Krishen Greenwell

  • Text message party and more























    Okay, all of those shots above are from Davin’s “text message party” he had while I was in Victoria. By text message party, I mean, nearly everyone there (except Neil, Anand and I), he invited over by using text-messaging on his cell phone. Pretty crazy, considering I don’t even have a cell phone. The shot below is of me driving down the oak-tree lined Shelbourne Street in Victoria, on the main route from my parent’s place to downtown.

    A few leftover Photogroffee shots:




    Calvin, Amy and I at the Moca House in Victoria

    Smart cars were everywhere!

    Sean at the Sticky Wicket Pub & Restaurant

  • Metric – IOU



    Old world underground where are you now?
    Subtract my age from the mileage
    on my speeding heart, credit cards
    accelerate, accumulate
    looked for you downtown
    wound up in a movie with no story
    now it’s late and you are nowhere to be found
    hesitation’s always mine
    hesitate outside the times
    with all I don’t say
    with all I don’t do
    I’m sending you
    Invitations to hesitate too
    Every ten year-old enemy soldier
    Thinks falling bombs are shooting stars sometimes
    But she doesn’t make wishes on them
    When she wishes, she wishes for less ways to wish for
    More ways to work toward it
    Ten year-old enemy soldier
    Our falling bombs are her shooting stars
    hesitation’s always mine
    hesitate outside the times
    oh call me or drop me a line
    say you’ve been with me
    say you’ve been with me
    say you’ve been with me
    this whole time
    old world underground I never knew you
    But I’ve seen your face everywhere
    there was a farm before we tore
    the small town down
    multiply divide

    Metric‘s Combat Baby, an iTunes free single-of-the-week, got my attention, but it was hearing IOU playing over the store stereo in A&B Sound in Victoria that got me hooked. I just love the key changes — they’re so original and interesting. And the mastering is perfect; everything is so tight. I love the hi-hats that come in to close the song. Then I found out the band was Canadian. Bonus. I encourage you to pick up their album, Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?, which has this and a bunch of other great tracks on it. Two of my other favorites are Dead Disco and the epic Hustle Rose.
    As a side note, Metric also released a new album in November which is enjoying good word of mouth, but I’m savoring Old World for now. 🙂

  • A few more pictures of Victoria

    @$^#$@#$%
    Well, I was going to post more pictures from Victoria, but Blogger’s hosting service appears to be kinda hosed:

    If you can’t read that, it says: “We apologize for the inconvenience, but we are unable to process your request at this time. Our engineers have been notified of this problem and will work to resolve it.”
    *Imagines little robot engineers getting wound up*
    “Well,” says you, “why can’t you just put the pictures up the same way you put up the screenshot of the error?” And the truth of it is, I could. But, I’m not in the mood. 🙂
    Update: And this is what I saw when I tried to post this entry last night (so it waited until this morning):

    “This server is currently experiencing a problem. An engineer has been notified and will investigate. Status code: 1-500-11. Please visit the Blogger status page or the Blogger Knowledge Base for further assistance.”
    On the plus side, although waiting to post this ended up logging me out, Blogger was able to re-log me in and save the post anyway. Cool.

Krishen Greenwell