Oh, be joyful

Hot and humid out there today. Air’s thick like syrup and the light has this tan coloured particulate quality, polluted and grimy. A wasp flew into my apartment and has been slowly flying in confused angry circles for 10 minutes. I’m hesitant to disturb him. It started raining for a few short minutes and that did nothing but drag down more oppressive heat. Humidity like this doesn’t break, it cracks.

Had the distinct pleasure of watching the Pack AD last night. There’s never any shortage of blues in this city, from the seriously limp white-boy portions served up most nights at the Yale to the odd busker ripping out his best sub-Clapton street corner shtick. For the most part BC should hang its head in collective shame for we are the province that brought you both Colin James and David Gogo. None of our home grown blues has any bite, which is horrible. Phoning it in while playing the blues is like having a loaded .357 and only using it as a paperweight. The Pack AD play some mean blues and the .357 is not only loaded, the safety is off and they're coming for you and your loved ones. Not an ounce of fat on those songs and they're totally free of the ego driven noodling that is the downfall of so very, very many blues songs played by so very, very many white people.

It was a bit of a sloppy performance, there was some confusion over a misplaced bottleneck and some guitar tech issues seemed to have them both a little peeved, but their phenomenal live dynamic was as great as ever and the new album is killer-b.

After an evening of too much drinking I spent most of today reading outside on my balcony, consuming cigarettes and pomegranate juice in equal amounts and listening to the masterpiece that is "Oh Be Joyful" over and over and over. All around the world yet another poncho wearing bastard in a Stevie Ray Vaughn cover band burst into flames while slouching through his set and few people know why. Anyone who hears Funeral Mixtape by the Pack AD knows why. The world is at last beginning to balance itself out.

That is all.