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hallo folks. due to some misadventures with publicity timing the chapel show has been cancelled, alas. but you can still go see azeda booth at the railway club on july 22. i hope to be there, downing a celebratory martini after finishing the mix for This Riot Life. we start on monday, i’m very excited. and as colin sets up the songs every day i’ll be working on the prize ribbons. i’ll mail out the first round of life support packages at the end of the month.

what else? i’ve just finished a film with ivan coyote called The Love That Won’t Shut Up. it’s about queer history in vancouver, and was commissioned by Out On Screen, our gay film fest. the film will play at the Vancity Theatre on august 24th, and ivan and i will both perform at the screening. another OOS event: John Cameron Mitchell is coming!!! I’m very excited, and hope to meet him.

what else? (or: Why Haven’t I Been Posting?) i’m working with the leaky heaven circus on a show about cannibalism, i just made a pilot/pitch to host a cbc show about cabaret, there’s an opera in the offing, i’m making music for some ice dancing choreographed by jennifer mascall, and the fits have learned the Tom Lehrer song the elements. oh, and i’m reading the new annie dillard book the maytrees. she slays me.

and a few days ago, we wrangled 4 guinea pigs out of our back yard. it’s non-stop adventure around here folks. i better get out of the computer room and see what’s going on now. xx v Continue reading and july

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at last, some evidence that i exist. and that i still play the piano. barely feels like it, since i’m immersed in taxtime, but there you go. these photos were taken by lee su-feh at the caravan farm this past may. we are working on a musical about cannibalism. this is billy, tanya, jeff, and lesley singing along with me at the piano in the cookshack. a song based on the writings of levinas. and steve is “directing”, and katherine and molly and stefan are cheering us on/drinking wine. it was a grand time. doesn’t it look like the 70s?

in other news, tracking on the new album is almost finished, and we begin mixing in july. still planning a release in early 2008. we are also working on getting the rights to the concert with the cbc radio orchestra. i’d love to release that this fall if at all possible. fingers crossed. oh, and one of my favorite records of last year, john southworth’s The Pillowmaker, is finally available at cd baby. the sweetest songs.

a question for you computer savvy types out there: suddenly there’s a bunch of spam getting into the comments on the site. 2 or 3 a day. anyone know how to spiffy up the blockage on wordpress? it was doing so well for so long. i’m sorry if some of these nastyspam are getting to you folks.

ok, and don’t forget the fits are playing with wax mannequin this saturday at rime. we have a new finale, look out.

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