Bones just ordered another big batch of Vino for us.  I am pretty excited as our last batch was so good that it barely made it out of January alive.  He asked if I wanted to make a label.  I rushed one out in about 5 minutes by going to my favourite movie poster site WRONG SIDE OF THE ART, and clicked on the 1940's and found the first poster that would look good on a bottle.  I picked this movie poster called SKID ROW.  I changed two lines of text, and bingo bango, vino!

In case you are wondering what Delajota means, its DEvin, LAura, JOhny and TAra.

Below is my visual checklist of the singles that I still need to get.  Keep in mind I already bought all of these singles back in high school, mostly during lunch breaks when I would visit my beloved Encore Records.

I tried out yet another easy recipe from 101 Cooking For Two website.  I really love this site.  If I can follow along on this site and make something taste good, than anyone can.


Jeremy Laura and I killed this food last night, so much so that we ate what would have been our lunch for today.  I will be making this again soon, as I am always looking for good crock pot meals.  So easy to make, and less stressful.

Noon

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One of my favourite moments from this past Saturdays trip to see The Jicks was when Ned, Gary and I had a drink at 3am while everyone else slept, and talking about how awesome Malkmus is. Gary asked at one point "What other band's has Joanna [Bolme] been in??"

"Quasi" I said.

 He looked kinda stunned, and then Ned yelled out "DUDE YOU ARE WEARING A QUASI T SHIRT!"

 Classic Gary. Smoked your shit.


 Today I hit Beat Goes On and grabbed a couple of their albums for a low low cost. None of the albums with Joanna though.

Below is a video from their latest video.  Sweet sweet distortion.

   

 

I finally got my hands on a copy of the Black Belt Jones soundtrack.  One of my favourite soundtracks.  This was an Amazon purchase but as usual they would not ship to Canada so I had this shipped to Gary's.  When we left for home from our last Pittsburgh trip, I realized I forgot this album at Gary's house.  Thankfully he brought it back this past weekend.  If you dig old soundtracks I strongly recommend this one.


Below is the intro to Black Belt Jones.  This is one of my favourite movie themes and opening sequences ever.



Funky:


Here are some killer posters from the incredible WRONG SIDE OF THE ART website:

We had our usual "whats your fave Malk" discussion over drinks at the hotel before the concert Saturday.  I kept pushing how incredible the Dark Wave EP is.  Three songs that appear on here are some of my all time favourite Malkmus tunes, with Old Jerry cracking my top 5 Jicks tunes.






My conclusion with this is that Dark Wave is the second greatest EP ever made, right behind Watery Domestic by Pavement.  I managed to get a 10" copy from Discogs a couple years back, but I do not see it pop up too often on there.  If you see it, get it!

We had a HUGE group of people that hit Toronto Saturday night to see my beloved Malkmus and his Jicks.  It was such an amazing show, and my love for Malk has somehow doubled.  Great times.

Someone posted this video of parts of the show to the YouTubes, check it out!

Gary came up this weekend so as usual he brought a basket full of stuff that I had shipped to his house.  For those who don't know, some of the things that I order that cost 3 bucks to send to Gary, can cost up to 25 bucks to ship to Canada.  Its pretty annoying, but we see Gary every other month it seems so its worth the wait to save a couple hundred bucks on shipping charges.

I ordered a couple of tapes that were very cheap on Amazon, with American shipping of course.  Mondo has released the soundtrack and a new VHS copy of Blue Sunshine.  I have always been meaning to check out this movie, but I refuse to get sucked into the Mondo Cult.  I like their releases and all, but I am really not a fan their sales tactics (very limited pressings, random).  Its genius, because people will buy absolutely anything they put out, but I have a moral issue with the way they do their business.  That being said I bought an old VHS copy of Blue Sunshine for like 3 bucks, which is a far better price than the Mondo version that is selling on eBay right now ($111!!!).  I also got a copy of Recruits.  A pretty horrible Canadian rip off of Police Academy.  I wanted to own it for a while to complete my Thor (Rock N Roll Nightmare, Zombie Nightmare) movie collection.


Gary also brought me this incredible poster from this years Grrrindhahs in Pittsburgh.  Every year this theatre puts on a whole day exploitation movie marathon.  I really need to make it down to one of these shows some day.


Also from the same show, Gary picked up a soundtrack CD that the curators released at the theatre.  There are some really awesome soundtrack songs on this so I am pretty stoked about it.

I bought some gems this weekend, as well as getting a free copy of The Hills Have Eyes which I got for my video work for One Way Static Records.

I found the reissue of Faith No More's Album of the Year at the Windsor Dr. Disc.  I was slightly bummed it wasn't the gold vinyl, but whatever.  I got the new GBV from the mighty Encore.

I have spent a couple of days cleaning up the audio of a lot of the Drive-In ads in my collection.  I have been playing around with Adobe Audition as of late, and I am pretty blown away by how simple it is to clean up audio.  The hiss sampling and removal alone make that program worth its money.

For the videos I have scaled them up into 720p, although for obvious reasons these are not true HD.  I added some colour correction and a 16mm film overlay.  They all look pretty alright.

I have rendered out about 40 Drive-In clips so far, and some look better than the others but I hope to upload them somewhere should any other dork out there like me want to use them.