Ridiculous to see how you keep your arms raised

Just in case anyone who happens to have to work Friday (suckers) needs to waste some time, here is some shit I found interesting on YouTube.

Inside Dilla's Studio (R.I.P.)

Jaylib Feat. Frank N Dank - McNasty Filth

?uestlove's Record Library

Wu-Tang on Cribs

Redman on Cribs

Lifetime Live in Philly

Sean White on Cribs

Dave Chapelle on In The Actor's Studio

NOFX - Seeing Double At the Triple Rock

Kid Dynamite - Pacifier (Live)

Boy Sets Fire - After The Eulogy (Live)

Raise Fist - Message Beneath Contempt (Live)

Darkest Hour - Eclipse (Live)

Against Me! - From Her Lips to God's Ears

DJ Babu - US DMC Final Set

A-Trak vs. Prime Cuts

Propagandhi - Hallie Sellasse Up Your Ass (Live '01) (Live '96) (Live '94)

Propagandhi - I Wanna See Oka Everywhere (Live)

Henry Rollins vs. Nardwuar


Ya, so that kinda devolved into live videos of bands I like. Still a good way to waste some time though.

Peace

Yes it’s a mess, but we’re here to clean up

Things I have to say:

I saw Wolf Parade a little while ago and they killed it. So did Frog Eyes for that matter. Their singer reminded me of Meatloaf in the best way possible.

I am working with a group of summer students and I am pretty sure the collective amount of work they get done everyday is approaching zero (had I ever paid attention in a math class I would use some technical word there). I can't imagine dealing with this for the next year.

Summer is over and I didn’t do all too much. I don’t really mind though because that means snowboard season is coming up and I can’t wait for that shit to get going. I think an RCR Super Pass purchased by work may be in order. I don’t really care if I use it enough or anything, because it’s not my money. That is pretty awesome.

Thunderbirds Are Now! Are playing here October 6 at Broken City with You Say Party! We Say Die! There are already a bunch of exclamation points in that sentence, so I didn’t add any, but I have to say that I am more excited for this show then pretty much anything else that’s coming in the next year or so.

My sleep pattern these days is all fucked up. I’ve been falling asleep around 2 every night for no good reason. This doesn’t make me the happiest dude during the day when I'm waking up at 6:30.

Peace.

Gotta keep thinking, things, hunters and kings

Two days until The Wolf Parade show. I missed them when they came through with The Arcade Fire, so I’m excited for this one.

Two weeks until Slam City Jam. I have always wanted to go watch this in Vancouver. Especially when I was still trying to skateboard. I guess I’m lucky because it decided to come visit me instead.

One day until my older sister’s birthday. Hopefully this will help remind me to phone her. My sisters are both amazing people.

One year until I am supposed to write the UFE. We’ll see about that.

Six years until I turn thirty. That seems really old.

Peace.

Ever get the feeling ideals can't take us where we need to go?

Wow. Leave it to Dave, who I bailed on to go to Warped Tour (sorry again Dave), to be the guy who made me want to write something again. Down below you’ll see a video that happens to be Grade’s last song from a reunion show I never even heard about. And to think I used to all about the punk. Now I’m old and I miss when bands I used to love get back together. That is appalling.

I can’t imagine Grade was ever really anyone’s favourite band. Sure as shit they played incredible music, but I doubt too many people ever said the ywere the greatest band ever. That may be the case but they were easily one of my favourite bands live. They played that screamy emotional stuff long before My Chemical Romance and those other kind of bands (what an awful comparison, but I still think it makes my point) made the shit pop music. In fact Grade’s old label now has a splash page telling people to vote for one of their bands on TRL. That is fucked up. I think I only saw one Grade video ever, and I’m actually pretty sure I just made that up. I don’t think I ever saw a Grade video. That’s too bad because as you can see from the video below they used to throw down.

My favourite Grade memory is what I believe was the third time I saw them. They were playing at the Bassment in Saskatoon, and there were maybe 30 people in the crowd. That didn’t stop them from playing as hard as they could, because they knew people in Saskatoon loved them and they loved us. There were probably 10 people right up front , including me and Mike and the guys who were pretty much running the Saskatoon punk scene at that point. We were screaming along to whatever song it was and all of a sudden Freaky wraps the lead singer in a bear hug, and everyone just keeps rocking out. That probably sounds stupid now that I wrote it down, but at least Mike (and maybe Dave) will remember it and how awesome that whole night was.

So yeah, enjoy the last song grade will ever play together and kick yourself for missing them each time they came through Saskatoon.



Peace.