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			<title>MUSICAL KITCHEN ADVENTURES</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hey Everyone!  It's been hard, with the regular ol' news postings, to keep up with the amount of cool stuff going on, so here's a slightly more detialed account of some of the goodies cooking up in the JGY Kitchen.  My apologies if your computer is unable to receive and transmit the smell of bacon.<br /><br />I guess a couple of noteworthy annoucements might be the place to start:<br /><br />Yours truly is the ARTIST IN RESIDENCE at Rime for the month of September.  What does this mean, aside from increasing the amount of yummy pressed spinach loaf in my diet?  I'll be performing there every Sunday in September with various friends, alies, cohorts and musical subversivists.  It's taking a while to get everything set in stone, but the entertainment will include THE DEEP END on Sunday Sept 2nd.  A Deep End gig on a Sunday, you say?  The 7 piece funkernaut smakin it around when most people should be at home dreading the onset of the work week and eating something that's not yummy spinach loaf?  Well, yeah, normally that would  be pretty messed up, but being a long weekend, we'll all have Monday the 4th to recouperate from dancing our faces off and having one final blowout before September officially takes hold.  <br /><br />DOGWALKER will be playing Sunday Sept 29th, and aside from the musical tomfoolery that will make this evening special, it'll also double as my birthday party.  What the hell, we'll be down there anyway and they'll have yummy spinach loaf and beer, so it kinda makes sense.  Expect to see THE DAWN PEMBERTON TRIO, STINKBUTTER and THE UNSUPERVISED also make an appearance as part of the series.<br /><br />Speaking of series's's's's's'ss', Russell Sholberg, Stephen Lyons and myself are curating a brand new IMPROVISED MUSIC SERIES called STITCHING AND UNSTITCHING, at La Casa Del Artista on Main St.  Beginning in September, there will be performances every Tuesday @ 10pm, featuring the city's best improvisers.  The lads and myself will each be curating one night/month, and the 4th Tuesday will be a wildcard night for which we'll each pick a mystery player, throw them on stage together and see what happens.  It'll be great to have another regular improv night in town, and I'm pretty stoked for my first event (Tuesday Sept 18th) because I'll be playing with 2 of my favourite musicians and ladies, singer Viviane Houle and pianist Lisa Miller.  Serious GT's.<br /><br />And the last series news, JEFF YOUNGER PRESENTS @ THE RAILWAY CLUB has been great so far.  VOL 4 - JAZZMONSTERS has a killer lineup with THE UNSUPERVISED, JP CARTER&quot;S AEROPLANE TRIO and AARON JOYCE'S new group SPEARBEAK.  That one's on Tuesday Aug 21st, but Vol 5 will be on the first Tuesday of Sept (rather than the third), and the events for Oct, Nov, and Dec will be on the third Wednesday of the month because CITR's Shindig overtakes Railway Tuesdays for the rest of the year.  <br /><br />THE FAMILY STUMP NEWS:  <br />The recording is going well and I'm gonna try and get the record finished in time for a Christmas release.  STEVE FEINDELL is a saint, man.  Plain and simple, a fine gentleman and good, good friend.  The next Stump show will be Halloween night at the Railway Club.  It's gonna be messed up, in a totally redonkulous, celebration of things that make one cringe and giggle simultaneously kinda way.<br /><br />NEW PROJECTS AND QUICK NOTES:  <br />NOCTURNAL PUDDLE REFLECTIONS' first gig at the Cobalt went smashingly.  Large ensemble, intense music, rediculously fun.  Thanks to all for coming out to play.<br /><br />STINKBUTTER's first gig was a good time, indeed.  Ali Siadat... love that guy's groove.  For the next one, I'm hoping to add David Marion on bass.  He and Ali will cause some serious disturbances in the seismic groove homeostasis machine.  Scary to think of it.<br /><br />I've been VIDEOTAPING recent shows and compiling lots of footage that will eventually find its way onto the site.  Really interesting to see some of the projects take shape.  THE MINGLER dvd is under way, with two more performances to be filmed before the editing fun begins.  The last show to be filmed will be a kegger.  Comando improv and a keg.... heh, heh, heh...<br /><br />Oh, and before I forget, RICOCHET is being remounted in 2008 for a total of 8 performances at 3 different venues, and I'm just about to begin a new commission from Brock Jellison's Ruckus Company Productions, co-writing music for his new show BLUE.  Will be great to work with Brock again and see Ricochet come to life again after the amount of sweaty love that went into the initial production.<br /><br />And then there's heading to New York to record with bassist James Ilgenfritz sometime in early 2008... If I don't get hit by a bus, it looks to be a pretty good stretch comin up here.  Sincere thanks to everyone for coming out to see the shows, putting up with my crazy emails, and contributing to the swirling pool of creativity that makes this a nice place to be.  Hope all is well with ya'll.<br /><br />JEff ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:51:41 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>FULL PLATE AND A HUNGRY LAD</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Well then, it's been a full, full plate of musical adventures, and after getting the run of RICOCHET shows completed, doing a recording session with some real nice folks (Rob and Jill Thomson) up at Bakerstreet Studios and playing with THE MINGLER last night at the Cobalt, I actually have a day off today.  Slept some, drank coffee, made a list or two (I'm a list guy.  Have to be to keep all the plates spinning), ate some great mushroom/barley soup, and realized the approaching summer is gonna be a fantastic stretch of music making and generally creative behaviour.  Maybe a brief recounting first:<br /><br />The RICOCHET experience was great.  Nice run of shows, the band sounded killer with only the odd musical/technical hiccup here and there, and the dancers were fantastic.  People seemed really excited about the show, and while I don't really know what it looked like cause we were facing the audience from a 10ft high platform at the back of the stage, it looks amazing in the photographs I've seen.  A big time rock concert with a troupe of people doing amazing things with thier bodies, flying all over the place and generally kicking some ass.  The band also didn't have the tap shoes in our in-ear monitors, so I don't know what it really sounded like, but there will be a DVD made of the show, so we'll get to check it out soon enough.  If you want to BUY THE CD, drop me a note @ <a href="mailto:mail@jeffyounger.net" target="_blank" >mail@jeffyounger.net</a> and I can hook you up.<br /><br />Everyone was great to work with, from the dancers to the theatre folks, soundmen, lighting guys... a really cool time all around.  There's talk of the show hitting the road or doing some more performances in town, so there should be more opportunities for us to play it and for ya'll to see it.  Thanks to everyone who supported the production!  Sincerest thanks.<br /><br />THE MINGLER show last night was amazingly fun.  THE SORROW AND THE PITY made me smile with joy - big, wide, dumb guy smiling - with their stunning performance.  Really, really good, way over the top, and thoroughly enjoyable.  The Mingler hit it HARD, and kept hitting it until we stopped hitting it, which was before we really felt like stopping the hitting, but thought it would be best if the hitting was ceased before we felt self-pummelled, what with all of the hitting of it at that level of hardness.  Great time.  I also had the stroke of genius to suggest we make a DVD instead of a debut CD, and Rojas and Magno seemed excited at the notion, so there may just be a Mingler DVD pooted into the world sometime during the summer.  Oh, the summer...<br /><br />I'm gonna finish THE FAMILY STUMP record in the not too distant future, get back on the DEVIL LOOPS recordings, and there's talk of THE DAWN PEMBERTON TRIO doing a recording in May... when it rains it pours, I guess.<br /><br />Oh, and here's a very cool thing:  I am going to be curating A REGULAR EVENT AT THE RAILWAY CLUB, every 3rd Tuesday of the month starting in May.  I'm still formulating how it should look, but I hope to make it the most interesting Tuesday of live music in town.  Hopefully it becomes a night where you don't know what you're gonna get, but you know it will be really cool, and we can build a scene for it.  If you have a project you'd like to bring in, drop me a note and we can discuss.  <br /><br />What else has happened?  Oh, THE DEEP END had an amazing night at the Railway on Friday, March 23rd.  Thanks to everyone who came out and danced and yelled till we were forced to shut it down at 2:30am.  Another killer night for that band in that venue.  We'll try and make that happen a bit more often.  Dawn's birthday is on Sunday, Apr. 29th, and the Deep End will be playing Rime that night.  Should be killer, and Dawn is doing the Artist In Residence that month, so the trio will be there on the 15th and 22nd as well.  I've been booked to do the Artist in Residence at Rime in August.  Did I mention it's looking like a cool summer?<br /><br />Blabbity blabbity.  Thanks for reading, thanks for supporting the music, and hope everyone is well!<br /><br />ps. A Ghost to Kill Again CD release tomorrow night, Friday April 6 @ the Waldorf.  It's gonna be a killer show.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:00:27 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>a.m. Coffee listening and event RecountING</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A couple of recomendations for your, and my own because I need to be reminded to make more time for doing it, listening pleasure:<br /><br />Sometime before noon someday soon, you should listen to Gyorgy Ligeti's record <i>Kammerkonzert/Ramifications/Lux aeterna/Atmosphères</i>.  Geeze, those classical record companies really know how to come up with a catchy title, don't they?  Oh, the cross marketing possibilities are endless.  Sometimes you put on a piece of music and it seems to resonate with your inner workings in a very clear (yet abstract, as is music's want on some very speical levels) way.  Not sure what it says about my state of mind in the a.m. hours, but Ligeti seems to speak to me like that.  The unfocusable impulses in your inner puddle, given identity through sound.  It's almost like sonic acupuncture, I guess.  Stick the sound in the right spot and release things that are otherwise untapped.<br /><br />On that note, Nels Cline's record <i>A New Monastery - a view into the music of Andrew Hill</i>, is a damn fine spin and activator of the sound circus that makes us grin giddily.  I remember a time when the fine geetarist and genuinely creative Alvaro Rojas first heard Shakti with John McLaughlin.  He put on the headphones and was almost bursting with joy, finally exclaiming &quot;I'm so happy this music exists!&quot;  Very nice moment.  Really fine ensemble improvising on Monastery, and beatiful sounds, beautiful, crazy sounds.  Nels was in town last week doing a show with Glen Kotche that was great.  Glen did a bunch of solo drum pieces that sounded like a more tasteful Terry Bozzio.  Very cool stuff, and Nels, well, he was as usual, really interesting and played great.  After the show, Nels proved to be very gracious, holding court with eager guitarpeople, myself included.  I was very happy to hear that he really dug the Fucko tunes I laid on him last summer.  Made him laugh out loud, it did, which is pretty much the desired effect of a song about a guy breaking up with a ham sandwich, featuring a virtuosic kraft dinner solo in the middle.  Thanks then to Nels for the inspiring music and encouraging words.<br /><br />THE FAMILY STUMP VALENTINE'S SPECIAL was hillarious.  Kudos to Cory Curtis for his amazing portrayal of Stumpid.  Veggie weiners on unwrapped coat hangers, wings, and some kind of astoundingly mesmorizing arm wavy undulating dance that had everyone under his spell.  I guess spreading love makes the knees wobbly.  He handed out special love wands (veggie weiners wrapped in cellophane), but nobody accepted the double wand, so we can add it to the list of things that nobody would accept at a Stump Show.  Right now the list sits thusly:<br /><br />1) The Christmas Ginch<br />2) The double veggie weiner love wand<br /><br />I'm sure something rediculous will be added to the list after the Easter Show happens in April.  (Check the gigs page!) <br /><br />I am distracted by the afforementioned Monastery improvised maddness, so I will depart to finish a song for Ricochet and get myself out the door on time to go teach.  I don't know how to spellcheck using this program, so my work here is done.<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />JEff]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:52:59 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>SMELLS LIKE PART II</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ahem... where were we?<br /><br />The legacy of &quot;Crazy Train&quot; has been sufficiently furthered, so we can get back to the goings on:<br /><br />The 2nd Annual Family Stump Christmas Extravaganza:  Killer, killer fun.  Many thanks to RC Weslowsky and his compatriot, Rowan Lipkovits and his lovely compatriot, the glorious Cory Curtis as Stumpa Clause, the Shockker as the Shockker a la Interior Design, and the Stump Family, the extended Stump Family and Friends of the Stump Family.  It was a rediculously good time, and when all the gifts were delivered to audience memebers, it turned out that the Stump Ginch was not claimed, or more accurately, handed back with somewhat of a grimace every time it was presented to someone.  Therefore, in the name of generosity and grimace inducement, the Stump Ginch will be re-gifted at next year's Xmas Extravaganza.  You have been duly warned.<br /><br />While We're On The Stump:  we went into the studio with Feindelly Stump and got ourselves some real good beds like.  The record is officially started, and once I get a grip on all the stuff I need to get happening over the next couple of weeks, I'll figure out when I'm gonna start finishing it.  It will be birthed into the world, painfully I'm sure, sometime in 2007.  I promise.  Also, we just played the In The House Festival on Jan 5th and it was a total blast.  Intimate confines, an especially salty audience, a general burlesque vibe and the only adults-only show on thier calendar.  It was great fun.  Thanks to Myrian Steinberg for having us out to play.  You should check out that series.  It's very interesting, indeed.  inthehousefestival.com<br /><br />While We're On Things That Inspired The Family Stump:  I went to see Zappa Plays Zappa.  It was great.  Good to be reminded how special Frank actually was.  One time, a boss of mine in Winnipeg asked me &quot;If you could have a music career like one artist, who would it be?&quot;  I answered Frank Zappa.  He looked puzzled.  I continued &quot;He wrote all this crazy, dead serious classical music, ran all these crazy bands with brilliant musicians, worked his ass off&quot; etc. etc. etc.  Seems to be a recipe I have taken to heart.  Thanks, Frank, and thanks to the band that played the show for being so tight.  Feels really good to see a seriously rehearsed band rock their faces off.  Punky, Punky, give me your lips to die on...<br /><br />Devil Loops: The initial day of recording was thwarted by technical issues and the 3rd day thwarted by a gig getting bumped that paid too well to ditch.  However, the middle day yeilded interesting results and that record will also be out in 2007.  <br /><br />The Year 2007:  Yes, this will be the year of the cd release.  There will be a minimum of 3 releases from the milkshake machine of musical adventures, but I would expect the count to be higher.  Count on The Family Stump, JEff Younger's Devil Loops and Riccochet, at the very least.<br /><br />Riccochet:  Yes, I was commissioned by Ruckus Productions to co-write the music for this show for the Vancouver International Dance Festival.  The premier is at the end of March and between now and then I will also produce and play on a recording for the show, as well as be the musical director for the production.  This will keep me very busy, very excited, and remind me that I'm not as flexible as a professional dancer.  The show will rock with some fairly heavy boots on, and I am stoked to announce the band thusly:<br /><br />Brock Jellison - vocals<br />Jeff Younger - guitar/vocals<br />Alvaro Rojas - guitar<br />Cory Curtis - bass<br />Mike Magnusson - drums<br />Sam Cartwright - drums<br /><br />Yes, Magno and Sammy are gonna eat this fucker alive and we'll all get to bear witness to their callous disregard for anything but laying it down and making it whimper.  We're in the studio starting Jan 27th.  <br /><br />New Years Eve:  Played a fun little duo gig.  Standards, yo.  Chilled out and went on to a charming little party with my beuatiful and wonderful lady.  Goodtimes to end '06 and usher in '07.<br /><br />Mustard:  This almost catches us up.  Again, I'd like to pass on a big thank you to everyone I played with and got creative with in 2006.  The list is long and humbling, but always good to be reminded how lucky you are.  And, a special thanks to those who helped 2006 be a year in which I took some steps toward engaging in a wee bit more of a human-type existance.<br /><br />To humans and the music they make!  Cheers!<br /><br />JEff]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:45:48 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>POST CHRISTMAS CHOKE ALERT and UPDATE - Part 1</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ok then, with best intentions I stated that I would rectify, beginning yesterday morning, the level of updational website negligence I had slipped into through Nov/Dec of last year.  This did not happen, and I was quicky impaled with the threat of a DOUBLE CHOKE by the highly intimidating, rabid catalogue delivering exactor of humilliating punishment for unfulfilled promises, SUPER ROBERTSON.  A note to SR, one of my favourite individuals drawing breath in a reasonably close vacinity to my general activites, would read thusly:<br /><br />Super, sincerest apologies for my mild retardation and the resulting letting down of yourself.  It won't happen again, lest I be choked, doubly, by your creative, if not meaty, hands.  Congrats again on the cd release.<br /><br />What could possibly have taken my attentions for the last couple of months?  Read on if intersted.  I promise there will be some sort of intricately veiled message that contains the key to maintaining hope for all humanity somewhere near the end.  Maybe.  At least there may be a giggle or two involved, and the odd reference to substitutions for sausage patties and disappointment.<br /><br />Let's see, where to begin? <br /><br />Jazzfest Application Deadline - how does this thing continue to sneak up on everyone?  They actually extended it and I was actually prepared, which turned out to maybe be worse because I got all freaky and ended up on 8 submissions and designed cd covers with pictures of freaky lookin' dogs and such.  Funtimes.<br /><br />Exciting Things To Happen During Jazzfest Application Deadline Time - the creation of 2 new projects about which I am entirely stoked:  <br /><br />DOGWALKER - which will soon replace the JY Trio thing on the projects page.  It's the trio with a different name.  You never know, when you sit down to play with 2 people you don't know very well and have never met each other, how well or poorly it may go.  Turns out to be an interesting blend between myself, the really great Dave Chokroun on bass, and the ever mischeivous Michael Simpson on drums.  We had an excellent gig at 1067, so you can expect to hear much more from the trio when Mikey gets back from Hawaii.  Bugger...<br /><br />THE MINGLER - good on Alvaro Rojas for his bolt of genius inspiration in suggesting that he (on bass), Mike Magnusson on drums, and myself on geetar, form a freakout, all improv noise/jazz/metal aggresso band.  Magic.  Loud, cool, freaky magic.  The Mingler will be at the Cobalt on Feb 7th.  You should come and see this group.  It's like jazz for metal fans on day leave from the asylum... mwaaaahaaaahaaaaa...<br /><br />UNFORTUNATELY, WE HAVE COME TO THE END OF PT 1 as I have to go and teach some people some stuff about the guitar and music.  I shall eventually return and there will be more telling of things verging on being worthy of telling, but until then, Super, keep your damn hands away from my throat.  Freakin' maniac.<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />JEff<br /><br /><br /><br />]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:49:57 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>OH, the FUN WE HAD - See You In H E double hockey sticks.</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A fine way to mark my arrival on this here earth, it was, and close enough to mark what would technically be the 1st birthday of THE FAMILY STUMP.  A retelling of sorts, of the things you get up to when you decide to have fun in a &quot;you're going to hell&quot; kinda way:<br /><br /><br />TALES FROM THE PA STUMP BIRTHDAY EXTRAVAGANZA @ The Railway Club.<br /><br />Firstly, my thanks to everyone who came out and especially those who participated in some way.  I will reserve you a seat right next to mine in Hell, if that is, you find the notion of spending an eternity of flames and damnation next to someone like me appealing.  Special thanks go out to AJ, MAGNO, MEREDITH, RUSTY and KDOGG, the band, for their bravery, contribution, and apparent enjoyment in bringing the Family to life.  Other notable attendees, in no specific order: <br /><br />Rob Hamilton - oh, the fun we had at Lee Aaron's expense.  Many vocal quotes from her catalogue of melodic hits and sweaty thighs.<br />Fred Ardiel - the Stump's new biggest fan, and perhaps a soon to be General of the Stump Army.<br /><br /><b>ACTUALLY, HERE'S AN OPEN CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR GENERAL OF THE STUMP ARMY.  RESPOND TO THIS BLOG WITH YOUR SUGGESTIONS AND I WILL POST THE RESULTS...</b><br /><br />Steve Feindell - he who runs the laboratory where the Stump was born.<br />The guy at the table to the left of the stage who told me I was going to hell.  Good to be reminded sometimes, so you appreciate the little things more.<br />My lovely and brave girlfriend Sonia, who laughs at <i>most</i> of it and has a hard time believing that I can actually be kinda shy... <br />All of my wonderful friends who encourage this kind of behaviour.<br />All of the people who I don't know personally but laughed a lot, therefore encouraging more of this kind of behaviour.<br /><br />It was a fantastic night and there was full video documentation of the evening's performance.  (Thanks Ryan Naso!!)  Samples of this rediculousness will be posted on the site as soon as I buy an external hard drive so I have room to store all of the video.  Efforts will be made to book a Christmas show so's we can celebrate the birth of Baby Jebus in our own, &quot;hey, Hell might be fun!&quot; kinda way.<br /><br />It was my pleasure to play with SuperSimian to open the evening.  The set was rollicking and loose, and therefore could rightfully be characterized as loosely rollicking.  Sim and Super Robertson know how to write a quirky rock song and Willingdon Black knows how to stand with his feet just so - far enough apart that if you were to measure his height before and during the set, you would have difficulty claiming that rock'n'roll didn't make you shorter over the short (and long, one could assume) haul.  One could also be inspired to prove that the core of the earth is not made up of a molten goo of sorts, but of some mysterious, magnetic substance that is especially attracted to the bass guitar.  And Shokker, well, he just smiles and plays drums real good.  Shokker just generally makes me smile, and his record INTERIOR DESIGN proved to be the most regular spin while I was stargazing in the semi-wilderness of Manitoba.<br /><br />A GHOST TO KILL AGAIN was very, very, very cool.  This band will take over the world.  Ghosts beware, but not in a Bill Murray with a couple other dudes you can picture but can't name kinda way, and 21 TANDEM REPEATS brought us into the wee hours with the certain charm born of their own special blend of early a.m. hours on a weeknight alchemy. <br /><br />Many thanks again to everyone who came out and laughed along, and a reminder from The Family Stump:  spread the love, even if you ain't related.<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />JEff]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:14:40 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>(ha ha) TALES FROM BONFIREFEST</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Aside from the unbelievable wonderfulness of making the music itself, I maintain the second or third best thing about being a musician (aside from feilding questions like &quot;Do you <i>make money</i> doing that?&quot; from the mothers (who work in a bank) of friends of your girlfriend) is hanging out with really interesting people who also feel a compulsion to make noises of a somewhat musicial nature.  So then, there was some Space9esque bonding between myself and Mike Galo, turntable troubadour in Space 9, during our trip to and from Bonfirefest in Ruby Lake.  I feel the need to share some of Dr. G's brilliance.<br /><br />A general note:  Mike punctuates any story he has just told with one of 2 phrases - &quot;That's Awesome&quot;, or &quot;It was Awesome&quot;.  It doesn't matter how dark, disturbing or embarrasing the personal tale he is recounting actually was, at the end of the day, &quot;It was Awesome&quot;.  The doctor said he could cut it off, or it would just fall of on it's own, but that might be a bit more painful.  It was awesome...<br /><br />A few quick ones from the road, courtesy of Mike:<br /><br />Speaking of his relationship with his wife - &quot;The only thing we agree on is AC/DC.&quot;<br /><br />The most innapropriate compliment/reassurance ever given to a newly vulnerable and pregnant woman - &quot;Yeah, you look like a cute, little red truck.&quot;<br /><br />A response to an offering of my particular brand of humour - &quot;That's retarded.  I love it!&quot;<br /><br />Mike's take on the interestingly presented fire ceremony at the festival - &quot;Even the hippies were, like, &quot;What the fuck was that?&quot;&quot;<br /><br />And finally, upon leaving the ferry terminal as we headed toward home - &quot;I forgot to buy my son a little BC Ferry toy.  Oh well, I'll have to go to the dollar store and buy him some crap.&quot;<br /><br />Thanks for the laughs, Dr. G.  The perks, the perks.<br /><br />DIgg,<br /><br />JEff]]></description>
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			<author>john@doubledoggraphics.com</author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:28:52 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>NEW TOYS, a GUY you should email, and a BAND YOU SHOULD SEE</title>
			<link>http://www.jeffyounger.net/blog/index.php?entry=entry060804-044826</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Greetings folks.<br /><br />Ok then, here's the deal:  this whole website thing has become a bit of a new toy for me.  Thanks need to go out to John Antonopoulos from Double Dog Graphics for his really easy, intuitive, weirdomusicianscanhavefunwithit back end programming magic.  If you want a website and you got stuff you wanna do with it and put on it, send him an email.  If you have an old site you want turned into something you can play with, send him an email.  He's been very patient with my slow learning curve as well...  We new each other in Winnipeg (maybe we were neighbourhood guitarslinging duelers even) and we worked at the same music joint out here for a couple weeks before we even realized that we knew each other.  We both had bigger hair back then.  Ah, roots...<br /><br />I'm stoked to be hosting 2 weeks of the Super Robertson Supper Show.  These will be fun adventures.  I'm trying to add more fun to my spicerack.  Spicerack almost looks like Spicecrack, which would be an alltogether different thing.  Maybe I should avoid staring at tiny, little letters when I should really be sleeping?  Regardless, my other advice for tonight is to go and see A Ghost To Kill Again at the Media Club tomorrow (Friday, Aug 4th) night.  If there are assess in the room, Ghost will kick them, and, they're great guys to boot.  Lucky to know so many interesting, talented artists who happen to be really nice human beings.<br /><br />Well then, good for everyone I guess.<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />JEff]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:48:26 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>MAILMEN AND THE THINGS YOU HEAR FROM THE MOUTHS OF SUSPECTS</title>
			<link>http://www.jeffyounger.net/blog/index.php?entry=entry060721-235647</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Greetings Fine Music Folk,<br /><br />Leave it to the unsurpassssable Super Robertson to be the first AND the second to lob a gooey ball of creativeness on the hub.  Feel free....<br /><br />Well then, the first in a series (we could do daily lists if we really wanted) of THINGS OVERHEARD AT THE FAMILY STUMP SHOW.  (no single party will be credited with any specific utterance so as to befuddle the authorities in their quest for a particularly moral society)<br /><br />THINGS OVERHEARD AT THE FAMILY STUMP SHOW, vol. 1<br /><br />1)  It's all in the name of love.<br />2)  Ladies and Gentlemen, David Bowie!!!<br />3)  We have to take a second to pray for James Hetfield.<br />4)  None of my kids can read, but they're all very flexible.<br />5)  I don't believe in killin' da chickums.<br />6)  Does Jesus have a blowhole?<br />7)  What don't have a blowhole?<br />8)  I ain't never met nothin without a blowhole.<br />9)  How true is it?  Tell me in inches.<br />10)Rojas, Rojas, Rojas, Rojas, Rojas, Rojas, Rojas, Rojas.<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />JEff]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2006 06:56:47 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>LIKE A PROJECTILE SNOWMAN, BUT DIFFERENT</title>
			<link>http://www.jeffyounger.net/blog/index.php?entry=entry060704-025221</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Greetings folks.<br /><br />VCMI was fantastic.  Jazzfest was also fantastic.  The VCMI, Unsupervised and Space 9 gigs were fantastic.  I will have more to say on these things in the fewtchum.  <br /><br />ALSO FANTASTIC:  the smashing SUPER ROBERTSON was the first to breach the creative space that is the &quot;comments&quot; section of this here piece of the jgy hub.  As is his general way, he made something interesting out of the impulses in his brain.  I urge ya'll to follow suit - let's get the throbbing ball of creative stuff rolling down the hill toward that sleepy, unsuspecting little town.  Crush it!  Crush it!!!<br /><br />I have to pack.<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />JEff]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:52:21 GMT</pubDate>
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