Vincent's Journal

09/08/2010 21:21 #52684

Vampire Weekend
Category: concerts

I went last night to Toronto after work and treated myself to a Molson Canadian Amphitheatre Show. I couldn't find anyone to go with me and with the venue being only 40% sold I was lucky to unload my ticket at the gate, even though it was less than cost.

What counted was I was able to make the show for the two bands I wanted to see as I left Buffalo at 5 after work, hung out at the MCA until midnight taking in the big city hipsters, getting home at 1:30 AM and then making it to work this morning 10 minutes early. Needless to say that everything lined up for me as I had a pretty descent time even by myself.

Anyway I was finally able to get floor tickets and take a video that is worth of being one of the "cool" kids at the Amphitheatre:

or if that doesn't work here is the HD link

The only downside is that my battery conked out shortly thereafter and I also realized that my backup was drained as well :-( Anyway watching and dancing hit the spot for all that I have been going through mentally these days anyway.

08/30/2010 21:17 #52614

CNE/Ontario Place
Category: concerts

So this is the CNE and Ontario Place during and after hours post concert.

Amex Pavilion

Self Explanatory

The Original Hockey Hall of Fame, now part of BMO Field

People Mooching Wifi @ the EX

mrmike - 08/31/10 16:09
I miss it and the CNE, original Hockey Hall of fame was pretty cool. Wound up at the CNE as part of a bus excursion to a baseball game as a teenager. We went into the foods around the world building, where there was Pizza under Italy, Burgers under US and the like until we got to Poland, where under it was....a dairy queen.

paul - 08/31/10 10:26
I still have never been to ontario place, it looks pretty cool.

08/30/2010 00:22 #52606

City and Colour
Category: concerts

Dallas Green put on a great show Saturday Night. For some reason his music just hits me right to the core. Maybe I'm just bummed about my physical health, getting old, never figuring out life ect. But pretty much all of his set hit the spot with me. The whole night was almost perfect. I picked up a friend of mine who unfortunately is even more bummed out (a friend of her's thinks that she's possessed, but I'm going into any religious debate.) The CNE, Molson Canadian Amphitheatre, the hotel indigo, lunch at Mr. Greek.

I've come to the realization that over the last year I just hate a lot of things about my living situation and you could even expand it to the area in general. Right now I don't know what I'm going to do or even how my quality of life is going to be. All I know is I just want to have fun now and forget about tomorrow.

08/25/2010 21:19 #52568

Wife Exacta
Category: horses

This is just too funny. Really, The race really starts at 1:00

metalpeter - 08/27/10 19:07
Great Ending call

08/20/2010 22:04 #52484

Fashion Mistake
Category: clothes

So I realized today after it was too late that I projected the wrong image by the clothes I put on this morning. Basically I wore a plain white T-Shirt since it was clean & topped it off with a Black Chicago White Sox Hat. Needless to say for some odd reason I felt out of place out in the Burbs in the morning and when I was walking and driving around the city later on in the afternoon I felt even more out of place. Basically I my clothes on many teenage boys on random street corners. The topping was when a group of African-American men in a Cadillac SUV were laughing at me was I crossed in front on them at a stoplight. Usually it would happen organically, but today I knew exactly what they were focused on.

heidi - 08/21/10 15:28
(e:tinypliny) - something like this :::link::: counts as dressed up, especially with a pantsuit.

tinypliny - 08/21/10 12:19
And I absolutely detest that you sound like a clippety clop horse gallop on heels. I need to get something to choke the sound out of these heels.

tinypliny - 08/21/10 12:15
Hmm... I wish I had more fashion in my life. I just think it's too tiresome sometimes to worry about it - not to mention the uncomfortable and damaging footwear that comes with the state of fashion.

I have been trying to walk in a paltry 2" heel for some days now and I feel as if the air 2" above is toxically dizzying, that I am going to fall on my nose, that my toes are being murdered in cold blood with a hot axe, that my lower back is complaining to my brain and the spinal cord is conveying the coup messages, that I am committing feet homicide, that I am selling out - all at ones. I have returned no less than 3 shoes through this ordeal. The thing is, I am absolutely convinced that most women are completely unaware of what they are doing to their feet when they wear these monstrosities. The big irony is that the realization is making it even more difficult for me to adjust to the heels.

Aaaargh I hate fashion conventions that say that sneakers are not equivalent to "dressing up". What I really want to do is to defend in bare feet - but then I will have to go and get a pedicure, I suppose.

metalpeter - 08/21/10 09:14
Not sure where you where. But don't people wear white shirt and Yankee's cap with jeans all over NYC. I'm sure if you would have a just carried a skate board you would have fit right in, HA kidding. Yesterday in the falls I saw two cops and a bunch of skateboarders. I thought I wonder if they got that way for being young and doing something, I'm guessing for skating and not doing anything wrong. My point is you had a certain look not sure what that look is and how it compares to where you were, but if it is comfy then fine........

paul - 08/20/10 22:57
I always look stupid and I am sure people laugh. I don't care anymore. One day I realized I had a collared shirt on inside out with the collar tucked in and one leg if my jeans tucked into my sick.