The crew at Asterik Studio are old pals of ours here at sweetdisaster, and since 'tis the season and all that, we'll extend to them a favour and reprint portions of an email we received from them: "So, it's that time of the year, again. Can you believe it? Gone are the days of riding our ultra-powerful jet-skis, going 130 mph on our matching crotch-rockets, racing our $300,000 jet boats across Puget Sound and basically overdoing it in every aspect of partying that you can imagine. Um...sorry, none of that is true. In fact, we love the holidays. Especially in Seattle. Mmmmm...toasty. So, if you decide that a poster, shirt or maybe a few buttons would make a great gift for someone you love, then we wanted to let all of you know that you need to order your goods by December 19th in order to receive it by Christmas. And, we do hope that you make Asterik part of your gift giving experience this year. Shameless atttempt? Yes. And, just in time for Christmas, we've added five new posters to the store! Check 'em out." End of letter. Anyway, since the posters aren't viewable here, click on the link up there to see the new stuff featuring American Hi-Fi, Sparta, Pedro the Lion and more.
P.O.D. and Kanye West will be featured on this Christian music thing 60 Minutes is doing tomorrow night(Wednesday, December 8th, for those of you who're calendar-impaired); check your local listings. Third Day will also be profiled, apparently, if you're into that. I'm sure not.
Speaking of Kanye, his breakout album The College Dropout is up for ten Grammy nominations - including Best New Artist - leading that field by a good two(Usher, who's crap, and Alicia Keys, who's genuinely talented, are up for eight apiece). And another amazing record, Green Day's comeback album American Idiot, is also up for Best Album. Word. It's so rad. [rockrebel]
junkedcamera: still your source for pictures of every show that hits Ottawa. Except maybe Yanni.
To be amused, to be provoked, to be strengthened in your Christian faith - if that's what you're about anyway - check this out. It's my brother Dan's blog, and I hope he doesn't physically intimidate me for doing this without his permission. Meh. Take particular note of the cheetah picture! And here's a joke, reproduced in full and without any attempt whatsoever to obtain any republication rights:
"At Heathrow, a 300-foot long red carpet is stretched out to Air Force One and President Bush strides to a warm but dignified handshake from Queen Elizabeth II. They ride in a silver 1934 Bentley limousine to the edge of central London where they board an open 17th century coach hitched to six magnificent white matching horses. They ride toward Buckingham Palace, each looking sideways and waving to the thousands of cheering Britons lining the streets, all is going well.
But suddenly the right rear horse lets fly with the most horrendous, earth-rending, eye-smarting blast of gastronomic flatulence ever heard in the British Empire, including Bermuda, Tortola and the Falkland Islands. It shakes the coach. Uncomfortable, but under control, the two dignitaries of state do their best to ignore the whole incident, but then the Queen decides that's ridiculous. She turns to Mr. Bush and explains, "Mr. President, please accept my regrets. I'm sure you understand that there are some things that even a Queen cannot control."
George W. Bush, ever the gentleman, replies, "Your Majesty, please don't give the matter another thought. You know, if you hadn't said something, I would have thought it was one of the horses...."
I think our work here is done. Ha! On to more news.
Did you know Glassjaw's guitarist quit like a month ago? Me neither. [saveyourscene]
Thrice, who are amazing, have a new album coming out probably next year. At least, they're writing songs for it, and I bet they're equally amazing as their last album. Oh, and there's a DVD that was supposed to be out in time for Christmas, but now it ain't coming til like mid-2005. Sucky. [absolutepunk]
How funny is THIS: Josh Freese, well-known session drummer as well as a longtime member of the legendary Vandals, will be druming for Sting on an upcoming tour. Sting. STING!!! That's insane.
STING!!!
Posted by mike at December 7, 2004 08:42 PM