Recall This??

When we were in Texas for Christmas, Reeve told us about a short-lived band, made up of a rotating crew of people. The band was called Quaid, and they played instrumental electronic/keyboard-based music - the only lyrics were Arnold Schwarzenegger quotes ('get your ass to Mars') culled from his fine films.

So last night, Leah and I watched Total Recall... What I remembered about this movie is the great plot, and of course the classic Arnold scenes (see image above!). What I didn't remember was how violent that piece is! A bit on the bloody/senseless gore side...

'Start the Reactor; Save Mars!'

Weekender

Lemme see...

Friday night we went to the Central - the Loitering Heroes played. It was a pretty good show. Those who were not there (pretty much everybody) missed seeing, among other things, Danger Herring snap a string on his upright bass. This is indeed a strange and unusual occurence.

Saturday - we went to the mall. Leah went to the gym (at the mall), and I finally bought some new pants. I wore the pants all weekend. I also bought the Wolfmother CD. This is for Leah, and not for me. I blame Jen.

That evening we went to see the notorious production of friend Kate's play. I actually enjoyed myself, although I won't deny that after a while I got kinda bored. It was fun to see Kate do her thing, albeit in probably the worst play.

Ever.

In the history of plays.

We also got to meet Lisa's cousin, Carolin, who will be in town for a while.

Sunday - we practiced for church. Then we went to church. Nothing was ready, so our sound-check/song run-through was enormously abbreviated. This made things a bit stressful for me... since I was singing, drumming, and melodica-ing... and sometimes trying to do more than one of these at a time.

Also, we had a guest speaker kick our arses for us. Dr David Barker gave an introduction to the OT prophetic books, which we will be focusing on at church for the next while. During his sermon he mentioned that the primary measure, in the whole bible, of people following God (with their hearts and not just their rule-keeping), was whether they took care of the poor/marginalized.

Yikes.

Studio stuff

Check out the newly launched Paul Cox website...
This is one of the guys that we share our studio with, and his paintings are money.

While you're at it, Maegan Guerette also has a website (although it is not as newly launched!) She also shares our studio space. Her photos are the sweetness.

Snap!!

In other news...
Blank is the new Blank!

Heroes

The Loitering Heroes (with Leah on flute & some vocals) will be playing the Central this Friday.

Now you know.




p.s. picture fragment ganked from apertureenzyme.com

Ideas

I always have more ideas than I put into practice. Here's another one that may or may not end up on a t-shirt... I have been thinking about modernism-as-iconic-image for a while (see my somewhat successful villa savoye shirt), and this is about as iconic a chair as you could find.

That is all.

Le Corbusier

I just finished reading the first third of a book on Corb, Mies and F.L.Wright, so I was extra interested to learn about this building. It was just finished at the end of last year, forty odd years after Corbu's death. Still crazy after all these years...

Before I went to a graduate school run by young Harvard grads (where I learned the phrase 'what would Rem do?'), I went to a more established undergraduate school, where Corb was still king. Occasionally, we would 'modulate', striking a pose in mock/real homage to the 'master'.

After all he did change the world... and make me love concrete... and is pretty much responsible for all the fat black framed glasses across the world. Also - he is the only architect for whom I have made a pilgrimage.

Weekend

Here's the story...

A large part of the weekend was spent getting ready for church on Sunday. I played drums, and Leah made her plugged in debut... It was kinda scary, but fun.

On Friday, I called Delvyn to leave him a birthday greeting... He never answered his phone - after all, it was call-in-sick Friday...

On Saturday morning, I went for a walk in Cedarvale. The entire park was a sheet of ice, and there were plenty of kids having insane fun sliding down the massive hill. They would slide half the way across the cricket field. There was also a mom and toddler with an old-school toboggan - they were a strange mix between a Norman Rockwell painting and a Roots catalogue photo...

We spent most of the afternoon/evening at the studio. Mae and Jen came over that evening to take pictures and make stuff out of metal. I locked us out of our apartment, so I had to do the spider-man/sketchy-guy-in-a-hoodie-and-flip-flops/Paul Hubble thing, and break in. Also - I made some actually good vegan/wife-friendly cookies that day - out of tofu and tree-bark (not entirely untrue, I guess, since they did involve cinnamon - no tofu though...)

Sunday - I called Reeve to wish him a happy quarter century. He was sitting on his porch eating breakfast.
Church was good. Afterwards we ate at KNB. That place is sweet. After afterwards we went to Second Spin. Leah was inspired by the Ongoing History of New Music Goth show, so we purchased the Crow soundtrack. I was inspired by heaven knows what, so I picked up some Southern Culture on the Skids (see above picture).

That is all...

Peace.

Silly...

...??!

Doomsday

We're two minutes closer to atomic fallout, and to celebrate, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists got evil design superheroes Pentagram to redesign their Doomsday Clock logo.

Well, at least we'll go out in style!!





(Also, did you know that Pentagram repackaged books of the bible? - these look pretty sweet, actually...)

Weekender

So - let's get back into the weekend update habit...

Friday night was a cancelled church meeting - so we ended up at the Gem with church people... even better.

Saturday, Leah and I went on an ill-fated mission to IKEA. Man, that place is kinda evil... we ended up not buying a closet.
That night we watched most of Capote. The good people at Blockbuster (man, that place is kinda evil) rented us a copy of the DVD that somebody must have chewed on. But they only chewed on the last half hour or so... just at the point where it would be most frustrating for the movie to stop playing.

Sunday - I tried to hang some shelves from the wall in the bedroom (instead of the non-purchased closet). It was a complete failure. Now I have to patch some rather large holes in two walls.
Church was good. Well, I think it was... I was in the back praying during the service, which is always cool. Afterwards we went to Fresh (JFWife) for dinner, and I also picked up the Cold War Kids CD on the way home.

Monday - I had a kinda crappy day at work. Things started out badly on the TTC, and then proceeded to go kinda badly at the office. After work we had a postponed meeting at the studio. Since we are unorganized, Aaron showed up for the postponed meeting, and ended up coming over for dinner. This was fun.
Afterwards we finished watching a new copy of Capote. Philip Seymour Hoffman is so good in this movie that it is actually kinda frightening.

Peace,

Sparrow Love Crew

Unfortunately, I am not permitted to visit Myspace at work.
I am therefore unable to download any Sparrow Love Crew music.
You, however, have no such similar excuse.

Weekend

Looks like a busy week ahead. I start back at Humber College tomorrow as a teaching assistant. Seems like if I had some sort of professional license, and the desire to teach interior design, they would throw a lot more hours at me. Of course, I would have to have a much more flexible full time job too - like a part-time job.

Let's see - this last weekend... Highlights included, in a non-chrono order, church (it's been about a month since a straight-up FT-style church service, and this was a good one), seeing peeps at church (peeps = church, after all), playing Cranium at Don and Kevin's, buying a drum stool (the plastic chair I was using was killing me...)

Anyway - that's about it. It's about 5.30, so I gots to leave...

Movies

We watched a few movies over the Christmas break. I would recommend two of them, and the rest ranged from terrible to not that great. You can guess which two are worth seeing.

Tremors
On a Clear Day
Borat
Little Miss Sunshine
Maid in Manhattan (!)

Christmas news

So, you can expect any news from the Christmas holiday to come in bits and pieces.
Here's a piece about music...

Hanging out with the brothers usually means ending up with some new music news. The first piece is about the Sparrow Love Crew. This is a rag-tag hip-hop collective which I believe was founded by Reeve, Delvyn, and one Timmy Carter, in a kitchen in a house in the foothills of the Appalachians. They went on to perform live the next day at North Georgia's best annual Halloween punk/country bash...

Since then the group has gone on to perform and record in various collaborative guises, shoot a ridiculous music video, and generally confuse a bunch of people across the south.

Anyway - recently, a West Coast version of the Crew came into being... and ended up playing one of their first shows ever at LA's Troubadour, opening for the Cold War Kids. Keep your eyes peeled for upcoming shows, one with the Hawaiian Tropic girls, and one run by Vice magazine. I hope these people know what they're in for. Delvyn spent some time in Texas working some SLC logos for shirts and other stuff. Check it out on Myspace...

In other family music news, Reeve snagged us a copy of the new Waco Co-op CD. This one is actually real, unlike the last two which were only virtual (and which you can download here). Reeve has a new song on it, which is pretty sweet. There is also a My Korean Friends song on that thing, and an American Sasquatch number... so Reeveheads everywhere can get their fill. That is, if they can snag a copy somehow...

Reeve also spent some time working on a new and improved MKF website, which, when done, will feature an unreleased-album-load of songs for your listening pleasure... as well as never-before-seen-by-you artwork. If you missed the world tour, you will at least have these songs to carry with you...

Also, we snagged a couple of CDs for our own listening pleasure... the new(ish) Yo La Tengo, some not so new Radiohead, the older Sun Kil Moon album, and a new Bonnie Prince Billie disc...

Year End Update

Well folks, it's 2007.
I Hope everybody had a great Christmas.
Here is a picture from Texas. These people do not find themselves in the same room all that often, so it was a good time indeed. I heart my family.