Old Odd Fights

The staff here at Grilling It intend on keeping our promise of a bigger, better, badder (meaning gooder) flow of posts. I've had this mixtape for months and in a wintery drought neglected to share it.

The time is now, as the Stanley Cup finals pause for 24 hours and move to Steeltown USA (aka The birthplace of Clifford Heinrichs MAN OF STEEL THE ETERNAL PAPA H).

It is a conflict of youth vs defense, as the bright lights of iced sports are being thoroughly schooled at Osgood Hall (These are hockey references, read on).

It's a meditation on the game we love, by two of Winnipeg's finest. It involves an appearance on talk radio. You read that correctly, the action line. To all the new jack youngblood dj's...they will teach you haw to (publicity) stunt.

DJ CO-OP and DJ HUNNICUT - Hockey vs Rap



I gathered from the clips provided, the CJOB audience was overlooking the connection between criminal violence in service of self preservation in ghetto life, as a reaction to poverty, and the religion of violent sport in Canada, as a reaction to winter.

1. Hockey vs Rap Intro - CJOB / John Smith / Bobby Orr
2. Sexual Eruption / What Have You Done For Me Lately - Snoop Dogg / Janet Jackson
3. Brass in Africa - Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
4. Space Funk - Manzel
5. Don't You Evah (Mike 2600 Party Version) - Spoon
6. Amen Brother (DJ Co-op Edit) - The Winstons
7. Tighten Up - Mophono
8. Conmigo - Nickodemus
9. Night Windows (DJ Co-op Remix) - The Weakerthans
10. Savoir Patiner - Guy Lafleur
11. Interlude - DJ Fin-s
12. Spanky' Sunshine - Bombs
13. Dance With Me - Ben Westbeech
14. Rock and Roll Part 2 / The Whole World - Gary Glitter / Outkast
15. Personal Jesus / Boyz - Depeche Mode / MIA
16. Berimbau - DJ Sandrinho
17. Just Fine / Bad Man Place - Mary J Blige / Movado and Busy Signal
18. Hockey Night in Canada Theme

I know it was a wintry thing, but if the Movado and Busy Signal remix, "Berimbau", The Westbeech tune and the ENORMOUS Gary Glitter/Outkast blend don't make you feel summer, well...I can't do nothin for ya.

If hip-hop hasn't done anything for ya lately, or ever, or whatever...look at the next image and read on.



Resist the urge to skip, or not download the next song.

Hit Somebody (The Hockey Song) - Warren Zevon

"Zevon is famous for his ability to stay awake for as long as it takes -- often for 85 or 90 straight hours. "I wrote 'Hit Somebody in 75 hours,' " he said, "and look what happened to that one."
-Hunter S Thompson

Hunter's article linked below is as good an elegy for a friend and compadre as anyone could ever want.


Death of an American poet
By Hunter S. Thompson



I don't usually link to products, but here's a BARGAIN price for one of Hunter Thompson's best works:

Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness--Modern History from the Sports Desk (Hardcover)



I farmed this next video from Caps today. It's just one of those tubes worth watching. If it's boring, keep watching, something happens.



Jocks.



To finish.

Sam Seaborn.

Mad drama.

CC Defehr-esque moves.

Same Katz

So we all spent Christmas/Hannukah a little bit concerned about Aaron Vincent-Elkaim, out in Israel, risking his scrawny un-missed little neck to get images like these:









Here's something topical and timeless by a few of Winnipeg's best:

PROPAGANDHI - HALLIE SELASSIE UP YOUR ASS

http://www.propagandhi.com

On the Winnipeg largesse/photo tip, Dj Co-Op made this:

Dj CO-OP - I TURN MY CAMERA PHONE ON (SPOON vs DA MUSICIANZ) (zshare)

DJ CO OP - DICK IN A BOX refix (direct)

Also, he's got the raddest avatar (geeked up! geeked up!) on the web right now:



I know that I've hyped his parties before, but Co-op and his purrrtner Dj Hunnicut throw the best parties in Winnipeg. That might seem like having the hottest throw up in De Moines, but it's more like being the first dude to bottle drinking water on the moon...and teach it to dance. They'll be shredding Canada next month, get warm. Hunnicut has also been known to accompany these next guys, because comedy is a party.

Crumbs homies, under the pressures of an adoring and devoted global fanbase, finally re-designed this: CRUMBS.CA

All for now, gotta go get some work as a "North American Voice", and email friends in safety or danger. You all should do the same.

CHOW

BBQ