on Capital Rock City. Episode #40 will be posted tomorrow.
Go with yourself.
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