You’re a long ways away from the place we thought you’d be by now

The Buried Inside review is still coming, I just haven't been in the right mood to write it as of late.

I would like to extend a very warm wish of happy holidays to absolutely everyone. Please be safe and drink moderately (that doesn't mean be moderately safe while drinking).

I'm not going to go on with this entry, I'm in really terrible spirits for reasons that are partly uncertain. I've been lifted of virtually every aspect of my life that could lead to melodrama or negativity, and yet here I am, a day after Christmas, feeling terribly unfulfilled. Something's amiss, and obviously I have a vague idea of what that might be. Maybe I'm simply not willing to admit it to myself, or maybe I'm not rationally judging the situation and that acting on it would be folly and ultimately destructive. Shit, I just don't know. It's entirely too frustrating to be put into this situation, knowing full well that I have no reason to be bitter, yet being in a position where I find myself not really living and not feeling things to the fullest. This is something that must be fixed, sooner rather than later.

So it's on these vague musings that I'll end this entry. I hope it doesn't come off as some bullshit emo cry for help, because it isn't. Writing things out tends to put them into perspective just abit more, if not simply for a better understanding of the situation (or situations) at hand. But honestly, cheers to everyone.

I want the blindingly cute to confide in me

Well it's been almost a month since I'd last updated this, so given the fact that I was slightly bored in class, I figured I'd drop another post of hopefully not-too self-indulgent rambling. Things have been incessantly hectic around these parts, my time being utterly divided, with no remainder, between end of term school projects and studies, work and of course TPD.

Quite a few things have been brewing in the band camp as of late. First and foremost, we managed to finally release our often delayed record Straight, No Chaser to a non-chalant public. Yes indeed, I'm told these shiny discs actually contain music of some kind, around 30 or so minutes, all for the meager sum of 7$. Hell you even get a really nice package with it, if black and white photography, pretentious writing, spots of ink and record players are your thing. But in all seriousness, I am quite proud of our efforts, I think it looks and sounds great, and I'd be more than happy to arrange for you to get a copy if you'd be interested, just drop me an e-mail.

Also of note is the fact that we're playing a show tommorow (friday the 10th..holy short notice Batman!) at Le Café Contraste, which is located within the walls of the Gabrielle-Roy campus of the CEGEP de l'Outaouais. The show is at 7 pm, it's 5$ at the door and we're going on second. I highly encourage you all to come down and see us, we'll be playing some chart topping hits from our new record, along with some brand new jams, complete with bitingly witty and clever titles like "Sardanapale, a Paradigm for Catharsis" and "Shit, I didn't know Hector was packing Greek Fire". Oh and we just might play our cover of Explosion in the Sky's Greet Death, it'll depend on our set length.

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I'm fairly happy to say that for reasons unbeknownst to me I've been in reasonably good spirits these last few days. I was on a considerable down note, thanks in no small part to the rather large quantity of school projects I have to hand in by term's end and by my complete lack of motivation to accomplish any of them, given my absolute disinterest for what I study in. Thankfully, I managed to get past that and I'm simply looking forward to all the good things that await me once I'm through with it.. namely my potential trip to Europe this summer and studying in political journalism at Concordia in Montreal. On a shorter timeline, I'm simply looking forward to unwinding abit, reading up on the pile of books I have gathering dust in my room, catching up on all the movies I've missed lately, hanging out with good friends who I haven't seen in awhile, devote abit more energy to the band and songwriting and finally maybe meeting some new people, that'd be nice. Impressive, my life isn't that empty or devoid of purpose. I encourage anyone who has the holiday/end of term blues to simply elaborate a little list of hopeful prospects (long and short term).. you'll find it to be much more comforting than you expect.

Well woah, this wound up being abit longer than expected. A doubtless consequence of my mind wandering just abit too much after so little sleep. I'll be back soon (honestly this time) with my review of Chronoclast.. and maybe something else if I find anything worthy of mentionning.

Cheers...

Playlist as of late:

Owls - Great band.. basically Cap'n' Jazz v. 2.0 awesome if you like a nice helping of jazz and wacky time signatures with your indie rock..

Owen - Mike Kinsella of Owls/Cap'n Jazz's solo project... beautiful stuff, great lyrics, instrumentation, everything... get I Do Perceive

American Football - Another Mike Kinsella band (see the link here?).. not as stripped down as Owen, abit mathier.. awesome

Sufjan Stevens - Brilliant singer/songwriter.. acoustic guitars, banjos, hushed vocals.. very pretty.. very nice.. thank you Rachel ;)

Shotmaker, One Eyed God Prophecy and Union of Uranus - Yay mid-nineties Ottawa hardcore + post-hardcore.. so good, too bad all these bands broke up..