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NEWSBOY

I pistol whipped a DJ once.......

About Me

I spend most of my time talking about other people, places, things and events, so it's tough to talk about me even for about a paragraph or two.I'm a young radio news guy, working in Calgary for the brand new http://www.X929.ca . Your new favorite radio station. You can check in with me weekday afternoons with co-host Josh Holliday.Grew up on a farm in Saskatchewan, and prior to getting behind the mic I've been a farmer, a truck driver, a lumber yard guy, a mover and a furniture delivery man. I've lived in more towns than I care to remember, and I've been across the pond here and there too.You probably know me as the guy who explains stuff, I'm the guy who tells you whats going on in the world, why, and how it's affecting you.What do I do when I'm not infront of a microphone or a newspaper or a computer?It's all about music, movies, camping,cars, road trips, guitars, books and above all else... getting out and living.

My Interests

music movies girls cars history alternate points of view satire the truth tattoos or any non-boring forms of artwork travelling media

I'd like to meet:

Strombo Peter Mansbridge Dr. Dre Stephen Harper (yeah, that guy) Johnny Rotten Ryan Adams The Queen The Pope Jack Daniels Bob Dylan Anderson CooperThe Sex Pistols...Pretty Vacant

Music:

The Misfits Rancid Ryan Adams Queens of the Stone Age Eagles of Death Metal The Clash The Sex Pistols The Ramones Soundgarden Stone Temple Pilots Beck The White Stripes Iggy Pop David Bowie Social Distortion Elvis Chuck Berry Dr. Dre Jimi Hendrix The Beastie Boys Pearl Jam Nirvana NOFX Grady Motorhead Metallica Sam Roberts The Trews Rage Against the Machine Audioslave GNR Black Flag The Violent Femmes Gram Parsons The Replacements

Movies:

Spaghetti Westerns Tarrantino The Outsiders Apocalypse Now Repo Man Boogie Nights Oliver Stone Breakfast at Tiffanys Kubrick Men at Work The Untouchables The Godfather 1 and 2

Television:

The Hour The National Trailer Park Boys The Daily Show The Colbert Report 24!!! Magnum PI The A-team Family Guy Anderson Copper 360

Books:

Choke The Outsiders Why Shoot the Teacher The Night We Stole The Mounties Car Paranoia On the Road Fear and Loathing

Heroes:

Those Who Came Before Bob Dylan Strombo

My Blog

3 nights, 3 Concerts, 3 fashion shows

Social D friday and saturday, and Interpol Sunday night. First of all, I've been a pretty massive Social D fan for a while, and I was not let down by back to back shows at Mac hall this weekend. Noth...
Posted by NEWSBOY on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:39:00 PST

Damn You G.I. Joe!!!!

  And I don't mean that because I'm actually Cobra Commander in disguise, although wouldn't that be cool? Actually, being Destro would be cool, because then I'd get a badass castle in Scotland, ...
Posted by NEWSBOY on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:46:00 PST

Bands, continued....

Here's something I stumbled across...which likely has a lot to do with the lack of bands in Calgary, or at least a long the same line.   Calgary Artists Want More Visual And Performance Art Spac...
Posted by NEWSBOY on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:16:00 PST

Bands

Why is it that no one wants to start good bands anymore? I peruse the musicians wanted classifieds on craigslist, ffwd, myspace etc, and all I see are metal guitarists looking for bands to play "syste...
Posted by NEWSBOY on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:00:00 PST

Princesses

http://www.mysanantonio.com/salife/stories/MYSA031107.1P.pri ncess.craze.216bea8.html Leave it to the marketing guru's at Disney to take something innocent and spin it out of control. Is it just me, o...
Posted by NEWSBOY on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 02:37:00 PST

Green Sex and Social Distortion

....that is NOT the name of a co-headlining bill coming to Calgary, more what is headlining my mind right now. First of all, one of my favorite bands of all time, Social Distortion is making a stop i...
Posted by NEWSBOY on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:32:00 PST

Newsboyness

I want to make a newsboy comic. There's a problem though....I can't draw. Can anyone help me? It will be a collaboration that could change the face of literature FOREVER!!!
Posted by NEWSBOY on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:10:00 PST

XPOSURE....AND OTHER DELIGHTS

Well my friends, it was been a while since the last time I wrote anything here, so i ought to write something about a few really big developments around the X. First of all, I got my hair cut...no......
Posted by NEWSBOY on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:25:00 PST

Things I'm glad about....

Things I'm Glad I am  A born and raised Saskatchewan boy a boy....(because seriously, from what I understand, being a woman is hard work...thank you god for giving me man parts and a man brain.) ...
Posted by NEWSBOY on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:10:00 PST

Bands, The RV, Dollinger, and Roller Girls.

It's been quite the week at X. First of all, I've been crammed into the RV all week with Josh, which sometimes presents it's challenges, but it's also forgiven when he interviews college girls here at...
Posted by NEWSBOY on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:42:00 PST