I'm nine hundred and ninety nine thou short of a mil
This guy does a great job trying to explain his feelings regarding bands he loves getting over-exposed. Something I would never really be able to put into words.
This guy asks some great questions about downloading music before it comes out.
This guy (and a couple others) tries his best to get you schooled on your hip-hop.
And this is far and away the best time waster I have found in a long time. Get this: originals matched up to the hip-hop dude who sampled it. That is just brilliant, plus there is a huge archive to dig through. If learning had been this fun in school (or the last three years) I probably would have done (or be doing) better.
The first time I saw Lil’ Bastards was at Babey’s house and Craig Leo pulled it out of a black beauty case. It was probably the first snowboard video I really enjoyed, kind of like Welcome to Hell was the first skate video I ever really watched.
Since that time I have actually started snowboarding, and know a lot more shit about the people in the industry. I’ve read enough and watched enough to know that Pelchat is really old, Walsh is probably my favourite snowboarded ever and everyone in these videos save Kale Stephens is the same height as Brian Stern/Jeff Bourassa.
That’s why I’m happy the sequel to Lil’ Bastards is coming out this year. Check out the trailer.
It has been a long time since I’ve been excited to go to a punk show. I think right now there are only a handful of punk bands that I would be genuinely pumped to go see and the list is really down to bands I haven’t seen yet. That eliminates a whole slew of bands who have been coming through Calgary, because (and this will sound pretentious) I saw them back when I thought they made good music, or at least music I liked. The issue I have with most punk bands is that they haven’t aged very well. These days most of the bands I really liked back in high school are either broken up, wearing eye make-up or trying to make the same music they were making ten years ago.
So that is where my head is at in terms of punk shows these days. Then as I’m checking for upcoming shows I see a name I haven’t thought of in a while, Propagandhi. Possibly one of the bands that influenced me the most in my younger years, the old bastards have decided to go on tour again. Now I know that they aren’t likely to play Showdown or True, but chances are they’ll kick out some classics from How to Clean Everything, or Less Talk, More Rock. This is a show I will be going to see.
So there I was all excited that I would be going to a punk show I was actually interested in, and I get an e-mail today from Stern and it says Against Me! will be playing here in March. That was just too good to be true. If anybody actually checks out any of the videos or things I post on here you would see that Against Me! is pretty much one of my favourite bands these days, and they’ve held that position for the last year or so. In fact a quick check of my last.fm account shows that I played 353 of their songs (on my laptop) in 2006. That is 93 more than the next closest artists (Belle & Sebastien). This is shaping up to be one of the better punk concert seasons I have experienced in a long-time. Now if we could only get Raised Fist out here it would be perfect.
I will now leave you with one of the top ten songs I have ever listened to. I cannot wait to hear this live.
