Helias is BACK!

His email is drummachineking@gmail.com.



His first messageboard entry:
http://thefrozenfoodsection.com/message.asp

St. Louis Steps Up in Soccer Culture at Barristers of Clayton

I'm in the middle of a watershed moment in St. Louis history:

I'm watching four Champions League games at once (out of the eight playing) LIVE at Barristers of Clayton, a "soccer bar" done in classic English pub fashion (including the Barclays Premiership Table and the current standings of the teams).

The day is Wednesday, November 25, 2009.

I'm pinching myself to make sure this is really happening. For the first time in St. Louis, an establishment has EIGHT live channels of live Champions League soccer playing at once. Since I've begun typing, Milan and Marseille have traded goals and Besiktas of Turkey have gone up one on Manchester United...right in front me...at the same time.

Not impressed?

If you've ever lived in the Midwest during the last century, there is one sport everyone knows is NOT on tv, and that is soccer. To be settled in amongst a restaurant full of Champions League fans watching any eight games at once was inconceivable before today.

Now, it's magical.

A middle-aged woman with an Eastern European accent excitedly dials her phone, telling some male friends, "They're got Besiktas on at Barristers, get over here now!". Jason, the owner, lets me hold the remote control, making it so that all games are at my beck and call. The downside is I can only see the four flat screens at the bar, so even though we have the "eight-games-at-once-with-tvs-at-full-capacity" available in the rest of the establishment, I can only indulge in what's in front of me, without looking like some freakshow, running back and forth, up and down the aisles like a star-struck kid waiting for Ronaldinho to remember how great he is...but I do have the remote, and that makes it good enough to be able to check in on the other guys once in awhile...you know...just to make sure they're ok.

St. Louis stepped it up for soccer fans.

Miracles do happen.

Barristers
15 N Meramec
Clayton MO 63105
314.726.5007

Chocolate Tale #3: Home, home on the Park Rangers

Yesterday afternoon (after Lyon tied Liverpool 1-1 in the Champions League) I cruised into Tillis Park to sit in my minivan and write songs. Earlier in the day, I'd connected with a friend who produced some of the best homemade chocolate I'd ever eaten. He called it Trainwreck...I guess it being so good it caused engineers to crash trains...or something like that. Anywho, I wrote for about an hour while eating pinches of my chocolate and headed out around dark. I arrived at the exit of the park to find two park rangers flagging me down.
"Why are you in the park so late?" asked the white, male ranger.
"I come here every other day to write and listen to music. I thought the park was open 'a half-hour after dark'. Is it not?"
"The sign says the park closes 'a half-hour after sunset'," his darker, female partner informed me, "but why did you go around the other sign saying ONLY AUTHORIZED VEHICLES BEYOND THIS POINT?" She was referring to the park closing the main road to traffic, so they could install their famous Christmas lights.
"I didn't read it that carefully cause I followed another car in, so I assumed since it wasn't blocked off, it wasn't a big deal."
"We're still gonna need to check you're ID."
As I sat waiting for my license to clear, I considered tossing the last, little, less than a gram of chocolate out the window, just in case, you know, they decided to be assholes and bust me. I considered it...but I was a bit curious to see if they would try to bust me, since contraband chocolate is finally becoming accepted as our American right...at least by the intelligent folk.
Five minutes later a police car shows up. A cop gets out and makes a beeline for me...oh well.
"Alright sir, we know this vehicle contains contraband chocolate, so it's in your best interest for to tell us exactly where it is right now before you get into further trouble." Wow, I guess I had forgotten how pungent this particular chocolate is. I told him where I kept it, and the male ranger went looking for it (and through the rest of my van), while the female ranger ran my license.
"Are you carrying any other drugs, like heroin, meth, cocaine or crack?"
"No Sir...just chocolate."
"If you're hiding anything, we will find out, and you will be prosecuted more severely for withholding information."
"I said, just chocolate Sir." He had me stand back from the van, then he reprimanded me for standing too far from the van. He was very intense and aggressive. I knew I had done nothing wrong, so I waited. Finally he opened up my chocolate carry case: a prescription bottle made specifically for medicinal chocolate.
"Do you know it's a felony to use a prescription bottle with no sticker on it?"
"No Sir."
"Well that can change your offense from a misdemeanor to a crime real quick. Next thing you know, whatever else you got in your van will make it worse. There better not be anything else in that vehicle."
"It's just chocolate Sir, check it out for yourself." He opened the bottle and sniffed.
"Damn, that is nice. This was grown in Missouri. I can tell. I used to run this shit."
"...okay..." I was gonna let him tell it. The male ranger deemed my van clean and came back over.
"Look at this," the cop showed the ranger my chocolate and asked him if he wanted any. There was some nervous laughter and the cop continued to explain how it must have been packaged and how old it was.
"It's called Trainwreck," I couldn't help myself. I mentioned I got the bottle from California, where it was legal, and that I was frustrated Missouri laws had not progressed to that point...yet. They conversed about how crazy it was that now you could just walk into shops on the beach and buy chocolate legally.
"Do you have any kids?" the cop asked.
"Yes, three." They collectively paused for five seconds.
"Do we need to call your wife or anyone to explain why you're going to be late?" asked the male ranger.
"No."
"He's clear," said the female ranger, coming back from the dispatch. There was another collective silence.
"We think you would be better off at home with your kids than going to Clayton Jail," said the male ranger. "but you can't eat chocolate in our park. We're going to give you a warning, and one warning only. Don't be coming back here with your chocolate, or next time we're taking you in."
"Thanks guys," I said. "Can I have my chocolate back?"
"No...thank you," said the cop. The rangers chuckled and followed him back to their cars.

That's life in Brentwood...MO that is.

Jonathan Toth From Hoth: Interview with a Prin alum turned fulltime rapper

by Kenji Yoshinobu Music Columnist Published October 30th, 2009

For a decade, Prin alum and Saint Louis hip-hop artist Jonathan Getzschman has been making music under a variety of monikers – particularly one Jonathan Toth From Hoth. After founding his record label, the Frozen Food Section, in 1999, the Omaha, Nebraska native gathered local hip-hop acts and began steadily producing and releasing records. His most recent work, Sick Boys, is an album dedicated to skateboarding culture, which he collaborated on with St. Louis’ DJ Crucial, another fixture of the area’s flourishing music scene. Over the phone, Getzschman and I discussed his influences, his latest album, and why making music makes him cry with delight.

Principia Pilot: When did you first start making music?

Jon Getzschman: I started singing in fourth grade, doing opera. I also did Shakespeare with my mom in local Omaha productions. From there it evolved to musicals – The Sound of Music, Oliver – as a fifth grader. Then we went on a Christmas Carol musical tour of the West Coast through the Nebraska Theater Arts program. My mom took me, Dave and Rob – my younger brothers – and we were on the road for, like, two or three months.

PP: What got you into making rap music?

JG: It was 1987 and I started listening to the Beastie Boys. I ended up transcribing “Paul Revere” because I was so impressed by the lyrics – how they flowed together and the storytelling aspect. That was the first rap I ever memorized. Through 1990-91, I started hearing Cypress Hill. When I heard “Insane In The Membrane,” I decided I was interested in writing raps. I’d done poetry and I’d done music, but rap was really undiscovered country in terms of what I could create. I didn’t feel comfortable enough as a white kid to be rapping. Cypress Hill were Latino and Italian and could pull it off. I still felt uncomfortable, but I thought, what if I ghostwrite raps? So I started writing down raps.

During my sophomore year at Prin I met some St. Louis rappers. They taught me how to freestyle, or rap off the top of your head without prepared lines. Once I realized I could do it, I was amazed that I had the capability of rhyming impromptu like they were doing it – albeit not as hip as them. From then on it was all about developing my own styles. All I really did was freestyle, but I didn’t do much recording. It was unfortunate because when you’re free-styling and you have great lines, only the people you’re with are going to hear it. I eventually got a beat machine in ’98 and got tutored by DJ Crucial, but for about two years I just stared at it.

It was really the year 2000 when things started to get moving. For me, it was my choice to be led by divine inspiration. What resulted was a year of intense creativity and conceptualism of my first album, Brainwashing. That was really my opus of what I thought music was – how it should be listened to and created. It was when I realized I wanted to do this for the rest of my life.

I don’t consider myself an emotional person, but the times when I was making beats and they were coming together, I remember being so astonished at how amazing it would sound that I would cry at the beauty of it and that God was giving this amazing happening all under my fingers. Whether you want to call it ego, pride, or being swept up in the moment – I woke up for months just making music and crying, like, “This is so amazing!” [Music] for me has become a lifelong adventure of seeking critical moments in sound, taking those moments with so much gratitude, and combining them with my own sense being and awareness.

PP: When did you decide to found your record label, the Frozen Food Section?

JG: In 1999, I discovered that any spending of money on music was a tax write-off, so long as I was making music a business instead of a hobby. So that year was the turning-point of taking my music from a hobby toward the direction of a legitimate business. I remember a conversation I had with my dad at the time: I was sitting on the fence in regards to rapping. I wanted to do this for the rest of my life, but was aware of the facts that musicians don’t make much money and so far, white rappers don’t garner much attention. I asked Dad if I should follow my dream or stay practical and focus on making money.

“Will staying practical make you happy?” he asked.

“Not at all, Dad,” I said, “but what if I fail at being a musician?”

“It’s impossible to fail,” he said, “because no matter what path you choose, regardless if it’s wrong for you, it will inevitably lead you to your perfect place, and that is God’s law, so there’s no need to worry – ever.”

Thanks, Dad. The rest is history.

PP: What are the challenges to marketing yourself as an artist?

JG: Like most artists, translating music into money is a whole different universe. Some artists are very business-like. I have the hardest time trying to jump out of the creative mode and get to the business mode. For me, life is a lot more fun when you’re always in the creative side of things. On the performance side of things, famous people who have focused on their work and become masters at their craft inspire me. For the master artist, every day of his life is his best show. I love that idea of, whether you have a happy day or a depressing day, you made something. You took that day and something with that emotion. I really work with that idea in prayer with my work and performances. It helps me figure out the other stuff in terms of marketing.

PP: How did your education at Principia influence your musical career?

JG: I double-majored in mass comm [mass communication] and history. I did radio with Rick Dearborn, and I recorded my first song at Principia using the programs they had. Also, my senior year I took historiography and I wrote a 55-page paper on the history of hip-hop for my capstone. It helped me gain a context of hip-hop music.

PP: Why have you decided to remain in St. Louis?

JG: Mainly because my family is here, but also because I can’t stand the fast-paced nature of some of the bigger cities. I love New York and Los Angeles. They are nice places to visit, but it is hard for me to cultivate ideas. It really is a place where you can borrow ideas and amalgamate them to make something different. On the coasts especially you have different music scenes and it can be very polarizing for creativity.

PP: Why write an album about skateboarding?

JG: [DJ] Crucial and I have been skating for 22 years each, and, when you become a skater, it’s usually because you’ve found something deeper than Day-Glo colors or a rebel lifestyle or hitching rides from cars like Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future. In our case, we really love skateboarding to the point that it made sense to create an album based on its history, culture, specific anecdotes, and how it makes us feel to be skaters. It also helps that skating is at its height of popularity … creating more opportunities for licensing, videos and/or distribution.

PP: How long did this album take to write and record?

JG: We began perusing our skate vids from the last 20 years to find samples of interest. Over the whole of 2007 we kept collecting pieces that sounded right for the album, and made beats out of them or used quotes to enhance the subject matter. By the beginning of 2008, after going back and forth from the Cooler [the Frozen Food Section’s former HQ and recording studio] to DJ Crucial’s house exchanging ideas, the album was basically what it is now, so it was about a full year in the making.

For samples of Sick Boys and Getzschman’s other music, visit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRvdStu4usk
and

www.myspace.com/jonathanlivingstoncrucial

Copies of Sick Boys are available at the Bookstore for a limited time.

REPRINTED FROM:

The Principia Pilot

http://principiapilot.org/2009/10/30/jonathan-toth-from-hoth-interview-with-a-prin-alum-turned-fulltime-rapper/

My American Life by Abe tha Babe

Tha name's Abe, holla if you wanna play,
but if it's fer life or death...look the other way.
There ain't a figure more bigger than Thor, figure
your better off in a figure four. Futher-
more, I'll flip yer whore...sample her be-
twixt some brethren and call her a smore.
Baberaham Lincoln's gone score, with a
little more, like celebrity porn.

[hook]
Hooo! And God bless my American life,
Hooo! And God bless my American wife,
Hooo! And God bless my American right, to
do it big, and get rich or die tryin'
Hooo! And God bless my American life,
Hooo! And God bless my American wife,
Hooo! And God bless my American pie, it
ain't cherry, it's mary, like it's Christmas time...

I'm a capitalist, I ain't gone lie,
if Jay-Z can do it, shit, so can I,
and the Stabbin' Hobo gone live free or die,
so I don't tax him, like the IRS
might. Why? We're white, right? Dem
boys stick together like pieces of rice, I
heard white privilege is nice...so I
bring all my colorful friends into the light.
[hook]

[bridge]
Red...for the injuns, who grew this land,
and for the blood and the passion, that moved this land.
White...for the fathers who knew this land, was
right for the fightin' and the freedom, to choose this land.
Blue...for the backs of blacks, used for this land,
'til finally we're just fam. Stars and
stripes...for the heart 'o life, no more man a-
gainst man, now we harmonize like a big band,

and I'm a big fan, born and bred a
redneck, homegrown on grits, cornbread and ham.
Papa was a big man with a big hand,
that hurt, I led his ass into quicksand.

Mama was a flirt who used to cut her skirts for some
quick cash, but one little sperm slipped past,
I coulda hung my head, like whiplash,
bitchin' 'bout shit I never could get past...

...but then I'd be like them. Forget that.
I came from trash and made the shit rap
[hook]


http://abethababe.bandcamp.com/track/my-american-life

SECOND REVIEW of "Sick Boys" by Mike Gibson of Eleven Magazine

EDITOR'S PICK: LOCAL ALBUM
Jonathan Livingston Crucial, SICK BOYS
F5 Records/The Frozen Food Section

Jonathan Toth from Hoth is St. Louis hip-hop to the bone. His vocals are heavy and honest. In true Midwestern fashion, his beats don't fit one regional style, but utilize any and every technique available. The finished products are dark and simple; they're chopped, screwed, and replete with samples and effects.
SICK BOYS is a concept album without really being one. Teaming up with St. Louis native DJ Crucial for the first time since GHOSTWHIRL in 2005, J-Toth pays tribute to the only subject he loves more than music: skateboarding.
Early on, "California" recounts skating's genesis on the West Coast. Toth's formative years skateboarding in West County are reminisced in "Thanks God" and "Let's Ride." The gem of the disc, "Member That?" is buried toward the end of the album at track 21. The refrain is a Chris Farley SNL sample with a remixed laugh track, which forms part of the beat over which Toth shines.
SICK BOYS' depth is its only fault--23 tracks and one bonus is a bit lengthy. Still, Jonathan Toth from Hoth and DJ Crucial are clearly on their game. If Toth manages to stay this dedicated, his goal of releasing one album a month will be much worth the effort.
-Mike Gibson

from Eleven Magazine, vol. 6, issue 2, October 9, 2009
www.elevenmusicmagazine.com

SICK BOYS" by Jonathan Livingston Crucial [DJ Crucial of F5 Records and Jonathan Toth from Hoth of The Frozen Food Section] is about growing up in West County, St. Louis as whiteboy, skateboarding listeners of rap from the late 80's until now.

Crucial and Toth have been skateboarding together and making Hip Hop
since 1994 in St. Louis...

The last thing they made was the Ghostwhirl REMIX with MF DOOM.
It's only natural...


"Sick Boys" CD ORDER:
http://thefrozenfoodsection.com/purchase.asp

"Sick Boys" SONGS:
www.myspace.com/jonathanlivingstoncrucial

"Sick Boys" VIDEO:
www.youtube.com/user/jonathantoth



"SICK BOYS" has been deemed 'skater rap'. It's peppered with music, quotes and themes from videos by Powell Peralta, H-Street, Blind, Plan B, Vision, Santa Cruz Skateboards (amongst others) and of course the original "Sick Boys" released in 1988 (now out on re-mastered DVD from Mack Dawg Productions), but it's also got nuggets of pop culture from Chris Farley on Saturday Night Live to Sean Penn as Spicoli in 'Fast Times at Ridgemount High' to 'All Your Love' by the Animals. From start to finish, this album is a collection of skateboard culture and its evolution, birth to now (23 tracks, mostly around 3 minutes each).

The CD features IntellectEmcee, Tucker Booth, The Earthworms, Spark 1duh?, Jabari, Kelly Grubbs, Blaine Zapain and Abe tha Babe. You can hear selections at myspace.com/jonathanlivingstoncrucial and www.thefrozenfoodsection.com

FIRST REVIEW of "Sick Boys" by St. Louis, West county skater, John S. Pullen

Are You Really Sick or Just Faking?
"Sick Boys" REVIEW BY JOHN S. PULLEN


Yes Mom...it's contagious, and now they've made me sick too...sick with pride, sick with envy and sick of watching other artists create music that I wish I would have made. DAMN IT!

I found Jonathan Toth from Hoth by accident, surfing online thru the skate vids--youtube.com/user/jonathantoth--and watched him do his thing on the "Sick Boys VIDEO." Decent...for a mongo skater. The nose blunt slide over the BBQ pit and across the picnic table was nice, and the Ford F250 board slide was way blue collar. Like I said...decent.

But what held me there watching was the tune, "Mama got herself a little sick booooooooooy...yeah!" I recognized the Animals sample from "For Your Love" as soon as the keys came in, but during the second verse they dropped in Buena Vista Social Club's “Chan Chan,” and guess what. IT HAD THE SAME CHORDS. They doubled up on samples where one of the samples had actually borrowed from the other several decades before! Okay, I'm a nerd, but THAT SHIT'S RETARDED! It was stuck in my head all day. By the end of the song, (and it didn't end, they crossfaded it into "F*ck Yes!" which I ALSO RECOGNIZED as taken from Ray Simmons intro section in H-Street's "Shackle Me Not!"...who the fuck makes this kind of music?) I was looking everywhere for the name of the group, and I saw, [to listen to more: myspace.com/jonathanlivingstoncrucial]. THAT must be the artist...turns out it is...and it's Jonathan Toth from Hoth AND longtime skater friend DJ Crucial merging styles as Jonathan Livingston Crucial.

SO...I checked out Crucial's video called "Member That?" Another funny, homemade skate vid...with another wicked track. "Member That?" is Toth's take on skateboarding since the early 80's:

‘Member when the Gonz gapped Embarcadero,
or that stop sign shove-it by John Lucero?
That’s when the streets had those underground heroes, cause
vert had the accessibility of about zero,

Whoa. That was like reading my own history...or someone else's version who was watching me...and on the hook they put Chris Farley from the "Chris Farley Show" (on SNL) interviewing Jeff Daniels, stuttering "Member that? Member?...Yeah, yeah I remember..." and instead of cutting off the audience laughter, they TRANSFORMED IT TO THE BEAT. WTF?

I checked "Da Board" next, and watched a noticeably younger Toth and Crucial skating the Principia Lower School playground (where I'd played before as a kid!) over Intellect MC's raps about ollying off a launch ramp on the front page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1989...then Crucial ollies hurdles and Toth ollies up and over a small house...
IS THIS ALBUM OUT YET?

I FOUND IT! August 25, 2009 was the official release date, but i noticed a blurb somewhere about having the albums in stock already at Vintage Vinyl, ahead of schedule...314...721...4096...THEY DID! I drove 45 minutes from West County to U-City and picked up one of the first copies in the store...23 tracks (???) are you serious? I couldn't wait to get home to listen to the rest of the album!!!

The rest of the album made me angry...

They took samples from all the old school videos I'd seen and chopped them up and re-arranged them into a whole new sound, like a mix of underground hip hop and skate punk spat out of skateboard history...voice clips from John Schultzes, angry land owners, EVEN SOME BRYCE KANIGHT CLIPS FROM THE ORIGINAL "SICK BOYS" BY MACK DAWG PRODUCTIONS in 1988. They got the Earthworms playing alter-egos that sound like posers I know...this country fuck named Abe tha Babe does a rendition of "Born in the U.S.A." based on skaters being patriots because they fought for their independence in the sports world and won (?!?) In "Nobody Loves Me Like Nike Does" Toth rants about how Nike finally got their foot in the door of the skateboard industry after years of failed attempts...and in "Thank God" he breaks down one of his favorite skate spots at Delmar and Cardinal (where I've skated many times) and how the landlord tried to keep skaters out of his lot by locking the gates of the surrounding fence:

...the next day, when I came back, there was
lock on the back gate, their way of saying that we
can't skate, yeah, as if they didn't like our
fan base (hah) they went and censored our ad space!
I laughed long and hard, like the rap race.
Do they think they can castrate my man place?
Damn they, for ever managing to stand in the way of
play! I brought my launch ramp and jumped the damn gate!

Simple. I coulda made this album, but I didn't, and now I'm angry...I'm going to listen to this album over and over and over and over and over...and I'm going to be angry over and over and over and over and over...



Thank you sirs, may I have another?
I hate you,
John S. Pullen

"Sick Boys" by J-Toth from Hoth and DJ Crucial: 8/25/9

DJ Crucial and Jonathan Toth from Hoth have been skateboarding together and listening to Hip Hop since 1994 in St. Louis...
it's only natural...

ALBUM [on cd] AVAILABLE Tuesday, August 25, 2009



"Sick Boys" VIDEO:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRvdStu4usk

"Sick Boys" SONGS:
www.myspace.com/jonathanlivingstoncrucial

"Sick Boys" PREORDER:
http://thefrozenfoodsection.com/purchase.asp

"Sick Boys" by J-Toth from Hoth and DJ Crucial PREORDERS ARE AVAILABLE

Allright guys.




PREORDERS are AVAILABLE for "Sick Boys"

$10 (shipping and handling included to anywhere in the U.S.)
The release date is 8/25/9, but If you buy now, I'll actually get your copy to you in the mail and to your home before the release date.

GO HERE:
http://thefrozenfoodsection.com/music/sick-boys/



Thanks dudes,
Jonathan Toth from Hoth

"Switch It" by Jabari and DJ Crucial - SKATE VIDEO

Jabari Robinson of Olivette, MO skates to his own song "Switch It."


Produced by DJ Crucial, recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Toth from Hoth, filmed by Toth, Rob and Benjamin Shepard of 812studio.com


LINK: http://bit.ly/S0wue
-or-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aqaHQNYyqY&feature=channel

"California" - 6th Skate Video from "Sick Boys" by Crucial and Toth feat. Kyle Beachy skateboarding

This is Kyle Beachy skating to "California" by Jonathan Livingston Crucial feat. Blaine Zapain (DJ Crucial on the beat and scratches, J-Toth and Blaine on the raps) from their album "Sick Boys."


The storyline was loosely written about Kyle (Kilroy) going to college at Pamona in L.A.
Kyle's been skateboarding with DJ Crucial and Toth since the early 1990's.


His book, The Slide (released by the Dial Press this year) is available NATIONWIDE in Borders and Barnes and Nobles.
kylebeachy.com and twitter.com/kylebeachy


LINK:
http://bit.ly/gpPhL
-or-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5YGG44jI_I&feature=channel






TO LISTEN TO MORE SONGS FROM "SICK BOYS" FOR FREE GO TO:
myspace.com/jonathanlivingstoncrucial and myspace.com/blainezapain

"Sponge Bob Squarepants" by Jonazen Swift and "If You Even Knew the Truth" feat. Jabari by Jonathan Livingston Crucial

HEY PARENTS,
Jonazen Swift's got a new anthem devoted to Sponge Bob Squarepants...all references to the real episodes...

http://bit.ly/tyhEG

THE LINK GOES TO: http://www.myspace.com/jonazenswift

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________________


"If You Even Knew the Truth" feat. Jabari. Here's our FIFTH skate VIDEO up, song from "Sick Boys"

http://bit.ly/N8eCF

THE LINK GOES TO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooDjkiJGWyY

Jonathan Toth from Hoth Skateboarding Video feat. Quasimoto, MF DOOM, Grimm and Spark 1duh?

Originally recorded from 1998-2000, this vintage video [filmed by DJ Crucial, Benjamin Shepard, Jabari Robinson, Kyle Beachy, Carolina Diaz-Silva and Eric Nenninger] catches Toth roofing in St. Louis, snowboarding in Austria [bumping into Boris the Emcee on assignment from KGB] and skateboarding in Columbia, Clayton and Jabari's backyard mini-ramp.



Music: Quasimoto-"Boom Music", MF DOOM feat. Grimm-"Tick, Tick", Kid Koala-"A Night at The Nufonia" and Jonathan Livingston Crucial [J-Toth and DJ Crucial]-"Church" feat. Spark 1duh?


HERE'S THE LINK:
TOTH VIDEO

***THREE NEW MUSIC VIDEOS*** FROM "SICK BOYS" by DJ Crucial and J-Toth and "They're My Piggies" kids song

***THREE NEW MUSIC VIDEOS*** FROM "SICK BOYS" by DJ Crucial and Jonathan Toth from Hoth
LINKS: http://bit.ly/SB0uy or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_MqloNe4A0&feature=channel


1. 'Member That? [produced by DJ Crucial, raps by J-Toth]
DJ Crucial (of F5 Records) skates circa 2000-2002 to this tune from "SICK BOYS"

2. Mama Got a Sick Boy b/w F*ck Yes! [production and raps by J-Toth, scratches by Crucial]
Jonathan Toth from Hoth skates circa 2000-2002 to this tune from "SICK BOYS"

3. "Da Board" feat. IntellectMC. [produced by DJ Crucial, raps by IntellectMC, hook by J-Toth]
Jonathan Toth from Hoth skates with DJ Crucial and Willy Raymond at The Principia Lower School playground [originally put together by Calc2 before he got kicked out] St. Louis, MO.
Kyle Beachy makes a parking garage cameo at the end.


FOR FREE LISTENS, GO TO:
myspace.com/jonathanlivingstoncrucial
[available soon from www.thefrozenfoodsection.com and www.f5records.com]






NEXT CONCERT:
Tuesday, 5/19/9 at Club Viva, St. Louis, MO, 8pm/$5
Family Affair’s CD Release Party. YEE-HAW!
ALSO PLAYING: Jonathan Toth from Hoth and Space, Abe tha Babe, Hears Kra-Z and Spark 1duh?





NEW CHILDREN'S SONG:
"They're My Piggies" Birthday song by Jonazen Swift for Ellie about guinea pigs.
http://bit.ly/19g35X or myspace.com/jonazenswift

2nd NEW VIDEO from "Sick Boys" DJ Crucial (of F5 Records) skateboards to "Member That?"

DJ Crucial skates circa 2000-2003 to this tune from "SICK BOYS" :-----> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o_MWELJIYM



produced by DJ Crucial, raps by J-Toth
FOR FREE LISTENS, GO TO: myspace.com/jonathanlivingstoncrucial
[available soon from www.thefrozenfoodsection.com and www.f5records.com]




...and in case you missed the first one:
J-Toth skateboards to "Mama Got a Sick Boy" and "F*ck Yes!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRvdStu4usk

...and don't forget Family Affair's CD RELEASE party coming up

Tuesday, 5/19/2009 8:00 PM at Club Viva
408 N Euclid Ave. (in the Central West End), St. Louis, Missouri

ALSO PLAYING: Jonathan Toth from Hoth and Space, Ray Goss, Spark 1duh? and Hears Kra-z

NEXT SHOW for J-Toth, Space and Family Affair AND "Go GREEN!" by Abe tha Babe

Tuesday, 5/19/2009 8:00 PM at Club Viva 408 N Euclid Ave. (in the Central West End), St. Louis, Missouri 63108, $5/21+

Family Affair’s "Before the Album" CD Release Party ALSO PLAYING: Jonathan Toth from Hoth and Space, Ray Goss and Spark 1duh?




Go GREEN! Abe tha Babe kills it in his new Pro-Green Party anthem: LISTEN FOR FREE! :-------------------> myspace.com/abethababe

LYRICS:
jonathantothfromhoth.blogspot.com/2009/04/go-green-by-abe-tha-babe.html

"SickBoys" Forward by Toth

"Are you a poser?"
I heard those four words for the first time in the spring of 1987. I was finishing my first year of middle school at Lewis and Clark in Omaha, Nebraska, and I had watched certain seventh and eighth graders with specific interest. Skateboarding had gotten enough attention nationally, so that many kids in the Midwest began sporting the 'extreme' look. This year had seen Vision Street Wear shoes (with the rubber ollie-patch), lots of Hosoi Hammerheads and baby-Cabs, day-glo colored clothes (well before the snowboarders and eventually the skiers got to them), charm bracelets and of course, that skater haircut of all skater haircuts: the flop (long on top, shaved all the way around).

"What's a poser?"
Even at 12-years-old, I was smart enough to recognize some negative aspect of the word (middle school was all about being hip to what was 'in' and what was 'out'), but I also learned fast to call people out on whether or not they even knew what they were talking about. Seventh grade at my neighborhood school (as opposed to the magnet school I had passed on) was intimidating and disappointing. Whereas sixth graders are the top of the totem pole, first year middle-schoolers get a quick dose of reality in the form of labeling.

"He's a poser!"
Nerds, jocks, preps, punkers, burn-outs, rebels, sluts, teases, blacks, Mexicans and skateboarders all went to this particular school, and I still didn't know which one I was...but a 'poser,' I was not. I had watched skaters all year with a peculiar fascination and was beginning to realize they had what I wanted: the freedom to create in a way that was fresh, athletic and fun as fuck (especially to watch). As soon as I had enough money saved up from working with my Dad, I was picking up a skateboard...

Unfortunately, until then I had only invested my own dollars in G.I. Joe figures, so the only place I'd seen skateboards for sale was TOYS 'R' US. They had Nash, Veriflex and Roller Derby brand boards, and since I'd heard that Nash and Veriflex were 'poser' boards, I took my hard earned dollars from Dad and got a white Roller Derby with floral pattern print, black grip, rails, nosebone and tailplate.

My first clue, that I had in fact purchased a 'poser' board, I got at the big hill in my neighborhood. On the way to school, there was a perfect 'run' steep enough to get speed wobbles when riding at terminal velocity...that is, if you had a 'pro' set-up. As I was getting ready for my first 'bombing', another skater (obviously familiar with the territory) blew right by me and went straight down, indeed getting speed wobbles by the middle of his descent, riding it out to almost half-way up the next hill. With that, I embraced his model and pointed down. I didn't go very fast, I never got speed wobbles, and I came to an abrupt stop as soon as I ran out of slope. The other skater looked back at me from half a block up the street and yelled, "you need faster bearings!"

Yeah...and another board...
but I didn't get there until the following spring, after I gave up my Hasbro addiction and earned enough dough for a 'real' skateboard. Dad was paying me a dollar an hour, and in '88 a 'complete deck' was $150. I spent it on a blue and white 'Gator' Mark Rogowski by Vision. Steve Berra was a year older than me and worked at 'Steve's Skateboard Shop' on Dodge Street. He ripped some pink and purple grip-tape and did the job for me, explaining what was 'cool'. I listened…

I've been listening for the last 22 years...

Why? Because real skaterboarders KNOW what is cool.

How do I know that?
As it turned out, a 'poser' was a person (usually male) who sought to profit from skateboarding because of it's 'cool' factor without actually feeling passionate about skateboarding. Some posers got their moms to buy them skater 'gear' as soon as they decided to become a skater, and they would show up the next day at school, transformed by their new 'skater look.' One could tell the moment they gave up skating by when their wardrobe strayed from skater brands and moved on to Izod or inversely, tie-dyed Deadhead garb. Other posers were outed due to their infatuation with calling people 'posers' and consistently questioning the 'realness' of all newcomers. They lasted a little longer, but often dealt with depression later, still not knowing who they are...or at least finally realizing they, in fact, were the poser. Other posers embraced skating as affectionately as the media did every five or ten years...and were just as fickle.

Real skateboarders LOVE skateboarding.

As an athlete, each sport has variables. The variables of Adrenaline, Deftness, Hang-time and Drivability sum up what skateboarding is to this physical world (acronym intended). Skateboarding has no rules, therefore, skaters have no rules. Creativity can exist within rules, but the learning curve gets slighted, i.e. basketball, baseball and football players invent new moves every once in awhile, but it usually takes decades to see offensive ball handling change significantly. In the professional realm of skateboarding, every year is filled with watershed events that leave imprints on its history and often send it into a new direction. It could be because of it's birth in California, a land of liberal evolution, good energy and Love for fellow mankind, where new ideas are embraced instead of ridiculed, this sport has thrived. It could be that the skateboard companies, usually owned by passionate skaters, enjoy playing the purist role of being a 'quality company’ or 'locally owned' instead of being bought off by a corporate check, to inevitably lose their ‘hardcore’ allure. It could be as simple as an annual youth rebellion to the same old boring choices society gives us...or it could be ALL OF THE ABOVE.

I saw the skateboard Video "Sick Boys" in 1990, even though it came out in 1988. As opposed to Powell Peralta videos that were polished and directed or H-Street videos that were segmented into fish-eye lensed, team rider chapters, Mack Dawg Productions shot film of friends (mostly pro skaters) skating all the hot spots in California. The narration by Bryce Kanights gave any skater outside of Cali an idea of how to 'speak' skater. When I approached DJ Crucial about the idea of a "Sick Boys" skater rap album (twenty years after the original release of the video) based on our lives growing up as whiteboy, skaterboarder, rap listeners in West County St. Louis, he said, "sounds rad," as only Crucial can do. We spent the year of 2007 watching ALL of our old skate vids, searching for skits, samples and any kind of reference to that essence we felt as teenagers of what 'cool' was. It was easy. We're still both avid skaters with very child-like qualities. We've been filming our own skate vids every three years since 1994, and almost all our old skater friends still skate. Every new X-Games, every new DVD (no more VHS), every new trick I get to witness turn trendy, I smile...and I think "hells yeah, look what we did."

Without telling you exactly how I want you to interpret the album, I'll only say, it's yours, not ours, do with it as you may (no rules remember?) It's peppered with music, quotes and themes from videos by Powell Peralta, H-Street, Blind, Plan B, Vision, Santa Cruz Skateboards (amongst others) and of course the original "Sick Boys" (now out on re-mastered DVD from Mack Dawg Productions), but it's also got nuggets of pop culture from Chris Farley on Saturday Night Live to Sean Penn as Spicoli in 'Fast Times at Ridgemount High' to 'All Your Love' by the Animals. From start to finish, this album is the collection of our evolution, birth to now.



It's 'real' and it's cool...hope you agree...but if you don't, we won't take it personal.



Sincerely,
skateboarder for life,
Jonathan Toth from Hoth [co-signed by DJ Crucial]




Thanks for listening to:
“Sick Boys” by Jonathan Livingston Crucial




FREE LISTENS AT:
myspace.com/JonathanLivingstonCrucial
Copyright 2009




FREE "SICKBOYS" VIDEO AT:
youtube.com/watch?v=zRvdStu4usk
Copyright 2009

Go GREEN! by Abe tha Babe

[hook]
Save the country! Bolster the economy! We
gave those dolts enough rope, let's find a tree!
GO GREEN! GO GREEN! GO GREEN! GO GREEN!


[1st verse]
It's time to find the Republicans a big ditch and
put 'em in it, with most of the lobbyist pricks, ever
heard of the Whigs or the Federalists? No?
Exactly...that's cause they're deader than Dick!
When the
party moves away from the people (the body), the
people move away from the party, sorry!
Selfish interests and big business bleed the starving, you'll
lose to a stronger army, ask Charlie!
And
no Karl Rove's gonna save your faces, case your
clown make-up's too ancient, you can't scrape it,
and Schwarzenegger can't erase it...so
go on, moveon.org before we strip you naked,

cause transparency's a comin', and your day of
reckonin' will peel you apart, like the Onion. When
layer after layer is uncovered, and the way your makin'
paper is discovered, you'll go the way of JFK brother.


[hook]
Save the country! Bolster the economy! We
gave those dolts enough rope, let's find a tree!
GO GREEN! GO GREEN! GO GREEN! GO GREEN!


[2nd verse]
I used to like him, but no more Nader,
(why?) he's got as much chance of comin' back as Darth Vader.
He had the right left hand, and was a smart trader.
Barack's left handed (right!) Now that's a dark stranger!

But what's stranger than strange, is how does one
change a government that's a stranger to change, with
out a sniper takin' his aim, or the CIA
playin' their games, or usurpers waiting in the wings?

Can one man stand in the path of a
juggernaut, and do the right thing like his mother taught?
I tell you what a brother outta do, talk to a
few in the know, and expose a couple other truths...

You know, like they killed JFK,
they killed MLK, they took the World Trades
away...all in the name of 'clear the way!' to a
fascist state, so long as they feel safe?


[hook]
Save the country! Bolster the economy! We
gave those dolts enough rope, let's find a tree!
GO GREEN! GO GREEN! GO GREEN! GO GREEN!


[3rd verse]
You know y'all done fucked up right?
Legalizing a lethal plant and dangerous drink and
outlawing the most amazing green weed God's green Earth has ever seen?
A renewable energy source that makes paper, clothes, oil, and oh...
it smokes real nice when it's grown right, and oh...
everyone can grow right...

So why, oh why would anyone try to refuse me my right to grow my own kind?

You know what?
YOU'RE OUT YOUR GODDAMNED MIND, TRYIN' TO MAN-HAND MINE!
AND I'm a patriot, a southerner, and a lover of mama's apple pie.
A Vet with a rep that you can't trample, so bet, go try and disenfranchise!

AND GUESS WHAT? IT AIN'T JUST ME!

So when the GOP leaves, naturally, it'll be cause we went GREEN!


[hook]
Save the country! Bolster the economy! We
gave those dolts enough rope, let's find a tree!
GO GREEN! GO GREEN! GO GREEN! GO GREEN!

Daddy’s Gonna Be Alright

Even
though he’s died, I know he’s by my side, because
Daddy told me All is Life, and
that he told me all his life, so
Daddy’s gonna be alright, even
though he’s died, I know he’s by my side, because
Daddy told me All is Life, and
that he told me all his life, so
Daddy’s gonna be alright...


Dad, taught me how to love, taught me how ball,
taught me how to get back up when I fall. He
taught me how to win some, taught me how to lose some,
taught me if I ever get stuck, move some.
He
taught me how to trust God, taught me how to trust me,
taught me that the rest of the world can’t touch me. He
taught me how to treat mankind with the best, but if
any step, press eject…
and put back
Love, be good with that hug, especially when the
women are sixty and above. Ladies are re-
spectful, let them be respected, God’ll give you
one some day, so just let him.
That’ll be the
best day, maybe of your life, progressing into
deeper shades of Love and surprise. When I found my
Soul-mate I knew that he was right, cause she was like
him, but just my type...

Even
though he’s died, I know he’s by my side, because
Daddy told me All is Life, and
that he told me all his life, so
Daddy’s gonna be alright, even
though he’s died, I know he’s by my side, because
Daddy told me All is Life, and
that he told me all his life, so
Daddy’s gonna be alright...



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Heaven Was my Life

[hook]
If I go to hell, I bet I keep my wings, because
Heaven was my whole damn life...
Heaven was my whole damn life...
Heaven was my whole damn life...
[x2]


Our father, hallowed be thy name, for it's
you from whom I came, thy kingdom
come, (right now) thy will be done, on
Earth as it, is in Heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread, for
with it, I make my bed, I don't tress-
pass, so I won't get tresspas-sed, the only
temptation going is to end up dead, to the

Truth, that evil really has no head, you can't
dance with the devil, when he has no legs, just a
bunch of bad decisions that has no win, unless you
separate yourself from them. So let's be

friends, for thine is the kingdom and the power to
lend, more Ender, more glory to remember, there
is no beginning and there'll never be an end, for-
ever...forever...forever... amen.

[hook]



AVAILABLE FOR LISTENING AT:
myspace.com/jonathantothfromhoth



***FROM THE UPCOMING ALBUM***
M.A.T.H.2 with Toth and Maji
***********************************

Apres JFK

So I wrote a detailed conspiracy blog about JFK, and a week later, my landlord of nine years (Wash u) sent me a letter saying they won't renew my lease, no reason given.

Hmmm...

Well I guess I won't have to bother getting my apartment de-bugged, the Cooler is moving...June.

The Winds They are a Waaahhh! by Sob Dillon

My name's Sob Dillon, and I've got a song...it's called, "The Winds They are a Waaahhh!"

I'm pretty...waaahhh!
I'm rich...waaahhh!
I'm white...waaahhh!
I'm a bitch...waaahhh!

I'm depressed...waaahhh!
If they only knew how much...waaahhh!
God I'm so lonely...waaahhh!
My whole life sucks...waaahhh!

Oooooh...the winds they are a waaahhh!

[bridge]
Poor little rich boy got every toy they all want,
poor little rich girl hates the world she still flaunts,
poor little rich kids, living lives of privilege,
dealing with the same shit the rest of 'em are dealing with.

I'm a banker...waaahhh!
my girl's a doctor...waaahhh!
but I wouldn't be shit
without my father...waaahhh!

I got a sister...waaahhh!
I got a brother...waaahhh!
but they're both bipolar
like their mother...waaahhh!

I got some cousins...waaahhh!
they live near...waaahhh!
but they can only afford
to drink domestic beer...waaahhh!

It's so boring here...waaahhh!
there's no story here...waaahhh!
I'll never be happy until
I make four million more a year!

Oooooh...the winds they are a waaahhh!

[bridge]
Poor little rich boy got every toy they all want,
poor little rich girl hates the world she still flaunts,
poor little rich kids, living lives of privilege,
dealing with the same shit the rest of 'em are dealing with.



***FROM THE UPCOMING ALBUM***
"Country" by Jonnyboy
**************************************

Truth...the Enemy of the State

Citizens of the United States, this is your government. In an effort to be more transparent with you, we've decided to cut through the bullshit and tell you our motive...we want power. We want big power, small power, local power, national power, executive power, your power, but most importantly, we want MORE power.

Whether you agree with this policy or not, we have fostered this culture in the best interests of the United States, and we will use ANY MEANS NECESSARY to get power, including creating diversionary tactics such as Pearl Harbor, The Bay of Pigs, The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, Abortion,Y2K, anti-drug wars, anti-stem cell research propaganda and even the events that took place on September 11, 2001 (one of our finest moves yet). This is all done to convince YOU, the public, that what we want can be justified. It's much easier to convince you of our motives when we give you a good reason to agree with us, so that we may (with your vote) obtain power via weapons contracts, foreign government control and/or influence, precious stones/metals, oil, gas and of course, MONEY.

If you bitch, we will plead 'no comment'. If you organize, we will discredit you to the point of ruining your life and career, and if you use illegal means to fight us, we will use illegal means legally to contain, persecute and/or kill you.

Why?

The government is a machine, machines are amoral, to change the machine is counter-productive to the machine...you might as well make a new one. Change is hard, complacency is simple. Our objectives will always stay the same because they work for us and so far, those who have opposed us have died, disappeared or given up.

The truth is ours, not yours, because in the great words of Jack Nicholson from 'A Few Good Men'... you can't handle the truth.

Almost There by Johann Sebastian Toth

Tough times…I’ve heard supposed to have ‘em, it’s just the way it is…
Well I’m not a fan…

[hook]
Almost there, I know that we’re
almost there, I notice we
almost dare to forget about loving, loving, loving, loving…
almost where, we hurt and we
almost tear, I’m certain we
all must bear, a bit of each other, other, other, other…

Another day, another year, I’m
still your lover here,
no matter what we discover to
fear, to love or accept of each other,

and we’ve been through so much pain,
we’ve been through so much rain,
but it still couldn’t wash away,
what we’ve got to gain.

[break]
Cause baby when I see you,
the you, I see truth,
and maybe when I seek you, I
need to, cause I feel proof,
I’ve never loved like this before,
I only know that I want more,

[hook]
Almost there, I know that we’re
almost there, I notice we
almost dare to forget about loving, loving, loving, loving…
almost where, we hurt and we
almost tear, I’m certain we
all must bear, a bit of each other, other, other, other…

We’ve been traveling so long, down a beautiful road together. It seems a shame to stop in the middle of nowhere, but it’s not nowhere, it’s definitely somewhere, and out of anybody in the world, that I was going be here with, it could only be you.

[break]
Cause baby when I see you,
the you, I see truth,
and maybe when I seek you, I
need to, cause I feel proof,
I’ve never loved like this before,
I only know that I want more.

I’ve never loved like this before,
I only know that I want more.




***From the upcoming album***
I Johann, Do Solenly Swear by Johann Sebastian Toth

LISTEN FOR FREE AT:
https://myspace.com/johannsebastiantoth/music/songs

President Obama Should Solve the JFK Assassination Case for His Own Safety

These days and times mirror 1961 in many ways. The military is gearing up for more war and the people (and the president) don't want that. President Obama (like JFK) was NOT expected to be president (at least so soon in each case), and the powers that be are (were) making a lot of money off the modern-day system of bankrolling the military with a hefty percentage of taxpayer money. Kennedy saw how far the military wanted to take America into war and put a stop to it, firing top CIA officials who were clearly interested in war over the interests of the public. He also began dismantling the CIA because it's power had overgrown government control. In early Vietnam (1963) the CIA even disregarded many of President Kennedy's orders because they "disagreed with him." The more JFK tried to CHANGE the government, the more the government fought him, and eventually the military biased sides of the government turned on him, executing him in a sloppy Coup d'Etat pulled off by CIA, FBI and Dallas Authorities via physical intimidation, control of the media and murder. The heads of state at the time rationalized JFK as a threat not only to their own welfare but to the American way of life.


Let's not allow that to happen to Barack Obama.


IF President Obama solves this unfinished case, several things will work in his favor:
1. The public will be inspired by the truth. As opposed to the average, political fear mongering that dictates the public is not to be trusted and is to be treated according to herd mentality, when the public is given the truth, life gets exciting. Cool...what's going to happen next? It could be handled in an amnesty, like when South Africa was freed of Apartheid and an amnesty was given to those responsible for atrocities, so long as they told the truth about the corruption and the violence. It would be historic. Think of the vindication of all those who knew the truth when it happened, but were ridiculed or intimidated or killed for their knowledge.
2. Obama will be trusted by the public. Outing something this huge by a President? Holy cow! We've been taught our whole privileged/jaded lives NOT TO TRUST THE GOVERNMENT. Why? Because of assassinations from Lincoln to MLK to Bobby Kennedy and events like 9-11. Something inside Americans says "I'm not buying it." Power makes people do crazy things, but BIG POWER can make any strategy worth rationalizing. Fighting Communism became the mantra after WWII, but once the Cold War was over...(think military) how do we make money now? How do we rationalize getting the public to pay for our way of life? How do we keep our jobs during peacetime?
3. The public will protect President Obama. Whether having camera phones ready, keeping an ear out for conspiracy or praying for our leader, the public will love him more. This president is facing incredibly similar times, and we CANNOT ignore history or we will be faced with similar outcomes. If Obama acknowledges the JFK assassination as a Coup d'Etat of the PRIOR heads of government and warns us that this can be prevented again by TRANSPARENT governing, i.e. ALL GOVERNMENT SPENDING IS ACCOUNTED FOR AND CAN BE VIEWED BY THE PUBLIC, we will have actual checks and balances through public awareness.
4. Obama can then initiate policies of building the world through the military instead of destroying it. The military needs a reason to exist, but it doesn't have to for be potential threats of violence or for obtaining lucrative weapons contracts. Help is needed ALL over the world, more killing is not.
5. The public will feels it's POWER. The people control the government, not the other way around. The 1950s to 2008 presents this as the opposite. Why don't we make change via TRUTH?


Please give America the truth. WE CAN HANDLE IT, AND WE ALL WILL BENEFIT.

Okay, so we got a high ranking confession for JFK's death...how about some federal recognition?

[from Wikipedia.com]

Deathbed confession In 2007, Wiley published an autobiography of former CIA and Watergate figure E. Howard Hunt [61], who implicated Lyndon B. Johnson in the assassination. Hunt stated that Johnson orchestrated the killing with the help of CIA agents who had been angered by Kennedy's actions in the past,[62] which included an affair that Kennedy had with a wife of one of the agents. A 2007 article published in Rolling Stone magazine about the death of E. Howard Hunt reveals his deathbed confessions to his son which names Johnson, CIA agents Cord Meyer, Bill Harvey and David Sánchez Morales, as well as a "French" gunman named Lucien Sarti, who purportedly shot at Kennedy from the grassy knoll: E. Howard scribbled the initials "LBJ," standing for Kennedy's ambitious vice president, Lyndon Johnson. Under "LBJ," connected by a line, he wrote the name Cord Meyer. Meyer was a CIA agent whose wife had an affair with JFK; later she was murdered, a case that's never been solved. Next his father connected to Meyer's name the name Bill Harvey, another CIA agent; also connected to Meyer's name was the name David Morales, yet another CIA man and a well-known, particularly vicious black-op specialist. And then his father connected to Morales' name, with a line, the framed words "French Gunman Grassy Knoll." So there it was, according to E. Howard Hunt. LBJ had Kennedy killed. It had long been speculated upon. But now E. Howard was saying that's the way it was. And that Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't the only shooter in Dallas. There was also, on the grassy knoll, a French gunman, presumably the Corsican Mafia assassin Lucien Sarti, who has figured prominently in other assassination theories.[63] It is unlikely that Cord Meyer would have sought revenge against Kennedy for the affair because Cord and his wife Mary had divorced in 1958, while Mary's and Kennedy's affair began in 1962.[64] The Rolling Stone article states that the case of her murder had never been solved, based on the fact that Ray Crump, the man accused of her murder, was found not guilty. Though Crump was found not guilty, he was found near the scene with blood on his hands, torn jeans, and an unzipped pants fly. The jacket found near the scene was identified by Crump's wife as belonging to him.[65] There is no record connecting either Harvey or Morales to the assassination. A gunman put two bullets into her two days before her 44th birthday. Her diary and letters related with her affair with JFK were kept by James Angleton, chief of the CIA’s counter-intelligence group, for safekeeping with the intention, according to him, to be returned to her children. This letter was never burned as Angleton initially stated.[66] Since 1974 it had been speculated that Hunt and CIA agent Frank Sturgis were among the "Three Tramps" who were photographed in Dealey Plaza, and held by the Dallas Police, shortly after the assassination.[67] This theory has fared badly, first as the result of the work of forensic anthropologists working for the House Select Committee on Assassinations who ruled out Hunt and Sturgis in an analysis of the photographic evidence,[68] and then as the result of the release of Dallas Municipal Archives documents that subsequently identify the tramps as Harold Doyle, John F. Gedney, and Gus W. Abrams.[69] Alternatively, other researchers propose to identify Hunt as a figure crossing Dealey Plaza in a raincoat and fedora immediately after the assassination.[70]

Thank God for that. I remember when everyone and their mom attacked Oliver Stone for putting out JFK in 1992, claiming that his theory was preposterous (even though it was based entirely on Jim Garrison's evidence). Guess we still had too many of those people in power.

President Obama? Some help here?

President Barack Obama, will you open up JFK assassination files? PLEASE?

I'm still reeling from the Jim Garrison interviews about the Kennedy Assassination. HOLY COW! If Obama has any nuts, he'll reopen that case and find the truth...easy. After Kennedy botched the Bay of Pigs, he started breaking up the CIA, because he thought they were too powerful, and they wanted war as a business. The heads of the CIA that rolled still had the other agencies' support. Once Kennedy began pulling out of Vietnam, he was destroying a big paycheck for the military and many others. They figured out how to rationalize that in the name of "National Security" this particular president should be let go. He didn't hold the interests of those in power, and it was right to remove him, so long as it could be done swiftly and be believed by the public. It was a clean Coup d'Etat. The interviews of those bistanders who were there are wild. The files aren't supposed to be opened until 2029, but I bet Barack could look now.

Review of "The Slide" by Kyle Beachy

For those of you who haven't read 'The Slide' by Kyle Beachy yet, pick it up soon.

I've known Kyle since he was a smart-ass, privileged, little freshman in high school, and since then, I've always wondered what he would amount to. It was all worth it. Published by The Dial Press, 'The Slide' takes me back to our early adulthood where that nagging question keeps beating you up through your post-graduation (still living with the folks) transition, 'Yeah, this is fun, but now what the fuck am I supposed to do with the rest of my life?' His writing is introverted to the nth power (rather, 'ntroverted') due to excessive word usage and attention to detail (especially his own obsessive quest for Truth and/or a good reason for living) and he uses so many references to real-life anecdotes, I kept feeling like I was more or less reading his diary.

Penned as fiction, yet set against the backdrop of real-time St. Louis, the story reads well, especially to any post-college child (or parent) of the eighties who wold get the inside jokes, midwest dialectic word play and constant major league baseball references. I got chills, I cried here and there, and by the end of the story, I was satisfied.

Well done Kyle. Keep 'em coming.

Casting Couch by J-Toth (1st verse and beat) and Helias (2nd verse and scratches)

[TOTH]
Ever since she was in high school, she made the
guys drool, laid the pipe cool, gave a
nice jewel, and was accustomed to custom
equipping your whip, by sucking the right fuel.

She was nice too, it shined right through,
but she doubted her power to shine true,
every hour she showered her flower with
fine fumes, cause who’d allow her a ripe womb?

Head shots, they want head shots, just a
couple of meaningless head shots. Yeah but
what if their meaning of head shots, is a-
kin to you cleaning their head off? To

bed, or to bed not…the
question gets deeper than bed rock, but when
heads rock, only according to who gives the
best jaw, do you get on, or do you get off?

[BREAK-from “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”]
Do you think she’s talented? Deeply and importantly talented?
No. Amusingly and superficially talented yes, but deeply and importantly, no.

[HELIAS]
It’s the inverse of personal, she’s all work with a murder feel, the hurt she used to feel finally shriveled up and died, behind those great white shark eyes is a re-
flection of my own avarice, only amplified.

She plays games that people play that don’t play games for fun, and likes to drop my name, case my name weighs a ton.
Zanax keeps her dead inside, cocaine brings her back to life, a zomie wandering the party, acting extra nice.

She’ll get jobs, with those headshots, with-
out ‘em, she’s deader than hemlock, that’s
why she plays up that sexpot persona,
sex sells, and sex bought her that Porche,

Upper echelon, a step beyond a gamer, she
leaves me for someone up the food chain, I can’t blame her,
she knows I got a knack for this casting couch magic trick,
actresses doing back flips off of my mattresses…

[BREAK-from “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”]
Gracious! Do you think she’s handsomely paid?
…Hmmm?




***FROM THE UPCOMING ALBUM***
“Cinewax” by Jonathan Toth from Hoth and Helias


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What if God was one of us?

F Posterity .76 "Just Be Happy" (Frustrated Conversations with God)

God asked me once, YOU WANT PARADISE?
I said, sure...but just to clarify,
what's the catch? Come on God throw it at me.
THREE WORDS, ONE ACTION: JUST BE HAPPY.

What do mean, regardless of the price?
YOU'VE ALREADY PAID WITH YOUR LIFE...Right, but
how can we be happy with all the bullshit?
BULLSHIT EXISTS, IT'S STILL YOUR CHOICE TO LIVE, KID.

Oh...it's that simple...like
popping a pimple...YOU KNOW YOU LIKE IT...like
dropping a thimble full of LSD for one
swell-ass week? MORE LIKE PERMANENTLY.

Just be happy amidst such foul play, on a
planet where some 'civilized' nations now claim, that
winning at any-and-all-costs is a proud aim, whether
genocide, torture or some economic bowel pain?

JUST BE HAPPY. Like that, no room for argument?
WE CAN ARGUE, I KNOW YOU LIKE TO SPAR A BIT.
No! I want to be happy! GOT'CHA! THEN PROVE IT.
Fine, how must I come to it? JUST DO IT.

God! You're so cliche'! WELL THERE'S A REASON WHY,
SO CLICHE' MEANS MOST SAW THE WHOLE REPLAY, AND
NOW IT'S COMMON KNOWLEDGE LIKE 'HE SAY, SO SHE SAY,'
but what's that got to do with the price of cold DJs?

IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE DJ, WHAT DO YOU DO? I
bitch and I moan 'til the tracks come through.
EXACTLY...what do mean exactly?
YOU DID JUST WHAT YOU NEEDED TO BE HAPPY.

But I want change! ALRIGHT, I'LL GIVE YOU CHANGE.
Cool! GIVE ME TWENTY BUCKS...no dude...
change my life! LIKE WHAT? Like where I'm stuck, like…
give me peace of mind. ALRIGHT, BUT NOW YOU HAVE TO GIVE A FUCK.

I want love and I want wealth,
I want drugs and I want health,
ALRIGHT, YOU WANT THEM…no, you literalist,
I CAN GIVE IT TO YOU, BUT WHAT YOU GON' DO WITH IT?

I'd be happy. GREAT, IT'S YOUR'S. I want more! THEN GO
GET IT. No! Just give me! I'M ALWAYS GIVING IT FREELY
Well, why can't I get it? YOU CAN, (AND ARE) YOU'RE STILL HEALING. From
what? FROM BLAMING YOURSELF AND ME FOR YOUR NEEDING.

What's that supposed to mean? LOOK, YOU'RE HURTING. SOME-
WHERE ALONG THE LINE, YOU STRAYED AND STARTED SWERVING, AND
WHEREAS YOU MAKE THE CLAIM, YOU'VE SINNED AND AREN'T WORTHY,
I CONSIDER ALL THOSE 'LESS THAN PERFECT' MOVES 'LEARNING.'

Who hasn't messed up? YES I CONCUR,
and who hasn't cursed you God? FOR SURE. I
wish I wouldn't have done a lot of things that I did, but
how am I supposed to be rid of 'em. JUST FORGIVE.

FORGIVE YOU, THEN FORGIVE MOM, THEN
FORGIVE YOUR LOVER, YOUR BROTHERS AND YOUR DOG,
FORGIVE THE WEAK, THE MEAN AND EVEN THE STRONG, THEN
ONCE YOU'RE CLEAN WITH EVERYONE, FORGIVE GOD.

You? Forgive you God? Oh come on…
you're the sun and the stars and everything beyond.
What kind of audacity could I have with me to pawn...BE-
CAUSE, I MADE EVERYTHING, THAT INCLUDES RIGHT AND WRONG,

UNTIL YOU REALIZE THERE'S NEITHER, THERE'S JUST ETHER.
ONLY THINKING MAKES IT EITHER...TRUST ME SIR.
FORGIVE IT ALL BECAUSE THERE'S NOTHING TO FORGIVE,
ALL YOU'RE DOING IS USING YOUR WITS TO FOLLOW YOUR BLISS.

AND ALL OF THIS IS FOR THE GOOD OF ALL, NOT THE
GOOD OPPOSITE OF EVIL, BUT WHAT WOULD BEFALL,
ALL LIFE AS IT EVOLVES, FROM YOUR FIRST CRAWL,
TO YOUR FIRST PLAY WITH A BALL, TO YOUR FIRST DAY AT THE MALL.

So this is entertainment to you? IT'S ONLY LOVE,
HOLY LOVE, SOLELY LOVE, but I'm so lonely Love,
YOU'RE NEVER ALONE, YOU'RE FOREVER MY ONE AND ONLY LOVE,
well, I wish you would make it easier...OH JUST SHUT UP!

What?

JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP AND BE HAPPY!
JESUS, YOU FUCKING PEOPLE…GOD DAMN ME!

originally from myspace.com/jonathantothfromhoth

December 30, 2008

The Most Important Election of our Lives (from 10/2008 on myspace.com/jonathantothfromhoth)

The Most Important Election of our Lives
Category: News and Politics

Why?

This is the older generation's last stand. Obama represents change, McCain, more of the same. There is a reason the economy is collapsing, and it's because we've been given nothing more than...the same...for many years now. I'm tired of "the same." It's going to get even worse before it gets better, but that's because we've been in denial for so long. Here's another interesting note that the fundamentalist Christians have been misinterpreting: The Book of Revelations in the Bible speaks of an age where we shall experience, "end of the world," which may be a shortening of the phrase apokalupsis eschaton which literally means "revelation at the end of the æon, or age". Hardcore Christians see this as an actual "end" of humankind, whereas it makes more sense to see it as the end of living in denial or that which does not work.

How do we get ourselves out of this mess? END CREDIT, and FORGIVE ALL DEBTS. This will balance out money again as it should be balanced. Work and/or exchange goods for MONEY, NOT CREDIT. It goes along with that old logic of: Since I owe you, and you owe them, and they owe me, if we each pay each other we'll end up even anyways, so let's skip that step, forgive the debt and begin anew. Kill the DEMON through forgiveness. It was an optimistic idea, but we've proved that we slack when we don't have to work for our cash. Who did Jesus whip out of the temple? The money lenders and the gamblers. ...Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors... [Lord's Prayer, King James Bible]

...just an idea i caught floating around in my head.

Several scenarios that will enable Barack Obama to become President of the United States (from 2/2/2008 on myspace.com/jonathantothfromhoth)

Saturday, February 02, 2008

Several scenarios that will enable Barack Obama to become President of the United States. Category: News and Politics 1. The Jesse Ventura Effect: When Jesse "The Body" Ventura, former pro wrestler, was voted Governor of Minnesota, America witnessed the phenomenon of what happens when pop culture capital turns into political culture capital, due to the (primarily) white men who voted him in. When white men see something cool, they pay attention, and there's a lot of them out there. 2. White America's Love of Black Music: Since the birth of American music, black men have found the ways to make it look, sound and feel the coolest. If 80% of rap is bought by white people and 80% of them are white men, there is an amazing power to be had in being that black man who was cool enough to be voted in as the first Black President. 3. The Oedipus Rex Complex: Every new generation of white males has a broadening history of doing exactly what their fathers tell them not to do. For some white fathers, hearing that their son voted for a black president could be enough to kill them, and that's a motive. 4. Barack Obama as our President: He's inspiring and has a powerful way of grabbing your attention. He's good looking and funny. When viewing all of the candidates photos on the same page, he stands out as the holder of the most culture capital out of everyone. He has that feel of what you know deep down you should vote for, if it weren't for X,Y and Z, blah, blah, blah, blah... If the younger white generations of men decide to vote this year, Barack Obama will be President.