I just noticed that my copy of the Bible rests on my bookshelf between the Cometbus omnibus Despite Everything and P.J. O’Roarke’s Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence and a Bad Haircut. Make of that what you will.

As a public service announcement, I feel the pressing need to let everyone know that Japan’s amazing, post-DEVO, pop-splosion hyper-band Polysics are making their way to Vancouver at the Plaza (881 Granville) on January 26th. This is the best live music news I’ve heard in the past year. Fucking amazing. Here’s the video that initially introduced me to them and blew my mind:

And in case you ever thought, “Yeah, Polysics are cool, but they really should have covered Styx and had a robot rampage across Japan fighting children,” well, they did that too.

(Tickets at Zulu, Scratch, Noise, Red Cat, Highlife and at the door.)

So here’s how my New Year’s went down. There was:

1) Monty Python’s Meaning of Life
2) The Rifftrax version of X-Men (fuckin’ hilarious, BTW)
3) A Metalocalypse marathon
4) Cranberry cider (for that very festive hangover)
4) Bowmore Scotch
5) Foreigner’s “Jukebox Hero” at the stroke of midnight

And a very g33ky New Year’s to you. How was yours?