Valery Gore

Worried Head

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:43:02 -0700

Knife Dream

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:39:40 -0700

Shoes Of Glass

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:38:09 -0700

Scared

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:28:04 -0700

Dancing

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:25:08 -0700

Elliott Goes

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:24:11 -0700

ValeryGore_Dancing.mov

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:48:14 -0700

Directed by Jason MacFarlane, Soft Citizen

JAGA JAZZIST - A LIVING ROOM HUSH

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:56:39 -0800

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 particular is making me turn it up full blast on my headphones. What a groovy lil bass line!!!!!!!

Airborne - Jaga Jazzist

Horseshoe - January 28th - Toronto

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:57:54 -0800

December Vacation

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:40:36 -0800

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 amazing holiday cruise to the Bahamas. The festivities started off with a trip to New York for two nights and then a very early flight to Miami. We boarded The Imagination cruise ship, destination Nassau, Bahamas. Funnily enough, the very boat I rode on was the office of none other then Devon Henderson, my handsome bassist. He cruised around on that boat and played upright for pretty well a full year after college. In fact, so many of my friends played on these boats. I heard No Woman No Cry and Waiting In Vein at least twice a day, and many brave covers of Michael Jackson! That's no easy man to cover!

Photo by Leo Araujo

There was a water park, mini put, disco, and of course, hot tubs.

There's my friend Leo! He looks very small next to the imagination!

We roamed around Nassau, Bahamas, found an old prison dungeon under the city libary, walked along the water to a seafood restaurant where Leo and I ate Lobster Tail. Later that night, the entire company went to a local restaurant on the water where Marcin and I went kayaking in the very high winds. Afterward we had dinner on the beach, followed by local entertainment. Fire eating woman, flaming stick limbo-man KING BARACHA, as well as a brass band dressed in costumes playing while we took our congo line around the bar.

On the day we had to fly out of Miami, we spent time at a penthouse on the 43rd floor along the ocean. The view was amazing. We ordered food and drinks without having to leave our lounge chairs and Marcin was attacked by fifteen seagulls. Good times.

I enjoyed sitting around and doing nothing so much that I'm going to take a week in January to travel to Cuba! Start 2009 off right! (i.e. enjoy the calm before the storm of 2009). I am very very excited for the next year. Happy holidays everyone! And all the best for the new year!

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I love you Sarah Vaughan

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:00:53 -0800

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 can't imagine sitting in your front row.

Video: You're Not The Kind

Podcast #2!

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:02:15 -0800

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

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:33:17 -0800

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 me to tears in the last couple weeks! Why not?!:

- Obama's mention of 106 year-old Ann Nixon Cooper and the changes she's seen in her country....

- I also get teary eyed when I think of my dad. For the past three months, he has invested his spare time, money and sanity on fixing up a 1991 Toyota Tercel for me, while my Cutlass Olds stood on its last legs. Right down to the paper work, numerous trips to the stale MTO office, and us turning the key for the first time to reveal a full tank of gas, my dad did an amazing thing at helping me out and showing me how much he cares and supports what I'm doing. My Papa Gore was also extremely helpful in getting the body work and painting done. It looks brand new! And zips around like a mosquito! I am very grateful to have the family I do.

The man at the wreckers took my '88 Oldsmobile off our hands and asked if we'd like it to have a nice burial. My dad exclaimed "Drive it off a cliff". Then the man told me my car would be a tin can in three weeks and horrific images of it being shredded flashed through my mind. My dad asked if we'd ever been through a wrecker lot. I peered back at it and my curiosity heightened! What an eerie place it is! All the dead end stories. Such finality, that last car hug in the parking lot.

Mama Luchetti

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:40:24 -0800

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.

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:04:02 -0800

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 happening for them. And for all of us.

Almost unbelievable really.

Album Release

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:33:03 -0700

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 that my blog is starting to dictate my website. I think life has been throwing me so many things at once that I have no clear vision of it. Insight is required if I'm going to talk about absolutely anything on this blog.

Have a good day!

The Wait

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:58:22 -0700

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

door, we vainly contemplate
a wind we feel that stirs
the blooming meadows, the meadows
made imaginary by this stop.

poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by A. Poulin

Harper the green booger

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:41:12 -0700

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

Podcast #1 - A Sea of Wannabe Green

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:07:55 -0700

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 all within two sets of 45 minutes. I am so addicted to music, a podcast is just where I needed to put that energy!

Of course, I don't have much practice at the talking part. But feel free to have a listen and then come back here and comment about what a loser I am.

montreal

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:35:28 -0700

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 they tell you to take them with a meal.
-traffic happened. lots of it.
-Valery attempted the Dodos show four times and was refused each time and wound up sitting in Sala Rosa, drinking a terrible margarita and crying, but just a little...
-Valery and band saw a really bad band instead.
-Dan was forced to eat samosas after having just eaten dinner because apparently this one bar has a law that each drink has to come with 400 additional calories of deep fried food.
-we ate at every other wendy's truck stop on the 401 heading home. Additionally, we also ate at the one KFC.
-no smoked meat sandwiches. no poutine. you ask, 'what the hell were you eating then'. wendy's. kidding.

All in all though, Montreal is a beautiful city. For the rent we pay in Toronto, we could have a palace in Montreal. Our friend Jo Ann put us up in said palace, a real nice place with a cute, weird cat.

We also really enjoyed The Lovely Sparrows from Austin. Really cool guys, very sincere. I got their record and am digging it. http://www.myspace.com/thelovelysparrows

I just recently found a guy named Jonathan Wilson on myspace. I think he's great: http://www.myspace.com/songsofjonathanwilson

I also just got the new EP from Josh Reichmann Oracle Band which is cool. He used to go under Jewish Legend, but was also the frontman of the Tangiers. Woo!
http://www.myspace.com/joshreichmann

In other news, I will be creating a series of podcasts to post on my website leading up to and during the release of my new record. I hope you'll check them out and make fun of me and my inability to podcast properly. Oh and myspace has finally decided my songs should show up on my page after having uploaded them two weeks ago. You can check out new material there or on www.virb.com