it's sunday

As promised in my previous update, here I am!

I encourage you to scroll down and read my last entry, as it was rather comprehensive and there are some nice photos. In case, you don't though, I've decided to post on Sunday every week, just so that there's always something fresh here. It's possible that I may post more often, but Sunday's will be the minimum.

Since I last posted on Thursday, I don't have much to write...

But, on Friday I got to go do an interview again, this time it was for "the Big Story", which was about a celebrity wedding... I got to interview a woman from the Daily Express newspaper. I didn't get to edit or package the video afterwards, which is too bad, but it was still nice to get out and about. The only thing wrong with my interview was that in a few of the shots my microphone is showing... :( boo. It was a particularly bright day and the itty bitty screen on my camera and the fact that I couldn't be looking at it throughout the interview meant that I didn't realise until I got back to the office. Oh well... I still got compliments on the aesthetics of the shot... it does look really nice... check it out here. I think it's pretty obvious which part of the pack I shot, but just in case, it's the woman who is talking throughout and not the shots from Italy!

Friday night, after a few pints with a work mate, I went to see Gnarls Barkley with a few friends. I didn't know who they were until Friday and was told that I would only know one of their songs... and I did. It's that song 'Crazy' that plays all the time... maybe you know it too? Probably. Anyway, it was a good gig (as they call shows here) and afterwards we all went for a couple of drinks a little closer to home.

Saturday was a BBQ at L's, sans L. Her flatmate, K, had a barbee for all her kiwi friends, so I met a load of people and saw a bunch I already knew. There was so much food that I can't even remember everything that we had, burgers, sausages, shrimp, salmon, asparagus, salads of all descript, garlic bread, oh and beer. Lots of beer. The weather could have been better, but it only dripped a little rain on us for about five minutes and then we had clear skies.

Today has been a lovely sunny day, but not too warm. I covered all the basics today, cleaning, laundry, gym... and now, blogging. That's it, I'm done with this week and am almost ready for the next one to begin... hopefully it will be just as good as the last.

the Cure

So, everyone knows that my favourite band of all time is the Cure. I saw them live on the Wish Tour in 1995 in Montreal at the Molson Center (when it was still called that) and have been waiting for them to return to Montreal since then... they haven't. Last summer I heard that they were going on a world tour and they were actually going to come back to us in September. Being in South Korea at the time didn't make getting tickets easy, but I did (thanks S). And they were good seats too...

But then in August, they announced they were postponing our show until May. I held onto my tickets, but then I decided to move over here, and well, my dream of seeing the Cure again disappeared with the return of my tickets.

I knew they were playing London, but the gig was sold out. My friend had tickets, but they were all accounted for already (since they'd bought them months in advance). I had resigned myself to the fact that I wouldn't see them this time. Unless, of course, I wanted to be gouged by a scalper - which there was no way I could afford.

BUT, thanks to a great friend, I was alerted to an ethical ticket exchange site where there were a couple of tickets for sale at face value. I sorted out my ticket (I only needed one) and was set to meet this guy at a pub before the show. It kind of sucked to be going on my own, but it was the CURE! A few minutes later my friend called me back and told me that one of her tickets actually opened up! It was fate telling me I had made the right decision. I canceled on the guy and took hers, so I could at least appreciate it with someone.

In '95 the set was great, Wish was new, so they played a lot of songs from it, which up to that point was not their best album. But they played for three hours and still played many of my favourite old-school songs. Last night, they upped the ante and played the most incredible set-list a true Cure fan could ever want to hear! In it's glory (except for the new ones I don't know) here it is... don't drool, don't be too jealous, just enjoy it, put it together on a playlist on your computer and pretend you were there.

Plainsong
Prayers for rain
Strange day
New *
A night like this
New *
Lovesong
To wish impossible things
Pictures of you
Lullaby
From the edge of the deep green sea
Hot hot hot
New *
The walk
Push
Friday I’m in love
Inbetween days
Just like heaven
Primary
New *
Shake dog shake
Never enough
Wrong number
100 years
Disintegration

Encore 1
At night
M
Play for today
A forest

Encore 2
Lovecats
Let’s go to bed
New*
Close to me
Why can’t I be you

Encore 3
Three imaginary boys
Fire in cairo
Boys don’t cry
Jumping someone else’s train
Grinding halt
10:15 on a Saturday night
Killing an arab

I couldn't believe they started with Plainsong. I went through a faze in my life where I couldn't sleep at night without listening to this song... amazing to see it live... They played almost all the songs that I would have wanted to hear, including Three Imaginary Boys, M, Disintegration, Primary, Push... anyway, you can read the list but those are some of my favourite songs of all time... it was truly amazing.

The only thing that could have made it any better would be to have the kind of seats that I had in Montreal... We were in the nosebleeds last night, but that was fine by me, because at least I was there. And it's probably a good thing that I was... who knows if/when they'll ever tour again... and with a set-list like that I can only think they've done it to appease all the old fans because they'll never do it again.

It was exactly what I needed to Cure ;) my winter blues...