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Jonny_Paycheck
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I just got off the road. Me and Aleit hit 8 towns over 2 states in 3 days and I drove back into NYC with enough time to murder shit at Rubulad. Big big stupid doodoo shout out to Small Change for having me down. I crawled into bed at 6 am after working and digging my ass off all weekend. Still hella tired but now I'm chilling.Basically all this is to say that when you see me falling through your town, trunk looking all heavy from the vinyl weight, smoking a joint in your alleyway, talking up your chick at the local college bar, fix your face. HAHAHA! I'm playing. It's not a game though! Know that! OK basically what I am trying to get at is that this shit is tough work and you better be real thorough if you are going to run around and get these records. It is not sweet like hells belles hanging out at the five and dime and antique stores strewn with mint indie soul 7"s. Dudes got hands real dirty and scored some good stuff but it took endurance, intuition, and straight up luck. It took going through tons, literally hundreds of crap private bullshit to find one or two really hot records.But we did come off and a shout out goes to Aleit for being a great dude to trip and work with.What'chall do this weekend?
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Slept for the first part... yesterday afternoon enjoyed doing some yardwork with the lady in the sunny 80-something degree weather... worked last night... somehow ended up at this lameass college bar that I've passed a million times but never considered entering... got tore up on the deck there while laughing at dudes acting an ass... beautiful night...
Woke up early today, went to grab some records I left in the car... and there's gum stuck in the lock of the car door. I fume over this for a little while, then carefully remove the entire wad... afterward I get around to checking the whole car out, just in case. My vanity plate is destroyed, and the passenger door has been keyed leaving about 8" worth of scratch. I'm livid now, call the cops and talk to my neighbors but of course I'll never nab the vandal.
In the end its all okay though... after that a collection is BROUGHT to me, in crates already, and for $45 I get a semilarge (a good few hunnert) 70s/80s soul/funk/disco collection with a handful of jazz records... about halfway through the second crate I'm already pleased thinking this is just a mostly-clean collection of only the most popular titles from the mid-late 70s when I come across Mike James Fuckin' Kirkland, Hang on in There, wedged between Al Di Meola and Gino Vanelli. I've gone through everything now, and beyond all that popular/classic stuff there's a few other nice finds: Masterfleet and Willie Bobo on Sussex, some Coltrane titles, a few real scores along those lines...
Now I just need to figure out where to pull all this stuff
HANG ON IN THERE, PEOPLE...
Must have rung ari one night when you douds were on the road but I was stoned and I hate talking on the phone when I'm lit. so I didn't pick up when he called back. But I kinda like dialing.
Weekend expedition sounds hot... so what did you find?? Real heads want to know.
I'd say it was a great weekend. Good lookin on an 8 city trip Johnny, I'm trying to get one of those started for myself as well.
johnny was lacing shit up in that room!! rubulad =
friday i was a "photo assistant" for my boy at the Aventura concert at MGD. dominican honnie bunnie overload. my work detail consisted of keeping my pockets filled with batteries and tracking down freebie bottles of cerveza presidente and talking to venesolanas
ate at a very palatable dimsum in chinatown (dim sum go go maybe?) and gorged again with whitelily at caravan of dreams...on point veggie classic spot in the LES
i got real fucking high off a cup of earl grey tea (i normally na touch caffeine) and then later got in a mental frenzy through the ingestion of some brownies my friend made. closed no deals wih the ladies and got no records, but saw old friends, caught numbers, made connections and had a ball.
pop the trunk and post some pictures of the haul, johnnycakes!!!!!
im going to officialy endaall my posts with my cricket hommies, cause i always seem to play the role of thread killer.
all newbies...hi, im tripledouble, batches!
watched Calvaire, a movie i was really excited about, only to be really disappointed in it
amazing saturday out in the sun hanging with friends and 8-month old that is a chick magnet to the nth degree
amazing saturday night working the door and off to meet friends after that - hearing roots, dancehall, no-wave, Turkish psych, deep house and CCR in five hours in three places made me so happy - got home at 8 am
now at work trying to get a head start on what will be an insane week of deadlines
must sleep soon
katrina aftermath???
that place is freaky man.
drove back from sf after a HEARTY trade with coolchristoph. your stuff is in the mail if your reading!
decided to move out of this FUCKING CAR ALARM INFESTED 'varrio' i'm sittin in right now.
rubulad.... everytime i hear about this i get JEALOUS. not to proud to admit that.
the best party in nyc. it's gotta be! hope you and aleit came up hawrd.
my weekend was pretty uneventful and pathetic cause i'm sick. moms visited my place and made me porkchops. got the cable working in my room so i finally got to see the project runway finale. i thought even though chloe's deserved to win, i was kinda disappointed with all of their lines. last season's runway finale murdered this year's even though wendy pepper's was a nonfactor.
really glad i didn't go out in this crazy weather. turned on the news yesterday and heard about this crazy 28-CAR PILEUP (?!)[/b] on n. 101 because northern californians do not know how to drive in snow and slush. i can't wait for this intense weather to begone
I always wondered what The_Non's house looked like...
Yeah no doubt! Shout out to The_Non. Straight heat up in Albany.
It started Friday night when I drove down to Hamilton to see my friend's band play This Night Creeps It was the release show for their latest EP, but also his last show with them as he is moving to Whistler to go snowboarding. It was cool to catch up with the handful of old friends that were there & I got to crash at my sister's place, but she wasn't there. I was supposed to meet a friend of mine who is just back in Hamilton after working in London as a Paramedic for the last 4 years, but since another dude had rung me on the drive down & used all the battery on my phone, I couldn't make the connection. So I drove back to Auckland & then got word my parents were on their way up to buy a car at auction. So I then went to the auto auction & saw them buy my Mom her
Sunday morning, I was at my local record store by 9.30 & left 3 hours later with a truckload of Jazz 45s, so that was cool.
Then me & a guy I work with who plays drums met up with a bassist that I found on the internet & had a jam with the goal to be starting a jazz/funk/soul band. It went real well although I am rusty, having not played jazz guitar for a few years. Apparently the bassist also has another guitarist & some monster Hungarian Tenor Sax player lined up. I am also meeting with a female vocalist this friday, so it should all come together fairly easily & get me out playing again for the first time since my last band split in October. Hopefully it will be cool.
Sunday night was pretty chill after that, ate some pizza, ripped Introducing The Style Council from LP to mp3 for a guy at work & then fell asleep listening to Norman Connors "You Are My Starship' & reading about the Making of Kind Of Blue.
public holiday here today, chillin right now after a solid session of backyard cricket yesterday in hott hott conditions ~ 100 degrees ya'll .. a few drives, a couple of leg cuts and numerous cold ones, damn my arm is sore :: the jet flyover was pretty cool although we weren't too sure about the very nature of them to start off with
suspect I missed Sheep
Free Jimmy Cliff * Mariam Makeba concerts coming up this week
Saturday night we went to Ruta Maya to see 4 of the dudes from NGOK compete in an under-21 spoken word slam with 4 finalists qualifying for a trip to New York to take part in a national event. While Chris aka Gator, Dre aka Lyricist the Lyrical Felon, and Jay aka Picolito all did well, it was our dude Quincy aka Black Prophet who especially killed it and earned a spot on Austin's national squad.
Also, Sunday afternoon after church we went to Paggi House where J-Boogie, Chicken George, and DJ Sun were spinning for a brunch buffet crowd all getting tanked off of bottom-less mimosas. It was really cool to meet DJ Sun and tell him that I used to listen to him on KPFT in Houston as far back as '93, and then meet J-Boogie and tell him that I used to listen to him on KUSF as far back as '97.
Anyway, it was a GREAT weekend.
Now, please make sure to visit NGOK's myspace page for I think they just got some of their songs loaded on there last night:
http://myspace.com/ngokmusic
FRI - Spun at my Bhangra/Bollywood Party in Chapel Hill NC
SAT - Drove to RVA, spun an all-NC hiphop set (trainwrecks'n'all) with SoulStutter Mordecai at University of Richmond's radio station, caught the Scorpio Brothers funk & soul set at Ipanema, met up with Fatback, Knewjack, Mesh, CousinLarry and Mordecai, drunkcalled a bunch of motherfuckers, partied til 5:30am
SUN - Hollered at some veggie paella at Kuba Kuba with the Scorpio posse, hung out with mom, chilled with Cowbwoy, Shing-A-Ling & Perlmutter at Kings in Raleigh NC
MON - recovering
uh dude where's my call
Saturday - met up with friends to drink wine and eat lots of good food in a really nice communal atmosphere... we discussed such weighty topics as: would really rich blind people would have multiple seeing eye dogs in different colours to match their outfits? then we went and saw a documentary on Metal music, and were surprised by the outrageousness of the Norweigians.
Sunday - started rainy, turned beautiful - my girl and I got coffees and rambled around... then we looked at a large map of Toronto and tried to decide what a good neighbourhood to live in would be... is cabbagetown too sketchy? is queen west west too hip? is high park / roncesvales too far away? then I drove home in the fog. altogether a really good weekend.
sunday i went to the flea... missed a huge soul collection and only got three mediocre pieces that ill flip. missed the newark show cause i cant drive and couldnt find a ride. so the weekend had wack finds but $$$ was made! plus i had my big love/sopranos premieres and flavor of love finale.
today i have physical therapy... which i dislike. i am going back through all the old black francis/frank black tunes that the wife has for wednesday.
tuesday i have the record show down in san jose that i convinced the wife to drive me too. thank god for her!
wednesday... my ebay auctions end. sad to get rid of them but i need the dough. going to see frank black at cafe du nord. that should be a lot of fun.
friday or saturday im going to hang out with gary and larry the rock dudes. smoke pot and listen to records. larry is helping his pal out who runs a club over on divisadero(?). anyway... good herb and hash.
sunday... KUSF! $$$$$$$
no - TV appearances - Cavett, Austrian TV, Bob Kirshner, something called Rock Concert and Mike Douglas Show. The Douglas interview is nuts - Muhammad Ali is on the panel with Stone, a Dem. from Idaho and another dude they never introduce. Ali tore them all a new ass. A few times, Stone was laughing and looking at Ali in disbelief. Think of Kanye re: Katrina and Bush x 10,000. My bro gave it to me, don't know where he got it from.