Here’s the fifth instalment of my Home Movies from Desolation Sound, BC, where my book is set. In this one I talk about the Sound’s first-ever Caucasian resident, “Scarface” Mike, an American roughneck seeking escape after a near-death experience in a brutal bar fight in Montana. Mike’s whole story is in the book, but in this video I find the spot where he had his homestead.

And uh yeah… um… apparently it was No Shirt O’Clock when this was one was filmed. Sorry about that! It was about 35 degrees in mid-August when we shot this segment!

If I didn’t end up forming a band, or working at a radio station, or maybe putting out a book, I always one day hoped that I would open up a record shop and call it Lawrence Records, since record stores are where I spend a lot of my time and money anyway. Looks like someone named Lawrence in Nashville, Tennessee beat me to it (complete with the charming slogan “Think Globally, Act Hillbilly”… wait – isn’t that Sarah Palin‘s slogan?). Thanks a lot to my good friend Jo-Ann Roberts for taking this snap while she was down in Music City last weekend for a family wedding.

So I guess that means I’ll have to revert to my Plan B retail outlet… a Tibetan deli called The Deli Llama, our slogan of course being “Free Tibet with Purchase”.

Canadian band Holy Fuck with their signed copy of Adventures in Solitude.

Ok, it’s my site so I can swear right? Especially when it ties in one of my favourite Canadian bands AND the news that Adventures in Solitude has now gone to #2 on the BC Bestsellers List?! That is a shock, I truly never ever expected that, so thanks to the BC book buyers! Added to that is that most of the larger book stores in Vancouver are reportedly sold out, so if you’re looking for a copy hit up the indies: Sitka Books on West 4th (across from Zulu Records), the People’s Co-op on Commercial Drive, and various Book Warehouses around town.

For those outside of Vancouver, I’m very curious to hear if you’ve seen copies of the book in your favourite bookstore or record shop. Please let me know by leaving a comment here, and please do request it if you don’t see it. All the best, see you on the tour I hope!

(Thanks to my pals in Holy Fuck for being today’s blog models when they stopped by CBC Radio 3 on their current North American tour! And while that shot is blurry, the answer is YES, bassist Punchy IS rocking a Canadian Tuxedo… aka a Prince Edward Island Sunday Best).