Happy Birthday - Concrete Blonde

Today is my Danny's b-day. Poor darling woke up with such a bad sinus headache his dad told him not to come to work. I used a cake pan I got for Christmas that allows for you to put a filling inside it. Dan suggested pudding for my first try, but it allows for ice cream filling also! Last year on his b-day, we had our Blaze meeting with the President of ASU, I was so worried then! As Tony said yesterday, "see Leah, nothing ever happened!" I sure hope Dan's headache is gone. I have to work late but his mom is making him Tostadas so he is happy.

Oh that tiny domestic side of me appeared for the last two days. Gone again I believe, except I am gathering goodies to sell in the garage sale Missy and I are having. I need to part with some of my JUNK to get myself to Nova Scotia. The hotels are not yielding any cheaper results yet. I am also trying to figure out things to sell to get Missy to Nova Scotia also. I was thinking of selling all my old t-shirts on ebay but I am not sure I want to take on the task of selling on ebay right now.

I have been pondering a lot of things as of lately, nothing I can really go into but disturbing nonetheless. I just need to get at editing "Bay Window" to escape reality. If I had a running RACE CAR maybe I wouldn't be so distracted as of late. I feel like I am over the top obsessed as of late and very annoyed with somethings happening around me.

The village continues to create drama around here, all sorts of behind the scences crap this week. Still no decision on how many for next year. One got kicked out of the dorm last week, it is always something. We hired a new Production director at The Blaze last week. He is the kid who got me the Sloan autographed shirt at Coachella. He and I enjoy talking music quite often. I am just glad we figured out that issue quickly at the station. Paid for our Promo director to go to SXSW yesterday. Jon Auer is playing it along with a load of hot Canadian indie bands and The Plimsouls-weird! I should do a memories from SXSW blog sometime. I hope she has as amazing a time as we did when we went years ago!

Some random music thoughts:
The self titled Loverboy record is a full on NEW WAVE record except maybe two tracks (Turn me loose being one of them) I have not heard that record in years and the tracks come on and I have to remind myself it is Loverboy because those tracks are FAR different than the band that went on to "Working for the weekend"

I can not wrap myself around The Arcade Fire or Stars. I hear them so much on my XM Canadian channel. More ones I love include Cinderpop, Quinzy and Sleeper Set Sail. Oh and I like In Flight Safety. I have a list so long for buying records! City and Colour has been my favorite of all the new artists I have discovered from Satellite radio. Dan says it is my Dashboard style band, I agree!

I have been listening to The Edge in Toronto, they have good and bad points but overall I hae enjoyed it. They have had excellent guests most every afternoon. Still an issue with the amount of commercials compared to all the other Canadian stations I listen to. I still listen to BOB in the morning but the stuff I wade through to get to the occasional GT or HMS is grating on my nerves lately. (I DO NOT need to hear "Paradise by the dashboard light" everyday OR ever again if I have a choice!) I keep forgetting to try a new station in Edmonton that Chester told me about.

There is some rumor about Sloan playing in Vancouver in April, seems tempting unless there are a bunch of bands on it as it is some type of festival. Andrew said he had heard of the fest and that Matt has played it before but didn't know much more about it. Dan said I could go if I wanted but I hate festivals if the band is not the headliner, I want a full set if I am going to travel.

Pratt is speaking to my class today, should be interesting. Now that will be a trip down memory lane too. Hopefully I can get home at a decent time for Danny's b-day. That's about the excitement right now...pretty slim I know!