lucky!
Awesome. I like those colors.

Damn, dude. That looks like an awesome kit. What's the scene like up in Canada? What kind of music do you play?

I got new glasses.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...ewglasses2.jpg

Oh woweee :D

Love the glasses :love:, immense earrings too!! and hair! :D

Thanks lady! :) hair flat irons ftw

Hair flat irons?! Straighteners :D?! haha, I couldn't live without my straighteners. I have a head like a burst couch otherwise :(

better than a fanny like one...

it's quite hard to answer both those questions!

the scene here is eclectic, i'd say. i know from a little bit of experience and what my friends tell me that toronto and montreal are the sort of hubs and bases for the majority of anything that has commercial potential, and thusly house a disproportionately large percentage of the live music happening here. musicians flock there (i should be there, but am slower than most kids).

stratford, where i am from, is sadly where justin bieber came from. it could be good, but i fear that it will overshadow the fact that some really extraordinary musicians have come from this place. ones that i've known over the years are john ferguson, colin fisher, graham van pelt, i've met jay hammer although never really "known him," and a guy named ben payne who hails from toronto cites stratford as one of his favourite places to play and has been coming here for many years (10-15 by my count) blowing peoples' socks of with fusion band ED TOAST before forming Dr. Payne & the Disease. i think the latter has actually broken up and don't know what he's up to right now... other than the reunion ED TOAST is having IN STRATFORD on MAY 29th at MOLLY BLOOMS. (yeah... that was totally a plug for something that excites me to a degree that you can probably imagine but not properly relate to at this point)... and my pops has a big huge voice that all the old cats know about around here. he'd blow your socks off. ... anyway, yeah. if the rest of canada is full of as many creative people as i see roll through this town of roughly 32000, then i'd say our music scene has absolutely got to be one of the best in the world.

the music i play is kind of a long story that can be summed up by saying that i just believe that i can effectively make music with anything that you put in front of me, because i don't really think wholeheartedly that i am in charge of what music is made of. this attitude has developed over the past 3(ish) years of not being in a band and not playing with anyone. the gigging i've done in that time is going to a bar on a jam night and doing originals after kicking everybody off the stage at 2am (i play alone with my originals because jamming is improv, but my music is too unconventional to play with people who have never heard it, and they won't let me kick the band off the stage at the height of the night, which is understandable). i plan on doing a lot of busking this summer, as it is actually more profitable than having a job in some cases, and is fun as hell. my last band though, in which i played those drums, was probably classifiable as instrumental prog or something close to but not quite prog. we just looked at is as edgy art made of sound.

it's possible that quantity over quality just happened verbally, but that's my best answer. i have some music on the internet that i can give URLs for to you if you'd like. just ask. i send. (i don't wanna post them here, cuz i can't remember if i'm allowed.

ok. that's enough. bye.

Nice to see a rare pc of NSW.

Lovin' the glasses.

Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. x9893592385791873562978451983752983570293485
:love:

Thanks! I like to make an appearance every once in a while. :)

Yer makin' me blush...

No but really. <3

That's a great picture of you! :)

:love:

Loving the glasses as well. :thumb:

Is that a Banjo or a guitar?

you look pretty submissive

teehee

Right on, Brocephus. I dig the way you describe your work. Sure, I'd like to hear what you've got recorded. And if you're interested likewise, just click the link that is my signature. That's my band. Let me know what you think.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-a...50297_6970.jpg

don't ask

Conan, this isn't really a response to your last pic, more of any of your pics: You look just how I imagined you would, lol. That's not an insult, by the way.





































...or a compliment :p:

Really? I've heard from several here that they thought I was black. :laughing:

Lol.

Your current Last.FM pic is definitely how I pictured you before I saw ya

Well I figured I'd been in New Zealand a while now, and was yet to do anything exciting but was too scared to go bungy jumping. I have a friend who knows this guy, who holds national titles in NZ paragliding events and such, so he took me out! It was the best ever, the closest you can ever feel to flying.

:love:

i've heard it described as/called a "banjitar" which i think is a pretty cool word. but the timbre and sound character are most certainly banjo. i don't know anything about banjos other than the sound they make has tons of attack and very little sustain... and i really like that. someone said earlier in this thread they'd heard that playing a 6-string banjo is the cheater's approach, to which i reply that to pick up a musical instrument and firstly consider the stigma attached to it is submitting to a very linear and limited perspective, effectively forgetting about one's own personal potential. music can come out of a brick, and if i didn't know what it was when i found it, i would still smile when i applied the elements of music to my relationship with that brick

on another note, i sadly had to pawn that banjo due to job loss and needing to feed a great dane named Numa-Pi.

quite digging your approach and philosophy to playing music. :beer:

just to add 2 cents to the banjo thing, the reason they have such a unique attack and tone is due to the traditional body being a closer relative to the snare drum than a classical guitar. regardless of the amount of strings if it's got a body made of a resonator chamber and a skin on top i think it's safer to call it a banjo than a guitar.

i dig that perspective a lot.

Geez, I've never heard that one before... :p:



Thanks for the compliments y'all. :beer:

Here are some new pictures of me from the weekend before last.

http://pixelmuncher.com/pics/me/P1020340.jpg
Here I am at the steps of my private beach.

http://pixelmuncher.com/pics/me/P1020379.jpg
Here I am getting away in my speed boat.

http://pixelmuncher.com/pics/me/P1020467.jpg
Here I am attempting to flee the paparazzi.

http://pixelmuncher.com/pics/me/P1020232.jpg
Here one of the paparazzi got me just after I got out of my Benzo. I put on my jacket before I punched him in the face.

how far along the coast were you? it's reminding me of a much colder version of the summer i spent in the San Juan islands (closer to Canada than Oregon).

either way, i'm jealous of the speed boat and benzo haha

The first two pics were taken on Whidbey Island (which sits somewhere between Seattle and the San Juan Islands), and the 3rd is from San Juan Island two days later. :) It was pretty damn cold that day.

nice :D i thought that horizon looked familiar hahaha my summer was mostly on Guemes which was the smallest in the chain if i remember correctly.

Ahh...had to look it up as I hadn't heard of that one. I see it's right above Anacortes, where we took the ferry from.

yeah we had to use the little ghetto ferry on the other side of town to get back and forth to the mainland for supplies hahaha

:laughing:

Love, love, love those. Especially the last one.

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...03_3156368.jpg

I loves me some gin.

Is that suit for a funeral? Maybe in honour of your now former mod status?

Ouch. and LOL @ tags.

Ouch? Why? Did I sound sarcastic?

No it sound more like a "haha your not a mod type thing". lol. Maybe I'm just dumb.

Hehe I see. Well no, that wasnt my intent. I think he voluntarily gave it up anyway.

Okay sorry for assuming. :P