i am writing a song for the Vancouver Complaints Choir. if you live in vancouver and you have a complaint, please send it to me. you can leave it in the comments section below, or email it to me at veda at vedahille dot com. your complaint may be voiced in song! all complaints will be kept anonymous, and i reserve the right to adjust language while respecting the essential nature of the complaint.
ps if this goes well i may end up writing more complaints music and will open up the field to complaints outside of vancouver. live in hope.
Is it possible for us that know something about Vancouver to make a complaint? Typing this right now I’d really like to make a complain about the fact that you limited the field of complainers only to those in Vancouver. People all over the world were complaining about Vancouver after while the city held the Olympic games. You must let their voices be heard!
ok, i have considered your very circular complaint rob. i think i’m going to stick to my guns on this one. the pertinent element is that the complaints be FROM vancouver, not necessarily ABOUT vancouver. however, if you want to do some Olympic Complaining (i’d love to see that competition) you may do so and i’ll keep it on file for possible future use. let’s see what kind of floodgates that opens up.
I find complaints always grow larger as you are typing them. I have no complaints about your reply. Being on Salt Spring and having spent little time in Vancouver I really have no complaints. I know my sister who lives in Vancouver can’t afford to be there and is considering moving back to Windsor ON! From there I could complain that she has to move because she lives in a one bedroom apartment with her husband and new child. If she goes back to her old job in a daycare she wouldn’t be able to bring her own child to the same daycare. Conflict of interest I guess. Now regarding the Olympics I didn’t get over for the real deal and I’m a little sad about that but I’m sure that will leave me in a high horse position when the next budget comes down. I did attend the Bronze Medal Paralympic Sledge Hockey game and that was fabulous besides that Canada lost. I could complain about that or I could complain about the stupid drunk university students in front of me and my 8 year old daughter or better yet the surly middle aged guy in front of them that lost his nut when they kept bumping into him and spilt a little beer on him. But in the end I choose to focus on the burly tattooed guy next to me that I never spoke to but wish I had because he was rolling his eyes the same way as me as we watched the action in front of us. So all in all you gave a cal for complaint and I did not want to miss out on it even though I really have nothing to complain about really. You ever seen the video of the guy with no arms or legs from Australia who can surf. He is so damn positive and if he can be then I will always try as well. Although I’m sure there is something he complains about like sand up his bum when he wipes out on the beach.
Non-Vancouverites complain because they can’t complain about Vancouver, and, hence, we complain about discriminatory song-writing rules!
Nice jazzy piano in “Wade In The Dark”, Veda.
That song is so well arranged, and so catchy. I think I will order the album.
So glad that Path of a Body is in mp3 format now.
Minor complaints for the song:
– getting flat (bike) tires
– tall people that stand in front of me at concerts and shift position erratically so I can’t get a good look
– arts cuts
– we have nanotechnology but veggie bacon tastes terrible. Why.
– apartment neighbours who cheat at recycling and throw it all in one bin so I have to sort it
etc.
i love this project. thanks, complainers!
and raff, so glad you like aaron cadwaldr’s record. he made it with colin stewart, my man in vancouver. it was a fun day of recording for me, and i think it sounds great.
xv