Went to see the Matt Good concert last night and it was absolutely incredible! pumpkin_dude and I got there nice and early so we managed to get great seats in the second row *happy flail*!

The awesomeness started even before Matt's set did. The opening act was a folk duo from Toronto called Dala. I hadn't heard of them before but they were freaking amazing! I was hooked about 10 seconds into the first song they played. Their voices are gorgeous and their harmonies gave me goosebumps. You guys should check them out, here's a streaming link to their first video:

"Anywhere Under the Moon" by Dala (if you guys like it and want me to upload some of their songs, let me know and I will)

They were in the lobby signing autographs during the intermission and were super-cute and sweet. They complimented me on my "Allow Me to Explain Through Interpretive Dance" T-shirt, which made me happy. So yeah, they were pretty awesome.

After intermission, it was finally time for Matt's set to start. The concert was acoustic, which was cool (despite the fact that MG's muti-layered instrumentals are one of the things I like best about his music), so we got to hear a lot of familiar songs with a different sound. He played a bunch of my favorite songs, like "Champions of Nothing", "Strange Days", "Apparitions", "Born Losers", "Avalanche", and a ton of other stuff. He played for nearly 2 hours, which rocked. And when he came out for the encore he did another 4 songs, which kicked ass.

It was such an incredible and moving experience for me. Being so close to the stage just listening to his amazing voice singing all of these songs that have meant so much to me for so long made me actually made me tear up a couple of times. *hearts Matt liek whoa*

He was super entertaining in between songs too. He's surprisingly hilarious and had the whole crowd laughing out loud. He had a cold (but still sounded great) so he decided that he needed to drink wine on stage, which was pretty funny (and led to him telling us how you can apparently open wine bottles with a scimitar -- LOL!), he kept bugging one of the roadies for loading him up on a bunch of weird homeopathic remedies and for buying him cheap wine that made his teeth hurt.

Near the end of the set, Matt brought out his camera and took a picture of the crowd, (which he does at every concert), he put it on his Flickr page today, and pumpkin_dude and I are in the photo! Check it out (we're in the second row on the far left)! LOL!

So all in all, it was a great concert. And I have to say, as much as I love and adore American TV shows and movies, sometimes it's really nice to take in a night of actual Canadian culture. *waves flag*

I just heard five or six very loud gunshots, looked out the window to the grocery store parking lot directly across the street from my apartment to see one car peeling out and another car parked.

Within a few minutes, about ten emergency vehicles converged on the scene. They took at least one person away in an ambulance but they're still surrounding the car and it looks like they might be putting someone in a body bag.

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I think I need to move.

I mean, this is CANADA! This sort of stuff isn't supposed to happen here! There was that HORRIBLE shooting spree in Montreal just last week and now this?

The world is going fucking crazy.

Stephen Harper eats babies!

Come on, look into those cold, dead eyes of his and tell me it's not the truth.

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Sweet mother of crap there's an INSANE amount of snow on the ground!

Apparently we got like a foot and a half last night!

Glad I don't have to take the bus anywhere today because that would be really fucking irritating.

I already had to trudge my way to the grocery store and back earlier today. I managed to do so without falling on my ass or dropping any of my groceries in the snow! So, go me!

That probably doesn't sound like a very impressive feat to most people, but those of you who know me in RL and know how much of a spaz I am (even when there ISN'T 2 feet of snow on the ground!) will know that's a pretty amazing accomplishment ;-)

My website is back up and running, in case anybody cares. I really really need to change the layout and update it with my latest vids and icons and stuff. I haven't updated it since May, fuck. It's definitely time for a change (and yes, that change most likely involves changing the layout to something more, shall we say, Dean-and-Sam-esque--but are you really surprised?).

On a much more annoying and ( much more TMI note... )

Also, it's snowing and really fucking cold out! When did that happen?

Sheesh, you'd think this was Canada or something...

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The fact that we have a reality show here called "My Fabulous Gay Wedding" makes me proud to be Canadian :-)