"Hate rock" and "Teenage Rock"

And in other musical notes, I hate "Hate rock" and "Teenage Rock." Hate rock is pretty much any band that wants to be heavy, but is just shitty. Alice in Chains and Nirvana were amazing because they were heavy and melodic. Hate rock is just noise. Teenage rock on the other hand is worthless dribble for kids, the singers all where black make-up around their eyes and do that stiff neck dance. If you wondering which bands I mean here are some examples.

Hate Rock = System of a down, default, linkin park, Nickelback, Hoobastank, etc.

Teenage rock = Hedley, Franz Ferdinand, jet, etc.

It is easy to tell what kind of music is hate rock or teenage rock because they suck.

WILCO

I was living under a rock until I heard of Wilco. If you haven't heard of them your living under a rock as well. I'd say they're the most original and innovative band of the 00's. I had a chance to sit front row at thier show in Edmonton and it was amazing.

Check out these songs:
-theologians
-company in my back
-handshake drugs
-spiders kidsmoke
-late greats

making out on the high level

I was walking across the high level bridge last night and saw two people lying on top of eachother making out in the middle of the pedestrian lane. It was pretty wierd/hilarious. As I walked by I sang them the chorus to "only love can break your heart." I hope it fueled their wild passions and made their loins burn.

Mel Gibson

Hey Mel, nice work on the drunk driving. Should I still take you and your movies seriously? Oh wait I never did. hah

"I'm looking forward to his seemingly unhistorical film that makes the Mayas look like savages."

Equal Rights

I really like this song of Peter Tosh's, Equal Rights. Check it out in the music file

Time is on My Side

My take on "Time is on My side" It should just load in windows media player or some program on Apples.

Please Stop

I hope Isreal's government comes to it senses and realizes that the killing that they are doing in Lebanon is no different then the killing that took place in the Holocaust. Innocent people are being brutally murdered, not to mention the fact ancient cities are being destroyed forever. I think that the nation of Isreal has tarnished the reputation of Judaism. It is a bad idea to link government and religion. I can't think of another country in the world that is based on a single religion with no tolerance for other religious beliefs.

Burnin' Live at Leeds

I recently adquired by way of Bittorrents Bob Marley and the Wailers - Burnin' Deluxe Edition. It is ridiculously good. Disc two is a live concert in England, which by far the best live Wailers I have heard as well as the best live performance I have heard. This is the last album in which Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailers worked together. Personally I prefer Bob Marley's work prior to 1972 because it included Peter and Bunny. I'm a big fan of Peter Tosh. His voice it so unique, well same with Bob, but Peter's is something else.

I put a track from it in the music folder

Tubin'

Hot on one side, off on the other, we're cookin' with indirect heat. Oh Yeah!

World's Healthiest Foods

I just discovered this site which lists the nutrition values and cancer fighting effects of certain foods. I was eating some fresh beets from my garden and I wanted to know what kind of nutrients they had in them. Beet greens by the way are amazing! I had never eaten them before tonight and after I tasted the first one I scarfed down about 5 more.

Here's the site WORLD'S HEALTHIEST FOODS

It doesn't list Acai, Guarana, Erva Mate or Graviola, but they are relative unknown outside of Brazil. Graviola in definately my favourite, the white juice it produces is out of this world. It is said to have very high cancer fighting properites, but all I care about is that it tastes so good.

Here's a picture of a graviola.
And here's a picture of a cashew fruit which also has amazing juice. Can you see the little cashew on top?

The Good Life Blog

Here's a site I like. I stumbled across while looking for information about cloning willows. I found an amazing type of willow the other day with pink and orange leaves. It was breathtaking. I've also discovered several other types of willows and huge amound wild raspberries. There are saskatoons as well, but the berries are so high that I will need a ladder.

http://sustainable-life.co.uk/blog/2006/02/willow-propagation.html

Jamming in the Great Room

There's a room in my parents house called the Great Room, it's got a nice high ceiling and has great acoustics. Anyways, when they are out of town, we move the drums and amps in and get stoned and jam as much as we can. Here is one of our more popular jam's on mp3.

"Lime Green and Grey" is what we call it

Kris Ricci is on Drums
Curtis Paniak on Lead Guitar
and Me on Rhythm.

Curt gets a little crazy sometimes, but we let him go, just as long as he comes back.

Gst Cut in Canada

How about that Gst cut, yeay! To tell you the truth I didn't even notice it. 1% savings, thats amazing. If you spend 40,000 per year, which the average Canadian doesn't, you would save $400 a year. I wonder how much it cost to change the GST from 7% to 6%. I bet it was a lot. More than sending every Canadian a $400 cheque, that's forsure. But let's remeber who's in power. The poor get very little from this GST cut because they spend less, the rich on the other hand save much more. Stephan Harper makes Ralph Klein and his Ralph bucks, look like god.

His mistress Rona Ambrose isn't any better. She is the enviroment minister and she hasn't done anything worthwhile. Spruce Grove and Stony Plain, two cities in her home riding do not even have recycling depots. In addition, the Conseravative government is planning to make 5% ethanol mandatory in all gasoline sold in Canada by 2010. Wow, talk about a half assed attempt, Husky-Mohawk already sells a 10% blend and the Ontario gov't has already made 10% mandatory by 2010. How about making 85% ethanol availble at every gas station, or atleast a 15% blend. Rona Ambrose get serious, get educated on the issues and get off your ass and do something worthwhile.

Richard Linklater

I'm a big fan of Richard Linklater's films. They make you think and keep you captivated the whole time. I've seen Waking Life about 10 times, needless to say I own it. It goes great with a little movie enhancer.

A Scanner Darkly is coming out right away and I'm looking forward to seeing it. The animation looks even better than waking life. You can check out the official site.

If you want to see some other Linklater films check out:

Dazed and Confused
Slacker
Waking Life
Before Sunrise/Before Sunset (I haven't seen these I hear they're good)

Oilers Game #6

The "we want the cup" chant in the last period of Oilers game last night was spinetingling. All the loonies on Whyte ave. were chanting it as they walked through marshall law. It's a good thing nothing got broken, but did the cops realy need to shut down half the crosswalks?

Two types of writing

For me there are two types of writing, stuff that I read in it's entirety and stuff that I read just the first and last paragraphs. This article written by a friend was the former.

http://www.martlet.ca/view.php?aid=38704

Ethanol Redux

Here's some more info on Ethanol.

In and earlier post I said "Ethanol blended is a marketing scam, like Eminem," I was wrong...about the ethanol,

"Implementing a 5% blend of ethanol in gasoline will generate hundreds of jobs in rural Ontario, create a market for an additional 50 million bushels of corn every year and reduce greenhouse emissions by the equivalent of 200,000 cars. And it all starts on the farm." (Also your engine will last longer).

Husky Mohawk sells a 10% blend, double the above figures. To find a ethanol blended gasoline near you go here http://oee.nrcan.gc.ca/transportation/fuels/ethanol/station-locations.cfm

Here's some links about ethanol (a.k.a. the future):
http://www.greenfuels.org

http://www.cleanairwisconsin.org/publications/ethanol.pdf

http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/eng4473

I talked to a friend from thunder bay and he mentioned that they use it in Thunder Bay. Here's a link about a proposed ethanol plant in Ontario. By 2010 all motor fuel must contain ethanol in Ontario. Not a bad goal.

http://www.northernontariobusiness.com/regionalReports/ThunderBay/01-05-Hearst.asp

Alberta could easily bring ethanol into the picture. We have huge fields of grains, which is a perfect source of ethanol. I read that it takes 3 barrels of water to extract one barrel of oil from the oilsands. That's ridiculous. Do they know that humans can't drink oil?

message to all the pedestrians out there

Here's a little public service anoucement for all you pedestrians out there. If I stop my car for you to cross the street then you cross the street. Don't give me that bullshit where you wave me by and then make the car behind me stop so you can cross. I've already stopped the car, the road it yours so take it. And if you don't cross, I'll drive up on the sidewalk and hit your ass. Unless your a senior, then you're allowed to wave cars by because you might take a little while crossing sort of thing.

Some dude tried that shit on me today, he gave me the go on by wave and I just sat there until he crossed. I would have sat there all day, it drives me crazy when people give me the go on by wave.

Thinking

This is me thinking about what to write on the blog.

Davis and Dylan

Recently I've read both Bob Dylan's and Miles Davis' autobiographies. Personally I like autobiographies because they are really the only way to get into someones head. Biographies are great, but I think lots of times they are full of bullshit facts and the author always puts his/her slant on the person the book is about. But back to Davis and Dylan.

I found that they had a lot of similarities. They are both American legends in that they took a existing musical style changed it greatly and brought it to a new generation. Miles with Jazz and Bob Dylan with folk. In addition they both steered towards rock music in the later parts of their careers, but who wasn't playing rock in the 70's? The are both geminis (and believe in astrology) and they both had run ins with the Grateful Dead. The both came from the midwest and moved to New York to pursue their musical careers. Miles started off in East St. Louis and Bob started playing in Minneapolis. They both recorded for Columbia Records for the majority of their careers and they even met eachother at a party at Miles' house. Miles broke both his ankles in his Ferrari and Dylan had a bad motorcycle crash.

Anyways I thought Miles' book was far more interesting, he has some pretty crazy experiences, I think a lot of it has to do with being addicted to hard drugs (Herion from around ages 19-25 and cocaine from ages 39-54). Although he does have interesting experiences during his clean periods in his life, which in my opinion he made his best music. He hung out with Jean Paul Sarte in France and travels to Brazil, Japan and Europe. Also Miles' book covers his whole career where as Dylan's just covers a few specific periods of his life. Lastly, Miles is older so he talks about how the 40's and 50's were which I found very interesting.

In summery, I recommend both books, but Miles' is much more entertaining. And really you don't get much more bad ass than this.