December 2006

Dec 28, 2006
I rebooked a gig....Feb 6th, 2007. Mitzi's Sister. I'll bug you about it later.
This new year I plan for you and me both to be sick of me playing gigs. Then I can finally put the music crap to bed perhaps. Who knows.
I'm sick of this website.....I'll make something new when I get back from Nova Scotia....I'm still at the folks you see...and computer time is limited.  
Almost new years...but you know that. Not sure what Lynn and I are doing.....hanging out in Halifax for sure, just not sure what we're doing. I, personally...hate over planning. I know I don't want to see some shit top 40 band and a table full of jive hats.  
I think I'm still full.  
Dec 26, 2006
holy crap...I'm still full. We went to my Aunt Liz and Uncle Glen's yesterday for dinner....even jammed a bit with my aunt...that was fun. We dug out the ukes.
Other than that...doing nothing. I could say "pre production" for recording....I have no game plan for starting yet..but I have to get ready to go into the studio on the 13th. I'm more thinking about moving really....I'm getting really excited about it. Moving in with a pretty girl in a new part of town....
James Brown is dead....I'm getting a little tired of hearing about it to be honest.  

Dec 25, 2006
Merry Christmas.   
all the coffee is gone and presents are opened.
Hope you have a nice day, and a great new year.
Dec 22, 2006
I'm in Nova Scotia...
ate deer steak tonight, looked at the ocean, got a haircut.
I think this summer I'm just going to work on the carnival with my dad, and write me some carnival songs.  
....now, I've had a couple of beer...but I'm standing by that.
I just want to play guitar....and not....jive....brickhouse guitar...or brown eyed girl guitar...some music.  
I want to play music...I want to write music....be creative. My job sucks ass. I know, some of you are saying...leave your job.
I would too. But it's not that easy. So, get off my back.
or get me a cool job that I can work 9 to 5....get paid this much, have these benefits, and all that other crap.
until then...I complain about my job....and try to go to school and play some music.
errr..where was I ?
hmmm.....we drove to nova Scotia from Toronto this time around...man, what a long drive. fun though. stopped in Quebec and felt like a tourist.
.....
had to order a sub along the way...I pointed and grunted. And got a 12 inch Thon sub. nice. the 12 of Budweiser at the store next door was a little easier, but not much.
It's just nice to be home....I'm looking forward to Christmas...I haven't....gotten excited about it in a while. I can't wait to open up presents. I've already got a couple ...the tuner, and then the pedal steel case. PEDAL STEEL CASE. cool. I can do gigs. tell your friends....I can take my pedal steel outside.
do you need a pedal steel player that sucks? call me!
oh...this is more for Gordon.
My Christmas shopping is done. I had to cuz I was leaving. I can pick up a few more things here..but nothing major..all is done..just needs to be wrapped.
I just want to open my presents.
ok..I'm getting some cookies.
oh....I think I have a gig feb 6th.
be there...or be square.  
Dec 15, 2006
the Jan 9th gig fell through. Apparently "some wires were crossed".
Kirsten who was also on the bill, her friend lives next door the bar, mentioned the gig...and the guy booking...had no idea.
So..when I hear "wires got crossed...", I hear that as "the guy booking didn't write it down after our conversation on the phone"
So..no gig on Jan 9th.
What a fantastic way to start the day....
I do have a new coffee machine that, upon taste testing as I type....is pretty good. So that's something. I got up early to make some posters for the gig....good thing I didn't. First time in my life my laziness paid off.
Dec 10, 2006
let me start by saying...there are many things in my life that I've bought, or had bought for me, that I've thought are really, really cool. Off the top of my head....my old Atari 2600, and then Atari 800....my first electric guitar....my Ibanez jem...umm.
oh...surround sound........my Dad got me a DVD player/surround sound system.....amazes me, and makes me happy every time something whizzes by my head. Oh..and the tape deck my dad bought me at towers in ...let's say 1980. $40. Forty bucks...."would you like one of those...?" he asked.
Yah. boom..bought it. I had this great tape deck. I could tape say, super tramp...and listen to it in my room with my little radio shack disco lights....boom...very cool. Could tape myself playing my crappy little "satin steel" drum set. one of my all time favorite gifts.
anyway ...cool stuff. I went to Costco the other day....wasn't' going for anything....renewing the member ship..maybe an 8 litre bottle of Tabasco..
and what where they selling but a set of wireless playstation controllers.
let me say it again.
Wireless Playstation controllers.
I can be in a room....and not see the tv...yet control the playstation.
in surround sound.
kick my ass man..that's cool.
And the satin steel drum set. that was my Santa Claus test. I told my mom..ok...bullshit..there is no Santa.....I'm writing the letter, and asking for what I want....I want to see you put it in the envelope, seal it...and let's mail it....and we'll see how it plays out.
Satin Steel drum set. are you kidding me??? no one saw it...I told no one.. I wrote it...it went in an envelope....it was mailed...I got a drum set.

ok..backstage. I seal the envelope..we mail it.......3 hours later, my mom goes to the post office and says..looks...my son just mailed a letter to santa...I have to go through ALL the letters to find out what he wants.
err....there's no little kids reading this..right?
there is a Santa kids...he just looks an awful lot like my mom...and he still exists.
....the drum set......that might have been the year she did the crazy.....pencil over the writing pad to see what I wrote before had. either way...my mother is sneaky...and can't be trusted.
...where was I going with this?
WIRELESS PS2 CONTROLLER.
damn..that's cool.
oh..and ...gig on Jan 9th.
go to it. I'm on second. solo....new Shawn...2007 Shawn. maybe even harmonica.....yah. new songs.....longer beard. umm..there's steak.
shit man...maybe I'll quit my job and do catering?
maybe.

Dec 9, 2006
I forgot to update the archives. The archives are updated.
And for those of you looking for Christmas presents for me.......(and I'm looking at you Mom)
Beatles..new album... 2 disc package with the 5.1 thing.
Superman 2. Richard D. version...or both. (3 and 4 not necessary...on the account that they are complete and utter crap... I'm talking Jar Jar crap.)
Lynn and I went to sign papers on our new apartment today. So unless something goes really weird....I'll be moving soon.
And I think we are contemplating a joint birthday party....late Feb/early March. At a yet undisclosed location. But there is talk of tex mex, karaoke, drinks, and laughter. We were thinking how hip it would be to have some Atari 2600's going on large screen...no promises. But really..how cool would that be?
....and yes......for those in the know.......that is right next to Geoffrey Tyler's place.
Dec 7, 2006
ok...November out of the way...and soon 2006. good...let's get some work done.
I saw on tv Xerox is coming out with a photocopy machine that uses light instead of ink....(umm..or something like that...).
So after two days the info fades away, and you can use the paper again.
What a fantastic idea....I mean it disgusts and angers me
how much paper is wasted where I work. And I'm guilty of wasting my share by printing out the same boring report to get some, what appears to me,
useless data that no one seems to do anything with.
I was thinking...there should be a few hundred acres somewhere in the world...or thousand..whatever...someone would have to work that out.
but that's the paper trees. I guess you'd have to have a few that some could be growing and some are for harvesting. So when the years supply is
gone...no more paper until the other ones are ready for harvest. I think we'd think more about how much we throw away so freely.

Probably could do that with animals that we eat. I'm all for eating meat...what I'm not into is the mass amounts that are killed on the chance
that people will or will not eat it. perhaps you should have to order your food for the month/year...and when it's gone...you eat vegetables.

cars too...why are cars being made...constantly? you want a car..you order a car. it gets made...you pick it up. we're too wasteful.

I'm ranting and preaching and have no right really....I'm wasteful....but it seems I'm encouraged to be wasteful by our society. Plastic wrapped candies
individually wrapped in another container that is wrapped in more plastic and then the whole thing wrapped in some sort of plastic.
I'm babbling....and have no idea what I'm talking about. I say put on a plastic suit, ride a cow to a car dealership, throw out the suit, kill the cow, eat half and throw the other half out. write "cow" on the corner of 100 pieces of paper, then throw that out...and drive away in the biggest car you can afford....if you're lucky..you can get home in time for something good on tv. Order in, and make sure to ask for extra forks.
....and buy my cd....it's wrapped in plastic.

Dec 6, 2006
I caught up with Adam Warner last night at the Red Lion here in Toronto. Adam mentioned a friend of his who was playing there, and if I wanted to check him out. Corin Raymond treated us to a set of some of the best songs I've heard in a long time. Man. The guy is really everything I'd like to be in a songwriter/singer and performer. Songs that really put you in the moment...some made me belly laugh. It was really inspiring to see a guy diving into his music....not just while performing either...I'm saying...in life. I thought Adam did, and always looked up to him for that...and he does, don't get me wrong....but Corin..man...this guy has a vision. And it doesn't involve wanting to be some Britney Nickleblunt....defiantly gave me something to think about.