Musical interlude

Sometimes, I play music.
Tomorrow (Friday), I play at the bar in the Nova hotel.
A little while ago, I recorded some songs. You can hear a couple of them here: www.myspace.com/brandonquigleymusic

One week left in the north!

Of Circuses

The past couple weeks, I've had my head down, busy volunteering with Alianait and attending the multitude of Alianait events, and with writing report cards on the way to the end of school (my last day was Friday). I can't even believe I made it to the end of the school year; I'm sort of still in a daze of disbelief.

My life feels like a circus, especially since I've attended a couple of circuses - the Fibonacci Project was a great show last Sunday, and Artcirq on Tuesday was pretty cool too. In fact, all the Alianait events so far have exceeded my expectations, I'd say. The opening concert was a long night of eclectic music from all over, Monday night brought this amazing frenetic Quebecois folk band to the Francophone to ring in St. Jean Baptiste Day, Wednesday I heard cool stories from Dave Bidini and Michael Kusugak, Friday Dave Bidini played some songs at the Nova bar... phew! And those are just my evenings this past week.

Oh, and last Sunday I also swung by the Nunavut Arts and Crafts festival, where I played some songs, and participated in a Printmaking workshop done by Andrew Qappik. I also purchased a print by an artist named Veronique Nirlungayuk. Here's the print I made along with and the one I bought:

Mornings

Yesterday morning, I listened to the new Weakerthans album repeatedly (thanks Bob!) Songs about curling, bus drivers, and the second album in a row with a song from the perspective of a cat. It's like John K. Sampson knows exactly what's going on in my life, and what I've been thinking about. Since I don't have my dependable Toronto record stores around, I've really been lacking music, which probably leads me to obsess over this record even more than usual.

Today, my morning is stretching into the afternoon as I drink my second cup of coffee at 1:30 to get the cobwebs from last night out of my head.

I'm currently trying to get a wireless router working, with limited success. If anyone knows anything about getting a wireless network set up, let me know.