youtube: Hated Uncles video 1992 "For You"

JK's gone crazy posting Hated Uncle videos on youtube. Here's a love song called, "For You" (i'll get you a beer or two!) thanks jkubu0

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BC Ferry Hell, MP3's Save the Day!!! youtubes: Nick Cave, Mudhoney, Magical Power Mako!!

We went to Prince Rupert on the weekend for a funeral...sad sad scene man...and we had (another) ferry ride from hell.
check in 4 am
wake at 3:15
call to verify check-in time (ya see...we're learning!)
check in now at 7:30
wake 6:45
check-in
board the ferry at 9
10:00 ferry still in dock
11:00 ferry still in dock
Noon ferry still in dock
1:00 ferry still in dock
2:00 ferry still in dock
3:00 ferry still in dock
3:15 ferry leaves dock
up and down
up and down
the waves toss the ferry
to and fro
10:15 ferry docks in Prince Rupert
11:15 pm finally check-in at the hotel....

Another typical ride aboard BC Ferries
HAVE A GREAT DAY!!!!
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My mp3 walkman helped the ferry ride incredibly…without it man, I'd have been an anxious shaking straitjacket-ready kook looking for the nearest pot bar or digging up mushrooms searching for a ticket to the great unknown…

Here’s what helped me through ferry ride from hell (alphabetically!)….

Acid Mothers Temple: Univers Zen Ou Zero A Zero (2002) this tab of acid is highly recommended for all you acid lovers out there. i happen to love acid very very much!

Blues Creation: Demon and Eleven Children (1971) loved the first listen to this japanese blues monster...i've become a sucker for early 70s japanese rock blues weirdness.

Nick Cave: Dig Lazarus Dig (2008) nick is one of those guys that has aged gracefully and strongly and the bad seeds are the perfect band for him. catchy clever...well, he is nick cave.

thanks MuteChannel

Dungen: 4 (2008) this modern psych band from sweden is excellent. still fairly new to me, but i'll continue checking these guys out.

[aside: I'm listening to Magical Power Mako's self-titled release from 1974 and it's insane!!! I can certainly see why the Acid Mothers named an album after him...amazing fucking shit!!!]

Eulenspygel: 2 (1971) early krautrock...first listen...very good, and i love saying the name u-len-spie-gul - 4 syllables slowly drawn out...come on, do it...it's fun!!! u-len-spie-gul...* sigh * oh yeh...this is their 1st album which is why they call it 2 cause calling it 1 would be too obvious and the drugs were great back then and let's call it 2 cause we are u-len-spie-gul!!!!!

Funkadelic: Music for Your Mother (1992) disc 1 - after witnessing early funkadelic goodness on youtube i couldn't resist putting this on the ol mp3...classic....5 stars....*****....A+....however you want rate this, you gotta rate it a-one 100% funky goodness for all our souls!!! all praise clinton!!!! and fuzzy hawkins and eddie hazel and billy bass nelson and tiki fulwood and raymond davis and tawl ross....one of my top 5 bands of all-time!!!

Hawkwind: Doremi Fasol Latido (1972) another classic i've written about raved about and it still sounds awesome and time we left this world today is one of my all-time fav songs...of all-time...i'm singing it in my head now....

Kin Ping Meh: II (1972) great krautrock! great cover of come together!!! a big help on ferry ride from hell...

Mudhoney: The Lucky Ones (2008) wow!!!! i L O V E D this one!!!!! the title song is awesome...if i did top 10 lists of 2008 this would be on it...heartfelt stooges-like rock that stirs my soup soul...WHAT????? Rate Your Music only has this at 3.29!!!!???? am i deaf??? am i losing it??? nah...this is fantastic and everyone else is insane!!! that's right...in-fucking-sane!!!!!! I am Blogger!!!! I am strong!!!!!

thanks spacemetalizer - live at the Horseshoe in good ol T.O 9/19/2008!

[aside: magical power mako is kicking some serious ass right now!!!]

thanks moto717

Sly & The Family Stone: Essential (2003) disc 2 sly was (is?) great and there's a riot going on is a heavy drug album that makes ya feel like you're strung out alone in a scuzzy apartment with the tape machine going and words slur out with clarity and perception and it all makes dark dark dark sense...pssst...pass the needle will ya?????

[aside: of course, the above is merely metaphorical...]

Yamashita Yosuke: At the Blue Note (1975) disc 2 (of 3) is it yosuke yamashita OR yamashita yosuke [aside: i'm putting it at 70% it's yamashita yosuke but willing to be corrected...also i am absolutely digging magical power mako!!!] great piano based jazz from someone i'm just learning about....

I cannot imagine what life was like pre-mp3...that ferry ride would have increased my medication levels to new highs, instead, I remain calm and relaxed singing songs and dancing on air mattresses on the high high high seas, I mean on the high high high oceans!!!!!
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Hey - did ya see Rowdy Roddy Piper sucking on a bong at a nightclub? He's on medical marijuana as a survivor of Hodgkin's Lymphoma & also had a hip replacement...Hey - Roddy, if you're ever on Haida Gwaii come on by for a visit!! Don't forget your medicine!!!!
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babies born
babies dying
the cries of the new
the silence of death

intermingle
to create
the mystery
of tomorrow
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Why is Billy crying????? He needs to do the Last Pogo!!!

Harvey Dog quoted on "Last Pogo" poster!! Ego Runs Rampant!!!!

Here's the poster for the great doc "The Last Pogo". Ya gotta check out if you have any interest in late 70s Toronto punk.



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youtube: Hated Uncles video 1992 "Why Do I Live in Canada"

Thanks to JK (ya beat me to it!), here's a youtube of The Hated Uncles from a Toronto show in 1992. I'm the guy with the dirty army jacket screaming about being fucking cold! John Kinsella on bass, John Battaglia on guitar, Paul Settle on trumpet and Dave Turcotte on drums. thanks jkubu0

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Sad times in Skidegate...

Off to Prince Rupert for a funeral...still very hard to deal with and talk about....Tammy will be doing the eulogy. Will be back Monday.

Thanks to Andrew, Mole and Odette for recent comments. I appreciate them all!
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Odds and Ends Odds and Ends I should drink more Orange Juice!!!!

Musical Chit Chat

Friday Night August the 14th!!!!
Friday Night August the 14th!!!!
Friday Night August the 14th!!!!

Man - I just finished watching that youtube video of Funkadelic (again and again and again) and it wraps me up and sends me off to different galaxies
and intensities
and emotions
I just wanna fucking
SCREAM
...with passion...

Note to Mole (and everybody else): I listened to JD King & The Coachmen, and thought it was great. I had it on my Walkman and didn't know who it was: I thought - wow, a cool garage instrumental version of "Sweet Jane" - about time. I checked it out and it was JD. Very interesting guy...Thanks Mole!

I'm enjoying Budgie's solid 70s hard rock approach. No frills.

Elephant9: Dodovoodoo (2008) Loved this slice of Norwegian progressive acid organ jazz. Maybe I'm looking under the wrong rocks and swimming the wrong oceans and walking the wrong lanes...BUT I don't hear enough new modern jazz, so this went down beautifully and soothed the soul.

I have discovered lots of great new music (including Elephant9) on the blog called Soundweave. Great job guys! Much appreciated!!

Hey, enough of this modern stuff
hahaha
here's an old obscure classic worth hearing: Euclid: Heavy Equipment (1970) Check out this fuzzed out psych rockin' trip on ChrisGoesRock.
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Miscellaneous Chit Chat

I'm glad Obama beat McCain (oh Lord another 8 years of selfish aggressive xenophobic sons of bitches...I think not) and hopefully he lives up to the hype. I'm cynical about politicians in general, but I'm rooting for him...I guess we'll see. I hope he really is about change, and I mean
SERIOUS FUCKING CHANGE
not a little tune up.

I start the Life Skills job on Wednesday and am pretty anxious (and excited) to find out about my responsibilities. The library job is really good.

Our 18 year old cat "Trouble" is still hanging in there. He's started showing his age...then again, I calculate his age to be 90, and if I'm doing as well as him when I'm that age...well, as Barry Manilow once wisely proclaimed:
"It's A Miracle
a true blue spectacle
a miracle come true" - or something like that.

Hope all went well at my friends Andrew and Sandra's wedding on Halloween. Hamilton seems so far away...literally. Hope they had a great time and are enjoying married life!
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