Just bought a pair of tickets to see Pearl Jam in St. John's, Newfoundland in the wee hours this morning. This is in addition to the pair I already bought to see them in Halifax. So the current plan is to drive to hali. with Justin and Taylor and Janelle, see them there on the 22nd, meet up with Will and whoever the shit else J. has convinced to come along, say goodbye to Janelle, then fly to St. John's early on the 23rd. That gives us two whole days to poke around St. John's and generally stalk the band and meet up with all the real PJ fanatics who've been following them around the country. Apparently the last date on the tour, like St. John's will be, is notorious for being a much longer set and where Eddie Vedder goes even more nuts than usual. Can't wait. After the show we fly back to Hali. and then take a shuttle to the Island, on which we'll likely all fall completely asleep. I'm going to be pumped about this all summer long.
More music news, the Shoreline Festival on July 8th-10th in Rollo Bay is going to be a wicked time. The lineup is pretty damn impressive for PEI, and actually makes me think that there may be what you could legitimately call an East Coast 'scene' (but oh how the constant obsessing and whining about a 'scene' on various message boards has soured me on using that word).
The screen on my laptop is getting a little loose.. where it will fall closed if I don't position it nearly straight up. Still perfectly usable, but just another thing that's slowly breaking on it, along with all the plastic bits that have come off, port covers and decorations and such, and the 'j' key which has been missing for about a year and a half now, the network and modem ports which no longer work (currently using a PCMCIA network card), the wireless card (which I stepped on one day), the media buttons on the front which only work with WinXP (and not with Win2k which I much much prefer), and the battery cover, which has gotten a little loose, so if I am carrying the computer around and jiggle it a bit too much, the battery will get knocked loose from the connectors just long enough to lose power. I've had the machine for 3 years now, and really it still works and does everything I need.. but maybe a powerbook is closer to my future than I thought.
So Tony Blair managed to keep a 62 seat advantage in the British House of Commons with only a 36% shrare of the vote. Quoth the Taylor: "Proportional representation is for homos." Meanwhile, my hope for gains by the Liberal Democrats have been deflated, with them getting barely more than 50 of 600-some seats, roughly the same percentage of seats as the NDP have, with no political leverage thanks to Labour's huge majority. The only good thing is that at least Blair will quit soon. It seemed inevitable that Blair would win, because the Conservatives were limited mainly to southern England, and irrelevant everywhere else. The whole situation is very similar to the Canadian House of Commons' electoral map, including regional nationalist parties.
Memo to Trent Reznor: You're 38 years old, filthy rich and can do what you love for a living. The angsty lyrics are getting old.
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