To Quote Devo, I'm Through Being Cool

You know what I get sick of? Hipsters. People try and lump me in that category, and I'm anything but. I'm sick of trying way too hard to impress pretentious losers who could care less, and I feel sorry for anyone who clings onto a trend just to be 'hip'. It's really desperate to me. I've never been one to follow the crowd, but I sometimes get that urge to try and act 'cool', or 'be cool/trendy', and it's a waste of time. The thing that caused me to get into this was the amount of 'try-hards' and 'hipsters' I've seen lately...it gets stale after a while.

Eaton's screwed me up

I went to the mall nobody goes to the other day(better known as Lethbridge Center)...I didn't want to even buy anything, just wander around the department store(it's a Bay, by the way). Ever since Eaton's in Red Deer got bulldozed for a Zellers several years ago I've had this pshycological void in my head to just go to a two-story department store once again. I know this sounds weird, and maybe I do need to get a life, but I'd been having these dreams where I was in the Eaton's store in Red Deer just shopping. I actually used to have nightmares as a young boy where it closed down, and when it actually did, that was complete deja vu. I went to the library after and took some books out, then I went to a basketball game with some friends from school who were covering it for the school paper(I did a write-up on the agricultural fair this week)...then I went with my roomate to play volleyball later on, and this guy who was there was rude to me when I flinched...there's reasons why I flinch(it's called depth perception), and I'm fairly sensitive about it when people say anything. Anyway, when I went to serve I accidentally hit him smack dab over the back of the head and saw him flinch. Total retribution, and I didn't even mean to do it. The rest of the weekend was spent mostly doing homework, church, etc...(by the way, I kind of got religious(I prefer spiritual) after the holidays)...I just realized today that next week is Reading Week for me, so I'm going to try and do something fun, although at this rate there will definitely be homework involved.

I'm Relieved...

...that my superbowl story didn't make it in the paper...I feel like I did good on it, but it's just not my topic, and it turned out rather brief. There are times though, that I get assigned stories that don't interest me, but somehow I become excited about covering them. This week I'm writing about the college's involvement with an agricultural fair at the beginning of March. It seems to be going pretty well. The weather has been pretty nice here the last couple days, I hope this keeps up. I got together with the girl I'm going to be entertainment editor with today, as well as the editor for next year, and it sounds like we can get free tickets to review movies...we could either have gone with the Mill or to Galaxy, and we decided it might be better to review new stuff as soon as it comes out, so Galaxy it is... She seems interested in covering the Lethbridge film society and the U of L film club too though, which is great.

films

hey...I went to a film festival at the college tonight(The original plan was to go see King Kong at the Mill, but I'd forgotten about this and wanted to do it more)...It was the best commercials of the last Cannes Film Festival. There were some pretty cool ones too. Things are going alright...I don't think people understand my sarcasm though, but I can work on that...I got an easier news story this week, should be better. I'm not into sports writing, but sometimes we have to do stuff we hate. It's a part of life.

more to do with old British record labels

I'm not sure if anyone really cares, but I found a Canadian Pye records singles discography online. I won't post the link here because it's a bit hard to follow, and there are some things missing(like the Fabulous Poodles)...but from what I can gather, it was a label here in Canada from the early 1960's to the late 1970's. So I guess I didn't stumble upon a goldmine when I discovered a weird Pye records single. Now if anyone knows anything about that weird Devo single I have...

Pye records...

hey...I got another story published yesterday. I didn't get much to do this week, mostly just write about what happened at the Super Bowl...I'm trying to remain positive about what I get assigned, as I know I'd be pretty appalled if someone had a fit at a story I'd assigned them. The best you can do is remain open, even if it's something you could care less about. I took some cd's out at the library the other day, mostly just cheezy 60's/70's pop/rock compilations. Two of them were Pye-label compilations. Pye was a British pop label that was around from the 50's until 1980 that had a bunch of classic artists on it's roster at one point(Petula Clark, Donovan, The Kinks,really early David Bowie), as well as a bunch of one-hit wonders that were really big over here('Kung Fu Fighting' by Carl Douglas, 'In The Summertime' by Mungo Jerry)...The label didn't exist over here(that I know of anyway) until the 1970's, and by that point there weren't as many good artists signed on. For more about the label, check out my earlier entry on the bizarre Fabulous Poodles single I aquired a while back. I'm guessing Pye was around longer here in Canada, as it was issued on Epic in the States(possibly one of the last Pye recordings to chart in North America, as this was in 1978/79), also the album title is listed(incorrectly?) as 'Unsuitable'....Anyway, enough with all the info, the cds are fairly good(I really like Sandie Shaw's version of 'Always Something There To Remind Me', it's far superior to the Naked Eyes version). I was pretty excited to have come across some compilations, as I didn't know any were ever made. It really doesn't surprise me though, given the amount of classic tracks/artists that they were responsible for.

bragging rights...

So...I found out yesterday that I got the Entertainment Editor position for the school paper. It should be a great experience and I'm really excited about it.