----grrrl

I knew I hated Pitchfork for a reason.



I don't understand why any band would not want to be compared to a riot grrrl band,
especially since bands these days are total shitcrap
and should take any complement they can get.

I think it's mega funny that around the time riot grrrls were doing their thing,
women were denying feminism.

Even women who were organizing take back the night rallies, protests, and whatever were denying that they were feminists despite the fact that what they were doing was like, ultrafeminist.

AND NOW,
Pitchfork comes out with this stupid article about girl bands denying the fact that they are riot grrrls.

Ahh, 20 year trends, how you never fail. 

anyway,
if you're a girl in a band,
and you think riot grrrl and feminism are stupid.
then you're literally the dumbest in the universe.

If you're in a feminist band
and don't want to be compared to riot grrrl,
you're being hypocritical,
and that's lame.


I think what really, really, reallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreally
bothers me the most

is that people put some much weight into these Pitchfork articles
and now some dumb girls are going to be like,
"riot grrrl is stupid, don't compare us to that"

Pitchfork is to hipsters as CNN is to old people.

please stop basing your own opinions
off of one person's opinion you read on Pitchfork.

ChristMass

Hi!!!!!!,

I am so excitement for the Christmas!
I got my child sisters so much swag! 
This is the first year I am moooore excite to see them open then to see what items I get!

PLUS AMANDA IS HERE IN THIS POOLAND!
I have no clue what Mum got me, but I know one thing Grandma got me because she had to call and double check ahhaha!

So,

for now, I'll tell you about this sweetheart book I'm about to get:::

Its this super dope GRRRL book that was just recently released!

 

I can't wait-o!

Double excite: We're not doing anything for Christmas!!!

Every year everyone wants us to be everywhere.  edcvggte

SO,  this year we threw in the towel and

we're gonna has breakfast for dinner and watch UNCLE BUCK

and, if I get my way, THE FIFTH ELEMENT.

(I've just recently admitted that the Fifth Element is one of my favourite movies.)

Jesus would be totally stoked!

Dinosaur Jr.

Hey,

So I went to Dinosaur Jr. w/ the Makeup Sex and an interview with Henry Rollins tonight with Mom.

It was great, I totally didn't really know who they were before, but I knew of them and heard like, a hit or two, but they blew me away from life!!!!!!

They played their album Bug in whole and some other hits, but I didn't recognize anything really because I've only been listening to The Lung on repeat. 
Before the show was the interview with Henry Rollins.  He interviewed them, they were very high guys,
Especially Jay Mascis, who said things like "I don't remember" as answers to questions.

Something that wasn't really on the song recordings I listened to was distortion.
I kept saying, before, they sound like the Foo Fighters ripped them off harsh

But no. 

So yeah they were crazy, their songs didn't drag
and the last song on Bug, Don't, was the most amazing thing I've ever heard live.

I'm so glad I went to this show. 
And I'm so glad Mom came because she was super fun to go with and was either really good at pretending to be into it, or was really into it.  Either way it was great!

PLUSPLUSPLUSPLUS
Mom got me the cassette tape boxset of their first three albums!

DOUBLE PLUS, I MET NARDWUAR!
(and gave him a CiVL pin!)

Triple plus,
Lou Barlow shredded our hearts in half with his bass and with his hair!


three things that were totally lame though were:

• loser 80's burnout 80's guy attitudes
• NO IN/OUTS
• generic Smashing Pumpkins grunge played in bewteen

That's all I have to say now though, because distortion blew my ears and brains away forever.

Televisionetic II

The Walking Dead

All my friends like it, but it's so boring!!!  I watched all 7 episodes of Season 2 and it's like the whole season was a build-up to the last episode.  The rising build-up was for a pointless climax //disappoint

It came to a point where I was watching it for 2 reasons:
1) To know what my friends are saying
2) For the characters I am annoyed by the least

All of the characters were so annoying. 
That one guy who does the other guys wife in season 1 was supposed to be dark and brooding, but he was annoying.
That old guy who tries to be wise and tries to be a father figure to the blonde girl was annoying.
That blonde girl who accidently shoots the inbred and is always mean to the old guy, who fucked the dark brooding guy was annoying.
The wife of the main guy who took all the morning after pills was annoying.
The kid who got shot, who I really wanted to die was annoying.

I liked Carol, Daryl and Glenn though!  and I liked Hershel because old men are dope on tv!!
But by 'liked' I really mean those characters pissed me off the least.  Still annoying, but less.


I like watching 90210, everything happens in an instant, maybe between 1-3 episodes, if 90210 had a whole season building up to one event, it wouldn't be worth watching.  They utilize all of their characters so that something is always happening.  This is not the case for the Walking Dead.

I can watch a dragged out storyline if it's worth it (X-Files' main storyline has been playing out since Season 1, I'm on Season 4 and still am impressed).

The Walking Dead is an endless build up of annoying people doing annoying stuff.

PLUS PLUS PLUS PLUS PLUS

ZOMBIES ARE SO LAME.

Televisionetic I

X-Files Season 4, Episode 2 "Home":  Scariest episode so far. 

Inbreds scare me more than anything
(other than unknown creatures of the deep sea). 

So many things ripped off by House of 1000 Corpses in this episode.

  Rob Zombie is a douche.

Q:  Who goes into a house where there are three big honking inbreds with only Scully and some no-brains local officer, named "Pastor," really?


On a lighter note, 
I don't know if I can wait until January 10th to see what's going to become of:
Liam's modelling career
Marla's inheritance
Naomi and that inbred's relationship
etc, etc.

If I was like, 4 seconds away from being super famous, I would sell out Adrianna in a second. 
Navid's injury make-up was so over-done it was embarassing. 
I thought there was zero tolerance for Profs dating students.

Are there different drinking laws in Beverly Hills, because I thought they were all still in their teens :S

"War of the Worlds" (Cruise 2005).

Hey,


So, CiVL is going through this, like, referendum period right now becuase we're requesting the student fee be increased to $7 instead of $3.

I made these kind of pooey flyers, the writing was kinda too much in a smallish kind of space.


So, our silly-willy friends at the Cascade wrote an almost funny, but poorly timed, article about us,
or, specifically, the poster I made.

So your silly-Williams friend wrote one back, because I thought my poster was very.


So:

So here it is, at long last:

The Cascade vs. CiVL Radio

We don't hate each other, we're siblings.
I don't want anyone to be mad at anyone for anything because that's super lame.



I like fun!

Kill Yr Idols

So,

I just watched this movie called Kill Your Idols.  You know I loved it forever.

I love Lydia Lunch
I love Thurston Moore
I love Liars
I love finding out about stuff I didn't know about when the stuff is really good
Most importantly: I LOVE LYDIA LUNCH

maybe I love the idea of her.

Anyways.

She said a few really cool things in this movie. 
INCLUDING:

Before NO WAVE punk was still following a blues/Chuck Berry chord structure (obviously there are always exceptions to the rule).
So, this means to me, that nowave is more punk than punk.
But, punks thinks bands like Sonic Youth are lame art-fags.

SO, this means to me (as if it already didn't) punks are dumb shits vest losers, RIGHT!!!?


Lydia Lunch also said that in the 70's they didn't have to deal with the same shit NY bands do now
and that is
labels taking their image and selling it back to them

ex: The Strokes


Lydia Lunch is amazing, and this movie (it's on Netflix) is worth watching just for her insights on music, because she is really real.



But yeah, it kind of reminded me of this Bikini Kill song from their worst album Reject All American.
The song is RIP and in it says
"you can't put how I feel in a package, and sell it back to everyone"

Think of that shiiatt next time you tune in to the fucking Peak.


I'm so glad I don't socialize..

totalhate!

Just hearing his name pisses me off...


This guy bothers me so much there is already a post about how I don't like him!

This guy isn't creative, he leaches creativity from others.

In the mid-ninties he wanted to be a rapper.
In the early two-thousands he was in an electro/dance-punk band.
In two-thousand-nine he was in an indie/folk band.
And now, he is releasing solo material.

So, he leaches creativity, and latches onto trends.


I fucking hate you, Alexander Ebert.

...and, I'm not the only one who does.



Making music for the fame factor means you make music that doesn't matter.
I can't wait until you disappear.

FunfunFUN!(not, totally not)

Holla!

Do you know what I did!?

I told my teacher of paints, Chris that I would recreate 5 classic paintings:

Olympia
The Two Fridas
The Birth of Venus
Jane Avril Leaving the Moulin Rouge
Mona Lisa


But with a twist!!

Instead of painting the usual women in the paintings, I'll paint Kids in the Hall dressed like women!
And of course, of course, I said straight up I was gonna cut corners, but fuck!

Here's how:
The Two Fridas - The Two Chicken Ladies (Mark McKinney)
The Birth of Venus - The Birth of Kathy with a K (Bruce McCulloch)

I am not 100% on titles for the other ones yet, I've only just started the second one!
But the 2 Fridas is the like, center piece or whatever, and it's pretty much done!

Possible titles for the other three:

Olympia - Jocelyn (David Foley)
Mona Lisa - Queen Lisa (Scott Thompson)

But I really don't know about Kevin McDonald, Jane Avril matches him in body shape and facial expression, but I can't figure out which exact character to use :S :S

Maybe Jerry Sizzler?

FUCK DECEMBER IS GOING TO BE HERE IN LIKE A SECOND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FUCKshitshitshitfuck

I'VE HAD SINCE LIKE, THE THIRD WEEK OF SEPTEMBER!!

Reviewzzzzzzzzz!!!

OHAI!!

These are some reviews I did as a host of GRLGRMS!

Bikini Kill – “Thurston Hearts the Who”
The song I am reviewing is a review of Bikini Kill read out by Kathi Wilcox. Bikini Kill is the most intense grrrl band I’ve ever heard, and the lack of credit, and the negativity they got in the 90’s was ridiculous! Most of the time you can’t understand the review over instrumental distortion, chorus, and terrifying screams. You’ll love it!

Terror Bird – “We Were Monsters”
I’m going through this mega-huge pop phase right now, and what I like most about indie pop is swearing. I’m a big fan of casual swearing, and to hear it in an anti-love song over a dark pop beat is the ultimate! Terror Bird is like a basic but better and more powerful, version of Siouxsie!

Blondewich – “Boom Boom”
This song is a cover of The Granny Smiths. (Is it a cover when original members are in the ‘covering’ band?) The original is very pop-punky. This version is slower, almost droning on to create a better version. The yelling at the end is painful and heartfelt, like every good love song should be.

You Say Party! We Say Die! – “The Gap (between the rich and the poor)"
Do you remember how fun this band used to be to see? The Gap has the most anarchistic message out of any of YSP! WSD!’s songs. Becky yells the whole song out, but unlike the other songs reviewed here, her voice isn’t terrifying or painful. It’s strong and confident.

I'm sorry for being critical less than 30 pages in.

Dear Chuck Klosterman,

When you say things like, "The truth is that nothing changes literally: It's always the same people, doing the same things,"

I can really relate.

But,
on the next page set, you have Julia unwinding, after a troubling day facing her new reality, by listening to Foreigner's Jukebox Hero and you totally lose me. 

I mean, I'll keep reading, but a gal reading your book that was published in 2008 in 2011 about fictional events in 1983 isn't going to relate to Foreigner. 

I'm not saying you should name-drop some super underground band that no one in 1983 would have heard of, just, not Jukebox Hero.


Your ever-admiring fan,

Alicia Williams


P.S. I know that you're like, 'into' that kind of music, but these aren't your personal interviews/stories - I wanna relate to the characters and shit.

hgfdfghjkbzzzzzzzzzzzz////

If alternative is the norm, what is alternative?

The 90's are back and so is distortion.
and floral, and flannel.

Who knew subculture would turn into cookie cutter.

Everyone looks like they listen to Sonic Youth,
but they've only heard Superstar because it's in Juno!

genericgenericvintagegenericgenericgenericgenericgeneric.

We're getting older, now.

Hello!

Let's not make excuses, I stopped caring.


I'm blogging again because I'm so fucking bored.


It's almost my birthday.
We recently got kitties.
My sisters live with us.
I have two radio shows.
I received honourable mentions for some radio thing.
I'm going to be seeing Shonen Knife on Nov. 11.
School is hard, and therefore sucks.
I stopped being friends with some people.
I started being friends with some new people.

Basically, life didn't stop happening because I stopped blogging.  So, the sooner you accept that the better, blogger.com.

Anyways.
There is your update, let's move on to something real.

ughxinfinity

Dear People I Don't Like:


Please stop liking things I like, it ruins the fuck out of it for me

Not your pal,
Alicia Williams

P.S. if you're in a band it's probably not No Age, Wavves or Black Lips, so don't sound so identical!

P.P.S. I'm so over garage/surf right now, ughughugh ugh UGH!
 
Gross!
 

bandz und stuff

Hey!

Sometimes I like to tell you what my favourite bands are.
It's always changing, with some constants.  But sometimes constants change.
and then it's time for me to tell you new stuff,

like right now.

SO
Here is an up-to-date, well-to-do list of hit bands I like, sans reasoning/explanation, plus, it's in not particular order!::::::;

The Pixies
The Black Angels
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Jay Reatard/The Reatards/The Lost Sounds/Destruction Unit
Black Sabbath
The Cramps
Demon's Claws
Gravedigger V
Half Japanese!
The Minutemen
The Vaselines

obviously, shitloads of local/myspace kinds of bands as well
but it's kind of creeper to list bands you like who aren't famous, agree?
maybe, I'll tell you anyway, top three, top three

Bertha Cool
Nu Sensae
Grown-Ups

there's more, but you knows whats I likes!

to compare. this. is an old list from 2008/from my olden Nexopia blog (reposted, I didn't use Nexopia in 2008, I hope...)

these are bands i “hella” like, yo!
dead milkmen
the mummies
bikini kill+julie ruin+le tigre
the b-52′s
bratmobile
x-ray spex
the avengers
the horrorpops
the creepshow
patti smith
wu tang clan ain’t nuthin to fuck wit
joy division
the pixies
sonic youth
the cramps
the violent femmes

thats pretty much all i listen to on a regular basis
but who cares, right?

pretty sucky hey!
so, I don't listen to riot grrrl music anymore, really, but some is still on my iPod/iTunes
and the Dead Milkmen I listen to sometimes
and Sonic Youth pisses me off a lot,
but I do listen to Bad Moon Rising and Confusion is Sex/Kill Yr. Idols at times

and too, theres lots of bands I really like based on one or two songs
EXAMPLES:
Compulsive Gamblers: Sour and Vicious Man
Husker Du: Terms of Psychic Warfare and Real World
The Slits: I Heard it Through the Grapevine
Liars: Freakout

ET CETERA!

This is what I love about radio the most, being able to name drop and not seem fucking weird.

Todaiiii 07/03/11

Today iz Jason's birthday!!!

I didn't give him a radio shout out because he's not like that/into that or anything
but now I feel like I should have...!



HAPPY BIRTHDAY JASON!!!!!

SO
there!


THEME: Songs that are also Band Names

band names include solo artists/band members hahaha

2H!
Grown-Ups vs. Brazilian Money

25 SONGS IN LESS THAN ONE HOUR!
It was super rough, but great hits!!


Listen Up!

SRRY! FEB.28/11

Sores!

I furgot to post "dis shite"

We had an extra special guest host come on!  Sam Costinak from Abbotsford's lil' darlings: Bertha Cool!
We had a segment called Sam's Picks, and I double forget what got played.
some were: Base King - The Minutemen,
 I Don't Know What To Do with My Life - The Buzzcocks
annndd Gone Daddy Gone - The Violent Femmes
so, nevermind, I remembered all of them. 

SO
THEME: FRIENDSHIP!

"cool, eh?"

2H 2H 2H 2H 2H 2H 2H 2H 2H 2H 2H : Bertha Cool vs. Fun 100

It was during this hour that we asked in depth personal questions RE: Bertha Cool songs!
Czech it out, it was gr8! 

Listen Up! 

21st of Feb!

Straight Up!


THEME: Artz

throughout some Radio Art projects played from my Art Practices and Popular Culture class!
they were okay!

2h
bertha cool vs. babysitter vs. the wcb (from canada)

Piece Owt!

:'(

Dear Classmates/Pseudo Intellectuals

Not watching certain MTV shows doesn't mean you're smarter than anyone else, it just means you're uninformed on the current state of popular culture.

On the same note, my enjoyment and the utter delight that I experience whilst watching shows such as: Teen Mom, Jersey Shore, MTV Live etc. does not make me an idiot,
so long as I do not emulate those I see smiling back at me from the TV screen.

Saying things like: 
"I have never seen that show but...[quotes/summarize events in show]"
"Whenever I see a young mom on the street I am instantly reminded of the show Teen Mom...
but I've never seen that show before"
"I've never seen that show before...[later]...I've watched a few episodes with my friend who has a kid"

..makes you the idiot and no one else

I fail to see the point of reassuring your classmates, and yourself, that you do not watch these shows,
especially when you, obviously, went out of your way to sign up for an art class on Popular Culture.
Did you only expect to be looking at fucking Warhol stencils?

I mean seriously.


Your disgusted acquaintance,
Alicia Williams

Hurraay!

I made this today:

For thee olden radio show!

Obv. this was the old one

I likes it better, but I needed a change of scenery on my FB fanpager

I also posted ALL of the iTunes images of song listings for each show and a description of each theme
which you can find on this blog, but I did it anyway, instead of homework
so, become a fan!

MONDAY FEb 14/11

Heyo!

My keyboard is messed up with crumby crumbs!
EXPECT TYPOS/spell check is a joke

anyway

THEME: End OF Times

I CAN'T STOP listening to River of Blood by the Black Angels
They're the best band I've heard in forever
though, after playing that one Liars song today, I think I'm starting to evolve past Freak Out... 
Music is so good when people aren't idiots.

anyway
2H: Mixxer mixerr

Check out Babysitter they're some really good NEW CanCon, I prefer Tape II to Tape I

Happy Valentines Day

I luv you!

I missed a show (and didn't like it) -J31 +F7

GET THE REFERENCEEE?!

whatever
these are the stats for last weaks show
I missed JAN31 because I'm a last minute idiot who doesn't try in school and floats by on low B's.
(I had a presentation)  It was on radio, so, my hearts were in the right place, you know...

SO
Feb. SEVEN
THEME: girls vs. boys or something...

catch the drift?

so
the secondH was 100% CNDNCNTNT
CREEPINGNOBODIES/SLIMTWIG/BRIDES
because Aaron thinks he's trillions of units cooler than me

GR8 Right! 



sowee!

Dear Chevrolet Cavalier,

I know you have taken too much abuse since we've been together, and for that, I'm sorry.
You haven't had an oil change.  You get run to shit.
Your tires haven't been filled.
You always say "check engine," and I never do.
I kick you sometimes when I'm mad,
    or slam the door really hard.
You got too much junk in your trunk.
Your alignment is all fucked from when we biffed out in the snow.
And you're perpetually riding check gages
    in regards to both gas and coolant.

Anyways, I'm really sorry.
But could you do me a solid and retain the coolant I put in you!
I'm buying two jugs at a time!! 
I know it's cheap, but you know I'm broke!

Your deadbeat bud,
Alicia Williams

femconnnnn! 1/17/11

Heeeyyooo!!!

Last MonFun wuzzz the 17th of Jan and

THEME::  100% FEMCON (female content)
"for arguments sake, it was only bands that had female singers - +++ minimal 'all girl' bands, cause they're starting to piss me off"

Chuu luvvd it rigghhtt>!>!???

The Programming Committee told me how to link the podcasts to you, friend, but that won't happen until next show, cause I'm lazy and me and Jason are going to watch the rest of Honey I Shrunk the Kids or the Simpsons or South Park or Futurama

or something!

ANYWAYS!!!!!

SET YOUR CLOCKS FORWARD AN HOUR

BECAUSE:

Mood Swings = = = = 11-1 from now on!

so listen earlier!

101.7 FM/CIVL.CA 

01/10/11 Jay Reatard

So!
JJan. 10/11 I did a Jay Reatard tribute show because he's still great and it had been (almost) a year since he died! 
I played: Angry Angles, Bad Times, Destruction Unit, Final Solutions, Lost Sounds, Nervous Patterns, The Reatards, Terror Visions and quite obviously, solo Jay Reatard.

I didn't realize Sour and Vicious Man was a Compulsive Gamblers cover!  I can't stop listening to it (tonight) 

Stolen Organ Family Band Show!!!!

We (Me, Tawnia, Jason, Mathew) went and saw the Stolen Organ Family Band last night at the Railway Club - we didn't have money, so they let us chumps in for free!  Despite the creeperrr door guy the night was spec-tac!  I've known about this band since their inception and having been a loving acquaintance of theirs for years, but this was the first time I've ever seen them in action.

They went onstage with an electric acoustic, a Casio keyboard, a blue suitcase, what appeared to be a Fisher Price toy and a shitload of distortion pedals.  Everything got played!

Their performance was delightfully schizophrenic; alternating between charming harmonies and mellow-upbeat folksy acoustic, to complete distortion and red-faced screaming.  It was fucking intense!
It was just Kelly and Conor at this show, usually there is an Ari or a different guitarist - when I heard this I was actually super disapointed, but they are incredible together!  Kelly is freaking adorable, Conor pretends to freak out on her, and it's a total riot of entertainment, check them out for sure!

Best Hits to hear live: A Horse Don't Need Whisky (no more), Baby What's Your Phone Number, Plums, Here Comes the Baby

They're playing another show on the 17th at the Biltmore, and they're playing in Kelowna on Feb 5th!
Maybe I'll see you there, but I'm super brokes!
their myspace.
radio 3
their bandcamp
their fanpage


Stop listening to Mother Mother and listen to something real.

New Years whatever

Resolutions!

Not owe any money anymore
Find a new job
Get less fat
Become a better radio programmer
Work really hard in school!!!!
Work on painting techniques

First Show/11 MoodSwings!

Yo yo!

I never even said Happy New Year, but now it seems false to say so,

and I wouldn't mean it!

Yesturday happened yesterday
and the WHOLE theme was 'Re-friending' and I told you about my wouldbe major and we listened to my favourite hit jamz of all of the time!

THEME: Media Studies

GOOD THEME HAY!!!??????????????


2h2h2h2h2h2h2h2hh2h2h2h2h HIT JAMZZZZZZ

I watched that stupid movie about the Germs and now I like them, but the movie sucks


Sorry I was still so groggyyy from having my wisdom teeth other side removed on the 28
next week'll be better, I guess



I also have shit news to tell you:  most of or all of my show will be pre-recorded from now until April....
I'm so fucking sorry!  I blindly registered for courses without checking when they took place!
Normally when seeing such an error I would drop the course/not take it to begin with
but I'm already registered and I had to get special permission to entree, so, we're fucked!