NO AGE refresher...show tonight!!

okok. Just in case you didn't get it the first time, here's a newish "story" on our pals NO AGE. Watch it and if you're in San Diego tonight go see them in our (sarcastically) beautiful and historic Gaslamp Quarter. It should be quite odd. All the Skullz are going so....







Hey!! Did you notice the Skullz/NO AGE poster at the end of the video? NOISHE. Anywayz. Buhlieve me folks, there won't be long before you have to see them in a huge place, so don't sleep. Congrats to them, by the way, they just signed to Sub Pop few days back.

Here are the details:

Vice Magazine party tonight
@ The Onyx Room (downtown San Diego)
NO AGE
DJs
IKAH LOVE (Booty Bassment)
THADDEUS Robles (Swami Records)
other stuff too but whateverrrr

More Melodies

My current favorite Ramones song. Swallow My Pride. From the ol' Leave Home long player. That's it folks. All I got.

ASR? Yuck!! But for a chance to see NO AGE? F it.

Oh man I fucking hate ASR. When it comes to our beloved city, it just turns going out into a piece of shit. I have avoided going to any related events for years now, but I will break this pattern tomorrow night. For NO AGE, and NO AGE only. NO AGE is playing at The Onyx Room for Vice Magazine's ASR party. Fuck it. I <3 NA. And Vice is cool, I guess. Believe you me, I won't be anywhere else related to this. You won't catch me or any of my dogs at...ah, who cares anyway.

And if you're not familiar with NO AGE, check our archive, cuz I posted a blog all about them with a video and links.

SOOOO. Here goes:

GO SEE NO AGE AT THE ONYX ROOM (omg) FOR THE VICE MAGAZINE PARTY. IKAH LOVE OF BOOTY BASSMENT WILL ALSO BE DOING HIS LIL' THANG. TOMORROW NIGHT, xo

New blog for that ass...BASSTANIC

Hear ye hear ye. Check out the new blog Basstanic Blog. It's on our blogroll. F it, these are our blood brothers so show all your proper respects.

And a little background on these M-Fers. They are the gang o' fools behind Booty Bassment. War Goat Radio as well. All in the name of Satan and butts. Or "nalgas" for you Hispanic dogs.

Go to Skull Kontrol at Live Wire tonight. After you read their blog of course.

BANANAS

It's tomorrow.

This Is England

This Is England was finally released this week. I'd been waiting a long time for this movie and I was NOT disappointed.

The movie is set in 1983 England and follows a small gang of skinheads who have recently taken under their wing a 12 year old named Shaun, who is happy to belong and finally not be bullied in school. It's a very ugly time in England (war, Margaret Thatcher) and an ugly time in the leadership of this small "gang". Torn apart by racist/nationalist views and an integrated love for all skins, black or white, though the Pakistani culture is also a focus of hate. It captures the era perfectly.

The music is GREAT too. Toots & The Maytals, The Upsetters, UK Subs and tons more. The dialogue is sometimes very funny and sometimes very intense. I don't think this movie will be available in the US very long so hurry up!! Wow. This is a horrible "review". It's not really a review anyways. It's just how I started MY week. And my week started PERFECTLY.






Here's some stuff to check out and educate that ass on This Is England the movie:






CLICK HERE for This Is England official website


CLICK HERE for This Is England Myspace

BET satire controversy: Read A Book

I watch a TON of CNN. If I'm at the computer, I either have a record on or CNN on. Actually, more news than records. Sometimes my incessant watching of the news is rewarded with a really great tip on something. This is one of those occasions. BET created this video below as a satire and it has really pissed off black groups. It's an animated public service announcement type thing called Read A Book. It's in the vein of Schoolhouse Rock...but gone really bad. Gone crunk even. It really made me laugh. Enjoy this PLEASE. It will make your day.




Hilarious right? Your body needs water? HAHAHAHA


CNN report on BET controversy (haha)

“When I got up, I realized, my God, I don’t have any pants.”

We've all had our moments with the sauce. I've had mine, God knows Mario's had his; but I think this might top 'em all.

Melodies.

Screw it, I think I'm going out topless tonight and with a new do. A bunch of grease in my hair and bringing all my "locks" forward.

Whatever.

Alright, alright, I know. A week between posts? Geez. Truth is folks, this isn't my life. I'm not a "blogger". God forbid. Get used to it. There won't be a million posts a week. Our little visitation numbers aren't going to skyrocket.

But. That being said, HI. I had a great birthday weekend. I don't want to talk about it. LA was great. Whatever. The week was boring (work) whatever. Last night? Snoooozer. Looking forward to tonight. Our first night djing and putting on a show at Pink Elephant. CHROMATICS (Portland) are playing. It's going to be bananas. Promise. Early birds are going to be thankful. If you're not an early bird look forward to a line.

See ya.

The Prayers unveil new line up

The Prayers will perform for the first time with a new line up tonight at The Tower Bar. Newly permanent bass player Charles Rowell joins Los Angeles' Joel Black in forming the new rhythm section. They are playing tonight with Nice Boys (ex Exploding Hearts, Portland OR) and The Atoms. The Atoms will probably have copies of their brand new 7" on new San Diego record label, Sweet Tooth. What a night!!

"Heroes and Villains: The True Story of the Beach Boys" by Steven Gaines

I love tell-all books. All too often, music biographies act as a way for superfans to gush over their heroes and gloss over all the dirt that makes said heroes real. It's somehow inspiring to know that musicians i respect can be as big of fuckups as I can be.
Even if you're one of those cats who is too cool for the big, universally popular bands, you'll probably enjoy "Heroes and Villains". It covers the career of the Beach Boys from their late-50's beginnings till the mid-80's, when the book was published. It never glosses over the drugs, mental illness, violence and sex (including incest!) but it also doesn't read like a tabloid. It's just a complete, honest account of this fabulous band.

And to those cats who are too cool for the Beach Boys; c'mon...let's get serious here: For that golden period of about seven years, they were the only American band to give the Beatles a run for their money in terms of inventiveness, creativity, and simple goddamn hooks. Take "Good Vibrations"; it's a mini goddamn symphony. See below:





Or how about this fucking gem?

Mario Orduno's birthday crap. Two fiestas tonight N tomorrow.

Well our most beloved of all dogs is having a birthday today!! We've planned him a spectacular two tiered set of celebrations and what not. So come to Skull kontrol @ live Wire tonight and give that big ol' bear of a man a hug. And/or go to the house party tomorrow night and flip out to the sounds of kill me Tomorrow and The Sess. Both of these evenings include The Skullz djing and shit.

Fucking Faggot

The other day, on Sunday, Brandon and I went to a Padres game. My friend Tim has crazy nice season tickets and rewarded us as a "thank you" for a favor we did. Anyway, it was fun and pretty much flawless until I overheard some "A" hole talking about how tight our pants were. I turned around and saw the biggest got damn loser I'd seen in at least a day or two. The alcohol I drank at the game led me to flip around and get all confrontational. Kinda silly. All I said was "Are you talking to me, fucker?", which kinda shut him up, but whatever, it was dumb and maybe I should have been quiet. He would have probably poked me in the eye or the cops that were all around us would have probably thrown us all in the paddy wagon.

Well, later in the day, I remember my friend Wes was hanging the night before. He was visiting San Diego from his current home in Philadelphia. He gave me his brand new release, "Deathbeds" (Heartworm Press #11). When we got back to Brandon's house I opened my copy and read and read. It is great. It records his accounts of road trips, song lyrics and poems. Basically everything he's written/published from 1999-2007. Wes is a great modern writer and I really hope more people read his work. Well, during my reading I got to this poem and smiled. I love you Wes.

Girard Ave, 9/06

by Wesley Eisold

Skinny little kid in my face says
Fucking Faggot
Pants are too fucking tight

Why are you looking at my legs?


Deathbeds



hrtwrm #11
by Wesley Eisold
Deathbeds is a 176 page perfect-bound paper back collection of Eisold's work from 1999-2007. Art direction by Anthony Smyrski and photography by Melissa Farley. Limited to 1,000 copies. Heartworm #11.

www.theheartworm.com

Fire in the hole!

I was a mischievous lil' cocksucker when I was a kid. Me and my stupid friends were always up to no good, haha. I would have loved to participate in something like this when I was between the ages of 15 - 20:

Hear ye hear ye...

So. If you follow this blog or any of our shindigs, you are well aware that for the past year we've been putting on 1 or 2 Saturday nights a month @ The Beauty Bar. We've brought some great shit like Glass Candy, NO AGE, Mika Miko, Tender Buttons, Blood Brothers, Kill Me Tomorrow and Delta Spirit, not to mention brought our style of dance music to many a sweaty fool. Well, those days are OVER. No mas. Fini. No drama, no big, it's just been decided amicably that (for the most part) BB is not a good fit for us and we're not a good fit for their bar and clientele. It makes sense, really. I mean, I was so embarassed when one of these BB numbskulls heckled Mika Miko. Understandbly, underground music fans don't feel comfortable at BB, and the BB crowd don't feel comfortable with us. Who knows, maybe we'll do something in the future...

But let's talk immediate future. We are very excited to announce our new friends Bar Pink Elephant have invited us to spread our nonsense there. I have a feeling this will be a wonderful fit. Our first party is on Saturday, September 1st. We're having CHROMATICS play and you can expect more raucous dance music from our most attractive record collections. No electro, no bullcrap...just great loud party music. This dance party is FREE of charge too, by the way. NO COVER and cheap drinks. I mean really cheap. I'm talking three bucks and up.

So join us for our first foray into what looks like will be a BEEYOOTIFUL relationship. Booya.

Oh wait!! One more thing:

New babyshambles single!

Oh dear! Have you heard the new babyshambles single, "delivery"? Perfect pop. Kinks-y verse followed by an absolutely perfect chorus. Say what you will about ol' Pete and his drug problems and infedelities, but homeboy knows how to write a song. Peep the video:

It's funny how on a plane to the UK the pilot says that we're on "SHEDULE".

*(asterisk)This is not a San Diego SHEDULE or a definitive SHEDULE...it's the Skullz' (or related) SHEDULE!! Get over it.

THURSDAY

Skull Kontrol @ Live Wire. Free. Goofballs Sir Charles (The Prayers & The Vultures) and Mario Orduno (Art Fag Recordings) are preparing a fine, FINE supply of punk, oldies, rap, noisy nuggets, brit pop, rock steady and all things holy. Arrive b4 10 to grab a seat, come b4 12 to make out with one of these "A" holes or they'll be making out with each other (Oh brother!).

FRIDAY

Tim Mays of the Casbah is bringing together some of San Diego's most fun djs for this impromptu and FREE party this Friday. It promises to be an oddball mix of styles from the people behind Skull Kontrol, Jive Wire, One Nation and very special guests are on board to dick jockey the night. FREE FREE FREE (and not electro!!). @ The Casbah. DANCE DANCE DANCE DANCE DANCE DANCE DANCE DANCE DANCE DANCE DANCE n STUFF.

SATURDAY

We <3 The Tower Bar. Get with it. Saturday night cum see Australia's The Scare, along with The Vultures and Fifty On Their Heels. The Skullz are offering trebly pulsations that you don't own (along with ones you forgot about). $5.

SUNDAY

Geez loo eez!! Just rest, sweetie!! Oh fuck it, don't rest. Go see Kill Me Tomorrow's Dan and Zack as they host SD's fine FINE FINE jazz N blues night, Night Of The Cookers. You never know what drunken jerk is going to roll into this place, The Whistle Stop on Sunday. We love The Whistle Stop on the Lord's day...you know, after services and stuff? Oh one more thing! Dan gets the freakiest films for the big screen and TV. Secret clue: he's kinky!

Rehab star in rehab. Perfect.

hahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!

Amy Winehouse is in REHAB.

She is currently in Causeway Rehab Centre in Essex for heroin, cocaine and alcohol.

Can u imagine?

Television Personalities and my current obsession with them

I just bought Television Personalities 23 song anthology called "Part Time Punks: The Best Of TVP's" and I can't stop listening to it. I might just be obsessed. It has great liner notes by Creation's Alan McGee and a discography. Worth the 16.98.

If you're not a fan of The TVP's there might just be something wrong with you. Or I really don't know why you follow this blog. TVP's were one of Rough Trade's early artists, releasing their first 7" ep called "Where's Bill Grundy Now" in 1978. Perfect catchy post punk. Singer/ songwriter Dan Treacy sings perfectly with great British pop culture references in his lyrics. He's stil making TVP's records including 2006's "Are We Nearly There Yet?". Evidently ol' Dan Treacy has had bouts with drugs and mental illness and even found himself homeless. They've never sold much but are beloved throughout the planet.

So do yourself a favor and investigate The TVP's. I've done some legwork for you below. And listen to the cd somehow. Good luck getting the vinyl...I've tried a few times and seen the frickin' records go for upwards of one hundred smack-A-roonies. Enjoy.

(oh, and by the way, this video is a fan made one by one of these Swedes, but it's one of my favorite songs so deal with it. The videos kinda charming anyway.



TVP's AllMusic.com entry

TVP's Wikipedia entry

TVP's unofficial Myspace