Canadian rocker BIF NAKED has checked in with the following blog:

"Namaste and Salaam and Blessings to everyone of you! Happy Friday-everybody’s-workin’-for-tha-weekend! I hope this finds you content and open. Om Sai Ram.

As you can see, my 'Suggested Reading' short-list, is displayed here on the homepage. Believe me when I tell you: it is SHORT! :) I do NOT consider my ever-growing book collection to be an attachment. Perhaps this is denial. Hahaha! Nonetheless, books are part of my lifeforce. Books shaped me.

When we started out in bands, in the serendipity of Winnipeg skatepunk scenes, no body even HAD a cellphone. No laptops. I still remember those early tours of sending postcards to sweethearts and callin’ my dad from a payphone, in The Mission district of San Fransisco, telling him about the guy who got shot outside the peepshow joint that was beside the punkrawk club where we played the night before. (Yeah, yeah….I gotta MILLION stories. Maybe even more).

There weren’t even fax machines on my first European tour. Even if there were, we were more concerned about the fights between hardcore skins and ARA skins in the pit at the Vienna show, than have use for finding a fax machine. Ya feel me? It was more about finding somethin ta eat before the drive. So poor we didn’t have a cassette player in the van-with-no-door, and no walkmans. We read. Read books. LOTS of 'em, in the quiet hours of long drives.

Those were some of the best times of my entire life.

I never cared much for 'fiction novels'. I was ravenous for textbooks (probably due to my promise to my acedemic parents that I would, eventually, resume my University education, abandoned to the cawll of Tour). Eventually, I was fortunate enough to have a place to live where I could keep my growing collection. Then, over all these years, they moved from place-to-place with me (often being the heaviest boxesandboxesandboxes to move…….furniture is still lost on me…though I have a fifteen-person diningroom table…I still don’t own a bed. Never will).

I go through phases with my reading: medical textbooks, behavioural psychology, writing the MCATs, language texts- everything from Mandarin to Farsi to Swahili to Russian, Irving Layton poetry books, collections of anything by Arundhati Roy (who DID actually write one of the only novels I’ve ever read: The God Of Small Things). The only other novel I’ve ever read is on my 'Suggested Reading' list: Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi.

As my interest in nutricuticals bgan to evolve with my vegan devotion, I had to get and devote an entire bookcase to vegan nutricion and juicing and vintage, second-hand Hindustani cookbooks (some aren’t even in English!!).

I LOVE reading and want to share, with you, some of my favorite books. That’s why I’ve added the reading list to the website. I truly hope you find some of these books interesting, and maybe even explore them. Our minds are so spongy (phisiological pun, aside) and so able to learn and evolve, its good for us to continue to learn. Often, we develop new theories or modify old ways of thinking. And that’s good for us, and for everyone with whom we come into contact.

The picture (see photo on left, click to enlarge) is of a watercolor I made, inspired by my passion for books. Literature IS fire. Words are fire. Fan your flames, Baby! :). And have a goood weekend filled with positivity and contemplation and fun!

Take care of your body and your MIND. An open mind is integral to an open heart. Om hare om. Word to Big Bird."

Blessings and Love to you all,

Biffy

Xo

As previously reported, Bif has made her brand new single, 'I Won't Cry (Fuck You 2)' available for free download at this location. The song comes from Bif's new CD, The Promise, due in stores May 5th.