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Thursday, November 5, 2009
12:52AM
Drew
my number is 902 440 3103
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Comedian Paul F Tompkins has issued a challenge/promise that if 300 people from any one city could commit to attending one of his performances, he would perform in that city. He has already performed two shows in Toronto due to this promise and it looks like he's willing to do the same for other cities that follow suit.
I started a facebook group just over 48 hours ago and we've exceeded 180 people (more than double Boston's five day efforts and on par with Dallas):
http://tinyurl.com/PFTinHFX
Paul F Tompkins has taken note of our group, he tweeted about the group and I spoke to Paul F Tompkins last night on-air when I called into the Best Show on WFMU to promote the effort to bring him here.
The call:
http://soundcloud.com/windomearle/paul-f-tompkins-discusses-halifax-facebook-group-on-the-best-show-
If you're interested in attending the event, simply join the group and show your commitment to attending. The sooner we reach 300, the sooner the performance can happen.
Thanks!
Saturday, May 16, 2009
11:15PM
I will watch Fort Apache after I listen to Green Day.
I will leave my room when the first song that I don't like plays.
So far that hasn't happened.
I hope no one thinks I am listening to the new Green Day album.
No one even reads this.
11:03PM
Today I got up feeling helpless, unmotivated and abandoned. I thought about my life and how hateful I have become and I thought "Why would anyone want to be my friend? Acquaintance? Sure! Friend? Not so much." I really have become a negative human being.
I sat at my computer for a good two hours with no clothes on. I really couldn't summon up the energy to get dressed. I also think I thought it was funny to be naked for two hours after getting up. It's a little comical.
I bought a lot of things today. Not because I deserved them, but because buying things makes me feel good sometimes. Today it worked, because now I feel better but I am not sure if it's the buying of things that made me feel better or the good friends I realized I do have today even though plans didn't quite work out the way they were supposed to and here I am on a Saturday night staying in yet again.
I am going to start writing a lot more, I am not wasting any more time.
I hope that watching Fort Apache doesn't count as a waste of time.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Saturday, March 7, 2009
All Wound Up!
All Wound Up is a punk/power pop/hard core dj night at GUS'S PUB
Cover is cheap (3$), drinks will be plentiful and on special and we'll be playing everything from Stiff Little Fingers to Mission Of Burma to Black Flag to Pointed Sticks to the Big Boys to the Briefs to Crisis to the Power Chords, Crass, Genetic Control, Poison Control, Capital Death and more
Hosts are MasterCrass - Mark Black and Gerry Hubley with a revolving gang of friends and foes.
Every other Wednesday night at Gus's Pub.
We've got:
-3 dollar cover
-drink special
3.50 for bar shots and domestic beer
-lots of punk rock vinyl, playing everything from garage to thrash to pop-punk to power violence
Steve Roche of hardcore/emo/screamo bands Saetia and Off Minor (Level Plane records) is going to be in town and playing some punk rock at Gus's Pub on Wednesday March 11th as a part of All Wound Up!
Also djing is Leah Girardo, CKDU station coordinator and former vocalist of rad hardcore band I Spoke
and
long time All Wound Up attendee and lover of Acid Reflux, Owen Gottschalk aka o.g.
and of course Gerald Hubley, host of CKDU's Rocket To Russia!
Listen to it on CKDU 88.1!
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
12:48PM
All Wound Up!
Basically a night of punk rock, hardcore and power pop.
Y'know...Punk Stuff!
Featuring:
Gerald Hubley of Rocket To Russia
Jeff and Mitch Houle of Statues
Melanie Strong
Mark Black of Going Nowhere
Make requests
2 dollars
Hell's Kitchen (The Marquee)
2037 Gottingen
From Wire to Last Rightss to Pointed Sticks to Crass to the Riverdales to Stiff Little Fingers to the Avengers to the Chinese Telephones to Husker Du to the Young Canadians to Bad Brains to The Business to The Big Boys
Please come so we can make this a regular event.
DJs will rotate, so if you're interested, get in touch.
http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=32995741076#/event.php?eid=22404038231
Current music: The Vicious
Thursday, November 29, 2007
5:21PM
Things that totally suck:
-My conversational abilities
-The way I pout
-Always being sick
-Having a caffeine addiction (I'm close to breaking it)
-Never being happy for very long, I usually find a way to discontent myself
-My big mouth
-Crappy weather
-Not waking up in time for work
-Demolishing friendships
Things that totally rule:
-Split with Swords
-House (not the tv show) and its residents
Friday, October 5, 2007
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Hi,
We're (http://www.myspace.com/diexbrucke) in desperate need of help when it comes to booking our tour.
If you can either put on a show or help us out by putting in contact with someone who can on the following dates in the following cities that would be great.
Thanks
August 28 - Toronto
August 29 - Buffalo
August 30 - Rochester
August 31 - Connecticut
Sept 1st - Boston
Sept 2nd - NYC
Sept 7th - Windsor
Sept 8th - Toronto
Sept 9th - Montreal
email: diexbrucke@gmail.com
please any help or suggestions would be great, most of our contacts have fallen through or given maybes.
Saturday, July 21, 2007
2:35PM
I wasn't inside my parents' house for more than 15 minutes when my dad was filled with wide eyed panic. You would have thought he was reacting to his first born being carried away by dingos.
"BAT! I told you there was a bat in the house! I wasn't dreaming"
"PJ, calm down!"
I would expect my parents would be used to all mannner of creatures trying to get inside their house. They live in the country and there's constantly snakes, fox, moles, mice and assorted vermin, insects and rodents wandering about. For whatever reason though, my dad is terrified of bats. Maybe he doesn't want to get rabies, maybe he doesn't want to end up like Lucy whateverthefuckhernameis, I don't know.
My dad once yelled at my brother to get up when he broke his ankle during skating practice. To be fair my dad didn't know my brother broke his ankle and he assumed (falsely) that my brother was just overacting in order to get out of practice. I expected my dad to be a little tougher than he was.
I managed to corral the bat with a tupperware flour container from the 70's. I put it over the bat and dragged it along the floor to the door off the kitchen. Every once in a while the bat would stick his tiny wing and claw under the edge of the container. My dad didn't see any of this because he ran out of the room
My mom wouldn't open the kitchen door to the patio because she swore that there was an army of bats waiting to invade the sanctity of our kitchen. She made me wait until I was right next to the door before she opened it up.
I eventually got the shellshocked little feller out of the container and onto the patio, where I presume he flew away.
Monday, July 16, 2007
3:47PM
Countries Visited: Germany, Greece, Egypt, Turkey
Continents Visited: Europe, Africa, Asia
I touched thousand year old pottery, saw the world's oldest pyramid, hung out at the beach in 47 degree weather, was part of a police convoy in the desert, went 40 metres under the sea and used a squat toilet for the first time in my life.
Sunday, June 17, 2007
7:23PM
Last night Die Brücke (myspace.com/diexbrucke) played a show with Hey Rosetta! and Windom Earle at the Seahorse. A few of my friends from Newfoundland, familiar with Hey Rosetta!, found this combination rather funny. I wasn't sure how funny it would be until I showed up at the venue a couple of hours before the show started.
I should mention that I was also opening with my act, the Mark Black Speaking Engagement. Really it's just me with a laptop, a projector and a microphone. It's pretty hit or miss. The last time I did, I bombed. It doesn't always go over very well.
I took the first shift collecting cover at the door. The large majority of people coming through the doors were fans of Hey Rosetta! I'm not stereotyping here, they just kept looking at the set times that were posted, pointing to Hey Rosetta!'s name and commenting on their 11:30 start time. I felt kind of bad taking their money and knowing that they would most likely hate the first hour of the show before Hey Rosetta! took the stage.
Now I can't remember insulting anyone or being rude to anyone who gave me money. I am pretty sure I was congenial for the most part because I actually secretly like working the door. If I could just go to a show and still in a comfortable chair and just talk to the people coming in all night, I'd be pretty happy. It reminds me of when I used to play store or library when I was kid. What a fucking nerd.
I took the stage around 10:50 and started off with the following joke:
"Has anyone seen Knocked Up?"
cheers
"Oh, of course you have, but do you know about the lawsuit that's being launched against it? Apparently Rebecca Eckler of the National Post wrote a book called Knocked Up and it was about an unplanned pregnancy. She feels like she's the only who has ever given birth, and maybe she is, so she's suing the makers of the movie for plagiarizing her story."
"My ex-girlfriend and I are also suing the makers of the movie for stealing our story, only there's one difference:
We left our baby in the toilet at Wal-Mart."
I figured I might as well have the audience either with me or against me from the start.
A table of young ladies who had shown up specifically for Hey Rosetta! didn't find me very funny. I don't find me very funny either. I made a reference to Newfoundland, and they retorted "Wrong bar buddy!"
No fucking shit. Obviously.
"Wrong Bar Buddy" became my goddamned mantra. I didn't give a shit whether I fucked up the slideshow or whether I rambled on about "Man From Atlantis". It didn't fucking matter because as long as I was wasting the time of this table of girls, I was accomplishing something.
All the way through the set I could hear them, "Does he think he's funny?" "Is this supposed to be funny?" "He's not funny." Creative they were not. It just egged me on until I snapped:
"No, I don't think I'm funny, but I don't give a shit. I am going to waste your time. You gave me six dollars at the door to sit through this shit and I think it's funny that it's just going to go back into my pocket and I will gladly spend it on stupid crap. And after I'm done, you still have to deal with me because my terrible band that I'm sure you will hate is next and we play 60 second songs that it took us five minutes to write and unfortunately you paid for it."
"Don't worry we'll be quick so you can see Hey Rosetta!, go to the Palace, go back to some place you won't be able to remember, and then in the morning you can wake up and remember how shitty your lives are."
After we finished our set, a casting director told me she liked my stand-up and I should give her a call this week. That was kind of nutty.
On Friday I am going to Greece, Egypt and Turkey for three weeks for a film shoot for work. I just found out about this, this Friday past. Life is weird.
Friday, June 15, 2007
We're playing on Saturday the Seahorse:
and the Rock Garden on Wednesday (before the Evens show):
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
7:29PM
We're in a Lower East Side hotel that has a signed photo of Henry Rollins in the lobby. In an hour we head to Brooklyn to see The Vicious play with the Brutal Knights and the Shemps.
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
11:56AM
I really have been a major ass this past while. I'm not sure how not sleeping is going to correct that.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
3:16PM
I wish I didn't have such a thin skin and that it wasn't so obvious that it's easy for people to get under it.
Maybe my constant scratching is a metaphor.
Oh, fuck you god.
Friday, December 15, 2006
We're sending a camera crew to Newfoundland this winter to cover weird and interesting stories from that province. Do you have any wacky events or eccentrics that you might suggest we should cover?
Let me know either through a message here or email (markblackrecoveryproject@hotmail.com)
Saturday, December 9, 2006
12:06AM
expectations are too high
Monday, November 13, 2006
11:36PM
Kara makes me do things that I don't always want to do, but in retrospect should do. I like that she makes fun of me when I'm being stubborn instead of getting mad at me. She also laughs at her own jokes which I always appreciate.
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