sunday day, on my way to a meeting, i got a ticket for not wearing my seatbelt :( a hundred and ten dollar lesson that i will never forget.
sunday night sebastien grainger played the casbah which was great. he has such a good growly voice. he took his shirt off like, 2 songs into his set which i thought was pretty premature.
tuesday night ladyhawk rolled into town which is a band i always look forward to. but it's also a band that makes you conscious about what outfit you're going to wear, because if you're anywhere near the stage, you're bound to get soaked in both beer and sweat.
it was so so good. like always.
and andrew vincent opened.
to our pleasant surprise, tavo accompanied him onstage.
just delightful.
after that we dropped by the casbah and caught some of hey rosetta! they were quite good, but i don't know where they fit in, genre-wise. and i don't think they know either.
thursday i went to the casbah to see chain and the gang and the hive dwellers. right before i left for the show, i scarfed down some homemade peanut butter noodles to provide some absorbent cushioning for the subsequent beers i was about to ingest.
when i got to the show, my friends were talking to ian svenonius, the singer of chain and the gang. he looks exactly like a vampire. but a friendly one.
as i was getting introduced to him, i asked him if he was allergic to peanuts because if he was, i didn't want to get too close to him for fear that breathing peanutbutter into his face would kill him by causing him to go into an airborne-induced anaphylactic shock. Then calvin johnson came over and of course i made sure he wasn't allergic either.
imagine i killed either ian or calvin before their set? imagine if i killed them both???? that would be TERRIBLE. anyway, turns out neither are allergic to peanuts.
calvin played with the hive dwellers, and their set was amazing. unfortunately there weren't too many people at the show to witness it, but this allowed calvin to make eye contact with every single person in the crowd, for 20 seconds at a time. it made me feel weird, but in a good way. His dance moves were outrageous and put Mike Long (who was in the front row) to shame.
when chain and the gang took the stage, they caused the 20 person-audience to dance. ian had incredible stage presence. he often jumped into the crowd to dance with us, but when he came over to me, he waved his hand in front of his face (like peeee-uuuuuu) and shouted at me: "you're going to kill me!"
When he got back on stage, he introduced his next song... He said: "I met a really nice girl tonight, but she almost killed me with her breath."
My face went crimson red, obviously. But what made me extra red was that the whole audience thought that it was bad breath that almost killed him, they didn't know he was making fun of the fact that I thought I could kill him by breathing peanut air onto him.
so embarrassing.
Last night (saturday) sash and I went and saw bell orchestre for the first time.
never before have i heard a band harmonize a french horn with a trumpet. so good.
so far today, two jehovah's witnesses came to my door. when i answered the door, i pretended that they woke me up by squinting my eyes and whispering... and so they said they'd come back. also, my cat assaulted a tiny mouse that was bleeding to death so i had to flush it :(
tomorrow we head to court to testify against an asshole who assaulted us over a year ago in toronto. i'm so nervous i'm going to puke!!!!!
Hope you had a wonderful day! xoxo
