Monday, December 31, 2007

new years

can't go out and party tonight, got to watch the kids.. i love kids.

been getting some stuff done.

Ran into Roger the other day and it came up that this can go on youtube

me wearing the hat of film maker



Oh yea resolutions

use less plastic with the goal of using none.

be free and creative and embrace others ideas with a firm hand on a cane like stick

jump off the train when the engineer yells "Next stop shithole"

try to nudge my way through the iron clad hurdle of making it onto to a folk festival tour

CT is home and it's quarter to midnight

Thursday, December 27, 2007

Oh good

Turns out I was already signed in for this here blogaroo.

Laid down some drums today with my man Hobbs in my basement at the Lynx paw studios... after a few technical fiasco's we got a few down. As i was chumming up my wife to the idea that we would be slipping into the studio tomorrow (Koko), and then of course playing live the next night (remember now we have 3 kids). She agreed it was a good idea as my horoscope suggested i need to get this album done. I almost want to go on a diversion to try and define what "album" means but i am afraid to for various reasons, the main one being that i have to work early tomorrow morning and i have been sick for a few weeks and there is much to do in the next 2 days. The word rest does not exist to me in this world at this time... have no fear i will retire in a decade and perhaps by then i could casually tour what is left of this broken world.

I was thinking of changing the working title from "Mr. Greenie" to "Only the paranoid survive".

as long as my horoscope is good... which it always seems to be.

if i ever wanted to horns-waggle my wife, which of course i would never do as a policy of respect and karma, i would focus on getting a job writing horoscopes in her favorite paper (the courier) under an alias.

shall we try

Leo - dark omens are headed your way as cloudy skies narrow your options and it appears your only course of survival is to bow down and submit to your partner's every wish. By maintaining this course of action you will be freed of the evil spirit ghost that is clearly stakling you.... do not question this as fate's maker is watching you.

Sagittarius- your leadership is needed now as your loved ones are in danger. use your natural skills and don't be afraid to delegate what may seem to be enormous tasks. perhaps this is a time for draconian leadership, everybody will be safer for it.

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

At home listening to the Leafs vs Islanders, turkey heating up, put up some posters for a show @ the Railway next saturday night emails coming in from all the bands about who's playing when with everybody requesting their preferred start time. All should go well unless of course one or more of the bands doesn't loose their fucking minds and play too long and too loud. But i mean what are the chances that that will happen? i don't think that there has ever been a situation in the history of live music where an act became seduced by the stage lights and thought somehow that this was indeed THEIR moment and the only way to truly seize it is to stay there as long as possible. Everybody knows that a Band is essentially a smart business, and a smart business would see a live performance as an opportunity to show some people your music and leave them wanting more with a sense of intrigue for what you do.

The Leafs are down 3-2 in the second period.. the Turkey is pretty good and the cabbage is even better than it was yesterday.

Monday, December 24, 2007

'Twas the night before Christmas

'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house
Not a creature was stirring... except of course a middle aged Gibbering fool with a few too man amber ale's in his gullet
The stocking were hung on the white board clamped to the mantle of the gas fireplace in an effort that started out as a precise science but ended in a swear-fest hack job extreme... and St. Robertson stuffed the felt stockings with pharmaceuticals for the various age groups from teething medicine to metameucil.

It would be a fine trick to get down out chimney and pop out of our fireplace... which reminds me of one of the problems i had with my childhood. we had a furnace and no fireplace and i always wondered how Santa could do it. for that matter i always wondered why Jack and Jill went up the hill to the well when the well should be in the low ground closer to the water table. Come to think of it how was a child of the 70's growing up in toronto suppose to relate to a nimble Jack who can jump over a candlestick.. like i mean we never had candlesticks... as far as i was told they were fire hazards... I had a fluorescent light if i wanted to read.

Anyhow, her i am a man in a house with 3 kids on christmas eve and i am the one awake.