The Big Picture

This Bright Eyes disc is really quite amazing. Sometimes you buy stuff totally unheard and cross your fingers. Sometimes you get lucky.

These long weekends are pretty slothful. What’d I do yesterday… Went to Canadjun Tire and bought various bits and pieces for hanging stuff in the rehearsal space as well as parts for tweaking the setup of my pedalboard though I suspect the screws I bought are too long. Bought a pair of jeans. Played with the new delay and tidied up the big mess of cables that I call my ‘home studio’.

Andy’s making Thanksgiving dinner and apparently we’re going to Meg’s family’s place to eat it. I get to meet his in-laws! I hope Peeka is there, dogs make holidays much more fun. What that means is I won’t be seeing Minority Report tonight. I think I will never actually get to see it.

Watched Birds Of Prey from last week. Haven’t made up my mind on it yet – there’s some good acting and decent writing, but the episode felt like it went through some dumbass filter that added crappy editing, voiceovers and music to try and appeal to the Beastmaster/Immortal/crap sci-fi TV market. This show can be better than that, I think. I hope it figures that out sooner rather than later. But Ashley Scott (The Huntress) is so hot it’s stupid.

Finally completed the hockey pool draft last night online with Jim and Nicole. My team is looking ok – God I hope Lemieux plays at least 60 game – but somehow I ended up with Martin ‘Oh my back’ Straka. Let that be a lesson to you, kids – always do like Santa and if you make a list, check it twice. We will be having trades. Bye bye Marty.

np – Bright Eyes / Lifted, Or, The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground

In Brief

A quick summary of the day’s events:

Bought the Digitech delay, it’s a lot of fun and very impressive piece of technology in such a compact package.

Picked up the new Of Montreal CD. Got the Modern Lovers disc for Kyle.

Hockey pool draft was cancelled due to technical difficulties – Jim and Nicole’s draft lists arrived in my mailbox corrupted. We did a mock draft anyways and I pick last. Ended up with an *ok* team. Real draft sometime Monday.

Still did pizza, beer and hockey with Sudeep and Large though. Mmm-mm good. Too bad the Leafs lost.

New Haven Comet

Got the new Luna EP. It’s stuff like this that convinces me that Luna are the best band on the planet. This is a disc of covers and demos and they’re so good it’s just silly. Even their videos (there’s two from Romantica on the CD) are cool. Viva Luna.

Swung by Songbird after work today and played with the new Digitech DigiDelay. Which will soon become part of my rig. It does everything my DD3 does and much more. I figure I can recoup half the cost of the Digitech by selling the Boss. Same thing I thought about the Guyatone fuzz, sure, but I’m pretty sure the Boss delay will sell itself pretty quick. The Digitech is really nice.

Speaking of after work, today was my last day as a contractor. To celebrate, I took off early (only a half hour) because it’s pretty much the last day that I can. And it’s a long weekend and I wasn’t doing anything. It’s been almost two and a half years since I’ve actually had a job. I suppose the past six months are as good a way as any to ease myself back into the routine.

Why my back is starting to hurt again, I have no idea. You’d think that I’d be more relaxed now than before. But…

np – Elf Power / Nothing’s Going To Happen

Blow Hot, Blow Cold

Are they or aren’t they?

np – Richard Thompson / Mock Tudor

He’s A Chimpanzee. He Doesn’t Feel It.

What can you say?

np – various artists / This Is Where I Belong – Songs Of Ray Davies And The Kinks