If you're on Heather's friend list on her livejournal (and chance are, you're not, because you're not fucking cool), you might have noticed that she posted a meme. I'm not one to do memetic stuff, usually, but for my push for content, I'm taking the plunge. Prepare yourselves!
The meme goes as follows:
Ask me for my "Top 5" of pretty much anything & I will give you my list.
Then copy this in your journal and let everyone else ask you for lists
Pretty pushy, eh? I have followed her orders, as I am a weak willed man. Aras, she didn't answer my question. Unlike her, however, I WILL! Isn't the internet wild and utterly mad?
Classified under:memes,lists
Thursday, July 28, 2005
Tone Twilight Zone
One of my weirder experiences tree planting was one of the e-mails that I received when I got back. It was from my lady friend from Japan, Miwa. She had e-mailed and told me that I had phoned her while I was tree planting and wanted to thank me for the phone call. This is odd for a couple of reasons. First of all, I had no access to telephones while I was planting trees. This makes it pretty much impossible as it is to talk to her. Secondly, even if I did have telephone access, she never gave me her telephone number. Thirdly, assuming that I *did* call her, using my cell, there was no signal where I was, and, even if I did have signal, I have to contact Rogers before I makes calls overseas lest someone has stolen my cell. So yeah, it was pretty disconcerting. I'm almost of the opinion that there's a Rob from a parallel universe. It's *very* weird. That said, judging from her sheer joy in the e-mail, she was pleased as punch that I called. Today, Miwako returned the favour and called me this morning. It was great to hear her trademarke "Harro, Rob!" once again and catch up on each other's lives, despite me not having called her before. Her birthday is coming up soon, which means I'll have to give her a phone call. For real, this time
Classified under:weird,Miwako+Takabe
Classified under:weird,Miwako+Takabe
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Spin's Greatest Albums of the Last 20 Years
Classified under:music,lists
Last month's issue featured a top 100 list of the greatest CDs of the last 20 years. I, being a list whore, had no choice but to pick it up. Since Spin
isn't on par with Blender or Rolling Stone, there's a lot of suspect choices on the list. That said, I figured that I'd save you all some money and give you
the top 20 albums of the last 20 years.
Note, the albums bolded are ones that I own, bootlegged or otherwise. Gasp in shock and horror as we see the horrible holes in my musical library. My commentary will be in brackets. Without further ado...
1)Radiohead-OK Computer
2)Public Enemy-It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
3)Nirvana-Nevermind
4)Pavement-Slanted and Enchanted
5)the Smiths-the Queen is Dead
6)Pixies-Surfer Rosa (I listened to this CD over and over again while I was planting at Blue River. It took a while to get into, but now I *really* love their sound. Frank Black's scratchy guitar bat screeches are phenomenal)
7)De La Soul-3 Fee High and Rising
8)Prince-Sign 'o' the Times
9)PJ Harvey-Rid of Me (Anyone ever listen to PJ Harvey? There was a lot of buzz on her new album but I've seemed to have completely missed out. Last summer, the CBC decried that Alanis Morriset had fucked her career over and had killed the riot grrl movement that she started. Note: this might be bull)
10)N.W.A.-Straight Outta Compton (I get merciless ribbing from Anson for liking this album)
11)U2-Achtung Baby
12)Beastie Boys-Paul's Boutique (This is the only Beastie Boys album that I own)
13)Husker Du-New Day Rising (Husker Du always sounded like a wannabe hippie icecream company)
14)Sonic Youth-Daydream Nation'
15)Liz Phair-Exile in Guyville
16)Beck-Odelay (Shame alert! I never heard this album until I started planting trees this summer. Very impressive. You could hear the Dust Brother's fingerprints all over it)
17)Nas-Illmatic
18)Guns 'N' Roses-Appetite for Destruction (I've been meaning to buy this for ages. Welcome to the Jungle and Sweet Child o' Mine are both very ace)
19)Hole-Live Through This (When my friend from Ireland, Denis, say this, he called the whole list a load of bollocks. He doesn't dig Hole)
20)Wu-tang Clan-Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
21)Public Enemy-Fear of a Black Planet
22)My Bloody Valentine-Loveless (The WEF used to rave about My Bloody Valentine. Am I missing out?)
23)Outkast-Skankonia (I should pick this one up to, as it has Ms Jackson and Gasoline Dreams. Great songs, those)
24)Sleater-Kinney-Dig Me Out ( I have it on good authority that Sleater Kinney is pretty good too)
25)Nine Inch Nails-The Downward Spiral
26)Bjork-Post (Bjork has a huge queer following. Why? This is something that I don't understand, as I am a straight man)
27)the Cure-The Head on the Door (I have a copy of the Cure's set from Coachella 2004 that I've probably listened to twice now. I wasn't that impressed.)
28)Oasis-Definatelu Maybe
29)Fugazi-13 Songs
30)the Notorious B.I.G.-Ready to Die (I had a chance to listen to this album this summer. Halfway through, I said "Fuck this", and switched to Dre 2001.)
31)Dinosaur Jr.-You're Living All Over Me
32)the Replacements-Tim (I bought this when I bought DJ Shadow's Pre-emptive strike for my love of Can't Hardly Wait and Alex Chilton, which aren't on this album. Since it's on the list, I guess it's time to re-examine.
33)Ice Cube-AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted (I still say that Ice Cube is our generation's Bill Cosby)
34)Elliot SMith-Either/Or
35)Dr. Dre-the Chronic (Thanks to San Andreas, I'd probably pick this up for Dre Day and Nothin' But a G Thang)
36)Pixies-Doolite
37)Guided By Voices-Bee Thousand
38)A Tribe Called Quest-The Low End Theory
39)Lucinda Williams-Lucinda Williams
40)Run-D.M.C.-Raising Hell
41)Smashing Pumpkins-Siamese Dreams
42)Jane's Addiction-Nothing's Shocking (And yes, I am aware that I'm missing out hardcore by not having picked up the Smashing Pumpkins and Jane's Addiction.
Truth be told, I didn't start picking up CD's until the late 90s. FACT!)
43)Boogie Down Productions-Criminal Minded
44)Green Day-Dookie
45)Kanye West-College Dropout (I probably wouldn't have picked this up if I didn't hear Lyndsey glorify Kanye almost every fucking day on the block. It's an excellent rap album that takes the piss out of most of the rap that you hear on the radio. Great lyrics and fantastic beats. I picked it up for 10 bucks at CD Plus. You can't go wrong with that.
46)The Fall-This Nation's Saving Grace
47)Eric B & Rakim-Paid in Full
48)Radiohead-Kid A (Has one of my favourite opening tracks of all time. I was so impressed with their sound on this, I picked up Hail to the Thief. I thought Kid A was better)
49)Lauryn Hill-The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
50)New Order-Low-Life
51)Nirvana-In Utero
52)Beastie Boys-Licensed to Ill
53)Rage Against the Machine-The Battle of Los Angeles (Both this and Licensed to Ill, my brother Simon owns and loves)
54)the Breeders-Last Splash
55)The Chemical Brothers-Dig Your Own Hole
56)PJ Harvey=To Bring You My Love
57)White Stripes-White Blood Cells (Yeah, I know, I should own this album. Blah, blah, blah)
58)Metalica-Master of Puppets
59)Modest Mouse-The Lonesome Crowded West
60)De La Soul-De La Soul Is Dead
61)Weezer-Pinkerton (I have a feeling that hard-core Weezer fans, Mike, I'm talking to you, will dispute this being on the list)
62)Missy Elliot-Supa Dupa Fly
63)Pavement-Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
64)Eminem-The Marshal Matthers LP
65)Basement Jaxx-Remedy
66)Outkast-Aquemini
67)Slayer-Reign in Blood
68)Tricky-Maxiquaye
69)DJ Shadow-Entroducing (Being a huge Shadow fan, I'm glad to see him on the list. Entroducing is an awesome album)
70)Jay-Z-the Blueprint
71)The Jesus and Mary Chain-Psychocandy
72)Raekwon-Onlu Built 4 Cuban Linx
73)Pulp-Different Class (The coolest girl that I worked with this summer, Angela, was a huge Pulp fan. She, Denis and I would spend our evenings in the truck listening to this CD belting out Common People almost every night. Besides staring at the ass of Candance, IMO, the cutest girl at camp, this was my favourite part of my downtime)
74)Portishead-Dummy
75)Le Tigre-Le Tigre
76)Belle and Sebastian-If You're Feeling Sinister
77)Wilco-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (I have the feeling that Mike will sell me on this one)
78)the Stone Roses-the Stone Roses
79)Moby-Everything is Wrong
80)D'Angelo-Voodoo
81)Beck-Mellow Gold
82)Jeff Buckley-Grace
83)At the Drive-In-Relationship of Command
84)Soundgarden-Superunknown
85)R.E.M.-Automatic for the People
86)Meat Puppers-Up on the Sun
87)Blur Parklife
88)Stereolab-Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Didn't Stereolab do that infectious song for that Voltzwagon commercial?)
89)Yeah Yeah Yeahs-Fever to Tell
90)Sonic Youth-Sister
91)XTC-Skylarking
92)Big Black-Atomizer
93)Pearl Jam-Ten
94)Slint-Spiderland
95)Elastica-Elastica
96)the Pogues-Rum, Sodomy & the Lash
97)Neutral Milk Hotel-In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
98)Cornershop-When I was Born for the 7th Time
99)Afgan Wings-Gentlemen
100)the Strokes-Is This It (More like This is shit. After listening to this album treeplanting, for the love of me, I couldn't figure out what all the fuss
was about)
Last month's issue featured a top 100 list of the greatest CDs of the last 20 years. I, being a list whore, had no choice but to pick it up. Since Spin
isn't on par with Blender or Rolling Stone, there's a lot of suspect choices on the list. That said, I figured that I'd save you all some money and give you
the top 20 albums of the last 20 years.
Note, the albums bolded are ones that I own, bootlegged or otherwise. Gasp in shock and horror as we see the horrible holes in my musical library. My commentary will be in brackets. Without further ado...
1)Radiohead-OK Computer
2)Public Enemy-It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
3)Nirvana-Nevermind
4)Pavement-Slanted and Enchanted
5)the Smiths-the Queen is Dead
6)Pixies-Surfer Rosa (I listened to this CD over and over again while I was planting at Blue River. It took a while to get into, but now I *really* love their sound. Frank Black's scratchy guitar bat screeches are phenomenal)
7)De La Soul-3 Fee High and Rising
8)Prince-Sign 'o' the Times
9)PJ Harvey-Rid of Me (Anyone ever listen to PJ Harvey? There was a lot of buzz on her new album but I've seemed to have completely missed out. Last summer, the CBC decried that Alanis Morriset had fucked her career over and had killed the riot grrl movement that she started. Note: this might be bull)
10)N.W.A.-Straight Outta Compton (I get merciless ribbing from Anson for liking this album)
11)U2-Achtung Baby
12)Beastie Boys-Paul's Boutique (This is the only Beastie Boys album that I own)
13)Husker Du-New Day Rising (Husker Du always sounded like a wannabe hippie icecream company)
14)Sonic Youth-Daydream Nation'
15)Liz Phair-Exile in Guyville
16)Beck-Odelay (Shame alert! I never heard this album until I started planting trees this summer. Very impressive. You could hear the Dust Brother's fingerprints all over it)
17)Nas-Illmatic
18)Guns 'N' Roses-Appetite for Destruction (I've been meaning to buy this for ages. Welcome to the Jungle and Sweet Child o' Mine are both very ace)
19)Hole-Live Through This (When my friend from Ireland, Denis, say this, he called the whole list a load of bollocks. He doesn't dig Hole)
20)Wu-tang Clan-Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
21)Public Enemy-Fear of a Black Planet
22)My Bloody Valentine-Loveless (The WEF used to rave about My Bloody Valentine. Am I missing out?)
23)Outkast-Skankonia (I should pick this one up to, as it has Ms Jackson and Gasoline Dreams. Great songs, those)
24)Sleater-Kinney-Dig Me Out ( I have it on good authority that Sleater Kinney is pretty good too)
25)Nine Inch Nails-The Downward Spiral
26)Bjork-Post (Bjork has a huge queer following. Why? This is something that I don't understand, as I am a straight man)
27)the Cure-The Head on the Door (I have a copy of the Cure's set from Coachella 2004 that I've probably listened to twice now. I wasn't that impressed.)
28)Oasis-Definatelu Maybe
29)Fugazi-13 Songs
30)the Notorious B.I.G.-Ready to Die (I had a chance to listen to this album this summer. Halfway through, I said "Fuck this", and switched to Dre 2001.)
31)Dinosaur Jr.-You're Living All Over Me
32)the Replacements-Tim (I bought this when I bought DJ Shadow's Pre-emptive strike for my love of Can't Hardly Wait and Alex Chilton, which aren't on this album. Since it's on the list, I guess it's time to re-examine.
33)Ice Cube-AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted (I still say that Ice Cube is our generation's Bill Cosby)
34)Elliot SMith-Either/Or
35)Dr. Dre-the Chronic (Thanks to San Andreas, I'd probably pick this up for Dre Day and Nothin' But a G Thang)
36)Pixies-Doolite
37)Guided By Voices-Bee Thousand
38)A Tribe Called Quest-The Low End Theory
39)Lucinda Williams-Lucinda Williams
40)Run-D.M.C.-Raising Hell
41)Smashing Pumpkins-Siamese Dreams
42)Jane's Addiction-Nothing's Shocking (And yes, I am aware that I'm missing out hardcore by not having picked up the Smashing Pumpkins and Jane's Addiction.
Truth be told, I didn't start picking up CD's until the late 90s. FACT!)
43)Boogie Down Productions-Criminal Minded
44)Green Day-Dookie
45)Kanye West-College Dropout (I probably wouldn't have picked this up if I didn't hear Lyndsey glorify Kanye almost every fucking day on the block. It's an excellent rap album that takes the piss out of most of the rap that you hear on the radio. Great lyrics and fantastic beats. I picked it up for 10 bucks at CD Plus. You can't go wrong with that.
46)The Fall-This Nation's Saving Grace
47)Eric B & Rakim-Paid in Full
48)Radiohead-Kid A (Has one of my favourite opening tracks of all time. I was so impressed with their sound on this, I picked up Hail to the Thief. I thought Kid A was better)
49)Lauryn Hill-The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
50)New Order-Low-Life
51)Nirvana-In Utero
52)Beastie Boys-Licensed to Ill
53)Rage Against the Machine-The Battle of Los Angeles (Both this and Licensed to Ill, my brother Simon owns and loves)
54)the Breeders-Last Splash
55)The Chemical Brothers-Dig Your Own Hole
56)PJ Harvey=To Bring You My Love
57)White Stripes-White Blood Cells (Yeah, I know, I should own this album. Blah, blah, blah)
58)Metalica-Master of Puppets
59)Modest Mouse-The Lonesome Crowded West
60)De La Soul-De La Soul Is Dead
61)Weezer-Pinkerton (I have a feeling that hard-core Weezer fans, Mike, I'm talking to you, will dispute this being on the list)
62)Missy Elliot-Supa Dupa Fly
63)Pavement-Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
64)Eminem-The Marshal Matthers LP
65)Basement Jaxx-Remedy
66)Outkast-Aquemini
67)Slayer-Reign in Blood
68)Tricky-Maxiquaye
69)DJ Shadow-Entroducing (Being a huge Shadow fan, I'm glad to see him on the list. Entroducing is an awesome album)
70)Jay-Z-the Blueprint
71)The Jesus and Mary Chain-Psychocandy
72)Raekwon-Onlu Built 4 Cuban Linx
73)Pulp-Different Class (The coolest girl that I worked with this summer, Angela, was a huge Pulp fan. She, Denis and I would spend our evenings in the truck listening to this CD belting out Common People almost every night. Besides staring at the ass of Candance, IMO, the cutest girl at camp, this was my favourite part of my downtime)
74)Portishead-Dummy
75)Le Tigre-Le Tigre
76)Belle and Sebastian-If You're Feeling Sinister
77)Wilco-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (I have the feeling that Mike will sell me on this one)
78)the Stone Roses-the Stone Roses
79)Moby-Everything is Wrong
80)D'Angelo-Voodoo
81)Beck-Mellow Gold
82)Jeff Buckley-Grace
83)At the Drive-In-Relationship of Command
84)Soundgarden-Superunknown
85)R.E.M.-Automatic for the People
86)Meat Puppers-Up on the Sun
87)Blur Parklife
88)Stereolab-Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Didn't Stereolab do that infectious song for that Voltzwagon commercial?)
89)Yeah Yeah Yeahs-Fever to Tell
90)Sonic Youth-Sister
91)XTC-Skylarking
92)Big Black-Atomizer
93)Pearl Jam-Ten
94)Slint-Spiderland
95)Elastica-Elastica
96)the Pogues-Rum, Sodomy & the Lash
97)Neutral Milk Hotel-In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
98)Cornershop-When I was Born for the 7th Time
99)Afgan Wings-Gentlemen
100)the Strokes-Is This It (More like This is shit. After listening to this album treeplanting, for the love of me, I couldn't figure out what all the fuss
was about)
Monday, July 25, 2005
Chatting with the ex
Classified under:personal,
I chatted with Pearl for the first time in probably three odd months last night. Normally, I don't mind chatting with her. She's a smart, funny gal who knows me better than any other woman that I've dated. And, unlike my other exes, it never feels ackward or weird chatting with her. She always gives me her full undivided attention and never makes me feel like I'm chatting to myself.
I found out that her fiancé is moving to Leithbridge this fall, which causes me much glee. Knowing of her high libido and her distaste of long distance relationships, it'll be intersting to see if she lasts it out. Yeah, I'm being malicious, and yeah, I'm aware that they have a fantastic relationship, but it would great for the guy to get his just deserts for cheating on me with her. There shall be no sympathy for mister vengeance.
She also sent me a picture of her and her fiance and I have to say, that she's one of those women that gets hotter as she gets older. Fah! To make matters worse, she insinuated that she had a threesome with the guy and has been wolfing down pussy hardcore. This pisses me off to no end, as I've told her numerous times that under no circumstances that I want to know of her sex life. Case closed. She figured that it was kosher since it involved a women. No dice. It really irks me that she fucking lacks respect about how I feel about that shit. I really wish that she'd lay off. Knowing her, she probably will.
Her birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks, which means that I'll have to give her my annual phone call. If it's like anything like last year, she'll gab my ear off like nothing ever happened between us. Near the end of our relationship, it got to be annoying, listening to her babble on and on about others for 15 minutes before she asked me how my day was, but I can handle it once a year.
Sunday, July 24, 2005
Global Frequency pilot
I wrote *way* back in 2003 that the Global Frequency comics was "the most expensive television pilot never made". Judging what John Rogers, one of the brains behind the series has to say, this is quite true and is one of the reasons that the show never got picked up. Thanks to my buddy, Stephen, I got a chance to see the shit canned pilot for the television series. The verdict? Well, for starters, it lacks the balls to the walls urgency of the comic book. Where the comic was densely packed action barely contained in 22 pages, the pilot for the Global Frequency had lots of room to breathe, even allowing time for *gasp* character development. And that's fine and dandy. The comic medium is much different than what you can do in television. My other gripe was that the acting wasn't that great, with the exception of Michelle Forbes as the hardass Miranda Zero. Like all television series', I'm sure that this would have improved had the show went on. What's good about the series? Thankfully, it captures the esscence of the comic, which is a bunch of orindary people working together for the greater good of humanity. And the pilot had some great pieces of meat for comic fans, foreshadowing the cyborg that they encounter in the second issue.
But that's all peas and carrots. Check out the pilot yourself and see how it compares to the comic.
Saturday, July 23, 2005
I don't understand Kotex
I don't understand commercials about feminine products. I just saw a commercial by Kotex that declared that there's nothing plain about "plain janes", then segueways into how their new symbol is going to be an orchid. Am I missing something here? Is different menstrual symptons make a woman less plain than others? And why the orchid? Somehow, I don't see the co-relation between that and the moon blood. Is this because I am male?
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