May Purification Sessions

Wow, it's the 15th.. This means I'm halfway through my intended cleanse. I'm going to document it here in case there is at least one person that is interested in cleansing themselves for more of that vital power to break through their illusions.

 So, the cleanse, I've stuck to it like glue, even though I've been on the crutches (ooooh power-pun) since the 4th. It started off with my first jam-night with no alcohol or smoking in like a million years, followed up by a gig the next night, the first ever without beer & smoking... It felt so strange but I pushed through. The ultimate challenge was getting through the broken hip experience without resorting to my usual numbing the senses with the usual beer & smoking.. Had to graze some painkillers for the first week of hip injury but besides those little items its been mostly God-food in my mouth for 2 weeks now. The only processed foodstuffs I've been grazing are the almond milk, the vitamins D, D3, K1, K2, omega oils & calcium & magnesium and a couple drops of the sacred oil here & there.. (Actually I've been going to town on it, don't tell anyone lol) Fruit & nut laden smoothies for breakfast, salads for lunch (not so lekker in smoothie yuk) & beans rice & salad for dinner. No meat, no salt & pepper, no sugar, no coffee, nothing that can't be plucked from a tree, bush or a bee-hive.. Lots of water... Every second night I drink a few drops of activated chlorine dioxide & every third morning I hit a coffee enema. Yep I've reversed the coffee situation & am loving the glutathione intake.. but the nausea is crazy for the 30 mins but after that is when your eyes start glowing ;) I've taken the same approach to what goes into my mind & heart, filtering out all the useless judgement ego garbage & keeping only what resonates as Oneness, and filling my mind up with amazing reads, listens, keeping myself occupied with all the sacred texts I can find. Have been on the hunt for the real history of man, which I can say has led me to the next level, the possibility of 4D.. Whoaaa :) I built an 8ft pyramid out of masking tape & string upstairs (just before the wipe-out) to honour the ascended masters (Thoth, Ra and Araragat) & am creating a sacred meditation space up there which I might have to take outside when my Queen gets back lol.. 15 more days to go & I'm feeling good! Will probably do a 3 day fast in the next week or so, just strained fruit-juice, honey & water... But the sacred space has to be ready for that!

Thanks to you splendid creatures that have helped me out so much while I've been injured by going shopping for me & running my errands etc, I love you guys & girls muchly!

All is One, All is Well!
Bless!
<3

A Forgiveness Ceremony!

Inspiration has struck.
A Forgiveness Ceremony!
Endless oceans of wealth, free!
Polarity is so strange, how can it be? Does this strangeness come from the way we were trained to think, perhaps that out-dated social conditioning we found ourselves wrapped in - with all respect to the Ancestors, I strip myself of it. Those twelve years of programming! Oh my hat, I want my childhood back, you wasted all my time, made me jump through your hoops, put me up to your tricks because I was so allowing, so trusting that all those grown-ups know better because they paved the way but I bet they were just praying, trying to get through another day but your tricks were fine-cut through the ages, sharp as a diamond. Sign up, pay up & keep shopping, we'll take care of everything sit back & do your taxes. You confused us for life & tried to turn us against each other & our hearts to stone but aye these stones are Crystal Skulls Remembering & I remember. Beyond your gates of confusion, your Elite Illusion, I remember now, just how to be & remain, in wonder & insane, shining like the sun so I can claim, my chariot of geometric flame to burn away that old pain, that sorrow, so I forgive and bless You, not tomorrow, You who is I, in my glowing eyes but Today, maybe still sleeping or just in the dark but right here, right now I forgive You, for Life is for Giving so here I am right now My God, in service of The Light, The Highest Good of All, Once & for All, for All is One & All Is Well! So be it, so it is & so we came to be..
Free.
<3

Our show @ Crab Apple Floral on 12th September 2015

We played as a 3-piece at Crab Apple Floral in Tofino on 12 September 2015 with myself on an acoustic steel-string guitar & vocals, Carina on bass & Nick on drums.. & Boy was that rhythm section on fire! The crowd was beautifully warmed up by Bousada & Butterflywingtip before us & we had the pleasure of giving them what they wanted, something to get on down to!

This is the audio from the stage during the first 6 tracks of Saturday night's set, our fourth show as a band..  I do wish we'd recorded the second half of the set, we also did Starling, Out of my Mind (just myself on bass & Nick on drums), The Good Life, Walk A While (which had the crowd moshing, to my amazement) and when the cops shut us down at midnight we got to do one last number which was We Are Growing, our cover of the intro-theme to the eighties South African miniseries Shaka Zulu.

This was by far, our skankiest show so far!

I'm so looking forward to the next show which will be on Friday the 16th October - we're opening for Brave New Waves at the ANAF Hall in Ucluelet.

1<3Daz..

The Good Life is now on iTunes

GARVIES debut album,
"The Good Life" is now for sale!
Click here to view it on iTunes

GARVIES is LIVE & DIRECT!

GARVIES plays Ocean Week Benefit at The Shore in Tofino 10 July 2015

This is the band working on "Crows Cry" at home on the inlet & then performing it live at the show.

And this is the band working on "Suck My Kiss" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers as the chosen cover song for the evening & then performing it as the finalé..

GARVIES Goes Live & Direct!

I haven't felt ready to play shows in a long time. Tried out the solo with backing thing for a while back in Kitchener '12 but found it way too time-consuming doing everything myself & then still managing it all myself too. I pretty much had a break-up then a break-down & so took a break from it all & threw myself into the jungle for a few years.. Eventually I found myself living at the edge of my world in a beautiful home with my honey & the most spectacular view one could possibly wake up to, learning basslines in a rock & roll cover band with the rippingest guitarist & drummer combo in the form of the local party band, Balistic Pig. We hosted the local weekly open-mic nights all year long - and this is where I really got to rehearse the GARVIES songs with all sorts of line-ups etc; And thanks to this I can now say that we are finally STAGE-READY and are in-fact accepting bookings to play venues in & around the city of Victoria, BC CA as of now :)

I am proud to introduce the new band:

On drums, Nick Hill

On bass, Carina Mach

On guitar, Geoff Johnson

We're looking forward to bringing it to you this summer!

One to write home about..

Photo by Marcus Paladino, a surf
& lifestyle photographer / filmer
based out of Tofino, BC, Canada
http://www.marcuspaladino.com/

I've been living on Vancouver Island for a couple years now, and have been fortunate enough to travel around a bit & sample some of the breaks that are at least accessible by 4x4 &/ boat. On a recent such trip to a spot at the end of some crazy logging roads with puddles that would sink most cars, we found some gems at the end of the hike, super glassy 3-4ft & sunny with rainbows everywhere.. So Marcus took this photo that afternoon & sent me the pic. I am so stoked as it is a great reminder of the good feeling I was blessed with that day. There's nothing quite like perfect surf when you finally get it.

Merry Christmas!
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The Dance of Life

Distant drums capture us, I prick my inner ear. The leather thudding pulls on me & I feel like I want to get near. I lean into its rhythm & perceive a certain something, this current running through me, this electricity in my bones. The past is loud these days. Eventually enough though, we pool like mercury & like birds of a feather, we rock together just to chase ourselves as deep into these moments as we can so we can get closer to that pulse rippling out from the sun, beating on the Earth, warming up my heart & setting my brain ablaze & sending that fire on down to the end of my spine on down to the end of the line that follows the lines I read, the lines I write, the lines I sing, the lines I draw, nearer to it all.

Let it out, let it in
Kick it up & lock it down
Dream it up & breathe it back out..

Starling..

This here, a demo production of GARVIES latest track "Starling".
Written by Daz Collins & featuring on bass & vocals.
Produced by Johnny Marks & featuring on guitars.
Recorded in Tofino BC 2014/04/20 (in A=432Hz)
This is the latest mix from Johnny as at 2014/06/16.

Serenade the dawn with your tongue.
Give it all you've got.
All the way down to those warbling notes.
Ride back up to the heights.
Use the length of your throat,
and sing like you're falling.
Lets row that boat
deep into the morning,
Starling.

Folding my wings around your tenderness;
licking your talk while you've been sucking my sentences;
flicking your locks while you've been chuckling, my little Empress.

Salute the sunset with yourself held high.
Reach through the sky and embrace the night.
Feel the stars, they're tingling.
Spectrum swim up my spine,
right through my mind & like roots from the core,
we unfurl & explore.
Starling, have we met before?

Starling....

Folding my wings around your tenderness;
licking your talk while you've been sucking my sentences;
flicking your locks while you've been chuckling, my little Empress.
Spreading your wings around my gentleness;
licking your talk while you've been sucking my sentences;
picking your locks while we've been loving it, endlessly.

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A CD Cover Design..

I was recently commissioned to design an album cover for Canadian grunge-rock band Broken Caliber.

Here are some photos from the process from pencil to shelf!

Sepia Crows in Spray-paint on Sixteen Canvasses

The Rookery in Kitchener/Waterloo, Ontario.

Peace & Equality Meditation

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Join with the Peaceful Frequency that permeates the Global Atmosphere deep in it's Silence to bring a peaceful new world into being by focusing the Power of our Collective Thoughts of a Peaceful World combined with our Feelings of Love and Gratitude; Creating a Powerful Global Magnetic Field to pull Our Envisionings into Physical Reality. This is Peaceful Evolution. We envision the future as we choose it, as it would be in the present, with love & gratitude. Positive thought/imagination begins the process, love & gratitude are the emotions that fuel the fire of creation.

Print or write the following down on a piece of paper:

"I am grateful that we have all united as one in our intention to created a conscious global society that now meets the needs of every individual. I am grateful that the love of power has now been overcome by the power of love & that the wealth of our beautiful planet is now equally distributed & enjoyed by everyone. I am grateful that we now emanate love, compassion, peace and harmony. I am overjoyed to have been a part of this peaceful change, as it was for the highest good of all."

Feel free to add anything! Make sure it is in the positive ie. refrain from the use of words such as "don't", "won't", "can't", "should" etc, as well as the names of anything you do not wish to manifest in Our New World. Focus only on the positive aspects. Put this piece of paper up somewhere you'll frequently see it, & meditate on it as much as possible throughout the week, visualizing a peaceful, beautiful, enlightened, integrated society & holding the frequency of gratitude in your heart as you do.

We are the Change, with Love.

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