Thursday night in Toronto

Location: Toronto, ON
Pics tomorrow..

The show tonight was amped at Mitzi's Sister. Macro Fiesta opened up with a great, fun jam-band type of vibe. With Charles on the saxophone and/or harmonica, I was lovin tracks like "High, Healthy and Happy" and when they dispersed shakers to the whole crowd! I used my shaker during my set! :)

I pumped out a live show (or so I think). It was fun! My DJ (doPi) messed up once, but there were lots of thumbs up for 'Super Dude'. At the end of my set, there was silence, no background music... I was put on the spot and had to freestyle... I was mediocre at best. Some night's I'm on, others I'm off.

A midnight performance on a Thursday meant most of my friends/fans couldn't make it out, but I was glad to see a handful of familiar faces. I chatted with Thomas Quinlan of Handsolo Records and his wife Yoko of Momiji Clothing. And I finally met Warren Campbell of Rubber Road Records in the flesh. We'd been in touch ever since 2004 via Fatkat Animations owner Gene Fowler. Fatkat worked on some rejected FACTOR/VideoFACT video proposals with me.

So I'm pretty exhausted to the point that I forgot my tour banner & jacket at the venue tonight. No worries, I'll pick it up tomorrow on my way to Hamilton... Anyone have a neck or back cushion they want to donate? The van seat support isn't cutting it! To sleepy bed time!

Point Pelee National Park Pics

Pics - Windsor, CJAM & Scores Bar/Grill

Chillin at CJAM with host DJ Needle and Kayyce of Academy & TRP.

Pics - Chatham

Mom, this ones for you... I'm eating healthy! Only had fast food twice and it'll be two weeks as of tomorrow!

Pics from my stay with my cousin's family in Chatham... I've converted his kids into super dudes! And Max the cat highly suggested I check out Niagara Falls. I'm still hoping I fit a side trip in to check 'em out!

Windsor, Point Pelee & Chatham

DISCLAIMER: Sorry no pics yet. Sooon!

Location: Chatham, ON
Pet Count: #6 - Max

It's been a crazy few days... I'm completely exhausted.

Tuesday I drove to Chatham to BBQ with my cousin and his family. His 11-year old twins are newfound Super Dudes! I had a great catch with Scotty... and 5-month old Max the cat & I have become best friends.

Tuesday night I drove to Windsor to meet up with DJ Needle on his radio show on CJAM. Kayyce of Academy was in the house and I met TRP too. We laughed a lot and played a ton of CANCON. The show ran late and it was a tiring drive back to Chatham, but there was lightning to keep me awake. Oh, and I ate 7 hamburgers during the day (without buns due to my gluten problems). In bed at 5 am.

Wednesday up at noon. BBQ'd chickent curtesy of my cousin... mmm. I drove to Point Pelee National Park where it poured rain, but it looks absolutely beautiful! To get there I had to travel through Leamington, the tomato capital of canada! I eat a lot of tomatoes so I was lovin it!

I met up with my other Detroit cousin in Windsor and we went to Detroit to see my beloved Red Sox play the Tigers. It was an amazing game of ups & downs, rowdy hecklers and beach balls. Unfortunately Papelbon the invincible actually blew a save... but I'm blaming Lugo's crappy fielding!!

On the drive back we got pulled over at customs. They threated criminal charges after they dug through my backpack and found an old baggie with a immodium in it. I haven't used them in years... they'll be thrown out soon. Take that ex-diarrhea!

So, yeah, I finally made it to the weekly open mic night in Windsor at Scores Bar & Grill for a little performance. DJ Needle and Kayyce had me cracking up... real fun night! I met Trilla and Chad Martin of Academy. Saw open mic stylings from Mason (ex-Embassy fam) and a dude from First Class (or Class First?).

Now I'm back in Chatham and ready for sleep!

Toronto Radio 3 - FLOW

Current Location: Toronto.

So my 3rd radio stop in one day was at FLOW 93.5 FM ... It's the only major market dedicated urban station in Canada that seems to be showing a lot of love to local artists! The show is called Real Frequency and has found a home in nearly every campus radio station over the years. Co-host Muziklee Inzane has been a long time contact, so it was great to meet in person... he was rockin' the Super Dude shirt and lovin the marshmellow squares from rapid snack. Shouts to co-hosts RC and Alex, along with DJ P Plus

Toronto Radio II - CKLN

I've been in touch with Mel Boogie for a long long while... back when she compiled the national urban charts. So it was great to finally meet her and JJ Rock at her weekly Droppin Dimez show at CKLN on Ryerson campus. It's the only all female hosted rap show in Canada!

Mr. Knia of CMP Studios dropped by with some compilation cds for me to distribute during my trek.

Also, I finally met the infamous Theo 3 http://www.myspace.com/theology3 and DJ Manifest of CHRY's "Toronto Morning Live" on Monday mornings...

Toronto Radio - CHRY!!

Current Location: Toronto

I made my way for my first radio show appearance of the tour. I'd previously visited a friend on campus at York University, but never been to the main student center area. They have a nice park in the middle with geese!

The CHRY station itself had an over population of empty jewel cases. It was great to finally meet Bozack Morris, host of Backroad Radio every Monday from 6-8 pm. DJ Big Jacks was in NY unfortunately... And co-host Melizia had me cracking up. I also picked up some new slang: "tatas" = breasts and "fronts" = grills.

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Super Dude Gordie Johnson!!

So last week Gordie Johnson was in town with his band Grady . You might remember him from his Big Sugar days: http://www.bigsugar.com Anyway, he's a big fan of mine (i'm flattered), so I made sure he got hooked up with a Super Dude shirt. I was busy with tour stuff, so my delivery person passed on his awe of the shirt, and he wore it live at the show... crazy!

Thousand Islands National Park

Current Location: Toronto
Gas $$: $112 highest at 1.219 in Oshawa

I'm sitting on a back deck in the beautiful weather as I type this... a
great start to my south western part of my 100-day tour.

The drive to Toronto was pretty uneventful. I took a detour along the 1000 island parkway... beautiful... but watch out for turtle crossings!

Other than an exploded package of facial lotion, a lost pen and a shredded sneaker shoelace, all is great! Thanks to Rapid Snack I've been restocked with my beloved Apple & Cranberry Flakes N Fruit Bars... mmm... so good.

My first night in Toronto, I caught up with my brother and finally met his girlfriend Michelle. She cooked an amazing roast... I'm actually eating leftovers right now :) And my brother's resident dog, Joey, shows off his ability to lick his nose :)