So Amber and I have been living in Toronto for almost 3 weeks now. We are staying in this crazy big condo. It even has a fireplace in the living room. We have 2 roomates. One is an actress. The other is our boss. So our job is going okay right now. I think we are getting better at it.
Most importantly I think it is helping to cure our stage fright a little bit (especially amber's - she had a really bad case). We have given ourselves new names to use here. She is Indigo and I'm Uni. We found lots of really chill places during our explorations in the last couple weeks, but there is a place called renaissance cafe at which we feel pretty at home. We scoped out the open mics (called open stage here) this past week, and we are reading at the open mic poetry on tuesday and playing at the open accoustic stage on thursday. We've started writing songs again and picked up some new covers. I've also started new photo project.
Saturday, January 28, 2006
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Starting New
So it is 2006. Amber and I are leaving the day after tomorrow for Toronto. San Diego turned out to be too full, and even though we were looking foward to that warm weather, I think we are just as excited about Toronto despite the cold. We are almost all packed, and we *almost* have our scripts memorized :) .
Well we had a good Christmas. My sister threw her first holiday dinner in her new house and everything turned out really well. I thought she and Bill did a great job. It was tranquil, but not dead: people talked like normal people. In my family thats odd. We also had a good time playing bingo with Amber's parents and sisters.
A couple days after Christmas I did a real photo shoot for Amber's little sister Misty. I think I found something I really enjoy doing that I'm also good at. They were for her senior pictures, and since she doesn't get much of a chance to be her true self, that is what we focused on. We went to the city to do some of the shots, and there was some drama in her family that stopped us before we even got started. Misty had to make a tough decision on whether to rush back home to deal with the situation or to continue doing her own thing. I think it was the first real decision of her adult life. I am very proud of her for what she did that day. I think the photographs are very honest and symbolize an important time for her. I hope that she feels empowered by the whole experience and I hope it inspires her to get to know herself.
We had an amazing New Years as well. We took Brandon with us down to West Virginia to our friends house in the mountains: the ones we were going to move in with at one time. It was incredible. I think it was a perfect apex for the dawning of a new time. I think that Amber and I both had a very spiritual, perspective-widening experience and it was completely indescribable. Brandon, though had probably the strongest spiritual awakening of all of us. He's been kind of stuck in a rut in the same town, same job, same situation for a while, and the people he met on New Years and the things that we did and all of the music and drumming and jamming really inspired him. After we got back he told us how he felt about the whole thing, and he has decided to go find himself and his dream. He is already being more creative. It is a really great feeling to inspire someone else to follow their own dreams and find / create themselves. I guess I could say its one of the most rewarding things I've ever done, and it was partly by accident. One of my favourite things anyone has told me in a while came from him on the ride home from WV actually: he said "You guys sound kinda crazy, but it's the coolest thing I've ever heard."
Well we had a good Christmas. My sister threw her first holiday dinner in her new house and everything turned out really well. I thought she and Bill did a great job. It was tranquil, but not dead: people talked like normal people. In my family thats odd. We also had a good time playing bingo with Amber's parents and sisters.
A couple days after Christmas I did a real photo shoot for Amber's little sister Misty. I think I found something I really enjoy doing that I'm also good at. They were for her senior pictures, and since she doesn't get much of a chance to be her true self, that is what we focused on. We went to the city to do some of the shots, and there was some drama in her family that stopped us before we even got started. Misty had to make a tough decision on whether to rush back home to deal with the situation or to continue doing her own thing. I think it was the first real decision of her adult life. I am very proud of her for what she did that day. I think the photographs are very honest and symbolize an important time for her. I hope that she feels empowered by the whole experience and I hope it inspires her to get to know herself.
We had an amazing New Years as well. We took Brandon with us down to West Virginia to our friends house in the mountains: the ones we were going to move in with at one time. It was incredible. I think it was a perfect apex for the dawning of a new time. I think that Amber and I both had a very spiritual, perspective-widening experience and it was completely indescribable. Brandon, though had probably the strongest spiritual awakening of all of us. He's been kind of stuck in a rut in the same town, same job, same situation for a while, and the people he met on New Years and the things that we did and all of the music and drumming and jamming really inspired him. After we got back he told us how he felt about the whole thing, and he has decided to go find himself and his dream. He is already being more creative. It is a really great feeling to inspire someone else to follow their own dreams and find / create themselves. I guess I could say its one of the most rewarding things I've ever done, and it was partly by accident. One of my favourite things anyone has told me in a while came from him on the ride home from WV actually: he said "You guys sound kinda crazy, but it's the coolest thing I've ever heard."
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