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• Comment by Marc on June 9th, 2006 at 6:59 pm:

  After hearing about that NY Post shit, i’m ready to punch a wall.

• Comment by rise on June 9th, 2006 at 9:56 pm:

  hahaha, i loved the way they made fun of System of a Down haha..

• Comment by drew on June 9th, 2006 at 10:03 pm:

  good shit as always guys. nice mogwai pick too! thanks for introducing k’naan. that sounded really good.

• Comment by Anthony on June 10th, 2006 at 1:04 am:

  I’m having mixed emotions while enjoying yet another great G7 Radio i.e. hearing that bullshit propaganda they’re printing on their joke of a “News” source(fuck the Aspers)the National Post. Then right after that hearing great fucking bands!!!!! You guys played fucking Bad Brains, Minor Threat…and I dig all the other songs you guys played. On two different notes, I have recently heard Hiretsukan and I will be ordering it as I get my shitty pay check. The other thing is….I was wondering if any of you dudes have read “Behold a Pale Horse”. I just got done reading it and I have to say it’s a very exposing and mandatory read in my opinion. If you buttholes haven’t read the book…I think you guys would enjoy it. ANOTHER GREAT EPISODE, KEEP ‘EM COMIN’!!!!!

  p.s.

  FUCK THE ASSSSSSSSSSSPERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• Comment by kevin on June 10th, 2006 at 1:57 am:

  i got to say good episode mostly good music good talking and issues and over all what the fuck is with the cops these days me and my friends were also abused kicked in the side and dragged on our faces
  good episode

• Comment by LJ on June 10th, 2006 at 6:20 am:

  Fuck, awesome show as usual guys, you played my favourite minor threat song. kickass.

• Comment by stump on June 10th, 2006 at 7:31 am:

  Fucking Awesome. Again. Fuck Yeah.

• Comment by caítlin on June 10th, 2006 at 9:11 am:

  I think this book has been mentioned here before, but for the iran/propaganda business, Other Lands Have Dreams by Kathy Kelly is really inspiring and really relevant. Also for the general quagmire that is the police/prison industry. Woman is good!

  Todd and I do the same sort of work, spooooooooooky! And yeah, K’Naan sounded amazing. Every month something cute gets through the net. This month; glasg-oow!

• Comment by rise on June 10th, 2006 at 10:38 am:

  i would really like to know what jord placed in the sexiest vegetarian contest! lol

• Comment by Dave on June 10th, 2006 at 1:02 pm:

  ah guys i watched that Critical mass thing before you mentioned it. it fucking pissed me off so fucking much… fuck police

• Comment by mLm on June 10th, 2006 at 2:34 pm:

  Hilarious and informative. I really enjoyed that radio episode a lot…

• Comment by Pidgey on June 10th, 2006 at 4:37 pm:

  Again, you’ve somehow managed to pull out of your collective ass a very funny and inspiring radio show. Heck, even my friends that have displayed little or no interest in any form of politics have even taken a shine to this - and made better use of own their time for it.

  The music has thus far been rocking too. Power to my Sub Zero through the ridicouluos London traffic.

• Comment by blackmetal666 on June 10th, 2006 at 4:46 pm:

  Great episode, I think I’ll share the show with some of my apolitical friends, as it’s entertaining and informative, which is the only way I could get some of the clowns I know to fucking pay attention to world events. One qualm with you guys however. No fucking Kreator. PEACE.

• Comment by gerty on June 10th, 2006 at 6:06 pm:

  hi pallies.
  I really REALLY hope that your podcasts continue for years and years. they are getting more entertaining while keeping up the good task of exposing bad information. gravvy. A few years ago on pbs i saw a program that followed a guy around who had “religious” experiences come and go to the point where he’d break down and cry and think he was seeing god. this apparently had been a type of syndrom and they studied it and could get a point to a general area in the brain where the stimulation was occuring. But i don’t know if it necessarilly cancels out “god” since similarly you can stimulate the brain to smell burnt toast for example. however that doesnt mean that people only imagine burnt toast. I’m thoroughly agnostic and of course religious should be a private choice but i think everyone should always be critical and look for the truth. but this has really positive prospects too! cuz they’ve known for a little while now that buddist masters while meditating litteraly / scientifically stimulate happiness. so hopefully next time i won’t have to take mounds of drugs to experience any soma holidays.

  love you.

• Comment by mLm on June 10th, 2006 at 9:37 pm:

  All the kids at my school think i’m cool because I listen to G7 radio podcasts. Thanks for upgrading my status.

• Comment by Hiroshi-Idiot on June 10th, 2006 at 11:14 pm:

  Ive waiting a new g7 radio pod cast.
  Fuck Yeah!!! It’s great.
  Mogwai make me insane.

• Comment by Mathias on June 10th, 2006 at 11:54 pm:

  Yeah, nice work as usual. Still hoping we can see Biafra on the show sometime though.

  Seemed loaded with metal also, which I didn’t like much because I’ve heard it all before, I come here for new music to check out ya know. Nevertheless, The K’Naan song was great.

• Comment by rascal on June 11th, 2006 at 3:39 am:

  Im confused, but forgive me for the probable repeated question.

  its been a while since i checked the G7 site i saw u guys were doing Radio and via podcasts, i was like cool ill listen. In Episode 3, you guys play the NOFX song and it says

  “The people’s revolution is gonna be a podcast…Still I’m waiting to see if my bid on eBay was enough
  To get “Today’s Empires Are Tomorrow’s Ashes” on soviet red vinyl
  It’s going on the wall next to “Tubthumper” and “The Battle Of Los Angeles”
  Of Los Angeles”

  and then in Episode 5 i believe, you guys mention Tubthumper next to Battle on the wall. So my question is which one is playing off the other?

• Comment by Anthony on June 11th, 2006 at 5:13 am:

  This post is in response to rascals question. Here’s the situation…Propagandhi wrote a song titled “Rock for Sustainable Capitalism” on Potemkin City Limits. That song put Fat Mike in his place like hes never realized. Ever since then, Fat Mike has attempted to write song lyrics coming back at Chris/Propagandhi but they actually turn out childish and of poor quality. NO-EFFECTs wrote some shitty lyric that Derek and Chris were ripping on. Listen to episode 4. also, To Chris or Derek…..you guys might like the band Leftover Crack. I picked up the album “Mediocre Generica” and its fuckin’ crazy.

• Comment by LJ on June 11th, 2006 at 8:25 am:

  Thats a real good record anthony, I’m a fan I gotta say. Their Fuck World Trade record is rad too. - Similar experiances with the G7 Podcast interesting my apolitical friends. good work.

• Comment by rise on June 11th, 2006 at 9:21 am:

  so there’s a lot of stuff going on winnipeg right now, and from what i understand John’s a winnipeg-advocate and has some good ideas (on the Weaktherthans website)about what to do with the city, so why not have John K. Samson on the show?

• Comment by Ted on June 11th, 2006 at 10:11 am:

  Nice to see something like Welcome Place going on in this time where Canadians are told we are shocked that there would be an act of terror on our soil, and the blaming of immigrants goes on. It is almost like if the evil that (wo)men do lives on and on. (hint to play some Maiden)

• Comment by Pidgey on June 11th, 2006 at 4:08 pm:

  Two online links for Richard Dawkins’s film about religion, The Root of all Evil.

  It’s pretty darn scary, funny (in a scary way) and interesting and now comes in two faithtastic installments thanks to the interweb…

  Part I http://video.google....=6193866746249268230

  part II: http://video.google....-8239331458224461127

• Comment by dumdiddee on June 11th, 2006 at 4:24 pm:

  I second that request for Maiden. Run to the Hills is a track would be fitting with the events going on near Winnipeg regarding indigenous peoples. Also, anyone hear the new Slayer song called “Cult”? I realize they’re not exactly a progressive band, but they are definitely on the right side of the trenches regarding religion. Here’s the refrain to said song:

  “Religion is hate. Religion is fear. Religion is war … Religion is rape. Religion’s obscene. Religion’s a whore.”

  Spot on!

  Besides that, the song is speed-metal at it’s best in my humble opinion. Lombardo is the god of rythym and Jord is his mighty right hand.

• Comment by soyuz on June 11th, 2006 at 5:34 pm:

  talking about cyclists, everyone should seriously start thinking about bikes as your regular means of transportation…though i rely on mass transit right now, i probably won’t be buying any type of car in my life and i will definitely be riding a bike instead…especially after i watched “AN INCOVENIENT TRUTH”

  i’d suggest everyone to see this documentary. and no this movie IS NOT a campaign by Al Gore to re-elect himself. instead it is one of the most compelling documentaries on GLOBAL WARMING, which this movie presents as such an urgent issue that if we don’t do our part, like riding bikes to work, we are seriously creating a catastrophe that pales in comparision to any terrorist threat.

  support all cyclists and those who advocate riding bikes!

  P.S. Hope the three skids made it alive after their run! I can’t run a mile myself.

• Comment by Kyle on June 11th, 2006 at 6:47 pm:

  I think I might get my bike out of the basement and start using it. A squirrel ran out in front of my car… Ehhh… it’s unfortunate that this part of Nova Scotia isn’t really set up for that. Tough shit, self!

• Comment by Meet The Decline on June 11th, 2006 at 8:50 pm:

  G7 Radio - Episode 5 (June)

  G7 Welcoming Committee Records がお届けするG7 Radio 更新 !!
  プレイリストはコチラ。
  ・Interzone - "Crown of Lies" from Cydonia
  ・Minor Threat - "Screaming At A Wall" from Complete Discography
  ・Mogwai - "Gl…

• Comment by Hairhole on June 11th, 2006 at 9:26 pm:

  ahahaha! Yes. Yeesss!!! I fuckin’ knew it! Todd. That guy fucking rules. How about those songs he picked eh? That K’Naan song is the fucking track of the summer(for this guy). I went and bought that record as sooon as I heard that tune. Money well spent. I thought the show overall kicked ass. Some killer songs and good informcmation. For whatever reason I pooped my panties when I heard Chris say ‘I can dig it’ during the Todd segment. Who knows…

  Inconvenient truth eh… Ya, that sounds like a must see. There’s a pretty neat documentary out there called ‘Metal: a headbangers journey’ I recommend that one for sure. They play a clip of Venom doing ‘blood lust’ and fuck me it kicks ass. Although Lemmy would say otherwise (apparently). Cough. Hint. Gurgle. Fart. Don’t hesitate to play ‘blood lust’.

  Anyways, thanks again fuckos. Keep the fun coming. Just, don’t be late with the next episode. Or, I will find you, kill you, and fucking eat what I can’t fuck. Just kidding. I love you. Keeping me in suspense. I can dig it. World Peace.

• Comment by dumdiddee on June 11th, 2006 at 9:51 pm:

  Anybody else get the feeling that “Brent Korey” is about as real as the tooth fairy?

• Comment by drew on June 11th, 2006 at 11:50 pm:

  yes!!! bring john k. onto the show! great idea rise.
  as for using bikes more, i totally agree. i basically stopped using my car about a year ago. not only is it better for the enviornment, but its so much more fun. when your in a car it feels like you are so isolated from everything, but on a bike you experience the world first hand, without any barrier, and its so much better that way.

• Comment by drew on June 11th, 2006 at 11:53 pm:

  “Anybody else get the feeling that “Brent Korey” is about as real as the tooth fairy?”

  haha, i was thinking the same thing myself. he must be elusive as fuck to evade G7 radio. or maybe derek and chris just keep him locked up in the “office”?

• Comment by tim on June 12th, 2006 at 7:07 pm:

  good show……is it odd that the dialog mixed with metal…shaken well and topped with k’naan,made me wanna watch meerkat manor.

• Comment by soyuz on June 12th, 2006 at 8:15 pm:

  speaking of cops and police states, i thought MDC would’ve fit well with the show. pwak, pwak, pwak, pwak, pwak, pwak, pwaaak.

• Comment by poo on June 12th, 2006 at 8:30 pm:

  Ummmmm some how I don’t think john k shitson will be appearing on the radio show. I think Chris A Hannah would have something to say about that. I liked it when Chris said the Po Po Police. Todd should get a new haircut and a pierre cardin suit.

• Comment by poo on June 12th, 2006 at 8:42 pm:

  oh and also.. if the g7 boys could answer this that would be good (directly on the blog) .. why the fuck are u supporting that shit of an itunes fucking piece of crap?????? Like whats your reasoning for selling your songs on there.. and also putting the direct links for “PODCASTING” from their site.. you should just put it up for direct download

  FUCK ITUNES!

• Comment by D-Rock on June 13th, 2006 at 9:12 am:

  Poo: (haha) We do in fact provide direct download links to every show individually, along with our XML feed address for people who want to subscribe to the show with any enclosure-enabled feed reader. The iTunes link is there for those who wish to subscribe via iTunes with one click. We’re not trying to push anyone to iTunes, and have no reason to do so.

  As for selling G7 albums via iTunes, it’s just another option for people. We are no fans of the digital rights managment iTunes employs, but we are also not fans of HMV, Hot Topic, or any other major chain store our CDs appear in. Many download services G7 digital music is available through are DRM-free (eMusic and DownloadPunk come to mind), so there are better options for people who wish to buy our stuff that way.

  Does that cork your cry hole ya big baby? Hahahaha, I’m only joking, really!

• Comment by jackass on June 13th, 2006 at 10:25 am:

  neuropsychology is a fucked field trying to quantify any sort of emotion or experience, and apparently deny metaphysics very existence.

  I liken describing religion through science similar to describing science through religion: Fucking stupid.

  All that said though, it’s an interesting study, and I think you guys presented it fairly well. It’s just from what I’ve read of neuropsychology in the past, it makes sweeping assumptions through sketchy “scientific” experiments.

• Comment by linds on June 13th, 2006 at 1:26 pm:

  Heh. Good episode. Call me a man-hating dongripper but howsabout a little bit of gender-based affirmative action when picking the playlists, hmmmm? I love a rock n’ roll sausage party as much as the next but COME. ON.

  Oh shit. I haven’t mailed my payment for my order yet. Oops. It’s coming.

• Comment by poo on June 13th, 2006 at 7:45 pm:

  Thats fine derek. Just fine.. Now I can see why Chris says the way things are going they will eventually just stop making records all together.

  I will cork your cry hole

• Comment by poo on June 13th, 2006 at 7:46 pm:

  I will cork your cry hole with a police batton from the winnipeg police signed by the asper family

  bahhaha just joking really.. just joking

• Comment by drew on June 13th, 2006 at 10:40 pm:

  “Ummmmm some how I don’t think john k shitson will be appearing on the radio show. I think Chris A Hannah would have something to say about that. ”

  why? cuz the weakerthans went to epitaph?

  shitson? thats not very nice, now is it?

• Comment by Mikel on June 14th, 2006 at 3:19 am:

  Good episode folks. But I don’t think we heard anything from Todd about the importance of killing posers, did we? Also, I would like to hear a little more about everyday politics, such as boycotts, organics, and the like… hm, come to think of it critical mass is one such action, but gimme more and I’ll be thankful.
  Leftöver Crack would be welcome, you can’t go wrong with a song called Apple Pie and Police State! I’m not sure where these folks draw the line in terms of the music they play… I mean, Zeke are no progressive band either, but they kick arse.. Speaking of which, is there any g7 release in the works for the near future?

• Comment by Anthony on June 14th, 2006 at 3:45 am:

  John K. Shitson…hahahahahhahahahha in my opinion,the Weakerthans are shitty. I Spy is better. wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy better.

• Comment by shitbag on June 14th, 2006 at 5:25 pm:

  all this smack-talking about the weakerthans is bullshit. John K. and Co. opened up a new world of ideas to me through their explicitly political lyrical themes. And its hard not to listen to them without becoming a passionate advocate for justice.

  The Weakerthans changed my life. No other band even comes close to them in terms of political influence aside from NOFX.

• Comment by shitbag on June 14th, 2006 at 5:30 pm:

  I guess propagandhi has been somewhat influential too, except that a lot of their messages are muddled and passionless and its hard to tell where they stand on alotta things. They also seem like they tend to flip-flop on alotta issues.

• Comment by shitbag on June 14th, 2006 at 5:31 pm:

  As for i-spy, i think it’s obvious that they were only in it for the money, fame and women.

• Comment by rise on June 14th, 2006 at 8:54 pm:

  “As for i-spy, i think it’s obvious that they were only in it for the money, fame and women”

  sheesh… well, it might be a little true (who knows?) but i think they were pretty sincere and serious guys

• Comment by poo on June 15th, 2006 at 1:57 am:

  g7 can lick my balls for removing my last post i know where i’m not buying records any more

• Comment by D-Rock on June 15th, 2006 at 8:36 am:

  Poo: it was moderated by the system, not deleted.

• Comment by poo on June 15th, 2006 at 8:38 am:

  Hi this is poo again.

  In regards to all that bullshit. Propagandhi, Ispy and the weakerthans are all great bands. Whoever says that NOFX are a political influence is a fuck face, do I listen to NOFX?”Yes” Do I find a band inteligent and politically motivating when they stand up and sing “idiot son of an asshole” with the remainder of the lyrics to back it up being about as intelligent as a two year old farting!!!NO!!

  Now.. getting back to John K Shitson.. why I said he wouldn’t be on the show.. is cuz well when propagandhi broke up christoph and him argued about money.. and more recently Glen wrote some lyrics about the little girl and his poetic lyrics. Nothing to do with going to epitaph… but still maybe they can get their own skate shoe made now?? It will be called the vans green wallpaper edition.

  In summary no band comes close to propagandhi, their lyrics are so right on, chris is the best guitar player , todds hillarious, jords a penis on wheels. And this band have always stuck to their guns.. never selling out their beliefs for a bit of pocket change.. this means a lot to me.. unlike other so called political bands who write all these yay we’re going to save the world lyrics and then promote sweatshop made shoes/guitars/dildos in the linear notes of their albums.

• Comment by poo on June 15th, 2006 at 9:42 am:

  Thx Derek,

  I guess i won’t boycott g7 now.. I’ll go buy 9 copies of potemkin city limits off itunes instead ;)

• Comment by Mikel on June 15th, 2006 at 9:59 am:

  Ok, I suppose shitbag was attempting to redefine the word “irony.” I could say something similar, like John K. “Shitson” and Fat Mike are up there with Bill Gates and Phil Knight in terms of the world’s greatest evils. Fair, huh?

  If anyone has the energy, feel free to look at a map and tell me how much money they think the Weakerthanks will make with this kind of Euro-itinerary?
  August 9: Luzern (CH) @ Schüür
  August 11: Santander (E) @ D’ Manu
  August 12: St. Feliu (E) @ Festival
  August 13: Castellon (E) @ Groovy Club
  August 15: Paris (F) @ TBA

• Comment by drew on June 15th, 2006 at 12:37 pm:

  poo: i may be wrong, but i dont think fedallah’s hearse is specifically about samson’s songs. samson’s lyrics are just more personal political, its a different approach, but there is still a ton of meaning in his lyrics. im sure chris can see that, as G7 did release 2 of the weakerthans albums. and their epitaph release has the same lyrical voice that is consistent throughout all of the weakerthans albums. i do understand what is being expressed in the said propagandhi song, but i really dont think its directed to john’s writing. but then again, what the fuck do i know!?

• Comment by Benjamin Grundy on June 15th, 2006 at 1:42 pm:

  I always thought the lyrics of Fedallah’s Hearse was about that dude from Moby Dick. Seriously though, I thought it was about politicians and the horrid fallacious spew that eminates from their mouths.

• Comment by poo on June 15th, 2006 at 7:43 pm:

  yeah.. u could be right.. I just have a feeling that chris and shitson don’t talk anymore… maybe he could clarify this for us..

  You know I would really like to hear chris talk a bit more about his songs.. the process he goes through of writing / recording them and anything else he’d like to throw in. I know this would probably distract from his true motivation for writing his songs (get his political views out) for a few moments but it would be very interesting.

• Comment by rise on June 15th, 2006 at 7:57 pm:

  “I just have a feeling that chris and shitson don’t talk anymore… maybe he could clarify this for us..”

  that would be good. the whole Propagandhi/JKS thing would make for an interesting episode, i think..

• Comment by lindsay on June 15th, 2006 at 8:31 pm:

  Or. We could just mind our own fucking business.

  Do we really need to know the deep underpining nature of every nuance of every song and every relational drama of every band’s roster change. I think not. I could give a rat’s pink n’ puckered bumhole personally. Besides, any artist with any sense of humour would probably fuck with us mercilessly surrounding such things just to prove the aforementioned point anyway. I know I would.

  A sage once opined …. that things are more beautiful when they are more obscure. Or there’s beauty in obscurity. Or never to trust anything a man says when he has erection. Something like that there, eh.

• Comment by drew on June 15th, 2006 at 9:14 pm:

  “that would be good. the whole Propagandhi/JKS thing would make for an interesting episode, i think..”

  i dont really think that is important. basically johnny john john was “cut from an entirely different piece of fabric” than the speed metal prop boys, and was interested in playing different music, which worked out great in the end, because the rod i think is perfect for propagandhi. so doing an episode on that whole thing would be kind of silly. but as for having john on the show talking about what he is doing these days pertaining to arbiter ring etc, now that would be pretty cool.

• Comment by Anthony on June 15th, 2006 at 10:51 pm:

  “Or. We could just mind our own fucking business.
  Q:
  Do we really need to know the deep underpining nature of every nuance of every song and every relational drama of every band’s roster change.”
  A:Yes

• Comment by poo on June 16th, 2006 at 3:51 am:

  i wasn’t so interested in the whole johnny shitson thing cuz he is a shitson.. but.. the rest of that crap I said about chris discussing a bit more about his songs the band etc.. i think would make for a very interesting show.. because they dont do enough interviews etc.. and i’m very interested in his whole song..writing process/recording etc..etc… Like I noticed on the linear notes of potemkin it said some of the songs were arranged with some other ppl.. who are they? .. does he write the lyrics/music first.. how long do some of these songs take to process from the writing stage to the recording etc..etc..

  And lets face it.. we all think they’re amazing songs .. right?
  Well wouldn’t it be interesting to find out how this genious gets to the end point.

  yeah i think so I think so :D

  PO PO POLICE.

• Comment by drew on June 16th, 2006 at 11:30 am:

  poo: hearing about that would be interesting, but i dont know how relevant to the show chris and derek would find that.. yes, the songs they write are pretty mind blowing and incredible, thats for sure. im pretty sure derek from G7 is mentioned in the liner notes as one of the people who chris arranged some of the songs with.

• Comment by jeremy on June 16th, 2006 at 12:19 pm:

  I kinda thought “Fedallah’s Hearse” was more or less about the way maintsream academia tends to support concentrated wealth and power, and is rewarded for it, all the while posing as being critical and independent. No?

• Comment by dongdong on June 16th, 2006 at 2:28 pm:

  Regarding “fedallah’s hearse”, from an interview at lollipop.com…

  Q: Regarding your criticism of music journalists: do you think we are all bitter ex-musicians filling the pages with nonsense just to sell ads? If so, why deal with us at all? And even if all music journalists are ex-musicians, would you recommend that they abandon their love for music – if not the creating of, then at least the support of through their publications – in exchange for a “real job” when they are still trying to “spread the word?”

  Chris: Well, no doubt there’s some hyperbole and broad-brushes in there for the purpose of illustrating a private speculation about the symbiosis between music and music journalism these days. I feel it’s safe to suggest that there is, in fact, almost no actual journalism involved in the process. Stenography, yes. Journalism, no. I would never suggest anyone abandon their love of music: only that they not become cheerleaders for crap in exchange for advertising revenue.

• Comment by drew on June 16th, 2006 at 2:28 pm:

  yea i thought fadallah’s hearse is more or less about how people with any amount of clout or influence in mainstream society, be it a news pundit, a politician, a journalist, etc…and how they have a particular way of watering down what it is they are saying to the point of saying, in effect, nothing at all, so as to keep the status quo afloat and not cause much questioning and controversey. which kind of goes along with what jeremy said too.

• Comment by D-Rock on June 16th, 2006 at 3:25 pm:

  Like Drew mentioned, I was a pivotal creative force in the making of PCL, and Fedallah’s Hearse was the one song I actually wrote the lyrics for in addition to arranging the music. So, to clear things up here - no, this song has nothing to do the Weakerthans.

  Fedallah was my younger brother. This song is about his funeral. He died in the pit at the Warped Tour.

• Comment by soyuz on June 16th, 2006 at 9:05 pm:

  hahaha…can’t stop laughing…i’m crying as i laugh…wow!

• Comment by poo on June 16th, 2006 at 10:13 pm:

  WHAT THE DEUCE?

  derek.. whats your background.. do u play in any other bands.. sorry i thought u were just some bum that chris picked off the streets to work@g7 cuz u knew how to setup a PA or something.. other than that i know nothing about u… and I WIsh u guys would say some more about this shit in interview or on the G777 raaaaaadioo.. I noticed in the linear notes that there were some other arrangers etc.. so its not just three skids eh??? this is getting more and more like a brittany spears album all the time LOL.. did you have “session musicians & vocalists come into the studio as well” With some nerd at the computer piecing it all together and then chris jord and todd just came in for the “studio photoshoot” & that was it HAHAH

  Also.. i think drew& jeremy got what they lyrics are about pretty spot on.. id just heard that it was about the weakerthans .. suppose you shouldnt believe everything you hear on CNN.

• Comment by dumdiddee on June 16th, 2006 at 10:29 pm:

  I love the way Chris writes. I wish he would right a book. I’ve tried to urge him to do this for years through various blogs and message boards on prop/g7 websites. It’s a shame that he doesn’t take advantage of his rare talent.

  BTW: Soyuz, you wouldn’t happen to be from around the Bismark, ND area, would you?

• Comment by Hairhole on June 16th, 2006 at 11:04 pm:

  While songs like Life at Disconnect, Cut into the Earth, March of the Crabs and Fuck the Border are all tolerable (kinda); I think it is safe to say that “Anchorless” is the best Propagandhi song ever. Period.

  Also, I don’t know a fart of piss about the Weakerheads, but I always picture Derek as being the front-man, and, hence, the ‘old’ bass player of Propagandhi. Weird eh?

  I always thought Fedallah’s Hearse was about a whale’s Vagina too. Oh well, agree to disagree I suppose.

  ooooooooooh BLOOD LUST!!!

• Comment by matt on June 17th, 2006 at 12:05 am:

  great episode. liked it heaps but it seems weird to play that bullshit southpark shit, i get the feeling that south park is not really inciting a lot of critical thinking out there. it just seems weird to honor these champoins of “everythings a joke so lets not do shit about shit” shit.

  critical mass ruls

• Comment by gerty on June 17th, 2006 at 12:15 am:

  i’m checking my PCL cd insert. cuz if this is true I’m really not much of a chris fan i’m really a derek fan.

• Comment by soyuz on June 17th, 2006 at 1:48 am:

  i was listening to anuradhati roy’s “come september” lecture cd today. she described a chilean musician’s execution during pinochet’s rule. soldiers cut off his hands in front of a crowd in a stadium and broke his guitar and threw it at him while mockingly asking him to play a song before they shot him. and i thought to myself - that’s the real power of music; that it can be such a threat that the establishment would go at such lengths to destroy it. and then i realized, not a single band at the Warped Tour could possibly comprehend “music’s power to describe, compel, renew…” and then i had a sinking feeling…

  p.s. dumdiddee, i’m not near bismarck, ND and soon i’ll be nowhere near the north american bloc. back to the third world for me

• Comment by mikea on June 17th, 2006 at 7:13 am:

  “derek.. whats your background.. do u play in any other bands”

  Check out “Night Flares” by Greg MacPherson.

• Comment by longy on June 17th, 2006 at 11:27 am:

  I went to All Tommorrows Parties here in the UK, on the south coast. It was a revelation, we stayed in chalets, saw some amazing bands (Sleater Kinney, Dinosaur Jnr, Joanna Newsom) and it proved that music festivals dont need shitty corporate sponserships, as if it even needed proving. AND, get this, i ran into Jason Tait (of the Weakerthans), who played drums for Broken Social Scene, another great Canadian band. He was the nicest guy ever, and told me that The Weakerthans (bar John Samson) were the backing band for Greg Graffins (of Bad Religion, you shouldnt need telling) new solo record due out this year. He said its gonna be great, folk acoustic kinda stuff. I dont really no what my point is, mainly just stop dissing the Weakerthans, and stop assuming (just some of you) you know everything about band/member relations. Theres a thing that exists called ” a personal life “. I think a show about the current state of “punk” rock would be great, maybe get someone from a well established punk band on to talk about Co-opting with big business etc. Maybe that was the idea with Jello? Merely a suggestion…

  peace out

• Comment by drew on June 17th, 2006 at 11:54 am:

  longy: very good points. also, im fucking stoked for the greg graffin solo album. when i first heard 3/4 of the weakerthans were providing the backing band for the project, i got even more excited. yay!

• Comment by Anthony on June 17th, 2006 at 7:52 pm:

  Fist of all, the vocals for anchorless are a fucking joke. Shitson does not fit with Propagandhi at all. Whenever I listen to Less Talk More Rock, I get pissed of whenever I here Shitsons voice. He just delays the message and fucks up what could’ve been otherwise good songs. Todd is the perfect fit for Propagandhi. His songs are relevant,not to mention some of my favorite Propagandhi songs. When I tell people to check out Propagandhi, I tell them to start with the last two albums. GORILLA BISCUITS

• Comment by soyuz on June 17th, 2006 at 8:19 pm:

  i remember the first message board on this site that quickly met its demise soon after it’s inception largely due to uncontrollable rumoring and gossiping. that was a good move and maybe applicable here again.

  can i die already? i’m seriously considering suicide too. euthanasia for all!

• Comment by Robert on June 17th, 2006 at 9:30 pm:

  Wow, I love you guys. You’ve changed my life, and that last piece of satire about the Bilderberg meeting was just brilliant…I totally needed to hear that from you guys.

  Here’s the Bildger-douches flexing their powers. We are living in a police state;
  http://www.infowars....wo/alex_detained.htm

• Comment by drew on June 17th, 2006 at 9:34 pm:

  i think samson was a great match for the earlier sounds of propagandhi, just as todd is awsome for the more thrashier sounds as of late. plus, now we get the weakerthans, which are one of the best bands around. john did some great stuff in prop, but him leaving for the weakerthans, and todd coming in ended up being a great thing. ya know??!

• Comment by Hairhole on June 17th, 2006 at 10:55 pm:

  Oooooh Samson wasn’t thhaaaat bad! You have to remember, it’s not fair to compare anyone to that glorious human being Todd, and the subsequent new sound of ’said’ gandhi: it’s fucking untouchable!!!

  Early Propagandhi kicks ass and means a lot to me. I would never poke fun at any of their stuff (accept for maybe anchorless, just ’cause it’s sound is soo different from anything else on that record). Hmmm, ya, so what i’m tryiiing to say is, I think Less Talk More Cock is probably the best Propagandhi record to recommend to Prop virgins. Specifically, the liner notes and lyrics are a pretty good indication of what one can expect from these gomers.

  Don’t turn your back on bottle (Less Talk More Rock), ‘Cause the bottle will never turn its back on you!

  p.s please play Venom’s crusty vaginal ‘bloodcrust’

  p.p.s common turn it up!!!

  p.p.p.s superman wears Kowalski pajamas to bed

• Comment by rise on June 17th, 2006 at 11:00 pm:

  “p.p.p.s superman wears Kowalski pajamas to bed”

  hahaha nice. yeah, some people like samson, some dont. that’s okay. but c’mon, todd belongs on a pedastol!

• Comment by POO on June 17th, 2006 at 11:29 pm:

  YEAH ITS POO AGAIN.

  NOTE TO THE PEOPLE RUNNING THE SHOW: IF THATS SERIOUSLY IN A $200,000 RADIO STUDIO IT SOUNDS LIKE A PIECE OF SHIT.

  CAN YOU COMPRESS THE WHOLE SHOW HARDER SO IT RUNS AT LOUDER LEVELS OUT SHITTY SPEAKERS.. CUZ WE ARE ANARCHISTS AFTER ALL WE ONLY HAVE SHITTY SPEAKERS THAT WE FOUND DUMPSTER DIVING LOL… ALSO CHRISTOPH CAN YOU PUT ANY BIGGER REVERBS ON THE VOCALS.. AND PAN THE VOICES HARD LEFT AND HARD RIGHT SO IF SOMEONE IS MISSING A SPEAKER THEY MISS A COMPLETE PERSON (DEREK WOULD BE A GOOD ONE IF LETS SAY THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE ONLY HAVE A LEFT SPEAKER PAN DEREK HARD RIGHT PLEASE) ALSO IF TODD COMES ON THE SHOW AGAIN CAN YOU EQ IS FARTS A BIT DIFFERENTLY DIDNT SOUND REALISTIC ENOUGH TO ME..

  ok thanks.

• Comment by matt on June 18th, 2006 at 5:14 am:

  can i please say that southpark is hit again. thanks. south park is shit.

• Comment by jason on June 18th, 2006 at 3:59 pm:

  jesus christ. no wonder you guys don’t get shit done. who are all these people and who gave them computers? libary’s closing folks, time to go.

• Comment by tom on June 19th, 2006 at 8:49 am:

  you guys dont shut up about propagandhi lyrics do we?

  giddy from the fumes of her first defec(a)tion

  hahahaha d-rock, we know youve secretly written all the propagandhi lyrics, including “come to the sabbat”.

• Comment by justin on June 19th, 2006 at 2:14 pm:

  right on, they took my advice. i must be a genuis.

• Comment by Seth on June 19th, 2006 at 7:56 pm:

  While I agree that Todd fits Propagandhi much better, I think the first two albums are just as good. Especially Less Talk More Rock, including John’s songs. I also love the Weakerthans!

  I have an idea. Have Fat Mike come on the next show! Muahahaha. But seriously, I think that’d be neato, being a huge fan of both Propagandhi and NOFX.

• Comment by justin on June 20th, 2006 at 12:05 am:

  uhm, what’s with the continued spam?

• Comment by tom on June 20th, 2006 at 9:40 am:

  vegan farts sound more fluffy than meat farts. but i can still outfart both le rod and jord at the same time.

• Comment by jeremy on June 20th, 2006 at 3:04 pm:

  I’m sure that all relevant parties will take all the advice, requests, slander and other enlightening chatter dispensed here under advisement. Seriously, keep it coming! I bet this is all going right into the Special Filing Cabinet.

• Comment by jeremy on June 20th, 2006 at 3:05 pm:

  (Re: “Special Filing Cabinet - see “The Office”)

• Comment by prairie mary on June 20th, 2006 at 6:37 pm:

  to the russian cosmonaught: what are you doing in the third world?

  I was going to write something about the podcast but after reading all of that swass above I barely feeling like breathing, so instead I’ll crawl back to bed.

  …and just imagine what aliens on pluto think of our internet projections….

• Comment by longy on June 21st, 2006 at 2:27 pm:

  Its nice to see people keeping things relevant and intelligible. To the people who type in capital letters and/or just talk shit: do you not have friends you can do this with in person? Im from the UK, im on dial up so it takes me 4 hours to download the show. its often a highlight of my month to hear some new, amazing music (K’naan anyone?). So to think it might be stopped for a while, abolished (the message board was)or become less insightful because Chris and Derek think the only people listening are morons who want to talk about how much they hate Fat Mike…well now that would just SUCK DONT YA THINK (

• Comment by gerty on June 21st, 2006 at 2:35 pm:

  geese i mean geeze
  i just listen to this episode for the third time and i proverbially went into my mothers drawer grabed her panties and threw them on the g7 radio stage. ya you know that proverb dont you? the one where you grab your mothers ah nevermind. keep em coming

• Comment by Dylan on June 21st, 2006 at 8:24 pm:

  I think you guys might be jumping to conclusions by giving the neurology study such strong credit as a possible basis for religious or spiritual “experiences”.

  Yes, the study -produced- results that sound like what somebody who had a religious episode experienced, but the study in no way tests whether such experiences occur through the same processes of the study?
  Understand? If I shoot myself I will die, but that doesn’t mean that everyone who has died did so because of a gunshot.

  I’m sure it is an interesting phenomenon but let’s not blow these findings out of proportion in a National Postesque fashion.

  Relatedly, (if that is a word), I think this article by Micheal Shermer gives a good attempt to explain the nature of “the spirit”.

  http://www.sciam.com...B7F0000&colID=13

  Wiggidy.

• Comment by scott on June 22nd, 2006 at 6:47 pm:

  I guess I agree with jackass’s point about neuropsychology. We don’t need this type of scientific evidence to prove how moronic cathololics see jesus in grilled cheese sandwhiches and woman seeing gualalupe in mexico. Eventhough there may be a chemical explanation for such events, it doesn’t mean people can’t learn from them.

  Who else enjoys a good shroom trip? Of course the drugs mess with our senses, but it doesn’t mean that we can’t learn from the experience. Maybe these mystical experiences do help us find the truth.

  This scientific/rational view of the world is boring, black and white, and narrow minded, confined to the paradigm of mechanics set forth my Newton.

  What a boring view of the world. Again, this dreaded view of the earth and how humans are connected to it doesn’t escape the political vegan. Don’t preach about saving animals when all you see in nature and gears and rational explanations. I’m an atheist but that doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate the earth.

  Rip away my friends.
  -scott

• Comment by Dylan on June 23rd, 2006 at 10:35 am:

  In response to jackass’s point about neurospychology being not credible: How do you think emotions, sensations, and perceptions come about? It isn’t magic, it’s the result of the activity of networks of neurons, and thus can be studied scientifically just like your circulatory system and erectile disfunction.

• Comment by gerty on June 23rd, 2006 at 12:29 pm:

  i dont really understand how you think they went “national postesque” when they were talking about this stuff, and even if they did they aren’t a news source they are a couple people talking about their opinions. and what the hell is scott talking about dont preach about animals when all you see the world in is gears and rational explanations… huh why not preach about saving life and how is that NOT related to appreciating the earth?
  I think what i said before about scientists reproducing in a patient the smell of burnt toast by stimulating parts of the brain. there was no burnt toast present in the room. but the patient smelt it. no this doesnt cancel out the existence of burnt toast. like how the god helmet thing doesnt cancel out god necessarily. Point is though this brings us one step closer to finding out the truth, in how we experience god and perhaps what god is which very well could be just a thought that gives us hope, hope that saves us from plumeting to our deaths. Good for G7 prodding into this stuff. I wish people on here wouldn’t jump to their own conclusions and invent conclusions for people you dont really know and relax a bit.

• Comment by jerkemy on June 23rd, 2006 at 9:47 pm:

  I think any doubt that can be cast on rationalizations for foreign policy along the lines of “God told me to wage war on Iraq” is a positive development.

  If you can give someone the sense of God telling them something by magnetizing the right side of their head, then gee, maybe Bush’s idea that God talks to him is also not based so much in reality.

  And if you can show that, then maybe eventually people will be more hesitant to line up behind imperialist foreign policy without a little more rigorous justification from our leaders than “God told me to”… because maybe God didn’t tell him anything, maybe he was just sitting too close to the microwave.

  Makes sense to me.

• Comment by Anthony on June 23rd, 2006 at 10:35 pm:

  God owes me 10 bucks

• Comment by drew on June 24th, 2006 at 1:32 am:

  how about spinning some Dragonforce on episode 6? that shit is so absurd, in the best possible way.

• Comment by asnnose on June 24th, 2006 at 7:24 am:

  YES TO DRAGONFORCE YES!

• Comment by jackass on June 24th, 2006 at 10:43 pm:

  I don’t think it has been proven that there is a causal relationship between the brain and emotions. I think it’s been proven that there’s a correlation between the two. As far as I know, when one feels happy, the brain acts a certain way. This doesn’t mean that the brain is making you be happy, as the other option is that the emotion is making the brain act in certain ways. Science has not proven anything either way, and i’m not sure how science could prove anything either way. Brains acts certain ways when religious experience happens, but that could means it’s the biological translation of a metaphysical experience (it could also mean the opposite, it’s inconclusive.)

  You may call this “magic”, I call it a “mind”, and metaphysics. I know science doesn’t believe in metaphysics, but that’s only because science cannot prove or disprove metaphysics, and therefore ignores it.

  Science is a method to find out the truth. It is not the only valid method to find out the truth, and shouldn’t be treated as such. It should be treated as a tool that can be used well in certain situations.

  Pirsig looks into the limitations of science in “the zen and the art of motorcycle maintenence”, and Kuhn studies the history of science, showing the nature of how it progresses in “the strucutre of scientific revolutions”. I think both are good read concerning how people should view science, the latter being more academic than the first.

• Comment by betty_buttfuck on June 25th, 2006 at 1:52 am:

  “Comment by jerkemy on June 23rd, 2006 at 9:47 pm:
  I think any doubt that can be cast on rationalizations for foreign policy along the lines of “God told me to wage war on Iraq” is a positive development.”

  Isn’t it sad that this is even a sentence that needed to be voiced? How stupid we are to have believed this for thousands of years. At the same time, if we did not do these things in the name of God, I’m pessimistic enough to believe we would accomplish them regardless. No God to sanction the killing? Well, how about the slaughter of a nation state so ol’ Mellanus doesn’t feel so impotent when he can’t satisfy his wife, how about in the name of social/communistic revolution (it’s for your own good, and fun too!) like Mao and Sar accomplished, how about to save humanity against those who dare to make weapons similar to our own. Theology is intensely interesting and no doubt influences many, if not most, things in society, but that does not mean we would be any better without it. Afterall, apes like to chase monkeys through the trees and bash their heads in for fun. Let the good times roll.

• Comment by Jennifer on June 25th, 2006 at 6:33 pm:

  Dude, what the fuck people.

  I’d expect more maturity from people who listen to this show. “Shitson?” That not only is not nice (as someone kindly pointed out earlier) - but, more importantly - that is downright immature. I’m sure by the end of middle school, everyone (including pre-pubed “gangstas” and “skaters”) would have gotten over name-calling, eh?

  “and more recently Glen wrote some lyrics about the little girl and his poetic lyrics. Nothing to do with going to epitaph… but still maybe they can get their own skate shoe made now?? It will be called the vans green wallpaper edition.”

  Not only is this a totally bastardized and shitfaced interpretation of Fedallah’s Hearse, but what the fuck? “Little girl?” Dude, suck my fucking dick. Thanks for reinforcing structured gender roles in our society. As for Fedallah’s Hearse - The Weakerthans may have dipped their toes into the sewage of mainstream popularity (Wedding Crashers, I bought a Weakerthans ringtone on my shitty cellphone, and what the fuck - why would far superior musicians play music for an ugly man that can’t do better than have sex with random girls over the internet?) but in no way would they endorse direct pools of corporate power (shoe companies), although I suspect that they would sign onto a major label. I’m sure John K. is still adamant with this politics, although it’s quite possible he’s mellowed out. The Weakerthans happen to be one of my favorite bands, and I while I will admit that some of their actions have “upset” me (overstatement) - all your bitter Weakerthans-bashing is unfounded and fucking childish. Save it for a conversation in Hot Topic. “OMGZ AVRIL SUCKS WHY DUN U LISSN TO REAL PUNK LIKE COHEE AND CAMRIBIA LOLZ” Don’t make a Propagandhi/Weakerthans feud/war parallel that.

  I’m sure bringing John K. Samson to the show to talk about the state of Winnipeg and Arbiter would be interesting, he seems to be deeply involved in Winnipeg’s community. I would doubt that that would happen though.

  As for early Propagandhi vs. current Propagandhi, I like them both. How to Clean Everything was the one album solely responsible for dragging me into the mysterious realms independent music - and Showdown just sealed the whole thing for me. Those duel vocals were infectious. Without Propagandhi’s transition from punk to thrash-ish type stuff, I don’t think I would have had much of an appreciation for harder music. I owe this band a whole fucking lot, regardless of Propagandhi with or without Samson.

  Derek - you wrote Fedallah’s Hearse? Fucking awesome, I love that song - it sounded like something that would directly come from Chris’ mouth though. I’m thinking you need to record this song, sung straight from your mouth. U got skilLz boy!

• Comment by Dylan on June 25th, 2006 at 9:18 pm:

  I wonder how Derek and Chris feel about having legions of fans lacking the ability to grasp irony.

• Comment by Anthony on June 25th, 2006 at 11:09 pm:

  Don’t put Shitson on the show, put H.R. on.

• Comment by D-Rock on June 26th, 2006 at 8:56 am:

  I wonder how Derek and Chris feel about having legions of fans lacking the ability to grasp irony.

  We feel terrible. Generally.

• Comment by drew on June 26th, 2006 at 1:27 pm:

  even though epitaph as of late has signed a shit ton of shitty bands, as far as i know they are still an independent label. does that even mean anything these days??! when i think of labels like G7 and Dischord, among some others, now thats fuckin independent.

• Comment by Kyle on June 26th, 2006 at 4:33 pm:

  Since when does signing shitty bands make you any less of an independent label? I don’t think it makes them any less independent as it makes them… fucking… signers of shitty bands.

• Comment by poo on June 26th, 2006 at 5:55 pm:

  Almost all labels are major labels now .. they just go under the name indie.. basically they do all the same shit to get their bands 8======D

  “OMGZ AVRIL SUCKS WHY DUN U LISSN TO REAL PUNK LIKE COHEE AND CAMRIBIA LOLZ”

  anyone who makes a comment like that.. or even knows one exists that says a lot about that person.. oh and one more time (EVERYBODY NOW)…

  SHITSON SHITSON SHITSONSHITSON SHITSON SHITSONSHITSON SHITSON SHITSONSHITSON SHITSON SHITSONSHITSON SHITSON SHITSONSHITSON SHITSON SHITSONSHITSON SHITSON SHITSONSHITSON SHITSON SHITSONSHITSON SHITSON SHITSONSHITSON SHITSON SHITSONSHITSON SHITSON SHITSONSHITSON SHITSON SHITSON

• Comment by Benjamin Grundy on June 26th, 2006 at 11:01 pm:

  I don’t know what’s going on here but I love it:

  http://www.propagand...ontent/sheffield.jpg

• Comment by brent-o on June 26th, 2006 at 11:48 pm:

  Adding on to what jackass had to say:

  Even if religious experiences could be created in a lab on demand (and I guess that is now possible) it would not be a particularly good reason to discount the existence of genuine religious experiences, as in caused by some supposed god, goddess, ultimate reality ect, as we can artificially create sensory experiences of other phenomena without disproving their existence. For example, if I hallucinate the sensory experience of seeing a elephant, while fucked on acid lets say, this would in no way lend any support to the claim “elephants do not exist” even though (as in the case of the ‘god machine’) the appearance of the elephant, in this case, had no connection to a shared external reality. To move from the fact that religious experiences can be simulated to the conclusion that there exists no genuine religious experiences is just to appeal to ignorance.

• Comment by Jennifer on June 27th, 2006 at 11:16 am:

  Poo, not only did your comment make zero sense but it proved the hypothesis I had from earlier.

• Comment by dumdidee on June 27th, 2006 at 2:35 pm:

  I live in Denver, and I just heard that Ward Churchill has been fired from CU allegedly for academic fraud. I think this would be a good topic for the next episode. Call me crazy.

• Comment by dumdidee on June 27th, 2006 at 2:50 pm:

  Wonder where soyuz stand on the Churchill matter? Wherever he stands, i’m sure he’s got some interesting comments about it.

• Comment by tom on June 28th, 2006 at 1:29 pm:

  well i have no idea what jennifer is so pissed about but you guys are all so funny.

  brent-o, interesting comments. i’d have to agree but it’s also ignorant to dismiss this scientific evidence as ignorance. it should be at least common knowlegde that using religious doctrine as a means of obtaining national interest is in everyones worst interest.

  everyone knows if you take enough mushrooms you can see jeesus and probably 69 him too.

  was that mature and make sense enough for you, professor?

• Comment by the rod on June 28th, 2006 at 2:19 pm:

  Hello, LINDS.
  This is the Rod here, the “Guest” on this weeks podcast. We actually did have a bunch of more gender inclusive tunes for the episode but they didn’t load into the computer right and then we never got back together stick em back in there, Sorry. The metal is always on hand to fill the voids with greatness. Unfortunately the era of Metal we love wasn’t exactly stacked with too many female bands. Sentinal Beast, Detente, Sacrilege etc.. were all great bands but those are not around on Cd. anyway. I hear what you speak. your point is very, very well understood.
  Hoggy is funny on this message board, by the way, “cork your cry hole” is a good ‘ern.
  see ya Folks.

• Comment by brent-o on June 29th, 2006 at 1:11 am:

  Tom,
  My point is that, in this case, the science in question is not valid evidence for the nonexistence of genuine religious experiences, and it would be a mistake to construe it as such. You’re right about the fallacy of justifying policy on religious dogma. That is, what is right and what is wrong are independent of any idea of god. The alternate to this view, for the theist, is that god determines right and wrong, but this leads the theist to the conclusion that good and bad, right and wrong are completely arbitrary (god could have just as easily made murder good). So even the most frantically fundamental fuck-head need not appeal to their supposed god for advice on matters of public policy, not that it stops many of them…

• Comment by Pidge on June 29th, 2006 at 6:49 am:

  Can I make a request that for the next show there is some serious discussion about this week’s events in Gaza. I’m sitting here, utterly depressed and feel totally useless, as tanks roll in and shells are fired. It’s so far beyond disgusting I’m speechless.

  This has nothing to do with the ‘rescue’ of a soldier, it is just another excuse to try and exterminate other people.

• Comment by tom on June 29th, 2006 at 10:40 am:

  scrod: THATS WHY I REQUESTED BIKINI KILL BUT THESE CURBS NEED QTIPS! or lesbians on extacy or CARLA BOZULICH you scuds!!!!!!!

  brent-o: yeah, im too stupid/stoned/tired to go on about how i mostly agree with you but slightly disagree with you. in my mind, human origins will always be a mystery, and like i said if you want to score with mary, just pop some shrooms or peyote and bring some hand cream.

  i think “genuine ” religious expeirences can be discredited, especially if used as a means to an end. spiritual expeirences are something elsse but whos to say that the jesus im listening to in my head right now is only there because i see his face all over the goddamn place. do you know what i mean?

• Comment by Jennifer on June 29th, 2006 at 11:14 am:

  Tom, I think it’s rather immature to undermine the Weakerthans. Their actions don’t even compare to the whole punk voter thing, Against Me!, and the eons of other ‘punk’ bands that have signed onto major labels, etc. Oh no, they don’t write overtly political lyrics! Wow, what sellouts! What, they write POETRY? Poetry is for little girls!

  Maybe it’s funny if you dislike the Weakerthans, but frankly, I’m not too amused.

  And was I the one that missed out on the irony? I thought the last part of Derek’s comment was the only thing tinged with sarcasm, hm. Drew and Jeremy’s interpretations of the song were basically what I saw it as, but I didn’t nessesarily think it was targetted towards the Weakerthans. I guess I can see where they can be inserted into the equation, but that doesn’t invalidate the whole “let’s wait for the weakerthans to sponsor sweatshop made shoes!!!!!!111″ stuff from earlier. And I’ll still enjoy the song.

  The new Tragedy album is selling like fucking hotcakes.

• Comment by drew on June 29th, 2006 at 1:04 pm:

  “The new Tragedy album is selling like fucking hotcakes.”

  do you work at a record store?

• Comment by tom on June 29th, 2006 at 2:13 pm:

  hey jennifer- oh. i see. no, it pisses me off to read people slandering johnny k. and the weakerthans. but its important to be critical of others (bands included) and their decisions.

  i love the weakerthans, including their poetry. i even the met john k. once, and in between inhaling cigarettes he was a really nice, cool dude. funny, too.

  i actually think some of the songs are extremely political, actually, especially their g7 “catalog”. you just seemed infuriated, thats why i said that. i actually dont think anybody is funny on this blog except for rodmaster flex 30000.

• Comment by betty_buttfuck on June 29th, 2006 at 9:26 pm:

  I duonno, I thought Jennifer was pretty funny.
  Using the term “suck my dick” (which denotes that a male can dominate, or win an argument, by forcing a woman to perform fellatio) as an argument against using language to dominate women. Without irony. That’s funny.
  Now stop being such a pussy.

• Comment by poo on June 30th, 2006 at 3:25 am:

  HAHAHHA WHAT THE FUCK? DOES JOHN K SMOKE CIGARETTES IF THAT IS TRUE THEN I CAN TYPE 8 MILLION PAGES OF

  SHITSON.

  LOL

  I LOVE PEOPLE WHO ARE All .. (save the planet.. don’t buy from the corporations.. oh you know the whole deal etc.etc.etc.etc.etc…) that kill themselves with cigarettes.. brilliant !

• Comment by community? on June 30th, 2006 at 12:09 pm:

  “I’m sure bringing John K. Samson to the show to talk about the state of Winnipeg and Arbiter would be interesting, he seems to be deeply involved in Winnipeg’s community.”

  What community is that? What does that mean?

• Comment by tom on June 30th, 2006 at 1:54 pm:

  yeah well, i’d rather be a pussy than a cunt, dick, or asshole. so take my bass clarinet and shove it up your french horn d’accord?

  happy colonialism day everybody!

• Comment by Jennifer on June 30th, 2006 at 3:40 pm:

  Tom - I wasn’t really infuriated, just defensive because no one else seemed to be defending the Weakerthans. I, myself, am actually critical of certain aspects of the Weakerthans and I do agree that they’ve definitely had some of their lyrics tinged with politics, but only beforehand - I think since signing onto Epitaph they’ve been exponentially compromising themselves. I guess that’s the whole thing that Fedallah’s Hearse /may/ be about. But seriosuly, folks. The Weakerthans are still on ‘our side’ moreso than the millions of other punk bands who are actually itching to get on the Warped Tour. They’re just not as outwardly manifesting as certain other bands (D4, Propagandhi, etc) are.

  Samson established and works for Arbiter Ring Publishing, which is a radical book publisher in Winniped that I believe functions as a co-op like G7. Many proceeds the Weakerthans make are geared towards helping the inner structures of Winnipeg. They even posted a public service announcement of sorts, calling shit on the state of the city on their website. Etc. You can find a lot of this stuff on their website.

• Comment by Jennifer on June 30th, 2006 at 3:42 pm:

  PS - poo: everyone’s hands cause natural disasters.

• Comment by drew on July 1st, 2006 at 12:34 pm:

  perhaps im an idiot, but i dont really see how the weakerthans have compromised their lyrical content since signing to epitaph. reconstruction site has many instances where the lyrics still deal with the personal poltical (i.e. alienation, disconnection, etc) that john has such an uncanny ability to write. his lyrics are always so good, at least in my opinion.

• Comment by poo on July 1st, 2006 at 10:31 pm:

  I just read some new crap in the news section of the propagandhi site.. I wish I lived in winnipeg how fucking cool would it be to go down to some festival in some park and there behind a mixing desk doing some live sound for some mexican jumping beans(or whatever they are) is the lead singer of the best fucking band out there.. right on to that… AHAHHA… i wonder what he’ll play when he’s warming up the PA system before the mexicanas come on… maybe a little bit of megadeth eh?

• Comment by poo on July 1st, 2006 at 10:33 pm:

  Jennifer: Your Mom causes natural disasters

• Comment by tom on July 2nd, 2006 at 8:03 pm:

  maybe if you went to weeniepeg somebody would punch you in the head, eh?

• Comment by Jennifer on July 3rd, 2006 at 1:56 pm:

  Compromising lyrics wasn’t what I was exactly going for, but their lyrics have definitely turned fair weathered - there aren’t any blatant lyrics about politics (”this brand new strip mall…”; “we’ll tape some notes to the heavy machines…” - and then songs like Exiles and Confessions).

• Comment by Anthony on July 4th, 2006 at 8:55 pm:

  John K. Shitson was crying at a local hardcore show the other night because the bands we’re screaming.

• Comment by poo on July 5th, 2006 at 8:55 pm:

  DID HE HAVE some green wallpaper to wipe his tears away?? DID HE DID HE?? did he have his favourite chords on hand to calm down the audience..

  Shitson.. go have another cigarette and wreck the environment & yourself all thx to the corporations.. and then come and put your notes on the heavy machines to make your political statement.pffffff

• Comment by Jennifer on July 7th, 2006 at 5:19 pm:

  Both of you are morons.

  What happened to toleration? I’m not sure if Samson even likes hardcore or not, but you can’t respect the fact that he chooses not to play hardcore? Or does that make him a girl? You can’t respect a person’s decision to have a preference? This parallels much serious things, from toleration of gay rights to racial acceptance. FUCK YEAH DUDE, FUCKIN’ SAUSAGE PARTY!!!!!!!\m/

  And poo, I don’t know you personally but if I did I’m sure I can find many things about you that are just as damning, if not more damning, than smoking cigarettes. Do you drink alcohol? Are you a vegan? Do you ride or drive in an automobile that isn’t public? Are you not using a computer right now that was manufactured by sweatshop laborers under a corporation? Is every single garmet on your back sweat shop free? Do you shop organic? Do you live in a house? Etc. I’m not endorsing smoking, nor am I saying that I’m free from being the radical’s paragon, but you are giving him far too much shit. You guys seriously need to be directing your comtempt towards someone more worthy - fuck, beyond any sort of average musician.

• Comment by Jennifer on July 7th, 2006 at 5:20 pm:

  oh yeah, what the fuck is green wallpaper.

• Comment by jeffernator on July 7th, 2006 at 8:44 pm:

  Um, you should play something from The Coup your next show. Another thing - who did the vocals on the G7 radio intro theme music? Yeah, cause you really suck at singing:0 Kay, bye.

• Comment by poo on July 7th, 2006 at 9:16 pm:

  Jenny jenny jennifer.

  I feel that if it’s ok 4 propagandhi to give shit to fat mike and point out his wrongs .. its ok 4 me to do the same.. shame my posts on the rock to ride or whatever its called were changed by christoph and d-rock.. just prooves they’re the same as every1 else eh?

  Anyways in answer to ur ridiculous questions. Dont drink, dont smoke, vegan, organic, no vehicles etc..etc.. Yes I do live in a house tho.. and yes I am using a computer but it’s a commodore 64 that was made by your mom in the 80’s. Green wallpaper.. I dunno I thought i heard shitson mention it in one of his lyrics. I have all the weakerthans albums also..I don’t even know if he smokes either.. i just heard someone else say it.. and thought that would be hillarious.. cuz as i said b4.. i love it when vegan /hippie/greenie/organic farmers doing all they can for themselves + the environment walk out their front of their shops and start smoking.. it makes me laugh.. it makes me laugh..

  This post will soon be deleted.. Just like an edited / watered down news article this G7committeewreckchords has so many problems with in the mainstream media.. they truly are NO DIFFERENT.. :) have a nice day anti-flag( i mean propagandhi)

• Comment by poo on July 7th, 2006 at 10:55 pm:

  BTW: I think fat mike is a stupid fucker

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