Remarried to the Road

It's been a while since I last wrote anything meaningful. The exhaustion from the work of the chase has finally caught up to me on these past couple days. Maybe weeks? Months? I can't tell. I'm always tired now and being stuck in one place really doesn't brighten anything up. I don't know what it is. The time is going by faster than it ever has and I find myself again being vain, forgetful and uninspired. For the first time in months I am back to a place that I fell in love with a long time ago; the road.

I caught a downtown bus going to the airport - the bus depot, rather, at 8:30 this morning looking forward to leaving this town and everyone else in it, albeit for only a weekend. I only wish circumstance would have given me a happier motive to leave this place.

It had taken me a while to get my ticket information settled but in the mean time I managed to bum a smoke from a friendly bus patron. Mostly everyone on the bus that I have encountered are from Ontario as I've gotten to hear some of their stories and reasons about why they're leaving the places where they came from.

For the first time in a really long time I am inspired. Hearing the story of a couple about how they hitch-hiked from Toronto to get stranded in Thunder Bay and having the help from strangers really warmed me back up to the idea of people being, you know, nice.

I have a six hour ride ahead of me as I am in the public library in "Downtown" Brandon just finishing the homemade balogna sandwich I made for myself this morning. I only one dollar in my pocket but God damn, that one dollar is going to take me further than any of my poor attempts at finding something meaningful back home.

I've had so many opportunities that I've worked hard for end up at nothing more than wishful thinking. Tonight - this weekend would have been an eventful one. A birthday party, a wedding, and a chance to finally start writing my own songs have been shelved until next. For this one, I am facing another familiar face; death.

Five years is a really long time.

It's been a while since I've seen this family and having them go through this isn't going to be any easier than the last. Perhaps this weekend will be a good one. A healing one. I really don't know. I'm just glad I get the chance to stray away from "Home" and to the grace of people where I am not indebted and lead on.

Again I find myself running from one shit-end to the next, but I couldn't be any more inspired. I'll write more when I get the chance.

Call The Cops Story

It takes a lot for a person to be optimistic in the worst of times, sometimes having to choose between naivety and callousness. For Call The Cops it is neither but rather a sense of grace and gratefulness for the things that matter most. Your health, safety, ambition, friends and family. You would think not only losing love but also losing your home to a fire would bring the crushing weight of the World down on you but having that little time to decide between hopelessness and hopefulness will really show you who you are and where your perspective is at. A positive outlook can take you many places. Just ask Call The Cops.

"Almost all of our songs are about our personal life experiences. A lot of them are about girls, but in each song we tried to portray a different emotion. However, at the end of it all I think most of our songs are about finding the positive in negative times, finding a bright side, making the best with what you got" explains vocalist, Will Shuck. "For example 'Summer Ending to a Winter Night' is about your house burning down. Losing your house is a terrible thing, but nothing can compare to having your family safe and alive. Bad things are gonna happen to all of us, and I think feel good music is important to being happy."

Being happy indeed. From humble beginnings to a jolting, whirlwind start, Call The Cops have come a long way due to being positive and taking chances. They have just recently signed to MySpace records after recording an EP and being voted to stardom by fans across the World. Second vocalist Justin Allen elaborates.

"We had just recently started this band and just finished recording our first EP "Motion Sickness" when I was replying to some comments on our MySpace page and noticed a comment from a fan saying that we should submit our demo for a contest MySpace Records and Toyota were having. I called Will and told him to look into it and he registered our band and then there was the waiting period. We knew there would be thousands of bands doing the same thing so we really thought nothing of it and continued to write, tour, and promote until we got a phone call saying that we made it into the top 5 finalists.Kknowing that this was a contest where the fans basically pick the band they feel should win, we knew we were just stoked to make it into the final 5. Long story short, we ended up winning the contest because of the amazing support we received from our fans and we became a member of the MySpace Records family."

Catch Call The Cops on the Warped Tour this summer and be ready to sweat in the hot sun as you dance your afternoon away to infectious, danceable happy music that you can share with the shirtless stranger beside you. "New self-titled record dropping June 22nd so get that shit! Learn that shit! At Warped I want to see you singing that shit! We love you guys and we can't wait to meet you all!"