Hairy old me... Panahachel, Guatemala, 2003

Guitarist on the roof, Chichicastenegua, Guatemala, 2003

Areanal Volcano, La Fortuna, Costa Rica, 2003

On the road...Costa Rica, 2003

Working extremely hard... Ometepe, Nicaragua, 2003.

My real name is Chris, but a fair number of my associates call me tumor, after a poo brown ford econoline van that I used to ramble in. I am 25 years young.

I've lived in Canada all my life, both in the city (Calgary and Victoria) and in other less conspicuous places (Invermere, BC).

I have been an active songwriter from the age of 14, and I have three albums to my credit, with two more on the go.

I attended the same high school for 12 years just outside of Okotoks, AB - I figure this is probably where my pastoral appreciation comes from. 

I enrolled in Aviation training after High School, and eventually flunked out after two years...inexperience, I guess... During this time I released my first album, "That Guy Is Me" under the name The Casual Observer. My two fans loved it. 

Anyway, I moved to Victoria and finished a BA in English Literature, which left me with virtually no marketable skills for the cut-throat job market. I did, however, manage a second record release, "Country Gumption", which was widely received by my friends and family (as well as Zeke, the bike courier/drug dealer, who said "you're a real strange cookie, my friend). 

After University I moved back to Calgary where, after a string of factory jobs and disappointment, I moved to the tiny town of Invermere, BC. I cleaned rooms at the local ski hill and worked as a front-end-loader operator. Finally I settled into working the local liquor store. 

Invermere was a revelation, mostly because the town is saturated with talent. The music I made there is top-notch, culminating in the release of my third album, "Nocturnal Valley Seduction". 

I left Invermere at the end of the summer 03' and embarked on a 3-month sojourn into Central America, where I traveled from Panama through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Belize. Lots of song ideas. Fuck. LOTS.  

I currently live in Calgary where I am blissfully unemployed.

The imagery in my music is typically either nature-based or political. I write a lot about living in an existentialist vacuum and about trying to get along in this post-modern world of ours.

To date, I have played several venues, most notably the t-bar at panorama mountain village and the mushroom stump saloon in Invermere, bc.

With two additional albums on the go, and things looking up, I look forward to fame and fortune. yeah right. I just wanna survive!