This weekend, my friend Daryl--with tongue placed firmly in cheek--crowned me "King of the Blogosphere" which made me chuckle and blush a bit with pride. This week, QBiM will celebrate it's second anniversary, and no one is more surprised than me that it's still a going concern (at least in my life). So much so, that this week, QBiM has the distinction of being Blog of the Week (or maybe I'm Blogger of the Week) over at internet radio station, BreakThru Radio. That means my posts this week appear here and on the BreakThru Radio site--so welcome to any readers over at BreakThru, and I certainly hope you'll click your way over to QBiM's home site, too (it's really pretty, and the designer would love for you to see it).
So, what to post for my first guest-spot? Darned if I know. Every once in a while I get these brain freezes, where I basically start out writing a post, but have no idea what I really want to say. What usually ends up happening is I ramble on all stream of consciousness until something inspires me, or a cool tune pops up on the iTunes random shuffle, and I think, "Hey, that's what I'll write about." Kind of like right now.
If you're new to QBiM (as some BreakThru readers might be), then you may also be new to The Society Islands, a one-piece band from Cologne, Germany, fronted by my good (internet) pal Boris Rogowski. The Society Islands were one of the first bands I really went to bat for on QBiM, and I hope that in the last two years, I've introduced some people to his smart, witty, orchestrated pop masterpieces.
Someone else out there must like them, too, because a few months back, poor Boris had his studio broken into. The bastards walked out the door with the hard drive containing all of the finished mixes of tracks he's been working on for the last few years. But Boris isn't the kind of guy to let the bastards get him down. When he realized that he had pretty much lost the album , and that his pleas and offer of a reward weren't turning up the hard drive, he decided that the rough mixes, b-sides and pre-master copies he still had should get out there as an internet-only free download. He hasn't finalized any plans on the download album, and he may well be in the studio as we speak working on new material, so for now, I'd like to share some of what made me sit up and take notice of The Society Islands almost two years ago this month; I hope you'll take notice, too:
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- Q: If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be? A: A shoe tree. Q: What's your favourite dessert? A: Cherry cheesecake. Q: Siblings? A: One. Q: Are you the oldest? A: Yes. Where are you going with this line of questioning? Q: Nowhere. Are you always this apprehensive when being questioned? A: Just when I'm being questioned by a disembodied interviewer. Q: Is there any truth to the rumours that you will become the next Prime Minister of Canada? A: All rumours have their origins in the truth. Truth then becomes a matter of perception, which becomes bastardized through cultural bias, urban myth making, and the need to impress others with bits of information that they do not currently possess. Throughout this process, one can clearly see that the lack of faith and commitment to organized religion plays a huge role in influencing the confluence of truth, perception and reality to form new truths, or as often referred to in lay-person terminology, rumours. Q: Is that a "yes" or "no"? A: What do you think? Q: I'm the one supposed to be asking the questions here.
