Busted Dimmer (4:12)

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Here’s an awesome track from The Pejoratives at the Clocktower on April 26, 2007. It’s another one of those “we just made it up” tracks. I started out on the Rhodes with a kind of salsa groove and it grew from there.

The rhythm actually came from the noise that one of the dimmers in the lighting at the bar was making. It wasn’t regular by any means, but it was interesting. I had gotten up to get a beer (forgot to get one before we started…d’oh) and I noticed this sound coming from the ceiling when Bill the barkeep turned down the lights. It sounded like morse code, or someone trapped in the ceiling trying to escape. I hurried back to the Rhodes to hammer something out.

It turned into this weird, dissonant, latin-esque, syncopated groove thingy that I doubt we will ever be able to reproduce again. Good thing it’s on tape.

Haiku for Rolo

"Little chocolate dog,
Why do you eat your own poop?
It is disgusting. "

Hot Dog! We Have a Weiner!

This is a picture of our (soon to be) new standard dachshund puppy, Rolo. She was 4 weeks old on New Years Day. After her vet check up on the 13th of January, she will be available to come home. She comes from Embrun (just East of Ottawa) and she was the only chocolate coloured puppy from her litter. The rest (3 females and 1 male) were all Black and Tan, as is their Mom and Dad (or Bitch and Sire, if you’re in to that sort of thing).