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Darcy J Ibson UE

The wolf is kept fed by its feet

About Me

I live in Toronto. My band is called Sylvus , in which I sing and play guitar. I also like to play bass and keyboards.

My Interests

Heavy Metal
Mythology
Fantasy
Guitars and lutherie
Working out
Cooking
History
Various religious and philisophical pathways: Norse & Celtic paganism, Shinto, Buddhism, Taoism, and Unitarian Universalism

Music:

Metal

Books:

JRR Tolkien
Terry Pratchett
David Eddings
Khalil Gibran
Ursula LeGuin

Heroes:

Vintersorg
Einstein
Fred Penner

My Blog

New languages

Do you speak French? German? Russian?I want to learn to speak all of these to some degree.I have bad French and extremely limited German vocabulary (I can't really functionally speak it but I know som...
Posted by Darcy J Ibson UE on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:48:00 PST

Photoblog: Trees, steel, concrete.

I finally took my new camera on an adventure....
Posted by Darcy J Ibson UE on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:31:00 PST

The best news I’ve had in months (it’s an O’Faolain show!)

O'Faolain (my band that hasn't even really existed for the past year) is complete, and will be playing a show on October 5th.Here's the poster:Come!!...
Posted by Darcy J Ibson UE on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:37:00 PST

When it rains, it fucking POURS.

Suddenly, life is going full-tilt again.Whenever things are really good, I sometimes find myself in moments of introspection where I realize that it's not going to last forever. The same is true for m...
Posted by Darcy J Ibson UE on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:20:00 PST

it really blows...

... being this desperate, and also this stubborn.
Posted by Darcy J Ibson UE on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:44:00 PST

Electro-death and extravagance

Last night was supposed to be a wine & cheese party, but about the time the party was actually supposed to start... my whole neighbourhood lost power. After a short while, we noticed people gathering ...
Posted by Darcy J Ibson UE on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:03:00 PST

Overwhelming!!

Holy shit, I'm actually important at my job. I have responsibilities and shit. Someone hold me! I'm frightened!Oh well. Tonight I'm gonna get my wine on, and my cheese on, and my groove on, and my swa...
Posted by Darcy J Ibson UE on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:46:00 PST

This past weekend

... was ideal. I couldn't do it every weekend, but it would be alright if there were more like this one. Booze, hangouts, metal, hot girls, great friends, tasty food. All the things I care about the m...
Posted by Darcy J Ibson UE on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:34:00 PST

Yet more readings (and some other crap)

Since I last wrote I read 2 more books: Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay and Merde Actually, the sequel to A Year In The Merde.Ysabel had an interesting story, but the characters seemed kind of flat. This no...
Posted by Darcy J Ibson UE on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:40:00 PST

Pride 2007

What a great time! I really had a blast. This was my frist time ever going to Pride, I wasn't sure exactly what to expect but I heard words like "fun" and "lots of people" used a lot. That's pretty mu...
Posted by Darcy J Ibson UE on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:55:00 PST