Although High Park is the neighbourhood in which the Ginger Ninja and I prefer to live — it’s a good balance between the niceties of the near-burbs and proximity to Accordion City’s gooey nougat-y centre — our current residency in a condo building is a temporary situation. The plan is to eventually buy a house and live a genteel upper-middle-class lifestyle punctuated with bouts of accordion superstardom and as little tsuris as life’s vicissitudes will allow. Or something to that effect.

(See? Reading this blog will improve your vocabulary!)

One of the downsides of living in a condo is that it really restricts the times when I can get some accordion practice. My old pad in the Queen and Spadina neighbourhood was a big brick house with high ceilings and great sound insulative qualities. My former housemate Paul and I could practice our acoustic instruments late into the night and wail, just like this guy:


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I look forward to having a little basement recording studio. Someday!

Photo courtesy of spill.

Joey deVilla

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