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Non-Music Shit / Re: Record Store Day 2011
« on: April 18, 2011, 07:31:18 AM »
My friend's record store had their best day of retail sales (in their 30 years of existence) on Saturday.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: breakfast mountain
« on: April 15, 2011, 01:45:02 PM »
Bon's & the Tempelton suck ... S2 & the Nice (aside from the Shelley Duvall-looking waitress that forgets you're there) have been pretty good to me when I've been there.
I prefer to head west & eat at the Zen Cafe w/ the Goretex-yuppies ... usually at breakfast time I'm not in a state too fuck around with questionable food.
Nothing beats the Douglas Fir in Portland or the Cyclops in Seattle tho.
I prefer to head west & eat at the Zen Cafe w/ the Goretex-yuppies ... usually at breakfast time I'm not in a state too fuck around with questionable food.
Nothing beats the Douglas Fir in Portland or the Cyclops in Seattle tho.
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Music Shit / Re: Favourite All-Time Canadian Band
« on: April 13, 2011, 10:05:22 AM »
Are we talking about the little guy that used to bus tables at the Cobalt dressed in drag?
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Portraits Of Closed Record Stores ...
« on: April 13, 2011, 08:12:22 AM »some of those stores deserved to be closed.
Yeah, it might've conjured up a bit more sympathy by focusing on the Ma'n'Pa shops rather than showing a bunch of Tower Records or crappy 'used CD'-type places.
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Non-Music Shit / Portraits Of Closed Record Stores ...
« on: April 13, 2011, 07:11:29 AM »
"In honor of Record Store Day on Saturday, here's a depressing collection of old record store photos":
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/40-sad-portraits-of-closed-record-stores
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/40-sad-portraits-of-closed-record-stores
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Non-Music Shit / Re: gear sharing
« on: April 12, 2011, 03:48:50 PM »
Of course any decent person would agree to it - yes, you'd look like quite the asshole if the show didn't go on otherwise ... at least ask well ahead of time, offer to help load gear, buy some beer, etc ... I've seen even that not done.
It's by far more of an asshole maneuver if someone doesn't want to do any of the basic work ... what if every band on your bill did that too?
It's by far more of an asshole maneuver if someone doesn't want to do any of the basic work ... what if every band on your bill did that too?
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Non-Music Shit / Re: gear sharing
« on: April 12, 2011, 03:10:01 PM »
In years of sneaking bands up across the border to Vancouver, lending a backline (& sometimes guitars) was a necessity ... the payback was usually any bands in Seattle or Portland would return the favor.
What I can't get over is how many local bands around here ask to to borrow gear - it's one thing if you have some show w/ a bunch of bands & need a quick turnover, but it's more often a case of sheer laziness.
And I love it when they show up & ask an hour or two before they're supposed to go on, making you the asshole if you didn't agree to it ...
What I can't get over is how many local bands around here ask to to borrow gear - it's one thing if you have some show w/ a bunch of bands & need a quick turnover, but it's more often a case of sheer laziness.
And I love it when they show up & ask an hour or two before they're supposed to go on, making you the asshole if you didn't agree to it ...
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Non-Music Shit / Re: D.R.I. merch at war
« on: April 05, 2011, 12:08:10 PM »
I gave a Fugazi shirt to some dude in Cuba.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Any auto mechanics/gear heads here?
« on: April 01, 2011, 08:27:24 AM »
Just go to an auto wreckers & pick one up ... would prob cast less than $50. Installing it is all of two bolts & one simple electrical connection (plug) ... getting the tools in to access it is usually the biggest problem, but you can do it!
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Any auto mechanics/gear heads here?
« on: March 31, 2011, 08:34:41 AM »
It does sound like the alternator ... maybe get it tested/confirmed at a shop though.
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Cities / Re: Cool stores/galeries/restaurants/whatever in Vancouver
« on: March 31, 2011, 08:12:21 AM »2001 Flavors Pizza, 595 W. Pender - My fave.....
Seconded'd!
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Any auto mechanics/gear heads here?
« on: March 31, 2011, 08:06:14 AM »
Give the solenoid a couple whacks
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Chi Pig Documentary
« on: March 31, 2011, 08:00:45 AM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amb9F1njxcw
He went from being the inimitable frontman of one of my favorite bands to being the Vancouver 'Downtown Eastside' poster boy ... you can probably still find him drinking in any one of the dive bars down there any given day.
He went from being the inimitable frontman of one of my favorite bands to being the Vancouver 'Downtown Eastside' poster boy ... you can probably still find him drinking in any one of the dive bars down there any given day.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: THE ONIONS sxsw video and stupid story
« on: March 31, 2011, 07:48:11 AM »
Good on ya for writing that ... I'll bet there's a whole department that handles that kind of stuff that will actual be concerned ... (btw: one of my best friends from high school opened the first two Papa Murphy's on Vancouver Island ... I'm forwarding that to him) ...
I too cannot let sleeping dog lie on shit like this ... & never underestimate the power of a well-written letter. At one point I was supposed to have my driver's license suspended for a year, but I wrote them a well-worded rebuttal & got out of it ... whereas my dumb-ass friend was in the same situation got his suspended.
I too cannot let sleeping dog lie on shit like this ... & never underestimate the power of a well-written letter. At one point I was supposed to have my driver's license suspended for a year, but I wrote them a well-worded rebuttal & got out of it ... whereas my dumb-ass friend was in the same situation got his suspended.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Awful Living Situations
« on: March 23, 2011, 11:04:03 PM »Things sounds like an urban legentd, but I almost puked when I read it.
http://www.refinery29.com/meat-lover-the-most-horrifying-nyc-subletting-story-you-ve-ever-heard?utm_source=email&utm_medium=editorial&utm_content=everywhere&utm_name=womens-sunglasses-under-15
And hear I was gonna pipe in w/ an anecdote about Vancouver's overpriced-yet-humongous-bed-bug-infested situation, but I'll take a pass.
