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For days
This is all I’ve been doing. Helping a good friend build a very very nice studio. Very very excited. More soon. I may even be becoming a handy man….
Wedding!
So happy for Valery and Joel.beautiful people on a beautiful day for a beautiful reason.
Back in town, like, for real. Picking up my instruments tomorrow, so this will turn back into a productive productivity blog rather then just a photo photoactivity blog. I promise.
oneobject project ep for free
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In May I set out to do a 5 song project where for each piece I would use the sounds from only one object. Well, I ran out of time, did four of ‘em, and that’s 80 percent done which is close enough. Getting a workspace back in order and heading away again until Monday, so I thought I’d get this ep out there now. I need closure you know?
Or else I’ll keep fiddling until I go crazy and you’re sick of hearing about it.
Anyway.
Go to this link – https://www.yousendit.com/download/K0JTYnU0QTZ6RSt4dnc9PQ
and download away. The pieces are titled and contain sounds from -
1. Ice Cubes
2. Cereal box
3. Bicycle
4. Cellphone numbers 1,2,3
They were lots of fun to make, I learned a ton, and hopefully will do some more again soon. Hope you enjoy……
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Evening Hymns album spirit Guides. Super beautiful, haunting, touching, powerful tunes. Picked it up the other day and haven’t really listened to anything else since then, thought I’d let the cyber world know how great it is. I’m going to start doing this more often. Not even really reviews but just quick little “go buy this now”s.
Life is slowly starting to settle in post tour/move. Still haven’t been able to set up a little work spot, but hopefully this week something will come together. I don’t even have a guitar right now which drives me a it crazy. Soon enough. I’ve been working on my carpentry skills though, which believe me need a lot more working on. Geez. Hope you all are well.
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I’m home in a new home and happy. Unpacking and making coffee too strong because we’re using beans from a different place that I underestimated. That’ll teach me. Also listening to the Evening Hymns record which I finally got, it’s awesome. Unpacking the next couple days but I’ll see you soon. It’s nice to be back in Toronto despite the minor apocolypse I apparently missed.
And there’s definitely an upright piano with antlers on it here which is great.
Coleman/the Blackbird cafe
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My favorite venue. Best bartender in Canada, Max the 5 year old. He keeps the shows moving along smooth. If he’s falling asleep, you’re not rocking hard enough. My favorite mohawked dog too , poppa. Had a beautiful walk around town, had to walk up a big hill and realized I’m totally out of shape, had a delicious meal and an orange soda, met some good people. Touring doesn’t get much better then that.
Sask weather is entertaining
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Well folks, you have to do something on a prarie drive detour, so we weather watched. We’re in Regina tonight awaiting steaks hopefully the size of Devo’s torso. Had a fun night in Coleman last night, some pictures from there later.
Twin butte
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When the view from the venue you’re playing at looks like the first picture below, you generally aren’t too worried if the show isn’t great that night, considering it’s a Monday. However, twin butte provided on all accounts. It’s a venue called the General Store, because besides being a great place to play and having great Mexican food, it’s the community general store. Awesome. The staff was super friendly, the people were great, and it was the first Monday night gig I’ve ever played where people danced on the bar.
We’re headed back into the mountains tonight to play at my favorite venue in Canada, the blackbird in coleman. Excited.
No cotton candy but lots of other things
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Played a great festival in northern Alberta yesterday, North Country fair. Really well put together, great bands, and a beautiful site by a river. We were treated super well an met lots of other wayfaring musician types who we’ll hopefully run into again. Saw a great band called the Roger Marin band who are from the Niagra region of all places, apparently I need to go out west to take my head out of my ass and hear good Ontario music.
On the way back to Calgary tonight for a fathers day celebration at Chateau Cockerill (they’re French so saying it that way is actually appropriate). (Happy fathers day Dad! Let the public records state that i did indeed call to wish you a happy fathers day, but you were out.)We’re drinking A&W coffee which is surprisingly passable. And the sun is out. And I slept really well. Good day.
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I don’t play a mean pinball
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Had a good night in Winnipeg last night. met some really good people, ate some deep fried pickles and played some pinball at a great bar called the Standard. Also saw Andrew Neville play, a man who wears no sleeves on any shirts and can sing a mean country tune about driving a truck.
Here’s a point form news flash about what’s happening in the van right now because we’re driving to medecine hat and I’m going crazy.
- Josh C is driving and drinking a coffee from Subway. We’re debating if it’s deserves to be called coffee. It’s like calling ketchup a tomato.
- Devo is riding shotgun, not really doing anything interesting. He was just relieved of driving duty though so he deserves a rest and we’ll leave him alone.
- I’m writing on my iPhone and all the bumps make this little keyboard pretty fucking annoying. I also finished with a book and beat legend of Zelda for nintendo ds. Hence the boredom.
- we love listening to taylor swift. It’s true. We not only sing along to the lyrics, but the epic drums fills. When you’re 15 and someone tells you they love you, you’re gonna believe them. Word.
- my foot is asleep. I’m sleepy.we’re listening to Bonnie Prince Billy now and it’s nice.
See, isn’t the van craaaaaazy?!? We’re definitely the wildest band on the road. For sure.
