Time Out Of The Season

Don't stop the car, she said.
 
C'mon sis, your older bro just needs a bargain on a backpack.

Briefcases and valises are unbecoming of a man who needs both his hands.
 
I've got skateshop cheese, but I also need expensive cheese cheese.
 
And get so fucked up that all I can eat is melted cheese cheese.
 
Quoth the big Sis: "I have too many Ex-Boyfriends who work at Mountain Equipment Co-Op"  
 
We were in Victory City, BC

She makes a mean granola.
 
How do you make a Granola mean?
 
Club a seal.
 
They don't play enough Seal in the club:
 

 
Back to our regularly scheduled granolagram...

Hippie steez is alive and tweeting in the west.

(yeah, sing into the microphone...this is so much easier than guitar....)

 
"Home" by Ed Sharp and his band of of zeros, without that twee rambling love story/arborism bail
 
On public transit, cans on, you cast Zooey Dechanel, or lil Juno in the lead.
 
The people on bikes ripped past your tram.
 
They don't give a shit beyond the street.
 
Queen street in particular
 
Queens everywhere.
 
Pints of glitter in bars named like garages.
 
Padise Lost fell off in the last season.
 
Kids that didn't want to put in the work to get Modest Mouse were quick to hop over and pogo for Justice.
 
The Winter of our Nu-disco tent.


 
Winter Wheat, held close.

"What Wu Tang manual doesn't come in video game form?"

Let me get that Gucci Maine and Wacka Flocka Flame.
 
Seem safe and legit...
 
Sounds tight.
 
Like my pants.
 
Ouch!
 
Don't get your underoos in a knot, Macauley.
 
But those dudes picked names that rhyme with everything, depending how you mispronounce it.

Game, lame, blame, shame, plain...plane...

It's winter time and we're staying sylvan. We gotta get out of this place, if it's the last thing we ever do.

Girl, there's a better life for me and -

Coo-roo-coo-coo-coo-coo-roo-coo-kook



We stay animals.

Find a forest if you can.

Starts with trees.

Taste the reign.

"Our thesis is mimesis/being like the trees is"

"Seeing the seams in the seeming jesus"

Beards, robes, passing on the kool-aid

Pull me another Kool out the pack.

I never did get that backpack.

Ass Toot Observation

When you trifle in the comments section of youtubes, you can find absolute winners buried in and cloaked as a wild and real glut of gobbledygook. This blog post is about an interesting video about the hidden magic codes in the Manitoba "Ledge" Legislature building, and as an hor d'ouvre...some comments from previous viewers.

ISSUESTHATMATTERMOST: I've gotten stoned there too on 4/20 but I find the leg. bldg both intriguing and creepy as it is on a vein of 'evil' for lack of a better word or time.

Smartfan2: This is not glory to God. It is blasphemy in its highest form. Satanic!

DalesChannel: WHAT THE FWAWK THIS IS AMAZANG

I think Daleschannel speaks for all of us.

Then there's this cool dispute about whether or not the buidling is in the geographic center of the continent...oh man...you shoulda seen it, the this one guy, nicknamed like 88773354 is all: "The geographical center of North America is in a town called Rugby, Noorth Dakota, except he spells it right...anyway...there's apparently this sweet monument about being in the center there. Google road trip? Wikication? Ok.

The comments that I liked most were usually short.

Bye



Since the title of this post includes the word "Observation." Let us observe...THE SABBATH!

Good God

A friend of mine wrote 'LOL' to me the other day. I
thought she meant 'Lord, oh Lord"
- Jennifer Connelly

Reeeeespect to my girl Lex (who reminds me of Jennifer Connelly), and my cousin Bubble (who is one of my favourite humans on Earth) and their blog about being cute young ladies and bestest of friends: Smokey Ville

Here are some bouncy gems dedicated ot them, for Friday jams, because it's plus ten on my island and that feels like spring.

JACKIE WILSON - Because Of You

VAN MORRISON - Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile)

Bad Vibes

Yeah, I know. Winter sucks.



Summer will be worse.



Believe.

Get The Sadness

Dj Eleven made a piece for all of us who spend wintertime, squinting at swans through rising fog, hating transit purgatory, soaking up sunsets or kicking logs on crackling fires (or tripping out to Hendrix posters in dorm/hospital/bedrooms). It's one of those mixes that doesn't work too hard for your attention, yet you wind up saying "ohhhh yeah..." and "woooo" while listening.

It's brought to us by Krudmart.

Dj Eleven Winter Sadness 2

Bill Withers - Hope She’ll Be Happier
The Ordells - Sippin’ a Cup of Coffee
William Bell - Everybody Loves A Winner
Sam Cooke - Trouble Blues
Sleepy Brown - Curse On You
Demarco - Fallen Soldier (DJ Eleven remix)
Ann Peebles - Trouble Heartaches & Sadness
Ying Yang Twins - Wind
The Notorious BIG - Suicidal Thoughts
Tom Jones - Motherless Child
The Clash - Straight To Hell
Lost Boyz - Renee
Marvin Gaye - I Wish It Would Rain
Mayer Hawthorne - Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out
J-Boogie’s Dubtronic Science feat. Zumbi - For Your Love
Bobby Womack - Nobody Wants You When You’re Down And Out (Nobody’s Safe Chump)
Bill Withers - Better Off Dead
The Smiths - Death Of A Disco Dancer
Kanye West - Coldest Winter
Al Green - Strong As Death (Sweet As Love)
Isley Brothers - Ain’t I Been Good to You Pt. 2
UGK - One Day



Because I have to...I...Can't...Stop...Myself...

Like Your Car Or Cow, If You Have One (don't)

I'm home safe at the lodge after a victorious Eastern expedition (report to come).

Currently being snowed in.

Fireplaces to stoke, wings baking...

We'll talk.

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.