Change Was Coming It Would Be Alright

I’ve been working up drum parts for this new song the band’s written. Man our singer sounds good! Reilly’s been coming up with some cool chord progressions too. I’m excited to have this song put together so we can present it to the world. Or our friends at least.

So I started this week with another Grouse Grind hike on Tuesday night. I managed to shave almost a minute off my last time and I’ll be hitting the Grind again tomorrow morning. I feel like I’ve figured out my pacing so I know about how fast to climb it. Now it’s just a matter of hitting it twice a week and slowly working my time down. I’m not really obsessed with my Grind time (although it must sound like I am). Instead I’m loving the twice a week cardio blast that it gives me. I’ve neglected my cardio the last couple of years and it’s good to get it back into shape. 

Wednesday night Reilly came over to my pad and we recorded a few more pieces of the new song which is titled, “London.” Monday night we had loaded my music gear up into Reilly’s truck and brought it all back here. Now I’m back to having half empty boxes scattered around my living room. Maybe tomorrow I’ll get those organized.

Thursday was pretty chill although we did meet up at the Black Frog to talk about artwork for the band with our cool schmool illustrator friend Stephanie. The most interesting thing that came out was a drawing of a “pandelion” which is a lion with a panda’s head. This probably won’t be used for the band, which I feel is a great shame. 

Tonight I’ve been sleeping (yay!), banging around on the drums, and wasting time watching Michael Jackson clips on youtube. I never really got into MJ’s music save for a short period around grade 4 when the Thriller album was all the rage. I find his music interesting, certainly catchy, but ultimately not my sack of tea. There’s no doubt he did change the musical playing field in the 80s for which I’m grateful. The thing was when I was in high school my musical tastes revolved around metal and, in the last year, Nirvana. Michael Jackson was way too pop for me back then. It’s only now that I’ve opened my sonic tastes up that I can go back and discover some of the bands I poo-poo’d in my teenage years.

This weekend promises to be busy again. Tomorrow I’m hitting the Grind first thing and then meeting up with the Bailey clan to check out some of the free jazz shows in Gastown as part of the jazz festival. Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday I’m going to be seeing jazz shows as well, all on Chris’s recommendation. I expect I’ll be musically saturated by the time Wednesday rolls around.

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