This is pretty cool, The Silversun Pickups are on their way to Victoria for a Zone Show tonight and included a picture on their twitter of the Ferry ride.
Yesterday, when I was on the ferry, back from our Kings of Leon concert adventure, we saw whales! no rock stars, but man, there were so many whales out there on the water.
KOL was a fun shit show. Coral, Alyx, Gord and I bee-lined downtown to this little pub called Dix. Dix serves up its own micro-brew, Red Truck. Why do we know and love Red Truck in Victoria? Because that fine brewery sued our friend Matt Phillips and made him stop brewing his Blue Truck. (I mean calling it “Blue Truck,” he still brews it as Blue Buck).
What ever, I forgive and I order and you know what? Good, no Blue Truck, but a quality micro-brew at a decent price consider we were in the tourist ghetto on Vancouver. Prices were actually pretty decent at Dix. James and Holly showed up with James’ brother and James let us know you can eat peanuts by the bucket in Dix and toss the shells on the floor Big Bad Johns style. Fun.
Coral and I wobbled over to GM Place after the Whigs, a couple more beers and KOL hit the stage jamming out one of my fave tracks, “Be Somebody.”
Txts from that night:
me: they totally played sex is on fire!
james: I got crabs!
me: Hey remember that time holly gave me the aids?
James: Remeber that time they played sex is on fire and I got a total semi
They basically jammed out all the hits, good set, humble guys, loud crowd then back to Coquitlam for some John B. Pub.
My sister, her BF and my brother Matt joined us and we slammed back some dirt cheap Molson. The cover band asked for requests and I said, “KING OF LEON, SEX ON FIRE!”
The band said, “only if you sing it!”
OK. Um, my sister has the footage somewhere.
The next day was a sunny one and we headed to the water park in Port Moody which is one of the finest family parks I’ve ever seen. I think I have a new mission from god, and its to build a water park in Esquimalt.
right, dreams aside. Good times.
Go with yourself.
The Morning After 