T.O.

yo yo yo.... here i am in Toronto, got in on monday morn', and have been hanging out with my most wonderful aunties and their familes.... lots of laughs and wine and good stories and jokes and staying up until the wee hours sitting in a hot tub filled with clean water and love. it's been fabulous just re-couperating from wandering solo, and although i've been travelling for a good two weeks now, i haven't once felt uncomforable, or foreign.... well, i have felt less-than-comfortable squished into a seat on the back of the greyhound surrounded by roudy assholes trying to sleep at 3am (at least they shared their whiskey). oh! the stories i do have to tell you all when i get back home! and that's  just the half of it.... i must run, however, it's unfortunate that i only have limited times on the net so i can't write them all down here for you while i'm on my way. you'll just have to wait.

CALGARY

i've been staying at a friend's place in calgary for the last day or so.... we've been having a great time catching up since he left victoria, lots of beers and good laughs. i've had a bit of a chance to explore the city while he'd at work, too, which is pretty cool. i've never really spent much time in calgary, and man, it's a funny city.... not really sure how to explain it, but it seems like there's quite a divide between the people. and i find it reather hilarious that while the arts scence (galleries and such) are very conservative, the tattoo community is thriving. meh. anyway, i'll post again soon, but this was just a quick update before i'm off to Punk Rock Bingo!

EDMONTON!

well here i am in edmonton, got here on tuesday, and tomorrow is FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH! mua haha ahahaha i think i ruckus may be in order.... it was so nice to see all of my friends, zac and liam and isha and ashley and cale and michaela oh man oh man oh man did it feel good. we've been chilling out in the sunshine drinking beer after beer in the gazebo on whyte (until we got banned) oh man, edmonton totally IS the texas of canada. twenty-one dollar flats and bored kids who are nice enough to leave us six-packs before parting ways... yeah, it's a good time. off to calgary in a few days, though! hopefully before the week is out... however, we've staying at simon snotface's house and waiting for his weekend so that we can get him hammered in gratitude. so, monday, here we come. love you all, miss you all, sending hugs over the mountains and across the straight all the way to vic.

bah... penticton....

well, here i am at the public library in penticton, hoping to get out to edmonton before 2am.... most likely i will end up there at an internet cafe drinking coffe to stay awake until meeting up with my friends. had kind-of a cool, random time in this town, acctually..... i stopped by to see my friend kev from vic (sorry i missed you, dude!) but couldn't find him. okay, here's the story:

so i get off the ridiculously long bus ride from vancouver (after waiting for three hours at pacific central station), cramped in a seat beside a (lovely) old woman who ate potato chips loudly and sat there playing word-find the entire time.... she was a sweet woman, though, it's true. it's just too bad that i was so stoned outta my gourd so i was unable to function conversationally...... okay, so it's 9:30pm when i land here, don't know anybody (except kev and i have no way to find him at that hour), and i light a smoke only to hear some mysterious guitar riffs coming across the breeze.....

so i walk into a bar called "voodoo's", looking like a scumbag frozen in a pair of headlights. end up talking to some random dudes, they buy me a shot because i look like a traveller.... they got here three days ago themselves, staying in penticton in order to write some tunes and rock out. they were super cool and offered me one of the bunks in the trailer they were staying in..... so needless to say, there were alot of toasted marshmallows consumed alongside some good laughs.

Jody, Jack, Filipe and Luke, glad to have met you boys.... may you rock out where ever you are.

 

Cheers.

vancouver rain

well, here i am in vancouver, the sounds of rain mingling with wind in the leaves and the spleunk of my boots hitting a shallow puddle. i'm staying at my brother's house having one last comfortable human connection before i take off and start meeting complete strangers. the last week has been a bit of a blur, hosting my first art show (pictures and posting to come!) and rocking out to Iron Maiden with some of my closest. it's been an all-round WICKED send-off.... stay tuned, watchers, more adventures to come -- same flea-time, same pest-channel.