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word up kids,

*before i start, i am too lazy to do the html code shit to make real links so instead i just wrote out the actual websites. they're still links but far less fancy*

welcome to sunday afternoon. i am waiting for my dad to come by with a new bookshelf for us. it's hard to be as well read as i am and have space for all the books. jokes kids. this bookshelf is for dvd's! ha ha!

anyhow, this week/weekend has been ALL about music for me. yeah, sure i've been rehearsing and it finally seems to be on it's way to something worth possibly considering watching at some point.

ok. so all about music i said right. so if we go back to last saturday i had a good day of purchasing some new musical goodness. i got some kick ass goodness.

the most serence republic - underwater cinematographer
ironically enough they played here last saturday and the word on the street is that this is one of the best albums of the year. it's really gorgeous...lush, sweeping and totally gorgeous. i am in love with this album. check out www.arts-crafts.ca for more info on this band and all the other awesome bands on arts & crafts records.

xiu xiu- la foret
fuck me i LOVE xiu xiu. there is the complication and understated brilliance to this man and his band...to me they are this amazing juxtaposition of crazy loud noise and then the quiestest whispers. to me this is music for true love and broken hearts and wild sex. http://xiuxiu.org/ for more fantastical information on one of the greatest bands ever!

and...

cursive - the difference between houses and homes (lost songs and loose ends 1995-2001)
man, i just love cursive. the ugly organ is one of the greatest records ever. i got this record mostly because cursive is finished and i need new stuff as long as possible. it's a bit screamy (as their old stuff tends to be...) but i like it and a lot of these songs signal the brilliance that was to come post domestica! ahh cursive. www.saddle-creek.com for more info.

recordings aside i have also had a brilliant week of live music listening as well. actually, that's not entirely true. last thursday i went to kid606 at the victory lounge and whilst i was expecting a glorious spazzy noise set i was instead bombarded with a vaguely drum and bass (read: ugh) sounding set. to be honest it was a bit boring. a friend of mine couldn't be there and he told me to shed tears and have a candlelight vigil for his absence at what promised to be a kick ass fucking show. it wasn't. no candlelight vigil required. no tears shed. so sad.

so jump forwards to tuesday and the scene show of the year (or the summer at least): chromeo (www.chromeo.net) with local dance punk bad boys (hee hee) SHOUT OUT OUT OUT OUT! (http://www.nrmlswlcmrcrds.com/) yeah man, shout out out out out kick some serious ass. and it's so nice to see all the scenesters dance. i didn't even bring a purse so i could dance.

chromeo was a bit of a let down. a lot of pretense but they just didn't deliver. i like them as a band and they are good but the vocoder and all the jazzy little tech tricks just make me mad after a while when there isn't much backing it up. i felt like they just weren't living up to their own hype and their own ability. whatever. they were still good and i still got all sweaty and still bought their album. what i really wished though was that shout out out out out had put their album out on cd because i don't have a working record player right now and i want to hear their album! so sad.

the one thing that did sort of suck about the show was that my darling friend llewelyn (www.stillfalling.blogspot.com) didn't have fun. this was her first experience with the starlite room and the 'scene' or whatever in general. the thing that was too bad was that it wasn't scene kids who ruined the show for her, it was some shitty chromeo uber-fans who forget that other people are there too.

i guess this is a show pet peeve...people do need to have more respect for their fellow show-goers. especially the ones who aren't very tall. everyone has the right to enjoy the music and their experience at the show but not at the expense of other people. my biggest pet peeve is the morons who stand behind you (at the front of the stage) and feel compelled to chat their way through the show. boys, starlite room is a large venue with some nice plushy booths at the back. you can still here the music and chat without me having to listen to you talk about 'fat chicks' and the band at the same time.

so ok. fast forward again to friday night and our little cast field trip to see motherfucking lazersnake and the vertical struts.

i wanted this to be a cast field trip because i wanted my actors to learn about communication and no one communicates on stage the way musicians do...specifically the way tortoise do but we couldn't go to that show so this would have to do. too bad none of the actors were there but kelsie, skye and i had a blast!

the show opened a rock and roll puppet show a la the fantastic led zimmerman from hollywood california. now, can anyone honestly tell me that a show that opens with a puppet show isn't going to be AWESOME? no. sorry, you can't. this show was AWESOME! lazersnake are ridiculously wonderful and fucking hilarious. i wish you could hear them right now because i can't explain them as a band. the generic words that i would use like glitch, dance punk, ironic postmodern revery...they just don't describe...they just can't describe. also, this was their demo release party and the demo was FREE...i love free shit!

the vertical struts are one of my favourite bands...spazzy guitar/drums goodness. the raymond beisinger sweats and rocks out all over the stage and it's uber-fantastic. (www.verticalstruts.com , www.fifteen.ca) i am not sure kelsie and skye were too down with the struts because they are a bit louder than the lovely lazersnake but i dug it and all in all i think we had a great time.

i love how music is taking over my life right now. i'm meeting so many cool people and it's totally changing my perspective on theatre and the creation of art in general. i know how that sounds but it's true. the energy that is so evident in live music is seriously missing in live theatre. it's insane how lacking!

anyhow, that's what i got.

hope you're all exceedingly well.
kisses,
michelle.