32 different songs this month.
'Lifetime' stats: 413 different songs sung, 634 total.
Aenima - Tool
Back On the Chain Gang - Pretenders
Ballroom Blitz - Sweet
Black - Pearl Jam
Borderline - Madonna
Cut Your Hair - Pavement
Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison
Footloose - Kenny Loggins
Go With the Flow - Queens of the Stone Age
Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran
In a Big Country - Big Country
In The End - Linkin Park (duet w/Johnny Priceless)
Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots
(It's a Long Way To the Top) If You Want To Rock 'N' Roll - AC/DC
Let's Spend the Night Together - Rolling Stones
My Sacrifice - Creed
Nemesis - Shriekback
One Thing Leads To Another - Fixx
Piss Up a Rope - Ween
Raspberry Beret - Prince
Respect - Erasure
Rest In Peace - James Marsters
Right Now - Van Halen
Shake a Tail Feather - Ray Charles
She Came In Through the Bathroom Window - Beatles
Silly Love Songs - Paul McCartney & Wings
Something To Sing About - from Once More With Feeling (duet w/Leah)
Steal Away - Robbie Dupree
Superfly - Curtis Mayfield
True - Spandau Ballet
Wild Horses - Rolling Stones
Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
Speaking Of Swift and Terrible Wrath
The anonymous douchefuckbagtard who sold his not-quite-a-hookup with Christine O'Donnell story to Gawker (which got posted this afternoon, and which I won't dignify with a link) has already been outed.
Just to be clear: I think O'Donnell has no place in the US Senate, and I think guys who sell hookup stories to gossip rags should be castrated. And not chemically. I'm talking with a meat tenderizer.
Just to be clear: I think O'Donnell has no place in the US Senate, and I think guys who sell hookup stories to gossip rags should be castrated. And not chemically. I'm talking with a meat tenderizer.
King For a Day Decree #623
All electrical towers will be re-designed so as to appear as giant roboty things, as they were in my imagination in my youth.
So decreed on this day of the Reign of Our Benevolent Overlord, Anton the Terrible, May His Wrath Come On Swift and Merciful Wings
So decreed on this day of the Reign of Our Benevolent Overlord, Anton the Terrible, May His Wrath Come On Swift and Merciful Wings
Welcome to Quahog?
Rob Ford's election as mayor of Toronto tonight has the local Twitterati in a tizzy. He's apparently George Bush, William Harrison Hays and Eric Cartman all rolled into one, a bloated jackanape who will single-handedly destroy the arts community and public transit in the city.
From where I sit, he's more buffoon than bastard, and the structure of the municipal government (not to mention Ford's own ego) should prevent him from working with city council and actually accomplishing any of the stuff he campaigned on. But it does beg the question: which fat, comedic character should be attached to Ford to belittle him?
Peter Griffin and Cartman have already been floated, but I'm leaning more towards Tommy Boy right now. Johnny LaRue is also a possibility, and has the benefit of being distinctly Canadian.
I may need to ponder this one for a while.
From where I sit, he's more buffoon than bastard, and the structure of the municipal government (not to mention Ford's own ego) should prevent him from working with city council and actually accomplishing any of the stuff he campaigned on. But it does beg the question: which fat, comedic character should be attached to Ford to belittle him?
Peter Griffin and Cartman have already been floated, but I'm leaning more towards Tommy Boy right now. Johnny LaRue is also a possibility, and has the benefit of being distinctly Canadian.
I may need to ponder this one for a while.
Concert Season Is Upon Me
Wow, there are actually bands I want to see playing in town over the next couple of months.
The Flowers of Hell have the release party for their new album & DVD on November 13th, then Fang Island come back to town on the 16th.
And at the beginning of December, my favorite band from the early '90s Toronto indie scene, Lowest of the Low, stagger back out for a couple of shows at Lee's Palace (the only venue they should ever play, in the interest of moribund nostalgia).
UPDATE: Figures. The Flowers of Hell show is up against the roller derby finals, which I've already told a couple of people I was gonna attend.
The Flowers of Hell have the release party for their new album & DVD on November 13th, then Fang Island come back to town on the 16th.
And at the beginning of December, my favorite band from the early '90s Toronto indie scene, Lowest of the Low, stagger back out for a couple of shows at Lee's Palace (the only venue they should ever play, in the interest of moribund nostalgia).
UPDATE: Figures. The Flowers of Hell show is up against the roller derby finals, which I've already told a couple of people I was gonna attend.
People Who Should Lose Their Jobs
No, this has nothing to do with Juan Williams.
Today's PWSLTJ is Jim Pasco, head of the Fraternal Order of Police, who recently said the following about the explosion in private surveillance and recording of police officers:
Now I realize that Pasco, as head of a police union, is supposed to have the backs of the cops. But "I'm afraid something terrible will happen"? Dipshit, terrible things have already happened. They happen basically every fucking day, because you and your kind let your profession be infected by a military mindset rather than a public service one.
Hell, if your union brethren weren't doing terrible things already, you wouldn't have to worry about being scrutinized so much.
Oh, and by the way? Fretting about civilian surveillance of the boys and girls in blue isn't even like worrying about the horse after its already escaped the barn, it's more like worrying about the horse after it's already been made obsolete by the automobile.
I suggest to the Fraternal Order of Police that they need someone running their union who isn't quite as ignorant of what's actually happening in the world, and might actually be able to help you figure out how to navigate the new environment you find yourselves in, rather than just pissing into a hurricane.
Today's PWSLTJ is Jim Pasco, head of the Fraternal Order of Police, who recently said the following about the explosion in private surveillance and recording of police officers:
The proliferation of cheap video equipment is presenting a whole new dynamic for law enforcement. It has had a chilling effect on some officers who are now afraid to act for fear of retribution by video. This has become a serious safety issue. I'm afraid something terrible will happen.
Now I realize that Pasco, as head of a police union, is supposed to have the backs of the cops. But "I'm afraid something terrible will happen"? Dipshit, terrible things have already happened. They happen basically every fucking day, because you and your kind let your profession be infected by a military mindset rather than a public service one.
Hell, if your union brethren weren't doing terrible things already, you wouldn't have to worry about being scrutinized so much.
Oh, and by the way? Fretting about civilian surveillance of the boys and girls in blue isn't even like worrying about the horse after its already escaped the barn, it's more like worrying about the horse after it's already been made obsolete by the automobile.
I suggest to the Fraternal Order of Police that they need someone running their union who isn't quite as ignorant of what's actually happening in the world, and might actually be able to help you figure out how to navigate the new environment you find yourselves in, rather than just pissing into a hurricane.
Idle Thought
I wonder how much extra cash Ginny Thomas' Liberty Central group was able to siphon up from donors after she managed to get the name 'Anita Hill' back into the news with her "olive branch" voice mail...
Inexplicafragilisticexpialadocious
So I get home from Neutral karaoke at about 3:30 or so, long after the garbage trucks have gone by. My obliviously lazy-ass roommate has helpfully collected and bagged the garbage and tied the bag off... and then left it sitting in the kitchen rather than taking it out to the curb.
This is nothing new. She does it all the time. It doesn't seem to occur to her that a) it might be a good idea to actually throw it out, or b) if she wasn't going to throw it out, that I might have something to add to it and that she shouldn't tie it off.
But wait, it gets better. After I'm home for a few minutes, she comes out of her room and announces that she saw a mouse in the apartment earlier in the evening.
Just to be clear: she saw a mouse, and then left a bag of garbage sitting on the kitchen floor.
Wow. I mean, that's... wow. I had to ask. Her excuse? She was tired and forgot it was garbage day.
Forgot. Even though she'd bagged it up.
Sigh.
If you happened to be wandering the Danforth at four in the morning on Tuesday, that thumping noise you heard was not some house party with the bass cranked, but my forehead getting well acquainted with a wall.
This is nothing new. She does it all the time. It doesn't seem to occur to her that a) it might be a good idea to actually throw it out, or b) if she wasn't going to throw it out, that I might have something to add to it and that she shouldn't tie it off.
But wait, it gets better. After I'm home for a few minutes, she comes out of her room and announces that she saw a mouse in the apartment earlier in the evening.
Just to be clear: she saw a mouse, and then left a bag of garbage sitting on the kitchen floor.
Wow. I mean, that's... wow. I had to ask. Her excuse? She was tired and forgot it was garbage day.
Forgot. Even though she'd bagged it up.
Sigh.
If you happened to be wandering the Danforth at four in the morning on Tuesday, that thumping noise you heard was not some house party with the bass cranked, but my forehead getting well acquainted with a wall.
Hobbit Casting Rumor Season Is a Go!
Martin Freeman appears to be set as Bilbo, which gets a big thumb's up from me. And I didn't even like the movie version of Hitchhiker's.
The other names also floating around as potential cast members, though, are a bit more interesting. In order of geeky magnitude:
- David Tennant (everyone but me's favorite new-school Dr Who). The only part he would make sense for, to me, is that of Elvenking Thrunduil, ruler of the wood elves of Mirkwood -- and Legolas' dad.
- Michael Fassbender (the British spy from Inglorious Basterds). I can see him best as Bard, but Beorn could also be a possibility...
- ...except that Jekyll star Jimmy Nesbitt is also on the list, and if he isn't born to play a werebear I dunno who is. I guess you could shrink him down to dwarf size too, but that seems a waste.
The other names also floating around as potential cast members, though, are a bit more interesting. In order of geeky magnitude:
- David Tennant (everyone but me's favorite new-school Dr Who). The only part he would make sense for, to me, is that of Elvenking Thrunduil, ruler of the wood elves of Mirkwood -- and Legolas' dad.
- Michael Fassbender (the British spy from Inglorious Basterds). I can see him best as Bard, but Beorn could also be a possibility...
- ...except that Jekyll star Jimmy Nesbitt is also on the list, and if he isn't born to play a werebear I dunno who is. I guess you could shrink him down to dwarf size too, but that seems a waste.
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