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Courtesy of Mr. Pattison (who must enjoy searching for unusual MJ covers on YouTube) watch this video at 0:46 for a (handsome) dude walking into frame in the background.  THIS IS NOT ME.  I’m 99% certain of this.

Just a heads up, friends…

Whether you knew it or not, I’m a member artist at La Petite Mort Gallery in the Byward Market.  It’s a pretty chill space with lots of great art (and some of mine too).  I highly recommend visiting and checking out the multitudes of great (mostly local and totally affordable) art they’ve got for sale.  The gentleman that runs it, Guy, is a great guy and definitely deserves a hefty pat on the back for giving Ottawa such a great venue for all kinds of artists.

The reason for the email… because I’m lucky enough to be a member artist, I get a one night show to display some of my new paintings.  It’s basically a party at the gallery and you’re all invited.  I’m going to be making the trek back to Ottawa to be there and I’m hoping you all can make it too.  They’ll be music and drinks… and more art than you can shake a stick at!

Here’s the info…

http://www.lapetitemortgallery.com/events/StevePalmer2010.html

Friday, March 12th, 2010
7pm to 10pm
La Petite Mort Gallery
306 Cumberland Stree

And the tradition continues…

My prized platters for 2008 and 2007 are right here on Quoperative and if you’re completely void of any motivation to do something productive with your time (why else would you be reading this?) then you can hunt through the Setbacks site for my album picks going back to a simpler time… when men were men and you could freely travel by airplane with a tube of toothpaste that had a capacity greater than 125 mL.  But I digress.

What follows are my choice music purchases and acquisitions for 2009 (as always, most but not all were released in 2009).  In no particular order…

1. Steel Panther – Feel the Steel (Universal Republic)
   On pink vinyl, no less… Jade’s favourite of the bunch. Death to all but metal!
2. Death – …For the Whole World to See (Drag City)
   Dumped by Clive Davis of Columbia Records in 1975 for not changing their name… finally released in 2009.
3. King Khan & BBQ Show – Invisible Girl (In the Red)
   Stripped down, lo-fi, garage blues rock. What the hell did you expect?
4. Reigning Sound – Love and Curses (In the Red)
5. KISS – Sonic Boom (Universal)
   Facking dorks… you can only buy the album at Wal-Mart and it wasn’t released digitally so I HAD TO STEAL IT.
6. Le Nombre – Vile et Fantastique (Blow the Fuse)
   Doesn’t hold a candle to 2004’s Scenario Catastrophe… but honestly… that would have been impossible.
7. Them Crooked Vultures – S/T (DGC)
8. Priestess – Prior to the Fire (TeePee)
9. Lou Barlow – Goodnight Unknown (Merge)
10. Sonic’s Rendezvous Band – Live at Masonic (Alive/Total Energy)
    Triple shame on me for having my head up my ass and not including this on 2008’s list… whoops.  Better late than never. $6.93 ON ITUNES FOLKS

I have a feeling I’m forgetting something.  I hate that feeling.

Oh yes… this is awesome.

After almost 2 whole years I figured it was time Quoperative got a facelift.  Technically I figured it was about time for a facelift a year ago and I spent what seemed like months (most likely because it was months) trying to get the blog posts on the home page to lay out like perfectly-formatted newspaper columns.  After fucking around and trying to get it to work about a hundred different ways I gave up and set my sights a bit lower.  The way I see it, why shoot for the stars when you don’t have to?  That’s become my new mantra.

So just so you know… the homepage (cleverly labeled ‘fresh’ in the menu) now includes my blog posts, flickr photos, artwork and tweets — all intertwined chronologically into a continuous river of Steve… wow!

I also updated my work and posted a couple of paintings I did in the summer (photographed horribly by yours truly).

I watched Observe and Report the other night and this song comes up when the mall security team comes down the escalator in their “strictly business” pose.  My man Bob pointed out it’s an extremely bad-ass track from Patto called “The Man”.  It’s a long one but hang in there for the absolutely frenetic drumming during the closing climax.  Jesus this kills.

It’s a fuckin’ dark comedy (if you dig Jody Hill’s other stuff like The Foot Fist Way and Eastbound and Down) and the soundtrack is absolutely killer — The Band, Dwarves, Yardbirds and a smokin’ Pixies cover.  I figured they must have gotten Wayne Kramer to handle the music again since he’s done such a great job on EBAD but turns out it wasn’t him after all.  Obviously Jody Hill puts a high priority on locating only the finest tracks to aurally accompany his work.

It’s ok. I have a fully valid excuse for letting the moss grow on ye olde weblog… I had a kid!  Her name is Jade Elizabeth and she’s the apple of my eye.

I promise to get back to more regular postings and finally launching a new design I’ve been putting together on and off for the last few months.

This is a helluva track from junk shop glam band Daddy Maxfield — pure UK glam at it’s finest. The track is from 1973 and came out on Pye Records. This one is shit sizzling hot, folks.

If you like to run, this is you new favourite running track. If you like to dance, this is your new favourite dancing track. If you like to rock, then what the fuck are you waiting for? Hit play!

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The first track of KISS’ new studio album Sonic Boom (first one in 11 years) Modern Day Delilah came out this week. KISS claimed that they were going for a “classic Destroyer-era sound” and after a couple listens it’s not bad… but not as awesome as I was expecting after all the hype about vintage gear, no outside songwriters and Paul Stanley producing. Either way — looks like their won’t be a vinyl release initially but I’ll still be there at WalMart (barf) with my fellow KISS fans on October 6th to pick it up on CD.

P.S. Also… Gene… can you please make sure Vancouver is on the fall tour schedule?  Thanks.

The heat wave has pretty much melted my desire to blog lately but here’s a video I just had to post…

This is my new favourite thing to say.

Anyone who gets a word tattooed across their foreheads should probably have their head examined regardless of what the word is. But if that word is “racist”, well they should probably just be shoved into a rocket and sent to another planet to live by themselves.

LIFE Goes Inside Today’s KKK

Ok, Silent Library is an MTV game show adapted from a segment on a Japanese variety show (weird… Americans stealing a game show concept) where contestants work together as a team and endure a sequence of punishments while trying to remain quiet as long as possible so they can win more money.

Here’s a clip from the Japanese version… which isn’t technically a game show, but follows the same basic premise. The punishments are unusually cruel but holy shit are they ever hilarious.