Another riddle for the fans

As most of you may know, there is a being who walks this earth who bears an (arguable) resemblance to Anuroop, but with a darker skin tone. Thus landing this guy the name, 'Burnt Anuroop', and subsequently landing Roop the name 'Strudel'. (Photo proof available upon request). So, on with riddles in the dark...

What's the next item in this pattern: Anuroop, Burnt Anuroop, _______

*answers may vary

A riddle for the fans

Okay, as most (or some) of you are aware, my nickname for Steve is 'Cracker'. Don't ask why, because it doesn't make any sense. Regardless, the name has stuck since I met the guy.

So, for something new for the fans, I've decided to post a riddle. The first person to answer it correctly will be showered with praise. Nothing more. So...


What do you get when Steve is crushed underneath a building?

Think about it.

Barrie (revisited)

Revisited because we played the Local and Loud contest over the last few months in Barrie, so we've been doing alot of Hwy 400 driving northbound.

From my perspective this weekend was a great success. Mainly, we performed really well. Each member of the Jim Smith Band was on his or her game both evenings and the songs sounded the way I hear them sounding when they play in my head. Yes that sounded a bit schizo, but maybe I am hehehehe.

The festival was pretty fun - unfortunately we were way at the end of the street, so our crowd was more sporatic than it would have been if we had been at the core. However, we were playing in front of two bars which were full all night so we had that audience, plus there were always at least a handful of people watching.

Boy I'm loving our fans lately - thanks to everyone who pumped their cars full of gas and booted it out to Barrie. It's a great feeling.

There are a boatload of gigs coming up. I'm pretty thrilled about that. Next weekend we're in Barrie, and many times when we play event type gigs outside of markham we generate alot of attention. I'm especially excited for gigs like these, like Pardi Gras and the festival gigs that this year we have a CD we're all happy with, so people who take us home won't be dissiapointed (or are at least less likely to be dissiapointed).

The Tangerine gig on the friday at the end of the month and the Smiling Buddha on June 2nd are coming up fast. I really hope we can get people out to these - the prior smiling buddhas and Tangerine gig were really good because we had great audiences. I hope we can keep this up even though its summer.

I start my summer job tomorrow, at the Markham Museum (where I worked two summers ago). I'm a little bit nervous, because I pretty clear on some of the things I'm doing, and I know alot of my job has to do with planning the summer camp and then in July and August being a councillor. I'm worried that there are lots of other things that my job will entail that I don't know about, and I am therefore worried that I'll wind up looking like an idiot.

My rational side knows it will be fine though.

This is where steve would say 'seacrest out'.

I, however, will not.

-Scott

Tangerine Records and more

Hey folks. So last thursday we had a show downtown at Degrassi House. It was a cool evening, the venue was pretty nice (I'd never been there before), narrow but very long. Sidenote: We have noticed how easy it is to make narrow spaces look full; we will only play narrow venues from here on. =) The evening was opened by a great young band from Muskoka called Mistakes Well Chosen. They had a violin which was cool, AND the leader of that band was identical in every way you can imagine, to Jim Smith 4 years ago. It was quite amazing... I took my glasses off and I really couldn't tell the different between the kid on stage and the guy sitting next to me.

We hit the stage at about 10, pretty much on time. The set was quite good actaully, we had a lot of fans out which was really great. I've said it before and I'll say it again - you guys who come out to show after show, we love you, you are amazing. The sound itself was easily the worst part - the system wasn't very good, the equipment was lacking and...the soundman as well. Where was Bram Cayne?! hehe....

Anyway, the show was also our audition to be a part of the roster of Tangerine Records, hosted by president Rob Hancock. He had heard our CD before and really liked it, so he was anxious to hear us (I think). By the end of our set, I think he was very happy and impressed, and needless to say we passed our audition. He's a really cool guy and I think we all look forward to furthur dealings with him in the future.

So that was our fantabulous last gig. We went out to Golden Griddle afterwards. Again. They're gonna start to figure it out: anytime a HUGE group comes in at some ungodly hour, it's probably the post-JSB gig party. hahaha. Myself, I moved back to Waterloo last night. Time for the summer term. I've been dreading it for a long time, and I gotta say...I don't think I'm gonna like it here. I'm living with a bunch of strangers (sublets for my normal roomates) who are nice people, but...it's just not the same. Everything that I loved about living here feels like it's been sucked out. I'm coming home on many weekends. I think I'm gonna enjoy that.

Seacrest out