RBC blue water project:
someone at the royal bank didn't get the memo


.:someone please stop the madness:.

while it's all fine and dandy for money-gobbed conglomerates to play responsible corporate citizens, i find it particularly interesting and extremely disappointing when they fail to practice what they pretend to preach.

rbc is filling its corporate social responsibility dance card by throwing their hard earned cash at water sustainability: an extremely worthy cause which is near and dear to my heart (not to mention the literal rest of my being).

so imagine my surprise when i noticed royal bank branches giving out bottled water as part of 'customer appreciation' last friday (june 13th 2008).

maybe i should apply for a community action grant to stop the water bottling plant that is destroying the aquifer and surrounding environment in the community where my dad grew up?

Labels: bottled water, rbc, royal bank

"no, i am not wearing a margarita" - kelp/saved by vinyl nxne bbq!


.:camp radio photo copyright/courtesy chromewaves.net:.

yes, i was asked.

for those of you who missed the rhume set earlier in the day, it was friday the 13th after all! our fearful kelp leader jon bartlett didn't disappoint as a roller-skating, surreal spectacle of corn starch, plastic axes and rock and roll!

so yes, those would be 'blood' stains. ;)

it was wicked to finally get camp radio to toronto and play with such great 'family' and friends. thanks to all who came out, hung out and made this a rousing and raucous event for the second year in a row (special thanks to kelp, saved by vinyl, cbc radio 3, exclaim and global village backpackers for the support).

and, in all honesty, i don't know if it's 30km, 30 hours or 30 days. but sadly it just doesn't seem to be working for me anymore either. see grant's quips and quotes for more nxne 'overheard'.

Labels: bbq, camp radio, cbc radio 3, kelp, nxne, saved by vinyl

camp radio steps into big smoke


.:photo by leila meltingplastic:.

this friday is the second annual 'east meats west' bbq at nxne in toronto. kelp and saved by vinyl are once again teaming up for what promises to be a killer afternoon. show starts at noon and goes right through the afternoon with 11 acts, free bbq and free beer (seriously, though; we aren't supposed to talk about that part much).

last year was overwhelmingly successful, so we decided to give it another go. camp radio is in fact along for the ride this time. we hit the 'stage' at 5pm-ish. see you there for our first show in toronto.

more details at kelp

Labels: camp radio, east meats west, kelp, nxne

comb my hair with a pork chop for clean air day


.: scott, tony and chris at cbc vancouver in '02 :.

cbc radio had a great bit about a recent report on the "air in airplanes" this morning. i've always wondered after a plane ride why my skin felt like it was caked in bacon grease and my hair was combed with a pork chop. (thanks tony and scott...that expression still makes me chuckle). did you know that the degradation of oxygen on an airplane at 30,000 ft is akin to sitting on top of a mountain 8000 ft above sea level? and that the air pumped into the pressurized cabins actually comes from the engines and that there is now concern over what else is seeping in with that fabricated air? eew.

but here on the ground, as i whizzed by non-car-poolies sitting at lights on my bike to work this morning, i wondered how many actually contemplate something like clean air day...regardless of their chosen mode of transpo.

as my mom used to say, tongue in cheek, 'shouldn't every day be mother's day'?

dueling L4s and the daunting task of record making



this new solo record of mine is well out of the bed-track gate and my coveted L4s are really producing some exciting sounds. i'm surprised at how mellow things are starting out, but we'll see how that unfolds when dave and i plug in some amps and turn this thing up a notch.

i'm tracking 17 songs, 5 of which you may have heard in previous incarnations (3 from kelp comps, 2 from the most distant past). i'll post some mp3 progress soon.

Labels: L4s, mp3s