Staying up late

The show's tomorrow. I am so ready. I want it like a vicious cartoon dog wants an exaggerated T-Bone steak, and I will tear it up exactly the same. The energy in the room at rehearsal just blows the roof off!

Weights and fifty minutes of cardio today. That was pretty fun. There's TVs on all of the machines so while everyone else is watching stock quotes, I'm watching cartoons.

Just for kicks, I went to an audition for voice-over work. That would be fun to do once in a while, a voice-over job.

I've been shooting all kinds of great footage and I so badly want to edit it into something fun for the blog and the podcast. I've gotta make time for that.

it all comes to tomorrow

Two days on the set, I am ready to have a really deep sleep. Wednesday was the street portion of the taping. Being back out on Queen Street with the Today was all of the studio stuff, a twelve hour day. Followed by a rehearsal for tomorrow night's show. Thank God that tomorrow's green screen session is a 12:30 call, I can sleep in a little bit. But the main event, tomorrow night's performance, that's what is keeping me going right now, keeping my energy level high when I get to rehearsal and I'm greeted with "you actually showed up! I totally thought you were gonna just go home and crash!" Did you think I was kidding when I said I Just Wanna Dance??

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.

rehearsal time

For the last two shows, we have not had any luck securing a rehearsal room to practice for it. We have been using a particular store after it's closed. We go in at night, move the cash register and calculator and fridge magnet display aside to make room for the turntable set-up, plug everything into the store's stereo system, and rock out. We make sure it's late so that the other businesses below, beside, and above the store will not be disturbed, but this week the violin maker upstairs stayed late. We kept hearing him banging around really loudly, and we had to wonder if it was his way of letting us know that he could hear us. So we turned the volume down and became very careful about how loud we were being. But the banging kept up. Human Kebab said that maybe he's just being loud, that it's nothing to do with us. So we turned the volume back up and got back to business.

This show is going to fucking rule. Two new songs in the set!!