Your 31st tattoo… not as hard. My first one took me about 5 years to decide what I wanted. It needed to be perfect. It needed to mean something. My 31st… I saw it in a window that day and thought it looked cool. 1 hour later it was permanently on my body. I love them both. 

I guess that’s a…

(…but I probably did.)

I escaped the city for 4 nights to the Sunshine Coast. It’s just far enough that it feels like you’re away, but not so far that it’s a pain to get to. I like the calmness of the world outside of the city. You don’t realize how crowded it is in a city until you come back to it. I guess I would describe myself as a ‘city person’ and because of that, I have a ‘city mind.’ (A term I came up with just now.) I feel like my mind is like the city that I live in. Crowded and unorganized, but also…

The other day I was thinking about why it’s so hard to start something new. What makes a fresh page scary? What makes a blank canvas daunting? I think the way we're marketed creativity is the same thing that makes us stuck. “Endless Possibilities.” This sounds enticing but…

I’m on a delayed plane from Ft Lauderdale to Denver, and then I’ll continue back to Vancouver. The flight delay is 40mins and my connection is only 1 hour… should be interesting. “Interesting” is my favourite way to describe “possible impending disaster.” I’m sure when someone saw the Jan 6th crowd outside the capitol, they thought, “should be interesting.”

That reference felt apt since…

I’m currently flying back to Vancouver from Edmonton. I played at Soundwave last night, which was a rave in a waterpark in the West Edmonton Mall. If you don’t know what that mall is, congratulations, you’re probably not Canadian. But in Canada, it’s always been a big thing, I mean… it’s a fucking mall with waterparks (and rollercoasters!) Wild. There’s a sense of nostalgia there, I remember visiting it when we drove to Alberta from BC, and as soon as that chlorine smell hits you, those trips come back in full force. Full circle moments like that in this career are always fun and sort of surreal for me.