thats a sam roberts + julia roberts as erin brockovich combination. or something.
whoops, i left my blog in shambles, with a post about a tim hortons picture that didnt even show up. shameless.
for some reason, i think sam roberts is the band that i’ve seen the most live. not really an intentional thing, i mean i like him, i think he’s pretty underrated, and if concerts were measured by how hard the band works by a tally of the sweat produced during a live show, then sam roberts might win, cause him and his band are pretty intense. but like, i saw him in waterloo, with my friend karen, at the campus pub. and then at sarstock, playing for 25 minutes around noon before any of the real bands came on. and then he played the oweek show this year. and now my beloved roomate sioned wanted to see him play tonite at call the office, so boom, 4th time i’ve seen him. actually i’ve probably seen hayden more than 4 times. and maybe tragically hip. and ive seen radiohead a couple of times. and white stripes. aanywho, i really liked the show, and sam roberts was wearing this falcon-snake shirt that looked earily like our soph logo this year.
and we even had sam roberts say “i hear those mit kids are real assholes” during his show at oweek, which was on a button i made (stolen from matt good), so maybe it was a secret message. but it was actually a different shirt, just a really similar logo, and is more than likely a total coincidence. im still gonna sue him though, cause me and bacon made that logo. i also think in the song “where have all the good people gone”, that “we were born in a flame” is a very terrific metaphor for the human species, and that the milky way certianly has gone sour.
if i could be as foolhardy to make such a ridiculous comparison, but sam roberts could one day be canada’s ‘the boss’. he’s such a perfect hard workin music man, embodying some version of canadian values in a weird but genuine way. maybe he was overplayed, i dont know, i dont listen to the radio. but the man can play guitar, it doesnt really come across on the album, but he’s talented. and he writes good poppy-but-rocky songs, and i really dig the lyrics. “the canadian dream” ends with a chant about socialism, i mean c’mon. but then again, maybe im just a hippie marxist with a kitschy love for the communist party.
after the show, we got 2 pounds of chicken wings to go at the alibi, returned home, and went on a ‘hazy’ bike ride to this abandoned, boarded up frat house i found the other nite walking home drunk. im dying to break in (and ideally, throw a party there), but turns out sioned is a big wuss and wouldnt go any further than the backyard. but we ate our chicken wings on the front stoop. so now there’s a weird boarded up house on talbot st. with various half eaten bones on the front step.
maybe sioned was right, this house might be a tad creepy at 3 in the morning
then we did bicycle aerobics on the way home
the other day i went to see the yeah yeah yeahs, also terrific show. i love when you hear a good song performed even better live. idioteque by radiohead is a memorable one, ball and biscuit by the white stripes is another. in this case, y control was fuckin unbelievable. what is a 10 second intro riff in the original becomes a (seemingly) 4 minute buildup of epic proportions in the live version. here’s a live version from their dvd which hints at the epic-ness i witnessed last monday nite. and i think their new song ‘dudley’ has a nice mantra for our generation: “you’ll take it over and you’ll make it mine”
plus karen o is a total babe.
kanye west does the mi3 theme! cause the only way you can top a bat-shit-insane tom cruise is with kanye west doing a watered-down-hip-hop version of the most overused theme music ever. its funny to watch tom cruise’s descent into outcast status. i hope mission impossible tanks, its like michael jackson all over again. scientology is the new turning-from-black-to-white-and-molesting-children.
