Style Symmetry

Fighting but currently losing the battle… I still say screw you cold!

This is what I am wearing today. It may be a bit disjointed considering all the neo citran and other medicines clouding my judgment. Does a grandma sweater go with a school girl skirt and a studded belt I am not so sure, but it is quite cozy. I just can’t bring myself to be in boring old pants and whatever even when I’m sick.

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Thrifted Red Snood Scarf, Sweater, Skirt and Ankle Boots. Belt, Ebay. Suzy Shier Duster Sweater.

Something unrelated (of course) but exciting (for me) is while searching for todays youtube video I stumbled on piles of non-album Arcade Fire songs. They are a top five band for me, the power they put out at their live shows is incredible and incomprehensible. If you ever have the opportunity to see Arcade Fire in concert please take it, there is nothing like having these ten gifted Canadians singing their hearts out to you in unison. This is a great video to start on and this one too. They also inspired me to record my very first setlist back in 2007.

May 24, 2007 Arcade Fire at Deer Lake Park
Black Mirror
Keep The Car Running
No Cars Go
Haiti
Neighborhood#2
Black Wave/Bad Vibrations
In The Backseat
Intervention
Antichrist Television Blues
Ocean Of Noise
Neighborhood #1
The Well And The Lighthouse
Neighborhood#3
Rebellion (Lies)

Encore
My Body Is A Cage
Wake Up

The show was my first outdoor concert since living in Vancouver and it really made me fall in love with this city and the people. At the end of the show the crowd all piles out to catch the buses. My friend and I decide to be ‘smart’ and find the stop right before the concert stop so that we wouldn’t have to wait in a lineup of hundreds of people… but we never found another stop so then we walked all the way back and of course ended up at the very end of that line. Maybe an hour after the concert ended the line is much shorter and this big city bus pulls up. Since there were only maybe 20 people more than the bus should carry the driver was getting us to squish in so that he could take everyone. I had never been so sardined like this before but the passengers were all so relaxed and fulfilled from the amazing show that we didn’t mind pushing into eachother at each break and turn of the bus. Hard to describe but it was magical, like I said I fell in love with this city.

As I ramble on, here’s a peek of an amazing girl I shot for The Eyeline.

No really, she is amazing, go here and then enter the giveaway by completing this survey.

*Intervention, Arcade Fire*

First let me tell you the embarrassing part, do you ever get tickets from Ticketmaster?  Well they print your receipt on a third ticket so you have to look close and make sure to bring the right ones.  I did no such thing for The Sounds concert.  We had to go all the way home to get my stupid ticket and we missed the opening band.  I have never done this before as I always double and triple check as I am a bit paranoid.  Of course this time I knew better (no I didn’t) lol.

Anyways, I have been a fan of The Sounds for more than 4 years so to get to finally see them has had me so excited.  The crowd was young, I’d say 19-23 on average, lots of crowd surfing too.  The band had major energy, by the encore even I was exhausted.  I think there goal was to out-party us.  They were drinking and smoking on stage, Maja lost her voice from screaming so much and then crowd surfed herself!!  She kept calling us expletive pet names which was fun, and apparently we really know how to party – damn straight!

Set List
Crossing the Rubicon
Queen Of Apology
Seven Days A Week
No One Sleeps When I’m Awake
Hurt You
Midnight Sun
Rock ‘N Roll
Night After Night
4 Songs & A Fight
My Lover
Beatbox
Dorchester Hotel
Painted By Numbers
Living in America
Ego

Encore:
Tony The Beat
Song With A Mission
Hope You’re Happy Now

What I Wore

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Thrifted Vintage 80s Yellow Floral Dress and Red Boots. Stitches Silver Thread Tights. Red Belt, Ebay. String Purse, from Childhood.

When I was getting ready for work on Friday Breakfast Television, the Vancouver morning show did an email contest for tickets to that nights Blue Oyster Cult show, I love live music so of course I entered. A few hours later I got a call that I won FOUR tickets and a Meet & Greet with the band. Wait….. what? So exciting.  Found three friends and after work hurried home, had a quick dinner, changed a few pieces of my outfit and off we went.

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Day Look: NEW Sequin Beret, $5 at Ardene – so sweet! Highlighter Skirt, Etsy. Thrifted Pink Sweater, Faux Croc Stretch Belt and Black Booties. Stitches Leggings. Beaded Necklace looped, Ebay Lot.

Night Look: Suzy Shier Tee Shirt, Black Beads, Ebay Lot. Thrifted Black Bow Purse. Jeffrey Campbell Booties, Gift from Solestruck.

Meeting the guys I told them how I won the tickets, they were super nice and now I have this commemorative photo. Since I didn’t know much of their music going in I would have liked to meet them after, because I would have been gushing!! Our seats were best in the house and the band really kicked ass! The set list may look short with only 11 songs, but there were many (many) guitar solos as well as drum solos, bass solos…… I had no idea how talented Buck Dharma was on that guitar, he blew my mind.  And Rusy Sarzo the bassist used to play in Quiet Riot, Whitesnake and with Ozzy Osbourne – he had many fans in the audience that’s for sure.  A band that spans over four decades so glad I got the chance to see them, for free was even better. Thanks BT and BOC!

SetList
The Red &The Black
Before the Kiss
Burnin’ for You
Cities on Flame With Rock and Roll
Shooting Shark
Buck’s Boogie
ME62
Then Came The Last Days Of May
Godzilla
(Don’t Fear) The Reaper

Encore:
Hot Rails To Hell