Frostbite

08.21.05 - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre - Irvine, CA
08.26.05 - Coors Amphitheatre - Chula Vista, CA

Hmmmmm, tasty.

Delirious 05/27/05

Tendonitis be damned, I'm seeing Delirious tonight. Did you know that the sun in Edmonton has already lit the sky around 5:00-5:30am?? Well, now I do. Makes me wonder why daylight savings isn't a BIGGER change. It was a nice morning anyway. And tonight will rock!

Beep.

Dave - Delirious! says:
wow tomorrow is fridaty!
Dave - Delirious! says:
i wish the world worked two weeks straight and then got a week off
Dave - Delirious! says:
you'd be able to accomplish neat things
Dave - Delirious! says:
like travel places
Dave - Delirious! says:
or go camping
Dave - Delirious! says:
or just do nothing
Dave - Delirious! says:
or renovate
Dave - Delirious! says:
or take a course in cooking
Dave - Delirious! says:
or parcheesy.
Dave - Delirious! says:
i think i spelt that wrong

Is it just me or does life take a gradually increasing sinister quality as you get older?

Bully

Dragonlady is a bully. Pure bully. There are other colorful words that I could use, but bully describes it best. She's stuck in the schoolyard. Called the Minolta guy a "big goofy man". And promptly described him as the bane of her existance.

Yes, I know it's not working, yes, I know it's a very important piece of machinery, yes, yes, yes. But you help no one by 911'ing everything on the planet. We're a team not a freaking serve-the-dragonlady harem.

And humans are not so different...

Shadows are a funny thing
An image yet not quite there
Yet in their strange flickering
is the soul of their bearer

All things go

An incredible thing when you start out on what you know to be an incredible journey: things fall apart. My spirit longs to be on an open road, with very little assets save music, and nothing else in my life. Responsibilities 1000's of kms away.

You came to take us,
All things go, all things go.
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow.
We have our mindset
All things no, all things no.
You had to find it
All things go, all things go.

- Sufjan Stevens "Chicago"

All for a muffin.

If only I had not wanted a muffin this morning. It was a really expensive muffin, and I never actually paid for it.

Sigh

The American fear engine is running full force these days. The newest enemy: north korea. Soon Iraq will be another Afganistan (although they may not like the comparison). And its not that north korea isn't a bunch of crack-pots, but the American media is full-out grooming the public into being scared shitless of them. Even some Canadians hop on the American fear wagon, and it kind of makes me sad.

There is likely a 'real problem' with north korea. I'm just saying the media is pushing the agenda a little too hard.

Blood and oil.

What is a road trip without blood and car troubles?

Yes, the 12 hour trip to Calgary was a raving success. We managed to shock the daylights out of one of the love's of my life (my sister Maura), eat too many Krispy Kreme's, visit Pete's Drive in, cut my elbow and bruise my back, and hit a MASSIVE 1 ft by .5ft rock going 120 km/hr. Oil leakage ensued. I promised Tessa I'd help pay, cause not only was the whole trip my initiative, but I was driving when the rock *appeared* dead centre in the middle of the road.

That said, it clicked her bumper into a near-flush position.

It may all cost money, but you get memories in return.

It's been awhile since I've posted. A slew of new music has been released and/or entered my life since then. I will list that music here.

Stars - Set Yourself On Fire (http://www.arts-crafts.ca/stars/)
They are part of the canadian indie revival, and they are fun to listen to.

Ryan Adams - Love is Hell
He's released a ton of albums, but they don't grab me the as much as Love is Hell. Superb.

Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Drum focused, but really superbly creative and slightly electronic. These guys must put on one heck of a show.

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Quickly became THE canadian indie band. All that put aside, Funeral is just wonderful, genious, and fresh.

There's more, but really these four albums require a couple of weeks to digest. Always listen three times through before writing anything off. (unless it's reaaaally terrible pop garbage or something) I listened to Kid A and OK Computer for over a year before Radiohead clicked.