It was Bad. It got better. It got Worse. We continue to ball. If anything, its nice to have things to be able to bring up as proof to my family doctor that I really should be medicated.
Anyways, here's the recounts of everything good before it was Worse.
Friday - Live Music @ The Raven Presented by Sour Friends Collective
I ended up missing the first 2 bands because of a class and the commute there, but I'm very happy with who I did see. I manged to catch Ceippo, BoREALia, Trashwyre, and Heavenly Blue.
Ceippo and Trashwyre I saw at a house show in december and were the reason I knew about this show to begin with. Sour Friends Collective is actually an art collective one of the guitarists of Trashwyre is putting together which is really neat. It's also neat connecting the dots on why its called that-- the guy is named Lem, he introduces himself like "Lem short for lemon", lemon, sour friends, you get the idea. I actually talked to him back at the house show without realizing he was in any of the bands, really chill guy.
Ceippo is always a joy live since they have really good energy and the songs I know the most amount of words to. BoREALia was interesting, they've got 3 guitarists and doing some interesting instrumental shit. If they had a CD I would have bought it. Trashwyre was really fun to see play through a whole set since at the house show they only had about 20 minutes of material and were missing their bassist. And they delivered. High energy, great crowd interaction, they had the place bumping. I'm genuinely so hyped for when they finally release the first EP. But the real highlight for me was Heavenly Blue. I didn't know about them beforehand but they were so good. Their lead vocalist has such a good presence, and they probably had the best mosh pit going. I've managed to get one of my roommates hooked on their music too! Which rightfully so, it slaps.
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| Trashwyre - They've got a drum pad instead of a drumkit, its fun! |
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| Heavenly Blue - They had underwear on their heads. They did not explain why. |
Saturday - Old Friends
After the show, me and the friend I went with met up with a friend from highschool and both she and my best friend crashed my place for the night. Despite initial difficulties and frustrations trying to figure out where and how to meet up, it was genuinely really nice to see her again. It was also really fun seeing how she meshed with my roommates. The next morning me and her made a whole breakfast situation for the 3 of us, and despite how many roommates I have, I don't really get to cook alongside any of em often, so honestly it was just a really nice moment. Me and my best friend gave her a tour of our university campus, yapping and catching up, and even though I had to leave the tour early we still all met back up to hang out before her and my best friend left. I don't really talk to her online, hilariously because she used to be really hard to reach through social media, then once she started being active is when I stopped being active on socials, but we've got a good dynamic regardless.
Sunday - Adventures in Transit
Sunday started with a late morning and my choir roommate asking "do you want to come be an extra in a film thing?" Was I supposed to do work that day and prior night? Yes. Was I going the fuck through it and looking for any reason not to? Also yes. So on an adventure we go!
The film location was in fuckass nowhere on the side of Toronto I frequent less, but the commute wasn't lookin horrible. Was was horrible was when we were in the last stretch of it trying to catch a bus that would've gotten us to the place right on time and it just never came. Turns out the bus had broken down the loop right before, but we didn't know that, so we waited about half an hour before my roommate caved and Ubered us the rest of the way there. Being late wasn't too bad through because it turns out they were still having a hell of a lot of technical difficulties by the time we got there. My roommate got to catch up with her old friends that were there, and honestly I was just enjoying being in an interesting space and finally finishing a book I've been reading in short bursts for a month (The book in question being Joe Trohman of Fall Out Boy's memoir None of This Rocks, fun read!).
The real adventure was heading back home, later than either of us expected because it ended late, and colder than either of us expected because we didn't think we'd be heading back so late. Trek to one bus stop. Bus won't come for another 30 minutes. Trek to another 10 minutes away. Wait for the bus. Get on. Get to a bigger stop that's also a subway stop. Wait for another bus. Miss it when it got there the first time because we doubted it was the right one. Whatever. Wait 15 for another. We're still not sure if its the right bus. I ask if the bus goes to the stop we're trying to head to. The driver says no. I google that buses route as it driving away and it turns out he just lied to me. Well. We take the subway instead, which makes the commute longer, but at least its warm. Sit on the subway for an hour. I show my roommate some of the passages from the book to pass time. We both dream of making soup when we get back. Walking the final stretch from the subway to our place was a religious experience. The interesting development of that night is finding out that another of my roommate is now hooking up with a highly respected graduate of my program that me and my program friends look up to a lot-- and more or less because of me. Hell yeah I guess.
The soundtrack of this week is High Tea//Dinner Party by Heavenly Blue, American Football LP1, and From Under the Cork Tree by Fall Out Boy. I need to remember the conversational outline on how to book a doctors appointment and in my engineering roommates words, "find another reason to not kill yourself before Thursday because its good that you have [a hair appointment] to live for but you gotta find another reason before then".