Mission: Yeah, Well Fuck.

281 days later I posted this:

It's called keeping up with your blog posts, asshole. Not that anyone really reads them.

Photos from touring in November, etc.

Mission: Statement!

Pop Echo Records is pleased to announce the signing of rising Edmonton singer-songwriter Tim Gilbertson. Tim's full-length debut will hit shelves and iPods this summer.

At just 20 years old, Gilbertson has already impressed with his penchant for timeless power-pop hooks, inviting comparisons to the likes of Pinback, Modest Mouse, and the Weakerthans. The product of a musical family- mom plays piano, dad plays guitar, his sister is a music teacher, one brother is a drummer and the other plays guitar-Gilbertson's musical precociousness manifested itself early. He began playing guitar at age 8 and eventually worked his way through numerous high school bands. In 2005 Gilbertson set down a five song demo in his brother's Spruce Grove basement studio which led to a Craigslist rendezvous with Vancouver producer Andrew Shaw. Gilbertson and Shaw worked through the summer of 2006, eventually coming away with an 11-song LP. After months of shopping the album around, Gilbertson caught the ears of local label Pop Echo, who were as impressed by the young troubadour's crunchy pop ditties as they were by his maturity and ambition.

The eponymous debut LP from Tim Gilbertson will be released July 24, 2007 , on Pop Echo Records.

Mission: Sinners!

It's been a while. No photos right now, but the roll in the Holga's almost done. Pictures of my little nephew and other happenings.

I'm actually well along on the New new record. As in the one that hasn't been recorded yet. Not the one that just hasn't come out yet. I have probably 7 or 8 really good ones. I swear half of them have the term "sinners" in them. It's a theme, so to speak.

Here's a few nice tidbits that I like so far:

From Widows:

"The girls they all got thinner,
And the boys they all got strong.
At the campaign dinners,
Where the Mayor can do no wrong.
Well it's just them goddamn sinners.
If only they weren't so goddamn strong."

Does rhyming strong with wrong with strong make me a hack? Get me the rhyming Beck-tionary.

From Sinners:

"I broke it off between me and this city,
I broke it off, now these car seats are freezing.
It's hard enough making these livings,
Down in the valley with the rest of these sinners."

From Braces:

"So I said all it takes is a smile strong enough to break them.
All it takes is a smile strong enough to break them.
All it takes is a smile strong enough to break these braces."

So yeah, they really aren't that great. But having 2 of 3 songs here with the word 'sinners' in them, not to mention one being named Sinners, kind of shows the direction I'm going.

I like the songs though, they're neat. Morgan's getting sick of them.

The one that's recorded and not out yet is getting there. It's being mastered now, and we're working on finalizing the artwork. Looking like summer, now.

Going to go learn how to skate again, ta.

Love T

Mission: The Rest!

Here's Vernon


Muggles' Sneaky.

This is the view from Jason Priestly's window. Because he owns the resort. It was pretty rad there. Uclulet, BC.

Mission: Buy! Buy! Go! Go!

Go buy a Holga 120s. They're precious little plastic cameras made in Hong Kong (if not faked somewhere else) that take the best pictures ever.

It's been a few years, but I've finally gotten the hang of it. I put cheap Safeway brand 35mm film in it by putting foam to hold in the cannister, and elastic bands to keep the film straight on the 120 roll. I've done it before, but these turned out especially well.

Plus there's more Dominipics. Enjoy!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holga

Mission: Cut Off!

Damn, I guess that's what happens when you don't pay your bills. Didn't feel like renewing my timgilbertson.com and they shut me down! It took them about 2 weeks, but they got me. So now I have to deal with that, or make the label or whatever.

Oh yeah, got a label now. Cool huh?

What else is new? Oh yeah! New photographs from the Dominican Republic!

Mission: Where I Live!

You never get to see the top of Mount Robson. The highest peak in the Canadian Rockies.

I'm up in Grande Prarie for Thanksgiving this weekend.

The record's almost done. I can finally start calling labels.

I finally used the iTunes gift certificate that Morgan's mom bought me for my birthday! I bought Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Sparklehorse's I Dreamt For Years In the Belly of a Mountain. Fun. It's hard though, I always want the actual copies of cds. Meh, just as good.

T