Musique Francaise

Oui, oui mes amis! There's but a few French artists that I like. French music is interesting, be it from France or Quebec, French music has a distinct sound and even though it's part of Canada the province of Quebec literally has it's own industry that much of the rest of the country is all but oblivious to.
Sure there's been many 'break out' artists through the years, namely, Celine Dion, Jean LeLoup, Daniel Lanois and of course my personal all time favorite, the one I had a crush on since I first laid eyes on her AND I just found out a few months ago that my older Brother Scott used to freakin' hang with her... Mitsou!
So let's start with a flashback.... Bye Bye, Mon Cowboy!

Ahh, Loved her so much... In fact, when I met Sharon Dionne, she reminded me of Mitsou and I fell in teenage love with an 'older woman'.... I'll maybe write of my love for older women some day soon.

Next up, Niagara: Niagara was formed in Rennes, France by vocalist Muriel Laporte (later known as Muriel Moreno (fr)) and keyboardist Daniel Chenevez.
I first saw the band probably on Much Music, maybe on the power hour or their international music show 'Clip trip'. Then I forgot all about then until I stumbled upon Niagara much later in life on a YouTube trip, again, another beautiful woman, some of the songs were kinda cheese, but my favorite from this band was 'La fin des étoiles' (The End Of the Stars).

This next band, I remember seeing on Much Music and I HATED them! HATED! I thought, 'WHo the FUCK, gives a group like this a record deal???? How could France digest this horribly irritating music???'... Then, for some reason, the genius kicked in and I became a fan of 'Les Rita Mitsouko'

Like Niagara, Les Rita Mitsouko were from France... The first track I had seen by them, the one that set me off into long rants to myself was 'C'est Comme Ça'

That lady's voice can make your cat curl up in a ball and puke on itself! Weird'O French artists!
But it gets weirder and somehow, with my open mind I began to see the genius of guitarist Fred Chichin and the singer Catherine Ringer.

Sadly, Fred Chichin passed away in 2007 from heart failure. As weird as the band was, they had a cool vibe and got airplay World wide.
Probably my favorite track by 'Les Rita Mitsouko is 'Y'a D'la Haine! - Systeme D' which feature very  provocative and violent dance style, that I can't find the name of... But there were a bunch of different musicians around this time that used this style in their music videos.

Now let's end off with some Canadiana with a true master of music, a producer who's worked with everyone from U2 to Peter Gabriel, Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson:

I've always loved this 'making of' video with Peter Gabriel. Lanois talked about the ingredients of making a magnificent single. Plus they are working on one of my favorite tracks 'Come Talk To Me'.

I hope you all enjoyed this 'international' (all French) edition... I'ma go fall down again....

Brutal

Horrible 24 hours. Humidity into rain, thunderstorms... Though I didn't hear them... Slept a lot.... Didn't even bother to make my bed today... It's a usual 'habit'. I like my bed fresh and clean... Having a cat of course the hair is everywhere. Call it OCD if you want, but I make my bed each evening and I use a lint brush to clean up any of the cat hairs. Clean bed, clean sleep... Makes sense to me...

More thunderstorms are forecast, but I ain't holding my breath....

I Don’t Mind the Pain

Danzig

Remember to call my name

I adore it

if you call my name

I implore it

if with all these things we invoke here

call you out your name

but be forewarned dear

I don't mind the pain

we hear you call our name

we adore it

hear you all these things

that we invoke here

if you call our name

rest assured dear

see you all these things

but be forewarned dear

I don't mind the pain

and I stay so arcane

in the shadows

of your brain

will I come to you

again

remember

I don't mind the pain

hear you call our name

can you afford it

reacked

with all these things and beyond hope dear

remember to call our name

and we assure you

trip

with all these things that we invoke here

I don't mind the pain

Songwriters: Glenn Danzig

I Don’t Mind the Pain lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Reach Music Publishing

The Rules Of Engagement Have Changed!

Yeah, so, the bog has stats and in writing this when I do, I'm hoping people are actually reading, enjoying, being annoyed, having fun with this Blog 'O Mine. So I was noticing that the views had dropped and was looking into why and that led me to go to facebook and I saw that my bog posts I did on Twitter and was set up to be retweeted to facebook, no longer was happening. So I thought maybe something was wrong with my Twitter settings and it wasn't that. I then popped into hmm something in the settings and it told me that fb had changed and that one could no longer 'retweet' to fb... So, we'll have to do this the old fashioned way and post it to fb from here. No big deal, Twitter will be losing out, though I am on the fence on dumping Twitter over fb... We'll see where this ends up...

Got into a Smashing Pumpkins 'kick' today. Was reading some articles on the 'reunion' tour... Apparently Darcy and Billy don't git along all that well these days. She was allegedly invited and then wasn't and then the words flew... They had I believed left it up to her if she might want to join them on a few selects dates here and there....
It's taken a lot for Corgan to do this. I've read many an interview with this egotistical 'genius' about "hating" to play the 'old stuff'. He shunned it for years.... I don't know what happened to Corgan. I've written before about how I have a Smashing Pumpkins show from very early in the bands years and the music was much like Billy''s 'Smashing Pumpkins' music sans Iha and Wretzky, some songs are alright, but it ain't no Smashing Pumpkins sound... So I don't know if it was much of Iha and Darcy's skills that brought us massive songs like \Rhinoceros', 'Chrub Rock' and 'Silverfuck', not to mention their bigger 'hits'. I think Billy's lost a lot of cash-o-la over the years by shunning their past works, probably disenfranchising many a fan. So yeah, it's great to see the set list is chaulk full of their older material.
I got to see the band on the 'Infinite Sadness' tour.. Was an awesome show, not the best seats, but I had won them at a Halloween party.

It's kinda odd that both Dreamkick & The Wasteland Zombies had Pumpkins/TOOL-ish, alternative  like songs. I dunno if Mike Dunn or Doug/Peter would have been influenced much by those bands and for the Zombies, Ray just had his own sound and it was Metal, but it was also different and I don't think it was his aim to sound 'Grungy, but I think the Alt-Metal suited us, more the Zombies than DK.
I didn't altogether 'ditch' Metal during the 'Grunge' years. As per usual, I was listening to music right across the board, Metal, Punk, Alternative Rock, Grunge, some Rap - Mostly through friends that were into it... AND, it wasn't 'safe' Rap, it was Geto Boys, Ice Cube, Wu-Tang... No Country, closest Country I ever liked was Dwight Yoakam and that was only select songs.... I just kinda find Country is pigeonholed itself into it's lyrical content. LOL, Maybe if there was some Black Country that was all like 'evil' horror like lyrics lol... I don't think that's happened yet..Might be a whole new niche market.....

Well was gonna write more, but my backs had it, the deep heat rub, the anti inflammatory, the pillows ain't cutting it. Too much humidity (again! I'm not complaining about the Summer heat, just the humidity!)... Rain is coming all day tomorrow, so that's an added painful bonus, feels like I got a rib sticking out of my ribcage..
Have a great weekend ya'll

Silverfuck

The Smashing Pumpkins

I hear your winter

And I hear your rain

But I've failed your summer ways

And I feel no pain

I hear what you want

And I feel that way

I hear what you want

And I feel that way

I hear you fade away

And I hear you crawl

And I gave my life away

And I feel no pain

And I feel no pain

And I feel no pain

And I feel your pain

And she was my lover so sweet

And she was my angel

What I've recovered of me

I put into a box underneath my bed

When you lie in your bed

And you lie to yourself

When you lie in your bed

And you lie to yourself

Lie

Lie

Bang bang your dead hole in your head

Bang bang your dead hole in your head

Bang bang your dead hole in your head

Bang bang your dead hole in your head

I hear what you want

And I feel that way

I hear what you want

And I feel that way

Songwriters: William Patrick Corgan

Silverfuck lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

100°! That's The Temperature, Not The KYUSS song

Whoohooo! Now we're cookin' with FIRE! over 38°C and that's 100°F... Another 10 more degrees and we'll rival Death Valley, Arizona!

Mind you it ain't as humid there.... Weather Network says some rain coming at 6PM until after 7... But I don't believe it... Still, I'll kill off tonight's walk just in case... I don't mind getting wet, but I don't walk in thunderstorms..


For Posterity I took a screenshot:

Be something to tell the grandkids about someday... OHHH wait! I don't have any 'grandkids'! Ahh well, maybe I'll get them to etch it on my tombstone...'Here lies Chris Waddell, survived the day it was hot as Hell'

Stay frosty kids! Drink loads of liquids! That's water, alcohol and coffee/tea won't do shit for ya....

Day Of Discouragement & Joy

Can't say much about the 'discouraging' news... But it's been knocked back by the release of a new single/video from Behemoth. *NOTE!: Video is NOT SAFE FOR WORK!!! So unless you want to get fired, maybe wait until lunch or the traffic ride home....

This album is going to be outstanding. Catapulting the band even further... I'm really hoping to see them in Quebec in November. I haven't seen the band before and since the release of the 'Satanist', I've been a huge fan... I actually pre-ordered the new album 'I Loved You At Your Darkest' aka 'ILYAD' today... It's released in October, but this run was limited to 666 copies all hand signed by the band, plus some other goodies. The album title is actually a quote from the bible, Romans: 5:8.

In other Metal news, I ran into drummer and all around awesome guy Chuck Wilby earlier and Moment of Interia is playing with Hero's Last Rite at the Capital August 10th. I haven't seen either band in quite some time. In fact, the last time I saw Steve from HLR was at the Moment of Interia show that I saw right after Cuba. At that show, Steve was a bit inebriated and said that since Tim Gorman left the band that the band has changed their sound somewhat and it included clean vocals... Well I thought Steve was just fucking with me... I mean Steve, singing clean?? I mean he's done it before, just not with the band as HLR... But Chuck confirmed it and I just saw a video of a new song they did and wow, it's damn cool!

As for 'other' Metal I'm digging right now, Halifax's 'Dumpster Mummy' and their new album is getting a lot of airplay at my place. I know Elsa digs it....

Haven't heard much about 'Ghost' lately. Is kinda weird, they released the album, a couple of videos, headed out on the road and really you are not hearing anything.... Leads me to think something might be up.. No word of anything on their official site or Twitter page...

It's humid as fuck and my back is killing me, also having intermittent shots of pain in my right wrist, kinda lose power in the fingers at the same time.... Oh well, at least it's not February and -40

Had A Little Chat With The lds Tonight.

Yes yes, the young lady's caught me just in time! I saw 'em coming. Young ladies, erm, wait, sorry, "Missionaries" for the church of jesus christ and the latter day saints, they of course were quite pleasant and she said, "We're missionaries for the LDS" and I said, 'I know' and she said, "You aware of who we are?" and I replied, 'Oh yes, I've been to Salt Lake City'. The younger one looked surprised and said, "That's where she's from".. Pointing at her partner. I said, 'Oh yes, I've been to temple and in the tabernacle'... Again, they both looked surprised and the one from Salt Lake said, "What did you think?" and I said, 'Well, I found it was like when I was in, more Quebec city and some places in Quebec, where catholcism was quite popular, that if felt very oppressive, ya know?'....

And before they could really, react or respond I said, 'Hey, you know the jehovah witness right? They've been down here as well in the evenings', the younger girl actually looked kinda nervous and looked down and up the path and said, "They, they are not here right now are they?" and I said, 'No, I haven't seen them tonight.... But I was thinking, ya know it'd be cool if you two fought it out (taking a fighting like stance)... You know, like a battle for souls...' and again, before they could really respond I quickly interjected, as the young one was starting to say something...'Well ladies, I'm a non believer, so we're done here, please have a great evening' and I heard the young one say right before I turned on my music again, "Would you at least take a card??"... and I replied 'No...' as I crossed the street.

What the fuck would I want a card for? I mean, sometimes I use them as bookmarks... I'm sure hoping I'll meet them again and take them to task on their beliefs. Of course I'm sure all the stuff I've read and seen is all anti-lds propaganda, but I've read the 'book of mormon' and I've seen the crazy with my own eyes in black and white... Much like the old testament of the bible... Sure, yes, there is some historical fact to the book (the bible, not the b.of.m.) but I mean crap 'god' was a testy son of a bitch eh? destroying the World, smiting people, turning them to salt, destroying entire cities and their populations... And the book of mormon.... 'jesus visited America, the natives are the lost tribe of Israel... Then there's all the whacko stuff about how 'Joseph Smith' came up with the whole thing...
It'll be fun! I wish I could record it somehow..Ohhh, just had an evil plan! I could record audio.... I mean, you hold out a phone, they are going to know somethin's up and if not speak at all, they'll definitely not be as candid.... Yes, yes,, I can feel it coming together already!

Well I just read that some jackass has chained himself to a tree in our 'Officer's Square'... For those not in the know. It's a beautiful park in downtown Fredericton that has a museum on it and was the original barracks (or at least one of them) for the city.
There's been a big cuffuffule over some remodeling of the park that's been planned.. Ok, I can agree to the side that says that the city, HAD a plan online or at least where the public could view it and did do some work to try and get feedback on what they had planned, but then when they went to go to work, it wasn't the same plan. And I agree, some of the historically old elm trees should stay.... But the ones that are dead, with Dutch elm disease, they can and should go. So this guy has chained himself to a DEAD fucking tree... On a windy day, some evening, maybe during an open air movie night, a huge branch comes off and impales a family...;. That'll be nice right? Be great stuff for promoting our tourism... I knew someone was going to do this... Not to a dead tree, but I knew someone was going to get ballsy and give their life for the trees! Silly silly huemahn... Annnd of course the city has all the webcams offline.....

Photo edited to preserve some kind of dignity... Photo by: Don McPherson

Cats..... Plus: Fire & Ice - Some more music to check out!

I get a snack ready and have a cup of milk and since Elsa usually will hop up on me and want some and I always give, so I fill the cup and set it down beside her... Does she drink it? Nope... Nice cold glass of milk.... She's hotter than hades... So I go and sit down, set the cup down on my stand and she of course hops up and wants some now that she's seen me having it.

Speaking of cats, I was lucky to run into one of the three cats that live at a house at the very end of Aberdeen street. Don't know their names, but the gray and white long haired one wasn't too hot to come greet me today. I think if cats know you respect them, they'll come to you. Almost every cat that friends have that say, "Oh she won't come to you, she doesn't like people", usually come right to me.
I got my respect for cats as a teen when I read a story by H.P. Lovecraft. The story, called 'The Cats Of Ulthar' is a great short tale.
It's about this ancient town and one day some mysterious strangers show up, in colorful wagons, painted with all kinds of odd and mystical symbols. The strangers arrive and make camp with their wagons.
Among the strangers is a child and the child spend his days playing and toying around with a playful kitten.
Now in this town, there lived in an overgrown property with a dilapidated house an elderly couple who despised the locals as much as the locals despised them... This crotchety old couple had been known around town to kill any pet that might wander aimlessly, innocently onto their property, but since they were such mean people, none of the townsfolk ever tried to stand up to them for this horrible act.
Night came and in the morning, when the town woke up, they were greeted by the strangers, who were very angry. That night, the boy had gone to bed and in the morning his kitten was gone. The strangers had looked all morning for the kitten and it was not found. The towns people were to blame the strangers said and then a robbed stranger came forth and uttered some words aloud as he waved his hands about, the clouds took to weird formations and the World grew dark... Then, in a flash, the strangers, the boy and the colorful wagons with weird and mystical symbols were gone.

That evening as the town prepared for sleep, no one could find their cats, they'd all disappeared, the small and large, all gone! The townsfolk figured this must be a curse that the strangers had cast upon the town as revenge for the young boy who was so distraught at the loss of his pet and companion....
And as for that kitten, many folk suspected that the young kitten had got out that evening and wandered into the yard of those mean and ignorant folk that were known to kill people's pets that wandered into their yard.

That night, under a full Moon, the town slept.....

In the morning, everyone was astonished to see that all of their cats had returned, but there was something odd, the cats were lazy and fat and had the look of a full meal upon them.... It was a mystery of how they vanished and then returned...

A few townsfolk had come forward to say that that night, after the strangers left, they could have sworn they saw a huge furry gang of felines sitting around the old decrepit folks home..

Keeping an eye on the place all day, they were surprised to see no signs of life in the house of the old spiteful ones... By the next day, still no movement, no sign of life, not even the night before were there any candles seen lit in the place... So some of the stronger men, gathering their courage for once... Went to call upon the old mean folk... They pounded on the door, no reply, they rapped again and again, checked the door and it came ajar... So they ventured in, cautiously... But no living soul was to be found, but in the center of the house, near the hearth they found the bones of the old couple... cleaned to the bone, not an ounce of flesh remained and they then knew why the towns cats had disappeared and then returned looking so fat and content....

That's pretty much the end and it's a 'Reader's Digest' condensed version I give here. For the full story, check out H.P. Lovecraft's 'The Cats of Ulthar'...

Man, I had the end of this blog post all ready in my mind. I had been listening on my walk to GWAR's 'Nitro Burning Funny Bong' and I had always thought that the song was a parody of an old '70's/'80's kids toy commercial for the 'Nitro Burning Funny Cars', I thought for sure they were the bigger toys that had like a 'rip-cord' that you slid through a bunch of gears, then when you 'ripped' it out the car would take off powered by that zipper system... But I put in Google, 'Nitro burning funny car commercial and got nothing, so I tried, Nitro funny cars, toys, Mattel... and still nothing.. Was it all a dream???

 Nitro Burning Funny Bong

Gwar

[Verse 1]

Ah, sweet youth

The joys of becoming a teenage prostitute

Or, in my case, a blood-crazed gladiator

'Til I got stuck on this planet and got hooked on the weed

And the crack and the booze and the pills and the speed

And the sex and the mud and the blood and the shit

Let's all go and hit

[Chorus]

I'm talkin' 'bout the

Nitro-burnin' funny bong

Just one hit, your life goes wrong

Nitro-burnin' funny bong

Another stupid stoner song

[Verse 2]

Fat and lame

The claws have been clipped and the tiger's been tamed

By a bong and a schlong

Yes, now we have all seen how games can go wrong

Now my brain's filled with bees, my cock is diseased

Laden with pus, it hangs well past my knees

A swarm of narcotics could get me through this

My manager's gonna be pissed

[Chorus]

I'm talkin' 'bout the

Nitro-burnin' funny bong

Nitro-burnin' funny bong

Nitro-burnin' funny bong

Nitro-burnin' funny bong

Ohhh

Can you take it?

Ohhh

Do a monster

Ohhh

Can you feel it?

We won't respect you unless you get high with the boys

[Verse 3]

Now I'm old

Strapped in my cell as I cultivate mold

In the twilight of my years, I am still a drug addict

I'm sucking all night long on a ten foot bong

Moistened with lotion, wrapped in a sarong

You know I live like a king, but I act like a maggot

You know

Once was a warrior, now just a sponge

High all the time, I got a dick like a muskellunge

My glorious destiny, it turned to shit

Can I get another hit?

[Chorus]

Nitro-burnin' funny bong

Nitro-burnin' funny bong

Nitro-burnin' funny bong

Nitro-burnin' funny bong

Ohhh

Can you take it?

Ohhh

Do a monster

Ohhh

Can you feel it?

We won't respect you unless you get high with the

Nitro-burnin' funny bong

Nitro-burnin' funny bong

Nitro-burnin' funny bong

Nitro-burnin' funny bong

(Nitro-burnin' funny bong

Nitro-burnin' funny bong

Nitro-burnin' funny bong

Nitro-burnin' funny bong)

Ohhh

Can you take it?

Ohhh

Do a monster hit

Copyright GWAR The Orchard Music (on behalf of Metal Blade Records); CMRRA, and 2 Music Rights Societies - 1999

For those sweatin' it out in the heat, here's a nice 'frosty' song from 'High On Fire'

Frost Hammer

High On Fire

Dream being thrown down aloft between from the icy sky

Careful what to seek for inside the frozen mind

Permaglaze reflects this world distant to the thawed life

Frost clan blows the war horn without a fear or guise

Messiah of the glacian heir cold born to rise

Sullen boots impact upon deep the tundra ice

Glorify your greatness, sealed deal cold compromise

Catch the sun to melt these forborne galactic eyes

Plateau of Leng

Winter in veins Hammers arise

To melt through the ice

Dream being thrown down aloft from the icy sky

Careful what to seek for inside the frozen mind

Permaglaze reflects this world distant to the thawed life

Frost clan blows the war horn without a fear or guise

Messiah of the glacian heir cold born to rise

Sullen boots impact upon deep the tundra ice

Glorify your greatness, sealed deal cold compromise

Catch the sun to melt these forborne galactic eyes

Plateau of Leng

Winter in veins

Hammers arise

To melt through the ice

Sail the seas of endless night

Despotic warlord casts his blight

Sons of the north abide

Frost child of abhorrent line

Feed the serpent, drink the wine

Granite heart, unrepentant

Frost hammer

Frost hammer

Frost hammer

Frost hammer

Plateau of Leng

Winter in veins

Hammers arise

To melt through the ice

Frost hammer

Copyright High On Fire 2010 - Koch Entertainment, SME (on behalf of E1 Music); UBEM, ole (Publishing), ASCAP, and 1 Music Rights Societies