Tour diary, my dad made me do it!

DAY1: My dad is living vicariously through me. He really wanted me to do a tour diary, so i considered it and thought, "well fuck why the hell not?"
I arrived in Portland today via the Greyhound bus. I made it across the border without even a second glance in my direction which is kinda annoying since i was prepared for trouble!

The Seattle Greyhound station is disgusting!! Sorry kids but it's really gross. Try pissing with all your luggage in that washroom, not good.

But I made it safely 8 hours later and right on time for Ashley Spungin to pick me up. Ashley is the drummer for Purple Rhinestone Eagle, "Amazing drummer" I should say! Her and I have spent three months communicating via email and one skype session only. So it was a bit strange to actually chat face to face for me at first. I guess i felt nervous? I don't really know? I have been working with musicians for so long that these sorts of things don't normally make me feel nervous, but i guess because i really care about these guys..... I had shaky hands for the first five minuets.
Anyways tomorrow i get to burn C.D's and follow up on some show loose ends.

Oh ya! TWO DOLLAR TALL CANS!! And it was Morgan's B-day. Also Jenk came down and met me for a drink and gave me an American cell phone. BOOSH!

SUMMER TOUR PARTY!!

So i fell in love with Portland band, Purple rhinestone eagle last summer. I stayed in touch with them and went to Portland a few times and partied. Andrea, Morgan and Ashley are the nicest people you will meet! They also fucking shred! The listen to all the music i love, even obscure shit that i thought i only knew about. They also play the best fucking rock/psych/garage shit you'll hear!
I brought them up last weekend for two show's here in Vancouver. They killed it, everyone went nuts and had their minds blown.

I got an email on Tuesday from Andrea officially offering me the position as their Tour manager and booking agent for a month long tour in August!
I KNOW RIGHT!!???!
I'm so stoked and excited, I'm finally going to get to see New York city and everywhere in between.
Good things do happen to those who wait.

Check this shit out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZQz-Tr5myM

Goodbye Budgies Burrito's

Budgies Burrito's 2006-2010
R.I.P
You've been a ride and i have no regrets!
Thank you Macey

Police state of mind

I don't do well with authority, not even a little bit! Well unless they are female cops and they're hitting on me (crab park last summer that actually happened) but i mean how often are you going to run into female police officers that don't have a huge chip on their shoulders? Not often!

The Olympics have brought our city a police and military presence so large that it has only been surpassed by World War two.
i don't feel safer, in fact i may start building my immunity to pepper spray by rubbing jalapeno's in my eyes at work this week.
Cool eh! Go Canada Go!

Belated Xmas

I had the pleasure of getting the swine flu over Christmas, the real deal too! Not just some shitty doctor being all like, "oh yeah take this anti viral medicine." (cha ching) No it was the whole bad enchilada.
I was supposed to fly out to Toronto and Montreal to see friends and family. Of Course my moral code of social conduct was working in overdrive the entire time, so i pretty much acted like a leper, and the world treated me like a leper, not even Milo the dog was around.
Because i missed Xmas i received my presents from my family today (Jan 25th).
I'm so glad i didn't have to sit in a present opening circle and have to pretend to love my brand new 2010 Olympic hoodie!
No seriously...

New bed linens

I was at Winners today buying new bed linens when i remembered i had a blog!!
Sorry for the lack of blogging internet world. Do people still blog these days? Is anyone gonna read this?
I guess the lack of rambling, personal information about myself came out of my recent break up.
Eli and i split in September (again) but this time it's permanent.
There's not much one can really say about these sorts of things? I lost a lover a best friend a family a dog and somewhere around November my mind! What i gained though was a different perspective of myself, i was really not taking care of myself in the latter years of the relationship.
I was trying too hard to make my partner happy and have her needs met, when i was allowing my own needs and wants and desires to be put away in a box, thinking one day she would open the box up and go through it. That would never happen.
So i guess it was the simple act of buying new bed sheets today that made me realize that I've turned a corner. I'm coming out of the dark, heart broken moments of self doubt and insecurity.
There's nothing like clean, sexy, sheets to inspire a person to have passionate, hot sex with someone new! Come over for the sex but stay for the sheets....and more sex (obvie)

Here's a toast to being single! It's really not so bad, i mean i have my days. But when those feeling's creep over me I turn to my bro's and we play some nerd games, watch some hockey and talk about girls.
Perfect!

I've never kissed the loves of my life