2-second rule

Yesterday I was stopped at a light when the man crossing the street in front of us suddenly stopped, picked something up off of the road and then popped it in his mouth. No, I don't think you understand, HE PICKED SOMETHING UP OFF THE GROUND AND ATE IT. And he was just a normal looking guy. Calgary has hundreds of wacked-out guys walking around talking to their hands, but I've never seen any of them eat random crap off the pavement.

Seriously, the best possible explanation is that it was a rock. I really, really hope that it was a rock.

The Roches at the Calgary Folk Music Festival

Oh, sorry. This is actually a picture of me running the hell away from the Roches at the Calgary Folk Music Festival. Seriously, this was the most annoying thing I've ever heard. I couldn't get away fast enough and I still have some of the screeching stuck in my head. And the lyrics....don't remind me of the lyrics...

Macy Gray at the Calgary Folk Festival

Or, actually, one of Macy Gray's back-up singers. Macy Gray was harder to draw. She is gigantic, and may have been very drunk. But then again, I can imagine that she's like that all the time. Her band was amazing and the show was a weird mixture of a super-tight choreographed extravanga and a sprawling, shambolic mess. Unfortunately, the only thing anyone is going to remember about her is the 10-minute fiesta of profanity she went on halfway through. Never before has the word 'fuck' be uttered so many times from the folk fest stage, in so many different and interesting ways.

Well, I'll also remember that she had a special glittery mic stand and a cool drummer, but that's just me.

Broken Social Scene

playing on the main stage as the headlining act for Thursday night. There were a whole lot of people on stage. When they all filed out at the start of the set, our friend Brian said "hey look! it's Lighthouse!" Which may have been a bit obscure for the young girls screaming for Feist, but did earn points for referencing obscure Canadiana.

Thankfully, they skipped most of their experimental jazz, played a full set of actual songs and were all-around awesome.

Also: drop that phone park that car sleep on the floor dream about me drop that phone park that car sleep on the floor dream about me drop that phone park that car sleep on the floor dream about me drop that phone park that car sleep on the floor dream about me....

...sorry, sometimes I fall into a bit a trance with that song