Much of my city is underwater. I am high and dry atop a hill, but if I take a short walk and look out over the floodplain where downtown sits I am dumbstruck. There's a certain cognitive dissonance in seeing submerged landmarks and normally busy thoroughfares disappearing into the backwater of a monstrous, turbid river ( Read more... )

I think I've complained before of a certain involuntary stoicism on my part. A wish that I should be more easily moved. (unlike a tree that's planted by the water?) Not that I've any particular hardships to be stoic about. Life is a bourgeois breeze. Whatever claims to poverty I had as a student who summered as a construction labourer are gone - ( Read more... )

I guess it was eight years ago tonight I decided to move to Calgary. I had just moved back in with Mom after a couple years of maxing out my Visa living in a trailer park, delivering pizzas full time while going to school and trying to support a girlfriend who was always sure to get a job next week. Another incumbent president was reelected and ( Read more... )

I received a print of the following image for Christmas:


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With more spare time to do things I like, I've decided to launch a music blog so that I might share my tunes with a wider audience than a handful of livejournal readers and whoever happens to get stuck in the car with me on long trips. You can view it here: Illegitimate Thoughts.

Got a bit more free time lately. Backlog of half-written, unproduced songs are getting finished and recorded.

Jerry Can't
Acoustic. Dylanish?

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Her Jamaican Rum
Loop tracks. Adam Ant meets Beck?

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Wordsick
An original. I don't know what to say about this one, except that if it there was a music video it would probably need muppets.

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In case you didn't all already read last month's issue of The Goose (an online Journal for the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada), they published a book review I wrote. (pg 34)

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