How the hell . . .?

OK, so in a follow up to my last post, how the hell did I not know that BSS were playing a last minute show at the Dakota last week? Given the amount of time that I spend on the inernet and all the blogs I read and updates I get, how did I not hear of this until a week after the fact? People are supposed to tell me about this shit!! I would have skipped all of my other shows to see that. Are you allowed to have a temper tantrum at age 33? If you are, this is me havin one :(

A week in the life of a Canadian music-aholic

Sometimes I find my addiction to music (particularly Canadian music) hard to handle. Why is it that all of the artists that I love are in the city in the same week? I am far too old to handle 7 shows in a week and a half, but I have no choice unless I skip someone, which I cannot bring myself to do. So to The Constantines, Peter Katz, The Trews, Bill Priddle, Sweet Thing, Chilly and Feist I issue a challenge: next time, can we try and space it out?? I'll be the one trying very hard not to look old and tired and begging lots of children to keep it down over the next week! But, the reality is, I find weeks like this very inspiring and ridiculously fun, even though they suck the life outa me.

HELLA FUNNY

This is how we do it in Canada

How many years have the Juno Awards been a complete and utter joke of epic proportions with slim to no representation of the true Art that has recently come out of Canada? Doesn't matter, all was made right last night when Feist won 1,2,3,4 . . . 5 Juno Awards. Much deserved, and by far the best performance of the night also went to the lovely Miss Feist.
We won't mention the suspisciously absent nomination for Kev for Alternative album of the Year (not saying he should have won, but definately should have been nominated), that's another story.

If you wish for something hard enough . . .

Best news I've heard all year - from the A&C site:

"Olympic Island 2008
On June 7th, Stars and Young Galaxy will be joined by Death Cab For Cutie and Rogue Wave at this years Olympic Island festival in Toronto. Tickets go on sale Thursday, April 3rd at Ticketmaster and more details about the show will follow in the coming weeks!"

Start the happy dance!!!!!! So far no BSS, but a girl can dream.

And now a blast from the past . . .

There are not words for how funny this is!

What can I say about this really? I'll just post it and continue with my laughing fit!!! Enjoy!

The Number of the Beast

There are not words to describe how freaking phenomenal last night was. I saw Iron Maiden live last night after years of looking for someone to go with me. There are not words to describe the raw talent of Bruce Dickinson - his vocals were amazing and he did not disappoint for an instant. Doesn't matter wht genre of music you are into - it is a show that is not to be missed. I have spent the entire day saying "pardon" and asking people to repeat themselves because I cannot hear a fucking thing, but it was more than worth the next few days walking around asking people to speak into my good ear.