Wilco are amazing

I FINALLY got to see Wilco last night and it was every bit as good as I expected. Great view, killer lights, new songs, audience play, etc. It was great fun. I really hope someone was recording it. 

I've got tonnes of pictures and video, most kind of crappy but i'm glad I have them. Just one more show now, The New Pornographers, and the festival ends and I head back home.

Ottawa has been a blast. These have been some of the best days of my life.

Of Comings and Goings

It's one of those little ironies of life that Pink Floyd release I have anticipating for years falls on the same day as one of the saddest in the bands career. 

First, the sad. 

Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett passed away on the 11th. Sources report that it was due to a diabetes complication. BBC. Syd was the creative mastermind behind the band in its early stages and has a remained a powerful influence on them through their career, even if he had no direct contribution to it. Syd will be missed by me at the very least.

And on to the good. I've long considered P.U.L.S.E. to be the crowing achievement of Pink Floyd's long illustrious career and now it is finally, FINALLY available on DVD. I missed the boat on the VHS but the CD still holds a place at the top of my list of favourite albums. I can't think of a single other  thing that has left me as profoundly awestruck as some of the performances on those discs, and now I can watch it at my leisure. The only thing that could make it better is if it was a widescreen release, but at this point I don't really care so long as I can see that huge mirror plated flowering disco ball descend on the crowd during the climax of comfortably numb. 

YouTube - World Cup Game

YouTube - World Cup Game

Where were YOU at the World Cup final '06?

I was in Little Italy, Ottawa being swarmed on by the biggest mass of red, white and green a person is ever likely to see in their lifetime.

AND GOD DAMN IT WAS AWESOME!