Hello folks, fans and freaks! (and parents too!)

Everything is made up of strategies these days. For example: M’Lady and I took her little four year old brother to his third class of Soccer. The building is an old school converted into a community recreational centre. There aren’t a great deal of kids in his class, and he is doing rather well for being a little guy. The amount of kids however in the entire building, is enough that they put vending machines in the front lobby. You need to pass by these machines, with little kids who always want stuff, to get to the gym rooms. So after much persuading (tugging, pulling, feet stomping, sad face, tears, you know… general tantrum throwing) we take a look inside the machine to see what great things he can have. We could not find one item in either machine that would benefit young children who are hard at play. The first way our stupid minds work is to try and get around the issue, “Maybe on the way out”.
What kind of sick world do we live in where we allow these companies in to try and feed our developing children chocolate bars and candy? On the way out of the gym room after class, there is another little meltdown due to these machines. These people are counting on kids to make their money, counting on kids to freak out, and for parents to be weak and give in. The candy and chocolate companies build yet more repoir with the child where they learn that freakouts will get them, perhaps more candy from the same companies later on in life, at say the supermarket, the corner store or even at school. We need to end this shit once and for all! I say we get some rocks and throw them through the windows of these machines and take all the crap out and replace it with healthy foods. Do you think they will get the message and change anything? Or do you think we’ll get in shit over it and have to replace the windows in the machines? Terrible how we let machines in to our lives to ruin them. Take the computer for example… How many of you WASTED time on that piece of shit today? Me? i’m writing something productive, (the rest of the day was wasted on here tho!)
There is a great website I must promote, it is called “STUMBLEUPON”.
Stumble lets you setup a quick user profile where the user is allowed to select a variety of topics that this website will bounce around through. Have you ever been bored and wanted to waste some time online, and you sit down at the computer and there it is… or there it is ‘isn’t’ i should say. Your mind is gone. Drawn a blank. What was I going to search for? There had been hundreds of questions you had been having all day but where are they now? Stumble will fill that void for you and assist you to live, love and laugh through your interests without you having to remember what you are interested in. Short term memory problems in people let them lead an interesting life because they never know what just happened and so things are new quite oftenly. Then they make up words.

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

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. )

On the flip side!
I have opened up my mind to all sorts of sounds lately. Here is a good list of artists that will remain on my computer and in my favorites for a long time to come:

ME! (iNTUiT)
ACDC – Black Ice Album
Atmosphere – When life gives you lemons
Blind Melon
Cypress HIll
Damian Marley
De La Soul
Element Kontrol
Amos Lee
Benny Benassi
Bob Marley
Britney Spears (yuup!)
Christina Aguilera (yupp!)
Tiesto
Madonna
Pink Floyd
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Bob Marley
Gorillaz
JUNGLE: (i will only list a few of my favs)
Chase n Status
Shy FX
Dillinja
Kano
Kenny Kenn

KING SUNSHINE! (FUCK YEAH!)
K-OZ
La Mala Rodriguez
Shakira
Lemon Jelly
Lovage
Mos Def (Black on both sides)
Aria Silenced
The Chicharones
Neil Young
Nelly Furtado
The Rascalz (Cash Crop only, everything else is crap)
Rage Against the Machine
Pearl Jam
Sublime
Sweatshop Union
The Avalanches
The Ting Tings
The Sounds
Tool (lateralus)
WEEN
Xavier Rudd
Emmy Rossum
The Wordburglar
Norah Jones
The Shins
La Roux
The Kills
Calvin Harris,
Lady Gaga
Jason Mraz
David Guetta
Everlast 2009
Ladyhawke
Pink!
Mic Boyd
The Knux,
Hollerado (From Ontario!)

So as you can very well see, all is not lost! There are some amazing gems in that list. Many of these artists are also into things like: Saving the planet, herbal remedies, alternative living (off grid, off the radar) Free Man on the land: Life without Government, Self sustainability and LOVE to name but a few!

Peace  \ /
iNTUiT
PS> This second post for today counts for the one i will most likely miss tommorow!