So I read something this morning with the word shoals in it and I flashed back HARD to listening to due South music. Of course I thought immediately of Stan Rogers' Canadian folk song, Northwest Passage, which I fell utterly in love with from the first.

Happily, I played the song... then put it on repeat. I quickly realized that it wasn't the song with shoals in it (that's Paul Gross's Robert Mackenzie), but Northwest Passage is still on repeat now because I love it so much, it's so poignant and sad and hopeful. This is my favorite version. <3

You may or may not have noticed my fangirling and flailing from several weeks ago over going to see The Headstones in Toronto in February? Well, a bunch of the ladies who will also be going are getting commemorative tattoos. Not matching ones, but we're all going as a group to Yonge Street Tattoos to get inked.

I AM SO EXCITED! \o/

I'm getting a little bitty tat, only 2 inches long so I doubt it'll take longer than 10 minutes at most, but just the prospect of it makes me so happy! It's going to be one of the lines from the chorus of Northwest Passage: "one warm line" on the inside of my left wrist. I thought it was fitting.

15 days to go and I can barely contain myself. I keep re-writing it whenever the ink washes off because I'm absolutely in love with it. ♥_♥

It's kind of funny, it's actually going to be my most visible tattoo. The sparrows on my chest are pretty visible but they're also really easy to cover up and it's not like I notice them very much even when I'm wearing a tanktop or something that shows them off. All my other tats are also easily/always hidden. I'll be able to actually look at this one on my wrist all the time! How lovely~!


ETA: OMG I NEED TO REWATCH DUE SOUTH LIKE BURNING NOW. (Also, this would help with the whole big bang thing...)

ETA2: Ahahahah, did you guys ever see this live version of Ride Forever (from 1999)? With rows and rows and rows of Mounties standing behind PG & David Keeley. LOLZ FOREVER. I wonder what this event was for... It was for Canada Day, apparently.

Okay guys, I know it's late, but I was super busy and didn't have time for thinking (and I forgot to check dreamwidth 'cause I'm on lj more than dw) and now I realize IT'S ONLY A MONTH AWAY and I'm trying not to panic.

I don't have accommodations yet for the Toronto trip, and I need to make them ASAP, but I'd prefer to room with a few people to bring costs down. I'm driving up with my friend Juliet so we need space for two (and we're fine sharing a bed). Does anyone have a room they'd like to share with us? I'm totally fine being the one to make the reservation if you don't already have one!

This also means that I'll be able to drive another couple of people around Toronto, and to/from the show/airport/etc.

I plan to arrive on Friday, probably mid-day, and leave on Sunday, maybe late, or I could be convinced to leave Monday, maybe....

spuffyduds, akamine_chan, lucifuge_5, meresy, thursdaynext_27, andeincascade... I know you guys are going! (YAYYY!) But I don't know if you already have plans? And I don't know a bunch of the other people going, but I love making new friends! So if you can pass along my request to anyone who might be interested, I'd appreciate it. I posted a comment here on dreamwidth, so anyone can reply there as well.

HEADSTONES \m/
at Sound Academy in TORONTO!
Saturday, Feb 5th
8:00pm

TICKETS (approx CDN 45) GO ON SALE WEDNESDAY and as long as I can get one I am renting a car (unless someone has a car they can lend me) and ROAD-TRIPPING MY ASS UP TO TORONTO THAT WEEKEND!

I will have to figure out accommodations, and I think this has the potential to become a kind of unofficial con situation, what with the potential number of fangirls making this trip mecca!

HOW IS THIS EVEN REAL OMFG?!?!!!!

And jesus, what is it with all these impossible concert situations? First Rammstein?!!! Now the Headstones?! Who's next, Malice Mizer? BUCK-TICK in the US?! (OMFG IF IT WAS B-T IN THE US I WOULD DIE RIGHT. FUCKING. NOW.)