Good Monday Morning

Good morning to Poland, Malaysia and South Korea! Today is the inauguration of our President and MLK Day, a national holiday for some, from where I sit I will be working and thinking of the year to come and getting last years taxes done and how much the new rules will hurt me.
  This weekend was a bit of a blow out for me; I didn't get the number of chores done as I had planned on, but yard duties were conducted on Sunday and the garage was paid the price of neglect and nothing happened in there except laundry. Time to hit the road, rock on!

Let's do a pizza run!

Sunday yard working and I am going for a pizza, yeehaw!

Toxic Noise 25 Years

Laguna Seca 2011 - USGP

View from pit lane at Laguna Seca 2011.

Friday, Friday, Friday!

Today buries the week and sets us up for relaxation and recreation for 2 days then we get our robot suits on for the next week. What are you doing for your weekend? Yard work is at the top of my list and the garage is in the mix as I am on a roll and can see my Aermacchi waiting to be moved onto the workbench for some tinkering. Also in the mancave is a Kawasaki KE100, Honda XR50/88 and a pocketbike, they will get new parking spots so I can install new lighting so I can see what is going on.
 Time for another cup of coffee and then the shower; I am out in 1 hour to kick some ass with the horns flying, rock on!

100% Real

Rest assured loyal viewers that I am 100% real and I will not become a 12 year old boy if discovered by the world and no steroids in my system...

Ready! Set! HUMP!

People stand up get the horns up and get those hips grinding, yeahhhh grind away people it is that time of the week and after today it is all downhill from here. Sales are down and as Mike Baker would say the wanker gap is opening up. I am still struggling at work with sales and things will be changing there in a few months so I am constantly thinking of what is going on related to those issues and it is bringing me down. This weekend it should be warmer during the day and that means yard work and that is great for leaving the office mind in the past, at least until Monday. More work on the bike track and fine tuning the front yard will dominate my schedule and before I can take the little Honda out on the track the carb will have to be cleaned and the oil checked, fun for a quiet Saturday evening.
I am in the shower and hard charging fellow humans; rock on!

Tuesday simmering like the stew of humanity...

Slowly getting the work thing on; time for some coffee and Mike Baker on the cyber radio it is already a good morning. Yesterday my sales were just OK but on a Monday that isn't so bad, and if I can carry the momentum for the rest of the week my next check might be a little better, anything to get past the payroll tax speed bump that has popped up. I am looking for one of those devices that takes analog recordings and digitizes them for modern times and longevity so that my demos and early punk recordings will live on for the world to experience so stay tuned as the humor factor will be high.
Time to get it in gear and make it happen, rock on!

Toxic Noise - A Punk Saga #1

During the 80's punk was alive and well in SoCal and lucky for me I was here and not the mid-west or worse; the bands around at that time could fill pages here so I wont go into great detail on all but a couple bands. While I was at Downey High Jimmy Hetfield and Don Doty were there and after I transfered to Ramona High in Riverside I found myself in a time warp, wearing a Motorhead shirt then would get you threats and stares from the locals but I did it anyways, chicks dig rebels...
  In those days I was playing drums and looking for people to jam with and not having much luck I stumbled upon a guy named Kurt and he was into heavy metal and I would show him stuff like The Anti-Nowhere League and UK Subs along with Motorhead and Tank and we would start a band called the Saints of Demise, or S.O.D. for short. We practiced as much as possible and at this time I was a Junior in H.S. and I was able to turn a horse tack room into a rehearsal studio so we were up a little on some of the other bands at our level. We played a couple backyard parties but our sloppy garage metal was truly almost punk, we thought of ourselves as a young west coast Dictators and we liked it. By this time I had moved on to bass and was learning the ropes there and things were coming together, kind of. At some point during the bands rise to school fame I was approached by a fellow classmate who said he knew of a band that needed a drummer and a bass player, and we started having drummer issues as our guy went into the Army and finding a replacement was proving difficult, so Kurt and I decided to help out Uncontrolled Society until they could find permanent members, yeah right. Now Kurt was a good drummer himself and he would morph from singer/guitarist to drummer and I would stay on at bass.
  We found outright punk gigs had more people in attendance than backyard metal gigs and our form of metal wasnt going over well with Van Halen fans so playing with this band was ok and we were getting sucked in. Not long after our first gig as Uncontrolled Society we changed the name to Toxic Noise, very punk, very silly, but it worked. We started writing stuff and doing a Ramones cover and I think we tried Faster & Louder but never did it live, but we were in the thick of the Riverside punk scene then; White Flag, Cease Fire and Toxic Noise were the bands at that time and a couple other pop up bands that would come and go, sorry I can't remember them. We started heckling the local radio station lady, Billy Dobler, and forcing her to play our punk on her show that mostly showcased goth stuff from the time, her fans hated us, gaining that tag that would haunt us, people had an opinion about us, and it was always bad.
 Trying to get gigs at that time at the DeAnza Theatre was impossible because our reputation was starting to hurt our punk abilities, lots of head scratching here but we said fuck it and charged on, never playing the home of punk in the mid 80's in Riverside, fuck you Stan Warwick, LOL.
                                                                                                 To be continued...
  

Monday - Get Your Baker On

Monday is here and it is f-in cold; got heater? Mike Baker is on the radio and this guy rocks, he is ex-CIA and smart as hell, and bitchen as all get out that he is doing this gig. Today I am going full speed ahead with my money making tactics to bolster my personal economy and fingers are crossed, some of our accounts take Mondays off so that makes it difficult especially at the end of the month, rock on...

Blown out on Sunday

Not much done here today mostly because of the weather being cold and shitty, so I sucked up spider webs in the garage and tossed shit out that old roomies left behind and forgot to come back for. Next is 1 or 2 rounds of laundry and then it will be time to crash out and face the up coming week.

A Public Service Anouncement

 

Friday, gateway to the weekend...

Sales are down and taxes are up; my check got smaller due to the new payroll taxes being implemented and I am hating life as of now since this will most certainly affect what I do in everyday life. This weekend will be another grooming session on the mountain bike trail and a lot of yard work and maybe a little off roading if time permits. Kick Friday in the ball's and rock on!

Uncle Joe Biden and his mouth...

Somehow the Obama crowd gives Joe Biden a pass every time he shoots his big mouth off; except yesterday what he said may have tipped the nation off to what is really brewing at the Whitehouse. In so many words Mr. VP shouted out that his boss may very well bypass Congress and make an Executive Order regarding the firearm issue. If we made it a discussion about mental health instead should we start with Joe Biden? Taxes going up as of January 1st and now threats from the Obama administration that Second Amendment rights are in serious jeopardy, awesome work liberal goons...

Humping on!

Horns in the air and grind it people! It is that time of the week that we look forward to the coming weekend and a little relaxation. Work is still slow with the economy sluggishly moving like a snail with a fridge on it's back and it doesn't appear to be getting any better which leads me to consider a change in employment sometime this year.  Horns in the air, grind them hips and rock on!

A quick message from our President...

Back in the day...

Shot I took of Satyr in 2004 in Corona, CA

Hello!

Good morning to Germany and South Korea!

Monday is here lets do this...

Frosty morning Monday is chilling outside waiting for me to join the world of working robots; batteries charged and ready to conquer. Took care of yard stuff this weekend and the first loop of my mountain bike trail is clearly visible from my kitchen window and looks damn good, neighbors hunter cat was walking the track yesterday so it has feline approval. Hit the gas we are on the road, rock on!

What was I thinking? This is California...

Weather yesterday was nice except for the wind, still cold as fuck at night so no nude jogs until summer. It is Friday however and the start of the weekend and with fingers crossed this should be a kick ass 2 days off, getting major yard work is the goal with some grooming on the trail. I am shower bound and out the door, rock the fuck on!

California cold...

F-in cold here for California weather and I am jealous of Florida right now. The weather report for this weekend is a mystery to me so I do not know if rain is coming back or not, I would rather roll the dice and wait to see what happens instead of looking at what the local forecasters have to say like a goon. If rain hits me I will concentrate my chore list on the garage and the mountain bike trail will have to wait for dry weather. Shower time, rock on \m/

Return of the Hump!

Back to work for me and this week is short thanks to the holiday; I am feeling good about stuff I got done over the last few day's off, this coming weekend I will test out the first mountain bike trail I have designed in my back yard, when done it will have 2 loops and offer the mountain lions a great vantage point from where to attack me. Time to get my ass in gear, rock on!

Happy New Year!

2013 IN YOUR FACE!

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