9 posts tagged “cameron”

This blog post does not have a clear beginning or a foreseeable clear end.  It does, however, have a clear now.  

For those readers who do not know that story, on May 14th 2007 I was horribly injured in a freak motorcycle accident on a desert road on the Arizona/New Mexico border.  I was miraculously rescued and, in fairness, have to thank the doctors who saved my life and put me back together.  
However, since that time, doctors with their over-medication, career and life-damaging reports which they refuse to take responsibility for, and mercenary financial tactics have brought me to a desperate place.

That desperate place is right, here, right now.

There is a specialist at UCLA who several months ago wrote a report, based on hearsay, that prevented me from returning to work and is about to make me lose my drivers license.  In this report she brought into question my my cognitive functioning.    Since that time I have been to another specialist at great expense to myself personally to have my cognitive functioning tested.  (Oh, by the way, no thanks to my psychiatrist, who has consistently over-medicated me and then refused to take any kind of responsibility for the implications of that.)
The cognitive testing shows me all normal.

IN SHORT, THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH ME THAT WOULD PREVENT ME FROM DRIVING OR PERFORMING ANY OTHER TASK AND I CAN PROVE IT.  HOWEVER, NEITHER THE SPECIALIST AT UCLA OR THE PSYCHIATRIST WILL ACKNOWLEDGE THIS!!!!!!!!

Worse still, their foot-dragging and buck-passing cost me a months work and a months disability which cost me my truck.  We are now down to just motorcycles and on March the 2nd I lose my drivers license unless a doctor will sign off on my medical

MY PSYCHIATRIST REFUSES TO SEE ME AND THE SPECIALIST SPECIALIST AT UCLA WILL NOT RETURN MY URGENT PHONE CALLS.  HOWEVER, IN THE BACKGROUND, THEY CONTINUE TO PASS THE BUCK AND DESTROY MY LAST OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A LIVING AND DIG MYSELF OUT OF THE HOLE THAT HAS BEEN CREATED.

So, here is my desperate gamble-when I finish writing this and posting all over the internet, I am going to get on a motorcycle which needs a new clutch and new rear-end bearings and driving to UCLA. This is a distance of about 120 miles over some difficult and dangerous mountain terrain.  I am going to do whatever it takes to confront this doctor and/or one of her superiors and get them to take action.

At this point I am not naming names and I am keeping this report in the domain of blogs and private e-mails.  If I survive the day and do not get some satisfaction I will start naming names and start using my position as a member of the press to spread the story far and wide.  

I have nothing more to lose at this point.

Wish me luck.

J. Cameron Weckerley  Aka  BMWeerman  ....out 

This is really cool.  It is just like iTunes...you can listen to a 30 second sample for free and then if you decide to buy  you just click on the button.  Neat.

I think I have said this before, but this music is the companion to the illustrated travel story Lines in the Sand.

The first 18 pages are available free at www.highslab.com

Just go to the site then navigate to Lines in the Sand.

BTW...I would very much appreciate any feedback you might have....Thanks

BMWeerman

Greetings friends..

Sorry once again for my lengthy absence.

As I sat here typing just now I was tempted to pontificated on the meaning of art, life the universe and everything,  reason however has prevailed and I will merely say that, finally, my new album is done.

As most of you know it is a musical journey through my summer motorcycle trip, horrific accident and subsequent recovery.  I have attached a clip that covers all eight tunes on the album.

After much consideration I have decided to do the manufacturing in-house because all of the proceeds will be donated to Christmas charities and the overhead will be so much less.  The downside is the packaging will be of slightly lesser quality but the music will not suffer in any way.

The album is called Lines in the Sand and is for sale on my website.

www.highslab.com/our_music.html

If you have any problems comments or questions please feel free to contact me.

Thanks

BMWeerman

Location: Griffith Park, CA

Yesterday, on something of a whim, we jumped in the truck and headed south to check out the Griffith Park Sidecar Show.   We knew where Griffith Park was, but had only a vague idea of the whereabouts of the show.  Fate was kind t because as we neared the exit for the park a motorcycle with attached sidecar appeared in front of us.
Not a hard guess where they were going.  Sure enough the old game of "follow that sidecar" soon led us to the Crystal Springs Picnic Area and a sea of classic, unusual, and just downright bizarre sidecar rigs.

The show was started almost  by accident by Doug Bingham 36 years ago.  Bingham is owner of Side Strider, Inc.  and the first event was held just on the suggestion that he and his customers get together for a picnic.  When over 40 rigs showed up Bingham knew he was on to something.

Since then the show has grown to include 300-400 entries and thousands of visitors each year.




Richard Williams poses with his Vintage BMW sidecar rig which has original paint and stripes.





Some entries were wilder than others..."calling Buck Rogers."

Please see the photo gallery for many more pix of the event

Last week we released episode 50 or The Road Show Motorcycle Podcast  

Which means, amazingly, we have been "on-the-air" for almost a year.

At the same time my new album is almost done.  It sort of harkens back to the late great '70's in that it is a concept album chronicling the journey I have been on these last few months.   The songs are modern, but the concept of string a number of disparate elements together to tell a long form story has not been with us for some time.

This is not the album cover but it is a general concept of the feeling of the album.

I have also included an mp3 file of a tune called "Under Stars" which is on of the very different things on this collection.

Most importantly, however is we would like to invite you to the double birthday party, we just don't know when or where yet.....sooo will keep you posted.

Enjoy.

Cameron
www.highslab.com

It is still going to be quite a while before I am able to get back on a bike so I have commited myself to this album project.  Below is a partial song list.  I think 12 is a good number of songs so I still have to decide on three more.

 

 

Song List:

1)Sunrise in the Mirror

2)Nite Ride

3)33

4)Wedding Song

5)Latin Thing

6)No Man's Land

7) Through the Hills

8) Among Giants

9) The Navigators