Brother Floyd Kellogg and I are playing tonight at Cambridge St in downtown Nantucket.

I thought 'Lance Mountain' ( see above picture) was the perfect name for our "little Band"

Hopefully all goes well. Its mostly covers and a few You scream, and Sweet Ones tunes thrown in. I'm getting ready to head back NYC and go down to play the Heavy Rebel Music Fest-

It's the first time going off the island since I moved here, interested to see how it feels to be back in NYC!

MONSTER VISITORS

OH MY F (*$^INGING GOD!!!!!! LOOOKY HERE, LOOKY HERE KIDS!

- I had some dear old friends drop into the shaack, my old college friend Chris and his Wife AKA " MONSTER WIFE"

It was really a sight to see, I mean Monster Wife in the mother F'in Waack shaack!!! They enjoyed every minute of it. And I shot some video to prove it! But for some reason it recorded funky so the footage jumps- sorry about that- but it stands as record- its really is nice when friends stop by- I was truly flattered that they drove from Boston to come visit it me!!!

Things have been super busy- I I've started catering so now I"m working 15 hours days-

the good news is Lance Mountain my new band for the summer with Brother Floyd Kellogg is playing, our first gig is tomorrow night! woot woot! ( wait that was gay)

anyway here is, and I write this I've now been bitten by the 60th mosquito in the last 10 minutes,

Cooll

Friend Jay just posted this- pretty Cool- check it!

Bears on the Beach

Didn't have to work today- and it was a total beach daaaay-85' and sunny as a MOFO. So I packed a bag and hit the sand. The beaches are amazing out here, quite, peaceful and big surf. NOTHING LIKE THE THIS GUY! But I did notice a rather large couple near me smoking and kissing! NICE!

Came home and wrote this new song- here are the words

You, you two together

You, you two together

You, you two together

While they smoked their cigarette's,

they watched their guts like pets,

tattoos fading in the sun,

putting college choices into permanent fun.

You, you two together

You, you two together

you two together

A pair of bears stuck in the beach,

their beers just out of reach,

holding out for the big buffet, so much skin on display.

You, You two together

You, 3 of us together.

I think i heard the ocean laugh

BACK in Black SHAAACK

HELLO HELLO,

It's been a while, sorry for the delay!

I'm sure my 7 blog followers we're concerned for my well being ! First off, let me thank all of you for your thoughts, prayers, cards, gift baskets,flowers, limericks, Pepto-Bismal, paintings, and poems! I felt it, trust me! A hard-drive crash is as serious as it gets!! But alas, I am back up and running in the shaack, and have a brand new hard- drive to boot! ( get it) -Maybe if you we're a level 8 dungeon master you'd get it?? OK OK OK

It was a brutal week of work for sure. lets start there. I cut down 8 trees and had the pleasure of operating my first wood chipper-( you know that thing from the movie Fargo) The machine that he throws the body into to cut it up? Well this thing was about 3 sizes bigger than that one, you could throw a car into this thing, and it would chop it up. As threw log after log into the chipper I kept painting the emergency scene over and over in my head. I thought about which arm it would be? My right arm most likely. The phone calls that would follow, " did you hear Cote lopped off arm in wood a chipper", "so much for The Sweet Ones!"

Then I'd sit on some board of Limbless Americans Association, and I'd have my picture taken with the drummer of Def Leopard... I'd probably also get real jealous when people did 'the wave' at sporting events! But the good news is none of this happened and we cleared the back yard in record time and it looked pretty good at the end of the day!

+Its been really nice the past couple of days with sun drenched beach zombies starting to fill up the Bike paths, so YES Summer is hear on the Island. I woke up this morning and did my sunday morning swim in the ocean. It was brilliant and it really does nock a hang over right out of ya!!!

so that's it for now I'm gonna go skate!! enjoy

Episode #4

G love the beach is that a way!!

Oh man- well fro times sake I'll just let let video roll, it's easier. Plus as you all know, my grammar and lack of attention to punctuation is that of a 12 year old.

Morning Dog

And so I write,

Well it rained yesterday like a storm at sea here, buckets of rain coming out of my ears! I had tons of shack time for sure. Good thing i picked up Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (Great read for sure-thanks Matty B- Working on my 10,000 hours of guitar!!)

I woke up this morning and rode into town for a coffee, then took a trip to beach- As I sat there on the beach I noticed a guy passed out with his moped helmet still on from the night before???? I'm starting understand that this places has very KOOKY undertones. Another case in point; there was a headline in this morning's paper of a Vermont man that passed out in the wrong house! Another case in point; a 58 year old women robbed one of two banks on the island. After robbing the bank with a note, she went next door to a shop and proceeded show off her bag of money!!!

So it stands this Shaack ain't the only thing that's Waack out here in NANTUCKET!!!

Here's video from my morning routine-

Starting to Ride, Starting to hide!

DC+

In the Brush

Greetings from the Shack that is everything waack!

It's been very misty and foggy the last couple of day, but the sun has just burned through and it feel like a vacation island again.

It's friday and I just got back from clearing about 90 miles of Brush on some millionaires estate over the looking the ocean. Yes I've started working for a landscaping company which is oddly enough owned by a guy from Syracuse.....?? Not sure if he bleeds Orange? I'll find out. Landscaping is really just a fancy name for lawn mowing company. Anyway, there I was clearing brush with this huuuge machine and thump, I ran over a Well Pipe.. $$$$$ ooops

So the owner came out to see the damage that the NEW GUY had done.........Maybe I'll be fired??

That's gonna be the title of my new book "oops" the life and times of Doug Cote

well time to go do what everyone on this place does very well!!

over and out

DC+

Shaack Life

Hello Hello,

I am writing this from my new home of which I have dubbed, 'The Waack Shaack' located on Nantucket Island Massachusetts! It's crazy to think 3 weeks ago this was just an idea that popped into my head one night while having a beer with brother Floyd Kellogg. It was a crazy adventure out here, filled with traffic, rental cars breaking down, and flipping off school a bus!!!!!. Big thanks to Miss Kelly Jones and Audrey Sterk and Flood Kellogg! So now my home for the next 3 months is on Nantucket Island. Having not left Manhattan in 12 years, I new I needed to mix things up, as in most things in life. Its always good to re-arrange the furniture of your life! Hopefully finding new things and perspectives, and things you might not have ever known. Here's MY first,

Shacks are FUCKING Hot as SHIT in the summer time! So yea, I'm still adjusting to island life for sure. But, riding my bike into town, brushing my teeth out side, and an outdoor shower seem like a great middle finger to NYC for now. So far I've been working in prep kitchen and tomorrow I'm gonna start working with landscaping company- we'll see how it all plays out.

Oh and a side note,

I had forgot about the whole 'Prepster' scene' out here, its definitely at level Orange, but it seems to be such a small part of this island. For the most part it's a lot of really cool hippies and hard workers.

Speaking of Whales pants ( Yes, guys actually wear pants that have little whales on them) I am gonna make my own line of WHALE PANTS, but mine are gonna have cute little whales on them with a harpoon through their heads and blood coming out of mouths.

NOW THOSE WOULD BE SOME FUCKING WHALE PANTS!!!!

I digress,

here's a little video I made, Ladies and bangers, I give you the WAACK SHAACK!

ENJOY!!

Live from the Waack SHAACK from Doug cote on Vimeo.

ENJOY!