Vidi Yo!

Two of my favourite web sites have posted political videos.

From Caps ahead as always at The Stencil, Homer votes for Obama...



From The Biz-Biz, Sarah Silverman's The Great Schlep...




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Check out The Stencil for your campaign 2008, music, technology, innernets, NFL and NHL coverage. Including occasional rants about American politics by yours truly. Caps does a stellar job keeping it moving, and it's proof that sports and politics go together like music and videos.





The Biz Biz is a world of cuteness and beauty and family and fun and the city and the life and making shit and inspiring one another and muffins (ED NOTE: Baking, yo, not just muffins) and flash photography and about a million billion reasons to get up in the (late, preferably) morning ...real adorable, smart, "seize the day" type stuff. It's as if Americas Next Top Model was a realer reality show and all the models were your friends.

Sarah (Biz 1) is going to own the much attempted Palin Halloween costume, as if no other girls even tried.

Plus, they really really cute, fashion experts, and will post songs too. Such things really seem to fly on the internet.

I gotta fly too



Here's one for Sarah Palin, take it from me lady, debates...aint...simple (ESPECIALLY IF YOUR ARE).

SEX PISTOLS - Pretty Vacant

18 Scene

A guilty verdict was handed down today in the trial of the "Toronto 18", Canada's homegrown plotting extremists. They were actually from the suburbs, so it's more like the Greater Toronto Area 18, or the GTA 18 (which sounds too badass).

Here's the Natty Post version of the story. It might be old hat to everyone, but I was living out of the country when this went down, so it's still a bit of a gobsmacker. Anyway, their sending him to Canada's Guantanamo aka this place

Here's a non-caucasian man covering Bryan Adamses 18 Till I Die



From extremism to XTREME!







My cousin Bubble who is eighteen and lives in Toronto (you see what I did) has started a blog with her best friend Alexa this is now a daily read. They're soooooo cute. Smokey-Ville

Take Your Time

Here's a film by Gavin McInnes. Enjoy the laughs. Take the lesson.



When I went to Wikipedia to learn how ot spell "McInnes" correctly, I learned the following things: VBS is affiliated with Viacom, and Gavin once played in a band called "Anal Chinook" which is a super sharp name for a band, punk or otherwise.

Since leaving Vice, Gavin's started a film company and is involved in a web site that is the finest use of webspace since the internet invented waterslides and then waterslides invented unprotected intercourse.

STREET BONERS AND TV CARNAGE

This is "Street Boner 335"


"This is around that time the next day when you realize you guys cheated death and not only are you not tired from drinking all night, you’re not even that wasted."

"Street Boner 212"


"Yes, I agree they’re pretty but you know they’re both more high maintenance than a one-hitter."

Here's a semi-fashiony one for the girls and bizzles and homies

"Street Boner 172"


Imagine all the shitheads out there who see this as “a dork with a hot chick” instead of “a mensch with some TV reporter chick dressed like Chevrolet’s idea of a hipster”?

"Street Boner 209"


"Finally, your little brain and your big brain are willing to agree on something."

You get the jist. There's many more, but if I stay up all night looking at these I might never get up and get dressed or hit on a girl again (the afformentioned are what I put on a job application when they ask for "weaknessess")

Nothing Illegal

Hey gang, the Grilling It mainframe, exploded (literally I saw smoke), enjoy this stuff as I talk to the man about fixing it and getting Mp3's back in this space.



The songs are backed up, and some of the literary gems...but if it's unfixable...



Rip It Up and Start Again (RIUASA)



Maybe from Scratch



For now, you know my steez

Rogie = Royal Hoagie aka Really Huggie

It dawned that I'd been skimping on the Muup3's, so I looked on the lappy here and found a folder called "ROGIE!!!"

Enjoy!!!

Guess Who's Back

If You Visit Here, well, sure, it's corny

Section S Winnipeg Stadium, The Corneater:



EXCLUSIVE!!!!!



I was kidding, but it should be the Winnipeg Blue Bomber's "Take the field" song.

R0E 0K0 (used to be mine)

BIZ One called in to the headquarters last night, and offered a friendly reminder that 90210 has been revived and that is a part of the 90's bump that I forgot.

One time, at a Beck concert, Beck walked over to the star of this next clip and the following exchange took place.

Beck: What's your zip code?
Dancing Guy: 9-0-2-1...2!



Later, after the acoustic section, this happenned:

GO! 90!

Timely:
"appropriate or adapted to the times or the occasion"

NICK CATCHDUBS AND MR DUCKER - RADIO FRIENDLY UNIT SHIFTER

My two cents (adjusted for inflation) are that this is perfect. It's well mixed, laugh out loud funny, filled with forgotten, neglected and impossible to ever neglect songs (paging Doctor Sliver). As the wave of 90's nostalgia kicks off (parties everywhere with the theme, 90210 remakes, 90's babies legally in the club), this mix is beyond essential. Yo, I'm on this 90's nostalgia, my armoire stayed an armory of cardigans and flannel.

Here's what Catchdubs (class of 99) had to say about his teenage decade mixtape genesis.

"My good friend Mr. Ducker isn’t a DJ, but he always wanted to make an ultimate ’90s tape, something that brought a mixshow vibe to alt nation sounds. When he asked me to get down with his dream and collaborate, we delved deep into our middle and high school record collections (and used CD bargain bins) and brainstormed new ways to present all the alternative music we grew up on. We were inspired by DJ Spinbad’s impossibly fun ’80s pop mixes: big hits next to unexpected favorites with lots of movie dialogue and interludes for jokes, all smashed up in a dance party megamixxx. Picking from hundreds of beloved Buzz Bin jams was easier said than done (sorry Superdrag, you’ll make Vol. 2!), but with the Mishka crew’s annual trip to Magic in Las Vegas giving us an actual deadline, we finally finished this badmotorfinger as a giveaway CD for their new season. Even with double digit-old tunes, Radio Friendly Unit Shifter feels right on time, connecting the dots between Sonic Youth breakbeats, weeded Lollapalooza rap, gloriously fuzzed-out one hit wonders and much more. No irony, no empty nostalgia, just a lot of music we love that shaped what we do today. They used to play King Missile on the radio! In America! Download and enjoy."
- Nick Catchdubs

NICK CATCHDUBS AND MR DUCKER - RADIO FRIENDLY UNIT SHIFTER

1. L7 - Pretend We’re Dead
2. Sonic Youth - 100%
3. Folk Implosion - Natural One
4. King Missile - Detachable Penis
5. Beck - Beercan
6. Dinosaur Jr - Start Choppin’
7. Meat Puppets - Backwater ‘
8. Pavement - Cut Your Hair
9. Nirvana - Sliver
10. Foo Fighters - I’ll Stick Around
11. Porno For Pyros - Tahitian Moon
12. Temple Of The Dog - Hunger Strike
13. Tripping Daisy - I Got A Girl
14. Primus - Wynonas Big Brown Beaver
15. Body Count - There Goes The Neighborhood
16. Offspring - Come Out And Play
17. Rancid - Roots Radicals
18. Supergrass - Caught By The Fuzz
19. Weezer - El Scorcho
20. Green Day - Longview
21. Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
22. Rage Against The Machine - Bulls On Parade
23. Bjork - Army Of Me
24. Soundgarden - Outshined
25. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Suck My Kiss
26. Tribe Called Quest - Oh My God (Live @ The Tibetan Freedom Concert)
27. Cypress Hill - How I Could Just Kill A Man (Live @ Woodstock ‘94)
28. House Of Pain - Shamrocks and Shennanigans
29. Cibo Matto - Know Your Chicken
30. Breeders - Cannonball
31. Smashing Pumpkins - Today
32. Butthole Surfers - Pepper
33. Sublime - Doin’ Time
34. Soul Coughing - Super Bon Bon
35. Faith No More - A Small Victory
36. MC 900 Foot Jesus - If I Only Had A Brain
37. Everclear - You Make Me Feel Like A Whore
38. Toadies - Possum Kingdom

Oh, yeah, it was brought to you by Mishka, who have a great blog and make clothing. STREETWEAR COMAPNIES and FASHION PALACES take note...THERE IS NO EXCUSE NOT TO COMISSION MIXTAPES

It's not about being cool, or associating oneself with music, or any of that surface skimming...You sell clothes. A lot of people sell clothes. You can buy great jeans at the supermarket. Mishka brought this mixtape into my ears. Step. Your. Game. Up.

NICK CATCHDUBS AND MR DUCKER - RADIO FRIENDLY UNIT SHIFTER

As a parting blast of feedback, here's a shot of this blog's operator and my friend named Ron, outside of our first 90's retro night in 2008.

Easier Than Dunking

I'm as inclined as anyone who is serious about rap or comedy to skip this sort of thing, but "What's It Gonna Be" by Mike O'Connel featuring Dr. Ken absolutely murders "Lazy Sunday" or any of that generally cornballish material.

The deluge of Sinclarian influence continues.

Sober

Comic

Sleepwalker 1

During my nearly month long vacation in Winnipeg/Manitoba, I used a computer twice. Both times, it was to find a friend's phone number and then get back to l-i-v-i-n'



I'm way behind on music, videos, politics and anything else that wasn't word of mouth amongst my coterie of weirdo buddies, professional beach bums, fringe folk and dudes that live on lakes who only listen to rap anyway.

As I find media that I missed in July/August, I'll bring it here. What's that? It's shit you already have/saw? Well, maybe the first viralization was exciting? Maybe that video deserves a second viewing? Hey, maybe that song needs a second listen, or a complete listen (I am as guilty as anyone of playing the first half minute and clicking away going "not hot summertime fire, next!").

So out of touch with the zeitgeist, but playing online in my little zeit-fort. Here's hot media I missed while on holiday.

Fatboy Slim/David Byrne/Dizzee Rascal = BPA (aka WTF!!!!) Found at the Krudblog



The great sift has begun.

Victory City Fringe

Staging all kinds of funny with Sinclair in Victoria. Running projections, laughing perversely and putting my feet up in the country on off days.

Puscifier - Cuntry Boner:



Letters at Large

Feeling dumb that I didn't write enough this winter. Watch this become one of those word blogs.

West Again

I've returned to the computer, the west coast and my relaxed life after a rockstar gangster gargantuan bender in Manitoba and Ontario. I'll shout out all the homies and the girls in a future post, but for now:



Here's the song that got dozens more plays than any other on my vacation.

HEAD EAST - Never Been Any Reason (Save My Life)



"Did you see any action?
Did you make any friends?
Would you like some affection?
Before I leave again."
-Head East

I lost those fake fake nu rave bans in a early morning make out sesh/bicycle crash.

How fun?

That much fun.



PS: EDIT: Shout out to Sarchy Sarch aka Sarabella aka Biz One for the good times, bad company and photo posting.

From The Basement

The homeboy Basement has updated his Muxtape. It's essentially just a more efficient less self stroking method of doing what I do here. Whatever, I smile in the mirror, I got my teeth fixed. But Bateman's blog kills it.

Like this:







Albeit without the witty repartee.

Can't blame Basement for not getting fully texted out. He's a certified geek and totally tech. A magazine told me that geeks are cool and the technical is actually the only clear objective perspective (historical take a SEAT), and I believe what I read.

When we worked together, I was a part of the "creative" team and Bateman reigned with the tech. We were joined only by a common server, pon which we trade dem blurrrclarrrt jams. Ya get me? His tech skills are so formidable, that a very educated Englishman, one of them Oxbridge type chaps once said "His programming is so ahead of its time, continuing to work in communications or media, honestly mate, the guy could change the world."

Watch HICKS

I was looking for a copy of Bill Hick's track about why he hates the beach. I came across this and remembered why I got so into this dude in the first place. It is a summer jam, real talk and fantastic viewing.

The crucial message has not changed in decades.



He can be funny too.



The audio in the above clip is from 1990.



Here's this in case you need a copy of it on that computer or in your life (both, you need both).

Johnny Cash - The Man In Black

A Message From Diddy

Farmed from Catchdubs

Euro Club

Back from yachting doing dat yacht ting...back blogging doing that blah blah blah thing. The internet had this stuff on sale today (cheap):

Russian Ravers Literally Blinded By the Light



A video from the Crumbs European tour 08'



Wow. That music sounds like an alarm clock. In reference to "big commercial house and techno" A-Trak recently blogged the phrase "well past that thin line of where it’s funky". I think too much dance of the times is doing that ya?



Here's a contemporary dance classic by Bird Peterson. Quick question: do you correct the names of mp3's? For instance, when somebody thinks "Werewolves of London" was by Billy Joel (Billy I love you but you couldn't do that), or that "Baba O'Riley" is called "Teenage Wasteland". Bird had it named right, and good thing, because the tune is crucial.

THE WHO - Baba O Riley (Bird Peterson Remix)



More postage coming today. I mean it. This is the week before I go on vacation, so lets make it count. I'm still disturbed by that video, I cannot lie.



Feels good to be back.

Hearts Beats Often

Modern times have yielded a deluge of dance music of varying degrees of quality. Ranting in person, on the phone, or in spaces like this, probably using the blanket label "new dance music" because I don't want to say "blog house" or any of the other pejorative terms, that I won't even use here. The reason I won't use the terms here is as follows: lest the word section of this spot get cursed by nefarious juju borne from the last grim fears of a house music studio bongo specialist that iced himself on giraffe tranquilizers after his job got taken by expensive german software.

This song is not what I'm talking about when I get on about "borderline unlistenable" and "flashy but boring." I usually won't play you what I'm talking about, because I've wasted my time finding it, and yeah, it will probably offend you. Offending people's ears is not what I'm about.

Here's the tune:

LIL WAYNE - A Milli (Nadastrom Remix)

Dave Nada and his homey Matt Nordstrom change Dwayne's voice and use "UFO" to take it mindwhirling to the (post?) cyberpunk pleasuredome. Old ideas, a bedrock sample and rave rap with a much remixed song is a recipe for meh-diocrity, but Nadastrom turns it into the current incarnation of newness, hotness and badassism. It is radical, necessary, timely and most of all HUGE!



It begins with an urge to dance, and what sounds like a girl's voice repeating "Side One" (I can only hope this is content indicating where the song will be on the upcoming Nadastrom Record Album, so many levels! metastic!)!



The last time I was in Winnipeg, I was talking Frays The Cabbie (Footwerk of the Nutty Klub to basshead webcrawlers) about his crew's rising star in the prairie nightlife.

ME: "Man, I travel to all these big cities, live there and miss shows IN WINNIPEG!"

F: "That sucks, I feel bad for you (paraphrased)"

I made myself a promise that I wouldn't look through party photos of a non-family party that I wasn't at - that I just broke - augmenting this post. I'd heard that the party Fraser threw with Tittsworth and Dave Nada was legendary, in that savage and serial party city.

Here's a shot of Dave Nada preparing to grab one of The Pyramid's ceiling rails. Hanging off the ceiling of that cabaret was always a highlight of the all ages punk shows of my tweens.



I saw much in the galleries I browsed: 20/20 ON THE MIC. Chocolate laughing his ass off. Hot girls that I'm on a multiple nickname basis with. Dudes that I'm pretty sure I went to Oakbank Elementary with, and lots of young folks in humorous dance costumes. But the chili on the burger is:

Co-op holding a bag of Donuts aloft, like the head of a felled opponent.



I was in Winnipeg at Thanksgiving, and it was pretty crazy. I saw a scrap between old friends, one wielding a plunger, while the other howled "it looks like you're wearing lipstick". I broke The Muffin Man's Kraft Dinner Pot by drumming on it too hard. The Crumbs accidentally did a comedy show in a bar full of cops. I barely slept. It was wild, you need to brace yourself for fall in that town. I give thanks, but it was good to winter elsewhere.

I'll be back.



PS: Shout out to this kid blue steeling in the dorky aerobics/spring ski get up. Simply because, say what you will about geeked out neon from beyond party dress, but the tetra pak of french rabbit in the club is SUCH A GOOD LOOK. I'm not even going to front. I'm gonna copy him. Bottle service? No, Tetra Pak. Inspired. Plus you can cap it, which is the number one problem when drinking red at a dance party.