I know, you know that’s Barry Gibb (of the Bee Gees) in his heyday on the right. Of course it is. But I bet you’re stumped on the studbolt on the right with the Miami Vice hair-do, aren’t ya? It’s my pal Jeordie “Twiggy” White before the whole wearing dresses thing and probably even before he peed on a girl (hey, I read the Manson book)! When Jeordie isn’t busy hanging out with Barry Gibb, covering one of his songs, re-mixing Oasis songs (check the bside on the new “I’m Outta Time Single”, remix by Twiggy! yeah mate!), or playing “let’s get dressed up like chicks and get blown by chicks” with Brian… then bets are you can find him DJing with me. We play our favorite rock n’ roll songs as LOUD as Jason (the cool guy you meet at the door) will let us at “The Bar” every Wednesday Night will from 10pm til 2am. The address is 5851 Sunset Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90028. Usually the guest DJs depends on who’s in town and which of our friends end up showing up. But either way, it’s always a good time. Come by to at least hit on the bartender Julie who’s hot and plays video-games (isn’t that every nerd’s dream, newsflash if you’re reading this site you’re a nerd). WWOD? What would Oasis do? They’d come to The bar and go “TWIGGYMATE!”

First off I’m basically writing something so that shitty “Guns N’ Roses” post goes bumped off the top of this page. Yes, I bought the record. Yes, it sucked WAY MORE than I thought was even possible. The thank you list is the only good part of the album, I’m pretty sure it’s everyone Axl met in the 13 years it took him to make that bloated, unmemorable, line-6 sounding and just plain shitty. If Axl is reading this… Thanks for neggin’ my vibes and making yourself look like a complete tool after I’ve had your back for all these years! I’m embarrassed to be a G n’ R fan now man. By the way, Aaron noticed that it says Guns N’ Roses three times on the cover of the cd and he’s pissed about it. Is there a reason behind that or is it just TOTALLY RANDOM like the rest of the layout appears. It’s worth buying the CD just for the booklet alone.. it’s even funnier than you think it would be. Just don’t listen to the music, it kills any and all buzzes. “Chinese Democracy” is about as much a Guns N’ Roses’ record as “Bleach” is my record. I’ve talked to the bass player and drummer of Nirvana and called his ex wife a psycho hose-beast slut on this site a long time ago and gotten sued by her craziness enough times I’ve forgotten the actual number. Ok, that was a terrible analogy. Sorry. But yeah, this record should be Axl Rose solo record, not the new Guns N’ Roses record. Don’t worry kids, as always… when it matters Buddyhead is gonna step up to the plate and smack the bullshit outta the park with the definitive review of “Chinese Democracy” by Buddyhead. But please, you’re gonna have to be patient because unlike “The Greatest Rock Journailist In The World”, Chuck Klosterman, I don’t like to listen to shitty music. I gotta space it out, I haven’t even been able to sit through all 14 tracks or whatever  For those of you who have heard the final mastered version on cd or lp… how fucking crazy is “Sorry” (which is about Steven Adler I’ve been told by a solid source) and that song at the end that sounds like the fuckin’ Phantom Of The Opera. I’ve always known Axl Rose is a crazy man, but I didn’t know he was THIS crazy. Somewhere cool Izzy, Duff and Slash are laughing. Somewhere Matt Sorum is crying that he sucks and he dresses like an extra in “Back To The Future”.

So anyways, back to me (you read the title of this rant I hope)…. Now, I wanna brag to all of you because I think my life fucking rules. I love my life and I’m very thankful for everything that’s happened, is happening and is going to happened. Not to mention the people I’m surrounded by and know, my friends fucking rule (they’re a little weird and “fruity” but they’d do anything for me or you) plus they’re super fucking cool (too cool for school man) and do cool shit. Jubilee is finishing one of the best records I’ve heard in a long long time. Check out what they got now at www.jubilee.LA. 2008 was a rough fucking year for me (the first 8 months of it I spent couch surfing) but I feel blessed and I feel better than ever. I finally feel like myself again. I mean fuck, at least I got all the bad shit out of the way at once… now I can get on to doing cool shit that I’ve been putting off forever. Like make this place cool again, put out books, take photos for jubilees new single and full length, interview people for The Buddyhead TV Show and solve world hunger.

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Muhoney – “I’m Now”

Ram Dass – “Be Here Now”

Anyways back to me… I just saw Mudhoney at the El Rey…. Oh wait, I DJed the show with Aaron and Troy Boy and interviewed the band with Aaron at soundcheck (which will be on one of the first couple episodes of The Buddyhead TV Show that I think we’ll have out sometime Aaron xmas)… and Mudhoney were so fucking good they blew the roof off the joint. There were only like 300-400 people in there (which is about half full and feels empty) but it felt like every single one of them kept moving while singing all the lyrics, some even getting as 1991 as possible by “Crowd surfing” and “stage diving”. It’s been a while since I’ve been at a show, seen people crowd surfing and been excited. Fuck man, it’s been a while since I’ve just been excited at a show while a band was playing. I remember thinking “I forgot how good this feels, being exciting about a band live”. And then I started head banging and stopped all the thinking stuff. See, that’s the Power of Now in action dude. Speaking of, I’m pretty sure Mark Arm (who we found out in the interview we did, doesn’t play one lick of guitar on the new album “The Lucky One” – Steve played all the guitar and Mark focused writing lyrics and it shows they’re great) is talking about some Eckhart Tolle “Power of Now” shit on the first song of the new record called “I’m Now”. If he’s not, don’t tell me and ruin my weird new age grunge fantasy.

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So yeah Mudhoney killed it. Steve’s amp was DIMED! His guitar turned Aaron into a dancing 14 year old who ran up to the stage (I’ve never seen him do that, ever) and I’ll admit at moments in the show I felt like fifteen year old Travis listening to “Piece Of Cake” in my bedroom at my parents house in Moscow, Idaho playing air guitar or air front-man. I gotta remember how good that feels. Sounds stupid, but you should try just letting go once in a while. Lately I’ve just been taking things day by day. And listening to lots of good music like some of the shit I jacked from Aaron last time he let me come over. Been rocking both Monkeywrench  records (dang they’re good) at lot the past few days. Mark sings and Steve plays bass. They called them things side projects. Also Mudhoney relate slab of plastic I’ve dug out is Mark Arm’s – “The Freewheelin’ Mark Arm” 7 inch. Some nice person who’s a dork, has a great sense of humor (cuz you gotta to like Mudhoney), lives somewhere in the world and likes Mudhoney a lot has made these vinyl only songs into digital files you can download for free. To balance out your karma for stealing, put some coin in Mark and Steve’s pocket and buy the new Mudhoney record “The Lucky Ones” NOW! How rad is that cover of the seven inch below? RAAAAD.

 Mark Arm – “Masters of War”

Mark Arm – “My Life With Rickets”

Totally unrelated but somehow I’m writing about it here… so it’s gotta be connected somehow to Mark Arm… I bet he’s stoked on Wu Tang… Anyhooo.. the Wu Tang have a documentary out now that some PR person needs to send me ASAP. It looks fucking awesome. I rarely give a fuck about rap music but the Wu Tang’s blew me away with their first record and I’m forever interested in what they’re doing because of it and several other solid solo records. I could never figure out why all the actual full group “Wu Tang” records sucked so bad after the first one when they were all on each other solo records which were good for the most part. If I’ve learned anything from the Killer Bees it’s that Wu Tang ain’t nothing to fuck with.

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Bee Gee to Killer bees in only 14,567 word and 2,344 grammatical errors.

Tah tah.
Love,

xoxo

Travis

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