Taylor, I'm not going to be here, but I'd like to contribute. If i were to give you, uh, $20 or so, could you pass it on to the right people? I agree, all ages venues are really important both for the local music scene and for all the kids. let me know.

Hey guys, I'd appreciate it if everybody could read this:

For the LIME/dagger boys: James called me and he's putting together a Shark Tank fundraiser show for this Saturday (so that they can rent a PA for the rest of May... after which they may or may not be calling it quits). London Disturbance Force will be playing the all-ages show at the shark-tank during the day (from 1pm to 8pm) and LIME (or the band formerly known as...) will be playing the no-minors show after 8pm at the Victory Lounge. The no-minors show will be with Our Mercury, and tentatively Red-Handed (er... I think he meant Marshall Islands? Since Red Handed is no longer their name as far as I know) and Fractal Pattern. Sorry for the short notice guys, but yeah... we totally owe James and Tracy quite a bit, and they definitely need our help.

For the rest of you: James and Tracy own the Shark Tank which is the only all-ages venue in the city. They made next to no money off of it, but they did it for the kids. Last week they were broken into, everything was stolen and the place was trashed. It's not looking very likely that they'll be able to continue with this after such a devastating breach of property and respect. However, since next Saturday is my birthday, if you guys want to celebrate it, just consider coming to one (or BOTH if possible!) of the shark-tank fundraiser shows that day (like I said above; AA show with my band LDF during the day, and the no-minors show with Red Hot Daggers/LIME at night). I owe James and Tracy a lot for all the help they've given both of my bands, so please don't buy me any gifts (I didn't expect you or want you to anyway) but instead I invite you to come down to one or both of the shows. Even if you stay only 15 minutes, it's not like the money was wasted because whatever money that can be re-couped will be a huge help.


Thanks so much guys. I'll post details (when they're made available) on here in the coming week.


edit: Here's those details:


Soo, we're now working on the lineups for a couple of shows, one AA and one bar show [thanx to Eli] for April 30: Rally fo the Tank!

Rally: bring or come together for a common cause; revive, large gathering of people for a meeting

Saturday April 30 will host 2 fun-raising shows for shark tank recovery:

From 1:00 pm to 8:00 pm AA show
at the Shark Tank featuring:

LIME
Youth Unit [members of Dance Floor Disasters]
No Verdict [ska-punk skankers from Drayton Valley]
3 Day Binge [sk8 punk from Winnipeg]
Fan the Fire [nu-skool from Calgary]
The Girls Club
Just Drive
The One & Only & more!

There will also be a bar show at the Victory Lounge [thanx to Eli] featuring:

Fractal Pattern
The Last Deal
The Marshall Islands (ex-Red Handed)

This will start around 10:00, after the AA show.

Thanks for your support in letting us continue to bring great talent to you every week, we hope to see you there!

J&T

Sweet! Are you going to try and get some printed somewhere?

I love playing with illustrator, I just never had a mad logo to use as a template.

my brain is full...

Thanks Par and Tay, I wasn't sure about either of those things. But I kinda threw some of them together quickly so that I could show off something on the net, and figured I'd fix things later.

Pete, before you print that shirt that says "my other shirt has it's collar up"... make sure you remove the apostrophe in "it's". It should be: "my other shirt has its collar up."

Just thought I should point that out.

And I was worried about flying in the states. Worry no more:

Firefly lovers will note that, with the movie coming out this fall, the trailer will be up on Apple Trailers Tuesday.

Nice, Pete. Just a question (I don't know for sure), but did they have that third period in the MAD symbol? It just seems off.

Speaking of Peter, mininova has a torrent for the new Family Guy ep. And I get the feeling that Jere will particularly love the very end of the episode.

Hey Ed, remember a long time ago how you said you would love to own a T shirt that had the MAD logo from inspector gadget? Well guess who made one in illustrator, just waiting to be printed onto a shirt:



Oh yeah, and for everyone else, please check out my new website at:
www.ualberta.ca/~phaggard

It's a little sloppy right now, but it's a nice place to put all of the images I've been making in illustrator.