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Posts by Robert Randall

Terrestrial signal or internet?

6 hours ago 0 0 1 0

Exactly, thank you. I believe one or two other producers in your rock pantheon fit that description.

13 hours ago 0 0 0 0

True. I reject any video evidence to the contrary.

19 hours ago 1 0 0 0

There must be a word--impresario doesn't quite do it--that describes someone who doesn't merely manage or produce an act but seemingly manifests magic out of sheer will. Often at a brutal cost.

19 hours ago 0 0 1 0

I see this is a later re-edited clip that has an angle showing the guitar's fall. I prefer the original.

19 hours ago 1 0 0 0

And to top it off, at the conclusion he launches the guitar where it disappears into the heavens.
I am assured a roadie grabbed it off camera but that's hardly here nor there, is it?

19 hours ago 2 0 2 0

Very sturdy! Took me ten minutes to kick it in.

1 day ago 1 0 1 0
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That album was ubiquitous. The cover looked cool. It seemed as if everyone who bought a CD player got a copy.

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"However, I will know it's the 1990s when the audience doesn't bother to cheer, but just turns on portable recorders with cheering sounds, and aims them at the stage."
Globe & Mail, Tuesday, April 24, 1979
Review of Village People concert by Alan Niester

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Companies don't seem to do lavish staff Christmas parties any more. One good thing about that is your boss and your spouse aren't having a few drinks and chatting and comparing notes about your bad habits.

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I raised my leg and aimed for the soft spot on the fender so I could put a nice dent in his car but I thought the better of it and didn't do it--an old geezer like me is "too fast" for the city. Isn't that a compliment? Besides, cabs have cameras in every fucking direction.

5 days ago 2 0 0 0

Today I was walking up Quadra, waiting for the walk light so I could cross Yates; the walk light activates, I start jogging across the street and a Victoria Taxi cuts in front of me and slams the brakes, almost hitting me. He yells, "You go too fast!"
#yyj

5 days ago 4 0 1 0

Blue and yellow road markings = water and gas
Or possible Easter.

6 days ago 0 0 0 0

We saw some blue and yellow markings on the street near our house and we lamented that it means the municipality is about to dig up our street again and the next day I looked closer and it was happy Easter greetings the neighbour kids chalked onto the road.

6 days ago 2 0 1 0
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I know our bathroom needs painting but it's such a hassle so we taped a paint store colour swatch to the wall. Now visitors see it and think we're about to renovate and paint the bathroom a nice trendy colour. The swatch has been there five years.

6 days ago 1 0 0 0

Also blame City Hall. I've personally witnessed architects being grilled about why their designs are so colourful.

1 week ago 1 0 0 0

This drives me crazy. And yes, we will be judged by future generations for "The Grey Age".
I blame a new generation of architects with limited fine art experience that are terrified of colour and have never really played around with colour except on a screen.

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"During one song someone clambered on stage and Iggy pushed him off. He did it carefully, probably to avoid hurting the man and being sued, and there was a certain flourish added for the crowd's benefit, but we know Jagger would have looked around for a roadie."
Vancouver Sun, Mon., Aug. 13, 1973

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I imagine Marmaduke will still be as funny as ever.

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Any chance of Tony Wilson or John Peel being nominated?

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The opposite of adulting is turning the laundry room into a foosball/pinball arcade.

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Probably did more in those three months than Pierre Trudeau and Jean Chrétien did at Heenan Blaikie.

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I'm thinking about abandoning mowing my lawn or maintaining the landscaping and letting it go natural but eventually it would get overgrown and abandoned cars, railroad tracks, stray dogs, and drifters would appear and I'm certain Tom Waits and Harry Dean Stanton would be involved somehow.

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There's a genuine earnestness about it, plus we know there was some real-life relationship drama going on.

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We try to laugh at the video (SNL parodied it) but you can't because it's just unassailable pure pop mastery.

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None of the dystopian fiction I've read and watched had teen girls working with the bad guys.

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Sorry this happened. Been there. Is it worth reporting to police?

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Over the weekend a friend observed some young people harvesting and eating raw oysters from Oak Bay Cove, near the marina. I don't think that's ever a good idea.
#yyj #oakbay

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