Weekender

So I had a pretty good weekend this weekend passed. Rod and Laura came in from Kingston, and Christine came in from Windsor for Danielle's birthday weekend. Friday night was filled with some southern fried tofu sandwiches and then off to Lee's Palace to check out The Constantines and The Weakerthans. Saturday day was off to the AGO with Rod to see the "Massive Change" exhibit. Saturday evening consited off some East Indian/Nepalise cuisine over at Mt. Everest and then off to the Karaoke bar for some singing.

Whew! It was a good weekend but it took a toll on my poor body. The first night was fun, it was cool to see The Constantines, after hearing so much about them, but never hearing them. They were pretty good, and on a few songs they were great. I just though that when they weren't great they were mediocore at best. In other words I won't be rushing out to by an album anytime soon, but would definately go see them again.

The Weakterthans were pretty good, and it looks like they have a new bassist? They put on a good show but seemed a tad more subdued then I remember them, but sometimes I have trouble seeing clearly through these rose-coloured glasses. Either way the show that they put on did not disappoint. The hilight (in my opinion) being The Traveling Wilburys' song performed during the encore by both The Constantines and The Weakerthans.

The next day up early and off some some nice vegan Chinese food, and then to the AGO to see the Massive Change exhibit. The exhibit was pretty cool but text heavy (I mean for the most part it was text) and after a late night concert mixed with a few beers I was having some trouble concentrating on the text by the end. There was some cool stuff, the alternative energy exhibit was cool, as was that one room that showed different videos of the earth. Things like a video tracing all of the flights comming into and leaving North America during 24 hours.

Then it was back home for a few Boris' with Rod and off to Mt. Everest. The food was pretty good and I've eaten there before, it's not the best but tasty and the price is good. Then it was off for some rockin' Karaoke, which (as you can see from the photos below) was basically a rocking good time. I kicked the whole party into high gear with my boisterious rendition of "We did start the fire". We actually I didn't kick the part into high gear, but I did sing/speak out of key. The next and last song I did was a duet of "Bohemian Rhapsody" with Danielle where my castrato really came out to shine.

The really surprising thing about the karaoke was that everyone had fun and ended up singing. I expected more reserve from a group of librarians, but boy was I wrong. After that, a few more beers at Clintons, before heading home for some much needed sleep, well except for sleeping which did not occur till 4:00am.

Whew.