Daryl Pierce

Sorry, my weblog has been down for the past few days as my hosting service changed the location of my site and deked out the configuration settings. It’s all right as rain now and I hope to be bringing you some good to great news in the next little while....

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  • June 23, 2008

No big news lately so I’m just posting to fill in a few cool items that have happened in the last while. One of my songs, Stay Awhile is being included in an episode of the Saskatchewan produced TV show Renegade Press. The touching melodrama is that (TV is all...

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  • March 17, 2008

Special thanks to Angela and Stephanie for making the translation happen. I think I want to learn some Dutch as the construction of the language seems (in translation) to be quite wild and fantastic. Daryl Pierce comes from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada. This is a place that is too beautiful...

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  • February 25, 2008

When I was young I would lay on the living room floor with a CD player and a set of headphones. I would shut my eyes and listen to the entire CD. It’s like having a profound little conversation between the music and your brain. Anyone who has listened to...

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  • February 5, 2008
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Last week my wife achieved the monumental when she became relationally one degree separated from Oprah. Now that sentence sets up a back-story and here it is! Many years ago Valancie tutored a young girl named Ellen Page while she was acting in a show that was called ‘Ghost.com’ at...

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  • January 23, 2008

My self titled CD was reviewed by the Belgian based online magazine called Rootstime and I believe the review is written in Dutch. I’ve tried some online translators and can get the vague and general idea of the review but I would like to get some nuance and detail. If...

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  • January 7, 2008
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OK, again with the advertising. There’s a new holiday series of commercials from Old Navy with the following lyrics You’ve got your’s and I’ve got mine, You’ve got your’s and I’ve got mine It’s all the usual visuals of folks lounging around in ways no ordinary person ever would. It...

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  • December 24, 2007
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I wrote to my Member of Parliament yesterday (Maurice Vellacott) regarding rumours about a new copyright bill being discussed in the House of Commons. I’ll include a portion of the letter here for your reading pleasure…. The “digital rights management” (DRM) technologies used by publishers should not stop the public...

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  • December 4, 2007
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For a city that sits right next to an Ocean you’d think the drainage would be a little better. I’ve been spending the last week in Vancouver (BC, we’re back in Canada) and it’s been raining small house pets. The puddles soak the hem of my jeans and I’ll never...

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  • November 16, 2007
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So I’m unscrewing the hinges of a screen door to a house on Beacon Hill in Seattle and pondering the life of a touring musician. I’m removing the screen door because we’ve agreed that it’s safer during the house party with lots of people coming and going. I’m thinking that...

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  • November 16, 2007