here’s a few more to add to your vernacular:

• Annoyertating: A mixture of annoying and irritating, that you say sometimes in total frustration..
• Beer peddler: When you have so many DUI’s that they only way you can make a beer run is to ride your bike, you’ve become a beer peddler.
• Bluetool: A person who wears a bluetooth wireless earpiece everywhere they go to seem trendy and important. Places to spot bluetools include movie theaters, malls, restaurants, gyms, grocery stores and cars.
• Butterfaith: A girl who is fun, intelligent, beautiful, perfect in every way… except she’s devoutly religious. (taken from “butterface”)
• Driver’s arm: Refers to the left arm being tanner (or redder) than the right arm because it’s been hanging out the window.
• Pac-manning: To drive right on the dotted white lane divider, which gives the same effect as Pac-Man eating dots.

The first time I heard Apply Some Pressure from Maximo Park, I was sold. I’d never heard of the band, and was offered some free tickets for a club show through a promoter. The band performed in front of a half-full Toronto club. Tore it up. This song was definitely a standout, and I’ve liked the band since. The album it’s on is called A Certain Trigger. A second album from the Brit band came out in April.

I’ve liked what MSTRKRFT (masterkraft) does for awhile. Jesse Keeler from Death from Above 1979 started the electronic project, which also does some solid remixes (Metric, Wolfmother). In a strange bit of fate Sebastien Grainger (also ex of DFA1979) is in town doing a solo gig opening for Metric at Whisky on May 17th. On the 18th MSTRKRFT is at the Warehouse. Both shows should be solid. The song we played is The Looks, title track from the first album.

Today, we featured Lucious Jackson and the song Naked Eye, from the album Fever In Fever Out. Canadian superproducer Daniel Lanois produced the album. Lucious Jackson were the first band signed to the Beastie Boys‘ Grand Royal label. The band broke up in 2000, and will release a greatest hits disc this year admidst rumours of a reunion.

Today on the Big Box, I went back to my favourite album of 2005 - Illinoise. It’s the second in Sufjan Stevens‘ goal to do an album for every state, which started with Michigan. He’s an outstanding songwriter. I had the chance to see him in St. Louis this past Fall, and it was a fantastic show, complete with 14-piece band. Horns, strings, piano, banjo. One of those concerts that gives you shivers a few times. The song we played today is called Casimir Pulaski Day.

A couple of months before I arrived in Calgary, I was doing a college radio stint in Toronto on CIUT, with an almost completely open format. While there, I did an interview with Soundproof Magazine. I’m really pleasantly surprised with the music on X92.9, and I can honestly say that it’s the most musically progressive commercial radio station in Canada. Of course, like the listener, Idon’t love every song. The fact there’s no Nickleback (or Default, or Simple Plan, or Good Charlotte, or Theory of a Badband, etc.) makes things a whole lot better. I also get to play something from my personal collection in the Big Box O CDs.

I’m not buying these figures. Women may say and believe these things, but the proof is in their actions and I think, sadly, looks trump humour and sweetness every time. Hence so many hot chicks with douchebags. In my experience, I’ve not come across very many funny guys who are hot. Cute maybe, yet it’s the physically attractive guys, not the funny ones that inevitably win the race. In any case here’s the results of a recent survey:

What’s the most important quality in a potential man?

2% said looks

3% said financial and career success

42% said sense of “humor”

38% said “sweetness”

Josh’s Big Box O CDs today featured music from Arizona-based The Refreshments. True nerds will appreciate the Star Trek references in the song Banditos. Smart people will enjoy the notion that the “world is full of stupid people.” And everyone can appreciate the catchiness of this song. They made only two albums( in two years) and this song is from the album Fizzy, Fuzzy Big and Buzzy. Even though this was there most popular song on radio, you’ve probably heard them on TV. They do the theme song for King of the Hill.

Carl “A.C.” Newman has been called the brainchild of Canadian “supergroup” The New Pornographers. A.C. Newman put out a solo record called The Slow Wonder, and it’s full of catchy songs. The song we played, On The Table, which also appeared on an O.C. music compilation.