Mark? Excellent.

So, to recap, I say that I have a $500/month budget, somebody responds with "I'm having trouble making payments on my Audi" and everyone else responds with "You settled for a cheap Audi?" ... Rich bastards.

Paranoia. How many pointless posts like this do I have to make before I can download the rest of those MP3s? Can you just send them to me?

Alright, so maybe I live a LITTLE bit in poverty.

At The Drive In - Invalid Litter Dept.

Neil Young - Keep On Rockin' In The Free World Woooo

Waking Life

I spent my halloween in the usual way: getting trashed, making an ass out of myself, not being allowed back somewhere ever again, then sleeping in the hallway because I lost the key to my apartment. I 'm a classy man.

I thought minimum wage wasn't a living wage, too, until I became an adult and actually had to afford to live. You can't raise a family, by any means, on minimum wage, but the conditions I currently live under require 20 hours of minimum wage pay a week to survive. Granted, that doesn't take in to account any kind of frivilous spending or anything, but it's still kind of mind-blowing. I mean, working full time at minimum wage I have double what I need. And, sure, I'm poor and live in squalor, but I'm happy. To clarify the math, $300/month for rent + utilities (because I live in a living room), plus $25 a week or so for food and $100 for a TTC pass. $500/month in total. For easy math, put minimum wage at $7 and you get 17.8 hours a week.

Mugison - Sea Y

The Streets - Dry Your Eyes

I've always really liked "The Folk Singer" and "Joe's In Trouble". Matt's talents weren't as developed when he released those albums, and it comes out in the music, but I bet if he released a guitar and piano album now it'd be brilliant.

It took me a while to realise this thread wasn't about me. At first I was kind of creeped out that you guys know that I work at Canadian tire and have a beard. If you hate him now, try watching him in the same ad on eternal repeat.

It took me a while to realise this thread wasn't about me. At first I was kind of creeped out that you guys know that I work at Canadian tire and have a beard. If you hate him now, try watching him in the same ad on eternal repeat.

They didn't really have that much differentiation.

Yeah, they sure were pretty rebellious in the 1960s. Then came Zeppelin, then the Sex Pistols, then Minor Threat and DC hardcore started yelling, then nu-metal kinda kicked out everything but yelling, then modern hardcore and grindcore started celebrating drumming where you can't make out anything but a blur of double-kicks in the drumming. And now I don't really think a lot of kids rebel by listening to The Beatles anymore. Ever since rock has come in to existence, the underground's been constantly trying to be one step heavier than what's in the mainstream. Now we're at a point where singers make legitemate attempts to sound like Satan when he's pissed off, meaning one of two things: 1) I just don't have a good enough imagination to think how they could make music (much) heavier. 2) This is kind of just another sign that rock'll be lucky to get 10 more years before it's completely dead. I had a conversation with a friend about this one time and said, "What's even left? Just sounds of people dying?", to which he responded, "Actually, Fuck The Facts already has a song that does that." That kind of put it in to perspective for me.

Moist doesn't have much quality in terms of B-Sides and unreleased tracks, even if they are an amazing band the rest of the time. Our Lady Peace has a piano version of Julia that's amazing, but other than that their CDSes tend to just have a bunch of live versions of songs that are on albums anyway. "Earth, Sky, and Everything In Between" by I Mother Earth has 3 b-sides and a bunch of redoes, but beyond that, again, not a lot. Alexisonfire, like you said, doesn't have a lot yet, but they've done a couple of CDs where they cover somebody else's songs and somebody else covers theirs. Generally, if you want to be plentiful in B-Sides, you're going with the wrong bands, even if you are going with some excellent bands. Frankly, Canadian bands don't tend to have enough money to record more than 12 songs an album. Bands like Radiohead, on the other hand - I have a homemade 6 CD bootleg box sex with all their unreleased songs and B-Sides, and if you ever see "The Aeroplane Flies High, Looks Left, Turns Right" by the Smashing Pumpkins you'll notice that every single released for "Melon Collie And The Infinite Sadness" has about 6 b-sides. If you want rare tracks, stick with Americans and British people. They have more money.

1. Prime Time Deliverance 2. Strange Days 3. Suburbia 4. Symoblistic White Walls

Generation X-Wing worked surprisingly well. Prime Time Deliverance reminded me that I'm afraid of change.

Fuck The Facts. How in the hell is the next generation going to rebel? How much heavier can music get?

Matt Good - The Rat Who Would Be King Was that taboo?

Age Of Electric is so sickeningly '90s that it's awesome. They're one of those bands that could just as easily be a parody of their decade and genre. Which would be a bad thing if the '90s didn't rule.

Kaki King. Easy. See?

I am Underdogs. It's my own fault for calling myself "angry." I wonder if that means I have low self-esteem.

Not counting B-Sides, unreleased songs, and pre-Last Of The Ghetto Astronauts... Ex-Pats Of The Blue Mountain Symphony Orchestra.

1) The Rat Who Would Be King 2) Apparitions 3) My Out Of Style Is Coming Back 4) Sort Of A Protest Song 5) A Long Way Down 6) House Of Smoke And Mirrors 7) Omissions Of The Omen 8) Running For Home 9) Weapon