Greetings from the Wack!
Weather's random as hell, but I actually, well, love it here. I love the landscape - the mountains, the rivers. The vastness is so inspiring too: everything is just so.. huge. It's like you can see forever in every direction and it just gives you this feeling that you've got everywhere to go and that you can actually do it too. It's going to be tough getting along with my parents (my dad and I are hilariously alike in personality and conviction, we just have completely different views) but aside from that, I am settling in for what I think is going to be an extremely awesome summer.
Anyway, my room looks like a room now, I've almost got my record player set up, and I found this on youtube this morning: documentery called "It Might Get Loud" - Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White pretty much just sit in a room for a couple days and just jam, talk, and share tips and ideas and basically it looks amazing and I really want to see it. Jimmy Page is hands down my favourite guitarist already, but from trailers and links it's already seriously changed my impression of Jack White, so I'm hoping to get my mitts on it sometime soon.
P.S. Watch it full-screen or link yourself to the video - it's beastly good quality but the player's too damn big for the page format here :P
29.4.10
25.4.10
Sunday Post
Hey y'all. Post up before lunch, huzzah!
This is my last post from Victoria - I'm moving tomorrow to spend the summer in Chilliwack. I would've prefered being here, but I don't have the money to cover rent so it's back to parents for me. I'm actually looking forward to it now; I'd rather be in Chilliwack than Langley. Entirely new area for me - I've been through Chilliwack, but never actually IN it. The house is pretty nice too - enormous window facing northeast in the living room that I'm claiming for a practice space. The whole area is completely flat too, so biking is going to be amazing. Also - RIVERS. I'm so excited for these. We've got the ocean here, but we don't have any actual rivers, and now I'm going to have one of the biggest rivers on the continent a 5 km bike ride from my house. Cultus Lake is a half-hour ride from my place too, so awesome.
Anyway, I'll miss the city like the dickens, but I'm looking forward to the next leg of the perptual adventure that is life. Keep the tailwaind.
This is my last post from Victoria - I'm moving tomorrow to spend the summer in Chilliwack. I would've prefered being here, but I don't have the money to cover rent so it's back to parents for me. I'm actually looking forward to it now; I'd rather be in Chilliwack than Langley. Entirely new area for me - I've been through Chilliwack, but never actually IN it. The house is pretty nice too - enormous window facing northeast in the living room that I'm claiming for a practice space. The whole area is completely flat too, so biking is going to be amazing. Also - RIVERS. I'm so excited for these. We've got the ocean here, but we don't have any actual rivers, and now I'm going to have one of the biggest rivers on the continent a 5 km bike ride from my house. Cultus Lake is a half-hour ride from my place too, so awesome.
Anyway, I'll miss the city like the dickens, but I'm looking forward to the next leg of the perptual adventure that is life. Keep the tailwaind.
21.4.10
Michael Caine
is fantastic. Being born in '90 an' all, I missed his early years by, uh, a lot. However, Muppet's Christmas Carol, The Weatherman and Children of Men are quite liked (I'd like to say favourites, but I'm gonna have to say that I like the guy more than I like the movies... except maybe Muppets - they're just so goddamn good).
I love not being on Facebook anymore. Now, when I stay up until 4:30 AM when I have to get up and bike around the next morning, I'm listening to amazing music on youtube instead of creeping around facebook going "why the hell am I still awake, I'm not even doing anything on here."
Here is Led Zeppelin to melt your face. I'm going to bed.
I love not being on Facebook anymore. Now, when I stay up until 4:30 AM when I have to get up and bike around the next morning, I'm listening to amazing music on youtube instead of creeping around facebook going "why the hell am I still awake, I'm not even doing anything on here."
Here is Led Zeppelin to melt your face. I'm going to bed.
18.4.10
Sunday Post
Hey y'all. Bloody good thing I made that seperate post or you'd just be scrolling forever today (still tossed in another musician picture or two too, heh).
I've got only one thing left to do before I'm done the semester. Well, technically I've got two, but I'm not really counting a half-hour ear test as a stressful matter. All I've got is a research paper on high-speed rail transit which is due tomorrow evening, and frankly put, this paper is my bitch. I'd be lying if I said research papers were generally enjoyable, but when you actually WANT to research and write about your material, well... it's awesome. It'll be done by the evening methinks, and then I'm intending to indulge in copious amounts of guitar and liquour throughout the rest of the week.
Enjoy the music at the bottom!
ps. Watched "The Life Aquatic" again this week. Remembered how beautiful Cate Blanchett is. Was happy.
Highlight of the week: discovering Melissa McClelland and then Luke Doucet. Hands down. Melissa was featured on the soundtrack to "One Week" and I found her through that. Amazing work, amazing lady - seriously, I have seen few women who are as talented and beautiful as her. Luke is even more awesome. Amaaazing guitarist, fantastic songs and he's almost as pretty as Melissa, who also happens to be his wife. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure who I'm more jealous of in this relationship :P
Anyway, I've been swooning over them so much this week I have to post a pair of videos. Hell, it was tough picking even just two. First is Luke Doucet playing "New Orleans" live - Melissa shows up partway to sing harmony. Second is Melissa's song "Passenger 24" - turns into a massive fantastic 8-minute dirty blues jam. So good. So yeah, enjoy, have a good week, and see y'all sometime DURING the week - all this free time, I'll be damned if I don't get anything awesome to post before Sunday.
I've got only one thing left to do before I'm done the semester. Well, technically I've got two, but I'm not really counting a half-hour ear test as a stressful matter. All I've got is a research paper on high-speed rail transit which is due tomorrow evening, and frankly put, this paper is my bitch. I'd be lying if I said research papers were generally enjoyable, but when you actually WANT to research and write about your material, well... it's awesome. It'll be done by the evening methinks, and then I'm intending to indulge in copious amounts of guitar and liquour throughout the rest of the week.
Enjoy the music at the bottom!
ps. Watched "The Life Aquatic" again this week. Remembered how beautiful Cate Blanchett is. Was happy.
Highlight of the week: discovering Melissa McClelland and then Luke Doucet. Hands down. Melissa was featured on the soundtrack to "One Week" and I found her through that. Amazing work, amazing lady - seriously, I have seen few women who are as talented and beautiful as her. Luke is even more awesome. Amaaazing guitarist, fantastic songs and he's almost as pretty as Melissa, who also happens to be his wife. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure who I'm more jealous of in this relationship :P
Anyway, I've been swooning over them so much this week I have to post a pair of videos. Hell, it was tough picking even just two. First is Luke Doucet playing "New Orleans" live - Melissa shows up partway to sing harmony. Second is Melissa's song "Passenger 24" - turns into a massive fantastic 8-minute dirty blues jam. So good. So yeah, enjoy, have a good week, and see y'all sometime DURING the week - all this free time, I'll be damned if I don't get anything awesome to post before Sunday.
16.4.10
Musicians
I noticed that I had a lot of pictures of bands, musicians, etc etc in the pile this week so I decided to just make a seperate post.
This is the Jimi Hendrix memorial in Renton, Washington (twenty minutes or so out of Seattle)
This is the Jimi Hendrix memorial in Renton, Washington (twenty minutes or so out of Seattle)
11.4.10
Sunday Post
That time of the week again. I should probably be more concerned about a research paper that's due at lunch tomorrow, but I worked out that I could actually not even hand a paper in and I'd still have around 70-80% in the class, sooooo yeah. Enjoy! More Grace Potter at the bottom again this week. Instead of Satriani she's with her actual band this time, The Nocturnals, so it's nice to get a solid taste of what she's about herself. Have a good week!
So gospelly and delicious. She's playing a festival in Pitt Meadows on Canada Day, but she's the only one on the bill I actually want to see and it's eighty bucks. Plus I'm hoping to get my ass down to the West End for Canada Day anyway. Decisions, decisions. Here you go - "Big White Gate"
So gospelly and delicious. She's playing a festival in Pitt Meadows on Canada Day, but she's the only one on the bill I actually want to see and it's eighty bucks. Plus I'm hoping to get my ass down to the West End for Canada Day anyway. Decisions, decisions. Here you go - "Big White Gate"
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