Iain W: Reeve, A&E Editor and
Secretly Sad All the Time

This week’s website:

I Found it on the Interweb:
Post Secret

Like Degrassi Junior High, we have some
good laughs around here in the ol’ inter-
web column. Also like Degrassi Junior
High, we learn some neat things from
time to time. But most like Degrassi of all,
every once in a while it’s good to get
serious, sad, and just a little sentimental.
One of the more endearing, brutal, and
_ downright heart-wrenching sites P've ever
seen is postsecret.blogspot.com.
The concept alone is enough to make

  

you want to tear out your heart and fry _

 

in on a skillet with hash browns and
eggs. It is a blog that lets people send in,
totally anonymously, short one-line con-
fessions of their deepest secrets. The _
blog’s owner then gives them images and
_ presents them for all to see. *

 

~~ ity shor
. secrets, insecurities, and shameful admis-
sions welling up within us. We long to be

 

sion; this site lets it apple. ‘

So, check it out. Find something
about yourself in the selfless, though
anonymous, honesty of others. Perhaps
you should even admit something to let
others indulge their inner guilt. Perhaps
you already have.

Send your submissions for “I Saw In On The
Interveb” to ———e

 

 

Don't Touch This One:
Meesh: Touch

Vince Yim, OP Untouchable

 

As much as I detest ragging on Canadian music,
I’m just going to say this up-front: This CD
blows.

The oddly named band, Meesh (presumably
derived from their Elisha Cuthbert look-alike
lead singer, Michelle Morrison) is a punk-pop
quartet from Montreal. With their debut album,
Touch, they don’t do much more than retread
ground already firmly dug up by the likes of
LiveOnRelease, and the now-defunct Joydrop.
While this album isn’t completely unlistenable,
after the first few tracks you’ve essentially heard
the rest of the album, with only a few changes
in tempo or guitar chord structure.

Lyrically, they don’t quite elevate themselves
above the teenage angst that wore out its wel-
come in the grunge rock era about ten years
ago, with the odd profanity tossed in for good
measure (e.g.: “He’s a jerk and you’re a dick,”
from the lead track, “Jerk.” Or, “All the fucked
up things that make me go insane...” from
“When I’m Gone’). It’s all been done before
and by much more capable hands.

Even after a few spins, it’s all an indistin-
guishable mix without any songs that can be
picked out as a certifiable hit. Never straying far
from the standard pop-punk formula, the 11-
track CD degrades into a disc-long track. It’s
mercifully short, clocking in at just under 40
minutes. But if you are actually paying attention
to the music, it’ll be the longest 40 minutes of
your life. At least they didn’t put any hidden
tracks or copy protection schemes that'll mess
up your computer (I'll admit that I ripped the
tracks to my computer...then promptly deleted
them).

While this music may have its audience, the
audience already has a lot to choose from, all of
whom have been at the game a little bit longer
and have a lot better material. Given the chance
to grow, this band has some potential.
However, until that day comes, this album is
only potential.

 

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