June 26, 2006

I really am getting bad at this whole blogging thing. It's been about a month since my last post, so I suppose I should do some updating. So what's new with me you ask. Well, let me tell you.

I went to see Willie Nelson at the Brandt Centre last week with April and my parents and his show was very hit and miss. He was obviously bored to tears singing his clssic tunes like "Always on My Mind," "Crazy" and "Mamas Don't Let You Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys." I am sure the crowd would have lynched him if he never played these songs, but he just sleep-walked through these tunes. It wasn't until the end of the show when he played a handful of new and unrecorded songs with his sons that he sounded energized and looked like he was actually having fun. It must be painful at isi stage of his career where he is forced to play the same songs he has been singing for 40 years and still sound interested. But if he only played the new songs from his new album which was produced by Ryan Adams, he would probably be playing to crowds 1/10th the size.

By now everyone is talking about the Chris Benoit double homicide/suicide incident. When I first heard about his death I was really saddened because I grew up a huge wrestling fan. I especially loved the whole Stamped wrestling group with the Hart family and the British Bulldogs. But after finding out the details of Benoit's death, I became sick to my stomach. I cannot fathom ever hitting a woman, let alone tying up her arms and legs and strangling a woman. This is another case of a wonderful professional being an amateur human being.

I recently bought the John Lennon tribute album Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur. The money goes to a great cause and there are some great covers of Lennon tunes. In particular, Green Day do an unbelievable job of "Working Class Hero," while R.E.M., U2, Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Postal Service, and The Flaming Lips also contribute some killer versions. The biggest surprise was Christina Aguilera's version of "Mother." SHe has always had a great voice, but for the first time in her career she actually shows restraint. She simply sings the song with a stripped down arrangement and doesn't try to shatter glass or make dogs go apeshit.

At work I just finished training for a new Customer Service position which is a nice change of pace. I at least get a variety of different calls as oopesed to sounding like a broken record for 8 hours. And a raise is always nice. That being said, I am continually looking around for a job that relates more to my education. My job at Quill is pretty relaxed and stress free, but if I am still there in a year's time please shoot me.

The past two weekends have been two of the best I've had in recent memory and they've been tow of the more low-key ones I've had. Two weekends ago revolved mostly around sitting at Chris and Kent's place with April, Jai Mo and Bazooka Jay having a few beers and singing and playing some tunes on the guitar. It was very cool to just relax and talk about music like the geeks that we are. This past weekend April and I went to Weyburn for a wedding. We hooked up with Chris and Kent on Friday, went to the wedding at a farm outside of Weyburn in scorching heat on Saturday and hung around Weyburn on Sunday with Troy and Autumn on Sunday. It's not even an hour away, but it was so nice just to get out of Regina for a weekend.

And that's all I have to say about that.