5-man bobsled (ie: lots of layering)

So the other night Mrs. called to say they were at a fun bar nearish to me so I obviously had to go on over even though I wasn't planning on going out.  And then it turned out there were more people I knew there even my one of my favourite tweeters!

I also ran into this guy who I know very vaguely and is one of my favourite singer-songwriters and he also plays in the arkells and he'd just gotten back from the olympics with them we had this conversation (or an approximation thereof)
dg: just got back from the olympics
me: What sport?
dg: ah, the 5-man bobsled?
me: whoa nice
dg: yeah, it's not the most publicized sport
me: sounds fun though
dg: all the men sort of lie on top of each other
me: so most are just padding?
dg: it's just math you know like one then two
me: yeah it's just math. like BEDMAS
dg: I wanted to call the band BEDMAS
me: hahahaaaa
dg: it didn't go over well
me: Nick wanted to call Sweet Thing "Elk Attack"
dg: hahaaaa (fine I don't know how he actually laughs that's just a representation it might have been more like hohohahaahoho who knows!)

Also I like the word bedmas because it just reminds me of beds and christmas. and therefore christmas mornings opening stockings in bed. SIGH.

You know I can't recall ever seeing the Arkells but everyone seems to like them oh look I can stream everything on their website. Nice one, internet!

This is also a good video blog of theirs:

You know what kinds of bands I like? Bands that like Motown.
Also I like Motown bands. Obviously. So does the BFF when we worked at the ice cream shop we would play those Motown records to death. And dance around.


Oh yeah here are some photos I keep forgetting to show you!


These are of allllll these dudes' new cover band which is called New Twigs (or something like that??) I don't have a link for ya, sorry.
But I will for certain tell you when they are playing next because if you are fun you'd like to come.


They do covers of like CCR and Springsteen and fucking I don't know like good fucking rock and roll and then you can dance (except not nearly enough people were dancing) and sing along real loud for sure.


Sass wants me to put up the video I took of them doing Harvest Moon (so good though I think that Elliott Smith's Harvest Moon is still my favourite what isn't my favourite about Elliott Smith?) but the sound quality on my camera is too terrible. Sorry Sass!


I said to Nick "are we old now? Do we now only like cover bands? Do we have to start going to the Bier Markt on Friday nights"
and he said "oh god, let's not get ahead of ourselves here."
me: "what about grace o'malley's???"
hahaaaaa gross.






Also Nick's band played! I hadn't seen them in too long so it sure was lovely to hear all my favourites again.
You know so many people I'm bffs with I met through Nick talking to him at that Silver Hearts show so many years ago was one of the best decisions I made. Maybe I will tell you that story sometime.


Leave me alone I like pictures of lights like this.


these pictures are way better than my band photos!



I'm constantly struggling with the names for people on here. I mean, I want to publicize people where I can for instance if they are musicians or actors or shop-owners or whatevers but I also don't want to necessarily tie them up in whatever bullshit comes along with me having a blog. Or I don't want them to be incriminated by shit I say about anything else. Also some people are pretty private or feel weird about being blogged about. Especially people who don't ever read blogs to them it's so strange to be written about or it's a big deal. I dunno. I guess I'll keep on with this halfsies of putting up a bit of information on people but not everything and then if you're uncomfortable with something I've written you can just let me know and I'll amend it. Also if you're fine with me writing whatever and using your full real name all the time for every story then you can let me know that, I guess?



People who use the internet for everything all the time totally get that everything is no big deal and people that don't can't understand why would all post so much information. they're like "are you trying to murdered?" umm remember phone books? remember when you could find someone's phone number and address just by knowing their name?? come on now!




whoa this band is pretty in squiggles!



I think I'm wienering out on watching "the game" today because I really have to work on my new project. Also there's some parties I might want to go to later and so, you know...
I did kinda feel like watching MEN be MEN watching SPORTS but also I'll probably get over it.

said I was your catalyst, I was your gun

For the first time since Elliott Smith died I'm back listening to all his music and enjoying it. I don't mean to sound melodramatic (even though that's what I'm best at), I mean there's enough time passed that I can just love the songs again and not be sort of crushed by the ridiculousness of the loss of him.



Of course this is all also tied in to how I feel about Toad, and about his schizophrenia and talent and his quiet guitar playing while I curled beside him and how hard I loved him.
I still have a couple of tapes that Toad made for me - recordings of his songs, I can't really listen to them again yet. Maybe at some point? I hope. Hell, I still hope that Toad will get better and make me more tapes!



Toad never listened to Elliott Smith, I tried to make him because I thought he'd like it, but he never got around to it (that I know of, maybe he has now). It's funny though because Elliott Smith's song Christian Brothers is so similar to one Toad used to play for me all the time. Funny, that.

Oh, right, I wasn't feeling sad. My mistake.

am I off my head, am I just out of love?

oh hi, 4:30 in the morning OF COURSE.

Not like I have to work at 11 a.m. tomorrow and then at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow. No sir, don't worry about it!
the best part is that I wasn't even scheduled for that first shift tomorrow but lord knows I need work wherever I can get it. So badly!
Give me all the money!

Especially since I just spent my life savings on copies of Nick Rose's new CD!!!
NEW CD!!!
I mean, I haven't listened to it yet, but I'm going to go out on limb here and say that it's amazing. I will be shocked if it isn't.

Yeah, Tranzac tonight for Nick Rose also featuring Dan Griffin. They did songs independently and then performed a bunch together with their acoustic guitars and their pretty voices..
Mrs. and I both bought Dan Griffin's CD maybe a year or two ago on impulse not having seen him perform but we were like "any friend of Nick's, etc" and man oh man, well worth it that CD is so lovely.
Both Nick and Dan, man, when you hear them you're like "really?? really babes are this smart and wise and clever and lovely and love this hard and care this much and know how to put it exactly right so it fits into this empty place at the side of your heart there..."

SIGHS.
These kids are like Hayden or Elliott Smith except I get to hang out with them and know them and feel so pleased about their successes.

There's something so wonderful about sitting around a smallish room with people you like a lot and listening to babes sing about love and care-taking (care-giving Sass wants me to say instead)...


Life is sweet and I wish I slept more...


(title lyric from a Nick Rose song)

you're still here but just check to make sure

you can't ask for more ask for more ask for more ask for more
(I wanted her to tell me she would never wake me I'm lying here waiting for sleep to overtake me)



Every time I think maybe I don't really love Elliott Smith as much as I once did or as much as I think I do, I get another song of his that I've known forever but never properly loved stuck in my head and I realize what all kinds of brilliant it is. And today's is Last Call.
And I'm amazed by it all over again.

I'm tired tired, no idea why I'm on this machine instead of in bed, except that I have to listen to this song on repeat.

It's been a busy weekend I need a few (many many) hours alone to recharge.
It's been party and also ACTRA conference today (left feeling a bit more hopeful, as opposed to the last one I went to where I left feeling annoyed and dispirited...).
Tomorrow will bring a whole lot of nothing to do and hopefully (all my fingers be cross-ed) blog posts the likes of which you have NEVER SEEN.


it was really an hour earlier than that - I wonder how they fall back that clock?

Well.
We'll see.