tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020726876918679008Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:41:15 +0000http://www.krisdemeanor.com/noreply@blogger.com (Kris Demeanor)Blogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020726876918679008.post-3484759793604651098Sat, 03 Apr 2010 01:18:00 +00002010-04-02T19:29:37.058-06:00On March 31, the Crack Band and I were taped in front of a live studio audience by CBC television at the Grand Theatre here in Calgary. Joining us were The Dudes, Colleen Brown, Tim Hus. Tim Tamashiro captured us at sound check (and let us go after dinner). I'll let you know when it airs- the show will be some time in July or August.Here's our set:Extreme to MeDown in the ZoneSoul Food One http://www.krisdemeanor.com/2010/04/okay-spontaneous-applausenow.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kris Demeanor)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020726876918679008.post-9110303284795349732Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:28:00 +00002010-02-05T15:46:05.107-07:00On Wednesday Feb 10, come to the Jack Singer for a fantastic songwriters in the round performance in support of The Boys and Girls Club and Kidsport Calgary. Michael Bernard Fitzgerald, Dan Vacon of the Dudes, Karla Anderson, Cam Penner, Russel Broom and myself with be there. We're going to play two songs each that had a formative effect on our writing style, and a cover song that was http://www.krisdemeanor.com/2010/02/musicians-care-for-kids-just-watch-us.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kris Demeanor)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020726876918679008.post-7314694587100202789Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:53:00 +00002010-01-06T16:58:06.365-07:00Hello everyone!- The always amazing High Performance Rodeo is about to energize Calgary once again, and I am on triple duty: FREAKSHOW: Jan 7,8,9CUTEST KITTEN EVER: Jan 9 (Rapture Pop- a new musical collaboration with three part harmony, French horn and percussion)and, don't miss the remount of the smash hitBUZZ JOB: The True Story of Cal Cavendish: Jan 13-16See the rest of the post for http://www.krisdemeanor.com/2010/01/buzz-job-cutest-kitten-ever-freakshow_06.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kris Demeanor)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020726876918679008.post-1342395651764653640Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:17:00 +00002009-11-02T15:02:16.442-07:00The 2010 Calgary/Banff Wordfest wrapped up last week. I hosted the opening night fundraising dinner, and Wordfest blogger Noah Richler said I was 'a delight', even though I forgot to mention five of the featured writers (later corrected), and sold the silent auction fly-anywhere-Westjet-flies package by saying "Go to Mexico. Yes, there have been deterrents lately, but the best restaurant to go http://www.krisdemeanor.com/2009/10/wordfest-memoriesbidiniband-and-billy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kris Demeanor)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020726876918679008.post-5633942601096498133Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:35:00 +00002009-09-24T12:54:59.130-06:00The saws, generators, and nail guns at the double monster home construction site next door are okay- it's the classic rock. Goodbye, stranger, it's been nice, I'm hot blooded, check it and see, turn me loose, I just came back to say goodbye. Why do any of those songs ever need to be heard again, anywhere? Makes it hard to concentrate. Thank Christ sound check is soon. The Crack Band and I are http://www.krisdemeanor.com/2009/09/its-just-shot-away.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kris Demeanor)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020726876918679008.post-9150920802300512507Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:53:00 +00002009-08-12T22:34:48.941-06:00Enjoy 'The British Rape Krakow', and 'Cedar's Song', from my solo acoustic recording sessions with Dave Lang at the Lyric Theatre in Swift Current. The ever kind and hospitable Dave Lang recorded me doing a number of new songs, and some solo versions of previously released tunes, at the old Lyric Theatre in Swift Current. Dave turned the lights down and set up two rows of chairs in front of me, http://www.krisdemeanor.com/2009/08/kd-unplugged-at-lyric-in-swift-current.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kris Demeanor)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020726876918679008.post-8763735443545699810Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:36:00 +00002009-08-12T22:38:09.037-06:00You can now purchase 'These United States' here: http://www.kerfmusic.com/vmchk/409krisdemeanorhiscrackbandAND come see Chantal and I this Thursday July 16 at Eau Claire Market in Calgary, in the site of the old IMAX theatre, between 4-6 pm, playing songwriter in the round style along with Clinton St. John and Foon Yap of Woodpigeon.AND, I will be doing a solo set on Saturday July 18 at the http://www.krisdemeanor.com/2009/07/new-cd-on-kerfmusic-this-weeks-shows.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kris Demeanor)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020726876918679008.post-8366101053510009837Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:40:00 +00002009-06-30T21:51:55.422-06:00Thanks, friends and fans, for two lovely shows in Calgary and Edmonton!(the above photo is from neither event- it's me and my buddy Mike at the Last Chance Saloon in Wayne a couple of weeks ago)The releases for 'These United States' were populated with a mix of those young in years and wise in spirit, graduated in years and youthful at heart, the funny, fun, smart, sensitive and strange. Many http://www.krisdemeanor.com/2009/06/these-united-states.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kris Demeanor)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020726876918679008.post-6219762897592865916Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:16:00 +00002009-06-11T16:24:44.383-06:00So says the music industry conference panel member to the aspiring songwriter. What a fine time Dave Lang and I had on our B.C. tour! Lots of laughs. Lots of laughs.Dave has excellent new songs with sensual, jazzy chords and darkly hilarious words. Listen to these songs, I implore you: www.davelang.comwww.myspace.com/davelanggoddamnitThere were no nights that were not late, and we even filmedhttp://www.krisdemeanor.com/2009/06/q-how-do-you-i-when-ive-written-hit.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kris Demeanor)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020726876918679008.post-7936636976234651784Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:31:00 +00002009-06-05T13:34:37.418-06:00Crack Band show in Edmonton tonight, Friday June 5Hello friends! The band and I are playing tonight, Friday June 5 at the Artery in Edmonton. I had the date on the posters as Saturday June 5, which was wrong and silly of me. Hope there was not too much confusion.Show starts at 9 pm! The address is 9535 Jasper Avenue See you! http://www.krisdemeanor.com/2009/06/crack-band-show-in-edmonton-tonight.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kris Demeanor)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020726876918679008.post-1720453054412822309Fri, 15 May 2009 14:34:00 +00002009-05-17T20:15:33.737-06:00West Coast Turnaround with Dave Lang!Crack Band shows!'Get a Real Job' nominated for another award! I live in a world in which I can plan to spend a couple of weeks in early spring playing music on the islands of the west coast of Canada, laughing and drinking with Carolyn Mark and Geoff Berner and Ford Pier, eating candied salmon, looking for marine mammals from the ferry. I am humbled in my http://www.krisdemeanor.com/2009/05/gigs-with-davecrack-band-cd.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kris Demeanor)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020726876918679008.post-5688045472483929557Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:57:00 +00002009-04-28T12:29:58.725-06:00Just when I thought I was 100% folk/rock institution, the article I wrote chronicling all the shit jobs I've had for Unlimited Magazine gets a National Magazine Award!Well, what was a delightful surprise. Now I'll be able to put a down payment on that quad. I must thank former Unlimited editor Dan Rubenstein for asking me to do the piece, and for nominating it for the award, and thanks to all http://www.krisdemeanor.com/2009/04/kris-demeanors-get-real-job-wins-best.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kris Demeanor)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020726876918679008.post-1226389476235660394Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:08:00 +00002009-04-22T12:16:21.256-06:00City of Angels and AssholesHere are my friend Heather John and I at the SUPPORT THE CBC rally on Friday. I am doing my Galapagos tortoise imitation. There were 150 or so people there, many of them pensioners who had just come from the SAVE MEDICARE rally. The CBC has been a stalwart supporter of my music and that of dozens of other songwriter and musician friends for years. They have recorded http://www.krisdemeanor.com/2009/04/canadas-beacon-of-culture.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kris Demeanor)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020726876918679008.post-7034655153539090080Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:09:00 +00002009-04-13T14:08:38.837-06:00The moustache is gone, the website is sleeker and more organized than my personal affairs have ever been. And it feels good. Thank you, Ellen. Previous visitors and newbies alike, hope you enjoy exploring the oranges and blues of the revamped site. I'm a bit frantic at the moment looking for our cat, but I will be back soon with particulars about the May tour in B.C. with Dave Lang and Tolan http://www.krisdemeanor.com/2009/04/clean-shaven-and-celebrating-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kris Demeanor)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020726876918679008.post-4474872621150236640Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:30:00 +00002009-04-11T14:40:19.611-06:00Buzz Job- The True Story of Cal Cavendish finished a fantastic ten show run at the Ironwood Stage and Grill in Calgary last week.For those who didn't see it or haven't heard about it, it was a 90 minute musical theatre piece written by Calgary's David van Belle and myself, and based on the life and antics or Cal Cavendish, a songwriter and pilot in Calgary who, in 1975, decided to protest the http://www.krisdemeanor.com/2009/02/tower-has-been-buzzed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kris Demeanor)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020726876918679008.post-6908918797723861054Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:43:00 +00002009-04-11T14:21:18.072-06:00Best of the season to everyone. I wish for us all in the coming year good health, good art, good food, good sex, and good times with loved ones. And a pox on any and all assholes who deceive and destroy!My gift to you this year is a recipe, both practical and delicious:RECESSION BALLSBALLSLean, ground beef**, or veggie substitute (Yves veggie ground) 500 grams or soOne cup coarse bread crumbs (http://www.krisdemeanor.com/2008/12/recession-balls.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kris Demeanor)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020726876918679008.post-8397774465462082922Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:24:00 +00002009-04-11T14:24:58.734-06:00Welcome, welcome, all you little Obamababies into the world! I must say, that annoying two year long mantra of 'Hope' and 'Change' I derided as wishy washy and clichéd really hit home Nov. 4. I watched the returns with glee, heard the man speak, I cried, and I muttered to myself, 'Hope…Change.' The fact we are irrevocably fucked anyway and that the Onion had it right when it's headline http://www.krisdemeanor.com/2008/11/more-memoir-than-blog-catching-up.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kris Demeanor)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020726876918679008.post-4782311792400496145Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:50:00 +00002009-04-11T14:31:35.429-06:00To echo my dear mother, 'Home again, home again, jiggedy jig'. I am just back from a couple of weeks in Saskatchewan, Alberta and B.C. with the marvelous Dave Lang.He is a bright and passionate man with excellent songs. We spent a lot of time in the car re-enforcing and re-articulating one another's opinions. I used to think this was unproductive, that it was better to engage with people with http://www.krisdemeanor.com/2008/04/culturally-inappropriate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kris Demeanor)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020726876918679008.post-4212100013798089004Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:04:00 +00002009-04-11T14:29:59.618-06:00I wrote a feature article for the new magazine, Unlimited. It's about how I marry art and commerce (we've separated and gotten back together dozens of times), and includes accounts of a lot of the shitty jobs I've had over the years.Please add anecdotes based on the lousiest jobs you've ever had, and describe how they made you stronger!http://www.krisdemeanor.com/2008/01/some-people-have-real-jobs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kris Demeanor)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020726876918679008.post-6269353243785064731Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:35:00 +00002009-04-11T14:33:03.891-06:00The festive season was delightful, the family happy and the food stellar. My mother's cookies once again stole the show- pepparkakor, skorper, havlerflon- and her traditional Swedish ham, cured in a briny bath for two weeks before cooking, was perfect. We had an open house that saw a flow of friends and family gobble up oysters on pumpernickel and salmon and capers on rye.Here is a photo of ourhttp://www.krisdemeanor.com/2008/01/christmas-in-bankview-sweden.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kris Demeanor)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020726876918679008.post-1484393468013985455Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:07:00 +00002009-04-11T14:26:08.495-06:00Ellen and I spent a week on Maui! In the parking lot of the Enchanted Gardens, I spotted this fine looking chameleon. As we drove away, it slipped down the stalk head first. It had three horns, though you can only see two in the photo. I've always had a particular thing for reptiles. On zoo trips as a kid, it was known that I could be left in front of the iguanas for a good half an hour http://www.krisdemeanor.com/2007/12/mauian-chameleon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kris Demeanor)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020726876918679008.post-6467289010951156221Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:18:00 +00002007-12-06T09:55:01.371-07:00HelloWelcome to my blog. I hope that this forum can evolve into a place of lively discourse on food, movies, tennis, romance, and animals. For starters though, I want to open the discussion up to 'Crimes Against Humanity'.I am compiling a list of living people who deserve to be taken to the international high court in the Hague, Netherlands, and tried for their crimes. They have escaped justicehttp://www.krisdemeanor.com/2007/12/see-you-in-hague.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kris Demeanor)2