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Attention all henchpeople of the Craigspace. It was inevitable that my subversive blogging would be attacked by unseen forces. Frogmen have drilled holes in the hull of the ship and I have awoken to the sound of rushing water. Assuming…

A couple of days ago I saw a crow who had taken its prized find up onto a telephone wire slung across the road. It was balanced along the wire with one end of the mass under foot and the…

Starting point. I came back from shoveling in the trenches to write something pithy about the pending war. I wrote it and decided I had no answers. My opinions weren

One dank and sturdy night the message came in on flashes of light. It whined and it whinnied and took on a high pitch. It deafened the drivers who drove into the ditch. Those who were chewing spat up their…

A whirlwind of activity has swept me from my perch in front of the Imac. The

Happy record release day to me. Don’t forget my brethren in “Kids in the Hall” will be on Letterman on Friday and the Pay Per view is really soon. I think its the 8th or 9th or 12th or something….

Self help litany. It was supposed to be a short flight but its getting longer all the time. The conversation in the row in front of me is relentless. One of these women has internalized the sentence structure and presentation…

Trying to stay positive and compassionate. Put your hands up if you

This completes the circle for me. The end of the trail meets the beginning of the trail and you have to decide if the scenery was beautiful enough for you to run it again. I set unique goals for my…

Forbidden Pez part 3, continued from Jan.6 & Jan.10 He was beginning to grow afraid of his euphoria. Foreign feelings eventually arouse suspicion. His general sense of levitation began to sink by centimetres each day. One day you notice that…

My head is inside a whole bunch of new songs. I don

Note form…OK? Firstly the thanks: Thanks to Andrew White for doing so much work on prep for the tour. Unfortunately Drew couldn

Fried like a potato. Too much to do upon my arrival home. I didn’t take a computer on the road and I really loved that fact. I think I must have needed a break from that radiant glow. My summary…

Forbidden Pez – part 2, continued from Jan 6, 2003 It had been a week since the harmonic convergence. He was living in the quiet greasy vacuum created in the wake of the event. It was as if he was…

The night sky has been particularly clear for the last few days. I can now confirm that we are not alone. All it takes is to lie on your back and stare hard into the spaces between the twinkling bits….

It was only a toy and he was a grown man. His rationalization was that it was the only one left. There was one other…a guy, last name Feligno, in Dayton Ohio had found it five years ago and had…

A note of explanation. The site is getting stale everywhere but here because we’re having some communication “issues” with our server. This should be remedied shortly and we’ll be off to phase two of the site. You’ll see a whole…

Calendar. I know the Incas had one and the impulse to keep track of time may be a basic instinct. Why? Why does anybody want to keep track? The reminders are omnipresent. Everything around you takes care of the time…

Game show life summaries. The game show host asks the contestant to say a little bit about their lives. They choose something that the audience might find interesting. Never more than a couple of sentences. This is meant to encapsulate…

BLUES FLASH! Sharkskin will be appearing at the annual “Blues for Christmas” bash on the 28th of December at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver. All proceeds to …I think.. .the Empty Stocking Fund. All local and national rhythm & blues…

IMPORTANT!!!! I’ll be performing with my power trio: January 15th: Open Mike with Mike Bullard CTV January 16th: the 360, Queen Street W, Toronto January 17th: the Black Sheep, Wakefield/Ottawa January 18th TBA Onatrio PLEASE COME. I want to have…

Well…how was it? Ours was excellent. All Christmas scenarios played out really well. We milked the day for all it was worth and our excesses were familiar and comfortable. For west coasters we had the privilege of enjoying a snowy…

Office Party. Oxymoron? As a continuation of the last posting it is interesting to note that the holiday season is at its most politically complex when slicing a sociological cross section from the

Every human emotion seems to be on a hair trigger around this time. The Christmas burden is overwhelming and if you

This space is dedicated to Bob Brennan. Father of my dear chum Paul (Odds). Bob died last week after a lengthy illness and the service was held this Friday. Its the worst situation in which to get together with friends…

Stop the car. I

Throw that white mustang into the curves. I asked for an economy car and they were all out. I received the complimentary upgrade to middle aged America

In LA and spending my creative energy on the short verse put to music. I guess that’s playing on my strengths? Over 30 years old…this is the way. I’m open to new tricks but I’m starting to understand the knee…

Felt a little haunted. I wanted to leave you out of it. Sometimes its just best to clam up and take your brooding into the dark corner while the party rages around you. You

Sometimes you

High enough up that this city appears as a map of the city I will soon come down into. I am huge now. Soon I will shrink to scale and fit in its tiny cars traveling down its tiny streets….

Not too much energy reserve tonight but enough to lay out the running order for the benefit show at the Wiltern for those of you who’ve asked. Information not creation. My contribution to this day in modern media. Clash of…

Back home after a swing to LA for the “Clash of the Titans” benefit show at the Wiltern Theatre. You can get auction items from the show at: Clash of the Titans Ebay auction The cause is the McCarton School…

Harmless as a fluttering leaf. Nothing too threatening. A regular New York city rain as tornados rip the seams out of the rest of the USA. The weather porn floods the TV with money shots of destruction, despair, and shaky…

In the

The last three days indulged my stale dated education. I spent all those years wanting to become the guy who could walk into a recording studio and play with the big dogs. It was only a few years ago that…

Northey Valenzuela Sonic Soul Implosion. One of the dozen or so names we

The din of the halloween battlefield rages all around my house. Cats are hiding. The jaded 13 year old boys show up at the door in groups of four or five with their skateboards. They hold their school day backpacks…

Lawn and garden. Making your dent in the natural world. Practicing the art of cultivation. Making decisions that gravity,wind, rain, snow, animal migration, insect behaviour, light, fire and pollution will eventually reverse. Your meddling can only yield microcosmic success. High…

The iron is hot. The door could open to a the new freak era. The yardstick could be longer. It strikes me that the conservatism of our time is different than the conservatism of the 50

Life invades art. Experiencing life wins battle. Art is temporarily driven from this corner of life only to return today. I have heard the statement,

Tongue sticking out of the music star cat. Time clock devil angel sees the sun rainbow movie dog cry then hug right, hug left, from his angry age sex location beside a wilted flower. These are the important emoticons in…

Every now and then you cash in. I wonder what I owe now. I was getting ready to head out to the studio to use my time wisely when an angel knocked on my front door. He held out a…

Music therapy. I suppose that is what my life is really about. If I look at it from a selfish perspective it has functioned as auto erotic behaviour that doubles as healthy voyeurism for others. I

Indoor outdoor world. Last night I got back to my hotel room late and opened the drapes. It was the SkyDome hotel in Toronto. My room had floor to ceiling glass facing into the vast techno lego cave. It was…

Christina Aguilera is humping. She humps the air. She humps a girl in a Road Warrior bikini. She humps a greased stud in a wrestling mask. She is

Sex, violence, extreme weather, money, celebrity scandal. Same old same old. The gatekeepers at the narrow end of the TV intestine must all be 13 years old. Nothing shoots out that seems anywhere outside this formula. I speak in broadly…

Does going cold turkey on coffee affect your mood? I better start running these variables through the scanner a little more often. There just might be some external component to my sketchy behaviour of late. Woohoo. I

I guess I

Give me a guarantee. Just the positive affirmation that there is life after death. If you can do that then I’ll never ever get worked up about anything. Give me a guarantee. There will be no questions after that. I…

Why was orange my favourite colour? Why did my allegiance lie in the red end of the spectrum? This was back when favourite colours were important. It was long before cliques and gangs and rock n

Its almost 1:00am so I had to write something. Fatigue sent me here. The inner 8 year old boy says rage against the dying of the light. This day could be longer if you could just deny that you’ll be…

Cruise ships. Taking the whole town on the road. Splendid isolation? Safety in numbers when there

No creative writing today. I just thought I

The grown man looks back on the day and tries to estimate whether he used his powers for good or evil. Its a system of checks and balances making their way down a lined piece of foolscap tucked inside a…

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Draw your own hand drawing your hand. Talk about your tongue. Stare at your eye in the mirror. Smell the inside of your nose. Your mouth is full of spit. You must swallow it all day. Get your heart to…

Got some bad news from LA yesterday. I am motivated to write about it but don

You never want to do any harm. There aren