Monday, February 14, 2011

My Bloody Valentine



Slasher classic shot in Sydney Mines, NS in 1981...butchered by the MPAA and the lost scenes were well...thought lost until the producer found them while cleaning out the closet in his office. Re-released due to the 2009 remake (Which could have been alot worse...good 3D) which goes to show you if there is a highly anticipated remake/ re-imagining on the way, Hollyweird, in this case Paramount (Should be called Cashamount for all the DVD re-releases they have done...) will find things thought lost...all in the name of $$$...



It was another classic that i saw for the first time around 1986..rented it from the Dairy Bar in the Passage and i thought it was awesome..all the Canadian accents and all of the Moosehead product placement and the Nova Scotia scenery helped as well as the creepyness of the mine and the killer had an awesome miner outfit (Something the remake didn't screw around with...thank God)


A real slasher classic..i rate it up there with Freddy, Jason, Leatherface and Michael Myers (From Halloween...not the actor...) A good way to spend this depressing day...

From the Heart Comes a Warning With Bloody Good Cheer...Watch Out as the 14th Draws Near!

Friday, February 11, 2011

Black Sabbath @ The Montreal Forum: October 21, 1983



Hard to believe that there is not any other footage floating around of Sabbath's Born Again tour, their only tour with singer Ian Gillan..this night at the Montreal Forum back in 83 is said to be the only known tour footage...they were supposed to play at the Halifax Metro Centre as well as Moncton, but it is said that the concert was cancelled due to the stage set being too damn big..or some crazy BS like that...

Here is the setlist from that night

Children of the Grave
Hot Line
War Pigs
Disturbing the Priest
Supernaut
Rock 'N' Roll Doctor
Iron Man
The Dark -ZeroThe Hero
Heaven and Hell
Digital Bitch
Black Sabbath
Smoke on the Water 
Paranoid 



Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Robbblogs: More Random Questions...

Here is some more random questions as answered by Old Man Robb...

1) What was your favourite video game to play as a child? The Atari 2600...was marvelling like mad at this new video game thing back around 1982...little did i know how these video games would turn out nowadays...


2)Are you good at chess? ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzz...i used to play with my grandmother once in awhile

3)Should Marijuana be legalized? Don't we have enough dopers in this town?


4)Would you rather watch a movie at the theatre or at home? Well...if they had more flicks that i wanted to see in theatres besides the latest CGI crapfest..i miss the drive-in, but to be honest alot of crapfests play there too...miss the old drive-in days...


5)Do you have any relatives in jail? There are some that should be...

6)What is your favourite midnight snack? Well i know my favourite Acadia U morning snack used to be cold pizza n beer


7)Do you like soda or pop? Aren't they the same thing?

8)Would you rather watch basketball or hockey? Whatta silly question..do i like hockey? Well i like Air hockey, Ball hockey, Barn Hockey, Bubble Hockey, Field hockey,

Floor hockey, Ice hockey, Kitchen hockey, Road hockey,Roller hockey, Table hockey, Twist hockey
And I play hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey,
hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey,hockey all the time!

 
9) Where is a good place to go on a date? Bowling and Joe's Food Emporium..
 


10)Why is Friday The 13th considered unlucky? How would you feel if some psychopath was after you wearing a hockey mask? Personally i thought ol Jason was a little creepier in the burlap sack from Friday The 13th Part 2...


11)What is the deal with Chicken McNuggets? What part of the chicken are they from? They are from this...


12)Where's the egg in an egg roll? I dunno... but i do know that the donair egg-rolls are in Berwick and they rock!


13)What is your favourite punk rock album? The Ramones self-titled debut and the Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks...its a tie


14)Do you ever get embarrassed in public? Im the one usually doing the embarrassing


15)What is your worst dating experience? The time i took a gal to a restaurant in Kentville that shut down since...the chicken cordon blue took about an hour and it was like the size of a McNugget and the guitar player behind me kept singing “You Having My Baby” in my ear and did not know the cords to “Stairway to Heaven” and my tab was insane...


16)How do you generally spend your weekends? GO AXEMEN GO!!!


17)What's the most bravest thing you've ever done? Go Overseas...


18)When is the last time you ever went to a party? Barry and Michelle's Halloween Party


19)Name one good thing about Facebook- Reconnecting with old friends

20)What is your biggest regret in life? Hmm...if one dwells on the past too much they will drive themselves bonkers..many things i think about..a silly one is i wish Dad would have gotten posted to Greenwood in 1988 instead of 1990...i would have gotten out of school quicker.. i wish i had not left Acadia in 2005...sometimes done this and done that..but some of these things happened for a reason and i think for the most part it was for the best..don't be angry that some of this stuff is over, if it is a good memory, be happy that it happened. :)

Tuesday, February 08, 2011

The BIG 500th Post

Wow...roll out the cake and the Dr Pepper i guess....Robbblogs...The Confessions of Old Man Robb is finally celebrating its LONG overdue 500th post...i was thinking to myself this post would have came alot sooner than it did..sitting in the Sub, at Perkins back in 2004 and wanting to spout off about life and so Robbblogs was born..500 posts ago... Why was it born? There were things that i wanted to say at the time, things i wanted to get off my mind that were on my mind...that necessity to find that happy place or just a place...somewhere... so to speak where i could really let it out what the hell it was that i was thinking about...

I remember it was fairly simple..i was ready to be interviewed by a friend at the time for the Ath (The Acadia Student Newspaper) after my year at Mount A...and it was going to be a timely interview as well because Mount A was beating Acadia in those MacLeans Canadian University rankings and we had questions set and everything..it was going to be talking about the differences between Acadia and Mount A and well everything from classes to student life in residence was going to be addressed...and at a personal level too, not some corporate shrill talking about campus life and how oh yeah blab blab blab you will love it here or there...why BS people? However if you tell them the truth about stuff then there is that chance that they are going to go somewhere else instead...

Well her moron of an editor put a stop to it and said it was going to be a bashing interview, nobody would want to read it...blab blab blab...just a bunch of bs... that combined with the fact that Acadia U had no radio station at that point in time left me frustriated...especially after having a great year on CHMA up at Mount A w/ Assume The Position... i found i had alot of pent-up frustriation happening and i just wanted an outlet to say what it was that i wanted to say at that particular point in time...i guess the best way to do such a things was to show my frustriations was to show my emotions through writing on here...all too often i have kept many things to myself and its not healthy to do that...it builds and it builds and it builds...sometimes though one has to say what is one their mind and other people aren't going to like it...perhaps that is why one keeps to themselves..it keeps their family..their friends and their reputation...


Alot has changed since that day in Oct of 2004....went to Acadia U that year...took time off to be with my ailing father whom passed on in June of 2006 (RIP Dad)...went to Japan in 2007...S Korea in 2008 and i worked the whole time i was home as well...at Andrews and at Acrobat..there was an attempt to move to Kentville last summer and that didn't turn out as planned,..also something i worked every hard to get was stolen away from me by some coward who can't admit or face up to what he did...something he will never achieve in this lifetime..my body of work was sold out probably for a quick fix and that eats at me..something that my late Father gave me is gone forever..i hope that person can live with himself...nuff said about that.....however the best news was that in October of 2009 i made my return to Acadia U through Open Acadia and now i am presently working on recieving my TESOL Teaching License..almost done part 2 and going forward...imagine if Robert Reid Hawley becomes a licensed ESL Teacher...it will happen...just like Messier saying back in 1994 before facing the Devils "We Will Win"....

Do alot of people read this blog? Im not too sure...the stats say that people must...rarely do i get comments as i figured stuff that i would say would definitly stir up the ol pot so to speak...not just saying them for the sake of saying them, but because that is what was on my mind at that particular point in time..i do however get lots and lots of Spam..back to what it is about what i have to say... now is it the truth? Perhaps it is the truth to me...might not be the truth to other people, or the fact that they just do not wanna hear it and they really don't want some blue collar guy like me telling the truth, telling people how it is...Don Cherry does that every Saturday night...not everyone agrees with Grapes.. but like everyone else he has a right to say what is on his mind...maybe it is like Jack Nicholson in that "A Few Good Men" movie..."You can't handle the truth!" Or maybe what in my own whacked out mind that i percieve to be the truth...


Im more than just the dude who goes on and on about the virtues of Colt 45 and about his Axemen football and hockey games...im a dude who is slowly, surely, taking the time to get it right (Remember thos Keith's commercials?) Im the guy who is biding his time and will eventually get what i want..i will become a certified ESL teacher...consider my path to be someone like Axl Rose and Chinese Democracy...or maybe closer to Brian Wilson and Smile to be honest... i am not perfect and nor do i intend to be..i am just me... good ol Old Man Robb and this is my safe haven...feel free to visit whenever..or don't..i will still write and spout off about God knows what..whatever is on my mind...i know it might be what you want to hear and you may answer what i want to hear, but i will defend to the end your right to say it...just leave me that same courtesy...

Enough ranting for now...i have an assignment to finish and off to work i go....

Happy 500th Robbblogs

PS- Was going to save the above collage pic for the BIG "40th" but i was so happy with my work i left it here for ya all to see..frown upon..whatever... :)

Sunday, February 06, 2011

I Am Here...Kinda...

Whoa...where does Old Man Robb even begin to start? Well folks its been awhile..i've been busy out conquering the world...well trying to anyways...got my mark back for my second assignment for my linguistics course and lo and behold Ol Robbo made 84%...now that is down 2 marks from my first assignment, but seeing as how i am working full time and still managed an A-...that feels pretty good to me to be completely honest with ya all... I am now on Chapter Nine and within the next day  i be starting Assignment #3 and then onto the Final Chapter and that will be it for this part of my course...i think i am on my way...i think i am... and this Final Chapter will turn out alot better for me than it did for Jason back in 84...


An A- is not all that bad folks...i don't know where some of these morons are getting their information about "Oh Robb..your slipping!" I mean for crying out loud...it's an A-!!!! I would have shot someone to get one of these back in the day! Of course many people think back to what was before...what i was like when i was in residence and attending Acadia U...some people get the past confused with the present...

How does an A- reflect your performance...straight from the source...

A- Excellent 84%

An excellent grade in a course or on an assignment is given for a response that demonstrates a thorough knowledge of relevant concepts. The response is largely complete in its content and clearly presented. However, some minor aspect of the assignment which may pertain to content or effective communication is lacking....

Something was lacking...but it's ok folks really...i will take the A- and run... :)

Today i answered a questions about social stratification and diglossia, what i answered is that social stratification is one's identity. What is one's background? It is the way that people are seen as identified by their background and their social class. There are many factors that play into this such as family heritage, a peron's occupation and the material possessions they may have. Money can seperate the classes, we have high and low class and or upper, middle and lower classes of people. You do not have to be a sociologist to figure out the differences between social classes or differences in education. In my experience i have seen social class differences play a role in applying for jobs, family background also plays a role in regards to employment, whom does one take for a position? The person from lower classes who has an A average or the person who's family has contributed a great deal of money to that business or institution?


Diglossia can be described as a laguage difference where there are two different kinds of language that manage to exist as standards in the community. One class is latter as signified by an H to signal high and the other is former as signified by an L to signal low. High is formal speech used by newspapers, sermons and speeches and lower is everyday conversation between family and friends, language that would be heard on the television and the radio. The former reflects the everyday feelings of the people, what people are really thinking and how they would like to express that. It is a more effective way of communicating when it comes to conversation. There is such a thing as talking over people's heads..as it said in the readings when it came to specialized language, how people in one class would speak to another another, they must have the ability to style shift, to go from formal to informal so that they can keep a conversation from one class to another.

Could always be worse off folks...i could be that stuff that Taco Bell is trying to pass off as being meat these days...I don't go into a taco bell expecting real food of any sort, or any fast food establishment. Why make a big deal about common knowledge? Taco Bell's meat filling looks like ground beef before and after cooking, but it has been augmented with fibers and other substances to keep the price low...
Besides...WTF ever happened to Taco Bell in the Valley? It used to be in Greenwood and i believe Coldbrook w/ KFC...


Speaking of trying something different with good ol food, today me and Justin went over to good ol Nictaux to the recently opened Saltspray Cafe (Formerly B&G Grocery) and i tried "Steve-O's Peanut Butter Burger" and ya know what? The darn thing wasn't that bad to be honest, not something i am going to run out of the house to have again anytime soon..but it was good, the waitresses are very friendly and kept returning with refills of freshly brewed coffee and made it a total PB day by finishing it off with a slice of Peanut Butter Pie...


Sadly this was at 12:30 this afternoon and i still have no room in the ol tummy..leaving the wings still in the freezer and not in the fryer and well the ol Colt 45 is still up in the fridge... but im sure it will soon make an appearance as game time approaches...


Last Sunday i made a spontanious road trip to good ol Hfx...made the mistake of having a Red Bull on top of a Tims...never doing that one again as Old Man Robb was pretty wired on the way into the city and blasting Q-104 as i entered Hfx... I went to see Sue The Dino at the Museum of Natural History and it was neat to see something that was living at one time and roaming the ol Earth...i guess she was found over 20 years ago in South Dakota and according to the article i read she is 90 percent complete, none of the other 30 known skeleton dinosaurs in the world are as complete as Sue is...


And last Sunday i also finally bought The Alice Cooper Show on CD...i had the cassette for years, i remember purchasing the tape in the mid 80s at the record store that used to be downstairs at Mic Mac Mall..i remember buying quite a few tapes from there and from that particular bargain bin as well... of course this Halloween is the supposed release date of Alice's Welcome To My Nightmare Part II...a sequel some 36 yrs in the making...


Does anyone know the deal about Carey Price's and PK Subbin's secret handshake? Just asking...


I also just found out today that on April 28th UCW is presenting a big card of wrestling at the Halifax Forum and on hand to greet fans and sign autographs and take pics will be Jerry "The King" Lawler and The Million Dollar Man Ted Dibiase!!!!! I wish i still had my VHS copy of Madmen, Maniacs and Lunatics for the King to sign...im so taking that day off...


Of course my Axemen just keep winning..two games in a row on their recent road trip to New Brunswick and have now clinched a playoff spot with three games remaining in the regular season.


What a mess in Egypt where people are rioting in the streets to protest the 30 year reign of President Hosni Mubarak..he is going to resign, but wants to wait it out for another seven months until his so-callled term is over..why wait? People are clashing in the streets..your supporters are fighting with your protestors...gangs are looting up the place, im sure tourism is going to be just grand..11 people are dead..over 900 injured..i see it on CNN and its just sad...concrete, firebombs and metal being fired at people...men charging people on camels and horses.. there is speculation that Mubark is setting up his son for succession (See North Korea...) but this is opposed and according to leaks is not meeting the approval of the Egyptian military...
Does Obama have to step in? Cops killing people, people killing cops...just leave office Mubarak..let go of your hold of power because your people are upset..they don't have jobs and now they don't have peace...just let it go ...and go
What a frickin mess...


On the plus side..it is Superbowl Sunday...i haven't followed the NFL as much this season as i have in previous years..but like the rest of North America i will be watching tonight..my own personal Superbowl party watching it on the big screen in the dungeon where no fairweather fans are going to come over, eat my food, babble all during the game etc etc...none of those awesome commercials..shitty band at halftime..blab blab


On the plus side...another six or so months and Axemen Football will be back on the field :)



Have a good one folks!