DAY OFF AT HOME!

so we took the super early flight from halifax to toronto, and i headed back to burlington to get my car, which christie had been borrowing for a few weeks while i was gone. the best part of that situation is that she took care of taking it in to get the brakes fixed for me, so that was one less thing to worry about. i visited with mom for a bit, and then headed back to oakville to shower and pay rent for an entire month of not being home! around 11 i headed out to toronto, and stopped in to see rick and andrea at the obey showroom. they kindly dressed me up in an entire new outfit for me to wear on much music. i went to pick up HLS and and headed to le commensal to meet alex lee.














after an encredibly enjoyable lunch and visit with alex and heather, i headed over to their new place with heather, and helped her fix the washer/dryer (again).



did some more running around, like heading to the mall to drop off some new glasses to get lens' put in them, as well as getting some white vans authentics from urban outfitters. around 4:30 i headed over to much music to meet up with the band and motty and filmed an interview for much news, before appearing live on much on demand.



after the interviews, we all headed over to the much store, where we met up with pauls girlfriend tara, stacey norton (both pictured below) and andy owens (not in photo).





after the in-store, i picked up my new glasses and headed to vegetarian haven to meet with my friend antonella that i ran into at much, on account of the fact that she works there. dinner was delicious, but unfortunately no photos were taken. i then headed to the drake hotel for our official cd release party where i was djing. a bunch of friends showed up, but over all the turn out was pretty weak. had a great time seeing friends while i wasn't djing, though!

courtney and HLS.



alex lee!



rick and andrea, then + me and joe from universal.




swh pat and ewan.



ewan and t-po.



a-ner.



doing a straight edge shot of some sort of mix of strawberry and lime, that i later named "trident splash gum"




definitely got some good use out of the drakes photobooth, and i plan to be a return customer!



everyone try on the new glasses!



i think i got another 2-3 hours of sleep before another early flight to quebec city, where i soon learned that the bus was being fixed and wouldn't be back at the venue until around 6:30. i ended up walking around the venue and later the mall across the street like a zombie before graciously being invited to take a nap in the comeback kid van. swell fellows they are! the quebec city show was definitely the biggest on the tour, and i ended up going to bed right after and enjoying my first full night sleep of the week.

VIDEO SHOOT.

wow, i have finally emerged from a hell-bent week of flying five times, sleeping very little, and waking up extremely early. it started off last thursday in new jersey at the starland ballroom. the show was amazing, and directly after, we headed to the airport for a 6am flight to pittsburg to shoot a video. we arrived in pittsburg, and headed straight to a hotel to shower, change and get ourselves together, and then headed straight to the first video shoot location. the video is for a new song called 'if you could see into my soul', and the concept of the video involves us robbing a bank. the first day we filmed all the performance footage of us playing the song in our "hide out/secret layer". the location was in the basement of this old building in braddock pennsylvania, which seems to be a fair abandonned steal town suburb. here's some photos:












this is danny, the director/producer.



the makeup girl was real cute!




chocolate covered cookies from walmart are vegan!




after a long day of shooting, we grabbed some food at this bar called 'double wide grill' with mitch and pittsburg steve. they had delicious seitan wings, but ran out of seitan for me to order the sandwhich too.





day two found us in latrobe pennsylvania, the home of golf legend arnold palmer, mr. rogers and the first ever banana split. this is where we filmed all the footage of us robbing the bank. we basically bust into the bank, i throw the security guard to the floor, pin him down and handcuff him (which i did like 15-20 times, poor guy) and then josh and i force everyone else to get down, and stay down. while josh and i patrol the lobby with our baseball bat and axe handle (hahaha) respectively, shane and paul head to the vault, where they steal a diamond, and pass it to neil (who is acting as a bank employee) through a small door in the wall. we then all escape through the same small door in the vault, and disguise some hostages as us for when the police show up.










the shoot went pretty well, and i'm fairly confident that the video will turn out awesome! i think it's supposed to be done and ready to air in a couple weeks, and i'm looking forward to see the first edit.

after something like 14 hours on the set, we headed back to the hotel, and got minimal sleep before getting up at 4am to head to the airport for yet another early flight. we flew from pittsburgh back to new jersey, and then connected to halifax novia scotia. we arrived in halifax around noon, and immediate i got out, road my bike around town, grabbed some food at the wooden monkey and met up with my friend matt and some pals. unfortunately i didn't take many photos in halifax, because my battery was charging in the morning, and when i took it out to get back on the bike and head to the waterfront, it started to rain. it was great to get back to halifax and see some great friends, matt, ian hart and the ryans. i think i ended up sleeping another 2 or 3 hours that night before heading to the airport again to fly to toronto for press.

i'd like to also mention that i'm REALLY into the office season three right now.

NEW BIKE!

here it is!




the chrome cranks are just loaners, because the black ones i ordered were back ordered, but they kindly sent me the loaners and should have the black ones too me next week. i also plan to do a bit more OBEY sticker detailing.