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That is such a great gig for them. You're talking about Champagne James Robinson. When he was a kid at summer camp Weirdness and I just new him as 'Seventies' because of this sort of short long prince valiant haircut he had, the Birks and how he was like the camper hippy protege.

Something In The Way She Moves may be too classic but it does something to me whenever it plays. Baby Bitch and its cousin Birthday Boy both deserver mention.

This has been in the wind forever. You just know he'll pull it off like the Studio 54 dramatic role (Ruben?).

That's tonight for anyone in the area. This has to be just about the best 'live' band going in Ontario these days. Although McKenty and the Spades kicked my ass the other night.

That's a great fucking bill. The Kittens are in Guelph tonight I'll ask them how it went. I'd love to hear Breit sit in with the Kittens. That would kill.

That is a regrettable piece of graphic design - good thing it's not a catholic hospital.

I think I can relate to these sentiments as well or better than most. I've made some strides in my life but also slipped periodically of late. I think I'm the only person who drinks four beers, smokes a couple joints then goes for a 5 km. run. I live on extremes I guess. I'd recommend the fitness part though (minus the beers) even just walking really helps for me. I'll repeat what others have said another version of the 'I'll have just one'. The formal difference your addiction counsellor will tell you is that you and I and others like us (this community is full of them) are true addicts- we have the disease of addiction. Others can abuse drugs or alcohol then just stop or go back to their productive lives- we'll just keep winding the bottom of the drain. The other thing -and I learned this in rehab from a great doctor who was a recovering alcoholic himself- is that 'if you spend enough time in a barbershop you're going to get a haircut'. It's by way of saying slippery people, places and things. If you want to make a go of this you'll have to stay out of the places you love for a while - maybe a long while- the music places. It's sort of a variation on 'a guy walks into a bar looking for a sandwich and a glass of milk'. You see the guy really wants a sandwich and a glass of milk. It's like Gary Busey said- denial is like a giant neon sign flashing DENIAL above your head.

Somehow I get the sense this was based on first hand experience.

Seriously Tiesto is a fucking wank. Totally phones it in, I wouldn't be surprised if he's playing a mix CD and just making motions like he's mixing.

I have no idea how Jesse Gallagher was chalked up with the rest of rock history (must know the editor) but he appears briefly in the new U2 video (at 3:38) there's a link on their site. Apollo Sunshine

I'm presuming BradM is the only one who's going to know this one. I keep thinking it's Quartermass but it's Quatermass after this Einstein adventurer guy. It's not all that good, sort of like V was in America but from the 70's and British. The ones I'm watching are priceless though because they deal with these obvious parodies of hippies called the Planet People and they're all going to these like stonehenge type power spots following these magic plumb bobs. You can tell the writers hated hippies. Sweet I found a picture.

Old news buddy. This has been flaunted for months.

I had an entomology teacher who showed us the Life photo series similar to this (cocaine, meth, caffeine, LSD). I presume it's the same way- they feed them spiders injected with the chemical. The results were amusing- the LSD spider web was perfect which seemed like strong evidence to me. She would insist it was too perfect because the spider was so absorbed making it that it lost sight of the tension in it's lines and sensitivity to predators (also sounds familiar).

So I went to this indy rock house party (the River Shanty) where - well it was Kung- at an indy rock house party. I was pretty tame. The girls and boys were putting on their Bjork style face paint so I went with the Bo Jackson hash marks. Kind of a cool lo-fi band of Bjorksters in prom dresses (complete with tin foil snow flakes overhead) all in all a great visual in my then current headspace. Then Karl from Tin (always forget the other bands) and this masked bandito played like glitchtronica with live sax. Very Albert Ayler- very cool. And they had sandwiches with BLUE BREAD. Like the bread was Blue! Quel trippy. Then went up to Elliot Brood where I missed Emily Weedon who I wanted to see. Possibly the worst band in the history of all bands was playing. Christ almighty they need salvation. I don't know if the Brood brought it- sort of a dour scene there. The Albion was only marginally funner. Then I just started wandering around the neighborhood and listening for parties which I promptly crashed. Bought some nice nugget from some Todd (name was not in fact Todd - reminded me of 'a Todd'). Some other party dude figures out I don't know anyone there but I think it was cause his girlfriend was digging on me ya know? So he politely showed me the door then I pulled an A-Team recon mission behind the back of the house and scrounged the rest of the meatheads beer which I proceeded to give out to random passerby's in what I thought was a very Robin Hood like gesture. I mean who the fuck drinks Coors Lite?

I know I read about that - how does that shit come together. Magnolia was licensed for a Dewar's commercial too.

Not sure if you have the setlist from that- it's sitting right in front of me if not.

Well she's the apple of my eye at the moment little buddy but I will say that the two of you would be virtually at eye level.

Finally! The much coveted seniors discount.

At the James McKenty and the Spades show at the Cameron I chatted for a while with the lovely Emily Weedon who was playing in the front room. As it turns out she's opening for the Brood on New Years as well. Wait for it little buddy but her new sound veers closely in her own words towards Drive By Truckers with a little Dolly and Lucinda. http://www.myspace.com/deltatheband

Thanks for the heads up. As for Wherry you may be overly biased Wish. I've read a lot of his stuff recently and he's really strong. He's got a kind of edge to him and a precision- the former I have in spades the latter I'm working on.

I read something odd in Eye Weekly's yearly today about something to do with the Flaming Lips and curfew. Also about overly ambitious security and something or other. I found this on Aaron Wherry's blog about the Dears experience with an instantaneous retraction. I find it funny that he said it was the 'darkest' festival they'd played- like what does darkest mean in the context of a cellphone festival?

I really like this Canadian music writer Aaron Wherry. I guess he used to write for the Post and now for Now. He also has his blog popwherry.

Katonah is sick too it veers from sharp songwriting to almost disco biscuitish electonica back to something else. Very tweaky on the ears and amazing production (one of their berklee profs produced it).

You really have to hear their albums. The songs are so good.

So glad you like it. Some of those songs are unbelievably well crafted.