Thursday, November 27, 2003

next installment of awards

Movie.
Best zombie killing award.
1- Dead Alive. He stands in middle of zombie filled room with a lawnmower
2- no contest

Music.
Best cover award.
1- Reel big fish covering take on me originally by AH HA
2- NOFX covering last caress originally by the misfits

yeah that is about it for now

Tuesday, November 25, 2003

Allright you are kind of in a bad situation I was going to unvail the Dale Movie awards today but I am a blithering idiot and closed the window and lost all my text so her is one for now. Since I am only going to give you one i will give you the other Dale awards also. These will be updated semi-daily. Actually whenever I get around to it.

Movie.
You know he is dead award.
1- Robo Cop two. After finding out the bad robot has a human brain implanted. Robo Cop rips the brain out and smashes it on the pavement with his fore arm.
2- Demolition Man. The bad guy is frozen with some future technology,his head kicked off and then it bounces and shatters.

Music.
Best death attributed to drugs award.
1- Elvis on the toilette. I was told he did a whole rock star amount of drugs (that's alot) and got constipated and then died trying to pass a movement.
2- John Bonham reportedly had over forty shots of Vodka and choked on his own vomit.

Stupid Media
Most annoying popular saying award.
1- Uber. I don't care what it means in German just stop fucking saying it.
2- Those cutesy goodbyes. Like "ciao", "cheers", "have a good one" and whatever drug dealers say ten years before everyone else.

T.V.
Best special episode award.
1-Nash bridges. The old duos episode where chong and that other guy from miami vice are on the show.
2- Johnny Bravo. The scooby doo episode.

Yeah that is it for now don't be surprised if in the future you find some categories missing. I cna't promise anything but I will try.

Monday, November 24, 2003

"You care about looking ignorant?" Maxine Ruvinsky

Thursday, November 20, 2003

I went to a concert last night. The Unicorns, Metric and Hot Hot Heat. Metric rocked if you ever get a chance you should see them.

Me: "So did you guys drive up from Vancouver today?"
Dustin (bass player for hot hot heat): "yeah"
Me: "How was the Coq?"
Dustin: (excited) "The coke in Vancouver?"
Me: "No the Coquihalla"
Dustin: (Not as Excited) "Oh"

Wednesday, November 12, 2003

"home taping is killing the music industry" some guy said this in the eighties about people copying other cassette tapes. It's funny because it didn't die then and it won't die now

By Dale De Ruiter

Punk, the word seems to embody more music then the term Alternative did in the mid nineties. It is always a risky measure to call music punk without a multitude of variances such as crusty-punk, nu-punk, emo, metal-punk or even disco-punk. Using this method I would gauge Small Brown Bikes latest disc as heavy-nu-punk.
The River Bed is a good display of artistic prowess because there is variance but never so much so that it strays from the core sound of the album. The range drops to somewhere like a snow covered empty field to a gothic abandoned warehouse.
Small Brown Bike are said to be up and comers in the punk genre and with an effort such as this it is easy to see why. The reason they could be the future greats is that they combine recognizable hard beats with fresh samples and timing. Each song on the 10 track disc brings something new to the table and is lovable in its own right.
Over all The River Bed is a wonderful mix of heavy guitars, crushing bass lines, a little yelling and crooning and dark synthesizer noises sewn together with thread of melody.
I would recommend this album for listeners who want a rougher sound then pop-punk but are not willing to delve in to chaotic noise bands or anybody who just wants to hear some fresh new music that you can cry to one song and then dance naked to the next.

Four and a half out of five

I hate being broke. Money can't buy you happyness but it is hard to smil in squalor. I can't remember who said that or if i said it but it is soo true it fucking hurts.

I had an epiphany today. "College students are too busy trying to prove what they already know by doing homework to learn anything new"