“It’s a love song about getting your band booked a lot in a club,” he says, before referring to the specifics, which are about an unnamed relationship between a musician and booker, which ensured that the talent’s band would be playing the club often. Standout cut on the album is closer Three Times A Week that speaks about his experiences as a longtime booker and promoter in the city, including his past endeavour, the late and sorely missed all-ages club the New Black Centre, and currently at the Ship and Anchor. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Musically, that means JSL - which guitarists Sean Hamilton and Jordan Barrett, bassist Glen Murdock and drummer John Byskal - get in and get out real quick, with a catchy, frenetic bursts of the basics.Īnd lyrically, that means a lot more F-bombs per minute (or FBPM) than most other punk acts could muster in a lifetime, paired with a sense of humour, with tracks such as Katie Holmes Invasion, Japanese Sword Fight and Dangerous delivered by Ollinger with tongue planted firmly in cheek. It’s like, ‘Let’s start a band and write banging songs and sing about fun stuff and take from our influences.’ Over the years of being submersed in this culture we know what works and what doesn’t … to capture the true essence of what a punk rock record should be.” “It’s a straight-up punch to your face and you’re going to smile after you get hit, is the best way to sum the record up,” agrees Ollinger. Activate your Online Access Now Article contentĪnd you’d be hard-pressed to forget the eight, cheeky, two-minute balls of fury, that, along with a 30-second intro from the mouth of the band’s namesake - the fabulous physicist from classic ’70s kids show The Hilarious House of Frightenstein - make for 17 minutes of furious grincore listening. If you are a Home delivery print subscriber, unlimited online access is included in your subscription. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.Some questions will be specified as having prizes that may be selected from the Category 2 or Category 3 prizes. The winner may select a prize from the Category 1 Prizes. To Enter the Physics for the Coffee Table QuizesĬlick on “FOLLOW BLOG VIA EMAIL” (at the top right of this page) to receive more details about the third question. That’s a remarkable number and so Richard wants to provide a bit of fun after that event. On 15 January 2012 the counter for this web site eclipsed 100,000. But perhaps there might be some exceptions…… Background to the Physics for the Coffee Table Quiz Questions that people waited days for an answer in the late 1980s, can now be answered in seconds on the internet. The need for PFTCT has changed in today’s information rich world. PFTCT was never published.ĭuring sector delays, Richard occasionally poses a “PFTCT” question to passengers to distract them and pass the time – with a simple prize for the few winners. Developers’ Weekly News stopped after about about four years but the questions remain. Giving out prizes in the 1980s that cost hundreds of dollars was fun, but the cost of postage rapidly escalated for the increasing sized prizes. The competition became well known throughout the PC development industry and large software companies queued up to provide extraordinary prizes for each week’s competition. The first person who faxed the correct answer after 9:00 am on Monday morning received a prize. A PFTCT quiz question was appended to the end of every newsletter. The newsletter “Developers’ Weekly News” was faxed to hundreds of PC software developers every Friday night. Over three hundred questions were compiled and then tested on live clients of Coral’s computer business. “Physics for the Coffee Table” was Richard’s attempt to continue Miller’s passion of applying basic physics principles to explain common life events. Professor Miller then wrote a series of wonderful books called “MillerGrams”. The book was inspired by a remarkable physicist by the name of Professor Julius Sumner Miller who hosted a science show “Why is it So”. The book (or series of books) consisted of many seemingly basic questions about day to day events that had counter-intuitive answers. Richard wrote a book in the late 1980s called “Physics For the Coffee Table” (PFTCT).
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