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Looking through that Apostle of Hustle MySpace page I somehow found Justin Peroff's blog, and a few interesting upcoming shows.. Thought y'all might like to know! the blog.

from AoH website... APOSTLE OF HUSTLE PRESENTS...OUIJA Returning to their days as the minstrels of the alcoholic (or "soundtrack to other people's drinking"), Apostle of Hustle will be doing two sets of both intimate minor-key mood music and flourishing interstellar guitar jams. Plus, they will be instating the Jukebox Effect: send a message to Apostle of Hustle on their MySpace page and request a song. January 24th - Apostle of Hustle with Besnard Lakes January 31 - Apostle of Hustle with Alex Lukashevsky February 7 - Apostle of Hustle with Woolly Leaves February 15 - Apostle of Hustle with Darkhand & Lamplight Tickets for each show are $10, available now at Soundscapes and Rotate This. There are also Kingston, Hamilton and Ottawa dates posted.. Of course, I'll be missing all of these shows myself.

maybe one for the spring: take up disc golf! there's a course in oakville i believe.

Cool! I'll be in Peterborough on Thursday night, on my way up to Ottawa, so I'll just miss it. Very tempting though! Especially seeing as he's playing with Creaking Tree. Sounds like a nice combo. Hey maybe he'll stick around and sit in with nero the next night?

schizer video, i'm looking forward to hearing it. only one i know is 'no cars go' from the original EP.

I've rarely seen tour schedules as ambitious and packed as BA's.. I think he just came off a 40 show tour or something; from St. John's to Victoria. The new album has reached the top 5 in the college charts I think, which is pretty cool. I'm sure he'll be back in Ottawa in no time. Hey Chameleon, you should come by and check out the show! Here's a sample tune: Jesus Is From Steeltown (mp3)

So I just plugged in the new external HD.. Working like a charm! I went with the LaCie Porsche 250GB external hard drive. It was supposed to be $130 on sale but I missed out on that and ended up paying the regular price of $170.. Damn... But ah well, I'm just happy to have it. No more storage space worries for me!

I'm in!

Sat Jan 6/07 (tonight!) BA JOHNSTON w/ THE UNIONIST MINISTERS @ Now Lounge in Toronto Should be good!

yeah good times last night! i liked the band.. the NWA song was good but i don't know the original so i couldn't appreciate it on that level. still good though! the guitarist had a bit of an allmans twist to his craft. i'll check em out again. i took off before 2nd set finished though as i wanted to make the rounds to a few old stomping ground (ie wally's) and visit a few folks in other spots.

Obviously the tides are turning now on the environmental front.. I'm hoping they'll re-neg on some of those cuts. But I don't know if that would include the IYIP, even though theres a lot of overlap there. Whattaya think?

wooohoo! is it just me? or did that jonathan taves guy from the canadian team (first player to be interviewed after the win, on tsn) just say "we did a fuckin great job". ha!

F'n Kevin Breit and his stealthy ways!! I would've made it to that show if I didn't just notice it at the last minute. Looking forward to seeing Folkalarm play live one day.

I might be turning up for this!

Now that I'm home and hard at work trying to get my act together, I've been catching up on the details of when Harper and his cohorts announced the massive cuts to DFAIT (Dept. of Foreign Affairs & Int'l Trade) back in September '06. This is affecting me directly now, as these cuts included the termination of the Int'l Youth Internship Program (IYIP) that I have had my heart set on. There were some opportunities there that were really exciting to me and right up my alley. Anyway: I found this article from the September 27/06 edition of Embassy (Canada's Foreign Policy Newsweekly): Treasury Board Axes International Youth Programs. Our new Environment minister gets a mention in it: You're off to a bad start there Mr. Baird!

Whether was just a stooge or whether she actually had faith in the lame duck policies made under her name, she failed either way. That aside, will I be grilled for saying that I have kind of have the hots for her? I guess opposites attract?

Cool! Maybe he's on there.. Is that between Ossington and Pape? (I'm clueless about the Toronto subway pretty much).

Here's an article from today's Globe & Mail that I found interesting: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070105.SUBWAY05/TPStory/TPNational/Ontario/ Tuning in to rhythm of the underground Teacher turns subway sounds into music by HAYLEY MICK As they shoot through the underbelly of Toronto, many subway passengers crank up their iPods. Others tune out, zone out, or on especially long trips, submit to the train's rhythm and sleep. Not Andrew Moore. During his daily underground commute, the 27-year-old elementary-school teacher listens carefully -- wondrously, even -- to clattering turnstiles, squeaky brakes, the whoosh of air through tunnels and door chimes. For six months, the part-time musician has gone on an auditory hunt beneath the city, capturing the sounds of the TTC and its humanity on his digital recorder, mixing them on his computer, and converting them into songs. Print Edition - Section Front "I've lived in Toronto all my life, and I've taken the subway for as long as I can remember. And I've always really loved the sounds of it." Last month, he launched his second independent electronica album, Underground, at a subway-themed CD release party at his St. George Street apartment, where friends nibbled on Union-rings, Queen's quiche and Bloor-Yonge veggie-line (made of green and yellow vegetables, of course). "It's sort of a hometown pride thing," he says. The 11-track disc loosely represents a full day on public transit, beginning with the first track, Rush Hour, and ending with Blue Night, which incorporates the drunken jumble of a ride on the night bus. Before delving into electronica, Mr. Moore sang and played guitar in a local rock band called Oberlin. They had some success, playing at the Horseshoe Tavern, but when a member took off for Germany and the band folded last year, Mr. Moore switched genres. With his second electronica album, he decided to incorporate his love for the subway that began as a child growing up on the Danforth with English-born parents who preferred the tube to wheels. He recorded mostly during his commute from Ossington to Pape, catching drivers on the intercom, buskers, and the groans and whispers of the trains. He had his girlfriend, Meghan Roberts, 27, wear heels and clack along tile floors. One summer night, he hopped on the night bus and recorded the revelry. "It was kind of neat to be the only sober person around," he says. Back in his apartment, he mixed those sounds with samples, acoustic guitar and keyboard. In the songs, some subway noises are more noticeable than others. People who are unfamiliar with the TTC might not hear them at all. "It's kind of neat," says Mr. Moore, who goes by the initials, A.M., on his albums. "There's so many sounds on there that are so evocative, like, you know those [subway] sounds even though you've never really listened to them before." Not everyone is so enamoured with the TTC. At Union Station on a recent afternoon, most commuters said they hadn't noticed the rhythms of the underground. "I don't hear music," said one businessman, raising his eyebrows. "I never hear anything," said Ruben Zina, 16, before his friend, Johnathan Benincasa, chimed in: "Sometimes I hear the 'click, click, click' and it's like the drums from a rock song I've heard before." Musicians have long borrowed from their environment. Railway rhythms appear in American roots music. Composer Philip Glass has been inspired by trains, as was American composer Steve Reich in his work Different Trains, which superimposes a live quartet performance over a recording of sampled sirens and train whistles. During the past month, Mr. Moore has sold about 50 discs, mostly in Britain, and he knows he won't quit his job as a Grade 4 teacher at a Toronto private school any time soon. But he does think his work will strike a chord with Torontonians. "I feel like in the past five years people have been starting to care about not just the subway system, but Toronto in general," Mr. Moore says. "I never hate my commute."

Jeezuz! Get well soon Diane. I'm glad it didn't turn out any worse. I hope youz can still make it up to Ottawa for the 12th!

Hey Aaron, good on ya man, wishing you lots of luck..

Anything to do??? I'm wide awake.

http://www.eye.net/music/concerts/index.php#chart Scroll down to The Rivoli. They've got Folkalarm and Run With The Kittens down as playing tonight. WTF?

From the intro to Tim Flannery's book, The Weather Makers: "The best evidence indicates that we need to reduce our CO2 emissions by 70 percent by 2050. If you own a four-wheel drive and replace it with a hybrid fuel car, you can achieve a cut of that magnitude in a day reather than half a century. If your electricity provider offers a green option, for the cost of a daily cup of coffee you will be able to make equally major cuts in your household emissions. And if you vote for a politician who has a deep committment to reducing CO2 emissions, you might change the world. If you alone can acheive so much, so too can every individual and, in time, industry and government on Earth. The transition to a carbon-free economy is eminently achievable because we have all the technology we need to do so. it is only a lack of understanding and the pessimism of confusion generated by special interest groups that is stopping us from going forward."

Corner stores, flea markets? Don't you need a prescription for salvia?

I saw DJ Czech once in Whistler and danced my arse off.