tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-95115132011-12-20T07:52:12.540-05:00so...Caitlin H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14970232576437329488noreply@blogger.comBlogger6451100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9511513.post-16125890989985053422007-10-06T07:26:00.000-05:002007-10-06T07:28:01.541-05:00

to be listened to as my plane takes off tonight:itunes playlist "leavetakings - 06/10/07"1. interpol - untitled2. joy division - transmission3. placebo - running up that hill4. depeche mode - never let me down again5. echo & the bunnymen - the killing moon6. modern english - i melt with you7. moist - leave it alone8. the cult - she sells sanctuary9. the killers - when you were young10. catherine

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at the risk of going all chuck klosterman on you guys (though i'd give my left tit to have even a fraction of his writing prowess), i've come to the conclusion that i go through affairs and relationships with music like i would with boyfriends.i'm willing to bet that's not a weird concept to most of you. (how many of us can admit to agreeing with the phrase "music is my boyfriend/girlfriend"?

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by the way, for those keeping score at home, the new best ever is this video for "this corrosion" by the sisters of mercy. i ended up watching it half a dozen times the other night, if only because i started watching depeche mode videos and decided that 1987 andrew eldritch is entirely more bangable than 1987 dave gahan. sorry, is true. (i'm a bit ashamed to admit that i kept pausing that

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my apologies to those regular readers who (gasp, shock) read this blog for the newslinks, because it's life recap time (also, my apologies for any more rambling incoherence than usual -- i'm stupidly hungover for the second morning in a row, and it's taken me three cups of coffee to feel even remotely human right now):- last day at work. this was ridiculous and awesome -- seven years of working

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still spending too much of my time giggling over the sisters of mercy's website; still thinking eldritch's bitter cynicisms make him look even hotter. seriously, to me, 90% of rock stars are hot simply by default; if the rock star is witty, sarcastic, and a very intelligent writer, i am fucking gone. there's a good reason kevin young was my first favourite musician, after all. (if you've ever

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heard the new dave gahan solo single "kingdom" the other day; was hooked from the first few seconds. i can always count on that man - or, you know, depeche mode in general - to satiate my cravings for wicked dark new-wave rock.speaking of dark new-wave rock, my recent spate of the sisters of mercy music in combination with the fact that they have the wittiest band website ever is totally making

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"i got an autograph -- and a grope." - methat kind of sums up the majority of my concert experiences, actually.via stereogum: 2007 mtvu woodie nominations. i'm still confused as to why this sort of thing exists, because it seems like even less people care about indie award shows than they do big overhyped awards shows, but i guess everyone needs some cred.by the way, the `gum's got this great

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had some more upbeat additions to the lilithpod lately: red hot chili peppers ("dani california", probably one of the few songs of theirs i enjoy...well, that and "scar tissue", i have good memories with that song), modest mouse, a couple rare kill hannah b-sides. this time of year needs some of that, before i dive into my annual post-punk desolation of late fall. ah, feels good.in the meantime

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(i can forget about it 363 days out of the year, but at this time, in this season, with autumn coming on and the wind getting more brisk and the students returning to campus and me starting to actually feel my adult age... putting the memory aside is not an option. funny, though, how current events have coincided recently...the past will catch you up as you run faster, indeed.)so two years have

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one of the interesting things about being a music critic is how often i find myself liking an album i wouldn't normally like, yet i enjoy it as i listen to it because it's different. i think the biggest thing i tear my hair out over while reviewing is how soundalike pretty much 97% of bands are these days; then again, this might have something to do with the fact that i often end up with the

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newest additions to my lilithpod: the clash, the cult (i really, really love that new single), red lorry yellow lorry (got a lovely care package of goth cds and jellybeans from brother adam), new order. now, if itunes would just stop random eating my album artwork... (though i love how the majority of my ipod memory space is being taken up by super-lengthy sisters of mercy tracks)ashamedly, if i

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best way to spend labour day off: traipsing through the cne at night with one of your best friends.the evening started in two good ways: 1) boozing at amanda's downtown apartment while watching bad reality tv (the drink of choice being, of course, a concoction of our own making years ago: the "mandacait", a combination of peach schnapps and cranberry juice), and being handed free unlimited midway

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it was funny, because after i wrote that last entry, i listened to kill hannah's song "hummingbirds the size of bullets" (while ordering a new kh hoodie from their webstore, in a moment of inspired weakness -- i wore out my last one besides) and felt kind of like my chest was being crushed with a bulldozer. i've never been able to understand or comprehend the destructive power of that one song;

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i went for a walk at dusk tonight.i hadn't made that walk in ages. months, at least...maybe not since february, or march. it wasn't fear that kept me away so long, or shame, although some would think so; it was more that i didn't want to have to face things, i guess. pretend that it was another life, and too far behind me now to dredge up again. why bother, really?then again, thinking on it,

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first off, r.i.p. hilly kristal, founder of cbgb. man, what is it with so many rock music luminaries dying these days? they say it happens in threes, and that's true here (tony wilson, lee hazlewood, and now hilly), so hopefully there won't be any more music-legend deaths anytime soon. in these days of shitty music, we need all the true geniuses we can get.so the toronto international film

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you know what's funny? one of the things that's ripping me up the most about moving out west is the fact that i'm going to be so far from my two favourite american cities -- chicago and new york city. it's kind of my secret shame that i'm fucking in love with america (but not their foreign policies or lack of health care or, you know, any of the shitty stuff like that), and i never fail to have

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ultragrrrl did the awesome the other day and posted an entire entry full of placebo music videos. i can totally respect, because i think placebo are one of the best - if not the best - "new" band i've gotten into in the last three years. it's not the same mad obsessive love i crashed into with kill hannah - which was a dedicated fangirl passion i hadn't felt since the days of moist, though to

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indie 103.1 is playing talking heads' "once in a lifetime" right now (this is one thing that's going to suck about being on the west coast -- i'll be in the same time zone as my favourite radio station, which means i can't cheat by listening to what would be their station at 4 a.m. pacific time, when there's no commercials or obnoxious radio hosts) and it's totally reminding me of last summer at

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there's a simple piece of graffiti scribbled on a garage door that i see en route to work at the supermarket; it reads, "you are loved." it makes me smile every time i see it.you know who needs some love? pete doherty. though i somehow don't think "hugs not drugs" would really work in this case. or, well, ever. (then of course, nme, being awesome, got a "top lawyer" to make comments and

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having a laptop is prone to make one incredibly lazy. i really don't know what it is about it, but hey, spend the evening kicking back on the couch with a shiny new computer sitting on my lap, endlessly browsing through craigslist vancouver? ok!yeah, i might kinda need a life. just maybe.so as of 6 p.m. today, i have become a free woman -- no more office job working for a record label; now i'm

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somehow, despite having a busy as hell weekend involving two eight-hour work shifts, a boozy engagement party out near scarbs (transportation involved a very long subway/bus ride that a colleague described as "feeling like travelling out to buttfuck nowhere in middle america"), and attempting to lure kill hannah out for drinks (attempt failed, but it all worked out okay anyway because i ended up

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oh yeah, and the packing's already begun.actually, it's more at the "this is what i can throw out/donate/sell" phase, mostly since i'm not really packing much to take with me until right before i go (because i'm only taking the vitals, after all -- no room for much else). so far i've gone through my cds and dvds (sold $97 worth, still waiting to sell a few more, donating and tossing the rest);

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out of sheer boredom and partial curiousity, i signed up for twitter yesterday. it's a program like the "status updates" on facebook that allows you to update your audience on your life and thoughts -- in only 140 letters. and it can be done by text message. in other words, perfect for the a.d.d.-affected egomaniacs like yours truly. (i mean, i have a hard time understanding why anyone

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me: "...i think i have commitment issues."stepdad: "no, you just have f.o.r.: fear of reality."ain't that the truth. (don't ever let me join/form a rock band, k?)okay! so now, new dilemma: trying to make this blog more than just "caitlin's record of the process of moving to a completely different province on the other side of the country". in case you hadn't noticed already, when it comes to

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well.i suppose that all requires a bit more of an explanation, yeah?okay, i admit that some of you knew about this already. i'm terrible at keeping secrets, especially when they're as huge as this one. i mean, i couldn't even keep it a secret from my bosses -- i felt too goddamn guilty about harbouring the knowledge that i'd be copping out on them sooner rather than later. i really felt it was

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so i wasn't going to bring this up so early, but life never really works out the way you plan it.starting tuesday, my boss and i are searching for my imminent replacement, to preferably start training and take over from me within the next two weeks. yeah, so much for the adult job.the record label management job hasn't been easy, but it really hasn't been overly difficult either; it's more the

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another good thing: weekends. well, not saying i really get one - i still work at the supermarket on weekends - but a few days away from the small, windowless office is good enough for me. (though i am entirely thankful these days that said office has well-functioning air conditioning; i tried to walk home from work yesterday and honest to god nearly passed out.)still, i can't help but wish it

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in what little free time i do have - and it really is little time, although once i get the momentum going i like to keep myself busy - i've been cooking for myself a lot. did i mention i've since gone vegetarian? i was pretty well on the slope for the last couple of years, but i finally made the total plunge a month ago, for my health's sake. (seriously, every morning i take a multivitamin plus

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after a week and a half at my new job, i really gotta say that the best thing about it is the innate knowledge that, five years after graduating high school and a year after finishing university, i finally have an adult job. so when people ask me what i do for a living, i can actually respond, "i work for a record label." which sounds seriously fucking cool.and the other best thing is, you know

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yeah. alright! yeah. still breathing. barely, but doing it.funny how i think i'm more claustrophobic with the fact that i'm now doing a real adult office job. (though it's 10-6, not 9-5 or 8-4 like many others -- truthfully, i'd prefer something that starts early, if only because i'm a morning person and i hate not having a lot of time in the evening after work) put in almost three hours of

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first off, thanks to everybody - here, on myspace, and on facebook - for the hearty amount of congrats over scoring the new job. "it's right up your alley" is something i've heard many times already, and i won't deny it -- when it's what you pretty much want to do with your life, then of course it's a good fit. i guess after the first couple weeks, we'll see just how well i fit into the

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i'm sorry the last entry was all cryptic and shit -- it was late at night/early in the morning and i was steaming mad over something that interpol lyrics were able to best express. (those ones are from "the heinrich maneuver", by the way) they're actually appropriate on two different levels, but i won't go into that. so!alright, anybody who's browsed my facebook news feed since yesterday has

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but i don't want to take your heartand i don't want a piece of historyno i don't want to read your thoughts anymoremy god...`cause today my heart swingsyeah today my heart swings...how are things on the west coast?[ music | none ]

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fresh off the press: the nominees for this year's polaris prize! more like "pitchfork prize", but whatever. my money's on the fire. (torontoist agrees, and i have to concede that feist's got a good chance too -- see what a starbucks-stocked album can do? thurston moore might have the right idea after all)oh yeah, and i can't mention the `bucks even in parenthesis without referring to this

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because octo started it.Three names you go by:1. caitlin2. cait3. merchyThree parts of your heritage:1. scottish (i'm a "black scot", which accounts for my dark hair/eyes)2. british (crazy king edward longshanks was my ancestor)3. total f'in WASPThree things that scare you:1. unexpected sudden death2. losing loved ones3. water snakesThree of your everyday essentials:1. black eyeliner2. two cups

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[this is the entry i meant to post yesterday morning, before i went to the news websites and found out that an old high school friend of mine had been killed in afghanistan. things are better now and i want to move on, but i'm keeping his family in my thoughts...r.i.p. matt, you'll be missed]friend: "so how was transformers?"me: "it was like the second coming of jesus."...okay, so you have to

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just spent the last ten minutes in shaky tears.it's kind of funny that the war hasn't hit harder for me personally, given that i come from kingston, which is a pretty military town (actually, my entire backyard at home is the cfb kingston base, and the high school i went to was attended by a lot of "base brats"). and so i guess it was only a matter of time before one of my high school friends

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it never fails to amuse/bemuse me how many times i get hits here by people googling my full name. usually it's toronto people once or twice a month, which i can understand, but lately it's been people all over canada -- and even a few in the u.s.it doesn't creep me out so much as it piques my curiousity. some of them, i can guess. others, i've got no clue how they know me or why they know my name

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by now, everybody's heard the rumblings in the blogosphere - felt a sudden chill, perhaps - but here it is again anyway: the spice girls are coming back. which kind of blows my mind, because they were the shit right when i was their target market -- literally, they broke in north america the year i turned thirteen. i can remember listening to "wannabe" in grade seven. man, every time i start

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i think it says something about my enduring fanship of a band when i can listen to kill hannah's "kennedy" on full blasting volume and still get goosebumps. i mean, seriously -- jonny's solo at the end where his guitar chords match mat's vocal notes? gives me chills. probably the only thing better is the demo (fully titled as "i wanna be a kennedy"), if only for mat's old breathy voice.

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"i'm gonna give birth through my stomach cavity. chestbursting is the new c-section." - mei seriously don't know where i come up with this stuff. and at work, no less.but that was the more boring of my two jobs - in other words, the job where i need more entertainment and have more time on my hands - and definitely not saying that i'm at a lack of journo work. lately, i've been writing way

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a brief moment in time that i think needs to be preserved:i was at the bovine a couple saturdays back and the dj played social distortion's "ball and chain", and i looked up suddenly and laughed, the same delighted laugh from that one night so far from reality, giddy, drunk, high-heeled and overzealous, oh my god this is so fuckin' rock n' roll. holy shit. a grin on my face as "ball and chain"

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musicians in the gym this morning; easy to tell by their pasty legs (you never get much sun in a recording studio), many tattoos and shaggy haircuts. one of them was even wearing chucks as his running shoes. in retrospect, probably wasn't the best day for me to be wearing a sparrow guitars t-shirt while doing cardio, nor to have the sleeves rolled up to expose my musical-note tattoo. plus i

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sum total of monday night: i left the horrors show with a ringing headache (standing right next to the speakers), a skinned knee and swollen, bruised feet (goddamn skyscraper heels), black eye makeup smeared everywhere (thank you, urban decay), and wearing the keyboardist's wristband ("yeah, i saw you from the stage!"). all in all, a successful and most enjoyable night indeed.yes, i also managed

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another nxne come and gone, and i'm back from the other world. it's always a bit of an adjustment, and it's nowhere near as comfortable as being where i know i belong - with my people, hah - but i've still got to waste some more time here. just bide it. i know it's weird when i talk like that, but sometimes i think the split is actually there. walk down queen street, pass a guy who's

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sorry for brief absence; been busy, as usual. nxne is here, although it's pretty much three-quarters done now, and i've been reviewing my little chartie ass off each night -- check out our nxne 2007 headquarters for all your report-card review needs (i wrote any from the boat on friday, and any from reverb on saturday).as for the best act i've seen so far: jesse malin. hands down, no fucking

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funny that i was just thinking the other day about how i never seem to get hangovers anymore -- even after the nights on tour where i was slamming many bottles of budweiser (or the rare miraculous occasions where i was able to get ahold of quality vodka-based beverages, whether or not they were free), i was always okay the next morning. yesterday morning? i was totally reminded what my old

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i love how that post title sums everything up right about now. thank you, she wants revenge!so okay, new editors...the album doesn't drop until june 25th, but i got to listen/review it yesterday. and to me, it's one of those cases where not trying something radically new is a good thing. it's more of the same as their first album, yeah, but it's a bit more expansive, a bit less claustrophobic,

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for those of you who actually had enough time to go through that long-ass tour diary of mine...some visuals from the time! here there be the black halos in action (billy and johnny are the two being interviewed at the beginning of all the clips, and i've put them in order -- the first two are the first two songs in the set, and the third is the last song):these are all actually from my last show

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and now for more pressing matters: namely, north by northeast!the festival/conference is in less than two weeks, and i've already signed my soul away to be a part of chartattack's regularly scheduled review army. it's the only time of year i get to wear my music-journo status on my sleeve (or, rather, around my neck in the form of a laminate pass), after all. for that - and for free access to

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more recently-discovered photographic hijinks from the merch table:mike, drummer from i hate kate, preparing to brain me with a black halos skate deck; me, merch girl, looking entirely like a goth kewpie doll. this is actually sort of funny because "kate" is how my dad spells my nickname, so: apropos!i'm also continually baffled by how decent i look in all the photos from that gig (sokol

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so! the tour diary's done and, as reported earlier, available for your reading pleasure here. not sure if the guys have seen it yet - granted, so far i've only sent the url to one of them (my purported favourite), but if you send something to one then chances are they'll all see it - but i don't think there's anything in there that they'll object to (a stillwater moment?). it wasn't some big

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finally finished.two and a half weeks, one beat-up van, five musicians, one merch girl, thirteen shows, two cases of extreme weather conditions, and one hell of a journey across north america:http://notomorrowgirl.blogspot.com...it's not the whole story, though. of course it isn't. but some things - like a certain photo that i've since stashed away in my dresser drawer - a girl wants to keep

Caitlin H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14970232576437329488noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9511513.post-16136416994465035282007-05-20T20:10:00.000-05:002007-05-22T09:12:47.500-05:00

caught part of almost famous on television late last night; i'd forgotten how many times penny lane makes reference to "the real world," and thus just how much cameron crowe got so painfully right.my horoscope from the second week of the tour, which i clipped out and kept in my wallet, and have now tacked to my fridge:"Ordinary life does not interest me," wrote Anas Nin in one of her diaries. "I

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yes, i am still here.adam warned me that post-tour depression sets in after three days, and lasts for about the same before it goes away...so yeah. right now, i've been too busy catching up on things here at home (bills, grocery shopping, work scheduling) to really feel the sting of it, but it kinda gets me right in the chest at night when i'm alone in my apartment.either way, busy! much

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just got home an hour ago.to briefly sum up, until i get around to actually writing a proper entry about all that's happened:at the end of april, i was set to tour with a rock band for a short week as their merch girl before catching a bus home from chicago. instead, i ended up quitting my regular job, staying on the road with the band for eighteen days, dying my hair black, getting a new tattoo

Caitlin H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14970232576437329488noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9511513.post-40639324443188188322007-05-06T17:34:00.000-05:002007-05-15T07:58:13.410-05:00

again, cross-posted to myspace...Writing from a Net cafe in Kansas City as the Halos sound check next door...been out for a week and two days, got another week and a day to go.In brief:Got a killer headache right now.Been taking some wicked rad photos.Have a few days off from my merch-girl duties, as we have no merch to sell, thanks to the stupid fuckers at the U.S. customs crossing. T-shirts

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cross-posted to myspace late last night...Pertinent info:1. I am fine.2. I am in Chicago!3. The boys are treating me well; we saw Grindhouse tonight, and Johnny Halo and I are dying our hair soon.AND4. I just quit my job and I'm continuing on for another week of touring. I'M GOING TO VEGAS, MOTHERFUCKERS.You know what I was saying before about how I needed to remember how it feels where I came

Caitlin H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14970232576437329488noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9511513.post-77883616802245547042007-04-25T21:49:00.000-05:002007-04-25T21:51:15.336-05:00

cross-posted to myspace way too early this morning...Alright kids, so this is it.Way too early Friday morning - I'm posting this now because literally, I have a 17-hour work day today and a 12-hour one tomorrow, with running around like mad in my few hours in between - I'm hopping on a plane (holyshitiamsoafraidofflying) to Winnipeg to join up with the Black Halos on tour, then hitting the road

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hooray, absence!sorry, darlings -- been ridiculously busy over here due to my impending escape from everyday life on friday morning. plane leaves toronto at 8:15 a.m.; in order to get there on time, i pretty much have to be up at 3 so i can catch the airport shuttle bus from downtown. living on the east side sucks balls sometimes.but i'm excited. i. am. excited. i've got a post i'm gonna tack

Caitlin H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14970232576437329488noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9511513.post-1176812023100613672007-04-17T07:05:00.000-05:002007-04-17T07:13:43.126-05:00

random one and two:1. i purchased a mirror on friday the 13th. i actually fumbled it when i picked it off the shelf, but it didn't break when it hit the ground, so i took that as a good sign and bought it anyway.2. i'm fairly sure my landlord must think i'm a prostitute. i'm quiet, unobtrusive, and otherwise keep to myself -- except for when i leave late at night, clad in garments made out of

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two big "holy shit!" things going down, kids:number one: this was only proposed to me yesterday, and after a hasty twenty-four hours of e-mailing, messaging, budgeting and ticket-price checking, it appears that i'm going back on the road in two weeks. yes, i'll be back in full touring merch girl mode, this time for infamous vancouver punks the black halos as they open for social distortion. if

Caitlin H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14970232576437329488noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9511513.post-1176219914034710922007-04-10T10:43:00.000-05:002007-04-10T21:29:35.453-05:00

so after a solid weekend of listening to little else other than placebo, i saw them play live last night.as one of my acquaintances said afterwards, it was a "very moving" experience, and damn right it was. although they pumped out a little too many from their newest album meds for my liking (though i guess that could have been expected; still, they could play their back catalogue for hours and

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hey. you know what you really shouldn't do after you spend all morning/afternoon meticulously scrubbing, mopping and cleaning your bathroom? dye your hair yourself, thus leaving messy blobs of chemical shit all over your sink and bathtub. yeah, that's right. my poor, poor once-spotless white porcelain.but at least my hair is back to the colour it was after christmas (l'oreal superior

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well, i'm trying. in a lot of areas. that's all i can say for now.(and in another area, i'm more relieved of a longtime weight than i've been in a year. at the same time, though, i'm sending out positive vibes to someone who's got a hell of a lot of strength to be going through what she's facing right now. it's funny, strange and heartbreaking how life turns out, really.)so, guess where i was

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and now for two major life-related things that have come up in the length of one tumultuous morning:one: i am not going home for easter weekend. not enough money, the timing's not convenient, i can't give up any more days of work, and my family's going to be entirely occupied with my sister in the hospital. no point in me being there. i'll go home in the summer sometime, i guess.two: i am

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i feel that it's necessary to inform you all that i jammed my right-hand middle finger in the safe drop drawer last night, and the nail is now an unhealthy shade of purple. it also hurts like a motherfucker. that's about it.let's talk about the bravery, baby. i'm kind of psyched to see that they're playing the opera house here in toronto - they were way better there than when they played the

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ugh, sorry for the temporary disappearance. busy. work. partying. things. life. all the good stuff and the not-so-good stuff, but hey, that's what keeps things balanced, right? i'm a libra, i should know....the fun part, though, is checking my stats to see how many daily readers i've got, and the number is steadily increasing. which makes me happy, especially because i think i know who a

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i start this blog entry with somber news: the illuminati are no more. it is a sad, sad day for stoner-metal hairheads everywhere. me, i was never big on the boogie-happy riff rock, but i always did love me some illuminati -- plus the guys are total sweethearts, and i've hung out with them everywhere from kingston to london to new york city. of course, i know i'll end up running into them on

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whilst discussing second-quarter sales training at my job yesterday, my manager cheerfully informed me: "you know, you are now the most experienced supervisor at this store." uh, gulp. (this is me going from being the least experienced supervisor - and, literally, the newest hire - at my old store to being the one with the most seniority. hello, intimidating responsibility! i really need to

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okay, seriously now: april 2007? totally shaping up to be the best concert month in ages. on my schedule so far, there's placebo on the 10th, interpol on the 16th (kitchener? kitchener?? omfg awesome), and kaiser chiefs on the 18th. i'm also going to be attending the first two with a plethora of good friends/fellow fans, so that'll be added cause for fun. due to my music-critic job, i end

Caitlin H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14970232576437329488noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9511513.post-1173793912826195692007-03-13T09:49:00.000-05:002007-03-17T22:19:35.400-05:00

attention: i finally attained what so many lonely websurfers in this city have been seeking (though miss chris already got one, albeit a vaguely creepy one)...a missed connection! yes, "c" is me, and yes, i remember this guy. pretty rad, and at least a nice touch to an otherwise exhausting day.damn, though, has anyone else out there noticed that the more terrible you think you look, the more

Caitlin H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14970232576437329488noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9511513.post-1173536707955934742007-03-10T09:23:00.000-05:002007-03-13T00:24:50.996-05:00

walking through downtown toronto yesterday was my one reminder that, in fact, a large music conference/festival is in full swing right now. i mean, seriously, the downtown core is crawling with musicians of all ages, types and nationalities, and it makes me happy in my soul. these are my people.(all the same, i'm inevitably reminded of a piece of graffiti i saw on the wall of a bathroom stall

Caitlin H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14970232576437329488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9511513.post-1173289306403285832007-03-07T12:40:00.000-05:002007-03-13T00:25:04.160-05:00

so after days of procrastination, i finally finished that damn razorlight interview transcript. i just tend to put them off more when i sound like a googly fangirl idiot on the tape.as i mentioned last week, i didn't end up speaking with johnny after all -- i got both drummer andy and bassist carl, which did me just fine. (andy even made the joking comment, "you're stuck with us, then" to which

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things are better now.[ music | gary jules, "mad world" ]

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now that i've finally managed to drag myself away from my bed of tears, let me share something here.it's a given that i'm no good in relationships. never have been. i know i'm still fairly young, but there was a lot of stunted psychological development in that area when i was a teenager, and it's had a long impact on me. the destructive kind of involvements i've had over the last five years

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the razorlight concert here in toronto last night was cancelled at the very. last. minute.i just submitted a detailed news story on it that will be up on chartattack later this afternoon, hopefully to be picked up by an always-alert nme.com. i'm not talking about it now; just letting the story speak for itself....jesse keeler once warned me that in order to be a true music journalist, "you have

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catharsis is good. so is not having human poison in my life anymore.moving on now. (and a thousand thanks to everyone who gave me support and kind words, either recently or over the last four months of emotional turmoil...been a long road to drying all these fucking tears, let me tell you.)so, what we got for you on a blizzard-filled canadian monday?the fug girls liveblog last night's oscars,

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so now, on the eve of my permanent leavetaking from this whole mess, i'm going to publish these here. because i'm gone now, and they all know it - and, crucially, they know why - and it doesn't feel like it matters so much anymore.these are snippets i wrote in my private diary towards the end of 2006, around the time i made myself pretty scarce both online and in the real world. i was skulking

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...okay, so i got to prolong my fangirl nerdiness because a few hours after i posted the last entry on wednesday, i ran into both guitarist jon and bassist greg downtown. :D had some nice chats, talked about where we'd all ended up the previous night, discussed band gear malfunctions, and got more awesome hugs before leaving them to their business. pretty much as good as receiving a text

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kill hannah last night in the city! fuck yes.preface: although it'd be hard not to tell, i am a fangirl foremost. sure, i've worked on my professionality and image more and more as i've gotten older - it was inevitable, really - but i still maintain (and nourish) that shrieking fangirl heart i have deep down inside. i'm convinced that so long as i can still have that, i might be able to escape

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so things are looking better. trying to look on the bright side, feeling a little more positive about what i've chosen to do. and i've found some things to look forward to in the near future, which is helping. i've always liked the idea of fresh starts, new people, new beginnings, out with the old and all that. getting the chance to do things right this time. fingers crossed, anyway."so, at

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on a side note, i apologize in advance if i'm a bit wonky over the next little while -- i'm about to undertake three of the hardest weeks i've had to go through in a very long time, and i honestly don't know how the shit i'm going to survive it. but it's all already begun, and there's no going back now.i know that.but it doesn't scare me any less.(...they say to forget about it. they say to

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okay, now it's just becoming surprising to me how many hits this blog is getting these days. and not just random image googling -- like, actual returning readers! and referrals from other blogs! and people who're googling my full name, although that's kind of creepy! and a regular reader in california whom i'm a lot more suspicious towards ever since i found out that tujunga is a suburb of

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just in time for the unholy "holiday" that is valentine's day, i'm finding out that i'm something like a crush object for, er, girls. i hear a bunch of the young girl cashiers have amusing little girlcrushes on me, and apparently one of my coworkers has a female friend who shops there and refers to me as "the hot girl". hahaha what(all of it is totally flattering to me, though. anything to

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so on tuesday, i handled chart magazine's coverage of the juno awards press conference.(and as i said in a brief myspace bulletin, "you know it's laughable when your biggest concern is the fact that you can't find your pvc garter belt.")seriously, this kind of shit excites me to no end. longtime readers will know how hyped i get for music festival/industry conferences like canadian music week

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a good day off last friday: picked up a few concert tickets (though the kooks show was unfortunately sold out - all the way to may! - and i'm sure the rotate this employees had a good smirk amongst themselves when i mumbled that i needed a ticket for papa roach), and also finally hunted down a copy of never enough: the story of the cure! not too expensive, either. i'm already halfway through

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expecting sympathy from the devil, little girl. you know it never works that way -- fate doesn't grant you those small mercies.grow the fuck up.[ music | depeche mode, "everything counts" ]

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i now declare rob dickinson to be pretty awesome. he gave me a good solid 25 minutes of rumbling british monotone, all very intelligent and articulate, and now i'm set to get not one but two articles out of it. (although one is due tomorrow, quite hastily, so i pumped out the transcription late into last night and suspect i'll be bombing through the writing process before work/after gym this

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so last night, i listened to the entirety of the cure's pornography all in one go - it's in preparation for my 33 1/3 book proposal; yes, i'm applying to write a study of the darkest heroin record of the 80's - and was reminded of how absolutely fucking soul-crushing that album is. which is kind of why i loved it in the first place.anyway. yesterday: bought my gym membership, went to the big

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so, yeah. it's funny how many times one phone conversation has changed things for me.and last night's put me back on track, let's say. it also informed me of a few things: for one, how i, forever the girl with the saviour complex, actually did sort of save someone over a year ago; and for two, how my mother once told me that "your biggest problem is that you want people to think and feel like

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hey. because i know you're reading this now (and you wanted me to blog about this, so here it is, super-quick timing no less):so, what you said to me tonight? about how you have this need to not see me fall? and how you know i won't anyway?that was probably one of the most meaningful things anybody's ever said to me. ever. really.and you know, thanks. after talking to you - just like the

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razorlight tour dates: thurs. march 1 - toronto @ mod club theatrei am totally unashamed to admit that i've spent the last five minutes punching the air and shrieking, "yes!! yes!!"hell yes.(p.s. related to their britpop brethren: one of my readers - thanks gilberto! - recently sent along a copy of the new kaiser chiefs single, "ruby," and it's insanely addictive. this spring is going to be most

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long-overdue haircut/dye job today; am very glad the store meeting at starbucks hq was last night, as my dark hair now features frontal lowlights in an obscenely bright fire-engine red colour. i adore them, but i'm still slightly worried - company uniform policy forbids dying one's hair "unnatural colours", and this shade of red ain't exactly natural - but i (and possibly my poor beleaguered

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oblique personal truth of the day: i may be very good at setting out paths to be followed, but i also leave behind land mines.and if i actually knew where to go from here....-steady as she goes.[ music | the death starz, "new york city speed" ]

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on wednesday night, i put on the fishnets and the leopard-print bondage dress and went home, and i can honestly say it was the most fun i've had in ages. (to sum up: booze, new friends, old friends, rock n' roll karaoke, birthday festivities, more booze, free booze, cigarettes in the cold, stumbling over icy sidewalks in six-inch spike heels, crazy photo slideshows, and more) if you couldn't

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...and just as i was about to bitch and moan about no concert announcements from any of my favourite bands recently, kill hannah posts a triage of canadian tour dates for february! (i mean, sure, they're opening for papa roach and it dies today, but eh, i'll suffer through it) not only are they playing the phoenix here in toronto on february 20th, they've got two dates back to back in montréal

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so there might be a little more traffic here than usual at some point soon, because i decided to stop being so hush-hush with this blog and accepted the chance to be interviewed for blog to's blogerati files. (edit: interview now up for viewing here.) preamble: hello, new visitors! i'm not one to give a big fancy intro or anything, so just stick around for a bit and see if you like what you

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while talking about one of my infamous party outfits to my mother the other day, i described myself as "looking like the whore of babylon". i figure if i'm going to be self-derisive, i should at least be creative about it.now, i hate using outdated 80's catchphrases (...ah, who am i kidding), but hold the phone -- this morning's chromewaves entry reminded me that canadian music week is upon us

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cross-posting this from my myspace blog, which doesn't get used nearly as much as this one (mostly because it's super-completely-public as opposed to this blog's sorta-public), but i still come up with some new material in there. this was what i posted late last night.the timing is inconsequential.i'm noting that in case you think it means something.it doesn't.-----------------"You won't ever be

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