I am back from my trip to DraytonValley. It was ridiculously fun, I learnt a lot about myself and the such while on the road. Here are some
This was a pretty cool valley I found...I coudn't go any further in because it was all wet. I wanted to go exploring in it.
Oil rig things are sweet. (yeah, I took a tripod)
Joey from
Audio/Rocketry and I. (the blood was for my costume)
I forget this dudes name....but he was probably under a few too many different intoxins.
Tomorrow I will try to feel better, because I am quite sick. I will also go job hunting for a full time job for over winter. I am going to try the LiqourCommission in GrantPark, and then RoyalBankofCanada as a CustomerService dude. Hopefully those work out. I am going to hit the studio soon, I wouldn't mind finding a full band...but either way I have nothing to do for Winter. I am going to watch FamilyGuy, however will leave you with a few things I learned from the trip.
- every small town in Saskatchewan is full of murderers. leatherface style
- driving hills is super sweet
- busking is interesting, and an entire artform in itself. one which I was not ready for or trained in, but still made $9 in 40 mins in Regina.
- everyone in Alberta drives a truck
- when a dog meets a porcupine, it's bad news
- in DraytonValley, if you don't like the band that is playing, you don't go get food. Instead, you drink beer in back alleys.
- playing a coffee shop show when you are brutally sick and can't sing your own songs, is a very bad idea.
- playing that same show after going out to red neck bars and drinking Guiness till 4 AM...is an even worse idea.
- having a gas jocky in Calgary shut the map you are reading, tell you "this isn't a library," and proceed to kick you out when you don't want to buy the map...is hilarious.
- when a cab driver in his 50's says "you know why I like twenty-eight year old girls?.....because there are twenty of them."....that is just creepy.
- winning $60 at an Albertan casino is sweet.
- TigerArmy is friggin' sweet.
- two lane highways suck.
- when I wake up in my car quite hungry, considerably cold, horribly sick, and physically alone, and still have high spirits when I start driving, well then I figure I should get my ass on the road a whole lot more.