Studio Diary March 13th, 2008

There is so much action these days!!! The past week has been full of rehearsals, studio work, and networking to prepare for the Canadian Music Week and the South By Southwest Festival… We left Saturday morning under the bright Montreal cold winter sun towards Toronto, excited to be playing on that same night in front of not only important business people but mainly for some YFE bros and sis that we would meet… some for the very first time and others for the third time already. Well…after an hour of driving, our three vans convoy was hit by a snowstorm so bad that we witnessed at least 20 cars and heavy loaded vans in the gutter, sometimes tilted on their rooftop! I have to say I was pretty nervous, as I was Jeff's co pilot. We had to drive at less than 50km/hour as the strong winds were trying to lead us outside the snowy slippery paths…So instead of taking us 5 hours to get there we made it in 8 hours, getting to the finishing line exhausted and just happy to be alive! lol

The show went really well and we just felt very inspired by our friends there…actually so inspired that Alex filled with emotion threw the mic stand at the beginning of the song "little sister"…As an intro to the song he was talking about abuse…saying how we need to open our eyes on that reality…not to hide in silence…not to accept to be "empty jars for dirty minds"… he was really passionate about wanting people to be free from their past and be able to fully grasp their destiny, be themselves to the fullest, to be the main actors of their own lives instead of relying on circumstances or other people to tell us where to go and who we should be… So he threw the mic stand in a passionate move but what Alex didn't realise is that it wasn't a wall right there…but a window! So the mic stand crashed the window in thousand pieces and ended its course in the street two floors below!!! Thank god finally for the snowstorm that kept people away from the sidewalks! lol So nobody got hurt except our bank account that will have to pay for the broken window…

I have to admit that I am in a bit surreal, but soon to be common, context to write this diary… I'm in a plane that’s taking the guys and myself to Austin Texas, where we'll be performing for the South By Southwest Music Festival. Good thing this time there is no snowstorm to stop us or delay the plane…and good thing I am not Jeff's plane co pilot on that one because I would be again very nervous! lol Let me describe you what is happening right now…Alex and Jeff are building strategies to figure how we'll get the maximum impact during our short stay in the uncle Sam country while YB is making them laugh with his incredible scuba diving stories and future YFE TV ideas… Sef just got a gift from the plane attendant for his birthday: a whiskey mini bottle…lol you should see his face's contortion as he took it all in like a cup of chocolate-cho…lol Sef and Whisky "no mixing good" I guess! Then you have Ben relaxing and happy to be secluded somewhere else than in the studio…sorry Ben no mixing board at 10 000 feet altitude! And you have the Moose, sleeping…recovering from an exciting night at the hospital…yeah you got it right…the ambulance took him to spend the night at the hospital as he suffered from a bad liver/pancreas pain…Like we needed that! I guess he had to … Pizza, hotdog, poutine, chocolate, chips… THE MOOSE SHOULD EAT MORE GREEN STUFF INSTEAD…stick to grass and leaf salads bro!l ol and me…enjoying every minute of this trip…looking down on the civilization lights…displayed randomly as on a lightbright game played by a 3 years old…