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Hey!

Asterid is playing at The Unitarian Centre on August 9th. We're playing with National Monument, Oh Jeh Lye La, and Parade Against Parades. It's gonna be super-awesome. Be there!

I installed Red Hat Linux 9 on my PC last night. Rock on! I installed the works. 3.5 gigs, most of the stuff I probably will never use but you never know what you're gonna use. It's a learning experience. I want to set up a webserver and a ftp server. I still have XP on it too. I have a 6 gig partition for windows and another 6 gig partition for Linux. I also have a 800 meg hardrive that I don't know what I'm gonna do with.

So yeah, my personal and professional life are going place baby!

This weekend I'm going to go visit the family at Duck Mountain. I hope the weather is great. It's a long weekend but I want to come back Sunday night to see A.C. Newman @ Amigos. Also the Fringe Festival started yesterday so I want to check that out next week. And next weekend is the annual Duck Mountain camping party blowout. Me and Curtis are gonna get retarded whether you come or not, but please do come. The more the merrier.

Damn, you'd think I was in a good mood.

Love you to death dear reader...

  dutch out.


Recent Listening:
Crust Brothers - Marquee Mark
Spoon - A Series Of Sneaks
various - Gimme Indie Rock v.1

Bumbershoot

hey,

I'm almost definetly going. I found out my last day of work will be Sept. 3rd. I got a plane ticket to Seattle for Sept. 2nd. School starts on the 8th.

The lineup is now annouced on the official site. I must say the Saturday and Sunday lineups are underwhelming. But I am looking forward to Built to Spill, Death Cab for Cutie, Pixies, Crooked Fingers, The Walkmen, President of the United States of America, and Cobra High.

see ya there ;)

The Kids Are Alright!

Last night I went to an all-ages show at The Unitarian Centre. FYI, I did some research after and found out Unitarianism is a religion where you can pretty much believe whatever you want and it's very liberal. cool.

The first band that played was No Birds. They are a 10 piece band with a brass and string section. They play lengthy moody experimental rock pieces. Usually instrumental. There are some major talents within that group and I think that most of them are high school kids! You'd think that at best high school kids would just show a hint of promise but this music is fully realized. I bought their CD Don't Rely on Dying Young.

Next was Parades Against Parades. A four piece that had the other drummer and the other guitarist from No Birds. They played post-Dinosaur rock in the vein of 764-HERO or the rockier side of Broken Social Scene. I dug the sound and they can only get better.

Both No Birds and Parades are a part of The Teargas Recording Tree. A collective a like minded local musician (think Saskatoon's answer to Elephant 6). Anyway, I'm really impressed and I must say there's something special going on in this town/scene.

Next was Edmonton's Fractal Pattern. They were really good musicians and played their guitars with bows and had a french horn player but somehow I didn't fine their 9 minute epics to be as engaging as they should be.

The last band to play was Clann Zu. All the way from Australia. They are on G7. They sounded like Radiohead but the singer was a bulky Henry Rollins kind of guy. It was weird to hear that high little voice come out of his mouth. They were good but it wasn't really my thing and it was late so I went home.

So in short. Yay, for the local kids and The Unitarian Centre is a good evnue with good sound. Look out for shows there.

Bumbershoot

The bumbershoot webpage still hasn't announced the artists lists but I looked up which bands will be playing in Seattle between September 3rd and 6th on pollstar and I see some good news.

Pixies, Death Cab For Cutie, Lou Barlow, Presidents Of The United States Of America, Nancy Sinatra, The Walkmen, Cobra High, Crooked Fingers, and Built to Spill among others are gonna be there. sweet! Things are looking good.

Photoblog 4: Asterid

I'm playing bass in a band these days. This is a shot from our July 8th show at The Pit Studios.

Check out our website to see our schedule of upcoming shows and to hear some of our songs.

Photoblog 3: Bixby Bridge

The historic Bixby Bridge opened up the beautiful Big Sur area of coastal California to the public. Allowing the construction of scenic Highway 1. It's one of the prettiest views I've ever seen. Look at it! You got the ocean, cliffs, beach...

I took this pic with Curtis' camera on May 4 on our massive Western United States road trip. you can see the rest of the pics from that trip here.

On the trip we went to Las Vegas, The Coachella Music Festival, LA, The Hearst Castle, Seattle, and Vancouver among other places.

Photoblog 2: Snoquamie Falls

On my last trip to Seattle me and Jenn took a trip East of Seattle to the beautiful Snoquamie Falls. The televison series Twin Peaks was shot there.

Photoblog 1: Me and Jenn

I took this pic on my last day is Seattle right before we hit the road back to Vancouver. Me and Jenn look dark and brooding and sexy. It was about to rain. We're happy people really.

Upcoming shows again

Clann Zu/Fractal Pattern/Parades Against Parades/No Birds - July 13th - Unitarian Centre - We're going to this to talk to some people about setting up some shows soon. Also No Birds is awesome.
White Cowbell Oklahoma/The Little Weeners - July 16th - Amigos - The Little Weeners is The Pinch playing ween covers. I might have to go home Friday but I seriously need to go to this for a few reasons.
Joel Plaskett/Peter Elkas - July 17th - Amigos - Saturday. Will I miss him twice in a row. I love my brother but it's kind of inconvenient having him stay with me. Peter Elkas is formerly of The Local Rabbits.
The Fine Options/Champion, Alberta - July 23rd - Amigos - The same night as The Pinch. Why god, why? We might be playing with Champion, Alberta so we better go here to schmooze.
The Pinch - July 23rd - Lydia's - They're playing three sets so I should be able to catch some of it.
A.C. Newman/All Night Radio/The Neins - August 1st - Amigos - I think All Night Radio broke up. The Slow Wonder LP is really good.
Despistado - August 10th 7:30 - The Ex (free stage) - Regina band makes good. I really enjoy their song I downloaded, "A Stirsticks Prediction". I owe it to everyone to check it out. Pilate plays after them
By Divine Right - August 11th - Amigos - Did you know the bass player for Broken Social Scene used to be in this band? "Come for a ride!"
Sarah Harmer - October 5th - Broadway Theatre - yay, I heart her.
Fly Pan Am/Mono - October 9th - Amigos - Ummm Fly Pan Am has members of God Speed or something.

also rumour is that Metric will be coming back soon.

Show TOnite!

Hi, I'm sad to say I'm back from Seattle.

We're playing a show tonight at THE PIT on Broadway. Doors at 7:30. We're opening for Radical Attack, Forgiveness Denied, & The Soccermoms. $5. See ya there!

as always
www.asterid.com