DEAR DAVID CROOKS

I'm sorry I smashed you in the face with my guitar and caused some stitches at pitchfork. If it makes you feel any better I have a couple cracked ribs. I tried the Chinese philosophy this weekend of eating the body part of an animal that corresponds with the body part of your own that needs healing... although the ribs were delicious I am still pretty fuckin' disabled. Ouch. I mean, Yum.

HIDDEN LOVE / ENGLISH TIM

Hi. Just got back from Serbia. Played a festival with Korn. "Got the Life" is harder than Blood For Blood. I saw the singer eating Mcnuggets back stage. They smelled amazing. The airline lost all our luggage, and then reimbursed us for our hassles with monopoly money. 

After over a year of hold ups, the Young Guv Hidden Love 12" ep is finally out. These 5 songs were meant to be a demo cassette, and were recorded immediatly upon return from the Fucked Up Sxsw Vice Party show where Mike got hit in the face with a florescent lightbulb and then got blood poisoning and almost died. At this party there was about a 2 hour long drugged up talk about recording techniques between myself and Jay Reatard. I came home, wrote the songs in about an hour, and recorded them with all the new tips I'd learned. This explains why the record sounds a bit reatard-esque. However, I think Summer Girl is pretty top knotch and it's being re-recorded this summer with horns and phil spector poser bullshit for a single due out on a label in Portgual. Along with that release will come a 100 page book of art from artists all around the globe. All drawings will be "summer" themed. 

Order this 12" from Parts Unknown Records

500 pressed

The cover is an actual polaroid found on a street in Philadelphia with the face scratched out. Yum. 

Also, the Young Guv ENGLISH TIM 7" just came out too! English Tim is about a pervert from my Toronto neighborhood who follows girls home, and tries to bum smokes all the time. He has a raspy perv voice, and is pretty much a sex-god. 

Order this 7" from Static Shock Records

if you are from north america you can get it from the following distros:

Parts Unknown

1-2-3-4 Go

Grave Mistake

No Way Records

500 pressed

This cover photo is of my neighbor who is a scrap collector named Al. I don't know where that axe came from. He is the whackiest neighbor I've ever had besides the valium popper next door to me when I was 10 years old who threatened to murder me for playing acoustic guitar "too loud", then my Mum fought him and he cried real tears. 

English Tim features Aerin Fogel of The Bitters on back up vocals aswell as Amanda & Hilary Crist from Huckleberry Friends. 

Here is a photo of all 3 of them farting in a park. 

Who likes POP?

A new Marvy Darlz single has come out. It is above average mid tempo to high tempo pop rock with punk influences recorded with a les paul junior through whatever amps where at the studio, probably some vox or some shit, and sung by myself and the lyrics are about astrology (p. s I'm a Taurus, what are you?). The B side is a wimpy acoustic song with Mark pretending to be some jack-off-karou-wack-off train hopping wanderer folk fag playing harmonica over a couple parts. JK. It's a good record. Get it. 

Also there is this description from the Bachelor Records site. 

"MARVELOUS DARLINGS - Sleeping like a dead man 7"

Ben Cook (FUCKED UP, CRIMINALLY INSANE, and YOUNG GOVERNER(SP!)) is a pretty good songwriter! Just listen to the other MARVELOUS DARLINGS releases on Deranged Records or Wall Ride Records. This kid has more genius in his skinny body than you in your whole body(THATS RIGHT, FATTY). Except maybe you are the guy who wrote all the EXPLODING HEARTS songs… or maybe not even then(DEFINITELY NOT EVEN THEN! WTF!). Here are two new songs that are NOT going to be on the full length that should be out at the end of summer 09, the first song is a uptempo powerpop anthem, the flipside contains a itsy bit campfire(I LOVE CAMPING)-esque rocker. Get this! Print Run: 500 copies, black vinyl "

ORDER IT HERE AT THE BACHELOR SITE, PEOPLE. Thank you. 

Also: Please note the record thats selling under Marvelous Darlings. HUNX AND HIS PUNX. Saw him last week in MANHATTEN, and it was fun. He "had a boner". He kept talking about it. Then he touched me. I'm trying to write a few songs with him soon. I think it's going to happen, I just have to talk to him first. But I think it's going to happen. I hope so. Schwing!

DAY IN THE LIFE

What up 4 people that read my blog! Ok, yea. It was just to post my China stuff and now its pretty dead over here at NO GUV NO LUV. However, I will be posting cover photos to all the new guv singles getting worked out now. There's lots. I'm gonna start playing live with that soon too. Maybe it'll be fun for 5 seconds, then get boring.. maybe it'll last longer than that. Who really knows. This past week I have been an extra on a top secret movie shoot with Micheal Cera... Funny stuff from the my cast of extra's pretty soon... Like really good. Check back. Peace.

BARRY

CITY
Tevez, next?

DARLINGS RECORDS OUT SOON

Hey, so with restless Matt not knowing whether he likes the killer song writing potential of us playerz living in Toronto or the hard to beat California livin' and going back and forth between both places The Marvelous Darlings have had a hard time in the last year or so being a real band. But Mark, Matt and I have still kept up the important and fun part about doing a band and that is writing cool songs and releasing 7"s. So at this moment in time The Darlings are kind of just a collabo writing team that drop hot singles. That being said, here's 4 records that you will be seeing from us very soon.

(full breach kicks)

(bachelor records)

(taken by surprise records)

(p trash)

GOD HELP THE GIRL

LOVE IT!

EDIT*

Also, my Grandma likes it. She's pretty hip. Here's what she said:

"found info about the mp3 GOD HELP THE GIRL you had on your blog, great story,

 would like to hear more so will keep a look out for them on their web site very interesting you must like them to.

Marion your grade ma me