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This is pure, unfiltered, triple fermented AWESOME!

This was the poem I read for Pest at Monday night's slam. I wrote it late on Sunday, night before the poetry slam. It was the first thing I was able to write or even create after I got the news last Wednesday. I feel it has some of her energy in it. I wrote this spoken word piece for myself, but I shall always think of her whenever I read it. ( Read more... )

R.I.P. Tempest Grace Gale

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PeSt playing with one of her homemade creatures at the Arts Wells Music Festival 2009 with Jeff Andrew

As feared and suspected, TemPeSt's death was indeed a murder. It has been a hard week for myself and a lot of the people I love. Pest wasn't just a friend, she was a fellow poet, musician, artists and creator ( Read more... )

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So, the band starts packing up our gear after the show and bringing it out to JF's (our bass player) bus which is parked out on Hastings street in the notorious of Vancouver known as the Downtown East Side (DTES). When we opened the door JF found a homeless man had broke in through one of our windows and decided to curl up in some of the blankets ( Read more... )

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I swear, my life is like a cocktail.

One part Changeling: the Dreaming
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One part Charles DeLint novel

Last night's Halloween haunted house at the art collective was phenomenal. I can't wait for the media photos to start circulating the internet. It is so great to be a part of such a proactive community of creative people. I felt that ( Read more... )

Like most superheroes- err I mean, musicians I have a day job. As some of you may or may not know my day job is being a nanny! Oddly enough a lot of my fellow Vancouver musicians work in childcare by day LOL ( Read more... )

Oh October has been such a wonderful month! Autumn is always my power season and the last few weeks have been amazing. As per usual, I have been somewhat absent from LJ life as real life is just too much damn fun (and full!) to be in front of the computer. A brief re-cap of some of the amazingness that has happened....

* SNEETCH played the ( Read more... )