2DAI///MOODSWINGS

Today was the first show in a many part/multiple show COVERS special.
because we all secretly loves them!!1  Thee second H. was ALL Pointed Sticks!

FIRST HOUR
the faction - california dreamin'
atom and his package - P.P.
the cramps - muleskinner blues
camper van beethoven - wasted
the gories - great big idol with a golden head
the cramps - psychotic reaction
half japanese - can't stand it anymore
burn witch burn - saltomorrow's parties
sleater-kinney - more than a feeling
thee headcoatees - ca plane pour moi
the skull t-shirts - W.A.S.Y.A.N.
sonic youth - computer age
the fleshtones - play with fire
thee headcoats - louie riel
black flag - louie, louie
thee headcoats - the witch
the pointed sticks - the witch

The Pointed Sticks
the witch
real thing
lies
perfect youth
what do you want me to do
somebody's mom
nothing else to do
part of the noise
out of luck
american song
way you do
all i could take
all that matters
shapes of things to come
destitute
i'm numb
telephone song
man of the crowd

Reviewzzzzz....zzzzz

Heyy!
These are the reviews I did for the new issue of the CIVLian, which is out now and you can get on campus at UFV!

The Descendants – Milo Goes To College 1982
I just recently picked this album up after watching a video of Ezra Koenig from Vampire Weekend do a cover of Parents with Toronto hardcore band, Fucked Up. Before listening to this album in full, all I had heard from The Descendants were boring songs, like Silly Girl and songs on Punk-O-Rama compilations – I was beginning to think the only good song they had was Hope. This entire album is great, it’s fast, sassy and P.A.F., plus, it’s only 22 and a half minutes long, so if you don’t like it (you will like it) you will not have wasted your whole day! This is one of the few albums that make it seem like the 80’s weren’t a total waste of a decade.


Women – Public Strain 2010

Women are an incredible band, but I think they may be one of those bands who impact you more when you listen to them alone. I don’t mean on your iPod, I mean alone in your room. They’re a great band to listen to when you lie in bed and stare at the ceiling, and I mean that in the greatest way possible. They’re quiet, but they’re not boring, and they’re intense, but not in your face. If you have a ‘bands to watch’ list, then these guys should be on there for sure, they’re mega-up-and-coming CanCon. Listen to: China Steps, Heat Distraction, and Narrow With the Hall.

Rich Aucoin – Public Publication 2010

This album kind of reminds me of a less intrusive version of Black Kids. It has a really familiar vibe to it, but not in a copy-cat/rip-off way. The vocals seem to be at like the same sound level as the music, which is cool because everything blends together in a unique way. Rich Aucoin is a quiet kind of intense. You should definitely check this guy out, because I think very soon you’ll be able to say cool sentences like: “I liked him before everyone else did,” or something else to that extent! There are only four tracks, so listen to them all!



B.A. Johnston – Thankyou for Being a Friend 2010
This is totally not my kind of music, generally I say things like “folk/acoustic sucks,” but this guy, B.A. Johnston, has such a funny take on the genre that it is impossible not to like! He sings about things you liked when you were a kid, like NBA Jam and Steve Guttenberg (don’t pretend you didn’t love Three Men and a Baby, because we ALL did). The entire album is like a satiric look at the happenings in his life, and I like that, when people don’t sing about love or drugs, but sing about their everyday lives and opinions. This is the kind of music that isn’t given any justice listening to, you really need to go out and see him live to get the full experience. Check out: Love=NBA Jam, CLIF, and I am Doing Better in a Parallel Universe.


No Warning – Suffer, Survive 2004
No Warning is one of Ben Cook’s (from Fucked Up, The Bitters, The Marvellous Darlings, and Young Governor) first projects. I just became friends with this guy on Facebook, and am usually grotesquely stoked on EVERYTHING he does, but this is just bad. Maybe it’s just me, but the more I listen to it the more I hear an ultra-aggressive version of Linkin Park, sans rapcore. The vocals (done by Ben Cook) are really surprising because if you listen to his solo project Young Governor it’s a completely different sound. A lot of my favourite CanCon is done by Fucked Up and all of the members’ side projects, but this a band I am not going to let circulate on my iPod and mess up my pristine Last.fm profile. Sorry.



Pissed Jeans – King of Jeans 2009

Pissed Jeans are another entry on the long list of things I like in Pennsylvania. The vocals are uniquely aggressive, at times it almost sounds like he’s slurring and at the same time chanting. The music itself is really crisp and chaotic and that mixed with the vocals makes for a really cool sound! They’re the perfect amount of loudness for me, and a lot of their songs have that ‘anthem-y’ feel to them. Listen to: Lip Ring, She is Science Fiction and Dominate Yourself for sure!


Yeah, so if you want a hard copy of these thoughts you should pick yoself up an issue!  PLUS you'd get to see a SUPERCUTE/reallyblurry picture of me!!!!!  YAY

Hello, Hello from CIVL Radio

YO bitch

dis wuzz z todai show

THEME- TEENZ

like this:
times new viking - teen drama
no age - teen creeps
the undertones - teenage kicks
the vaselines - teenage superstars
beat happening - youth
bikini kill - jigsaw youth
black lips - bad kids
thee headcoatees - teenages kicks
the brian jonestown massacre - 13
beat happening - fourteen
sneaky pinks - i can't wait
mika miko - teen magazine
sonic youth - teenage riot
the ramones - teenage labotomy
little girls - youth tunes
the cramps -  i was a teenage werewolf
the fleshtones - i was a teenage zombie
beat happening - teenage caveman
times new viking - post teen drama

needless to say, i'm going through a megaBeatHappening phase!

the second h. was an Alberta theme!
I shuffled up thee selections so these are the bands I played

Bikeland
Brazilian Money
Dropping Out
Endangered Ape
Grown Ups
Myelin Sheaths
Women

These bands are sweet and current so czech them out, chumps!

uhhh, HELLO

Dearest Wal Mart,

I found the perfect pair of pants today, deep within your fluorescent caverns.
They were grey (the best colour for pants), and they had this really cool wash (a wash I don't think ACE girls would wear!!!)

I put them against my body, and they were gonna fit my big bad self, but waaaay too long for my leggies

and then I turned them over, and what did I see???

FUCKING EMBROIDERED FLOWERS AND FUCKING GEMS!!!!1

Why, why do you ruin everysingle thing you make with something so retarded!!


I don't even know what else to say to you right now....


-Alicia


P.S. Make bigger pants (sans gems/embroidery)

BIRTHDDAAAY LISST!

Heeey!
so, a few years ago I had what was the worst day of my life, you know, so far.  That day also happened to be my birthday, so since then it really hasn't been the same and my life really hasn't been the same.  The experience made me quit drinking(for the most part) and rethink my life and friendships and etc.

I don't want to write about it really on my blog, because this blog is cheap and meaningless.

I WILL HOWEVER! Tell YOU what to BUY ME for my birthday!!!!!  Yay!

Dis iz it:

NEWIPODNEWIPODNEWIPOD -- green, black or blue 16GB!!!! GUHGUHGUH

Catcher in the Rye (because I just reread a book that was called a modern day version of, and I feel like it's something I should read because it's a cultclassic type -my book was The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

There are two perfumes(OTHER THAN VANILLA FIELDS) that I like, they are: Chanel - Chance and Juicy Couture -Viva La Juicy, theres two different ones and I like the pink one!  It smells like burnt marshmellows in the nicest way possible!!!

I want lots of stuff with elephants, but I don't want dumb things that look like toys from places in the malls or wal marts, you know?  I like it when things are more unique and I feel like I'm the only one in the world who could possibly have it, even though that is probably impossible!

cool glasses frames are cool.  I really want cat eye glasses, but not the black ones.  I want them to be lie creamy coloured from oldness with sparkles or something.  or the ones that are black on the top and clear a lot.  You know, the ones that are really hipstertrendy right now, only it's okay because I am not a hipster.

MATTE NAILPOLISH

a digital camera so I have something nice to take FB pictures with!  I like the polka dot one and theres a new one called Flip that I used to like, but some youtube.com video told me it sucked and only took video!

Hook & the Daggers - This is Ballroom Thrash
Gravedigger V - All Black and Hairy



NEW HEADPHONES! Thee earbud kinds, not the big gothic industrial raverloser kind!!!

good liquid eyeliner that doesn't smudge and is easy to use!

FFXIII for XBOX - it wasn't good enough for me to buy for myself, but if you bought it for me I would play it HELLA!!!!!!!!!!!!

jeggings!

a cool vest like what ferris bueller wore in the cool scene

tattoo gift certiificates for prision quality work


There's gotta bee more stuff I "need" butttt thats all I can think of at the moment!

If you enjoy reading my blog and aren't a sex pervert you can message me and I will give you my address so you can send me nice gifts!! (please do not send me gross stuff like your excrement)

don't tell Jason that I'll give you my address, he'll be fucking choooooked!


ALSO:  You are invited to my birthday party!  We're all going to the Vaselines at the Biltmore.
don't ask me when because 1) you should know, and 2) you can look it up and not look like an idiot

Today on MoodSwings

Today's show's theme was Outter Spaaaacccccccceeeeee!

it went something like this:
sonic's rendezvous band - asteroid b-612
brazilian money - bored in space
cheater slicks - child of the moon
the dead milkmen - astro zombies
kid romance - galaxy smash hit
liars - houseclouds
the b-52's - planet claire
the spits - planet failure
the frumpies - planet what
the cramps - rock on the moon
the dead milkmen - rocketship
the lost sounds - saturn stomp
swell maps - full moon in my pocket
devo - space junk
husker du - books about ufos

to make up for this severe lack of CanCon, I played a full hour of beautiful Canadian stuff!
I don't remember how the list went but these albums were on shuffle and I was talking in between!
grown ups - i can't win ep
grown ups - not friends
needles//pins - the egg nog experience
needles//pins - first world problems
young governor - english tim
young governor - hidden love
young governor - virginia creeper

Arts++Crafts(not the lame kind)

I went outties with mine Grandma yesterdayyyy and we had delicious salad lunches from that place in SevenOaks along with bubble teeeaa!! 

G had papaya, and I had chocolate!  I'm not allowed to post the two pics I took of Grandma becausee she didn't like them <3 BUUUUTT, this was the lid on my bubble tea and I was superstoked on it!

Then we went and got my supplies for painting ii, which was 254!!!!!  guuhhh!

then we went to winnerz and I got a new wallet that isn't leopard print, but is way better

It's dark purple and has blue flowers outlined allll over it and those circles are the gross insides/middles of flowers that get all over your hands and feel gross (when they're real)

So that was dope, I love new stuff!

But more than stuff, I love Grandma, and it was superfun hanging out with her!

Because we haven't really done that lately!

Then I went and got thee ole' Jase Case,

and theeeen I had to go get/drop off Tawnia at Twassen, she wanted to go to HORSESHOEBAY

but I was like "no deal"

Then me and Jason didn't do anything allllll night because he had to work in the morn.

Then this morning he was super grumps and mean!!!!!!!

and I haven't heard from him allthelivelongday

But, tonight I get to babysit my babybrother!

He is 9, and he is no baby

He wants me to bring over the xbox, but then we don't hang out,

he plays games

and doesn't share!!!

Hello, Hello from CIVL Radio...

I've come up with a whole buncha stellar themes,
BUT, I may need your help to come up with even more!

SO FAR (new):
about punks/punk as fuck
religion
education (haven't started, just an idea)
COVERS
Teenagerz
Friendships (haven't started)
Love?
boredom
songs that begin with 'don't'
drgzz/alcohol
occult/darkness
sexxx
surf'sup(beach time)/stoneage(caveman+iceage)
OUTTAAA SPACCEEE
teenzs
band's themes

some'll need to be combo-ed to last a full hour, but lots are finished because I had to babysit last night
So that'll get me well into October, but I'll need more ideas to keep 'er going!
Also, I need more wicked CanCon, suggestions?

RadRADIO Newzzzz

DID you know, that CIVL radio is on thee air now!  It's 101.7 (oneohonepointseven), and it's been on the air since twosday!

SO, on TWOSDAY, for the welcomoe back to UFV BBQ, CIVL got to (as with everyyear) DJ and etc. on the green in the CIVLtent!  It was super awesome, and I got to DJ for awhile while Larry was in class!!  So I was live and on the airwaves and speaking in front of a buttload of people who were only half paying attention!

I played quite a bit of music, so it's hard for me to remember exactly what I played,
I played some songs/artists that I didn't personally like, but it helped to promote upcoming concerts/events being put on at UFV by student organizations like SUS, CIVL, the Cascade etc!

But I also got to play killertraxxx that I like and promoted my show, Mood Swings a little bit!
I know for shore I played
BERTHA COOL - RAT KING
Atom and His Package - Punk Rock Academy
Liars - Freak-Out
The Gories - Thunderbird ESQ
GROWN UPS- We're Not Friends and Waste Your Life
Japandroids - Wet Hair
MakeOut Videotape - Heat Wave
Swell Maps - Full Moon In My Pocket/BLAM!

For Student Orgs I played stuff like: You Say Party!, Teen Daze, Christian Hansen and the Autistics, Said the Whale, Whale Tooth, Oh No! Yoko

If I had it my way I would have played only Half Japanese, Gravedigger V - Stoneage Stomp, and Grown Ups!

NEW SEMESTERRR!!!!!

Holla Balla,

I had my first class today of my brand new semester!!  The summer semester was a roughdeal time, I didn't really get a break between that and the winter semester and my grade I think reflect that.  PLUS, I'm not quite a morning person yet, so it was dumb times to take a bunch of crapmorningblahblah classes!  The classes were good, but I was always dead tired!

ANYWAYS,
I'm taking English 105 online, because I hear it's a total drag face2face.  The first day of an online course you have to do a dumb introduction so everyone gets to know each other, but you already know that, right?  So, this was mine:

Hello! My name is Alicia Williams, I'm 21, and I am in my second year here at UFV. So far, I've mostly taken Media and Communications courses, which are incredible! I have yet to decide on my major, it's a toss up between Visual Arts and Sociology - with a MACS minor/extended minor.
In my spare time I play video games, surf the internet for interesting music and invite people to my birthday. I also host a radio show on our community/campus radio station 101.7 CIVL, I do this every Monday from 12-2 pm. My show is called Mood Swings and on it I play mostly punk, lo-fi and garage!
That's really all I do, I have no job and no kids.

It used to take me forever to do those, but now I don't give any shits about what the onlineclassfatties think of my bad self.

Today I had Sociology 101.  My teacher is Anita van Wyk, I chose to take a class with her because of her rating on RateMyProff.com, I go on there to find which teacher is NICEST, I don't care how easy/difficult he/she is as a proff, as long as their nice to me and don't make me scorn their name!

I am ALREADYBEYONDSTOKED on her!  I showed up late, not my fault, but was there in time to hear this GOLDEN quote about if you miss a class/exam/assignment.  She said: "I don't care if your great-grandpa died and your great grandma is sad and needs you there, or if you are sad or mentally disturbed, I DONT WANT TO HEAR ABOUT IT."  As you may know, from knowing me IRL or maybe just from reading my blog, this is enough to make me LOVE a teacher!! 
BUT IT GETS BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  When I got there a sheet was being passed around with our presentation topics already assigned to us... this is something that otherwise frustrates me, until I finally got to see which on I got

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS!!!!!!!!

I KNOW RIGHT, fucking peeeerrrfect!!!!  This class isn't gonna know what hit them come Decemeber 1, 2010!!  I even told her I was unbelievably stoked on my topic (as well as apologized for being late)

I say words like "stoked, totally, nice, choice, sweet" etc to teachers because I feel that the next generation of socalledintellectuals are going to speak like that and not be fakesmartoversmart, you know?!  And I don't like being fake, I like being real.

I'VE HAD SUCH AN AMAZING WEEK SO FAR!  which totally makes up for the shitfuck weekend I had!!!

I have hella radio news too, but I'll discuss that in a different post to avoid confusion.