on the back end of my website where it reveals stats etc..
i came across a funny thing..
i found the way that some people were directed to my website was very interesting..
some people googled common things such as : paul filek, felix, fillick, philic
but i was astonished to find some of the other things people wrote ...
when i saw "is paul filek really a ninja" i decided it was time for me to create video clips based on funny things that people thing or ask of me!!
here is the first..
come back on the first of every month to see whats happening!!

or post in comment box what youd like to see me film or ask me questions and ill see if i can answer them via short video clips!

oh ya,
i am a ninja

HERE IS IS! CLICK THE LINK BELOW AND LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINKG BY POSTING A COMMENT ON THE YOUTUBE LINK!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fih_xxW8zA8

im sorry world! i had this great idea of writing a blog every monday. I thought it would be fun to let everyone in on my little secrets, on my adventures, and on whats happening in my world.  It was a fun but yet stressfull idea because of my little friend; father time.

things have been crazy busy. Ive got over 90,000kms now on my poor car. which less than two years ago had 12 kms on it. I thought id never say this, or ever do this with anything in my life other than school. But I am quitting my weekly blog .

wait! stop crying! dont be sad! something amazing and more fun is about to happen. Its going to happen a little bit less but its going to be a little bit more awesome!

starting sept 1 i will be releasing a short video clip about me "PAUL FILEK" on the first day of every month.  Then on the 15th of every month i will either be writing a blog, or i will be posting a cover song, or a video blog, or a brand new song of mine to show off to everyone! so, in a way its going to be a lot more work for me, but its going to be a lot more fun for me. (and hopefully for you as well)

they will be goofy, dumb, sad, funny, horrible videos that hopefully everyone will enjoy! and if you dont enjoy them i hope you hate them so much you will make other people watch them! once everyone starts to get a feel for the videos i want them to become very interact with you, my friends and fans! so as time goes on i will be wanting to hear from ideas about what the videos should be , and hopefully have some participation from you all where you will have a chance to be in these silly vids!

anyways, i must be off! please forgive me for killing you mr blog. its been fun.. but the fun is only just begun!

i will still be using this "blog page" for all my future videos series!

so please stay tuned.. and check it out right here on www.paulfilek.com sept 1 to see the first of many.

sept 1 video.. "is paul filek really a ninja"

this video is in responce to someone who actually googled searched "is paul filek a ninja"

other things i have come across through the back end of my website and stats.. "does paul filek like popcorn"

hmmm another possible video?! stay tuned and find out!

see you sept 1!

cheers

paul

If you didn’t know, you soon will.  I guess if you stopped reading this blog then you might not ever know.  So don’t stop reading. You know you want to know what I’m about to talk about.  However, perhaps you already know!?  If you think you know you should probably stop reading.  Nothing worse than hearing about stuff you already know about.  Know what I’m saying?

I have five older brothers.  They are all super successful and they all look like a slightly uglier version of perfection.  (Perfection of course being defined in the urban dictionary as: “Paul Filek.”)  They all, with the exception of one, live far away from the humble upbringings in Kamloops, Bc.  In fact two of them live in different countries! (Three if you count Toronto as its own universe) On top of the distance spread between us there are now the added pressures and responsibilities of new family members. Sister-in-laws, nephews and nieces! All of whom I absolutely adore and all of whom make my family that much more special and that much greater! The bigger the family, the more love to share.  However, the bigger the family the harder it is to get everyone together to share that love.

 I can not remember the last time I was in a room, let alone the same city, as all of my brothers. That’s how long it has been. I believe the last time we were all together we went to a RED ROBBINS restaurant somewhere in Vancouver.  And I think the restaurant will forever remember us as well because I believe our large table of French fry eating monsters polished off all the ketchup in the building!  Truthfully it is very sad we don’t get to see much of each other but I guess it makes the times together that much more special.  Today almost marked one of those days! Unfortunately my oldest brother was not able to make the trip in from England.  Alas, we will try again next year!

Today marks an exciting and special day for me as well.  As most of you know I have been playing music full time the past two years and four months.  Prior to that I didn’t really play much music so most of my family hasn’t really had a chance to see much of what I do.  Again due to work and family commitments and other things my whole family wont get to watch me play, but a big chunk of them will.  I’ve set up a small little unplugged acoustic show at the COMMODORE in kamloops.  It only fits about 100 people but id love for anyone and everyone to come on down and help my family experience an amazing fun night out in Kamloops at a Paul Filek concert!  I am really excited to have them come and watch and hopefully they are fans too and actually sing along to some of my jams!  And of course, you the fans... the people reading this... I love you like family as well! So please come stop by tomorrow and we’ll have a family reunion together!!

COMMODORE

AUG 3, TUESDAY

730PM

$8 AT THE DOOR\

It’s an early show... 730pm! And I will be finishing early as well... so if you want a good spot come on down a little early! See you all soon!! Eeek! I’m excited!

Your favourite brother...

Paully ;)

so i just recorded my third and hopfeully final version of "one love"

instead of boring you with all my awesome stories i will just leave you this week with a musical break! please listen and enjoy "one love"

please let me know what you think! better than previous, worse?!

have a great week

paully

I have been told that it is seen as “good luck” in some cultures for a bird to drop a bomb on your head.  Personally, I think it is good luck when you win the lottery or someone buys you a sandwich.   A free sandwich I want.  A wet juicy bird turd I can live without!  If you really think about it there is nothing lucky about a bird choosing your head as its toilet bowl.  It’s like saying its good luck to get hit by lightning. Plain and simple; it’s just bad luck!

When I was in grade five I had the misfortune of being “lucky.”  I was enjoying my lunch break with some friends playing on the playground when BOOM! I got hit.  Dead smack in the middle of the top of my head! It was embarrassing, it was messy, and it was stinky! 

Kids can be so cruel and children tend to create nick names for people as the result of these kinds of embarrassing situations.  Luckily for me everyone already called me a “shit head” so I had nothing to worry about.  My only worry at the time was how the heck do I clean this mess up?  And why the heck did I run my hand through it?!

Good luck?! You know what IS good luck?  Good luck is when you are sitting on the patio of a pub on a sunny day in Victoria, BC.  Good luck is when you are on that patio and you are leaning slightly backwards tilting your head and your body towards the sun while waiting for a nice cold refreshing beer.  Good luck is when a bird poops and because your body is slightly tilted the poop just misses you only to land right between your two feet.  Now that, my friend, is good freaking luck!!

In conclusion.  I like birds.  I dislike poop. 

See you next Monday!

Ps, if you are in the kamloops area I will be performing at the blue grotto on July 8, doors open at 8, show starts 930pm.  Tickets are available in advance at long & mcquade for $7, or $10 at the door... The first 200 people to purchase a ticket will get my new “Paul Filek live in concert” album at a discounted price... that album will be recorded live that night! July 8!! So come please join in and be part of the magic!!

Paully

1)      Coke-a-cola : when I was younger I could wake up and drink pop with breakfast. It didn’t matter if I was eating bacon and eggs or if I was just having a bowl of raison bran; what did matter was that I had my glass of pop.  It seemed to go well with everything.  Like most kids I had a sweet tooth so drinking a sugar glass of fizzy liquid seemed like a great way to start my day.  Plus it helped give me that extra energy I needed to build forts, play with my toy cars, or build my Lego cities. However, as time has passed my taste buds have changed. I no longer have a sweet tooth and suddenly I find myself eating peppers, avocados and any of the other green foods I once hated.  Four years ago I even cut pop out of my diet.  Water has become the new drink of choice for me? Why, because it is delicious, and because it is free!  That being said, I crave nothing more than a nice cold can of Coke-a-cola.  If I see one in your fridge… watch out! I will grab it, and I will love the first three sips of it… then my teeth with feel rotten, I will get gassy (burps, not farts kids), and I will remember why I love water! 

2)      Swedish berries:  I am not sure why they are called Swedish berries but I am certain that I want to marry a Swedish girl now because of them… oh my goodness! They are so delicious.  By far the greatest candy ever made! Swedish berries are to me what lays potato chips are to Mark Messier.  I BET YOU CAN’T JUST HAVE ONE!   When I was a young boy I used to always have to run errands with my mother.  I didn’t mind it because I love my mommy and also because often times she would get me a small treat.  I remember one time she bought me orange tic-tacs.  I had never had tic-tacs before but I do remember once I tried them I was confused as to why they were so minty and so damn small.  I wanted candy not fresh breath.  Now that I think about it maybe my mom didn’t treat me to those tic-tacs, perhaps she was trying to send me a message or drop me a hint?  But one thing my mother did do is she opened up my eyes to the wonderful world of Swedish berries!  In the basement level of the old Woodward’s in kamloops was this amazing bulk candy section.  I’m not sure why my mom bought me Swedish fish of all the candies but I’m sure happy she did.  Then for years they stopped making the Swedish fish until finally they introduced the Swedish berry. The berry is exactly the same as the fish except it only is one flavour and color.  Bottom line, Swedish berries, Swedish fish, and Swedish people are top notch in my books!

Tell me some of your guilty pleasures!! Chocolate? Cake? Movies? Music? I want to know what you can’t live without... even if you should live without it!

chat with you next week.. oh and just a heads up. if you do leave a comment it wont show up until i approve it so thats why it seems like it doesnt work!

cheers

paully

It’s that time of year. The time of year I wake up scratching my eye balls, clearing my throat and blowing my nose.  It’s a fun time of year.  Really it is!  The sun is shinning, girls start wearing shorter skirts, tinny tops, and I get to drive around with my windows rolled down!  Life is good except for one thing.  My allergies are out of control!

What are boogers anyways? And why are they green? Why do kids like to pick them and then eat them? I’ve always been afraid of green foods and I thought kids were too... so why are they eating these boogies?  Or maybe a better question is how come I haven’t tried a boogie in a long time… maybe they are delicious. And perhaps I will finally be able to answer that famous question, “what is your favourite food.” To pick, or not to pick; that is the question

Eye drops anyone? No thanks! Even though my eyes burn and itch I am too afraid to use eye drops because last summer I had the most unfortunate situation occur.  The wind was blowing; my eyes became very irritated and very dry so I used some visine. I wear contacts, and apparently you can’t always use eye drops with contacts and my eyes started to burn! OMG it hurt so bad I actually had to take my contacts out and throw them away.  That night I drove home blind in the dark. Not fun.  So today I go search for some eye glasses to wear! Wish me luck

24 hour relief! That’s what the box of allergy pills claim to give you.   I took 5 pills yesterday with no relief. Hopefully excessive use won’t affect my poor liver!  I’m hurting! I need help! Please send me your cures for your allergy pains! And please, someone tell me what a boogie is!

Chat with ya next week!

Big shows coming up...

Playing at CANADA PLACE   in Vancouver at 3pm on CANADA DAY JULY 1

JULY 2 – BURNABY – GREAT BEAR PUB

JUL 8 – KAMLOOPS – BLUE GROTTO – this show will be recorded live for a live album I will be putting out shortly after... tickets are 7$ in advance at blue grotto or long & mcquade. And $10 at the door. First 200 people that get tickets will get the new album for $5 instead of $10! Boom

I was enjoying my day off this past Sunday in Victoria.  Life couldn’t have been better. I was hanging out with one of my longest and oldest best friends Andrew Rose. The sun was shinning and the day was young so we decided to take a cruise downtown to grab ourselves a nice refreshing cold beverage… It was on this drive downtown that has forever changed my life and my attitude. I got scammed!

Taking a short cut into town I drove down a few residential streets.  There on the corner of one of these streets was a young fellow sitting patiently at the end of his driveway with a lemonade stand.  I slowly drove past and a few short seconds later decided I was going to pull over and support this kid. I had never before in my life stopped at a lemonade stand.  If you think about it there are so many things that could go wrong with this type of fly by day business.  Many questions ran through my brain as I walked back up the street closer to this stand.   Is the lemonade cold? Is it fresh? Did the young fellow was his hands at any point in the past two days? Does he have a business license for this? Does he claim this on his taxes? Am I able to keep the glass, or is it one that he has to keep and wash? And if so does he wash these glasses? How much would he charge me for a glass and would his price be at market value? So many thoughts ran through my head on that walk, but the one thought that never crossed my mind was that this kid was going to rip me off.

“I’m sorry we’re closed at the moment... all out of lemonade.” The cute little kid tells me.  There he was on a hot summer day sitting in his baseball uniform at a little table with a few glasses and a jug of lemonade.  We asked if he was trying to raise money for his baseball team and he politely replied that it was not for any charity or any other cause other than for himself.  This was his way to earn a little extra cash.  I really respected this as many people lack the drive or desire to achieve anything in life.  Many people these days just expect things to happen for him.  So I told him I was bummed out I couldn’t have lemonade but that I still wanted to contribute to his success. He looked at me confused as I pulled out some change from my pocket and gave him $2.25.  Then Andrew followed suite and put another $2 on his table.  We thanked him for trying and he thanked us back with a huge smile. We started heading back to my car and even though we had not gotten what we had set out for I think we both felt pretty good about possibly helping make a little kids’ day.

“You got to be f@*$J7ng kidding me” I holler at Andrew as I look in my rear view mirror.  We hardly had enough time to sit in our seats and put on our seatbelts before I noticed a group of three people walking to the lemonade stand that we had just been informed was out of lemonade.  Initially I felt bad that these poor people were about to embark on the same unsuccessful journey Andrew and I had just embarked on, but these peoples journey would definitely end up differently than ours.  This cute little kid in the baseball uniform suddenly didn’t seem that cute to me.   Suddenly all I could picture was the making of a future jail bird.  A con artist, a scammer, a person preying on old people for money.  There Right before my very own eyes 30 feet away I watched him pour three big glasses of lemonade from the same jug he only moments earlier told me was empty.  I’d been had!

BOOM*** I smacked the little bastard right in the face! Took all his money and drank the last of his lemonade.  JUST KIDDING! I drove away completely baffled that this kid totally took my money from me and lied to me about being “sold out.”  But I also have laughed and smiled about it now for two day straight.  I think I'm the world’s first person to get ripped off at a lemonade stand... moral of the story? I’m not sure, but I tell you one thing... next time im just driving straight to 7-11!

Have a great week!! See you soon

Paul

As you may or may not know music is a big part of my life. Not only do I love to perform and be on stage but I also love to be in the audience and experience other people’s music first hand. I was recently lucky enough to sit third row in the jack singer concert hall in Calgary to watch David Gray! Wow wow wow what an amazing experience. What an amazing voice, amazing band, and an amazing night!  And now tomorrow I will be sitting eight rows back to see the one and only Tom Petty. However, as excited as I am, I am a little bit worried about people’s attitudes at concerts.

Live a little, have a drink, relax, be excited. Enjoy your night out and enjoy the music! After all that’s why you go to a concert in the first place isn’t it?  I’ve seen it over and over again. Boy brings his girl friend to a concert.  They try and get as close to the stage as they possibly can.  Ten thousand other people try the same thing. Girlfriend gets pushed. Boyfriend gets angry. Throws elbows.  Girl friend cries!!! Hello! What do you expect?! Everyone is so excited and everyone is trying to get up close that people are pushing other people by accident... its ok it’s all part of the experience.  If you have a problem with that get a seat in the nose bleeds. You’ll probably have a better time. And truthfully you’ll sweat a lot less and your girl friend might actually reward you with some loving later that night.

Another thing, if you want to sing... SING! Who cares what you sound like! You love the music, you love the band… why not join in! Pretend you’re in the shower! I know when I’m on stage there is no greater feeling than watching other people singing along and having fun! So Get up and dance! Stand! Who the heck sits for a concert? Get up and feel the music, experience the music! Live a little, nobody is watching you anyways… they are watching the concert!  And plus, Chances are its so loud that nobody can actually hear you anyways!

I could bitch for hours about how people just need to relax and enjoy themselves! But I’ve got better things to do today! For example: I’m going to go listen to some tom petty, get ready for my show tonight at doolins pub in Vancouver.. Then sleep, wake up and see the coolest man alive!! MR Tom Petty!

Have a great week everyone! See you next week!

Paul

what was i thinking when i decided id do a weekly blog.. its been so crazy this past month ive had a hard time keeping up... plus ive discoverd that my life isnt all that interesting and ive already told you everything i know..so instead of writing  a blog this week ive decided to head to vegas for inspiration.

hopefully drugs, booze, women, and rock n roll will create some amazing blog thoughts.. I only pray that i remember them so that  i may share them with you on monday!

wish me luck!

yours truly!

paul!

ps im back in canada friday at which time i play in KELOWNA! Doc Willoughbys Pub! 10pm