Here at Scratch we not so sadly invest precious few hours scanning the web; who has the time when there are orders to fill, scenesters to hang up on, and 9 hours of curling on TV every day in the early spring to compete with? But just because our browsers are dusty don't think we're down on the Net friends…here are a select few precious web sites that have amused or nourished us in some sense. If any of these links lead to anything construed as offensive, well remember it's their content not ours. Changing the channel is easy! And fun!

RECORD LABELS

ARTISTS & BANDS

THE INTERNET: Retarded and worthy sometimes...

Vancuover Youth Radio: Vancouver Youth Radio is dedicated to providing the tools, support and opportunities to foster the creative spirit of youth.

Failed Pilot: The writing of current free-lancer Andrew Earles, co-founder of Cimarron Weekend (the best music magazine of the last decade), and one of the last journalists willing to tell the truth about bad music, bad film, and bad people.

bourbonhours.com

Meankitty: Tales of really nasty cats, including our very own Hammy.

The Sound of Mornings After: Jerk With A Bomb plumbs the depths.

Joel R.L Phelps endorses... homestarrunner.com

My Trailer Park: Animal cruelty or evil genius?

Bonsai Kitten: Evil genius or animal cruelty?

Back when beer was good: So many memories I can't remember...

Saddam Shady.

vintagesynth.com: Nice resource page for losers like us who like their keyboards with knobs.

Ask Snoop: "What up, cuz? It's tha Snoopy D-O-double Gizzle in da hizzle. Enter yo trickass URL and I'll traaanslate it from the shizzle to da shiznit, know what I'm sayin?"

jerkwithabomb.com
Beware the barking shark...


Kelowna, BC news feature on Scott August (French Paddleboat, Vote Robot)'s early 2003 art exhibit.

Vote for Scott August of French Paddleboat/Vote Robot on HOT or NOT!

marpolecurling.com
Marpole Curling Club official site. The best ice surface in Vancouver. You may say "sports suck", but you cannot deny curling is cool. Hit the rink!

demian5.com
An extremely satisfying scrollable comic.

www.origamiboulder.com
Origami, is Japanese art of folding paper. Boulder is round rock. Origami Boulder is wadded up paper! You understand now, dumbo? Then hurry up and buy wadded paper!

www.pitchforkmedia.com
I'm afraid to say anything bad about them, lest they focus their blinding laser of scorn upon your humble servant. New reviews daily!

www.mirrorproject.com
People taking pictures of themselves in mirrors, including me.

www.explodingdog.com
"hi my name is sam, i draw pictures, from your titles. send me a title, or any thing else you want to talk to me about"

www.whap.ca

www.y2khai.com
Blacky's badass shiot for y'all...

www.christophercross.com
As recommended by the elevated gentlemen of Cimarron Weekend, the official Christopher Cross site is a definite noggin scratcher.

www.meet-an-inmate.com
Why browse for porn and atrocities when you can meet an endless assortment of interesting and attractive ladies...sure, they're in jail, but c'mon, for $2.50 an address your fantasies just might come true! Full stats, profiles, and photos of lonely inmates, complete with release from prison dates! Safer than the bar?

www.christophercross.com
As recommended by the elevated gentlemen of Cimarron Weekend, the official Christopher Cross site is a definite noggin scratcher.

www.rubberburner.com
Bears a strong resemblance to our own Peanut Butter Boy.

www.meet-an-inmate.com
Why browse for porn and atrocities when you can meet an endless assortment of interesting and attractive ladies...sure, they're in jail, but c'mon, for $2.50 an address your fantasies just might come true! Full stats, profiles, and photos of lonely inmates, complete with release from prison dates! Safer than the bar?

www.inthehack.com
Excellent curling web site with the latest news, gossip, skip strategy pointers, etc.

www.yesterland.com
America, surreal and perplexing, on display at this "theme park on the web featuring discontinued Disneyland attractions".

www.melodicrock.com
I recently blew a full half hour at work discovering that Night Ranger's drummer is now part of the Tommy Shaw-less Damn Yankees, that Larry Gowan is fitting in nicely as the new singer in Styx, that Gary Richrath (the axe-master with the trouser cucumber) has quit REO Speedwagon (that suggests correctly they still exist), that RICK SPRINGFIELD HAS GONE INDIE!�If the talent that was Whitesnake, Ratt, Quiet Riot, Kansas, Journey, Survivor, Dokken, Asia, and Brighton Rock makes you chuckle remembering when these bands were hot, well the notion of what they and their fans are up to in the year 2000 is mind-boggling.

The Official Judas Iscariot web site.
Anyone who drops by our office will tell you there's an equal chance we'll have some Black Metal playing as much as there is a chance you'll hear the Pet Shop Boys and Tears For Fears coming from the downstairs warehouse. But not just any Black Metal will do. Check out the unintentionally hilarious diatribes of Judas Iscariot, our very favorite murderous metaller who when not wishing death and mayhem to us weak types, offers numerous great recordings that highlight his, er�"drumming".

http://www.mulletsgalore.com/
It says it all right there. Do you know who writes the majority of our sassy and classy record and CD descriptions every week? It's a man better known as Slopey Joe, the Peanut Butter Boy...and this site is a tribute to him. In case you're wondering, Slopey most closely resembles a number 42 style mullet.
42 is the shit (great hobbies). Keep your eyes peeled for the Robot on moustacherides.com in the coming weeks. -Peanut Butter Boy

www.stereolaffs.com
I may not have the peaceful easy feeling attitude of some folks who spend their time 'surfing' the web for good times but every once in a while I need a little workday chuckle. Thank heavens for the folks at Stereolaffs, not only for bringing the world one of our favorite releases of last year (the Rock, Rot & Rule CD cave dwellers and/or serious music fans) but also for putting up this website and only updating once every 3-6 months, which is about how often I bother with such nonsense. Read about future ventures of the Sterolaffs empire, about Grandfather/bank Claude's fondness for the boy's industriousness and about the cut throat Western Maine music scene...are those tears of laughter or pain running down my face, I can't tell anymore.

 

 

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