The Monday Melee (April 2 2007) CONGRATULATIONS IAN / BILLY TALENT

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The Monday Melee Questions:

1. The Misanthtropic: Name something (about humanity) you absolutely hate.

People who insist on solving problems with medication, rather than communication. I don’t not believe in mental illness, but I wonder how much could be fixed, solved or at least put under control if we took the time to really talk and commincate to one another.

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2. The Meretricious: Expose something or someone that’s phony, fraudulent or bogus.

 I hate hate hate scare tactic & false info email forwards – I received the same one (again) like 4 times over the weekend about being able to unlock your car door via a spare remote at your home if you can call someone at the home on your cell phone.

Read www.snopes.com here:  http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/keyless.asp

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3. The Malcontent: Name something you’re unhappy with.

How messy my house is right now. I’ve been a meal-lean-sewing machine and I’ve made a mess. . . .its far more fun to make the mess than clean it up.

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4. The Meritorious: Give someone credit for something and name it if you can.

A HUGE congratulations to Ian D’Sa & Billy Talent for winning two Juno Awards, Canada’s Top Music Awards.  They won one for Group of the Year, and the other for Best Rock Album.  I wrote about Ian and Billy Talent earlier in the year here when we went to see them in concert in February.

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5. The Mirror: See something good about yourself and name it.

I’m good with my customers. I can make a no sound like a yes. I get alot of positive feedback from customers. People like to deal with me.
 

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6. The Make-Believe: Name something you wish for.

A bigger bed. I want a California King. Marty, Minou and Manny take up more room on the bed then they used to, and Colin is a bit of a lump too!

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Congrats to Ian D’Sa & Billy Talent on your Juno wins!!!!

BEST GROUP 2007

BEST ROCK ALBUM 2007

Billy Talent has also won JUNO Awards for New Group of the Year (2004), Group of the Year (2005) and Album of the Year (2005).

Billy Has Got Some Talent!

Last Monday night I had the honor of going to the Montreal Billy Talent concert – as a guest of the band.
As previously mentioned in a Monday Melee, Colin went to school with the bassist IAN D’SA.

Monday night’s show was awesome, it was amazing to see that many screaming teenagers for the guy who we used to go to Monaghan’s in Oakville with for ‘cheap wing night’

After the concert we met up with Ian and a few of the band members for drinks at a small pub downtown Montreal.

Its such a cool thing to ‘hang out with rock stars’ (hahahahhaah I can’t believe I actually admitted that) But in all seriousness, Ian has come a long way! And its just incredible to see how much further the band can go.

In fact last night I watch Much Music, and they were interviewing Ian’s mom (she was saying how the guys used to practice in her basement in Mississauga).

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We got to go see Billy Talent in the summer as well, when they were a part of the VANS WARPED TOUR as well in the summer.

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Thank you to Henry & Pascaline for arranging the tickets. Much appreciated!!!

Henry is the artist who did all the artwork for the album.

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For the pure fact that the story amuses me, and its my blog, so please let me recount it again.
Ian and Colin graduted Sheridan College Classical Animation, both were up for the same job with Electronic Arts in England as a video game animator. Ian ended up turning it down saying that he wanted to concentrate on his band “Pez”. The recruiters for EA told Ian he was a fool for not taking the job. A few years later Pez, who became “Billy Talent”, were featured artists in one of EA’s biggest games “BurnOut”.

Colin and Ian also went to animation school with Henry (who did all the Billy Talent artwork), and with Geiger and Scott who also attended the show with us on Monday. Another big thank you to Henry for arranging everything.