So much has happened about

March 26, 2003

So much has happened about things that don’t seem that important in the grand scheme of things. I guess that's why people lose touch. Something happens to them that they find interesting and simultaneously cataclysmic horrors are happening on a grand scale world wide . . .so they shuffle it under the rug and forget about it. Sooner or later everybody loses track of where the other people are and what they are feeling. It was sunny today and I heard a muted machine gun “brapp” and looked up to see a huge woodpecker trying to bore a hole in the aluminum vent tower on the west side of my roof. I recognized the sound immediately as the sound my mate has been calling me into the bathroom to hear every couple of days. She says, “do you hear that sound? I think it must be a plumbing problem and we better get on it right away before a flood or something”. We were about to call in a plumber at great expense to prophylactically deal with the pending “problem” before our house was damaged by flooding. How would we ever have known that a woodpecker had gone bonkers and was trying daily to get inside our aluminum roof vent? You would have to be outside at just the right time to see it. You see? That story would have held up as an interesting anecdote if people weren’t dying in a hail of bullets and shrapnel every few minutes. So I’ll be quick with the lesser information.

Shot a video for “Giddy Up” on Sunday. It was done at “Maureen Wilson’s Sweatco Studios” on Richards Street in Vancouver (thanks Mo & Gary). Loosely: I performed a faith healing for a class of women on spinning bikes. Bruce McCulloch directed and wrote and John Pantages’ Soulhammer Pictures made it all happen. I have many people to thank and you can see their names on the news page of the site. Two I would like to add are Jenn Cormier and Nate for all their efforts. A one point, with some help from Cirque du Soleil's Sandra Botnen, I was dancing, at night, in front of the headlight beams of a gold suicide door Lincoln. Picture me wearing a white jacket and tie, burgundy shirt, huge rodeo belt buckle and black cowboy boots making karate moves as my Baptist skinny rock dude henchmen in burgundy suits ate take-out fried chicken off the hood of the Lincoln.

The gig at the Green room tonight was a lot of fun. Shuffled the song deck a bit and did one long set featuring Doug Elliott (bass), Simon Kendall (keys), Geoff Hicks (drums) and me on pithy comments. Garfield Wilson (sang with us on Colin James “Fuse”) got up to sing harmony of “Something Good”. His wife Michelle did the cover for “Giddy Up” and I congratulate them on the pending birth of their first child. Hope to see more of you out next week.

Rosanne Cash’s “Rules of Travel” came out today and I’d like to thank Tim Der for buying and showing me the first copy I’d seen. The record is fantastic. I’m not just saying that. It’s truly great. Rosanne tells me its receiving great reviews and she’s really busy getting the word out but moreso helping to spread love in a time of war. Posted by Craig