12/25/2006

So This Is Christmas...

I'm sitting here in the Vitamin D inducing glow of an anti SADS light that my dad recieved as a gift from his fiancee. I have got to get one of these for myself. In other news the gift haul this year has been quite excellent. My personal favs so far are the Stratocaster belt buckle from Martha and a book by Jose Saramago from my sister. (if anybody cares this guy is the greatest novelist on the planet). So we're sitting around doing crosswords and drinking Irish Cream and coffee. Pretty normal. The turkey prep is going strong in the kitchen. Martha is going to come pay me a visit at some point which is awesome. I need to go to my house and pick up her present because I thought she was going to be up-island today. Hurray!! So all in all I'm really jonesing to play some guitar so I will leave you with this thought.

In our lives there come times when we get to choose to take a leap or to resist change. I'm doing my best to balance the two. There will come a time (very soon I imagine) in which the choice is no longer left to me and I'm going to have to take that leap. What I want to say is how thankful I am for the teachers, friends and family I have around me who have made that eventuality much less frightening, and even exciting. You are the support that allows me to be greater than the sum of my parts. So thank you, Merry Christmas, and know that if you are my friend co-worker or other associate of mine I'm thinking of you today and wishing you all the happiness in the world. You people rock my world everyday.

12/22/2006

Something's Missing

Pretty much how I feel right now. I think it's the SADS messing me up again. if I'm not particularily chipper, yeah I don't know why.

12/15/2006

"I'd Like That"

pretty much the best description of relationships I've found....ever. Screw You Dr.

12/13/2006

Your Ticket Should Say "Urinetown"

So Urinetown at the Belfry was INCREDIBLE!! It was sooo freaking good. The guy who played Bobby had an amazing voice and did a great job. Ross was hilarious too. I had a great time hangin' with Lisa and Ky and Meghan as well. We got a backstage tour of the Theatre from Ross which was very cool. Tech day for Christmas Carol tomorrow, should be fun.

12/12/2006

Going Beta

So due to the failing blog's transition to Blogger Beta I have been dragged here as well. Woohoo.

12/03/2006

Names...of Doom

Names1.YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & color of underwear)
Rambo Black
YEAH!!
2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fav ice cream flavor, favorite cookie)
Vanilla Oatmeal Raisin.... Yo
3. YOUR "FLY Guy/Girl" NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name)J-Dav
Poor, Just poor
4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME:(fav color and fav animal)
Green Husky
"Oh he's so Husky" *swoons*
5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)
Paul Vancouver
I'm Kylan's Brother..and we both sleep with the same women but neither of us know...duh duh duh
6. YOUR STAR TREK NAME: (1st 3 letters of last name, first 2 letters of first name, last 3 letters of mom's maiden name)
Davjogor
HAAT
7. SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd favorite color, favorite drink)
Blue Egg Nog
Oh sexy.
8. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers)
Edward Graham Walter
9.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother & father's middle names)
Frederick Joan
10. JEDI NAME (middle name backwards, mom's maiden name backwards)
Luap Erog

12/02/2006

Better Mood...Anybody know of anybody who's selling a Jeep?




















So yeah, things are going okay. Jill's over hangin' out. I miss Martha alot. I wish I had a car I could take up there. Well I could take mine but I'd rather not. Umm so everyone is doing the "I like..." thing that Trish showed me a couple years ago but I don't think I'm quite up for that right now. Bought a couple of CDs today and a couple yesterday. Picked up...
1. Head Automatica - Popaganda
2. Incubus - Light Grenades
3. Joel Plaskett - LaDeDa
4. Damien Rice - 9

Wrote out my tech resume. It felt good to actually have practical experience and education and to be creating a resume to apply for jobs I actually want rather than the ones I've needed to "get by". I have been feeling very tired lately and I think it has to do with freedom. My car was the one thing that allowed me to be free. It feels like I have taken a giant step backward in my life. I miss Martha so much and I have lost the thing that allowed me to see her on a semi-regular basis. I have lost my control on my schedule and my life. I need it back. I need the freedom back.

I've decided to buy my own PA system this summer and start hiring myself out as a freelance sound guy. I need to have some control. I created a picture today that contains my dreams and wants for the future. I hung it by my bedside so that I can see it every night when I go to sleep and every morning when I wake up. I need to be reminded of where I'm going not just where I am. I love my life right now but i am not satisfied with it. I need to achieve something and I am getting the urges to just go for it.

I'm sorry mama but I'm shining only once
Gotta burn off the drama before I do too much
Cuz I'm only flaring silent trying to follow my fleeting flame
tomorrow could be violent I might never be the same

~No Apologies (I'm Sorry) - Proverbial Ride

11/30/2006

In The Worst Mood Ever

Okay so this is going to be a rant seeing as I am sitting at my computer at 1:30 AM with a bloody bandage on my hand. So I get home from kareoke and I go around back to see if can clear some snow off my car so it won't get too wet inside tomorrow. I find that the plastic has ripped and there's a giant pile of snow in my back seat and that the interior lights are on because apparently my passenger side door wont properly close due to the crash. Then I look and I find that my trunk is open...actually open. hmmm. so i start clearing snow off my roof where it has bubbled up over the sun roof and I impale my palm on my broken off antenna putting a huge gash in my hand which is now swathed in a giant bandage to try and stop the profuse bleeding. I think I am going to cry. Why is this shit happening to me right now? Goddamnit. I need you here.

AMMENDMENT: Apparently the plastic did not rip. My roomates havwe informed me someone took a knife and decided to break into my car and snoop for stuff again...so that's why the trunk was open and my interior light was on.

11/29/2006

Word On The Street

So ICBC has launched an uninsured driver claim against Mr. Mycock and he has 22 days to either accept, dispute, or do nothing. Now if he accepts or does nothing I get my claim. If he disputes then it's up to me to sue him. Please let him accept!! I don't want to turn this into a court battle. Luckily I could probably get my uncle or Biff's dad to represent me so it wouldn't be hard to get representation.

Ummm in other news, I have never been so happy in my life. I don't know how I lucked into this but I did. Everyday I wake up with a big stupid grin on my face. Feel free to groan single people.

Another gig at the Theatre got cancelled today...great. :(


Oh and i think I might buy one of these...

11/26/2006

They Finally Did It Man....They Finally Killed My Car

So I'm not gonna post about the party cuz if you were there you already know and if you weren't you missed out big time. Umm yeah so in case anybody doesn't know I got into an accident this morning which was completely not my fault. I'm just really glad that everyone is alright and no one was hurt. I'm gonna miss my car when it's gone but I can only treat this as another thing that was meant to happen for a reason. The only consolation I can take is that I did enough to stop the back-hoe bucket from coming through the windshield. It pretty much would have killed me and Alleah or hurt us very severely. That scares me so much. We are all so lucky to be alive and healthy and that's what I'm going to focus on. I hope they take that guy for a ride man cuz he deserves to pay for what he did. I know it was a mistake but the fact that he just didn't seem to care at all if anyone was hurt just baffles me. Why didn't he apologize to me? He was completely at fault...why did he not say he was sorry? What kind of person doesn't apologize for putting the lives of my friends in jeopardy? Thank you big time to Kylan's parents for helping me out and getting me back into drivable conditon. Happy Brithday Ky!! 21 is looking fine.

11/21/2006

The Car Saga Continues

So I took my car in for its transmission check today and it turns out the tranny is not the problem. It turns out my 2nd fuel injector is leaking fuel over the back of the engine and it's a miracle I haven't burst into flames at any given time on the highway. Transmission dude John tells me that he recommends I get my car towed to a shop and fixed immediately. I tell him that I have a body shop appointment tomorrow to get my wheel well worked on and he says if I drive really slow and don't let the engine heat up I should be safe to get it home. I don't drive it home....I drive it to Millenium Auto where I find out that all the seals on my Fuel Injector Rail are totally rotten and they just fall apart as soon as he touches them. Now I am screwed. Or so I think. Turns out he miraculously finds four seals that will fit my injectors puts them on and TA DA!! Problem solved...for now. If they leak again I have to take them to a Honda tech and get the official Honda Seals put on. So now my car runs a hell of a lot better due to me not missing a fuel injector anymore. But tomorrow I go in to get the body looked at and my wheel well fixed but if what the Transmission people say is true I may be in for more than that. The mechanic at Millenium told me that tons of people didn't get their Accords undercoated properly when they bought them new and they tend to rust in the main frame...which if it's happening in my car may mean I am uber-screwed none-the-less. Praying for my car to survive...and not cost me a fortune.

So Yeah...


Life is good...when life is good don't write on here cuz well there's no real news. Life marches on as it ever does and I go with the flow along with it. Hmmm news...worked on the tech-in and strike of Lisa marie Presley's gig at the Port Theatre. I never would have figured she'd be Alleah height. Ummm yeah worked the worst gig ever on the weekend I was really tired and none of my mics decided to work for me with 15 minutes to go before the show. So I called in Ace, Mike and Leon before we finally found and fixed the issue. Mike looked at the set-up and realized we should have had two techs on it instead of just one. I really wish someone else had been there to stop me from going absolutely insane.
Oh and speaking of insane my Car is going to cost me $450 in maintenance and repairs over the next two days...wooo hoooo.
Oh and this comes immediately following my resignation of my job at Thrifty's....oh boy. So I won't be quite as social as I have been for the next while due to funds and all. But in general life is a blessing and I'm enjoying every day of it.

Can't nothin' hold me down...uh uh.

Oh and Ky....you're my hero...love you buddy.

11/12/2006

That's All One Now Our Play Is Done

Wow it's finally over. I can't say I've ever enjoyed a character quite as much as I did playing Feste. Feste made me feel like a rock star every single night; he gave me an ability to connect with the audience in a way that I've never been able to do before. I have never had so many people come up to me and tell me that I was their favourite part in the show before. It also made me more confident about persuing my Music career. To all my fellow cast members and our excellent crew all have to say is "Wow". What a seamless show from beginning to end, the professionalism was by far the best I have seen behind the scenes at a Malaspina show so far and we have set a precedent for shows to come. We have been gifted with an amazing group of actors, designers, and technicians in our program for these two years and I believe we are working our way towards leaving a lasting legacy for years to come. So from here out this year I am taking off my acting hat and putting on my techie one. Thanks everyone for sharing in the magic that was Twelfth Night. I love you all.

10/19/2006

Top 5...

things I like about Martha in non sequential order...


1. Cool to just hang out and do nothing with. We have a very similar outlook on life so there is no real pressure to entertain or even talk. Things are just comfortable right from the get go.
2. Kick ass taste in Music.
3. Smells like Lush stuff all the time...*drools*
4. Best Kisser Ever
5. Her smile. (I know it's cliche.) But come on...

10/17/2006

Since You All Want It.

That's right I am actually going to write an entry again. When blogger lost my entire entry anout the John Mayer show I became disheartened to say the least so speed update...

- Broke things off with Amanda (messily) :(
- Started thing up with Jill
- Went to see John Mayer & Sheryl Crow with Jill
- Broke things off with Jill (better this time)
- iPod, DigiCam, & 150 CDs stolen from my Car....argh
- Cast as "Feste" in Twelfth Night
- Writing music for said play :)
- 21st Birthday
- Started things up with Martha :)

That's right people throw in a couple crazy parties a little bit of scandal, a whol;e lot of theatre program awesomeness, several 5 AM weekend shifts at work and some awesome friends and that's it.

Love yah.

10/06/2006

The Day The Music Died

AC/DC “Live”
B.B. KING “Take It Home”
BEN FOLDS “Ben Folds”
BEN FOLDS “Songs For Silverman”
BEN FOLDS FIVE “Rockin' The Suburbs”
BEN FOLDS FIVE “The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner”
BEN FOLDS FIVE “Whatever And Ever Amen”
BEN HARPER “Fight For Your Mind”
BEN HARPER “Welcome To The Cruel World”
BLUES BROTHERS 2000 “Original Movie Soundtrack”
BON JOVI “Slippery When Wet”
BRIGHT EYES “Digital Ash In A Digital Urn”
BRIGHT EYES “Lifted”
BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE “You Forgot It In People”
BUDDY GUY “Blues Singer”
BUDDY GUY “Slippin' In”
BUSH X “Sixteen Stone”
CAKE – “Comfort Eagle”
CAKE “Fashion Nugget”
CAKE “Motorcade of Generosity”
CAKE “Prolonging The Magic”
CAUTERIZE - “So Far From Real”
CLASH, THE “London Calling”
COLDPLAY “X&Y”
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL “Cosmo's Factory”
DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL “A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar”
DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL “MTV Unplugged v2.0”
DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL “The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most”
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND “Crash”
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND “Everyday”
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND “Stand Up”
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND “Under The Table And Dreaming”
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE “Transatlanticism”
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE “You Can Play These Songs With Chords”
DEREK AND THE DOMINOES “Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs”
DUKE ROBILLARD “Explorer”
ELLIOT SMITH “XO”
ERIC CLAPTON “From The Cradle”
ERIC CLAPTON “Unplugged”
EVERLAST “Eat At Whitey's”
FOO FIGHTERS “The Colour And The Shape”
GET UP KIDS, THE “Eudora”
GET UP KIDS, THE “Guilt Show”
GET UP KIDS, THE “Something To Write Home About”
GRATEFUL DEAD “Skeletons From The Closet”
GREEN DAY “American Idiot”
GREEN DAY “Dookie”
GREEN DAY “Insomniac”
GREEN DAY “Nimrod”
GREEN DAY “Warning”
INCUBUS “A Crow Left Of The Murder”
INCUBUS “Fungus Amongus”
INCUBUS “Make Yourself”
INCUBUS “Morning View”
INCUBUS “S.C.I.E.N.C.E”
JACK JOHNSON “Brushfire Fairytales”
JAY-Z “The Black Album”
JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE, THE “Axis: Bold As Love”
JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE, THE “Electric Ladyland”
JIMMY EAT WORLD “Bleed American”
JIMMY EAT WORLD “Clarity”
JOE WALSH “The Smoker You Drink. The Player You Get”
JOEL PLASKETT EMERGENCY “Truthfully, Truthfully”
JOHN MAYER “AS/IS”
JOHN MAYER “Heavier Things”
JOHN MAYER “Room For Squares”
JOHNNY LANG “Long Time Coming”
JULIANA THEORY, THE “Understand This Is A Dream”
K-OS “Joyful Rebellion”
KEANE “Under The Iron Sea”
KID ROCK “Devil Without A Cause”
KILTLIFTERS, THE “Pass The Popcorn”
KINGS OF LEON “Aha Shake Heartbreak”
LINKIN PARK “Hybrid Theory”
LINKIN PARK “Meteora”
MARILYN MANSON “Antichrist Superstar”
MAROON 5 “Songs About Jane”
MARS VOLTA, THE “Frances The Mute”
MEATLOAF “Bat Out Of Hell”
MOBILE “Tomorrow Starts Today”
MUDDY WATERS “Folk Singer”
MUSE “Absolution”
NINE INCH NAILS “The Downward Spiral”
ODDS “Bedbugs”
ODDS “Nest”
OUTKAST “Stankonia
PANIC! AT THE DISCO “A Fever You Can't Sweat Out”
PEARL JAM “Pearl Jam”
PEDRO THE LION “Control”
PEDRO THE LION “Winners Never Quit”
PHISH “Farmhouse”
PHISH “Round Room”
PINK FLOYD “The Wall”
POLICE, THE “Every Breath You Take”
POSTAL SERVICE, THE “Give Up”
RADIOHEAD “OK Computer”
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE “Rage Against The Machine”
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS “
ROBERT CRAY “Take Your Shoes Off”
ROBERT CRAY “Time Will Tell”
RYAN ADAMS “Demolition”
RYAN ADAMS “Gold”
RYAN ADAMS “Love Is Hell”
RYAN ADAMS & THE CARDINALS “Cold Roses”
RYAN ADAMS & THE CARDINALS “Jacksonville City Nights”
SAVES THE DAY “In Reverie”
SNOW PATROL “Eyes Open”
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN “Couldn't Stand The Weather”
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN “In Step”
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN “Soul To Soul”
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN “The Sky Is Cryin'”
STRAYLIGHT RUN “Straylight Run”
SUBLIME “Robbin' The Hood”
SUBLIME “40 oz. To Freedom”
TOOL “10,000 Days”
TREBLE CHARGER “Detox”
TREWS, THE “House Of Ill Fame”
WALLFLOWERS, THE “Bringing Down The Horse”
WALLFLOWERS, THE “Red Letter Days”
WEEZER “Maladroit”
WEEZER “pinkerton”
WEEZER “The Blue Album”
WEEZER “The Green Album”
WHISKYTOWN “Pneumonia”
WHO “Who's Next”

All Gone In One Fell Swoop *cries*

9/29/2006

In Lieu Of Update I Give You...Comic

9/10/2006

1984-2006

It's really hard to write about all the good stuff right now. Nate's funeral is on tuesday, and it's gonna take alot to get through it. I can't say we were ever close friends but we were team mates and I think that counts enough. It still seems weird to me that I saw him at the river mere days before his death. For those of you who don't know Nate Hughes was a Barsby Alumni, he was studying Chemical Engineering at UBC and he was tragically killed when the car he was riding in lost control on Jinglepot Rd. on September 3rd. He was running late for his ferry back to UBC and never made it to his parent's house. I can only imagine how hard this is for his family and close friends. We'll all miss you Nate Dawg.

9/03/2006

No Matter How Cold It Gets This Winter....

I'll always have this to look forward to in the summer....




8/21/2006

Why Should I Worry? Why Should I Care?

The countdown to school is frickin' on and I just know these last weeks are gonna drag out to no end. I didn't get my tattoo fixed today due to the fact that it hasn't completely healed yet. bummer. So September 17th is the next day we're gonna try and get this thing fixed. I submitted the design for the next one as well (sorry mom). I can at least swim for the rest of the summer so that's a bonus. I can't wait to get back in class. In other news I've started kinda seeing someone. I really like her so here's hoping this one pans out. One month tomorrow I see John Mayer!!! YAY! I'm so stoked.

Anybody know where to get a huge CD wallet in this town? went to A&B Sound and Future Shop today and couldn't find any. crazy.