haven’t felt the urge to write on here in awhile. i’m not sure why that is or isn’t. last month i had the big THREE ZERO birthday, which was absolutely uneventful and the least dramatic thing that’s happened in my life recently. i’m not sure if birthday’s just don’t mean very much once you get older and the presents quit rolling in or if i’m just in a late winter funk. anyway, 30 is looking pretty much like 29 and 28. we’ll see how the year progresses.

i’ve been keeping pretty busy with work and life (more life than work lately, but i prefer it that way. even if the life shit isn’t all that great).

i haven’t been able to get out with my new nikon d5000 as much as i’d like, which is disappointing. i’m working on that though. i have been taking a beginners class from cord camera which is teaching me some stuff about my camera that i didn’t figure out on my own. hell, i even read the manual for the goddamn thing (and so far 2 photography books as well). i’m looking forward to the warm weather so hopefully i can get out and take some pictures. i’m not too comfortable taking it out into the snow and slush just yet.

here’s the new dillinger escape plan song/video. shit is \m/ as fuck

(yes i preordered their album and yes i opted for the $80 box set b/c i am a huge nerd)

while i’m on music, east of the wall (which used to be called the postman syndrome) is putting out what would have been the 2nd postman album. the only catch is that they need 100 people to preorder it so they can do a proper release, otherwise it’ll just be an itunes only type thing. so if you like good bands that are doing it diy then go over there to their site and preorder the shit. i promise you won’t be disappointed, especially if you like some weird-kind-of-mathy-metal music.

so that’s it for now i guess.

last night K and i went to see leonard cohen at the palace theater downtown.  let me just come out and say it was one of the best performances i’ve ever seen.  it probably tops the them crooked vultures show i saw earlier this month.  it might not have been as energetic, but the musicianship and songwriting of leonard and his band are pretty hard to match.

leonard himself is getting pretty old (75 according to wikipedia) but he’s still got the voice.  for anyone that is unfamiliar with him, he has a very raspy, soulful kind of voice.  he sings a lot of ballad type songs, but also has some more “risque” themes to some of his songs.  he also has some really great poetry if you are in to that kind of thing.  the set itself was almost 3 hours long, which was very impressive.  of course he has a huge collection of songs to choose from, but i did not expect 3 hours worth of music.

with a legendary singer/songwriter like cohen at the helm, you’d expect him to have a great backing band, and that was most definitely the case.  everyone in the band was a very solid performer, but the backup singers (a couple girls called the webb sisters and sharon robinson) and the guy who played 12 string guitar and some other crazy stringed instrumetns (javier mas) impressed me the most.

it’s not everyday that you get to see a world renowned poet, singer, and songwriter all in one night.  i also suspect this will be his final tour so it was great to get to see him.  i just really wish i could write out an adequate review of this show.  all i can say really is that it was amazing and isn’t something i’ll forget for a long, long time.