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The Czar

About Me

I was born in Canada. I was adopted. I know nothing about my biological parents other than I am part native indian. Metis, and Algonquin, I think. I was raised in Nigeria. That's in West Africa. Yup. It was cool. I learned to play drums there when I was 3, which means I've been playing drums for 31 years now. I have a lot of close friends, and a few best friends, and one wife. A lot of my close friends are in my friends list. My best friends are Mikey Dainjah, Trev, Jazz, and my boy Samaila who grew up with me in Nigeria. My wife, Priscilla, is in my number 1 friend spot for a reason. She's the closest and most important person in my life. I'm a Christian. While that means I'm a psycho right wing nut job to some of you; it actually means that I've simply chosen to try and live like Jesus Christ, by His guidance, every day of my life. Most of the time, I'm amazingly unsuccessful at it. So there.

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questions, truth, and the lack thereof....

It's been almost 6 months since the band was "released" from IWT. I find that I want to move past that phase of my life badly, but I can't. I've realized that there are some very deep-seated hurts the...
Posted by on Tue, 27 May 2008 00:01:00 GMT

where were you last night?

If you weren't at the Sprint Center in KC, then you weren't with Cilla and I, and you missed this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiYRy_rqfN4 Stewart Copeland, the drummer of the Police, has b...
Posted by on Wed, 14 May 2008 05:46:00 GMT

Canada apologizes to US

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uApZuZ6RPy4
Posted by on Fri, 02 May 2008 22:30:00 GMT

what I’m up to...

So it's been a little while since my last blog, which was focused on the recent unpleasantries between the band and IWT. I thought I'd drop a little update on everyone that is focused on some of the r...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:36:00 GMT

IWT cuts off Death & Desire

Dear Friends, Just a short while ago, I sent an email to IWT leadership giving them our response to the situation between Trevor and IWT. Many of you will know that Trevor was forced to resign just af...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:28:00 GMT

Daylight Saving Time & Headlining Shows

So the band played a show last night at Davey's Uptown. It was called the Donkey Show, and was a costume event in anticipation of Halloween. We were originally scheduled to open for a band calle...
Posted by on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:23:00 GMT

Oh the weather outside is frightful.....

So yesterday at work in a very hot warehouse, the decision was made to start the day at 7am today to try and get a jump on the hot weather.  So I'm here at work earlier than I like to be. But tha...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:54:00 GMT

Mark of the Lion

So I've just finished reading a series of books (kind of a trilogy, but not) by Francine Rivers called the Mark of the Lion. The first two books, Voice in the Wind and Echo in the Darkness, tell the s...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:24:00 GMT

Abortion/Adoption

So, abortion is quite the hot topic as always, and I stumbled on this pic on the net. It evoked a really heavy emotion in me. Being adopted hasn't really ever been an issue to me, as I have an incredi...
Posted by on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:29:00 GMT

Rockfest 2007

Here's some pics from Rockfest a couple weekends ago. Got to see Chevelle, AWESOME. Got to see Sevendust, AMAZING. Got to meet and hang out with Morgan Rose from Sevendust on their bus, INCREDIBL...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:35:00 GMT