ive never been one to really think i am better than people.....sike....ive always thought that. i hate people who try to hard. you know the typical....guys with awesome glittery power club shirts, crust punks,hipsters,vegans, republicans,democrats, the religious people, pacifists, atheists, shallow women, dudes who think status is everything, people who read at the library, people who still read, people who dont download music, people who actually think vinyl is better...you get my point. more than anything.....i hate stupid people. i mean people who literally are not smart. lack of education. on one hand i pity them for not being able to assimilate properly into society....their lack of education is a direct result of how they live....which in most cases are poor....and i feel bad for them...but on the other hand they maintain that....never wanting to change...and they pass it down from generation to generation. the marathon gas station in covington at about 145 in the am is a perfect example of this. its unbearable....the line was ridiculous....as i was sitting in the back of the line holding my breathe from the stench that you can see emanating off of the people. i noticed everyone was buying blunt papers.....all i wanted was a pack of smokes. the two guys in front of me paid for their sodas with their food stamp card....and cash for their cigs.....look.....hate is a really strong word....and i prolly shouldn't use it....when i say hate...im just using that word for dramatic effect. im just tired of people. not in that emo sense.....i like my friends and i like the people who are think like me and like the same things....i like people who are into things i dont understand so i can ask them alot of questions and backhandedly make fun of them for it....but you gotta understand...my job is dealing with people....shitty shitty stupid people. and at times it becomes really frustrating.....thank god for ole jim beam.
COME BACK SUN.
ive been watching alot of movies lately and laying in my bed. when im not laying in my bed working or watching movies. im reaching new levels of drunkenness. new limits are being reached...almost like a university who has been given a grant by the govt to research new levels of drunkenness. and i am the volunteer for the medicine. the one major thing that is missing right now.......music. oso bear played its last show sometime back in November. we haven't practiced since. true story.....i sleep through the daylight hours. i stay up all night reading Wikipedia and now i have seen all the a movies....so now ive been reduced to watching shitty be movies......ive been making somewhat poor decisions lately when it comes to certain things. yep....winter is here.
im really starting to get done with the winters. just think.....30 days of night....the movie...those vampires were huge dicks... wouldn't you be? no sun.....no sun equals no fun. and makes drinking more appealing then actually getting out and doing something. staying in is where its at
ive been researching someplace to travel. i would like to go by train. my default goto travel spot has always been Chicago. its a magical mid western city with awesome food and even awesomer music (cmon....seriously eff you on the awesomer)
Somewhere with daylight sounds more appealing right now......California.....the bay area......maybe even Florida..... Arizona....shit i dunno....just a get away.
winter in nky is a real bummer.....winter in KETUCKY is a real bummer. all the trees have done dormant....mostly....it rains....when it does snow its here for a day or two and becomes black from all the cars driving in it...then just becomes wet again. the sun hides all day in clouds. its a real drag. must find sunlight.
Hoboken New JErsey
I had this dream the other day that i was part of anthony bourdains cooking team at his restaurant. Everything was really high intensity.....cooking gourmet food real fast and what not. sitting at a conference table, Tony himself asked me to come up with some sort of spicy cheese......being the novice i am compared to the room of chefs and sous chefs i called out with some pepper jack. everyone who wasnt tony looked down at their notepads.....for they knew i made the most fatal of all errors......pepper jack was the lowest of the low brow cheeses.....
skip to the dream right after that Marty and thom breneman invite me onto the reds hot stove show which airs on tuesdays from six to nine on 700 wlw. the problem is.....i know nothing about the cincinnati reds and i didnt show up in proper attire...as if the being on the radio needs proper attire. confused....and nervous.......the show must go on...and much to marty and thom's dismay it did....as the show went on....they started to admonish me more and more on air.....i explained to them that they were the ones who invited me on the show....they reminded me that they had no idea i knew so little about the reds.
that was a weird couple of dreams.
BEING LOW BROW IN UNIQUE AMERICA
I'm getting pretty sick and tired of fast food restaurants passing off ranch and Monterrey jack cheese as something that we the consumer consider to be "high brow" in fact....its quite the opposite. let me explain...... Wendy's makes a chicken sandwich....then.....the add ranch dressing and Monterrey jack cheese......and charge you a dollar extra for the pleasure.......lets be real Monterrey jack cheese is not a very good cheese...nor for that matter is pepper jack...or even American cheddar....no friends....to find good cheese you must cross the pond....the the magical cheese land of Europa.....now something just came to mind in the midst of me writing this.....Wisconsin............there is good cheese in Wisconsin........cheese curds that it.........speaking of cheese curds...how about some poutine......would this be considered high brow? i think not
back to what i was once saying....but first i would like to finish with Wisconsin.....you are quite the magical state......union made pbr......union made ballatine......gartenbrau.....to name a few choice beers....not to mention......cheese....but alas you are not europe....home of the best cheeses in the world.....even the English have a good run in the cheese business. its had come to my realization that there is alot of low brow stuff going on in the united states these days....especially when it comes to food and what people eat.....first and foremost...all vegans are low brow....you limit yourself so much that i often wonder if you even have a relationship with food at all.....did you lose your taste buds? you must have....because a new york strip.....rare....might be the best thing ever......besides wrapping it in bacon......tofu....is low brow. now when it comes to meat....there are alot of low brow meats...and you can tell alot about someone by the amount of low brow meats they have stocked in their kitchen....bologna.....hot dogs.....pickle loaf......PICKLE LOAF....wtf is pickle loaf.? someone recently commented on my use of ellipses...and how i over use them..............................................................................that one was for you asshole......all the the afore mentioned are low brow meats....so you get where im going with low brow meats.....a high brow meat would be any select cut of beef.....there are gray areas....is chicken essentially a low brow meat....or a high brow meat.....where does pork fit in all of this?.......then....what about the gamey animals....i will leave that open for discussion. never the less we should start talking and discussing high brow trends versus low brow trends...in almost every aspect of out lives...after all...."consumer culture truly is society's great disease".....and i believe our consumer culture is uniquely American. my point from the beginning is....ranch dressing is low brow....im tired of it....give us something else wendys.
right now as i lay in the prone position of my bed.....i currently have the oyster flu....which i have due to the economy....lemme explain......people blame everything on the economy.....at least it seems like that....." you know with this economy...its hard to get a job" or....." gas prices are high......its the economy"...so now i feel like im just gonna blame the economy for everything.....i wouldn't have this rash on my wiener if this economy wasn't so bad...(just an example).....so with that being said...i have oyster flue due to the economy. ill blame everything on the economy from here on out.......because thats what we need to do......blame someone else or in this case....a non living thing........
Zombie movies....there have been so many. but zombie walks.....are stupid. zombie movies.....good....zombie walks.....stupid....i have some thoughts on a zombie Apocalypse.....and the thought is...what makes you think you are gonna survive it.....thats very arrogant of you to assume you are gonna be one of the people that actually makes it through it....have you ever been in a situation where you actually had to survive?....no....you wont live through it....dont feel bad...why would you wanna live through any apocalypse.....you mean to tell me no more on demand tv.....ben and jerrys....... camel crushes.......spotify? FACEBOOK?....and in the midst of losing all of this....Ive resorted to holing myself up somewhere and defending myself from zombies? no thanks...ill take death. living without all things that make us uniquely American is something i don't wanna do.....i like my life of convenience....i like it so much...that i will write it proud as i sip on a two liter of diet coke that came with an order of baked onion soup and a Philly cheese steak hoagy ordered on line from larosas while i laid in bed streaming boardwalk empire and how to make it in America from my stolen wireless Internet signal. come on people on wall street......this is America....land of excess....land of corporations....land of fast food and poor fat people....sometimes i become really disgusted by people who feel the need to get out and protest....this ain't the Boston tea party....this ain't a civil rights movement.....although there is more to than this that meets the eye......you are mad at people for being rich.....this shit storm called a bad economy( ding ding) started when two airplanes crashed into the world trade center...this proclaiming victory for the bad guys....its not the rich peoples fault.....sorry 99 percent...the one percent pays more taxes than the rest of you combined.....i dont have a better answer for anything...why do i have to? its all so screwed up nowadays.....we got a federal govt larger than its ever been....we got career politicians.....we got lobbyists...and we got corporate greed....and we got NO MIDDLE CLASS.....its sucks but the answer is not redistribution of wealth.......im not even gonna speculate on what i think the answer is.....what to i really care...i just wanna watch college football.......drink whiskey and diets.....and talk about how awesome i am...so far im doing a really good job.....keep your goals low.....that way you wont be disappointed. when you don't meet then....yet another uniquely American concept. there are so many annoying things about this country..... mostly the people that live in it...but i cant help to think.....that there isnt a better place to live.. no matter how violent it may seem or uncaring....we have those freedoms to protest in the streets and talk shit about our govt...women.... don't have to wear burkas.....women have rights.( which is utter bullshit...come really.......sike...women....don't freak out)....one thing just came to mind....on the local media......there has been a case where a teacher from a school i used to attend.....had sex with some high school boys.....she is now serving a small sentence in a low level security penitentiary.....but lets be honest...what kinda crime did she commit.....giving a couple high school dudes the time of their life? yes...she is guilty of that....but it got me to thinking about some things...like in the 1800's how you would marry women at 12 to 14 and they would start reproducing....and so on...then slowly throughout the years.....certain rules were put into order.....such as....if there is grass on the field...play ball...and....if shes old enough to drive shes old enough to ride......now the law basically says you can not have sex with anyone under 18.......and dont get me wrong....i agree with it.....i just find it interesting....does anyone ever ask these teenager if they enjoyed the sex......we are talking about high school dudes....not innocent children...who knew no different....these dudes were gang banging and dping all the the way home....they were taking showers with her....smoking pot........drinking....and listening to cash money records while ole teach taught them alot about living and a little bout love.....maybe it was the other way around.....women...i can see.....teenage boys cmon. was there really a crime?......much like i am a student of history....no one thinks about all the countries below the united states that speak English.....that's because there are none....they all speak Spanish....and there is a reason for that.....colonization.....but you don't ever hear people on their moral high horses talking shit about the melancholy Spaniards do we now? no.......that one just gets swept under the rug....not to mention....bullfighting....an super horrific sport...to the bull... those two thought had no point together...respect them independently.....central and south America are low brow.....respectively. people who mock the Jenkins report for typos and bad grammar are very under educated low brow people who don't have any sense of wonder or imagination...you spend your lives worrying about the rules....you listen to Michael bubble and john Mayer.......when you take poops you read people magazine so you can keep up with whats going on with the vapid people out on the left coast....we call them actors....don't you just love when actors pick up some sort of political cause....come one sean penn. ....come on clooney...youre the most attractive man in the world.....stop hanging out with that soderburg character and get back to chasing tale and getting an eve more defined chin.....everyone....stop worrying....the govt is gonna take care of us....thats want we want after all....actors keep making movies about shit that makes us escape the bitter winter we call our lives....dont make us think about anything.......feed us commercials got 20 minutes out of every hour...and keep feeding us processed chicken.....kfc.....youre the worst low brow sons of bitches on the planet.....first of all....and the most important thing ever....you took Kentucky out of the name and dumbed it down the the quick and catchy....kfc.....look.....fried chicken is uniquely American....but it was also uniquely Kentucky.....for a while.....second....which could possibly tie first..........you fucking made the colonel a cartoon character.........dude...Harlan sanders is a legend.......now......for the finale....
mashed potatoes, corn, gravy,chicken, and cheese...perhaps the most low brow thing anyone has ever don't on the face of the earth....please discuss among one another.
below is an example of high brow drums.
Part two.
perhaps the greatest song ever written
I dug my fingers in the earth.
I drew you pictures of my pain.
They were so pretty.
They were so vain.
Put your hands in the water.
Let it touch you everywhere.
Boat of my father.
Cut from my mother.
Father.
I'm lonely.
( From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/j/jawbreaker-lyrics/bivouac-lyrics.html )
I'm an only.
I learned to put on airs.
I needed them to breathe.
Today I wake up, tell myself this is me.
Now this is home.
But the property's on loan.
So much for letting go.
I'm picking up the phone.
Bivouac.
to have and to have not
well......so many thing seems to be changing so fast. i often find myself quoting an oso bear song not written by myself. "when i was 17 i thought i knew everything"......know we find...we are just find ourselves.....such is life. at 31....i often wonder.....in general....i wonder if ill ever be as certain about the way things are like my grandparents and great grandparents. i wonder if i will live to be 80 and have people around me to take care of me. sometimes i wish i lived in the 1940s....well at least i have the haircut.
i find myself hanging on to lyrics from bands that i wish were still around...."in this ocean im a bag of tea...i make some clouds...but theyre minor league" jawbreaker seems to make more and more sense. simpler times perhaps....perhaps not.
billy bragg......perhaps amazing....perhaps overrated
sometimes....with the changing of the proverbial guard....or changing of the girlfriends...or the deterioration there of....i think back to my first true love....maybe that in itself is siko......but i always think about how it fell apart so fast......all the others were doomed to begin with..whether it was me...or the other......shit.......how many years has it been and i still think about it
i think about how bad music sucks...and how everyone generations before has done nothing but talk about how bad music sucks...and here i am talking about how new music sucks. i recently found myself inspired by two dudes from portland that stayed the night with us....these dudes were on a four month tour.....granted they were younger and perhaps life didnt seem to get in the way.......there is something romantically irresponsible about leaving everything for the road......something i wonder if ill ever have again myself.
kudos to those two dudes for doing it.
i have become more and more detached from lousville....my hometown.....and i often wonder if i even care. do Midwestern cities just have a certain blandness to them.....if cincinnati is a modest step up....then what do the big cities hold?....more people.....same scene.
i also wonder if i will ever not be so awesome. like....just a normal dude with a house...and kids....working 9 to five.....watching the biggest loser......attending graduations and......what not....... prolly not.
i feel like deep thoughts by jack handy.....seems much like the weather changes here from day to day.....so does your surroundings.
i find myself hanging on to lyrics from bands that i wish were still around...."in this ocean im a bag of tea...i make some clouds...but theyre minor league" jawbreaker seems to make more and more sense. simpler times perhaps....perhaps not.
billy bragg......perhaps amazing....perhaps overrated
sometimes....with the changing of the proverbial guard....or changing of the girlfriends...or the deterioration there of....i think back to my first true love....maybe that in itself is siko......but i always think about how it fell apart so fast......all the others were doomed to begin with..whether it was me...or the other......shit.......how many years has it been and i still think about it
i think about how bad music sucks...and how everyone generations before has done nothing but talk about how bad music sucks...and here i am talking about how new music sucks. i recently found myself inspired by two dudes from portland that stayed the night with us....these dudes were on a four month tour.....granted they were younger and perhaps life didnt seem to get in the way.......there is something romantically irresponsible about leaving everything for the road......something i wonder if ill ever have again myself.
kudos to those two dudes for doing it.
i have become more and more detached from lousville....my hometown.....and i often wonder if i even care. do Midwestern cities just have a certain blandness to them.....if cincinnati is a modest step up....then what do the big cities hold?....more people.....same scene.
i also wonder if i will ever not be so awesome. like....just a normal dude with a house...and kids....working 9 to five.....watching the biggest loser......attending graduations and......what not....... prolly not.
i feel like deep thoughts by jack handy.....seems much like the weather changes here from day to day.....so does your surroundings.
OSO BEAR LIVE AT THE STRASSE HAUS
Recorded on a tascam field recorder by Garison Stolz.
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EPISODE 9 INVASION
SO JASON, JANNA, AND GARY CAME UP FOR A WEEKEND....CAME TO AN OSO BEAR SHOW...WE DRANK ON THE BACK PORCH.....LISTENED TO RECORDS...AND THEN DID A JENKINS REPORT. THIS IS THE END RESULT.
a random chat
Tyler: srsly though, I fucking hate sitting there all quiet while all I hear is: "BENGALS, REDS SUCK, NOTRE DAME, GOLF, CARSON, UC, UK, HURR DURR"
me: i know dude
im well rounded in most topical converstaions
i know enough to get me throught thwem
Tyler: lol you should coach me
me: haha
i dunno man...its would be like one of those teen movies where im the jock..and your the nerd...and you come to me for help...and i agree to help you if you can convince your sister to let me take her to the prom
but then we end up falling in love with each other
and i get kicked off the team for being gay
you get beat up...i have to defend you...
then at prom..we go together and become homcoming king and queen.
Tyler: lol, I love your brain
and Go Sailor plays when the credits roll
me: no but while at prom...there is that one person starts clap;ping and everyone follows
never mind the spell check....this is real
ive realized over the past couple months how distant i have become with just being a guy at a show..and not the one putting the show on....i miss that. seems like if i am not playing a show ...then i am working...or hanging in main strasse....let me tell you right now...there is a world of other things to do besides sit in covington and drink drink drink....you can drink drink drink anywhere else....last night it was Baba Budans to see the dukes play with hopeless jack and the handsome devil. and the harlequins. great time...cheap beer...cheap espresso vodka.... and real rock n roll..... Clifton sometimes i miss you dearly...i wish i could live there and cope with the fact that i am out of touch with today's youth and just be okay with that. seems like a natural progression that you leave Clifton before you are 27 and settle in other parts of the area. i chose the southern shore. and that's made all the difference....(kinda a play on the Robert frost poem if you will)......but oh Clifton.....how inspiring you once were.for a poorly cultured and homogenized suburban kid...you might have just saved me....as soon as one of us could drive....we were in Clifton.....of course don't tell the parents...after all...we were from mason..... ive really been listening to the black diamond heavies and volcano suns alot lately....the more and more i listen to the heavies i realize just what an amazing drummer van campbell is....and more importantly how string they are for a two piece band. sometimes it does dive into more of the bluesy bluesy stuff.....but when they are rocking........they are rocking...listening to numbers 22 driving around windows down..in east covington....haha. vocano suns on the other hand is amazing to me. if not for anything else....that career in rock (1991 or so) was....a was recorded in 91 and sounds a shellac album (almost) from three years back......of course bob weston plays bass on this album....which is the only reason i would have even got into them in the first place.....its seems like in most cases....im pretty happy with pandora...but i hace one complaint.....too much death cab for cutie on the promise ring channel. i mean...photo album is a great album but its just enough for me....seemed to me the photo album was there best album....and coincidentally......number three. think about when out cames the wolves came out......their best as far as....im in a bar and people know time bomb and its a badass song...i cant describe enough how timeless out come the wolves will be for me. then.....hot water musics third album...might have been their best. lets not forget jawbreaker......24 hour revenge theory......third album........steve albini.......and the biggest of all is green day with their third release known as dookie. so there is just too much death cab on the promise ring channel. other than that im good.
subway. eat fresh. this place has completely gone to shit. im sorry....but your footlongs shouldnt cost five dollars....be now in order to afford that to us...you have to make them shittier and cheaper. only get italian bread. effin cucumbers and onion are sliced so thin that you dont taste them you are just reminded of what it was like to have them...they just skimp now....its shitty.....but i will still got there. i made the huge mistake of eating white castles the other night.....and i was sober. just thought id pop in there get some chicken rings...and a couple bacon sliders. went to bed....and woke up hungover. white castles made me hung over. and i was being reminded of them all morning while driving around in a hot car with one window down. listening to 700. that shit is gross man. it had been a long long time since i had whities. cant do it man. id rather eat mcdonalds....because in the end..they are the best....they have to be because there are food nazis ou there that keep them in check....not the govt....but the idea that since they are the biggest....people are gonna talk as much shit about it as they can. sure....they got some shit....chicken nuggets. but things are changing there. smoothies...dude in most cases a smoothie. but seriously i defend mcdonalds its quite obvious that fast food is deadly when consumed at all costs. but dont blame them for feeding people and making them fat. sorry....but i dont want mcdonalds to fucking count my calories...im pretty sure i can do that myself. lemme refresh. yes i know how bad it is for you. its a treat....so treat yourself to mcdonalds....youre gonna love it.
let me say i was in no way paid to write that by anybody.
sebadoh coming to town. that should be pretty damn awesome. an epic..know all the words band.
i am really looking forward to that. dudes.....the feywill music fest...was awesome. seriously we had a alt...indie bourbon street for a night. i mean..the begining at least....this could really do alot for the area...and local music. there are so many musically retarded people down here....they need to hear something other than a cover band at the you know where....and thats where we played friday. this show was in some respects was one of those shows where there were alot of people out to see us play...mostly the regulars...(they are slowly getting bigger)..but here was the regulars at the bar and then the people from cincinnati who were there to see bands...the people from cincinnati are easy to point out sometimes...mostly the northsiders... i cant blame them..they got everything we got. why leave? why ride your bike drunk...... right? ha ha sike northsiders....you all are cool. and you might be right. the bars i hang out at in cincinnati seem alot tamer. its weird. maybe im not seeing all the people who come in and out of the bars i just visit. northside tavern....didnt see a ripped hammered dude in there. i dunno. that place is really cool. i cant lie...i like it there and i would actually hang out there alot if i lived close. enough said...but tamer yes. and cmon...they want it that way....i have seen the deepest levels of drunkeness down here...and ive been on those levels. its nice to relax in cincinnati now. made me miss clifton. feywill music fest. best fest this summer.
im saying yes to spotify. its pretty rad to have while you are just surfing the web and what not. the skatellites are a bad ass band. ha....funny man...ska....when it was good it was freaking awesome...mostly the english bands with Jamaicans in their band....sadly.....ska is like rockabilly...like bluegrass....and like nickel back.....you cant go far out of the style......so it all ends up sounding the same. alot of the hellcat records releases where bad ass two tone ska....hepcat....the slackers..to name a few. i wanna say i was 17 or 18 when it was all getting real big. then of course it died just as fast. oh well....there will always be metroschifter. perhaps the band to me in full force represents what the Louisville sound is. i will never get tired of their shit. everything is just the same to me as when i first got into them...and i mean....fort saint.......capsule.....4....were all i listened to for a while....me and old scooby boone were both working for my dad as telemarketers....after work....a doobie.....and some metroschifter....ft saint mostly. but always reverse stick on 4. either way....both awesome albums....the three song split with shipping news is pretty awesome. reminds me a little like nirvana for some reason. never the less....three awesome songs...then carbonistas.. came out..... i dont know if it was the wait....or the fact there was new material. whatever. its so badass.....its all fucked up in dixie and murder are just simple genius...and im laughing while i write this....because i know how people are.....and of course people are like....dude..there are so many better bands than metroschifter....well yeah dude...i dont care if you dont think so. i can argue for them...and it will make a great debate. more than anything metroschifter represents with me and a couple louisville friends what it felt like to live in a city and have a local band so awesome. you know how music recalls memories so well....as my own musical endeavors get older..and i listen to everything i recorded i can remember where i was and how things were going...the way i felt about things at the time.....and you know....feelings. but its cool to have that. i think ive never really looked at my self as someone who is an artist. i know i write and create shit. but...lets be honest here. i what else would i do? i would be lame. at this point i know....i mean we all know. this isnt ever gonna be something that i do fulltime. but living up here ive done it more than i was doing in louisville. anyways music is just more important to me than alot of people even care care that much.....if that makes sense...i mean people listen to music..they listen to mojo or to kiss or b105 whatever...thats completely cool. that tends to the the depth of your musical interests...mine on the other hand.....goes deeper. alot. on the other hand..you might collect snow globes..and know alot about em.....and i dont wanna hear about them. sounds boring. so i see youre side of it to non music listeners....you dont wanna hear some shit about this band outta san bruno who dress up in masks and intentionally record on a four track and have their own garage label that pretty much is over fucking sensitive about the diy punk mentality. sometimes it can be uncomfortable. oh well. we move on and just talk about the new movies out.....i watch alot alot of movies.......i mean...alot...i lik movies for this reason....if its in theater chances are its really good. mainstream or not...sure avatar was douhcey...but you watched it because it was such a hit. people tend to connect more together through movies...at least in bar banter for that matter. sometimes i get around some people who know and like for the most part all of the bands i like...i love to talk about that music.
im about out of shit to write about right now. i havent been paying attention to this blog as much as i would like to. the podcasts arent happening as much. ive been in a funk. and sleeping way to much. my job is good. i make alot of money. but the schedule...and the life is really just wearing me down. lemme explain. i can make a 100 tonight cash...and spend it all tonight..and know im gonna go in a make it again. so you have this constant flow of cash...as well as a weekly check...and well i tend to just blow it i would say for the most part. im getting really tired of that. im actually getting really tired of hanging out in the bars all the time...i mean..im like....three to four times a week somewhere on main. i would like to go somewhere for a weekend and just sit....i mean like camping or something. just get out for a weekend..swim in a lake. grill out. and rest from all this madness. if you arent careful this village will eat you up. for the most part. everyone that is a local down here...like lives in the village lets say.......most of them are in the service industry. cash in hand at the end of the night....sleep till three.....off at midnite....boom....head to the bar. i cant imagine living anywhere else though. i try because sometimes i wish i did. downsides....everyone knowing everyone down here and all their bullshit. but everyone down here says that. the thing is. i never leave this place. i need some peace. college football is starting back up. i am excited. go cards....roll tide....go blue.....yeah...go bearcats.......hmm lemme see....i like nebraska in the big ten. that might be dangerous.
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The whoopy dang drink
Toddy and two shots of espresso....some camel crushes....and hippies talking about drum circles.
EPISODE 10
JC PENNY PUNK.
EPISODE 9 IS STILL BEING PUT TOGETHER...IN THE MEANTIME....EPISODE 10 GO AHEAD AND GIVE IT A LISTEN.
THE HOMETOWN HEROS
well i must admit...i didnt want to open for the new york dolls. i thought the show was gonna be a bust. but as it got closer and closer to the show i realized it was gonna be a big one.. after all i didnt really care much for the new york dolls....but i do know their role in the history of punk rock. and that in itself is somewhat respectable. we never saw them come out until they actually played. they never saw oso bear....or SS 20. so what. when it came to us and SS 20 no one knew who was palying first or second so we flipped a coin for it. they won so we played first. didnt really matter...on the bill it said doors at seven. doors didnt open till 8 and we didnt go on until nine...there were alot of people there already. we killed it. i mean...killed it. we brought 54 cds to give away to anyone who wanted one. when we got back to the merch booth we had four left. alot of people were coming up to us telling us how awesome we were and how we should have played second and what not....now...not to sound overly conceded...but you get alot from people...the other night was different....its wasnt the type of show where its a who's who of the scene...granted there were alot of scenesters there....but it was more of an older crowd who just appreciates music....and thats what made the comments so awesome. so i just kinda sat back at the merch booth...drank pbr and talked to people who came up and wanted to talk or take a free cd. we ran out of the last four by the time the night was over. now....the dolls start to play. more drinks are rolling in....im actually in a mosh pit. the dolls were whatever...its fun music..but its two dudes and a bunch of young guys. more power to them. after the show i was walking out to load up and i see this girl standing there by herself and i just kinda struck up a conversation made small talk. she said she was from dayton...i sad cool you should look us up on facebook we are gonna be playing dayton sometime soon.....matt yells for me to get in the car...i get in....as we are taking off..she walking up to the passenger side window....grabs my head and starts making out with me..then walks away. matt looked at me and was like dude that was awesome.....it was pretty rad. she never friend requested me or the band....now this saturday we have another big show at northside tavern. we are actually building alot of steam. hopefully we can keep it up with everything we have going on in our personal lives.
in other news....let me tell you about my job and my car. i have no a/c my drivers side window doesn't roll down. i deliver pizzas. all i do is sweat all day. the least you could do is give me a couple dollars for bringing you pizza so you dont have to get off your ass and pick it up. thats the least you could do. but no...east covington cant tip....wont tip. makes my attitude stink.
sorry yall about the emo post a couple weeks ago. essentially a blog is a diary...and outlet...i would like to be able to look back at this thing twenty or thirty years from now and remember things that i most likely should forget.... initially when its finally over you do have a sense of hopelessness...like...oh shit...what am i gonna do? your pride gets shot....you get overcome with depression and anxiety...but over time it gets easier. you remember all the shitty things that they said to you...and you realize that as one goes out the door another comes in. for me though.......i know that im in a place right now where its just fun to hang out with people and make new friends. my last "relationship" i spent most of my time trying to get the other person to acknowledge that they liked me. it wasnt a good time. its better to just surround yourself with people who want to be surrounded by you. and in the past three weeks that has made all the difference. so again. sorry bout the emo comments but i would say on this blog....you gotta take the good with the bad.
in other news....let me tell you about my job and my car. i have no a/c my drivers side window doesn't roll down. i deliver pizzas. all i do is sweat all day. the least you could do is give me a couple dollars for bringing you pizza so you dont have to get off your ass and pick it up. thats the least you could do. but no...east covington cant tip....wont tip. makes my attitude stink.
sorry yall about the emo post a couple weeks ago. essentially a blog is a diary...and outlet...i would like to be able to look back at this thing twenty or thirty years from now and remember things that i most likely should forget.... initially when its finally over you do have a sense of hopelessness...like...oh shit...what am i gonna do? your pride gets shot....you get overcome with depression and anxiety...but over time it gets easier. you remember all the shitty things that they said to you...and you realize that as one goes out the door another comes in. for me though.......i know that im in a place right now where its just fun to hang out with people and make new friends. my last "relationship" i spent most of my time trying to get the other person to acknowledge that they liked me. it wasnt a good time. its better to just surround yourself with people who want to be surrounded by you. and in the past three weeks that has made all the difference. so again. sorry bout the emo comments but i would say on this blog....you gotta take the good with the bad.
JENKINS REPORT EPISODE 7
FOR YOUR IPOD
MUSIC TO WORK WITH. LISTEN WHILE AT WORK.
MUSIC BY THE SHIPPING NEWS, SNAPCASE, HOOVER, AND MUCH MORE.
JENKINS REPORT JENKINSCAST EPISODE SIX
Episode 6
THE ZACH BURNS BAND
SLACK PANTHER
MAD ANTHONY
JC FOUR
KNIFE THE SYMPHONY
POP EMPIRE.
LOOKOUT RECORDS.
MY AMAZING QUIET VOICE.
after a long night.
STREAM HERE
SAYONARA TIGER
There were a lot of cool things to come out of this band. we played some pretty cool shows and had a lot of fun. recorded in Austin Texas by Rory Phillips in the summer of 06. this was my first time playing to a metronome or being in a band that was doing a recording that cost any large amount of money.
ultimately the bands demise was based on egos and drama.... we never really had a bass player and sometimes one of the guys in the band just asked too much of people. i respected him for his drive but....well...it just didn't work out from the beginning...the only thing that kept me in the band was the other members.....in the end i have the ability. to just walk away and start something new. but really eff all that in the end this was a really good band with really talented musicians. nowadays im not really sure if anyone besides gary is doing anything musically....and gary now plays in crawl america....sedamsville's answer to arcade fire (sike they are way better than arcade fire)
download the e.p. below.
DOWNLOAD E.P
Pinewood Derby- The Eighteenth Emergency
This is one of the first bands i was in. first time ever going into a real recording studio. first time ever going on tour. This was a great band. We had alot of fun. I was young. And I cant play drums that fast anymore. thats for sure.
if anyone can scan the art work in that would be awesome.
if anyone can scan the art work in that would be awesome.
MY MUSIC CAREER PART ONE.
LOUISVILLE M.O.B
WE TOOK OVER THE UNDERGROUND RAP WORLD WITHOUT PLAYING A SHOW.
Find more Masters of Bation songs at Myspace Music
PANTY LOTION
ONE RANDOM NIGHT IN LOUISVILLE MISTER BOONE AND I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FUN TO DO THIS...LISTEN FOR ME PUKING AT THE END OF THE SONG...YES ITS A REAL PUKE. ITS REALLY REAL.
Find more Panty Lotion songs at Myspace Music
facebook....sometimes.......
this is what someone liked at the same time.
likes Behind Every Beautiful Girl There Is a Dumbass Guy Who Did Her Wrong and Made Her Strong and To Kill a Mockingbird.
i had to copy and paste it.
likes Behind Every Beautiful Girl There Is a Dumbass Guy Who Did Her Wrong and Made Her Strong and To Kill a Mockingbird.
i had to copy and paste it.
My Grandma Jenkins
DeMeta JENKINS (1932 - 2011)
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JENKINSDeMeta J. Jenkins, 78, beloved wife of Phillip F. for 58 years, dear mother of Dr. John P. Jenkins (Jana), Sheryl Lynn Marino, George M. Jenkins III (Glenda) and Phillip F. Jenkins, Jr, grandmother of Brian, George, Jackie, Tyler, John, Kelsey, Jamie, Dallas and Phillip, sister of Johnna Snodgrass (Joe) and Carolyn O'Dell (Max). Passed away May 26, 2011. As a founding member of St. Anne's she was a devoted leader of her church. She was inducted into the Saint Simeon Society for her outstanding work in the Dioceses by the Bishop in 2008. Visitation 6-9pm Friday at Mueller Parker Funeral Home, 6791 Tylersville Road, Mason, 45040. Funeral service 11am Saturday at St. Anne Espiscopal Church, 6461 Tylersville Road, West Chester, Ohio 45069 where friends will also be received one hour prior to the service. Interment will be in Kanawha Memorial Gardens in Glascow, W. Virginia. For more information, to view a video tribute or to send a condolences.
I miss her so much.
ORANGE CAKE
who even thinks anymore....not me...not you....not anyone...we are the age of information....we can just look it ...because in the end......we carry cell phones.
comfort music.
music to listen to when you remember why you actually liked music.....what it meant....what it was and you you know it should be still....and you can only blame the age of information...
yes.....we are the photographic emo nation.......and information does travel faster int he modern age.....
but yet we have gotten musically slow.
im not gonna sit here and act like i am some sort if vinyl entitled activist for the elite taste in music.
but there is something to be said about what it means to hold something in your hand as opposed to just transferring it on to your iPod. im as guilty as the next
but it didn't used to be that way....
we used to have to get out of our basements...go to a record store...mingle with the people.....judge....and walk away feeling challenged.......when i go to the record store now....i see a bunch of stuff i can download.
for you..the record store owner......or the record label owner.....you have been bruised
for the bands.....you have become accessible and thus uninteresting......therefore image sells more than ever.
technology....you take the cake.
shit man...as we get older...we become more like what we hate...but we just dont hate it so much now....conviction has been beaten by apathy and ale.....too much of both.
i know you all are out there too.
31 years of age.......a retrospective.
at 31 years old i think of the united states of america as no longer a easy place to live...bigger government involvement in our lives has made everything more complicated.....over priced....and uninteresting. we now are consumed by the world of reality....which turns out to be not so real......a certain form of escapism....if you will.....we will watch the kardashians......so we can forget about our shitty jobs...or at least feel good about ourselves that we aren't like them.....at least i do...maybe in a messed up sort of way....watching the overly rich and indulgent....spend money and act as vapid as possible....we find some sort of solace in knowing at least we have depth....and conviction.....maybe we just want their money.....perhaps its latter once we reflect upon our own lives and see that a gallon of gas is now more expensive than a gallon of milk....and some people actually wish it that way.....go figure. ill get off my usa soap box....im not gonna defy capitalism by any means....im just tired of prices going up...and its just as simple as this.... oil goes up...so does everything else.....
at 31 years old...i know what my parents meant when ten years ago they said " i dont get kids today"....more than ever do i really realize that....i feel like i woke up one day...and missed a whole generation....like pop culture just passed me by.....wow....the things people are into these days.... for example:
seriously what the eff is steampunk?...im about to tell you. according to wikipedia
Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction, alternate history, and speculative fiction that came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s.[1] Specifically, steampunk involves an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century and often Victorian eraBritain—that incorporates prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy. Works of steampunk often feature anachronistic technology or futuristic innovations as Victorians may haveenvisioned them; in other words, based on a Victorian perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, art, etc. This technology may include such fictional machines as those found in the works ofH. G. Wells and Jules Verne or real technologies like the computer but developed earlier in an alternate history.
Other examples of steampunk contain alternate history-style presentations of "the path not taken" for such technology as dirigibles, analog computers, or such digital mechanical computers asCharles Babbage and Ada Lovelace's Analytical engine.
Steampunk is often associated with cyberpunk. They have considerable influence on each other and share a similar fan base, but steampunk developed as a separate movement. Apart from time period and level of technology, the main difference is that steampunk settings tend to be lessdystopian.
Various modern utilitarian objects have been modded by individual artisans into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical "steampunk" style, and a number of visual and musical artists have been described as steampunk.
Crimpshrine - Safely Wasting Away
I am just a parasite - a rancid creature of
The night- with eyes that never see the light
Of day. Papers blow over empty streets-
People inside houses I'll never meet are
Feeling safe and safely wasting away.
They Are all inside asleep - living love that they
Can't keep - speaking words that they could
Never say. Dreams of learning how they might
Make amends and set things right- are
Conveniently forgotten the next day...
Safely wasting away.
The night- with eyes that never see the light
Of day. Papers blow over empty streets-
People inside houses I'll never meet are
Feeling safe and safely wasting away.
They Are all inside asleep - living love that they
Can't keep - speaking words that they could
Never say. Dreams of learning how they might
Make amends and set things right- are
Conveniently forgotten the next day...
Safely wasting away.
JENKINS REPORT REVIEW. JC4 OLD NEWS.
EVER BEEN SWIMMING IN THE AMAZON NUDE? WELL DONT...... THERE IS SOME TYPE OF WORM THAT WILL ENTER YOUR PEEHOLE.....YES LADIES YOURS TOO. SOMEHOW OR ANOTHER IT FINDS ITS WAY IN THERE...LIKE IT HAS A BEACON......STRAIGHT INTO YOUR PRIVATES.....WELL THATS JC4....NOT IN YOUR RESPECTIVE PEE HOLE..... BUT INTO YOUR EARHOLES......JC IS THAT PARASITE. GIVE IT A LISTEN.
the Metroschifter
i just dont know anymore. right now.....chaos is all i have in my life. maybe....just maybe ruining all relationships i have or had with people and starting over might be the best thing to do. maybe a change of scenery. perhaps....a long break....either way...its happened before....and i bounce back better than before....but for right now....its all fucked up in dixie.
THE JENKINS REPORT JENKINSCAST #1
FOR YOUR IPOD.
episode #1
white castles
craigslist
sean penn.
otr
punk rock.
or listen below.
THE SEPARATION OF MAY
WHEN I LOOK BACK AT ALL THE THINGS I HAVE DONE MUSICALLY I THINK ABOUT IT AS A CERTAIN CHAPTER IN M LIFE. I WAS 20 GOING ON 21. I WAS NAIVE ABOUT LIFE IN GENERAL. I HAD VERY LITTLE RESPONSIBILITY AND I WAS IN LOVE WITH MUSIC. NOT MUCH HAS CHANGED EXCEPT THINGS HAVE SEEMED TO BECOME MORE DIFFICULT. MORE MUNDANE. ME AND SCOTT PLAYED MUSIC TOGETHER FROM THE TIME WE WERE FIFTEEN YEARS OLD TILL ABOUT FOUR YEARS AGO. THIS WAS BY FAR THE BEST STUFF WE EVER DID TOGETHER. WE RENTED A HOUSE ON SIX ACRES OF LAND IN WHAT WAS ONCE CONSIDERED THE COUNTY. NO TV IN THE LIVING ROOM JUST OUR GEAR. EVERY NIGHT WE WOULD COME HOME AND WORK ON THE SONGS BUILDING UP TO THE EVENTUAL RECORDING. WHEN RECORDING TIME CAME WE TOOK 400 DOLLARS DOWN TO THE DOO WOP SHOP AND RENTED ALL THE EQUIPMENT TO MAKE A HOME RECORDING. BACK THEN IT WAS A MIXING CONSOLE SOME MICROPHONES AND ADAT MACHINE , A COMPRESSOR, AND AN DAT MACHINE. WE RECORDED SEVEN MICS ON THE DRUMS WITH A GUITAR SCRATCH TRACK. BOUNCED THE DRUMS DOWN TO TWO TRACK STEREO. THEN RECORDED GUITAR BASS AND VOCALS. AFTER WE RECORDED THIS WE PLAYED A HANDFUL OF SHOWS WITH DIFFERENT PEOPLE IN THE BAND. FOR SOME REASON THE CHEMISTRY NEVER WORKED WITH A THIRD OR A FOURTH MEMBER. SO WE EVENTUALLY WENT ON TO DO SOMETHING ELSE. SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE THIS IS THE BEST THING THAT HAS NEVER BEEN HEARD. SO I REALLY DO ENCOURAGE YOU TO DOWNLOAD THESE 13 SONGS AND ENJOY THEM. FOR ME...IT BRINGS BACK NOT ONLY EVERYTHING THAT IS GREAT ABOUT PLAYING MUSIC AND BEING ABLE IN SOME CAPACITY TO EMOTE THROUGH ELECTRICITY OR BEATING ON SOME SKINS, IT ALSO BRINGS BACK A TIME IN MY LIFE WHERE I WAS JUST STARTING OUT ON MY OWN. I NEVER WOULD HAVE THOUGHT TEN YEARS AGO I WOULD BE LIVING IN COVINGTON SURROUNDED BY A NEW GROUP OF PEOPLE AND SEVERAL BANDS LATER. BUT THEN AGAIN.....I DIDNT KNOW WHAT I WAS DOING BACK THEN. MAYBE I STILL DONT. BUT AT THE TIME....THIS MADE PERFECT SENSE TO ME....AND IT STILL DOES. ENJOY.
IF YOU WANNA LISTEN TO ALL THE SONGS BEFORE YOU DOWNLOAD YOU CAN DO SO BY CLICKING ON THIS LINK
To Have and To have Not.
politics. im fed up with it. per a conversation..and a thought that isnt quite my own. someone compared to wwf or some sort of reality show. i agree. im bored with the parties, the shit they complain about, and the random pointless bullshit they try to pass on us. really american politics is the art of doing nothing but making it seem like youve dont so much. its not all good.
seems like in previous years of blogging....i have had alot more to say. now....i dunno. so i guess like everyone else i will make a list of resolutions for the new year...to make myself feel good...there are a couple of these that wont happen.
- pay off defaulted student loans
- quit smoking
- lose more weight
- put out another oso bear cd
- flat screen tv
- jenkinsfest 11
- save more money
- better job.
- quit being such a sex symbol in the nky region
- quit making people jealous of how awesome i am
THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW CINCY WITH THE JC FOUR.
here is the show with addam,brie,dusty, and dave from the kc four. remember. indie and alt punks not dead.
EFFING INTERNET
like....in my own head. i would like to think that you all wonder what i am doing. but i know its just not the case..but in any event. i love to talk about myself. so here we go. past couple months....well i quit one job and got a job at another. when your boss calls you a stupid m effer its time to go....so i left. no biggie...job didnt pay that well. in fact. i make more money now delivering pizzas. weird. yes. i know my car is slowly dying and i spend alot of money on gas. but i dont really have to deal with a boss. and besides the occasional asshole customer or stiffed tip (i swear thats not sexual). its an easy job....i mean.. it still sucks. ive been thinking about canada lately. i like the idea of a confederacy. i like socialized medicine...but i hate the cold. and i dunno....seems a little cliche moving to canada. thats everyones go to....oh shit palin is in office im moving to canada. like....that is gonna change so much. i did hear alot of people moved to Vancouver when bush was elected for a second term. i hope they renounced their citizenship and all of the sudden some sort of weird catastrophe hits and they arent allowed to return. one thing i would never do...is renounce my us citizenship. NEVER. why would you. i know i know this is gonna sound like every other paranoid southerner who likes to stockpile guns in their basement( which let me just say...i am not a fan of guns at all) but when the shit hits the fan i wanna be on this side of the world watching the shit hit the fan on cnn.....only seems fair. after all, i did have the pleasure of being born a u.s citizen. which entitles me to the biggest military in the world. enough about that..all that does is spark some sort of debate on whether you are proud to be an american or not...then someone will come along who lives in america...and tell us how much they hate america...then we tell them to move...the cycle is a vicious one. but alas.......i digress. i will miss you college football. i will miss you dearly. once again for the fifth time straight sec victory. feels great. so living in mainstrasse....you have the pleasure of using other peoples internet connections...and thats a pleasure i would never want to give up. but its not reliable. it drives me ape. other than that...ive been chillin. any questions? i will answer them
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