Tungsten Gruvsten

are you really using a gun? that's hard to do...pick up a 35w iron - weighs next to nothing...lots easier. (...and try out different diodes with that fuzzface! in914/in4001 or even zeners!)

For instrumental delights - scofield - most of a go-go works! dance floor beauts - go for the funk - stevie wonder etc!

I dig a lot of her stuff - was often compared to a female george clinton for the experimental 'funkadelic' sounding stuff - rougher, less-polished gritty funk. hell yeah! I can totally hear the macy gray now that it's been pointed out...

cock-smoker has a certain heavy-handedness to it...The old guy who helped my father and I renovate my house would be pounding away on something with his big ass hammer and saying each syllable with a -wham- of the hammer...awesome....cock....smoke.....er! Me I've always been partial to shitfuck. Total throwaway. ya gotta mean it. Cocksoup has been my sorta-swear for the last 12 years runnning though...that was the first I heard of it, it became big in my group of stonertarians, and I still say it. Usually not when i'm acutally angry, it's more of an 'effect' word. Fagsauce is a new one to me as of last year - a coworker passed along this gem: 'Shove it up your cock pouch, fagsauce' for which I am greatly in debt. English buggery at it's finest. Not sure if it's from his mind or pop culture but damn it's good.

mmmm lee dorsey is a fave - I remember on an old k-tel record when I was a kid the "Sitting in Ya-Ya' tune - loved his voice then and even more since re-discovering him... 'Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further?' has gotta be one of the best fuggin' new orleans dirty funk songs ever...the bass is so damn snappy in that tune..,.

oh and 'taco locker' is the best phrase for gut by a long shot.... ok back to the furburgers...

mauve envelope? on a related note, I had never heard the term 'banana hammock' till 2005 and it is by far my favourite rude/not rude one.

She's so awesome they named a booze-dispenser after her! Just saw it today in person... http://www.jcpenney.com/jcp/Products.aspx?DeptID=0&CatID=026982&Grptyp=PRD&ItemId=0f7f22b&siteID=210054843 (BTW - Adam Arra is in Ontario!)

Rich Little is still alive? He was old when I was a kid!

...and one more vid...

...and the pics!

definitely bauer like the skate. Ok here's the goods! Cold War Kids - Stood in line outside(8pm ish) and could here them playing - apparently only missed a couple songs. We barreled into the middle of the crowd to find it was packed and hot as hell...pissed the people off around us as the group of 5 of us stood trying to figure out what way was up...finally retreated back a bit to enjoy these guys - straight ahead stage presence, solid playing, it was great fun as all of us were familiar with them and so many songs are friggin favourites. A couple new tunes sounding pretty similar but unique if yaknowaddimean... A relatively quick soundcheck/break(20 mins?) we 'prepare' ourselves... ...finally Muse kicks it - and kicks it hard - I was mesmerized by the light show- No static lights except for blinders - Over 70 moving fixtures - I lost count at one point... the one thing I noticed was the video/light show seemed like so 'synergized'- when one became prominent the other became support - this sounds more technical than the actual sensation, but sometimes one or the other seems like an afterthought now that they are becoming more common at concerts...and this time it was more like an effective assault. There were small static cameras placed around the stage that were being mixed into the video madness - warped views from the end of the piano or off the mic stands that's further warped by the, uh guy warping it. Sync'ed video lets lyrics percolate to the surface of the screens while they are awash with everything from swirly colours to 3D animations. Fuggin' heavy duty visuals. Oh and the music...oh yeah - super heavy at times, clasical piano interludes at others, pulsing synths and pounding beats - it ran the gamut but it was alot more rock/guitar oriented than last time I saw them - doesn't bother me, i'm a bit of a headbanger and the crunchy bits turn my crank. My buddy gareth was right beside me and took some great pictures and vids - here's the pics, I've got a link to Youtube but it might not stay up too long... The VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpRvkE6lwQg

yeah - that was something else. Missed a couple CWK songs standing in line but still got 7-8 songs.....It was good shit, in a sing-a-long know-this-song kinda way....couple new tracks that hint the next album might be great too... Muse was undeniably the most amazing spectacle of a concert i've seen! The kinda shit that would have Kuroda taking notes on lights, and Pink Floyd wondering if maybe they were holding the right bauer and not the left...these guys trumped the fuck out of my mind. more later...

Yeah CWK is kickass, but Muse is fuggin' unbelievable - complex and crazy like Radiohead, but kick ass rockin' like old smashing pumpkins....and lots inbetween. Gonna be a spectacular show - they are pretty bombastic when it comes to the sounds and lights and flashy things and KLAVEN! out...

Anyone going tonite? This will be a fantastic show!

AD - Besnard Lakes was really good. F'ing good.

...don't forget seein' booche on Friday night. On stage. yes what a blast of a weekend that was - working monday was difficult.

workin daytime tomorrow but there tonight for Martin Sexton, Saturday night is crazy(I could stay in the Island tent from 6pm on - Rock Plaza Central>Besnard Lakes>Dragonette>Apostle of Hustle>Shout Out Out Out Out....jeebus it's gonna get messy... And Sunday is solid - it's gonna be tough to find gaps to go back to the campsite! Woo fuggin' Hoo!

for anyone else, this is kinda handy... http://www.hillsidefestival.ca/ticketexchange.php

You can buy replacement hemp-fiber drivers from Weber - very tough material, they are making repro's for lots of speakers...

stop rolling your car!!

Happy Birthday! Celebrate good times!

yeah shit it would be even better if dweezil wasn't there...or at least if he didn't try to conduct the band. Last year was awesome - I sorely missed Napoleon Murphy Brock as I've always wanted to see him, but bozzio and vai were awesome, and the session band was killer.

i',m drunk as shit and i'ts htr eht tfucisng mouse that's givneg me all the problems.a

give'r birthday boy! Make it messy.