8.28.2008

meat puppets and lounge lizards

Tempe Arizona's Meat Puppets "Lake Of Fire". The guy on the far left went crackhead for awhile. The drummer lives in Mesa and is a friend. I love this old hardcore. It got me through several summers working at Wall Drug Store in South Dakota. I was a hater then. Now I'm just a plotter. Plotting stuff. Meeting in dark rooms with questionable characters regarding security issues, technology and cell phones. Anyway, listen up.



Austin Texas' Austin Lounge Lizards' Dana Lyons' "Cows With Guns". Humerous cartoon animation, but check out their other stuff. It's much more serious. Ha!

8.23.2008

denver demo convention orientation video

For those of you attending the Coronation of King Obama, the Great Black Hope, here is a useful Denver orientation video.

8.20.2008

georgia sasquatch update


Alas. The Georgia Bigfoot has proven to be a fake. The refrigerator corpse was simply a rubber Halloween costume containing no organic matter whatsoever and rubber feet for the hard Halloween pavement. It's no longer 15 minutes of fame, it's a split second for all the wrong reasons. I'm very close to losing my respect for all inhabitants of the US southeast. It's a wonder they can open a package of beef jerkey. Or find their way to a Sonic.

Nonetheless, Hootenanny decides to believe in sasquatch (not this one, dimwit). Belief in something that's not real, but wished for. We recognize our friend in our mission statement and Hootenanny supports the ongoing search for this particular crypto-zoological hairy beast as well all efforts to ensure the viability of their habitats. Can you imagine the difficulty these brothers of man must face? They live in the woods, mountains, plains and swamps. Yet, they never complain. They seemingly prosper as more are sighted by us every year. Over 890 last year alone including almost every state.

It has been posited that they are merely Barack Obama supporters coming out of some sort of hippie exile camp. But how does that explain the estimated height averaging over 7 feet 2 inches or the total body carpet (fur)? Really big hippie's? Unlikely. Bears? Maybe. Bigfoots with voting rights.

Ideal.

billy batest redux


Can you pick the real Billy? I can, he's to the left of the gay dude on the right. But think about it, if you were at bus stop or subway, which one would you ask for directions? I'd ask the mean looking guy, the other is more likely to pull a successful con 'cause he looks so honest.

8.19.2008

gravity biscuits


"Yes, sir" the boy was heard to say, "I'll take a gravity defying biscuit! Just let me remove my plexiglass space helmet."
Now that we've determined the Georgia Sasquatch was only a rubber Halloween costume, can we really trust anything/anybody? Biscuits from space. Cars that run on water. People from High Point, North Carolina where they put too much sugar in their iced tea and too much vinegar in their BBQ. Speaking of which, who ever heard of putting cole slaw on a vinegary pulled pork sandwich? It doesn't make sense.
Falling commodities prices, a rising dollar; both recent improbabilities. I think I'll move to Mexico and sell pot on a secluded beach. Pot sells low, but it always sells for a small profit. I'll grill fresh fish and big, fat shrimp on an open wood fire and maybe become a painter. Or some other type of dirt-poor artisan. Burn my credit cards for fuel. Just Marlon Brando, Pocohantas and me.
So please send money to help this boy realize his dream. And buy a plexiglass space helmet and some gravity defying biscuits. Arriba!

8.16.2008

blue


The best band out of Minneapolis since the Replacements. Sadly, the Jayhawks are no more. But what is these days?

8.15.2008

bigfoot press release


Click on graphic to enlarge image.

8.14.2008

virtue the cat explains her departure

again, the weakerthans from winnipeg manitoba canada.
the song is called 'virtue the cat explains her departure' (sung from a cat perspective).
it's interestingly eclectic

8.08.2008

young jethro sandwich

When I was job-hunting in Minneapolis in the early 80's, I would sack at various locations. I eventually gravitated to my friend's house. He just happened to have a band in motion, Young Jethro Sandwich (YJS) they actually had a Hootenanny endorsed single, Freudian Farmer.
Sadly, YJS split up.
But anyway, I digress.

Let's switch gears. Here's LA beauty Susanna Hoffs playing Alex Chilton (Big Star). The tune, written in the 70's holds up well.

September Girls



and the Dude himself ...

mrs robinson

John Edward's girlfriend. Wow. His wife is at least as good looking as this Lounge Lizard with a truly freaky shovel-chin.
Guess what, the number of white-guy politicians cheating on their wives actually exceeds the number black athlete's attempts to get through an airport with a Pissinator or an unregistered handgun.
In any event, Hootenanny has crossed this idiot (John Edwards) off our list forever. He has acted poorly and he is from North Carolina. It's quite possible he suffers from some organic brain function fuck-up. Another possibilty is that he is a full-on moron - I believe that on the Psych scale a moron is dumber than an idiot. Both are endemic in NC. Some have spread into Arizona. I fight them off with a rake and a shovel. I haven't shot one yet, but I'm considering it.

So anyway, listen to and watch Simon and Garfunkel's Mrs. Robinson.

8.07.2008

people who died

at least 9 suspected immigrants dead in crash

Aug. 7, 2008
Arizona Republic staff and wire reports.

Nine people died and another 10 were take to hospitals around the Valley and in Tucson after a single-car rollover wreck Thursday morning outside of Florence.
The GMC Suburban was traveling northbound on State Route 79 when it careened off the two-lane highway and flew over a nearby wash before coming to rest in the desert about 7:45 a.m. Thursday.
Images from a television helicopter show a crumpled white SUV alongside the road and what appears to be a row of bodies covered with tarps.
Two women were among the dead, and no children were in the vehicle, said Lt. Mike Corbin, a Department of Public Safety spokesman. One of the occupants was carrying a Guatemalan ID, he said.
The number of passengers squeezed into the SUV, and the route it was travelling, left authorities with the suspicion that the truck was smuggling illegal immigrants into the country.
“With that many people crammed into a vehicle, it's probably a human-smuggling organization,” Corbin said.
The highway that runs through Pinal County has become a popular trail for smugglers following stepped-up enforcement efforts on Interstate 10, Corbin said.
The wreck left both lanes of the rural highway closed for more than three hours as DPS officers and Border Patrol agents investigated the scene.
Border Patrol agents were called to the area, just north of the Tom Mix Memorial, at the request of DPS officials.
No police or border patrol vehicles were chasing the truck at the time of the wreck, but Corbin estimated the SUV was going at least 85 mph and said speed could be a factor in the fatal accident.
The truck was tagged with Sonora license plates and the Mexican Consulate in Arizona came to the scene to assist victims.
Helicopters flew the injured to trauma centers in Tucson and the Valley, though hospital representatives could not update the condition of the victims early Thursday afternoon.
Craig Fischer, a spokesman for Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, said the hospital received four survivors and will possibly receive additional patients later.
Judy Keane, a spokeswoman for Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix, confirmed two survivors were treated there.
The highway re-opened shortly after noon Thursday.

8.06.2008

what's he building in there?

Willie, my cat, is building something in there. Having burrowed into the box spring on the king sized Hemingway Sleigh Bed and following much clamor and banging I began to notice receipts carefully stacked next to the headboard. Lowes, Home Depot, Bed Bath and Beyond. Then it was thick carpenters pencils and cans of paint.
I began to wonder: what's he building in there?
Last night I saw flashes of light and a smell of sulfur that suggested welding. I looked for but did not find welding gear. Willie had a tell-tale fur burn on his right rear paw. And there was another on the carpet - not a cigarette burn, I quit last November.
Today, when I arrived home from work, an attractive young tabby slipped through the garage door before it shut. I opened the door to the laundry room and the tabby shot past me and straight up to the loft. I heard a crinkle and a pop and upon investigation found evidence of crackers and white sparkling wine. That's when I noticed Willie had apparently hung a tiny, neon "No Vacancy" sign. Around 7:00 PM the tabby began mewing at the front door and I let her out. I heard the upstairs shower fire up and Willie came down shortly after in what appeared to be a silk kimono. He smelled strongly of my missing bottle of Calvin Klein.
I went upstairs with a flashlight but the evidence was gone. The No Vacancy sign had been switched to Vacancy. A small group of immigrant landscapers were carefully tending to the carpet and the false potted plant out front. I sat on the edge of the bed and wondered aloud, "What's he building in there?"

8.03.2008

the weakerthans


The Weakerthans are an award-winning four-piece (and sometimes six-piece) Canadian indie rock band that blends punk-inflected folk rock with literate, introspective lyrics.
History
The band was formed in 1997 in Winnipeg, Manitoba by John K. Samson, after he left the punk band Propagandhi to start a publishing company. Samson joined forces with bassist John P. Sutton and drummer Jason Tait, and created The Weakerthans as a vehicle for a more melodic and introspective brand of songwriting than that of Propagandhi. One origin story for the band's name, as quoted in the liner notes of Fallow, is a line from the 1992 film The Lover: "Go ahead, I'm weaker than you can possibly imagine." The band's name may also refer to a Ralph Chaplin quote from "Solidarity Forever": "What force on Earth can be weaker than the feeble strength of one?" The band alludes to this line in the song "Pamphleteer" from the album Left and Leaving.
The band's debut album, Fallow, was released in 1997 on G7 Welcoming Committee Records, and garnered positive reviews from Canadian music critics. Guitarist Stephen Carroll, formerly of Painted Thin, subsequently joined the band, and Left and Leaving was released in 2000.
In 2003, the band moved to Epitaph Records and released Reconstruction Site. The album was met with rave reviews[6] from Canadian and international critics for its ambitious combination of punk, rock, folk, country and sonnets. It also became the band's best-selling record to date, as well as its airplay breakthrough on Canadian radio. It was the second Weakerthans album to be produced by Ian Blurton.
Sutton, who played on all three of the band's first albums, left in August 2004 and was replaced by Greg Smith.
In 2005, Left and Leaving was named one of the ten best Canadian albums of all time in Chart magazine's reader poll. In the same poll, Samson wrote the capsule review for another top ten finisher, The Lowest of the Low's Shakespeare My Butt, which he cited as a major influence on his own music.
Reunion Tour was released on September 25, 2007 in North America by Epitaph and ANTI-. The band released a video for "Civil Twilight", which consisted of a single, unbroken camera shot of the band on a Winnipeg Transit city bus.

random sturgis ...


Hey, where are the donuts? I can't wait to see the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center. Is that Rapid Creek? I heard they just got a Sonic, gonna hit that up for sure. Anyone notice it's drier here? I don't sweat near as much. How much for that t-shirt. Do you have XXXXL? I'm a big guy. Where's the best breakfast? Was that Keanu Reeves? Where's dinosaur park? Storybook Island? Man. the buffet at Shakey's Pizza rules. Man, that Rushmore Meats bologna sandwich tasted even better under the concrete teepee at the rest area. I ain't never going home!