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I miss the days of gangsta rap in my malt liquor adds

According to a study by Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science malt liquor is the alcohol of choice of the homeless, college students, and unemployed.

I wonder where I fit in.

I think I just wanted to be like Ice Cube and Bushwick Bill. Well maybe not Bill, I don’t think I want to be a one eyed midget.

And according to Cube you can “get your girl in the mood quicker, make your jimmy thicker, with St. Ides malt liquor.” Who needs roofies and viagra when you got malt liquor?!?!?!?!

Not only did they make TV Commercials St. Ides put out a mix tape with Snoop Doggy Dogg, Warren G, Nate Dogg, MC Eiht, Scarface, Ice Cube and Wu-Tang Clan! (DOWNLOAD THE MIX TAPE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POST)

TV SPOTS!

Ice Cube

Ice Cube w/ The Geto Boys

Dre and Snoop (this one is really good)

Dj Pooh

Wu- Tang

MC Eiht

Cypress Hill

Biggie

Pac and Snoop

King Tee

Im gonna take my ass to the corner.

I went to the first night of Bent NYC last night and was really blown away. There were all kinds of circuit bent exhibits and performers. Everything was pretty wonderful but the highlight of the night was by far L.A. artist Phillip Stearns.

He had a circuit board in front of him w/ around 10-20 touch spot where he could control the sound w/ his fingers and hands. Linked to that were four drop lights, aimed right at his face. The lights that jumped and flickered with the same intensity as the noise he was making. These lights were the only lights on the the building, perfectly highlighting Phil’s involuntary ticks, twitches, and down right pain. You see, he had four electrodes taped to each arm so when ever he made connections in the circuit it would send electricity racing though his body! At first I didn’t think the pain was all that bad, but with in his twenty min. set you could see him working out the cramps and tension in his hands and arms just in order to point his finger touch the board and get shocked some more.

It was amazing. Here are a couple of youtube clips from last night.

He has some other stuff up on his website (linked above) and a little bit on his myspace all of which are cool but nothing that toped last night.

Wow. Sorry I took off a few months from posting. Had to get re-inspired. This awesome lady has a lot to do with my rejuvenation.

On the way back from SXSW last month, I heard Kevin Blechdom’s Eat My Heart Out (2005, Chicks on Speed Records) for the first time and I simultaneously shit my pants and creamed my jeans. I was a mess. When I got back home one of my first orders of business was to acquire all things Kevin Blechdom. Here are the best of my findings:

4 tracks from her record Eat My Heart Out:
- Coming
- Get on Your Knees
- Runaway or Stay
- Are You Fucking With Me

2 tracks from her earlier record Bitches Without Britches:
- Boob-A-Q
- Private Dancer

2 tracks from the compilations Girl Monster and It’s fan-dabi-dozi!, respectively:
- Me Saw Me Momma
- Jon Whitney Houston

Collectively these showcase Blechdom’s unique voice and genius songwriting abilities. By far my favorite is Me Saw Me Momma, which takes so many twists and turns with the vocal lines that it’s just completely exhilarating. Anything that reminds me of Furious Pig is automatically a winner. Jon Whitney Houston is more straightforward, a bold cover of “I Will Always Love You” that doesn’t peak until about the sixth minute. When I played it on my show yesterday someone accused me of working for the CIA torture division. It’s just that good.

Thank you Kevin Blechdom for making me happy.

Today I was youtubeing the video of Steve Irwin’s Memorial Service to find the video message Costner sent him. I only made it to part 6 and have yet to see or notice it. (Steve Harvey’s messesage was quite moving though.)

But the day wasn’t a total loss, after sitting though Costner and Kutcher on various weird German and French tv shows promoting the Guardian. I found Ross Patterson’s Costner Rap.

Ross Patterson isn’t that funny and he appears to be about the 10th person I’ve run across calling him self “Rossangeles.” But he did stumble on to something kinda genius.

He managed to write a mediocre joke rap song about his love of Costner, Wild Turkey and Vicodin. Thus combining four things I hold close to my heart.

I do appreciate his love for Kevin but I wanted more. He showed no love for American Flyers. One of my Costner favortes. Nothing better than a young stached Costner in spandex. Come on really there is so much to rap about there.

(Driving across country I found my self right in the middle of the real life “hell of the west” race. I was in heaven.)

And come on he didn’t even mention Robin Hood, thats an easy one.

Ross Patterson. I am calling you out.

The International Voice of Reason and I have a pure love for Costner. We saw The Guardian opening day with a bottle of jack and a bottle of vicodan. We held each other in tears at the end.

I soon will also have a Costner tribute song. And Ross Patterson we shall meet on the field of Costner. Right now your Costner + Wild Turkey + Vicodin baby onesie has you comfortably in the lead. But I assure you I will take you down. (if you doubt me go a head and listen to our heart heartwarming rendition of the theme song to Costner Hood.)

Nancy Bea Hefley is probably my third favorite Dodger of my lifetime. Yeah, that’s right, the organ player.

Top five Dodgers of my life time: 1. Tommy. 2. Fernando. 3. Nancy. 4. Orel 5. Kirk. (Mickey Hatcher gets an honorable mention).

I grew up loving the Dodgers. My cousins and I went to Dodger baseball camp every summer when we were in grade school. I could never understand why they were Angel fans, and they couldn’t understand why Nancy was in my top five and why I decided to play golf instead of baseball in high school.

Nancy was the cherry on top of a classy Sunday afternoon in Chavez Ravine. Old timey show tunes and baseball classics on an organ just make everything about the game sweeter. Nancy was one of the things that make going to a Dodger game going to a Dodger game.

A few years ago they tired to get rid of her. There was a little bit of a stink put up and they brought her back. But only to play a few songs before the game, the national anthem, and take me out to the ball game during the seventh inning stretch. Dodger fans will now be treated to the latest volumes of Jock Jams as Joe Torre trots out to the hill to have a confrance with his man on the mound. (not classy)

Sports in LA were classy in the 80’s and music was a big part of that. Maybe if they stop playing Who Let the Dogs Out, and put away the kiss cam and brought back the USC marching band to the Laker games Lights Out would look more like Showtime. (the USC band usta take over one of old luxury box’s above the tunnel at the Forum get decked out and play the hits! Now it’s just the horn section and they show up in is aisle looking like a super fan at hooters rather than Jack on the sideline. Not classy)

I guess in the end Kobe will never be Magic and an Ipod will never be Nancy. I think thats why I moved to New York, LA is forgetting how to be classy.

I wrote this cause I thought I found some live recordings of her at analog arts ensemble but I cant seem to get the files to open. O well I guess I’ll just have to settle w/ youtube clips an her CD that I’m about to order.

I had high hopes of getting this up before Christmas, but that apparently wasn’t feasible. Then some time passed and I was like, shit, I can’t do a christmas post now.

Fuck it. Here it is.

The week before Christmas I did my Christmas/Santa/Jesus show, which I’ve never attempted to do before. I figured out that I had half a billion songs with either of those words in the title so it was time to put something together. I ended up with over 14 hours of crap to whittle down. I got it down to 6 hours and change and still had some bad apples in the barrel but ran out of time. So I whittled on air. It was kind of scary but I think it turned out well. Had to cut a few songs short but it was for the best. Had to be done.

I got a lot of good response from my Christmas extravaganza, which is odd since I never get much feedback from anyone so I thought I’d post the tracks I thought were the best.

A good handful of these come from two great compilations called Holiday Freak Out & Holiday Freak In. You can download the entire Freak In/Out comps there, but I’ve selected my favorites from those for this post.

I’m not going to list all the tracks here, but some highlights include: Head And Leg’s track about Jesus stealing his shoe in a dream, Michele Cody’s Merry Christmas Elvis, PacMan Christmas, the explicit and unaired Wayne Butane’s Very Special Christmas, Bill Hicks, Chinese kids choir and George Bush reading The Night Before Christmas.

I split them up into two zips. The first is if you’re only going to download one thing, this is the one to get. The second is just about as good, just not as urgent and essential as the first one.

1. IVOR’s Xmas Extravaganza 2007
2. IVOR’s Xmas Extravaganza Extras

It’s a good batch of crap. Enjoy.

I just did my second show over at WFMU.

It was a blast I still cant believe that I’m up there.

My new name is Marty McSorley (because I’m dishing out the hits).

They archive all their shows so check out my play list, download it or just give it a listen!

Thurston Moore	creemsikkie	Thrash Sabbatical	Deathbomb Arc
Reverend Cleophus Robinson	The Rose of Sharon
Yeasayer	Sunrise	All Hour Cymbals	We Are Free
Brother	Honey Head		Fine and Good
Pigbag	Brain the Snail	Dr. Heckle & Mr Jive	Y Records
Jean-Jacques Perrey & Luke Vibert	ye old beatbox	Moog Acid
Christian Zanési	Marseille 2		Rough Trade
Landscape	From The Tea-Rooms Of Mars …….. To The Hell-Holes Of Uranus	“Norman Bates” 12″
Dark Day	Danger Dancer
Giorgio Moroder	Evolution	Music From Battlestar Galactica
Key-Matic	Brakin in Space	Brakin in Space	Radar
Out Hud	Listed as “Hung Like a Wolf” (but actually it’s “Le Elephant Stomp”)	Looking for the Perfect Glass	Contact Records
tarentel	superman is a damn fool	Looking for the Perfect Glass	Contact Records
patato y totico	ingrato corazon
The Shining Path	untitled
La Düsseldorf	Rheinita	Rheinita/Viva	Teldec Records
pole+bob rosburg	how to improve your golf game
sweet thunder found sounds	lesotho assembly singing	sweetthunder.org
Child Pornography	Cold Fingers	Shes Got Legs	Deathbomb Arc
Lab Waste	Get the Signal	Temporary Whatever	BriEfcAseRockers LTD.
Can	Vitamin C	l’olympia paris5.22.73
Jessie Evans	Scientest of Love
chromatics	Jesus	Cavecare EP 12”	self released
Stickmen	legand of the stickmen	Insatiable	Anthology Recordings
the screamers	the beat goes on	demos 1977-1978 LP
Tarrie B	Let the beat rock	The Power of a Woman	Ruthless Records
Buffalo Soldiers	Penny (remix)	Penny 12”	Effect Records
Foot Village	World Fantisy (ft weirdobigerdo)	Fuck the Future	Deathbomb Arc
Fresh 3 M.C.’s	Fresh	Fresh 12”	profile
Future Islands	Beach Foam	little advances

Q: Why is everything that is coming out of Baltimore beyond amazing?

A: I have no idea.

Future Islands are my favorite export from Charm City, but I guess It’s Wham City now.

I got to see them last night at Death By Audio and man where to start. Seeing Future Islands is like seeing Danzig’s kid running though a suped-up version of your favorite 8-bit video games. I dont think Sam means to look or sound like Danzig (pre makeup) it just kinda happens. Lil’ Danzig’s hair just seems to fall into makeshift devilhawk as he conducts the dance party. I also want to make sure I take the time to applaud his blue searsucker suit he had on last night, it was wonderful.

(To the left Sam. To right Glen. As far as I know they are not related)

What about the rest of the band? They were wonderful as well, they just didn’t move as much.

Check out there radical video for their stalkerish ballad Fallow You.

Thrilling.

They only had an old 7 song cdr “little advances” for sale at the show but I was assured they will be putting more out soon. Though the magic of the internet I was also able to locate a couple of their live sets. One, an on air performance at WXYC, and two, a live set where they are teamed up with Videohippos.

www.myspace.com/futureislands

Here is what you get form me today:

Future Islands Live on WXYC Chapel Hill

Take It Back (from Little Advances)

Heart Grows Old (live w/ videohippos)

Bear Fight (live w/ videohippos this is videohippos’ song)

I need to take a trip down to Baltimore there is way too much good stuff coming out of there. (Is it down? I don’t know my east coast geography yet.)

Arabian Prince: N.W.A:: Pete Best: The Beatles

Arabian Prince (aka Professor X) was Ice Cube’s stand in N.W.A. when he went off to college in Arizona. Arabian Prince was only featured on N.W.A. and The Posse (which was more of a compilation of anything Dr. Dre and Easy-E did before Straight Outta Compton) and on the 0nly clean track off Straight Outta Compton, Something 2 Dance 2.

But unlike Pete Best Arabian Prince has relevant (at least to me) solo work and is making a comeback. Releasing Brother Arab in 1989 before his work with N.W.A, and Situation Hot in 1990 which featured Dr. Dre were more both electro rap party music and Where’s My Bytches in 1993 that was straight up gangsta.

Electro Arabian Prince

Gangsta Arabian Prince

As for the comeback he is going back to more of an electro sound and has released his first new music in 14 years on Stone’s Throw and Clone Records. Arabian Prince is also credited as a writer on everyone’s favorite urine soaked pop star Fergie’s mega hit Fergalicious.

Arabian Prince the comeback

So as always here are a few of my favorite tracks as well as his new stuff!

Enjoy.