Today, My Heart Swings   

back. alive. excited for the week! many awesome gigs coming up almost every night, kittens to feed tonight, pre-gig friend hangouts wednesday and friday...the only downside to everything is the fact that this time next week, my boyfriend will be gone on tour for the rest of the month, but i just bought a bus ticket to see the band play in london on saturday night, thus prolonging the fond farewells for one more day. after saturday, though, they're pretty much off across canada for the month.

but he'll be okay -- as i said to him, i feel infinitely more secure about him touring canada as opposed to last winter's europe tour, if only because c'mon has done the cross-canada route so many times and have so many friends along the way. it'll be good.

not so good is reading the stand at a time like this. (for those who haven't read it, it's about a superflu that kills off almost the entire planet.) i actually had to put the damn thing down last night and force myself to read something, anything else. yeesh.

oh, and weekender cooking update: good morning muffins on friday were enough to make boyfriend say "you're getting really good at this, babe" (this is a good thing); chana masala on saturday night was excellent after the addition of ginger, garlic, and green chili peppers; drunken baking of dark chocolate-chili cookies later on saturday night was, surprisingly, fantastic. especially since i got the damn measurements right this time. stupid grams.

anyway.

the horrors are coming! oh, the...horror? not really -- bad puns aside, the goth-punk quintet from the uk are playing here in toronto with the kills next week, and if all goes well, i may end up being able to review the gig. if not, they're playing vancouver on saturday the 16th - the day i arrive - and if i'm not too jetlagged, i figure i can always check 'em out there. ooooooh gothy rock!

new from the social distortion camp: charlie the drummer has left! bums me out -- he was one of the nicest guys in that band. (well, they were all pretty nice, really -- one of their guitar techs even nicknamed me "the supermodel") if you missed my adventures on the road with the black halos as they opened for social d - exactly two years ago! - and you have a few hundred hours to waste, read about them here.

early performers in the lineup for this year's s.c.e.n.e. festival. if there was ever an excuse to go to st. catharines - and really, you kinda need one - that'd be it. just goes to remind the rest of us that north by northeast 2009 is on the horizon...delna, you in for this one? ;)

new depeche mode documentary coming soon! there is also a fantastic interview with fletch on the site that is well worth the read. i pretty much love all of those guys (though i might kill something for the chance to talk to martin l. gore), and it just adds more fuel to the fire that is my longing to go to lollapalooza this year. i guess i'm just a commitmentphobe.

serena ryder covers band of horses' "the funeral". notable news for two reasons: one, i love that song; two, one of my coworkers went to high school with her and says, errr, not very pleasant things about her. i dunno, just sayin'.

forget swine flu and earthquakes, here's the real sign of the apocalypse: creed are reuniting. this is pain.

the new hilarity: fuck yeah cilantro. pretty much exactly my kind of humour -- crude, random, and full of profanity. also, cilantro.

okay, my lunch break's almost over, so i'm out. be good to each other this week, soak up the sunshine (ignore the rain today) and try not to die from killer influenzas, okay?

[ music | great northern, "mountain" ]