October 2007

Oct 27, 2007
Leaving St.Thomas right now…rainy day. Not too bad of rain though….went to k-mart to get a binder for charts and lyrics. It’s actually a little cold right now…well, chilly anyway. Out on deck 4…it’s nice at most times, like I think I’ve said,…I like being a little closer to the water sometimes. There’s a bunch of people smoking right now….and some water is dripping on me. No worries.
Someone just yelled “Ahoy”….funny. Ok…I just heard two more “ahoy”s. One “ahoy” is funny…two…well, ok then….3? We get it…you’re on a ship, and you are yelling…”Ahoy”.
Ok…number 4 just occurred. I think this cat is loaded.
I still haven’t gotten my midi footswitch I ordered. It’s been a while…getting anxious.
Man, looking at the landscape right now…with all the mist and clouds around the top of the mountains…(hills?) it’d be like we were taking king kong back from skull island. Wish I had a camera on me.
And I almost fell down on stage last night….the boat was a rockin. Kind of funny.
Wondering where we’ll go next….out of England would be cool, and I think they do a run that goes into nova scotia, and quebec city…that’d be alright.
I really should have brought star wars with me…..wasn’t thinking.
Oct 23, 2007
still on the boat....ship.....whatever. I really wish I something to say...I got nothing. it's actually so boring. I can't believe people pay to get on a boat to shop, and be taken places to shop....The good thing is the time to relax and maybe write some songs....that's about it. speaking of which....going out in the sun and relax, and write.
Sitting here on the deck listening to a couple of, for lack of a better word, blowhards, talk to each other. Something about the packers are missing passes and blah blah. I just turned around to look and they look how they sound. Couple of middle aged business dudes.
Side note: some tanned long hair guy is going by in a good sized sail boat, and just raised his beer to everyone, who was waving at him for some reason…..I can’t help but think that this guy is really living his life to the fullest.
Anyway, so business guy #1 gets his beer delivered, and he grabs it and drops it….”I must have too much sun tan lotion on my hands...I forgot.”
…right
Anyway, it’s great looking outside. Kind of overcast, but you can see so far on the water, that there is light out there somewhere…pretty great looking. I wish I had my camera…not sure if I could get it right.
These business guys are sitting there and now they’ve stopped talking about sports, have been on their phone and / or blackberries or whatever…”I lost his message, I can’t get a signal…” 
Dude…lift your head up and look around at the scene in front of you…or dude…look at the girls that are 5 feet to your left in teeny little bathing suits….. Maybe business guys think that impresses girls in teeny bathing suits. Then again, what do I know about impressing girls? Not a lot friends…. 
What does it take to get a drink around here??? 
…oh…apparently, you just wait until Carlton comes around and he’ll be glad to bring you one….fair enough.
Oct 16, 2007
Ok...in Aruba today. did some laundry, walked...and walked......found a neat bookstore. finished up a song, and started to demo it here in the cabin. interesting. I want to get a mic from radio shack. I have actually brought with me a reasonably good condenser mic. ( a rode nt1...not great, but pretty good...good enough for a cabin. ) but I think I want something.....really easy and low fi that's gonna go right into the edirol USB recording whatchamaboob.....and ....you know..lay it down.
and I got that from Jeff Scott.....I've always loved the demo's he made when he was in....hmm....Jeff, refresh my memory..where were you when you made those demos? into the zoom?
anyway..that's what I'm looking for.
I'm actually pleased with the first song that I've written out here.....feels like a good start. and I've now got my "river" song. See, when Lynn and I went to see tom McRae a while back at the drake, he mentioned some things you need to do/have to be a songwriter...pardon, a singer/songwriter....
wear black
have no friends
have at least one song about trains ( Jeff and Geoffrey have me beat on that)
have a song about a river...( I think I'm leading the pack now in this department)
and...hmm..there were some other stuff....Lynn might be able to help me out with that.
OH! I'm going to be a banana for halloween. 1. I have not dressed up for halloween in a long time....long time. like...the 80's. Anyway...Josh was saying how he wanted to be a gorilla...and I laughed and said, I should be a bananan...well, a couple of drinks later, we're on line laughing buying a banana suit from ebay.
I think one of the funniest things I've heard in a long time is the question:
"So...what size banana suit do you wear.....?"
ha.
Oct 12, 2007
back in St marten...or whatever it is. Things have been going more smoothly...out on the deck, working on new songs....watching a lot of greys anatomy...they just put the dvd in, and play the whole season.....so it's always on one of the channels.
tonight....I play my first arena show. ha. some kind of ....music through the decades thing in the ice rink here on the ship...funny to me. trying to take a lot of pictures....hard to get them up on flickr...the connection on the ship is pretty bad. they upload to facebook though.....weird. anyway....san juan has a nice star bucks.
I'm listening to J-lo and josh just walked in.......he mocked me. haha.
hey...I put the mp3 Zen on shuffle....and I takes what the Zen gives me. life's a lot like that...hmm...
too deep..moving on..moving on.
adventure of the sea. book a cruise and come out and hang out with me .........
Oct 7, 2007
Back in San Juan for the day.....sitting in a starbucks, trying to upload some pictures....so check out the flickr thing, and i should have some up....nothing fancy...just what's sort of around....
its hot. goes without saying i guess....
we checked out the jazz band after our set last night.....pretty killer man. fun night....one thing i know...i should stay away from french martinis.....probably all martinis, that miller lite is all i need.
the pictures are at about 60% uploaded....
bought a new notebook today and some pens.....hopefully will getting me writing again.......
hmm...nothing to really say. going to try and get an early night tonight, last night killer me....it's kind off hard to stop for the evening, when you're wound up after the gig, and everyone else is hanging out. Again, thank goodness for light beer man.
ok...pictures are up.
Oct 6, 2007
The boat is leaving st. Thomas. We had to get up really early to do some immigration stuff…..it went fast though, then a little breakfast, and then more training for the trip…..ethics, and ….sexual ethics. Then off the boat and took a heat filled walk to a k mart and grabbed some stuff. The amount of sweat ….unreal. A little nap later on deck 12, took some pictures…watched the band by the pool……just waiting to play at this point. I should practice a little before the gig.  There is some appearance the band has to make on stage during the show in the big theatre. I guess all the performers get up there and wave to the crowd…..it’s the last night of the cruise.
I was hearing all this crazy loud music throughout the week, and I was thinking my neighbours were just playing loud music…turns out my cabin is underneath the theatre….So the shows were going on. Still have a week of training….buzzkill. After that…I don’t know…..time is mine. It’ll be odd, not having to check a board to see where I have to be…..
 Oct 5, 2007
this morning I had to drag my tired ass out of bed and down to the pool with a life jacket and learn about life rafts. Not all that fun, but not as crap as I thought it was going to be. It was raining and kind of cool...so, that actually might have been a blessing.
still learning songs for this gig....it's slowly coming together...not getting lost on this boat as much as I did....bought a watch. I normally don't wear one....it seems I have to be places at certain times. I never really gave much of a care when I was going to work if I was late or not....I'd leave at the right time, and I'd get there when I got there.
not sure if I'm leaving the boat today....we're in....st. thomas? I don't even know....I need to pick up some shampoo....yah, exciting and new. ok...I need coffee.
Oct 2, 2007
I'm sitting in the Rumba cafe in Aruba sipping on a balshi pilsner...enjoying the view out the window. Got me thinking about "home' a little bit. I'm out of Toronto....and don't plan on going back.....I'm kind of homeless...how about that? a drifter.....like Easy Rider...without the death and murder at the end.
It seems like...really, cliché as it sounds...not that long ago that my dad drove me up to humbler college from Brighton....and again...feels like a million years ago at the same time. I made a lot of friends on the way, made a lot of mistakes.....I don't know.....a pretty good experience on the whole.
Next stop...not sure....maybe another contract on a ship...? it's only my third day or something....so I'll have to give it some thought.
anyway....to all the people that I didn't get to say goodbye to, I apologize......it didn't mean I wasn't thinking about it.....time was a factor.
Oct 1, 2007
I'm on the ship....pretty nice......long day to get here, then hard time getting on the ship....not so much hard time, well, ya...no one knew where I was supposed to go..annoying. I'm here now anyway. Good guys, fun gig....too much training on the ship stuff for me. leave me alone, I just want to drink coffee and play guitar. so I have to learn to slip a life boat or something....I guess it could happen, so best to be prepared. Small room man...un real. like a little tour bus bed. but really comfortable.......I miss Lynn. it's odd not having her around to talk to.
ok...have to get ready to play. it's rockioke...or something tonight. sing with the band basically....oh man, this could be bad