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whoo. so it's been a while since i've written here, what an exciting week i've been having. monday our band played at george's roadhouse in sackville, new brunswick, to a not very huge at all crowd, but we still had a great time. our set was pretty solid, although extremely lacking in the stage-presence department.. the next day shaun and i wound up hitchhiking home, largely because of miscommunication.. which kinda sucked but we had pretty good luck with our hitchhiking. yesterday was last day of classes, i practiced drums for most of the afternoon, had a rehearsal for the music dept. combo concert, then went to my pal spike's place for a few drinks, then to the inn, which was having customer appreciation day as well as last class bash. it was the worst customer appreciation day i'd ever seen, usually it's just a huge mess, they have it a weekend or two before classes end, on a friday, and have ridiculous drink specials all day.. people go and get bombed in the afternoon, it's great. this time they decided to have it on last day of classes and decided not to have crazy drink specials and as a result it was kinda lame. anyway today was our combo concert, my combo played very sketchily, but i got complimented on my drums by eric burke, who's the #1 bassplaying student here, who i used to play drums with in first year, when he was hardcore and i almost failed out.. we used to not get along very well, but now we do just fine, it made my night when he said he liked my drumming, especially because i used to make him pretty angry by being a bad drummer and not trying.. anyway then tonight i went to frescos with some music kids to see the profs play, it was fun and afterwards we listened to skip the bass prof tell stories about the places he's gone and people he's met.. he told us about a 15-year-old tony williams blowing away all the drummers at berklee, where skip was (2 years later tony williams was playing with miles davis), getting drunk and puking up cheezies at an ornette coleman club show, getting high with thelonious monk.. he's an amazing musician and an all-around pretty incredible guy. anyway it all was fun but now i'm exhausted and am going to fall asleep typing so off i go.. night!

ooooooooo so today we spent hours and hours recording drum tracks for a cd we'll eventually have finished. recording is the most frustrating experience when your songs are complicated and hard to play... we're doing track recording, which because of equipment limitations is the only way we can do this.. recording onto derck's computer. after finishing all our instrumental tracks for a song, which itself took a few solid days, we realized that it didn't sound very good.. drums were off, guitar was out of tune, singing was beyond awful.. so we decided to start again today from scratch. we spent a lot of the afternoon trying to get a good drum sound (the most frustrating thing, since we have to do it over again every time we record) then spent an hour and a half trying to record a good drum track for a new song, that i kept fucking up.. it's definitely the hardest song we have to play, it starts out in 7/4 (my idea.........) then goes to regular 4/4 but has a bunch of pauses and there's a couple of spots where it's a 3/4 feel and then the big rock chorus and then goes into what's actually another song stuck in the middle of it and then punkrock nofx-style doubletime then more pauses then back into 7 then the end. and i could not record a single usable take.. with each successive bad take i'd just get more stressed and play worse.. anyway we took a break for long enough to go to music student grad recitals, there were two tonight, dan kindopp's and natalie robinson's. dan's was ok, natalie's was kickass, it was almost entirely big band stuff, that she arranged herself, it was really good. (i have to do one of those next year...... yikes) anyway, then back here for more recording, which we did until about 12:30, when it was too late and i couldn't handle any more anyway. we got a rockin' take of the hard song on my very third try, ripped through our easiest song, and started another one, got a few takes that are ok but not my best work. the thing that's the most stressful about recording, is that starting over is such a hassle, so you want to play everything perfectly; a track can be going great and then i can miss a single drum fill close to the end and have to do the whole thing over. and the pressure you put on yourself to play perfectly can cause you to miss drum fills. anyway, on the plus side, the tracks we did get are pretty solid, it's drumming i can kinda be proud of, and our lil cd is shaping up to sound pretty good. oh and i have school besides this too... for my poli sci 100 class i have to write a paper that cites 15 sources, for some reason... but, it is my only paper i have left to do. so i say whatever! we got some awesome news today though.. my band is gonna play at mount a! not at the university, but in sackville anyway.. on april 5th, that's right folks, a monday, at george's roadhouse, with wheels on the bus, from ontario, and !go kid go!, who i think are from cape breton, by way of sackville.... i'm kinda really excited, it's our first ever road trip show! also, 2 1/2 weeks and classes are all over, we at some point have to take all our empties back from the whole year and have a repeat of our big all-day bbq/party during which our house was destroyed last year.. hopefully sans destruction this time. anyway i'm all tired so i'm hitting the hay, night..

so i've been out of comission for a while on the livejournal front, but that doesn't mean i haven't been doing BIG THINGS! since i last wrote in this, i've been back at school for a week and a bit, saw some up-and-coming canadian bands at the inn thursday night; the miniatures (who were no good) and pilate (who were pretty good). got cultured by checking out the vagina monologues on friday night, it was actually really good, although a little intimidating at first, the audience was about 93% female. then went to a keg party that was winding down by the time we got there, but it still was fun, some pals from pei were down, the rest of the weekend was none too exciting, although i did get to help make a zombie movie on sunday for derck the jerck's fiction & film or something class. i got to be a zombie! oh and yesterday i went to a lecture on free trade (i didn't even have to but went anyway!) and got educated a bit.. but only a bit. anyway the year is quickly drawing to a close, and we all know what that means...... i'm just about completely broke. also it means papers and assignments, although i've somehow managed to avoid a lot of the work all my friends have to do. also! my percussion ensemble concert is tomorrow.. it should be sketchy. we're a little lacking in the preparedness department.. it'll probably be fun though. also, my band has made our first attempts at actually laying down some tracks for a lil cd, at our very own viewville st. studios.. really derck's room. it's time-comsuming but sounds not bad, which is encouraging. anyway it's school time for this cat, tttyl!

well well well spring break has come and almost gone, and what a week it turned out to be! not really that exciting, but last night was kinda fun. i went to my buddy neil's pad to have beers and kick it with some friends, we were gonna go out but he said that before we did, we should pay a visit to these friends of his dad's that he said he'd go visit. i'll admit i was a tad skeptical, but anyway we went and showed up at this house, and there were just a few older folks (in their 50s i'd guess..) inside with names like ervin and pearl, playing guitars and drinking beer, we sat and drank with them for a while, me and my buddy todd played and sang for them and they loved it, started passing around joints ("i never discovered it till i was 40!"), we had a great time! they told us we should go on canadian idol. anyway we went to the heritage after, saw some friends from unb/stu whose spring break is just starting, i crashed at neil's pad and this morning for whatever reason, we went to little jimmy's take-out for good ol' pei fries with the works. only it's not actually called little jimmy's, it's called notre dame take-out and variety, and don't you dare call him little jimmy to his face or he'll get pissed! (he's real short.) anyway i'm out, i've gotta get to figuring what i'm gonna do on my last night in pei.. possibly for quite a while............................ (mysterious!), later.

what's up now! i'm back with a vengeance. i think i may have said that last time i wrote in this. i'm now spring breaking it up, having some fun evenings and deathly boring days. tonight i went and played some pool with the boyzz, it's nice that dal and mt. a have spring breaks right now too, friends for me! i had a fun enough weekend, friday night went to a party where they only listened to slayer and then jumped off the roof onto the giant snowbanks, then to the heritage pub which is kinda gay but was kinda fun that night.. then saturday my buddies in ch-town had a "plaid is rad" party and i went to that and then to gay myrons, but gay myrons was actually fun too. sunday night i hung out with my cuz april and my pal jordan, we had fun stoned rural pei adventures. last night i did nothing... tonight played pool. that's all really.. home is nice once in a while. ohh my band is getting more shows too! our show at chuggles was awesome. we're playing at least once in march and are working on shows for the end of april/start of may. it's nice to finally be playing shows again.

as if i'm not back with a vengeance. lots of things are happening here, in between bandpracticing all the time getting ready for our big show at chuggles (also a new website! www.gradesevenpushfight.cjb.net) i've been practicing my drums a lot more and getting better! also the pub caught on fire! i was there when it happened, kinda exciting. a propane line on the roof caught fire and shot flames 15 feet into the air! personally i was kinda thrilled, the funny thing is it seems to be the general sentiment, now that antigonish's premier nightclub is going to be closed at least for a few weeks. plus it definitely means people more people will go to other bars, like chuggles! on thurs feb 12! i've only told everybody i even kinda know, and also played all our songs on our radio show and mentioned it at least 39 times, apparently there should be a pretty decent crowd, from what i've been hearing anyway, i'm johnny excitedness. but we definitely have a few songs that need work before the show.. but it's gonna be sooooo much fun, our name is on the marquee and everything, we get second billing only to cheap steak night.. i can't wait! and plus we have to start getting ready for the killer party we're having on friday! and suzanne is coming! killer week.. and then after next week it's spring break.. then it's 1 month till exams.. then it's exams.. then the year's all over.. already! dag, yo! anyway my pillow is calling me, so off i go. night!

ugh it's 10:22 am, i should be sleeping but i can't.. it's been a while since i've chronicled my exploits here so that is what i'll do. i guess there's not really a whole lot to tell, this week i went to some classes, didn't go to some, rocked out hardcore with my punkrockband, oh thursday night i went to fresco's trattoria and had a pretty kickass time, see on thursdays they have live jazz, courtesy of the stfx music department. i need to go more, they were pretty killer, one of the 3rd year drummers was playing drums and sounding unreal, the bass player was 4th year and always sounds unreal, the rest of the band was profs, tom daniels the guitar prof was playing, for a long time he refused to play there because he didn't like they way they treated the musicians, but he was there for whatever reason, and completely blew my mind, the man is absolutely a genius of a musician. he had the whole place hanging on every single note he played, soooooo good. in comparison the other two profs playing were pretty boring, although they had their moments i guess. their names are gene and paul, so i always think they're kiss when they play. also i'm going to fistfight the trumpet prof for being a dick and failing me in his class and not letting me into his other one. he said i could go and audit it, which i've been doing, but it kinda totally sucks, he's super condescending, to me only, in the class of 9 people. i tried to fight my way into class, he told the chair of the dept. that had i handed in my final exam (which i tried to do, mere hours late), i'd only have passed "marginally." the final was worth 35% and i got 45 in the class! you need 50 to pass! i had a goddamn 70 going into it! this was after i didn't hand in one assignment, lost marks on every single other one for being late, and did poorly on the midterm! if you can't tell, i'm a little angry. anyway i don't need his class this semester to graduate, but i do need the one i failed... on the plus side, i found out i only need to take 18 credits next year to graduate. while it does super suck that i have to do another year and spend another thousands of dollars for it, i'll have a pretty laid-back year next year, which will be nice i suppose.. anyway last night was pretty fun, we went to the inn, there was a band playing, which i guess was nice, although they were a cover band and covered some pretty shady songs... enrique?! c'mon, guys. the thing i like about the inn though, is sometimes when i walk in and seem to know everybody at the whole bar, it makes me feel like johnny coolcat. which of course i am. anyway i'm gonna go get some eats and get started on an assignment for a class i'm not in for a professor who refuses to look at it................................

pick hairs off my own head to see how curly they are....................... i'm taking procrastination to new heights..

hi! so i've been back at school for a week, and gone to four classes in as many days. rocked out with the boyzz on monday till about 6:30 pm, and got a note from "viewville st." threatening to call the rcmp if we didn't stop "disrespecting the neighborhood" by not allowing local high school students to study for their january exams. it's the FIRST WEEK of SCHOOL!! and we ONLY PLAYED till 6:30 at NIGHT!! anyway, what else.. my prof won't let me be in his class.. the class he taught that i failed last semester because my final assignment was (hours) late is a prerequisite for this one. my mark was too low; had i gotten even a 50 on my final i'd have the 60% mark i need to take this one. and even though he knows i can do it he refuses to let me take it, he told me today there was nothing he or i or i guess anybody could do, which to me sounds like lies. anyway this means i'm gonna have to go over his head and talk to department chairs and deans and whatever, i'm not giving up until dr. sean riley himself tells me i can't take it.. i'm kinda excited actually. i guess i like arguing. hmmmm what else is new... today was the coldest day ever, and the first time the walk home has really bothered me.. i thought i was gonna die of freezation.. watched punch drunk love tonight, i liked it.. derck the jerck's girlfriend meghan is here for the weekend, it's the first time i've met her, she's pretty hip. rockinout tomorrow! we'll see what our neighbors have to say. i love our band, i wish there were more places to play in antigonish... and beyond! i'd love to do a little bit of "touring" this semester. it's exciting, i've never played in a band that's been able to do that before. anyway i'm hitting the hay, hopefully it's warmer tomorrow. night!

i was bored and decided i'd try to make this look prettier, i didn't really like any of the options it gave my unpaid ass. i don't especially like this one, but i tire of this charade.

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merry xmas!

it's me! i'm back! and what a very exciting few days i've had. since i've been home i've been to the wave (upei bar with the worst name ever) for the first time, seen my first snowstorm of the winter, gone sledding at brookvale (super big and wicked only ski hill on pei)(it's not open yet, we snuck the fuck in), gone christmas shopping, cut down and sold christmas trees, been to baba's lounge for the second time ever to see wintersleep and they were kickass and it's a wicked bar, super tiny, it felt like a house party, afterwards went to my cousin's pad for the second time ever, smoked pot with my cousin for the first time ever, oh and i stayed up one night till 7 am because i couldn't sleep. and i also bought the kurt cobain journals book and read it all and it's grand. although i sorta felt like a jerk reading the stuff he wrote when he was all depressed but he was a pretty brilliant guy and would have been cool to meet i think. which brings us to last night and today! last night was my buddy neil's birthday (actually tonight is, but he's working tonight) so we drank drinks and i drank too many. as per usual! we played this race horse drinking game with cards which was neato, but not as neato when you're drinking whiskey and running out of ginger ale and you make your drinks super stiff to compensate. a mess was i, yes sir, or so i've been told, and i woke up this morning with a pretty nice shiner, whose emergence is something of a mystery. i stayed at my pal chris's house; i was sleeping on the couch when he went to fix himself a snack (it was broken, ha! ha!) and when he came back 10 minutes later i was sprawled out triumphantly on the floor. now my glasses are broken and my eye is purple and mostly shut. this morning it was leaking something so i went to the hospital and got some x-rays but mostly just waited, and i saw thomas walker, who won the governor general's award when we graduated and who got a full enginerring scholarship to carleton, far out. he was there for something he got while doing a work term in brazil! so i drove home with one eye shut and my folks were all mad because whoops did i mention i was supposed to work at my dad's tree lot this morning? last night he calls at 8pm and says i'm supposed to work at 9 the next morning (saturday!), after not working there all week. the only other day i did was the day after i got home, when i got home at 3pm my little sister was the only one home and she told me i was supposed to be there at 12. dude i didn't know! so anyway i went there when i got home (with stylish shades to cleverly disguise my eye) and it wasn't busy at all and i didn't need to be there but i saw some people i hadn't seen in a while who were getting christmas trees, so it was ok. i've been seeing a lot of people i haven't seen in a long time, people i didn't even see in the summer! when i LIVED here! wtf! so all in all, home is sometimes a nice place to visit. rad!

wow wow wow wow wow! so i'm wondering if i have any money in the bank and i remember that before i came to school i went to the bank and they gave me a card with passwords so i can check my account online but for some reason i've never done it. so i fish it out of my little box of goodies, and check my accounts, my checking account has a balance of -$17.66, after december's rent check went through, which i expected, my mom put money in my savings account!!! which i also expected... but wait! a third account! one i didn't know about! with $400 in it!!! no good can come of this, i'm thinking since it's money i didn't know i had it's probably not just there for me to spend but it's such a huge relief, i'm so broke, i had no idea what i was going to do for xmas presents, or xmas fun for that matter. way to make my night, evangeline credit union! and then i'm done tomorrow, psych 100 i'm gonna kick its ass, i need to since i didn't do so hot on the midterm........ as long as i can make myself study between now and then i'll be a-ok.

grrrrrrrr, so i probably failed my arranging class. i was doing decently well in it too... because my final take-home exam/arrangement was late.. not by days, but by hours. all because i decided to go celebrate x-ring with my friends who all got theirs the night before, instead of working on it.. the irony is fantastic, i didn't get my x-ring because of not passing music theory courses.. i didn't pass my music theory course because of x-ring. anyway, x-ring night was a super blast, i got way drunker than most of the x-ring recipients..... drank faxe and everything! and champagne. yea, it was fun.. anyway sleep for me, music tech exam at 9 am... i wanna be done of school now.

so it's 4:04 a.m. and i was trying to sleep but i can't, and then i remembered i hadn't written in this thing in a while. what's new, you ask? well, i'm glad you asked. not much is new.. i went to see wintersleep at chuggles last night, they were pretty incredible. also i've been working on making a g7pf website (hence the html), hopefully it'll be up and running before too long. i have a super busy week ahead of me, and wish i didn't.. i guess i'm feeling a little worn out from all my schooling, 2 weeks from now i'll be home for christmas, i guess i'm excited. it'll be nice to see everybody. christmas is always fun, although i never seem to get as excited for it as i used to.. also, i need money.. i have $50 to last me the next two weeks.. at least i have plenty of groceries though. it's just my fun-having habits that'll suffer.. anyway i'm a little cranky right now, as you may have gathered, i'm gonna try and sleep again. night!

i hate those little smileys.

i should be at the library right now starting my psych 100 research paper that's due tomorrow.. instead i'm stuck here looking after the radio station till colin the station manager comes back.. i might not have agreed to do it if i hadn't done such a poor job as promotions director. my wine is the greatest thing there is, i'm not even a little bit hungover.. well, maybe a little bit. last night we sat around home and watched america's funniest home videos and got really drunk, being wine drunk is the funnest ever, too bad it turns your teeth blue. i can envision me becoming a wino in the near future.

my wine is finally ready! and really really good. i'm unreal happy that the weekend is finally here, my hellish 2 weeks of constant schoolwork are finally over! that's all... i like weekends.