Saturday, July 14, 2007

GODKINGS FORM VOLTRON


PICT0119, originally uploaded by babajiwotan.

UNITE ORGANIZE!
COnsolidate.

Did someone print the tickets?
Are the bands all in and organized?

POSTERS POSTERS
AUGUST 10:
rocket circus
Minglers
Mayor Matt Allen
Smok Tygre
Godkings

Phone each other, plan discuss, THis is big stuff!!

Frday the 13 I flipped the quad straight up airborne and back over full weight on my face! It's all good.

SERIOUSLY Please send me a report to ease my mind thtat organiziation is running smoothly. Ill check again in 4 days.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

We had a chat and were the line-up should change. no tickets yet.

the west-end starts at 7 and ends at 11 so having a whole bunch of changes with bands is probably no good. maybe a coupe solo (knackerson,smoky tigre) like tweeners.maybe have matt allen backed by the godkings?

godkings and rocket circus main attraction, although did you know rocket circus is already postering for a show at the west-end in august.

I'm in montreal, no tickets, no poster yet.

Lorne Roberts said...

ha ha! that's the hammer of judah in yr right hand.

have no worries. something will work out. the details may differ from yr original vision, but in the end it will all go off. josey already talked me down from panic, so now i do the same for you. :)

TheBlueMask said...

"Form Voltron"?? that's so politically incorrect in this age of Transformer resurgence!

Anonymous said...

'Yes, if there is such a thing as one, I am one. When did you realize that what you were doing transcended -- People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine. . . . I always wondered, ``Why has nobody discovered me?'' In school, didn't they see that I'm cleverer than anybody in this school? That the teachers are stupid, too? That all they had was information that I didn't need? I got fuckin' lost in being at high school. I used to say to me auntie, "You throw my fuckin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous, '' and she threw the bastard stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fuckin' genius or whatever I was, when I was a child. It was obvious to me. Why didn't they put me in art school? Why didn't they train me? Why would they keep forcing me to be a fuckin' cowboy like the rest of them? I was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me? A couple of teachers would notice me, encourage me to be something or other, to draw or to paint - express myself. But most of the time they were trying to beat me into being a fuckin' dentist or a teacher.' - John Lennon, when asked if was a genius.

Lorne Roberts said...

egad. my respect level for ol' JL has just dropped by approx 23%.

hopefully he was drunk when he said this.

TheBlueMask said...

Why is that Wolfie? He's explaining how he was thinking as a child. He's just being honest. I've read this interview before, he also tears into himself.

Hopefully you were drunk when you typed this. heh heh

cara said...

I guess we could all fall in love with the photographs of ourselves as children, and I feel the same discomfort when someone claims their "G" word...but on the other hand I gotta agree with JL, schools often do try to beat students into conformity and most often provide them with information that is irrelevant in their lives.

Lorne Roberts said...

i ate a cookie before typing. maybe my blood sugar was too high?

but i still find this incredibly pompous and self-indulgent, regardless of what he might say elsewhere in the interview. Like Cara, i'm uncomfortable with hearing anyone self-apply the "G" word, though JL was undeniably a brilliant and innovative musician and thinker. (I listened to "Revolver" just today, in fact.)

To me, I guess this sounds like a bit of a cliched "I'm the misunderstood genius artist" rant.

We're all misunderstood, and supressed by the education system and The Man and everything else. JL is certainly no different in that regard, and is in fact far luckier than most in that he was able to escape the financial constraints and make his art full-time.

He also calls his former teachers stupid, and then slags teachers and dentists. Why should he slag other people's choices/careers/obligations?

While it may be honest, it also seems quite mean-spirited.

TheBlueMask said...

Again, he was explaining how he felt AT THE TIME. 7 or 8 possibly?
I don't know about you, but I have had stupid teachers. My dentist I pray , knows what she is doing.
What should he have said to keep Wolfie`s respect?
We are all guilty of slagging other peoples choices are we not?
I think the dentist/teacher comment was merely a generaliztion of what society tells you is the "right" thing to do.
( I envy teachers more than rock stars by the way)
"Christ you know it ain't easy.
You know how hard it can be...
The way things are going,
they're going to crucify me."