Electric Phonecall

I recieved a call yesteday from one excited Calvin MacLean. He had found "the holy grail" as he put it - a copy of an Eddy Grant album with Electric Avenue on it. Now I'm sure this album itself isn't all that rare but for whatever reason the search for this album has become a bit of a joke between myself and Calvin. Flashback three years, I'm DJing at the Cat's Eye and he requests the song, I tell him that I don't have it. A few months later I'm DJing there again and he asks for it again and I tell him the same thing. We get into a heated but good natured argument and I tell him that if he ever finds a copy of it that I'll glady play it for him. So then it begins, every time either of us are out shopping or digging thats an album thats on the wish list. To our suprise the song proved quite difficult to find. Who knew that Eddy Grant had so many albums; we discovered that he was infact quite a prolific recording artist desipite the fact that we knew him just for that one hit. So everytime I was at Around Again or Monster or Vintage Sound or Sonic Boom there would be 5 or so of his records, none with Electric Avenue on them. But all that has come to an end. Calvin got the album, he's going to give it to me and I will play it for him. I guess the best venue to play it out will be the next Santa Cruz. Its got a good, but short, drum break intro that will make for a nice, quick mix. I just hope Calvin can make it out for the next SC cause I expect to see him right in the middle of the dance floor.

theme song - Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue (obviously) or John Lennon - (Just Like) Starting Over

Western at Friendly's

Breakfast today at Friendly's with Aurora.
I had a western sandwhich on brown. It was pretty good, good veggies - tomatoes, green pepper, onion. The bread got a little soggy though, but thats to be expected. Friendly's does the "golden french fry" style really well and they were in top form today. The menu said that it came with a "fresh garden salad" but instead I got flavourless cole slaw and an old soggy dill pickle. All things considered their burger is much better than the Western but would be too heavy for the first meal of the day.
Money has been a little tight lately so i haven't been eating out at all the last few weeks.

Last night we saw No Dynamics and Lenin I Shumov at Dovercourt House. Not the best venue for a rock show but the bands were still great. ND still excites me every time I see them. That band is going places; I'm sure of it. I can't wait to hear the stuff that Rob recorded of them. They might be the best band this city has seen since The Sick Lipstick. I can't stop singing their songs.

Big things coming up at the end of the month for Doing It To Death. We're going to be celebrating James Brown's 72nd birthday on April 29th at Thymeless with a special edition of DITD.

the crust of this pizza tastes like melba toast...