Joe Strummer in The Harder They Come 7"

Kinda makes me dizzy.  Life has left me a little dizzy at times, in fact I think I spent about 10 years dizzy.  Yesterday was 7 (edit:er..um..brain damage, it's 6 years)  years clean for me with dope or liquor in my blood...I still get dizzy sometimes though. Another game for you, Circle the Cat, took me about an hour to conquer it. I have Rudimentary Peni on the brain lately, took me a few days to listen to everything they have released, and I gotta say they do not have one bad song...not fucking one.  A great Rudi Peni cover... Godless - Blissful Myth (Rudimentary Peni) Speaking of RP, you can read about an extremely limited tune here, that's not on any of their LPs/EPs. A longer track than most of their stuff, but it fits well with some of their latest works... RUDIMENTARY PENI - Wilfred Owen the Chances Except fot that and the Catastrophe bootleg, I've got everything they've released, but now I'm trying to get everything on vinyl.

An email I got from a friend in England that's good for a laugh. ECONOMICS WITH COWS -

SOCIALISM You have 2 cows. You give one to your neighbour. COMMUNISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk. FASCISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you some milk. NAZISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and shoots you. BUREAUCRATISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the milk away... TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income. SURREALISM You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons AN AMERICAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why the cow has dropped dead. ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters ofcredit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute adebt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get allfour cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rightsof the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman IslandCompany secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rightsto all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release. The public then buys your bull. A FRENCH CORPORATION You have two cows. You go on strike, organise a riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows. A JAPANESE CORPORATION You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called 'Cowkimon' and market it worldwide. A GERMAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves. AN ITALIAN CORPORATION You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You decide to have lunch. A RUSSIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 2 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka. A SWISS CORPORATION You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you. You charge the owners for storing them. A CHINESE CORPORATION You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity. You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation. AN INDIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You worship them. A BRITISH CORPORATION You have two cows. Both are mad. AN IRAQI CORPORATION Everyone thinks you have lots of cows. You tell them that you have none. No-one believes you, so they bomb the **** out of you and invade your country. You still have no cows, but at least now you are part of a Democracy.... AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. Business seems pretty good. You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate. A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION You have two cows. The one on the left looks very attractive AN EU CORPORATION: You don´t have two cows, because EU gives you a new Mercedes Benz everyyear for not having two cows. Your neigbour is even more successful: hedoesn't have four cows. Edit:My buddy Billy added on from his native Greece... You have two cows you sell both cheap and send money to Switzerland then get a loan from a loan-shark to buy another cow you buy the cow,you sell it cheap and send the money to Switzerland then get loan from a loan-shark to buy another one cow

Two headlines next to each other on the Yahoo homepage yesterday: "Many vets a paycheck away from homelessness" and "Eagles give QB Michael Vick $100 million deal"

Today's headline: "Why Jennifer Aniston Always Wears the Same Bikini" (just one of many reasons that the human race would not be missed if it ceased to exist)

Most of my friends and visitors around here don't do reggae and actually would probably shun those that do (and maybe they just feel sorry for me knowing that I dig a lot of it).  But this is Joe Strummer doing reggae/ska so it has a different kind of credibility (or not).  Got this 2009 release recently, kind of a bootleg kind of thing (blank labels, no release info, and I don't think anything on the runout grooves), so I guess it could be rare.  I am totally down with the Long Beach Dub Allstars, so Mr. Strummer jamming with them was kind of a treat.  Two great covers, one reggae, one ska, live and studio, so in my opinion you can't go wrong. Harder They Come Harder They Come (live) Rudi, A Message To You (live)

 

MK9 - s/t 7"

This has to be one of my greatest GIF discoveries. I'm like a European explorer during the age of discovery...discovering places that were already occupied and claiming them for myself. If you've ever spent any time on a computer that is acting up or worse yet crashed, then you should be able to relate to the gory details of this wonderful little animation.  Moral of the story...the computer always gets the best of you. Nothing worth mentioning in my life...all is quiet. The world is still the way it is, beautiful and ugly at the same time.  We continue to watch a lot of movies, mostly of the blood and guts variety but also those high dollar mainstream action flicks. The Mechanic wasn't too bad although it wasn't balls to the wall, but I'm a sucker for Jason Statham with his balding-ness and his approach to that condition...shave your fucking head (as opposed to a toupee, the comb-over, a hat for every occasion, spray paint, etc.). Not a bad sound track too which is always a plus for any flick and pulled this French/African ditty (perfect for a New Orleans setting) out of the mix...dig it Nuru Kane - Goree Today is the anniversary of Elvis' death...35 years I believe.  I was with a Cuban baby sitter that day and I remember her saying "aye Dios mio, Elvis se mudio?"  One of the two songs from Elvis' first recording in 1953... Elvis Presley - That's When Your Heartaches Begin Was going to post something else that I've been working on in the Humboldt vein, but I'm waiting for some liner notes from a buddy. Not wanting to wait too long to post anything, for fear of losing the therapy that this place provides me.  Anyway the rip here represents the first time I listened to this thing.  I picked it up not too long ago because the cover was interesting, the year of release was 1981 and the seller claimed that it had come from KROQ during his/her tenure there as some kind of staff support.  On top of that was that it had a cover of Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man" a tune later covered by the Butthole Surfers in a masterful way.  Did some searching and MK9 is a tough one, tons of hits for Mortal Kombat 9 and a 9mm called MK9 by Kahr Arms.  There was a 2000's band called MK9 and a recent Underworld Records but neither are the same.  Otherwise there were several of these for sale for anywhere between $20-40 (no way I paid that much).  As I said this rip represents the first time I listened to this and my first impression is that I kinda dig it.  It doesn't blow me way like Devo's stuff from that time but it's similar, maybe even more no wave-ish in an artsy kind of way.  "Run Machines" could have been on a soundtrack for an early 80's, B space movie, while their cover of "Hurdy Gurdy Man" is unique and listenable.  All in all not a bad little score and probably the first time this has seen the light of day since the 80's. Run Machines Hurdy Gurdy Man

 

The Jolly Ho-Ho's - Drunks Are People Too LP

Duh...a pic of me that my son took at my new favorite  fancy style coffee chain, Mochas...handsome fucking devil...if you enlarge the thumbnail you can see my nose hairs.  Kinda bummed right now because my time with Liam is over until next summer. Jack of TSOL (shameless name dropping, actually I am just one of 5 million faceless "friends" he has on facebook) sent a request out for medium's (tarot readings, crystal balls, speaking to the dead, etc.) the other day and being the polite sort that I am I suggested a place in Hollywood that I've mentioned around here called the "House of Hermetic". If you remember, I mentioned that the two little old ladies who ran the place (probably long since passed into the spirit realm) had some kind of incense that could drive unpleasant people from the store. Anyway, Jack comes back with a link and apparently the store made Hate Magazine's List of "Satanic Cults".  You see I am secretely satanic.  What I wanted to write back was that Wicca predates Christianity and that satanism was a Christian construct, when it wasn't enough to demonize the Jews they had to create an enemy that could be found anywhere and in anyone. Anyone remember this tune from about 1984, File 13 - Tastes So Good? I didn't even know what it was called back then or who did it until I just did a search using the lyrics I could remember (the internet is amazing). Takes me right back to high school. There where these hot little clubster twins, who loved this tune, my buddy Kevin dated one for a long time...I dug on the other one, but she thought we should just be friends...hahaha.  First time I ever had a gun pulled on me, the four of us were cruising the Glendale/Burbank border in my '74 Volkswagen Bug. Cops pulled us over, had him and I get out out and lay on the ground at gunpoint. Apparently someone had reported that we had kidnapped the twins. If only I could have added kidnapping to my long list of crimes...a legitimate criminal instead of a small time hood.

A buddy of mine that I haven't talked to since Humboldt, Nick Reynolds of Grimace, asked me if I was playing music these days and I said no because of the redneck environment I live in.  His response, "yodel, banjo billy tornado rage rock"...perfect.

My first thoughts after listening to this for the first time and doing the rip, "...elements of punk, ska, flamenco, mariachi, Violent Femmes-ish country Pogues-ish penny whistle stuff (track 21) and hardcore that almost borders on power violence at times...some pretty incredible shit.  I know I saw these guys several times, mostly parties I guess, but it's real hazy (kids, don't fuck with drugs and liquor, because at the very least it can be like a psycho girlfriend and fuck with your mind...worse...your memory).  Sam (who is the reason I have this cassette at all gives up a much better description of these guys than my faded memory could ever supply over at his Atakra site (that's a must go to site anyway).  Used to party quite a bit with one of the guitar players, can't remember his name, big guy who drove a huge beat up suburban.  He actually loaned me that suburban when my truck broke down...cool guy.  We lost touch I guess after one of my close buddies socked one of his buddies in the eye with his keys in his hand.  Actually broke the key off in the guy's head just missing his eye.  Bad scene, because that dude was pretty cool too, if I remember right, just a case of being at the wrong place at the wrong time.  Anyway this is a "must-listen-to" piece of Humboldt history.  Sorry no track titles if it had something included with that kind of shit, it's long gone.  Released in 93?  I don't know shit except this is some badass shit. EDIT: Just minutes before I posted this I found out from Sam who found out from one of the band members, Payson, this was not a demo, I assumed that as it said "Hated in Humboldt" on the cassette and the album is obviously called "Drunks Are People Too".  Oh well I'm an idiot, but I guess when all is said and done, at the very least you get some of the almight Jolly Ho-Ho's.  On a side note you can still pick up a copy here and here. Jolly Ho-Ho's-01 Jolly Ho-Ho's-02 Jolly Ho-Ho's-03 Jolly Ho-Ho's-04 Jolly Ho-Ho's-05 Jolly Ho-Ho's-06 Jolly Ho-Ho's-07 Jolly Ho-Ho's-08 Jolly Ho-Ho's-09 Jolly Ho-Ho's-10 Jolly Ho-Ho's-11 Jolly Ho-Ho's-12 Jolly Ho-Ho's-13 Jolly Ho-Ho's-14 Jolly Ho-Ho's-15 Jolly Ho-Ho's-16 Jolly Ho-Ho's-17 Jolly Ho-Ho's-18 Jolly Ho-Ho's-19 Jolly Ho-Ho's-20 Jolly Ho-Ho's-21 Get the whole thing in one neat little package here.