Enjoy That Last Light Show? Stay Tuned...

Now, of course the weather can change at any time. This was captured at around 9:40PM -

So the storm is moving from West to East and that system floats right across North and South Fredericton at around 2AM, with some smaller storms and rain starting from around 11 through to 4AM. 

So any storm lovers or hates, just thought I'd throw out a possible headsup. The storm late this afternoon was awesome! Great thunderclaps. I got some vid for later, still feeling like crap from last night's methotrexate dose.

Play safe!|

My Last Summer On Beaverbrook....

Details in the video, long and short of it, I am going to have to move. This 'section' of my street is now destined to be a 'long apartment building', a new design for Fredericton, is what it is being hailed as.
Some things in life you have control of, of this one, I do not. Oh and I totally screwed up the 'Title' in the video.... Brilliant!

A MASSIVE HUGE CRAZY & Amazing Chipmunk Vid! Someone's Pregnant!

Video explains it all!:

Wasn't Gonna Post Another 'Munk Vid, But Then This Happened:

Never expected this from 'CallYou':

Currently Blasting On This Beautiful Summer's Day.....

Iron Maiden's 'Powerslave' probably one of THE most influential albums and tours of my life. I used to draw up 'K.G. Wolf's 'stage set' based off of Iron Maiden's 'World Slavery Tour'... While I had Iron Maiden's albums previous to 'Powerslave', it was really this album that changed my life as I was already romanticized by ancient Egyptian lore, that my favorite band cut an album that was loosely a concept album, it's Egyptian theme totally mesmerized me. Maiden fan for life!

SUper Kuwaii! Ultra Stunning HD! (That;s 'High Definition' for you old folks)

Two pretty decent HD video of the chipmunks... I had wanted to get another shot of CallYou coming in and out of his den from like ground level, but when I went out each time, he didn't show up until I had had enough for the evening.... Oh well. Some nice close ups. Some fights here and there.

Enjoy!

 And Part Deux:

Quick Post: Shorter Vid, Tonight It Was Sweetie's Turn

Yep, last night LilGuy was hamming it up for the camera and tonight, well didn't Sweetie do the same thing!
Funny lil ones... Gotta love 'em!

We're Back!!

After a 5 day staycation at my Bro's, while they were at ELO, I'm back. ya'll have been good? Been watching the Capital Project? You know, Tim is my friend and he'll tell me the stats and if they ain't gone up.... They'll be hell to pay!

Akin To Announcing The Tribulation

I'm a huge TOOL fan. Been one since the early 1990's. The Wasteland Zombies covered songs from 'Opiate' back in 1993/94

They have been ridiculed for a long time now because they had not released a new album and as, any of you long time readers know, this last Spring a photo was posted showing TOOL members at the mastering studio in Maine, that put other rumors to rest on IF we TOOL fans would be getting a new album in 2019...

Then my friend Nancy sent me this earlier:

'Nuff said....

BREAKING METAL NEWS: Chris Adler Out Of Lamb Of God?

It would seem so:

Crazy! 

The Relaxing Sights & Sounds Of The Mighty Nashwaak

Took some video of the Nashwaak river. Beautiful river that flows into the Saint John river and runs along the city of Fredericton, all the way down to the Atlantic ocean in Saint John (Shout out to my hommies in SJ!  YO!).
Unfortunately, beautiful scenes like this are being spoiled this Summer by the terror that there are clumps of cyanobacteria... Or the 'blue-green algae'.

Now I'm not making light of this, a number of dogs have died, I think 1 so far this Summer and about 3? maybe last Summer.... And now they tell us there is a form of this algae that can also harm us, possibly fatally... Between that and the freakin ticks comeback, New Brunswickers are goin to be soon going for vacation at the local malls and shopping centers (if your town or village is lucky enough to have one.).

Be aware of your surroundings, bring clean water for your pet with you (and some for yourself!), and completely avoid any areas of standing water, including large or small /deep puddles.

Check your pets and yourself for ticks if you've been out in tall grasses, by the rivers...

And try not to fret to much over this. Just be aware and have fun. You can do both!

Bad editing in this video... Of note as well, the audio is actually an MP3 of a "Bubbling brook" that I downloaded from a free sounds website. The original audio had cars driving behind me and wind... Wouldn't have been a 'relaxing' video.. Now, you can put it on and watch the beautiful water flow in the Summer sunlight. I had wanted to make it super long. I really like those 'Ambient sounds' videos of rain and bubbling brooks, so this was a bad homage to them lol

Have You All Been Watching The Capital Project Episodes?

I'll admit, I haven't watched them all. I've been kinda notching some up so I can binge watch later.

BUT, Tim is a close friend of mine (and I always feel bad, because I've not spent time with him much since the houseboat adventure) and I should be helping to get the word out about these episodes..

lol... But I'm a small fry here in my blog.. Even when I post to Facebook from here, on average like 6 people read my blog... When I post the videos? Yeah, about 6 people watch them.. Over months and months it accumulates, heck I've had some videos seen thousands of times...

Anyhow, here's some of my picks for The Capital Project thus far:

A new one, Tortue. I've seen these guys for years, a great local band! Check out their story and make sure ya see 'em live:

Like the loud music?? Deep Fryer is your band! Aside from Neighbourhood Watch, and Hard Charger is kinda like Motorhead in that Punks or Metallers could embrace them, but Deep Fryer is Hardcore! I want Mike Erb to run for Mayor of Fredericton. The band also has Jean E Sheehy... An amazing guitarist and a great guy, he's got like one of THE coolest 'radio' voices around!

And who doesn't love 'The Green Lung Grinders'???? This is music for EVERYONE to enjoy! I'm always a little surprised how each Canada day, they don't have the Grinders playing after Scotty & The Stars! I mean, what's not kid friendly about my friends?? Heck some of them are parents themselves!

Of course there's the Neighbourhood Watch nerds..... I don't know much about these guys.. I think they play.. Punk Rawk? Hardcore? I dunno....

'Wicked Vices' are a great band to check out:

'Chips' are fun too! Not like the Ponch and Jon Baker, but like the kind you eats!
Mmm Chips!

And here's the link to 'The Capital Project' YouTube Page..

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvYPTrNzzPrmtObcD6dOEOQ

 Subscribe, click the 'bell' icon so you get notified when there's new episodes, send to music loving friends, former residents of the area... Spread it like the plague! This is our local scene! These guys did years of work on this!..
And if you missed the 45 minute documentary that was shown on CBC:

https://gem.cbc.ca/media/media/absolutely-canadian/episode-37/38e815a-0114d5475f0

Don't make me come to your homes and punch you in the junk!!!

And yeah no more chipmunk videos until all 1,047 of my Facebook Subscribers have posted back to me that they've watched The Capital Project!!

So get on itQ!

Backyard Chipmunk Chaos,With Some Nice Close Ups!

Yeah, I try to remind myself that just yapping and dropping peanuts on the chipmunk's heads probably gets dry. So I've been trying to remind myself, see, I'm reminding myself! To get some good close ups of them grabbing my nuts....... Um...... Come on, we've been dancin' around some 'nuts' jokes for a long time now!
Anyhow, today got so chaotic, all 6 chipmunks coming at me in succession, it was so crazy I set it to the Benny Hill TV Show theme song and lol immediately got a 'Copyright strike' while it was uploading.... Probably putting that it had the 'Benny Hill Theme song in the YouTube title... MAYYYYY have had something to do with it.... But lemme know if ya can't view it or there's no sound....

A Complete Intelligence Failure Of Massive Proportions....

Awesome! I had for several months, aside from vomiting from my meds, achieved, much long sought after, much deserved peace of mind... I had NO stresses whatsoever. Even financially I was fine... But with the arrival of an envelope and a letter, that all changed in minutes,.....

BUT, there MAY be a solution....

Really Off Day./..

Man, bummer day, sore, tired, cranky, sick, curtain rod broke, but, the chipmunks are always here to make me laugh... Elsa too.

I just wanted some Burger King.......

Story Time.....

When I lived in Burnaby, we had an awesome yard, fenced in, with big bushes all around it that made it quite private.
Next door to me lived 'OJ' and his woman, jeez, I can't remember her name. We'll call her 'Karen'.

OJ was an alright guy. I knew him from working on the X-Files as he was a teamster who frequently drove our make up fx truck to and from the Lions Gate Studios and locations. We could drive our truck anywhere we pleased EXCEPT if it was for going to or from a set or location... Union rules.

Like I said, OJ was pretty cool, a bit on the rough side, he'd let a touch life, word was that he had somehow made some kinda deal to get to be David Duchovney's driver and after that he drove Jessica Alba and her trailer around.
So this made him a target, his place had been 'hit' several times. By 'hit' I mean, his placed would get broken into and ransacked...

So I tried to keep an eye on his place for him but I was always worried whomever was coming to 'hit' him would get the address wrong and we'd get 'hit' instead....

'Hit' it's actually a great segue, when I had Alita, my husky, she of course did her business in the backyard and every so often I'd go along with the rake and 'flick' her crap into the bushes that lined the part of the yard with the fence between us and OJ. They were super high bushes with a great space to fling poop underneath them as a natural fertilizer.

One beautiful day, I was out flinging poop and OJ and 'Karen' were in their yard next door, doing yard work. I think Karen was working in their little gardens and OJ was working on his truck or his car.

So I was never great at sports, I never played hockey, aside from some street hockey and ice hockey with friends. I was deemed too short for basketball.. Baseball I didn't fancy... I just wasn't a 'sports' guy, none of my Brother's were either.
So that's my excuse for what happened....

There I am 'flinging' poop at the bushes when one particular 'flick' of the wrist and rake sent a pile of poop flying high into the air, it was almost more of a 'pop-fly' than a 'slap-shot'... And my eyes widened as it disappeared from my view.....

Over on the otherside of the fence, I could hear 'Karen' and OJ working away, I can't remember if  'Karen' was in mid sentence, but I knew something bad had happened when there was all of a sudden, dead silence....

I cringed and waited......

Karen spoke, "OJ, did you just fling dog shit at me???" ----- I could Barely contain my laughter and embarrassment ... i was about to explode LOL.. and OJ replied, "Um....... Nooooo?"

Dead silence....

I burst out laughing lol... and spoke up... "I'm SOOOOOOOOO sorry 'Karen'!... That was me, a really, really bad 'flick'"
OJ burst out laughing .... and 'Karen' was like, "ewwwwwww".......  OJ, piped up, "Hey, maybe you want to be a bit more careful where you fling that dog shit" and I could hear 'Karen' laughing now, so thank goodness, they got the humor in it. Heck I could wound up under the Lions Gate bridge, him being a teamster an all!!

They get a lot of shit and flack, but they are among the hardest working guys in the film industry often times having to be on sets and working 18+ hours, which is why you might find one slumbering somewhere, because they are burning the candles at  both ends.

So please be careful where you fling your poops people.... You never know who might be on the other side of the fence!

But in the end, it was all good. And I tried to be more careful when flicking Alita's dog crap around

Super Crazy New Chipmunk Video! - 'Chaos In The Driveway'!

OK, the first of the video is me setting up my R2-D2 unit. If you know Dvlog, you'll know what 'R2-D2' is.... Then my friends, the whole lot of them all met in the driveway in an epic feed off!

Coming at me from every direction, fights, comedy, confusion and even Jerkface the Wonder Squirrel makes yet ANOTHER appearance...

Enjoy:

Did you all catch the 'Capital Project' on the tele? It's sounding like it was just a provincial debut, but like I said to Tim this afternoon, it's still pretty damn cool, the CBC, like it or not, it's a Canadian institution, and to have any material broadcast by them in long form is pretty fuckin'; rad!

So thanks again to Tim et all, The Wasteland Zombies made an appearance among so many amazing artists, it's such an honor for us to be included. Seriously! 

The Capital Project airs on CBC TV Tonight!

Thats right! Check your local listings , it's on at 8 P.M. Atlantic time.

Huge congratulations to the Raynemaker production team!

Today Another New Visitor to the Backyard

Jeez, this might become an actual series. 

Two Fer Thursday Night! Two Videos For the Price of.. FREE!

That's right!

Two videos... One I had time posted for this morning, which is that storm from my cell phone.... Not all of it, just excerpts.

And here's a fresh new video, with a brand new little chipmunk... Jerkface the wonder squirrel makes another appearance... and Of course Sweetie... And... The Beyonder!! That's what I've decided to call the lone chipmunk that always seems to come from beyond the garage next to us.... Got some good close ups of 'em too!

Stay Frosty!!

Well Played Gentlemen....

Pretty funny stuff:

Last Night's Pretty Decent Storm

Got some good lightning shots here and there throughout the video... Yeah, about the video. IF you follow my blogs you'll know that when I shoot anything on my Panasonic DSLR camera, I usually run into editing issues and it usually crashes my video editing program or files get corrupted.

This is probably the longest and one of the first barely edited videos from my Panasonic that has made it up to Youtube! Small victory's... SO, you can view at your own peril! lol...

Here's some suggestions: Throw on the video, relax and listen to the thunder and rain

Play the game of how many lightning flashes you see or how many thunder claps you hear...

One can 'fast forward through the video and watch for when you see flashes... It's there, it's what it is.

State Of The Toes Address

Salutations|!

So... Albeit I see my gnarly feet everyday, it wasn't until about two weeks ago that I REALLY looked at a couple of toes that have been bothering me.

Back in the day, when all this arthritis started and despite a letter from my lawyer, two General Practitioners, two Rheumatologists (one, they picked) and 3 physio therapists, plus body scans and blood analysis... the insurance company wasn't wanting to pay out a long term disability claim if they didn't have to or could make me give up. That's what they want, is for you to feel there's nothing left you can do but that. Hell, one of my Aunt's worked for an insurance company and calling to ask her if what this insurance company was putting me through was at all 'normal' or even legal? And she told me to give up. She told me to stop fighting and just let their system work... My own Aunt... Who worked for a completely different company... I told her, 'No, you're wrong, I won't give up, because my own soul tells me this isn't right'. That and my lawyer took my case 'pro bono'.. A lawyer NEVER takes a case 'pro bono' unless they know it's a 'win' and with my broken body at the time, I was a 'win'.

So I used to send the insurance company photos of newly involved maddeningly swollen joints... They never replied... I didn't expect them to. I had the record the email was sent... If they deleted it or read it and kept it, whatever, I just wanted the record out there that I was giving them visual proof.

So, like a lot of things in my life, I like to document it. This is why I have this 'ego'.. I've had a camera following me around when we were babies until almost our teens and then from like 20 on wards.
In Dreamkick Pete's camera was always there, then out West a lot of that was well documented... and then in 2006 I found YouTube and started throwing my life up there for my friends and family out East to see and now it's done so my friends out West and around the World can check in on me. I also gained some long time subscribers who are still with me today.

So, warning, I mean, it's not that shocking, but if you don't like to look at feet. LOL don't watch it.

I know, I look dorky in that screen grab, it was that or a pic of my toes...

And here's a couple of bands that 'popped' into my head that I hadn't listened to in quite a while....

Ever heard of 'The Eels'? Some may have, from college radio back in the day. I found them through a 'gift pack' from Interscope records after Mike and I worked with Marilyn Manson in 1997... Was a cool quirky band, an odd album, but had some great tracks, 'Novocaine For The Soul' being the best.

These guys, Soul Asylum had been around since 1981 before they hit it 'big' with their album 'Grave Dancers Union' in 1992 - they had 5 albums out before that album hit like a shot to the charts Great band, still alive to this day.

Canada Day AND>....... CHIPMUNKS! What a surprise eh?

Didn't spend a lot of time downtown.... Fireworks just got over and Elsa is hiding under the bed.... She's usually never been to scared by them.. Guess she's getting soft in her old age....

Chipmunks, Canada and Chipmunks!