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I was cleaning my storage closet and found this old list I had made of the best shows I ever saw: 1. No Mind 2. Nash the Slash 3. Exploited 4. No Means No 5. Grave Concern 6. Gogol Bordello 7. National Velvet 8. The Gruesomes 9. Pink Floyd 10. The Cure 11. Massada 12. Violent Femmes 13. Bran Van 3000 14. Damo Suzuki 15. Shuffle Demons 16. Aisha Kandasha's Jarring Effects 17. Iz Cox 18. S.N.F.U. 19. Anal Chinook and I could add: 20. Petunia and the Vipers 21. Bruce Peninsula 22. The Swans 23. A Silver Mt. Zion and many more if my memory was just a bit sharper. I guess that's why I wrote the list in the first place.  

Well, my computer was down and out for quite some time. At least I couldn't keep it alive for more than about half an hour at a time, so I havn't been doing any online art. Now I'm back in the game and just catching up on all the things I missed doing since Yule. Finally got to see Korpiklanni- one of my favorite bands, from Finland. The show was amazing. I'm not a big metal head- always more into the punk stuff, other than a few classics like Black Sabath and Motörhead. But I have to say that seeing bad metal bands is a lot more fun than seeing bad pop bands (like I do almost every time I go to a show recently). Not that all the (5!) o

Jazz Fest = two weeks of free shows. Montreal is the city of festivals and I've actually been taking advantage of the music for a change. This past month I've seen Bloodshot Bill, Gerard Van Herk (of Deja Voodoo!) Pauline Oliveros, The American Devices and NoMeansNo. Plus a few jazz bands (most notably a great 'Hot-Club-of-Paris meets country dance band' style group called: Gadji-Gadjo, though there was also that Stevie Wonder show that opened the festival. That was crowded.) The Orb was supposed to play this week, but was canceled, making this the FORTH TIME I only thought I was going to get to see them play. But there are tons of othe