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Here's another thing I've been thinking about lately. I often feel weird watching television. There might be something on that I know I'll find funny, but then I think, "isn't TV just for old people now?" I dunno... I don't often seek out funny things on the internet, even though they abound. Here's an example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw5oJoUYTb8

If I see something on TV I find really funny, I'm afraid to talk about it with anyone. Like showing up at a party in 1983 wearing bell bottoms. Maybe I'm being paranoid.

In my defence, there is more strange shit on specialty channels now than there was when I was a kid.

Birthdays seem more fun for people not having the birthday. One time a person got mad at me because I openly discouraged them from getting me anything. She said,

"It's not all about you, you know!"

WTF?!? Uh, yeah it is! It's my birthday and I can do whatever I want! And you have to do what I say!! And I say I don't want any presents! My parents renew my CAA every year, that's enough. I do random stuff on my birthday. Went up north one year... (like, NWT north)... another time I biked 20km into the woods and slept under a rock in the rain. Did the Cabot Trail once with a coupla pals. Watched an acquaintance compete in the Special Olympics once. And this last one, I got engaged on a hill in France over pink champagne.

I'm not even kidding.

As I proposed to her, we listened to this artist on an iPod docking thingy.



I thought I'd provide video to illustrate my point. It's a rather manly thing to propose to someone, and this video pretty much leaks testosterone through the screen. I felt strangely badass. Like "yeeeeaaaahhhh, I'm the fuckin' king".

My noise thing is doing another song, for a comp. I'll keep working on that whole project, but not when I'm as tired as I am today.

A pet peeve of mine is when I make pop culture references that people I'm talking to are too young to understand. I absorbed pop culture constantly when I was little, whether it was aimed at children or adults. As a result I now sometimes drop references that make more sense to people my parents' age... never mind people 10 or more years younger than me. I usually catch myself, but when I slip (and know it), it's embarrassing.

I started to make that sentence say "younger than I", but then I thought that looked dumb. Refer to post from earlier today.

I'm quitting my radio show at the end of the summer. Without a co-host and without my old friends hanging around the station with me, I feel like the joy is gone. I'd keep on giving up all of my Saturdays if I still felt that sense of community OR had someone to give me a break every other week. Keeping the show from getting repetitive takes up a lot of time, especially when it's every Saturday. I find myself scrounging for longer songs to play, and that's just not very punk rock. I don't like having to make other arrangements when there's a show/party/road trip. Taping a show takes way more time than doing one live, and getting a fill-in host at that hour is tough.

I suspect the last few weeks will be filled with a lot of bands from the 90s... so I can go out the way I came in. I already know what the last song will be on the final show. I've known for a long time. Stay tuned.

Some guy tried to post a link showing me how to improve my writing style. This is a blog, not a PhD thesis. I could care less about writing style.

This is why I moderate that shit.

"Vote For My Band..."

The hell I'll vote for your band! If your band was any good, people would vote for you without you bothering them!! Maybe if we were really good friends, I guess...

Young musicians: Making music is like dating. Never let your band appear needy or desperate. People smell that a mile away, and it stinks.