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Hello and welcome to Mini Music Monday, the musical edition of the The Raw Impressions Podcast. Hello to this very special Canadian tribute to Canada version of Mini Music Monday, the musical subsidiary of The Raw Impressions Podcast. I'd like to point out that the the toilet flushing that you may or may not have heard has nothing to do with Canada. I didn't hear it.
Okay, so you just made toilet flushing in Canada happen. I didn't. You did because you flushed the toilet while I was recording. How could I resist leaving it in?
Well, you like the texture and the sounds and the ambiance. So it's fine. I love toilet humor. You do.
It's raw impressions. So you know where it's okay. Could be rawer. It could be.
This is true. That could be a whole lot, Rawer. We all speaking of raw. Look at us.
Another raw impressions. We're going to do better this month guys. I'm back from tour. I can't do shit when I'm on tour.
I can't multitask. I actually really struggle with multitasking anyway, as many men do. Much like being colorblind. I did read a thing and I don't have the stars, but I remember, let's just say it was the Atlantic Monthly.
I can't confirm or deny that. So come and say, we'll tell you after. You're going to have to hold on. In four washrooms.
Washroom. Washroom. Washroom. Washroom.
Washroom. Yeah, that's what they call toilet rooms in Canada. Yeah, like not restrooms. It's a washroom.
Not bathroom. It's just wrong. Bathroom is full on. I'm going to the bathroom.
I like bathroom. But there's no bath in it. That's okay. Then I'm not thinking about the person, you know, pooping or peeing.
I'm just thinking about like a nice bath. Okay. So here comes the song. Okay.
Should I set it up? Should I set it up? I will. So when I did the Canadian tour, I did a Canadian tour.
I was with you. You were with me. You were there every second of the way. Every step of the Canadian way.
But I did, I crowd sourced for requests because I wanted to really please the Canadian audience. I hadn't been up there in a while. And I got requests for a couple of songs. I put out a Canada only.
It wasn't a Canada only. It was available everywhere. But I put out an EP in Canada in the middle of the 1990s, called Blue Barlow and Friends. And I really fashioned it to be a Canada record.
Like there's a Joni Mitchell cover on it. There's a Brian Adams cover on it. And I put all of my best four track songs, my home recorded songs onto this little EP. And so people in Canada kind of like that EP.
Oh. And I kind of forgotten about it. But when I asked when I crowd sourced for requests, they asked for one of the songs from the EP that I had totally forgotten about. And I practiced it and I was going to play it.
But I got too nervous to play it at any of the shows because I didn't want to fuck it up. Because I get really, I'm, I'm going to pretty hefty. I have stage fright. Performance anxiety.
Yeah. Like even just now I was, I can find myself reaching for words if I know people are waiting for me to reach that word. They're anticipating and they're looking at you. Yep.
So I was too nervous to play this song but I'm gonna play it now. What's the name of it? It's called Feel Good. Oh.
Feel Good. Well when did you write it? It must have been the middle of the 1990s. I think I wrote it.
I wrote it right at the same time as I wrote Skull and Rebound, like the bake sale songs. It's right around there. But it's a home recorded song that I did. Sounds pretty good on the record.
Is this the only place it lives? Yeah. Okay. I guess that one.
Yeah. I mean, it's not only a sebital record. No, no, no, no. Got it.
A place to go. A reason to pose. Because strutting's fun. Feeling like a special one on one.
One on one is true. You can stand beside me too. You can stand beside me too. It's okay to feel good about yourself, about yourself, about you.
It's okay to feel good about yourself, good about yourself. There's better things to do than make up stupid rules about who I am and what's out of line. I feel it special. That's just fine with me.
It's okay to feel good about yourself, about yourself, about you. It's okay to feel good about yourself, about yourself, about you. It's okay to feel good about yourself, about yourself, about you. It's okay to feel good about yourself, good about yourself.
I got a fucking phone call during that. I love that. I just added to the the texture and the flavor. You can feel good about ignoring the spam.
Yeah, I feel good about ignoring spam. Good. You should. It's a fun little ditty.
That's like a self-esteem ditty. I know. Rare in the catalog. I was at Utah.
Oh my god. There's another one. Oh my god. Oh my god.
After I recite the cities that Lou played in. Okay. Montreal. Ottawa.
Toronto. London. Windsor. Montreal.
Ottawa. Way. Toronto. Way.
London. Windsor. Montreal. Montreal.
It's French for us. All right. So this was another request that I got up there and I was like, it's not on the Canadian record, but it's on my record that we were selling. It was for sales called winning losers.
Uh-huh. That's CD. And I realized I could play it. It's not that hard to play.
Me. And I was going to play it for one of the shows, but I checked it out because I didn't want to make a mistake because every time I play a song for the first time in front of people, it's always a disaster. Wow. That's a big.
That's a Lou Barlow disaster, which means I just fucked it up where I hesitated. What got fucked up? Nothing. I just sewned out.
What are we talking about? Are you talking about your self-esteem? There's nothing more boring. I can attest that there's nothing more boring than me talking about my self-esteem.
I'd really it's Super played out. I just I have a scatterbrane too. Just like you and I just I went to another place I have not played this I have not played this song since I've recorded it to my knowledge What's the song that it's called called drag down memory? Okay, okay.
What's it on? It's on winning losers race Released in 19 early 93 I don't know four five was a good year. It was a good year for me. I was writing a lot of fucking songs good year for losers Your introduction to my dream is not as scary as it seemed Please avoid what I am thinking It always looked me in the eye all the stupid things I think of doing I just might do them in the end.
It would be another sad sad story Another bad disguise as the king of the drag down memory a fool and his paranoid misery Check the paranoid language hiding behind some mystery Because there's no glory And telling such an obvious story Another teenage tragedy on phones before our eyes Make it be another sad sad story. I apologize I'm the king of the drag down the memory But I recognize that every revolution is a pointless give and take style as it's all reward And any contradiction is a hint of honesty. I'm young and sort of free and kind of sleazy Good intentions on every good heart. No one's willing to play that part on plan appreciation There's never enough takes pleasure to back it Tensions only break good hearts.
No one's willing to play that part on plan appreciation is never enough It takes money to back it up and you're knocking at mine now you're walking through my dream Just a friend and I'm just human. It's not as scary as it seems It's not as scary as it seems Try got memory everybody Meet shark cryo glow the new med spa inspired mask with under eye cooling IQ LED technology using high-powered LED and deep infrared for visible results in just eight weeks Better aging treatment boosts collagen and is clinically tested to reduce fine lines and signs of aging skin clearing provides chemical free acne treatment on and beneath the surface And even visibly titans under eyes in one use developed with dermatologists for radiant results at home learn more at shark ninja dot c a Can I call you a pellet you think that's poetry? I do. I like the lyrics in that one.
Oh really? Yeah, cool I think they're okay. They feel like you they feel true to you. They're so me.
Yeah, they are yeah It's literally you that's not that's not a real uplifting number. Well, where is it or is it? It's interesting? Yeah, I think it's about I think it's about me being afraid to have a crush on somebody Oh, what did you think it was about?
I thought it was you like wrestling with kind of your dark thoughts and paranoia like trying to manage your paranoia in your life Yeah Is that part of it intrusive thoughts? Yeah, it's kind of me. Yeah, actually just you know what? It's about intrusive thoughts and some of the intrusive thoughts are like I think what it happened is I had a dream with like a woman that I knew in it kind of intense dream.
I don't remember what it was, but I think that's what it was that's what triggered She's in my dream. Oh, what does this mean? I'm getting married. I can't have like women slipping into my dreams here.
Oh Okay, that's what I think it's about intrusive thoughts. You know, let's just okay. I think you know I've been thinking about it Intrusive thoughts things are thinking about tell me I think that I have intrusive thoughts. Yes, you do I don't think I've ever just said it the way that the way that it really is but my god Every day I struggle with really intrusive thoughts.
They're thoughts where I'm like Jesus. Give me a fucking break me too I mean, it's like yeah, I mean if I get a momentum in my life if I'm doing something like regularly and I have a schedule You know, I can kind of like manage my intrusive thoughts, but boy I have a hard time playing you like when I play I have intrusive thoughts. You're like, mm-hmm Like oh, you're gonna forget this next line. Actually, why don't you gonna forget this chord?
Aren't you Lou? I mean like I'm like oh he's mean. I don't like him. I I'm gonna just tell it like it is and just say it's a fucking intrusive thought that's true I have a lot of intrusive thoughts as well.
I do and mine are often I'll be perfectly raw and honest and mine are Terrifying they're like very violent and scary. I get a lot of like really scary things. I have to swat away a lot like Like when I'm driving or something. I can't I don't think I've ever driven and not had an intrusive like violent thought, you know Where that's part of driving.
That's what makes you a good driver. Yeah, it's a good time to have intrusive thoughts I guess so it can kind of make me grip the wheel and feel like a little what's your job? But yeah, it's better when you're driving. That's why I'm saying when I'm driving.
Yeah, when you like it rains You like to be driving because no, I just mean in general like I'll just be driving and then I'll like picture Oh gosh, what if the car just flips right now, you know like a show Canada? Yeah, I've been to that of mini music Monday. We didn't say much. We didn't say much subsidiary of the wrong precious podcast Oops, we didn't say much about Canada.
Oh, well, we can we can't we can't we can't we found a lot of podcast listeners in Canada Yes, you know a lot of podcast listeners in Canada I just want to put the word out and like acknowledge that. Yeah, it was really nice. Yeah, I felt really good about myself When I was in Canada I did came up to me at the merch and you know, I every single night I think I had people who mentioned the podcast they listened to it and they enjoyed it and I Don't know what I was expecting But it always took me by surprise and it felt so incredible I was like oh wow really you in your time and your life you're choosing to put us in it And I felt so honored to be perfectly honest and we sold the ever-loving shit out of those wrong precious t-shirts Yeah, they loved based on is he's drawing on those shirts and did they bought them. Thank you Canada Yeah, so I I was remiss in not playing those songs for the Canadian audience because they deserve something special from me Rather than just me just you know going through all my they didn't like they got something special I thought those shows were great.
Yeah, yeah really really really good time. There was a moment there was a moment every night We're like dang this is feeling so good. I just want to circle back to that thought at the very beginning We were like I can't multitask and I was trying to oh yeah I made a sort of fictitious source of like that I read this article on time I did but I don't remember the source and it was that it said that actually it's a falsehood that men are bad at multitasking It turns out women are as well humans are just all people are really really really bad at multitasking and one is not Worse than the other and apparently it's just that women are trained obviously to like Kind of force themselves to do it. It doesn't mean they're good at it But they don't have the same option to say or to like be bad at it.
Does that make sense? Yes, they're trained to multitask much like my sisters when they were young and we were and when we were in Dayton, Ohio Amongst my extended family Yeah, they were encouraged to like be around the kitchen or like be a part of the women serving Yeah, the domestic kind of labor the fluttering around the casseroles the endless casseroles They were they were expected to be peripheral to the serving of the men who were all out there monotasking whether it's they were playing Playing horseshoes or you know like us little boys were just running around and destroying something perhaps Stripping my grandmother's tree in the backyard of its branches and then getting in big trouble afterwards because no one was watching us And we destroyed a tree Right because maybe like one of the dads was actually watching like a game and the women were too busy making all the casseroles That they just couldn't spare one more woman to watch a child climb a tree to I know Yeah, so I think that there is a there is a thing where it's expected that women can like inherently do these things like it comes naturally to multitask But it's actually just work. It's just work to do it. You're trying to in your shape.
Yeah Yeah, oh and I wanted to say shout out to grasshopper I forgot to mention him when we talked about another Canadian we were talking about Toronto I think and just all the fun funny and funny things that happened in that night at the sound garage and I got to meet grasshopper who is a fan of the pod and gave us some little treats. So thank you grasshopper He's been a great supporter of Vanessa Jr. and music in general. Yeah, and Toronto for ages.
That was really fun So so so Oh God, I bought a I bought a guitar in Canada. That's why I'm playing it on I didn't even make that point in Windsor I bought this guitar in Windsor because we received like people bought our We had a big pile of slippery Canadian bucks Waterproof fireproof Canadian gorgeous Canadian dollars So I thought rather than take it home and like have a big bite of the cap big bite taken out by the exchange fee I was like why am I self-akotari because I really need a guitar and then the other one not stop working during like Yes, I'm kind of existing on barely enough acoustic guitars right now and but I did not have a good my my relatively okay Steel string acoustic guitar Is really fucked up. So I needed to buy a new one and shout out to Ayman and Sheila and my grads who opened up incredible And he also hooked you up with a borrowed guitar Yeah, my nylon string, which then did you return it or he turned it? But then it also made me What is the name of McQuaid?
What's that name of the music shop? What is the name? Oh God in Windsor? Wonderful chain of these music stores.
It basically just give people instruments when I find out about that I'm like I want to support this place. Yeah long in the quade Windsor Canada everywhere apparently it's also it's just a really great music store with a very generous Renting and paying to paint loaning and paying to own on instruments. It's kind of like a really Incredibly compassionate guitar center. That's so cool.
No shade on guitar center. You do what you do right? And we very appreciate it. Yep, but long McQuaid kind of seems to go above and beyond and as far as the compassion goes much like Canada Canada itself and certainly what I experienced With our fans and you all made me feel so welcome and I hope I didn't wear out my welcome and I hope I can come back Yeah, can we come back tomorrow?
Please? Thank you all. Yeah Not so many it's okay to feel good about myself about myself about me It's okay to feel good about myself good about myself Thank you for listening to this special Canada version of mini music Monday the musical subsidiary of the Ron Presions podcast Meet shark cryo glow the new med spa inspired mask with under eye cooling IQ LED technology using high-powered LED and deep infrared for visible results in just Eight weeks better aging treatment boosts collagen and is clinically tested to reduce fine lines and signs of aging Skin clearing provides chemical free acne treatment on and beneath the surface and even visibly tightens under eyes in one use Developed with dermatologists for radiant results at home learn more at shark ninja dot ca