stephen harper and his music

last night after an amazing bbq that mark, caitlins moms boyfriend prepared i saw the best record collection. mark has a million records scattered about in the garage, and they range from all original pressings of underground punk, bizzarre jazz, humour, classical, and even a record on how to become a ventriliqust. The first devo record, the first stooges albums, and a "play bass with the ventures" album that he had signed by all of the ramones after he partied with them. he showed me alot of great music, and whats best is that he got most of his records for free or extremley cheap in dumpsters, back alleys, garage sales or estate sales, or when records were actually cheap when he was a kid. we all then went to a bar to see lynns (caitlins mom) and marks friend who owns the place. its called FSFU (Freds six feet under). There we saw Bob Reuter, a local photographer, writer and singer song writer who everyone is friends with, and a band whos bass player looked identical to Stephen Harper. Came home and went for a walk in the early morning hours drinking wine.

ideal honky tonk, two shots of whisky

theres this amazing coffee shed in the kensington market called ideal coffee. i think it may be the best coffee ive ever tried.

checked out the contact photography festival, theres 220 venues and over 500 artists we say some of the ones that looked interesting to me. lynn cohen, edward burtynsky, stan douglas, geoffry pugen, and so many more.

im writting this one week into the trip and I can safely say Dave and I have had a burrito everyday. We had one the day this writing takes place too.

went to martins house which actually has a website. i think its called the delicious earth co-op. it is a completely green space. they run on renewable energy, eat local, organic. it seems like a business almost the way it is run with numerous amounts of charts, tables and talleys adding up who did the dishes, who bought toilet paper who owes money for a few kamut grains they ate. all in all for us to consume from the communal fridge amounts to 3 dollars a day, nothing compared to the wholesome food selection they have.

met martine at her friends house ci ci. who cooked tonnes of amazing food for us and supplied endless wine and a liquor cabinet. ci ci had an amazing record collection, 2 brand new record players and 2 cd players that can be scratched. a huge mixing board that can have crazy sound effects overtop. they took us to the dakota tavern where a local hillbilly/honky tonk band was playing. catl was the bands name and some other band was there i cannot recall the name. the bands played harmonicas, banjos, organs and a tattered suitcase was used as a drum.

got back to the mud house to find my bed taken again, slept outside on the roof.