Hello Folks, Fans and Freaks!

Dr.Jay Cole here, writing to you from the sweltering heat of Ottawa Ontario. The Humidity is INSANE! and since humidity is relative, there is no way of explaining this heat with mere words, it is truly something you must experience first hand to understand.

As a valid member of the East Coast, I have never experienced anything like this before coming to Ontario. We are basically trapped in a valley of heat. Thankfully, we have a few weeks of Music Festival to attend, drink beer, and keep cool. Yes, I am speaking of the stage toppling Bluesfest, (where only 1% of the artists are actually playin ‘the blues’)

And so, two Saturdays past, myself with DJ Sir K, attended the festivities. As you all know, Dr.Jay is a champion of ‘The Truth’ and sometimes kids, when you attend a music festival you tend to get “fucked up”. And yes, we got royally “Fucked Up” that evening.

After rolling around through the party grounds, waiting 1/2hr for Erika Badu to join the stage, listening to the weird sounds and visuals of Sphongle’s psychedelic experience, and rocking out to The Tragically Hip for the first time, we rolled our asses back home.

At this point, I thought it would be great to setup all the equipment and gear for The Jerk Off Hour ahead of time, so that I could sleep in the next day before my guest was to arrive at the regularly scheduled time of 3pm. Little did I know, I had re-scheduled the show for an earlier airtime of 12 noon! And yes, at 12 noon my guest, and hopefully still good friend Troy Neilson, was banging on my door and txting me whilst i slumbered peacefully inside, oblivious to anything from the outside world.

I woke up at 2pm that day, i had breakfast and prepared my notes for the show. 3pm came, Troy is a very punctual person and so when it was 3:15 i began to worry, i grabed my cell phone to check if Troy had msg’d me and yes, there were two msg’s from him! the first said “I’m ten minutes away!” and the second said “I’m knocking on your front door!”
I immediatly ran to the front door, swung that shit wide open, and nothing. I glanced back at the txt msg to see that it had been sent at 12 noon whilst i slumbered. Sad face.

The following Saturday… Again, with Sir K and also with Joe MacEachern, we attended more Bluesfest! This night was simple, one show, Janes Addiction. But could we stop from getting royally fucked up? Oh Hells No! Not only did we get royally blitzed at Bluesfest, but afterwards, we went to another night club in town (Because bluesfest is over at 11pm when the City’s noise curfew comes into effect)

A lady friend of Sir-K’s had invited him to this venue. We arrived at Babylon on Bank Street, one of the best bars in town if you ask me, and we went inside. At this point, I ran into an old friend of mine from last summer, Britain, and bought the lovely lady a drink, or two, i cant remember… She asked if i was here for the show, and I had no idea what show or what was happening at this place, and she explained that it was a Burlesque show with Dj’s spinning in the background. To top it all off, it was also a “No Pants Party” and so everyone was in either shorts, boxers, underwear (yes, tighty whities) and the ladies were in panties/bra’s, short shorts, short skirts etc… It was hard to tell who was a burlesque dancer on stage, and who was a regular event attendee. Needless to say… it was WICKEDBAD!

The next day we found ourselves still awake, with a sleep talking friend passed out on the couch. And so, again as 3pm rolled around, we were in absolutely NO position to be talking to anyone out there in the public realm. And trust me, the entire episode would have been all “uhhh…” and “uuummmm….” and quite frankly, we don’t want to sound like retards on the radio.

So kids, if you are going to get royally blitzed in any way shape or form the night before you have an important radio show to attend, please think twice before you lose your guests trust, and the following of your fans!

I am currently dog sitting one my favorite dogs, Indica! And so I will be kept in line and forced to live a normal, scheduled, routined life for a few days, and hopefully Indy will keep me in line! Nothing like a 200lb Rotty to do that!

This week, on Sunday at 3pm, we have Mat Archer aka BassMonk dropping in to leave us with a taste of what Ottawa has deliver on the Trance/hiphop front lines.

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Peace, love, and happyness-ness.
Dr.Jay Cole

Hello Folks Fans and Freaks!

Today I want to talk about my new band, Dirty Intuition. It is made up of myself, iNTUiT, and Dj Dirty Dane. We are both from Halifax representing that east coast vibe. My lyrical wisdom is put to work on this new album, exploring relationship issues I’ve had in my life while Dane pumps out the craziest Dub, DnB and Hiphop beats ever to come out of Nova Scotia!

Here is a sample of what we have made so far:

Enjoy!
Dr.Jay Cole

Hello folks fans and freaks!

My job in the big city of Ottawa has ended and it’s now time for another adventure! Where this world will take me I have no idea! I have my passport in hand and a whole slew of credentials backing me up! However, don’t forget that I am always available as a freelance writer for hire! I can do my own photography and graphic design as well. If interested send emails to dr.jaycole@gmail.com

This weeks story involves a passage through time. We in Canada have no history in comparison with the other side of the world with all their green pastures and whatnot. We have modern wooden and plastic homes that are built to fail us. We have no ruins, no ancient architecture and no structural artifacts have been discovered buried under sands. This leads me to my question, while Rome was being built, what were the people here doing? How come the tribes didnt build pyramids like in Mexico? Why were no roads made? Was life all about living WITH the earth as opposed to living ON the earth? I think yes. It seems our societies these days just don’t care about the ol earth anymore. We cut down trees, plant new trees, cut them down again, pinching, pulling, and pissing all over her. It’s no great wonder that we are plagued with monsoons, tsunamis’s, tidal waves, flooding, pestilence and disease. If Karma is real, and I faithfully believe her to be a real mean ol bitch of a thing, then we totally deserve everything we get thrown at us. From oil spills in the ocean to moving mountains and diverting natural waterways, we have been poking and prodding at our great mother for far too long, and soon my friends it is bound to happen that she twitches at the pinches and wipes us clear. I’m not gonna mention 2012, woops, I just did!
All in all,there have been hundreds of these “End of the world” scenarios played out over our time, and also through our parents times and none have yet to come true. This “big one” however, is so huge that it has to make you think for a moment, “Could it be real?”
Could the end of the world as predicted by the Mayans be more hooplah, or could it be true, even metaphorically? Perhaps the world doesn’t end in the sense that all life is obliverated, but maybe something else will happen that will hinder our current earthly views on “the way it is supposed to be”.

I’m not into spurting lame facts and timelines at you, so you can do your own research and we shall leave todays’ rant on that down-note.

Peace,
Dr. Jay Cole

Hello folks, fans and freaks!

Today’s story is in reverse; where I will attempt to tell the story of how Doctor Reverend Jason Cole came to be. Enjoy!

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The adventure is far from over but for now I am quite content with the beautiful woman who loves me and signing my name everywhere I go as Doctor Reverend Jason C. Cole.

I now patiently await the arrival of my official doctorate papers after already receiving my ordination papers from The Universal Life Church in Modesto California who offer many valuable online courses to their members.

For years I had been unknowingly writing about the study for which I now hold a degree. Metaphysics is the study of existing, and it had caught my attention while searching through The ULC’s website.
You see, I wanted more credentials because being an english teacher and signing my name as Reverend Cole was not enough for me. It had taken only three days for an actual human at the ULC to approve my ordination. I was looking at their Church because I had learned through Wikipedia that Dr. Hunter S. Thompson had aquired his Doctorate through The Universal Life Church back in the 70’s and I wanted one.

After learning more from the wiki article I was reminded of the movie staring Bill Murray titled “Where The Buffalo Roam”; Muray would take on the role of Hunter’s likeness. That along with these other great films: Breakfast with Hunter, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and Depp’s documentary “Gonzo: The Life and Times of Thompson” were downloaded and watched repeatedly. I had been researching Thompson because I knew not much of the man who I considered a Hero. That all happened after I had been thinking back to my years as a jackass stumbling around drunk and high during College, and I had also seen some new pictures posted online from Halloween where I dressed as Dr. Thompson.

My Blog had been a huge success with people beginning to click around like madd on my lists of idiosyncracy’s (These are things I had observed in the past such as cleaning the house, showering, or wasting time). I had posted some of these old writings online after opening the vaults and digging them out.
Each week I have been writing something new in the Blog relating to the universe around me. At first it was a great success amongst my friends and family only. The blog came into existence after a need for an outlet because my songwriting had decreased exponentially.
Entertainment was now the strict purpose for music as I had no longer wanted it to reflect myself or my own beliefs and morals.

There was definitely a newfound dislike of the music industry brewing inside of me and I needed to sever all ties to who I really am deep inside from the character I played on stage.
All of this free time I had was spent in New Brunswick after graduating from the TESOL Course. I had needed time to re-group and figure out some life issues. I had attended the course in Halifax Nova Scotia that enables me to Teach English to Speakers of Other Languages, although I cannot teach in an institution in Canada without further degrees, I can teach private tutoring here or teach fulltime overseas.

“Oh. Thanks friend, and I’m not acting!” a stumbled jargon of words loosed from my lips however vaguely discernable after one was heard remarking “Wow man! You’ve realy captured the character!”
I had been at a house party when I stumbled through a crowd of drunk and stoned freaks making my way to the kitchen to mix more pirate juice with eggnog.
The character compliments came due to my ensemble of flowered shirts, a smoke holder, aviators,
and a shaved horseshoe hair-cut in my head that was covered by a white fedora.
A few weeks earlier a friend had mentioned that I should dress as Thompson for Halloween of 2009 where I was visiting old roomates in Ottawa, Ontario.

Five years had passed and during that time I had managed to write a fiction novel and finally be content with it. Previous short stories would always wind up in a dead end or written into a corner. At first I only wrote more songs, but I had made a descision to break free from the confines of music and explore words and language with indepth writing experiments. With music, there were always many limitations and after college, iNTUiT was the only one to develop my writing skills.

My college years ended off with a project on Ralph Steadman who was Thompsons good friend and illustrator. It only made sense that I had discovered the writing works of Hunter S. Thompson during the years when I worked on building my Graphic Design portfolio along side Journalism students in college.
In my early twenties, I had found that pushing it to the brink of no-return seemed to be the way of life in my city of Moncton, New Brunswick. I was fascinated with the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and how they pushed the limits. All this because I was a musician trying to live the dream of Sex, Drugs, and Rock n Roll. Stage performances were done by iNTUiT, he is an alter ego I had created because I had developed a mild case of stage fright in school and the new found love of writing had been spawned from within
when a change occured, and I had started writing song lyrics during lunch breaks in high school with a good friend instead of doing artwork.

My art had gone on for years and would continue for years to come. I wasn’t like the other kids. I did not get involved in sports, or go outside very often due to a developing of asthma and allergies at an early age.
Drawing would always be a large part of my life. I went through rolls upon rolls, books upon books, and crates of looseleaf. I started drawing at the early age of three after being urged to use the equipment donated. My father didn’t have a great deal of money to take us out on adventures and imigination would take reign. Pens, pencils, and paper had been sent to my father in New Brunswick from my Grandmother during her time at the base where she had access to an abundance of stationery supplies. She worked at a military base in the nearby town of Shearwater while living in Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia until 2008 when she passed.

Thanks for the talent Nan, I know you are smiling down.
God Rest Your Soul.

Peace \ /
Dr. Reverend Jason Cole

Hello folks, fans and freaks!

Much apologies for the delay in writing. The Vacation is officially over and the grind stone is inching its way nearer to my nose with every breath that is exhaled from these recently un-potted lungs. No, it’s not a new years resolution, I don’t make those. I have however in the last month stopped smoking weed all day every day, and now only have a puff now and then during social gatherings. I have stopped craving it naturally as a great deal of joy has entered my life and replaced what the sweet sweet cheeba could only try to imitate. I’m talkin bout Love baby!

It has been a great year! 2009 will be remembered as the year I grew up and came into my own. Old back-monkeys were shed, new friends were made, new healthy lifestyle choices were made, schooling accomplishments, excellent adventures through the wilderness, old friendships rekindled and a great deal of personal growth. Let’s have 2010 be just as active, challenging and interesting with all the latest options out there!
As for now, I’m still in Halifax! Life is strange and it throws you a curve sometimes, and this time they are sexy curves! In an effort to keep these twists and turns on the up and up, I’ll be focusing on the grande hustle this year. There are goals of records to be released, writings to get published, and a trip to Mexico!
Christmas was great! (2k later!) I spent it with my sweetheart and her family in The Valley and then rocked a show at The Cage in Moncton, NB on Boxing Day after visiting with my Mom in Shediac.
New years eve was spent looking fabulous, dressed to the nine, at Victors on Spring Garden! What a great bar! I love it there, I’m sad to say that we left after the countdown and stumbled over to The Coconut Grove (an entire wall of mirror is only cool in a strip club! Get that shit outta there!)
This leads me to todays rant, what is up with these bars in town who move in, give it a new name, and then do NOTHING for the decor? Why can you move into a place and leave it the same old grubby way it always was and promote it as a “New Bar” in town?
I’m rather pissed about it, as well as the lack of constant upgrades this city has. Why does nothing change? These bars and pubs and clubs are staying around for a long time and they are raking in the cash, yet nothing get updated inside of the venue. Why not upgrade the stages and sound systems and the decorations on a regular basis like they do in other cities? My guess would be that greed is a factor. Greed seems to be the main factor in why anything sucks these days. It is why our food is over sized, juicy and colorful but has no nutrients, it is why our healthcare system only looks at the symptoms and not the causes and why our neighbors don’t smile anymore. Greed is ruling this world in a way that has never been seen before. But what happens when just one man has all of the eggs in his one large basket? Will money be worth anything anymore if nobody has any? Can we then start to trade grains of sand from the beach instead? We’ll carry around satchels on our waists with grain counters on our belts and purchase our smoke and brew with dirt as money will not be worth anything once it’s all gone. Has this always been the point of money, to get it all? Like Pokemons? Or will we start sharing again and lend our hands to our neighbors with no questions asked or thoughts of what they might do for us later on? If we just all help one another, all the time, we would always be helping, and we too would always be getting help. Imagine if only the people in your own apartment building or on your own street would help each other with one thing today, there would be a “Helping Time” set aside each day of the week the same way they have “Siesta’s” in other parts of the world when the sun is too hot to do anything. Those people get the same amount accomplished as we do, yet we are forced to work through the sleep time and fight the tiredness.
Anyone interested in helping should start right away, go knock on a door and see whats cookin in the next room over or across the street. This will also open up our communities and we can start to trust one another again. I keep hearing stories about the street my father grew up on where 20 kids in the neighborhood would be at his place each night after homework; and when parents looked out the window and saw that their child was not fighting with a sibling on the front lawn, they knew they were wrestling with my father and uncles on their front lawn or relaxing down in the basement. Let’s bring back these times! Let’s start community living all over again. The whole “grow as an individual” thing is being promoted constantly these days, and that’s great, we should all be individuals, but let’s also grow together.

Peace \ /
Dr. Jay Cole

It was myself, along with two good friends, one from Toronto the other from Shediac. They were each some form of house demons who rarely leave the confines of their home in New Brunswick, however they took precautionary measures and managed to travel this weekend to Halifax for the King Sunshine show at the Paragon on Saturday, and to also see comedian Dean Cook on Sunday. After a great meal at Your Father’s Mustache with a live band the three of us took a cab from the Delta Barrington to Cogswell Street where we attended a pre-drink party at another friends place.
My pirate juice was drunk straight from the bottle, shared with a beautiful blond haired vixen, and so began the insanity. A bald headed freak tossed me a handful of multicolored pills that i crammed into my pocket for later. We walked down two or three dirt ridden streets until Gottingen where the Paragon is located. I have not seen this newly renovated bar since its heyday several years ago when it opperated as The Marquee/Hells Kitchen. I entered the bar, i was not searched or patted down so the drugs in my jeans were safe for a bit longer. The bar was dark, purple walls and green ceilings rang through my mind as i spun around in circles trying to find my entourage who had already made their way to the bar for refreshments. I soon found them and purchased more pirate juice for me and the lady, we took a handfull of pills and hit the dance floor. The opening band, something fish, they were okay, good at playing instruments, but there was something missing, soul and vibes. Just because you know how to do something, doesn’t mean you can do it good! The opening DJ, a good friend of mine, Mizz Maxine was amazing! She really got the people jumping and dancing where the previous band had most of us at the tables waiting for the bad noise to be done with.
I shouldn’t talk about the bands so much when this review is for the venue, however, King Sunshine rocks my ass like 4 weel drive! Trumpets, Horns, Saxophones! Female Vocals! Great vibes, enough soul to fill all of heaven twice over and a stage presence that rivals no other! There were so many of them on stage, probably 15 of them, no fancy gimmicks here, no, they dressed in regular humble attire and let the music speak for itself. I stumbled over to the merch table that i found was unattended. A variety of cd’s, shirts and stickers were just there, waiting to be taken! so i took some! cd and sticker in pocket i returned to the dance floor to bust a move or two. I vaguely remember a beautiful dark haired girl about to kiss me on the cheek and so i turned and stole a lip kiss! Maybe the band saw it, maybe they didn’t but the mood changed afterward and the dirty dancing began. From this point on there was much grinding, pelvic thrusting and general air humping going around, or maybe the pills were kicking in? The band was over, the blond girl was gone, my friends were all gone and i was the only one left on the dance floor next to an old friend i have not seen in three years who immediately recognized me and freaked the fuck out! “Doctor Jay Cole! It IS you!” my buddy lamented out loud, we hugged and then punched each other in the face a few times. We shared some jokes and stories and when the lovely lady returned from where she had been back stage, we decided to blow this Popsicle stand. On the way out i began to notice all of the horrible changes that had been made to what was once the city’s greatest venue. The entire upstairs dance hall and stage had been cut in half taking the 1000person limit down to about 500 people! The basement (formerly Hells Kitchen) was blocked off and nothing was happening down there. The decor was from the likes of Ikea or some other trendy place where well-to-do yuppies shop. The drinks were running me $25.00 for two doubles, Lord knows how many i sank back. i was informed of the outrageous prices after returning the next day and blaming the staff for robbing me when i wasn’t looking. This was quite an expensive evening for a bar located in the cheaper side of Halifax, my own ‘well to do’ friends living in the South End don’t even bother to venture this far anymore, no, they stay close to home in the cold weather when they want to spend their entire pay check in under three hours. All in all, the music was good, but the venue is nothing to shake a stick at. In closing, I will probably not attempt to attend shows in the Paragon unless iNTUiT is playing at one of them! In that case i’ll change my entire story to something along the lines of: The Paragon is an amazing venue, everyone come out and support local talent while you bask in the luxurious decor of this spacious, safe environment!

Peace \ /
Dr. Jay Cole

Walkers:

i am a fast walker. i live in Canada and it’s fucking cold outside for 6 months of the year. Canada is commonplace to find people jetting around like crayzed lunaticks as we run for the bus; run for the cab; run the for walk signal; run for whatever appointment we’re almost late for because we left late due to the damn frigid temperatures! i also have long legs.
Today i decided to bundle up for the weather and since i had no time frame of where i had to be i sent a message to my legs via the brain; “Slow the fuck down!”
Here are things i noticed whilst walking slowly from the hospital to HMV on Spring Garden road.

1. People are not dressed for the weather. It’s freakin cold out so why do i see people in cardigans shuffling along ever so rudely as they push others aside with a “Get ouf of my way! its fucking cold out!” attitude as if they had no control over their body temperature today. Cover up! Problem solved, now you don’t need to be a douchebag and push the old people out of the way, old people who have learned from their mistakes and are now properly covered up for the time of year we are in.

2. The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry. Cold weather is not always a factor in the rush, for these same folks trudge around in their blurry tunnel visioned rat race during the warmer days as well, only there are more of them out on the street in the summer therefore slowing the crowd.
Everyday we invent things to make our lives more simple. Now i don’t have to do ‘that’ anymore, therefore i have ‘this’ much more time left for myself at the end of the day. Not true. No matter what form of time saving devices we come up with, there is still not any more time left at the end of the day. If i were to purchase a time-saving device, and show my schedule at the end of the day and how it has not improved, could i return the machine for a full refund? Return my computer or software packages? what if you returned your vehicle? i do believe there is a matter of false advertising at hand here. Enough false pretenses! Tell the truth damnit!

3. Don’t feed the Ostriches, they bite! i learned the hard way, but if you can make off with one of their eggs, it will feed your family for a month.

4. Women pushing baby strollers that take up the entire sidewalk will strut down the lane taking their sweet ass time, blocking everyone, holding up the flow. i suppose they feel some societal debt is owed them after poping out a few offspring. Maybe they are right? this leads into number five, which i was a part of myself.

5. Nobody likes a slow-walker. I was pushed, nudged, commented to, stared at, gigled at and made a complete fool of myself doing my research for this report. When i walk slow, i sort of glide along in a smooth flowing motion; unlike the drones pushing ever forward to the piece of cheese awaiting them at the end of the maze, never knowing, that it will only be ‘process’ cheese.
“Move it!”, “Hurmph!”, “Sigh!” and “Ugh!” are some of what i remember hearing after that horrible walk today. These people are zigzagging across the sidewalks like the ball in a pong game; chickens with their heads cut off; nobody has any form of order when they walk, they are like complete retards, they have one single destination in mind and everything and everyone else in between them seem to be made up of some form of obscure obseleteness. It must be like moving through a crowd of ghosts when you’re the only one alive in Hell, never worrying about any of them as actual humans, never caring if they are in your face, and then it happened, i learned why this is true.

“Hey buddy can i have some chan…” and there it was. A walk-by-begging. Again almost immediately “Hey you got a smok…” another says as he passes by in a big rush not even stopping to hear my answer. I shake my fist and turn my head away towards the street in the rudest manner possible.”No!” i blurted out,
“i don’t smoke tobacco! it gives you wrinkles!” but he was already out of range. A couple of the dark colored pea coat blurs flying past stopped for a split second, long enough for me to see their expressions of disgust that i had given out personal commentary on a public street. Who was i to enact my freedome of speech in this city, and who was i to be walking so god damn slowly? Could it be that these walk-by-beggars are the reason everyone is in their own personal ipoded ‘zone’. Do they not want to deal with the harsh reality that walks past them in their own city? When i finally made it to HMV, i spent a good half hour scouring their cheap, foreign and underground indie films, during which the entire time a girl came over and pretended to ’sort’ movies from behind me on the next shelf, each time i would move to the left, she would nervously follow me.
i had noticed upon entry that there was no longer a macho superman body builder posing as a security guard this holiday season, perhaps they passed the buck down onto their lowly employees to save the buck that was previously spent on saving bucks via protection officers. Lowly employees don’t give a fuck about theft because that’s a job for security, and they start to question the sanity of their overseers.
A sales associate made eye contact with me on my way to the checkout, i was in line for only a few seconds before the same employee came rushing back for my sale. “That’s right you skinny little punk, run for my dollar!” i yelled.
“Excuse me?” he questioned
“You heard you me, you were in a rush to go that way a few seconds ago” i pointed to the back of the store
“And now you’re in a rush to get over here… make up your god damn mind”
The clerk looked at me with a wry smile and said “This movie looks good, i’ve heard great things about it”
“Sure you have!” i snapped sarcastically at the poor young lad “You people say the same thing each time i come in here!” i grabbed the case from his hand and i asked him “What’s it about?”
Panic flowed across his face like a frantic river during the spring melt.
“What?” he stuttered to save time before i made a complete fool of him.
“What, Is, The, Story… About?” i retorted.
“It’s uhmm…”
“People explode!” i yelled! “Jesus, lets get outta here Jay.”
The clerk, not understanding my schizo ways continued on his regular pace of existing.
Now at the front doors, i pause for a second to put on my gloves. i had carried my laptop case causing the knuckles to redden on my trek over here. During that brief moment, a beautiful young five foot tall blond girl flies out, nudges me aside letting out the last *Sigh* that i would hear for the day’s adventure. This entry room we were in was big enough for fat people to pass by without any disturbance. It was at this point, that i realized maybe people were only reaching out to one another for some form of sympathy or concern. Perhaps they were looking for some form of reaction from me or they sensed my inner freedome and wanted to try and shake me down to their level? More hopefully, they wanted to climb the tree i was in, and maybe live in my tree house? We shall never know the answer until i start asking some hard questions. Questions out on the street. But who, in their speedy little minds, will stop to talk to me? Not the ones i want answers from, that much is for sure.
And so tomorrow, when i attempt to get someplace in this god forsaken land of ice and snow, i will be among the groups of flyers, zoomers, jumpers and freezers as they zing along ever bitterly, and ever so heat seekingly through the maze of icey streets we call Halifax.

Peace \ /
Dr. Jay Cole

What’s with all the fees popping up everywhere?
This time, it’s in regards to applying for gigs.
Let me just put this all in perspective for everyone:
Back in the good ol days of rock and roll, we used to ask our friends, and they would book us because we’re fucking awesome, or because we had good dope. That soon evolved through word of mouth and meeting people through other people and promoters and into a large ratty web of everyone knows everyone. So now we all have each others emails and we’re ’supposed’ to be one big happy family who scratches backs and helps each other out whenever possible. Great. It worked for a short while! Then, we decide to get professional, now we spend some cash on CD’s and press kits and mailers.
Then the internet happened! Great! We don’t have to pay for all that shit anymore, and we can spend our money on maybe making VIDEO PRESS KITS and the like. The video press kits are done, the websites are done, now all we have to do is simply email (FREE) a link (FREE) to the promoters and they get to view our site, and download our songs (FREE) and make their decision (FREE). No money involved.
But for some reason, the very next day places like Sonic bids start popping up out of the vile gutters telling us that we again need to pay! What the fuck people? Take your god damn sonic bids and shove it up your ass! We have your email addresses and your phone numbers and we know each other by name, so take our god damn links to our god damn websites and listen to our god damn music!
I refuse to pay places like sonic bids for their bullshit-trying to be a middle man- “service”
I already have a fucking website and I don’t need yours. Now piss off you god damn wankers!
Promoters, you were always mostly douchebags to begin with, back stabing swine, so I understand you’re wanting to use such a retarded service.
I hope this post reaches at least one promoter/event-controller out there in cyberworld tonight
and that they stop being like “oh, waaahhh, I dont have time to do my fucking promoter job by screening people and its about quality control”
What the fuck else do you have to do all day that you can’t read some god damn emails and visit some god damn links? or hell, open your mailbox and receive a physical cd even, because we all have hundreds of them sitting in boxes already paid for!
There are too many middle men in this industry, too many greedy little bastards with their fat grubby little hands out looking for a piece of our pie that we all worked so fucking hard to make!
It’s because of things like this that many artists are deciding to say FUCK YOU MUSIC “INDUSTRY” as much as we can by NOT helping the economy.
I for instance make my own cd’s at home, do my own designs and then I put my entire album up for FREEEE on my site.
Where is the love people? what happened to doing things because you love doing them?
I realize I wont get as many gigs, or be as famous, but you know what? Being a star is all a bunch of bullshit lies anyways.
You’ll never get to where you think you want to be at until you’re happy with yourself inside. I for one, AM happy inside.
That’s my rant for tonight folks. Enjoy.

Peace be with you.
Rev. Dr. Jason Cole
( i apologize for saying GOD DAMN so much, it was purely for effect. )

¡Hola! mi amigos!

So… Saturday morning i woke up with a slight tickle in my throat, and so begins the fight!
Here’s what i’m doing!

The local grocery store; co-op, sobeys, or ugh… superstore if you have to, will have everything you need!
The first and most important part of fighting a winter cold or sickness is in prevention.
I take a daily dosage of about 15 – 20 drops of Echinacea in my morning drink, tea, coffee, or just take it in a spoon because it tastes like yummy syrup. (the only problem is remembering to take it every day, absolutely every day! which i missed two days recently and here i am with a tickle on the weekend and i’m supposed to travel to halifax tommorow!)

I recommend purchasing the liquid form of echinacea, and it can be found in most pharmacies (most grocery stores have little pharmacies in them nowadays)
Ginger Root! buy a couple of these and leave then in a room temp, dry area.
Vitamin C: i prefer the tropical flavored chewables
Fresh Garlic: we’ll use this later
and lastly, some honey for flavor : )

Bring 2 cups of water to a boil.
Add about 5 grams of diced Ginger Root with the bark.
Boil for 5 minutes
Add one spoon of honey
Add three or four vitamin C’s
Add 15 drops of Echinacea
Remove from heat, strain, let stand for two minutes.

I smoke weed like a motherfucker, so since there is no way to recover from a lung sickness like this by continuing to smoke, i have opted to eat my weed for a couple days, some organic bubble hash is diced into a fine powder and added to the mixture.

PLEASE NOTE: None of these things will work for you if you are going to keep smoking. So eat your weed and smokers wear a patch for three days.

Drink the mixture, it reminds me a bit of Neocitran, but without the gross taste.

Fresh Garlic, right before bed, take two cloves and mash them and dice them, let them sit in the air for a few mins because the oxygen causes an enzyme in the garlic to appear. eat them raw, swallow with water and drink a whole glass of water afterwards. DONT CHEW THEM! or you’ll have garlic breath for weeks!

Garlic has many healthy uses, in this case, it is used as an expectorant, this will loosen the Phlegm in the chest to almost water and it will have to come out! Spit! dont Swallow! each time you swallow your phlegm, you are allowing the sickness to remain in your body for a longer time.
You WILL cough all day and it needs to come out.
At this point, taking a cough suppressant will only undo the work of the garlic.
Cough syrup will make you feel good for the day but the sickness will be long and annoying.
My method will help you get better in about two days.
I hope my ramblings can help someone someday, someplace.

Peace \ /
iNTUiT