Hot Springs Episode / Castlegar Clubbing

Posted on August 11th, 2007

Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 2:48 am

So, today (well, technically yesterday) was something close to surreal. I mean, today was almost as awesome as a day can get. Lazily, I woke up around 10am, goofed around the net a bit, and then headed out to Nelson with Danielle for Starbucks, then went up to the Ainsworth Hot Springs which was truly relaxing and soothing. If you ever get a chance to go a natural hot springs, do it. It’s really quite nice and rejuvenating. I mean, my respiratory system had felt out of whack since the San Diego Comic Con, but after a few hours in the hot spring, it was like I was totally reset. Besides, it was quite fun to see the actual cave were the water comes from, and to take a dip in the cold water pool as well.

Around that time, Danielle and I realized that we hadn’t really eaten yet that day, so it was time to hit up a great Mexican restaurant by the name of Mazatlan for a very delicious meal. If you’re ever in Nelson – seriously, go to Mazatlan and get the Chicken Tamales. You’ll love it, and you’ll never be able to do Taco Bell stuff again.

On the way back to Castlegar a couple interesting events occured. First, I discovered that just because normal Pepsi and Mentos are not as volatile as Diet Coke and Mentos, that does not at all mean you should put Mentos in your Pepsi while driving. It still fizzes up… a lot. In fact, lets just say that had the results of this impromptu science lesson been recorded and uploaded to YouTube, I might have even given Chocolate Rain a run for it’s money, as it was just that funny and dumb. After that, Danielle spotted an old friend of hers once we were back in town, and she chatted with him a bit, which was cool and which also led to going to Element, the only club in Castlegar, later that evening.

The club was surprisingly fun. I mean, I’m not a clubber. I listen to and have written club music, but I’ve always been more DJ than a dancer. However, it was really quite fun to be there with Danielle. I mean, the club was almost too cheesy, but in an awesome way. As we walk up, we hear the dance track used in the first episode of the second season of The Venture Brothers, and by the time we’ve paid the 3 dollar cover, a remix of “Everybody Dance Now” was blasting. In general, the music was largely older dance and R&B jams – it was almost like walking on to the set of an episode of Mtv Jams circa 1990-1995, barring a few critical exemptions. There was some random track no one seemed to know, so Danielle and I goofed around a bit by getting on the empty dance floor and doing stuff like dancing the Charleston and breakdancing (well, I breakdanced poorly, she cheered me on.) Later, she and I cleared the floor as we just cut loose like Footloose during Kanye West’s “Stronger.” It really was like something out of a movie, or at least it felt that way. Later in the evening some one even said “you guys are the best dancers here” or something to that extent. Granted, it’s not a feat to be the best dancer at the only club in a tiny town, but it’s certainly fun to be told you’re awesome, even if you know that’s kind of flotsam. As we left the club, TI’s “What U Know” kicked in, which was kind of a fitting end to the evening, if only because Danielle had run into another old friend there and this friend didn’t know who TI was. Said lack of knowledge was a little problematic as Danielle was trying to tell him who she’d been on MTV with last month.

By the way, speaking of media exposure, I was on Spike TV’s Gamehead tonight with a host of other Nerdcore rappers, which is cool. BTW, boourns to Spike for cutting out Danielle. She’s more of a gamer than I, and thus more deserving of exposure on a game-related show. Of course, not that I really mind getting a freestyle on international cable stations either, but you could have cut some of that Uwe Boll interview for more Nerdcore, in as much as gamers like cute girls (like Danielle,) and hate Uwe Boll with a loathing rarely paralleled.

Like I said, an almost totally awesome today. Tomorrow (or rather later today,) I just relax, which is kind of cool in it’s own right.

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