location: Halifax, Nova Scotia

mood: tired

You know what really annoys me? The "Push to start!" button on gas pumps.

Why do we need these? They add a completely arbitrary extra step - they exist only to impede your gas-pumping progress. Pressing the "Start" button doesn't do anything except...

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mood: thirsty music: The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want

A few days late, obviously.

Currently headed home on one of Prevosts finest buses. We’ve done three shows total so far this season, one in Florida, one in Canada and one in Nebraska. Florida was tough - it was really...

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mood: pensive music: Moby - God Moving Over the Face of the Waters

Church tours are an event in and of themselves. For one thing, the physical building varies so wildly that assuming even something as simple as a minimum ceiling height is likely to be a shot in the dark. Our Genie towers like a...

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mood: scared music: Peter Gabriel - Down to Earth

So on my current tour as lighting designer for Big Daddy Weave, I've run into an interesting conundrum. Our front lighting truss flies from the same Genie towers that hold the front of house line arrays.

These line arrays normally fly at a tri...

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mood: blah

music: Ben Folds - The Ascent of Stan

I have a specific procedure that I adhere to when I fly. I take off the Leatherman Wave that I always wear at my hip, along with the knife I normally carry in my pocket and put them in my checked luggage bag. I don a baseball cap and the clearly...

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