Back To The Blog

It's amazing how quickly time slips by. In mid-March I started back into the world of the full-time day job and it proved a rougher transition than I'd anticipated leading to the dropping of many good things as I developed a bit of tunnel vision. I slowly stopped going to the gym, stopped writing and blogging, and generally retreated once again from the public view.

I'm now working the day job three days a week. The remaining four I'm freelancing in the studio and trying to build healthy routines back into my life. One of those will hopefully be somewhat more regular posting on the blog.

To begin, I bought myself an 8gig iPod nano to use at the gym and have pretty quickly begun to wonder how I ever lived without one. Between my MacBook and my nano I'm pretty much convinced Apple has Willy Wonka locked up somewhere coming up with whimsical yet infinitely beautiful and functional technology. So now that I have an iPod I can pretend to be a big important blogger and post a Friday random 10:

1. War - Jonatha Brooke

2. Eye to Eye - Lightheaded

3. Transistor Sister - Michael Knott

4. Brand New Day - Pigeon John

5. Radio Days - World Party

6. Mushaboom (K-Os Mix) - Feist

7. Greenman - XTC

8. The Prescience of Dawn - The Weakerthans

9. I'm Just A Kid - Well Put

10. Been Around The World - Cracker

I kind of cheated by not posting two songs in a row by the same artist, which despite the laws of probability, happened three times. Go figure. I was quite happy to read recently that The Weakerthans are working on a new album and am intrigued as to where they will go next. I'm also rediscovering my love of World Party having loaded the best of the three albums I have and am desparately trying to track down my copy of Egyptology.

I linked to Well-Put as he's a young local MC that I think is talented as heck. He's got great vocal delivery, a very musical sense of the genre, and a strong desire to innovate. He also got himself a spot at this year's Cornerstone Festival - the golden mecca of my youthful dreams.

I've got a few things I'll be posting in a little while including some thoughts on the experience of going to hear Maher Arar when he spoke in Edmonton recently so do stay tuned.