Bionic Buddha

New Address

2008-04-13T20:40:00.003-05:00

We've moved and we have a new site. You can find our new blog at www.bionicbuddha.com/blog
See our new site at www.bionicbuddha.com
Please say hello and let us know you have come around.
Sorry we have been away, we have been busy constructing new and amazing things.

Spoilers

2007-10-27T19:25:00.000-05:00

I love spoilers. I read them when I see a movie AND especially when I don't. I won't go into the details of the new Saw IV movie, but the best and most detailed spoilers are on Wiki (no surprise).

Of interesting note is the new Saw IV movie in which Tobin Bell (Jigsaw) is shown to be DEAD. There is an autopsy scene in the trailer that shows him, cough cough, out of the picture (I so funny). Reader, I am not giving away anything here, it is in the trailer, please don't scream.

The obvious question is how they are going to produce another saw movie without Jigsaw. The easy answer is a prequel or that he has trained others in the Jigsaw method - meh, too straightforward. Here is the even better answer in a movie that prides itself on twists - wait for it - Jigsaw has a twin (gasp, yes it gets better).

Not only does he have a twin, he is one of three triplets. Three little Tobin Bells.

How do I know? Someone higher up on set was shooting off their mouth and a little bird overheard it.

There I said it.

Back in Black

2007-09-07T22:31:00.000-05:00

We're back after taking the summer off and we are preparing for our new fall lineup of shows. Sorry that the blog was also shut down but we needed the time off to recharge. Hope that our friends are still out there and haven't forgotten us. Now its time to kick out the jams muthafucka!

pogue mahone

2007-05-18T18:01:00.000-05:00

Our punk rock compere, Steve Stumble has a new episode of his show Stumblevision ready for your bewilderment. How has a guy that drinks so much managed to stay alive all these years?
This episodes features The Mahones and The Matadors. The Fro-man also writes on passed out drunk people. Reality TV at it's worst. See the show at the Stumblevision episode page or at the bionicbuddha.com homepage.

Bionic Beans

2007-05-01T17:52:00.000-05:00

Nearly a week after Hugh Grant allegedly assaulted a member of the paparazzi with a tub of baked beans, the incident is still being pored over by newspapers from Croatia to Karachi. It has featured prominently in the US and UK from tabloid spreads to op-ed pieces. It is even the subject of various online spoofs (including datelinehollywood.com's "Bean Farmers Burning Hugh Grant in Effigy").

“When you pick up a can of baked beans, you have a responsibility to understand the culture where it came from,” said Brazilian bean farmer Alejandro Cunha, just after he set fire to a giant “Music and Lyrics” poster. “This is worse than if he had spit in our faces. Or forced us all to watch ‘American Dreamz’ ten times in a row.”

In Brazil, the world’s leading producer of beans, a warrant has been issued for Grant’s arrest.

“Hugh Grant has offended the Brazilian people and bean farmers around the world,” said Brazil’s minister of beans Silas Costa. “We demand that the United Kingdom extradite him so that he can face justice.”

Personally I blame the beans. Just what were the "alleged beans" doing in a plastic box? Do the rich get them packaged differently? Have celebrities been quietly informed that tin is carcinogenic while the rest of us are left in ignorance lest the tomato and haricot markets collapse? If, as some reports have suggested, they were in a Tupperware container, are we to assume that Grant is either secretly poor, or cultivating a Howard Hughes-ish thrift that points to him turning gloatingly through his bank statements with filthy six-inch fingernails in a pile of his own filth?

s-faced

2007-04-24T20:53:00.000-05:00

There's a lot going on these days with Facebook. Everyone I know has joined. I tried to avoid it as much as possible but there's no denying that it has become ubiquitous. I have to admit that it is a great tool for networking and finding people. Having said that, is it poised to become the next white and yellow pages? Who needs a phone book when you can find old friends online and chances are you will, unless they are above the age of 40, live in a cave or live in Siberia. I am starting to see bands and businesses promote there as well, creating various groups to serve their needs. I think as soon as they allow postings for music and videos, Myspace and to a lesser degree, YouTube better start taking note and have reason to be afraid. You can find Bionicbuddha's beginings at the Mindbomb group. Then again, every jackass and their mother has some form of group on facebook, I mean why not start the Emo, everyone hates me cutters group? It may already exist.

Cameron Diaz: Lookin Pa Nub...

2007-04-02T18:44:00.000-05:00

So Camreon Diaz and Justin Timberlake ended their relationship earlier this year in January. For the number of relationships he has seen in the last few years, JT should be giving out frequent flyer points everytime he gives out his telephone number to a potential date.

Cameron Diaz fears she will be single for a long time after the split because "it's hard" finding love as a celebrity. Diaz has since been linked with a number of eligible bachelors, including surfer Kelly Slater , but she insists she needs time to get over the break up, and more time to find Mr. Right.

Diaz says, "I think it's hard out there. You don't fall in love every day, or with every person you meet. It's special. Our world is so complicated in that it does take a lot to make things work. But you can't be happy with someone else until you're happy with yourself." Thank you, Dr. Phil.

It would make it much harder not to feel sorry for Cameron, if she didn't have a scene where she dances around in her underwear in every single movie she is in.

Jet Set Trash

2007-03-29T21:09:00.000-05:00

We at bionicbudha.com and bionic films have worked on a number of eclectic projects in our brief history including a documentary on youth in the care of the Children's Aid Society in Canada that has been shown nation wide. I recently came across this funny 1950's public service announcement parody we made in our early years and thought I'd share it with you. It's called The Modern Man's Guide to the Jet Age Girl. It comes with a parental advisory as it gets nasty. Sort of. Enjoy.

They say it's your birthday

2007-03-23T10:23:00.000-05:00

Hey, hey, it's the birthday of bionicbuddha producer and Director, Dave D. Dave is an integral part of the bionicbuddha team. He is the production and technnical expert in television development. He has also had a very charmed life and has amazing stories to share. I have known dave for about a decade now and I thought that I had heard them all but he still manages to surprise me.

Happy Birthday Dave.

The Price is Right

2007-03-18T11:26:00.000-05:00

Bob Barker has a chance to win his 18th Daytime Emmy. It’s hard to believe that Bob Barker is 83 years old, but I suppose that is what plastic surgery, California living, and 3 hip replacesments can do for you. I also wonder how he has maintained his mental alertness, perhaps the vegetarian diet is his secret to longevity and mental health. Back in the day, when a contestant won a bonus $100 for getting a price exactly correct he used to have the ladies dig into his suit pocket for their prize. Bob has also been tainted with several law suits for sexual harassment of the prize models, so he is by no means a perfect citizen. However, with 6.1 million people a day tuning in, I say "let's get to the showprice - showdown !".
And don’t forget…SPAY AND NEUTER YOUR PETS!

Is that a threat or a promise??

2007-03-10T12:44:00.000-06:00

I have always been a bit of a fan of P.Diddy. He is a self made success story, able to achieve significant artistic and cultural influence within the context of a racial bias of "middle class America". His ambition, style and ability has emerged from the suburbs and urban centers of the US to launch a multifaceted global presence in the arenas of music, fashion, and entertainment. Perhaps that is why I am so interested in following this news story out of LA.

It seems Diddy has been sued by a man who alleges that the rap impresario attacked him at a pre-Oscars party last week. According to a Reuters report, Gerard Rechnitzer claims in a law suit filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court that Diddy pushed and punched him during the early-morning scuffle.

In the suit, Rechnitzer, 27, claims he and his girlfriend ran into Combs at the club Teddy's inside the Roosevelt Hotel in the early morning hours of February 25. When Rechnitzer returned from a trip to the bathroom, he found Combs talking to his girlfriend and when Rechnitzer approached, Combs, 37, yelled at him "in a threatening and ominous matter," according to the suit. Rechnitzer claims in the suit that after he approached Combs, the rapper/producer shouted an obscenity at him without provocation, leading Rechnitzer to warn his girlfriend that they should leave. That allegedly prompted Combs to yell at him, "I'll smack flames out your ass!," according to the Reuters report. It was at that point, the suit claims, that Combs "attacked, assaulted and battered" Rechnitzer, causing him "to fly backwards several feet" into a vehicle behind him. Combs then allegedly pushed Rechnitzer's girlfriend and attempted to spit on another female member of Rechnitzer's group, prompting Rechnitzer to call the police.

I generally give the benefit of the doubt in a lot of these nuissance lawsuits...particularly given the alleged insult from Diddy. I mean, "Flames out your ass"? I might expect this from Will Smith...but Diddy could do much better than that!!

justice for all

2007-03-08T20:32:00.000-06:00

There's a new video up on Vsides it's from Canadian indie metal band, Inner Surge. For those that don't know, Vsides is a bionicbuddha music video show that showcases videos from around the world that you normally may not get to see. We like supporting new talent and fresh ideas. You can see the video on our home page www.bionicbuddha.com or from the Vsides page for Inner Surge.
Enjoy.

How much do I have to pay you for that crap?

2007-03-04T14:18:00.000-06:00

I had my first expereince at a "real life" auction the other day and it was quite revealing. Upon first observation, I couldn't help but notice the particpants did not appear to be highly intelligent (although at first I was wondering if this was an ellaborate scheme to confuse the other bidders, in a kind of 'reverse psychology' behavioural finance emotive). Sadly, this did not seem to be the case when it became evident that one of the particpants did not realize the condition of sale policy was not quite as liberal as Walmart. I began to actually wonder how some of these people would find their way home...unless they all travelled together in one of the short busses.

It is difficult to compete in a quest to find a deal at an auction, when clearly the participants' access to capital, surpasses the value of the merchandise for sale as well as the collective brainpower of the particpants. Some people will buy anything at almost any price, in order to be the "winning" bidder. I could not believe that one individual walked away as the proud owner of a used "Tickle Me Elmo" doll.

The best deals of the night appeared to be the bulk purchase of a number of slightly flawed or used women's garments for less than 10 bucks total. Another shrewd bargain hunter walked away the proud owner of more 2007 desktop calendars than a stationary store, for a total of 5 dollars. The irony was that a senior member of the bionic buddha production squad felt he was getting a deal when he had bought 3 calendars for 3 dollars. At the end of the night, we had fun, which alone is worth more than the cost of the calendars. It was not the first time we have been outsmarted by a group of dullards...next time perhaps we should take the example from the photo above, just to level the playing field.

You and me and them

2007-02-25T19:05:00.000-06:00

The latest episode of Vsides is up at our main site, bionicbuddha.com. In this episode, our host, Edna M is wearing some pretty kick ass aviator glasses while introducing the video, Everyone Needs by the Sick Boys. This Canadian band has had a long standing friendship with bands like Rancid and The Dropkick Murphys. Check out the video from our homepage or the episode page for Vsides. Enjoy.

Quantum Flapdoodle - distortions of quantum physics to support a mystical viewpoint

2007-02-18T12:41:00.000-06:00

I recently watched a DVD entitled, “What The (Bleep) Do We Know!?”. The movie could best be described as a documentary style, pseudo scientific commentary interspersed with a series of short plot sequences to demonstrate the principles. Not only was the "scientific theory" grossly inaccurate, the special effects could approximate any "Doctor Who" rerun from the 1970s. The film's saving grace might have been Amanda, a deaf photographer (played by Marlee Matlin) who experiences her life from startlingly new and different perspectives. This was not enough to salvage the movie's detractions.

One thing that puzzled me was who were all the talking heads? These were the people who were talking about subatomic particles and alluding to alternate universes and cosmic forces, all of which were harnessed in the interest of making Ms. Matlin's character feel better about her thighs. Normally in a documentary, the experts are introduced when they first appear. But here they introduced them after the end of the film. I was amused to see the heavy-set blonde woman in the boxy red suit making the weird pronouncements in a funny accent was:

Ramtha

Master Teacher – Ramtha School of Enlightenment

Channeled by JZ Knight

The creators of the movie are stating as a fact, that one of the people you have been listening to for the previous 90 minutes, a main authority for the information being presented, is a 35,000 year old warrior spirit from Atlantis, being channeled by a housewife turned cult leader in Tacoma, Washington. The woman pictured is JZ Knight, but you are not listening to JZ Knight. You are literally listening to Ramtha. At this point the film lost any remaining pretence of being based on any kind of science or facts.

Here is some other detail on Ramtha:

Ramtha is a 35,000 year-old spirit-warrior who appeared in J.Z. Knight’s kitchen in Tacoma, Washington in 1977. Knight claims that she is Ramtha’s channel. She also owns the copyright to Ramtha and conducts sessions in which she pretends to go into a trance and speaks Hollywood’s version of Elizabethan English in a guttural, husky voice. She has thousands of followers and has made millions of dollars performing as Ramtha at seminars ($1,000 a crack) and at her Ramtha School of Enlightenment, and from the sales of tapes, books, and accessories (Clark and Gallo 1993). She must have hypnotic powers. Searching for self-fulfillment, otherwise normal people obey her command to spend hours blindfolded in a cold, muddy, doorless maze.

The film seems to be a propaganda piece for a cult.

Well, don't just take my word for it, investigate yourself...just don't rent the movie unless you are an insomniac (in which case this ninety minute movie may just be a "cure for what ails" and a lot cheaper than prescription drugs)!

Animal Attraction

2007-02-13T16:54:00.000-06:00

The other day I was involved in an engaging "battle of wits" in the form of a team trivia contest. When asked how we performed, I would prefer to dodge the question like a skillful defense attorney or seasoned politician might. Let me just say that our team may not have won "the war of the propeller heads", but we would have kicked some @#^ in a tournament of "rock, paper, scissors".

After being humiliated, we consoled ourselves at a public drinking establishment (at least then our shody performance in intellectual concerns could be rationalized). We decided that we were not so dumb, in fact it was the questions that were dumb. Here is an example:

Q. What does a crocodile or alligator swallow to help it do dive deep and stay underwater?

A. Steve Irwin....(ouch, bad joke) - even I thought that it was in poor taste

The real answer was stones. I have eaten some strange things in my time (I even licked a cactus once, because I lost a bet); but I would never consider eating a stone. I suppose diamond smugglers or drug dealers have been known to ingest the "odd bag" of rocks; however I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of any transaction involved in that sort of nonsense.

Here are some other strange animal trivia facts (please feel free to add your own in the comments):

1) 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year...maybe it's time to call Jenny Craig.

2) A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.

3) A capon is a castrated rooster. Ouch! Cock-a-doodle-do to you!

4) A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time. Don't try this at home.

5) A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't. But the monkey can get ready to go out in 20 minutes where the chimpanzee usually takes hours (just on the hair).

6) A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime. I wonder how much ice cream that would be?

7) A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time...And those eggs don't come "hard boiled" either!

8)A polecat is not even a cat; it is a nocturnal European weasel...And here I thought it was a European topless dancer.

9)A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second...That beats Peter Piper, anyday!

10)A zebra is white with black stripes.

We are your friends

2007-02-08T19:09:00.000-06:00

For those new to our blog, I wanted to explain who we are and what we are primarily. At bionicbuddha we make television shows and movies for portable multimedia devices, such as ipods and cell phones. I thought I'd make things easy and give you an example of what we do with an old episode of one of our shows called Distortions. In this episode, our host Jen uncovers some pretty interesting backwards messages in songs. Go to the television page of our main site, bionicbuddha.com for more episodes or different shows. For now enjoy.

SuperBowl

2007-02-03T16:58:00.000-06:00

Now a lot of people find one reason or another to cheer for one of these teams despite the fact that few us have any direct connections with the cities or teams. Some people cheer for the team that is most likely to win, perhaps because they have not acheived enough success in life or are just insecure. Other people prefer the "cinderella story" or the underdog.

As for myself, I cheer for whatever team has the most criminals playing on the roster. Football is a sport which seems to operate with its own criminal code of justice. Criminal behavior and its causes have long been debated by scholars and laymen alike. Is it born or learned behavior? Nature or nurture? While there are many theories, answers are hard to come by. I personally don't give a crap. All I know is there are a ton of shady characters in the NFL, and they have provided the opportunity to compile an All-Criminal team for the ages. On this list there will be no Honorable Mention. Here is a top 10 list of convicted felons who were all professional football players at one time or another:

O.J. Simpson - RB
The Juice is an obvious choice, so we won't spend much time with his legal qualifications for this team. Double-murder, here's your jersey.

Lawrence Phillips - RB
Arrested too many times to count, a washout in both the NFL and the CFL, Phillips has finally found a team that will take him. Young Lawrence, well... he has women problems. He knows more about battery charges than the manufacturers of DieHard and the Energizer bunny combined. He's beaten every girlfriend he ever had and once punched a woman in the face after she refused to dance with him at a Miami night club. While at Nebraska, in what may be his most famous carry, he was accused of breaking into his ex's room, dragging her by the hair down three flights of stairs, and jacking her head against a mailbox, which also earns him a nomination for the All-Caveman Team.

Rae Carruth - WR
Guilty of the most heinous crime in the history of the NFL (remember, OJ was acquitted), Carruth is an obvious choice. He orchestrated the execution-style murder of his pregnant girlfriend because she refused to have an abortion. While he only got into the end zone four times in his short career, you can rest assured that this wideout has been on the receiving end of numerous scoring drives since arriving in state correctional facilities, most of which were led by a couple of guys with swastika tattoos.

Barret Robbins - OL
Previously best known for disappearing the night before Oakland's Super Bowl thrashing in 2003, Robbins trumped that the following year by attacking three police officers who, being armed, shot him twice in the chest. Police reports indicate that even after being shot Robbins continued to attack the officers, which is just the kind of spunk we need on this team. The good news is that Robbins survived his wounds. The bad news is that he is facing three counts of attempted murder of a police officer.

Nate Newton - OL
Newton was a shoe-in for this team when he got busted in Louisiana with 213 pounds of marijuana after being pulled over for a traffic violation (who breaks traffic laws with a van full of drugs?), but then he made a serious case to become a team captain six weeks later when, while out on bail, he got busted again. This time it was 175 pounds of marijuana in the trunk of his car. One thing's for sure - when it's fourth and long, we know ol' Nate is down to 'go for it'.

Justin Strzelczyk - OL
Aside from only having one vowel in his last name (not counting "y"), Strzelczyk also had only one great defining moment. After a hit-and-run accident in New York, police chased his pickup 40 miles, during which Strzelczyk flipped off troopers and at one point threw a beer bottle at them. In the end, Strzelczyk crashed head on at 90 miles per hour into a tanker truck carrying corrosive acid, leaving an explosive scene police compared to an airplane crash. Strzelczyk didn't make it out alive, he did, literally, go down in a 'blaze of glory', and you gotta respect that. And for those concerned, the driver of the tanker escaped with only minor injuries.

Lawrence Taylor - LB
Went from cracking heads to crack head in record time. In his now infamous "60 Minutes" interview, Taylor claimed to have spent thousands of dollars a day on narcotics and to have hired prostitutes to go to opponents' hotel rooms the night before games. He's had numerous drug related arrests along with a tax evasion charge. Regarding his lifestyle in the late 1990s Taylor described his home as "like a crackhouse." I guess home is where your heart is.

Alonzo Spellman - DL
Spellman is the only member of this team to have been charged with terrorizing passengers on a commercial flight and forcing an emergency landing. According to investigators, once on the ground Spellman told the pilot "I am about to rip your throat out." Add to the mix weapons charges, a standoff with police from inside his publicist's home and the usual DUI and failure to appear charges, and you've got a starting D-lineman.

Mark Gastineau - DE
Assault, drug possession and woman-beating (burned a girlfriend with a cigarette lighter) are some of the charges he's faced. Repeated parole violations led to 11 months in Riker's Island prison. He admitted to using steroids while he played for the Jets. After his football career, he got into boxing. He finished with a 15-2 record and widely circulated reports that he was involved in fixed fights.

Jim Dunaway - DE
Charged with murder in the death of his former wife, Dunaway is the unpublicized OJ Simpson (and, in fact, was a teammate of The Juice in Buffalo for three seasons). Prior to her death, she had won a divorce judgment that gave her more than 800 acres the couple owned, $1,800 a month in alimony and half of Dunaway's NFL pension. A grand jury assigned to the case did not indict him ("if you didn't see them fight, you must not indict"). His kids then sued him in a civil suit and won. That doesn't mean he did it. Um.

Better Luck Dead

2007-01-28T20:09:00.000-06:00

Hey everyone, Dave from bionicbuddha sent a submission to 102.1 The Edge's YouTube challenge. For those outside Toronto and Ontario, Canada, CFNY/The Edge is a popular alternative terrestrial radio station. Here's the synopsis for the video he submitted, "Clint Handsome Slick is both a womanizer & renegade cop that never learned the rules. Ladies and Criminals don't have a chance when 'Slick' is on the case. Danny Pistano is the Chief - although Slick is a thorn in his side, he can't argue with his results. Slick's first movie, is called 'Better Luck Dead' or subtitled, H is for Handsome.
Show some support and check out his submission:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paMPvMFhPa8

synchronicity

2007-01-25T21:01:00.001-06:00

I used to be fascinated by synchronicity in my life…it has always been there but I had started putting it out of my mind until recently when a friend of mine told me about something that just happened to him. Out of respect I can’t share his story but will tell you one of my own after helping clarify what synchronicity is in the context that I mean it. The Penguin English Dictionary defines it as the coincidence in a person’s life of two or more events which seemed to be linked in significance but which have no causal connection. Here are some examples I found on the internet:

“On Nov. 8, 1979, my brother came for dinner. He drops in for a surprise visit every four or five years, and on this occasion he wanted to hear about our trip to Scotland. I mentioned ospreys which breed at Loch Garten. Immediately afterwards my wife turned on the TV where a nature film had just begun. It was about ospreys and their life and breeding near Loch Garten.”

“On July 31, 1985, I was reading a textbook on anatomy and physiology in connection with a back injury, and I got the idea to measure my height, possibly to see if I had shrunk in the joints. Last time I measured my height was 2 years earlier. Less than two hours later the main character in a Swiss movie on TV had his height measured by some doctors.”

Ok, so here’s my story…it actually prompted me to start a book that I’ll never finish:

About three years ago, an old friend living in Detroit phoned me unexpectedly, I was listening to the song Deathwatch by Art Bergman. He began telling me about a dream his cousin, Alexia recently had that prophesized my death. She made him call me. I pissed my pants laughing and ridiculed the poor bastard to death. Four days following that, I received another phone call. I heard that Alexia’s mother passed away, very unexpectantly. Her brother, Nick and I had always been childhood friends but lost touch throughout the years. At the funeral, following the proceedings, Nick came over to me and said, “Alexia told me about the dream she had where you passed away, and then our mother dies. I thought to myself, so? There’s no connection there, and then I remembered something…Happy Birthday, he said. His mother died on my birthday, the exact hour I was born.

Life is mysterious, I haven’t decided if it’s fate or coincidence yet.

enter sandman

2007-01-21T19:16:00.000-06:00

My name is Iggy, I am one of the guys that works in production at bionicbuddha.com and v5tv.com. Dreams, I want to talk about dreams. A married co-worker once told me that she had a dream where she saw me standing on a hill and was calling my name and as she ran towards me we were being shot at, she then proeceeded to tell me that we had to twirl around to fly away together. I later discovered (through someone into dream symbolism) that it was in actuality a romantic dream...we were being chased and shot at because she was entertaining the thought of doing something wrong. The flying away bit was a dream about freedom...escaping her marriage. Don't worry, I'm not a creep, nothing became of it. My roomate also told me about this dream he recently had where we were being chased by vampires through the halls of our home, in his dream he told me that we had to wear bras to protect us from the vampires. He didn't say if there was garlic in them or not. I'm not homophobic and I'm not sure what his dream implied but I really didn't want to parade around in women's underwear if that's what he was hinting at wanting.
Peace.

Regina Monologues

2007-01-15T21:35:00.000-06:00

Who knew it, but apparently Regina Spektor is a huge Rewired fan who has a not-so-secret crush on show host, David (Professor) Brown. Spektor was quoted as saying, “I watch Rewired, it seems better and hipper than most stuff on television. It seems code lingo saturated. I’m so in love when I watch Mr. Brown’s word morphing and it comes across like a Japanese cyber-punk haiku.”
In response, Mr. Brown was quoted as saying, what can I say, that that broad has great lips…by the way did you know that Dr. Harvey Kellog intended his first breakfast cereal to be an antidote for masturbation?”
You can catch Professor Brown on The Late Show with Craig Ferguson next week and on the March cover of Kerrang! Magazine.
Watch Rewired here.
Peace.

fat boy slim

2007-01-07T21:14:00.000-06:00

Well, the new punk show Stumblevision is up at our home sites, bionicbuddha.com and v5tv.com. The new show is a departure from our usual fare. Our host Steve Stumble (former Sick Boys lead man), travels North America filming his adventures, think of it as punk rock reality TV with heart. In Rolling Stone magazine, Lester Bangs once wrote how impressed he was by Stumble's non-stop consumption of Irish whiskey and Guiness and that he found the Sick Boy quite charasmatic. See for yourself in our new show. Click the image above or here to watch episode 1.
Peace.

The Damaged Justice Tour...2007 Style!

2007-01-03T19:05:00.000-06:00

A man died after a scuffle on a city transit bus had been in a heated argument with youths about the rock band Metallica. A 15-year-old witness testified at a preliminary hearing into Stefan Conley's death that the 35-year-old had told the young people they had no taste in heavy metal music. Conley, who was originally from Cookshire, Que., then got angry when one of the teens he ridiculed undid his belt and a top button in an invitation to perform a sex act on him, the witness said. Conley, who stood 5 feet 11 inches and weighed 198 pounds, got up and grabbed the youth. The teen yelled at the older man and told him to get away from him. Three other teens then jumped up and began punching Conley and yelling at him to leave their friend alone. The punches were "hard punches, giving it all they got." Four teens are charged with manslaughter and are in youth court for a preliminary hearing to determine if there is enough evidence to send the case to trial. The attack on Conley lasted about 10 seconds and the youths stopped punching him once he let go of their friend. The witness said Conley appeared dazed, but was still standing when the punching stopped. The four youths got off the bus, but one stopped to shove Conley as he left. The passenger testified the burly man fell backwards and struck his head on the edge of a bus seat before sliding sideways to the floor. A witness said he heard a crunching sound when Conley hit his head. Conley then started making a loud snoring noise. The witness also told defence lawyer Ed O'Neill the four teens he saw punched Conley, but at no time did they kick him or stomp on his head. The witness said he was surprised to hear the next day that Conley had died because he didn't think he had been that badly hurt. It is not an uplifting news story at all, but certainly something to take note of. I would not want to get into any kind of a music appreciation with teenagers about the merits of Slayer...talk about "Enter Sandman"!!

The Governator

2006-12-26T15:38:00.000-06:00

With Rocky donning the boxing gloves and dancing around the ring like it was 1976, media attention has turned to other aging mega super stars to find out newsworthy events which happened recently.

Another former action hero of yesteryear (now turned California Governor) has fractured his right femur while skiing with his family in Sun Valley, Idaho, during the weekend. Arnold Schwarzenegger underwent a 90-minute operation in which cables and screws were used to wire the broken bone back together. Arnold could be heard yelling, "I'll be back" (somewhat reminiscent of his role in Terminator), while under heavy medication and being rushed into surgery.

"Luckily any Collateral Damage from the accident was contained better than his movie of the same title. ," said Dr. Kevin Ehrhart, who performed the operation at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, and also repaired former President Reagan's broken hip in 2001.

Officials have not said which trail the governor was skiing at Sun Valley when he broke his leg. The resort has a black diamond trail dubbed "Arnold's Run" in honor of Schwarzenegger. The resort is considering renaming the bunny hill "Last Action Hero". Best Wishes to Arnold for a speedy recovery...maybe Stallone could give him some training tips?