hope you had an awesome new years. mine was quite good, even though i stayed home with the kids, it was fun. last year i rang in the new year in vancity and went from party to party throughout the town. it was insane.
spent the morning wandering back in time, and keep going back to 2003. it was a pivotal year for me. had my first book deal with theytus books, i was clean and sober, and it was my first year living as an artist and solely making my money as an artist. off the grid. it was fantastic. i recorded several albums and wrote three books. it was also the year my son was born and kamloops was on fire, literally. there were fires all around town, all the way up to barriere, bc. the only place in the entire valley that didn't smell like smoke for weeks was down by the river. there was a 20 foot layer of clean air above the water. we spent a lot of time down there. i was also hosting a radio show at CFBX, and being exposed to tons of new music as we had a library of about 5000 c.d.'s with about a hundred new ones every month. i was growing as a person and an author, as well as a musician. all these years later, i look back with fondness and great memories. it is the one year i'd love to go back and live again for some reason.
anyway, i've been listening to a fantastic album by "Elbow: Live at the BBC." actually, it's a video i've been watching and listening to all morning, replaying certain songs. it's really quite inspiring and amazing, as well as melancholic, a perfect album for my day today. i think it was recorded in 2009, but features songs from their 2003 release "cast of thousands," that i discovered and listened to a lot while doing my show at CFBX. a highlight is a reworking of the song, "the seldom seen kid," wow, dynamic and dynamite!! one another album from that year i quite liked was Stereophonics "You gotta go there to come back." Particularly a song called "Maybe Tomorrow." a song i listened to over and over again, dreaming and hoping for a better tomorrow. haha.
elbow: live at the beeb!
elbow: cast of thousands
a great, beautiful, sweeping melancholic album
and sometimes, you literally gotta go there to come back.
so, it's been nice revisiting the past, and getting my kids to listen to music that is important to me. the elbow video at the bbc is really quite good, not every band can rework songs with a concert symphony, e.g. metallica, but elbow's music parlayed into a really awesome performance. well, the kids are beckoning and i must go. until tomorrow or later lovers,
cb
ps: today's art.
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