Davin Greenwell

c79 (pictured) has a new EP coming out on Pacific Front Recordings and it’s getting some serious attention. sandra collins has been charting it and the most prominent website in all progressive music did this review on it:

well that’s pretty kick ass. jarius miller just finished his remix of the new Tiebreaker tune Markarian421, c79’s remixing it as well and one other person. Formulate’s remix of Lush is 90% done and there is a couple of other people remixing Lush that I am very excited about, as well as Steve May (EQ / Baroque) remixing my new AFK tune “Eclipse.” the collab I did with Dustin H (L2 Recordings) is 90% done. He’ll be over later this month and we have a few more things to work on. although i feel pretty relaxed right now it’s pretty amazing to think all of this is going on. it’s good to keep track..

i don’t normally endorse prime time television. okay that’s a lie. i love arrested development and the office. but don’t ask me when they air; i watch them off of DVD and such. i made an exception in this case. ha ha, i said case.
about a month ago, maybe more, casey jo and I (pictured above) went out on a cold [for victoria] blustery canadian december night and filmed an entry for much music’s vj search. tonight at 8 PM on cityTV, they aired the entry along with 19 of the other semi-finalists. i am 100% confident that it was not my camera work that got casey jo into the semi-finals. it’s all personality here folks.
so what do i think of the show? i watched the whole thing. for anyone who has watched much music any time in the last 20 years, there are a lot of VJ’s that you will recognize in there. of particular interest to myself were master T and erica ehm — they were the most prominent VJ’s when I used to watch mm back in the day. i forgot how many commercials there are in prime time television. there are a hell of a lot! that’s okay because i like to watch commercials, and one day, i’d like to write scripts for television advertisements. for serious.
go to much music’s vj search poll and vote for casey jo. canada, we may have blown the federal election, but with a little bit of attention i believe we can get this particular competition right.

it’s been mad windy lately. like wtf weather. yes hello!
tim’d bday party, surprise tonight .. went flawlessly.. canucks beat colorado, sweet action.
going to hush with mike and adam.
slept til 3 PM today.
heck yes.

no fancy tricks here, just auto-levels on an underexposed sunlit subject with shadowy background. i took the photo on the songhees waterfront area, where the seaplanes take off, the mouth of victoria’s inner harbour.
so check it out aight?
canada has a new prime minister. his name is george w. bush. he has a rep up here for us canadians to talk to named stephen harper. for real. aight?
okay my real feelings on this subject is that i am astounded that stephen harpers platform of intollerance won over paul martins platform of inaccountability. and i am truly disappointed more people didn’t vote green or ndp. this region of canada did alright, but the rest .. where all the seats are .. no. not good.
i was joking with a friend tonight. i said i would’ve voted BQ if i could. just to see what they would actually do if they ran canada. as it is, they criple canada (what kind of party runs only in one province and why don’t the rest of us get one?) — would they seperate from canada, and then if they did, would the government technically go with them, leaving canada without a government — and would they take our name too?
in all seriousness this is a dark day for canada. in a pivotal time, a time in which we could make a big difference to the world, we appear to be taking an intollerant spectators spot, folding up our arms and standing back. it’s so sad, i can only hope that the rest of the voting nation can wake up next election. it is almost as if we have to wait for a generation to pass from voting before we can progress to a modern government that will fit the needs of todays day and age. today, we simply do not have it. straight up, it’s like that.
my other feelings on the political situation is that the seats are still heavily weighted towards the east. it makes it very difficult to feel like you can make a difference from the west when you see how many seats are concentrated in ontario and quebec. that system may have worked decades, even a century ago, but this is a different time than before with different needs, and a whole lot of people who are being minimalized by the current system.
okay that’s enough of a rant for now. i think the photo is far nicer than the words.

i took this photo of the air raid horn in north vancouver around this time last year. it was in front of my place there on keith and lonsdale.

just testing the layout to see how this goes. i suspect this will be tall on just about everyone’s monitors. so be it. clocking in braindead for the evening. sleep is on my mind, so if you don’t mind..

what is the blue hour? the blue hour is definied by wikipedia as something not too dissimilar to twilight.
for a while i’ve been using it to describe anything i want, in particular that time-warp zone between 11pm – 1 AM. you look at the time at 11ish and it’s like “ok yeah, the night is not over yet but it will be in a bit.” then you look at the time again, and in a span of what you think is minutes, 2 hours has gone by. why is that? is it because this is around when everyone gets home, goes online and shoots you an IM? i don’t know, but time definitely dilates.
now that i settled that up, i should tell you where i first heard the term, or at least, first remember hearing the term: a group by the name Killer Loop (Layo Paskin, Richard West) made this progressive house gem named “the blue hour.” sasha and digweed put it on their “communicate” album and it had this sound. it was really distinct and cool. it gave me some pretty h-core visuals, you know how some songs do that. this one in particular was quite odd. i imagined the flintstones in some sort of trance having a full moon party. i think you gotta hear the track. it’s really that cool.
so if the blue hour is legitimately twilight, particularly the twilight of the summer, then i have to name this time dilation something else. i like the idea of calling two hours one. the blue hour did that. but i can’t do that. it’s taken! frick.
uh oh. it’s happening. stop it!
the time is going by so quickly. aaaah!