I think it was in Ottawa that I had the best time
Having had the house to myself for two weeks, I can no longer stand living with people. They're everywhere, they don't clean up their messes (I'm such a hypocrite), I can't do my own grocery shopping, I can't have the TV whenever I want, and I have to be careful not to wake people up when I'm still going about my business in the wee hours of the morning. Moving out is going to be the best thing ever.
I'm working on a huuuge post of my musical adventures at Bluesfest (which was unbelievably fun). Some of it got deleted, but at the moment I've written about two and a half days out of a total of seven. I also have to sort through my six or seven thousand-something pictures. My collection of signed CD's has grown significantly, and I can now say I've had real conversations with popular musicians (I'm usually pretty awkward around people who know what to do with musical instruments)--funnily enough, both conversations were about Islands and the Unicorns. I also discovered a band today, called the Bicycles, and shortly thereafter I noticed I've already met one of them--this Andrew Scott guy is also a member of Meligrove Band. Small world! Meligrove Band put on an awesome show at Bluesfest, and now I'd really like to see the Bicycles live.
Speaking of small worlds, I forgot to mention in my last post a show I went to. It's not really important, but I want to talk about it anyway because it was so weird. At the last Islands show I was at, they said that Patrick Gregoire's side project, Sister Suvi, would be playing at Endhits (that little record store on Dalhousie). I went alone, never spoke to anyone, and obsessed about how much my unusually low-cut shirt was showing, but I had quite a pleasant evening nonetheless. It was this cute little gig where everyone sat cross-legged on the floor and the audience never grew to much more than thirty people. The small world part comes in with the opening band, the Soft Disaster (who were, for the record, good). I suppose this isn't all that surprising, considering how few good bands there are coming from Ottawa, but I noticed one of the members was this guy from the Acorn. Who doesn't have a side project these days? Anyway, I bought their CD. This is very unlike me, but I haven't listened to it yet. I'm going to save it for a while. I should also point out that during this set, Patrick Gregoire sat beside me for almost half an hour. This is significant because I have quite the crush on him. This wasn't as pleasant as I would have expected, as judging by his odour, he really needed a shower. Then Sister Suvi came on. Wow. I can't say I've heard anything like them. Their music was fine, but the vocals were terrible. I was under the impression that Patrick Gregoire can sing, as I've occasionally seen him do backup vocals for Islands at shows, but I was mistaken. The other vocalist, I believe her name was Muriel, was equally bad. (I think Patrick has a crush on Muriel, I kept seeing him do little things to get her attention like an awkward teenage boy would). The drummer was fine, but unfortunately is not present on their CD (which, ironically, is called My Nice Drums). Why did I buy their CD, you ask? First of all, my opinion is that vocals are almost always better in studio recordings than they are live, so I figured I'd give them a chance and hopefully they would magically sound good (they didn't). Second, it was only $5 and was so ghetto that really I just bought it to amuse myself. I mean, the Soft Disaster has a pretty disc that comes in a proper plastic case with a printed sleeve, and they were opening for a band whose CD is on some name brand blank CD with "Sister Suvi" Sharpied on, and that comes in a case made from paper taped together with some quickly doodled cover art photocopied onto it. You can listen to their strange and funny music on their MySpace! I took a few pictures, but I didn't make any effort to avoid camera shake or have nice aim or whatever, so they're not worth showing. You can see a picture from the show on the Endhits MySpace, though. That is all.
OH, ALSO! Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is really good! Glop and I went to the midnight premiere dressed as pirates and we had Chinese food for dinner. It was a good night.
I'm working on a huuuge post of my musical adventures at Bluesfest (which was unbelievably fun). Some of it got deleted, but at the moment I've written about two and a half days out of a total of seven. I also have to sort through my six or seven thousand-something pictures. My collection of signed CD's has grown significantly, and I can now say I've had real conversations with popular musicians (I'm usually pretty awkward around people who know what to do with musical instruments)--funnily enough, both conversations were about Islands and the Unicorns. I also discovered a band today, called the Bicycles, and shortly thereafter I noticed I've already met one of them--this Andrew Scott guy is also a member of Meligrove Band. Small world! Meligrove Band put on an awesome show at Bluesfest, and now I'd really like to see the Bicycles live.
Speaking of small worlds, I forgot to mention in my last post a show I went to. It's not really important, but I want to talk about it anyway because it was so weird. At the last Islands show I was at, they said that Patrick Gregoire's side project, Sister Suvi, would be playing at Endhits (that little record store on Dalhousie). I went alone, never spoke to anyone, and obsessed about how much my unusually low-cut shirt was showing, but I had quite a pleasant evening nonetheless. It was this cute little gig where everyone sat cross-legged on the floor and the audience never grew to much more than thirty people. The small world part comes in with the opening band, the Soft Disaster (who were, for the record, good). I suppose this isn't all that surprising, considering how few good bands there are coming from Ottawa, but I noticed one of the members was this guy from the Acorn. Who doesn't have a side project these days? Anyway, I bought their CD. This is very unlike me, but I haven't listened to it yet. I'm going to save it for a while. I should also point out that during this set, Patrick Gregoire sat beside me for almost half an hour. This is significant because I have quite the crush on him. This wasn't as pleasant as I would have expected, as judging by his odour, he really needed a shower. Then Sister Suvi came on. Wow. I can't say I've heard anything like them. Their music was fine, but the vocals were terrible. I was under the impression that Patrick Gregoire can sing, as I've occasionally seen him do backup vocals for Islands at shows, but I was mistaken. The other vocalist, I believe her name was Muriel, was equally bad. (I think Patrick has a crush on Muriel, I kept seeing him do little things to get her attention like an awkward teenage boy would). The drummer was fine, but unfortunately is not present on their CD (which, ironically, is called My Nice Drums). Why did I buy their CD, you ask? First of all, my opinion is that vocals are almost always better in studio recordings than they are live, so I figured I'd give them a chance and hopefully they would magically sound good (they didn't). Second, it was only $5 and was so ghetto that really I just bought it to amuse myself. I mean, the Soft Disaster has a pretty disc that comes in a proper plastic case with a printed sleeve, and they were opening for a band whose CD is on some name brand blank CD with "Sister Suvi" Sharpied on, and that comes in a case made from paper taped together with some quickly doodled cover art photocopied onto it. You can listen to their strange and funny music on their MySpace! I took a few pictures, but I didn't make any effort to avoid camera shake or have nice aim or whatever, so they're not worth showing. You can see a picture from the show on the Endhits MySpace, though. That is all.
OH, ALSO! Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is really good! Glop and I went to the midnight premiere dressed as pirates and we had Chinese food for dinner. It was a good night.