Catching Up

I guess I haven't posted in quite some time. I have been so damn busy. I just started my 3rd semester at Georgian in the CSTN coarse, next semester is my co-op and I'm quite excited about that. To follow up on the Algonquin trip, it was super fun. We ended up interior camping, so it was quite secluded. Our camp site was only accessible by canoe so it was great. It was really odd because random animals would just pass through our campsite and not even give us a second glance. The funniest was this awkward looking pheasant/quail looking bird that walked by so cool and collected. Needless to say when it got dark I was on pheasant/quail patrol. Ever night there was a mouse who hung out with us around the fire and every morning there were three chipmunks who would spend the days with us. At about 4 in the morning on our last day there I heard a rather large heavy footed animal outside our tent. It stopped and took in a deep low breath (I'm guessing it was smelling the tent) so I hit the side of the tent to scare it off; It let out a deep moan and walked off. My guess is that it would have been either a bear or a moose, either way, thats a little scary. On our last day before we left Tia decided to throw the bag with a few arousal cans onto the dock. She heard a hissing noise and informed me so I investigated. Turns out it was the bear mace that had exploded and it got all over me. My leg and foot swelled up and turned purple, but either then that the trip was perfect. Seeing our big trip we planned is done and over with we started planning our next. For Tia's birthday we decided to go to New York. She's been there before and I have yet to so I'm really excited to check out the art gallery and the museum of natural history. I hope the next trip we take is in Europe somewhere, I would love to visit Lahr which is the city in Germany that I grew up. Either then that, everything is pretty much the same. Hopefully I will have some time to make a new post with some opinion on something no one cares about soon =) Now that I come to think of it, heres something! I found this awesome band from Sweden called The Knife. The are a electro/pop/indie kind of band. Their music is great but also their attitudes are so rock star. They refuse to do interviews and any pomo pictures taken of them they are wearing bird masks (the ones the medieval doctors wore during the black plague outbreak). They have been around since 2001 but have only played around 20 shows during the winter of 2006, 3 of which were in the United States. Its so refreshing to see a band that doesn't want notoriety. However their song "Heartbeats" was featured in a Sony commercial for the Bravia TV. They were against the idea, but Sony offered them ALOT of money. In the end they agreed, but they gave rights to Sony to use the song if it was preformed by another artist, so in the end, they aren't in the commercial, just their song preformed by Jose Gonzalez (Who does an amazing job might I add). Way to keep your obscurity! =) Here's a video from their DVD for Heartbeats live. The DVD (Silent Shout - An Audio Visual Experience) showcases their one and only tour and really is what it says, and audio visual experience. The light show, costumes and spectacle pair well with the music. The live version is quite different then the album version. The album version is more dancey and upbeat where the live version seems more somber. Check out the album version if you like what you hear.
Cheers!