Blood and Bass Players

So another few weeks have gone by and because I have not blogged lately, people have yelled at me.

Well not yelled, more like Facebook harassed.

So in order to save my eyes (and potentially my ears) from another onslaught of rowdy complaints, I'm taking a vow of blogging. I shall henceforth blog twice a week, even if my life is boring. That way I'll satisfy my crazy friends, AND bestow upon the world some level of not only excitement, but monotony.

Told you I wasn't a one trick pony.

So to start off my little excursion into my world. I did three main things since I last spoke to all of you.

1. Photoshoot
2. Auditioned a Bass Player
3. Fell off my mountain bike

The photoshoot started at my place, in front of what I can only say was a $6 dollar sheet from a thrift store. It just so happened to make an excellent replacement for a $400 an hour white room studio. So we brought in my good friend Bella from www.bellajohnsonphotography.com and took some shots for the official website. The boys ended up ruining most of the pictures by making stupid faces. Sometimes I feel I should beat them...

Yet, I won't, because scarely enough, one of my favourite photos is of the two if them in my lawn chairs, beer in hand, making almost gangster faces. Oh boys... I don't know how I'll ever be able to use that photo but it's pretty amazing.

My aunt decided to join in posing us as well, claiming "I watch all those weird runway shows. I must have retained something!" Well Aunty, looks like it so far!

An hour or so later, we trek out to Crescent Beach for a few, more intense shots as the tide is out. The sky was a perfect overcast and we got some pretty awesome shots. But I won't give them away because they're part of the ALBUM SURPRISE!

So that brings us to number two. Bass Player Audition.

All I can say is so far so good, Matt is turning out to be a great addition to the group, and we may be out playing a show with him July 16th. I'm just super glad that last Saturday when Kevin, a case of beer, 4 shots of gin and a few swigs of melon liquer later... didn't scare him away with his half an hour attempt at explaining his interpretation of the rain song. Which we have partially transcribed thanks to our resident Guppie Sam, so that's COMING SOON!

Lastly, and most recently, I had a pretty fail bike fall today, resulting in a deeply cut hand and road burned elbow. My shoelace was untied to I pulled over to the side of the road, next to a stop sign. Said shoelace got stuck in the bike chain and WHOOP "to the left to the left" Mel fell, in slow motion, to the left onto a curb. Somehow I not only cut a very deep line in my palm, but scraped off a bunch of skin there too, and on my elbow. It burns as I type.

Nanu stop laughing.

Peace!

P.S - Shout out today goes to www.bellajohnsonphotography.com Check her out, she's been amazing for us!

My New Puppies Name is Lucinda

Sometimes I wanna call her Lucifer.

She steals my shoes, wakes me up at 7am to try to play and attacks my other dog Bunny when she's sleeping too! Then there is the perpetual crying when we put her to bed. That dog only likes to sleep in someone's arms.

But she's also insanely cute, selectively smart and an excellent arm warmer.

Unfortunately I can't take her on Sunday to the 'Against the Lights' photoshoot. Which I can safely say - I'm bouncing off the walls for! Our photographer is a good friend of mine and she's definitely going out of her comfort zone to help me capture our image. Which, I'm still trying to picture in my mind myself. I love my music, and I love art - but my brain doesn't have the capacity to create images in my brain. This is something I must work on.

Ah and there goes Lucy again - finding a loose baseboard to gnaw on. Oh dog...

So anyway. Short but sweet. I'm making a resolution to update you all faster! 21 days until it becomes a habit!

Love you all!

Mel, GUP