The title of this here posting is our personal response to the line ‘Don’t know yet if I’m glad I came‘ from Just Jack‘s chillicious ‘Writer’s Block’ ditty [d]. But what about you, were you glad that you came to JJ’s US debut at the Hiro Ballroom? I know you don’t have an answer cause ewe didn’t listen to us and decided that JOing to Shark Week was a butter use of yer time. Well buster poindexter and yer laboratory, you missed out (but you LA people have a chance 2 catch him 2nite) cause Just Jack (although it wasn’t just him alone up there on stage rizockin out) honed his skillz and owned the room, in what was purty much a ‘showcase’ leading up to the stateside release of his mos groovy groovy LP Overtones
The last time we were at Hiro for a showcase showdown, twas Lily Allen making a Hotlantic splash, but even though she was still wet behind her ears and between her thighs, her rise to the top was inevitable. The same can’t be said for Just Jack, which is a cryin shame considering his show was much more polished, hand clappin’in, and all around mo fun than watching Shark Week with Jerry Tarkanian. I don’t know what more I can say to convince you that JJ, like Penny Lane, belongs in your ears and in your eyes, so I’ll juss leave it as this: our thighs don’t lieszZs
Donovan Tribeca/ASCAP Music Lounge Canal Room May 2nd
In my humboldt opinion, there is no artist more underappreciated than 60s Scottish psychedelic folkster Donovan Leitch. He not only influenced a generation of groovy cats, but the mos grooviest of the litter, The Beatles. Without D-Love, the White Album coulda turned out to be any olde album. Not that I take stock in anything that has to do with The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, but while many of his contemporaries have already been inducted, Donovan still waits for his number to be called. While the world turns a blind eye, I pray at the feet of this unrelievable Rock and Roll Souljer
Luckily I got the chance to do so the other day as Don played a tight 9 songed set at the Tribeca Film Fest’s lil eggsclusive music lounge-thangie. While most of the subdued crowd didn’t come to life until midway thru the set, when ‘Sunshine Superman‘ was jimmy jammed, I was hooked, lined and sinkered from song one, ‘Catch The Wind‘, til song end, ‘Mellow Yellow‘. In between, he threw in two new numbers on top of such classics as ‘Universal Soldier‘, ‘Season the Witch‘ (which he said was transcendental mediation buddy David Lynch‘s mos flavorite), ‘Lalena‘, and the one that gave me more chills than the ice bathTim Robbins endured in Jacob’s Ladder, ‘Hurdy Gurdy Man‘, aka one of the single greatestist songs of balls thyme. But 9 songs is not enuff for a ‘van-head like myself. How am I to die and never hear ‘Jennifer Juniper‘, ‘Wear Your Love Like Heaven‘, or one of the mos banana songs I’ve ever heard, ‘Barabajagal‘ [d]. I dunno, but I don’t plan on worrying about it as I’ll see him for showzlle the next time he comes to town, singing his songs of love. For you jerk-a$$es who need their cosmic wheels aligned, show sum respek and buy his Definitive Collection
Peter Bjorn & John Fujiya & Miyagi Webster Hall May 1st
How does a band who has one of the finestest albums released in the US this year underwhelm in concert? I wish I didn’t have to ask such a question, but after Tuesday’s show, I’m more baffled than Borat in an aisle of packaged cheese! When they plowed thru the highlights of said album, they were good, but not great. Was it too large of a room to perform in? Were they too far from Stockholm to take stock in my adopted home? Did they fall victim to the nasty words of the Wrong Folks? I have no friggin idea, but they still rock, juss not as much as I thought they would in a live setting. Maybe I need to see em 6 times like Vegan. Or maybe they shouldn’t have Fujiya & Miyagi kick the friggin ballastics before they come out. Or maybe, they should literally get their ‘act’ together a wee bit mo cause they could be bigger than Radiohead. I’m not even joking. And I pray to jeebus that that happens cause I’m so sick of Radiohead and the new boring poop they keep a poopin’
Remember Thighs Wide Year 1? We hadn’t the slightest idea as to what the fridge we were frazzen. Year 2 wasn’t much different, cept our penis outgrew our ego by something like 20 inches. And so here we here, Year 3. A lot has changed. We’ve gottsen lazyierer. You blame YouTube. I blame Valerie Plame. But lettuce not play the Plame game. Lettuce ketchup on all the poop that’s worth re-pooping!!!
May 5 – Peabs returns from his self-imposed exile to give us his indepth take on his Coachella trip, which includes some ye olde fisting of Cesar Chavez with a buckle full of table grapes and a head full of bad memories. Obvs.
December 20 – Underdog movie news prompts us to use toon versh for our background pic, which sadly forked up our system and every post prior to it is now stuck with said bckgnd image
February 9 – in one of the mos quietestest dethrownings, we bid adieu to year-shlong reign of Camilla Belle and hola to Her Royal Thighness The VIII, Leonor Ceballos Watling
The Road Into Laura San Giacomo’s Crotch (The Road to Guantanamo) Twatsi (Tsotsi) 69 (All Sweaty) (13 (Tzameti)) Akili Smith and Deez Nuts On His Tonsils (Akeelah & The Bee) The Notorious Bettie Page Loves B.I.G. C.O.C.K. (The Notorious Bettie Page) Holly Lands Wood (Hollywoodland) Jizzum Candy: A Cock and Balls Story (Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story) Why We Fist, starring Bill Frist (Why We Fight) Cuming On The Scissor Sisters (Running With Scissors) The Three Anal-Holes of Erik Estrada (The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada) Mini’s First Time (Mini’s First Time)
Thank You For Cock Smoking Full Nelson Big Momma’s House of Pancakes American Dreamz II: American Dreamzz Akeelah and the C++ The Wicker Basket Man Moses Camp The Last King of Scottie’s Tissue The Santa Clause 4: Clause Kinski Lucky Number Slate 6 Fast, 6 Furious •
Papa’s Pix
1) Water 2) Little Miss Sunshine 3) The Queen 4) The Departed 5) Notes on A Scandal 6) The Painted Veil 7) Borat 8) Little Children 9) Brick 10) The History Boys 11) Sweet Land 12) Jesus Camp 13) Catch the Fire
Honorable Mention 10 Items or Less The Boynton Beach Bereavement Club 20 Centimeters U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha
don’t forget to peep out our ’05, ’04, ’03, and ’02 awards!!
01. Aug, 2007 
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