Davin Greenwell

here are a few images from the van city blog meetup:
















nice to meet everyone! i was the guy pretending not to take your picture.
current music: orbital featuring david gray – illuminate (charlie may remix)

the anticipation for tomorrow’s ALREADY crazy night has been growing for the last week.. and for all the DJ’s that are coming from out of town .. tomorrow night actually begins tonight when we start packing our records and clothes for the weekend ahead.. i am stoked to be opening for the multitude of talent that is going to make for a very special night of a-grade music [musica]..
expect the very best..
and now a bit from the song of alanis’ that hybrid remixed:
you’re from new york
you are so relevant
you reduce me to cosmic tears
luminous more so than most anyone
unapologetically alive
knot in my stomach
and lump in my throat
supposed former infatuation junkie
I sink three pointers and you wax poetically
let’s grease the wheel over tea
let’s discuss things in confidence
let’s be outspoken
let’s be ridiculous
let’s solve the world’s problems
I love you when you dance
when you freestyle in trance
so pure
such an expression.
—
the picture at the top is the view from my balcony.. inspiring to see the city glowing and humming.. and a vew over the burrard inlet.. very cool indeed. there is a vancouver bloggers meet up tonight that i will be attending, tho not for very long as i need to get home and pack and choose music for tomorrow’s rather epic evening.

my mom is 59 today! yay! happy birthday to my mom.

than i thought it would .. but it must be done by now.. of course, while the blog was down, i took the time to work on possibly my best piece of web design -ever-. in the span of 2.5 hours i put together a 3rd draft of a website for my secret australian client and i am verihappy with it. if he doesn’t use it, i might just use it myself. for something. haha.
here is a picture of amalia. she is a fabulous interior designer from montreal. she is going to come over and help me decorate / design my new appartment! right now it’s lookin’ pretty blank. i am going through my photos probably tomorrow night and picking out a shortlist of ones i want to get blown up and framed for the walls. i started last night. i think i’ll look through again tonight and see what i can see!
there is a van-blogger meet on thursday night. i am going. it will be cool. oh! i think tonight may be the night i give myself enough time to sleep properly. finally. there is so much to do, so little time.. oh .. and i wanted to finish that new tiebreaker track before friday.. but that is really unlikely now that i am booked through TIL friday.. sheesh! i need a clock.
when things are moving they really are moving. i had a really productive day at work and at home today. also, in pacific front recordings news, we’ve nailed down a new look for the logo (same concept, heavily modified) with James Roy. that was snappy!! great new colors, fantastic type treatment and a symbol which commands fear and respect. like tron, baby. yeah. i can’t wait to see PFR get on the merchandising tip. that will be kick ass. this logo puts most sports teams to shame, and whips the weak behind of most record label logos. i love marketing with a great team.

that there above this is the twisted-together ethernet cat-5 cable which davin.ws (and previously davin.dhs.org) ran on for what i guess is 2 years. the cloth beside it is my old bed. and when those wires touched, the cat-5 would fail and the connection would die. which means the webserver would go down. sometimes i would roll over in my sleep and take out my webserver. this is now a thing of the past.
so now that this new connection is going .. i need your feedback.. is the site now faster, or slower? or no different? i am hoping for 100% server uptime for the next half year.
anyways.. i time to drink some tea and hit the hay. good night!

thank you to lefty for being my diligent DNS guru..
i think, now, that i am going to have a cup of earl grey tea, hot.

this will likely be my last update before moving the server tomorrow.. so expect a ‘fake’ davin.ws to appear from monday-tuesday as the server moves..
i had a fantastic meeting with james roy and justin humber today.. we’re plotting out pacificfront.ca V.2 and it’s great to have hooked up with such a talented and energetic designer like james.. great things are ahead.. you shall see..
the two shots were taken around midnight on the same full moon as the stone lady series.. love the lighting of the full moon.

i feel really odd right now. just strange.. my old room feels so .. half there.. and my new place feels so half-there as well.. i feel like i am neither here nor there yet.. i am sure this will pass once i have all the computer stuff over there, plus the clothes i was missing..
i brought my tennis racquet with me in hopes of playing a bit.. we’ll see if that happens. so far the weekend has not gone how i thought it would. is that bad? so far it’s proven to be good, albeit still a little disappointing. i am a plan whore. i love making plans. plans plans plans. some i figure wont end up working, others i really want to work.. but then they don’t… and yeah. it is energy draining. you get excited, you get psyched.. and then it just isn’t there. it doesn’t happen. that’ll teach me to get excited about something. blah. i dont often get excited. anyways that is out of my system and i am moving on now.
it is time to leave some things and situations behind.

it was such a [censored] battle to get back to the island last night.. i ran to the bus-stop to catch the bus to the seabus.. the bus came late, and drove straight by all 3 of us at the bus stop. “that’s weird” i said to one of the other people. an older man responded “it’s plain maddening is what it is.” yeah, no kidding. another unscheduled bus came by and i made the seabus by 30 seconds before departure. nice little journey over. then i walked briskey to the waterfront skytrain terminal to go to main street — that’s where the bus depot is. i got on the skytrain no problem.. cutting it close in terms of getting to the depot on time.. but not toooooo close. i was on schedule to make the 7 PM ferry. an announcement came on — “due to a police situation at the main street van-city branch, we will not be stopping at main street skytrain station.” great. so the skytrain will go past main street, but not stop there. efff. fine, i’ll take the bus from the stop before that, and run like hell to the bus depot. great. so we travel to burrard stop, pick up some people, the same announcement gets played. then we get to granville, and the same announcement gets played. except the skytrain doesn’t start moving this time. it occurs to everyone (during rush hour) at the same time that they all have to get out and take the bus or walk. mass exodus.
run up 300 stairs.
run onto the street.
which way am i going?
the road was slight tilted downwards, so i ran that way towards what i figured to be hastings. it was. i looked to my left and there was the main street bus. my savior ? no. i got on it, and it trundled slowly into china town and then stopped. i got off it, ran through the pouring rain 8 blocks to the bus depot to see the buses leaving and myself, sweaty from the run, wet from the rain, and tired from the daggers being thrown my way, thwarting my efforts to get back to victoria. it was not meant to be, by 1 minute. vancouver had stopped me. i sat in the bus depot and waited almost 3 hours for the next bus to catch to the ferries. the rush hour one had to leave earlier due to traffic… and the last one didn’t need to leave very early to make it on the 9 pm ferry. we drive out there, there are many pickups on the way, and the bus driver isn’t sure if we’ll make it on. we get there, in time, so we think, but there is still much to do before getting on the ferry. the bus must take on some people from the airport and do a luggage switch and exchange with the walk-off people. we drive on the ferry. i have never seen a spot reserved for a PCL bus, the only one left. we were the last ones on with barely enough room for us, and that was just plain weird. we were so close to not making it.

whatever. that is my moan and groan story. now i can spare you all when i see you in person. i met this cool guy on the bus on the way down though, his name is rob and he had the guts to ask if anyone was sitting beside me (my bag was there.) we talked the whole drive down to the ferry about the film industry he is in and also what i do. nice to meet you, thanx for the conversation.. it made for a more pleasant trip instead of the anxiousness i felt all day and evening. i slept a bit on the boat, and had some bad soup with an equally bad coffee.
i have not eaten well today. i am feeling a little anxious. i felt anxious last night. it must be the coffee. bad coffee, evil coffee. die, coffee.
what next.. what next..
i feel really negative right now. i have a lot to be happy about. i feel to be in a bit of a rut .. perhaps because my creative outlets are a bit cut off right now. that’s probably all it is.
i want to make music. i want to make some really awesome music. i am listening to quivver’s ‘these are the days’ right now. it’s really awesome — not hopelessly fluffy, but uplifting in a very intelligent way. brilliant composition. when i was waiting for the bus last night, i read more of the book that jordan gave me.. “the creative habit” by twyla tharp. it gave me some fabu ideas for composition .. and i want to use them. but i can’t yet.

i picked up hybrid’s new ‘edit’ of their own tune “blackout”, where they put the beat and the piano and the structure of their REM remix (which will not be getting released.. but if you saw them in victoria, you heard it .. and other internet mixes that they have done.. it’s amazing.) it worked out quite well, but in the places where REM -was-, i still expect to hear michael stipe wailing about answers from the great beyond. such an amazing remix. anyhow, it is quite good and definitely worth the dosh — it has kirsty hawkshaw (fine day, opus 3) on vocals.
anyways, i must go. msn is being a fuck, so i wont be online until it stops being such a pain in the ass. i’m going to spyguy’s b-day party and then probably out to hush or where-ever i end up. i really feel like ending up somewhere, like something different. i know, in victoria. in victoria.

some of these pictures were taken by me, some by pete, some by leah, some by emily, some by gurton, and also one by some dude we met at hugos. thanks some dude we met at hugos! hey gurton, send me the photos you took!
here is what we did. we started at the cherry bank rib haus and ate dinner. it was totally great. then we went to temple and sat in The Room which everyone had previously reported would be way too small for anything fun. but it was perfect.. then we went to hugos, and then to dennys, and then back downtown to wander around until 5 in the morning. yeah! it was a great night on the town.









































today is saturday, i am in victoria for the long weekend. i met up with andrew (hapy), richard (switchdawg), and spyguy (ben) at QV’s last night, and then dropped by hush where i was greeted with a lot of “aren’t you gone?”‘s .. to which i responded “yes i am.” i am going to miss hush, but not if i come back to the island semi-regularly.. which i plan on doing.. i can’t just stop being here.. there is too much for me here in terms of people.
about vancouver.. i will post a bunch of pix from my first week there once i find a solution to my .. uh, forgetting-the-usb-cable problem. and since it is one of canon’s older cameras (yikes!), it doesnt accept regular usb cables. dern. maybe i could borrow someones cardreader (or camera if it is compact flash) and i could download them that way.
today i want to go into town for coffee.. so ring me on my van cell if you’ve got the number.. if you don’t, it is in my nickname on MSN .. my MSN is daving@shaw.ca. add me if you need to!
🙂

i thought i saw you
weren’t you here?
it was you in the room
with me
last night
i made some room for you
to stay
i did not see you leave
but i know you were near
did you know you were here?

i am doing this update while i take a bus i have never taken before.. the #250! it goes from where i work (park royal) to town, where i am going to transfer to the skytrain, take it to main street, transfer to the #3 and arrive at broadway and main. i’ll walk a block east and meet kristen and ben at JIRO, a sushi joint that does all-you-can eat which is good, because i be one honnngree man.
we’re just about to cross the lions gate b ridge. this is one of the worst merges (consistently) that i have ever seen in my whole life. luckily the bus gets to go ahead of at least a kilometre of merging and so the whole deal is rather brief indeed compared to if we were not a bus. but we are a bus, so it is much faster. i can’t believe how narrow this bridge is, the lions gate bridge. they recently redid the bolts.. not sure why they didn’t just tear the thing down or rebuild it or something. it only has 3 lanes. that is pathetic. the second narrows bridge has 6 lanes. thats’ way more appropriate.
i guess they would have to tear up part of stanley park to make it 6 lanes. hmmm.
so the shaw guy arrived this morning on time (how about that?!) and hooked me up. so now i am all ready to go with a high-speed connection at home. this long weekend i will be in victoria to pick up my computer/server/musicmakingmachine/picture collector/etc and some other things too, like that box of clothes that i forgot. that had a lot of my clean clothes, and the clothes i wear frequently. and my shoes.
i talked to my friend matt(bass) last night for 2 hours. he is an amazingly cool guy, and a great friend to boot. and talented, a mega talented bass player. we are plotting on making music together — he’ll send me 2 or 4 bar cuts of him playing the bass at a certain bpm and i can filter and use them and tweak them in my own music. very cool. kind of like what anand does already on his own. speaking of, me and anand helped soren do a faux-news clip for soren’s voice-over portfolio. we taught him the correct news-intonation and then made a custom “news track” for him to speak over. the track took 10 minutes of me and anand pointing at the screen and reprogramming arpegiation and lining up some great triplets of strings in a chord over top of military style snare drums. then we threw his voice in with it, applied some radio-esque fades, and some radio-esque compression. voila! like buttah. that was fun.
this has been a fun bus ride (10 mins) but i gotta go. there is no one on the bus so that’s the only reason i am doing this right now. a very smooth and quiet ride!