Yep, this weekend Lianne and I went over to Couverville to see The Residents, among other things. It was lots of fun mostly, and rather underlined that I ought to get out more, but perhaps I ought not.

We went over on Saturday morning, saw red_thread and other Gothvic people on the ferry - they were headed over for the Goth Prom that night, so had duffel ( Read more... )

Friday night, quite to my surprise, I got to see Dick Dale, King of the Surf Guitar!

Quite by accident, I was looking through Monday magazine and wondering if Dick Dale would ever return to Victoria, and there he was - Friday night at Logan's! I called up shadesofwinter, who has been wanting to see him since he was 13, and he started gibbering like a confused ( Read more... )

Last night we went to see Billy Bragg at the Alix Goolden Hall ( Read more... )

I took a couple of days off to go to Seattle and see DEVO. It was Reading Break, so Lianne was happy to go too! This time we went on the Victoria Clipper - usually this is far too expensive but in the off-season they have some deals. We got transport there and back and two nights in the Ramada downtown (not great, but close to everything we needed ( Read more... )

This weekend I went with shadesofwinter to one of the best punk shows I've ever been to - The Dayglow Abortions and none other than D.O.A. at Lucky Bar! I even went into the mosh pit while the Dayglows were playing - showers of beer everywhere - and got some kind of weird puncture or bruise on my hand that still hurts. It was crappy weather outside - mixed rain ( Read more... )

Ok, so, I haven't posted about my little trip that I took two weekends ago. Here goes before it's three.

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This Sunday, May 15, 8 pm at Lucky Bar:

The Vibrators (yes, the original Vibrators!)

The Gutter Demons (psychobilly from Montreal)

Alcoholic White Trash (locals)

Ten bucks.

[EDIT: well, that was a great show! Had a fine time and my ears are still ringing. Gutter Demons were lots of fun. Great slam-dancing on display when the Vibrators played, ( Read more... )

A nice weekend marred only by weird weather. After work on Friday I went to pick up Aki [oh yeah, I've been too busy having things happen to write about them - most of you know about this already but a quick recap: I moved out two weeks ago, living with Betty now. Papers aren't signed yet but a matter of time. I have no regrets except where Aki is ( Read more... )

All right. But it was funnier the first time I typed this out ( Read more... )

Wow, the Kraftwerk concert in Seattle was GREAT. I have been listening to them for 22 years, ever since high school, and this is the first chance I have had to see them in concert ( Read more... )