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Good luck with your 'books' Alexis or Alexia or whatever your names are.

All the big bands got paid Ramble Dove, K-OS got his $35K for shitting on stage while OFF HIS HINGE it's only the bands that travelled across the whole fucking country for a shitty little payday that got burned. Hey don't worry about it man. Jay will give you a heady backrub. And no Jay it is insincere to say that Evolve is a highly respected music festival. AND you've never remotely acknowledged that there have been fatalities associated with those leaving the event due to extreme drug use and fatigue notably due to the VERY poor decision to have something like 23 hours of music a day. That is unacceptable. Bad planning. Causes deaths and there is something of a karmic liability there.

Here's the deal. I am officially announcing my candidacy for the Sherriff of Wellington County and Phat City (formerly Guelph) under a Freak Power Ballott initiative. I will accept only services or goods offered in kind in order to reimburse media, security, campaign management and health professionals for my War Room. I will be registering the Gonzo Porn Co-operative on Monday. I am one of very few Co-operative Developers in Ontario - there is no accrediation existing. I received my education at the University of King's College and Dalhousie University as well as training as an Entrepreneurial Educator by the Centre for Entrepreneurial Education and Development. I have vetted many business plans, written many business plans, I have owned an integrated marketing communications company in Nova Scotia I have also run a variety of production enterprises. I have advanced skill sets as an Orator, Publicist, Journalist, Activist and particularly Impresario and Campaign Manager (although I have never endorsed a candidate). It has come to my attention that Marva Wisdom, a dear friend has shockingly lost the ballott to become the next Liberal MP candidate in this riding. Frank Valeriote who is notably Italian Canadian and has very little if any credibility in the party that I know of - given that I am both a Young Liberal (or was) and a Liberal Party Insider I can say this with some assurance. I would like to secure Marva Wisdom as a political counsel and reimburse her as such. I would like to ask Eric McKutcheon of Van Gogh's Ear to be my chief Security Consultant. I will also now endorse George Smitherman should he ever want to run for Premier or any other office as he is the only politician on the Hookers and Blow laden Queen's Park/Bay St. complex that has shown any candour about his and everyone's struggle with addiction. If Phil Allt is interested I will also reimburse him for political consultancy. I will be asking many of my musician friends once I have constructed the election platform to do fundraising concerts to Rock The Vote and register students and particularly transient addicted persons in order to give them fair access to services they may in fact be entitled to.

You all have no clue. Hip Hop means industry. The difference between a Bitch and a Bee is clearly Honey. This site is full of bitches, worker drones and few if any soldiers definitely no Queen Bee. The same is true of Stillepost.ca®. I am about to make an announcement for my political candidacy in the city of Guelph and will not waste my intellectual property or breath on this, basically, nice well meaning people but really boring and faded community. There hasn't even been a decent Canadian 'jamband' since nero and basically MDMA is not a band.

Clearly Alexia is the next Greil Marcus.

Almost all nepotistic and stupid programming choices reflective of Evolve's inability and complete failure to resolve their substantial debts from last year. I'm not sure why this is remotely acceptable to anyone in this community. It's actually robbing artists many of whom you claim to love. I told Jonas Coulter a very good and old friend of mine to look into Vieux Farka Toure and I sincerely hope they are booked. Evolve has devolved into a loose excuse to hold a drugged out rave in the guise of something other than exactly that.

Well I'll give you a clearcut example - MuchOnDemand ran a completely ignorant promotion where they had young emaciated girls in bikinis faux fucking a mechanical bull in the after school Much On Demand hours. I had interest from a variety of editors as I posted the concerns of a former Much fan and a big brother, mental health speaker and concerned citizen and they were censored from the MOD message boards within minutes on 3 occasions the day after (I have a log of the times). An editor at the Globe was very interested and then the story went away and has never been told or addressed. Bell Globe Media. Bell Telephone/Internet, Globe and Mail, Much Media.... For the record I have a photographic memory and maintain literally over likely at least 500 simultaneous relationships and recall absurd details about peoples spelling of full names and their life details. Alexia is very attractive and has a good head on her shoulders and is obviously imminently forgettable. She is also off my myspace friends list.

I'm writing an autobiographical work called Last Atlas Honky Fall that deals with the early period of my life and my friendship with Jon Sherrick who I attended the Band's performance in '89 at the Ontario Place Forum with (notably Billy Preston sat in for Stan Szelest). Jon was sent to Hazelden (setting of A Million Little Pieces) came back an even bigger punk and hung himself in his parents basement at age 18. I was in the ballroom of the Kilmorey Lodge in Waterton Lakes National Park when I got the news. He was my Neil Cassady. I am also writing a musical piece of ethnomusicography that is entitled Old Weird Canada and places the Band's ouvre rightly in the context of Canadian history as well as will seek to not gloss over the darker aspects of their later period including of course well, everyone except Robbie.

In Canada for instance self-censorship in the media is synonymous with centralized media ownership and self-preservation by editors i.e. a TorStar outlet or BellGlobeMedia outlet is not going to criticize something owned by the same banner company meaning the first responsibility is to the shareholders not the public. Editors do not risk good stories or challenging stories because they know it will displease the money managers and hence jeopardize their role. That is NOT hip hop. Popo thanks for asking. I'm a Ghost in the Machine.

What the fuck did Brad Barr say to me today. Oh yeah 'Shoot the Crooked Line' I think that's the newest thing he wrote or is working on. He and Andrew were doing a jingle for some TO fashion show or something.

In terms of producers I think it's widely established now that J Dilla is A GOD. He died, as my friend Livestock says not of Lupus but of artistic perfection.

Don't be such a SNOOT and a prescriptivist. Do not make me give you the short course on Politics and the English Language viz viz the OED2.

Except that my life is a smoke break. THIS IS MY WORK. This is time suckage for the rest of you. Continuing with any dialogue would presume that anyone had anything to add to the topic at hand, with the meandering quality of jambands.ca threads specifically that seems improbable- hence futile.

Simultaneous.

Sorry mistype ALEXIA. (I still respect you though). I should totally apologize to Allison here and in person I am now apologizing here for what it's worth. Many many threads have been deleted for trivial and meaningless things. I have shared very personal things about my life here, and as much as you all claim it's total bullshit and some of you say get the fuck out of here you're all drawn to me like shit on flies- there's an easy way to end that. Don't be a dung beetle. Roll your own shit across the desert. In the case of that thread you all really got to a very hurtful place, maybe a place I had taken you and deserved to go, but I had the right to ask for it to be removed. I don't regret that decision. It may have in fact been the ONLY thing in my entire life I've censored. Think about that for a second. How much do you self-censor and does self-censorship on a grand scale ultimately amount to CENSORSHIP.

Fair enough. Lets leave this shit at the door. The community deserves better.

For someone with such a deep respect for the written word Alexis (and I have a lot of respect for you whether you realize it or not) you seem not to be a very big fan of aphorism, satire or the arcane. Allison's right I just would want to defend my little Gulliverian trial in the land of the Lilliputian's. Can we keep this up folks? I sincerely apologize. I will make a concerted effort not to insult anyone in this community or this community ever again. Please realize that for years its been a fucking gangbang on me and while I love a battle royale this shit is played out. I'm interested in ideas and furthering ideas. If people have ideas about the place of Hip Hop culture in the world today I'd like to hear them. Thanks Esau for the Eternal Brotherhood bit- I know you'll never accept my apology. Well frankly I offered it in person and you almost clocked me at Hooters... but I do also apologize to you. I'm not sure what else to say really. Offered and accepted hopefully.

I basically agree with your whole formulation with an exception or two YATS. First of all where did the acid come from? Cartels of some sort. Second of all there were monolithic figures one I know of personally from Montreal, who literally ran shit on Dead Tour from a distance. Also when Jay sings 'Hove had to get the shallow shit up off him' in Lost Ones I think it's important just to acknowledge that it seems to me that money is only a means to an end for Jay. It doesn't seem like a primary concern. Also thanks for the clarification on the Terrapins, I wondered about a Ball reference but I don't know Bball or college ball at all. Taking it to Maryland though is not much different than taking Canadian weed or acid across the border. It's just moving a commodity to a market where it has a higher value. All Jay did was take that shit to Baltimore- 'crackheads is buyin' all night'.

I think you're getting somewhere with the bit about the Hippy Mafia YATS. I realize that I'm totally offbase about the Jay-Z/Grateful Dead connection (you know because hard rappin' Deeps is here to say, your Jay Z trip is, uhm , so play(ed)) but what do you think S. Carter was talkin' about on IZZO. Jay-Z - Izzo

I know where Allison is coming from but she's actually off base here. I do have some class and societal angst, I'm a true Marxist, like the Cambridge Spies revolutionary group of five - I put my education into social and personal dismantlement rather than material accumulation. The reality is that I am a White Nigger. I literally am. I have no right to my background, entitlement, cultural status. I'm just a fucking Honky Nigger. Read Norman Mailer's White Negro for more on this line and how Black culture and moreoever the appropriation of black culture is omnipresent in the modern age (ie. Jazz, Beats, Hip Hop etc.). Greg Tate, who personally mentored me somewhat, has a very influential collection of essays Everything But The Burden that revolve around Mailer's essay. Tate wrote the incendiary Nigs R Us on this line of thinking.

I KILL at standup and I'd have Stone Mtn. settling after opening arguments.

Frankly its scary how much I keep to myself. You just think because I seem to be so forthcoming with personal info that I'm being totally straightforward. Who the fuck are you Stone Mtn. so-called caveman lawyer. Your shit is weak. You in all likelihood like many in your field knowingly represent foul and corrupt individuals and though I would have made a good barrister it is not for me. My legal career would have ended much like Pacino's in In Justice For All (get it Injustice For All). The legal system, the one you make your livelihood off of, has perverted the medical delivery community, made laundering money and international terrorist fundraising into a breeze in this country not to mention the countless corporate crooks who destroy entire livelihoods with no retribution. In any case Stone Mtn. you didn't need to open this thread did you? Nor did you need to respond. This isn't about me, or about you. I was really just trying to say that since there are industries hell bent on FUCKING KIDS OVER perhaps young people could use a dose of self esteem, build efficacy (the ability to produce impacts) and perhaps hip hop culture with its inclusivity and ADAPTABILITY (remember kids, improvisation, 'all my gangster friends and all my skater friends they all want the same thing' - well one thing they want is LOVE and another is to ADAPT TO THEIR TERRAIN). I don't see a lot of adaptation in this music community. In fact this music community died a long time ago and a hodge podge of limp bands have been rehashing the sounds of five years ago ever since.

You guys don't read my articles. I keep my shit to myself this is just, well jism. ...and no, people don't seem to appreciate parody anymore.

I admit I'm just as addicted to this place, to the ensnaring processes of ego, as anyone else.