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We recorded this for my video journal of my time alone with my kids while my wife is away for 3 1/2 weeks in Greece.  Yah, that's right.  3 1/2 weeks.  Greece.  3 kids.

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Thanks a million to Tracy and Paul for giving us the chance to come and play last night.  The venue was awesome, the staff were friendly, the food was great and the drinks kept flowing.  Although I don't think that the rowdies in the corner were having a good enough time.  I'm a little disappointed in myself for not bringing my camera and taking a few pictures.  I need to remember to do that.  If anyone came to the show and took some pics, please let me know - I'd love to post them.

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it's just me.  me and just me.

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Check out flickr for the whole set.

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So we're on a heavy schedule right now for practicing.  We're getting a healthy push towards our polished 3 hour set list.  It's not that I'm nervous (I know Glen isn't.  He's like a musical demi-god), it's just that learning a lot of songs is a lot of work.  I've never been excellent at memorizing so putting my inarticulate guitar skills together with a wandering mind, we're in the mood for dancing.  

Peanut butter on lightly toasted bread anyone?

Whoa.  Too many cooks in the kitchen.  That's hard core musician slang for sliding one too many barbiturates down the old throat.  Look it up kids.  Don't live it if you can't like it.

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Here is Josh's version of Bottle of You.  Pretty f'ing sweet.

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Saturday, April 25th, 2009 at Busters Bar and Grill (2525 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON - (613) 828-9004) from 10:00PM to 1:00AM.  Great music and some seriously good looking guitar players.

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So, we're trying to get a little more serious with our music making, but it's a lot of work - and mostly I'm lazy and expecting everything to be handed to me on a gigantic silver platter covered with maraschino cherries and yerba matte tea.  It's not happening.  Although sometimes I get the tea, but I have to make it first.

Both of us in the band are full time family men with full time employment and full time lives.  Music and performance is the side project of our days but a central part of our being... mabye.  It's definitely a central part of what I think my being is.  Anyway, I watch all these performers and singers and actors and yada yadda, and they make it their full time life.  And I don't blame them.  It may be a life of initial (and potential) destitution of wealth, but it seems it's the only way to truly reach the limits of your potential.  

Any thoughts or ideas on how to pursue your dream when you don't really have the freedom to ditch the part of your life that is allowing your family of 5 (or 4, whichever of us is metaphorically speaking right now) to eat, sleep and go to gymnastics?  How do you make your dreams come true AFTER you've moved out of your parents basement?

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330 Elgin Street
Ottawa, ON
613-567-1088

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