Merry Christmas from London-Town

Gents....my MoonTower Christmas wishes to both you and yours ! Hope you have a good couple of days and Santa visits you both before he empties his big sack...

(that came out all wrong. Merry Christmas ! Hope to talk to you both on Christmas day)

Merry Christmas to the T-night Crew!

I am posting my Christmas greeting on the Moontower. Best wishes to you two and your families over the holidays. I seriously hope Santa brings you everything on your list instead of a big fat lump of bum coal. I am going to win either way because I asked Santa for a big ol' box of bum coal!

I am in Calgary now until the 28th. I will be back in T.O. on the 29th and then I will be doing some serious chillaxing! I will try to call you both before or on Christmas. I have my cell phone here and I am checking my email regularly if you want to share reflections, thoughts or general moments of silliness.

Take care,
Dub-therednosedreindeer

Thicker Than Water Review

I watched Jack Johnson's new film DVD, Thicker Than Water last night. I was in awe at his work, Spetember Sessions. The music, the surf footage, the themes. Thicker Than Water had all of that, but doesn't quite stand up to Sessions. It is a great piece of media for $12.99 (at HMV), but if I could only buy one, I would stick with September Sessions. I bought a copy. If you are at all on the fence about buying this, wait and I you can take a look at my copy.

The disc has a couple of extras, the best is a series of sketchbook pages that are presented as a slideshow to Jack's music.

lates.

Xmas Bash

Dubby - this reminded me of your fight videos... Xmas Bash

Boobah!

Here is a link to what I am calling "the most entertaining website of the year". This site is great for kids, but it is even better after a big bowl. Relax, explore, create, revert to your inner child, whatever gets you off! So, check this shit, yo.

Boobah!

IPOD

B...Not sure if Warren mentioned it, but I bought myself an early Christmas present last week. A 20GB IPOD. I love this thing. Any hesitation I had about interoperability with Windows is a distant memory. No problems at all.
I continue to exhaust my music collection and have maxed out about 9GB of music. I have turned to some friends to try and fill some more space, and now bost the entire collections of Bob Marley, Ben Harper, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and the Tragically Hip.
I had the IPOD at a party after our company Christmas party, and it really took on a life of its own. People were so intrigued by it, and were actually playing games with it...setting up a playlist on the fly so it would queue up songs that they wanted played. Incredible.

On another musical note, Warren, Ryan gave me a cd by someone called Pete Rock. The Cd is titled Petestrumental. Its amazing. Very similar sound to the Beastie Boys cd I found this summer. Very good. Highly recommended. I have it on my IPOD and will endeavour to get it to you guys.

A few interesting links...

Thunderbirds are go!
Gollum Rap
"Amourous Nature" - interesting shapes in nature...
The Bible According to Cheese

How was the Ottawa road-trip? I kind of expected some stories by now...

Ancient Tapestry Found!

DUdes, this might not be good news for Ben Harper. Looks like a tapestry was found with words very similar to Ben Harper's, "Burn One Down". I will try and stay on top of this story.

I would look good in a gold vest too!

Check out this commercial for Trojan

On the Move

Warren, based on your post below, I think it is now safe for me to post this news...

I have been somewhat tentative to post this or mention it to you, as I thought it might be slightly premature, but based on what I have seen today, I can say as a proud proud father...Ethan can walk !!!
He has been taking steps here and there, and "cruising" along furniture and kind of leaning and falling towards furniture for about a month, but since the beginning of this week he has gotten really brave, realizing that he can use his arms for balance. Tonight he pretty much followed me on his own from the kitchen to the family room. It was so neat to see. You can tell he's as thrilled as I am. I took a video of it tonight, which hopefully I'll post in the next couple of days.

Thats it. Thats all.

Today

Today I woke up. Walked to work and bought and ate a coconut carrot muffin at the coffeeshop. I had a meeting to discuss progress of the edit of the opening sequence for a CBC movie of the week. I had a lunch meeting with a few employees of Pester Productions. I showed them Cuppa Coffee's demo reel and walked around while they were given a tour of our facilities. I discussed the flight path of a CG pterodactyl were are animating for the background of a Crayola commercial. I digitized scenes from the Star Wars Christmas special to edit together for a video wall we are projecting at the Cuppa Coffee Christmas party. The digitizing fucked up. I had to restart my computer, everything worked fine after that. I talked to my boss and a few co-workers about the BBC show, "The Office". I called Sarah and arranged to meet her outside the building where I work. I was late, but blamed it on the slow elevator. We walked home stopping at a coat shop and then the Hasty Market to buy some skim milk. When I got home I ate some chips, drank some Perrier and checked my email. None. I decided to write my fitness trainer an email about my missed assessment results. I did some online banking. I visited our blog. Nothing new.

No! It can't be true!!

Happy Tree Friends

I know Dubby mentioned this site earlier, but I had to repost it. Happy Tree Friends. The Christmas special is funny hizzle fo' shizzle.

Live at the Hollywood Bowl DVD

Buy it...or ask for it for Christmas (if you can wait that long!) Although this setlist isnt perfect, a couple of songs more than make up for it, namely Glory and Consequence, Excuse Me. Mr, Burn One Down, With My Own Two Hands>War, and a version of Amen Omen that brought me to the edge of tears. Some of Bens commentary between songs is great.
Play it loud and play it often, and of course let me know what you think once you've seen it.

Whasssup! (I know it that's old, but Whassssuuupp!)

Just to remind you cornholes that I am throwing a Festivus party on November 29th and I hope you guys can make it! Some of the G-town crew will be there along with some Cuppa Coffee'ers and some of Sarah's T-dot mates. So try and swing it so the Bearded Clammy T-night crew is representing.

Check this little animation out. It had me laughing pretty hard.

click here to watch

DVDs

Couple of must see DVDs coming up this month -

November 18th - Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals Live at the Hollywood Bowl.
November 18th - Dave Matthews Band - Live in Central Park
November 25th - Jack Johnsons Surf documentary - Thicker Than Water

Sounds like a December Saturday afternoon to me.

C

Books I am currently reading

I think reading is truly important especially for those of you with children. Please read to them.

Gifts for y'all fo' Christmas

I found the perfect gifts for you boyz...

You'll LOVE IT!!!

Got a Job !

Signed a job offer with Protek Systems yesterday. They are Coral's biggest competitor in London. A pretty big player in SWO, and I am looking forward to the opportunity. It is working as a Service Coordinator for them. Dispatching, arranging and generally organizing their team of 12 technicians, with some dabbling in Project Management as well. Check out their website at www.proteksystems.com.
I start on the 17th, so for the next week and a half with Pam having gone back to work, I am playing Mr. Mom looking after Ethan.
All is good again. We all need to talk.


B - Warren and I have a business idea that we need to run by you, so if you get a chance call me at home this week.

C. Out.

Rented SSX 3...

Whoa. Kewl shiznit. The overall gameplay is not much different than Tricky, but the new courses are frickin' cool. As well, instead of having individual courses as in Tricky, SSX 3 is one HUGE mountain with 3 peaks. I did the race from the top of peak 3 to the bottom of the mountain, and it took over half an hour of continuous racing... Will beat me, of course.

Plus, each peak has its own half pipe and big air competition, which is wild. In some launches, I was able to pull off 5 uber-tricks in one jump! Graphics rock, soundtrack is wild, and is completely worth the purchase...

Help! Help!

Damn, I am bored. Wood - tried you on the weekend. What's the update in your life?

SSX 3 due out this month...

Thought I would pass along that the next installment of SSX is coming out October 20! w00t!

The New Look of the Clams!

Colin asked me to design a revised logo for the clams and here it is! It makes me want to design a whole Jersey (perhaps for a Clam reunion?)

Snooches!

This is kinda funny...

But not necessarily work-safe (although it is just text)...

Cyber-sek

CHALMERS AND DIG PART COMPANY

I think we all knew it was coming, but Monday morning Digital Internet Group and I have decided to head our seperate directions. It came down to me being extremely uncomfortable in the environment and with many of the demands placed on me. I will continue to "work" here until the end of next week, to try and finish some things here and to try and find something to pay me as quickly as possible.
On a more encouraging note, I had an excellent second interview this morning at a HUGE company called Anixter. Have a look at www.anixter.com for more details. I am talking to them about an inside sales position here in London, and am really attracted to the nature of big business. I think I have put in my time at small companies, and could really benefit from the practices and disciplines of a big company.

Thats it thats all. In the short term, please discontinue emailing me at DIG and use my hotmail address -
colin_chalmers@hotmail.com

Thanks.
C. out.

Pics from Amsterdam

I posted some pics from our trip to Amsterdam. I wish I could tell you that there are lots of photos from deep within the Red Light District or from the strangest of coffeeshops, but there aren't. If you are still interested then go to:

Epson Photo Centre
and type in this email address: dubby_b@hotmail.com

Later skaters!

Some stuff to post

As you might or might not know, I have been working straight for the last three weeks! This is my first day off in a month, but I am not complaining or looking for sympathy. I just need to sit down with Puff the Magic Dragon and have a long conversation about the cosmos, contemporary latin cinema and my ganglion growth on my foot and I will be just fine...just fine!

But for some food for thought, I have listed some of my recent attention diversions below. Do what you wish, but careful what you wish for because that balloon carrying a bucketful of gnomes might fall from the sky and be zipping right for your front porch just when you thought you heard a burglar trying to get in the front door and you go out to check. And fuck, bang, buck you get slammed in the head with a shit load of little, magical, pointy hat wearing fucks and there you are screaming at the very thing you wished for!

Funny cartoons, very funny cartoons!
Homestarrunner

Amazing comic book
"The Invisibles" by Grant Morrison

A website to make you think
Disinformation

Something to look at
Giraffe

And here's a little blurb about some stuff I have been working on...
An article on Design in Motion

Cheers lads, cheers.

Forgot to tell you...

We got to choose our music during Kirsten's labouring and delivery. Bob got played, some Cold Play, Dido...

But he was born to Beck! Had Sea Changes on. I had to make sure he started his life listening to cool music.

It's a boy!

More pics to come, but here is a sneak peak of William Harrison Huttman, born at 1:10am on September 24th, 6 lbs., 8 oz.

Memories

Looking at the calendar today, I was prompted to remember one-year ago from this weekend coming up, one of the most debauched weekends in my life as the 3 of us made a trek to Montreal for a weekend. 12+ Hours of Driving !
In support of Antonio Whalen's Stag, I do remember the weekend being awesome.
Amongst the highlights:
Hugs and kisses from Nihmey on Friday night
Dennys breakfast on Saturday morning
Finding Alisha on the cover of Maxim
A spirited drive by Slippy to Montreal on Saturday afternoon
Shopping (girl watching) on St. Catherine (said with a French accent)
Hotel Craziness - Waiting, wondering, drinking and finding some allsuite hotel was awesome for the 5 hours we needed
Great Dinner
Drunken wandering through downtown Montreal
Bar Games
Bartenders
Strip Joints
Alleys...
Lazy-est ever drive home on Sunday.

It was awesome.

Kelly Slaters Pro Surfer

Rented this PS2 Game on the weekend. It has been out for about a year, and I never rented it because it always got bad reviews. Its in exactly the same vain (and dynamics) as Tony Hawk.
SHOULD HAVE RENTED/BOUGHT it sooner. Its awesome.
Included on the soundtrack of the game are Middle Man by Jack...and Faded by one Mr. Ben Harper !!! One of the surfboards you can use has a "Bullseye" and Hurley symbol on one side, and a painting of Ben playing a guitar on the other side. Sweet.
Needless to say, I'll be picking this game up off of Ebay.

Nice call on the Soft Canyon Warren. I like what I am hearing.
Currently listening to - Dave Matthews new solo effort, along with a bunch of "relaxed" Hip Hop ? Blackalicious...Ozomotli, some old school stuff like Arrested Development and some more modern Dub....Thunderball and Beat Down Sound.

Wondering whats goin on with B...

Soft Canyon

I promised I would always pass on good music when I heard it...so here is a tip on the old school psychedelic '70's rock trip. Try out the band Soft Canyon. Here is the link to their website which has a few MP3s. I am totally going to see them next time they play in the city.

Soft Canyon Website

All for now cats.

Baby Update

Dudes,

Hopefully soon. "We" are into pre-labour - contractions 5-8 mins apart, 1 minute in length. Will try to keep you posted.

Conference We Should All Attend

Please do read this in its entirety. Based on some of the emails we exchange, this might be able to help...

The 3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference

Have a good weekend boyz.

Moontower e-mail...

Otay... here's the scoop. I set up these e-mail addresses, and they are forwarded to your accounts that you used to register at blogger...

dubby@moontower.tk
wooderson@moontower.tk
slippy@moontower.tk

Lemme know if you want me to change anything. They might work right away or may take a day to register. Check you later!

Moontower it is!

Sounds like we are all on the Moontower bandwagon. To celebrate our selection, I (virtually) travelled to the beautiful island of Tokelau about 100 miles off the coast of Western Samoa, and registered our very own domain name. "How much?" you ask? Free, baby. Free.

So, our domain name is www.moontower.tk. Update your browsers. And if that wasn't enough, we also get e-mail forwarding! So let me know what you want your e-mail address to be (e.g. slippy@moontower.tk) and where you want it forwarded, and I will set it up!

Cheers, big ears!

Moontower all the way!

Here is my final words on The Moontower versus Number 3 debate. I think we should end Number 3's short but glorious career. But we shouldn't pull the plug. Let's just let the machines do the breathing for now. The plan could be not to put a permanent link to Number 3 on The Moontower, but rather link to it in a post when material is more appropriately posted there rather than on The Moontower. Dig?

As for the midwifey's prediction...B-Hutt could be B-Daddeo by tomorrow...well, I'll be ready to raise a mug of the sweet ale and chug one for health, chug one happiness and chug one for good looks, then let me know if Kirsten had the baby!

Colly, I think I have to backdoor the Norm and Cliff golf tourney later this month. I double booked with Ted Sheppard's housewarming. I'll call you this weekend.

Snoogins!

Slippin' into something more comfortable...

Well, Shhhheeeeeiit!

Wassup, boyz? I guess I will step down an' put in some fresh post. Not much goin' on as o' late. Have been tryin' t' work from my crib, but had t' go in today. Gots our midwife appointment tomorrow, an' midwife thinks da baby will come tomorrow prime time. As 4 da moontowa' vs. number3 shit, I will stick t' da moontowa' but will check number3 week-like plum in case. Will add some link 4 Wooderson.

I liked this story.
A place I would like to visit.
Another interesting museum.
Click here for a funny (non-work safe) image...

Baby on the way!

Sounds like the bambino has almost baked enough and is read to come out of the oven! Keep us posted!

As for the recent past...Great weekend fellas! Had a blast. And can't wait to do it all over again. You both owe me a bottle Crown (Special Edition!) and a 2 litre of 7 UP!

Is the Moontower going to be our regular hangout or Number 3? I think we need to decide, so that I don't have to check 2 blogs all the time. Cast your votes!

Has anyone watched Joe Schmo The Reality Show? This dude thinks he is in a Big Brother type show with all actor and directors and they script the thing so he is crying like a baby one minute and telling everyone that this is the best day of his life the next...fuck, it is so cruel, but really good to watch.

Over and out.

Baby Update

Well, here is the latest skinny. Wife is 2cm dilated, 50% effaced as of Monday. Midwife says that we will be having a baby no later than next Wednesday, when we see her again. Apparently, she is the master of the stretch and sweep technique, and assured us that if she does her magic next Wednesday morning, we will be in labour by the afternoon. Woah.

David Fincher to work on Lords of Dogtown

This could be a pretty cool movie. An actual movie, not documentary on Dogtown and the Z-Boys. Looks like David Fincher will be working with Roger Avery (Pulp Fiction/Rules of Attraction). Good combination to work on the script written by Stacey Peralta.
Rumour also has it they will be using unknown actors, although apparently Jason Lee is reading the script...
Could be cool.

Read the review here.

Interesting Blog...

This is a blog by a guy who use to run with a gang in Seattle. He's telling stories...

Weekend Bonanza

Well, the weekend is over. A good time was had by all...

I know who you are...

Game On!

Boyz. Saturday is a go. Collywog has decided to meet at my pad 'round 12-12:30pm, then the trek up to Camilse for 9 holes of pure, unadulterated golf. Dubs - you can do the same or meet us at the links. Upon completion of said round, we can return to my house for a quick clean-up, and then make the journey to the centre of sin: the T-Dot.

Whadaya think of them apples?

Dub-blog is here!

The Moon Tower...

This place used to be off limits man 'cause some drunk freshman fell right down the middle smacking his head on every beam man. Autopsy said he only had one beer...how many did you have?

You're dead man. You're so dead.

B, glad you started this blog thing. It could be really cool. Just got in from Amsterdam. I have loads of stories to tell. And websites to share, but I have to ask the blog master how much I can sweare when I type.

Check you later! Check you later!

Cool Links of the Day

Check out these links:

ASCII Movies - Movies seen through ascii text
Play Money - A guy trying to make a living by selling imaginery gaming goods for Ultima Online in the REAL world
Some Burning Man 2003 Festival pics...
T-shirts that suck - a classic
This is really REALLY weird... kinda loud, too (not work safe)

Check you later!

Rolly Joins the Ranks of Fatherhood

Thats right...Craig Neilans, recently married, proudly called me today to inform me that at 10:40 this morning (September 4th) he and Jen welcomed Olivia Neilans into the world. Weighing in at 8Lbs 11Oz, Olivia and mom are doing great and Craig is beyond thrilled to be a DAD. While Ethan was hoping to have a winger on the first line of the future Clams, he also likes the idea of having his first "girl-friend"...a friend who is a girl, thats it !
Brett, you're up next.
Tick Tock Tick Tock.

Dare to Compare!!!

I am sure I will give a more complete review on the weekend but while its fresh in my head, I thought I would give my 2 cents on Dave Matthews Band.
Ben Harper he is NOT. Having said that, the concert was AMAZING.
Best way I can describe it, is that the highs of the DMB show were equally (if not slightly higher) as that of a Ben show, BUT their were way too many gaps between the highs...and the lows, created mostly by 1-2 minute breaks between songs, actually prompting me to sit down a few times.
The opening song couldnt even touch Glory and Consequence, but his energy levels picked up through the night, with a few lulls, and his closer was on par with Faded>Whole Lotta Love>Faded as they busted out a 15 minute version of All Along the Watchtower. Awesome.
Dont get me wrong though, I would strongly suggest seeing Dave if you get a chance.

For a "real" review that I would agree wholeheartedly with see the Canoe Review.

I updated the format/template a bit. Hope you like...

Wow, Wooderson has quickly taken to the 'blogging thing! And, damn, that kid is cute. Good to see he is wearing his Canadian toque, eh!

So it looks like I have joined a health club. It is called, Cedar Springs, in the heart of good ol' Burlington. Got indoor tennis, so if Wooderson can keep his cussin' to a minimum, maybe we can get his ass out for a game one day.

Dubby's got a lot to catch up on. I voluntarily agree to not indulge in any alcohol, drugs, or engage in any other activity that may in any way jeopardize the years of hard work that we as a team have committed to a championship season in '76!

New Pics of Ethan

Uploaded a bunch of new summer pics of the boy last night. Have a look...

Ethans WebSite

Carlos Santana Sits at Last Night's Concert in Berkeley, CA

----- Saturday, August 16, 2003 -----
CARLOS SANTANA SITS AT LAST NIGHT'S CONCERT IN BERKELEY, CA
Carlos Santana made a surprise guest appearance last night to play guitar on "With My Own Two Hands/War" and "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)". Check out the photos, setlist and reviews in On The Road!

Ben Harper Channel Launches Video, Live Tracks and More!

Unreleased live Ben bonanza! See the new Ben video for Diamonds On The Inside in full-screen, television quality!

I havent bugged you guys with this yet, but you should check it out. If you email people about it, you are able to see more content. I am waiting for someone to downoad the entire collection and make it more easily downloadable...

The Ben Harper Channel

Yo yo Yo. Golf on! Tee off time is booked for 3 homeyz at 1:20pm on the 6th of September. The course? The beautiful 9 hole at Camisle, boasting gently rolling land, mature landscaped fairways, gardens and large greens. Washrooms are available.

Glad to be here...The older you get the more rules they are going to try and get you to follow.
You just gotta keep on livin man! L-I-V-I-N!

Welcome to the Moon Tower! Well, all I'm saying is that I want to look back and say that I did it the best I could while I was stuck in this place. Had as much fun as I could while I was stuck in this place. Played as hard as I could while I was stuck in this place. Dogged as many girls as I could while I was stuck in this place...