Joshua Van Tassel

10 minutes before my plane landed in sunny Calgarythis morning, repeated clips of a plane crashing during landing procedures were played on every little tv on every little seat. Wow. Really encouraging west jet, thanks.
No sounds til Monday, but I will take advantage of whatever wifi I can steal and pirate, and I’ll be extra snarky to make up for it.

Mainly because there’s no way sometimes I can do it daily right now. Joshuavt.com is hereby address-less, so I’ll be coming at you from all sorts of fun places. Today, I’m at my sister’s place who has been kind enough to harbour a burgeoning musician of sorts while he sorts things out. Tomorrow, Calgary, I’ll update with a picture of something beeflike or mountain size.
I have been working hard though I promise. Here’s the start of a pretty tune I’m producing for Sarah Kurtis. About halfway there but I’m liking where it’s headed.

…really quietly late at night at someone else’s apartment to a cat outside.

Who-David Myles
Where-The Rivoli
When-Saturday night 1 am
What-a very drunk man really wants to sing for David. Very loudly. He paid money to see him play. David feels obligated to listen. Musician’s duty for sure, and we’ve all been there. Probably on both sides.

Sometime when you sit down and try to empty your head and just make what you hear strange things come out. Sometimes dark things even on sunny days. Here’s one that I suppose is fairly dark, but then again my website isn’t behappyallthetimeilvoerainbows.com, now is it?

Things are busy, playing with one of favorite Maritime brethren David Myles on Saturday night at the Rivoli with the Outlanders as his band. It should be fun. 2 of my favorite worlds colliding. Come down and say hello if you’re around and need a good night out before a long weekend feast.

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hey folks, missed the past couple days, sorry about that. Just spending a bit of time being quiet. It’s good for you sometimes. No noise making, no music writing, not even listening. Tomorrow however, noises begin again. See you then.

still trying to make my voice do things it doesn’t want to do, namely sing. Here’s something I was working on this morning to try and practice a few different things…

what the hell are you staring at?? huh? So steely and cold looking. You intimidate and occasionally please.

Here’s part something I’m working on for a great song writer named Sarah Kurtis. I think it’s sounding pretty, which is ok, you know? Pretty isn’t very cool these days, but that’s what we’re going for, so whatever.