montreal

Montreal was pretty fun. Except that Montreal seems to cloud over any time I cross its borders. And unfortunately, the following things did or did not happen:

-Dan vomited over vitamins. I never knew that was possible! But the dude got sick on vitamins. Guess that's why they tell you to take them with a meal.
-traffic happened. lots of it.
-Valery attempted the Dodos show four times and was refused each time and wound up sitting in Sala Rosa, drinking a terrible margarita and crying, but just a little...
-Valery and band saw a really bad band instead.
-Dan was forced to eat samosas after having just eaten dinner because apparently this one bar has a law that each drink has to come with 400 additional calories of deep fried food.
-we ate at every other wendy's truck stop on the 401 heading home. Additionally, we also ate at the one KFC.
-no smoked meat sandwiches. no poutine. you ask, 'what the hell were you eating then'. wendy's. kidding.


All in all though, Montreal is a beautiful city. For the rent we pay in Toronto, we could have a palace in Montreal. Our friend Jo Ann put us up in said palace, a real nice place with a cute, weird cat.

We also really enjoyed The Lovely Sparrows from Austin. Really cool guys, very sincere. I got their record and am digging it. http://www.myspace.com/thelovelysparrows

I just recently found a guy named Jonathan Wilson on myspace. I think he's great: http://www.myspace.com/songsofjonathanwilson

I also just got the new EP from Josh Reichmann Oracle Band which is cool. He used to go under Jewish Legend, but was also the frontman of the Tangiers. Woo!
http://www.myspace.com/joshreichmann

In other news, I will be creating a series of podcasts to post on my website leading up to and during the release of my new record. I hope you'll check them out and make fun of me and my inability to podcast properly. Oh and myspace has finally decided my songs should show up on my page after having uploaded them two weeks ago. You can check out new material there or on www.virb.com