Stars was great, though people should stop taking flash photography during concerts. Especially when the band hasn’t come on, and the hall is darkened simply because there is nothing to see. There is absolutely no point in trying to blind the rest of your fellow concert-goers. May you all have overexposed shots of whoever’s sitting in front of you. Nice hair. Hairy back. But Stars was great. Loved Calendar Girl and Soft Revolution, and thought their performance of Your Ex-Lover is Dead was especially poignant last night. 

A little bummed because they didn’t play Barricade, but they did My Favourite Book, which I thought they wouldn’t. Why isn’t today yesterday? Ah. For some reason, I had always thought that the lyrics to Window Bird went like “you’re so full of shit” when in fact they are “you’re so ferocious”. Haha. 

And if you are a lefthander and in a band, chances are I like you already. 

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I reckon we have a few more days before we should stop using the new year as an excuse to get out of stuff. Clean up the room? But the year’s barely begun. Draw something? But this is my last official holiday before the new work year starts. So, let’s play more Wii and watch some movies. Next, read a book and write an email. Next, next.

Ani Difranco is coming! Well, despite me knowing only 10% of her entire repertoire (she is much too prolific), I doooooooo want to go. It is depressing how expensive the tickets are though.

Some Ani:

32 Flavours. This is quite likely her most heard-of song, since Alana Davis did a cover of that and it was pretty popular when it came out. And this is probably blasphemous to Ani fans, but I do like the cover as much as I like the original.





Shy

Untouchable Face
Both Hands
Jukebox
Millennium Theater
Napolean

Bah. I don’t know any of her newer stuff.