February 2005 Archive

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February 27th, 2005

“if your pictures aren’t good enough, your not close
enough” -Robert Capa

Pictures are up of Death by
Stereo from Friday night in Regina. That was THE most intense show I have
ever seen! I am still bruised and I lost my voice but it was worth it. Thanks to
everyone in the pit who helped me out. Enjoy!

February 25th, 2005

Pictures of Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Z, Adolyne, and Adelade will be up tomorrow.
I am going to Regina tonight for Ghosts of Modern Man and Death by Stereo. *sooo
excited!*

February 23rd, 2005

Pictures are up of
Children of Tragedy and Broken Nose as
well Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Z, Adolyne, Adistin, and … ummm…an other band are
all playing at The Bassment Thursday night. $6. See you there!

February 21st, 2005

February 19th, 2005

Two weeks isn’t too long to wait for pictures of
Sammy’s Sticky Finger,
Pipe Dream,
Gone Postal, and
Oops Baby. Enjoy!

February 17th, 2005

February 15th, 2005

February 13th, 2005

Pictures are up of College with
Junior Pantherz soon to follow. Enjoy!

February 12th, 2005

13+ Birthdays and two packed busses = The “Holy
Hell there are a lot of February Birthdays Pub Crawl”
Enjoy!

February 11th, 2005

“More lesbians than you can shake a fish at”
Pictures are up of the Tegan and Sara show
from last night. Enjoy! And go to Louis’ tomorrow night for the battle of the
bands with The Junior Pantherz and College!

February 9th, 2005

There are some exciting new shows coming up including Death by Stereo!!! So
check out the shows section.

Tegan and Sara play at Louis’ Thursday night so go check ’em out. I will have
pictures of that show and the battle of the bands up on Friday and then I’ll see
you all at the February Birthday Pub Crawl!

February 8th, 2005

Pictures are up of
Tombstone Diaries from Saturday night at the battle of the bands @ Louis’.
Congratulations on winning the first round of the battle of the bands! If
you are fan of Tombstone (and should be!) and want to see them play at The Taste
of Chaos Tour in March with The Used at Credit Union Center then go to

www.myspace.com/tasteofchaos and vote!

You simply click on the giant red banner that says “click here
to vote for your favorite bands to play”, a new window pops up that asks you to
register with a new username and password, register and then close that window,
then go back and click on that “vote” banner again, login with your name and
password and then select Saskatoon, and then Tombstone Diaries (or any of the
other great bands if you like them more 😉 Good luck Tombstone!

February 6th, 2005
– My Birthday!

Cyborg….

Youíve seen them. I see them all the time. Cyborgs. Or at
least they wish they were. They are the guys who
always have their hands free headset on ìjust in caseî someone calls them on
their cell phone. They donít
have to be lowered to the level of a mere organic being by holding their
cell phone to their head.

They can talk as if the person was there, talk as if they
werenít even on the phone, and the whole time looking soooo cool with their
microphone and ear piece melded to their head like it was a part of them.

I laugh to myself and roll my eyes when I see them out in
public. Trying to integrate with society even though they are far superior
beings ñ half man, half cell phone.

Now donít get me wrong. I strongly support hands free
headsets when you are driving for obvious reasons. What I am talking about is
the guys who wear their headset ALL the time just to look cool. I wonder though
what makes them want to do this.

We all allow technology to rule our lives. Well right now I
am typing this on a laptop and am uploading to my website
wirelessly with my cell phone. (Yes I am super cool too!). However I
think some people want to be technology.
They have their cell phone, pda, pager, digital camera and mp3 player all
snapped to their belt. They recharge their batteries like they eat ñ to keep
life going. Every device and every second saved earns them valuable time toÖ.
spend on ebay buying another device.

The guy with the hands free headset on all the time
though takes it to a new level. He doesnít have time to use his
technology, because it saves him so many seconds each day that he wants it to be
his technology. The cell phone is an extension of him and when he is ìout
of the service areaî that part of him has been amputated.

Cell phone companies are already testing cell phones that
are implanted inside people, so that there are no wires, no batteries,
just integration. Or is it assimilation?

That day will come in our lifetimes and when it
does I hope that guy with the hands free headset on
all the time will be happy. Until then he will just have to keep on looking
super cool and hopefully take a break once and a while from his cyborg toys to
charge them. Maybe then he will
pick up a normal phone and call someone rather than always
being ready and waiting.

February 5th, 2005

February 3rd, 2005

10+ Birthdays and the last day of classes before spring break!
If you see me or anyone with a birthday in February then buy a ticket from us
otherwise just show up. There are two busses booked and we are going for three.
Tell all your friends and come out for my (and 9 other people’s) birthday!

January 2005 Archive

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January 31st, 2005

Pictures are up of
Ultimate Power Duo when they played at Louis’ a wee time ago. Enjoy!

January 29th, 2005

Pictures are up (ridiculusly late) of
Magneta Lane and
The Mark Inside when they played with The
Junior Pantherz back den’

January 26th, 2005

…..Oh yeah I run a website!

So I was in Edmonton for four days and on the way there we stopped in
Lloydminister to get some A&W. When I walked in I was overcome with this strange
pungent smell. It took me a few seconds till I realized what the smell was…. A
FILTHY SMOKER!!!   WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!!!…..then I realized
that we were on the Alberta side of Lloyd.

Since July 1st we have all been spoiled (and some of us shunned) with the
smoking bylaw in Saskatoon. I must say being an asthmatic and allergic to smoke
I have loved the smoking ban since day one but on the days when it is -30 and
-40 degrees outside you have to show some compassion for the people outside
getting their buzz….or do we?

Since January 1st the entire province of Saskatchewan has been smoke free and I must say it is great. I love going to places and not smelling like smoke. This last weekend all of my clothes reeked of smoke after going to the pubs on Whyte Ave and I realized how much I appreciate living in a smoke free city. This rant isn’t about me though. This rant is to encourage all of you to go out and get drunk!  Many businesses are complaining about business going down since the smoking ban, however it is still quite hard to make the argument that banning smoking ruins businesses when only 1/5 people smoke. You can’t tell me that only 20% of the population keeps 100% of the hospitality industry alive.

At the same time though the other 4/5 people who are used to staying at home
and “not going to the bar” or “not hanging out with friends” or “not spending
tons of money drinking overpriced alcohol” need to get off their asses and spend
some money at your local pub, tavern, bar, or lounge. Even restaurants are
better now that we can all breath. After being in Edmonton for 4 days I can
definitely say that we have it good here so go enjoy it.

The best times are spent in good company. Go out and enjoy.

January 19th, 2005

I have sooo many more pictures of the last few shows to put up but
unfortunately I haven’t had time because I have been preparing my portfolio for
a Journalism Conference in Edmonton I am going to in 3 hours. So there won’t be
any new pictures for the next 4 days but until then …. Here’s my new
PORTFOLIO Enjoy!

January 17th, 2005

Pictures are up of
Junior Pantherz from Saturday. Enjoy!

January 15th, 2005

Pictures are up of Fury and
the Mouse from Friday night. Enjoy!

Be sure to go to Junior Pantherz tonight at Louis’ and the
show at the Bassment tomorrow night.

January 12th, 2005

Pictures are up of Slipknot
from last night.
Enjoy!

CRAZY masks, orange jumpsuits, barcode tattoos, a ridiculous
amount of bouncers, and history made in Saskatoon was all found at the Slipknot
concert last night at Credit Union Center. The nine member heavy metal band from
Iowa graced an enormous stage last night to thousands of fans with opening acts
Unearth and Killswitch Engage.

Slipknot has been on hiatus for a few years after their last
album Iowa. The members basically hated each other which you would pretty much
expect to happen in a nine member band with three percussionists, two
guitarists, bass, turntables, samples, and a lead vocalist. The most intriguing
thing about the band however, aside from the number of members is that no one
has ever seen them without their masks on. Like the band GWAR, each member takes
on their own character which adds to the experience of seeing the band live.

I had expected Slipknot to only play but much to my surprise
they talked to the crowd a lot. The lead singer Corey was very thankful to the
fans for their latest album Vol3: The Subliminal Verses going platinum in
Canada and he said that if it wasn’t for the fans they would just be another
band from Iowa. Halfway through the song “Spit it out” the band stopped playing
and Corey told the audience they were going to make history in Saskatoon. He
told all of the people in the pit to get down on the ground and as close to each
other as possible then he told everyone in the seats to run down to the pit and
do the same.

In an instant hundreds of people were jumping over the barricades and running down to the floor to get down on the ground. The entire arena was packed with people and all of the security and the bouncers looked very worried. “We are going to be banned from Saskatoon for this” Corey said as he told everyone to stay down. Then when the band started “Spit it out” back up Corey yelled “get up jump”. The entire pit went wild.Slipknot left the stage with the crowd in a frenzy and then came back for an encore with the the songs “People = Shit”, “Wait and Bleed” and finally ending the night with my favorite song “Surfacing”.

The members came back out after and threw drum sticks and water
bottles into the crowd with one drum stick funny enough making it completely
over the crowd and hitting a very unsuspecting sound guy in the back of the
arena. Corey thanked the crowd again and promised them they would be back to
play again. He took a bow as he walked off with the crowd screaming and looking
very forward to them coming back again.

January 11th, 2005

January 10th, 2005

Pictures are up of
Chimpan-A to
Chimpan-Z Sorry for not updating for a while but I had to revert
to an older backup of the site and it took a while to get everything working
again!  Many more pictures / rants / etc to come!    Enjoy!

January 3rd, 2005

January 2nd, 2005

Happy New Year Everyone!

December 2004 Archive

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December 29th, 2004

December 28th, 2004

If you can imagine 150,000 people dead and millions without food, water, or
shelter then please donate whatever you can to the many relief efforts for South
Asia.  If you have no idea what I am talking about then you should pick up
a newspaper, turn on the radio or watch the news on TV!  One dollar out of
your pocket can save a child half the world away.

December 27th, 2004

December 25th, 2004

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

December 24th, 2004

Remember back in July when I wrote a rant about how we always wait until
someone is gone or leaving to find that “perfect picture” of someone? Well I
decided to take my own advice and had 429 pictures printed to give all my
friends for Christmas!

December 23rd, 2004

Things to be thankful for:

A peaceful country to live in, clean drinking water, easily accessible cheap
food, power for our houses and street lights, a refrigerator to keep our food
from spoiling, a roof to keep us dry and insulated walls to keep the heat in,
heat, free television and a choice of what channels you want to watch, if your
reading this you have access to the internet, if you have used a phone today you
are pretty lucky, if it was a cell phone that is pretty convenient, if you have
listened to music today that is pretty cool, if you got to choose what kind of
music you listened to today that is even better, if your lights turn on with a
flick of a switch and only go out when the bulb burns out you should be pretty
happy, if you have one jacket for when it is really cold out and another “light
jacket” for summer that is pretty cool that you can be out side and be
comfortable, if you aren’t dying of
breast-lung-prostate-bladder-colin-brain-skin-intestinal-or-blood cancer, aids,
crones, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, diabetes, stroke, or just simple old age you
are pretty damn lucky though I bet you know someone who isn’t as lucky this
Christmas, if your house hasn’t burned down with your entire family inside you
have a lot to be thankful for, if your parents don’t beat you and your
parents/teachers care about what kind of marks/attendance you get in school you
are luckier than some, if you smoke-drink-drugs-gamble-bar-or go to shows you
are pretty lucky to not have anything more important to put your money towards
like having enough food to feed your children, if your ate
today-yesterday-everyday you should say grace every time before you eat, if you
have ever traveled farther than the city you live in that is pretty adventurous
compared to a lot of people, if there is foam or springs in your mattress when
you sleep you must be pretty comfortable, warm sheets are even better, its also
pretty nice to not have to worry about being awaken in the middle of the night
by bombs falling, or bullets firing, I like listening to the radio and watching
the news and reading the newspaper to hear what is going on in my city and in
the world around me, carpet and linoleum is much better than dirt or cement and
if you have socks they keep cleaner too, if you got your “shots” back in
elementary school for various diseases that many children die of in other
countries it is worth the scar, if you have ever voted or look forward to being
able to vote next election you should be proud, if you like sports it sure is
nice to have the equipment to play with, if you enjoy hiking and driving its
nice to not have to worry about land mines, its nice to have fruit in the winter
and ice cubes in the summer, if you have a job, two jobs, or three jobs you make
a lot more money than the people who make the the things you buy, if you hurt
yourself you can go to the hospital and be helped for free, if you hurt yourself
really badly an ambulance will come and give you a ride to the hospital so you
don’t have to walk, if you have friends, family, or loved ones to be with this
Christmas you are incredibly lucky, if you know someone who doesn’t have anyone
to be with on Christmas you should invite them to be a part if your
family/friends during the holiday season., etc, etc, etc

You shouldn’t give thanks on Christmas day any more than you should give
thanks every other day of your life. Although we all may have some “have nots”
in our list of life it is the things we do have that we should be
thankful for.

December 20th, 2004

Pictures are up of Fury and
the Mouse and Parades Against
Parades.

So I had a customer yesterday ask me what the smallest radio we
had was. I, as normal, pointed to the smallest radio as the customer seemed to
be incapable of judging the size of objects for some reason. The customer then
told me that the reason she needed the radio to be small was because her
daughter was taking her to Church on Christmas Eve…..

December 19th, 2004

Pictures are up of Away from Here,
Tombstone Diaries,
Means, More or
Less and the Soccer Moms.
Enjoy!

December 16th, 2004

Wow what a great show that was!  And there is another
tonight at Amigos! Check out the shows section.

Pictures will be up this weekend.

December 13th, 2004

Pictures are up of Adolyne from Saturday
night. If you have never seen Adolyne live I highly recommend that you do. They
won’t let you down!

December 12th, 2004

Customers, customers, asshole customers. It is time again for my annual “I
hate being a salesman during Christmas”.  I can’t tell if people are
illiterate or just too freaking lazy to read but all I do is tell people what if
they spent half a second thinking and reading could figure out for themselves.

I know a lot of people reading this work retail and will agree that customers
don’t think. They become instant sheep once they have to purchase something. It
is a challenge when I am helping a customer not make eye contact with another
for fear that they will try to steal me away from the customer I am helping
because “I’m the most important person in the world and if I don’t get
service and common sense given to me I will get really angry and then I will get
really angry anyways because you won’t price match another place that has it for
cheaper but doesn’t have it in stock”

When it is super busy during Christmas I always feel like a norm in a room
full of mindless zombies. They all want at your brains and stand and stare
blindly and wanting until you look at them and say “I can help you in a second
once I’ve finished this sale [and this sale and this sale and this sale]”.

It’s endless. I’ve started to resent human beings and drink more to
compensate.  As I get older Christmas feels less and less like “Christmas”
and I think that is because I have always been so busy during it.  Tonight
I forced myself to watch Christmas with the Kranks and even though it
wasn’t that good, it was nice to just sit down and watch a Christmas movie. And
of course like any Tim Allen movie there is a message. Christmas is about
giving. For me it is the only thing that makes me feel like it is Christmas and
lets me forget about all the asshole customers.

December 11th, 2004

December 8th, 2004

I just realized that the last time I redesigned my website was December of
last year. That is pretty cool.

Anyways, I have been working on other sections of this site and taking a lot
of pictures of non-band related stuff which you all will eventually see.

There are a couple shows next week so check ’em out.

December 6th, 2004

Well I have been working like crazy on this site for the last week and
I hope you’ll all be pleased. The bands section is redone and all of the
thumbnails and links have been updated. There are a few new pictures in the
Photo section with lots to come, as well as the friends section has had a huge
update.

The Waste section is now a links section and worth a look. I have added a
shows section where I will have posers and dates for shows as well links to
places to find shows. (if you ever have a poster for a show e-mail it to me and
I will post it)

Finally there is a portfolio section which will be up in the next couple
days. It is going to be a section for my best work. I shoot
A LOT of non band related stuff (eg. sports) and so now it will have a place to
go.

Oh yeah and there are 12 new banners up top so click refresh a few dozen
times.   Enjoy!

December 2nd, 2004

No new pictures but I made it easier to find old pictures by spending over 20
hours fixing all of the links and galleries in the BANDS
section. So go back in time and enjoy the new grand total of 221 bands all over
again….221 bands…wow.

November 2004 Archive

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November 29th, 2004

Pictures are fashionably late of
All That Remains when they played with
GWAR last week.

November 27th, 2004

Pictures are up of Junior
Pantherz when they played at Amigos last night. Enjoy!

November 25th, 2004

FINALLY!!! Pictures are up of GWAR
! If you were unfortunate to have missed the show then read on, it will
make the pictures seem a little less crazy. Enjoy!

So on Sunday night I walk into Ryley’s to see GWAR and there is plastic on
the floors, the walls, and the ceiling. “Why is there plastic over everything?”
I ask my friend Liam. “Apparently GWAR has 150 gallons of fake blood and a
canon!” he replied.

I knew it was going to be a good night! I was able to get a photo pass
for the show but I still had to pay $30 to get in. I was wondering why the
show cost so much but by the end I realized why…. It was a freaking Broadway
musical! Every other song GWAR played had a new character/monster come out
on stage. Members of the band either killed them or battled them with giant
swords until the whole crowd was soaked in fake blood.

It all started off with John Kerry coming out and having his head cut off
after lecturing the crowd and the band. Fake blood spew from his body and then
he was dragged off stage, next it was
Arnold Schwarzenegger with his
giant stinky fingers which were soon chopped off in a sword fight. His limbs
shot blood on the crowd as members of the band tore into Arnie’s chest and
ripped out his organs which shot more blood at the crowd.

Paris Hilton was up next. Strapped to a torture
table on wheels they ripped and pulled her apart with more blood spraying out at
the crowd who were all in amazement of what they were seeing. I could not
believe how awesome the show was going so far and wondered how many more “acts”
there would be.

Michael Jackson graced the stage next and sang
some backup “ehhh hooos” to the song Crush Kill. As the song went on Michael’s
face fell off and showed his hideous skeletal remains. Of course blood as
you would expect by now came splattering from his head.

The lead singer then called onto stage the most
wanted man in the world Osama Bin Laden to battle during the song Bring Back the
Bomb. There was a sword fight with a nuclear bomb and of course Osama lost
with bloody results. A worthy adversary to follow Osama was George W. Bush who
just like Paris Hilton was strapped to a torture table on wheels and was torn
apart by the band members. The entrails and several meters of intestines and
organs danced around in the arms of the band as blood shot out from Bush’s
carcass.

Probably the least tasteful thing I have ever
seen was to follow with Laci Peterson who was murdered by Scott Peterson while
pregnant with her son (its been in the news a lot lately). In expected bad taste
Laci Peterson was there and had a self abortion on stage with the baby puking
green blood all over the crowd. It was sick, it was discussing, it was GWAR!!!

Back from the dead came the Reaganator. A half
Ronald Reagan, half robot who had a huge battle with the members on stage. He
couldn’t be stopped until they were able to rip out his hydraulic lines and
spray the crowd with green blood again. The lead singer of GWAR with his giant
snake like penis then sprayed the crowd with his “filthy urine” while playing
the song Sick of You. The band left the stage and the crowd went wild
screaming for more GWAR. After being soaked in fake blood, drenched in green
puke, and rained on with filthy urine (all fake here of course) the crowd
couldn’t get enough.

The band did an encore with some rock star I
guess named Melvin taking stage with them. They didn’t seem to like Melvin
because his head didn’t stay on too long. Melvin made it a point however to make
sure that every drop of blood from his severed head went onto the crowd and
continued to spray until Bonesnapper came out.

Bonesnapper was a giant monster with an apatite.
He had the longest and biggest battle finally ending with his face and then his
head being torn off and green blood shooting in every direction. Needless to say
it was hard to keep my cameras from getting soaked but I did my best. The final
battle with Bonesnapper happened during the last song Lost Gods which made the
crowd go crazy. Like I said GWAR didn’t just play an amazing show, they put on a
terrific performance and no one left the place without red or green blood on
them, and if they almost did, after the last song one band member brought out
“The Biledriver” a giant blood canon to shoot the crowd with. No one was spared!

I have seen hundreds of shows in my days and I can definitely say that GWAR
was the craziest and most worth my money. Now I just need to get this green
blood off of my camera! If you want to know more about GWAR
and where they came from check out www.gwar.net

There is also a show tonight (Thursday) at The Bassment with PHD, Sammy
Sticky Finger, and Against all Odds + others.

C’mon and The Junior Panthers are also playing tonight at Amigos. It’s my
girlfriend and I’s 1 year anniversary. Lets hope she’ll want to see the Panthers
for our 1 year

November 24th, 2004

I unfortunately showed up to Amigos a little too late and the SNFU show sold out
so no pictures

November 22nd, 2004

The list of best shows I have ever seen now has GWAR at the top!Pictures will be up late tomorrow night. Holy crap that was amazing!

November 21st, 2004

Pictures are up of Chixdiggit
and The Neckers when they played at Amigos on
Friday. Enjoy!

November 20th, 2004

For anyone who isn’t in the know GWAR is at Ryley’s instead of
the Roxy on Sunday.

November 18th, 2004

Pictures are up of Matt Mays
when they played with The Trews on Tuesday night. Enjoy!

Pictures are of of The Trews
and The Waking Eyes when they played last
night @ The Pat.

November 15th, 2004

November 14th, 2004

Pictures are up of Voyd when they played at Ryan Pegg’s house
Friday night.

November 13th, 2004

Pictures are up of Protest the Hero,
Closet Monster,
The Brat Attack, and
Adistin. Enjoy!

Pictures are up of Vying for
Solace. The first band to ever get blood on my camera! I had to clean off my
lens after the first song because there was blood splatter on it. Now
THAT’S hardcore. Enjoy!

November 12th, 2004

Pictures will be up soon of Thursday night, but first a scolding!I found a beer bottle in the guys bathroom at the show. I didn’t tell Drabble (though I could have). If he had found the beer bottle THE SHOW WOULD HAVE BEEN SHUT DOWN because if The Bassment is ever caught with outside alcohol it would be shut down = very bad. There have been way too many shows that have been shut down due to peoples ignorance with this and it hasn’t happened in a while thankfully and I pray it never has to happen again. PLEASE –DO NOT– bring outside alcohol into The Bassment EVER or the shows will be shut down = bye bye Saskatoon punk scene. Tell your friends and think about others rather than yourself wanting to get drunk in a bathroom.

November 11th, 2004

I hope you all took time today to remember what over 100,000
Canadians died for. There were over 7000 people at Credit Union Center which
made it the largest Remembrance Day ceremony in Canada believe it or not. In so
many ways I feel very disconnected from the World Wars and yet I know some day I
will have to explain the wars that are going on right now in Iraq, Africa, and
the middle East to my children.

I don’t know how I will be able to explain to them what the wars
were about, but I know that I will teach them why they were all wrong to have
happened. Remembrance Day doesn’t only make me reflect on what has happened in
the past but also question why wars are happening today despite all that has
happened, and all that the veterans have told us. Lest we forget.

November 10th, 2004

November 11th:

Closet Monster, Protest The Hero, The Brat Attack, Vying for
Solace and Adistin

Thursday at the bassment…..7:00pm doors, $7 and such.

See you there and wear a poppy!

November 9th, 2004

So after seeing The Incredibles this weekend which I must say KICKS ASS! I
was reminded of how much I love cartoons = I’ve decided to make my own comics.
Lame? Yes. Hilarious none the less? Definitely! Click on the
comic to see the full version.

November 7th, 2004

I got a fisheye lens! Pictures are up of
Parades Against Parades,
The Cape May and
The Doers.

November 6th, 2004

Five buses and a couple hundred of the ugliest shirts ever.
Pictures are up of The Mech/Elec Pub Crawl
from last night. Enjoy!

November 4th, 2004

Yes that is Ryan Drabble!

November 3rd, 2004

FUCK!

November 2nd, 2004

October 2004 Archive

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October 31st, 2004

Pictures are up of Crissi’s Halloween Pub Crawl from last night.  Happy Halloween!

October 30th, 2004

Pictures are up of Samuel the
Black Shaman from last night.  Poser Disposer, More or Less,
and The Modules are soon to follow.

October 29th, 2004

October 27th, 2004

Pictures are up *again!* (from forever ago) of
Tom Cochrane,
Pilate, Kyprios,
Despistado, and
Sweatshop Union when they played
at The Ex Grandstand back in August. Enjoy!

October 24th, 2004

Pictures are up of
Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Z when
they played at Amigos on Saturday.  MANY more pictures and an
explanation of why I haven’t been updating much lately coming soon! 😉

October 22nd, 2004

Saturday Night! –>  Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Z is playing at Amigos
with Asterid at Amigos. Go check out some tambourine core!

As well HAPPY BIRTHDAY
BRETT!

October 19th, 2004

Antibalas when they
played at the Odeon on Saturday. Enjoy!

October 18th, 2004 – It is a great day!

*Finally!!!*  Pictures are up of
Billy Talent when they played at The
Odeon last Wednesday!

October 15th, 2004

If you like music like Bob Marley, or Reggae style music then check this show out!Go to http://www.antibalas.com/ and you can listen to their cd. Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra Odeon Event Centre 241 2nd Avenue S Saskatoon, SK S7K 1K8 Canada http://www.theodeon.ca/ Price: $17.00 All Ages! With DJ Likwid

October 14th, 2004 – Today is the first day of the rest of my
life!

Pictures are up of
Death from Above 1979 and
Metric at the Odeon last night.

Why isn’t Billy Talent up yet? Well, why else would
you have a reason to come back later?!

October 13th, 2004

October 12th, 2004

Pictures are up of Adistin
from Sunday night. Blue Skies at war will be up much later tonight.

October 11th, 2004

Pictures are up The
Reason from last night!

More pictures tomorrow night and don’t forget Billy
Talent/Metric/DFA:1979 on Wednesday at The Odeon!

October 10th, 2004

Hope to see you all tonight at The Bassment for The
Reason!

Pictures are up (again) of
A
Day at The Zoo with Kweku.

As well pictures are up (once again) of the Tarrah
Higginbotham memorial show with

Tombstone Diaries,
The Paper *Kites,
PHD, Soccer
Moms, and Sparky.  Enjoy!

Finally pictures are up (again) of
Wide Mouth Mason when they played
@ The Pat!

More pictures (that you’ve already seen) up soon!

October 9th, 2004

Pictures are up of Tig
ol’ Bitties from last night at Amigos.  Enjoy!

October 8th, 2004

Everybody remember Georgestock? Well if you don’t then luckily I
“finally” re-updated so enjoy the pictures all over again of

The Pinch,
Sparky, Surface,
Liberated Noise,
Tig ol’ Bitties,
Cessate,
Adolyne, Tombstone Diaries,
Samuel The Black Shaman, and
The Decline.   I will
re-update all of the “people pictures” of Georgestock soon.

October 7th, 2004

Pictures are up of Closet Monster,
Hopesfall, and
Moneen from “forever ago” last Wednesday.
Sorry for taking so long with pictures but I’ve been focusing on school
more lately and hopefully it all pays off (*give myself a pat on the
back*)  Enjoy!!!

October 6th, 2004

I far from need to “plug” this show but if you haven’t seen or heard The Reason get your ass to The Bassment on the 10th! Also playing is Blue Skies at War in which the same applies!

Billy Talent, Death from Above: 1979, and Metric will be playing at The Odeon on Oct 13th which will definitely sell out so get your ass down to the Odeon and get yourself a ticket!  Tickets also on Ticketmaster Doors@8pm, $15 advanced, $20 Door 19+

And here’s what 2 seconds of taking pictures of the walls at Amigos
and 20 minutes of editing can do.  Your welcome Amigos!

Pictures? What pictures?  OH YOU MEAN THOSE 1000+ pictures
that go erased last month and I still have to re-update them….
yeah…. all I can say is “eventually”.

October 4th, 2004

A ridiculous amount of Pictures are up of
Alexisonfire
from last Wednesday. As well
Fjords from
Saturday night at Amigos. Pictures of Moneen, Hopesfall, and Closet
Monster will come later in the week.  Enjoy!

October 3rd

September 2004 Archive

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September 30th, 2004

That was great show! Awesome to see soooo many people fill up
Prarieland. I took A LOT of pictures but “school work comes first” so
expect pictures up Thursday night.

Until then however “for all you conspiracy people” watch
THIS
incredibly interesting video about how a plane was never actually
recovered from the Pentagon Crash site on 9/11. Makes you
wonder….

September 28th, 2004

September 26th, 2004

“this domain is for sale”

So this guy in New Jersey bought our runner up for Canadian Idol’s web domain
www.theresasokyrka.com and
he wants to sell it for $5000US. I read the
article in the news paper and
heard about it on John Gormley Live (650NTR) on Friday.

This guy runs iwantmynameback.com and simply buys peoples names and
then tries to sell them when they get famous….

SOOOOO…. I went on diyhosting.ca and…… bought HIS name!……..

www.danielweixeldorfer.com

Now I own his name and want $5000US for it or I will trade for
theresasokyrka.com to give to Theresa for her to use.

John Gormley said I was one of his “smarter radio listeners” – I’d
have to agree!

September 23rd, 2004

Pictures are up of
Protest the Hero, Bombs over
Providence, and Sum41 who put on one
hell of a show I must say!

September 22nd, 2004

Come back later for pictures of Sum 41, Bombs over
Providence, and Protest the Hero, as well as a couple interviews from
last night at The Odeon.!

September 17th, 2004

Hooray for band pictures! Here are pictures of
PHD from last night at Ryley’s. Enjoy!

September 14th, 2004

Hey remember when I used to go to shows and take pictures?
Wow…those were the days!

More Pictures are up from House Boating, there are almost 500 here
and they are mostly from my houseboat as well scenery, cliff diving,
boat jumping, water sports, and such.

If any of you want any of these pictures printed
e-mail me the file names of
the ones you want (right click on the picture and select properties and
write down the name eg. IMG_8446.jpg) and I will send the original high
res file to Shoppers Drug Mart and have them done for the bargain
basement price of 25cents for a 4×6 or 99cents for a 5×7.

As for that band photography? There have been a lot of sweet
shows lately that I have had to miss unfortunately but don’t fret as it
is the new school year and with that always comes lots of great shows
such as Alexisonfire, Moneen, Billy Talent, etc. And YOU should go!

My website has been “broken” for the last few weeks now and I still
am having lots of problems updating and logging into my site which will
hopefully be fixed soon. I hope this massive attack of pictures
you’ve gotten this week makes up for it though

Enjoy!

September 10th, 2004

Few words can describe how awesome a five day house boating trip with
over 80 of your friends is so I thought I’de take over 2000 pictures
instead We went in two greyhound busses and had four houseboats
between us on Shuswap Lake in British Columbia. If you ever get a chance
to go house boating I would definitely recommend as it will be one of
the best times of your life!

Here are all the “PARTY
PICTURES” which is about HALF of the pictures to be updated.
There are 756 pictures in this gallery which if you spend three seconds
looking at each in the slide show will take 756×3=2268seconds/60=38
minutes to look at them all. So go to the bathroom
first, grab a beer and enjoy!

September 2nd, 2004

What’s the only thing worse than punkoryan not updating for over a
week?…. I’m leaving in 2 hours to go House boating for another
week! *diabolical laugh*

However, seeing as I “hate to let you all down” and want to leave you
with something, here is a GIGANTIC
JUMBLE of 369 pictures of various things and events and places and
friends and stuff that I have taken in the last month. I didn’t have
time to edit or organize these I just threw all the pictures I liked
from the last month in to a gallery. Enjoy and see you in a week!

August 2004 Archive

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August 28th, 2004

August 27th, 2004

Well lets all go
backwards in time because the people running the servers down in Florida
screwed up and wiped out the hard drive with my website on it!!!!
So luckily I didn’t lose the whole site (because I would die) the latest
backup was July 21st, but still I have lost a month worth of updates!
I still have the pictures, but it will be a BITCH to update all those
pictures again *tears*

I have zero time between now and when I leave to go House Boating on
the 2nd so I will just have to leave the last month of pictures for now
and catch up later.

Even though I promised them by last Sunday night,
HERE are the pictures from
the Tarrah Memorial Show.  There aren’t any fancy galleries because
that is screwed up too so yeah…. sleep now.

Oh yeah and go to the Bassment tonight.  The Thanatron Solution,
Means, Tombstone Diaries, An Epidempic Breaks, and Soccer Moms.
$6, 7pm.

August 25th, 2004

I must apologize but punkoryan.com has been in the processes of
moving to a new faster server these last few days and as a result I
haven’t been able to update as well I have lost the last month worth of
updates. I am working on getting them back, and getting the huge backlog
of pictures I have up as well.

“Let’s all hope I don’t have to RE-update the last month worth of
pictures”

Check back later.

July 2004 Archive

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July 21st, 2004

Get ready to laugh your ass off with “This Land”

July 19th, 2004

I must thank all of YOU for these pictures. This
site has grown so much in the last two years. I now get over 35,000
visits/month from all over the world and it has been such inspiration for me
to keep going and keep taking pictures. I never thought my
photography would go this far and I hope for it to go much farther in the
future. This was my second year with the privilege of a photo pass at
Warped Tour. I got to be inches away from the bands and I hope these
pictures help all of you who couldn’t make it to the Warped Tour (or those
of you who want to relive it) see what it was like to be there….. “the
Woodstock of Punk Rock”

Enjoy!

July 17th, 2004

Wish you were there don’t you?!So why didn’t Punkoryan update from Calgary like he said he would? Well among many other excuses I took over SEVEN HUNDRED PICTURES of Warped Tour 2004 and its going to take a wee while to get them all updated! Don’t fret though, I’m already half way done and should hopefully have them all up later tonight.

July 12th, 2004

Pictures are up of Shaun Groat’s stunt at the George Stock Fundraiser Keg Party Enjoy! p.s. If you liked that, “wait till Georgestock”

And now YOU (YES YOU!) get to help choose which bands I will
photograph at Warped Tour on Thursday. Yes I do have a photo pass again
as well I will have a laptop so I will be updating FROM CALGARY THE
NIGHT OF WARPED TOUR!!! (Yes I always deliver!)

I am of course going to photograph all the big bands like NOFX, Bad
Religion, Thursday etc, but I leave it up to YOU to decide which of the
“small bands” (provided they aren’t playing at the same time as a little
band) I should photograph.

GO HERE for
the Poll, you can vote for more than one band in each pole, so vote for
as many bands as you want. Enjoy!

July 10th, 2004

I have many-o-pictures to put up tomorrow + ONLY 5
DAYS TILL WARPED TOUR!!!

July 5th, 2004

July 3rd, 2004

July 2nd, 2004

You never know what you have until its gone. My friend Tarrah died in a car accident on Thursday and at risk of being untactful, I am strongly compelled to write a rant right now. Not only because of the message it will hold, but because ranting and especially photography have always been my greatest outlet to my emotions. This will be my second too many friends I will have to be a pallbearer for, and with any death, friends and family always get together for support and remembrance. People always bring over the photo albums and the shoeboxes full of pictures and look for ìthat good oneî. It is really helpful and beautiful to sit around with friends, family, and even strangers to you who all knew the person and tell stories and laugh and cry about her/him. What is especially important to me is all of the pictures of the person. Putting them all in a photo album for everyone too see, calling up friends and asking if anyone has any pictures of them ìwhen we were on that tripî or ìlast summer when her hair was that colorî. As everyone goes through their shoeboxes they find ìthat perfect oneî. I have been printing and framing like crazy and what has hit me is how when a person dies we not only conjure up old precious memories of the person, but we for the first time share all of our pictures and the stories that go along with them.

I am making it a point to give all of my best pictures to friends of Tarrah. Ensure that we all have ìthat perfect oneî of her to remember. Itís sad though, that it always takes someoneís death for everyone to realize what they meant to you, or how you wouldnít be dating/hanging out with/friends with people if it wasnít for her. What I hope you leave this with, which I definitely have is that I am going to start going through all my pictures and printing ìthe perfect onesî for all my other friends. We shouldnít have to wait for someone to die to share all the pictures we have of them. Picture frames are cheep; photo printing and reprints are cheep. Share your photos, and share the memories that go with them. If you want to send your condolences to Tarrahís family her address was 627 Kellough Rd Saskatoon, SK S7N3N4. In Remembrance of Tarrahís undying love for music, Donations will be taken up for a Scholarship in Tarrahís Memory for a music student to attend post secondary education. The foundation is Heart if the City Piano Program 2505-Cumberland Ave .S. Saskatoon, S7J-2A1 If you remember Tarrah. From school, from shows, from work, from life, her Prayer Service will be at 7pm on Monday July 5th and the Funeral will be at 10:30am on Tuesday July 6th at St. Patrick Church (3339 Centennial Dr.)

June 2004 Archive

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June 29th, 2004

June 27th, 2004

I pray you all vote
tomorrow. This is the first time I will have been able to vote for a
federal election and I am exited. Not only do I have a chance to
exercise my democratic right that many countries do not have, but I am a
firm believer that if you don’t vote then you have no right to bitch
about the government. For that reason alone I hope you all go out
tomorrow, and if you aren’t of voting age then I urge you to talk to any
older siblings or especially your parents about who and why they are
voting to learn something.

If you are still undecided Here are the websites of the

Conservative,
Liberal,
NDP, and
Green Party.
Read their platforms and see which ones best fit how you feel. Don’t
listen to all the fear scare commercials on the TV and Radio, make a
decision for yourself (and if your parents or siblings haven’t decided
then send them to read the platforms too).  If you can’t decide on
a party then just vote for Green party because they need all the votes
they can get!

Just think of how many people have died in history to give us
everything in life that we take for granted. Exercise your right,
exercise your privilege.

June 23rd, 2004

Pictures are up of The
Reason, Cowpie,
Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Z and

The Adventures of Botch, The Dude, and Amos

More video to come tomorrow!

June 22nd, 2004

Expect a BAZILLION pictures and video of The Reason from last night
which was one hell of a show and if you didn’t go and didn’t have a DAMN
good excuse then shame on you because you missed an incredible
performance. As well while I am on the topic of incredible performances
holy crap is Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Z good too! They surprised the hell
out of me! Anyways it is 2 am and I start my new job tomorrow taking
pictures for an art gallery so wish me luck and check back late tomorrow
night for all the pictures.

To hold you over till then here is a video of the Reason from last
night. A song from their first album named “Tortoise”

June 21st, 2004

12 hours from the time I’m writing this my good friend Brett will be on a plane to Europe for 2 months.  What better way to say Goodbye than a pub crawl! What’s with the T-shirts you ask? Well a friend of ours found them in a warehouse he works in and they have been there since 1989 needless to say despite Brett washing them they all smelled like dirty crayons but were funny nontheless. See you all at The Bassment tonight!

June 19th, 2004

Well 3″ of Blood
decided to cancel AGAIN so no pictures for you guys for a couple days
but you better all go to THE REASON on Monday because they will blow you
away!

June 17, 2004

June 15th, 2004

Pictures are up of
Our Mercury,
Jacketbox,
More or Less,
Playing in Traffic, and
Brook

June 13th, 2004

I have lots of pictures (and cool fisheye film
pictures!) of 306CoverFest which was a huge success (judging by the wad
of bills in Smith’s pocket!) anyways I will have pictures up soon but to
hold you over here is a video of Jacketbox doing the cover
“Pet
Cemetery”  Enjoy!   ( If the video won’t play
when you click on it then right click on it and save it to your computer
then open)

June 10th, 2004

June 9th, 2004

Now

THIS is a punishment!  Poor Kid!

June 8th, 2004

So I’ve been a HUGE loser and not gone to any of the shows for the last week! I feel like I’m going into show withdral!!!  SOOOO I (and all of you!) am going to the next three shows this weekend and I hope to see you all there! Don’t forget to save your pennies for Sunday night too as Webster is great! (provided they haven’t gotten a crappy vocalist because last time I saw them they didn’t have a vocalist and they were just good “music”)

June 7th, 2004

Give it a second listen. Last year before Warped Tour I made it a point to ìsampleî all of the bands that would be there so that I knew which ones to listen to when I was there.  Glassjaw, a ìscreamo bandî I guess, didnít really appeal to me last summer when I tried listening to them, but now, a year later, I canít stop listening to them! My music tastes changed, and I grew into the CD. Back in grade 10, I bought the new Beastie Boys CD Hello Nasty. I thought IT WAS TERRIBLE!!! I forced myself to listen, but I just couldnít bring myself to it.     Just after I bought the CD I told my friend how much I didn’t like it and he offered to buy it off me….I pondered it, but then decided I would give the CD another try. Six months later the CD never left my discman. I ended up buying every Beastie Boys CD. Iím sure I far from need to tell you this, but, at least for me, the CDs I hate at first turn out to be the ones that never leave my discman, and the ones that donít leave my discman when I first buy them end up getting boring fast. The point of this is to tell you to go over to that stack of CDs you have. Pull out the CDís that you only listened to once or twice, and force yourself to listen to them again. Maybe that CD really was terribleÖ.maybe it may never leave your discman.

June 5th,2004

Are you like me and you are wishing you were one of the fifty thousand people partying in downtown Calgary right now? Well the next best thing (from an 18+ perspective) is to drink some beers and go to www.flamesgirls.com Its like Mardi Gras…. without the beads….. but with the…..

June 4th, 2004

It’s like you’re walking down Broadway and looking at all the posters of the great shows coming up…only over the INTERNET! ………Crazy!!!

June 3rd, 2004

Pictures are up of Sparta,
Engine Down, and
All-State Champion

June 2nd, 2004

May 2004 Archive

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May 30th, 2004

Thanks to Steve for pointing out the fact that if I am going to write a rant about how there are two sides to every story I should have links to both sides!   Here is Michael Moore’s website which I have linked before and is great reading to get you thinking as well he has many links to alternative news sites that offer unbiased (non-CNN) stories and articles you normally wouldn’t EVER see on TV or in the newspaper. Remember, I still love Michael Moore, and even if his side may sometimes be a little one sided, it is often a side that you normally wouldn’t get to hear or see and that is what is most important. Finally I must link to a site I find VERY interesting (though a long read) on all of the events that happened up to and after 911.  From The Wilderness is an essay site run by a guy Mike Ruppert and it covers everything from War to the Economy. A great site if you like to read up on more of what is happening in the world. I still haven’t seen Moore’s new movie but I’m sure a lot of it will be based on the below essay and you know that everything in this essay is based on fact.  The guy has a $1000 reward to anyone who can prove anything in this essay to be false. If you read anything for the rest of your life (ok maybe that is a little extreme) but still everyone should read: “Oh Lucy! – You Gotta Lotta ‘Splainin’ To Do” <—- READ THIS (borring at beggining but gets very interesting around 9/11/01) The more you read the more you get into it.

Mau 27th, 2004

http://mooreexposed.com/ http://www.michaelmoorehatesamerica.com http://moorelies.com/

The other day I asked my cousin “if you see the new Michael Moore movie somewhere on the net download it because I want to see it”. “Michael Moore?” he said “I’m not going to waste my time with that liar again. After Bowling for Columbine I started “thinking” but then realized that everything he showed was just his view of it, and hardly anything he said was based on concrete fact. He just showed you what he wanted to be seen” Now this thought had of course come to my mind too, but I never seriously put some thought into the fact that “Americas Whistle Blower” may be just as corrupt as the media he bashes, and greedy as the corporations he tries to bring down. Turns out there are A LOT of people out there who feel the same, and when I read into it, my eyes were as opened to Bowling Columbine in how much of it was distorted. After all, I loved the movie so much I was too concerned with how awesome it was to question it. A few websites are on the left that everyone should check out. –> Not because I am now a “Moore Hater”, I still love him and his movies, but because just as his movies try to do, they leave you to make your own judgment. Judgments should always be based on the facts. As much as I know I will love Moores new movie F911, I will now be much more skeptic about what is said because remember: Your seeing things how he makes them to be.

May 25th, 2004

Pictures of The
Distillers are up!  I was only allowed to take pictures of the
Distillers so no Crowned King unfortunately but enjoy!

May 22nd, 2004

Pictures are up of Big Wig,
Belvedere,
Tsunami Bomb and
Misconduct, as well…for those of
you who weren’t cool enough to go to The Easy Alibi after you
missed a jaw droppingly amazing band
Lythic Blue finally I added some pictures of the
pit from last night
to the friends section. Enjoy!

May 21st, 2004

Only in Regina!    Pictures of
Death by Stereo from one of the
best shows of my life!  Yes that picture above is of the circle pit
taking up the entire Riddell center all the way to the back wall!
More pictures to make you wish (or glad) you were there soon.
Enjoy!

May 20th, 2004

Pictures are up of
Out of Your Mouth, Social Code
(formally Fifth Season) and The Salads!
Enjoy!  See you in Regina!

May 19th, 2004

Pictures are up of Bif
Naked from last night!  I will have the rest of The Salads, Out
of Your Mouth and Social Code up soon. Enjoy!

May 18th, 2004

May 16th, 2004

May 15th, 2004

That was such a good show! Unfortunately you all have to
wait until Sunday night to see all the pictures because I am leaving to
go to my Grandpa’s 90th Birthday in 4 hours from now but as a teaser I
give you two Paper *Kites Videos:  “Oh
No! The Robot!”  and  “This
is a Schwa”  You need
Windows Media Player
to watch them but if you are wunning windows you should already have
that.

May 14th, 2004

May 13th, 2004

Vampires!  The Vampires won’t stop calling me!  It’s like
they like my flavor and they keep coming back for more! (well actually I
am type O which makes me the “universal donor” so they do like me) BUT
STILL!!! I donated blood back 4 years ago and they have called me every
few weeks since then “thanking me for my previous donation” and wanting
more!  What am I suppose to do ? I can’t just tell them to stop
calling me (…I wouldn’t want to come off as some jerk who doesn’t want
to save lives or anything        So what
are my options? I could get a tattoo or piercing! Then I couldn’t donate
for a year! But they would keep me on their list …. waiting….
waiting ….until 365 days have gone by and then *ring ring* “we thank
you for your previous donation” AHHHH! I guess I could
just go donate blood again…. then they wouldn’t call me for three
months because I would have to regenerate another feast for them….
hmmmm maybe I will donate blood one of these days… I
keep telling the people on the phone that I will. I guess they have me
caught in their trap (just like Jackie Chan) … I give them blood and they stop calling me for
three months, it’s a win win situation…..or at least until they get
hungry again!

May 11th, 2004

Seven Hours of organizing and 276 pictures later I
completely redid and added to the PHOTO section.
Many pictures you will have already seen, but I seriously haven’t
updated that section in about a year and I have taken…oh….a “few”
since then so I figured I better get it up to date!

I also put up some of the pictures I have done for photo
press packages for bands. If your band needs some promotional shots
taken feel free to drop an e-mail and “hire” me    I still
have a lot more pictures to put up and will be updating that section
more often now that this Gallery thing makes it so easy to update
picture albums.  Next in line –> The Waste Section!!!  And oh
yeah, remember “back in the day” when I seemed to have an opinion on
everything and could write tons…well I haven’t actually written
anything for my site in a very long time and I really miss it so expect
to be even more bored out of your mind with my site than normal because
I have some rants’a’broo’n !

May 10th, 2004

Pictures of
The Pinch,
DFA, and
The Chunks Enjoy!

May 8th, 2004

Pictures of Metallica
from Last Night. I must apologize for the crappiness of the pictures but
I wasn’t able to get a photo pass so this was the best I could do with
what I had. Enjoy!

Oh yeah and tonight!  THE PINCH is having their cd
release with DFA, The Chunks (The Portmans without horns) and The
Decline. It will be a great show and only $6 adv at Vinyl Exchange or $8
at the doors of the Cosmo Senior Center (beside the Hose). See you all
there!

May 6th, 2004

Death By Stereo, Big Wig, Belvedere, Tsunami Bomb, Misconduct May 20th @ University of Regina Regina,Saskatchewan $14.00 in Advance $16.00 at the door Doors open at 7:00pm Show starts at 7:30pom

May 5th, 2004

May 4th, 2004

May 3rd, 2004

Tomorrow Night at The Bassment!

PHD – Post Human Disorder

10 Second Epic (from Edmonton)

Spade The Shovelhead

Faster Than Tommy

Tickets only $5, Doors 7:30, Show 8 PM