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Review: One Thing Remains by Default


I picked up the new album from Default the other week. Default is one of those bands that aren’t on the top of my list, but don’t piss me off either.

However, I’ve found through the years that I tend to like it when a band changes their style from time to time. Their second album ‘Elocation’ was more of the same. I thought that maybe the third one would be different. Nope. More of the same.

Is more of the same a bad thing? Let’s take AC/DC for example. They’ve spent years and years and years figuring their ULTIMATE RAWK FORMULA and now that they’ve found it, they stick to it. Is this a bad thing? Depends on who you ask. On one hand, if people like adventure movies, they’ll keep watching adventure movies. So, if I like the AC/DC formula, I’ll keep buying their albums. Will I say that they are revolutionary and “YOU HAVE TO GET THIS ALBUM!!!” to everyone I see? Probably not. So, as long as Default sticks to their formula and doesn’t release a shitty album, I’ll keep buying. The only band I ever stopped buying albums from were the Cranberries. After their album “Bury The Hatchet” I realized it was a message to me to stop buying their music because that album was really really REALLY bad.

Miscellneous Ramblings/Updates/Questions:
– watched ‘What The Bleep Do We Know?‘ at Ben’s last night. Decent documentary on how humans and interactions and reality, and basically…quantum physics.
– My friend is in search of a Pumpkin costume. To not ruin the surprise, I won’t let you know who is looking for it. Let me know if you have one.
– Any takers on that iPod Photo I’m selling? It’s a steal baby. Christmas is coming up. Buy your loved one something.
– Leave some comments if you would like! I tend to check out James/Ferda’s blog as well as Matt’s every day and we leave each other our own little community notes. You should check out their blogs because they give you a snapshot of their (exciting?) lives.
– School is going well. I handed in my first essay a few weeks ago so if it comes back with a fail grade, I’m dropping out now! I can’t hack it! 😉

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No More Tea

From ChartAttack

“Well, more accurately, it appears Jeff Martin is calling it quits. According to a statement, Martin is working on finishing a solo record and will tour in support of the finished product. The singer is ready to shift his focus to himself.”

I must admit I’m a saddened by this news. I’ve followed The Tea Party ever since Edges of Twilight.

The article makes it sound like Jeff Martin is going to just do his own thing…maybe there is hope that The Tea Party will come back together eventually (and not end up like David Usher and Moist).

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Uh…what?

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This Goes out to the Eye of the Tiger Himself – Paul Duffy

Picture Yourself…leaving work. Walking down the escalator. Your music in your ears. Then you see some people start to run. You know what it means. There’s a bus about to leave!

I squint my eyes to see what number bus is leaving. Yep, it’s the 27. The one I want after a hard day of work. I take a couple steps down the escalator but then realize it is futile.

But something stirs in me. It’s the music. What’s the ONE SONG in the universe that can move a man to do more than he thinks he can?

Eye of the Tiger. Coming from my iPod magically.

I start to sprint. I run. I dodge people left and right with my goal in sight. Then the guitars come into the song.

DUHN. DUHN DUHN DUHN.

I make it to the bus. I DID IT!

I laugh at myself at the absurdity of it all, but in my mind I can only envision one person.

Paul Duffy doing pushups every time he hears this song. Whether it’s at a wedding, a dance, a funeral. He will do the pushups.

I never had respect for Paul Duffy. Until now.

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Need a Pen?

Me: Hello?
Them: Hi, is Mrs. X there? (Mrs. X is the person who sat here before I moved two weeks ago.)
Me: No, she moved offices. I can give you her new number if you would like.
Them: Yeah, sure. Do you have her new number?
Me: Yes I do. Are you ready for it?
Them: Yes.
Me: 555-
Them: Wait, hold on, I need a pen.

Why is it that when people say they are ready to absorb a simple 7 digit number, they aren’t really and as soon as you ramble off three numbers they freak out and think “Dang, I gotta get a pen.”

Let’s be honest…I know I’m not smart enough to remember a phone number so I write it down. However, I bet if someone offered me some cash to remember a number, it would be engrained into my memory like Hurley from Lost.

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Review: Collective Soul at Ottawa U

This picture of Dean Roland goes out to the ladies who were swooning over him on Friday night.

Collective Soul concert…what can I say? I missed out when they were in town this past year because I was in Europe. Very pumped to see them again.

The event was a win-to-get-in-and-rock-your-heart-out event in which Vero scored tickets to. Awwww yeah! You’re the best babe!

Inside the Ottawa U Rec Complex, they had the place set up for free massages, free beer, free candy, free CONCERT! It was wild. Boy opened up for CSoul which was great. They have a few rocking tunes and the singer reminded me of Mick Jagger.

CSoul was amazing. Odd to see Ed Roland have a music stand with lyrics on it. The memory must be slipping on him. All in all, I got to hear all the songs I wanted to hear, along with an emphasis of stuff from Youth. Two devil hands up on this concert.

Songs Played That I Can Remember:

  • Shine (of course)
  • Better Now
  • Precious Declaration
  • Home
  • How Do You Love?
  • Counting The Days
  • Under Heaven’s Skies (currently my fave CSoul song)
  • Heavy
  • Run
  • Compliment
  • Why Pt. 2
  • Gel
  • The World I Know
  • December
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Mysterious Fax Machines

Sometimes I wonder if I’m actually in a sitcom involving office antics. An example: Friday, I was off due to the exam so I had asked a co-worker to get a room reservation contract signed and faxed over. Come Monday morning, I get a phone call from the Holiday Inn saying they received one contract signed, but not another one. Strange. Alright, I’ll just go ask my colleague about it. Ooops…she’s sick. So I ask a few people to get to the bottom of it.

In the meantime, I’m working on something else and lo and behold, someone walks by and passes me a contract they found at the fax machine. Hey, it’s the missing contract! Why is it our fax machine and not the one at Holiday Inn?

That’s right, someone here faxed it to a machine which was 10 meters away.

Classic. I’m having a good laugh right now and I’m sure they will too when they get back tomorrow.

update: I’m not allowed to laugh at this anymore. I did the exact same thing yesterday.

what’splayingrightnow: Ladylike – Big Wreck. I found a SLEW of miscellaneous MP3s that I never bothered throwing onto the iPod. With a lot of downtime this weekend, I managed to throw them all onto it. I’m a music machine right now.

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Crunch Time

I have one more written exam this afternoon for a PM-04 competition. Hopefully I fly through this one. You know when you get to that point where you pretty well think you know all the material, but you just don’t really know? Then you start doubting yourself?

That’s the point I’m at. I sitting here looking at my notes and thinking “Yep, I know this.” I even write out everything in my memory and double check it. Even though I know 100% of what I’m studying, it still may be the wrong things to study.

Handed in my first essay to the University of Ottawa yesterday. You may see me drop out if I end up failing the first essay. If I can’t pass the first essay, there’s no way the rest will get better! 😉

Good vibes go out to Vero this weekend as she sadly found out that the 15 page essay that she thought had to be double spaced actually has to be single spaced. Ouch. That’s doubles her workload out of left field.

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Davey Jone’s Locker

Veronique needed a book today for her class and we had to resort to the public library. I can’t say I have been there much in my life, but I’ve realized what a magical place it is.

Don’t get me wrong…I’m not going to be some library geek spending countless hours there. But they have EVERYTHING there.

You want CDs? Done. Free CDs. To borrow. To burn. To steal.
You want DVDs? Done. I even saw the third season of Trailer Park Boys there. At the LIBRARY! Come on!
Did I mention all the books and magazines?

Anyhow, the rules are as follows:
You can take 10 CDs, 10 DVDs, 10 Audiobooks and as many books as you can carry out at a time.

The RIAA is looking for the suppliers of music downloads? Feast your eyes on a municipally funded establishment.

Amazing. Right under my nose all this time. Let’s just say that instead of going to Blockbuster to find the hot new release, I’m going to walk down to the library and check out a no-so-new release. There’s tons of movies that I haven’t seen.

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Adios iPod

I am selling my iPod with 1 1/2 years left on the warranty. I can transfer the warranty into your name. Warranty is pretty good. Full iPod replacement if they find something wrong with it…also a battery replacement if it doesn’t hold its charge anymore.

It is:

  • iPod Photo
  • 60 GB (to give you an idea, I put my collection of 200 CDs on it and it still had 20GB left)
  • No engraving on the back

Make me an offer.