Music:
Member Since: 09/02/2008
Band Website: http://www.eschatonmedia.com/rubaboo.html
Band Members: Chels, Cousin Nell, jody franklin (MungBeing, July Fourth Toilet), Stefan
Influences: friendship, voyageurs, mystical black cats, realistic barnyard friends, canoes, the Capricorn-Cancer matrix, experiential existence, helper monkeys, black flies, paranoid yet plausible conspiracy theories, bear grease, log drivers, aromatherapy, ducks, totem poles, French Canadian folk songs, goats, the languid culture of Lotusland, astrology, chickens, childbirth, mental illness, hockey, supper, feminism, red wine, Utopian dreams and schemes, geography, pot, Pan, cast iron skillet, real estate, communes, lavender, macaroni, First Nations peoples, beer, harmonicas, Dionysus, our culture of narcissism, Bolshevik chickens, lsd, devil's advocacy, robots, Amnesty International, shitbirds, Safeway club card savings, pigs, the cult of celebrity (featuring Britney Spears!), kilts, Carter Family, Klaus Kinski, bedlam, the zeitgeist, rife on the load, Wade Hemsworth, "v'la l'bon vent," meowing, throat singing, improv, Dolly Parton, IWW chickens going on strike, the beats, Ian & Sylvia, the banshee screams of poisoned helper monkeys, Gnostic theories concerning YHVH as the demiurge, July Fourth Toilet, clawhammer banjo, Guided By Voices, anarchy, Gene Ray's Time Cube, ukulele, Tragically Hip, jaw harp, Leonard Cohen, massage therapy, Paul Giovanni, sexy times with loving pals, Sun City Girls, organic gardening, compost, Jolie Holland, coconut milk curries, Nirvana, doula oblongata, Buffy Sainte-Marie, 16mm school bus safety films from the early 70s, NFB cartoons, living on an island, Norman McLaren films, Wckr Spgt, David Cronenberg, Goin' Down The Road, UFOs flying over the Ross Bay Cemetary, damiana, country death songs, salty dogs, Jad Fair, Charlene's "I've Never Been To Me," Animal Farm, Emily Carr, mountains, Beach Boys, moonshine, WCB workplace safety PSAs, Daniel Johnston, the Western red cedar, America's Next Top Model, metaprogramming, sincerity, pesticides, Hinterland Who's Who, socialism, KFC commercials, knitting but not in a hipster way, bacon, Jandek, Cosmic Trigger series by Robert Anton Wilson, doorways into the Hollow Earth, Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins, the aquatic ape theory, Ulysses by James Joyce, the OTO, Jandek, tofu, Tommy Douglas, chaos magick, Patrick Roy, Psilocybin Mushrooms Of The World by Paul Stamets, Olivia Newton John, Long & McQuade, Wade Belak, Caroliner, Emma Goldman, ancient astronauts, Scott Walker, the mysteries, Yoko Ono, Dame Darcy, the Great Mother Goddess, Jimmy Webb, grilled cheese, the Illuminati, BJ Snowden, the Beatles, comic books, freemasons, Waylon Jennings & the Kimberlys, Alice's Egg Plant, Dock Boggs, White Spot, Djuna Barnes, kraut rock, Amor de Cosmos, lo-fi b-sides, WASPs, the Book of Mormon, Richard Brautigan, yo mama Yoyo Ma, scenic wildlife, finely aged cheese, failure, leaving somewhere you love, leaving somewhere you hate, low pressure systems, neo-everything, loser anthems, moose, the geomorphology of landscapes, the Bauhaus school of architecture, olives, broken televisions, Arthur Erickson, violence, Norway, the claude glass, Maybe Smith, suburbia, ignorance, ski-doos, rye, John K. Samson, the years 1973-2008, the abyss, Bolshevism, fascism, cheap thrills, the definition of deconstruction, explorers (primarily Fraser, Cook, Vancouver and Thompson), pills, the cities of Edmonton, Kelowna, Vancouver, Surrey, Victoria, Oak Bay, Nelson, Regina, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Kamloops, San Francisco, London (Ontario and England), Petrograd, Lloydminster, Flin Flon, Tranna, New York, and Bremen, the islands of Vancouver, Ellesmere, and Rattlesnake, losing, crafting, cob building, Matthew Good, Radiohead, Rosicrucians, Nuwaubianism, Robert Wyatt and the metric system.
Sounds Like: realistic barnyard friends, howling helper monkeys, church revivals, stream of consciousness acoustic hippybilly nutjob skronk, the two-headed mutant bastard child of Tom Waits and Yoko Ono living in an underworld river of feces beaten daily with a shilelagh by G. Gordon Liddy, an army of Bolshevik zombies (originally slaughtered by Stalin!) raised from the dead, the grizzled spirit of Timothy Treadwell, ayahuasca, Pier Paolo Pasolini pissing in a pee-pot, biofeedback transmissions from Sirius to the Dogon, Jimmy Swaggart being sucked off by a crack whore, the wind gently whispering through the trees on a warm summer morn as children scamper through meadows of dew-covered lilies while the golden sun warmeth my breast, a coked-up Bob Dylan with a bad cold ordering McNuggets on a 27-year old drive-thru speaker while listening to the Stampeders on crackly AM radio in a 1978 Oldsmobile, Leni Riefenstahl’s perfect specimen, the tetragrammaton, some jerks, a Roman bath, a bubbling moonshine still in the Ozarks, Ayn Rand clipping her toenails, Ogopogo, the war cries of Crazy Horse, extraterrestrials landing below the Pyramid of the Sun on the Avenue of the Dead in Teotihuacán, Dagmar Krause choking on sauerkraut, rejected Muppets, Ascended Masters scratching their "private areas," le serpent rouge Kundalini whipping up the spine, the gasp of breath at the point of penetration during a thelemic ass-fucking err I mean sex magick ritual, Woody Allen being strangled by a naked Amazon while Nina Hartley plays a broken cello and recites Ezra Pound’s cantos in ǃKung, ten thousand locusts returning to Capistrano, self-transforming machine elves, Klaus Nomi being rimmed by a goat, 23 canoes full of stinky voyageurs singing together as they paddle upriver through rapids with black flies buzzing about their heads, Xenu exploding hydrogen bombs in volcanoes, Aiwass, Japanese soldiers stranded on isolated Pacific Islands who still think they’re fighting World War II, robots from the future in outer space, "anal antics" in the Bohemian Grove, Sri Darwin Gross yodeling in the shower, orcas without shame, Kuwaiti oilfield fires, Tonton Macoute ritual murder, the Royal farts of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, prime dagger butter explosions, barbecuing shark steaks in St. Elmo’s fire, totem poles being cut down with flying circular saws, a wolf being torn apart by a flock of vicious sheep, David Icke being tortured by reptilian overlords, contrails penetrating the aurora borealis, Stephen Hawkings’ voice doohickey submerged in water, Scrooge McDuck swimming in his money bin, a Cossack on a pony he named Wildfire, omens of extinction, Spiro Agnew snoring on a moving train after passing out due to drinking an entire bottle of Tanqueray, concubines on a chain gang, Alvin and the Chipmunks singing Gregorian chants in the Amazon jungle, the mournful cry of the last dodo, the typewriter of James Joyce, the reactionary howls of drunken frat boys after being mooned by Jean Genet, the shot that killed Kennedy, a Jack Parsons rocket blast, Leonard Cohen taking a bubble bath while watching "That’s Incredible" on a black and white television set perched perilously on a ledge above the tub, killer bees swarming a screeching chupacabra in a sparse pine forest in northern Chihuahua, the muffler of a 1973 Jeep Comanche, a game of Chinese checkers gone awry, a constipated Klaus Kinski crying as he attempts to "make," the Fonz in a threesome with two comely bobbysoxers ayyyyy!, Flannery O’Connor versus William Faulkner in an ultimate fighting competition, a leper begging the Christ for some healin’, Scooby-Doo and Mushmouth debating quantum physics at a Starbucks in Rabat, Abba snorting blow in an IKEA handicapped bathroom, a synchronized swimming tournament for the morbidly obese, the Donner Party’s last supper, Madame Blavatsky dropping a tuna casserole upon a stone floor, a Tungusic amanita piss circle, Lee Hazlewood combing his moustache, a grass snake swallowing a cane toad, 72 indie rockers with haircuts and folded arms sneering at each other, the thunderous roar of three hundred bison plunging off a cliff at Head-Smashed-in-Buffalo-Jump, the cry of the chickadee, John Stuart Mill digging up and raping the decayed corpse of Adam Smith, a frat boy moping about missing his last chance to score on a hastily arranged coke binge in London, Ontario, what I imagine the years 1992, 1987, 1976, 1961, and 1911 sounded like, regret, a painfully embarrassing prescription pill addiction, political wrangling, sugar cane, the industrial revolution, trade winds, Bill Cosby relentlessly beating his wife and children and molesting the neighbour’s daughter all while in the throws of a furious meth binge, the dude, the 1-2-2 forecheck, a criminal mind, acid, George W. Bush choking on a pretzel and ACTUALLY DYING, sweatshop labour, nothing you’ve ever heard or imagined or even conceived possible within the realm of sanity, the invisible hand, an infinite number of monkeys doing an infinite amount of calculations to figure out whether or not they could in fact produce a line of Shakespeare (and finding not only that they can, but that they can do it better), the clap, John Cage dropping a bag of marbles down oak wood stairs and tumbling after them, Rush Limbaugh after eating six Mission burritos, Cher all fabulous amongst the Gay, a Sicilian peasant woman dancing to the tarantella, Caroliner attacking the Residents with machetes and golf clubs, Marlon Brando and Orson Welles in a paella-eating contest on Ibiza, the ghost of Malcolm X haunting Louis Farrakhan, a Henry Miller orgy in a run-down apartment on the Left Bank, a warm sou’wester blowing through Willie Nelson’s sacred mushroom patch, a deadly riot at Attica, Brian Eno making popcorn for Steve Reich while watching a TV-edited version of The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas on WTBS, Jandek on ketamine, a combine gathering rape, Charles De Gaulle torturing an Algerian, an Aztec schizophrenic dressed in rags ranting about the return of Quetzalcoatl in the slums of Mexico City, Jean Chretien smoking hashish with Justin Trudeau while listening to Boards of Canada in a chill space at a secret elite rave at Meech Lake, a nude olive oil tag team wrestling match pitting Jane Curtin and Susan St. James against Bea Arthur and Mary Tyler Moore, the call of Agartha at a cave entrance into the Hollow Earth near the top of Mount Shasta, an icepick hitting the skull of Leon Trotsky, a porpoise caught in a tuna net, an Oktoberfest beer garden in Munich circa 1923, Winnie Mandela ordering a hit on one of her enemies, Men in Black terrorizing a paranoid conspiracy theorist for exposing top level US government secrets concerning the Roswell UFO crash, Billy Bragg with a mouth full of black pudding giving a speech about Margaret Thatcher making the mines redundant, 23 kittens crying for their lost mittens, the tenth incarnation of Vishnu - the Kalki avatar - thundering out of a cracked egg on a giant winged white horse in the sky above the Himalayas brandishing a sword, a whimpering Stephen Harper on his knees before Dick Cheney dressed in fetish gear, the Kronos Quartet burning up in a fire, Bob Hope giving Sammy Davis Jr. an enema while Dean Martin fucks Frank Sinatra’s throat, a drunk Venetian singing "Papa Don’t Preach" in broken English walking along the canal at three in the morning, a squeaky wheel gettin’ the grease, Margaret Atwood biting an admirer, Peter Piper picking a peck of pickled peppers and throwing them one by one at Simple Simon and the pieman, the Partridge Family bus crashing into the Brady Bunch family van with no survivors while the Cowsills stand by laughing, Arthur Lee and Bobby Beausoleil stabbing each other with forks in a prison cell, a synthesizer being sucked through a garden hose, William Blake conversing with an angel under the soot of a dark Satanic mill, Menshevik turkeys and honeymoon clowns, not indie rock at all or ever, a greasy spoon cafeteria, the snap of a rubber glove, a cold wind on a hot day, Stockwell Day climbing off a jet ski in his dinky little wet suit clutching a pot leaf novelty balloon for three quarters of a second and then furiously fist fucking anyone who calls him on being the insufferable git that he is, rouge waves, Ted Haggard taking a long draw on his meth pipe while Pat Robertson sings the "Star Spangled Banner" at full volume in his bleeding chapped asshole, a cold sweat, a flaming wreck, armageddon, Gonzo sticking his nose thing in Miss Piggy’s ass while Kermit and those two creepy opera guys watch with their hands bound so they can’t touch themselves, random acts of kindness, mercy, Adolf Hitler and Karl Marx having a heated exchange in furious German in a time-twisted Bavarian cafe, the mad cackle of social Darwinist, the smell of vagina, garbanzo beans, calisse de tabernac, AM radio, a pause, a fundamentalist something belching nonsense as a fundamentalist somethingelse listens on irate, being ignored, Jack London drowning a dog in San Fransisco Bay and leaving its carcass to the tides, your old man on a fifth of rye menacingly undoing his belt, passing out on a Cathay Pacific flight to Tokyo with some fool in front of you with his seat pushed back to your chin complaining about you reading over his shoulder, meat, the pop and hiss of a favorite long-play, le fin du monde, the mystical crackle and buzz of the lunar eclipse, a weed whacker on ketamine, the pope slipping on a banana peel landing face-first in "doggy mess," Michael Moore eating a Big Mac, a bonfire of Bibles, the Bwiti ritual of the Fang!, a scratchy old 78 played at 33.33, Elton John being devoured by a crocodile, and music.
Record Label: Rubaboo
Type of Label: Indie
