Namaste! Sussreekall! Salaam! Bonjour! Hare Krishna! Sai Ram! Howdeefuckincockadoodledoooooo!!! Happy Weekend and Highest Blessings to all of you! I send you love, energy, and gratitude from my heart!
I have had an extremely productive and positive week, and I hope your experience has been the same. :)
Today I have included some footage Christie (my goodlookin tourmanager) has shot from some recent shows. Of course, it is just brief and there is much more footage, but this is a fun overview. Like a Romper Room mirror, we see Jacen, Jason, Flavio, and I on-and-off the bus, and performing at various gigs. Every gig is different (though I tend to almost, without fail, wear my recent “tour uniform” almost every night) I don’t like to deviate from my uniform. Like- go with what’s comfortable and I wear my favorite shirt until I find a new favorite. LOL!
A lot of peeps ask me “why” I was touring so soon after my most recent surgery (at the disapproval of my doctors), and still trying to navigate the mysteries of post-chemo/post-radiation and new medication side-effects.
I always say, “why not?”
What ELSE would I want to do? Hahaha!
Be a doctor? Be a chef? Write books (but, remember, I can’t type! Do you KNOW how LONG it would take me???) Do a reality show? Finally become a “painter”artiste? LOL!
I have been touring for MY ENTIRE ADULT LIFE. I don’t know any different. Maybe, I don’t know any better.
But this has been, and remains, my Life’s Work. I like it.
Touring has been good to me. *beam* Om Hare Om.
I love seeing all of you the most. :)
Our mutuality and shared experience, for that one night, each show, is timeless and priceless. I am veryvery grateful to you, and for you. Thank you all for coming to see us play. Truly. You fuckin rock MY socks off!
Every show is important: festivals, big venues, small venues, clubs, everything.
And THIS WEEKEND I am performing a lovingly compiled accoustic set for the participants of Vancouver’s annual Weekend to End Breast Cancer www.endcancer.ca with proceeds to benefit the B.C.Cancer Foundation (an independant charitable organization that supports research and care at the B.C. Cancer Agency (also known as my Stompin’ Grounds for the last year-and-a-half!!!) The BCcancer Agency has become a model for cancer care and control around the world!!!!! Wow! I am soooo grateful to be a part of that, in any way!!!!! Boooyah!!! :)
I am very much looking foreward to seeing the participants, again. I played for them LAST year, too…….when I was still in treatment.
THIS time, I am feeling much differently and have muchmuchmuch more to say!!!! (Quel shock! LOL!)
I feel like I am more “present” as I couldn’t possibly realize how “sickly” I still was, last year. Only now, looking back, do I have any awareness about how fatigued+foggy I still was.
It makes me laugh. I can’t wait to tell them all how happy I am to see them, again. :)
I hope all of you have a blissful weekend and engage in every opportunity to Live Your Truth, whatever it may be. May you find a lot of fun and remember to honor yourselves. I will send you positivity and bigbigbig hugs from my heart!!!!
You RULE!!!!
Om Nama Shivaya. Horns!
Love,
Biffy
Xoxo

Namaste and Sussreekall! Bonjour and Welcome to the Traditional Rain+Showers on a Monday! Aint it grand, Beautiful People? It is near-glorious and rejuvinating! I love it! I hope everyone is amped for a positive and successful week, filled with untold goodness!
Over this past weekend, my world has been rather insulated and focused with songwriting and recording. It is incredibly exciting and tremendous fun!
In between my daily studio time, I concentrate on my 12.5yr old Nicklas, and his every happiness.
With Sri Annastasia (May She Rest in Peace) being around us in the breeze, I am very efficient in my spoiling of Nick (big shocker! I am an “overcompensator”).
I want to share with you, the strange myriad of names I often call him. I think everyone has “Pet Names” for their loved ones. Some of them have absolutely NO basis on reality. Why this is, is unclear to me. But I am guessing everyone does such things? LOL! (I’m hoping I am not the only weirdo, here?)

I’ve included a picture of said sweetheart, and hope you can see that little, naughty, loving heart through the growing cloudiness of his old eyes. I have been blessed by The Universe with the responsibility of his care+well-being since he was seven weeks old (and I picked him up from a cardboard box in the garage of Mr. Ahn’s Burnaby home).

Nicklas Naked.

A.K.A.
The Boyfriend
Doodeee
Babyman
Babymonkey
Monkeyman
Monkeybaby
Baby Doodeee
Monk
Nickman
Nick Lickman
The Criminal
Baby Criminal
Boyfriend Criminal
And he is, as Anna was, the constant in my life. Dogs rule! I am assuming, as I don’t have (yet!) A human “baby”, that he has enjoyed my smothering, overbearing “mothering” nurturing for over a decade. Though the last year with chemo scrambling my wee eggs, and then removal of said, I will never know the physiological miracle of “pregnancy”(teenage whoopsie not withstanding), this little Sentient Being is IT for me. Don’t tell him, but I basically lied to him his entire life, and led him to believe I “made him in my stomach and pooped him out”. :)
And that’s just what he believes. And that’s just what I pretend. Might as well be true.
I am taking him with me in the studio, this week, in hopes of recording the dulcid tones of his aggrivating little constant yippy barking. LOL!
Music to my ears.
Highest Blessings to everyone, and from The Boyfriend and I, we send you positivity and pure love energy.
Om Nama Shivaya.
Om Sai Love.
Love,
Biffy
Xoxo

Namaste and Salaam to all of you WonderfulSuperBeautiful People!

I am sending out the Positive Vibes and GoodHappy Energy to everyone!
I have been very busy, this week, with everything from interviews to doctors’ appointments to workouts to studio time (where Darr and I are embarking on some very fun tuneage!!!!!!!!). Busybusybusy and heinously underslept, but I feel remarkably well and totally amped!
Life is, as ever, an adventure and a gift. Om Nama Shivaya.

I have been addressing WEAKNESSES this week. What prompted this was a continuing conversation with a dear friend of mine, where alllllll she talks about is alllll the shoes she buys.
She loves shoes. (Sure, don’t we all?)

But she spends alotalot of money on these, and is constantly buying and buying more. It is weird and I have a feeling she is trying to fill a void. Trying to satisfy something by this constant “aquiring” of things.
Almost like a “collector”, but it seems unhealthy.
It made me examine my OWN behaviours and I have similar habits, from time-to-time. I suppose we all do.
My problem is books. Always has been.
I don’t honestly know how many books I have. Thousands?
I’m a sucka for books. They bring me joy. I love touchin em and flippin through and huggin em and talkin about em.
Almost NO FICTION books. Just other books. Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, yoga, Martial Arts, medical references, medical textbooks, contemporary art, history of fashion, Criminology, poetry, Islam, Hinduism, Tibetan Buddhism, raw foodism, cookbooks, history, feminism, animals, languages, philosophy, bodybuilding, pop art, nutrition, sex and tantra, history of music, Christianity, travel, biographies of world leaders, etc.etc.etc. and on and on and on!!!
I have to ask myself: do I NEED any more?
The answer is “no”.
I’m good.
We’re cool.
I’m done.
That’s enough. I have enough.
I am actually veryvery thrilled at that exact fact: “I have enough”.
(Even though you+i both know my friend “has enough” shoes…….she is still trying to aquire as a means of fulfilling something missing in her life. Poor girl!)
So, I am happy to share with you my new mantra (currently) which is:

ALL I HAVE IS ALL I WANT.

And that is a delightful place to be, mentally. I don’t know if its forever (and BELIEVE ME: I will definately be tempted as there is a new book out on “Japanese Goth” that I’m dying to get! LOL!)
But as a personal challenge to myself, I will tighten my own leash. To honor my friend (who we can clearly see is suffering from “desire” and “attachments”) I do not endeavour to lead-by-example for her…….but recognizng weakness in someone else has given me a reminder to keep my own shit in-check. And that’s always a good thing. There is always room for improvement and evolution.
I am sending my mostheartfelt gratitude to you all, to The Universe, and to my collection of books. All of these bring me joy and motivation everysingle day.
My life is enriched and I am truly thankful. Fuck yeah!
Have a stellar weekend and I will see you in the bookstore! Hopefullyhopefullyhopefully, I will be “just browsing”. LOL!
Be well and be positive and be yourself. You are the BEST!!!
Om Hare Om.

Lovelovelove and blessings,

Xoxo

NamasteSussreekallSalaamBonjourSalut et Hola Beautiful Dear Friends! It is *gasp* August!!!!! Summersummersummertime is in it’s final month (unless you are so “South Hemisphere” that its winter) and there is much delight to be found and savoured. I love August. (Then again, you know moi, I love most things! LOL!) I do so love shows!!!! And, of course,
The shows have been spectacular!
(And I’ve included a photograph taken by Riley at load-in while we anticipate+prep for soundcheck in Revelstoke) and the weekend was magic! Being in the interior of BC is always so much fun! Honestly, it never matters what time of year it is, this area is geared for sports+fun (both of which I participate in!)
Love it!
One summer I was up here, and kidnapped (yes by my friend) put on the back of a jetski and taken up and down the lake all day long. I think I saw my “dream”house complete with a fucking elevator built into the cliff, and running from uphill where the house was, to the water where their boat docked! Someone told me it belonged to a European Royal Family. (But I can’t remember which country they said). It was opulent, like many of the massive waterfront properties here. They should turn them into homeless shelters and help their fellow man, huh? Maybe turn these gorgeous places into summer camp facilities for special needs adults or kids? (Just sayin’..)
Also..
I have never seen the
“ookeypookey” lake monster, either. (A
local myth/legend, like “Loch Ness”, right?) If its anything like a centipede….you KNOW I am not down!!!!!! If it is like a sweet and huggable Saskwatch (”BigFoot”) then I’m totally cool with that. *beam* sadly, I’ve never seen one of them, either. Are they runnin around all year, every season?

One winter I was here, we were on a snowboarding trip. Big White. Let me tell you: to this day I’ve never done as many runs or as well. Never. The powdery fluff of perfection was just the right amount to boost confidence and push myself a little farther on the hill and I actually still remember that trip as the turning point for my snowboarding skills. I am not, nor will I ever be, the greatest lil’ shredder…..but I have fun and we have been boardin’ since 91. I have been lucky to keep me bones unbroke, considering all the times I’ve bailed/choked/wipedout/and summersaulted down the mountain. And my technique has improved and my skills improve and, like everything else in life, my hope is to continue to learn, evolve, and do better every year. :)
Yup….I’m very lucky.
And I’m grateful. Om Nama Shivaya. Thank you Krishna!!! Thank you Universe. Thanks mom (fo raisin’ me right, yo! We were raised to be thankful.) Thank you Jesus for the sandals-themes and SundaySchool where I met my first naughty boyfriend. Thank you Allah and we look foreward to Ramadan this month and the opportunity for mindfulness. Thank you to Buddha for our studies in Stillness and Smiling. Thank you to last week’s “So You Think You Can Dance” episode where all the judges cried for the cancerdance that couple did (even though my pal later told me said couple was later, unceremoniously kicked-off the show??? This is why I don’t understand/watch tv…except NCIS for “Abby”). And Thank you EarthSunWater for growing bananas. And thanks for my experiences this weekend.
The Okanagan. Incredible.

Unfortunately, walking outa the gas station (one of the only stations that STILL HAS PETROL!!!!!!! THE REST ARE EMPTY!!) I had one of those olfactory gland memory-joggers.
It smelled like Bangalore.
A mix of heavy flowery air and smoke.
Tree smoke instead of funeral pyres.
Flames have taunted the locals again, this summer.
The world is on fire! You could see the smoke billow and disguise itself as clouds.
And not only here are many forest fires. Same goes for Blackcomb!!! (Another chronic, yearly, snowboarding haunt)
What is going on??????????
And the tragedy of the fires will linger for years. The burnt chaos and charred life it leaves behind.
What’s worse? At the truckstop, this morning, someone said there is an “arsonist” lighting fires in Stanley Park in Vancouver? (Ahimsa out the window on this topic, if ya feel me. ) What’s WRONG with people?????????
Are you fucking kidding me? What gives?

No petrol. Wildfires.
SweetbabyEarthLoveyMama.
Dried and squandered and fragile. I am so grateful for the time I’ve enjoyed.
I am veryvery grateful for the Earth and all the cool things I get to do ON her…like play shows on a big stage on a beach-by-a-clean lake in The Okanagan…like enjoy the fruits of the orchards as we travel down the roadsides…on the petrol we used to do it, a gift from her…..like snowboard down glorious monster mountains seduced by the altitude, inertia, and joy she enables me to feel…..shitdamn! I could lie, face down, upon the ground, and just giver CPR (or long Frencyfrenchykissies) but either of those would find me with a face-full of dirt (which is fine as long as there are no: 1. Centipedes; 2. Stinkbugs like the ones Nicklas rolls in; 3. Goosepoop/otherpoop; 4. Rotting rodent carcass; 5.broken bottle glass; or, 6.as long as it doesn’t totally wreck my painstakingly-applied, overpainted lip liner.)
Yup. Feelin pretty good in the Magnificence of British Columbia. Pretty grateful for my shows. Pretty grateful for this busted planet.
My lil’ corner of the world, in the eighth lil’ month on the calendar. Neat.
If only it wasn’t so ominously hot.
Part of Right Mind-Right Body path is honoring the Land. Cherishing and treasuring all we have.
Beacuse all we have is ALL WE HAVE. Om Hare Om.
I want to thank you all for coming to the gigs its always so awesome to see you! I hope you feel good and happy and blessed and anticipate bliss for the week. I am sending you positivity and encouragement and lovenergy, from the road. You guys rule so, so hard!!!
I, Literally, kiss the ground that you walk on.
Om Nama Shivaya.
Love,
Biffy
Xoxo