http://plainwhiteroom.blogdrive.com/ plainwhiteroom Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:00:02 PST http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2007. http://plainwhiteroom.blogdrive.com/archive/53.html Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:24:50 GMT Find more reactive videos at coull.tv http://plainwhiteroom.blogdrive.com/comments?id=53 http://plainwhiteroom.blogdrive.com/archive/52.html Thu, 29 Dec 2005 00:16:25 GMT I was playing an amazing compilation from the early 80s today called "Electric North" on cassette. Had it cranked on this Harlequin tune called "I Did It For Love", and me and Peter and Christopher were loving it large. Anyway, as many are want to do when they listen to Canadian rock from the late 70s to mid-80s, we tried to figure out what that magic sound is -- 'cause let's face it, gang, as good as they are, all the Arcade Fires and Dears and Stars can't hold a candle to this shit, for some reason. New Pornographers come close, maybe, and they must be trying real fucking hard. To... (more) http://plainwhiteroom.blogdrive.com/comments?id=52 http://plainwhiteroom.blogdrive.com/archive/51.html Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:53:21 GMT i had this dream last night that is obviously connected to the recent paris riots going on. i was at work and it was early evening. a bunch of us were looking out the window of our office, and it was complete mayhem outside -- i guess it was college street. a bunch of kids were standing on a bus and others were beside the bus and they were rocking it back and forth to get it to tip over. It was crazy, people were yelling and this massive bus was tilting back and forth and all these kids were on top of it and then suddenly after this one big push it fell on its side. All the kids who were on... (more) http://plainwhiteroom.blogdrive.com/comments?id=51 http://plainwhiteroom.blogdrive.com/archive/49.html Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:20:26 GMT So my surname Lawrence is a bastardization of the Scottish surname MacLaren -- drop off the mac part and you get Laren, then through the centuries I guess it morphed into Lawrence. So I have Scottish ancestry flowing through my blood. Anyway, my parents went to Scotland in the 80s and brought me back a bunch of stuff connected to the MacLaren clan -- a scarf with the MacLaren tartan pattern, the MacLaren shield, for example. I thought that was pretty cool that my family name has a real old history. And just last week I went to this Scottish Clan website to see if there are any cool... (more) http://plainwhiteroom.blogdrive.com/comments?id=49 http://plainwhiteroom.blogdrive.com/archive/48.html Mon, 11 Jul 2005 21:57:23 GMT Remember her? She was a regular cast member of Hee Haw in the early 70s (that show was fucking awesome). I think since then she's appeared sporadically in lame slasher flicks. Anyway, dig this quote of hers: "I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived for a year or two to have been turned into a fur coat? I don't know." A human being came up with that retarded philosophical conundrum. Let us pray... http://plainwhiteroom.blogdrive.com/comments?id=48 http://plainwhiteroom.blogdrive.com/archive/47.html Thu, 07 Jul 2005 17:11:44 GMT Years ago I was walking the streets of Osaka with my friend Chris Pegg (who, incidentally, has just moved to fucking Chiang Mai Thailand with his fiancee holy shit). Anyhoo, he was telling me this story about how one time he kept smelling this strange smell everywhere he went. The smell never went away, so he started washing his hands frequently. And the damn smell was still there. Did all the stuff we'd all do, right? Check your shoes, smell and/or wash your clothes, take a shower, whatever. Fucking smell was still there. And then he realised (I have no idea how), that what he'd been... (more) http://plainwhiteroom.blogdrive.com/comments?id=47 http://plainwhiteroom.blogdrive.com/archive/46.html Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:20:48 GMT MSN CHAT BETWEEN ME AND A CO-WORKER THIS AFTERNOON Garreth says: I'm telling you, if Tommy Hilfigger launches "Pantaloons, by Tommy Hilfigger", everyone will start using the full word, not the informal 'pants'...but maybe guys like us don't want that. Maybe it's an indy word for only us to use...? tim at work says: pantaloons is the indy word? or pants? Garreth says: well...pantaloons is honestly indy but I guess 400 yrs ago it was the main word and some enterprising young hipster shortened it to pants. tim at work says: yeah quakers and pioneers were using that word... (more) http://plainwhiteroom.blogdrive.com/comments?id=46 http://plainwhiteroom.blogdrive.com/archive/45.html Wed, 26 Jan 2005 20:53:11 GMT Tim: hey got a bunch more tunes last night. I think we're at 1.2 hours or something. the only songs that have proven difficult to locate are: manhunt, that Luba track, any dalbello stuff, Melissa Manchester. Peter: too bad about Luba, I am craving a little "picture I cry, oh I cry" right f'ng now. nobody has a greatest hits of Melissa Manchester out there? jeez louoise!!! you got me on a "manhunt" right now!!! Tim: I love that Luba track too but we may be bust on that one...that track is so wicked it's a cheesy girl ballad but it's got balls man...heavy balls.... (more) http://plainwhiteroom.blogdrive.com/comments?id=45 http://plainwhiteroom.blogdrive.com/archive/44.html Sat, 08 Jan 2005 00:06:59 GMT I'm training a woman at my office named Joanne Shimakawa, and she happened to mention that her hobby is building scale models of furniture and home items for dollhouses. She also makes scale models of Japanese food. This came up when I was asking the trainees the typical "So, what were you doing before you joined our company?", and you get a lot of stock responses such as traveling, going to school, etc. So when Joanne mentioned this dollhouse furniture thing, I was a little surprised to hear that she's involved in such an uncommon, possibly dying pastime. Anyway, later in the day she showed... (more) http://plainwhiteroom.blogdrive.com/comments?id=44 http://plainwhiteroom.blogdrive.com/archive/42.html Fri, 31 Dec 2004 19:27:09 GMT My nephew Justin got the BC Rich Signature Series Flying V Electric Guitar. My nephew Dustin got a Fender Squire bass and Fender amp. My nephew Michael got this freaky looking clear, transparent XBox. My neice Sarah got an arcade size air hockey table. I got a scarf, Boggle, Wild at Heart dvd, some lottery tickets and a book. One funny story about the holidays: my one nephew who got the custom gibson flying V guitar, and my other nephew who got the fender bass and amp had a rockin' christmas, obviously. we were sitting in the living room having coffee and snacks and these... (more) http://plainwhiteroom.blogdrive.com/comments?id=42