Out side of Valemount BC we came across BEARS!!

Well ok ok I will admit these are not actual real bears! I mean they are so well made and life like it can be hard to tell that they are in fact a tourist attraction at some backwoods last chance gas place near Valemount BC. But it you look closely they are statues in the parking lot :)

It was a nice day today so I went out for a walk. There were so many busking folks out today so there was plenty of music to guide me along :)

Jerk with a camera.

Lately I find myself doing a lot more music wise then I do photo wise (not to say that i am going to become a jerk with a camera /guitar/banjo/microphone or anything anytime soon) In addition to playing in our increasingly inaccurately described folk rock duo My Friend Lisa (there are four of us now) I have found my self playing with Mikala on a fairly regular basis. I have also been working on a raunchy punk rock side project with my other awesome friend Jenna (whom you may remember from this video) called “The Stank“ All that & I have been recording a few demos for other people! All in all it has been rather busy on the music front these past months.

All the while I have been tring to live up to the camera part of my jerk with a camera name though, as such this is a polaroid from Wednesday of my friend Mikala manhandling Chester!

We were working on some new material but its not quite ready for the masses yet so I will leave you with a cover of the worlds best band EVAH!!!

Mikala & I covering Cactus by the Pixies

Just from a walk to gastown the other day.

…but it would seem that I try anyway :)

Yup – Not A Drummer

…this is a repost from the the MFL website…

We had mentioned this on twitter but we have been so busy I forgot to mention it on the blog. My Friend Lisa is no longer just a duo! We have welcomed Renee (keys) & Lani (violin) into the fold!! We are still finding our footing with all this but have a listen to our off the floor cuts from last nights studio kitchen rehearsal.

Our favourite song ‘London’
My Friend Lisa – Dec.14.2011 – London

And our complete failure at playing Smashing Pumpkins Disarm.
My Friend Lisa – Dec.14.2011 – Disarm
I personally blame the kettle boiling over at that exact moment. :)

Not perfect but we have only played together a couple of times so I figure we are on the way to AWESOME!!

We were rocking out and I took photos :)

Look at Vivian Maier’s work.

After getting my ‘morning‘* coffee I took a polaroid of this porsche! Now this Porsche for some unknown reason always seems to pull in to the coffee shop’s parking lot just as I am getting my coffee. This is probably not at all strange to you folk with morning routines and well I know of the idea behind Commuting Friends (people who ride the same bus at the same time everyday and thus become acquaintances/friends) and other things that people with morning routines have. So if I got my coffee at the same time every day I would understand but I am not a creature of habit! Daily routine is truly a foreign concept to me. I am always getting coffee at wildly different times on wildly different days and this Car is always pulling in just as I leave. ODD! Perhaps in the complexity of the universe there are two people that are so without routine  that their non-routine lives are on the same schedule, and these two folk like JJ. Bean coffee! :)

* my morning coffee is rarely in the morning

Well it has been a super busy year thus far, so busy in fact that we here at My Friend Lisa have been on a bit of a break to deal with all the crazy busy! However fear not the creative wheels are a spinning once again! In fact this past week found us hard at work, re-imaging one of our first long forgotten songs, and working our newest My Friend Lisa Member into our song ‘London’. Everyone meet ‘Champ’ our honest to goodness vintage Ace Tone Drum Machine! (last photo) Once we have some of these re-works all worked out. There should hopefully be some studio time booked for us in this fall.