re: the last temptation of buffalo boy.....

hello sinners, winners, losers and lovers,

some new work just for you.

i'm watching the dvd "Opeth: live at the Royal Albert Hall" or whatever it's called. it's awesome.

they're amazing live, i saw them last year on the "Heritage Hunter Tour." the show was in a lame venue, i can't remember what it's called, in Vancity, but you had to stay in your seat, you could stand, but you couldn't get up and mosh in a pit. it was fricken weird. you'd get kicked out if you tried. booh.

but Mastodon and Ghost played and were really good, yet the thing i remember the most was Opeth and how funny the lead singer was, he was a charming bastard and hilarious. in comparison, Mastodon didn't say a thing between the songs. boring. and Ghost were quite dramatic, opening with the weird chanting thing from the movie "Eyes Wide Shut," that scene where the rich are conducting a weird ceremony and Tom Cruise has snuck in and watched.

anyway, hope all is well in your world, i just realized i've been playing a ton of guitar, and a ton of heavy guitar, been recording everything too! my guess would be nearly 40 tracks. total songs, recorded with a handy little "Zoom" recorder. my style of songwriting is to sit and hammer out a song in one sitting, i play totally stream of consciousness, and let the music come through without a lot of complex thoughts and arrangements. which isn't true, because i've been playing guitar for at least 25 years, so it's kind of second nature, and after that length of time, i should be able to write a decent song or two! haha!

anyway, enjoy the new art. i'm trying to figure out new ways to display my art for exhibitions.

until next time,

cb

re: sunday bloody sunday......

Hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

it's 5 in the morning, closer to 6 am now actually, and i've been up getting coffee ready, doing regular things on a sunday morning. i've got a bunch of plants started to have my patio garden, the usual, tomotoes, snap peas, beans, herbs like oregano, sweet basil and the like. even some strawberry plants. some trees, i think they're douglas fir, i'm going to plant with my kids, so they'll have something like a legacy project to keep checking as time goes on when i'm gone.

life is good, i've got work to do, for some reason i was remembering some time on the road, and sitting in a pub in cache creek b.c., it was empty, the afternoon and i was shooting pool by myself listening to crappy country music, chatting up the female bartender. asking her about the town, what where the busy nights, and how it was going?

regulars streamed in, mostly retirees just waiting and running down the clock, having a pint with tomatoe juice, watching sports updates or playing keno.

the hills surrounding it are beautiful, actually, one of my favourite drives is from hope to kamloops on the transcanada. the scenery is amazing. i suggest you do it sometime. anyway, highland valley copper is the big employer in that town, as well as ashcroft, and they'll disappear when the mine closes in some 20 years. ghost towns. you pass through a lot of them when you drive across canada.

well, i gotta go, i've got a shitload of new digital art waiting to be finished, and i'm experimenting and having fun with drawing, painting and the like. dirty hands are hard working hands.

in the meantime, i've got music to make as well, firing on all cylinders these days and i'm gonna burn it bright. i have a new gibson explorer, and i'm going to make that guitar sing and scream. i will post a video later of me messing around on it. haha.

all the bets,



cb

re: metal!

Hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

i just got back from a blitzkrieg trip to vancouver, and it was fun, but those less than 24 hour trips are taking their toll. considering 11 of those hours are traveling. lame-cakes.

but it was for the Ghost/Mastodon/Opeth show at the Orpheum and it fcuking heavy metal!

it was awesome, even though, the Orpheum should not have metal shows because you cannot go crazy and mosh, so you're stuck in your seat for the whole show! yeah! i barely broke a sweat headbanging. it's weird standing their headbanging. it was slightly surreal, and i filmed some of it actually. haha.

anyway, the show was good, and Opeth were so awesome. great onstage banter and interaction with the crowd. i've noticed over the years that frontmen are either like Phil from DOWN/Pantera, screaming interaction, or like the dude from Opeth, calm, cool and collected, but hilarious as well.

check it.


cb

re: galactic lies, fables, bullshit and transmutations

Greetings friends, fans, foe, lovers and the like,

I made this artwork tonight in my lonely little motel room in penticton, while listening to Mastodon's albums "Blood Mountain" and "Leviathan."

NDN country needs some fucking heavy metal, yeah, the 3 or 4 famous NDN boys can play the blues, but i want some sludgy fucking riffs and pounding fucking drums and screaming vocals. Something nice and heavy, while I listen to the people outside partying on the patio, muscle cars roared up the street, some really crappy hip hop played, I traveled elsewhere listening to some heavy FUCKING METAL.

Anyway, the whole idea about this latest series is about life and death, and the spirit world. or whatever.

The music made me want to get way better at guitar, and find some musicians that would be into it. In kamloops i've never really had luck jamming with other people, because they can't see past their reality that whatever we create will ever be anything more than just jamming. But when i go to other major cities, i find a groove instantly with other musicians and jam like mad!

Musically and creatively my time will come, at least, that's the hope/dream right? ha ha!

I've been playing guitar for over 20 years, and have had peaks and valleys in my technical abilities, and I don't plan on stopping, it'll just take time finding the right people to create heavy/weird music with I guess.

In the meantime lovers, I'll be thinking of you often,


CB