Saturday, May 30, 2009
Harley Hell, The Wire, Sled Island and Wire
Physical State: sunburned!
Mental State: lukewarm
Music: The Books - The Lemon of Pink
Fashion sense: jeans, grey t-shirt
Ok what is it about Beltline being ground zero for weekend Harley heads. I open the windows to finally get a nice summer breeze and all I can hear all day is the 3 block radius sound of "burruhhhhhhhh!" I guess Harley's are one of those things that if you're riding it, it probably feels pretty cool. But if you're witness to it reverberating off the sides of downtown Calgary buildings all afternoon it's not as much fun. I found this info online which I thought made a lot of sense:
Harley Davidsons run at about 85 decibels. Harleys with straight unmuffled pipes blare noise at around 120 decibels.
Yeah no wonder it's annoying. It's like the rednecks equivalent of the booming block-rocking beat of the trunk woofer, shaking back window and all. Too bad those jackholes always play the recent crap and not old school Run DMC. As for Harleys I would think that it would be a lot more fun to get out on the open road in farm country say up to Red Deer and back than drive it around city blocks. But I guess it's all about image (you're so badass when you blast the Ship and Anchor patio in your offensive way). In Beltline the sounds lately seem to be a combination of Harleys blasting and street bums yelling their asses off. Who knew that the f word had so many permuations and was a way to express yourself simply. Actually come to think of it, there was that episode of
The Wire.
Signed up for Sled Island as a volunteer to work the merch tables, work in the office for a few hours here and there and even drive bands around. Colin Newman of Wire is this year's curator. Should be a lot of fun and looking forward to seeing lots of great bands here in town. It would be really cool to be the one who drives Colin around town and get all the stories of Wire on the road. Keeping my fingers crossed.
About The Books. This album Lemon of Pink ends with one of the most charming non-songs ever, appropriately titled "PS." It's the sounds of an interview The Books did with Patti Schmidt from Brave New Waves, her ums and ahs and chuckles between questions. I miss Brave New Waves.
Physical State: sunburned!
Mental State: lukewarm
Music: The Books - The Lemon of Pink
Fashion sense: jeans, grey t-shirt
Ok what is it about Beltline being ground zero for weekend Harley heads. I open the windows to finally get a nice summer breeze and all I can hear all day is the 3 block radius sound of "burruhhhhhhhh!" I guess Harley's are one of those things that if you're riding it, it probably feels pretty cool. But if you're witness to it reverberating off the sides of downtown Calgary buildings all afternoon it's not as much fun. I found this info online which I thought made a lot of sense:
Harley Davidsons run at about 85 decibels. Harleys with straight unmuffled pipes blare noise at around 120 decibels.
Yeah no wonder it's annoying. It's like the rednecks equivalent of the booming block-rocking beat of the trunk woofer, shaking back window and all. Too bad those jackholes always play the recent crap and not old school Run DMC. As for Harleys I would think that it would be a lot more fun to get out on the open road in farm country say up to Red Deer and back than drive it around city blocks. But I guess it's all about image (you're so badass when you blast the Ship and Anchor patio in your offensive way). In Beltline the sounds lately seem to be a combination of Harleys blasting and street bums yelling their asses off. Who knew that the f word had so many permuations and was a way to express yourself simply. Actually come to think of it, there was that episode of
The Wire.
Signed up for Sled Island as a volunteer to work the merch tables, work in the office for a few hours here and there and even drive bands around. Colin Newman of Wire is this year's curator. Should be a lot of fun and looking forward to seeing lots of great bands here in town. It would be really cool to be the one who drives Colin around town and get all the stories of Wire on the road. Keeping my fingers crossed.
About The Books. This album Lemon of Pink ends with one of the most charming non-songs ever, appropriately titled "PS." It's the sounds of an interview The Books did with Patti Schmidt from Brave New Waves, her ums and ahs and chuckles between questions. I miss Brave New Waves.
