Vase-Vase-Vaselines!!!

Saturday was my birthday
It was fun and I got to hang around with lots of old buddies and new buddies (radio friends and regular friends)


 We all went and saw the Vaselines and, to a lesser extent, the DumDum Girls

DumDum Girls opened with a boring-ish (but kind of good because I was a little drunk already) cover of Play With Fire by you know who off of the you know what soundtrack!

They were pretty in a normal alternative way  - quiet and covered in make-up
All in all they were too much like Vivian Girls - only Vivian Girls seem like they have some personality....

We stopped caring about them and went out and had smokes.

When the Vaselines started we went back inside, and found a spot close-ish to the front - but unfortunetly right by the bathroom so people kept passing by and being lame.

They played a whole bunch of classics and some new songs, they did not play Teenage Superstars though

The girl beside/in front of me and Tawnia kept farting smelly, quiet farts.  One of the guys standing by us pinched his nose closed and nudged the girl he was with and I saw his lips say "Let's go"

obviously they came back out for an encore after trying to be so tricky and pretending they were done

When they were done for real they got off stage like right beside where we were standing and I tugged Francis' sleeve and asked if she wanted to do an interview with CIVL Radio, and she declined...

I was HELLLA disapointed
but, I went to the merch table to buy a t-shirt anyways.  people kept budging in front of me!
Francis actually came to the merch table so I decided I should buy a record and have her sign it, because I didn't want to ruin the tee I was buying already. 

She signed the record "Happy Birthday" and my name and her name obviously and I asked her "So, are you sure you don't want to do an interview"
and she agreed to do one!!!

So we all went outside to smoke and make up questions, and then i wandered around for a bit more until she was ready and then helped her carry the bins of merch backstage
We were in this tiny loud room where the whole band was and it was super sweaty and gross!

But it got done and will air not this monday but next monday (Nov. 8)
you can hear the questions then and they will be posted here shortly after that.

Afterwards we all went to the Biltmore Pub and got wasted-er
and everything was cool, but I really wanted to stay the night at the hotel
so I wound up crying - esp. after the free birthday shot of fireball uggghh
This is Jason's fault for feeding me liquor and not being around to take the shot that I didn't even want!

Until the leaving part we all had a stellar time I think!

The Vaselines are swell and if they're coming to your town go see them!

Review: Bump-Its

I found a wall of Bump-Its at Bed, Bath and Beyond for 3.99 a box on clearance!

Needless to say, the ads on TV made me feel like they were something I HAD to have!

So far (Since 3 days ago-ish) I've only found use for the middle one.  The biggest one is too Snookie and the little one is useless and I don't understand.

They're surprisingly comfortable and easy to use, but it's like as soon as I put it on my head it's tangled because my hair is always such a knotted mess! 

I should also mention that I don't have to use very much hair spray with it!  The box tells me to spray medium strength hair spray, back comb, place bump it in hair, spread hair over it, and then use strong hold hair spray!  I use that cheap $1.99 stuff and don't do a finishing spray and it's all fine and well and good and ok and it doesn't move or anything. 

My head usually hurts after I take it off though, but whatever, right?

This is how I do mine hair now:

Only, as I'm sure you know, mine is a lot messy-eerr and gross, and my pony is higher

I totally love these already, and apparently if I put it on the crown of my head I look less J.Shore and more glamourous!

The biggest one will come in handy if I ever wanna do a beehive, but I don't really wanna do a beehive!

Also, girls I talked to in my class had no idea I was using it!  ! !!

I FORGOOOT TO TELLLSS YOU!

I forgot to tell you about the last time I babysat my Bro-seph like a trillioninfinity million years ago(last month-ish)


Anyways,
He ignored me and played the XBOX360 which I totally regret bringing
in fact, the only times he didn't ignore me were when I fucked up on the ZZa and when we went and rented a videogame (that I now have $$$$latefeess$$$ on) 

we did have a few neat conversations

Bro: "How many controllers do you have"
Me:  "Two, there's only two of us"
Bro:  "Oh yeah, you and Jason"
Me:  "Yeah, we don't really have any friends...."
Bro:  "That's probably because you're too much of a bully"

hurtful
but this also happened

he kicked my leg
Bro: "You're fat"
Me(trying to joke): "No, you're fat"
Bro: "No, but you're actually fat"

:'( 
tru dat brah
oh well

between the two of us we had 7(seven) Coke Zeros
it was sick

and all he did was play this game we rented that was created by Rockstar and totally not age appropriate!

Science!

We went to Science World yesterday,
My Grandma and I

and it was the Body Works exhibit and it was super cool and I learnt a lot, I guess
I liked the fetus development part especially



BUT
I don't really think it is a place for 0-5 year olds, do you?
There were like 3 crying babies and a bunch of dumb kids ruining my time.
It's not Lego or Grossology, its fucking muscles, tendons human body Body Works
DON'T BRING YOUR KIDS
It's all reading and stuff, and your kid probably can't read that well, so you fucking feel the need to read out loud so that your idiot child can try to comprehend what's happening

Other than this and a noteworthy MouthBreather I had a swell time with Grandma!
Especially after we had gone through the exhibit and no longer felt the need to be quiet out of courtesy,
since I don't really know how to whisper

Afterwards there were lots of table top brain teasers and body experiments you could try, and we had lots of fun!


Outside of Science World we walked over to where that park is and look at what was up with BC Place or whatever, and that was neat
and on the hill we saw this like 11 year old girl making out with like a 7 or 8 year old boy
But the guy coulda just been small for his age and her big for her age, you know?
but it was really weird


Then we went to Ikea and I ate meatballs and marinara and pasta and garlic bread and root beer
and Grandma had Chili and garlic toast,
and we shared a sampler dessert

theeeeen we looked around the whole store and my feet hurt really bad after and my Grandma wouldn't buy me couches...

AND we bought this root beer from Sweden!

then we hopped on over to Bed Bath und Beyond
and that place was neat!  We looked at everything available and Grandma said what she wants for Christmas and we sat in massaging chairs and mine kinda hurt but kinda felt good

In the end, I bought Jason a table lamp for 6.99 ONLY and a neat little book to write in that has (eastern) Indian designs and colours on it because thats hip for little books you can write in right now
and I bought bump its!!!!!!!!!!  they were only 3.99 and I've wanted them since before Snookie denied using them!!!!!  STOKED!

I can't remember what Grandma bought because I am too self involved


On the way home traffic was backed up real bad going towards Vancouver which made me ROFL
and we cracked open thee Root Beer from Sweden and it smelt strong like alcohol and tasted like Bacardi
and Grandma said "I don't think I should be drinking this now"
and I tried it and said I didn't want mine because it made me shiver like alcohol
and she told me to keep it and serve it to my friends and impress them... I don't know why ahahha <3

but yeah, we had a superfunawesome day like we usually do!!

I also forgot to mention that the whole time we listened to Sonic Youth Confusion is Sex/Kill Yr. Idols
and when Shaking Hell (I'll take off your dress/I'll shake off your flesh) came on she looked at the stereo and was likeee "oh my gaaawwdd" 

She's so amazing!  If you wanna come hang out with us next time message me!

YES!turdEh? UND todaaaii

GUESS WHAT!?!!?!?


Tawnia got me my first, and kind of second, birthday presseeennt!!

We were at CD Plus in Chile and its hella better than anywhere in the AB-MIS-CHI area, so we found some tight deals there!!

They even had a Vivian Girls cd there!  But that is not what Tawnia got me!
We found a cd copy of Sonic Youth Confusion is Sex/Kill Yr. Idols
and if you paid any attention to me AT ALL you'd know that's my favourite album ever(by them)

We did a bunch o other things in Chillsie too, like Tawnia had to go get steal toews at that Mark Works place and eat at the mall, which was kind of gross but still pretty good

Then back in ye olden Abbotsford we went to a 1$ store and found nothing, though I found a bunch of stuff I would need if I was Rockabilly
Then to VV which we totally shoulda done in Chilliwack since its better for some reason
AND I saw my old step dad and we did the Avoid Eye Contact At All Costs Mambo
AND I GOT AN MTV SHIRT which I've wanted forever but they try to charge you a fortune on eBay and at Old Navy they put lame flowers on them.

I love MTV Canada more than most people love their parents.
In fact, if it weren't for MTVNEWS I wouldn't be into swell bands like Jay Reatard and No Age!

NOW
I'm waiting for my sweetheartGrandma to pick me up and we're going to see the BodyWorks display thing at ScienceWorld!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'M SUPER STOKED!

THEN
Afterwards I think we are going to go to Tony Parsons' restaurant the Poor Italian
because we're in love with him

Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!!1111

people are always thanking whoever for shit they got today...


SO

I'm thankful for free university-level education.
as well as medical and dental and whatever else

I'm super thankful to be Canadian and not from somewhere really shitty

I am thankful for certain members of my family
I am thankful for Jason being such a great best friend
as well as being thankful for my other friends
and to a lesser extent, acquaintances

I am thankful for being a paid employee of CIVL Radio, because it's the raddest job ever



I am EXTREMELY thankful I don't have any kids

I am thankful for television

There's more, but you get it.

Sorry for never posting (JK)

I've had so many bullshit assignments and teachers yankin' on my balls that I haven't posted anything in 3 years!


First: I have hella homework  which is always expected and accepted
Second: My ENGL online Prof sucks everything imaginable... and I'm dropping outta thurrr
Third: My new job rules, despite being tedious and making my back hurt from sitting in a chair/having a large bossom
Fourth: We are going to Jason's Mom's for turkie lurkie - despite assignments I need to eat birds
Fifth: I am painting a still from the video for Bull In The Heather of Kim and Kathleen
Six: Most bands in Vancouver wish they were Black Lips or early British new wave (except Nu Sensae)
Seventh: Despite sounding like Black Lips I really like this band Demon's Claws, they are newer
Eighth: I got 19.5/20 on my first Sociology assignment and am kind of upset I didn't get 20
Ninth: Jason is too pretentious for Jay-Z and Beyonce, starting NOW
Tenth: My car was dead and now it's better (again) because my sweet Grandpa hit the battery with a wrench
Eleventh: I missed my last radio show due to devestating sneezesnot illness
Twelveth: All we ever do is watch Pawn Stars
Thirteenth: I'm still sad that Jay Reatard is dead.


More is happening but I don't care.
My shoes are taped together and I switched to Diet Coke
Great Value chocolate isn't as gross as you think
My underneath nails are dirty and I recently plucked my eyebrows after a month of them running rampant on my eyelids

News is news, but nothing is really new

NOT "down with the sickness"

I have the grossest flu right now!
I learned in WMST that if y'all are compatable then y'all won't get sick when you give each other sloppy gross open mouth kisses.


Science is retarded I guess.

SO now I'm super fucking sick, and we're broke zeros and all we have to eat pretty much are eggs!!
AND I had to cancel my radio show :(
AND I've fallen behind in English so now I wanna drop it.
AND I've got mega paintings due for Painting II
AND I've got my first assignment due for Soc. 101
AND I'm missing MACS today!
AND We just bought a FLAT of Diet Coke but I'm too sick it hurts my throat with it's delicious bubbles

but I can't even focus my brain on books. 
I just want to watch those fat slobs walk around and breath heavily on PawnStars...

UGHHH

on the bright side I get to take the echinacea medicine that is super expensive but tastes really really good.
AND me and jason watched Total Recall yesterday morning because we were so sick to wanna do anything else!

it sucks having no money (thanks to SUS and Jim Pattison) though, because I realllaaayayy wantttt BoosterJuice :(

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!!!