it had to happen

cat comics are hard. lolcats are easy. click on the image to vote for it at ichc.

anatek pocket pedal instructions

I sure could have used this piece of paper about 3 years ago, when I was climbing around under my rig onstage in Ottawa, plugging and unplugging cables and hitting…

Otros Aires

Caught Otros Aires, the modern Argentinian tango ensemble, at Lula Lounge last Sunday night. Took some pictures. Check out the video for “Milonga Sentimental” on YouTube. Click on the photo…

steve is on explores

It took a year and 450 photos but i finally made flickr‘s explore page – essentially their “500 best” of the day. Small feat perhaps, but I’ll hang my hat…

more kijiji fun

The most puzzling thing about this ad is how someone who posesses enough unstupid to be able to successfully post an ad on kijiji doesn’t know how to spell “guitar”,…

international dance party

If, instead of being cars that turned into robots, the Transformers were Anvil cases that turned into discotheques, they’d be International Dance Party. Via Niklas Roy on Vimeo.

sequential circuits six-trak

Some years ago, enough that I can’t quite remember the exact number, I found myself at Steve’s Music in Toronto noodling around on the newest cool thing, a multi-timbral synth…

Yamaha SB79 Silent Brass System

A while back when the band was considering covering some Cake tunes I started searching eBay for used trumpets. This is not so outlandish an endeavour as you might think;…