OK, so remember when I talked about the home weather station that Murray bought me for Christmas last year? Well, until about a month ago it was just sitting in a corner, in various stages of being unpacked. Then my sister (Laryssa) and her boyfriend (Adrian) came to town for a visit and were crazy [...]
Let’s talk about something totally lame: clothes. I go through phases of being obsessed with them, and then disgusted. I do generally care about how I look, but lately I’ve become totally frustrated with basically everything that exists. I’ve grown tired of ruching on clothes, of things for women being accented in some way. I’m [...]
So I posted that last one twice…but anyway who cares. Patrick Watson won. Sweeps! He cleaned up at the Gamiq, now this, now what? Where do you go from here? Its a blessing and a curse, I guess.good one, buddy. What’s left for me is a few drinks and the flight home tomorrow! Can’t wait [...]
Does this work? I’m sitting here at table 6 at the Polaris awards, blogging. The B-Lakes are playing and I love them! Haven’t seen them play in like three years and they’re amazing. If they don’t win then this world is a troubled place…but we all kind of knew that already, didn’t we? Anyhow, more [...]
Lately I’ve been a major star at the playground. It all started earlier this week when I went to the park with Neptune one morning, and there was a day care’s worth of kids already playing there. They were a little older than Neptune, but maybe only by a year. So I was sitting with [...]
I would like to just take a moment to reiterate how misunderstood, or non-understoond, The Dears are. We’ve never identified with a trend, or been cool or part of a scene, and that makes it difficult for the common indie folk to like us. As such, I get really, really offended when a lazy journalist [...]
In my morning ritual of reading Google alerts, I found this blog, featuring a poster by Montreal artist Lisa Czech. I wondered why a commemorative poster would be commissioned, so I began digging through old emails. I found this from our manager, Jason, a forward from the Polaris HQ:
“Each artist also gets a limited edition [...]
So this piece of CD-R was sitting in the flower box outside the fire station for days, but I’ve always been too freaked about taking a picture of it because I’m intimidated by the firemen. Like what do I tell them if they asked me what I was doing? How could I possibly explain this [...]
Since most of us are closet megalomaniacs, we are sometimes tempted to Google our own names. Out of equal parts boredom and curiosity, I find this little secret search entertaining, especially when I discount everything Dears-related and Blog-related. What I’m left with is a handful of old things I wrote, mostly from when I was [...]
The first time I had ever been to San Francisco was when we went on tour with Stars in 2004. Saturday March 6, 2004, to be precise. In fact this tour was before I had a digital camera, and since I love you all so much I actually rephotographed some analogue pics for you. Anyhow, [...]
