Five things that are crush-worthy:
1)Camera Obscura’s cover of “Some Guys Have All the Luck.” Yes I like the original, but man I’m getting a sweet-tooth!
2)Fan videos for the now departed Bea Arthur. Watching them and clips of her over the years tugs at the heart strings and her comedic timing and genius makes me laugh!
3)Metric’s new album Fantasies out on Last Gang. Emily Haines has an amazing voice!
4)Anvil: The Story of Anvil… it was the sweetest, sad, hard-rocking and most charming documentary about a heavy metal Canadian band you’ve probably never heard of. It was the best film I saw at last year’s Sundance and I’m guessing its going to be hitting indie theaters this Spring/Summer because the band and director have been doing a lot of press for it. You have to see it!
5)Scoring 4 tickets to My Bloody Valentine because some awesome 1190 listener called up and said he spotted free tickets at Pablo’s Coffee. So I went, grabbed four tickets for the price of a latte! Then when I arrived at the Fillmore for the show I was talking in front of the venue about how I got tickets and actually met the guy who called! I only have a few more minutes, so we can discuss this later in the comments section if you want, but I must say that seeing My Bloody Valentine wasn’t as epic as I was expecting. I mean their sound was epic and deafening, and I should have worn two pairs of earplugs, but it really just didn’t do it for me. I was into it for the first three songs, and the light show was amazing and the colors were exactly what I’d hoped them to be. But, the songs were so muffled in my earplugs I couldn’t appreciate their wall of sound that I have loved on record for years. All the things I love about the band in theory and on record were not present at all onstage. And don’t get me started on that intense body shaking wall of noise they created as their finale, it actually was really soothing for a few minutes, but after about 6 or 7, it just got ridiculous. Oh well, checked it off on the list of bands I never thought I’d see.
<3,
djAlisha.