The Wedding with some thoughts on Nickelback

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I'm going to check in really quick. For those of you who haven't given up yet, who keep clicking on this shit every day hoping for some brand new mind-blowing insight (all negative three of you), I just wanted to let you know that for my part I will be back in the middle of July. I'm getting married in two weeks (!), and am contemplating a move so things are extremely up in the air.

However I will be back with a vengeance when that is over, whether on this blog or in another form. I'm working on what tack to take and it depends, to some extent, on what the headspace of the other contributors are.

Until then I just wanted to say that when i was driving back from Toronto my MP3 player ran out of batteries. I found Ryan Seacrest's top 40 on the radio and decided to educate myself on what the "top" songs in the country were. I think I caught like 32-24 or something. Somewhere in that range was a new Nickelback song that I had (thankfully) avoided. It was called "If Today was Your Last Day". It is essentially just a series of cliches strung together in a typically boring Nickelback motif. However it struck a chord with me because Glass Animal and I were once in a band called "Ben Flash and His Boyish Good Looks". We wrote a song called "Everyman's Opus" which attempted to do the same thing, except as a joke.

It got me thinking if our central failure as a band was not to have pretended to be more serious. I mean there is no way Nickelback wrote those lyrics with a straight face, yet it is pulled off with such awful oomph, that I guess it struck a chord with a couple of 14 year olds. The thing is that was our target demographic... I just don't know where we went wrong.

Anyway, I'm seriously considering suing them for the co-opting of our idea. It may be the my in roads in to blogging full time.

I'm working on including a copy of Everyman's Opus, when I do I will post it here. It looks like I may have to use pod-casting software, which is OK because I want to do that anyway.

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