OK, this is just an announcement of an upcoming show... my apologies for the use of this space for my own personal self-interest, but I won't be selling anything if that makes anyone feel any better!
On Thursday, November 30th, I will be performing a solo set backed up by the inestimable Mr. Alf Catolico on drums, as part of Janine Gobeil's cd release at the Academy Coffee House.
Songs are from my upcoming album, which is under the working title of 'Mute'. Those of you who know me and Alf from the band 'Volume' will get that joke...
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I've been informed it's actually 'Academy Bar and Eatery'. Shows you how much I get out... oh, and that's in Winnipeg for you non-Peggers on this blog.
I`m all for the shameless plugs. It`s nice to know when things are going on in the tangible world. Some feel they don`t belong here. I `ll probably be at the show. I`m reserving my right to be a weather wimp though.
I'm all for the shameless plugs as well. I think part of what this blog can/shoud/is/be is a place for us all to say "hey, this is what i'm doing this week!" And then we can all cheer you on, either in person or in spirit.
This kind of thing not only informs each other, but also the larger world (who, of course, check out our blog fanatically!). Nice pic, by the way.
jazsp: to turn the mute button off and unexpectedly be hit with full volume.
Is the pic off Assinaboine?
I'm also all for the shameless plugs. Celebrate and support are both part of the ALFA/art reinforcement concept if I'm not mistaken.
I was just at the label today and saw the photography project that was on the walls today. Exciting stuff that people should know about.
I like plugs. like this one, a pretty picture and some words like a diary entry or news piece.
seeing the showposter up here can be tiresome.
qvcny - picky bastard
even a shot of the inside of a gallery I like.(like my mural shot, hehe)
shamelessnesslessmess
vavyyz - the noise of a zipper
the sound that has volume
is not the soundless sound:
the myriad creatures see this,
and know that it is so.
p.s. horray for the tao te ching.
The pic is from my trip out to Edmonton last month, from one of the nameless streets out there.
Since we're on the topic of namelessness, that reminds me of another event from that trip. I was in Grande Prairie before Edmonton, another of the many Alberta towns and cities with no/few named streets, just numbers. I was giving the clerk (a rather young and inexperienced-seeming guy - think the pimply teenager from the Simpsons working at the fast food restaurant) my address, and he was surprised that my street had the 'funny' name of Garfield. I mentioned that almost all the streets in Winnipeg had names, and he expressed his opinion that that 'must be confusing'.
Funny, I've always felt exactly the opposite. The names provide me with a sense of identity, rightly or wrongly, whereas the nameless streets offer no such solace. What feeling do you get from 7620 36th Ave. (a name immortalized in song, by the way)?
I'll take the names over the namelessness any day, at least when it comes to addresses!
"In Winnipeg, every street name is the trace of a ghost--either the ghost of some early settler, some other country, or some distant tragedy, as in Valour Road, named for the winners of the Victoria Cross.
"Winnipeg experimented with numbered streets for two years, from 1891 to 1893, but in the end the ghost won and we went back to names."
--David Arnason and Mhari Mackintosh, "The Imagined City".
We do still have a 'Fifth' all by itself, over in St. Boniface. I wonder where the first four went??
"Fifth" refers to Sir Alex Paul the 5th. Creator of the #16 Osborne bus route. He died of syphillis in a car accident in 1929.
(this reminds me, how about an ALFA Balderdash showdown at the Label?)
lol! now THAT was funny!
Wow ... to be remembered as the creator of a bus route. I would name mine #69. That, or 666.
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