| an island winter |
[Dec. 28th, 2005|11:09 am] |
so last night i got some really kick ass news... i just confirmed the dates for The Shine On's first tour. its only 3 cities but fuck am i excited. its a dream realization. that first sweet step into moving up. hell we might be playing for 10 people in the clubs we go to but i'll be happy.
here's the dates:
Feb 2/2006 - Vancouver, BC @ Malone's Pub
Feb 3/2006 - Nanaimo, BC @ The Cambie
Feb 4/2006 - Esquimalt, BC @ The Cambie at The Esquimalt Inn
spread the good news to all your friends and neighbours! |
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| just for empty rabbit |
[Nov. 27th, 2005|02:28 pm] |
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corn fields
this is the grow-op city
where an ‘87 pontiac can flatten a chimney
and reveal hallways of hydroponics
I have houses with hundreds of plants
and when one goes down
the police
and CTV
are both looking to chronicle the destruction
to add emphasis
it will happen just as high school gets out
and one boy will say I saw the whole thing
just to be filmed
his friends swooping into frame
to grab bricks from the chimney as souvenirs
thing is I used to own an ‘87
used to drive weekly to my grandfather’s farm
stopping in Chilliwack when it stormed
to stare into the corn fields
remembering the hottest days in summer
pressing my face against the window
trying to caress the rain |
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| survey says! |
[Nov. 1st, 2005|01:08 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  awake | ] |
A is for age: 24
B is for booze of choice: heineken
C is for career: musician/bolt sales person
D is for your dad's name: andrew michael
E is for essential items to bring to a party: the booze. hello?
F is for favorite song at the moment: dogs die in hot cars - celebrity sanctum
G is for favorite game: burnout 3 on ps2
H is for hometown: born in duncan, raised in surrey, live in new westminster
I is for instruments you play: guitar. but i am 1/2 way capable on piano, drums, bass and tambourine.
J is for jam or jelly you like: strawberry and blackberry. from save on foods. in the cans.
K is for kids: none but i love mollie, my beautiful neice, like my own.
L is for living arrangements: my own fancy new appartment. im 24 and i own property. that scares me lots.
M is for mom's name: Valerie Ellen
N is for name of your crush: christa is my crush, my love, my best part. she keeps my feet on the ground while i reach for the stars.
O is for overnight hospital stays: too many to count. only one i can remember is my hand surgery stay.
P is for phobias: coming home to an empty house. ps - i live alone...
Q is for quotes you like: "All music is connected...nothing comes from nothing at all." Mick Jagger
R is for relationship that lasted the longest: christa she's put up with me for a long time now.
S is for sexual preference: i like girls
T is for time you wake up: 6am most of the time
U is for underwear: boxer briefs
V is for vegetable you love: corn
W is for weekend plans: maybe possibly something i don't know
X is for x-rays you've had: again way too many to count. apparently i find injuries cool....
Y is for yummy food you make: i can make a mean hangover breakfast. omlette, toast, bacon, hashbrowns....oh yeah
Z is for zodiac sign: gemini |
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| some little news |
[Aug. 13th, 2005|09:00 am] |
so i've found that my life has become increasingly cyclical in the past years. what i mean is that when bad shit happens to me, without fail something amazing will counter balance it. gone are the days where my failings piled up and up like percarious stacks of cards just waiting to topple and pin me to the ground.
now. on to the news...
most of you know me as a musician. and i have been focused on that for about three years now and i have made some good progress at that. i've written some good songs. recorded what i think is a pretty darn good ep. but before all that, when geoff was fresh out of high school, he was a writer. a poet to be exact. i spent 2 years in college studying writing and literature. to put the passion in perspective, i tackled writing with the same intensity and drive with which i tackle my current music career. i sent my work all over canada and was even published in a few lit magazines. june of 2002, i finished my first book of poems entitled, square dances. hot damn was i excited. even more exciting was i had a publisher to sent the manuscript to. anvil press, the company which gave me my first publication in subterrain magazine, was interested in what i was doing. so in june 2002 i sent of my package.
and i waited. and waited. and waited. and nothing happened.
now this rejection coupled with my increasing state of self hatred did not make a good combination and i went on a path of debauchery and self destruction for a good long while. but i emerged, eventuatly, with new goals. i stopped writing and began to focus on writing lyrics to songs, tapping into my first love, music, and like i said before, i was doing pretty ok with that. until yesterday...
yesterday was when i got the call. the call from brian kaufman of anvil press. apparantly my submission got misplaced, put in a pile of throw away stuff, and forgotten about for THREE FUCKING YEARS! "very sorry for the delay in reply but no matter" brian said because anvil press is very interesting publishing my work. shockwaves. earthquakes. calamity. holy shit. this is the equivilant of me getting a recording contract with arts and crafts records (for all the music heads out there). and it is the resolution of a long forgotten dream that now has been stoked again to unimaginable temperatures.
so now i have some work to do. to compile my poems and get the whole manuscript down to anvil press. plus finish my ep and get it out to college radio. plus put together a band. plus play some shows. wow. my life just got a whole lot busier. but to be honest, i couldn't be more excited about having less free time. |
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| ...i'm here now... |
[Jul. 18th, 2005|04:25 pm] |
the ep is done. i'm mixing now. copies pressed soon.
finally. something to show the world. |
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| one day left |
[Jul. 7th, 2005|01:10 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  excited | ] |
| [ | music |
| | teenage fanclub - song for the cynic | ] |
kevin did his part last night for my ep and it sounds splendid. i finished up the last of the tracking of instruments. i have pedal steel and vocals left now. that and a few redo's on the drumming. a tad of sloppiness is all. twill be fixed post haste and i will have a copy in my hand of hands by saturday!
excited is me.
if you care to listen to my completed ep check out the myspace site. but that won't be done til saturday. patience my friends... |
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| david byrne is tossing in his sleep |
[Jun. 28th, 2005|10:09 am] |
ok...
must i again speak out against the ridiculousness that is kasabian.
their new single, LSF, i think it's called. if it were just a complete rehash of everything that primal scream, the stone roses, and the happy mondays ever did, i could probably let it slide. BUT...the song is bookended by a sample that is, dare i say, blantantly obvious in it's delivery.
*a dreary english afternoon in an unnamed studio, 2003
"hey guys, i got a slammin' idea for out new track LSF! i heard this sweet sample from an 80's song i think you might like. it's by these guys called talking heads...i've never heard em, but hot damn this track is good. the song's called "once in a lifetime"
*plays track, all in studio are awestruck
"lets put in that keyboard sample! yeah it's so catchy and it's not at all recognizable at all! noone will know it's taken from this unknown song! yeah! yeah! we're so hip! we're so groundbreaking!"
*high fives are given all around the room and kasabian's singer goes back to studying the stage moves of ian brown on videotape.....
LOSERS |
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| two days in |
[Jun. 27th, 2005|08:26 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  creative | ] |
| [ | music |
| | the white stripes - take, take, take | ] |
new tracks to be commited to tape.
*hell is a vinyl decision
*daniel lavine
*midnight war
*yvr
two days in, 9 hours logged.
drums and 1/2 the guitars are done for 3 of 4 tracks.
bass and leads to be completed in the following days.
recording expected to be completed by the second week of july.
excitment will ensue, drinks will be had. |
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| who me? an adult? no way!! |
[Jun. 20th, 2005|08:32 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  chipper | ] |
so today i turn 24 years old. i don't feel old and i don't feel young. i just feel like i'm knee deep in the life i always knew i was going to lead. and that's all i can really ask for in the long run. to just keep plugging along working towards my dreams, cause as example displayed to me quite vividly recently, your dreams can come true when you least expect them to.
here i come 25, with all the vigor of a ravenous teenager, drunk on youth and dizzy with expectation. |
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| creeping up on shadows |
[Jun. 14th, 2005|07:01 pm] |
show me my place in the trees
where leaves
fall furious as snow
where we
like animals
would become dirt
and the dirt
would be lazy with envy |
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