{"id":6598,"date":"2013-03-20T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=6598"},"modified":"2013-03-19T11:05:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T18:05:42","slug":"local-live-and-loud-march-20-april-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2013\/03\/20\/local-live-and-loud-march-20-april-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Local, Live, and Loud<\/em>: March 20 – April 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday, March 22
\nThe Odds, The Archers
\n<\/i>Upstairs Cabaret, $20, 10 pm<\/p>\n

I think my favourite skit from Kids in the Hall<\/i> was the one where Satan trades an endless supply of weed for a jean jacket. The guy ends up with dread-like dope growing from his head. Damn, those guys were some kinda funny. It wasn\u2019t always funny \u201cha ha\u201d but it was definitely funny \u201cweird\u201d almost all the time. And Canadian. Right up there with SCTV<\/i>, in my books. It\u2019s no surprise that my dad never wanted me to watch either of them and yet I still stayed up late with the sound turned way down, stifling laughter in the hopes that he wouldn\u2019t come in to check on me.<\/p>\n

Friday, March 22
\nWhite Poppy, Morning Coup, Highway
\n<\/i>Copper Owl (above Paul\u2019s Motor Inn), $8, 9 pm<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know much about the history of coffee. Like, who were the first people to figure out that you could get a little rush from crushing a bean and soaking it in water? There are a lot of things I wonder about along the same lines. Mostly to do with food and how it became known that it could be eaten in a certain way, or even at all. When did people start to combine certain herbs and spices to create new flavours? And who tested these new combinations? Was an iron stomach a necessity back in the early days of cooking?<\/p>\n

Saturday, March 23
\nAnciients, Black Wizard, The Shrine, Dirty Fences
\n<\/i>Logan\u2019s, $10, 9 pm<\/p>\n

I decided to do a stop-motion music video for one of my last projects in my video class. I\u2019ve never attempted stop-motion before but I thought, \u201cHow hard could it be?\u201d Take a few photos, lay them all together to the music, and, voila, finished product. Well, a few photos is going to end up being more like about 1,200 or so. And that\u2019s the choppy version. If I want to do this right I might need to triple that. Well, it should be a blast. A painful, time consuming, aggravatingly frustrating blast. Whose idea was this again?<\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 26
\nZerbin
\n<\/i>Lucky Bar, $14, 8 pm<\/p>\n

Have you seen Jeff Gordon prank a used-car salesman for Pepsi? No? Do you have any idea what I\u2019m talking about? Google that stuff. I tell ya, that guy can drive. I remember trying to take a Honda Civic for a test drive when I was in high school. It was a stick shift and had been left in gear before I hopped in. Started it up, popped the clutch, and promptly scratched the bumper on the four-wheeler parked in front of it. Needless to say, I took that little gem on an hour-long test drive. I figured since I was going to have to buy a new bumper I might as well have a good time. Come to think of it, I think my dad worked that one out. Thanks, dad.<\/p>\n

Friday, March 29
\nThe Stanfields
\n<\/i>Club 90NE9, $16.50, 7 pm<\/p>\n

Boxers or briefs? My son doesn\u2019t seem to care much at the moment. He\u2019s just getting used to the idea of wearing underwear in the first place. Some days he prefers to go commando and I don\u2019t bother arguing because, really, I\u2019m just happy he\u2019s learned to poop and pee in a toilet. There\u2019s the odd accident here and there, usually when he\u2019s really tired and into whatever he\u2019s doing, but other than slapping a diaper on for sleeping in, he\u2019s got it figured out. He loves to pee outside. Once he gets a bit older there may be trouble; for now we just water the plants.<\/p>\n

Friday, March 29
\nMatt Costa, Carly Ritter
\n<\/i>Sugar Nightclub, $20, 9 pm<\/p>\n

I keep trying to cut down on my sugar intake. Over the years I\u2019ve quit various things: smoking, alcohol, pot, sex. Some of these by choice, some because others made the decision for me. But sugar is proving that it\u2019s ready for a fight. I like sugar in my coffee. I\u2019ve tried putting less in my cup, which is fine, but I can\u2019t go without. I like dessert. Give me some pie or a brownie once in a while and I\u2019m in heaven. I used to love drinking soda or pop or whatever you want to call a carbonated beverage these days, but those are reserved for a treat at the movies. So what if I sneak a candy bar here and there? Everything in moderation, right? Tell that to the waist size on my pants.<\/p>\n

Saturday, March 30
\nIsobel Trigger, Man Made Lake, Dust & Bones
\n<\/i>Lucky bar, $10, 8 pm<\/p>\n

Remember the day that both Use Your Illusion<\/i> albums came out? Unless you\u2019re old and your own bones are covered in dust, you probably don\u2019t. But I do. Got them on my lunch break, on cassette. Well, my mom did, then I went home and listened to them. Life was never the same after that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday, March 22 The Odds, The Archers Upstairs Cabaret, $20, 10 pm I think my favourite skit from Kids in the Hall was the one where Satan trades an endless supply of weed for a jean jacket. The guy ends up with dread-like dope growing from his head. Damn, those guys were some kinda funny. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-march-6-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6599,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598\/revisions\/6599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}