Punk on YouTube!

At this point I'm just stealing other people's ideas. For you. Here's a bunch of links to YouTube joints, punk and otherwise, worth checking that I collected off the Low Budget forums. Im a biter.


Bad Brains 79- Sailin On (live)
Bad Brains- Attitude
Can- Paperhouse
Serge "drunk french pervert" Gainsbourg and Whitney "I don't smoke crack, Bums smoke crack... I Smoke Weed!" Houston on French TV"
FEAR Live on SNL
Husker Du live on the Joan Rivers Show
Kraftwerk- Autobahn
Minutemen- King of the Hill
Minutemen- Corndog intro, 3 songs

(And heres some dirty south for the fuck of it...
Lil Wayne- Shooter (Katrina Footage Video)
Juvenile- Hustle

And some more punk from your boy Harry Balls. Check his You Tube page for more Powerpop, hardcore, Trashrock etc --

Crime live at San Quentin
Void- Who ARe You? (live 1983)
Beastie Boys- Holy Snappers
Pagans- Dead End America

G and I have been reading Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer which is about those fucking nut cases the Mormons. Really, you have no idea how crazy this shit is. Basically Fundamental Mormonism is a club for men with beards who like to talk and write things like it's from the Bible like "As thou sayeth the righteousness of the kingdom of the lord, and so it came to pass" and then they claim that it came directly from god. It's like if some guys really liked the book Get Shorty and then spent 200 years imitating Elmore Leonard's prose style and claiming that he wrote it. Oh, and if Elmore Leonard never existed in the first place. And if it was all an elaborate exuse for raping 13 year old girls and having tons of wives that you treat like livestock.
You have to read the book to get the creepiness of it all. And an amazing point that he makes is that the Bible and the Quoran are no more beleivable than the Book of Mormon, they were just written so long ago that they are more difficult to contest. Mormonism is basically just like any religion in it's infantile form. That it is modern and transparant enough for everyone to see it for what it is- a giant hoax created by a charismatic con man and carried on by desperate and crazy people is the main difference between it and our established religions.

Click link only if you're from P Town

That's Provincetown, you chiefs. Portland Oregon is not called P-Town. If anything it should be called P-Land

Listen or Download the the Rub crew White label mixes on myspace here

My book recomendation for the this and any other month is The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy. Read an excerpt here or Have Brad Pitt read it for youIt is really one of the most devastating and beautiful books I've ever read. Few books are as appalling or eerily visionary, maybe the >The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kozinski, and fewer are as naturally stylized, maybe the best of Hemingway. This was my first taste of Cormac McCarthy's prose, and from what I've heard it's probably the best place to start. Anyone struggling with the Spanish dialog used liberally can find translations aqui. Read the book and enjoy the rosy glow of man's separation from god in a brutal and desolate world

My father, the "very colorful Truro resident" was interviewed by the Provincetown Banner last week. Can't find the full version online, but lets just assume it was so censored as to be unintelligable, and fill in the blanks with our imagination as to what was said and possibly screamed.

I know all you drunk metal dudes are having none of it, but I heard the new Opeth album "Ghost Reveries" the other day and you know, I don't hate. Opeth have gradually changed over 10 albums from a gravel-throated black metal beast to a melodic symphonic rock group. Yes, "Ghost Reveries" sounds like prog-influenced easy listening. Yes, it sounds a bit like Queensryche (where's my umlaut button?). It sounds nothing like the soundtrack to a good cathartic church burning. But this is all ok.
Maybe it's because I was listening to it at 2000 meters while watching the sun set over the glacial peak of Mount Tronador through big bay window at Refugio Otto Meiling. That day G and I had hiked 6 hours up the mountain getting gnawed on my swarms of horseflies. Now we were drinking cold beer at a refugio at the base of a massive glacier and "Ghost Reveries" was playing on the soundsystem. It was thrown in for sunset, right bewteen Dido and Rod Stewart. And no one batted an eyelash. It´s that soft. And as the orange setting sun blinked over the blue peak of tronador one last time I thought I heard a shelf was falling off a glacier nearby. But it was just a sound effect on an intro to a song. Epic shits.
I wanted to feature an Mp3, but Opeth are bigger nerds than you and probably are on the Wi Fi on their tour bus all day, making sure no one's downloading their music. It's not about propriety, it's just that they dont want you listening to their epic shits on an inferior sound format like mp3.

Matt Gross, a friend of G and I just had an article about Cambodia published in the NY Times Travel section. It's about the recent upcropping of luxury hotels in Cambodia and around SE Asia, which will be handy for all y'all thinking of dropping a grand on a hotel room next time you visit the cheapest place in the world. Keep your eyes peeled for an article I'm working on for the Times about what it was like to have scabies.

Heres a recap of the hottest shits of 2005. Just a quick roundup of mixes you could be listening to. Instead of whatever else you´re doing, which is pointless.
RADIOCLIT are my best friends in an Argentinian internet cafe right now. They´ve been kind enough to put all their DirtySouth/ Grime/ Electro/ Fagbeat/ ChoppednSkrewed/ Radiobullshitmixes on disk for download or stream - especially cop their Lemon red series radio show, their 2nd official mixtape CAREFUL;CLITCLIT and for a quick preview, hear Dizzee Razcall get the Bjork/Vitalic treatment when he gets mashed up with French electroshite Chloe and end up with perhaps his first song worth hearing twice! Dont hate dudes because they're French!
Then there´s the powerful Certified Bananas from the mighty state of Rhode Island who haven´t changed anything, still bringing dope mixes and exclusives. Youve already heard them mash Joanna Newsome with Tego "I swear I saw him buying crack once near La Pearla in San Juan" Calderon, but hows about "Marquee Moon" by Television mashed with that filthy "My Neck, My Back..." song (download)? Or how about not?
And of course there´s the man so omnipresent and zeitgeisty that he's like the even more white version of Pharrell, Diplo with some live shit coming straight from where all the best parties are at: The Guggenheim Museum. Parts one and Two streaming here Thats right, here´s some exclusive mixes from that bastion of all things indie and gutter: AOL MUSIC (diplo page here). Many strikes against it? Yes, but peep the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs RMX, lots of Electro funk, the Percolator, and tons of Baile with at least one Smiths sample. Ignore "My Hump". Thank you.
And if 2005 isn't doing it for you, take the way-back-machine to 2004 and finally cop Diplo's "Piracy Funds Terrorism" (download) . Harken back to an innocent time when America fell in love with a young MIA and the "do you hear me now" guy taught us all to smile again. More than just a genius way to get into MIA's pants, "Piracy..." was a dope mixtape featuring some hot fire blends and exclusives like Lil Vicious on the Galang rhythm and Cutty Ranks on the "Drop it Like it´s Hot" rhythm . Save it for your "Totally 00's" party in a couple years.

shhhhhDONT TELL NOBODY IN THE GHETTO

The HOLLERBOARDS are dead.. long live the "HOLLERBOARDS".shhhhhhhhhh

Right now im obsessed with this cover of "All Tommorow's Parties" by the velvet underground done live by Iron and wine and calexico. I'm pretty sure that its better than the original.
Im just liking on the idea of covers in general. Any band that doesn't play at least one cover live are obviously pretensious pricks. When we saw Iron and Wine and Calexico live in Detroit they played "All Tommorows Parties", plus "Positively 4th Street" by Bob Dylan. I haven't been able to find a copy of that (I think it may have been a once only deal, as afterwards Sam said "Well, those things are fun to try. Sometimes they work and sometimes... not.") but on this live set from NPR they play "Parties", plus "Always on my Mind" by Willie Nelson and "Wild Horses" by the Rolling Stones (admittedly a kind of obvious choice, but they do it nice). Plus on that page are the Calexico and Iron and Wine sets. They are all good except for the annoying NPR nerds who talk during the breaks.