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Sunday, January 1, 2012

2011 what did you get me? Also David Wilcox is a Vampire.

You better Watch out 2012 cuz I'm not afraid to put raise my hand to a lady.
Mostly because I am bigger than they are.




































Here's my top 10 albums of the year in no particular order and not even made all released in 2011.

1. Black Keys- El Camino (2011)
it's just really good.
2. Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin (1969)
you ever hear of these guys? I read the biography and thought I should give them a listen. I'm glad I did.
3. Primus- Green Naugahyde (2011)
I love my Primus!
4. Iron and Wine- Woman King(2005)
Great acoustic tunes.
5. Louis Armstrong- All Time THe Best Hits (2000)
I've fallen in love with this stuff.
6. Charles Bradley & Menahan Street Band- No Time For Dreaming(2011)
You miss James Brown? Here ya go.
7. Half Moon Run- EP(?)
I played a show with them in Montreal and bought their EP I've listened to it a lot.
8. The Joy Formidable- The Big Roar (2011)
Great rock album I would like to see the show.
9. The Streets- Computers and Blues (2011)
I will miss this project....
10. J. Period & Q-Tip- The Abstract Best of Vol 1 (2011)
A great Mix tape with stories about tribe worked in.

My Worst:


Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues (2011)
Good lord I hated this.
Arctic Monkey's- Suck It And See (2011)
Love the bands 1st two albums they are always being playedTHey are always being played around here. this stuff I think is garbage.
Red Hot Chilli Peppers (2011)
Sorry I won't listen to the album again. I won't even go look at the album to remind myself what it was called.
Ugly Casanova- Sharpen Your Teeth (2002)
I love Modest Mouse but this solo thing from Isaac Brock is horrible.

My Favourite Books I read in 2011Year

Led Zeppelin When Gods Walked The Earth by Mick Wall
Pops The Life of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout
Sleep Walk With Me by Mike Birbiglia
Room by Emma Donoghue
Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Dome by Stephen King
The Lie by Chad Kultgen
Slam by Nick Hornby
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
The Bartimaeus Trilogy Part 3 Ptolemy's Gate by Jonathan Stroud

Most disappointing books


Life by Keith Richards. Boring
Earth by The Daily Show Staff. I loved America but I could not get into this one.


So that's what 2011 gave me.

I went out of 2011 with but a fizzle. I was sober.
I drove to various parties to say hello and send my well wishing for the new year.
They say that How you start the year will be how it will go throughout. So apparently I will be sober. This will be good for my wallet come tour time in February.

I've also given Gina the gift of Sympathy this year. She is allergic to many food items. so for the month of January I will be sharing those allergies. Here's the list.
Peanuts
Shell Fish
Dairy
Wheat(Gluten)
Egg Yolks
Sadly Beer had to be made with gluten. But I am drinking a Whiskey right now and that ain't bad at all.

Over the holidays I returned to Thunder Bay and was quite bored for the most part I attempted a pub crawl. Well, not attempted I did a pub crawl but it was just me.
I stopped in one bar cleverly called "The Bar". it had day prices and night prices. It seems that alcohol in this place is governed by the sun. In the daylight drinks are .25 cents cheaper.
God Damn You Moon and your expensive ways!
The Suns better anyway.

I met an old sound man in a bar called the Madhouse. I usually pop in this bar when I roll into town. I don't know why. I always get "served" by the same older fellow who barley acknowledges my existence. I usually have one beer and have to put in some kind of effort to flag him down so that I can pay.
Anyway the sound man.
He works at the Auditorium in town and I asked who the worst to work with was. at first he wasn't wanting to say. I said "Alright" A slight pause then he blurts a name. I didn't recognize it. He said "He was on Beachcombers."
(For those of you no tin the know of classic Canadian Television. Beachcombers was a show about Canadian loggers and based in some small town.)
Then he went on "Amanda Marshall, she's a bitch. Has a diva Mentality."
and on "Stomping Tom Conners you had to talk to hi through an intermediary, very rare to have a face to face conversation. He was also an alcoholic. members of his band took drinking shifts. Each night it was someones turn to drink with Tom."
He also told me he got off the Iggy Pop tour because he couldn't take it.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"They were all queer! and they had mountains of blow all the time. I mean I didn't mind partaking in a little bit of coke but that was just crazy."
I hope these tales are true because the last one is awesome.
"David Wilcox was weird. He Wouldn't look at his reflection."
"Was he a vampire?" I asked
With complete dead pan sincerity "I dunno. But we had to cover up all the mirrors and windows so he wouldn't see his reflection. While I was working the board they missed one and I didn't know about it yelled at me and tried to have me fired."
So David Wilcox could be a vampire.
If there's anything I learned in 2011 worth learning, it was that.

Alright 2012 I need to get used to writing/typing you.
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First 2 shows of 2012 are in Barrie ON Jan 6 and 7
Groovy Tuesday's and The Port respectively.
I'll be in the USA, Europe, Costa Rica (I hope) and of course Canada this year.

Later Skater

-Neil
www.eyeswide.ca