Chloe is back this week and so are all the production bells and whistles after the last episode’s fun little crash course. This week’s movie has me going outside of my comfort zone into the romantic dramas with We Live In Time but it’s with good company, being two of the best currently working in film today, Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh. I try to coin the genre name for Liam Neeson as he has a new action film out as well as writer, director and creature guy Steven Kostanski’s follow-up to Psycho Goreman. All this plus we both relive some interesting 2024 cinematic moments in this week’s reminders.
Manning the desk solo again this week with a twist: I’m also editing too so don’t expect any flash stuff! That’s Chloe’s department! This week I give my thoughts on the ending of the Venom trilogy, Venom: The Last Dance, a symbiotic bromance for the ages! I also dug out two of our VIFF films, Conclave and Seeds, for their theatrical releases and finally got to give the well earned praise to Will Ferrell’s new documentary on Netflix. All of this plus I finally finished one of the best shows to stream in the last decade, albeit a few years too late.
Flying without a co-pilot this week as Chloe takes a break and will return next week. I faced my fears on this new episode and took in Parker Finn’s diabolical sequel to his debut film, Smile. I also got a look at Michael Keaton hanging out in his comfortable sweet spot in Goodrich and welcome back the housemates of What We Do In The Shadows for the first three episodes of their final season. All of this plus a few cool additions to my library!
I’m very excited about this week’s episodes as Chloe and I get to bring two Vancouver International Film Festival movies back for full reviews as this year’s best film and the Palme d’Or winner at Cannes, Sean Baker’s Anora, makes its debut in theaters over the next three weeks across Canada! We also get to dig into one of the weirder festival films, Guy Maddin’s political satire, Rumours, a movie that both of us are still trying to make sense of. We give our thoughts on Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw The TV Glow, I had some fun with the new animated prequel Transformers One as well as some new documentaries on Disney+. All this and more, right here!
After an amazing week at the Vancouver International Film Festival, Chloe and I are a little burnt out but ready to give you all the new films we took in, off the festival path. We get to unleash on the Joker sequel, a film that we opted for over an apparently incredible VIFF film and I finally get to gush over my favorite film of 2024 so far, The Substance. I try to make sense of Francis Ford Coppola’s very self indulgent passion project and Sebastian Stan has two new films this week and one of them Chloe and I just saw at the festival. All this and more as we play catch up on a brand new episode!
The Vancouver International Film Festival, this being the 43rd annual, is always my favorite time of the year and has been for the last eight years of my life, especially the majority of them that I was able to attend in person. This year marked a new evolution in the journey as my daughter Chloe joined the show and we got to experience the festival as both her first time and the first in a video coverage sense. Presented here is our breakdown of eighteen of the many films from across the globe that we took in, including possible Oscar contenders in Conclave, Flow and Anora.
This playlist ends the weekend before a big moment for my oldest daughter and me as we head down to the Vancouver International Film Festival for a bunch of movies. That said, this marks the first break I’ve taken since bringing this new blog of daily song selections and I have to say, I went a little bit mellower. Sure, we start with Deftones but it is one of their swankier songs and I’ve got turn-of-the-millennium nu-metalers Cold here but this was a radio song as well. Also mixed in here I have the Canadian selections of one of the greatest ever, I Mother Earth, Brave Shores and even, the Victoria queen on the verge of a comeback, Nelly Furtado to bring the list to a close. I should mention that I’ve peppered in some classics here with a 90s Ice Cube anthem and a couple from some childhood favorites. Rock along to the list and I’ll update you with more in a couple weeks!
We’re not messing around anymore when it comes to the kickoffs of these playlists because I’m coming through with an all time favorite song off of one of my favorite records ever made. The first song I brought to the playlist from the Deftones, one of my top groups ever, was a cover song but now I’m bringing a track that I feel also oozes sex appeal in a genre that would appear to be unable to convey that. Upon further digging into the lyrics, you find that the track is about luring a girl into a bathtub, killing her with an electrical device, and then dressing her back up which makes the song infinitely less sexy but I guess it’s all about the packaging to give it that initial feel. Chino clearly had some dark thoughts and mixed emotions while writing this one.
“You move like I want to To see like your eyes do We are downstairs Where no one can see New life break away”
I remember first hearing this song on the radio and becoming obsessed with it. It was an earworm that wouldn’t go away and I would tape it off the next playings of it, always missing that beginning guitar riff. Then I saw the video, directed by George Vale, the man behind some great Canadian music videos like The Tea Party’s The Bazaar and Our Lady Peace’s Starseed, and I was hooked. I save up my allowance and bought the CD immediately. Coming off the Detroit, Michigan bands second album, this was the first single and what I think was the defining one for their sound. Still to this day, I love this track.
“Angelina, it’ll fix your hunchback Angelina, it’ll help your time pass Angelina, here’s a forecast Angelina, it’s science, we never laugh”
Ever since I was a kid, first enjoying music, I have had a deep love for Foreigner. Stemming from songs like Hot Blooded, Cold As Ice and then to ballads like I Wanna Know What Love Is and Waiting For A Girl Like You, I really found my love for them with the sax solo infused Urgent, a song I kind of became obsessed with. This track in particular was one that picked up in popularity with me as an adult and I turn it up loud every time that it comes on. The pulsing bass and drum that starts the song is truly delicious. That said, I didn’t opt to see them in concert when they passed through a few months ago. I feel like the ship has sailed on enjoying them live.
“Bought a beat up six string, in a secondhand store Didn’t know how to play it, but he knew for sure That one guitar, felt good in his hands Didn’t take long, to understand Just one guitar, slung way down low Was a one way ticket, only one way to go So he started rockin’, ain’t never gonna stop Gotta keep on rockin’, someday gonna make it to the top”
The Hunna returns to the playlist with another song off of their self titled record, an album that I consistently go back to and rock out to. This song is a quick little blip on a track at just over two minutes long but they do a hell of a job being memorable with that short amount of time. The song feels like a ferocious attack on social media trends, vapid attitudes, fleeting fandom and the old adage that you need money to make money and unless you have it, you will never get that radio single you strive for. It’s cynical, yes, but rightfully so and it rocks oh so hard at the same time. I love The Hunna and I hope they see a rise because they deserve it.
“Well, look at me, look at me, I’m the boss I know everybody, I can take you to the top TikTok, TikTok, or else you get dropped I can’t dance to your song, that’s not hot I bet you’ll never hear this on the radio, it’s crazy, though I guess I need to start handin’ out some fellatio Say that, do this, but don’t do that Just don’t be yourself, ’cause that is whack”
The first Canadian content of this playlist and it’s one of the greatest bands to ever release in our beautiful country, along with Our Lady Peace, who have already made an appearance. It should be noted that this is my favorite incarnation of this Toronto, Ontario band, with the original lead singer Edwin, who was like a Canuck music god to me at the time and afterward with his solo record. This song in particular was a MuchMusic favorite of mine and I used to wait so I could tape this song and their other Scenery & Fish single Another Sunday on an old VCR. That brings me back to a lot simpler times for sure because, apparently, I love the year 1996 a lot according to some of these song picks.
“Remembering the laughs, the time We got high for seven days down In New Orleans and it seemed like No one else knew we were just The moon and sun in fog before the Heat burned it away and took The sleep from tired heads on Beds of reaching hands, of road trip Breath and long tall freedom”
This is another track that played on our local indie rock station The Peak in Vancouver and it was a song that didn’t really have an affect on me at first but after a bunch of listens, I changed my tune. This Toronto, Ontario pop group adds more Canadian content to this eighteenth playlist and also continues to show off my adoration of bands that only consist of a duo. The main drive of this song is so catchy that I’m surprised it took so long for it to catch one with me. Now that I love it, I know the song is a summer party slam dunk.
“So sorry, I’ve missed you Hair always whipping round So high up, got my chin up I don’t care if I never come down I don’t care if I never come down”
I think my still burning love for turn of the millennium rock and metal is still very obvious because, in the case of this song, this metal band from Jacksonville, Florida didn’t really have the resonance like some of the other bands of the era. That said, I really enjoyed this record a lot and spun it pretty often and this was the first single off of the record. I remember seeing the music video debut on MuchMusic’s Loud and was totally pumped for it as I only knew about them because they opened up for and were affiliated with Limp Bizkit as lead singer Fred Durst appeared on a bonus track from their self titled debut record. Yes, there’s a Limp Bizkit connection here.
“Everyone got twisted up Everyone got behind my back and broke it Cause it’s my world Everyone got twisted up All your friends got behind my back and broke it Cause it’s my world Everyone got twisted up Everyone got behind my back and broke it Cause it’s my world Everyone got twisted up! Everyone got behind my back and broke it! Cause it’s my world!”
This is a song that I have to attribute to my wife’s TikTok feed for getting me on board as it’s one that I kept hearing over and over again as she scrolled through her feed a couple of years ago. Albeit, this is a different version than what appears on her album, hello this is the setlist for my tour, released just last year, but I kind of like the angstier or, in this case, angrier version much more. Hailing from Plano, Texas and at just twenty years old, GAYLE is a rising star who was even featured on the Barbie soundtrack with a cool use of Crazy Town’s Butterflies for her own frenetic version and I think she has a really bright future ahead of her. Plus, this track is the ultimate middle finger song as well and sometimes we all need to feel that.
“A-B-C-D-E, fuck you And your mom and your sister and your job And your craigslist couch and the way your voice sounds Fuck you and your friends that I’ll never see again Everybody but your dog, you can all fuck off”
This is one of those all-time hip-hop tracks and while it feels like it might not fit into this list at all, I believe the vibe at its center really does lend to the same sort of chill style I have going on here. The song has the legendary rapper Ice Cube rolling through what’s in the title, a good day. He lays out the day from the beginning, a pork-free breakfast, Yo MTV Raps!, gambling, a sexual encounter to keep the blood flowing, and, most importantly, no murders in his neighborhood. This feels like a song, when it comes on my randomizer, that is unskippable. It is a piece of serotonin that exists in a genre that focuses a little more on the other side of the coin, especially in the last twenty years, and is a reminder of the hip hop that shaped generations. It also makes your head bop immediately and thats fantastic.
“Went to Short Dog’s house, they was watchin’ Yo! MTV Raps What’s the haps on the craps? Shake ’em up, shake ’em up, shake ’em up, shake ’em”
One of the greatest trios of all time makes a return to the playlist and a track off the same album I brought last time too. This is arguably one of their biggest songs of all time and that bassline that Sting rolls out with that subtle drumming from Stewart Copeland is absolutely delicious. The single ends up winning a Grammy and dives headlong into the themes of being trapped on a deserted island with themes of isolation, loneliness and desperation before ending with the downer note that all of his pleas for help that he sent away came right back to him, unread. It’s dark themes for a song with such a bop at its heart. Keep it up, indeed, eh, Sting? Man, I wish these guys could have gotten along better, they’re so genius. Also, Machinhead’s cover of this song is awesome.
“A year has passed since I wrote my note I should have known this right from the start Only hope can keep me together Love can mend your life, but love can break your heart”
There’s something about the chaoticness of The Vines that really spoke to me the first time I heard their debut track, Get Free, and I was kind of hooked into their sound ever since. Released against the backdrop of a throwback rock sound, spearheaded by bands like Sweden’s The Hives, this Aussie rock band really fit in with their own signature sound. More than Get Free, the second single released of the debut record, which I feel is the song people know more, Outtathaway is the single that charted the highest for the band and is their biggest success to date. I still listen to the album regularly and crank the volume when this madness comes on.
“Gotta get outtathaway No time for me to say When I speak out of line I don’t believe in time”
This is what should have been a landmark record that sent this band into super stardom but instead revealed the ego of the lead singer and songwriter and exposed the very real notion that fame and youth can sometimes lead to an artist’s destruction. With singles like Touch, Peel And Stand and Shelf In A Room, Charlestown, Indiana’s own Days Of The New had us eating out of the palm of their hand on MuchMusic and it led to them getting that coveted opener position for Metallica on their latest tour at the time, one I had the privilege of checking out at UBC Thunderbird Stadium. They were captivating and this was my favorite track off the record, The dark melody and Travis Meeks vocals still to this day have me mesmerized and for newer generations, I feel like this song has aged really well and can make new fans all over again, even if the band has imploded time and time again.
“I’m the one receiving the pain from you Break me down, so shove me in a shoe You put it on and walk on me all day Me, it wouldn’t surprise It’s something you would do I watch you”
Another turn of the millennium track finds its way to this playlist but the difference here is I never really even knew who Deadsy was at the time of the release and I’m only just discovering them now, albeit way too late and arguably when the founder of the band is in some mental distress. I feel like maybe Orgy filled this void at the time as the two bands feel very similar in sound but the emo electronic vibe is something that I’ve really picked up on and this and their song The Keys To Grammercy Park have become my obsolete go tos when it comes to this Los Angeles band. The frontman, Elijah Blue Allman, is the son of the legendary Cher and the legal battles between the two have been really heartbreaking to read.
“Now and then it comes to mind I draw upon a long lost time So don’t ask me why the angels won’t cry, ’cause you know what I’ve already told you Memories of Urantia girls, they race around my brain in swirls You never ask me why the change is in the sky bring you up which to the hole that you go through And now you’re off you’ve done the time Prepare for divine invasion As the spirit climbs Morontia minds Ascend to the cosmic nation”
And just before I leave you for a two-week hiatus to cover the Vancouver International Film Festival, I finish this playlist dropping a fantastic single from a Canadian pop queen who is hopefully gearing up for a comeback. Now, admittedly I was not too high on her work with Timbaland as I thought Promiscuous Girl was a departure from her previous image but I have come around on it, mostly because he is such a good producer and a lot of these songs are phenomenal. Yes, my tastes in pop have definitely evolved over the years, thanks to my wife mostly. The beat to this song is great and gets stuck in your head and I really love Nelly’s voice a lot.
“In the day, in the night Say it right, say it all You either got it, or you don’t You either stand, or you fall When your will is broken When it slips from your hand When there’s no time for jokin’ There’s a hole in the plan”
It’s a special episode this week as it is the last one before a little break while Chloe and I attend the Vancouver International Film Festival! On the show, I have thoughts about the remake of the “cinema trauma” known as Speak No Evil and Chloe has some harsh words for the original film as well. I got to check out the first few episodes of the WandaVision follow-up, Agatha All Along, and I dedicated three hours of my life to Kevin Costner’s passion project, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1, now available on 4K and Blu-Ray. All this plus a couple of fresh reviews from Chloe to end the episode!
This week we have an episode thirty-six years in the making, twelve years more than Chloe has been alive, as I got my eyeballs on Tim Burton’s long-awaited sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. I also got to take in one of the best indie dramas of the year, His Three Daughters, a week before it lands on Netflix. James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s action comedy True Lies got the 4K treatment earlier this year and I watched it for the first time since VHS and I have a whole crazy list of new additions to the library. All this plus two of the best TV shows currently streaming.
With a handful of days delay, I present to you another eclectic list of songs that made up a two-week period of my life and there is some interesting stuff to behold on it. I start by leaning into some classic hip hop with the Beasties and also the current leader of the genre in my opinion, Kendrick Lamar later on the list. I include some all time favorites like the math metal of Mudvayne, possibly my top blink singles ever released and one of the tracks that put Thrice on my radar. I have this, some classic rock tracks from Zepplin and Golden Earring and I even end it all with something absurdly fun.
It was only a matter of time before the most iconic three MCs and a DJ hit the playlist and, I’ll admit, I had it set up to post in an almost cocky way. Truth be told, I was ready to post this after I passed my driver’s test but, embarrassingly, I failed, making this an ironic post. That aside, this song is still incredible until this very day and it brightens my spirits every time I hear it. Especially after a failure day, this kick-off to one of the greatest rap albums of all time hits just right.
“I’ve got the brand new doo-doo, guaranteed like Yoo-hoo I’m on like Dr. John, yeah, Mr. Zu Zu I’m a newlywed, not a divorcee (yeah) And everything I do is funky like Lee Dorsey Well it’s the taking of the Pelham 1, 2, 3 If you want a doo-doo rhyme, then come see me I’ve got the savoir faire with the unique rhymin’ I keep it on and on, it’s never quitting time, and Strictly handheld is the style I go Never rock the mic with the pantyhose I strap on my ear goggles, and I’m ready to go ‘Cause at the boards is the man they call the Mario You pull up at the function, and you know I Kojak To all the party people that are on my Bozac I’ve got more action than my man, John Woo And I’ve got mad hits like I was Rod Carew (yeah)”
It’s about time that one of my favorite Canadian metal bands makes their first appearance on the playlist as I listen to them daily at this point. Formed in Burlington, Ontario, this five-piece has been kicking ass since their first album, over twenty years ago, and has been melting faces ever since. This record in particular is one of my favorite pandemic-era releases and this song is the second single released from it, making its debut right in the first week of that fateful year. Aaron Gillespie has also been a regular follow for me, with his band Underoath, and even more now that they denounced their religious affiliation. This song rules so click on it and turn it up LOUD!
“I gotta find some way to relate I drew a line just so I could see straight Erase every lie and half truth Anything I have to”
Let’s get some more Canadian content going here and this is not just CanCon but British Columbia local and one of the most gifted singers and songwriters in the last fifteen years in my opinion. Coming from Vancouver, Hannah’s music first hooked me when I heard it playing regularly on our local indie rock radio station, The Peak, and it led me to pick up the album. Once I did, I fell in love with this other track on the album, the fourth song, and it still sticks in my brain as my favorite. It feels like an easy single that never got the chance to shine and I’m happy to share it here.
“We’re in a sea full of sharks Just swimming around and around If we get caught, they’re gonna taste our blood You leave a trail and the word will get out That we’re all lost and ready to kill That we’re all lost and ready to kill”
This is one of those artists that I was really late to and now, I really look forward to their music as well as the remixes that they do. If you haven’t heard their work on Florence + The Machine’s My Love, you need to fix that immediately. It’s so good! This song was floating into my ears for a while before I figured out who it was and added it to my favorites and it is all down to that main groove. It’s a “chilling on the beach” song in so many ways and it’s crazy that a pop band from Oxford, England were the ones to bring it out. Despite having a sort of sad drive of the main music, the song is about remaining strong through vulnerable moments in your life and embracing your vulnerability, which is a message I can definitely get behind.
“Sometimes, all I think about is you Late nights in the middle of June Heat waves been fakin’ me out Can’t make you happier now Sometimes, all I think about is you Late nights in the middle of June Heat waves been fakin’ me out Can’t make you happier now”
The second song from the legendary Tolkien fans, Led Zeppelin, makes its appearance this time around and it is a song that is always rooted deep in my brain for weeks after I hear it. The song’s history is a little confusing as the title was also used for an album released two years prior and this track doesn’t appear on it. There was a time when the song was going to be included but it was decided that the tone of it didn’t really fit with the record. The song was recorded at the same time as The Rover, and refers to the auditoriums and arenas in which Zeppelin performed, as if there was a sort of holy feel to the air at those venues for Plant, Page, Jones and Bonham.
“Let me take you to the movie Can I take you to the show? Let me be yours ever truly Can I make your garden grow?”
Now that it seems the dust has settled on the war between Nobel Prize-winning artist Kendrick Lamar and Canadian whiner Drake with, I think, Kenny coming out as the clear winner, I’m adding another one of his tracks to the playlist and one with a little bit of a movie connection. The song was part of one of the greatest records in 2017, an album with track after track that you want to play at the loudest decibel but this song being used in the trailer for the Rocky franchise boxing sequel, Creed II, does what was intended and that’s to hype the audience up. The track’s title is what is at the heart of it, as Lamar celebrates, critiques, and explores his black heritage and culture, doing it from multiple viewpoints and the music video, featuring Don Cheadle, debuts his slightly comedic alter ego, Kung Fu Kenny. It’s really worth checking out, as is the whole DAMN. album.
“You ain’t shit without a body on your belt You ain’t shit without a ticket on your plate You ain’t sick enough to pull it on yourself You ain’t rich enough to hit the lot and skate”
I’m going really classic for this song, an early eighties rock track that I loved when I first heard it as a kid. I’m honestly surprised I did because the song clocks in at almost eight minutes and I know I was nowhere near my later-found patience with music in the longest form as Tool wouldn’t be formed nor hit my eardrums for years. A Dutch band formed in The Hauge, Netherlands as The Tornados in 1961 and finally disbanded in 2021, Golden Earring is mostly known for Radar Love but this song always rose above that, for me. Interestingly enough the song wasn’t inspired by the legendary TV series but by a sort of throwaway line in the Robert Ludlum-written novel, The Bourne Identity.
“Help, I’m steppin’ into the Twilight Zone Place is a madhouse, feels like being cloned My beacon’s been moved under moon and star Where am I to go now that I’ve gone too far?”
Thrice makes another appearance on the playlist, one of my favorite bands of all time and have an album that means a lot to me in their discography. I go back to their second album for this choice, a single that was released during their heavier and more punk-influenced beginnings. This track is considered the song that established the band on the scene and is a heavily metaphorical examination of addiction, adultery and the regret that follows, you know, if you’re not a sociopath. It’s a killer song and it definitely led to my love of this band.
“I just close my eyes and I’m already here It’s already too late I know it’s nothing but lies But they sound so sincere I find them too hard to hate”
I have to acknowledge at the top here, the legendary status of this trio, one that I’ve been enjoying since the Dude Ranch days and the first time I saw them, on the Warped Tour in Vancouver at a time when Travis Barker wasn’t the drummer. Usually known for kind of sophomoric little punk ditties, this song took me by surprise, a song just brimming with emotion. Like Adam’s Song, this track feels like it has an emotional depth that we usually don’t expect out of Mark, Tom and Travis but it always manages to hit me in the feels and maybe my favorite song they’ve ever done. At its heart, the song is a meditation on the effect depression can have on a relationship and its subsequent fallout, which feels like something that is vastly relatable. No matter who you are and how much money you have, depression will always lurk.
“Where are you? And I’m so sorry I cannot sleep, I cannot dream tonight I need somebody and always This sick, strange darkness Comes creeping on, so haunting every time And as I stare, I counted The webs from all the spiders Catching things and eating their insides Like indecision to call you And hear your voice of treason Will you come home and stop this pain tonight? Stop this pain tonight”
It’s once again time for the Canadian rock goddess known as Emily Haines to bless this playlist with another absolute banger and this time I’m pulling something from the first of album of a double whammy they gave us back in 2022. Their eighth record in a long and fantastic career dates back to their formation in Toronto in 1998, both of these records have the group really leaning into their iconic sound, including the kick-off to the record, an almost eight-minute track called Doomscroller. This is the next on the record and has a great hook along with those flighty Emily vocals we know and love. I love Metric and that just grows daily.
“Starting over when the story’s got an astounding twist You better turn that page When push it comes to shove we do not fall out of love We double down, we do not fade”
This is a record that changed how I looked at metal as a genre, a landmark piece in what formed me as a fan of this type of music. The first time I heard Dig, I felt like my mind was blown apart and rewritten in thundering guitar, almost mathematical drumming, wicked slap bass and roaring vocals, When I finally got the album, I fell in love with the whole thing, even the weird and haunting interludes but this track would constantly get the replay once I heard it. As implied by the title, yes, the song is about serial killer Ed Gein, the inspiration for film characters Norman Bates (Psycho), Jame Gumb (The Silence of the Lambs) and Leatherface (Texas Chainsaw Massacre).
“Cold and silent, soiled face I will wash it all away With my love, that’s all she’s ever needed from me It’s my time, to mother One of my own, in my life I am so alone, left with no one In my life, I’m so alone”
If it weren’t for my listening to Arcade Fire Rado on Spotify at work one day, I never would have come across this band, classified as post-punk revival, a movement of indie rock that emerged in the early 2000s which is more stripped down and low-fi than the rock that dominated the previous decade. Formed in Ealing, London, England in 2007, their sound is the perfect one to break through my tastes as it is dark and broody with synth tones and a deep and almost Morissey-like vocal lilt. This track comes from their third record and was the teaser song released just over three months before the album release but was never considered one of the singles attributed to it so I consider it an underrated b-side that should have been bigger in my opinion.
“So listen to some reason, there’s nothing in your dreams! But if you’re getting even, you’re getting even Trying to get even? Better start believing I can forgive, and we can forget Even after all this love and other nonsense we’ve made”
Adding some more Canadian content to join Hannah Georgas and Metric, this is a band that commanded radio play in the second half of the nineties with an album filled with hit singles and catchy songs to rock out to. They were also a band that commanded a really loud sound when you saw them play live. Formed in the rock mecca of Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1988, Gordie Johnson, Kelly Hoppe, Gary Lowe and Paul Brennan really landed with the Hemi-Vision record, their third record and first platinum seller. This comes after a record that Jack White has since called the best record to come out of Canada. This was the first of the four Hemi-Vision singles and it got the ball rolling big time. Plus, Gordie’s guitar? Canadian iconic stuff in my opinion.
“Got my head in a haze Feel like a cat in a cage I’ve been crying for days and I’m falling apart Digging a hole in my heart Give me the lies on page I’m feelin’ twice my age I’ve been crying for days and I’m falling apart Digging a hole in my heart”
Way to end the playlist with something absurd, right? Ruins the whole esthetic of the jumble I was going for! AAAAAAARGH!!! Oh, well, the reality is I’m a late comer to the musical art of Andrew W.K., out of Ann Arbor, Michigan by way of Stanford, California, and when he debuted, I’ll be honest, I thought it was a joke. What I didn’t see was his inclusivity, his kind nature, his drive to unite an audience and this all rises above the dirty white clothes and bloody noses. The guy was an avant garde artist and I didn’t notice that until I matured more myself. As for the song? It just rules.
Steve Stebbing 