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Jeremy Elliott

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About Me

I'm a drummer in Toronto. I play mostly with a band called Staggered Crossing and I have been doing that since 1995. I can also be found at the kit with The Crown Jewels on Sunday nights, Bobby Dreadfull & The Breastfed Superheroes and occasional Ghostwalk Creek gig. Been recording with a project called Distorsis. Employed daytime as sales manager at Toronto's finest purveyor of restored vintage pianos, Paul Hahn & Co.

My Interests

Good ideas and good arguments.

I'd like to meet:

Musicians and music fans. I like to think that I have my ears open and am receptive to new music. I have also been acting as Tour Manager for my band for the last few years and enjoy the problem solving of that role. Piano people.. players, purveyors whatever.Create or get your
very own MySpace Layouts

Music:

I have decended into Ipod shuffle hell from which I fear there is no escape.

Movies:

300, Red Dawn (WOLVERINES!) Twelve Angry Men, Grizzly Man, Bridge On The River Kwai, Anchor Man despite myself, Life of Brian, Team America, A Bridge Too Far, Crocodile Dundee, Nightmare Before Christmas, La Guerre Des Toques (The Dog That Stopped The War)

Television:

(Hey Doug thanks for the new one!) Sports mostly.. Hockey Night In Canada... Jays games, Argos games, news.. the more local the better.. I don't care which locale.

Books:

Anything by Robertson Davies, Dostoyevsky, Orwell, Hemingway, Tolstoy, Timothy Findley, John Irving,

Heroes:

John Bonham, Winston Churchill, Matt Stairs, Henry Rollins, Wendel Clark and John Kordic, Billy Bishop, Gary Valk, Oscar Peterson, Joe Carter

My Blog

Distorsis New Tune/FREE

Eric posted 'FREE' last night on the Distorsis myspace page. Exciting, because he wanted to get back to the efficient operation that we were running when we recorded Angel and The Animal. Got a bit bo...
Posted by Jeremy Elliott on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:41:00 PST

StagX at Canadian Music Week March 8th

I am really looking forward to this show, not least because we haven't been playing much. With the exception of a low profile and mostly spontaneous pub show to celebrate a friend's engagement this wi...
Posted by Jeremy Elliott on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:07:00 PST

My family

I am the eldest of four kids and we grew up listening to our father play the piano, whether it was to get us out of bed in the morning (Zippity-Do-Da, Zippity-A) or when he would grab one of us to pla...
Posted by Jeremy Elliott on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:46:00 PST

Senior Citizen Kills Mugger While On Vacation

Associate PressSAN JOSE, Costa Rica  An American senior citizen killed an alleged mugger with his bare hands, and his travelling companions aboard a tour bus fended off two other assailants in the At...
Posted by Jeremy Elliott on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:00:00 PST

Paraglider Miracle -REUTERS

Rob Taylor Reuters news AgencyCANBERRA  A German paraglider was encased in ice and blacked out after being sucked into a tornado-like thunderstorm in Australia and carried to a height greater than Mo...
Posted by Jeremy Elliott on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:30:00 PST

Ancient Romeo and Juliet Update/Today's Star

ROME  Archaeologists working on the eve of Valentine's Day carefully began digging up the bones of a prehistoric couple on Tuesday, hoping to keep their 5,000-year-old embrace undisturbed forever.The...
Posted by Jeremy Elliott on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:20:00 PST

'Passing us is risking your life': snow operator - Today's Toronto Star

Now that winter's icy grip is firmly upon us, one of these days we're going to get a big dump of snow. Probably sooner, rather than later. When it comes, spare a thought for the people who operate the...
Posted by Jeremy Elliott on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:03:00 PST

Anna Nicole dead? My inner teenager grieves...

Such sad, sad, news.
Posted by Jeremy Elliott on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 01:07:00 PST

Ancient Romeo and Juliet

ROME  It could be humanity's oldest story of doomed love.Archeologists have unearthed two skeletons from the Neolithic period locked in a tender embrace and buried outside Mantua, just 40 kilometres ...
Posted by Jeremy Elliott on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:15:00 PST

New Distorsis Song - 'Goodway'

The new Distorsis song 'Goodway' has just been posted on the Distorsis site. Took three months to get it done.. I think that Eric almost lost his mind a few times as the tune kept getting bigger and ...
Posted by Jeremy Elliott on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 02:36:00 PST