JAGA JAZZIST - A LIVING ROOM HUSH

I am listening to this album for the first time. It is kick ass. I first heard Jaga Jazzist when I picked up their newest album (2005) What We Must. I never knew they had an album before The Stix, and just discovered that they have plenty of other music. This song in …

Horseshoe - January 28th - Toronto

December Vacation

Wow, I've been so very lame at keeping up with my blog as of late! It's the last day of work before I head out into the barren, snowy fields of Ridgeway, Ontario for some family and fun.

December was a great month.



Photo by Leo Araujo

The company I work for sent us on an …

I love you Sarah Vaughan

Video: Perdido


Yesterday all day I had the song Jump For Joy, sung by Sarah Vaughan in my head (I recommend you download it on iTunes). This song is absolutely infectious. It makes me want to dance and freak out. It allows me complete loss of control!

Oh Sarah Vaughan. I …

Podcast #2!

Avalanche To Wandering Bear is off to a good start, with fantastic reviews and smiling faces. Therefore as a toast, here is the Val Gore PODCAST #2. Click the image below and scroll to the bottom of the Valery Gore Media page.

B for Bama | T for Teary

Barack and I are side by side this week in the Japan iTunes store. Anyone from Japan can download Shoes of Glass for free as Single of The Week. But I recommend the entire record. I am biased, though.




While we're on the topic of Obama, I will list a few things that moved …

Mama Luchetti

I haven't laughed so hard in weeks. Click on the below image and on the right side of the page, click "Play Blender". They're all pretty funny, but this one is hilarious.

I am so excited for America, as I watch the thousands of little US flags and beaming faces, bouncing around in the rally crowds. They just announced that Obama will make it to the white house.

It's as though for once in a handful of years that the right thing is …

Album Release

It is a great feeling opening my online store, stocking my office shelves with fresh from the manufacturer CDs. And let me tell you - they are slick. No plastic. And 100% crazy artwork.





































I have to say that there needs to be an upcoming post that saves me from the fact …

The Wait

It is life in slow motion,
it's the heart in reverse,
it's a hope-and-a-half:
too much and too little at once.

It's a train that suddenly
stops with no station around,
and we can hear the cricket,
and, leaning out the carriage

…

Harper the green booger

me moh. Stephen Harper you are the cream in my coffee. I hate cream.

Podcast #1 - A Sea of Wannabe Green

Friends! I made a podcast! It brought me back to the mixed tape; the hours upon hours organizing two sides of songs with hidden messages for a boy in eleventh grade. And optimizing those two sides by writing down the length of each song and figuring out how to fit them …

montreal

Montreal was pretty fun. Except that Montreal seems to cloud over any time I cross its borders. And unfortunately, the following things did or did not happen:

-Dan vomited over vitamins. I never knew that was possible! But the dude got sick on vitamins. Guess that's why …

think the thinking thoughtful - side tracked

Silence on my street
Darkness in my yard
Ticking of the clock
The dogs have all gone indoors

There is time

I think the thinking thoughtful
I am snowed over by its warmth
And of other thoughts that shed themselves -
The overheated cloth

Pop Montreal / The Border / Avalanche

My band and I are heading to POP Montreal this Friday, October 3rd to play an 8pm set at Cagibi. Hi Lonely Oak and The Lovely Sparrows will also be performing that night. More info if you click on the POP logo.






My song "CBC" will be played during CBC's The Border, airing …

cheese

photo: I would love to go back to this exact moment in my life and get inside my head; consider how easy it was for me to wear pink socks with white sandals. To wear pink at all, and to just stand and smile. Because pink was never really my thing, but as a kid you are …

I'm the master of second catastrophe
I lag into my position, ankle wound with the
iron anchor of security
when you are all
loose and light
with loss

my mouth becomes paper
thin
an origami muscle
contraption, shut
for words to accompany
the end to a day

losing is the lightning

squash thief.

I finally had the opportunity yesterday to check out my late season garden, in all its overgrown, decaying yet still fruitful glory.

My cold flip flops hit the dirt, my eyes scanning for a sign. The light orange/beige coloured sign of life was no where to be found. I …

hello saferide.

grocery shopping alone.

I really dislike grocery shopping alone. It's mostly because I am somewhat indecisive and take twice as long to think things through. I stare blankly back at the cheese aisle, the milk, the meat. The fact that by the time I'm at the end, the cart is so heavy that I …