i just found this on my cousins baby site...this is my cousin once removed...she pretty cool...i'm gonna see her one day real soon in person...it's been along time coming....the old man is my grandfather...he's pretty cool too...when i was a kid my father and my grand father would argue about any thing till the cows come home...and they didn't have cows....but now that i'm grown up it's neet to see they treat me grown up...it's kinda weird though...i like my grand father alot more now...i still call him grumpy comeau...just cause it stuck...well maybe not to his face...he could probably still drink me under the table....and probably will live longer than i will...and i ain't going anywhere soon...i have pics of my grand mother comeau....i'll scann them with i get them back from miss maggie...ahem....long story...hint hint...wink wink...ahem... is any one learning anything here? about me? 

i'm slightly reminded of 1995...i was getting the heebie jeebies or what ever i needed to get off pei...don't get me wrong...i'm probably the only person on PEI or even the maritimes that isn't cranky about the snow or the cold...i mean the ice cream factory was colder...so what ever...i think that other than my job i'd be back in vancouver though...or some wheres int he tropics...i can't get a band together it seems...i'm getting the idea that woody thinks i'm not good enough to play with or something...and all the normal girls are taken...last night i was a bit cranky...it was like i was going through the 1st day of quitting smoking or something...i was almost pissed because this sucks...i'm lonely i guess and i have to avenue to vent abuot anything with out a band...anyways...on the other hand i'm glad i'm single cause i don't think i could deal with a girlfriend right now...and as far as a band goes the clock is ticking...your either in or your out...you can't win if you don't play...i'll make a statement....make my words this ain't denial and error....by this time next year woody and nick and anyone who denies themselves of my talents will wish they were in my band...and in stead of thumbs up i'll have middle fingers and the words "get bent"...pictured are vetiver niffty and como 

i found another one...left to right...rolando dan me karnpal conway and brian...on certain occasions we would gather at the local sports bar called hippos and drink...these event became known as sauce fests...good times...VFF for life 

i'm in vancouver and i got a telemarketing job...my second shift i was sick and i hated the job so i went in and went home and never went back...turns out they were ripping old people off in the USA anyways...so i didn't feel that bad about it...times were a bit strange for me...back then...my room mates basically left me alone and i was stuck with marcel...oh boy...he was a crackhead and smackhead painter......he had me working with him painting a brand new house...it was interesting...but he spent my pay...so i couldn't be around this guy anymore...i could go on...but my point is i worked at painting...it mostly grunt stuff...not the detail...but it was still a job for me...got up early and worked real late...marcel would still feed me...so it wasn't so bad and he managed to keep my apartment for 3 monthes with out paying rent...anyways...i moved in with some friends..and john...the drummer form matrix is working for the superstore...and he says they are hireing...i had been appling at alot of places and it was all turning out bad...and then superstore calls me for an interview...it was snowing and i was in a bad mood...and i thought i was going to be late...but it turns out that they don't really do interviews..they just hire you...but i was late...which didn't matter...so some guy drags me around the warehouse which takes up a whole city block and not a ch;town city block...i mean the superstore and the supstore parking lot are on top of this ware house...and we didn't find my boss to be...untill we were back upstairs...at which point my boss to be says he likes beer...so i start working for this warehouse...in an experimental department called VFF (vancouver freight forwarding) ...it was spring so just before xmas came the mandarin rush...heavy hard to stack cases or oranges...i heard the stories and i knew i could work harder than anyone there...so i did...and by the time the mandarins came i was on a fork lift telling people what to do...and i just went up from there...aroound the first of that summer i also had steve hired...he worked and during the mandarins i think he got on fork too...people who were there longer than us didn't like it to much...but after they got to know us we all became friends..like conway...except i don't think conway hated us at all...this was became the job i loved to hate...but i did love it...i was starting to make some good money...my boss taught me how do do alot of stuff he was only supposed to do and i was the only back up....steve was day time lead hand and i covered the nights...we had marino and i could go on....these pics are me horsing around at work...they sometimes called me spider man cause i would climb up 40 feet on the racks and spy on guys trying to slack off...that was my job...and i didn't really care what they did but we had alot of work to do everyday and i didn't want to be there past 11 or what ever...so the quicker they got done the sooner i could go home or not stay late kinda deal...the job it self was paid training as far as i was concerned and i learned lots...and i made some good friends....it wasn't till the end of the job that the department started to make some money...but it was too late...the big wigs axed the project...i was top dollar and was inbetween hours and stuff...so they could only give me one job..or so they said and they stuck me doing grunt labour...except by this time it was all tracked my a system called DCAMS and i was pissed about the union not doing anything for me that i took my 3 weeks vacation and never went back...i took the summer off and wrote alot of music...then i got a job in november working for a company called essance aromatherapy...it was linda like the body shop only new...5 stores int he GVA...and i worked in the warehouse and did deliveries...but when my car broke down during the bus strike i knew i had to get a job closer to me...that's when shayne or brice told me about bendick ice cream...were they still work...so i applied and got the job...it was another job i was really fond of...good friends and lots or jonk to eat...summer sucked...but lots of over time...and we all got into an accident and i didn't get hurt i was the one keeping the production going...ha...me to the rescue...that's all for now...i think you all know the rest of the story 

so i'm back on pei and i'm broke...so i went to work for my step father at his new drugstore in montague...it was alright...i had good work ethic...and everyone there though iwas doing a great job...but i had to get out on my own..i applied at canadian tire and talked personally with danny murphy...who set me up with an interview in montague...neither panned out for me...when sept came around i worked at a fish plant gutting herring it was the worst job i've ever had next to telemarketing...so anyways...i ended up in vancouver again... 

so i was working at time hortans or about a month with a girl that was in my grade 1 class in summerside...she remembered me..i had to loook her up...she lasted a month and got another job...good thing too...i was horrible..no work ethic...so after her they brought back one of the night shift people that used to do the job...the old night shift was up to no good..so they revamped the system and hired new night shift people...but the guy that was to be my new night shift partner apparently wasn't the problem..so they brought back Lucas to the night shift...lucas was a couple years older than me...and he new what had to be done...so i learned how to get my job done...it was great...my bosses thought it was great too...i'm not saying we weren't up to know good but we had some good times...doing the night shift...we had a good 3 hours to get our work done and horse around...we'd have water fights...we'd have old timbits fights and we have ice cream lid fights...i run and run and he'd try to catch me...i'd be sweating when the morning person would come in to handle the drive through while preped the donuts and such...and the morning person would get the soups ready...i'd stink...but what ever...so anyways...that's when i met alissa and her sister and brother...i still think of it as one of the best jobs i ever had...but when following winter was almost over i got ancy and had to get off PEI...so i quit and moved to Vancouver...i was in vancouver for 3 monthes..i had a couple of telemarketing jobs...but that is the worst job market you could ever get into unless your good at it...and since it's a numbers game...i don't know...but i had my brothers wedding coming up and i had to get back to PEI... 

so i've had a few jobs...when i was a kid of course i had chores and i got an allowance...but my first job...i guess was cooking fry's and doing dishes at juniour high...i didn't get paid...but i get free food and i gave me something to do...but my first real paying job other than baby sitting...was working for my step father at shoppers drug mart in montague...i did that for 3 summers in a row...i always gave my notice so that i would have 2 weeks off before the summer was over....and my mom would always tell them i'd keep working...pissed me off alot...but i did it...then joe left shoppers and opened his own drugstore in ch'town...i worked there for over a year...but i was a poor worker...i had no ethic...so joe said that i should talk to my father about getting a job with him...so i did...and i got hired to clean at the airport...on weekends...at first it was pretty cool...i got to leave for 2 hours...so i'd get some food and go watch a movie at steve collicutts....then i got in trouble for that..so i had to stick around...that's when my grades got better....i could read a whole book in a weekend at work...and i could do a whole essay or assignment in the weekend too...my teachers were shocked...blew there minds...but my fathers company lost the contract after i was there for almost a year...and at the same time i had failed a couple of courses...and my mom said well you might as well quit and get a job...so that's what i did...i got a job working for domino's...but it turned out that my boss there was my step fathers neice....and i didn't really take it that seriously...i hated it too...so i applied at all the tim hortan's around ch'town...when you work for danny murphy you get a free spa membership along with other benifits....that's why applied...before i got my benifts card i went to the spa...that was the only time... 

no pics to post

WHY? because they are on a disposible camera...my room mate ryan and I took some pics..he has some..but mine are on my disposible...i'm watching the 6 oclock news right now...and there's no compass...boomer isn't there...the regular compass guy was outside doing boomers job... i tried to take a cam shot of the bridge cam but it wouldn't work... so yesterday about 4ish i went out and cleared the deck and then cleared the waste carts and surrounding area then made a little trail to my truck...by the time i was done of that the deck was almost back to where i started...at 12 ryan and i went out and cleared the deck again...he started with the front step...he was ready for me when i came out..he was almost half way up the driveway when i cam eplowing by and dove headfirst in to a drift...i was basically totally submersed...i had ski goggles on and with all the weight of the snow i was heavy.....i kinda panicked....that drift was abuot 5 feet deep...then we cleared the back deck and decided to take a walk...we got up to half ablock away and the intersection was clear but the streets were 10 15 foot drifts...i tried to walk in to it...and i sure did...i almost got stuck...it was so soft....i was so outta breath...so we headed back to get the camera's...

we decided to trek up to province house...it wasn't easy...but with ryan making the tracks...it wasn't as bad for me...we made it to the intersection of grafton and university...and i just sat down on a drift in the middle of the road....took some pics...and then the wind got even colder and faster....ouch...we walked home...our tracks were snowed over...kinda makes me think what if we were lost...

we were home at 1am...i watched some tv and went to bed not long after...

today i was up at 10ish...watched some tv...and had some food and went back to nap about 1pm...at 4ish i get a rap tap tap on my door...it's ryan...the snow plow guy wants me to move my truck...so i got up and in a daze put my stuff on and went out and started shovelling...it didn't take me much to get out...and with the neighbors help was able to get ryans car going too...so by 5 our lot and drive way was cleared straight through to water street....i cleared off the deck which didn't look like we did anything the night before...and came inside...i'm watching the news as i said and nfld just got our storm from last week and then today they got 40mm of rain....and now they are expecting what we just got...or even more...i don't care if you hate me...but i love it....eh...

chowdar

i found another pic from that show....that's all...it's a blizzard so i should be able to come up with a new entry sometime soon 

i have 2 other pics from this show...but i don't have them scanned and well they are another story all in them selves anyways...this person here is chris conway...i worked with him at VFF...another story too...he became a good friend...and came to a couple of my shows...the other fella is steve collicutt...he really ugly...if you can't tell...no...but he doesn't take very good pics of himself...anyways...that's it for todays story... 

this is a clippet from the locals classified that we used...we're in the middle...one of my favorite places to play...we never got a good crowd but the sound system was amazing and alot of big names played on the same stage... 

i am guessing this is from the one and only soma show...after soma i did the silver outfit thing for the first show...then after that i was naked with just a surong...good times 

this is wayne...and me i think...and the guy on the left is dales...jeff dales...when we met him he was just off the plane and had a day job with wayne...dales likes to drink...get drunk and pass out at the height of the party...he also had a pony tail...he was our biggest fan...he came to all the shows and rehearsals...he was a bit of an inner critic too...helped us with our song writting...kindalike the 4th member....the demise of the band will be told later... 

ok here is another pic of wayne and dr k...same couch..probably the same night...wayne sure loves his old stock...and keith can't seem to hold his liquor...in his glass...he keeps drinking it...keith is alot skinnyer now...some sorta fitness freak now... 

ok...let me skip to the middle...i was talking about relationships...and well you don't get a better relationship than band mates...and well as i don't have pics scanned right now of my first 2 bands...this is my 3...well if i really wanted to count evolutions this would be my 4th ot 5th or maybe even 6th...ok so let me recount just to be sure...there was matrix...steve and john and poser and myself...then we (I) fired poser...then that band folded...then it was voodoo gangster....apparently that name was taken..but it was steve billy and steve macLoed? then we (I) fired macLeod...except he quit before i told him he was out...and we went into work mode and looked for another drummer...who was woody...and we changed the name to FCU...then we moved to BC...with out woody...and after alot of work in writing we got chris desilva...we called our selves melody kills...then that folded and after 2 years i joined forces with wayne powell (seen below in the middle) wayne thought we needed 2 guitar players and i didn't see the need...but i said what ever..he put an add in the local classifieds...and we got 1 reply from what i remember...we already had some songs written..and wayne talked to a drummer he knows from the band split lip ashtray...Keith aka dr. K...and we called ourselves soma...it was a strange time for me in a band...a temp drummer and a guitarist that i didn't want and the person himself was a bad vibe for me...after one show and way to many hours spent just by him alone we canned him...and not just by me...we put him on the speaker phone and we all told him he was done...i spent maybe 10 hours on my 5 bass tracks...and that's a large exaggeration...keith spent maybe 5 hours...wayne spent maybe 10 hours on guitar and maybe 5 on vocals..."johnny" spent, and i remember this clearly, 40 hours on his guitar....he was never ready...and now that i think of it we did 6 songs...one was all his...and as far as i know i'm the only one with the extra song...on a tape somewhere....it's classic...and good for a laugh...we took his stuff out of the mix and wayne rewrote his parts and we called ourselves vitamin voodoo...nothing to do with my 2nd band name....but someone took half a bottle of flinstone vitamins and half a bottle of pepto bismal and pour the pepto all over the pile of vitamins on top or a microwave stand...i found it and wondered who had done this...i said it's like vitamin voodoo...and click...hey guys how's this for a name? so it stuck....we ended up do alot of shows and making alot of friends...and writing alot of songs...for the record i didn't piss my pants in the pic...i think it's the lighting and the denim and no dount had a bit o' drink spilt on myself....i'm not passed out i'm faking...i'm going to post this and review and check for other related pics... 

this is an old liscence i had thought i lost...but it turned out to be at a walk in clinic from a time i needed a prescrip for a puffer....i'm now in the edit mode...i get into a post and hit enter and it posts the thread...it's annoying...i was only going to post one pic tonight...


anyways...i want to know from my readers if you would like to hear about my past relations ships since i've been talking about my past a lot lately...? would that be appropriate? i have pics....that why i bring it up...let me know i'm not gona post till monday...or later...i think i need a good amount of votes on this matter that's it for now...happy reading

i was living in bc and had a pretty cool hair thing going on...but it was time to get rid of it...and i wanted to show my mom before and after pics...so i toook these.... 

this the same band with a different guitar player...you might reconize him from local music stores...he does reapairs at sobers...this i know for a fact because he was the one who installed the new "badass" bass bridge on my bass last summer... so i got my sneakers...yay...i wore them to the grocery store today...comfy...dry...i can't complain... what did i do? yesterday i met up with my mom and we talked for a few minutes...then we parted ways...then i headed to pick up bob...he was at work and needed a drive to the grocery store then the liquor store...he had his guitar with him and it was raining...so i stayed in the truck and made sure everything stayed safe...at the liquor store i gave him some cash to get my stuff too...and i stayed inthe truck for the same reason...he came out we drove around and talked...i took him home and realized that he got me the wrong kind of smirnoff ice...good thing i also got the pint of rum...but wait....my room mate has used half of my mix...darnit...i can't win... 

the cat came back...will it stay away?

ok...so you read my story about the hunt for the shoes and couldn't figure out who my father was...well after that i went to the bank...work stuff...i came back and there was a cat in my driveway...if you know me you know i love kitties...i'm allergic...but i can't refuse a stray...so i coaxed him out from under the deck...he warmed right up to me and stopped meowing...so he walked with my up the deck and i opened the door and gave him the opportunity to come in...he came in but like a cat in a trange house he got spooked right away and bolted back for the door...but the screen door was closed..not latched though...so he went to jump through the screen...not realizing there was a screen on the door...so he fell to the floor and at the same time the door got knocked open enough to let him get out...he remained on the deck and just meowed...and meowed...at the same time the lizard hadn't eatin all day so i fed the lizard..only he didn't eat...i was a little worried...so i'm upstairs answering the pic questions...and i can hear the cat...so i stuck my head out my window and he looks up at me and he's on the deck railing and starts trying to climb the side of the house...i laughed...so i go back to doing what i had to do...and i can still hear him...or maybe it was a she... i don't know...but after 3 hours i have to go do some interviews...and he's still there...so i figure maybe he's the neighbors cat and he's hungry...so i gave him or her some milk....and left...i came back an hour later and he's gone...phew...so i come up and see my room mate and tel him he's gone...then i check out my window and there he is....MEOW...a real long one...then hughie comes over and hangs out for a little bit..all the while meow meow...so hughie goes to leave and the cat is all over him...hughie try's to get the cat to balance on his head but he cat just nuzzles him voilently from his shoulder...he puts the cat down and walks to his truck the cat follows him...the cat almost got in the truck with hughie actually...so hughie starts the truck and starts to roll....the cat starts to follow the truck to water street...i'm thinking good he'll go down the street and forget where he was and find his way back home...home not being here...so i says to my room mate...i think he's gone now...but no..i check out my window again and he's down there...so i dicided that the only solution is tough love...so i go down stairs and put my sneakers on and rush out the door with a war charge...the cat hisses and hisses at me...but runs under my truck....so i stomp beside my truck and the cat goes under my room mates car...so i stomp him out from there..and i'm not yelling but saying go on...get..go find your own home....and i chaced him down the driveway to water street...he's running like a bat outta hell...and heading for the street....but he managed to turn before he got into the traffic zone...so i returned inside and haven't seen him since...i feel bad...because what if he doesn't have a home...i can't provide the cat with a home but miss maggie has a mice problem and hughie is going to be getting a cat from the spca...anyways...that takes me to now...i'm watching the delay broadcast of the cbc "canada for asia" on much more music...it's pretty good...i watched the original that was over at 11...

and now...todays contest....this will be alot trickier....i am related to 2 people in this photo...and one through marrage...can you guess who i am related to or not related too?either way if your right your right...alright get to work

this is me and woody....chrissy took this pic...i'm holding the camera carring case...we're all metal....metal metal..metal....if we were anymore metal we'd be a tank.... 

if i was in the middle of this pic every guy on pei would want to be me...heh....she took this shot in the bathroom in the mirror...good job chrissy...you get an "A++" 

this is michelle...we were all out the same nite...i think it was a slow coaster show...chrissy and michelle are friends...it was chrissy's camera...she took this one i'm sure....michelle is metal 

this is my friend chrissy...she wanted to be in my blog....i told her i don't have anypics...and that she would have to impact my life to make it to current events...but since i'm reverting back to the past...and i remembered about this pics...i dug em out of a disk that they were on...metal 

i have no idea what i'm holding...but this is a pic from 2003 i think...we was at myrons... 

i saw you

so yesterday i had interviews to fill a position that recently became vacant...it went well...they were on time and the interviews went quick...i'm starting to get the hang of this...then i was off to get the mail and go shoe shopping...i had taken woody out to the ch'town mall the night before cause he's going to start wearing his ear rings again...and i said ya...i need new shoes...so away we went and i found nothing....so the next day...yesterday i ended up at family shoes or what ever inthe confed mall...found a pair that felt just about right...but i don't want to settle...so i headed to source for sports...nothing...but i found out they sharpen skates...at that point i said this sucks...the sneaker industry is lame...they don't know what the customer wants...they are telling the customer what they want...what is cool..you don't have a choice...you will buy these stupid looking sneakers and like it...and other people will follow you because they don't have a choice either...i got in my truck and headed for home...as soon as the radio came on there was an inxs song on ...so i called woody...it was over by the time he answered the phone...but i told him about my adventure while looking for shoes...he mentioned walmart and that his room mate had gotten a nice pair there...so i said want to go to walmart? he said sure...so i picked him up and away we went...if anyone knows me i prefer comfort over fashion...the lighter the better....however i refuse to wear rediculous textiles...and if i had my way i'd be living in the tropics with nothing more than a loin cloth to protect my package from the sun....and maybe sandles...so...i found a couple pairs of shoes at walmart...they have a smart set up but for me...it's limited...i have to wear black sneakers...the sneakers have to have the arch padding...and they can't wear my ankles...and they can't be made outta cheap material...i've been wearing the same sneakers for 2.5 years now...the longest lasting sneakers i've ever had...but alass...the heel is wearing out...and is lumping up...so i checked out my first choice...to small..and the next size up is to big...no good...the only other pair there that caught my eye wore my ankles and lacked in comfort...flat bottoms are now good...it has to have cushion...and i dont want to buy the dr. scholls stuff......dark blue canvas not my color...then woody found a pair...but they wore my ankles too...so we decided to leave and then we saw payless shoes...it's right acoss the parking lot and we totally forgot all about it...we went in there and right way i saw a shoe that appeals to me...we went down the aisle and there it was...there were actually 2 nice shoes there...but one was 2 small and didn't come any bigger...so i put it behind the counter and decided to think about it...i'm going in to morrow to get them....finally...so then i took woody to the bank and made plans with rob to go play some pool...he said he'd be over around 7...at 8 i called his place...he was alseep and in coherent...so that was off...but his girlfriend cris was going out and i said call woody and if he'll go out i'll go out...so at 11 i was at JR's and an old highschool friend was playing with his wife and a bass player...they did classic favorite from many era's...and she sang them all really well...they need a drummer...besides that there were alot of other people there...i ended up talking to a girl...i forget her name but i think she was into me...i was thinking of giving her my card because she was leaving to go to someones house to see friends from away that are home visiting...but giving a girl my card? isn't that to tacky?...i came home and played some poker...and then wrote this "welcome to gravity ...i'm a space man away from home..miles away...roaming the galazy....i feel the weight...you see the impact...i taste the water...you see the pictures....i feel at home for a change..." then i sent it to hughie and he sent this back...so i have added it..."far behind the crowds but close enought to hear...the life i wanted is nowhere near.....and why won't this pen help me free these tears from my eyes" kinda cool...so at 8ish this morning the phone started to ring...HELLO...the ad says call between 12 and 5 pm...what part of that don't you understand...and how can i hire them if they can't follow sumple hrdc job bank directions.. i mean common people...so i kept getting woken up by these calls...and half of them the people would hang up...so the answering machine would just play a dial tone of a busy signal....i dont' answer the bussiness phone...i check the messages and then call them back...it's annoying when people hang up...so at 10 my mom calls regarding turkey dinner...she booked it for 11:30...so i had to get up as tired as i was and get ready and go...it was neet ...i listened to their drunkin cruize ship stories....good times...then i checked the mail and here i am... the picture is my fathers band from 1969...the gladiators...guess which one is my father...

the majority of my friends in vancouver...i miss them.... so as far as my current life goes....it's pretty quite right now...i went to play pool the other night and i was rockin the table...if it wasn't for me scratchin on the 8 ball i woulda skunked rob a couple times...i finally got together again with nick to jam...it was more hangin out...but we played some music and discussed directions of where we want to go...so were kinda back on track...we woulda got together yesterday but he was in north rustico and the weather was messy...so i stayed home too... i don't think i can really say much else than that... any questions?