XXX

Last Night I went to show where I think one of the songs was about how the girl singers vagina was like a chainsaw. Dean can maybe help clarify this. They also had a hyphy song about pills, but i don't think they were from the suburbs. One of the bands was giving away quality porn DVDs, so i grabbed three. Before I went home i stopped at the bar next door and fucking nailed "Here, There and Everywhere" by the Beatles. I almost made myself cry, and i'm pretty sure this guys girlfriend was ready to leave him for me.

I'm always happy when music I listened to in middle school was actually awesome in a non ironic way. I was way into Big Daddy Kane. In my opinion "Taste of Chocolate" is his unheralded masterpiece. There's a cameo from Dolemite, a slow jam with barry white, one classic Prince Paul beat, and The Best "intro" song ever. cop that shit. There's also a cameo on one super conscious song by Malcolm X's daughter, Gamilah Shabazz. WHAT? She holds her own on her verse. I always have thought that her saying stuff like "I'm not a follower of anyone" was totally awesome. I love the sample in this song and big daddy kanes 2nd verse.
Who Am I?

NRBQtinued

oh yeah. i was at that last show BTW. fuck yeah, i was there. ..... it's time to get serious with some frikkin amazing NRBQ shit. not even talking novelty. seriously would i be playin novelty shit sittin here at my compter at 4am?????

oh yeah did anyone see kobes dunk over nash????!!! fuckkkinnnng amazing!!! DR J type shit! watch the 3rd replay

"pretty girls with their faces fair,
see the shine in the black sheep boy"


NRBQ-Beverly
NRBQ- ??? BEST SONG EVER??

speakin o tim's

this is quickly becoming my drunk ramblings. does david copperfuck read this shit? i'm in love with everyone in the band. ima put my shit on here once i transfer it from tape... Tim Hardin made some of the best songs ever. scott walker is a whole different beast. i'm not gettin into that yet. but he dug Tim Hardin ya know? this is the first song in years i learned to play on guitar that wasn't jesus and mary chain.

Tim Hardin- Black Sheep Boy
Scott Walker- Black Sheep Boy

Life of illusion

This week was a pretty good one for David Copperfuck. Things are getting worked out with us getting flown out to Oberlin for a bigtime fun show with old friends. In preparation for our hopeful barn raising there we've been trying to grease up some foot stompers to unleash live. We switched up the line-up a little bit and got Life of Illusion checked off and ready for flight. It's an ethereal jammer with some gnarly singalong lurking just beneath the surface. Thinking long and hard about asking Johny Hi-Hats Leland to lend some auxillary bongos on it to add some xxx-tra paprika flavoring to the arrangement

Joe Walsh- Life of Illusion

Also, David Copperfuck is playing August 25th at the Bottom of the Hill with Xbxrx, 7 Year Rabbit cycle, and Murder Murder. YEAH!!!!

Two Sundaes

I'm at work and I just had 2 sundaes in a row. One of them had bananas and the other one had strawberries and chocolate all over it. Both were delicious and all of my coworkers got really weirded out by my consumption.
Jane Jacobs died yesterday. Reading The Death and Life of Great American Cities set off a little construction bomb in my brain and made me see my city and my potential future in an entirely new light. The next time I came home I felt like I was being powered by 1000 mg of adderal and ripped off the transamerica building's concrete flesh and started BBQ'ing its rotten entrails. I found this pretty good interview with her being questioned by an angry little suburban troll. It's comforting to know that she served her time as an unfulfilled office jobber. I wonder what's going to happen to her body. She said, progress occurs funeral by funeral think of the progress if she got turned into some sustainable urban eco-basketball hoop or something. Anyways, two office sundaes and some yappin with the troll. Feeling pretty good.

Here's two reflective teenage sundaes for you....
Shangri La's- Past, Present, and Future
Hugh Mundell- My life

Boyz Night Out

tonight me an seth went and drank 7 mind erasers each while waiting for our shitty songs to play on the jukebox. we drew pictures on bar napkins of misguided girls with "shitty bangs" (images, full explanation, and SONG coming soon) we came home and immediatley listened to two jamz.

Dial My Heart

Rescue Me


Update 3:00am : seth smoked one hit of pot, is about to puke, and was "too scared" to watch halloween 2

I am the decider

Last night some nervous excitement and restlessness manifested themselves as a little dream date with two good people. We cruised the water on the transbay ferry, destroyed some chicken and waffles, and ended it up watching a band called Tinariwen. They're a Tuareg group, an ethnic minority from the East side of Mali. Their people have gotten caught up in a Lybia/Mali/independent state death match and have consequently spent the last 15+ years wandering in various forms of exile in the Sub-saharan desert. Supposedly they first performed in some Lybian barracks! Now, they're really into reconciliation and political awakening, a lyrical focus that comes across pretty amazingly in the warmth and righteousness of their sound. (Hi this is Paul Simon I have an important message for you...jk!) It's an immediately familiar style for those who have gotten into some other Malian music (Boubacar Traore, Ali Farka Toure, Sali Sidibe) but they have a roughness and immediacy that often gets glossed over in the more contemporary recordings of the aforementioned artists (which is like a secret jewel-encrusted lollipop for music dorks!). They wore their desert nomad gear which bummed me out as a potential Disney/Ry kooder style concession until I heard that one of them was spotted cruising the Tenderloin, smoking a cigarette in said gear. YES!

Their rider makes a bold-type demand for milk which I inexplicably find to be right on. Some questions busted into my head though, like how does one start a world music booking agency and ultimately select which artists have the potential for success in the west? Is there an exclusive binary between big in Africa and big in the west or authentic and inauthentic? It's confusing to love the most polished hippie mom MASTER OF THE DESERT GUITAR stuff from around the world and be drawn to the most fucked up and noisy domestic sounds. Like if I hear another Joe Satriani noodle I'm gonna lose it ya know???? Also, do other American regions have a more palatable hippy/African attendance ratio at shows? How does the group feel about the barefoot hippie-capitalists doing the vineyard dance at their shows? Does the tree-falling white man from Touki Bouki belong in this conversation?? Is my plan to move to Zimbabwe regressive and not progressive??? RHETORICAL QUESTIONS ARE SELFISH LITTLE BOTTLES OF MILK ON A RIDER! I tried to talk to the salty French band manager for a bit but little snippets and chitchat don't make for good bloggin' so just enjoy the songs already
Timariwen- Amidinin
Tinariwen-Alkhar Dessouf
Tinariwen- Eh Massina Sintadoben

ALERT! ONE MORE MARGINALLY RELATED PIECE FOR THE POTLUCK
Adaneh Teka- Bob Marley

Image borrowed from Claire

honky balance

seriously though, i'm a little drunk and i'm gonna balance my slowjam of the week with my "honky slowjam of the week". If i hear the opening guitar notes of this song at the right time, tears will come to my eyes. Thank you .38 Special.

So Caught Up In You

Oh MY Gawd- slowjam of the week

this is as lame as a posting can get. (help me team members!) this song is funny, stupid, lame, awesome, played out, horrible....maybe you missed it though. stick with it! Plus, who hasn't felt like this before, really? (at least hold out until the second verse!)

Don't Want You Back

pizza!

Scott Miller saved me a lot of time and trouble by ripping his favorite NRBQ songs to his computer and putting together two comps. I've had volume one or two playing in my car for about 5 months now so I figured i'd slowly drop gems.

"Things We Like" is kind of a pop novelty song that just happens to have the BEST LYRICS EVER. It kind of sums up their whole philosophy, so I thought i'd start with this b4 I post some beautiful genius songs of theirs. This song totally speaks to me. I like pizza and pretty girls also! These dudes are just like me. holy crap!

Things We Like

I'm not some sensitive 70's lite rock dude with a mustache though! I'm off that bay shit 4 real.

Ever wonder what E-40 sounded like in 1988? - Don't Stop

or what a 17 year old Jt The Bigga Figga was doing in 1992? - Victim of The Vapes

Live in the heart of the silicone crystal

A couple of weeks ago, David Copperfuck borrowed equipment and jimmy-jammed on KZSU radio down in Palo Alto, CA. It was really political. Luckily, we edited out the heated discourse and just left the 9 hot bangers for you to download and enjoy. Hopefully we'll have a nice little silkscreened cdr recording to pass around soon, but until then...
1. David Copperfuck- Chalet Chalet
2. David Copperfuck- Raccoons
3. David Copperfuck- Lady Boner
4. David Copperfuck-Panda Proletariat
5. David Copperfuck- Bangcock
6. David Copperfuck- Night Blindness (for Papa Leland)
7. David Copperfuck- Hunting
8. David Copperfuck- Kill Someone you hate
9. David Copperfuck- Night of the living Raptor
or....if you want, you can download them all at once HERE
See you soon!

peep game!

Not only is Harry Dean Stanton in most of the best movies ever, he can sing his ass off!


You Don't Miss Your Water
Across The Borderline



I was just driving around in long underwear, a jordan hoodie, and AF1's listening to my decided upon Jam of the Week. R Kelly featuring Keith Murray. FEAST ON IT! The best part about this song is the music video- they are partying at a young girls house whose parents aren't home!! He's been gettin away with this young girl stuff for years, even blatantly making it the subject of his dirtiest songs. peep game


Home Alone

Limojet

JUST KIDDING... THIS is actually the late-entry champion for the most serious thing you do with your record label bonus money. Hunting endangered species is TOTALLY YESTERDAY

The Conjurer

Today on my way home from work I stopped by Aquarius Records to try and pick up some totally esoteric and underground musics to impress the stone fox that works there and win her heart. Well, she wasn’t there tonight and THANK GOD FOR THAT…because, it looks like a forlorn hessian dude smoked some of his own supply and had to go and sell a bunch of the prize pieces from his record collection.
I scored…
Megadeth- Peace Sells…but who’s buying?
Megadeth- Killing is my business…and business is good.
Carcass- Symphonies of Sickness
and Exodus- Bonded by Blood
For 3.50 a piece that’s not even HALF of what it would’ve cost me to buy a field recording of some Kyrgyzstani goat farmer jamming out on some sort of blood-stained guano flute. A surprising result of this revolution in the course of my week (CARCASS ON 11!) is the discovery of Dave Mustaine’s total domination of the written word…
Welcome to our sanguinary sect of worship
Feel at home in our black conventicle,
As we anathmatise
All those who oppose us,
Don’t summon the devil,
Don’t call the priests,
If you need the strength,
The conjuring obey!!!
WOWOWOWOW!!!…I went to college and I don’t even know half of those words. Can you imagine James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich literally shitting themselves and crying with regret over kicking him out of the band while desperately flipping through their dictionaries? Unfortunately, there is a connection between getting your hands on the “Unholy Thesaurus” of heavy metal lyrics and getting into funk-metal all of a sudden, and that kind of makes this song suck but whatever I'm putting it up here anyways! PEACE!
Megadeth- The Conjurer

FUCK SPINNERS

HEY MTV NEWS the new decadent totally GANGSTA thing to do is go hunt endangered animals
Take note aspiring thugs and do your research!

UGK- Choppin Blades
YMO- 1000 Knives

perfect song

"Hey Young World"

Just Slick Rick speaking the truth. The dancehall songs on his albums were always great, but this one takes the cake. This is probably one of my favorite songs ever, and though it may be obvious, I wanted to post something that I find truly uplifting and awesome before I start putting up slow jamz of the week or guilty pleaures. Whenever I have been bummed out or feeling down on myself over the years I have been able to count on this song to give me inspiration and self confidence. It's not just the lyrics- it's the melody of his vocals, the trippy samples during the chorus, and that magic lil piano line that pops in.

Hey Young World

Monday Thru Monday

I've been toying around with sneaking a lil' talk about the newflangled HYPHEY movement into an entry that could stand alongside all of the hyphey-specific blogs that are already around (you gotta find those yourself!) For shortz-
+++Hyphey is an awesome word for getting excited and jumping off of the golden gate bridge into a passing speedboat, hifiving all of your friends, wearing white-t's , talking all crazy, and dancing next to your moving car
---- The "movement" is an imaginary product that lumps together people that have already been around forever and who are unique and valuable in their own right in order to sell music to teenagers and get people to listen to Clear Channel. The angry little hypocrite in me is screaming "be wary of artificially constructed commerciallymotivatedd youth movements!"

Instead of getting mordestructivelyly involved with this train of though I want to share a Mac Dre song I heard recently. Mac Dre's really held up in a big ole titanium coated beat tower as the grandfather of the hyphey movement. I am into him getting tons of respect BIG TIME, but I've always been a little bit confused about why people cared so much about his last few albums. They all kind of sound like he doesn't care anymore and just wants to wear a little sun cap and shoot bb's in his backyard while absent-mindedly talking over some littlecstasycy-jams with farty keyboard. ALSO TOTALLY COOL...but beacons of light for a new local music movement???
So then I heard this....
Mac Dre- Monday Thru Sunday
and every answer I wanted materialized in crystalline form.
MODESTO? SANTA ROSA? PINOLE??? Who else shouts out to these places? The last clear memory I have of Pinole involves lots of Metallica, crystal meth, and some goats grazing in the back yard. What's the official vehicle of crestside vallejo rappers? THE CHEVY VAN. That's not typical fodder for an s.f. rapparappatack song, and that's the beauty of it! It's suburban music, driving around big streets where everything is still fucked but without a lot of the posturing and pretention that is the inevitable product of the city. It's cruisin music. What it lacks in effort it picks up in sincerity and it hits on some troofs that everybody can get into. All that combined with a few drops of the Pinole-bomb make something so awesomely powerful it should be enough to make a rap fan out of just about anybody RIP MAC DRE!

grindcore

VS.


PS. I went to go see Gowns tonight and they were really srules I've written reluctant mental fanmail to them for so long now but I finally got a recording. Unfortunately I haven't figured out how to say "caaan I putt this on my blooooog????" in a way that doesn't make me wanna stab myself in the eye with a fork yet, so I'm banking on this being alright. It feels so right though!!!
Gowns- 6
Gowns- Johnny
Gowns- Nobody Home
PPS LITTLE LONELY HOBBIT JUST BURN HIS LITTLE MOUTH ON SOME MICROWAVABLE PIZZA WHAT'S UP WITH THAT??