Last year thanks to Benny I helped pollute everyone on Pennsylvania’s The Clarks. If you have hung out with me in the last year you’ve probably heard something play from them at the house or in the Climax and if you haven’t do yourself a favour and check these out: Born Too Late, Shimmy Low, Better Off Without You, On Saturday, Cigarette.

Sadly unless I cruise to the Eastern side of the continent I probably have a snowballs chance in hell of seeing the band live.

Regardless that was the band I was (and still am) polluting people with, I know most folks back home stick to ACDC but it’s good to expand horizons. Thanks to some drunk ass calling me at 4 in the morning last night though I’ve found the next big thing to brainwash people with.

Say hello to Joel Plaskett Emergency.

If you’ve been living on the east coast of Canada or been to a Tragically Hip concernt recently then forgive me because you’re probably wondering why it’s taken me so long to hear these guys, well I live a sheltered life so back off.

Nowhere to you

Fashionable People

And the Early favorite, Snowed In

Walks

Ok, the jist of the story is a select few of us turned out to be really lucky following Saturday Night’s U of A Golden Bears hockey game. The Bears took it into overtime after being down 3 to 0 and ended up winning to advance to the next round where I believe they’ll be playing those poops from out east in Saskatchewan. The real magic took place following the game, for some absurd reason we were trying to clear out from the Claire Drake to catch a cab to the Druid in downtown Edmonton but ended up stumbling across and eventually into the Butterdome .

I’m still not sure if we were allowed in but some nicer old lady gave us the wave to come in so we sure as hell stumbled (being the correct word as I think the majority of us drank to much U of A beers) onto the track. Pure magic proceeded shortly after as a small but intense track meet took place with the likes no one in this world will ever see again. Thankfully the best (and worst) moments we’re captured on video which you can of course see here.

The rest of the evening was planned on being spent at the Druid but as the case in most city bars it’s cooler to make it look busier then it actually is by having a huge lineup outside your bar, so instead of standing outside in the miserable wind we hooked it off to the bar across the street..level 2 or lever 2, I dont really remember, I just remember the heavy trance and the three girls who made some guy “lucky”, even though one girl had no problem ripping out the credit card and scraping a line of coke together in the midst of rubbing uglies, but I suppose thats just city girls being city girls….

Maybe someone can fill me in if this is a regular occurrence with younger girls these days?  Gone are the days of women puking on you or in the bed to ruin the mood now they gotta be snorting lines?  What a shame, oh well at least it makes for a good story.

Enjoy the r-tards and our track meet, I’m possibly off to Phoenix this week

Walks
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