I can honestly say that I haven’t yet caught an episode of the HBO wonder child that is Boardwalk Empire. I can also honestly say that I am mildly ashamed and 100% intend to remedy this situation at the next convenient juncture. Look, I only have enough mental bandwidth and attention span to have 1… ok, MAYBE 2 shows (if you include Delocated)… on the go at any one time.
Imagine how tickled I was to discover that the track used for the opening sequence is an instrumental edit of “Straight Up and Down” by the Brian Jonestown Massacre. Now I really feel ashamed.
Apparently the only blogging I do these days is posting YouTube videos every 3 months. Well, I’m going to show you — me write words before make show movie picture.
I actually found this trailer on the site for Mr. Lee’s General Store & Haberdashery, a cozy little shop nearby that sells things like shaving blades, baseball gloves, mustache wax, switchblades, steel wool, handkerchiefs and fedoras — man stuff. It was from this store that my daughter bought me some wool socks for my birthday. Yes, today is my birthday.
Been neglecting the blog for a while but here’s an attempt to get back into the swing of things. Thanks to Ted Leo for the most excellent Tears for Fears cover.
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.
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!
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…
Steel Panther – Feel the Steel (Universal Republic)
On pink vinyl, no less… Jade’s favourite of the bunch. Death to all but metal!
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.
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.
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.
Thee Oh Sees, The Sheepdogs, The Rolling Stones, Frankie Miller, Al Casey, Hayden, Kiss, Thin Lizzy, Takeshi Terauchi, Sloan, Black Lips, The Black Keys, The Ventures, The Kinks, Belle and Sebastian and more
Thee Oh Sees, The Sheepdogs, The Rolling Stones, Frankie Miller, Al Casey, Hayden, Kiss, Thin Lizzy, Takeshi Terauchi, Sloan, Black Lips, The Black Keys, The Ventures, The Kinks, Belle and Sebastian 
