Saw The Cure on Thursday night.

Lots of 30-something women who spent most of the nearly three-hour set with their eyes closed, doing this soulless, hypnotic kind of swaying thing that reminded me of some of the videos from Jonestown in the seventies. If this is how they move to music I dread to think of what they must be like in bed. Pass the grape ( Read more... )

He really sold me on the imitation crab meat....


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Life is short, in spite of your plans,
so tell the girls they're pretty while you can.
'Cause one day they're gone, and all you got left
are some empty bottles and an old country song
that plays on and on...

I wasted my time with these cigarettes
and these ashes are all I got left.
Watch this old town, nothing's left for me,
washed downstream and ( Read more... )

Havana Club outfits every bottle of their rum with a built-in pouring spout. For some reason this makes me feel incredibly classy while I sit here writing some bullshit and listening to The Very Best of the Detroit Girl Groups. Delusion is a slowly-acquired skill. And I am a party machine.

My friend Link's band is absolutely incredible. Anyone who ( Read more... )

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Buffalo is something else. Criminally cheap beer (at least by Torontonian standards) and bouncers grinning like Rottweilers with their big, steak-man faces. Great people. Converge were awe-inspiring. That band exemplifies everything I love about rock and roll and about art in general. True pioneers who are blazing a path all their own which is not ( Read more... )

I made a mixtape:

heavyfriends.muxtape.com

You can make one too:

muxtape.com

We had a raffle at work today for a free trip to Cancun, and one of the guys in my department ended up winning. He's actually Mexican, too, so he is going to get to see some of his family for the first time in a little while. He was very excited. I'm glad he won ( Read more... )

Attention Eurotrash at Union Station:

Please take your abysmal manners, ugly ski suits and fucked up haircuts and go home. Thanks.

I've been listening to The Cramps a lot lately, because they're pretty awesome. This is a video of The Cramps playing at a mental institution.

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and here is a great album by them called Bad Music for Bad People

Enjoy :)

I don't blame you, honey.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/03/13/4991081-ap.html

Oh, Will Arnett.

How I wish I possessed even one iota of your awesomeness.