This winter the daytime headquarters of Grilling It, has been a dusty record store, so today, I've ripped a few songs that I enjoyed today and run them through the post-o-matic.
We're working on a return to form. The staff of Grilling It will be warming up the pavement that is the path to summer with a smattering of epic text/photo/song/text/video/photo streams of radness.
As I typed yesterday, BACK TO THE GRILL!
Not epic like the new Hulk movie (more on that gratuitous exercise in needlessness later), but epic like Indiana Jones in the Iron Man suit fighting Charlatan Heshtown for the ten commandments tablets, dipping them in a volcano of gold and handing them to Bun B (who, it turns out, is actually A GIANT).
Epic. Impossible to duplicate. One of a kind.
Every summer is epic in its own ways. Sometimes you have to dig deeper, look harder, or travel further, but that's all mumbo jumbo on a cloudy Vantasy Island day as I yell GIVE ME BACK MY SUN!
Last summer, I had the pleasure of going to a stadium called "The Library":
They YELLED and SCREAMED and CHANTED at a pro athlete: "Have you ever heard of a boy called ASHLEY!" Amidst cries of "poofter!" and a word that rhymes with front. Ashley's the bloke on the right.
Now, summerists version point oh ate!
Have you ever heard of a boy called Alice?
Everyone out there who is sweating all the futuristic noises and robojox jams...well...for you...here's something everyone can enjoy (those hiding in rave caves under their electro blankets will also enjoy):
"Sick of lame dudes, frontin with that attitude, talkin' bout they rims and all they damn tennis shoes," -Dj Quik
All right, you can go now. Here's a gorgeous song that the Alice Cooper reminded me of. In my little corner of the world, this qualifies as "Lovers Rock." LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - Great Release
See you on sunset.
BBQ
PS: For the committed:
PSS: Don't sleep on Wayne's World 2. If you do, sleep upside down.
Some readers of this blog have already ringtoned jams like this. But, for the rest of you, get out of that bright sunshine, because it's the summer of Cave.
"Me, I ain't going anywhere, just sit and watch the sun come up, I like it here I watch the people go ticking past, go hey hey hey, you know I gotta say I like it here." -Nick Cave 2008 NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS - Albert Goes West
For now, dear reader, you can caaaaaaal me Aaaaaaaal.
As a veteran record store soldier, my tastes and vocabulary have expanded. I would've once called a Friday where I sold mostly disco, electro and pop 12" singles a gay day. Now, well, although it's a whisker men on films, and it's unusual, the sale of physical records in a store is unusual and there was a landslide of interest on two crates of the genre I'm calling discoldanceightiesapopelectro. It wasn't gay, it was great.
This was one girl who got walked out the door, because I played her aloud, my bouncy springtime air raid siren in the blitzkrieg that occurred when a hungry young British Columbian dj found the (remaining) stash of 12 inch singles.
I know to play this song in the store because of Doug from The Paperbacks. Years ago, he was an elder to my junior in a record store. I once watched the dude put on the Stacy Q album, guaranteed me that somebody would buy it and then, sure enough, a customer of St Vital Center HMV walked up, inquired and purchased. Shout out to Doug. It was an honour.
His band make astoundingly good rock music, and the lyrics...well...dear reader...trust me. Rock is a concern. The Paperbacks
We've had mad high quality visitors at The Lodge, hence the lack of posts. It's hard to find the time to zap new club music and rappppps out over the netwaves while rejoicing in the exquisite company of loved ones.
This is the start of a new feature here at GI (the key to sales, always keep em guessing). You know, I once heard that potato chip comapnies pick the colour scheme and abstract package design before they decide on what flavour to simulate.
That explains "Cool Ranch Doritos."
The feature is called Vinyl Vantasy (verking title). When I'm at work in a used record store and somebody buys what I'm playing, you all get a song from it. It's almost as if you we're here at the store with me, eating saltwatter taffies and reading old Mcgovern for President pamphlets while listening to classics of music.
Here it is, the first installment of Vinyl Vantasy (verking title) from the album Hot Buttered Soul.
Let's make sure that Wearing My Rolex gets as rinsed out in North America as it supposedly has in Britain.
I'll put the songs up tomorrow. Contenders are: "Temporary Secretary", "Wearing My Rolex", "Ask Paul", "Heart of the Country" and "International Player's Anthem."
Me: Are you feeling the new Gnarls? The Wiz: THERE'S A NEW GNARLS!?
This album, lacking a "Crazy" was less heralded upon it's release than I expected. Anyway, it's a new Gnarls Barkley...and as much as we at Grilling It enjoy fluffing out blog du jour myspace jams:
I'll never forget hearing "Crazy" in a club for the first time, two springs ago. It was on the top floor of The Old Crown Public House @ Ben and Ben's birthday. I put my hands up and chanted "More number one hits."
Next week on SNL, Gnarls Barkley. Already on SNL, Keenan "Good Burger" Thompson has been doing a wicked Sir Charles Barkley.
PS: This sketch was hilarious last night, Kristen Wiig is in the Radner/Fey/Poeler pantheon.
warm air, helium, freshly cut grass, stella artois, i.s. ooey gooey, my seventh grade teacher, drug addicts, Chuck, the 1981 dallas cowboys, a fall where i almost lost my eye, my children, my wife, the endless toil of debt, sex, coffee, the smell of night bloomers, ball bearings, toilet paper, late 1980's converse court shoes, salsa, cold cereal, phonograph players, the bass guitar, cigarettes, the police, childhood chores, my mother
"I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films." Anthony Minghella
I don’t want to write about who died. However, the older you get, the more people who’s art you care for are going to die.
Yesterday, it was Anthony Minghella.
It’s difficulty to succinctly express respect for a film director, without writing pages and pages; about films that the reader may not have seen. I’ll say this:
Anthony Minghella made essential pictures. He brought career bests out of several big movie stars. He ensured that all aspects of his project were exquisite. I can’t say that about many people who make movies. Great directors who earn great respect can get caught up in their own hype and clouded by expectations, and pay for their self-conciousness in craftsmanship. Minghella only cared about moving us with beautiful and impressive filmmaking. His work deserved to be show on the biggest possible screens and hooked into the clearest possible speakers.
His last film released, Breaking and Entering, was a complicated, stirring and heart wrenching urban drama about one thing: Theft and the future and right and wrong and good and evil and crime and bad and the heart and the head, and as I learned this morning…his exit.
Is that more than one thing? Ok.
"Too many modern films let the audience be passive, as if they were saying, We're going to rock you and thrill you. We'll do everything for you." -Anthony Minghella
Tech buster and smooth brocoder Badman zapped this to me today.
I remember seeing Terminator 2: Judgement Day for the first time, in the Polo Park theatre, for Petey's 11th Birthday party (Shout out to Big LP for taking a gang of adolescents to an R Rated movie).
As if I needed to get more excited for Be Kind Rewind.
The last time Mos Def worked with Michel Gondry it was in this UNMISSABLE MASTERPIECE.
Dave Chappelle's Block Party is a modern day Last Waltz. For Real.
My bredren Aaron made a short documentary about reggae poetry in Toronto. Mad positivity. That's him in the photo above, killer shirt, HOW DARE YOU QUESTION HIS TRENDSETTING!
Nice to see one of my dogs (you know like dawgz, like friends) pissing on the walls of Babylon.
Shout out Aunt Bea for knowing how fast paced comedy goes down around here.
Made me think of these:
California group Sublime have a version of Bad Religion's "We're Only Gonna Die."
"The worst thing about the band Sublime is that they didn't make anything truly sublime." -TJ Pelican (Paraphrased)
Tom Waits is a crack shot at fast talking narratives. This is the one I wanted most after the Carlin (starts at 1:30).
Sublime
1 a: lofty, grand, or exalted in thought, expression, or manner b: of outstanding spiritual, intellectual, or moral worth c: tending to inspire awe usually because of elevated quality (as of beauty, nobility, or grandeur) or transcendent excellence.
That's sublime.
Salvador Dali "The Sublime Moment"
Lemon is a poor sub for lime!
CHOW
BBQ
PS: In the event that you find yourself trying ot find an archive of the covers of Young & Modern magazine...you may find...
Q: "Is it safe to give oral sex? Can you get pregnant that way?" A: "No, you cannot get pregnant from oral sex. In order for an egg to be fertilized, sperm needs to enter the vagina..."
EARMUFFS!!!
Oh...hello...young lady...would you like to see my archive of RTF format Young & Modern magazines? At my bachelor pad?
She said no.
I always forget to lead with bachelor pad and follow with collection of archived magazines.
(Bachelor Pad meaning: disused recreational vehicle.)
I don't know about you, but I'm going to Fiskars myspace to hear his shredevilingly heartattackular remix of Pete Townsend's "Let My Love Open the Door"
Pete Townsend>>>alleged internet child porn researcher>>>excuse to post this:
Cripes gang! I started this post just to get the R Kelly giggles out. Who knew that R Kelly and Pete Townsend would lead to animated potential lechery.
I'm getting out of here faster than Garfield finds lasagna. Sorry Mom, for taking the fun we had to the crotch of a student wizard.
Most of the Justice album can't be rescued from meh-diocrity by drinking a whole bottle of cough syrup or eating rotten corn, but this video. Oh la la.
1. Boomin In Your Jeepney Intro 2. Common – Resurrection (fantastic remix) 3. Be Break 4. Ahmad Jamal – Ghetto Child 5. The Light (dj pump break) 6. Lupe Fiasco – Kick Push (handle it version) 7. Linda Clifford – Never Gonna Stop 8. The Sylvers – Stay Away From Me 9. Rottin Razcals – Oh Yeah (be easy mix) 10. Slum Village – Get Dis Money (dilla fix) 11. J Dilla - Say It! (feat. Ta'Raach & DJ Exile) 12. Nicolay – I Love The Way You Love (feat. Darien Brockington) 13. Method Man – Method Man (dj pump remix) 14. Zhane – Hey Mr. DJ (dj pump version) 15. Zhane – Request Line (beatapella) 16. Dwele - I think I Love You 17. Musiq – ForTheNight 18. Q-tip – Official 19. Yesterday's New Quintet – Uno Esta 20. Bobbi Humphrey – Uno Esta 21. Quantic Soul Orchestra – We Got Soul (rob life remix) 22. El Michels Affair – Glaciers of Ice 23. Jimi Hendrix – Little Miss Lover 24. Sly & The Family Stone – Life Of Fortune & Fame 25. The Roots – Game Theory (feat. Malik B) 26. Junkyard Band – Sardines 27. Pharaoh Monch – Body Baby 28. Consequence – Callin Me 29. Consequence – The Consequence (feat. Q-tip) 30. Jazzy Jeff – Whatever U Want (feat. Little Brother) 31. The Free Design – Don't Turn Away (sharpshooters mix) 32. Giorgio Moroder – E=Mc2 33. DILLA FOREVER – DJ Pump 34. Kanye West On J Dilla 35. J Dilla – Dilla's World (still bangin' in your jeep) 36. The Trammps – Rubber Band 37. Kool & The Gang – Fruitman 38. Martha Reeves - Sweet Misery 39. A Tribe Called Quest – 1nce Again (dj pump BKS remix) 40. J Dilla – Won't Do 41. Kanye West – I Still Love H.E.R. 42. Kanye West, Nas, KRS-One, Rakim – Classic (dj premier remix) 43. Styles P – Testify 44. Talib Kweli & Madlib – Happy Home 45. Black Milk – So Gone 46. Nas feat. Snoop Dogg – Play On Playa 47. Marvin Gaye – After The Dance 48. Once You Get it Break 49. Steve Arrington – Nobody Can Be You 50. One Way – Don't Fight The Feeling 51. Zapp – Heartbreaker 52. Slum Village – Give This Nigga 53. Musiq – Miss You 54. War – Sing A Happy Song 55. Ghostface Killah feat. Amy Winehouse – You Know I'm No Good 56. Common /Will I Am – I Have A Dream 57. Common – Geto Heaven (dj pump remix) 58. Richard Holmes – Onsaya Joy 59. Weldon Irvine – We Gettin' Down 60. Incredible Bongo Band – In A Gadda Da Vida
BONUS TRACK * 61. Linda Lewis – Old Smokey
We here dig that moment, when horns hit in a scratch routine, that the dude djing can't help but demonstrably FEEEEL IT!
Watch the next clip if you don't know what I'm referencing, or do.
Homeboy of this blog Brat Sandland prolly designed that SRC shirt Pj Pump is wearing, hey, wow, isn't this a blog now, what with a Just Ici and Skatbarder Strrreeeet Ware fashione referentialismo.
Brett Desingned the following shirt, which we here find damn witty, but why isn't Sudzy on the SRC team...??? (Editor's Note: Hey, ass, he is on the team)
HEY GEEKS! WE DIDN'T FORGET ABOUT YOU WITH ALL THE HIP HOP. WE COULD STILL HEAR YOUR Razor Skooterz and Hippie Longboards.
This mix has many lifetime worth tunes that will probably already be on the ipod of famous celebrity MTV Canada VJ commentator talkbox never play video head enigma Dan Levy
01 Sparks - Tryouts For The Human Race - Virgin 02 Rondo Veneziano - La Serenissima - Universal 03 Goblin - Tenebrae - Cinevox 04 Daft Punk - Ouverture - Virgin 05 Surkin - Next Of Kin - Institubes 06 SymbolOne - Love Juice - SymbolOne 07 Korgis - Everybodys Gotta Learn Sometimes - Angel Air 08 Midnight Juggernauts - Ending Of An Era - Mindight Juggernauts 09 The Paradise Ft Romauld - In Love With You - Vulture 10 Justice - TTHHEE PPAARRTTYY (Acapella) - Ed Banger 11 Chic - Everybody Dance - Atlantic 12 Frankie Valli - Who Loves You - Warners 13 Das Pop - Underground - Das Pop 14 Julien Clerc - Quand Je Joue - EMI 15 Daniel Balavoine - Vivre Ou Survivre - Barclay 16 Richard Sanderson - Reality - Barclay 17 Zoot Woman - Grey Day - Wall Of Sound 18 Fucking Champs - Thor Is Like Immortal - Drag City 19 The Rave - Mother - The Rave 20 Fancy - You Never Know - Fancy 21 Frank Stallone - Far From Over - Universal 22 Sheila - Misery - Warners 23 Todd Rundgren - International Feel - Warners
