Man, between the game on Friday September 28th, where I swore they were done for the season, and the playoff tie-breaker on Monday October 1st, where there was NO WAY IN HELL a team could come back from a two-run deficit in the bottom half OF THE 13TH INNING, to this.....National League Champions!!! Wow......THANK YOU, ROCKIES.....
Still a bit pissed off at all the bandwagon jumping in Denver, but hell.....that's just Denver for ya......and for this, I'll put up with almost anything!
- Apologies for being half-assed about posting to this....been traveling too much (bit of a family emergency in Buffalo.....followed by watching said Rockies sweep Philly live at Coors Field in Denver, and this coming weekend, I'm on a flight to Reno).....
This past weekend was the first I'd actually spent in Portlandia in a long-ass time.....and I took full advantage of it by sequestering up at The Ranch all weekend, watching hockey, baseball, football, cooking out, and recording tunes. We cranked out two tunes (I'll pop 'em on one of the blogs as soon as we shoot the videos for 'em) and were working on the first single for the album (a track titled "Homophobe Reform School" - a true Portland love story) when the subject of the song and the guy writing the lyrics got into a Stolichnaya-fueled argument about first-person vs. third person. Then the composer broke in and went off about how the vocals hafta go around the drums and NOT the bass riff........
......Christ on a bike!
Eventually, the subject of the song passed out where he stood, the composer wasn't in ANY shape to do a semi-intricate bass line, and they guy writing the lyrics just gave the fuck up! So we put "Homophobe Reform School" on the back burner for now. Actually, we may have taken the Goddamm thing offa the stove entirely!!!
Ten minutes and a couple pints after giving up on "Homophobe Reform School", a totally different song was recorded....this one titled "Dollar Store".....available for download eventually.....like, right after whenever we have enuff ambition to shoot the video for it.
- Windows Vista sucks!!!
I won't touch that shit.....but I had to deal with a relative's new computer, and it came with Vista, and I've read (and personally experienced) NOTHING but negative things about it! I really want to wait for "Vista - THIS time it will work" to come out in, say....oooooh, 2009 or so......THEN it'll function reasonably well (Remember such Gates hits as "Windows 98 - SECOND EDITION" and "Windows XP - SERVICE PACK TWO"???).
.....in the interim - anyone have a clue HOW (step-by-step, in one-syllable English words, please) to retrofit a new computer with Vista back to using Windows XP?
Anyone......anyone.....Bueller......Bueller.....???
- Next time I hear some capitalist wankshaft go on a rant about how horrible the Canadian health care system is......
....I'll just lose it.
Especially after finding out how a friend of mine had their health insurance cancelled for making too many claims because it was discovered and confirmed that they have Lupus! Discovered after my friend took out their insurance policy......
This REALLY infuriated me. "CANCELLED" health insurance????!!? Like....they can actually DO that to you??
....yes, E, they can. And they do.
NO! Wrong answer! Cancelled????
Come on! I mean, your homeowner's insurance gets cancelled for you being a prat and leaving your doors unlocked all the time!!! Your auto insurance gets cancelled for you attempting to break land-speed records on I-5 or convincing yourself that you actually CAN drive better after five pitchers of lager!
Point being....you don't go out and get Lupus, cancer, what have you, through idiocy and/or negligent behaviour!
Something really has to be done.....but I ain't holding my breath on it happening in the next five years......
- Speaking of medicine......
There are some things that are just too bizarre to be believed! I mean, look at this!!! COME ON!!! "Restless Leg Syndrome"?? Tell me....TELL ME that somebody just didn't make that shit up? And NOW the made-up drug used to treat this made-up affliction has a made-up side effect of compulsive gambling?? Jesus....was this on the mainstream national news or in The Onion?
Damm....and all along I thought only in MY line of employ do they make up solutions for problems that never really existed......
- Finally....a couple amusing retro videos from You Tube -
The Box - L'Affair Dumoutier (you're probably gonna hafta crank up the volume on this one should you actually want to listen to the song)
Just listening to this goofy-ass band makes me really want to go back to Montreal.....RIGHT NOW! But seriously....between the spectacular Canadian mullets, and the fact that the lounge scene near the end clearly displays what may happen after too many La Fin du Mondes (as in, you meet some French-Canadian bird at a club, and select some barn at random to roll in the hay in....and then shit goes all wrong...and then, suddenly, you're in the madhouse, then suddenly in court, with some newspaper reporter with a really bad Kevin Bacon haircut screaming at you IN FRENCH! THIS is why I have laid offa La Fin.) Love the Renault R5 Police Car, too.....supposedly Jean-Marc Parsipa gave up the cigs a few years back, last I heard.....this was after he gave up on acting in musik videos......
Mark E. at his finest.......check the director's notes to the right of the video...great tune....strange vid!
Pics from the most recent road trips on the pic page in a couple days!
-E-
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