Paul Kolinski

PK recorded a bunch of new and old music over December '07 and January '08 and he intends to call it Music to Mistake You By - split into two volumes: Music to Miss You By (nice stuff) and Music to Take You By (loud stuff). Someday it will all be properly mastered, minted, printed and released - some sweet, sunny day when the money flows like honey from the paws of a bunny...
Voided by Guises was recorded in the winter and spring of 2006 and has no connection with Guided By Voices, the alternative rock band. It was originally called pk does pk by pk and only given in person to select real life friends. It contained some highly questionable and provocative instrumentals as well as the tunes above. PK has since edited all the weird and ugly stuff and kept only the conventional songs in order to win more adherents to the faith and to not scare off potential booking agents.
In the spring of 2007 PK made a 2-cd set of old 4-track recordings from 1998-2000. The first cd is called Unexploded Ordnance and the second is called Warning: Wearing Costume Does Not Enable You to Fly. Once he finds some good-quality jewel cases, PK will make the ten copies of both cds available to the completist and to the connoisseur at a suitably exorbitant price that only the rarest and most esoteric of bootlegs can command.
PK Sings VK was recorded in April, 2006. It is a collection of PK's favourite songs that his brother Vava wrote and sang in the late '90s when they played together in a rock'n'roll band called The Starks. Vava has since then moved on to a more stable family life, and with this music, PK hopes to keep the dormant flame of rock'n'roll alive until the day comes when Vava makes his triumphant return to the life of volume, booze and reckless debauchery after his kids graduate and the house is paid off.
Silent Five played its last show in Montreal on November 1st, 2007 at Quai des Brumes, capping five years of wonderful music-making with good friends. In its time, Silent Five recorded two cds - Lost at Sea (2003), and State of Rock'n'Roll (2005). Both are available for download on zunior.com . There remains a pile of unheard recordings and unseen photos that PK will soon upload bits of onto this page, once he learns how.
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PK's ambition is to one day travel across Siberia visiting ruins of the Gulag, but in the meantime and afterwards, continue making friends through music and making music with friends. PK also hopes to one day cause a prison riot, but from the outside by singing appropriately-themed inspirational songs in a suggestive and directional manner. He had an opportunity to do this in Grande Cache, Alberta in 2007 when he found himself planting trees outside the womens' correctional facility, but he blew it woefully (true story).
PK's been fulfilling his maddening bondage to the Terpsichorian Muse for close to twenty years by making music in one form or another (though not necessarily in the form of choral song or dance, for those of you who happen to be Terpsichorian experts). His first tape ever included a catastrophic rendition of "The Cremation of Sam McGee" by Robert Service sung in a preadolescent voice to the electronic blumbling of a programmed bossa-nova beat. PK has toured across Canada twice doing things for other people, and has recently spent five weeks in southern Mexico working on limericks, watching the sun sink into the sea and observing the prevalence of darkness over paradise.
For money, PK plants trees in the Garden of Bleedin', which is where he is right now - balls-deep in the ninth season of self-imposed exile from all of the above.
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PK also likes to take pictures (like the ones above), which he plans to keep doing long after he goes deaf.
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PK enjoys the occasional night cap.
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Okay. PK has a drinking problem. He admits it and he is seeking help.
Here's the problem: You have two guys sitting in a bar somewhere in Mexico. Guy no.1 starts drinking tequila at 1pm. By 9pm he's drunk about half a bottle of 750ml. At that point, guy no.2 (not mentioning any names) starts drinking mezcal. By midnight, guy no.2 has knocked back four triple shots of high-quality mezcal and finished about three bottles of cerveza. Between 9pm and midnight, guy no.1 has had two triple shots of the same mezcal and a cerveza. Neither guy no.1 nor guy no.2 has taken the high altitude into account. The question is: Which guy gets lifted off the toilet by six hands and wakes up in the morning with his pants and underwear around his ankles...soaking wet? Guy no.1?...Or Guy no.2?
Show your work.