Media Overload & Adventures In Snicelandia Part IV

Man, yesterday.. So much media!! First the Cohen testimony, which it's always entertaining to watch those, so much division and politics, crime and lies... Then, the whole Jody Wilson-Raybould fiasco, of course the media leading up to her testimony AND then, while that's going on, Alex Jones returned to Joe Rogan's show!
Now Alex Jones is a fucking nutball and I guess over the last while, Alex Jones has been ripping into Rogan on Jones' ever dwindling in viewers show 'Info Wars'.... To be honest, I used to watch Info Wars nightly...Not because I'm 'Alt-Right' but because the guy is totally off his fucking rocker and.. well, it's like the Howard Stern movie, when Stern's listener numbers are skyrocketing and the WNBC management can't figure out why... So they polled the listeners and such and such a % tuned in to "see what he'd do next"... Because back then, Stern was crazy off the wall with gags radio never even imagined someone would try to pull off.... Well that's why I watched Jones' show, just to see what that fucking idiot would do next lol..
Last night he did not disappoint... Ranting, raving, about aliens, the elite eating babies, One World gov black ops, spitting, spattering, waving his arms, frothing at the mouth... At points Rogan was under his desk laughing his ass off... But it was a lot of media to take in for one night lol

Here's another short installment of Snicelandia, we have got more snow since the last episode... Tomorrow and the next few days are supposed to be awesome.

Hopefully get some great footage of the local land tomorrow, it's 'supposed' to be beautiful out... We'll see!

What the Hell??

I got an email from Crackbook saying that yesterday's post "Went against their bla bla bla".... But it does not indicate in ANY way whatsoever WHAT about the post was 'wrong'.... How can I know 'not to do it again' if I don't know WHY they didn't post it????

Was it the music videos? Was it the opening statement? I don't think I even used much profanity in that one. Redonkulous... Maybe I'll just cut FB right out of the equation altogether, no doubt many of you who do read my blog will not know when I've posted new one's... But why should I be censored by FB? I didn't write anything racist, sick, perverse or disgusting...

Super freaking cold weather until Thursday, 'high' today with the windchill factored in, with these pretty strong winds from the Northeast, is like -22, in the height of the afternoon!

Tomorrow will be no better. With lows tonight down to -30 again. I was reading an article on this weather yesterday and they were saying based on future forecasting, it's looking like below normal temperatures for the rest of March... Or for March, since it's not really March yet.

I went out yesterday and got everything I'd need until Thursday, which they say will have -3 as a 'high'... And again, IF, the North wind be a blowing, that can drag a -3 down to near -10.

Here's some 'fun' Spring 'facts'!

3 Days left until Spring 

12 Days left until we switch back to Daylight Savings Time

22 Days left until "March bloom" - Whatever the fuck that means...

Stay warm my friends!

SnIcelandia Pt.II or III .... Who knows!? And Some 'Ned's Atomic Dustbin'

Holy chickenmonkeyduck.com! -30 tonight... Goddamn it this Province! We might as well start speaking Norwegian or something, god knows we're gonna have Winter's as long as brutal as theirs now... Maybe worse.

Here's some footage of the aftermath of the 'snowstorm'....

'Ned's Atomic Dustbin' from the UK, were one of my favorite bands from the early 1990's, 'new wave' of British Alt-Rock'... The band having two bass players, given them a 'lead' and 'rhythm' bass, was an interesting and to me, a captivating sound... Their 'claim to fame' was covering the Bay City Roller's 'Saturday Night' on the 'So I married an axe murderer' soundtrack, but I always felt that killed their career.. But I loved the band way way before that.
It's not crazy heavy or a brutal assault to the ears, so check 'em out.

'Walking Thru Syrup'

'Not Sleeping Around'

'Happy'

Holy Farc it's messy outside! Crazy winds, loose snow from last night, temperature is falling through the floor.. God I HATE Winter's here!

'Jerkface' The Wonder Squirrel Returns! & The Snow Storm That Wasn't

Yes, that damn tree rat, the one who tries to impress me by walking like a huemahn, returned this morning... Although I'm pretty sure he's been around on my front steps previous to our encounter this morning.....

I had a dream this morning that I was stabbing cats with a knife.... I had spent most of the day and evening watching documentaries on Norwegian Black Metal and I had watched 'Lords of Chaos' the night before and in that movie, members of the Norwegian Black Metal pioneers, 'Mayhem' were chasing cats to shoot them... So I dunno if that's where the 'cat stabbings' entered into my subconscious.

I have never and would never harm a feline. Cats are highly intelligent and wondrous creatures... Let's put it this way, I'd never harm any animal, well except maybe IF I had to hunt on my own for survival, but even then, I'd not harm cats or dogs.

Ok, so, the 'snow storm', yeah the one with up to 30cm of snow? Well it was 'forecast' to begin around Noon, no snow, then around 1PM, no snow.. Then 2PM.. flurries... The wind has picked up a bit, but only intermittent flurries thus far... Which is great, because we really don't need anymore snow...

Weather warnings remain in place..... Who knows how much it'll snows......

Teaser Clip From The Recording Studio

Local musician Josh Sangster and I, singing on the same, yet different sounding track?

What's going on here!? Stay tuned!

Want another big surprise? Are you sure? Heyyyy, we're supposed to get between 20-30cm of snow tomorrow through Monday! Just what we needed, more snow! The winds will be at around 40K they say, like max gust sorta thing.

I'll be betting 'Buddy' my chipmunk out back here will be sure glad I had fed him most of the peanuts last Spring through to Fall... Guy was probably burning peanuts for heat, he could afford it, trust me.

Weather warning:
Significant snowfall is expected for most of New Brunswick starting
Sunday afternoon and ending Monday morning.

A low pressure system will approach from the west on Sunday and track across southern New Brunswick Sunday night reaching the Gulf of St. Lawrence Monday morning.

Snow will begin over western areas early Sunday afternoon and spread to the remainder of the province by late Sunday afternoon. Snow will become heavy at times Sunday evening and, combined with gusty southeasterly winds, will cause reduced visibilities in blowing snow, especially over exposed areas. Snow is expected to become mixed with ice pellets Sunday evening over southern regions. Snow will taper to flurries Monday morning.

Snowfall amounts of 20 to 30 cm are expected over northern regions while 15 to 20 cm are forecast for southern sections. [And we're just about between both]

Only 6 Days until Spring 2019!

The Recording Session [Complete... As in 'Finished]

Josj Sangster picked me up just after 1 and we were off to Nasonworth to the studio. It wasn't a 'snowstorm' today and when we were heading out it wasn't really snowing, but the roads were not THE greatest, worse on the way back probably.
Josh went first (as his vocal part is before mine) and I recorded him laying down his tracks. He's got a fantastic voice. You can check out his Bandcamp page here:

https://joshsangster.bandcamp.com/

After we heard his track played back, I was up at bat and Josh recorded my part. It was pretty quick, it's not a long song and we're just doing vocals.

I kinda shot myself in the foot. See, my DSLR camera, the files it makes are big and kick ass in quality dept.. When I've been doing video that have those files, I've been doing with them with Windows MovieMaker. It's a simple video editing program and it fits my needs BUT it doesn't seem to dig the DSLR camera files... I've had MANY a editing session, even with saving, where all of sudden EVERY file flips to be "Corrupt"... And HOURS of editing is down the drain... SO I'm a little leery to try and edit something together..... And the RAW videos, well that'd just be unprofessional and I'd rather kinda just be a 'teaser' video than flopping out the whole thing...

I do have some 'powerful' editing software but it's LOL kinda overkill and a bit intimidating to use... I'll see what I can do... Didn't take any photo's except this one:

I'm 'nervous' about the recording studio. I always have been. Despite being somewhat technically inclined, I've never felt at home in a studio, it's not MY domain, my place has been onstage or practicing... In the studio, it's a different animal and you can't 'hold' the mic, live you can bounce around the fucking place... But in the studio, I feel like I've been shackled down and it's always been difficult for me to channel the 'power' and produce the 'voice' I do live. I have always kinda felt I can't ask questions, which I know is wrong.
But today was a bit different, it was all different actually. With the band, of course you've written, rehearsed, played your song inside and out by the time you hit the studio (at least in the format I've always followed) it's a well oiled piece. This time, the music is all done, there's vocals on the demo I've learned from, so I actually had a couple ideas, for not just my part by Josh's too. I was happy I voiced those 'thoughts' as they were put to use. As for my part, I've got the 'after recording doubts'... 'Did I do good enough?' 'Can I do better?'. But I'll wait for the first mix... I don't think I bombed, I think I did very well and IF for some reason the mixes don't sit with me, we've been asked to let him know and I can go back or Josh can. But I think it'll be fine. It's natural to feel the way I do and with recording as 'easy' as it is today, it's no problem to do a million takes if you need to get it right. Back in the day, when it was 'tape', you were paying through the teeth and by the hour usually and so it was pressure to get it done right in as quick as time possible.
When we recorded 'Spread Your Wings' with Jake Duffie, I'd be getting sent mixes from Jake, but then every so often there'd be a "new solo mix" and it was like, 'Wait a second? Who's re-doing their solos?' lol... And Jamie was 'sneaking in' and upgrading his solos and it was like, 'You know, you have to just settle and be happy with it at some point'.. That's the way it's gonna go down on the record and unless it's something REALLY, REALLY bad, it's just GNAWING at you, ok, but otherwise.. It's DONE! lol.

Now, to video or not video!

Snicelandia & Recording News?

Yes, yes my friends... I've named many Winter videos this season as 'Icelandia'... But since we got tons more snow than ice, I've combined the words to create: 'Snicelandia'! Snow/Ice/Landia!

Might be hard to discern in the video, but tomorrow, rain, snow or shine... But it'll be snow.. I'll be heading to a recording studio with a local musician, that's quite well known, to record some vocals for a local band that's quite well known... I've been practicing my butt off all week for this.
Why all the secrecy? Why not!

Stay tuned!