Out To Lunch

My movie won't move!

My new favorite thing is making little video blog movies instead of posting a bunch of photos. At the Toronto Comic Book Fan SuperShow (a whole bunch of fun, by the way) I took a whole bunch of video on my new camera. Then I spent most of last night and a few hours today editing a cool little two-minute movie of the thing in Windows Movie Maker. Good Lord, that program sucks. And now it's even worse as it just won't render the video, like the operation is too complicated for my piece of shit computer to handle. I hope this is a little glitch that will sort itself out like when my browser kept crashing every time I tried to attach a file to an email last week but even still, I can't wait for my new Macbook Pro. I've got a rather sizable chunk of the cost saved up already, I need it!! I am a creative professional and for the five years of my operation I have been handicapped by the poor quality of my tools. But I'm coming out of the woods!! I should have that new computer by the summer!

In the plus column, you can now check out a gallery of photos from my last recording session in my Facebook photos! They were taken by the beautiful and talented Miss Genevieve Blais.

I eat out too much maybe

A friend gave up booze for Lent. She and I got talking about what I would give up for Lent, and I couldn't think of anything. I'm kind of a workaholic, but I can't really give up working for Lent. I waste more time than I would like, but if i'm lazy then I'm too lazy to give up being lazy for Lent. But today I realized what my vice is. I don't drink really, I only smoke a few times a month, but I eat out a lot. I eat out probably once a day on average, whether that's going out for dinner or just getting a coffee and bagel at Tim Horton's. It's the convenience of it, you see. I'm always on the move, if I'm home I'm typically working. So I eat when I'm on my way across town and realize it's four and I haven't eaten anything yet.

Today was that first glorious life-affirming day of the year. I walked home from being out all day and noticed that there was no snow on the ground any more (I later saw some in the top corner of a driveway in a spot where no sun gets to). On my way downtown, I called Shaun Downey and asked him to come out with me after my meeting. He could not, but when I got out of the meeting I called Kelly Grace and offered to take her out as a reward for her stellar success at the Art Expo. I was thinking something casual and light, that I'd spend 20 - 30 bucks for the two of us. We instead went to a sushi place and blew $70 without even trying. But it was fun!

And now some photos for no reason:

Sessions - the movie

Yesterday was great fun. I woke up way too late (about one in the afternoon) and booted it across town to go sign a contract that renews my deal with JV Productions. Took the cheque I picked up from that contract signing, put it in the bank, and went downtown. Finally, at long last, replaced the camera that was stolen last summer with a gorgeous new Canon Powershot A550. Raced home with it, checked my email, and then motored over to the recording studio where we were finally getting Tye's parts laid down on the new songs.

Here is a little documentary of the visit to the recording studio!



That movie, and the many more like it that I am going to make, was one of the main reasons why I've been feeling more and more that I needed to hurry up and get a new camera. Next project: new computer!!

Red Boots

Whoa, check out John Waters going on The Daily Show with red boots! I am a trend-setter like a motherfucker!!

I am looking forward to relaxing tonight. I just spent days fixing up the website and making it smoother and slimmer, it's ready to go into the ring against the heavyweight champ. And bringing my blog back home to live on my own website, it feels like a great big comfortable couch! I hope it doesn't take too long to attract an audience again, it's been so long that my website has been chaotic and shitty, and plus people staying in touch through MySpace and Facebook and whatnot.

So who's out there? Is anyone reading this? What topics should we engage in dialog in?

Celebrity Look-Alikes

I did one of these like a year ago, but now that it's sweeping the nation, I'll do another one!!

The story of rehearsal

Last weekend I was in the recording studio recording the vocals for three songs. We were going to rehearse for Saturday's Edge 102 gig in that same studio, but during the day the studio is a place where they make radio commercials and our rehearsal got bumped because the Ford Motor Company had a big emergency. So after a few phone calls to find a new place, we just decided to practice in Otis' music room. Otis is filling in on the turntables while Human Kebab is off in Alberta. He's a dude I've known from the internet for ages and ages for his music and sound projects, and only recently he gets in touch with me to tell me he got married to a Canadian babe and he's living in Toronto now.

So we're in his music room and I'm playing the beat for my intro (avid fans know that I use a different instrumental every time). This time around I'm using the instrumental for Jay-Z's SHOW ME WHAT YOU'VE GOT. Otis hears it and he goes "oh, I know what that is!" I say "Yeah, it's Jay-Z--", and Otis says "No, that's Shaft in Africa". He digs through this record collection, pulls out the Shaft In Africa soundtrack, and plays the original song that Jay-Z took the sample from. Right then I knew that Otis and I are going to work very well together.