JAIMIE VERNON – YOU SAY IT’S MY BIRTHDAY

As you read this I’m either on or about to go on stage for what is most certainly my 1,000^th live musical appearance as the final act on the final night of David Bash’s long-running Toronto International Pop Overthrow Festival (this is year #10). I’ve been humiliating myself and faking musical talent in public since September 1980. Thirty-six years of looking for affirmation in all the wrong places.

JAIMIE VERNON – THE BLURST OF TIMES

I’ve got nothing left. I’m spent. This week has been the tightrope shit-show from hell. As Montgomery Burns found out on ‘The Simpsons’ when he tried to get monkeys to type out the greatest novel of all time: “It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.”