Yabba-dabba-dabba-dabba-dabba-dabba-dabba-dabba-dabba-dabba-dabba-dabba
Dabba-day!
kissy-kissy-poo-kissy-poo-kissy-poo-on-you
*kissing noises* *mouth smacking noises*
Yabba-dabba-dabba-day!
Sixty dollars is nearly enough money (I’ll chip in for the remaining $1.10) to buy Johnny SiZZle’s entire digital discography on Bandcamp. TWICE! And that discography will contain his latest album, Cool MotherFucker in the HOUSE; six songs of passionate folk punk about the importance of darkness, about being lost and fucked up on a New York subway, about hitchhiking west on the Trans-Canada Highway, about drugs and hard living – all of which act or contain, kind of like a theatre production, a sense of moral caution or wisdom; scenes of real empathy regarding the trials and tribulations of others. And, yes, scenes of sucking cock behind a car in a parking lot.
For instance, there’s the song At 24 Years Old…, which Mr. SiZZle writes is from a conversation he had at a gay bar about the confidence it takes to become trans. On it, he sings, “Are you going to hide under a rock all of your life, or be awesome? And I chose awesome.”
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To read the rest of this review — and more by Steve Schmolaris — visit his website Bad Gardening Advice.
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Steve Schmolaris is the founder of the Schmolaris Prize, “the most prestigious prize in all of Manitoba,” which he first awarded in 1977. Each year, he awards the prize to the best album of the year. He does not have a profession but, having come from money (his father, “the Millionaire of East Schmelkirk,” left him his fortune when he died in 1977), Steve is a patron of the arts. Inspired by the exquisite detail of a holotype, the collective intelligence of slime mold, the natural world and the suffering inherent within it — and also music (fuck, he loves music!) — Steve has long been writing reviews of Winnipeg artists’ songs and albums at his website Bad Gardening Advice, leading to the publication of a book of the same name.
