I met with Wanda and Dan on Barrington St., where we stopped in the Tim’s for a spell. We soon made our way to the Velvet Olive, which was not quite what I had expected. It was a but too upper class for my tastes. It had a nice atmosphere, being part dining area, part art gallery and part performance space, with minimal lighting. However, it was one of those places where the menus don’t include prices and where just water to drink costs a handful of quarters. Obviously not the sort of place a t-shirt and jeans wearing socialist like myself fits in.
The three of us sat off to the right of the stage and talked over (non-alcoholic) drinks (water and lemon for myself) for a while. During this, Danny Michel came up to us and mistook Wanda for the opening act, Jill Barber. It was a rather odd mistake, but it lead to Wanda being able to give him the stuffed animal frog she had bought for him. (There’s a fuzzy explaination for the frog, and I really must share it. Wanda told us that since the concert was on a “leap day”, the extra day added to every fourth year, a “leap frog” was appropriate. She received only blank stares initionally.) We talked to him for a short while and Wanda had the albums she brought signed by him with my always ready sharpie.
Jill Barber soon took to the stage for a too-short opening accoustic stint. She put on a really impressive show that demonstrated vocal prowess and deft musicianship. The songs were solid and her stage presence demonstrated experience and confidence. Jill is definitely an artist to watch for, and someone I hope to be able to see live again. She has a new album, Oh Heart, that will be released on March 16, so be sure to hunt it down.
After a short intermission, Danny Michel brought his electric quitar to the stage. He graced us with an excellent solo performace. His stage presence was very relaxed but was also very strong and certainly impressed the audience. Danny’s guitar and pedal work were superb, and gave the show a sense of dynamic that a one person show usually can’t attain. The highlight songs for me were “Fireworks”, “Perfect”, “The Invisable Man”, “Toledo”, and “Newton’s Apple”, each of which had a distinctly unique sound. It was certainly one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.
After Danny’s performance, he was selling his CD’s, so Wanda went over to get a new one, have some things signed, and so that I could take a photo of the two of them. Danny was very nice throughout both times we (mostly Wanda) talked with him, and seemed quite flattered by being recognized. After such a limited exposure to his music, he’s already climbed into the ranks of my favourite artists.
Live‘s cover of Psychedelic Furs’s “Love My Way” is a very enjoyable song. It and two other great songs, “Smoke” by Stuart Davis and Ed Kowalczyk and “Run Away” by Live and featuring Shelby Lynne, can be found at Fans of Live. All three are superb and highly recommended by this soul.
Tonight on Zed, CBC’s nightly independent showcase, there will be performances by Lederhosen Lucil. Lucil is fantastic. Musical brilliance and a great sense of humour mixed with all things Deutsch make for an interesting experience, but I greatly appreciate it. Tune in to CBC between 11:25 p.m. and 12:05 a.m. local time to check out the show.
Two weeks remain for me to be able to find a job. After that time I will have to return to my parents’ home for an undetermined amount of time. I know failure will be very painful, so I’ll continue to do all I can. I am thankful my parents have been supportive of me as much as they have been.
21 comments on ““Dust In All Their Hearts””
Ok, I’ll be here to talk when you come on. I have coffee in hand.
Aw, it’s nice to be thought of. Seriously, it’s touching to know people think of me.
I’ll keep trying all I can to get a job. I won’t give up hope.
Well, I think of you quite often, so keep that in mind if you need some niceness.
That’s really interesting that happened to your friend. I don’t know how I feel about fate. I like to believe in free will, myself, but sometimes things happen in ways that defy coincidence.
Patiently agressive? I like that.
Yeah, I think you’re right.
1) <lj-cut>, please
2) disciple?!!
Why should he have to lj cut for your benefit.
It’s an entry of words, not a huge picture. If you don’t like it, then don’t read it.
Sorry, if I sounded rude I wasn’t really trying to be. I guess I just misinterpreted your comment in the wrong way. Sorry about that.
Eeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwww stinky attitude!!
<lj-cut> is /always/ for the benefit of friends … who else would it be for?!
(Maybe sometime in future you can behave as though this is your friends’ space, and not your own.)
🙁
Oh, he is more than just a friend.
And because he’s that you bite at me for a polite request?
Whatever …
Whoa, hold on a second, I said I was sorry right after I made that first comment because I realized my mistake.
Can’t we just leave it at that?
Oh?
Oh … jeez, sorry … I truly didn’t see the sorry.
Leave it, no, better: I regret we got tangled up. K?
A cut? I generally don’t encourage cut use unless there is a large image. I didn’t think a text-only entry would be a problem.
The disciple thing is just a running joke my friends and I have.
*phew!*
I felt like I had been shot in the forehead with one of those 99c rubber suction-cup arrows … disciple?! huh huh
Oh … you don’t <lj-cut> long text items? I cut anything that will drop more than a screenful onto my friends’ list page … I guess that comes from reading lots on my friends page and knowing how nice it is to have a nice array of items.
The disciple thing has evolved from a simple highschool nickname. I somehow aquired “Jesus” as my moniker back then, and it’s stuck. Eventually my friends became disciples to play off that. It’s certainly a bit silly, but it’s stuck around for years.
I usually haven’t cut long entries, but I’ll make an effort to in the future if it bothers you. I’ve never had a request to cut text entries before, so I really didn’t know anyone wanted the cut. I usually like to read my friends’ entries all on the friends page, so I perfer them to be cutless unless there are images. I suppose it’s all personal preference.
*yoiks* An intersting high-school rememiscence!
Yes, it’s entirely preference thing; most folk cut their longer items; I ask most of the time when I see one that isn’t; the end result is a very comfortable mix.
Of course there are always those who react very negatively … not sure how antagonism in the face of a simple and relatively polite request can be justified, but it’s that sort of times.
Oh, what was most interesting was when the teachers adopted it as well.
Yeah, antagonism is certainly not helpful. I can understand why some people react in that way, though.
You can understand why people pounce?
I can … indirectly (we’re all stressed to the max), but not more than that.
I think some people see it as others imposing their preference on their personal journal. Some people are sensitive about keeping their journal distinctly theirs and falsely see the request to use a cut as a restriction of their journalistic (I can’t think of a better word at the moment, but I know that the meaning of relating to “The keeping of a journal or diary.” doesn’t come across as it should) freedom. I think it’s in no way a positive reaction, but I can see the reasoning that one might have in order to react that way.
Thank you for at least realizing my mistake.
A polite request is seen as “imposing” … yes, that’s what I mean.
Those who are accustomed to blindly following orders or otherwise being coerced normally react agressively to anything other than raw force.
Ummm … I didn’t think I was arguing the point … not sure what called for the evidence.