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Friday, August 23, 2024

More Than This: Kidnapped in Toronto 2002

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 This video is not exactly Apocalypse Now Redux, shot on my iPhone and an angle, I’m yet to invest in a tripod. It’s 25 minutes long and I d...
Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Club David’s New Years Eve 1977

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  Our first real gig was at gay disco-tech Club David’s on Halloween night 1977. This gig was at Club David’s on New Years Eve 1977, support...
Sunday, August 11, 2024

THE BOULEVARDS OF HOPE (1980)

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  THIS is a great track from The Life of Ermie Scub (1980).  I wrote it with the apocalypse in mind, as is most of the album. You should lis...
Thursday, August 01, 2024

CARDBOARD BRAINS (1978)

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  Live at The Horseshoe Tavern in 1978.  I think this is “Can Stress Kill” from the 1977 Cardboard Brains White EP.
Sunday, June 23, 2024

OFF THE GRID

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  It’s been awhile Dear Friends.There hasn’t been a lot to report.  Went to the cabin near Bridgewater which is completely off the grid.  It...
Thursday, April 04, 2024

April 2024

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Haven’t posted in a long time. Stayed for a while at an Air BnB in Chester, Nova Scotia.  Basically living the life and chilling. I’ll post ...
Friday, March 01, 2024

THE LAST POGO JUMPS AGAIN (2013)

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 Clip on (the) Cardboard Brains from Colin Brunton and Kire Papputs’ The Last Pogo Jumps Again. (2013). I’m glad they got Nardwaur the Human...
Saturday, February 17, 2024

I WANT TO BE A YANK WITH LYRICS

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  I Want To Be A Yank This of course is the 1977 iconic CARDBOARD BRAINS White EP with I Want To Be A Yank, Living Inside My Head, Can Stres...
Monday, January 22, 2024

BAD LUCK AND TROUBLE: BUSTED AND SHACKLED

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  I will get into this in much more detail at a later time, but for now I want to expose some initial truth. My brother passed away July 199...

MEMOIR

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  This blog is of course a work in progress. Just know I increased the font size in order to make the copy more readable. When I consider wh...
Saturday, November 25, 2023

A POSTER COLLAGE OF MOVIES I HAVE BEEN IN and CV

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  Kind of a blause title of a blog post but what the heck. Somewhere in the annals of this blog is a half assed Curriculum Vitae. It lists r...

My Hunter Biden Impression and Today’s Blog Post…

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  @5:30 in the morning there’s no time to get a slick self-portrait together. Spent the morning so far annoying people I know by inundating ...
Tuesday, October 03, 2023

IN AN IDEAL WORLD I WILL MAKE A SEQUEL TO THE LIFE OF ERMIE SCUB!

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And so it goes. I continue to post using my hunt-and-peck typing on my 10.5 inch 7th generation iPad. I’m now using iOS17 and it “doesn’t su...
Friday, September 15, 2023

WORLD WITHIN A DREAM ( demo)

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    Here’s a demo that Brian Joseph Johns posted on YouTube. Year of recording uncertain, sometime in the eighties.
Tuesday, September 05, 2023

John Paul Young and Cardboard Brains Live at the Edge 1981

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  Behold the limited edition (500 copies) of the 1981 Cardboard Brains and myself are at Gary Topp and Bary Cormier club Egertons (The Edge).
Saturday, July 01, 2023

CANADA DAY

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  CANADA DAY
Friday, June 23, 2023

All the Sad Goodbyes

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  I omitted this track from the 1998 compilation CD because I personally thought it was weak. But I read someone’s blog or critique of the C...
Wednesday, June 14, 2023

The Girl Spells Grief

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  Wednesday June 14, 2023 @7:15AM Atlantic time, Halifax, Nova Scotia. I have the blahs today. A second Vyvanse was in order. There’s a cour...
Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Ermie has Feelers

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Wednesday, May 17, 2023

KIDNAPPED!

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KIDNAPPED!                   After the death of my mother I was yoked with the 24/7 task of taking care of my crazed 81 year old father who ...
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Tuesday, April 18, 2023

BABIES RUN MY WORLD (Live at the Horseshoe Tavern) Cardboard Brains

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 Those were the days my friend.
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Saturday, April 15, 2023

POSITIVITY BELIEVE IN YOURSELF

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  The Positivity Pole where I contemplate each morning.
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Monday, April 10, 2023

Apocalypse Today Part One.

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  Not much to say about this. I’m trying to ignite some kind of creative spark, and as yet it eludes me. But be patient dear readers/viewers...
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Cardboard Brains 1977. They were the best of times…

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  Paul O’Connell, Rich Miller, Vince Carlucci and John Paul Young in our summer of 1977 practice sessions. Together we made the iconic “Whit...
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Monday, March 27, 2023

CONSPIRACY 465 (1)(b)

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 CONSPIRACY 465 (1) (b) Everyone who conspires with anyone to prosecute a person for an alleged offence knowing they did not commit that off...
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023

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Saturday, March 18, 2023

The Sun Still Shines

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  The Boulevards of Hope. You know, Dear Friends, what I really would like to do is release new music. But financing a project is the proble...
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Sunday, March 12, 2023

423 (1) INTIMIDATION

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  Je suis malade. Thinking about legal issues and the pursuit of justice makes me literally sick. I have a psycho-physiological reaction tha...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2023

ONE WAY TICKET TO THE RESURRECTION.

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  “Sure Mel. Maybe you can handle yourself one of them first class tickets to the resurrection.” Scarface (1983) brilliantly penned by Olive...
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Tuesday, February 07, 2023

ALLMUSIC Review of The Life of Ermie Scub by Laurie Mercer

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I thought I would transcribe onto this blog a not bad review of The Life of Ermie Scub by Laurie Mercer of ALLMUSIC.  ALLMUSIC REVIEW BY LAU...
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Thursday, January 26, 2023

GET UP STAND UP STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS!

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  I penned the last blog early in the morning, sick as a dog. Hence all the typos etcetera.  But one day I will edit all this stuff. But at ...
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Monday, January 23, 2023

KIDNAPPED! (Continued)…Yorkville, Toronto

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 I come from a family of four. My mother Margaret Isabel Young (nee Peace), my father Dr. Robert Goddard Young, my brother, six years my jun...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2023

COMPILATION BOOTLEG CONTINUED!

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I discovered amongst a mountain of paper the container the replicated CD came in, and it is from DODAX AG, OBERNEUHOFSTRASS 10a 6340 BAAR SW...
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JOHN PAUL YOUNG and CARDBOARD BRAINS COMPILATION BOOTLEG!

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Amongst the unfortunately limited discography of myself  and CARDBOARD BRAINS is 1998 digital compilation of all the vinyl releases. Above y...
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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A FOOL

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  Before they were called The CASBY Awards they were dubbed the U-Know Awards as a populist alternative to The JUNO Awards. I had the great ...
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Tuesday, January 03, 2023

KIDNAPPED!

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  I’m just saying    The initial purpose of this post was to discuss my kidnapping, robbery and attempted murder on Yorkville Avenue in Toro...
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Thursday, December 15, 2022

MURDER MAYHEM AND MADNESS. MY MEMOIRS.

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Haven’t posted lately and certainly haven’t posted daily like I said I would in earlier posts. If any of you are on my Facebook page (which ...
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Friday, November 18, 2022

THE LAST POGO JUMPS AGAIN BABIES RUN MY WORLD NARDWAUR CARDBOARD BRAINS

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  Here I found “Babies Run My World” by Cardboard Brains as discussed in an earlier post. (As I write I’m listening to “A Song for Europe” b...
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Wednesday, November 02, 2022

THE LIFE OF ERMIE SCUB! (Dog sitting)

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  Here we have on YouTube my 1980 LP THE LIFE OF ERMIE SCUB in its entirety. I had intended to post BABIES RUN MY WORLD (1978) released 1979...
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Saturday, August 13, 2022

NARDWAUR THE EVAPORATORS CARDBOARD BRAINS

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  Around the early years of the season of my discontent I noticed a strange phenomena on the internet. Something called a Nardwaur and appar...
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