September 30, 2006

Get Download, Make Love

As I mentioned last post, it’s close to the one-year anniversary of the TOE STUBBER fast-food franchise. It is my strongest hope that the site has meant more than a single drop of piddly piss in an ocean of boring, self-aggrandizing mp3 blogs created by bald white dudes. I want it to be more like a powerful, gushing stream of piss.

Birthdays are for celebrating, and a number of friends have contributed time and moral support to this project. To quote To Sir, With Love, “What could I give you in return?” That’s when it occurred to me that I could simply repost every song that ever appeared on ToeStubber.com (minus the tunes that I never removed in the first place) and let our loyal readers go crazy with consumer greed! What a stupid fucking idea!

...Because, naturally, it took me long hours of typing code and a ridiculously dreary upload and, in the end, will probably crush my server. So, enjoy. If there were songs you missed out on the first time, I encourage you to go on a screeching, arm-flailing, gorilla-like downloading spree, because I will absolutely not be doing this shit again. Everything’s in roughly alphabetical order, for no good reason. And all these reruns will be deleted forever on October 7th at midnight, PST.

Make a wish, blow out the candles. Perhaps you’ll even be tempted to fumble around the rest of this site (hint: click on the dates on the left side), and see how my writing has deteriorated over the past year.

07/23/06: The Bamboo Kids – “I’m Ready”
07/23/06: The Bamboo Kids – “Low Life”
07/23/06: The Bamboo Kids – “Radio Rebel”
02/02/06: Bounder – “Kalamazoo”
10/10/05: The Brought Low – “Goddamn God Bless”
10/10/05: The Brought Low – “Motherless Sons”
11/24/05: Cactus – “Evil”
10/30/05: Captain Beyond – “Frozen Over / Thousand Days of Yesterdays”
10/30/05: Captain Beyond – “Mesmerization Eclipse”
10/30/05: Captain Beyond – “Raging River of Fear”
10/30/05: Captain Beyond – “Thousand Days of Yesterdays (Intro)”
11/03/05: Cody Chesnutt – “Enough of Nothing”
11/03/05: Cody Chesnutt – “My Women, My Guitars”
11/03/05: Cody Chesnutt – “Serve This Royalty”
11/03/05: Cody Chesnutt w/Sonja Marie – “With Me in Mind”
10/05/05: Daniel Johnston – “Funeral Home (live)”
10/05/05: Daniel Johnston – “Hey Joe”
10/05/05: Daniel Johnston – “Walking the Cow”
09/27/05: The Equals – “Christine”
09/27/05: The Equals – “Honey Gum”
12/23/05: The Equals – “Honey Bee”
12/23/05: The Equals – “Just Me and You”
12/23/05: The Equals – “Michael and His Slipper Tree”
12/23/05: The Equals – “The Skies Above”
01/04/06: Frankie Lee Sims – “She Likes to Boogie Real Low”
04/14/06: Goblin – “La Via Della Droga”
04/14/06: Goblin – “Profondo Rosso”
04/14/06: Goblin – “Suspiria”
04/14/06: Goblin – “Witch”
04/29/06: 1/2 Japanese – “Ann Arbor, MI”
04/29/06: 1/2 Japanese – “Battle of the Bands”
04/29/06: 1/2 Japanese – “Bogue Millionaires / Cool Millionaires”
04/29/06: 1/2 Japanese – “Calling All Girls”
04/29/06: 1/2 Japanese – “Dream Date”
04/29/06: 1/2 Japanese – “Her Parents Came Home”
04/29/06: 1/2 Japanese – “School of Love”
04/29/06: 1/2 Japanese – “Shy Around Girls”
04/29/06: 1/2 Japanese – “The Worst I’d Ever Do”
07/15/06: Hillbilly Peckers – “Celia”
07/15/06: Hillbilly Peckers – “Heavy Metal Honky Tonk”
07/15/06: Hillbilly Peckers – “Knock Me Down”
07/15/06: Hillbilly Peckers – “Locked ‘n’ Loaded”
07/15/06: Hillbilly Peckers – “Set ‘Em Up Joe”
07/15/06: Hillbilly Peckers – “Wildwood Flower”
01/29/06: The Hookers – “Baby, You’ll Regret Me”
01/29/06: The Hookers – “Broke My Heart”
01/29/06: The Hookers – “Do That Dance”
01/29/06: The Hookers – “Get It Tonight”
01/29/06: The Hookers – “Kiss My Fuckin’ Ass”
02/25/06: The Hypstrz – “96 Tears (live)”
02/25/06: The Hypstrz – “All or Nothing (live)”
02/25/06: The Hypstrz – “I’ll Go Crazy (live)”
12/16/05: Jacques Brel – “Amsterdam (live)”
12/16/05: Jacques Brel – “Marieke”
12/16/05: Jacques Brel – “Ne Me Quitte Pas”
10/16/05: Jet Boys – “I Wanna Die”
10/26/05: Johnny Paycheck – “When the Grass Grows Over Me”
02/16/06: The King Khan & BBQ Show – “Hold Me Tight”
02/16/06: The King Khan & BBQ Show – “Waddlin’ Around”
08/20/06: Knights of the New Crusade – “Secret Sign”
04/04/06: Leather Nun – “Death Threats”
04/04/06: Leather Nun – “Ensam I Natt”
04/04/06: Leather Nun – “No Rule”
04/04/06: Leather Nun – “Slow Death”
01/20/06: The Little Killers – “Butterfingers”
01/20/06: The Little Killers – “How Do You Do It?”
12/11/05: The Maids – “Back to Bataan”
12/11/05: The Maids – “I Do I Do”
08/04/06: Menace – “GLC”
08/04/06: Menace – “I Need Nothing”
08/04/06: Menace – “Screwed Up”
08/04/06: Menace – “The Young Ones”
11/30/05: The Mullens – “All Fours”
11/30/05: The Mullens – “Step On the Gas”
11/30/05: The Mullens – “This and That”
11/30/05: The Mullens – “Your Little Scene”
03/03/06: Negativland – “Greatest Taste Around”
03/03/06: Negativland – “Special Edit Radio Mix”
03/03/06: Negativland – “Truth in Advertising”
11/06/05: The Nerves – “Hanging on the Telephone”
11/06/05: The Nerves – “One Way Ticket”
11/06/05: The Nerves – “Paper Dolls”
11/06/05: The Nerves – “Stand Back and Take a Good Look”
06/21/06: The Nothing – “Scream ‘n’ Cry”
06/21/06: The Nothing – “Uniformz”
09/20/05: Of Cabbages and Kings – “The Veil Thins”
10/16/05: Onanie Machine – “I Love Onanie”
12/06/05: Quasimoto – “Bus Ride”
12/06/05: Quasimoto – “Microphone Mathematics Remix”
08/08/06: The Red Onions – “Gimme Some More”
08/08/06: The Red Onions – “Live Wire”
08/08/06: The Red Onions – “Your Politics”
01/01/06: The Rezillos – “2000 A.D.”
01/01/06: The Rezillos – “Cold Wars”
01/01/06: The Rezillos – “Glad All Over”
01/01/06: The Rezillos – “I Can’t Stand My Baby”
01/01/06: The Rezillos – “I Need You (live)”
01/01/06: The Rezillos – “It Gets Me”
08/20/06: The Sea Monkeys – “Secret Sign”
12/16/05: The Sensational Alex Harvey Band – “Next”
03/12/06: The Shakes – “In My Hair”
03/12/06: The Shakes – “Oops! I Did It Again”
03/12/06: The Shakes – “Sicker”
02/12/06: Sir Lord Baltimore – “Ain’t Got Hung on You”
02/12/06: Sir Lord Baltimore – “Helium Head”
02/12/06: Sir Lord Baltimore – “Kingdom Come”
02/12/06: Sir Lord Baltimore – “Lady of Fire”
02/12/06: Sir Lord Baltimore – “Lake Isle of Innersfree”
02/12/06: Sir Lord Baltimore – “Pumped Up”
06/06/06: Slayer – “Black Magic”
11/21/05: SPK - “Germanik”
11/21/05: SPK - “Mekano”
09/28/05: The Stoneage Hearts – “Your Smile”
01/30/06: The Stranglers – “Bitching”
05/10/06: Tight Bros From Way Back When – “Gimme Luv”
05/10/06: Tight Bros From Way Back When – “Lend You a Hand”
05/10/06: Tight Bros From Way Back When – “Make It a Habit”
05/10/06: Tight Bros From Way Back When – “Rip It Up”
05/10/06: Tight Bros From Way Back When – “So Sneaky”
05/10/06: Tight Bros From Way Back When – “That’s a Promise”
11/17/05: Trio – “Anna – Letmeinletmeout”
11/17/05: Trio – “Broken Hearts For You and Me”
11/17/05: Trio – “Out in the Streets”
11/17/05: Trio – “Sunday You Need Love Monday Be Alone”
11/13/05: The Upper Crust – “Boudoir”
11/13/05: The Upper Crust – “Let Them Eat Rock”
11/13/05: The Upper Crust – “Ne’er-Do-Well”
11/13/05: The Upper Crust – “Rock ‘n’ Roll Butler”
11/13/05: The Upper Crust – “We’re Finished With Finishing School”
11/09/05: VOM - “Electrocute Your Cock”
11/09/05: VOM - “God Save the Whales”
11/09/05: VOM - “I’m in Love With Your Mom”
11/09/05: VOM - “Punkmobile”
11/09/05: VOM - “Too Animalistic”
03/09/06: Warwick – “Let’s Get the Party Going”
12/06/05: Yesterdays New Quintet – “I Am Singing”

Rick at 8:17 pm

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September 26, 2006

Some Answers

What kind of father am I? Toe Stubber hit another so-called-writer’s block and allowed so much time to elapse that we didn’t even acknowledge the one year anniversary of TOESTUBBER.COM.

On September 20, 2005 this website was born out of my admiration for a handful of MP3 blogs, a vague fear of getting old, the pleasure of sharing my sweet taste in music and the desire to seem cool. Longtime readers will attest to an initial spurt of posting activity which has steadily dwindled. The last post was over a month ago.

Honestly, I pretty much knew what I was getting into from the beginning. From throughout my abortive DJ period, prior to the site launch, I’d learned not to expect a very rewarding ratio of brainwaves expended to kudos digested. (Thus I try to consider myself a kind of pro bono public defender of good music.) For a while, things were rockin’ – a small group of stubbers had been reading and posting comments and linking and calling me a clever lad. I liked that. But then other factors clogged up the tubes – laziness, depression, isolation, other projects, disorganization, waah waah waaaahh.

Well, I’m back for now. At least you have the incentive to return at least once. I promise that if I haven’t made another post within a week from this one, you have my permission to shoot me in the back of the head, execution-style.

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When I sit on the toilet and reread this compendium of the first three issues of Jim & Debbie Goad’s Answer Me!, a sort of wistful longing overtakes me. To return to those days when I was innocent in my total cynicism – a time when I (the Elite lord of my apartment) thought that my hard cock and street smarts could really protect me – before I got my heart broken a couple of times.

Because I am a romantic. And sentimental fools soon learn that there’s a really thin line between romantic and stupid. Later on, Jim’s stupid heart got the rest of him thrown in prison for domestic self-defense. There’s plenty of documentation of that sad history here, but I recommend picking up the book first, before you savor the salacious dessert of another human’s misery. Mr. Goad’s clear, witty writing holds up incredibly well, considering all the nonsense that came after. This volume also includes about 60 pages of pure comedy that Goad produced after the demise of AM!

You can get a glossy reprint of the fourth, final and best Answer Me! – the “Rape issue” – from the publisher.

At what turned out to be the waning sunset of the printed ‘zine (I gave up on Panty Line Fever within a year after discovering Answer Me!), Jim and Debbie popped four of these impeccably researched, hilarious, passionate and nearly typo-free bundles of reasoned misanthropy and joy straight out of the moist, fertile vaginas of their minds.

Most of us other zinesters were never this good. What were we thinking, anyway?

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Congratulations go to former Toe Stubber muse Michelle for recently sharing a room with the U.S. Secretary of State and somehow surviving the overpowering, acrid stench of incompetence.

Dave the Cruse has a new MP3 blog – DIRTYGROOVES – and I can tell you he’s barely scratched the surface of his awesome record collection. Which is good: You don’t want to scratch the surface. It makes the record skip. I can’t believe I have to tell you this. C’mon, put that down.

Champagne just made a double nickel. Much love, cuz.

The Knights of the New Crusade will be touring Central and South America in November.

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So, until next weekend. Here’s a beautifully sad tune, to give you goosebumps.

Eddie Hinton – “Hard Luck Guy”

Rick at 11:02 pm

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