Hi ho! Off to BEDA #4 we go.
So happenings. Working on the playlist for tomorrow's show on CJ 106. It's not finished but here's how it's looking:
April 13
Deep Purple- Highway Star- 7:08
Alice in Chains- Angry Chair- 4:35
Hank Green- Ice Cream Changes- 3:50
Helloween- Are You Metal?- 3:35
Sam Roberts- I Feel You- 4:37
Versus The Nothing- Let It All Come Down- 3:34
Myles Deck and The Fuzz- El Mariachi- 1:53
The Living End- Prisoner of Society- 3:45
Ludicra- Path of Ash- 9:19
The Hank Green audio is from the vlogbrothers youtube channel. It's an interesting video on musical theory and the strange connection between artists that shouldn't have connections.
LINK GOES HERE
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I have an interview tomorrow for a creative writer job in Sudbury, Ontario. So, yay. I'd had like 3 interviews in the last 2 months or so, 1 and half months. Or at least it would've been 3 but the one guy never got back to me after initially emailing about an interview. Which is good. and weird too. I hadn't had any interviews from September to February. Too bad it's really early in the morning. He said it could be moved to later but I felt weird about inquiring about that. Maybe it would affect how I came off or something and is something I shouldn't be worrying about as something looking for a job, I don't know. (Also I don't know if that was correct usage there. Or if it should be effect. I'm too lazy to bother looking it up.)
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I'm goin to 3 concerts now this summer. Awesome. Getting tickets for Rock on the Range Canada solely because it's headlined by Alice in Chains (!)No way I'm missing that. I've even found people to go with, which is cool.
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In terms of movies: I saw Insidious. Scary as hell. Go see it, it's quite good, very old school sorta feel to it.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Saturday, April 9, 2011
BEDA #3- Metal July
So I got my tickets for A Perfect Circle in July in Winnipeg. Awesome. Row 10, should be an amazing show. Like nobody wanted to go though. I posted on facebook, texted like 15 people, bumpkus. One person is goin and he would pretty go to anything. Disappointing.
Also, sweet, same friend I'm goin with, got 4 free vip tickets for Slayer, Rob Zombie and Exodus. Nice! So I get to bookend July with two hard rock/metal concerts. Slayer I'm not hugely into but Exodus I like and Rob Zombie puts on a good show.
End Transmission.
Also, sweet, same friend I'm goin with, got 4 free vip tickets for Slayer, Rob Zombie and Exodus. Nice! So I get to bookend July with two hard rock/metal concerts. Slayer I'm not hugely into but Exodus I like and Rob Zombie puts on a good show.
End Transmission.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
BEDA #2- Radio clips
Second entry in BEDA or Blog Every Day in April. It's not gonna be every day and I already missed the first couple days but I'm still calling it anyway. Because I'm lazy. Here now are a couple of short clips from my unnamed volunteer show on CJ 106.
Who The F Is Justin Bieber #1 on people freaking out about paying for plastic bags:
How Good Is Porcupine Tree?
KX 96 Top 10 Bands of All Time List
Finally, and this really has nothing to do with anything. Am I the only one who finds it a little weird when you get notifications on facebook of people 'liking' photos of yours from like a year ago or more? I suppose that's the point of facebook pictures but it still seems slightly odd. And I don't mean people you're really close with, good friends etc. I mean friends that you don't really talk to or see all that often. You'll talk maybe once every couple of months. I'm just not really the sort of person that goes through random old pictures people have on their profile.
More writing and audio clips too come as BEDA continues....
Who The F Is Justin Bieber #1 on people freaking out about paying for plastic bags:
How Good Is Porcupine Tree?
KX 96 Top 10 Bands of All Time List
Finally, and this really has nothing to do with anything. Am I the only one who finds it a little weird when you get notifications on facebook of people 'liking' photos of yours from like a year ago or more? I suppose that's the point of facebook pictures but it still seems slightly odd. And I don't mean people you're really close with, good friends etc. I mean friends that you don't really talk to or see all that often. You'll talk maybe once every couple of months. I'm just not really the sort of person that goes through random old pictures people have on their profile.
More writing and audio clips too come as BEDA continues....
Monday, April 4, 2011
BEDA
So it was my intention to do BEDA or Blog Every Day in April but I never really got around to starting it. I'm a couple days late. That's procrastination for ya. So I'm not gonna be doing BEDA but I am gonna try for at least more than one blog a month. For this one, I figured I would share some of my recent radio show discussions from my segment Who The Fuck Is Justin Bieber? Most of my writing is better read than spoken I think anyway. The segment is basically about things people obsess about. My attempt at being clever haha. This is from last week.
This week’s topic is the debate between original movie ideas and remakes and sequels. People have complained for the last 5 or 6 years about the amount of remakes and sequels there are. A number that continues to rise. According to website boxofficemojo, there are a record 27 remakes or sequels coming out this year. As always, movie studios are all about the money and generally see rehashed ideas as a safer bet than an original idea. Look at recently axed Guillermo Del Toro movie At the Mountains of Madness. Even with a visionary director, James Cameron as producer and Tom Cruise rumoured for the lead, it still couldn’t get made because of the Hard R rating and massive budget it called for and studio executives didn’t wanna take the risk.
But what of movies that do get made? If you look into it, 2 common traits will appear. Scott Pilgrim Vs the World, for example, awesome as it is was criminally underseen in theatres making only $47 million worldwide. The remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street that pretty much everyone hated, made $115 million. Sucker Punch made $19 million in it’s opening weekend. Highly entertaining as it is tho, it’s very similar to Scott Pilgrim in that it’s not the sort of movie everyone will like and will probably go on to make a comparably disappointing amount. The Ring Two, generally looked down upon, made $161 million total.
So that got me thinking, maybe the problem is that people just aren’t used to seeing weird, different, original movies anymore. Think about it. The last decade at the very least has seen a large decrease in the number of different content. Especially in the horror world, a lot of wide release is recycled plots and ideas. Studios don’t want ideas like Inception, they don’t agree with the message of Kick Ass. Their scared by the Human Centipede. Movies are getting sanitized and risk free. Only problem is their cleaning out the wrong areas.
And this is about Ryan Murphy and Glee.
First of all, straight forward, I don’t like Glee. I don’t like what it is and I don’t like what it represents. I don’t get ‘it’ I guess. What’s the big deal with it?
It’s not well acted other than veteran professionals like Jane Lynch and it’s horribly over produced. I’ve watched a couple of times and I could swear all the songs sound more or less the same. I think the only worse case of a song being over produced I’ve heard is Rebecca Black. *Sidebar* If you’ve watched this video, Holy monotone Batman. You’d think it was Wednesday Addams from the Addams Family singing.
Speaking of youtube, If I wanted to hear subpar versions of classic songs, that’s where I’d go. It’d be less annoying. And that’s basically what this is. It’s a big budget highly autotuned version of amateurs singing on youtube.
Moving on to the show’s eponymous creator Ryan Murphy- how swelled is this dude’s head? He got lucky with one fluke hit show and now he thinks he can lip off any far more talented musician that he wants. First it was Slash, calling him a washed up has been. Then Kings of Leon. And now he’s likely going to be fighting with Dave Grohl.
The Foo Fighters frontman blasted him in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter recently, although I’m gonna switch out the salty pirate language for something a little friendlier. "It's every band's right, you shouldn't have to do ‘puppy’ Glee," Grohl said. "And then the guy who created Glee is so offended that we're not, like, begging to be on his ‘puppy’ show... ‘puppy’ that guy.
I will at some point get around to posting some audio bits.
This week’s topic is the debate between original movie ideas and remakes and sequels. People have complained for the last 5 or 6 years about the amount of remakes and sequels there are. A number that continues to rise. According to website boxofficemojo, there are a record 27 remakes or sequels coming out this year. As always, movie studios are all about the money and generally see rehashed ideas as a safer bet than an original idea. Look at recently axed Guillermo Del Toro movie At the Mountains of Madness. Even with a visionary director, James Cameron as producer and Tom Cruise rumoured for the lead, it still couldn’t get made because of the Hard R rating and massive budget it called for and studio executives didn’t wanna take the risk.
But what of movies that do get made? If you look into it, 2 common traits will appear. Scott Pilgrim Vs the World, for example, awesome as it is was criminally underseen in theatres making only $47 million worldwide. The remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street that pretty much everyone hated, made $115 million. Sucker Punch made $19 million in it’s opening weekend. Highly entertaining as it is tho, it’s very similar to Scott Pilgrim in that it’s not the sort of movie everyone will like and will probably go on to make a comparably disappointing amount. The Ring Two, generally looked down upon, made $161 million total.
So that got me thinking, maybe the problem is that people just aren’t used to seeing weird, different, original movies anymore. Think about it. The last decade at the very least has seen a large decrease in the number of different content. Especially in the horror world, a lot of wide release is recycled plots and ideas. Studios don’t want ideas like Inception, they don’t agree with the message of Kick Ass. Their scared by the Human Centipede. Movies are getting sanitized and risk free. Only problem is their cleaning out the wrong areas.
And this is about Ryan Murphy and Glee.
First of all, straight forward, I don’t like Glee. I don’t like what it is and I don’t like what it represents. I don’t get ‘it’ I guess. What’s the big deal with it?
It’s not well acted other than veteran professionals like Jane Lynch and it’s horribly over produced. I’ve watched a couple of times and I could swear all the songs sound more or less the same. I think the only worse case of a song being over produced I’ve heard is Rebecca Black. *Sidebar* If you’ve watched this video, Holy monotone Batman. You’d think it was Wednesday Addams from the Addams Family singing.
Speaking of youtube, If I wanted to hear subpar versions of classic songs, that’s where I’d go. It’d be less annoying. And that’s basically what this is. It’s a big budget highly autotuned version of amateurs singing on youtube.
Moving on to the show’s eponymous creator Ryan Murphy- how swelled is this dude’s head? He got lucky with one fluke hit show and now he thinks he can lip off any far more talented musician that he wants. First it was Slash, calling him a washed up has been. Then Kings of Leon. And now he’s likely going to be fighting with Dave Grohl.
The Foo Fighters frontman blasted him in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter recently, although I’m gonna switch out the salty pirate language for something a little friendlier. "It's every band's right, you shouldn't have to do ‘puppy’ Glee," Grohl said. "And then the guy who created Glee is so offended that we're not, like, begging to be on his ‘puppy’ show... ‘puppy’ that guy.
I will at some point get around to posting some audio bits.
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