Return of the Jordi
So last night i went over at Kowalski’s own private sewage treatment plant to hear the new tunes he’s been working on, and felt i should forewarn anybody within a 1000 mile radius that owns a barn to make sure they completely soak it with firehoses and keep it that way for the next little while or else you might wake up one morning and it will be nothing more than a smoldering pile of cinders.
Not to be outdone, The Beaver has also blinded me with his own brand of science in recent weeks, including rollicking numbers tentatively titled Van Halen’s Pants and Hot Snack!
On top of it all, our resident freak Jordy-Boy returns from his pilgrimage to Habana next tuesday and we get down to the business of turning these fanciful dreams into full-blow aural NIGHTMARES. Watch your back!
i promise a SEVERE bludgeoning on our next record and at least one new song appearing in our set on these forthcoming prairie dates with GFK. Mangez nous!
A New Standard
Hello fellow slobs of the Northwestern Hemisphere,
just wanted to remind people that The New Standard is still alive and kicking and getting better everyday thanks to the relentless and selfless hard-work of it’s tiny crew of truly independent journalists. I want to encourage people to support this non-profit, commercial-free, user-driven project as a real alternative to the profit-driven, commercial-ridden propaganda “news” feeds fired into our goddamn faces every goddamn day.
Consider making it your homepage for a month and if you see the value in it, maybe consider making a monthly or one-time donation to help keep it going full-steam ahead. It doesn’t have to be a huge amount. Even if you can spare a couple bucks a month (i mean that literally, like even $2), that is something important. If a bunch of people do that, it adds up.
Clearly, media is a part of all our lives and here on the brink of total disaster in almost every realm on earth, we all need access to coverage and analysis that isn’t filtered through the fists of the goofs making all the terrible decisions in the first place (it’s insane that that happens. Totally insane).
I would go so far as to say that everything, EVERYTHING might truly in the balance of a sane media. This is a start:
Look Out!! Prairie Fire, Prairie Fire!!!!
To make sure no one misses the boat, and is left burnt and charred, I will warn you all that the Propagandhi Prairie Blaze is due to hit Saskatchewan and Alberta on March 1st to 4th. Short and Atrocious!!! The flames are predicted to engulf Regina, Saskatoon,Edmonton, and Calgary. Take a look at the “shows’ section for details. Cranking up that extra heat on the cold winter nights and turning up your godamn air conditioner in the summer has added to climate change and now you will all be burnt!!!!
Queen Elizardbeast, 666, We Are Of You.
500 Missing Women
So today is the day that Robert Picton goes on trial for the murders of Sereena Abotsway, Mona Wilson, Andrea Joesbury, Marnie Frey, Georgina Papin and Brenda Wolfe, six of the twenty-six women found completely destroyed and buried at Picton’s pig-farm in Port Coquitlam.
Seems like a good day to revisit and ponder the fact that while 500 aboriginal women have gone missing in Canada in the past 20 years, ain’t no cops been dispatched to find out where they’ve gone. Draw your own conclusions.
On a related note, there’s a National Film Board of Canada flick called “When World’s Collide” that’s worth checking out if you feel the need to confirm or deny your assumptions about what life as an aboriginal on the streets of Canadian prairie cities can be like.
As The World Burns.....
If a society of people is suffering the process of having their culture eliminated,having their political and social institutions destroyed, their language, heritage, national (not nation state) feeling, economic existence, personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and lives taken away that is called genocide. Check this out:
“The residents of the Carteret Islands in the South Pacific are becoming the world’s first climate change refugees.
Piles of giant clam shells can’t keep back the rising sea, and mosquitoes from the newly formed pools of water are bringing disease and death. “We are helpless,” says islander Selina Netoi. “We don’t know where to go.”
In other words if this continues they will cease to exist or be forced to be absorbed into another culture with their own being extinct. The Inuit people of Canada would be in line face the same fight for existence in the near future if things do not change. We have seen every year the arctic ice changing.As we’ve finally seen here and there in the major media very recently (We’re lucky they were on the ball all these years keeping watch on our worlds important issues!)
Our actions and inaction of governments are begining to cause the destruction of whole societies. With this in mind the governments of the world should be pressured to act upon this fact, and should be under 110% obligation not to let it happen. Perhaps it’s not an obviouly hateful genocide but if we know it’s happening and are not changing anything to stop it then it is very real and makes us all of us seem very insidious.
I often think that it is pathetic how metal bands, comedians, little bands of punk kids spelled this all out 25 years ago and the “leaders”, politicians, and adults told us all to “Grow up” and that someday we’d “understand”. The leaders have led us to this. You would think that it would’ve been somewhere in their jobs to watch out for the fact that we are headed toward extinction, no?
As teenage members of Sacrifice said to my little pre-halfheaded skull 20 YEARS AGO, “All wars will be forgotten with global warming trends. The flooding of the coasts bring us close to the end. The earth is becoming deserts. No second chance. We will become exposed and watch the world turn to black.”
Too bad the leaders of a real world were busy trying to get warning labels on metal records instead of listening to the godamn things. We might have been saved.
“The worlds in danger. No one will realize”… yeah no kidding, Rob.
Eh!
Check this out. Read through this webpage and sign the petition if you feel so inclined.
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/Nazanin/
Every now and then we get a few emails from Germany asking about the intro to the song “Die Jugend Marschiert” off of our last record. The sample was an old National Socialist (Nazi) propaganda song . Yes we are aware of this. Some people seem like they are offended by it, which I do not understand. This intro relates to the song in the way that it is the ultimate warning about where an ultra-nationalist, militaristic society can go. If you read the lyrics to the song and take a look around us it is an apt and proper warning for us all, I believe.
If it is still available somewhere near you, check out the November issue of New Internationalist magazine. It has great articles on Fair Trade, sweatshops, organics, ethical shopping etc. I think the most sustainable and ethical way to shop is to buy way less crap. Also, the less your food has to travel to get to your filthy cake-hole the better it is for the environment. Meow!
Take care!
-Rod
Todd Is A Big Man On Fire, Help Him.
The Casualty figures are in for Iraq in 2006. The human death toll from direct violence reached a staggering 22,950 dead human beings. Good work America! All is going well! Having learned nothing from this extreme failure, from prior interventions and wars against terror, The United States Of America bombed targets in the country of Somalia today.
Remember that Oi Polloi song called, “Americans Out”? What a great song!
My brother was here in Winnipeg from the vast city of Saskatoon Saskatchewan last week and brought to my attention the very real fact that everyone in Winnipeg looks like the 80’s never ended, And not in a retro kinda way. hahah..
Citizens of Saskatchewan and Alberta! Watch out for the Propagandhi steam roller to head your way in early march!!
See ya!! ‑Rod
Happy New Year!
Hello, Doorkes!
It’s the last day of 2006! I hope we can all leave it feeling like we tried our best to have a fun time and do some good out there in our world!
Here’s some photos from a few shows out in England which is where we brought our year to an end. http://www.lasthours.org.uk/archive/photos/propagandhi.htm
If you are in a band and you are sick of sweatshop made, and completely environmentally unsound t‑shirts for your band check out ethicalthreads.co.uk (in UK, Ireland) or Fairtradeclothing.ca (Canada). We’ve dealt with them on our last tours and all has worked out great. If you live somewhere other than the listed countries you may have to put your mind to it and figure out where to get them the same way we had to.The prices are a little more expensive. These prices could be brought down if a bunch of bands started using these companies instead of just going for high prifit margins and bargain bin wholesale prices. I encourage everybody to do their best. The idea of political punk shirts being printed on conventional shirts becomes even more laughable to me everyday as time rolls on.
If the bigger record labels would put their money where their mouths are and print their cds on recycled post-consumer paper it would bring the price down for everyone as well. So far we have not seen anything close to effort on this point. Maybe we would start to take the labels a little more seriously if they would try to do something worthwhile. Until that time we’ll take the huge hit with a few others. Thanks Punks!
Oh well, I’m off to the mall to go act all crazy and rebellious!
Happy New Year!!
-Todd
Pa-rumpa-pum-pum..squish.
Jingle Bells, Jordy smells because Barney laid an egg.. Have a clean holiday! Wipe those berzerkers! Bless thy hol(e)y child! ‑Rod.
I am a dirty protest.
Greetings inhabitants of planet Dearth! We are home from our UK experience.
I must say you sure are a pretty nice bunch of people for having to live in what can only be described as a near-future case-study of a population and car-culture on the brink of total, utter and irreversible collapse. The feeble, flaccid, alabaster bodies of ironic British skinheads actually starts to make way more sense when you realize the routines they are subjected to day in and day out. London is no place for the stallion! So we return here to the open plains and kiss the dirt beneath our hooves! At least i hope that’s dirt.
I think Belfast was the highlight for me, which is not suprising since people in London told us not to go there and that it would be “rubbish”. Go figure! Incidentally, through the insistence of some of Belfast’s inhabitants i checked into my family history and it turns out that indeed the blood of the Éire runs deep in these veins. So much for my long-standing and beloved repetoire of Lucky Charms jokes at Declan Debarra’s expense. Oh well, back to English teeth for the laughs!
But seriously folks, thanks for coming out to the shows and being polite enough not to notice that some of us never recovered from jet-lag the entire time. Much obliged! Cheers to everyone who came from around the world to feel the power with us. I counted people from Turkey, Israel, Brazil, Finland, Greece, Germany, Australia, South Africa, Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Croatia, Hungary and New Zealand at the shows. Talk about humbling.
And of course thanks to our brutha James who drove us around the UK with unending patience and good humour and to Sean Florbes, who arranged the whole thing for us. Much appreciated!