tHE bLACK tORIES*** blogs

rehearsing, recording and playing soon

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:47:00 -0700

well samuel has returned from his sojourn back to the mother country. while away i mostly sat idle, waiting for more monster riffs and killer hooks to fall down from heaven. alas, this was not to be. what did transpire was a nominal journey through certain stages on lifes way that began to reveal to me the reality of our present age.

1. all is futile.
2. nothing is as it seems.
3. nobody beats my mothers cooking.

all that said i seem to occupy a space that excites me about playing music again. not for conquest or glory. money or fame. just personal satisfaction and good old fashioned fun?

more old blogs

Thu, 31 May 2007 23:53:16 -0700

here are some more old blogs that i drug over here from myspace.

these too start at the bottom and work their way up.

10/26/2006

today (is the latest)
Current mood: calm
Category: Blogging

woke up. touched my naked girl. watched her sleep. listened to her breath. snore. thougth about my head and how it hurt. wanted a cigarette. did not have one. got out of bed. grabbed my clothes and changed in the living roomate as not to wake said girl. walked around in a circle in the living room. made coffee. ate bagel (cinnamon raisain) checked email. checked it again. no email. did not mind. watched the news. watched the news some more. there is nothing new. not minding that fact that there is nothing new. read the book of hebrews. thought about god. how i feel him even though its hard to believe in him. its hard to believe. but we persist. some times thats just the way it is. sometimes you just end up in a situation and you deal with it. and its never the way you plan it. but it happens and you can't remember the decision making process that got you from A to B and you don't want to account for the process cause it gives you a fucking headache. so thats that. you just get out of bed. i got out of bed. and i wanted to smoke. but i did not. i don't know why. i don't care if i die. but i think said girl does, so thats okay with me. i'll not smoke for her. i guess thats okay. sometimes i think that i would be better if she had some bad habit to make me feel better. but then i know that that would not be okay. that would be bad. and its not just the bible that says that. everyone sane says that. anyone who makes sense believes that. i think. so you just get out of bed. i got out of bed and i had a headache and i wanted to smoke but i didn't. and thats probably okay. maybe i will one day. maybe i won't. i don't really care. i just like the naked body. its way better than cigarettes. perhaps cigarettes come second to naked bodies sometimes. but naked is way better. it is always better. i think god can give me a big-up on that one. lets all big-up to naked bodies. and love. and if you can't. well smoke motherfucker. smoke! enjoy it for all of us who cannot. and i will enjoy the naked girl. and i will deal with my headaches someother way.

old blogs

Wed, 30 May 2007 11:38:21 -0700

here are some old blogs that i shipped over here from myspace. the oldest are at the bottem so if you want to read chronologically. start there. enjoy!

05/03/2006

getting home

okay. i'm home now. ran into my non-crush-crush on the street. couldn't speak. which was fine. checked the hockey score. made a voo-doo dool for all members of the calgary flames. listened to sugar. listened to bob mould. listened to husker du. thought about moving to minnesota. thought againt my first thought. wore all black today. thought about cutting my hair in order to get a girlfriend. got an email from ex-girlfriend who is getting married. that was weird. wrote two blogs because i realized that i didn't have enough. and i realized that if clayton is the only one who writes blogs than those are the only blogs being read and that is a shame. now clayton is my best friend, but he is also a narcicist while i am a sweet, apostolic type boy who only looks on the bright side of life. had a hangover. watched 'the family guy' movie. hated it. thought about grace kelly. wrote a love song about a girl named jennifer. have a sisted named jennifer. thought about how that might be creepy. realized that it is creepy, but with a little explaination it won't be creepy any more. okay. bye.

new album

Wed, 16 May 2007 17:37:50 -0700

new album being released september 15, 2007

what the fuck

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:42:03 -0800

that is the tentative title of the tentative album that will tentatively be released in next few months or so. after a year long wrangling with the powers that be for dominion over personal identity etc. i have decided once again to record this album around the world with an assorted cast of characters along the way to help. band memeber/contributers to date have included:

-jennifer-anne delamar
-bobby delamar
-kris krug-darrin anderson
-ron segev
-samuel spurgeon
-jon-lee
-brandon theissen
-jon anderson
-ulyse despot
-peter la grand
-steven toon
-dave truscott
-jeff johnson

new show just announced

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:55:24 -0700

we are confrimed to play the media club in vancouver
thursday june 22, 2006

i'll release more details as i get them

joe

the triumphant return (hopefully)

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 21:08:32 -0700

after all is said and done, after a brief hiatus, it is official that the tories shall play again, and play again soon...in vancouver. there's not much to post in regards to reason, explainations etc. just know that its all happening.

i will keep you posted. you can still reach me at joetory@gmail.com if you have any questions or spam you would like to molest my inbox with. apart from that.

enjoy the spring.

godpseed,

joseph

remember thy miracle...

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 06:27:44 -0800

fortunately for most i have not shared on this medium for quite sometime. it has been difficult to keep the machinations of the band well greased when its founding fathers live on opposite sides of the world. one can imagine how easy it was for all those wives during wwii to drop thier collective knickers at a moments breath after doug, the local mechanic with flat feet, made a pass.

loneliness dear universe, i'm talking about sheer loneliness.

so i've been thinking lately about how easy to is to forget the miracle of inspiration. do i create a space where originality is bookended by structure and odds? or should the pursuit reflect a purer expedition that relys on universals squeezed out of particulars at arbitrary intervals? never knowing; always expecting.

a very tory christmas

Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:04:47 -0800

yulel tide is upon us again and the tories find themselves once again in that age old predicament. sam in on one side of the world and joe is on the other. jon is somewhere inbetween but for now we'll say he's on the moon. as a christmas present to all our enduring fans we have decided not to do any shows or write any songs or practice material for at least a month. this will give joe enough time to sell his body to science experiments in order to afford a new disortion pedel and sam enough time to figure out which canadian will marry him in order to enjoy the rights of 'peace, order and good government' that canadians pine for. so in a nut shell. the torys this christmas will be doing what they do best, mainly a whole lot of nothing. to which you may heap your aura praise on them now and in the new year.

I'm sick of my band...

Wed, 07 Dec 2005 02:18:23 -0800

i'm realing getting tired of playing in a band. 95% of the time i'm actually thinking about or doing something in conjuction with the band i'm not engaged in any form of music making whatsoever. i'm not engaged and i'm not interested. i'm only interested in the ideas of fame and fortune and the fact that at the end of our tether as a funtioning creative unit we may one day not have to pay for drugs or sex and pure freedom and happiness will supplant our pathetic, boring predictable existence. playing a band is too much work. if i have any advice for those aspiring artist, choose a medium that is inexpensive and relatively anonymous, such as writing mystery novels or knitting. in the end creative expression is inevitable to the human condition, but then again, so is evacuating our bowels.

two new melbourne shows announced!

Tue, 08 Nov 2005 04:20:32 -0800

two new shows in melbourne have been announced.

november 23, 2005
@the old colonial pub/bar
w/sojourn & minute major

december 9, 2005
@the espy
w/the black popes

very excited about these shows. hope to see everyone there.

don't forget:

november 16, 2005
@ding-dong lounge
w/special guests

(actually i think we are the special guest but i'm still not sure who we're supporting so i suppose that makes us the ignorant guests, but guests nonetheless.)

sgt. pepper's lonely tour of melbourne

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:49:41 -0700

i walked across melbourne today listening to sgt. peppers. it was raining and miserable, but i'm a good companion for myself so i'm relatively content. the music alway seems to be the end result, but its that fucking journey that seems to be the most important. right? now, to find someone to tell about my walk. is there anyone there? anyone listening? funny thing i am, a human that is. always looking for some poor soul to spout my bullshit off to. not such a bad life if i were consist in my quest. ah, but then what happens when you find that treasure you seek. find another treasure? is that all life can be summed up to: either searching for a treasure or searching for a treasure to search for. ouch, my head hurts.

well if you want to soothe the pain. grab john, paul and the boys (most people say the beatles are only good after rubber soul, but i like the old stuff just as much) and go for a walk.

the sound of a tasmanian devil is sort of like this:

Tue, 27 Sep 2005 02:30:55 -0700

well all is well and good here in bloody-cold-as-hell southern australia. we are thinking of the basics when describing to friends and family the current status of our lives. we have food, we have a roof, we have instruments and songs to sing; joseph, however, is missing one thing that could spell the end of the band if not obtained immediately--his voice. it has been gone for some days now so if you happen to run into it, please be so kind as to email it to him directly as he feels somewhat at a lose of purpose here just north of the antarctic circle.

i wonder if there is any reason for any of this after all, he quietly mumbles to himself.

new e.p. coming soon

Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:08:25 -0700

we have are just finishing the final touches on our new e.p. tentatively titled: are you ready to die... it should be available sometime in mid-september. right now we are in full rehearsal mode for our fall blitzkrieg of the vancouver music scene. there should be lots of tales yarned come christmas so keep your britches fastened firmly to your waist.

we also have a bass player now. his name is jeff, but you would be wise to call him boomer. he operates on a lower scale than all of us hacks. i think he might even be a genius. plus he dates that chick from the no no spots so maybe he can get us a gig.

every band needs a mantra

Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:04:52 -0700

in the sweaty heat of the vancouver night we play. we play because its an extension of everything that this life has taught us to embrace: gratuitous sex, violence, language, ideas, mannerisms and sounds--this is the art that the black tories embrace. within our small camp we produce flesh pounding, coronary inducing, punk rock induced glam sludge; straight from the pits of hell and coated in a heavenly pop syrup.

plus we smoke lots of pot...

joseph loves jesus but he can't currently reconcile his current debaucherous lifestyle with the holy tenets of the christ.

sam is sam: sam must speak for himself.