i'm not used to this. gotta get used to having shows to watch when i wake up.
yesterday i went for the lvery last time to my mother's house. i did it on a whim too, hoping they wouldn't get back in the afternoon (i don't like sunning with them there). i managed to go around noon and spend a good hour-and-a-half lying on a mattress in the pool :) then i came back home, planning on stopping at the grocery store since i got my pay yesterday, but realized i could also stop by Future Shop for a minute. i got Missy's The Cookbook and Audioslave's Rick Rubin-produced Out Of Exile. when Audioslave first came out i was weary of supergroups forming other supergroups. and the name. god... i think i liked the third single from that first album (note: gotta get that at the used record store). i'd never planned on getting this one either but i've recently grown curious about them, thinking they were more serious than it looked on paper, and i dug their style on the more laid-back stuff. so i'm at Future Shop and the disc is cheap. i check the backcover -- Rick Rubin produced it. it's a no-brainer and i immediately it.
only one day of work left. yay.
oh, yesterday the ex went to a show in Quebec City. some mutli-instrumentalist guy she heard about. she and her friend were all excited about seeing him. she left two messages this morning telling me to call her back. you know what? there was another show afterwards - for which they stayed and enjoyed immensely ... Daniel fuckin' Lanois. god. i was floored and jealous. and she knew i would be :P
[ ah - one look at Daniel's tour dates shows us that it was the famed Festival d'été de Québec, and the guy they went to see was Xavier Rudd. ]
oh, btw, when i saw War of the Worlds the other night we had the trailer for Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown [ trailer ]. that title never inspired me but it's Cameron Crowe, definitely one of my top three contemporary film directors. but the film stars Orlando Bloom, which i can't stand since The Two Towers (he was just freakish in the Fellowship; thought he was god-awful in the two others). thought that would spoil it for me -- until i sat there in the theater and saw the preview. wow!... it looks like Cameron still hasn't lost his personal/human touch. and i bought, in that minute-and-a-half, Orlando. and you know what? i got teary-eyed during the trailer. yes i did. the film is about Orlando coming back to his hometown for his father's funeral. and of course the subject of losing one's father is hits close to home with me. and it felt like Cameron knew what he was writing about. i seriously can't wait for this film to come out and i'll be the first one in.
holy shit (#30, i'm sure. i get excited easily :)
just jared discovers James Badge Dale (aka Chase) on the set of Scorsese's The Departed. (imdb doesn't even list him.) very cool. i wasn't hating this remake, but i wasn't gonna rush out to see it either. but this is turning the tide for me :)
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