Random Channel Surfing

I told myself I would stop at last week's concert. I told myself that my new year's resolution of going to a show per month was already met... seeing as I've been to 12 concerts to date... Let's see... It all began with Matt Costa's concert in February Then I was lucky enough to experience the Foos in late March It was Concert-Palooza in April with THREE amazing concerts! In June I went to the Death Cab concert in Montréal... .... as well as NXNE (during which FIVE amazing bands played... only counts as one concert) In August, I went to Osheaga... .... and Radiohead. In September I saw Oasis... .... and the Saint Alvia... And now, in October, I went to my 12th concert... Bedouin Soundclash. But still. That doesn't mean that I don't want to go to David Martel's November 6th concert... or Sam Roberts' concert on November 20. I think I'm addicted to live music.

Seeing Bedouin Soundclash live, makes me want to hug everyone. I'm still on my high from last Thursday and knowing they're going to be in my hometown tomorrow (yes, tomorrow!), makes me want to be in two places at once. I wish I could apparate . Anyway, they were set to play a free concert in Vancouver yesterday in support of Insite  (North America's only supervised injection facility). Unfortunately, the event was shut down by Vancouver police, who stated that the organizers didn't have a permit to put up tents and that they obstructed traffic and blah, blah, blah... This has all caused a huge ruckus. Oh my.  One thing I forgot to mention in my last blog entry was Jay's freestyle during Money Worries! He ranted about how unfair things are, about the stupidity of the last election, and about Stephen Harper... The entire crowd went ape-shit. I wonder if he'll freestyle once more tomorrow...? Their latest vid is (as is always the case) very well-d...

So as you know, I went to the Bedouin show last Thursday night. I went with my kickass roommie, Laura . She'd heard "When the Night" years ago when it came out and loves it! It's now "our" song, hahah, we're geeks! Anywhoodles, I educated her on Bedouin's awesomeness, and she was hooked. And last Thursday night sealed the deal: the boys have a new fan : ) Laura and I managed to snag killer spots--front / centre (despite getting there late). The opening acts were Mishka (who's going to E-Ville) and Zaki Ibrahim. The bass player for Mishka was incredible. He could play like nobody's business! Zaki was amazing! She's so hyper-talented and cool... I definitely want to see her do her own show. Also: she was asked to come back out and play an encore!! Wowza...! Then Bedouin came on at around 9:50... how do I know?? Because Laura and I had sworn that we'd leave at 11:45 the latest  to catch the metro home... l...

Okay, last night was a joke.  Why did we even have an election? Who told him he had a chance of winning in Quebec?  En tout cas, life goes on. We're stuck in a Conservative minority government (again!) but... life goes on. In other news, BEDOUIN!! Tomorrow!! Oh how I love them!

So I've been back in Montréal for a little over three weeks now.  Here are three facts: --I'm still as crazy about this city as I was this summer --I love my job--if I could marry my job, I would --It's impossible not to love fall here... it was 20 degrees today... le sigh. I think I'm going to go out tomorrow and head out to Old Montréal to take pictures. I need to get pictures of the red, yellow and orange leaves that are all over the place. It's so romantic. I might go to Bedouin's concert on Thursday!!! Eee!!!

I am so happy with the fact that all anyone can talk about is politics! It's so wonderful knowing that people are actually passionate about what's going on...  . . . Oh wait, that was the dream I had last night. Right. People don't actually care who governs their country. People don't care if Harper gets his way and the arts are forgotten. People don't care that more is at stake than the environment or the safety of our Canadian soldiers or our economy for that matter. Or am I being too cynical? Is it that people do care but are too afraid to say something? Ah well, in any case, I think Montreal's cold winds are starting to get to me. I managed to watch both political debates last night. I watched Biden and Palin debate--and Biden put her to shame (which as I'm sure you all know, she's quite capable of doing WITHOUT anyone's help...) Poor girl doesn't know how to answer a question. Please, dear God... Get the Republicans out of the White House.  ...