BRAND NEW

Sadie and I checked out Brand New last night at the Kool Haus. Very awesome band, I have to say that its one of the few times where I've spent the majority of a show at the back, and enjoyed it more. Was up front at first but wasn't feeling the crowd, and felt like puking, so I moved back and got some water. And it was nice just getting to chill and actually pay attention to the music. Sadie and I got seperated, but it turns out she ended up at the back as well and enjoyed that distance too. What was nice about their set was that I guess they are a big enough (and creative) enough band to have the resources to have a slide show go along with their music, but small enough that it wasn't some mega affair with 10,000 people. The slide show was SO incredibly fitting- it really brought out the darker side in the band.

Four things though:
1. Kool Haus sucks as a venue, compared to the Opera House you don't have a clear view of the stage no matter where you are. Talking to Iris after I got home last night she agreed, Kool Haus sucks.

2. Tools from Windsor: some thickheaded boys were standing in front of me, they were totally pompus, trying to provoke the secuity / look cool

"Hey you! Yeah you Mr. Secuirty Guard in the Yellow? What music do you like? What music do you like? Country?!?"

Shoot me now.

3. Priscilla girls

4. Crime in Stereo deserved a better crowd, to be honest with you the crowd at Brand New was pretty shitty.



On the way back we had your typical TTC experience got on the Subway headed to Kennedy, and there was some lady dressed in flamboyant red sprawled across the subway benched. She awoke startled to this guy offereing her a lime lolly pop, she declined. He offered us; accepted, ate. Good times. As lollypop guys said "Welcome to Toronto." Then waiting for the bus at Kennedy, a crazy guy was mumbling/yelling "Bitch", and motioning some pretty creative hand actions.

Pretty stoked about going to Lindsay tomorrow, its always nice to get a change of scenery. Oh! And have been spending my class breaks today editing the Shut Eyes/ Emergency interview... now rendering!

Anyway, some poker night photos:

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So back on here... and I think I'm going to be posting regularily. Haha this came out of skype with Yvonne like 10 mins ago, we're on to something new... So... we've got "regular" blogs now, go check out Yvonne's: http://www.kueilann.blogspot.com/

Got back last night from another installment of "not in any way affiliated to IDSSA or SAID or U of T" poker night... much to my surprise, I won! It only happened because I had a good panel of poker advisors, anyway all $100 dollars raised is going toward the Uganda Skateboard Union, check these guys out too it looks like a good project: http://www.ugandaskateboardunion.org/ . Took a bunch of photos on my fisheye, but those photos probably won't be up for a while, have to get the film processed.

Woke up this afternoon at 3 after waking up at 10:30 and going back to bed. Made some toast with feta and zucchini and eggplant and tomato. It was GOOOD, had some coffee with it too. And started to read Return to Laughter for anthro class, I didn't think I would like it too much but, it's nice, in an old school anthro sort of way, Very romantic. I'll bask in the romance for now. Have to get a good chunk of it read in the next while for my book report due on the 2nd. I need to do well on it, didn't do well on my anthro book report last year and want to do better, especially if I'm thinking about going into anthro.

Still have a pile of CDs on the floor from Fusion's CD clean up/ grab... going to have to sort through them and figure out whats good and whats not. Managed to get my hands on some Propagandhi, H2O and walls of Jericho, also some Mates of State, which I listened to a bit cause it was on a mix from Ben, anyway they are actually pretty good! I grabbed a lot of them cause they had some cool artwork anyway, even if the music sucks, maybe the album covers can be used to decorate our home.

I started a blog for Dungbeetle as well: http://www.dungbeetle-interviews.blogspot.com/ , Sadie and I are going to gradually move our interviews off of myspace and on to an actual blog, especailly since we are in video now. We also have a vimeo page for our videos, our name is "Dungbeetle Interviews". I've really got to finish editing the interview of Shut Eyes and Emergency, interviewed them at the end of October, and still haven't finished it. Fail.