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.

forshore!

I've been so busy with things that don't include blogging regularly that I've forgotten to blog regularly!

Who cares about most things, what important is what I'm about to write about!

I am going to dye my hairsoonsoonsoon!!
DON'T pay attention to who this picture is of, but I saw a preview for the new season and she has the exact red I tried for last time, only she has lots of money to get it right (kinda)

That'd be super dope, right?!

Also, some life changing news, I am soon to get two more tattoos. 

One'll be an elephant dressed in Indian attire:

I didn't draw this but I think it's supercute! 

Only, I'll choose my own colours and the tusks won't be cut!

I'll probs get it on the side of my thigh - I'm thinking the right one.

AND I don't care if the trunks raised - because believing something could be bad luck is stupid.

The other will be something like the figures on the cover of this book:

Only, I'll make it look like me and dress it in clothes that I wear.

I've always wanted to get a tattoo that references feminism,

but the Venus symbol or the Venus symbol with the fist are too obvious.

Feminism is the only thing that makes me feel anything.

It's the only thing that can make me cry without hurting my feelings

so I think it is suiting to commemorate it on my skin, permanently.

I think I'll get this on my right leggy above my heel area, but not all up on my calf.

So that's what's gonna go down body-wise. 

As Well, I'm going to get my ears pierced,

I 'found' a giftcertificate for an disreputable tattoo parlor place in Abbotsford,

buuuuuut I don't want another tattoo that looks like it was done in prison,

so I'm just getting my ears done there.

I don't have my ears pierced!

Last Week Sucked

I had like a billion (2) assignments due!

One was a presentation in my Simpson's course.  It had to be 25-30 minutes long, I think mine was just under or just over 20.  But that wasn't the only way I came up short, I feel the presentation had lots of holes, and could have used more work.  Also, the PowerPoint sucked, and I didn't take my eyes off the paper the whole time.

But it's done with, and I don't care as long as I get like a B, which I probably/hopefully will!
So that's what I did on Wednes.

FRIDAY, I had to have a 3x3 foot painting of a celebrity of my choosing done.  I did Tony Parsons.  Being busy all week with the presentation for Darren's class, I had to hella rush on the painting. I started that Thursday afternoon (after my class) around 2, and finished (after a couple breaks) around 1:35 AM!
guuh!

It was a rough deal, so this weekend I'm "takin 'er easy" before getting balls deep into finishing the semester!

ALSO!  It's 7-11 day today, and I celebrated by going and getting 4 of those fucking tiny slurpees for Jason and me and having them spill all the fuck over my front-seat.
I continued this celebration by getting the trunk of my car to try to slam on my shoulder, and by having the passenger door slam on my leg because neither of these things stay open on their own!! 

Other than this all I've done this weekend is hang out with my pal, Grandma, and watch Kenny vs Spenny. 

LG!

South Park

Jason won't fucking stop quoting this!!

He'll do the face and everything!  Even if I'm mega-grumpy!

He says that this is the best thing he's ever seen on South Park, I guess he needs to watch Prehistoric Ice Man again, hey!?

"But you love your Simpsons course!"

That gender/Simpsons project I've been half thinking of/working on for awhile died!

Well, I thought it was due on the 23, but I was fucking wrong! 
It was supposed to be due today... BUT, last night I e-mailed my proff, Darren saying this:

Hey Darren,


I thought I was presenting on the 23rd, which is of course, not true!

So I've been working all week trying to get this presentation done, but

the two readings (which are not a part of the course) I've found

impossible to relate. I'm still going to keep working so I'll

technically have something to present tomorrow, but I won't be

confident in it AT ALL!

I was hoping maybe to save myself the embarrassment of presenting

something I think is total garbage and do Social Class or Identity

(that looked like it was still open).

I was using Chris Turner's book Planet Simpson - the chapter titled

Lisa Lionheart and Lana F. Rakow's essay "Feminist Approaches to

Popular Culture: Giving Patriarchy Its Due." Her essay seemed like a

good source after scouring the internet looking for something I thought

was valid, but the more I try to relate the two the more I feel like a

total idiot...

So could I please switch topics? I'm sorry I am bringing this up so

late

-Alicia.

I felt like a total knob, I don't usually do this with school.  After sending this and re-reading the course outline, I realized I had really done this project COMPLETLY WRONG!!!  I was supposed to use one COURSE reading and one other theorist and compare, or whatever.  I used two of my own choosing, and then found I couldn't even fucking relate the two together! 
SO, after trying to make it work, trying to make it work, refreshing and refreshing and refreshing myUFV e-mail, I started crying, pathetically! 

Jason walked into the room as I was looking for a course to take Jul/Aug so I could just withdraw if Darren said "no."

He didn't though! Cause he's super cool, and probably was like "whoooooa, she did this so wrong"
After spilling my heart's contents and admitting I felt like an idiot he said

Hi Alicia,
July 7th, Identity. It's yours.

darren

Awesome!

B.J.M.

So,
The Brian Jonestown Massacre concert I've been looking forward to for MONTHS may be cancelled!

BUT, we're not entirely sure yet? 
Ticketmaster and the Commodore have no clue what's up,
IN FACT, ticketmaster said "according to them the concert was still on so they're going to continue selling tickets." 
And the Commodore said they've heard rumours but don't know anything for sure....

I had e-mailed Anton Newcombe's myspace (assuming, of course, it was actually him and not an imposter) asking for an interview for my radio show, Mood Swings, and he said:

"unfortunately the concert is cancelled.


i'm sorry,

a"
 
it also says the show was cancelled on their official myspace!  :(!
 
I really hope this show runs, if it doesn't there is a good chance I will die!
 
 
 

Joel Gion!

People are super dope sometimes!

I just watched the movie Dig! and now I am obsessed with the above!

Is it terrible that I go from one unhealthy celebrity obsession to the next?

Probably

I'll tell you about the movie later, right now I'm supposed to be doing homework!

UNTIL THEN:

HBO BROS

Jason and my own self just finished watching all of HBO's Spartacus!  There were only like 12 or 13 eps. but they were so good!

The first few episodes are sweet, but then after like 4 or something some of the characters get FUCKED, like, in the head, you know!? 
It's a little 300-y, and the blood is super-duper fake, and sometimes it isn't historically accurate (according to reviewers on IMDB) but its a great show, especially if you're into stuff like that! 

I don't wanna summarize the whole show, so guess who will (for the most part) for me, Wikipedia!  The only thing you don't get from there is the ba-zillions of times you get to see Lucy Lawless' boobies!  You get to see other womens too, and some full-frontal male N, but nothing beats Xena, riiiight!?

Unfortunetly, I get to be super disapointed BECAUSE the Spartacus dude got like blood-cancer or something shitty, and can't go on to do the second season (yet?).  BUT, I guess until then we have to make due with the Spartacus pre-quel HBO is making in the meantime, whenever that airs!

Whatever though, this show is totally dope so you should stop watching United States of Tara and get caught up with your ole' pal Spartacus!

Beth-st Friends!

My Grandpa and I went and saw my Grandma in the hospital today.

We were talking about how my little cousins apparently tease my grandparents dog, Beth

My Grandma said that they get it from my Grandpa

 who will stomp to scare the dog and do other teasing type things

To this my Grandpa responded

"That dog just wants to fight all the time."

....Beth is the dog in the picture, a toy poodle

WE'RE THE WORST!

Jason and my bad self kind-of-recently discovered we have this song stuck in our heads super-often :(




Isn't that super terrible?  Just the chorus though, does that make it better?

Monday, June 7th, 2010

I did my radio show, Mood Swings, today!
This is how it works: the first hour or the show has a set theme or 'spotlight' on one particular artist, the second half of the show has conditions though.

If the first half of the show is a spotlight of an American (or from another country other than Canada) artist then the second half of the show will be a mix of various Canadian artists. 
If the first half of the show is all Canadian or a Canadian artist then the second half is a mix of artists from any country.
And any other variation of the above, you know?!

So whatever, right?  Today I did a theme, which was Native Indians.
For that I played:
Thee Headcoats - Poccahontas Was Her Name
Thee Headcoats - Cowboys Are Square
Indian Wars - Comanche Killer
Thee Headcoats - Louie Riel
Keith Secola - NDN Kars
The Wax Museums - Cowboys and Indians
Atom and His Package - If You Own the Washington Redskins, You're a Cock
Thee Headcoats - Comanche
Beat Happening - Indian Summer
Black Lips - Navajo
Pradada - Wasted Indians

That was about 1/4 of the show.  I couldn't really find any Native titled/related songs in the Garage/Punk kind of genre

So, then I started with the mix!:
Bertha Cool - Rat King
The b-52's - 52 Girls
The Dead Milkmen - Dean's Dream
Clues - You Have My Eyes Now
The Bitters - Nurtured Disease
The Dead Milkmen - Take Me Apart
Meth Teeth - I Was Wrong
Cheater Slicks - It's OK, What You Weigh
Brazilian Money - Give and Take, It's OK

And theeeen, my iPod was almost dead, because I'm a total idiot!
So I played songs from the CIVL Station computer these were:
Fun 100 - Roger and Me
Caribou - Found Out
The Weakerthans - Civil Twilight
Wolf Parade - Shine a Light

These songs gave my iPod enough time to charge to finish my show, so I continued with:

The Gruesomes - Why Me?
Makeout Videotape - Basketball Kids
The Embarrassment - Careen
Young Governor - You're So Sad
The Marvelous Darlings - Careerist
The Creeping Nobodies - Cowbell
Sneaky Pinks - Life Stupid, I Stupid
The Fleshtones - Play With Fire
Nu Sensae - Brain Aid
Grown-Ups - Waste Your Life
Fun 100 - Kimmy Gibbler is My Girlfriend
Dayglo Abortions - Bedtime Story
Shearing Pinx - Tropical Dementia

I may have gotten the order confused, but I don't really care, if you wanna you can see for yourself and then send me vicious hate mail - you know I would love it!

ALSO, I've missed a number of shows (today was my first Monday show), so if you click a link and it's not what you're looking for (if you know what I mean) then I was probably gone on business that day, sorry!

TV and the Soc. Value of the Simpsons

I'm in this course - titled above - and I have to do a 25-30 minute presentation on gender in the televion show "The Simpsons." 

Obviously, my brain immediately went to the topic of gender stereotyping, but thats such a vanilla topic - anyone doing gender would choose it!  I've finally decided, after a month of contemplating, "positive gender reinforcment within the Simpsons."  I'll probably use clips of the Malibu Stacey/Lisa Lionheart episode, the ep. where Marge gets implants (not sure yet), the ep. where Marge's old BFF is a famous news anchorwoman and possibly others!

I have to use the ideas of two theorists in this presentation, but I haven't decided yet :(  maybe, if I focus heavily on the Malibu Stacey ep. I could use Angela McRobbie/Girls Bedroom Culture?  I don't know!

My teacher, Darren, said I could use the theme from my directed studies course which was Girls in Subcultures, and then talk about how Bart is always attracted to the "bad girl" type and their relevance in the show.  But I'm not sure, I think I like using my own ideas better - even though I technically still would be, I just like to "get there" myself, you know?

We're about 4/5 weeks into this course and I think the greatest life lesson I've learned so far is that I like South Park and Futurama best!

Mid-Simpsons seasons are so good though!  After watching all of the episodes I hadn't seen I think my favourite seasons are like 11-13.

heartzz

I forgot to tell you!

As of today Jason and myself have been together for 3 years!!!!
Isn't that super dope!?  We're super stoked on each other still, which is even more amazing and nice!

I always assumed that once you were together for a hella long time you hated each other, or does that not happen until we are married? 

So today was pretty dope, we had a humungous breakfast for lunch and Stephen Harper paid me that money he owed me (almost 1000 bones!) and we went and got my BlackBerry at stupid SevenOaks! 

ANNNNNND we went to Wal Mart and got a video game (UFC 2010) and the movie, Dead Snow.  But I didn't read the labels and Dead Snow isn't in English, so I don't wanna own it, I'll just borrow it from Tawnia and return my copy. 

I went and got provisions at Safeway - because they have the muffins Jason likeys!  and I came home and we ate delicious wedge fries, I had a samosa and Jason had a crap-load of sausage rolls.  Then we took turns defeating each other in UFC, I was Frank Mir, Jason was a number of characters incl. Kimbo, and that really ugly-faced, scar-back guy!

Then we laid in bed together and played cell phone games!!!

We're gonna go out-out tomorrow hopefully, but Jason has to work early tomorrow so we couldn't really do anything for reals!

"HEY, BBM ME"

Needless to say I just got a BlackBerry Curve!  It's purple, which is my favourite colour in the entire world, which already makes it the best phone ever!

Jason just went through this thing where he hated his phone because you couldn't load your own song as a ringtone (with the LG Rumour) annndd gueesss what my phone can do?!  BURRRN!

Now, it is just a matter of finding the perfect ringtone that celebrates my own personal unique flair and love for life.  And trying to figure out if I am too old to cover the rubber case/protector with Simpsons stickers I found...

Not to mention the billions of apps there probably are for me to enjoy and consume!

It took me awhile to figure out what was up, but I think after about a week I'll be pro, manuals can suck it, they're so borrring!

I'll tell you more about it when I learn more :)