Documentary on hold . . .

. . . at least until I get back home. I've decided to spend the summer in The Rockies - there's a job waiting for me out there, and I haven't been able to find one here at home. So, I'm gonna take off on another road trip, save a bit of cash, book a tour home in October and start editing the film with a fresh outlook on music, life and travel. I may even bring a camera with me and film some supplementary footage on my own.

Of course, this means that the film's debut will be pushed back as well - I'm optomistically hoping for a "Christmas-time" unveiling . . . but that might turn into a "New Year" showing. We'll see. All I know is that PEI is not the right place for me right now, and I must go.

Let's hope that good ol' Doris has one more long trip in her. :)

Andrea

Clothes Make The Man

Four awesome guys from Toronto came to visit us and play a gig at Brennan's last week. We managed to sit them down, and have a little conversation about music and touring and money and all that stuff. They were funny and great, I only wish I was better at interviewing . . .

And they put on a kick-ass show at Brennan's that night, during which between 5 and 15 people showed up for. Sucky.

I had a good time, though. :) It was sort of like a private show . . .

More interviews to come . . . and then the sorting through the footage.

Drea

Montreal to PEI

The wine and pasta in Montreal was great. While we were too tired to head downtown to see Lisa's percussion group play (sorry Lisa!) and too late by the time we finished eating, we did head around the corner to a little pub for some more wine, and hit the hay in the early morning hours.

We awoke the next morning and hit the road shortly before noon. We arrived in Edmonston around 6 or 7pm. I called up my sister Jean in Miramichi, and we started on the terrible terrible road from Plaster Rock to there. I don't understand how people were driving so fast on it. I averaged about 60 km per hour the whole way, and we were still bouncing around. FIX YOUR ROADS NEW BRUNSWICK!

So what we figured would be a 2 and a half-hour drive turned into a 3 hour drive, but it felt more like 4 hours. But we got there, and slept well. I got up early to chat with my neices before they headed off to school, and shower. We eventually left Miramichi around 10am and got home to PEI around 1pm. The roads were heavenly after the Plaster Rock Road night-time horror.

I drove almost straight out to mom and dad's for the night, and slept quite well. I'm back in Charlottetown now, and it feels wierd. Sort of like I've just had one crazy long dream. :)

Drea

in montreal, drinking wine, pasta in the midst of creation. this is good.

ottawa was amazing. i love that city. it was SO good to see alex and jeremy again. and just as good to meet michelle and tema. i'm sad our stay was so short, but perhaps it is best it was, and have left on such a high note.

almost home...

Driving and driving and driving . . .

After a day of driving around the Rockies we eventually left Canmore, AB, around 9pm on Monday night to start the drive toward Ottawa, with the intention of getting there sometime before Friday night for the show with Alex and Neil.

That night, I drove until around 1:30am when we arrived in Medecine Hat, AB. It was windy and rainy. Lovely driving conditions. We then parked Doris behind a 24-hr Shell station and slept for a few hours. At around 6am I got up and went inside to have a greasy breakfast and down some coffee. Then we started driving again, and made it to Winnipeg around 7pm that night. We had dinner with Roddy and Judy, and then slept, awaking to the wonderful sound of Moe's cellphone alarm around 7am. We started driving again, and drove and drove and drove until we were somewhere in the rocky hills of Northern Ontario and I was getting sleepy. We pulled into a funny little motel in a tiny village called Shreiber, or something like that. We drank some wine, watched some Lost and I fell asleep shortly after. We got up early again the next day and left around 8:00, hoping to make it to Ottawa that night. We almost made it. We drove and drove and drove and then ran into wet snow and slush. After we passed North Bay it got worse and worse until we had to pull over, a few hours away from Ottawa, close to Deep River. We found a cheapy hotel and checked in.

This hotel was awesome in it's funkiness. The TV was straight out of 1981, UHF, probably a 13 inch screen. There were 70's patterned patches on the walls, and the carpet was also circa 1978, I believe. There were no phones in the rooms, and definitly no wireless internet connection. We had some snacks and watched the two channels we received, and then passed out.

Friday we slept in for the first time in a long time. We didn't leave the motel until around noon, it was awesome. We arrived in Ottawa a few hours later, and found Alex and Jeremy and his friend Tema downtown. Then we ate, and then we rocked! The show at Cafe Nostalgica was packed and a good time was had by all. Our friend Rozalind MacPhail came by to jam out some flute tunes with us, and Alex and Neil and Steve surprised me by learning one of my songs off myspace to play with me - So Tired. It was pretty damned cool.

Today we're heading back to Montreal to see our friend Lisa Shalom play with her percussion group somewhere downtown - it's going to be interesting to see if we can actually find it. :)

So here we are, almost home, almost out of money . . . and so glad to be around old friends!

See yas all soon,
Drea

p.s. I'm going to be opening for Air Traffic Control at Baba's on May 10th. Be there!

PS

Moe, The Constantines are playing in Canmore on Monday night - should we stop in and see how much the show is? Canmore's not that big, we shouldn't have a problem finding the place. And, I have a friend there!

Just an idea. We should probably drive back toward Ottawa that evening, though. Hmmmm . . .

Beer and Chocolate Ice Cream

Today consisted of a Farmer's Market (where I scored a new piece of Kyanite and a necklace to hang it from), fun time with Caelan, almost finishing my copy of "I am Charlotte Simmons" by Tom Wolfe (yes, Sean, it is pretty amazing), makin' jello, eating steak and rice (and cheesecake, I love vacation), finding my way to my friend Dan's place and watching South Park while drinking beer.

Now, it's bed-time. Tomorrow I'm exited to finish the book, help to make Easter dinner and maybe even look around Calgary a bit. On Monday Moe and I are going to drive through the Mountains and then head back East on the Trans Canada, to see if it's possible to drive from Banff to Ottawa in four and a half days. Yay! The true test of the road-tripper!

I'm excited for four days of long driving and little sleep. Call me crazy.
I like beer and chocolate ice cream. It's sort of like beer and chocolate cake, which I find surprisingly awesome. Call me crazy.