Halloween Show

Our gig in Itaewon was last night. We had a wicked time. It went ok without the old singer. A few of my friends made it for the show also which was nice. We had a couple guest stars as well. Jen came up and did a few songs, and then a couple Filipinos came up and did a few songs as well. Then the ghost of Stevie Ray Vaughan came up and did a song also. Haha, actually I just wanted to include this photo. It was given to me from my friend Sherri. It was taken in the Commodore Ballroom in downtown Vancouver sometime in '83. Cool huh?

Band Practice

We fired our singer today so we had a practice to see if we can still pull off our Haloween gig without her. We decided that we will be ok. Jon and myself will be performing in drag so we will sing all the songs that she used to, hopefully with maximum irony and therefore laughs. I plan to sing Madonna's "Like a Virgin" and Jon will be doing renditions of several Avril Lavigne songs, should be a hoot. Here are some shots of the rehearsal. I will be drumming some songs this time also because Tyler our Drummer wants to sing some of the songs also. It really is something to hear "You Outta Know" by Alanis Morrissette, sung with a Korean accent.

Jeongja

There is a great little neighborhood close to where I live. It has many little bistros and bakeries and what not. It reminds of Stephen Avenue in Calgary. Although I still eat Korean food nearly every day, it is always a welcome relief to go to Frankie's for a pastrami sandwich, or Aglio for some spaghetti. Back home I took food like this for granted, now I eat it a little more haha. In fact there is a store in Jeongja that sells imported food. Its called I Love Cookie (gotta love that Konglish) haha. I bought some nachos and salsa, chocolate chip cookies and Canada Dry ginger ale, as well as the obligatory box of Kraft Dinner haha.

Random Seoul

Seoul never ceases to amaze me. There is always some new crazy thing that jumps out and bites you. I was driving with my friend the other day and we encounter this huge wicker dragon, pretty cool huh?

Drunken Master

In keeping with the theme of the last post, I thought you all might enjoy this story. I was playing pool in Itaewon with some buddies when encountered this man. He is Japanese, and wantonly soused. In fact he wobbled so much that he fell several times. He routinely kicked his opponents, and told them that their female relatives swam out naked to greet the Japanese battleships, fortunately for me, he knew too little about Canada to insult me righteously. The weird thing is that nobody could beat him at pool. He ran the tables twice when I was there, this one guy didn't get one shot. Incredible sage-like man.

Regina moment

Korea has quite a drinking problem sometimes. It isn't a rare occurence to see people passed out everywhere. There was once a guy sleeping in my elevator, and one time whilst walking home from work I saw no fewer than 3 people puke on the street. Craziness haha.

Coex

I went to the Coex mall the other day. It is massive and mostly underground. It has all the same stores a home, and I even got some greasy Chinese food at the food court. The guy in the photo is my buddy Pikey from Wales.

New band

I joined a band a few weeks ago. We played our first gig last weekend. It was a lot of fun. Our singer is Fionn from California, Keegan is from Virginia, Tyler the drummer is Korean, and John, the guitar player closest to me in the photos is from Manitoba. We rehearse every Sunday and will probably be playing most Saturdays. Its really cool to have time for music. University consumed too much time to make a band feasible. Anyway enjoy the pics.