Playlist

I'm not too sure what to write or to add for this installment but I thought that I should post up something anyways just to let everyone know I am alive and kicking!

Hey wait, how about my play list for this week? Not a bad idea! (and gee, it's music related .. what a shocker eh?!)

Jay's Playlist 1/31/05

1. "That's The way I Want My Rock and Roll" - AC DC
2. "Living After Midnight" - Judas Priest
3. "Over The Mountain" - Ozzy Osbourne
4. "30 Days In the Hole" - Kick Axe
5. "Madelaine" - Winger
6. "One More Try" - Brighton Rock
7. "Don't Turn Away" - Whitesnake
8. "F#9" - BulletBoys

And I just always forgot to add this to my "Cover To Cover" lists (and why I always forget about it is beyond me!) is the Fozzy rendition of song #2 on this list, "Over The Mountain" by Ozzy Osbourne.

Hmmmm ..

Ok, I just should add a note to the "Jayapalooza 2K5" set list. It should be noted that I had been working on that list for the last few days (and in particular the 21st of Januray as posted) and for some reason it posted the 21st instead of today's date. That should be my most recent posting actually.

Sorry as well for the lack of posting in between as well. I just for the life of me couldn't think of anything worth posting (except for maybe this here but does that count as entry? something to think about!). I'll work a little harder on getting stuff posted as frequently as I was before! :)

Jayapallooza 2005

I was just shifting through my mp3's and I thought of a pretty cool concert involving a few bands that I really like. Some I guess you can say are established "old school" bands and one is a up and coming band that I don't think many know about but should. Anyways, these bands are ones that I like and I suggest that you try listening to their music because you may end up liking maybe one or two of them (or hopefully all!). Some have the same sound and lyrical vibe to them but musically, how could you not want to see these all on the same bill?!

Here's the band list and set lists to "Jayapollooza 2005" (and let's hope Perry Ferrell doesn't sue me for title infringement!) and rock on!

311

"Do You Right"
"Transistor"
"Creatures For A Little While"
"Who's Got The Herb"
"What I Got"
"Down"

24-7 Spyz

"John Connelly's Theory"
"Grandma Dynamite"
"Love For Sale"
"Racisim"
"Break The Chains"
"Earth and Sky"
"Jungle Boogie"

Skindred

"Firing The Love"
"Drop"
Brainkiller"
World Domination"
"Pressure"
"Falling Down"

Living Color

"Pride"
"Funny Vibe"
"Ignorence Is Bliss"
"Glamour Boys"
"Solace Of You"
"Cult Of Personality"

Bad Brains

"At The Movies"
"Rock For Light"
"Rise"
"I Love Jah"
"The Big Take Over"
"Salin' On"
"Quickness"

Whoops .. there I go!

What a day I had yesterday.

I woke up at 9:30am for my Dr's appointment at 10:45am. My dad and I left about 10:20am just because the weather was so crappy from all the snow that fell earlier on in the morning and the plows hadn't been out yet. Anyways, I made it to my Dr's appointment on time and sat in the waiting room for about 20 minutes and then when I finally made it through the doors, I sat waiting in a examination room for 15 minutes. All in that 15 minutes I was sold on the fact that BOTOX is a great short term answer to the concept of aging and remove fine lines. Also too I managed to read some more real persuasive litterature on some skin cream that will take care of any skin problems and that UV rays are evil and that "this summer" (in January?) I could become a "SPF agent" by visiting "X" website.

It's kind of odd how you spend more time waiting than you do with your actual doctor. All my doctor did was wander in, she gave me my results (nothing to worry about!) and the treatment and WHIZBANG! I was out the door in less that 9 minutes. I mean, what the heck? no shooting the crap and asking how I am before we got to my results? Sheesh! Anyways I was out the door in no time.

This is the portion of the day that has made a few people laugh at my misfortune. I wind up leaving the main doors and my dad heads to the car to warm it up. All I hear is my dad say "go slow!" and I do .. I heed his advice and I proceed VERY slooooooowly down the wooden stairs. So as I watch my steps I suddenly feel my feet get taken out from under me. I think the best way to describe it is lik ethe Looney Tunes cartoons where the famed bannana peel is on the ground and the bad guy runs across it and they slip and slide and wind up on their keishters. Well, guess who did it this time? Yep! ME! I slid down two wooden stairs and landed flat on my butt and looking up at the eavestroph amidst blowing snow for a few seconds. Thankfully Dad didn't see anything but needless to say my a++ hurt!

So I got into the car, my butt hurting and off to Westmount Mall to replace a pin in my watch I lost. With the pin in my watch and not hanging by one sole pin we went grocery shopping. As we got to the grocery store it never ceases to amaze me how people can be so lazy and not bring their carts back to where they got them to start with. I mean, how hard is it to bring something back? is it that much more of a inconvenience towards you? what's the deal, man?

Finally we get home and it's time to bring the groceries into the house. Mind you though the plows had come in and done our parking lot so getting in and out was kind of a stretch. So I get out of the car, grab the two items I can carry and make my way up the snow bank and towards the front porch. Of course though a flashback of a mere short while ago at my Dr's was replayed in mind and .. well .. twice in one day .. yep! I fell on my keishter twice in a day. However though I am thankfull that a 12 pack of Diet Mountain Dew and a large variety box of yummy hot Oatmeal was there to break my fall!

What a day it was and my left cheek still smarts 24 hrs after the fact!

It's the .. EYE OF THE TIGER!

I just downloaded some tracks from the 1982 rock (in my opinion anyways) classic album "Eye Of The Tiger" by the band Survivor. It's amazing to me how these songs sound after all of some odd 20 years of not having heard them. The last I did hear that album was around 1984 so it's been awhile since it's graced my record player. But after dowloading a few tracks something occured to me .. it's amazing now to hear them in digital format instead of the crackling and scratched vinyl format that I own it on and to listen to them in their full stereo beauty. Some songs have never sounded so good or better!

The only sad part is that I don't have the tracks that I love most from that album and they are: "Feels Like Love" and "Hesitation Dance". I tried Limewire again to see if anything would show up but to no avail and where I got the tracks to begin with, on WinMx after several attempts again to get them again have proved to be useless. I suppose that I'll have to check my TRACK system at work and order the album through work (assuming the CD is still available). The tracks that I DID get are:

"Eye Of The Tiger"
"The One That Really Matters"
"I'm Not That Man Anymore"
"Children of The Night"
"Silver Girl"

Not bad! Just not the tracks I wanted but it's a start anyways. I should note that I'm not complaining that I can't get the tracks that I want online and that I'm going to most likely have to order the CD. It's just the fact that I have had these two songs running through my mind for the past few years is kind of annoying me and for nostalgia's sake I would so love to crank them up and revisit that part of my youth all over again.

I need to say too that on the back of the album there was a picture of guitarist Frankie Sullivan wearing a leather jacket. From my earliest recolections I can say that was the picture that inspired me to want to have a leather jacket (with the exception of the guys in Motley Crue or any other hair metal band of the day) just because Frankie stood there smiling with his leather jacket and his black and white stripped t shirt. Don't ask me why but it just screamed "bad ass" and oddly enough I did get my first leather jacket .. well kind of .. a vinyl jacket from my then babysitter who was a motorcycle riding kind of guy (and was also one heck of a River Raid player for the ol' Atari 2600!)

(Frankie is to the left of vocalist Jim Jamison, the dude in the red coat)

It was nice to hear what I found anyways and go down memory road. It may sound hokey by today's standards that's for sure but it still sounds like music that I fell in love with back in 1982. It's amazing what the music of our youth will do and what memories will flood back with it.

And on a total side note, if ANYONE owns the CD and can hook me up with those tracks PLEASE get in touch with me!

I wonder ...

Just like Ansj241 I got this survey off my dear and close friend ~*Silky*~ . I thought that I would try my luck as well and see where I scored in the undermentioned categories. Whether or not if I scored my responses right I don't know, but I did find the results very interesting however!

Here they are ..

You scored as Musical/Rhythmic. You are sensitive to sounds in your environment, enjoy music and prefer listening to music when you study or read. You learn best through melody and music. People like you include singers, conductors, composers, and others who appreciate the various elements of music. Musical/Rhythmic 89% Bodily/Kinesthetic 68% Verbal/Linguistic 64% Intrapersonal 61% Visual/Spatial 46% Interpersonal 36% Logical/Mathematical 29% The Rogers Indicator of Multiple Intelligences created with QuizFarm.com

All I can say is ... interesting!

For Shizzoing Your Nizzo To!

A song that Ansj241 and I like and now we can finally get the words right when we try to freestyle it!

J's to the izzay!

A whole new meaning ..

This will kind of makes you look at any of the Super Mario Brothers games a little more differently now.

I was laughing really good at this and thought that you all would get a kick out of it. My thanks goes to Lewi for providing me with the link and thanks a million buddy!

Let's Talk About The Weather

I must say that right now we are having some strange weather. I had just checked the weather network website and it said a moment ago that it was about +12 degrees celcius outside (I'm sure you're wondering why I am up at 5:14am though .. can't sleep .. that's about it!). So to verify this claim, I grabbed my new leather jacket and sat out on the front porch and took in the windy conditions and looked up at the sky and saw a spattering of stars up in the early morning sky.

I did however though find it odd that within a week we went from freezing and frigid weather to what feels like spring like weather. It's hard to fathom that because as I mentioned in a previous blog, myself, Ansj241 and Artsy all went skating and it was pretty cold last Saturday night. What's more amazing too is that the snow that I had been cursing up and down about and having to roll through is almost non exsistant. It felt really nice to take the long way home from the Palasad last night and just be able to roll and listen to my mp3 player and rock out and just enjoy the weather. It felt nice to roll without my jacket on as well (which I guess must have stunned whoever saw me rolling about thinking "is he nuts?" .. no comments please, I already know I'm nuts!)but the sole drawback were the wet gloves that I had when I got home. Sure it's a small price to pay but one I am willing to pay nonetheless!

I can't believe it's going to rain heavily all day with the chance of a thunderstorm today too and go up to +13 (that's what the weather network channel says but there is a discrepency between the website and the channel .. odd .. who do I believe?!) and then get down to about +4 by evening time and then about -6 on Saturday. It's hard to wrap my head around that this is happening in January and that it's been warm for the past two (or will be two anyways) days. Maybe it's that whole Global Warming trend that's throwing things out of whack. Or maybe it's just the way the high and low pressure systems have been going. I have no idea what to make of it. Oh well, it was a nice relief to the usual drudgery that has become winter and that the REAL spring is only 3 months away! :)

Now that I am refreshed from the wind blowing .. great .. I can't sleep! :|

Coolness!

How cool is this?

And I can safely say that I have now seen almost everything Transformers related. Also, I never pictured Soundblaster to be able to do the moves he does. What about Blaster? Why didn't they involve him?! Either way it's cool. Check it out! :)

A first?

Tonight I did something that I hadn't done since I was probablly about five or so and never thought that I would do again.

Tonight with my pal Ansj241 and his girlfriend Artsy I went skating. Well, not skating, skating in the traditional (or normal?) sense but as close to a semblence of it as I could be able to given my physical condition and/or abilities.

Just how did I do it? very simple. All I did was roll my wheelchair onto the ice and propelled myself forward as I would normally roll. All I did was in between rolls is let my momentum take me and use my hips to guide me in any direction (or maybe trick?) that I can go or do. Sure I had to contend with all the (and I use this term loosely) "hockey players" who were cluttering up the ice by being inconsiderate at times of other less able or younger skaters. It was probablly one of the most exhilerating feelings that I had ever had or experienced in my life and one that made me feel like I was physically able to do it again. I enjoyed being pushed by Artsy at full speed (and boy can she fly!) and being the support rail for Ansj241 (which I think I did a pretty good job of if I may say so myself .. THREE CHEERS FOR SPATCH!).

It was an enjoyable experience nonetheless and one I hope to do again with Ansj241 and Artsy some time soon. Thank you you two for inviting me and making it a wonderful evening last night.

Oh, on a total side note. I can guarantee that the next time we do go there will be pictures posted afterwards. It was one of those things that I thought of when I got to the ice pad and went "ah crap!". Hopefully when there are pictures there won't be as many of Jason flat on his butt! :P

Brrr .. baby brrr ..

Hooooey ... that's cold out there!

I just got home from seeing Martin Scorsese's newest film "The Aviator" which is based on (or about) the life of US billionaire Howard Hughes.

It was a interesting story to say the least. It was interesting to see how a man with so much money and such creativity could do so much. This is a man who revolutionised the aeronautical industry (and made films about aeroplanes)through ensuring that there is no one set airline company to service the world (and skies) and also developed the areoplane technologies that we have today. Also too it showed the other side when towards his later years in life (most notably after and how he dealt with his excentricities and also his developing mental illness (which I believe was schizophrenia or perhaps a mental breakdown?)that followed.

It's a great story but the sole drawback is the length. The film runs at about 3hrs so it's a little long for a biopic I think. I guess too for the period of Hugh's life it's hard to miss the important parts too since they cover his relationship with Audrey Hepburn and it was (or so I can gather) a significant portion of his life.

So check it out if or when you can. I didn't really know too much about the man but I came away from the film realizing what he meant to avionics.

Oh yes, I forgot, another cool feauture out the film is the musical appearance of one Rufus Wainright III (he plays a 1930's singer at Coconut Grove and does a pretty cool song!).

And on a total side note .. man .. 3 months till spring .. hurry up getting here .. please! :)

GOLD

What a great day for the country. What a great moment of national pride. What a great time to be a Canadian and a already great feel good story for a early 2005.

Some may not know but last night the major junior Canadian hockey team defeated the Russians in the final 6-1 to claim their first GOLD medal in junior men's hockey since 1997. This makes up for last year's meltdown against the US when Canada was leading in last years Gold medal game but only to see the lead and victory slip away (the Marc Andre Felury rebound mean anything to anyone?). It was just so rewarding to watch what I feel is undoubtedly the greatest junior team that our country had ever assembled and sent to these World junior hockey championships.

I guess too it was nice to win the gold on US soil but it was equally as amazing to know (and hear!) that the support for the Canadian team was there since it was in Grand Forks North Dakota (which is 2hrs south of Winnipeg) this year. I suppose to in some ways they were all "home" games since the majority of the fans who did attend the games were Canadian (it was said some came from as far as the East Coast for a few and the next closest was Regina in Saskatchewan) and helped make the tournament a success.

No matter what they made us all proud and even for about two weeks people were able to rally around a team of young men who played hard and represented our country well.

Congratulations to our boys .. you made us proud!

"Now listen up, she's razor sharp ... "

OH HELL YEAH!

April 26th 2005

I was so ticked off when the tour dates were announced and London wasn't even on the list of places that they were coming to. I mean, how can Whitesnake,Vince Neil and (of all bands!)Dokken, Yes and Dream Theater come to London (you can say Cher but who gives a crap about her?) but THE Motely Crue wouldn't? All I could think was "what's up with that?".

So as you can imagine I am one happy camper at this moment. I am thinking that if it's within the budget I will be sure to pick up tickets this Saturday. Mind you though I don't work on Saturday but I'll see if I can book Para and take a jaunt up to Masonville and get my tickets. I will say too that it's nice to see these tickets are far cheaper than the Metallica ones in October (I'd have seen Metallica if they were cheaper and put aside my loathing for their newer music .. *gag*) at the JLC. You know, I am also wishing too that Steely Dan and Van Halen would make stops here as well. I mean, it's a long shot that the almighty 'Dan and 'Halen would stop here but it never hurts to dream right? I know I'd love that but I somehow think that is happening any time soon.

But at this moment though I am 100% thrilled. A band that I was a fan of as a kid is coming my way in their big "farewell" tour. I hope these guys don't stay on the road as long as Cher has been in her apparent "farewell" tour also. How long has this been? two years for Cher? Enough already Cher! Anyways, not a bad thing to come home to after being away for almost two weeks over the holidays don't you think?

Right now though, happiness is ... Motely Crue in April!