Week 3.

It's weird what you'll find yourself listening to when you can listen to anything. Before I left for the Western Canadian trip/tour, I bought an Ipod. I thought back on all the shitty fucking trips I went on with my discman, a pile of scattered c.ds, and my huge head phones, which I recently stepped on and broke.

When I got back from the trip my buddy Wynston hooked me up with an oink account. For those of you who don't know (losers), oink is an invite only torrent fueled site that is super strict about ratios. You can find almost anything on there musically and it's crazy quick downloads.

Anyways, I've been downloading some weird shit, and found myself listening to the audio book of Henry Rollins - Get in the Van.



I borrowed this book from my good friend Mike a few months ago and never finished it. It was fucked hearing Henry pass the point where I had read up to, and not knowing what he was going to say next. I actually got pretty excited. My brother used to have this on tape. I bugged him about finding it recently but I don't think he will, it's probably under a pile of boxes in our garage.

I usually just listen to fast shit to get me to where I'm going, but lately I have nowhere to go. Night shifts suck, I basically told my boss today that if they want me to stick around to get me off of night shifts.

On the plus side, I think/hope I'm moving out July 1st with girlfriend.

Night Shift

Since Monday I have been working the night shift at work. I'm working 10 hour shifts, so I'm not stuck here Friday night with my dick in my hand. I'm only doing this for 2 weeks, but I must admit it is quite gruesome. 4p.m - 2a.m then sleeping until 11 or 12, getting up and doing it all over again.

I don't think I'll be posting many of these. I intend on putting up a huge post with tons of pictures of fun times with good friends that took place over the past two months. I just probably won't want to touch a computer until these night shifts are over with. Not that you should care anyways.

I feel sick.

I don't know what it is about this but it honestly makes me feel sick.

TOUR

First off, we got our records yesterday.



Less than a week after we got back from our little west coast tour. I don't really care that they were late, it's shitty, but I'm glad we have them.

You can pick one up here (There's also an mp3).

Or just wait until we play a show.

I don't really want to go into detail about tour, cause it's probably not that exciting. Maybe one day when I feel like it, I'll spill my guts about all the stupid shit that happened.


Siting on a bench somewhere in Vancouver.

Breakfast at Don's (?).

Ryan's lunch in Calgary.

Road side stop on the way to B.C.

Guy and I waiting for Steve at American Apparel.

I have a lot more pictures. I'll try to get them up on here later. If you know my flickr account, I have a few more pictures up there.

Love Alex.

Sorry Dudes!

Going on tour tonight. 4p.m exactly we leave in our sweet Mercedes Van.

I have a whole bunch of stuff to talk about but I haven't had the time.

When I get back expect a shit storm.

Things to come.

Trip to Edmonton (prior to tour)
Trans Am
Calgary Zoo
Western Canadian Bullshit Tour (a.k.a G-R-A-M-P-S)

If I don't make it, know that I love Sarah.

FUCK YEAH 420!!

420 has to be one of the stupidest days of the year. Even more stupid than St. Patrick's day or Valentine's day. I have this weird feeling that 420 was created to combat neo-nazis, as 420 doubles as Hitler's b-day. All them neo-nazis getting stoned and forgetting who to hate on, feeling the love. I make way to many 420 jokes around work and friends, only to find out that they take the day quite seriously.

"Oh shit! I'm gonna call in sick on Friday"

For all of you living in Winnipeg who decided to stay home Wednesday night, you missed out. It was probably one of the best/funniest nights ever at the Albert.

The show included the Singletons (poppy punk), Raiden (youngsters hatin'), Red Don (new Observers), and the Clorox Girls (power pop punk).

The two touring bands from Portland - Clorox Girls/Red Dons - kicked some ass.

Red Dons were up first and although having numerous sound problems played a great set. They included 4 or 5 songs off of the Observers full length "What's Left Now?", and a slew of new songs that we're all great. I picked up their 7inch and listened to it around 3 times last night.



The Clorox Girls set was amazing. By this point in the evening everyone was well inebriated and getting rowdy. Idiots kept being "punk" and getting up on stage knocking over mic stands and collapsing on the drum set causing them to stop playing one of my favourite Clorox Girls songs "Virgin Suicide". No one seemed to care though. I don't even want to acknowledge the other things I saw that night.

Thursday night I went and saw "The Host", with Timmy and his two compadres. It was a Korean monster movie to the best of my knowledge. It also meddled with the idea of non-existent diseases/viruses, such as The Sars and the usage of bio-chemical warfare (in the movie a gas called "Agent Yellow" is used).

The monster looked like a big ugly fish, and ate people. I don't know what more to say. The movie was predictable and I was never thrilled nor impressed.

Thursday - Friday

Search + Destroy played a show at the Albert Thursday night with Born Bad, No Fun, and The Quagmire. I kind of swore I'd never go there again after the last show I witnessed, which entailed blood and broken beer bottles. Fortunately Thursday was possibly the first and last show we will ever play there. The Albert found the bands to be disrespectful (what?), Mike the microphone destroyer broke 2 mics, and Ryan crawled into an air vent and got yelled at by some cowboy. All in all the show was a million times better than I had ever expected and now I'm really stoked for our tour.

Videos here, here and here.

The night after that I went and saw Grindhouse with Wynston and his sidekick Timmy. We went to the 7 pm showing at the Globe. I like the Globe a lot, because:
A. No one goes there
B. Still has cheap Tuesday ($5)
C. Center isle, so I can put my feets up!
D. Wicked popcorn, and free re-fills

The first of the two films; Planet Terror, was a mild let-down. It reminded me of a high budget Troma film. They attempted to make the entire film look "old" or "worn out" with 2 tons of grain effects. It didn't work out to well considering the film was shot on high grade film. They had a pile of classic clichés though, there were even missing reels in both films right before the sexy parts.

The second film was Death Proof which was fucking amazing. To simply summarize this movie - A rape revenge movie with cars. It built so slowly at one point I turned to Wynston and said: "Is this going anywhere". The best part of this entire film was the chase scenes. When you're watching a chase scene or car explosion in current cinema you're ooooing and awwwwing at the CGI effects. In this film your swearing at the screen because someone could actually fucking beef it! I also love Kurt Russell, Overboard has to be one of my favourite movies of all time.



I was thinking of going to see Grindhouse again, but arriving just in time for the in-between screeners (Thanks Giving was killer) and Death Proof.