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Just heard that Chris has become the dad of twins.
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So, I hate to make three consecutive posts, but it's been a while XD
Cut for possible (but unlikely) Torpid spoilerage
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Hi everyone! Anyone go to the Ancaster concert tonight? I did a write-up of it in my LJ
http://semenkhare.livejournal.com/19241.html#cutid1
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Heya, new here.
Was anyone at their performance at Burlington Sound of Music festival on June 15th? I was, and I got to meet Trevor! Very exciting :D I wrote about it here:
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Is anybody here coming to one of their recording concerts at the Brew Pub February 14-16? I'll be there on Friday and I'm really looking forward to seeing them in such an intimate setting! (And with new songs, I assume.) |
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Crocodile severs Taiwan vet's arm (BBC, warning on picture)
"Surgeons in Taiwan have reattached a vet's arm, after it was bitten off by a crocodile as he tried to give it an anaesthetic injection.
After six hours of surgery, Chang Po-yu is said to be doing well and in a stable condition in hospital.
His attacker is one of a pair of Nile crocodiles kept at Shoushan zoo, in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung."
Apr. 13th, 2007 @ 06:12 pm
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So, I went to see the Worms at the Sid Williams Theatre in Courtenay last night and, as always, they put on an awesome show. I was surprised about how many of their old songs they played, as I hadn't seen those performed live.
The set list was...
We are the Bever
Mime abduction
pressure washer
history is made by stupid people
rippy the gator
security guard
I pulled my groin
go to sleep, little leech
Wolfe island ferry
Carrot juice is murder
Lonely lab of broken hearts
the coffee song
the guy with computer know-how
I am cow
having fun is bad for you
let there be guns
Celine Dion
The last Saskatchewan pirate
Jesus brother Bob
Mike and Chris did an awesome little impression of Statler & Waldorf (the two old men from The Muppet Show who occupy the box seat at every show ) which made my nearly pee myself laughing. It was amazing.
All in all it was yet another wonderful show put on my the Worms. I can't wait to see them again sometime in the future.
Mar. 12th, 2007 @ 11:25 am
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the worms were booked to play in peterborough at the festival of lights on wednesday, but it was cancelled due to rain/weather issues.
and this after i drove three hours to see 'em!
any one else disappointed?
Jul. 13th, 2006 @ 11:34 pm
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Jul. 1st, 2006 @ 02:56 pm
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Hey ya'll! I became an Arrogant Worms fan when my senior year at band camp one of our instructors sang "I Am Cow". I even made a facebook group on them. I was looking at the groups one of my new Lj friends was in and I came across this one; and knew I had to join!
So I'm just here to say hi!!!! :).
May. 24th, 2006 @ 09:54 pm
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Not that that's necessarily bad--you even got a mention in the blog.
Sadly, I hadn't seen the Worms in a couple years so it was sheer delight to reacquaint myself with their live show. I hadn't even witnessed the Toast songs yet! I dragged along a friend who didn't know a single Worms song beforehand and he laughed his head off. And though they covered most of the material on Beige (which I like but don't love) there was still plenty of room for other stuff.
One final comment on "Mime Abduction" (a truly bizarre song if there ever was one): man, Trevor's got a nice falsetto. It sounds even better live. He should be a countertenor!
May. 7th, 2006 @ 05:37 pm
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So, if anyone hasn't read the Blog yet, the Worms now have a myspace.
www.myspace.com/aworms
Add 'em to your list if you've got one.
May. 5th, 2006 @ 08:43 am
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Okay, okay.
Wanna hear my honest opinion? I wasn't entirely impressed with Beige. Why?
I like albums that are consistent in their tracklist. With comedy albums this is a difficult task, because you have to be both consistent in the quality of your music *and* consistently funny. That doesn't seem the case with this one. While there are certainly enjoyable moments ("Go To Sleep Little Leech" and "Mime Abduction") and some tracks that will go down as crowd-pleasers in their live concerts ("Twins" and the other ones that have an interesting live routine worked out), it seems to have been loaded with some inevitable filler ("Hernia Belt" and "Dumb Guys" don't strike my attention very much), jokes that only work if you're seeing them live, and of course large amounts of potty humour ("Brian's Balls" and "I.B.S." are disturbing enough, but what really annoys me is their increasingly insistent use words like "piss" and other references to bodily functions in all of their songs; I don't find that kind of humour funny)
Perhaps the reason the album doesn't work for me is that the Worms are born performers and maybe the studio albums are just side projects that let the audience be more familiar with (or fanatical about) their songs.
Which brings me to the production value. The Worms can do a live show and be ten times funnier with just a simple acoustic guitar and their voices than with a whole load of fiddles, violins, pianos, layers of guitar, mandolins, accordions, drums, whatever else they hire studio musicians to make. Even more disturbing is the fact that the Worms don't get credit for doing their own instruments on record; acoustic guitar tracks and bass lines appear to have been done by studio musicians. It's sad because Mike is a really good acoustic guitar player as far as I can tell, and Chris's bass skills aren't too bad either.
Please excuse this intrusion, but we all have our opinions, alright?
Does anyone else feel that The Worms have never quite made a "perfect" album in a critical sense? Or am I just starting to outgrow this kind of humour?
Apr. 22nd, 2006 @ 09:54 am
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Last night was great! The Worms were hilarious as always, and I also liked the guys who were on before them (can't remember their names, though). I've seen the Worms many times since 1999, and they use some of the same jokes every time, like Chris kicking Trevor in the face during "Log in to You" or his high-pitched screeching at the end of "Celine Dion", but they always crack me up!
They sang some songs from Beige, which was great, because I'd never seen them perform those songs before. My favourite has to be either "Mime Abduction" or "Go to Sleep, Little Leech"! I was really happy when they did "Rippy the Gator"! I hadn't seen them do that one for so long... My friends and I were sitting there "chomping" each other.
Does anyone remember a girl yelling about her boyfriend being scarred for life? That was funny, but I don't remember what song they had been singing right before that.
Apr. 16th, 2006 @ 04:47 pm
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I won't be there... but spread the word! It's their first UK tour.
Apr. 11th, 2006 @ 12:52 pm
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Last night I went to the Arrogant Worms concert at the Gateway Theatre in Richmond, BC with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) moosefluff and pipsncooks. It was weird seeing them there instead of at Capilano College in North Vancouver, where they've played annual for the past four years, but still, Gateway was a nice venue. Unfortunately, the operations staff there didn't really know what they had there last night. At Cap College, they have the Arrogant Worms as part of a folk concert series; in Richmond, the ushers were old ladies who didn't enjoy the Worms' music and the sound and light technicians didn't know what they were doing. Sound levels were mostly too high and lights were spastic. But the Worms still did great.
Despite some complications causing us to arrive at the theatre later than i had hoped, we still managed to snag two front row (albeit far right) seats, with a single seat just behind them. Which suits me just fine, since I like seeing Mike. And he didn't let me down with "I Pulled My Groin".
And on that note, the set list:
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Incidentally, I was amused to witness a brown-haired girl ask one of the attendants, who was cleaning up on stage after the show, for one of the Worms' set lists they had left on stage. I think last year I procured one as well, but this year I just wrote them down as they came up.
The Polyjesters opened the show, and were quite good. I was amused by the song about Jackson, who, in the last verse, was asked in his retirement home to play bridge by a woman, and subsequently had a heart attack and died. They also had a good fiddler. I can't remember what the fourth song was about, and the fifth song was about a kid believing he was the fastest thing ever in his shiny red wagon.
On to the Worms. I had hoped to position myself in a "water-friendly" area for the concert, but, arriving so close to 8pm, I was unable to. However, I felt better about it when, in the first part of the concert, they pointed out an older man wearing one of the earliest Canucks' jerseys (essentially a multi-layered orange V). From that point, having made fun of him, I knew I would not be water. Oh well; he deserved the privilege. It was from him that they revealed to us this gem of wisdom: "Colour blindness hurts everyone."
Oh, and there were two plastic penguins that were brought. I remember reading about penguins appearing in a previous show, but I can't remember when. I remember Kamloops had beavers, but the penguins were pretty cool. Chris sang to one of them in "Log in to You", and they were of course used as the final animal cry in "Mounted Animal Nature Trail".
One-third of their songs were from their new album, "Beige", which was pretty cool. There were some kids in the audience (allegedly as part of birthday festivities); I hope they weren't scarred by Chris' "Celine Dion", or "I Pulled My Groin". The Worms made some comment about being scarred, and always liable to picture little children clapping along to "I Pulled My Groin".
"Carrot Juice is Murder" was introduced as a song for the kids, where they told us "Authority rules...literally". Also, I gave them a page from my Sudoku book (having read their blog) at intermission, and Chris thanked me anonymously from the stage for it, likening (I think) figure skating figure 8s to "live Sudoku". Jokes were made about "Mt. Richmond" and the like, since Richmond is flat and below sea level, and Surrey, which is usually regarded as the least liked suburb. "The Mountie Song" was good, but you could tell they were really tired at that point; their banter wasn't quite up to par.
And now, since it's taken me so long, that's all I can really recollect. A great show in a good theatre, though there was a bit of tiredness and lack of competent techies. I picked up Christmas Turkey, since I don't have it (gave it to my brother for Christmas years ago), so now the only album I'm missing is Gift Wrapped.
Mar. 16th, 2006 @ 06:24 am
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All right. I've been really busy the last few days and I haven't been able to actually sit and write about the concert (sad, isn't it?). Now it's getting close to the time where I need to write it down or I will forget most of it.
As I said before, Ben Sures was good. I bought his CD "Goodbye Pretty Girl" and it's really good. I like the songs that are on it. I also bought the third song he was talking about off of iTunes. The only really bad thing about that, and I will have to see if there's a "Guy With Computer Know-How" that can help me, is that I can't put it on my non-iPod MP3 Player. But I digress.
Ben sang "Maybe", "Any Precious Girl", and "In A Perfect World" if anyone wants to check him out. Also, he has a free MP3 download located on his site that you can listen to. I haven't heard it yet, but I expect it's good.
Now to the Worms. Trevor was dressed up all spiffy for some reason. Maybe because it was Oscar night, I don't know. They weren't following the blue, red, green thing that they usually do at their shows. Mike was in green, but the other two weren't. Not that I cared, I just noticed. They were in fine form all night, setting each other up and cracking them (and us) up.
I don't remember the order of the setlist, but here's the songs I know they played:
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We (my sister, my friend Lindsay, her boyfriend Randy, and myself) didn't have very good seats because my mom wanted to buy my tickets for me for Christmas but didn't know if I wanted to go to the Nanaimo or Courtenay venue. Thinking back, I would've rather gone to the Nanaimo venue. But I mostly picked Courtenay because my sister wanted to come and she doesn't have any friends that like the Worms.
The show was great. They related most of their jokes to the Oscars, seeing as how it was Oscar night. Their "One Horse Town" joke was awesome. Mike posted about it in the Worm Blog. Ha. I laughed for about 10 minutes with that one. There was another highlight, and the only reason I'm going to write about it in here is because they play "The Mounted Animal Nature Song" at virtually every show. So anyway, they had to yell at us for making animal noises, right? There were a bunch of little kids that kept trying to shush everyone because that's what the Worms told us to do. Anyway, they resorted to the armadillo, of course. Someone in the audience said that the armadillo said "Armadillo", so they had to go off about that. "An Armadillo says 'armadillo'. It's a defense mechanism so when you're in the desert, you hear 'armadillo, armadillo, armadillo' and you know an armadillo is coming!" And then the crow said "armadillo." (I know Chris does that in most every show where there's an armadillo, but it says something different every time). That was funny.
I don't want to write much about anything else as I don't want to spoil the setlist for someone who doesn't want to know.
I didn't like the set up of the theatre, as I think I already mentioned in my last post. They were really strict about everything. No cameras, no cell phones on, and the signing was very rigid. They actually had those ropes that block off sections and they only let about 5 people in the "autograph" line from the main line up at a time. It was not fun at all. And, at least I didn't, I don't know about other people near the end of the line, have a chance to even really talk to them about anything because the staff was pushy.
I stupidly forgot my Beige liner, so I just got Trevor to sign the book instead. I guess it will have to wait for a bit until they come back to the area and play again.
But it was a really good show anyway. I need to see if I can get them to come back to CR because they like to make fun of the "fleshy pink" theatre (and they aren't kidding!)
If I think of anything else, I'll edit this and add it. :)
Mar. 9th, 2006 @ 10:30 am
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The Worms' blog doesn't work! I went on the official site and clicked on the link, but it's telling me that page is forbidden! Where's the guy with computer know-how when you need him?
Mar. 6th, 2006 @ 12:06 pm
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