Is It Wicked Not To Care?

 ER/Easy Recognition/WY Brothers/Negativ Trend

John Easley '89'

Probably the oldest moniker photo I've seen this year. John Easley is also the man reponsible for Coaltrain. 

ER/Easy Recognition/Wasted Youth Bros/Neg. Trnd.

Masshysteri. 

ER/Easy Recognition/Retard Strength

Oops!

Catmando/Cat-Man-Do

I love this dude's work for obvious reasons. 

Big Bad Leroy Drown.

Highpockets. 

Highpockets flycasting has improved markedly as of late. If everything goes according to plan, he, chad, and I will be hopping a freight train this Friday, bound for somewhere far away! This one is from 06, and I'm real stoked on it. 

The Solo Artist.

Cactus. 

"I've got a philosophy....and maybe I'm wrong...or..or... maybe my philosophy is fucked up ok?....but there's two things I do not like....and these make me a bum....that's Responsibility, and Authority. I'm serious. I mean...I'll....I'll give you anything I've got...if you ask me for it, or I'll do anything you want me to, if you ask me to do it.............but if you tell me I got to do it...there's something inside me....and I've been this way since I was a child.....there's something inside of me that says............man, fuck this motherfucker."

Coaltrain '07'

Another favourite of mine. Sometimes his hair and moustache are filled in, and I prefer that to the outlined version. This is by John Easley, who's been doing these for many years, although the OG Coaltrain was an old black hobo, who didn't lie, cheat, or steal....or something along those lines.

Sawdust.

Ugly Bat.

Howler.

Rail Road Rally? 

Never seen this one before. Not sure about the name, but it's kind of a snoozefest. 

Ox '97'

Relish.

Pretty sure dude is local. Cool shit. 

Chimney Fox '01'?

My first and only time seeing this. I think it's tight, and was on a really strange Union Pacific car. 

Golden West.
Marysville WA. is such a dump. I was there two weeks ago, scribbling, and the whole town is so incredibly bleak. 

Ask Me About Staying Asleep

Here are more flicks from my friend Gone Fishings' site. The Rambler 'Port Of Beaumont Texas' is such a score. I caught a John Easley from 1984 the other day. Bonerrrrr!!

VIDEO

I've never been a huge fan of most metal. As ripping as bands like Autopsy, Blasphemy, Darkthrone, Celtic Frost etc....were/are, it's never really been my jam. But MARDUK is a different story. I've always loved Marduk, and I think Panzer Division Marduk is the most raging BM record since Deathcrush. 

You know who else rules? 

NEGAZIONE

They never released a slowburn, and had one of the best vocalists in hardcore. Classic band, and you can download some HERE. 

Speaking of awesome vocalists.....

URBAN WASTE

My all-time favourite hardcore band, bar-none. The vocals on the UW 7" are so blown-out and shredding that it almost hurts to listen to it, especially on Ignorant, the first UW song I heard, courtesy of Shay, many moons ago. It always surprises me when people who are into punk or hardcore don't know about these dudes....shit is SEMINAL!

Here's a video:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiNydAkt4m8

Here's a download:

http://www.mediafire.com/?bmwzsfsu3a1

Ceremonial Pissing

Dogtanian & the 3 Musketdogs

Theme Song

I've been watching this cartoon a lot lately, and I find the theme song to be perhaps the best piece of music created by humankind, ever. It also makes me really sad for reasons you fools aren't allowed to know. 

Miten menee? Olen huolissani ajautumassa sinua koko ajan, jamitä aion sanoa tai miten aion toimia. Toivon, että te teette hyvin,ja että olet onnellinen. Minun suomalaisista on todella kauheaa!

THALIDOMIDE

Been reading about Thalidomide lately also. Incredibly sad. 

Thalidomide first appeared in Germany on 1st October 1957. It was marketed as a sedative with apparently remarkably few side effects. The Drug Company who developed it believed it was so safe it was suitable for prescribing to pregnant women to help combat morning sickness.

It was quickly being prescribed to thousands of women and spread to most corners of the globe. Nobody had any idea of what was to follow. Drug testing procedures were far more relaxed at this time, and although tests had taken place on thalidomide, they didn't reveal any of its tetragenic (roughly meaning causing malformations) properties. In most countries, drug companies were not required to submit testing results to the appropriate government agencies.
The tests on thalidomide were conducted on rodents which metabolise the drug in a different way to humans. Later tests on rabbits and monkeys produced the same horrific side effects as in humans.

Towards the end of the fifties, children began to be born with shocking disabilities. It was not immediately obvious what the cause of this was. Probably the most renowned is Pharcomelia, the name given to the flipper-like limbs which appeared on the children of women who took thalidomide. Babies effected by this tragedy were given the name 'Thalidomide Babies'.

FRANK GERWERRRR

watch a video of drunk interview with frank gerwer and tony morioairiroito HERE

dudes are funny.

Tomorrow I don't have to work, but I still get paid. Somehow. Same with the next number of days. On Saturday, I am going to try and hop on an Eastbound freight train. Destination: Saint Elsewhere. A little worried about going through the siral tunnels, which sometimes take 45 minutes....which a young dude would spend breathing diesel fumes and trying not to pass out from lack of oxygen. If the weather is frightful, I'm just going to go camping instead. 

Goo, what else is new? Schooling time, come September. Maybe.  Hrmmwhat else.....I am legally allowed to purchase and fire any firearm allowed in Canada. It was a process! Doing a new band with some dudes. The punk and hardcore scenes in vancouver need more women, and womeny vibes. 

Been feeling the book Mr. Got To Go......google it to get stoked, vancouver content! 

ACAB-Still No Exceptions

Snitches Are A Dying Breed

ER-WY-ERISMS-NEGTRND-HRDTRGTZCREW

R.I.P. Little Homie

SPACE BAT-Gone But Not Forgotten

REVEEN

I've long been a fan of Reveen. I first saw an advertisement for one of his shows while sitting in my friend Brett's TV room. It blew my whole shit up. Been into him ever since.....his current situation is a bummer, to say the least.

Ik Wil Alles Wat Niet Mag

Menno Simons

Growing up in a Mennonite church, and with Mennonite parents was neat. I learned at a very early age that war is bad, that gay people are OK, and where to buy strong LSD....all at church! I also learned new words like dildo and slut. I had no idea what those words meant, but I knew they were bad, and that they should only be used when insulting a girl. I called the girl down the street a slut, and her mom and sisters came to my house wanting to do terrible things to me. I saw them walk up to the house, and I ran into my room and hid in bed, and after they had briefed my poor mother about what I had done, she came to my room and asked me why I called the girl a slut. I told her that I learned it at church, from Graham, and that it was one of only two bad words I knew....the other being dildo. In hindsight, shit was awkward. 

I learned a lot of more and less valuable things at church as well, but above all I learned that being a Mennonite is weird, and not something most people understand. I am culturally still a Mennonite, but I don't practice the faith, and I don't put much stock in a book of old stories or imaginary friends. I drink yerba mate, and I eat farmer's sausage(hehe), and I still like to hear old hymns. I speak low german, love farms, and go the MCC relief sale every year in Abbotsford. 

The engraving above is of the interior of Menno Simon's church from the 1500's. I understand that there are now two known copies in the world, and one of them hangs on my wall. It's by far my most valuable, and most prized possession, and was supposedly found in the hold of a ship filled with mennonites fleeing persecution. Cool! I also have a copy of the one with the duder hanging by his hand while his captors take a smoke break from torturing him. The print I have is from the early 1800's, and was in a later copy of the Martyr's Mirror. 

Nipsey

DEUCE SEVEN

Deuce Seven is ill. Pirate punks are the worst. I'm feeling really tired and sad, and it's times like this that I wish so bad that I had a dog or a cat. Maybe even a fish.....anything but a snake or a possum. Fuck both those animals. Instead I have three plants that are clinging to life, despite having been fed liberal doses of birth control pills. Google that shit son!

CREPES ONEDER

Alessandro Papetti is a stone cold killer. Shit rules. Heavy vibe in the second one from the bottom. I explored a real cool abandoned building near to where I sometimes scribble on trains. There was one room basically just frozen, like the people had just up and left. The rest of the place was all fucked up, and someone even did a poo in it! Yuk! Took lots of pictures and when I get them dvlpt I will post them here.

Here's a dude who raps:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f3XuKiPzbM