Today, My Heart Swings   

first off, the big news across the canadian music blogosphere yesterday: the polaris prize long list! yay especially to leonard cohen. i care not for anyone else on that list. (because i have terrible taste in music, i remind you.)

even cooler, more canada-centic news: white stripes canadian road documentary is coming! those were some wacky, wacky times back in 2007. can't wait to see this one! (even if i did miss that last-minute dead weather show last saturday...ironically, i was downtown that afternoon when wristbands were being given out, and i wasn't busy at all on saturday night, but them's the breaks)

the end of the virgin megastore. this actually causes me to weep inside a little bit, since there was nothing at all in canada like america's virgin megastores (though some of our hmv stores are similar in size and range of products, now), and the first time i went into the one in chicago, i had heart palpitations. fond memories of lollapalooza 2006.

also from your good friends at idolator: denny's allows musicians to create their own menu items. the apocalypse, it is nigh. (though the madden brothers' burritos actually sound pretty edible -- for the rest, you can go ahead and have mental images of this is why you're fat right now)

but of course: new h.i.m. album on valentine's day 2010. i really do wish i could like ville, but i was too underwhelmed and unimpressed when i saw him live for the first time. meandering around onstage looking bored and pissed off may be goffick enough on paper, but in practice, it does not please music critics.

and now, blogto - by far my favourite of the internet's toronto-centric web hubs - has got up a great guide to the north by northeast festival madness this weekend. i'm glad i'm not doing coverage this year; got too much on my plate otherwise, though i'm sure i will be missing that pretty little press pass more than a few times.

though it must be said that nxne week = busy week! aside from kitten-feeding tonight and book reading with christine tomorrow night, the boy's bands - two of 'em right now - are playing thursday night, saturday afternoon and saturday night, not to mention friends' bands are playing all night friday. add to that the fact that my father's coming to town on saturday morning/afternoon for an early father's day get-together - involving lunch, antiquing, and ago-ing - and things are wild. crazy and fun, though, as always. hang on to the rollercoaster and don't fall off. (the things that keep me sane remain the same: boyfriend, cooking, long walks, writing and music)

[ music | peter murphy, "cuts you up" ]