Posted in Dave Babych, tagged Boston Bruins, Dumpster Diving, eBay, Joe Thornton on January 29, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Thursday at the Zone is meeting day. We all get together for a healthy dose of company ra-ra. Today, it was discovered that Zone music director David Eleanor has a new passion, Dumpster Diving.
SWA? David Eleanor talks about why he was in the Zone’s Dumpster
Posted in Dave Babych, history 101, tagged A Morning, Astrid Braunschmidt, Eric Thompson, Maggie Cox, Movember, The Zone @ 91.3 on January 9, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Nice.
Webmeister Bud chopped up the Movember saga with A Morning for a little video on the Zone’s website.
Posted in Dave Babych, tagged Goals, Madelyn, Malcolm Gladwell, Marely & Me, Phoenix Coyotes, Seth Godin, Winnipeg Jets on December 26, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Just thinking about a few things.
1) Marley & Me used to be a book.
2) The Coyotes are recieving Corporate Welfare from the NHL. I wonder how much money the Winnipeg Jets got in handouts from the NHL headoffice before being forced to relocate to Phoenix? As they say, the grass is always greener in the… umm desert… SWA?
3) I got a couple books for Christmas and I am very excited to read them. Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers” and Seth Godin’s “Tribes.”
I am dripping from inspiration right now which is very good and frustrating feeling. It is like being exceptionally horney and knowing you will get some action… but not yet. Its actually hurting my head. I have been reading Malcolm Gladwell’s book and the crux of it is this, “work hard, and get rewarded…. later.” Well, I think its that… I am only part way through the book.
Yikes, so I am excited to start some projects and hammer away at them… but I know there will be no tangible reward for what? ten years! holy fuck (great band too!).
I read this bit some time ago about ther 4 stages of learning. If I remember it went something like…
whoa right.
So taking that model and then reading Malcolm who says it will take you 10,000 hours to achieve leval 4 or about 10 years if you dive head first into your passion… or just over 3 years if you do your passion as a 60 a week obsession.
Right… I want to improve my persoanl brand and get paid more money. I think I am at number 2. I know that there are things I do not know. I have to learn what they are and then practise, practise and practise for 10 years… and then maybe I will be a rock star at what I want to achieve. I will be 38 (almost 39) and Madelyn will be 10. If all things work (and they will if I make them work) and the gears turn and I grind away, I should be making top dollar by the time Madelyn starts caring about spending all my money.
Posted in Dave Babych, tagged Mats Sundin, Vancouver Canucks on December 18, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Dave Babych, tagged A Morning, Astrid Braunschmidt, Ellen, Erick Thompson, Maggie Cox, Movember, The Zone @ 91.3, The Zone Afternoon Show on December 10, 2008| Leave a Comment »
oh my poor one is sick. I woke up to Coral sleeping on the couch with Ellen on the TV and the Christmas Tree blinking away.
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Yesterday on the ZAS I called Erick Thompson from A Morning. If you remember from a previous post on this here blog, it seemed to me that Erick and Astrid were poking some fun at my lame MO without dropping all the facts on the A Morning viewers.
I called Erick up on his cell phone yesterday afternoon.
Jeremy Chit Chats with Erick Thompson
Well god bless ’em, he set the facts straight this morning on A Morning Show.
And yes Astrid, being on the Zone Afternoon Show DOES make you important.
Posted in ...this is your father speaking, Dave Babych, music, tagged A Morning, Akon, Beck, Birth Stories, Christmas, Coldplay, Eric Thompson, Fleet Foxes, Jizz in My Pants, Kings of Leon, Lame Mo, Movember, Plants and Animals, Radiohead, The Zone @ 91.3, The Zone Afternoon Show on December 9, 2008| 5 Comments »
Coral and I finally got to putting up our Christmas Tree. Its a lot of work, putting up Christmas Trees. But in the end, I feel so much better having done it. I think I’ll keep it p till January 7th… which is like Ukrainian Christmas I think.
Our home is now very festive, until tomorrow when Madelyn wakes up and RAMPAGES everything.
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I was not feeling a blog at all after all the work. Coral and I somehow got on watching Los Angeles news which was mega depressing. We flipped it over to A, and it was almost as depressing, except nearer to us, so back to KTLA it went. I think the CBC is the only station that manages to be serious and less scary.
So now I am typing away, my computer is as slow as shit. James is coming over on Thursday so hopefully we can track down what is bogging it down so savagely. I have not been into writing lately, I read other people’s blogs and they are so good. The ladies I read put WAY more “out there” into internet land. They share. Crazy fights, feelings, relationships, drama…you will find it all on someone’s personal blog. My blog, less so… I just jibber jabber and things.
I was thinking about this the other day. There has been another round of babyitis infecting the Zone office building. A few staffers have made the announcement that they expecting kids. Very exciting, got me thinking back to when Coral and I were expecting Madelyn. People were sharing their birth stories with us and it would inevitably go something like, “Oh wow, you’re pregnant, let me tell you about our first child! Man, I’ll tell you, I was in labour for thrity-seven hours. All my women bits where tearing and bleeding… the doctors would give me no pain killers. They were amazed I could withstand so much excruiatingly violent pains, they said a man would have passed out hours ago. But not me, I felt it all. So the forty hours dragged on, oh did I say thirty-seven earlier? it was forty. Forty-two hours of labour, my child came, she was born backwards and with spikes. The doctor said it was the most painful way to come. Doctor? heck no, the doctor was sick, I actually delivered the baby myself. Lost a lot blood. Oh man, kids are special, I am so excited for you!”
and then, you sit there all pale and meekly thank them for sharing their joyous birth story with you.
Did I mention my computer was as slow as shit?
All I tell Dad’s to be is, pack some food. And leave as soon as your girl passes out. Go home and have a shower and brush your teeth, then on your way back to VGH, stop at the drive-thru and get your girl an epic burger. She earned it.
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We got to dream up our annual top 10 list at the Zone of our favourite records and this year will be a challenge. I do have some favourites but to be honest, I don’t really have ten STAND outs.
Hmm, I remember listening to a lot of Coldplay, Kings of Leon, Beck, and Radiohead. MGMT on my walk to work. Plants and Animals was good. Fleet Foxes sometimes. hmm, right. Does Akon count?
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Casey-Jo sent me some clips from A TV when Eric from the morning show put my picture on the TV last week. After Movember. I fired it up on the Youtube.
Now right at the end he sorta has a laugh… hmmm? And he showed me on TV during some witching hour when no one watches… hmmm indeed. Does he have no respect for the sash? I had my operatives at A track down Eric’s cell phone so maybe I’ll call him tomorrow on the show.
Anyways, thank you Casey-Jo for taking the time to send me some clips.
Time for a tub and some book read’n. Go with yourself.
Oh, riiiight, Casey-Jo also sent me this wonderous track.
Posted in Dave Babych, tagged Bryan Boitano, Lame Mo, Man of Movember, Movember on December 5, 2008| 1 Comment »
Posted in Dave Babych, music, neat-O gang, tagged Band of Horses, Desert Bus, Guns N Roses, Mother Mother, Movember, Priestess, The Zone @ 91.3, The Zone Afternoon Show on November 29, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Johnny B. Shields is pulling away on the Movember race and is crushing me. Boitano has also pulled in front of me too!
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Priestess‘ Mikey Heppner stopped by the Zone today… we chatted about a bunch things that he had recently blogged about. He is such a dude. New record from Priestess is coming soon and you better believe you’ll hear it on my show when there is something to play.
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Band of Horses is also working on some new music which gets all of us here at Casa La CorJ hot and bothered. When I talk fave bands, Band of Horses is near the top of that list.
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I got a call on the Zone phone today from some guy completely outraged that I went on the radio yesterday saying I wasn’t so jazzed on the new Guns N Roses. I don’t think he is a regular listener of the show. He had “heard” through the grapevine that I had “slammed” G ‘n R so this knight had risen to the challenge to defend Axl’s honour and tell me off. Turns out my head needs to be “shaked” because it wasn’t clear to me that Chinese Democracy was the “BEST record of the last few years.” O RLY? He got many facts wrong and we talked it out… I think its all good now. Maybe its good that people talk about my show with their friends, but getting the facts so off… yikes, I don’t think they were saying nice things about my show. So I guess they are forgiven for never finding the blog either… then they’d know, I am trying to like G ‘n R and I am an odyssey of discovery. I downloaded “Better” today. Kinda good.
One good song on the new G n’ R record… to me that is a triumph as I expected zero.
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Heard some Mother Mother on the modern rock inbox the other day. very nice. The main dude grew up on Quadra Island.
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Corj and I are taking Madelyn to visit Grandma Mom and Grandpa Jack this weekend, so I’ll rap at cha on Monday. On Monday I am taking a turn driving the Desert Bus! Tuesday is Straight Up Modern Rock night at The Clubhouse, giving away some Nine Inch Nail Tickets; Thursday is the Movember gala; Friday I shave my stache and then it is the NIN show at the arena; I’ll be broadcasting live outside; Saturday is the Zone’s Christmas Party!
Have a good weekend.
Posted in Dave Babych, neat-O gang, tagged Australia, David Eleanor, DW, England, Guns & Roses, King Alfred The Great, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Movember, Night, Turner, Wantage on November 28, 2008| 2 Comments »
Movember is quickly winding down. I am just a handful of dollars away from $500, so if you have the time, please hit my Movember page and drop a few virtual pennies into my virtual jar.
My Movember Page
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I went onto Movember to find my page and I entered “Jeremy Baker” into the search. There are two other Jeremy Bakers on this planet growing an ugly moustache for prostate cancer.
They are:
Jeremy Baker from Turner, ACT, Australia. I am not too sure what ‘ACT’ is? Australia Capital Territory?
The dude hasn’t done much with his Movember page… but has raised $100, so good on him.
and,
Jeremy Baker from Wantage, Oxfordshire, England. He is doing a little better than our Aussie cousin and has raised $200!
Wantage is famous for being the birth place of King Alfred the Great!
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Zoner Capt. Kirk sent me a startling public service youtube video today.
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I went and listened to, then downloaded a couple a Guns & Roses tracks yesterday. At first I hated the record, but DW and David Eleanor swear by it… so I gacve it another spin. I don’t hate it now… but I still don’t like it. Sorta average. The track “Chinese Democracy” is growing on me. Dave says I need to get the song “Better” which is number 3 on the album. He is telling about an insane guitar part that sounds like a xylophone.
Then he told me about this book “Last Exit to Brooklyn.” whoa… I think I’ll need to check it out. He no steered me wrong with his last recommendation, “Night.”
We need a David Eleanor Book club to battle Oprah!
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Go with yourself.
Posted in Dave Babych, the blog, tagged Christmas, Computers, Movember on November 24, 2008| 4 Comments »
bwoar! I put a jihad on my computer and had James come over to reformat the hard drive… and if you can believe it… the thing is running slower!
If i had me the monies, I’d get a new beast.
I’ll tell you this, it was very liberating to ace a ton of files and have a “clean” computer. Tindy is doing a clothing drive for the Q! here in a couple days, and I think Corj and I will do the same in our closet.
Still doesn’t explain my my machine is so slow. It should be as good as the day it came out of the box shouldn’t it?
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It is about 30 days and ten hours till Christmas (as of this post) and I have already started Christmas shopping! Huzzah.
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I cut my mustache this morning when I shaved. sadness. I’ll be happy to be rid of it. Getting made fun of all.the.time (though warranted) is becoming a bit much. I have a bald patch on my stache. Right under the nose. It’s like, even if I *wanted* to become a European dictator, I physically can not.
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OK, the computer is so slow I can’t even handle this internetting so I’m out like trout.
The Morning After 