sunrise vs sunset

i've been scootering through the park around sunrise everyday this week. always an enjoyable and slightly sureal experience. earlier in the week I didn't see a single car and the world was completely silent. During the night the geese and ducks had made their way close to the edge of the park/road.

I felt like I was cruising through a world where the population of humans had just vanished. That, coupled with all the post apocalyptic novels I've been reading made it quite the ride. I had been watching the park to my left and when I returned my attention to the road I saw a crow feasting on the still steaming breast of a mallard duck. The crow didn't flinch as I passed by, it just met my gaze, and followed.

We keep weird hours. Emeri and I have mused that perhaps there are less brain waves, cell phone signals, etc floating around between 12am-6am. If anyone gives you a hard time about sleeping until 230 in the afternoon just ask them where they were when the sun came up.

g

Red Rooster debrief

Had a great time at the Red Rooster last night. Everyone at that place is so friendly: crowd, staff, bands, roosters.

Next show is June 5th in Waterloo. A few weeks off to work out some new material will be quite nice.

Cheers!

G

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g

Red Friday

So we'll be playing The Red Rooster on Friday night. It's always fun and they actually promote bands... yes I said promote.

It's a funny word... "promote." See I am going to try not to go off on a big tangent ...but I am pretty sure everybody knows the meaning of promote. For example... Your birthday is coming up... you host a big party... you tell no one... maybe people who know you enough show up... but that's it. Now say you told people... now do you think this might help the party?

My next question.... say your working title was Wedding Planner and the only actual planning you did was book the hall... now should you have to change your title to something like...um I don't know... Directer of Hall booking? and should you still make the wage of a Wedding Planner?...

See music is a funny industry too...

Anywhooo like I was saying we are at the Rooster on Friday and it'll be a good time had by all. Always a great crowd and if you were around for that crazy Mr. Rogers endeavor... you might have just heard a few new tunes wees bee workin' uprron. Saying that we might end up unleashing these bastard beasts on Friday.

Burlington is fun!!!
give us your money...

p.

Hosed

Last night we played the Rogers Spring Music Festival. We weren't televised, which was their angle for harassing us to promote like hell, and we were treated with a lot less respect than the other bands we were sharing the stage with. It was your typical crooked bullshit.

I won't go into anymore detail, because I don't like to whine. Needless to say, it was a stressful night.

Sometimes I get so caught up in the shit trenches I lose my head, but once we start playing it all makes sense again. Even with the fire alarm going off for half of our set was charming at that point. Playing to a wicked and enthusiastic crowd is a must too. You guys/gals all rule. We love you and thank you for the support.

BLR Entertainment has promised to make it up to us by guaranteeing us another show with them. Until then, I'll just sit tight and look forward to making them some more money.

Big shout out to Pete the soundman from last night. What a trooper. And as always, thanks to Jamie for bringing his fine visuals to the set.

G

ITodd Lounge

This past Friday we hung out with Todd Donald from the ITodd Lounge. We talked about Cajun Sauces, Indie Music and a bunch of other stuff. Todd's a cool dude and feel pretty relaxed around him (because we're typically uptight twats, right?).

Click here to check out the live performances and interview. We even convinced Todd to join us for 'Beckoning'.

Also, hassle Todd about releasing his Wilburys cover CD. It's goddamn amazing. The man has played all the synth/key parts using a QWERTY keyboard as a MIDI controller.







Later,

G

The Boat (picture format)

Rockin' the Boat

So we all had a great time in Toronto Wednesday night at the Boat. It's a very cool place, we definitely want to go back and kill it on a Friday or Saturday night.
I loved the atmosphere the people... it was great.
I like the idea of not having to fill a 350 capacity venue... and I like to see smaller clubs with great systems and great sound guys (Keith you rocked!)

What didn't rock was me leaving the interior light on in the van trying to get the stereo face plate off.... and later Emeri discovering a dead BABY! ....I mean battery.... oops ;) No good deed goes unpunished.

So we will have some photos up of the night...(Greg please insert photos ....i do not know how)
Thanks again to Jamie the "Video Artist" and his love of Dogs... for doing his thang...and shaken it as well!

Anyways we are gearing up for this Rogers Spring thing and we need you people to come to this thing and look pretty while we play an acoustic/electric set on this prehistoric device they call a television set. Yes you read this right... Vacuity on TV...

Come one, come all... get your ugly mug on Satan's Box and see us! May 9th at the Casbah, Hamilton.

P.S ....iTodd interview coming sooooooon....
p.