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"an idealized version of what could have been."

7/27/2014

In my "idealized version of what could have been," I'm a desirable musician who happens to have the time to work out and read and collect things and own a home and I'd totally be awesome and people would interview me and I'd always say very intelligent, funny things. I'd have people calling me up to talk to me and I'd never have to go out to find any friends or anything.

And there are all the other things in my ideal life that I won't post here for professional reasons.

Oh, the things I could have done to make my life so exciting and awesome. Oh the things that could have happened to make me the greatest guy this side of Glendon.

Instead I've lived a pretty good life so far. So meh.

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Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians' "Good Times."

7/23/2014

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I'm feeling pretty good today.

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Distorted guitar solos.

7/21/2014

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I just noticed that all of the guitar solos on the upcoming album are pretty distortion-heavy. I don't think a single solo appears on the new disc that doesn't feature a significant level of distortion.

Most notable in this regard is "Shiver With Pride," which features this following eight-note solo. I'd recorded it in 2012 as a rough take, as a mere example of what I was going for. However, its simplicity stuck. When I re-recorded the solo in the summer of 2013, in stereo with a slide, I basically copied the original solo note-for-note. However, the new version just didn't play as dirty as I'd grown familiar with in my rough, rough mix, so I pasted this version in to dirty up the mix a little.

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Later in the song, when the big lead guitar returns over the final repetition of the chorus, I didn't need to splice this in; in that section, the slide was dirty enough. But for the solo proper, the bits of lo-fi distortion seemed necessary.

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LEGO.

7/18/2014

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My daughters, like everybody else in the world, love LEGO. I went down to Cherry Bomb Collectibles in Victoria and picked up a bag of used LEGO. The girls have been making loads of weird stuff to go along with their RV sets.

Here are a couple recent LEGO photos of their LEGO creations and adventures.

I was a big-time contributor to this terrible design.

My eldest created this sleek sled.

I've always wanted to find a reanimmated mummy on a camping trip.

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My Panoramio page.

7/18/2014

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I've been adding photos to Panoramio in an attempt to get them onto Google Earth. My latest project involves finding unique places around Victoria. It takes a few weeks for them to appear on Google Earth, but it feels pretty cool when I finally see my photos show up.

Lately I've been trying to find nostalgic places around the Saanich Peninsula. Here are a couple of my favorites so far.