StaggerLee

Wolfe Island Musicfest 2006

Marysville Baseball Diamond

Wolfe Island, ON

August 12, 2006

$28.00

Constantines

Wintersleep

Hidden Cameras

Holy Fuck

Great Lake Swimmers

Jon-Rae & The River

Chris Brown Allstar Band with special guests TBA

Fat Robot

Lady Racers

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This is pretty cool. Go to http://www.hornbyisland.com/ then click the link to the webcam.

The Slip -- because they play beautiful music and never cease to amaze me

and Slowcoaster -- because they'll rock you at the bar and then drink you under the table at the afterparty

The final lineup addition:

Greatfully Deadicated Sound System

Some more lineup additions:

Gordon Get's Lost

Chillin' Room

The Jimmy Swift Band

Dr. dFunkt

Two more bands added to the lineup:

The Makuna Movement

Traffic jam

Rick Mercer's rant was about Ignatieff this week. Pretty funny, you can watch it on the website: http://www.cbc.ca/mercerreport/

Last year's Sunseeker was definately the booziest festival I've been to, but if you embraced the scene all was well. I put in a request for a glass bottle ban this year so hopefully broken bottles won't be an issue.

Not a real album, but the cd I listen to most often is:

The River Rhine Tapes -- Get Back Sessions January 1969

1. Two of Us

2. I dig a Pony

3. I got a Feeling

4. Dont Let Me Down

5. I Me Mine Waltz

6. Let it Be

7. For You Blue

8. One After 909

9. Long and Winding Road

10 Get Back

11 Oh Darling

12 Across the Universe

13 Dig It/John sings the titles

14 Mailman

15 Good Rockin Tonite

16 20 Flight Rock

17 Her Majesty

18 Maxwells Silver Hammer by John

19 Maxwells Silver Hammer by Paul

20 Suzy Parker

21 Bad Finger Boogie

22 Mean Mr Mustard

23 All Things Must Pass

24 The Walk

25 River Rhine

26 BillyBeatle Boogie

For official albums I'd have to go with Revolver or the White Ablum.

nice...I loveTom Waits!!but for some reason I have not listened to that album....thanks for the reminder!

It's great. It's an all-guitar album, no piano. His band for most of the album is Marc Ribot on guitar, Brain on drums, and Les Claypool or Larry Taylor on bass.

It's close to St. John. I went to this festival last year and had a great time. It was small and pretty basic, but cheap and fun. I expect this year will be much better in terms of the organization.

June 23 - 25

Kingston, New Brunswick

The Matt Dillon Band

Tala

Bootyjuice

Blue Quarter

Fresh Cut Grass

Vanderpark

Mr Something Something

Les Paiens

The Slip

Slowcoaster

High Plains Drifter

Divine Heist

plus a few more to come

Yeah, that's what I meant. Choosing lossy derivations is functional choosing streamability. I wish they'd separate the two options at archive though, so tapers that are adamantly opposed to lossy formats could still make their recordings streamable. I rarely download anything from archive without streaming it first to get a rough idea of the sound quality.

The person who uploads a show gets to choose whether or not the show will be streamable. I don't know what the deal is with shows that have lost the streaming option.

Micro Dot [From the Cactus family] 'from what I've heard' is far superior to all of the above. I have also heard that as a result of Its natural properties cannot be tested for afterwards.

I've only heard the term microdot used to describe LSD in pill form. Microdot acid is generally considered inferior as it may contain other chemicals, whereas with blotter you're likely to be getting clean gear.

Late Grateful Dead Leader's Toilet Stolen Sun Apr 2, 7:38 AM ET

SONOMA, California - The long, strange trip continues for Jerry Garcia's toilet. Police say the Grateful Dead leader's commode was stolen recently from a driveway along with three other toilets and a bidet, The Press Democrat newspaper reported Saturday.

Garcia's salmon-colored toilet was the subject of a legal battle before it was finally moved to Sonoma, to await shipment to a Canadian casino. It's unclear if the toilet was swiped by a wayward Deadhead or a thief remodeling a bathroom. Police have no suspects or leads.

Henry Koltys bought Garcia's Marin County home for $1.39 million in 1997 and removed the toilet and other items he planned to sell to raise money for a charity.

After Koltys sold the house to a friend of the band's, the new owner sued to block the auction. The dispute was resolved last year, and Koltys moved the items to his home in Sonoma, about 40 miles north of San Francisco.

Last month, Koltys sold the Grateful Dead singer's toilet for $2,550 to online casino Goldenpalace.com, which planned to use it as part of a traveling marketing exhibit. The casino is offering a $250 reward for its return.

Henry Koltys said Friday that the toilet once stood in the master bathroom of Garcia, who died in 1995 at age 53. "It would have been his personal head," he said.

The casino has made other unusual purchases in the last year — it paid $25,000 for actor William Shatner's kidney stones and $28,000 for a grilled cheese sandwich that reportedly had the image of the Virgin Mary on it, Koltys said.

Jonathon Lipsin, who worked for Garcia as a gardener and now owns a Northern California record store, said the toilet might appeal to dedicated Deadheads. "It's a little gross," Lipsin said. "But I could see it at a rock 'n' roll museum, too."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060402/ap_on_fe_st/jerry_garcia_s_toilet

"What we really need to do is start thinking about controlling our population before it's too late," he told the Associated Press. "It's already too late, but we're not even thinking about it. We're just mindlessly rushing ahead breeding our brains out."

He's definately got a point though. Population is the great multiplier for all our environmental sins. Whenever I find myself in a lively debate about environmentalism I feel compelled to bring it up, and without fail it kills the conversation. Nobody knows how to tackle the problem and most feel uncomfortable discussing it. It's something I've thought about a lot but I have a hard time reconciling reproductive rights with the need for population control. The only concrete thing I can think of to do about the problem here in Canada that isn't morally offensive would be to eliminate the subsidies and tax breaks that parents recieve, but I can't imagine this would be very effective as few people base their decision to have children on tax breaks and family allowances. The same would apply to financial incentives aimed at keeping family sizes low.

I did 40g of mushrooms in one go once and became only too aware of my mortality. The effects they can have cannot be predicted and it's ridiculous to expect any meaningful research to come out of this....Ian Steele, Kettering, UK

That's like eating an entire package of Gravol and concluding that it is an ineffective treatment for nausea.

on sites that are environmentally contaminated,

and this is meant to be a good thing? as the whole tone of the article is very wal-mart oriented, i gathering that they think that they are doing a good thing by building on comtaminated land. are they buying it for cheap first?

Actually this could be a good thing. Lots with contaminated land are hard to sell due to environmental regulations. Often it is cheaper for a company to just leave such land empty rather than clean it up and sell it. That's why when a gas station goes out of business the lot will stay empty for years afterwards. Maybe Walmart is proposing to buy contaminated land cheap and clean it up? I don't know though, that sounds a little too altruistic for the Waltons. Perhaps due to the size of the stores they can simply excavate the soil and truck it away in a cost effective manner.

Anyway you slice it, I reckon you'd be better off getting caught with a few plants under a legal weed system rather than the current one. And once everyone got used to the idea of legal weed, there'd likely be less effort spent looking in folks' backyard gardens.

Being an electrician myself, I would expect that to occur, seeing as I have only seen a couple home grow-ops that weren't possible hazards.

Can you come look at my basement?

He talked about gov't regulations on how it is grown, potency levels where its grown and who can grow it etc, basically like alcohol it would be tightly controlled.

Sure, commercial distribution would be controlled, but there could still be provisions to allow for backyard growers, much like folks are permitted to make homebrew.

I'm pretty sure it was Angels Come On Time.

i think 'turning the blind eye' is favourable to those who are against decriminalization because decriminalizing entails society actually saying drug use is OK. there are people who recognize that while smoking pot isn't really a big deal, they still don't want to send a message to kids that full out says 'we as a society accept it'. it's too big of a step for them. instead they prefer to look the other way.

Ahh, I see what you're getting at now. I forgot about the fact that some people seem to think decriminalization would mean an obligation to promote weed in elementary schools.

So why don't cops who recognize the absurdities of simple possession support decriminalization? Why is turning a blind eye better than decriminalization? It seems to me that's selective application of the law based on police officers' subjective notions of who deserves to be punished. I'd rather leave those sorts of judgements to judges. Better to change the law to ensure everyone is treated equally in my opinion.