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Static Journey, vol. 2

By junior on March 4, 2008, at 2:22 pm

I dipped into the second volume of Darin Cappe’s 9 volume box set retrospective of the Rheostatics’ career. Darin is releasing one volume a week up ’til the end of March, in order to commemorate the one year anniversary of the last Rheos concert. I posted about volume one here.

Volume 2 of Static Journey […]

March 4th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Music, Rheostatics | Comments are closed

Static Journey vol.1

By junior on February 25, 2008, at 9:42 pm

Some thoughts on volume 1 of Darin Cappe’s Static Journey “box set” retrospective on the Rheostatics (you can get it here):

I was a little disappointed initially that the first track in the set – position of primacy, very important – was not in fact a Rheostatics track, but rather the Introduction for the band […]

February 25th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Los Angeles Kings, Music, NHL, Rheostatics, Toronto Maple Leafs | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)

New Rheostatics Material

By junior on February 24, 2008, at 12:58 pm

Okay, well not exactly “new.” The band is still broken up, so they’re not producing any new material. Not to worry, though, because Green Sprout* extraordinaire Darin Cappe has been working on a project – a mega-project, actually – to celebrate the upcoming one-year anniversary (on March 30th) of The Last Whale, the final Rheostatics […]

February 24th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Music, Rheostatics | Comments are closed

Meme First!

By junior on February 21, 2008, at 12:01 am

I have been tagged with a meme by Mike.* For those of you unfamiliar with the concept – I’m looking in your direction, Geez – it’s definition time:

The Blog Meme A blog meme is a type of Internet meme that requires active participation by the blogger and rarely traces back to an originating source. […]

February 21st, 2008 | Tags: , , , , | Category: HiR:tb, Memes, Rheostatics | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)

…and now they’re gone, now they’re gone.

By junior on October 19, 2007, at 5:05 pm

A CBC reporter from New Brunswick by the name of Bob Mersereau has written a book purporting to set out the top 100 Canadian albums of all time. Obviously, the subject matter of such a book is in the “holy freakin’ subjectivity, Batman” category. I have no doubt that Mersereau’s whole point is simply to […]

October 19th, 2007 | Category: Canadiana, Music, Rheostatics | Comments are closed