This letter is to officially and honestly announce the Republic of Thoronia Artifacts Exhibit, which will be taking place on September 5th at the Skinny Squirrel Gallery (3047 Larimer St., Denver, Colorado). The exhibit will feature a variety of pieces from collector’s from around the world, with pieces raging in size and scope from booklets to armor, dolls to paintings. Officially licensed exhibitor’s include: Bryan Danknich, Mojiferous J. Colossus, Brandon Knapp and Brent Neustifter, with unofficial applicant’s still waiting approval. The Exhibit will help to found the History of Thoronia in the minds and souls of Denverite’s as well as continue the always running teachings of the Good King Thor. Please feel free to submit your applications for your admissions to this website, and be sure to bring your friends.
As promised, here is a compilation of the live blogging to KBCO (Denver, CO, 97.3) during a day of work. I’ve corrected and expanded several sections. Enjoy.
Alright, here we go! Right now they are talking about cell phone radiation and the Denver Broncos, no music…But apparently its been “officially” decided that cell phones are no longer (or weren’t ever?) a threat for cancer.
Ugh, nothing says “Good Morning, you pussy,” like James Taylor. “The worlds most pleasant/boring band.”
I don’t know what this shit is. Studio C crap that sounds like Matchbox 20. Danial Nathanson? This is pathetic, he’s talking about his journal. Why would you talk about a journal in front of anyone except a cat.
Coworker currently singing along to Sublime. Or a Sublime cover, either way, I’m secretly giggling…
Every day at this time = Cat Stevens. I like cats, they are cuddly and adorable…
This new Modest Mouse sounds like old Modest Mouse/The Shins. Not like the last one that sounded like Tom Waits.
Supertramp cover band with bluegrass instrument? C’mon really? This is terrible! I don’t consider it work friendly at all.
Then next up we get the same fucking B.B. King song they play every goddamn day.
This Duffy song they play daily. I thought it was Amy Winehouse for the longest time. Not very good — but it’s got that sort of Apple commercial hook that might get you humming along unwantingly.
I just missed a Tom Petty song. Starting “10 at 10″ with Jesus Jones, “Right Here Right Now.” Are you joking? People actually want to hear this? This song sucked when it came out.
Fucking “Hotel California.” Like we all haven’t heard this a bazillion fucking times.
Ohhh INXS to Jack Johnson! Brilliant! Lump the two worst songs in KBCO’s library together and you pwn the office folks like a midnight fragfast with Grandma.
Wow Jeff Beck is on now — one of those songs that meshes so perfectly as background noise because you’ve heard it a thousand times.
Oh, “Street Fighting Man.” That’s not fucking predictable. Way to go KBCO! Heaven forbid you pick a great Rolling Stones song and not just a fucking mediocre one (I realize that they broadcast 24/7 and have to pick mediocre songs sometimes, but why pick a mediocre song we’ve all heard repeatedly?)
Marvin Gaye “Heard it Through the Grapevine.” Couldn’t pick a better Marvin Gaye song after “Street Fighting?” Really? Maybe a revolution song? No?
The Beatles, “I will.” 1968! You gave us some really great and overplayed songs!
Oh the new Death Cab for Cutie song is on early today. 10:45!
I’d rather eat cat vomit than listen to “Desert Rose” ever again. Fucking Sting.
Green Day, “Time of My Life.” They played this song at my High School graduation (now you figure out the year!). I even learned to play it on the guitar (I don’t play guitar, BTW) Now this song sound’s sappy as ever.
Now I sneak over to NPR for Fresh Air while my coworker is at lunch. Hahahahhaha!
Subjected to Amy Winehouse before switching channels. I like the Ghostface Killah version better.
Back. This itsmycarnow.com commerial is one of the worst commercials in history. It’s supposed to be like a rap or something. I’d be so freaking embarrased if I made this.
Oh joy the new Coldplay. It sounds like a high school band covering Pink Floyd without ever hearing actually hearing Pink Floyd.
I feel like I should have something witty and hilarious to say about Alanis Morrisette, but I can’t think of anything. Isn’t that ironic? Don’t you think?
Another cheesy Green Day song. Hooray.
Wow. Now another Tom Petty song. What? Did you decide that terrible Moby single from 8 years ago wasn’t cool anymore?
I really dislike the Los Lonely Boys.
Ah, and the day ends with Us3?!?!? Why are they playing this? And the stereotypical 3:30 pick of Vampire Weekend. I hate this song so much. I knew from day one that this band was going to grow on me like a cancerous bulp.
Every city has this radio station — you know, the station that is acceptable to be played at work, the station that generally identifies itself as: “world-class,” “all-rock,” “rock.” These stations, no matter where you are located, are always, in every way, terrible. With a capitol T. Terrrible. See that, capitolized now. They play the same songs, repeatedly, every day, day in, day out, over and over. Vampire Weekend cradles up with Death Cab for Cutie for a funeral service with Peter Frampton and CCR jamming in the background.
Denver’s radio station is KBCO. It’s the one you’ll hear in offices, in Saab’s, in grocery stores. I hear it every day at work. Every day I hear the same 150-200 songs, over and over, sometimes at the same time every day — like they want me to equate Death Cab’s newest single with 3:30 or “1234″ with lunchtime. In an effort to rid myself of some demon’s, I’m going to attempt to live blog an entire day’s worth of work while listenening to this shit station. Why? I dunno. I hope it’ll make me feel better. Now than, that being said, I’ll be at work, so don’t expect constant updates, but they’ll be streaming via Twitter for the majority of the day, followed by a roundup up of everything (with bonus spelling corrections!) here.
With the Democratic National Convention about to hit Denver like a March snowstorm, I’ve been thinking about what’s going to happen. Lots of things, I’m sure, but rest assured the city is probably going to stink. Lots of anarchist’s will be scraping their Converse across the blacktop and holding their one braid Star Wars hair up high in a sign of revolution — or maybe they’ll just cop some style from some old jams.
I unfortunatly can’t locate any pictures of anarchists with the Jedi Braid, probably because anarchists are scared of camera (they take your soul, you know). I’ll keep looking though, if you happen to spot one (usually clad in all black clothing, very tightly wrapped in a way that you are unsure if they are wearing it like pants or if its simply wrapped tightly like a bandage) get a picture. But don’t let them see you do it!
Well, its been very busy here in Thoronia, busy enough that we haven’t really had a chance to update much recently. But, I assure you all, that this will not last forever, and it is indeed a good thing. What’s been happening here? Well, many things. We’ll leave it all to your mind to figure what might be making the waves of crunch then okay? Anyway. Many thoughts cross brain through week. Many. Now share!
iPhone Firmware update finally goes live – as does App Store. The store already has over 700 programs — but seems to be missing some that I was hoping for at launch, including: Wordpress blog editor (mobile blogging and, more importantly, notes to ourselves), Netflix (so when you recommend a movie to me I actually remember it), native rateyourmusic.com app (I haven’t really delved into this service, but I probably would be more inclined to if I could just sit in front of my LPs with my phone in my lap and rate them).
There are some things I was really impressed with, including the Ebay App, Crosswords, Pocketpedia (which syncs with a suite of programs on your computer, but also works as a library of stuff that A) you can carry with you B) you can include wishlists so as not to get lost in the book/DVD/Music store), NetNewsWire finally brings RSS to the iPhone, it syncs with NewsGator (even though I prefer to simple yet intuitive Mail.app for my RSS, I guess I’ll just switch on over). There are probably more things that I’d hoped for that never showed, but I don’t remember them now…
MEDUSA Ray Announced – A new crowd control ray-gun has just entered production by the Sierra Nevada Corporation. The gun uses microwave audio effects to implant sounds and messages inside a person’s head. Why does this sound both exciting and awesome? Because, perhaps the next Republic of Thoronia album will not released on CD, MP3 or LP, but on MEDUSA, and it will be beamed directly into your fucking mind. Brilliant.
Denver is gonna fuck you up — Denver has been real secretive about its plans for the DNC, but on top of importing an undisclosed amount of police officers, the city (which we here in Thoronia call home) has also ordered: goo guns, sonic ray guns, microwave guns, rainbow guns, happy bullets. There is also a possibility of rock and roll happening at Bar Bar in honor of the Convention’s Friday night… this rock will include the RoT first performance in a couple months, and is at this point, still only a theory.
Robo-fans — What do you do when you can’t get any fans? You invent some! Weird yet interesting things are happening with the Robot Fan Culture. I can’t even begin to decide what I think about it.
I’m going to be in the market for a laptop – So if anyone has an Intel based Macbook (or, actually, any Macbook/Powerbook as long as it’ll run OS X 10.5) they want to scrap, or sell cheap, let me know.
