How hot is too hot? Apparently poor Rob Funk of Vancouver is the litmus test. He claims his life has been made unnecessarily difficult on account of his good looks. Not only does the former catalogue model attract an uncomfortable amount of attention any time he walks into a room (”everyone turns to look at me”), but he can’t get a date, because women are “intimidated” to be seen with such an attractive individual.
Fortunately, a Vancouver radio station has taken it upon themselves to help the poor guy get a date, at the same time enabling the rest of us to get a look at the agonized Adonis himself.
Talk about a hottie!
How’s it going to end? The Hollywood North Report is on the case!
Friday, November 18:
LCD Soundsystem and The Juan Maclean
Kool Haus
I totally thought this show was just going to be a series of DJ sets by members of the DFA roster. It was being held as one of the Return to New York events that I sometimes see advertised around town for the old-school partiers. Whatever I had expected, it certainly wasn’t four dudes in hoods playing drum pads, keyboard guitars and synths and making epic, rocked-out techno jams, which is what The Juan Maclean did with its opening slot.
(Inspired by the Church Sign Generator)
Via Slashdot, this story bounced over from Canoe.ca(CP) about a mother of 3 in Waterloo, Ontario who set up a website in April to document her complaints about “questionable building practices and labour-code violations” of a local developer. She even wrote to the Ontario Ministry of the Environment to report her findings. I only found this Google cache copy of an over-quota Geocities account, so I have no idea of the nature or extent of her claims (see Robert’s links in comments).
The developer, Activa Holdings, has now launched a punitive libel suit against Louisette Lanteigne for $2 million. Here’s what’s interesting: Activa’s lawyer, Greg Murdoch (looks like a nice enough guy), crows that Activa is “confident the right public perception will come about.”
Now, maybe it’s the naive little boy in me that thinks this is the dumbest way for a company to restore its besmirched reputation. You can’t polish a gold turd with sandpaper, to coin a phrase.
In the interest of full disclosure, I am not a The Darkness fan. So it’s with some amusement that this report showed up on The Register.
To summarize, Justin Hawkins, singer of The Darkness, found an advance industry copy on eBay of their upcoming CD (due out at the end of November) that some industry slimeball had put up for auction. Hawkins paid £350 to reclaim it, stating the move was to stop the CD from being leaked prematurely.
To quote, “I’ve bought our own album back off this character who’s selling it on eBay,” he told the BBC. “It cost me £350 and it’s going to be a tenner when it’s in the shops - with artwork.”
The best part of this quote is the “with artwork” bit. For a taste of what passes for The Darkness artwork, open wide and click on the image below for more
Much ado about famed BBC DJ John Peel and his beloved wooden box full of 7″ singles (MetaFilter, BoingBoing). Only the ILoveMusic discussion group has been trying to gather the tracks together and finally somebody has posted a torrent.
It’s a work in progress apparently. I’m guessing the sheer scattered, eclectic nature of a collector like Peel means that the average muso has never even heard of most of these artists, nevermind rip them from their collection. For sure, some great tracks and then some tracks that only a mother could love (or an archivist like John Peel).
