Swailz Blog

Why I Left Ottawa

Swail — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:12:38 +0000

Here's a dandy pic of Smiurge The Howler, Doc Fish & Jeepano the Great. This isn't posed, it's just the way things usually end up back home in Ottawa, Ontario. I grew up there with these jackasses so I know all about the tomfoolery of their sexy parties.

A Few Thoughts on Miopia and Baldness

Swail — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:47:05 +0000

I'm myopic and I'm slowly balding. Basically, these two things suck. I don't want to have to wear glasses or have worry about what I'll look like in few years when the fragile few hairs that currently cover the crown of my head finally give way. Yet, I'm not terribly troubled by these things. They're just a part of life for us humans (at least for a significant minority of us), minor genetic defects. But the word defect is so harsh. It's not like myopic people are seriously disadvantaged, are we?

Video footage from the middle of nowhere, USA

Swail — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:11:33 +0000

This fall Amy and I rolled through the United States in a Subaru wagon. This little video was shot spur of the moment when we saw something cool coming up ahead. It turned out to be a trippy tunnel through a mountain in the middle of the desert. Soundtrack by Patti Smith.

New year, same old bullshit

Swail — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:33:52 +0000

I just heard that the people over at twentynot2000.com are saying that we should be careful to pronounce the new year, "twenty-ten" and not "two-thousand and ten", "two thousand ten" or "two oh ten". This is because in the past century we never said nineteen-hundred and ninety-nine, we said nineteen-ninety-nine. Give me a fuckin' break!

What kind of bored-out-of-their-minds douchebags come up with shit like this? Who cares what people call it? Let's let it settle organically. It's 2010, it's a fuckin' number! I'm calling it two-zero-one-zero from now on just to piss these assholes off.

Okay, so maybe it's true that "twenty-ten" is the shortest way to pronounce it. So, shouldn't it just take over naturally as the standard way to state the year? Like, by natural selection or something. That's not what these turkeys we'll have you believe:

"If we don't fix this now, we'll be stuck saying years the long way for the next 89 years. Don't let that happen!"

LOL

Guys, your stupid webpage will not have any impact on the English language. Language evolves out of necessity and function, not because some terd-monklet created a useless webpage.

Oh and apparently, their facebook group has over 5000 members. It's nice to see the human race hasn't yet lost it's taste for utter bullshit. I wonder what spam marketing garbage there gonna be trying to shove down those poor idiot's throats next week.

Black Whales

Swail — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:50:24 +0000

I had a wierd image in my head when I woke up from a dream earlier this week. The image of a giant black whale swimming in the sky. It was creepy but also cartoonish, like a cross between Yellow Submarine by the Beatles and David Lynch's Lost Highway. You know how dreams can be. At first I thought maybe that would be a good name for a band, Black Whales. I realize now as the concept unravels in my conscious mind, that I'm most definitely being influenced by a higher power or by my own subconscious, and I can only snag glimpses of understanding.

The coincidences are mounting. I found a band called 'Black Feelings' online out of the blue and it stopped me in my tracks. They were singing about hidden portals in the mind, ancient eyes and hidden dances. Strangely, it felt just like my dream, so I went to their myspace and the header image for their band was exactly like the one I had envisioned creating for this very blog the day before?! I subsequently created a new header with a different style instead. And oh yeah, did I mention that I live in Calgary, I'm from Ottawa, and this band is in Montreal, but one of the guys in the band is actually a friend of mine from high school that I haven't seen in many years? Strange.

Then I watched this show about destruction on planet earth, and there it was, the keystone to the unraveling of my delusion/revelation/destiny. The legend of the Thunderbird and the Whale. It would seem that west coast First Nations share a story about a giant evil whale who was wrecking shit up hundreds of years ago. Then Thunderbird came and fought with him on behalf of the humans. They battled in the water first and then on land, leaving a terrible path of destruction in their wake. Finally, Thunderbird sent the Whale into the mountains or something, but not before there was a ton of destruction to the human villages. Today, scientists believe that this legend is very likely a story that tells of a giant tsunami that is proven to have hit the pacific northwest around the year 1700.

Anyways, I don't know what all of this means, I'm just happy to get it off my chest. I made this tonight, messing with an image I found online of a whale.

woohoo!

Swail — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:02:39 +0000

I have my own blog on STSQ! Hey it's my website, maybe I should have a blog here, smart idea eh?

I have other pages on the net, like myspace and shit*, but I don't really have a proper page to tie everything together. I tried to create one but it didn't jive that well with STSQ. Then I had a thought, why don't I have a regular old school 2005 style blog on STSQ, where I chat about what's going on in my life? On second thought maybe it's not such a good idea. I mostly just sit in front of the computer a lot and once in a while I go out and do something trivial like drink beer or coffee, or go to a movie, or a show. Oh yeah and I try to make music too, I suppose I could riff on that experience.. Anyways, if it's lame, it's lame, at least it's something.

This being my first post I thought I'd keep it short and sweet (after close to 30 years on this earth I'm finally listening to my father's advice on avoiding 'alienating the audience/reader'). If you're reading this then congratulations, you're one of the coolest people in the world imho, or you're at least a pretty effin' slick pork chop.

* Here are some links to my pages. Feel free to friend me even if I have no clue who you are and you're a skeevy perv. 'Unfriend' was afterall the Oxford word of the year for 2009.

MYSPACE- myspace.com/salvatorewilliam (that used to be my name, b4 I got acid allover my face 'n turned evil)
FACEBOOK- facebook.com/swail
CBC 3- radio3.cbc.ca/bands/Swail-2
POKER BLOG - swailspokerblog.blogspot.com
ART BLOG - swail.blogspot.com
TUMBLR - swail.tumblr.com

Reblogged in Asia... whoa...

Swail — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:15:00 +0000

Tumblr is interesting because it makes it so easy for people to repost your stuff anywhere in the world. It's exhilirating as an artist to see you stuff posted on some foreign page you can't even read, it's a first for me. Check it out... http://fideleruuth.tumblr.com/page/3. I Think Tumblr type sites are the wave of the future, I'm considering dropping this blog altogether and using only this one http://swail.tumblr.com/

This is another version of the art I'm refering to:

My Tumblr Page

Swail — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:09:00 +0000

I created a Tumblr page the other day because it's better for interacting with other people, reblogging things and posting a range of different kinds of content. To me, the Blogger blog format is fundamentally better than Tumblr, so I'm gonna keep both.

The new page is here swail.tumblr.com

Go Home

Swail — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:36:00 +0000

go home now, to Guernsey Jim
his pangs are hidden, deep within
go home to panic, go home to fright
go home to scrurrying in the night

his soul is restless with internal scowls
his thoughts are dirty, wretched , sour
go home to darkness in an impure form
go home to arsonists, thieves and whores

when the sun shines on the shy belly of a man's brain
when the unravelling of the twisted liquids of his unease is complete
what then?
when the happinesses so long surpressed takes hold
do they ever let go
Is it a violent rebirth into endless love?

beefing up the myspace

Swail — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:39:00 +0000

I've made some improvements to my Myspace and added more tracks included some recent demos and a cover of a Neil Young song.

the address is http://www.myspace.com/salvatorewilliam