Mind Folk'd (December 30th)

Howdy.

My thanks to Kendra for taking up hosting duties last week while I was at my cabin in B.C., was able to take a listen and she did a great job!

Last show of the year, so I compiled my favorite songs from the show from the year, and here's how it played out ...

Mind Folk'd Playlist

- It's all over now, baby blue (Bob Dylan)

- Take Em away (Old Crow Medicine Show)

- Society Sue (Vic Chesnutt)

- Nobodies Business But My Own (Mississippi John Hurt)

- Jerusalem (Dan Bern)

- (You Better Love me) Before I'm Gone (Brian Jonestown Massacre)

- Fame's Vampire's (The Sportsman's Club)

- She Just Danced all night (Son of Dave)

- Magic Arrow (Timber Timbre)

- Meow Cat (Edward Appletree)

- I'll be free (The Western States)

- Cooperstown (The Felice Brothers)

Have a safe and happy new year! We'll talk next week when I'll have a themed show, hopefully haha, all ready yto go!

M

Allen

"Father Death Blues"

mind folk'd logo

Thanks to Eric Seymour for makin a bitchin logo for the radio show!~

Mind Folk'd (Dec 9th)

Really had a good feel to the show today. My thanks to my studio guests, Stephen van Kampen from SAVK, and Reuben Bullock & Angela from Market Collective.

Go support local shit!!! IE// Market Collective, Indie Rock XMas, CJSW etc etc

Mind Folk'd Dec 9th

- Don't think twice it's alright demo (Bob Dylan)

- In studio guest: Stephen van Kampen

- Society Sue (Vic Chesnutt)**

- Lost Case of Being Found (Scott H Biram)**

- Christmas in Washington (Steve Earl)**

- Little Glass of wine (The Country Gentlemen)

- The Lake (Alana Gurr)

- Tonight you belong to me (Bernadette Peters and Steve Martin from the film 'The Jerk')

- Society (Eddie Vedder)

Till next time ...

John

9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980

'he was best when staring you straight in the eye'

Mind Folk'd (Nov 25th/Dec 2nd)

Apologies for not posting in a while. Here are the last two weeks of playlists ...

Mind Folk'd November 25th
- It's all over now baby blue (Bob Dylan)
- In studio guest Kate Melvina
- Jesse James (The Financial Group)**
- Cowboy Song (Dan Reeder)
- Wes Anderson (Jesse Payne)**
- Tin Can (Emily Kill West)
- One of the lucky ones (Leeroy Stagger)
- How long would it take (Petuna and the Loons)
- Grease 2 (Thee Oh Sees)**

Mind Folk'd December 2nd (THE CELTIC SHOW)
- Sunshine Superman (Donovan)
- Untitled (Paddy Keenan, Mark Simos, Cathal Hayden)
- Mrs. Jamiesons Favorite (On the Scottish Side)
- Mull of Kintyre (Wings)**
- New Shoes (Paolo Nutini)
- Gaelic Air and Hornpipes (Pipe Sergent Gordon Walker)
- Prickly thorn but sweetly worn (The White Stripes)
- Mary and the Soldier (Pauly Brady)**
- If you're Irish (Frank Quinn)
- Fordell Ball (Jack Bell)

Got some wicked songs lined up this week and TWO in studio guests, so tune in 10-11AM Mountain Time on CJSW 90.9!

'this machine kills fascists'

Mind Folk'd (Thurs Oct 21)

Mind Folk'd October 21st

- It's all over now baby blue (Bob Dylan)

- If you only knew (Kathryn Calder)

- Da Da (The Strange Boys)

- Homocidal Love Song (A Girl Named Sue)

- About you (Hillary Grist)

- Dr. Tiller (Kendl Winter)

- Cripple Creek (John, Loe and Peter) <---- Random Record Segment

- Jardin Du Luxembourg (The Ghost of a Saber Tooth)**

- Working Class Hero (John Lennon)

- Old Town Lonely Night (Jay Sparrow)**

- Playing Live (Selvatone)**

- God Said No (Dan Bern)

- You're Done (Mike Seed)**

- Illustrated Bible Stories for Children (The Weakerthans)

Talk to you next week for Mind Folk'd Funding Drive edition!!! Ahhh

old southern man’s advice to a young southern boy

A six-year-old boy visited his Grandpa’s cabin just off the beaten-path of the Mississippi in the fall of 53’. His Grandpa was waiting on the porch smoking. The boy was trying to find his self. His grandpa had this advice to offer …

(In slow Southern drawl with many pauses)

“My boy …

you will find your self.

I will find my self.

We will find our selves.

But there ain’t a day that don’t go by when I don’t question my self.

Who I am,

where I am,

who I am!

And I’ll have you know, it’s gonna be a long time yet for you.

But when you do find your self, the true one,

you will die.

‘Cause the search is over then.

So you best keep on a searchin’,

keep on a changin’,

don’t let it be in no rush.

But you will find your true self,

I promise you that.”

Mind Folk'd (Thurs October 14)

Mind Folk'd October 14

- Blowin in the Wind (Bob Dylan)

- Next Go Around (Old Crow Medicine Show)

- Do Re Mi (Frank Pahl)

- Opportunity to Cry (Willie Nelson)

- Seven Spanish Angels (The Great Outdoors)

- Jerusalem (Dan Bern)**

- 2 Atoms in a Molecule (Noah and the Whale)**

- London (Steel Eye Span) <-- Random Record Segment

- Rebel, Rebel (Sue Jorge)

- Jonathan (Olaf Arnaids)

- Mermaid of Ontario (Lake Shore Sailors)

- My Feathers (Scott Dunbar)

- Meow Cat (Edward Appletree)

- I dreamt of Mama last night (Johnny Cash)

Tune in next week, 10-11am. I'll be there.

Also, found out last night I've been added to the Market Collective list of performers, so come check it out! October 31st at 2 pm ... check it out on Facebook or whatever,.

M

music

i recorded some songs i wrote ... http://www.myspace.com/miketod

thanks to eric paulin for helping in the recording process. more to come soon enough ...

enjoy.

Mind Folk'd (Thurs October 7)

Alright, two things ...

1) It was my second week as a full show on CJSW and all is well. I'm still riding that new-happy-for-no-reason vibe haha. Findin so many gems in their library, and real stoked on that (stars are beside the ones I especially liked)

Tune in next week, same time, same place. Today I gave away two sets of tickets to a show for this weekend which was cool, so stay tuned and phone in and you might win shit!

2) Me and my mandolin will be at the House open mic in Kensington tonight performing some songs at 8 pm.

Mind Folk'd (October 7th, 2010)

- Threw it all away (Bob Dylan)

- 5 am in Amsterdam (Michelle Shocked)**

- Titanic (Pete Seeger)

- Flowers in the sidewalk (Kev Corbett)**

- From the comfort of our living room (Kevin Walker)

- Back to you (The Migrant)

- Sportin Life (John Sebastian) <-- "Random Record segment"

- Skipping Child (Cort)**

- Hank - Crooked Creek

- Garden of the dead (The Pine Hill Haints)**

- Last will and testament (The Burning Hell)

- Brother (Reuben Bullock)**

hunter

i'm a big hunter thompson fan. i think a lot of people are.

i'm a fan of the honesty in his writing. it takes a special kind of person with the right hand to stick down their own throat and bring up the rawness that he creates. i love it.

thought this was a good find ... here's a cover letter he sent to the vancouver sun circa 1958 (pre-famous).

Vancouver Sun

TO JACK SCOTT, VANCOUVER SUN

October 1, 1958 57 Perry Street New York City

Sir,

I got a hell of a kick reading the piece Time magazine did this week on The Sun. In addition to wishing you the best of luck, I'd also like to offer my services.

Since I haven't seen a copy of the "new" Sun yet, I'll have to make this a tentative offer. I stepped into a dung-hole the last time I took a job with a paper I didn't know anything about (see enclosed clippings) and I'm not quite ready to go charging up another blind alley.

By the time you get this letter, I'll have gotten hold of some of the recent issues of The Sun. Unless it looks totally worthless, I'll let my offer stand. And don't think that my arrogance is unintentional: it's just that I'd rather offend you now than after I started working for you.

I didn't make myself clear to the last man I worked for until after I took the job. It was as if the Marquis de Sade had suddenly found himself working for Billy Graham. The man despised me, of course, and I had nothing but contempt for him and everything he stood for. If you asked him, he'd tell you that I'm "not very likable, (that I) hate people, (that I) just want to be left alone, and (that I) feel too superior to mingle with the average person." (That's a direct quote from a memo he sent to the publisher.)

Nothing beats having good references.

orson

'i think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.' - orson welles

Mind Folk'd (Thurs's 10-11 am CJSW 90.0 fm)

hey guess what?!

i'm really really stoked to tell you that i am the host of my very own weekly radio program on cjsw 90.0 fm!!

the show will air live every thursday morning from 10-11am and is called "mind folk'd" ... if you didn't guess, i will be playing folk music haha.

today was my first full slot to myself, and i was super happy with the way it turned out. i'm really proud of it, so tune in if you can! call in! say hey! send an email! blah!! ... you can either listen on 90.9 on the fm in calgary or stream it online from the cjsw website, http://www.cjsw.com/

i will be making a habit of posting the playlist from every show, every thursday. i have starred the songs that i especially liked ...

MIND FOLK'D Show #1 September 30th, 2010
- Don't think twice it's alright (Bob Dylan and the Band live)
- She Just Danced All Night (Son of Dave)**
- Magic Arrow (Timber Timbre)
- Look at the Stars (Merrilyn Simmons)
- Snow (Gary Cornelius)
- My Baby Loves Sudoku (Lookin at Lucky)
- 12:51 (Adam Taylor)
- Jim Cain (Bill Callahan)
- The Murder of Ginger ... (Enoch Kent)
- I'll be free (The Western States)**
- Cooperstown (The Felice Brothers)
- Look down that lonesome road (Bill Cornett)**

make sure to tune in next week, thursday october 7th from 10-11 am

stay well out there :)

zuckerberg im's

"Hey, I'm Mark, but you can call me Zuck"

So the New Yorker just published an article on FaceBook founder, Harvard non-graduate, and all around smily guy, Mark Zuckerberg.

The best part of the article:

Zuckerberg, or "Zuck" as he is known to friends and family (awesome points = for sure not +1), got some embarrassing IM's leaked out. Here's the conversation (referring to FaceBook, obviously) ...

FRIEND: so have you decided what you are going to do about the websites?

ZUCK: yea i’m going to fuck them
ZUCK: probably in the year
ZUCK: *ear

Now I for sure have had my fair share of embarrassing instant message moments, IE// not gonna get into any of them, but it feels good to laugh at someone who has way too much money when I don't.

Another clip from the IM shows good ole' Zuck telling his friend if he ever needs info on fellow Harvard students, he's the man with no morals to talk too...

ZUCK: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard
ZUCK: just ask
ZUCK: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns
FRIEND: what!? how’d you manage that one?
ZUCK: people just submitted it
ZUCK: i don’t know why
ZUCK: they “trust me”
ZUCK: dumb fucks

Even though this was years ago and in college, it sure makes me feel secure (sarcasm font?) when the creator and owner of millions of profiles worth of personal information would say something like that.

Read full article HERE

andy

'don't worry. it's just a mirror'

broken toys

by l.p. burns

as children bring their broken toys
with tears for us to mend,
i brought my broken dreams to my god
because he was my friend.
but then, instead of leaving him
in peace to work alone,
i hung around and tried to help
with ways that were my own.
at last i snatched them back and cried,
'how can you be so slow?'
'my child,' he said, 'what could I do? ...

... you never did let go'

to buy list:

frank the bunny 12 inch action figure

fibber mcgee (unfinished)

down on mainstreet,

and under a tree

i knew an old man

named fibber mcgee.

he was my friend.

fibber spent his days

trimming the tree.

didn't realize

the roots were rotten as could be.

wasting his ways away.

i pray for you,

mr fibber mcgee.

when water met fire

zach

"NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. — A reading at a North Carolina library was intended for young people, but the person behind the book attracted plenty of adults as well.

That's because the reader Tuesday was Zach Galifianakis, a comedian, movie star and Wilkes County, N.C., native. The Winston-Salem Journal reported Galifianakis was at the Wilkes County Public Library for a children's reading that drew hundreds.

Galifianakis joked that he would read from his movie, "The Hangover," but then read three children's books, one of which his father wrote.

He stayed afterward for nearly two hours, posing for photos and signing almost anything brought to him including old Wilkes Central High School yearbooks and a GQ magazine with his face on the cover."

Link: http://www.journalpatriot.com/fullstory.asp?id=2494

digital vs physical media

I came across an interesting site today... http://cultofless.com/

It explains the experience of Kelly Sutton, a 22-year-old dude from Brooklyn, who has adapted a digital minimalist lifestyle, ridding himself of most everything he owns save his laptop, one of those digital book reader things, a bed, clothes ... that sort of stuff.

I thought it was interesting, this is why. In my own little mind, I like to think we're all in this big war right now, a digital war. There's people fighting on one side to burn the books, digitize photographs, and make things faster, quicker, NOW. The digital. They're in Spock suits and live in a place that looks like the place in Tron. Then there's people on the other side, struggling to hold onto a rope of nostalgia, reading dusty books, flipping through photo albums, keeping 'the bulk' for whatever personal reason or attachment they have. The physical. They're in flannel shirts and sit on a porch somewhere in the South listening to Neil Young.

I'm not sure that one is right, and one is wrong though.

I think that each side seems to feed off of the other, which is awesome. When we become too digital, when music becomes like tap water on iTunes, there comes a group of people who move to the exact opposite side of the see saw and buy an old beat up record player. When we become to physical, lugging around a backpack of books and notes, we move towards laptops and digital books.

I like it. Anyways, I'm going to watch the Lone Ranger circa 1950's via the internet, so I like a bit of both haha

quote of the day

I was in a freight elevator with two mechanics today at work. It was kind of awkward and silent until ... one of the dudes started laughing super hard at a text he received from another friend of his. He then read it to the other dude, who then laughed even harder at it. I then laughed at them laughing haha.

The text read ...

"fuckin plumbers. he asked me how to shut off the water. i said TURN THE ISOLATION PIPES YOU MORON!!!!!"

haha

audrey

List of California

- Cartoon Art Museum

- Golf @ Stanford

- Trip to Neil Young's ranch

- Random trip to Vegas. New York New York hotel.

- Surfing @ Huntington Beach

- Reading in Alkatraz

- Hollywood/LA

California

Sketch by Paul Klee. Saw his stuff at the SFMOMA yesterday ... highly recommend checking out his sketches, and maybe his life.

Bobby Fischer

At age fifteen and a half he became the youngest Grandmaster of chess, he played in the 1972 'Cold War' World Championships against Boris Spassky, and he's mentioned in one of my favorite SNL sketches of all time (the chess cheerleaders sketch starring Will Ferrel on his 'Best of' DVD ... 'Bobby Fischer, where is he? I don't know, I don't know'). All in all, a pretty interesting dude.

He died in 2008.

There was an article in the New York Times recently regarding the battle over his estate. Apparently there are three parties who are fighting for what he made winning chess.

"It turns out that the mercurial chess champ, who died in January 2008 at age 64, left behind a Japanese woman who claims she was his wife, a Filipino woman who claims she is the mother of his only child, and two estranged nephews who will inherit his money if neither woman can prove her claim.

This situation brought about an almost surreal scene earlier this month, when officials gathered in southern Iceland — where Fischer spent the last three years of his life — to exhume his body for a DNA sample to determine whether he was the father of a 9-year-old girl named Jinky."

Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/fashion/25fischer.html?_r=1&ref=style

Timber Timbre

Addicted to this right now. Listen to magic arrow ...

http://www.myspace.com/timbertimbre