this has been a social experiment that revealed to me my insane dependence on Facebook. What if the Facebook guys just decided to close shop? What the hell would I do? I would no longer be capable of connecting with other human beings who do not live in my house. What the hell did I do in 2005? There needs to be an international Facebook emergency preparedness plan in place!
5 months ago
That’s right… I got an urge to get old school this week and listen to THIS ALBUM. Now, it by no means is the be-all/end-all of music, but I am loving it for the time being. It might also be useful to note that this band also wrote some of the worst songs of all time, mainly; i) Freak, & ii) Anthem for the Year 2000.
This album was their only “good moment”, after which it was all downhill for them in my opinion. If you beg to differ and actually like the songs listed above then I suggest you permanently stop reading this blog forever.
Paul Brown - you are flat out wrong. As an avid Silverchair fan, I can assure you that Frogstomp was far from their opus. They wrote this album when they were 14 years old. I urge you to have a listen to the brilliance of “Diorama” or “Young Modern” (written when they were adults) or to the side-project The Dissociatives, and tell me that Daniel Johns is not a musical genius. As for the Anthem for the year 2000 - I assume that this was meant to be an ironic statement, or it was just a bad miss.
5 months ago…and it has been SWEET so far. I have a very good feeling about how this is going to pan out. I am also officially living with macintyre.dudevice.com.
Our address: (map posted above) is 1079 Queen Street, Halifax, NS. Our house: is bro-fest. My job: starts monday The weekend: is going to be legendary.
Stay tuned folks, as brown.dudevice.com makes the switch to being a barnicle riddled, lobster eating, fisherman, eat coast dude….
Halifax is Frickin’ Awesome. Live it up Paul Brown.
5 months agobrown.dudevice.com came over last night and we made some music (literally, not in that gross way).
It’s worth noting that brown layed down this track in one go.
It’s also worth noting that Kanye West provided the tune to the ‘vigeant and brown collaboration’ jingle on the end.
If this song doesn’t get stuck in your head (lyons) I feel sorry for you.
I give this one 81%
5 months ago6 months agoArrrgh!!!! For the last several years it has been the back up plan of myself and vigeant.dudevice.com to start a restaurant. The basic idea was a combination of two of our favourite things at the time we thought of the idea: i) Shake ‘n’ Bake Chicken, & ii) Steak.
The main attraction at this restaurant was to be Shake ‘n’ Bake Steak. I know that this sounds odd, or even downright un-appetizing but we believed in the idea. We even tried cooking the dish once, even though it turned out horribly. The juice from the steak oozed into the bread crumbs while we were baking it in the oven and made the whole thing super soggy. This is where we started playing around with other ideas; like flash frying the breaded steak first and then baking it, and many other variations.
Whatever… So what am I all up in arms about? Luke, who is currently in Texas, just sent me a picture (posted above) of a restaurant that clearly offers the dish and that has the name “Steak ‘n’ Shake”. Of course, only in Texas would they be into something like this. I can see it now… group of friends goes to a highschool football game, goes for a round of cow tipping afterwards and then tops it all of with a round of late night Shake ‘n’ Bake Steaks! The perfect night! This business venture in Texas would limit the potential expansion of our Shake ‘n’ Bake Steak franchise into the U.S somewhat… but I am confident that between Luke, myself and our overwhelmingly incredible business acumen that we could outsmart these idiots.
What about a name for the restaurant? We had a plan for that too; Jake ‘n’ Blake’s Shake ‘n’ Bake Steakhouse. This would involve the two of us changing both of our names; Jake Vigeant & Blake Brown. I’d be totally willing to do it though… of course an idea like this could only be wildly successful and be excepted with great fanfare. Also, what about our jingle? We’ve got one… but that will be another post altogether. For the time being I will have to arrange a meating (that’s how we spell meeting at J’n’B’s Steakhouse) with my business partner to discuss the implications of this Texas business venture. Good day.
Paul’s anger was reflective of the same one that lived within me. But, this anger in me has now calmed… let me explain to you what happened.
Four Mojitos into last night I made the decision to burn down the Steak n’ Shake by my hotel. I went down to the bar in my hotel, ordered 3 shots of tequila and lined them up in a triangle on the bar and opened my mouth wide around them clamped down with my lips, picked them up, tilted my head back and swallowed all of the contents… I walked out of the hotel bar with glasses still in mouth, spitting them into the fireplace in the front lobby much to the dismay of the lady working the front desk. I told her to cool it, and started walking towards the local gas station. I got a Dale Earnheart Jr. themed/sized Big Slurp cup and filled it with premium Gasoline. I went inside and layed a $20 down on the counter and brought my finger to my lip in a ‘hushing motion’ to indicate to the attendant to stay quiet, he nodded in understanding and handed me a lighter saying “You may need this…” I thanked him and walked out.
I walked .06 miles down the highway to the Steak N’ Shake, they were just closing up. The manager was at the front door and told me that they were just closing, I kicked the door in his face and said “Yeah, forever. Get in the fucking back.” He said nothing as the force of the blow from the door rendered him unconscious. I told the two remaining employees of the store that they could leave, and not to call the police for at least 30 minutes or I would find them. They agreed. I started methodically pouring gasoline over the most flammable parts of the store, seat cushions, fake plants, garbage cans, and burger greese. I took my shirt off and began reciting the monologue I had been practicing on the way to the restaurant: “There is not enough space for both of us steak n shake, why did you have to do this… WHY??!? this was my idea… THIS WAS MY IDEA!!” I then paused and cried for roughly 10 minutes. I turned the lighter on, and looked up at the heavens to scream as I went through with the seemingly inevitable next step. I Screamed: “STEAK AND SHAKE YOU WILL BB…” but then stopped as I saw the sign hanging from the ceiling advertising a steak and a MILKSHAKE. They were not shake and baking steak after all. Relieved, I woke up the store manager ready to apologize and face the music. Luckily, he remembered nothing and asked me what happened… asking if ‘The Mexicans’ broke in again. Remembering that I was in Texas and this kind of racism is still legit… I said: “Yes, it was Mexicans… not me.” I left the store, went back to my hotel, put on a shirt, brushed my teeth, and fell asleep with a sense of future financial security knowing that my 2012 business idea is still safe.
Here is to hoping no one checks the surveillance videos before I fly back to Canada today.
OR
I went to the Steak n’ Shake Website - http://www.steaknshake.com and found out the nature of their business.
I promise it’s one of those two things.
It’s bad Vigeant. You ruined this kid’s birthday 6 months agoWhile volunteering at the Rio Muchacho Organic Farm in Ecuador last month, a new friend I made there (Robert) and I decided one morning that we would write a musical depicting a day in the life of a volunteer at the farm. Unfortunately we had this idea the morning before my last night on the farm so we spent the balance of both our free time there huddled over a notebook writing down lyrics and melodies, practicing under palm trees and thatched roof-huts, and doing practice runs for small audiences before our big performance. We created a masterpiece, and it is my most proud achievement of 2009 thus far. Today (May 10th is Robert’s Birthday, and as a result I felt it appropriate to post the first song of the first act (with a slight modification) up on the internet in the odd chance that he and his lovely girlfriend check the internet in Bolivia today).
This song is titled: ‘Song 1 - Wake Up Song’ and was written by Robert Cruise and Luke Vigeant in April of 2009.
7 months agoThis is for all my readers that aren’t down with viral videos.
This is not for all my readers who dislike foul language.
This is for all my readers who work in offices.
This is not for any reader to look at while in an office.
(via pbrown)
Umm…Paul…Anything you’d like to talk about? Hmm? I’m here. 8 months agoDAMN YOU VIGEANT! The Warning goes at the TOP! The song was done before I read that far. 8 months agoMY COMPUTER IS FINALLY HOME!
It is very exciting for me. The project that I missed working on the most while my computer took a two week vacation was my ‘Old Timey Radio Show’ that’s in the pipes about brothers who travel in a dirigible implementing different businesses for a hefty profit in citites around the world. I am not sure if a full episode will ever actually be released, as I still need lots of help and this will most likely be a collaborative project with at least kenyon.dudevice.com ! But, if you can picture a radio show with sound effects, a musical narrator that takes you from scene to scene, and some A-list voice talent from my friends and family you should get really excited.
I layed down a couple scenes tonight… including this gem of a musical interlude (strictly vocals, as I need love.dudevice.com to come by with his guitar sometime soon to add some music under it).
So if I ever release this product, you are going to be miles ahead of everyone else on the sing-a-long to this interlude.
Prof.Lyons, in the interest of this not being stuck in your head I advise you not to click play.
At the local pizza pizza and noticed the terrible photoshop job done on this cooler side. Unless spinning pizza on your fingers is the new holding pizza with your hand.
…the fingertip pizza is not as bad as the Anton Chigurh hair and the Blue Meanie teeth. And what the hell is he laughing at. You need to keep your focus when you’re pizza spinning.
9 months ago