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Thursday, October 20, 2005

am very happy for many different reasons.

most immediately - i just found out i've got tickets to see I am Kloot at the Academy - with good'ol Guy Garvey opening! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
this is WILD. talk about a trip down memory lane! kate where are you?!? we need to go to Big Hands!

AND have tickets for starsailor in newcastle.

AND the sun has just come out, showering the beautiful french countryside with a warm light that filters amongst the rolling hills and .. ahahahah i try to be poetic. i fail. but anyways - think i'll go for a walk and take some photos. then maybe the photos will be poetic themselves.

there are cows out back!

a bit different from living on the edge of chinatown in downtown toronto now, innit?!
(where there are cows out back but they're not whole cows, and they're hanging in shop windows)

also made a friend yesterday. :)
she took me out to set up a phone account and show me around the city where i'll hopefully be living in not too long.
for now though, i'm quite content in this town of 200, with a church, but no bakery?!? or other stores.

band practice tonight. no i'm not in the band but i secretly wish i were. getting to watch in a hotboxed shed is good enough for me.

à tout!

~ rebecca 7:48 AM ~ [+]

Saturday, October 15, 2005

am waiting for some music to rip.
am very sleeeeeepy.
12 hours from now i'll be on a bus to montreal.
24 hours from now i'll be landing in paris.
then a few hours after that - - becky will be a very happy girl.

so last post from canada then, eh?
am hoping to have many visitors in the next half year or so who'll bring me things like kraft dinner.

in a rather spontaneous move, i've also bought a ticket to liverpool then on to newcastle.
hiking in the lake district, reconnecting with some manchesterness, potentially attending gigs of two of my fave bands, visiting junior high school friend at posh uni in durham, then back to the alps just in time for a wild costume party in some remote cabin in the woods. yes, have got a cleopatra costume goin'

that's it folks.
*muah* *muah*
a bientot ~

~ rebecca 2:40 AM ~ [+]

Sunday, October 09, 2005

the sky tonight c. 6:35

~ rebecca 2:22 AM ~ [+]

doves are playing in the man's chester ON MY BIRTHDAY!
i know i've complained about doves live, but i would definitely consider giving them another chance, since i think they make wonderfully gorgeous music...

in other news,
there will be 29 people at our thanksgiving dinner tomorrow.

and also, i skipped a bunch of girliness in my description of the Tumi and the Volume show - so i'm inserting it here, hehe...
alimac and i were sitting at the back of the venue where Tumi happened to be sitting... one at a time the other band members joined him. then they asked us if we had a pen. to write their setlist! i at first gave them a red pen. then we realized they were writing on pink flyers. so i offered my black pen. and the drummer was sooo smiley and cute in his red hoodie. after the show we chatted with them for a second or two out front and the drummer came up and extended his hand for a handshake. :) in his red hoodie. he looked real cute. they will try to play in europe, specifically in france, for me. that's what i interpret from what they said anyways. ;)
and i haven't even mentioned the headliner yet!

k'naan - the dusty foot philosopher. SO very good. i'm not usually a lyrics person and silly enough, i don't/can't usually follow hiphop lyrics, but with him, i was totally listening and soaking in everything he said... was great.
i think he's about to go on tour in europe so i hope i can see him again soon.
a very socially conscious 'hip hop' artist - having been a refugee from somalia.. one of my favourite lines goes something like this:
"If I rhymed about home and got descriptive / I'd make 50 Cent look like Limp Bizkit."
a good read here

~ rebecca 1:13 AM ~ [+]

Friday, October 07, 2005

"We are a proud people, a live people, Allah's people, a beautiful people, and equally foul people..."

take a look at this article. a nice snapshot of the wonderfully awesome South African 'hip hop' group whose funk/jazz stylings alimac and i caught yesterday at Zaphods. love em love em love em.
Tumi and the Volume in canada brought to you by DistrictSix

~ rebecca 8:49 AM ~ [+]

Saturday, October 01, 2005

and the award for 'Best Live Band Becky Has Seen in a While' goes to . . .

*drumroll*

Metric!!

yesssss what an awesome show last night. funny how it was all ages - the 20-somethings stood by the bar on the balcony bopping their heads, while the under 19s moshed down by the stage. yes, moshed. it made me feel old. a bit random/annoying, but hey - at least everyone seemed to be having a good time. we chugged a couple beers upstairs (we weren't allowed to bring alcohol down) and then ventured as best we could to the front of the stage. first opener - The Lovely Feathers were reallly really good... who are they?!?! where do they come from?! why havn't i heard of them before?!? well, i'm sure they'll be around, breaking in to the scene big time, if they havn't already (and i'm just blissfully ignorant).
my sweetheart Jason Collett was up next. up at the bar before the show, he walked right by and we made eye contact while i was in mid sentence and then i simply could not finish my sentence and it must've looked so incredibly awkward. ahhhh haha girlie/swooning over rockstar moments... :)
his set was good. too bad he had to rush off to do another show in Montreal the same night! i suppose i didn't really expect his folky alt-country style to mesh well with the younger crowd. (i felt quite young at the last toronto show i went to.) anyways, it wasn't a bad crowd reaction.
then (succexy) emily haines graced the stage and the crowd went wild. and was pretty much wild for the rest of the night. highlights were Succexy, Combat Baby (of course!) and (again, of course) Dead Disco.



then i slept over at my cousin's house and was told i looked like i was 16.
bah.
and now, i wish the clock would just stop ticking for a couple of hours.
i need to run, shower, clean, AND i've just been put in charge of making a banner and ordering an ice cream cake. yesssss

oh, and on a sadder note. the total number of 'love letters' that i have been intent on receiving but have been lost in the mail, is now 2. and i don't know which postal service is to blame

oh, and i need ideas for a costume party to be held in a lost cabin in the alps. the theme is 'historical figures'. so anything from 'adam and eve' to ???

~ rebecca 1:43 PM ~ [+]