April 2004 Archive

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April 30th, 2004

Pictures of Alexisonfire,
Blue Skies At War, and
Boys Night Out are up!

I encourage everyone to try out the “slideshow” option on these
pictures. If it didn’t work for you a couple days ago try it again, you wont
need to install anything anymore.

April 29th, 2004

many-o-pictures of Thursday night at the Bassment to come, but
first I must rest for Alexisonfire Friday night at Louis’ !

If you don’t have a ticket yet get your ass down to Place Riel
and and lay down 13 well spent $’ars.

If you didn’t even know that Alexisonfire and many other great
bands and playing Friday then you don’t go to
www.threeohsix.org enough and for shame
on you!

April 28th, 2004

April 27th, 2004

April 26th, 2004

April 25th, 2004

April 20, 2004

April 18th, 2004

Pictures of Junior Pantherz
are The Pixies are up!!!  That was an
amazing show and it was an honor to listen to a part of music history. I have
never been to a show with such a diverse age group of listeners. There were 40
year olds in the pit, and kids who weren’t even born when the pixies broke up 12
years ago.

Just like with AFI, it was great too see soooo many people out to a show.
Prarieland was sold out which I think means over 2000 people. I know a lot of
you are reading this, and I must encourage people to come out to other local
Saskatoon shows, because I know that there is a larger “scene” out there. They
just need to come to more shows!  The local scene has a lot to offer, and
if more and more people come out to shows then the scene (along with the bands
that play, and the bands that come to Saskatoon) will grow. If you had fun last
night, come out to the shows at The Bassment, Wash ‘n Slosh, Louis’, The Pat,
Lydia’s, Le Relais, Ryly’s, and any hall, house, or field where bands play. The
Pixies, just like EVERY BAND started out in places like these, come check them
out.

April 16th, 2004

Last Saturday I took a well enjoyed break from studying and went
and saw Parades Against Parades,
Tombstone Diaries,
and Means when they played at Le Relais on April
10th.   Enjoy the pictures!  Only one final left. See you at the
Pixies!

April 11th, 2004

Happy Easter Everyone!  Remember that it isn’t all about Jesus’  resurrection and Easter eggs. It’s also about going to Wal-Mart the day after Easter for 50% off chocolate!Thanks to Aaron for the picture! 4 finals left, wish me luck!

April 7th, 2004

What happens when you have 120 Engineers, 3 kegs of beer, and
10 minutes to drink it all?

The Annual Year End
Keg Suck !

April 6th, 2004

The Waking Eyes
and The Trews when they played @ The Pat
last Thursday.

No Moneen pictures sorry, but I hope if you went you had a good
time and well… I must say I am now officially “in finals” so I won’t be
updating much for the next couple weeks so you can just not bother coming here
much for the next while……………but……. …………………don’t
forget about me!!!       I also have a “surprise”
for all you…. but you’ll have to wait for that……

April 4th, 2004

I should have advertised this a long time ago but MONEEN is at
Louis’ tomorrow night (Monday). Provided I can get my million (4) assignments
done in time I’ll be there and once again if your not as lame as me you should
be too!!!

THEN!  On Tuesday @ Lydia’s  The
Pinch with Joey and the Truth Hurts.  What a good way to end
classes!?  (What’s with the question mark you ask?….Exactly!)

April 3rd, 2004

Not Very Punk, but still everyone loves
The Proclaimers !

April 2nd, 2004

DFA @ Sparky @ The Wash ‘N Slosh TONIGHT!!!!   Two of Saskatoon’s
best bands in one night. If your not super lame like me and have to study for
finals so I don’t get kicked out of Engineering then GO GO GO!!!

Also two great shows in Regina coming up! Ten Foot Pole @ The Exchange  TOMORROW NIGHT! (Get some friends together and drive down to see them) as well May 20th  Death by Stereo and (see poster) at the U of R ! Will punkoryan finally be able to see Death by Stereo after missing them the last three times they have come? Lets hope!

April 1st, 2004

March 2004 Archives

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March 30th, 2004

Pictures are up of

Shackelford, Kiros,
The Chunks, and
Jacketbox

Enjoy!

March 26th. 2004

GO TO THE SHACKELFORD SHOW TONIGHT!!!     @
Cosmo Senior Center beside The Hose

I’m studying for finals = not updating much so “don’t check back
as often”

March 24th, 2004

March 21st, 2004

+ Shackelford is having their CD Release on Friday night @ The
Cosmo Senior Center (beside the Hose) and opening for them are The Chunks (which
are basically The Portmans w/o horns) so it will be a great show and YOU (yes
you!) should go and buy the new Shackelford CD and sing Pirate songs and the
like.

March 19th, 2004

Up By Default! its Pictures of
Default and Ian Thornley from Monday
Night @ The Pat  !!!   Enjoy!

March 18th, 2004

March 17th, 2004

March 16th, 2004

Up by popular demand (I was getting e-mails telling me to
hurry up with the pictures!)

DFA,
Cowpie,
One Stone Dog, and
The Decline

March 15th, 2004

March 14th, 2004

For all of you who *didn’t* go to Regina on Thursday night you
sure did miss:

Mad Caddies,
Choke,
Irish Car Bomb, Closet Monster, and
last but certainly not least Pulley

March 12th, 2004

I have a million pictures of last night in Regina to put up, but first….It’s coming!  A storm is a’broo’in and we are suppose to get 15cm of snow!  Now rather than the normal “when will winter end!?” response to that I must urge you to take advantage of this probable last chance you may have to enjoy the snow that we have all grown up and taken for granted as simply an inconvenience. So dig out your old toboggan or crazy carpet (or ask your neighbors to borrow theirs like I am) and go to pest hill!   Or make a snow angel, snowman, or have a snow ball fight!  It’s your last chance, use it wisely! Go to the show tonight @ The Bassment!

March 10th, 2004

Pictures of Broken
Social Scene are up!

Remember to go to DFA/The Decline/One Stone Dog at The Bassment
on Friday (and the show in Regina below).

March 8th, 2004

A show at Louis’ going till almost 1:30am?  On a Sunday
Night?! Every minute was worth it! Pictures of 
Raising the Fawn and  The Stills are
up….. why aren’t the pictures of Broken Social Scene up? Well why else would
you have a reason to come back tomorrow?

March 5th, 2004

When we return the gnomes they will have some amazing stories to tell :)Xel-Ha, The Beach, and Scuba Diving Underwater

March 2nd, 2003

February 2004 Archives

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February 29th, 2004

I must really emphasize how much you should save your pennies and go to these shows. I used to advertise shows a lot more, but since you all should already know about www.threeohsix.org you can check your damn self! There are a lot of great shows coming up in March including DFA/The Decline/One Stone Dog at the Bassment on the 12th. DFA has always been “one of those bands” that got me into the scene and music I listen to today. If you have never seen them before check them out as they are in my opinion the best hardcore band to come out of this city.

You should also save up some gas money and trip it down to
Regina on the 11th to see MAD CADDIES, PULLEY, CHOKE, IRISH CAR BOMB,
CLOSET MONSTER @ the Riddell Center. Remember to
e-mail Surreal Productions if
you are an out-of-towner so you can get your ticket ahead of time rather than
driving 3hrs to Regina and finding out the show is sold out (been there done
that) also while your on the website check out who’s playing on April 3rd (you
may be pleasantly surprised)

Also speaking of Mad Caddies I still haven’t got my bunny
hug back after it was stolen at the 306benifit show on the 6th (also my birthday
might I add)…. so I must once again reiterate that if you see anyone wearing a
black, zip-up bunnyhug (a.k.a “hoodie”) with Mad Caddies on the ass missing
the pull chords out of the hood please feel free to kick their ass and return
the bunnyhug to me!

A reward will be given and banquet of appreciation will be
held for the hero who returns my beloved Mad Caddies bunnyhug (punch and pie
will be served)

February 27th, 2004

So remember over a month ago when I was like “I interviewed Yellowcard for The Sheaf and will put it up on here right away” …. well to be perfectly honest I completely forgot about it but now, for all of you who didn’t read “the best Sheaf ever because punkoryan wrote in it” you can read my Yellowcard InterviewAlso, for those of you who didn’t scroll down, there are 552 new pictures of Mexico down there!

February 24th, 2004

Happy Birthday Tera! (notice the gift I got her in Cancun!)So now Tera only has one week to move out (see January Ramblings) and if she doesn’t find a place she will be sleeping on my couch which isn’t as big a deal as all the boxes that I know will be piled up in my room! So once again, if anyone needs or knows someone who needs a roommate (guys or girls doesn’t matter) e-mail me! Also there are over 600 more pictures of Mexico to come so check back! I am really really sorry that I didn’t update again when I was down there but the one day I went downtown to get to a cyber cafe Tara and I accidentally caught the wrong bus and “kinda got lost” in downtown and then by the time we found the bus to get back to the hotel it was too late to update I was getting over 700 hits a day while I was gone so I know I let a lot of people down, but on the bright side there are tons of pictures still to come!

February 22nd, 2004

We decided to spend our last day and night at The Market once again and experience the Downtown Night Life in the evening.Enjoy!

February 21st, 2004

Imagine an area, 2 hours away from anything, where three rivers meet and the most amazing fish and sea life collide to make the most spectacular snorkeling experience… well that is Xel-Ha and is one of the coolest things I have ever done. We have four rolls of film to develop for later but until then take an above water journey of Xel-Ha after that we broke from the typical “spring breakers” theme, dressed up, and went out for a Fancy Supper

February 20th, 2004

Having never even seen the ocean before, the waves were one of my favorite things at The Beach After we went to a Foam Party at a bar where they just spray foam onto the dance floor and well….pardon my political incorrectness but was totally gay!

February 19th, 2004

Yesterday I went Scuba Diving and the pictures from that are on film so we’ll all have to wait for those, but I did have a splenda walk along The Lagoon After that we went to Senior Frogs, but Tara and I were bored so we Walked Home drunk and I took some pictures a long the way (surprise surprise)

February 18th, 2004

What better thing to do on a Tuesday than go to
THE MARKET
and then
FAT
TUESDAYS !

February 17th, 2004

Last Night was a 300 Person, 5 bar crawl. Needless to say…. Amazing!Enjoy Pictures of Day 2 and once again my Thoughts on the matter….

February 16th, 2004

February 14th, 2004

February 8th, 2004

That would have to be the fastest I have gotten (I know
that’s not a word) pictures up in a long time!

Thank you to everyone who wished me a happy birthday
yesterday! It sure was….except!…..Now I’m not going to jump to any
conclusions….but….. SOME ASSHOLE STOLE MY BUNNY HUG (a.k.a. “hooded
sweatshirt”)!!! If you see anyone wearing a bunny hug with MAD CADDIES on
the butt kick their ass (irregardless of whether they are a small child or
crippled elderly person) and e-mail
me!

February 6th, 2004 —– >>>>IT’S MY
BIRTHDAY!!!!<<<<—–

What Better way to Celebrate than Pictures of
Inward Eye and
The Rumours, followed by going to the
show tonight at
The Bassment, and then The Hose after for some more “celebrating”.

I am now a 21 year old…. time to start bitching more!

February 5th, 2004

I’m going to be spending my Thursday night doing homework so I can go crazygonuts tomorrow night but as for the rest of you this is how tonight should go for you:Show up at The Bassment at 6:30 7pm to 7:30pm – North of Shorty 7:45pm to 8:25pm – Cessate 8:40pm to 9:20pm – Sparky 9:35 to 10:15pm – Samuel The Black Shaman Then at 10:30 catch PHD (the first band I ever photographed BTW) at Ryley’s! A fun filled evening with a ton of awesome local bands, what more could you want? (other than to GO TO THE SHOW ON FRIDAY BECAUSE IT’S BY BIRTHDAY!!!) the end.

February 3rd, 2004

February 2nd, 2004

I really must say wow! That was a good show. Check back later for all the pictures of Billy Talent, The Rumours, and Inward Eye ! Oh yeah… and I cordially invite everyone to go to the show at The Bassment on Friday, not only because of the great bands that are playing but because IT’S MY BIRTHDAY!!!

January 2004 Archive

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January 31st, 2004

You know its a blizzard when #1 you can’t get into your house and #2 Billy Talent can’t get to their show so they are playing on Sunday instead which I might have to miss! :(On the bright side A Whale Exploded!

January 30th, 2004

C’mon! Doesn’t someone want to give this girl a home?

Remember back in March of last year my Good Friend Tera Karol was looking for a roommate? (or rather someone looking for her to be their roommate…) Well once again Tera is moving so if you or anyone you know is looking for roommates (Guys included, she don’t discriminate!) e-mail me

January 29th, 2004

January 28th, 2004

Well after some screaming, smacking, crying, and cursing
my computer finally will let me update hence:

EVE 6,
Jersey,
Shackelford, and
Wiseacre
Enjoy!   And go to Billy Talent!  $10 @ The Pat on Friday.
Two opening bands “i hear”

January 26thm 2004

January 25th, 2004

Pictures are up of Yellowcard are up!

January 23rd, 2003

January 21st, 2004

January 19th, 2004

Pictures are up of Misery Signals,
White Walls,
Tombstone Diaries, and
Far from Ruin

Enjoy!

January 17th, 2004

January 16th, 2004

Pictures are up of
The New Jacobin Club,
Polk,  The Modules,  and from Last Saturday
Liars War

Be sure to go to the show TONIGHT!!! (see below)

January 13th, 2004

January 10th, 2004

Just a teaser as I took over 200 pictures and need to edit and etc so check back tomorrow!     Best Pinch Show ever! Thank you James for the kind words!

January 8th, 2004

Pictures are up of The
Nothing and Liars War

And now time for a scolding….

Tonight the show was ended early because empty beer
bottles were found in the bathroom. It doesn’t matter who did it, but what
matters is that the show had to be stopped because of one persons
ignorance and stupidity.

I really, really, really hate stupid people who
ruin things for other people. Far too many shows have been shut down for
this same problem. PLEASE, don’t bring alcohol into shows, it is ILLEGAL
and you are just ruining everyone else’s fun because of your selfishness.

You realize the cops only need to come to the Bassment
once and catch underage drinking and IT WILL BE ALL OVER!

If you see someone bringing in booze (or doing anything
stupid) kick their asses out, or find Drabble and he will take care of it.
Don’t be an idiot, there are already too many….

January 7th, 2004

January 4th, 2003

Finally some shows!

January 8th More bad news and PIND from edmonton & liars war and the nothing @ the bassmentSaturday January 10th Le Relais (2nd Ave. across from Long and McQuade) ADOLYNE, HOLZKOPF, NO BIRDS, MITCH GRIER, SHAKEY WILSON, WEAPON IS FREE SPEACH 6 BANDS for $5!!!! There is something at this show for everyone so get your ass to Le Relais. January 10 8:00 sharp. $5. ALL AGES NO BOOZE January 16th St Joseph’s Parish Hall on Broadway and 8th Misery Signals w/ guests White Walls Tombstone Diaries Far From Ruin Doors at 7pm $6 Of course I got all of this from www.threeohsix.org AS YOU ALWAYS SHOULD! and last but certainly not least I was looking around on ticketmaster.ca

January 3rd, 2004

There is a contest going on for all the HP reps in the country to take pictures of “HP Moments” in the stores. The best pictures win $500 so I’m hoping this one wins! Well 3 weeks has flown by and now come Monday its back to school. Funny enough, during school I couldn’t wait till the break because “then I’ll have time” and then during the break I worked the whole time and couldn’t wait until school was back cuz “then I’ll have time”, as it always goes….

January 1st, 2004

December 2003 Archive

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December 28th, 2003

December 27th, 2003

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Yesterday I worked Future Shop for Boxing Day. All of the
salesmen had to be there at 4:30am so we could be ready for the “door
crashers” when we opened at 6am. It was madness… but then…after a
while…. it wasn’t “that” busy any more. In fact, it was more like a
really busy Saturday. Turned out, The Star Phoenix was suppost to put in
an 8 page color flyer and instead there was only a 1 page black and
white…ouch!  It was still super busy though.

What’s sad is how stupid crazy people are on boxing day.
Pushing each other over for “the deals”. In fact, 95% of the stuff in
stores usually isn’t on sale, but people buy it anyways.

Here in Canada we always have “boxing day sales” but last
week I was on the phone with a girl for tech support and she said to call
back “the day after Christmas”. I was like “Ok, I’ll call back Boxing Day
then”…. she didn’t understand what I was talking about! She had never
heard of “boxing day”, I guess where she lived (in the states) they didn’t
have huge sales or anything “the day after Christmas”….its just another
day.

December 25th, 2003

December 24th, 2003

Well as a crappy pre-Christmas gift here are the 6 day late pictures of Junior Pantherz and Our Mercury I’ll have way more to write and post on Christmas day a.k.a. a day off!!

December 22nd, 2003

December 21st, 2003

As the greed sets in…..

I type this in exhaustion as I stood on my feet from 9am
till 1am 16 hours today. My HP job is just hourly pay which I like because
I don’t have as much pressure to sell as the normal Future Shop salesmen
do. However, today as I was working as a Future Shop salesman and an HP
rep (8 hours each) I had my first true FS Salesmen moment when I got angry
when a customer didn’t buy the extended warrantee (which I would have made
money on). Of course I didn’t get angry at the customer, but after I was
like “What the hell were they thinking?! Why wouldn’t they get that!” Then
it hit me, that normally if I was just on hourly I wouldn’t care if they
got the warrantee or not because it wouldn’t matter to me, but today it
did, and I got a taste of what its like to be on commission like that.

Some guys really like commission, they do well. I do well
too, but I would rather be on hourly. Not because of the money, but
because I find there are two types of salesmen:  The ones who check
their numbers every hour to see what they are at, and the ones who check
at the end of the week. The ones who check all the time are usually a lot
more stressed out as the numbers go up and down, and are big one day, and
nothing the next.

I like getting my “numbers” every 2 weeks in the mail….

December 20th, 2003

December 18th, 2003

December 17th, 2003

Ok, so I normally just work as the Saskatoon HP Rep on weekends. I only had two HP shifts during the break which is why I decided to work full time for Future Shop during the break….WELL!!!  HP asked me if I would like to “pick up some extra shifts during the break” I said yes because I figured it would just be a couple extra 4 hour shifts or something…and well….they gave me SEVENTY ONE HOURS + I am working full time for Future Shop which means I will be working 12-15 hours a day every day for the next 18 days… on the bright side…*bling bling*

I have also created a new design for punkoryan.com but its kinda just not working….  yeah…… eventually….Ok so I promised you a crappy rant and now you get it:

What the hell is with those Duracell commercials?
Do they think we are idiots, or are they idiots?  Of course I am
talking about the “Well Consider This” commercials. You know, when they
are like “More Hospitals trust Duracell for their heart monitors than
any other brand…or….”The Rocky Mountain Rescue Crew uses Duracell
Batteries in their flashlights to save lives”… now when I first saw
those commercials I thought it was a little lame but I let it slide
however now the new commercial is “Well Conceder this….On the set of
The Lord of The Rings, they trusted Duracell batteries for their light
meters”  What the hell does it matter?! Why the hell would they say
that? I am never buying copper tops again, or at least until I forget
about their ridicules false advertising that only acts as fuel for
stupid people….which will probably be next Tuesday or something….

Voyd, Junior Panthers, and Dyno Wars    THURSDAY NIGHT
@ The Bassment @ 7:30pm be there or b²

December 15th, 2003

December 12th, 2003

After failing a math final THAT bad there is nothing better than a Beer Night

December 9th, 2003

“As Always” I am in finals so I wont be updating much till
next week but I’ll leave you with a link to a hilarious short film simply
entitled

Farm Sluts

Wish Me Luck!

December 6th, 2003

Procrastination

Its not just something that applies to doing your
homework, or a project to build something. It is something much larger
that you can unfortunately do with your life and not notice it. We all
push away the small things, but fail to see the larger things in our life
that we procrastinate.

Life choices, deciding to go to school, deciding to change
work, learning that instrument, or asking that girl out.
“Procrastination may lead to problems later, but gives satisfaction now.”
So true, but when you are procrastinating the larger things in life that
isn’t bringing satisfaction. I worked at McDonalds for 4 years.
There were many other, better jobs that I could have worked but instead I
just complied with the clown, knowing there was something better for me,
but procrastinating the act of writing a resume and taking some initiative
to better myself. (Not to say McDonalds is a bad job, but I could have
worked a more fulfilling job).

In conjunction with my last rant, open your eyes and see
what your doing. Think of what you want to do in your life, and think of
what you can do to make that happen. If your happy with the way things
are, then feel confident in that you love the way your life is. If there
is something in your life bugging you, or holding you back, deal with it.
Think of the options in your life, and the doors that you can open
yourself, if you can stop procrastinating.

Procrastination doesn’t always give satisfaction now, it
may be the holding you back now, and will do worse later.

December 5th, 2003

Think of all of the people throughout your life who you at
one time thought were stubborn and stupid, and then it ended up that you
were the one being stubborn, being unenlightened.  That’s a part of
growing up, but still…

Open your eyes

Think of yourself from a third perspective, a year from
now.  Of course you can’t go into the future, but we can all look at
ourselves a year, 2, 3, 4 ago and think “what the hell was I thinking? I
had no idea”    It would be nice to be able to go into the
future and see what we are doing wrong now, but then again. Stop for a
minute and think… If I was looking at myself a year from now, what do I
think I would shake my head at? What is something I’ve been doing, or a
way I have been acting, thinking, living which come to think of it, I’ll
probably think of as childish and stubborn.

People who you think are stupid are probably smarter than
you, you just haven’t realized it yet. Think into the future and try to
figure out what you could improve in yourself so that a year from now you
wont look back and shake your head, you will be glad you had opened your
eyes.

December 4th, 2003

I feel bad for not thinking to advertise the Engineers
Without Borders show at Amigos but when I got there, judging by the
packed’ed’ness I would say it was a huge success!

I only caught

Good What Good unfortunately, but I was very impressed by them. So…
the next time they play YOU should go see them too!

December 2nd, 2003

Edovarus ( “somewhere between Boy Sets Fire and Filter” )
is having a $5 beer night at Great Western and then playing a show at
Lydia’s on December 9th.

Whats better than an evening of cheap beer and a show? Anyone can come, so
get your friends together and just show up!

Great Western (519 2nd Ave N) 7-9pm

Edovarus at Lydia’s 10pm

December 9th, December 9th, December 9th!

November 2003 Archives

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November 30th, 2003

Yes I missed the show, but I did go to Jodie’s Birthday !

November 27th, 2003

November 26th, 2003

	Remember back in the day when I would have the pictures up 2 hours after a show? Well now I sleep, which is why you had to wait for:The Pinch Savage Henry Dirtbred The Path of a Logical Liar

November 25th, 2003

Pictures are up for Hot
Hot Heat, Metric and all the
DANCING

November 24th, 2003

You want to see the pictures of the show last night
don’t you?  Well you gotta wait till Monday night!

November 23rd, 2003

What a productive evening! Studied at school till 11pm,
caught The Pinch at Amigo’s, The Path of a Logical Liar and Dirtbred at
Wash ‘n Slosh and then went back to Amigo’s just in time to see Savage
Henry and The Pinch’s second set!

All the pictures will be up soon but I gotta rest up for
HOT HOT HEAT tonight!  See you there!

November 22nd. 2003

I took this last night at 1:30am. The air was filled
with “ice crystals” it seemed and that made all the lights shine straight
up!

November 20th, 2003

November 19th, 2003

Coolest thing ever! www.threeohsex.org “yes this is a joke”

November 18th, 2003

Finally fixed whatever the hell was wrong so now you can
see the “real” update!
Junior Pantherz and the
Wheatmonkeys

November 17th, 2003

For some reason I can’t add thumbnails to my website and
as usual I have a midterm tomorrow so I shouldn’t be worrying about it.
But you can still see a listing of the pictures of
Junior Pantherz and the
Wheatmonkeys

November 14th, 2003

Ever wanted to walk
around down town Calgary for an afternoon?

So yes I am super lame and missed the Thursday Bassment
show because I was at school studying once again (all this studying better
pay off!) but I will be at the Louis’ show on Saturday with Junior
Panthers and The Wheatmonkeys on Saturday night so there!

November 13th, 2003

I went to the Remembrance Day ceremony on Tuesday at Sask
Place. Over 7000 people were there which was great!

Why did I go? (Yes, someone actually asked me that!)

For the same reason that I voted:   Because
people have died for what I take for granted…..

November 11th, 2003

I’m back!  Here are the friends and gnome pics and I
have a hundred more “photo” pictures coming soon!

FRIENDS	GNOMES

November 7th, 2003

November 4th, 2003

Ever thought about just how small we are in the big picture? Check out THIS site. It is very humbling. I think anyone who thinks were are the only life out there is selfish as hell if you think about how many other planets there are out there.

I fixed the link for the
Mech Elec Pub Crawl
for anyone who hasn’t seen the gaggle of pictures yet.

November 3rd, 2003

So I went to see Dropkick Murphys with The Casualties and The Disasters in Regina last night and… as you can see from the awesome pictures I have above I wasn’t allowed to take pictures because the band managers had asked Surreal to not allow large SLR cameras in = everyone with a small disposable camera got pictures but I couldn’t  On the other hand though, this was actually the first show I’ve been to in the last year where I didn’t have to spend the whole time worrying about “the perfect shot”… punkoryan got to “just enjoy the show” for once which was cool … but then again I’d rather enjoy a show AND take pictures! oh well…

October 2003 Archives

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October 30th, 2003

WAAAAY back in September I did a “photo shoot” with
THE NIGHT LIFE for a
promo package and now *finally* here are the pictures!

punkoryan.com just moved over to a new server with threeohsix.org so if
any pictures or links aren’t working don’t worry they will be fixed in a
few days (I’m in midterms here!)

October 27th, 2003

Seeing as I have a midterm tomorrow I figured it would be perfect time
wasting to throw a dozen new pictures up in the
PHOTOS section!  Check out Saskatoon by Day/Night, Flowers, &
Misc.   Enjoy.

October 25th, 2003

I haven’t updated my friends section in soooo long!  Luckily last
night was the biggest PUB
CRAWL in Saskatoon history!

I shoulda studied for my 4 midterms I have left… but I’m photo
director for EE so I “had” to go…it was my responsibility!

October 24th, 2003

I was asked to put this up. I never heard of him, but if he was good
enough to be honored at a memorial, then maybe I should hear him:

Singer-songwriter Elliott Smith passed away on Tuesday, Oct.21st from a

self-inflicted stab wound. he was 34.

Anyone who’s seen “The Royal Tennenbaums” will recognize his distinct,
hauntingly beautiful song “needle in the hay” which accompanied the scene
in which Ritchie Tennenbaum attempts suicide.

The talented, dark acoustic musician was not always well-known, but he was
highly-respected, acclaimed by fans and critics alike for his music (he
wrote the Oscar-noted song “Miss misery” for “Good Will Hunting”), as well
as for his demeanor; he was known as a quiet, but open individual without
pretensions and with a real appreciation for everyone.

Fans of Elliott Smith (or just those who appreciate the efforts of an
honest musician) are invited to an informal gathering to pay their
respects to him at:

Vimy Memorial Bandshell

Saturday, Oct. 25th at approx. 3:00pm

(if anyone can bring portable speakers, or a portable stereo, it would be

very much appreciated. then we can listen to some of his music together in

the park.)

October 23rd, 2003

First off, if your a nerd like me and like to see the numbers of the
Saskatoon Election go

HERE.  (I can’t believe Pankiw beat Maddin and almost beat
Zakreski!)

You may of heard about him in the news but there is a guy in Regina who is running his own Saskatchewan Political Opinion site that is starting lots of shit in the media. Even if you don’t agree with his opinions, I think it is pretty cool that someone is exercising free speech like this here in Saskatchewan. Usually you just see sites like this in the states. http://www.jameswhittingham.com/

October 22nd, 2003

Well I suck and have to work on my SEVEN assignments that are due
Friday, so I’m not going to the show, but I voted!

October 20th, 2003

THE REASON 10/22/2003 SASKATOON,, SK @ The Basement w/ The Decline, The Paper Kites Doors: 8pm, All Ages Price: $5 If you didn’t see The Reason play back in March I hope you at least heard of the show they put on. It was a Monday night and everybody’s jaws were to the floor as this band played. (Or at least mine sure was!) I dually suggest that you make it to this show on Wednesday. If you want to hear some of their stuff go Check them out.

October 19th, 2003

Notice the ticket # ……   (* “oooh ahhhhh” *) If you haven’t heard of Hot Hot Heat before, go hear of them, if you don’t have a ticket for them yet, go buyeth them That is all.. Wish me luck on my math midterm!

October 18th, 2003

Pictures of
Autopilot Off from Regina and Saskatoon are up. As well RAISED FIST is
playing Saturday night at Louis’

I have to study for a midterm unfortunately but if you
don’t then you should check out some killer Swedish hardcore!

October 16th, 2003

All the pictures of AFI and
Poison The Well
are up now and Autopilot Off will be up soon.

As well there are several great bands coming up in the
next week so check out the

EVENTS on threeohsix.org

October 15th, 2003

I won’t have all the pictures from the Saskatoon show up
for a couple days (damn school!) but above is a taste.

And for all those who weren’t there
THIS is what you
missed….

A year ago I don’t think Saskatoon could have had such a
turn out (over 1500 tickets pre-sold + hundreds more at the door)

This last year “the scene” has grown soo much and I thank
www.threeohsix.org and Surreal
Productions and ALL YOU for coming out to the shows!   Remember
back  March 12th?

The other day my friend asked me “Why have we been getting
so many sweet shows lately?” … All I could say was:

“because it happened“

October 14th, 2003

AFI in Saskatoon is tonight!  There are still plenty
of tickets available at the door so go go go!

Here are some of the film pictures I took in Regina:

October 13th, 2003

I don’t know if Saskatoon is sold out or not, but if it
isn’t, and you don’t already have a ticket get off your ass and get a
ticket because you will be missing out on an “experience” to say the
least!

Here’s the set list, it will probably be the same in
Saskatoon, but who knows!

Miserai Cantare

Lost

Days of the Phoenix

Bleed Black

Ever & A Day

Ninja

Celluloid Dream

Morning Star

Leaving Song Part II

Silver and Cold

No Poetic

This Time Imperfect

Dancing through Sunday

Girl’s Not Grey

Total Immortal

Death of Seasons

God Called in Smith Today

And here are the pictures!   I shot off a two
rolls of film too so check those out tomorrow!

AFI and
Poison The Well
were absolutely amazing!   (Autopilot Off pics shall come later,
I’m tired!)

October 12th, 2003

I just found out at 8:27am this morning that I should have
a photo pass for both AFI shows! Check back here at like 3am – 4am Monday
morning and pictures will be up of the Regina show, otherwise see you
there!

October 10, 2003

That was fun!   Check out the pictures of
Death from Above and
The Paper *Kites

October 9th, 2003

For the love of God! If your shoelaces are too long SHORTEN THEM!
As I have illustrated above, if your shoelaces are too long, cut them to a
reasonable length and sear the ends!  It only takes a couple
minutes and you will save tons of time and effort in the long run!
THIS MEANS YOU!

What sparked this is a guy in one of my classes with the longest
shoelaces and they just hang down on the ground and he steps on them and
undoubtedly has to tie them several times a day. I think the reason I am
so bugged by this is because back in high school for a year I had
shoelaces that were far too long. Rather than doing something about it I
just let them drag, untie, catch on things, and inevitably ruin my life…
When it finally dawned on me that I should shorten them I felt like an
asshole for
having long shoelaces for such a long time.

Do I seem to be exaggerating here? Well… how many things in your life
have you improved on and now when you look at someone else with the same
fault as you had you can’t stand them?

A better example than shoelaces would be sitting on the bus with
elementary school “kids” (no offence)   I can’t stand hearing
them talk about stupid shit and use the word “like” every 2’nd or 3’rd
word, but I know that “I was like that when I was that age”

Growing up sucks – you end up hating everything…. oh God and I’m only
20!

October 8th, 2003

First off might I mention that it is 4 days till AFI in Regina and 6
days till AFI in Saskatoon!   *tick tick tick*

Secondly there are two really good shows on Thursday that you should
get your homework done early so you can go:

October 6th, 2003

Well as I promised dummy I’m putting my Beastie Boys –

SABOTAGE parody video from Grade 12 drama back up! This isn’t the
final edit, but this reflects about 50 hours of filming/editing.

Click to see the

ORIGINAL music video (with the bridge scene cut out) that had a budget
and real Beastie Boys.  (you may need

Windows Media 9 )

October 4th, 2003

So my funny story (and apology) is that I said on Monday that “you
should go to the Mayor debate at 1pm” but it was really at 11am. My friend
Andrew told me a dozen times that it was at 11am but I thought he was just
being an asshole and lying to me so that I would go to school early…
yeah

That’s not the funny part though. What’s funny is that I only caught
the last two minutes of the debate and then when it was done Global
television shoved a camera in my face and was like “Why did you come out
to see the debate today?”

“Because I want to be a responsible voter and come out to see the
people running for mayor so I can make a good decision”

The funny thing is that I missed the entire thing and then got on the
news to talk about watching it.  Ahh that’s the second time I’ve been
on the news now….

October 3rd, 2003

What sucks about film vs. digital is how long it freaking takes! …..
but its sooo cool!  I’ll have more pictures in a day or so. Anyways I
have a funny story but you’ll have to wait till about 6pm to hear it so
check back then.

October 2nd, 2003

Here is 400 Strong from
Last Night (being Wednesday) at The Bassment.  I also took pictures
of Blue Skies at War but they are on film *oooh ahhhh* so we’ll all have
to wait for those. (*fingers crossed*)

And I finally edited the pictures from last Tuesday so you can see the
pictures of Three Inches
of Blood and Blue Skies
at War again for the first time

Finally there is a “Mayor’s Debate” in lower place Riel tomorrow (Thursday)
at 1pm = You should go so you can become more educated on who is running for
Mayor of this city = You can vote responsibly!

October 1st, 2003

*FINALLY*Pictures of: Billy Talent Alexisonfire Death from Above Spitalfield Are up! Enjoy!

September 2003 Archive

***Click on the above link to view the whole September 2003 archive***

September 30th, 2003

Computer now fixed… pictures soon come….

September 29th, 2003

Well my computer is still broken and I spent all afternoon taking pictures
for the Sheaf (yes I’m now a whore for the university newspaper too!) so you’ll
all have to wait for the 100+ pictures of last night    Sorry!

BUT WAIT!!! Whats this?
PELSH (kinda) UPDATED!!!!

September 28th, 2003

I vehemently
enjoyed that show!

I took over 100 pictures but you’ll have to wait till Sunday night to see
them all because my computer is broken

September 27thm 2003

Alexisonfire and Billy Talent are tonight!!!!   Louis’  9pm
$12 at door GO GO GO  GO!!!

And so you have something to look at till tonight at 2am when tonight’s pics
go up here is a JUMBLE of Tuesday night.

September 25th, 2003

Ahhhh…. the sweet feeling of being done all my assignments and enjoying the
weekend and some sweet shows!  I had to miss The Black Halos tonight
because I was finishing my assignment   BUT I did get pictures of 3
Inches of Blood on Tuesday night and so I will have those pics, plus the pics
from this Friday night, plus Saturday night’s pics (ALEXISONFIRE!!!), plus pics
I took last Sunday, plus plus plus..

“I’ll make a million promises and maybe keep two or three…”

September 23rd, 2003

Quite easily the smartest thing I have ever thought of…

Tired of carrying around a wallet AND your keys?  I sure was…until one
day I had the brilliant idea of putting a house key in my wallet!  Now, If
I need to drive I grab my “car keys” and for the rest of the time I just have my
wallet with a key in it.

I amaze myself sometimes. At this rate I estimate I’ll have world hunger
solved by next March….

September 22nd, 2003

HOLY CRAP HOLY CRAP HOLY CRAP!

3 inches of blood

@the Wash N Slosh 9pm

This Tuesday!!!!

If you haven’t seen this band before be sure to check them out!  They
are like 80’s style death metal!  And now shall be my first
SONG OF THE DAY in months  (you know I just plain forgot about the song
of the day!)

Also THIS THURSDAY is:

The Black Halos

September 25th @ Louis’ Pub

NOT all ages/ $7 advance, $9 at the door

Then Friday Night:

POLK

Four Hundred Strong

Good Enough

Javex Garcia

Le relais, doors at 8:15 ALL AGES booze with id. 6 beans!

and THEN!

Saturday Night:

Billy Talent, Alexisonfire, Spitalfied and Death From Above @ Louis’ Pub

and then when the Louis’ show is over stumble down to Amigos for:

the paperkites and another day down play at amigos for the cfcr benefit. come
support bands not good enough to be muchmusic heartthrobs

Followed ever so conveniently by:

los furios

high energy

latin Ska

from Vancouver

Sept. 28, 2003 @ Lydia’s, Saskatoon

And then the same night is FINGER ELEVEN! @ + WITH

http://www.newmusiccanada.com/genres/artist.cfm?mode=longBio&Band_Id=9528
I of course grabbed this all off of
www.threeohsix.org and am going to have to work my ASS off to get my
homework done before all these shows! Wow it will be a good week!

September 21st, 2003

After so many punk and metal shows a good ol’
Rock Show is a great way to
spend a Saturday Night.

September 20th, 2003

It was a sad day…. The Last
E-Plant ever…and it wasn’t even an E-Plant!  If you don’t know what
E-Plant was…you suck…. Every Year, for the last 18 years The Engineers have
kidnapped the Agro president, kept him/her drunk for 2 days straight and then
strapped them to a giant E.  Hundreds of Engineers paint then selves red,
and hundreds of Agros paint them selves blue and then all of the Engineers lock
arms and hold around the E while the Agros try to get their Presedent down from
it. For 15 minutes it is (was) the most amazing spectacle to watch as Red people
and Blue people push each other and try to break their way to the E.

By the end everyone is purple and then that night is HELL DANCE  (which
would be tonight for me!) and everyone gets drunk.  It is (was) the biggest
event on campus that brings everyone together and really makes all of the
Engineers and Agros feel like they belong to something.

Today was a “funeral” for E-Plant. There were 3 speeches, all the Engineers
were painted black instead of red, and then we carried the giant E back to the
Engineering building to cut it up

A lot of people (including very much me) were/ARE pissed off that this 18
year tradition has been forced to end due to “liability risks” but next year a
new tradition will start, and just like E-Plant, it will bring us all together!

September 19th, 2003

Ack! I’ve missed the last two shows! BUT!

You know We’re living in the Future when we can make
dogs talk!

September 18th, 2003

Ryan’s thought of the day:

Fatigue is Plaque spelled wrong…..

September 17th, 2003

Whew!  So the sign only cost $170 with tax, BUT it turned out to be half
the size of the original sign we broke so the owner kept $60 which was fair
because he paid over $200 for the old one. So $230/4= 60 bucks each…. not bad
for a night of theft and scavenging!

In other news,

Walter the Farting Dog is #1 on the

NYTimes best selling children’s books!  That is so cool!

September 16th, 2003

So tonight was the Engineering Scavenger hunt. I layed down $500 collateral
to “borrow” the neon sign from Extreme Pita and …. when we went to plug in the
neon sign…. it was broken!  Somehow, somewhere, sometime in the evening
we accidentally broke the P in OPEN and so then we had to go back to Extreme
Pita and talk to the Manager. He wasn’t impressed. The Girl who was working
almost got fired too which certainly wasn’t cool either. Tomorrow I’m going to
Costco to buy a new sign for $350…. *tears*

On the bright side we won!      TWO YEARS IN A ROW
UNDEFEATED!!!!

September 13th, 2003`

So I am typing this drunk on my fancy dancy new ìwireless
keyboardî that I got for $19 but that is no matter.

What does matter is that I am updating! The question to
that however would be ìwhy am I updating?î

A week ago I had nothing to update with. Untill a couple
days go it was just pictures of bands and thatís it. I wasnít pissed off at
anythingÖ I didnít have any opinionsÖ. Nor could I think of any ìcontentî for my
website aside from just the pictures of shows which I was even avoiding by just
putting up the ìjumblesî of pics.

Why in the last few weeks was I not ìrantingî as I did such
so much at the beginning of the summer?  Well the answer for that would be, as
with the downfall of any man, ìa girlî

Yes she made me happy and with that came the demise of any
annoyed, disappointed, ranted thought that may of otherwise been typed out and
read by you.

Itís like nothing pissed me off anymore. I couldnít think
of one thing to write about. Nothing made me ìthinkî. It was just all about
ìherî.  Of course none of this would come to me as a surprise, as this has
happened to me time and time again. Women seem to have that effect on men. (Eg,
Noticed Nolto hasnít updated in FOREVER! He has a girlfriend now)

Girls always change guys. They abandon all of the things
they hold dear (hobbies, ìguy friendsî, partying, sports, etc) just for ìherî
like she has some kind of mind control spell on you.

Not that this is a bad thing. Itís just the way it always
works. Needless to say by what I am writing now that there no longer is ìthis
girlî anymore for punkoryan and by the next day I already had thought of 5 rants
to write about.  When I say ìIím backî I mean more than I am home. I mean I am
back to the way I was a couple months ago, and I will be that way again until
someone else comes along, and then Iíll forget about everything else in my life
again, just as any guy does, and always willÖ.

Damn felinesÖ

September 12, 2003

“You can pay me back”

I am going to Mexico for Spring Break in February and I need to have $1600 saved
by then.

I was thinking about all of the money owed to me from the times I said “oh you
can just pay me later” and then I started adding all of the I.O.U.’s together…
its over a thousand bucks!

In one way I could be mad for being so “nice” all the time and having all this
money owed to me, but another way of thinking of it is that in the last year I
have almost saved enough for a trip to Mexico by simply telling people they can
pay me back later…

Wow! Saving money is easy!

September 11th, 2003

I wrote something about how today is…well today…but I’m sure you’ll be
hearing enough about it in the news, tv, radio so I’ll just say. May they all
rest in peace.

So remember back in early august when I entered in the EXhibition photo
contest?  Well I got an honorable mention for one of my pictures of Calgary
AND I also won the Phase II Photo award too (a $50 gift certificate!)  The cool thing though is that I took the
picture when we were stopped at a red light! I just rolled down the window,
snapped, and it turned out perfect! You never know….

I also *finally* edited and organized all of the pictures of
Bouncing Souls,
Hot Water Music,
The Forgotten and
Worthless United

Enjoy!

September 10th, 2003

No this isn’t a ticket giv’a’way…  my friends and I are going to AFI in
Saskatoon and Regina! (and if all goes well I will have a photo pass for both
too!)

In the event you are like “i’m an idiot and didn’t know AFI was coming”….
AFI is coming…. you should go to
www.threeohsix.org more….

ALSO if you think “why isn’t Ryan putting much effort into his site lately”
well lets just say I’ve been enjoying a vacation away from consistently updating
my site. However on the downside I have fallen behind on many things related to
it… for one:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY  punkoryan.com !!!     I forgot to
mention that my site is now 1 year old and I’ve lost count of how many bands are
on here but its around 120 me thinks!

In other news… there is sooo much news…. I’m back, lets just say that!

I also spent FOREVER editing and thumb nailing 306FEST!  SOOOOOO check
out the BANDS section and see
all of the pictures again for the first time of
Away from Here ,
Best kept Secret,
Burning Sophie,
Kevin Walby,
Samual the Black Shaman,
Shackleford, Sparky, The Pinch, Tombstone Diaries, Dirtbred,
Despitado,
F(x),
Good Sam Park, Greg MacPherson,
Honeyrocket, and
Weak at Best

Whewww!!!

September 8th, 2003

September 6th, 2003

I spent a day with The Pinch
and it was great!

September 4th, 2003

Well school is tomorrow and what comes with school?  Parties!  So
I’ve been instructed to advertise:

#1   Coco Loco     Friday at the Prarieland
(its a beach party I guess) and its all ages with beer gardens and a dj. I don’t
know a time so just show up.

#2   Commerce BBQ on Monday.  4000 people go every year and
its great (19+) buy tickets in the commerce table.

The end.

September 3rd, 2003

Pictures of

Strung Out The
Kinison A
Static Lullaby and

18 Visions are up!     I also re-edited all of the
pictures from last years Strung Out Show.  Amazing what a few seconds in
Paint Shop Pro can do…

Enjoy!   Today I am going to be a “Big Buddy” with Diller for some
first year Engineers today  (in other words, lets get some under age kids
drunk!)

September 2nd, 2003

Strung Out plays tonight at Louis’   I would hope that everyone
already knows that by the million posters everywhere but if not GO SEE STRUNG
OUT TONIGHT!

Pictures soon to follow…

September 1st, 2003

August 2003 Archive

***Click on the above link to view the whole August 2003 archive***

August 31st, 2003

Jumble #2 of
Saturday night 306FEST Enjoy!

August 30th, 2003

Yet another mad Jumble (I really gotta catch up and start organizing these!)
of Friday night
306Fest

August 28th, 2003

Tomarow is:

Who’s playing?

I’ll be there taking a ridiculus amount of pictures and you better be there too!!!

If you wonder why I haven’t been updating much its because it is my last few days of summer and I’ve been enjoying them! And you should be too!!

Soooo…. go for a bike ride, go to Cranberry Flats, go for a walk by the river, go get a slurpy, go watch the pelicans at the wier, go for a walk downtown, lay in your backyard and get a tan, get a ladder and go on the roof of your house and try to see your friend’s houses, go to the Zoo (no not the bar), go to a bar with a padio, set the dinner table outside and eat supper on the deck, walk in grass in bare feet, find your old Super Soaker and get your friends wet, get yourself wet, drive 10 mins out of town and look at the stars at night, go see a movie at the Sundown drive-in, go out for desert on the Earls Padio, go to pike lake for a day (night?), take some pictures, drive around with the windows down, go to Kinsmen Park, make a rainbow with a gardenhose, wash your car yourself with a bucket and a rag, always wear sunscreen

Remember just because your time is running out doesn’t mean you don’t have time at all….

August 24th, 2003

Last night it was raining so I decided to watch a DVD. All of the players were signed out and the big screen DVD was being used as well.

I was going to just watch TV but then I remembered that it was Bingo night and the grand prize is a DVD player. I only had enough money to buy one card so I was like “I’m going to go win a DVD player so I can watch a movie”….and I did!

It was funny because all the other people had 8 cards lined up and were going hardcore and I just came in with 1 card, and when I had one square left to fill I was like “come on 0-66” and then it was drawn!

This just goes to prove that if you think long and hard enough about balls they will find their way into the small hole…hehe

August 22nd, 2003

I’m up North again for my LAST WEEK so I won’t be updating for a couple days
= get off the computer and get outside while summer is still here!

August 21st, 2003

Bouncing Souls in Regina was awesome!

If you want to see the mad jumble of pictures of Bouncing Souls, Hot Water
Music, The Forgotten and Worthless United click
HERE.
I’ll edit, organize, and thumbnail tomorrow!

Sleeeeeeeep….

oh yeah and NOLTO updated (ooooh…awwww)

August 20th, 2003

I’m finally done. Today is my 4 year anniversary of “working for the clown”
and last night was my last shift ever    I will miss working there.
As much fun as people may make of working at McDonalds it was a really fun job
where I made literally over a hundred friends and always had fun when I worked.
I’ll end it with a poem I wrote for Grade 11 English:

Dream Job

Nuggets are up,

drop some fries.

We’re waiting on quarter meat,

Would you like that Supersized?

The smell of ketchup,

All of the free smiles.

The slosh of the mop,

On the reddish brown tiles.

The constant orders,

Drive through time.

There’s a spill in the lobby,

Every customer complains and whines.

Working ’til Midnight,

Soon I get my break.

Can never sit down,

Gotta fill the chocolate shake

Why do I work at McDonalds,

You might find it funny,

Thank you have a nice day,

I do it for the money!
August 18th, 2003

Last night I got “hired” to take pics of The Night Life. They are a new band
who is opening for alexisonfire in September (TBA) (pretty good for a first show eh?)
and oh yeah! Kevin Walby is their singer!  Anyways these are the
Promo Pics I took of of them playing
last night so enjoy.

And *FINALLY* Tarrah updated!

August 17th, 2003

All of the “real” pictures of DFA ,
The Decline, and
Under Pressure are up!
Enjoy!   More Pics of gnombs and exiting things to come!

August 16th, 2003

Here is a mad JUMBLE of all of the pics
from the show ( + 3 videos of DFA)

I’ll edit, organize, and thumbnail tomorrow

Enjoy!

August 15th, 2003

I’m back!!!!

I feel like puking at the thought of my battle bot. In the last 5 days all I
have done is work 12 hours+4hours on battle bot then sleep and do it again. I
want to throw the fucking thing in the garbage because I despise it so much now
for consuming my life…

On the bright side its finished and super cool!

Anyways I’m going to the show (above) and pictures shall follow shortly (tomarow)

oh yeah and www.threeohsix.org
doesn’t work right now so go to
www.threeohsex.org instead. (No its not a joke)

August 13th, 2003

I know, I know. Wow. 5 days without updating. I thought I was dead too!

If you wanna know why I haven’t been updating it is because I have been working 7am – 7pm then spending 3 hours each night after work building my

ROBOT.

Yes, the secret is out. punk -o- ryan is a nerd, but the Kilobot competition is on August 24th and I gotta get this thing done!

Don’t worry. There are lots of shows on threeohsix that are coming and there will be lots more punk shows and gnomb pictures… but for now I gotta get this thing done!

August 8th, 2003

Well I’m up North again for another week. But I brought some friends along with me!

August 7th, 2003

If You haven’t seen Autopilot and you like grunge go see them tonight!!! You
won’t be disappointed!

I wasn’t even going to go out last night but then my friend Jess called me
and now here are pictures of Assertion,
subtracttozero, and
Living Under Lies at the
Wash ‘n Slosh.

Enjoy!

I’m back up North for another week

*** DON’T FORGET TO VOTE FOR ME AT THE EXHIBITION PHOTO CONTEST*** (please)

August 6th, 2003

He shouldn’t be able to do that…

So thanks to the stupidity of others a window to our precious Bassment was
smashed and the “6 bands for 6 bucks” super awesome show ended after two bands

If you want you can still see pictures of
So Many Dynamos and
The
Decline.

ALSO. Congrats to The Decline for being band #100 on my website!

August 5th, 2003

I don’t know who had more fun. Us, or the Gnombs…

Pictures of Candle Lake,
Edmonton Trip, and “Gnombing”
are up!   Candle Lake + Edmonton in 1 weekend = most productive
weekend ever!

GO TO THE SHOW AT THE BASSMENT  TONIGHT!!!  (though I think I might
be going to see Default at the Ex for free…)

August 5th, 2003

No, I didn’t die. I went to Candle Lake AND Edmonton this long weekend.
Needless to say a plethora of pictures shall be here tomorrow but sleep calls.

ALSO!!!!  Show at the Bassment Tuesday night!

assertion[ex karen foster from van]the paper kytes, the decline, so many
dynamos. at the Bassment. doors at 8 show at 9. $6.

GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGO!

p.s. BUNNIN updated.

July 2003 Archive

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July 31st, 2003

I entered these 8 “photos” of mine in the Exibition Photo Contest.
The Saskatoon EX runs August 5th – 10th so if you are there go to HALL B and VOTE FOR RYAN JACKSON!

If I win I’ll totally give you something for voting for me…totally…

July 30th, 2003

You can finally listen to the 6 new Metallica CD
Intros

July 28th, 2003

Can’t say I’ve ever been a “fan” of Metallica. Not to say I don’t like them, but for some strange reason, despite the fact that every time I heave heard them I’ve liked them, I have never bought or even listened to a whole Metallica CD. Of course I have heard Enter Sandman, but that is the only Metallica song I could name.

When I saw that “WOW there is a new Metallica CD out” I was weary as always because “all bands sell out and sound like crap eventually”. I figured their last album (having not even heard it) sounded lame so this must be worse.

Still I asked one of my friends at Future Shop if the new CD St.Anger was any good. Matt said that there had been mixed feelings from customers about the CD. Andrew told me that a customer returned the CD “because it sucked”. I asked if that was allowed and he said no, but the customer made such a fuss and got the manager involved so they actually returned an opened CD. (The asshole probably burned it first.)

ANYWAYS! I asked why the customers didn’t seem to like it and Matt said that it was because “it sounded like their old Master of Puppets stuff”. I immediately went to the headphones and listened to the CD. I am always amazed when a band goes “back to their old stuff” so I gave it a listen. I was hooked! The CD player only let you listen to the first 30 seconds of each track but I was so impressed with the Intros that I bought the CD completely based on first impression.

If you want to hear the same Intros I did listen to
THIS
sound clip I made.If you like what you hear, read on. Otherwise go look at this picture of an old mans
ASS.

Now this CD has been out for a while now, but I didn’t know about it till a week ago when I bought it. Like I said it sounds like “their older stuff” which I really like (perhaps the reason I wasn’t a “fan” of Metallica was because their latest stuff didn’t appeal to me).

The coolest thing I think about it (which is what sparked this rant-eview ) is that the CD comes with a DVD which is the video of the band playing during the recording of the CD.

The Album (named St.Anger) was recorded in a “room” with 3 camera guys filming the band playing. Rather than the typical super fancy sound stage with soundproof booths, headphones, and mic screens, the album is Metallica “just playing” (or “jamming” I guess you could say).

It sounds like they would if they were playing live (without the screaming crowd or echo) and I really like that. You can even hear the lead singer James Hetfield ( breathing on the mic which is unheard of with major label recordings. The concept of a huge band trying to sound like they are being recorded in someone’s basement is thrilling to me. (or maybe I’m just too easily exited)

Watching the DVD, there is the exact same Audio but you can see how much energy the band has when they play. I watched the DVD first and it helped give a “face” to the music, which made listening to the CD more enjoyable.

Now hopefully as you read this you are listening to the sound clip I made (if not click above you lazy shit). Being a fan of more hardcore-metal-fastpunk-etc I am a huge fan of the guitar and drums on this album. I was VERY surprised at the originality and catchy’ness of each song (once again I was expecting the Album to suck and got quite the opposite).

The Intros “sound like their old stuff” and have a Slayer intensity (double kick drum, head banding sound) to them which is why I bought the CD. Lyrically the album is “what I would expect from Metallica” having not really known their music that much anyways. Some tracks just have the typical “mindless rock” lyrics ( “shoot me again I ain’t dead yetÖ” ) but for the most part the music and fact that the James Hetfield has an awesome voice makes up for any downfall in the CD.

Each track is 6 to 9 minutes long with a total playing time of over 75 minutes in 11 tracks. All this with a DVD packaged in for $14.99 you can’t go wrong, and Hey, even if you don’t like the rest of the songs after the intros think about how most punk songs are only 2 mins. So by the time the intro is over you can skip to the next track your still better off than most punk albumsÖ

I guess if youíre a “fan” you will have already bought the CD. If your like me and you like what you hear with the intros go buy a real CD for once and make it the new Metallica CD (Fuck I sound like I’m being payed here don’t I! Ö. Maybe I’ll just feel better about “buying” a CD rather then burning it if I can get other people to buy it tooÖ)

July 25th, 2003

Along with GeorgeStock you should also somehow manage to go to:

You could be Ultra (yes Ultra) cool and do GeorgeStock Saturday and Wakeboarding Sunday.

Thats what I would do….. alas…

July 24th, 2003

I finally did it.  On August 18th it will be my 4 year anniversary of “workin’
for the Clown” and my last day.

McDonalds, though not a very prestigious job, certainly was fun to work at.
Everyone was the same age as me, I made over 100 friends, and the hours were
always super flexible. I would certainly want my children to work (at a place
like) McDonalds because it was a really good job to have while in school, but 4
years is enough and I have 3 jobs right now so goodbye McDonalds!

If you haven’t heard about it yet GO TO GEORGE STOCK!

go to http://www.gstock.vze.com/ for
more info.  Basically on Saturday drive 20 mins out on the South Highway to
Regina and you’ll see signs.  It is 16 bands for $8 = 50cents a band and
they are all really good local (and one non local) bands. Check out the website
for more info and go have a good time!

As for me. I leave on a plane to go back up North for a week in 8 hours so
I’m going to bed!  If you have a digital (or film+scanner) camera take lots
of pictures and send them to me! (I’ll post them with your super cool name
beside them!)

July 23rd, 2003

Last night I went and saw Bowling for Columbine and it absolutely blew me
away.  I started an applause at the end of it because it was so amazing and
thought provoking. It was the first movie I have seen in way too long that I
walked out of happy. Of course it is more of a documentary than a movie but if
you haven’t seen this movie GO SEE IT.  It is playing at Rainbow Cinemas @
9:30pm all week for only $3.    It hasn’t been released on video
yet so this is your only way to see it and for $3 its cheaper than renting so GO
GO GO!  Call some friends and see it. You wont be disappointed.

If you have or haven’t seen it check out Michael Moore’s website
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
it has some interesting articles etc.

That’s all I have to say about that.

July 22nd, 2003

I know what your wondering. What was that “Super Secret Basement Show” I saw
on the threeohsix calendar for Monday night?   Well I wondered the
same and then I found out it was two bands playing in “the setaside house
basement”.  There were only two bands and they were both from out of town
(one was from Calgary). It was a pretty cool little “super secret show” in a
basement. Bringing my # of shows I’ve seen in a basement to two!

The Pictures of The Buzzing
Bees and Fallen Year are in the
bands section as well all of the “organized” pictures of the Friday night show
are in the bands section and I edited all the pictures to make them look not
crappy so go look at them all again for the first time!

One last thing. I am at 98 bands on my site now (and this site isn’t even a
year old yet….) so the question is “who will be my 100th band” ?

July 21st, 2003

So Friday night after the show I get home, throw up the “jumble” of pictures
and crawl into bed. …. what’s this?….I feel my foot twitching…but I’m not
moving my foot….  I turn on the light and I see a freaking mouse running
between my feet!!!  THERE IS A MOUSE IN MY BED!!! AHHHHH!!!  I run
upstairs, get a trap and some rat poison and set them in my room then sleep
upstairs in my brothers’ bed (he’s in BC for the summer).

From then on I say “I’m not sleeping in my room till I find a dead mouse!”
…. well…. my wish came true.  I get home from work yesterday and throw
my bag on my bed. An hour later I take the bag off and lift up the covers and
low and behold there is a little squished mouse under my sheets!  EWWWWW!
I guess it was hiding there and I squished it with my bag.  Needless to say
I washed all my sheets and mattress, as well I am not sleeping in my room till I
vacuum and clean EVERYTHING in my room.

It is amazing how something so small and harmless can be so TERRIFYING!!!

Back to Business. The videos from Friday night can be seen
HERE so if you want to see Adam get shocked all over
again or see the videos with TERRIBLE sound then check it out!
The “organized” pictures will come tomorrow. (Betcha’ can’t wait!)

July 19th, 2003

If your dying to see all the pictures right now from the show I have them in
an unorganized JUMBLE.   I’ll organize
them and post the dozen videos I took tomorrow.

Sleep now.

July 18th, 2003

I just got back from up North OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH its
soooooo good to be home!

There are TWO yes count ’em TWO SHOWS TONIGHT!

#1

Though I haven’t ranted about it yet threeohsix has finally sold
out and is now going to become a “real web magazine” and a production company
which is actually a good thing because the money made putting on shows will go
back into putting on big shows so now rather than a band skipping Saskatoon and
going just to Regina we can be like “we guarantee you this much money if you
play in Saskatoon”.  What does this all mean? –> GO TO THE SHOW!!!

#2.

If your super cool like me you will go to both because the
Amigo’s show wont start till 11:30 – midnight’ish so see you there!

July 17th, 2003

If you want to see some more pictures of the lake click
HERE otherwise read on and wonder why
I think about this stuff….

Today’s thoughts continue on about what I
said a couple weeks ago about Causality.

Remember when I talked about how I think if
I went to the Baseball game I would have changed the order of events and that
guy wouldn’t have been hit in the face with the baseball. (See June ramblings
*bottom).

Remember I said how Terminator 3 was
disappointing but the ending made me think.

Ok, so first off. Am I selfish for believing
that I could have prevented something from happening by being there? The way I
was thinking was that everything that occurs in life is a fragile order of
events that is extremely easily altered and the future (or projected order of
events) is constantly changing as we change our minds on what we are going to
do.

Here are two things to think about that
would be similar to what the baseball game I didn’t go to.

(If you didn’t read what I said then in a
testishell: A guy got hit in the face with a baseball at a game I had decided to
not play in. I wondered if I had gone to the baseball game would my presence had
altered the chain of events and the guy have not been hit)

If you remember your grade 10 history a
Serbian nationalists shot The Archduke of Austria-Hungary in “the shot heard
round the world” back in June 1914 and that is said to be the spark that started
the first world war which then lead to the second world war.

Now letís create a character. Letís call him
Bill. Letís say Bill was usually a punctual guy and always liked to get to
events on time. Bill was going to be at the
PARADE that The Archduke was going to be in but something happened.
(Let’s say he stopped to tighten his shoes) and because of that he missed
being able to stand in a good position to see The Archduke of Austria-Hungary.

Now instead of Bill being in that
good viewing position, The Serbian nationalists got the good spot, which allowed
him to be close enough to shoot The Archduke of Austria-Hungary and be “the shot
heard round the world”.

So now the question: Was “the shot heard
round the world” fragile enough to be affected by Bill not tightening his
shoelaces? Let’s say Bill hadn’t stopped and he had got the good viewing spot
and The Serbian nationalists was forced to stand in a different spot which
prevented him from being able to shoot The Archduke of Austria-Hungary. The
Serbian nationalists was on a mission and still may have tried to jump out and
shoot The Archduke of Austria-Hungary but maybe someone else may have jumped in
the way or grabbed the gun away from him and then The Serbian nationalists would
have gone to jail and it never would have happened.

Hooray for Bill! He stopped the First (and
Second) World War from happening! Did he know it?

Does the war never happen? Or is the War,
the “big thing” INEVITABLE? If the “shot heard round the world” hadn’t of
sparked the war would something else have later? Just like with the Terminator
movie. Judgment day was never stopped, it was just postponed because it was
inevitable. Do you think the events leading to the First World War were fragile?
Or would it have happened no matter what the events, just postponed. There are a
million essays about “the powder keg of Europe” and how Europe was just waiting
to go to war and just needed a spark. So even though the war may have still
happened later it was still postponed which would completely change history
because something else would have started it. A shoelace did it all.

Next example. Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated
J.F.K. with a rifle from the window of a warehouse. Now lets say Bill’s
grandson, Bill Junior had stopped to tighten his shoe and therefore lost the
good viewing spot he wanted so instead he decided to go up inside the warehouse
to get a better view of the president. Lee Harvey Oswald hears Bill Junior
coming so he runs away and now Hooray for Bill Junior! He stopped J.F.K. from
being assassinated!

Or did he? Lee Harvey Oswald once again was
on a mission. He was capable of doing it before, so maybe he would have just
waited till the next parade and succeeded then. Or maybe Bill Junior would have
kicked Lee’s ass, called the police and stopped it all together.

So now am I still selfish for thinking I
would have prevented that guy from being hit in the face with the baseball? We
don’t realize what effect we have on peoples lives even though they don’t notice
it. Then again, do we effect people’s lives? Or is everything that happens bound
to happen inevitably? Am I a hero just like Bill?  …… or should I just
shut up because I have no idea what I am talking about….. if you read this far
then your stupid enough to have read it so you can’t say anything. HA!

June 15th, 2003

If you want to see some pictures I took here up North at my summer job click
HERE. .

I have a rant…but due to some historical inacuracies it must be rewritten so pictures is all you get (and probably care about anyways)

Oh yeah, listen to HOT HOT HEAT ! I just started listening to them yesterday and I’m hooked so you should be too!

June 14th, 2003

Well I had a rant and pictures that I took of the lake up here that I was going to upload but they were on a floppy disk and surprise surprise the disk is corrupted.
It’s hard to believe that floppy disks were once the main form of file transfer and now I wouldn’t trust any data on them.

Enough nerd talk. I’ll update at noon.

June 13th, 2003

Work is life

Whenever I talk to an older person who has been working two or
three times longer than I have been alive it really puts my life into
perspective.

I have worked 5 different jobs in my 20-year life so far. I
still work at 3 of them, but I will be quitting good ‘ol McDonalds in August so
I can focus on school and my summer job ends in August too just leaving me with
my Hewlett Packard Rep job on the weekends.

Whenever you ask a person “what they have done” in their life
they always list off the jobs they have worked. “I worked at this place for 10
years and then I did this for 4 years and now I’ve been at this job for the last
8”. We spend a 1/4 of our life working (40hrs/week divided by 168hrs/week) and
yet when people think quickly back on their lives “what they have done” is their
jobs.

No one ever says “I went to the lake 96 times, Disneyland 4
times, and Mexico and Hawaii twice” or “I met 12856 people, made love to 4
different woman, married one, and have known 627 different phone numbers”.

Though most of you reading this aren’t “old” yet, think
about what you would say, “you have done” in your life not counting work.

Where have you lived, travelled, been? Who have you met,
befriended, seen? What is the most important thing you have done? How many
people in your life have you helped in any way?

One of the best things I ever read was from “Being Calvin” by
Casper Neurotic:

“If you life was a book, would you bother reading it?”

June 12, 2003

Well if your wondering why I haven’t updated in a while its because I’m back up North again for my summer job. However on the bright side I have tons of time to write and take pictures so I’ll be updating lots this week (I already have three rants on the go)…and here is one.

I am insulted a lot by movies and advertisements that think I
am an idiot. For example the picture above illustrates how to use the page
lifter AND explains in words how to put your finger in a hole and lift! Why
bother wasting ink explaining how to do something that is obvious?

I would hope that if you are capable of reading the
instructions for something as simple as that you are capable of figuring things
out!

I guess this also comes to the idea of “reading the manual”.
How often have you jumped to “some assembly required” without reading the
instructions? In the case where there may be confusion on how to do something
then instructions are useful and should be provided but when something is
blatantly obvious in how to do it then why waste ink and time printing
instructions?

Perhaps companies have to do it to cover their own ass in case
someone gets hurt.

What really bothers me though is movies where the dialogue
leaves nothing to the imagination. Like when the characters completely explain
everything in the movie to the point where I am insulted because it seems they
think I can’t figure anything out. I think the best movies are the ones that
after you watch them you can discuss with your friends what you got out of it and
what your interpretation is of what happened and what was said. (Watch the movie
K-PAX, it is about a guy who says he is an alien and the great thing is that
even in the end you are still not sure because it is up to you to think about
what happened and what was said)

Lately I haven’t seen any movies in the theatres that do that
(leave it up to us to figure things out). Maybe Hollywood thinks we’re idiots,
or maybe they have made us into idiots because of
it.

.

July 9th, 2003

A sad day for men everywhere.

July 8th, 2003

So then the question begs to be asked…. was Terminator 3 worth my $9  ???

I just asked what should have been the last question first but in case you
hate me and don’t want to read my opinions on the new Terminator movie (or want
to judge for yourself) then all you need to know is:

YES IT IS WORTH THE MONEY TO GO SEE IT IN THE SUPER EXPENSIVE THEATER.

Now two more questions come up:

#1 Why is it worth seeing at all?  #2 Why would there be any doubt?

To start. This is by far THE most action packed movie to date. There are only
two parts in the movie where there isnít stuff blowing up and that is because
they are driving in the desert (but during one of the scenes Arnoldís battery
starts leaking and so he throws it out the window and it blows up = you pretty
much donít get a break during the movie)

I spent the majority of the movie waiting for it to slow down actually. T3
certainly breaks from the tradition of intro‡
problem ‡ rising action

‡ climax
‡ resolution.

The movie just jumps right into it with you meeting the ìoldî John Conner and
seeing heís a bum and then the T-X comes in and starts killing everyone.

The action never stopped and as good as that is, it took a lot away from what
I think could have been a better movie. There was 99% focus on action and
special effects and it seems like they cut corners when it came to the actual
ìmovieî.

The actors, directing, and dialogue were very disappointing. You would think
if youíre spending $170 million on a movie you can invest in making the stuff in
between the explosions worth while. To put it short T3 wasnít anywhere near as
serious as T2.

There were many pointless attempts to make the audience laugh by doing
parities of T2 which indeed were funny but took away from the seriousness of
what was happening in the movie.

My next complaint was of the music. Now maybe it just wasnít turned up
enough, but in T2 the soundtrack and original score really added to the movie by
adding suspense and appropriate effects.  None of the original T2 score was used
except during the credits and once again that took away from the seriousness of
the movie.

I guess you can say that a lot has changed in movies in the 12 years since
the 1991 T2. It seems now the ìblock busterî movies are more about action and
less about ìaction + movieî. Donít get me wrong. I love action movies and
Terminator 3 is certainly one of the best action movies to date, but I was
expecting it to be done as well (if not better) than T2 and that just isnít the
case.

Several times during the movie you could pick out blatant advertising ìplugsî
like a Semi truck being pulled over with Xenadrine plastered all over it. This
was an obvious plug and took away from the seriousness. Like I said, for $170
million I was expecting more of a ìmovieî and less of an ìaction-cash grabî.

Now after all of these complaints your probably wondering why I originally
said T3 was worth seeing in theater. Well once again it is the most action
packed movie to date (with the expense of the action taking away from what
should have been a legacy). The story, though dry, does have some VERY
unexpected twists and Iím not going to say anything but I was very surprised
where the story went so Iím not going to bash the story itself, but I think the
story could have been told a lot better with better acting and dialogue.

Would I go see it in the theater twice? No.  That is simply
because there wasnít anything more to the movie than action.   Iíll admit the
ending did ìmake me thinkî but I didnít leave the theater with a sense of
satisfaction that I was hoping to get. I guess I was just setting my self up for
disappointment by thinking it would be as awesome as T2, but then again, after
seeing T2 wouldnít you at least ìhopeî the sequel would measure up?
Go see the movie but don’t be mad at me if your disapointed (hey you may want to
go see it 5 times because it blew you away!)

As for me…. I think Iím going to go watch T2 againÖ..

July 7th, 2003

The weener’est dog I have ever seen!

July 6th, 2003

Well FINALLY all 217 pictures and 16 videos are in the
BANDS section. Enjoy!
*NOTE: If the videos don’t work then come back tomorrow and I will have fixed
them.

My Photo Pass allowed me to take pictures of any band for the first two songs
(after 2 songs they kicked all the photographers out because there were too many
crowd surfers falling on us). I tried to get 1 min of video of each band too,
but as usual the mic on my camera really sucks, but its better than nothing!

This was by far the best Warped Tour for me. I got to be up close for every
band and do what I love most –> Take pictures!

There were 6 other people with Photo Passes which made me feel special. I was
able to go behind stage too, but there wasn’t really anything back there but
busses and sound equipment.

Tom also updated with his “experience” of Warped and the pictures from
my
trip are in the Friends section.

Sleep now….

July 5th, 2003

I haven’t thumb nailed the pictures of Warped Tour 2003 yet but if you can’t
wait to see the pictures then just look at the
FOLDERS.

Why haven’t I thumb nailed them yet? Well I was out having too much fun at
the Skuzz and then taking the
Gnomes that Gordon stole out on the town.
(Don’t worry, we’re returning them with the pictures of their (“adventure”)

July 4th, 2003

Pictures of the “trip” are up.
Bands will come later tonight / tomorrow.

Enjoy!

July 4th, 2003

BEST WARPED TOUR ROAD TRIP EVER!!!!!

I have a BAJILION pictures (yes I filled up a GIG of memory cards!) of Warped
Tour and our whole trip!

It is 5:00 AM. I just got home. We left Calgary at 9:30pm Thursday and drove
all night and now I sleep, then it will take me 6 hours probably to update all
of the pictures so if your reading this right now come back tonight and all of
the freaking amazing pictures will be up!

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz….