Month: May 2004

On a recent visit to my parents I picked up the old Super Nintendo and brought it back to Victoria with me. One of the games we have is Super Mario All-Stars, which has the first three Super Mario games on it. Last night, I finally finished Super Mario 2.

You know, that game has a lesson for anyone aspiring to be an evil-doer: if your sole vulnerability is being hit in the head with vegetables, it would be unwise to make your hideout a room with A MACHINE THAT SPITS OUT VEGETABLES AT REGULAR INTERVALS.

Had a good long weekend. Went back to the ‘mox to visit the ‘rents and the ‘riends. Helped dredge the well, whack the weeds, and move the TV. Had a mocha at the Komoux Grind and got beaten at scrabble by Tara. (I demand a rematch!) I’m jealous of Reeg and Tara and Tracy. They’re such regulars at the Grind the clerk knows what they want before they even order. I want to be a regular somewhere. I’d love to walk into a bar and have the bartender pour me a drink without even having to ask. That would be cool.

Also had a bonfire at the beach. Boy did *that* bring back memories.

Pictures.

The plan for this week: finish the album cover, produce some sort of press package for Jay, and play my new guitar. It’s a Simon and Patrick satin series electric acoustic with a spruce top and a cutaway. Now I can be a real guitarist.

I am FORCING myself to write in my blog. It is stagnating. People won’t want to come here if there’s never anything to read. Not that many would want to come here anyways. All that I write about is boring stuff. Like, how I hurt my foot jogging on Wednesday and had a tensor bandage on it for a few days and that helped, but now it does a weird creaking thing when I move it in a certain way, and it’s not like I twisted it or anything, I was just jogging and it started to hurt! Am I a feeb, or do I need new shoes?

“But Ryan,” you shout, “that’s what you’re supposed to write about!”

Well, you may be right. But these days the blogs I find myself reading the most are blogs about web design and technology and stuff. I want to have one of those blogs. An informative blog. Maybe I should start a new blog. An informative one.

The problem is, that would be a lot of work.

Well no, it wouldn’t be a lot of work. It would be some work, to be sure. In fact, with the time and effort it’s taken to write this post, I could be well on the way to having an informative blog.

Ok, this post isn’t going so well. Maybe I should start again.

Then again, this is just to keep my blog from stagnating, right? Quantity over quality! Look at all the words I’ve written!

Ok, I’m going to say something informative. Right now, right here, in this very blog post.

*clears throat*

OK, here goes.

If you find yourself being electrocuted by your bass amp, be sure to take apart the electrical plug. You may find that the ground wire has become disconnected. You might even discover that the hot and neutral wires on the amplifier plug have been reversed all along, which can’t help.

Thank you for your attention.

Last night I went to Nanaimo with my bandmates in Jay Dunphy and the Religion to play a show at The Cambie. The relevant photographic evidence is here.

Some highlights from the evening:

• Winning $100 on a pull-tab, and calling Clay to gloat about it
• Going down to the Malaspina college radio station at 2am with Jay to drop off a CD and ending up on the 420 Club radio show, hosted by Big G and Almost On Time Wray
• Matt saying “Marmelade is OK in my books”, and me replying, “Doesn’t that make the pages all sticky?”

Joy was the evening’s chronicler. You can read her account of the evening’s events is on her blog.