August 2007

Aug 30, 2007
medical stuff is now Friday....9:15. And usually doctors are late in my experience...so who knows. No eating after dinner tonight. I hope I pass this thing.....There's a lot of tests...like if my glucose is too high. I have no idea of the state of my glucose. Either that or the guy just goes "dude, you are completely out of shape......fergitit"
Anyway...after the medical stuff I head out to LA music in Mississauga to pickup, (hopefully) my guitar. New pickups and a setup. They seemed pretty cool there...I'm hoping everything is put in right, my guitar plays sweet, and it won't cost me an arm and a leg.
Going to try and get all my solos down for recording with Amer on ....what? Tuesday.....yah, that's coming up. In my mind it'd be hip if I'd get everything one take off the floor. No over dubs....one take Shawny. So if I can know the solos I'll play...it'll be a help.....rather than just wanking away with a tonne of distortion on. Speaking of which....I have to get my gear organized. I've gone from a "plug into whatever amp is around, and that's my sound" to a guy that is obsessed with tone and gear. Although, I'm not as into as this dude I saw at long and mcquades.....he had a picture of his setup with him at the store....it looked like two refrigerator with lights and cables.
yes, I'm jealous. my back isn't though. I actually said to him "Man, where do you gig with that???"
Aug 23, 2007
Digging into the songs finally....
feeling very lazy still....I like it. Have to get medical stuff done...hate that part.....probably a lot of waiting, and blood taking...x-rays. poking......rubber gloves.....
Aug 20, 2007
Gig went well at the Dakota....pretty cool place, good crowd. I didn't feel 100% on my game, but it came out ok. Going into the studio soon with Amer....3 long days to do bed tracks....I'm looking forward to it, it's going to be fun.
Just learning songs now....have a month and a bit to get about 150 songs down. I'm finding it hard to get motivated.....I'm doing a lot of tv/dvd watching. It's like I'm on vacation.....hard to force myself to work.
Drinking a PC cola right now...pretty good.
There's some pictures of my guitars on my flickr site if you're interested.
Aug 16, 2007
Busy....a lot happened in a week or two. Quit my job....then got a gig on a cruise ship. So if all goes well, I'm leaving Toronto September 29th....Before that all sorts of things presented themselves. Recording Amer's album is coming up very shortly.....there's a gig tomorrow night at the Dakota, (Dundas and Ossington here in Toronto). I have a gig coming up in the Bahamas with Surf's Up (hope that doesn't fall through....) Then some more Toronto dates with Amer, over dubs on the album, Dogfest in Peterborough.....then gone.
Spent last week at a cottage with Lynn...so relaxing. And since I had found out about the cruise gig before we left, I really got to relax. I got bit by a chipmunk. Little bastard. I fell asleep, and he either thought my toe was a peanut, or he got pissed off I fell asleep and wasn't giving him peanuts anymore.
And I was chopping wood and some flipped back on my big toe...nasty. and hurt like a sonofabitch.
But really a fun relaxing trip.
Also squeezed in some time to make some music for a short little film of sorts. I think I've worked more in the past two weeks than I've done in a long time.
I'm so glad I don't have a day job. Can't even tell you.
Aug 15, 2007
Working on this new site.
Aug 3, 2007
My old job called and said..."umm...we didn't realized you quit on Thursday cuz your manager didn't tell us....you can quit if you want. "
So...water under the bridge.
but hey....don't be afraid to buy some cds....
So now I'm just relaxing and playing guitar most days.....did a round of golf on Tuesday with Mike.
"there's got to be more, than wasting my day in this dead end job..."
...apparently there is. Learn from my mistake....if you are unhappy in a situation and it's not going to get better....move on. Don't wait a million years like I did until you almost freaking lose yourself.
Going to Lynn's family's cottage next week.....that should be relaxing, then recording Amer's new cd.....really looking forward to that. The songs are good and the band sounds great. And I don't have to deal with asking for time off work....