Quick Follow-Ups

It was a bit of a relief to hear that Canadian Stage had needed to cancel on Tues. (and then they did again on Wed. though they probably could have risked it and I don't think it actually did rain).  I mean of course I'm sorry that everyone was inconvenienced, but that is always the risk with outdoor theatre.  I guess that was really what I was driving at when talking to the jerk at the box office, that it makes more sense to just rip the band-aid off and cancel early rather than having everyone travel out (generally far out of their way) and wait and see about a "game-time decision," and I was simply trying to understand when they were going to make that call.  Anyway, because Tues. and Wed. shows were cancelled, I was able to rebook to Thurs. (with a different staffer), which was what I had wanted from the beginning.  Obviously, I hope the weather cooperates (and next week as well when I am hoping to see Tiff'ny of Athens in Withrow Park). I had initially imagined taking the TTC over, but it's only a couple of blocks further than the Revue, and there are definitely some advantages to having the bike to get around High Park, so I am now thinking I will bike it and see how that goes.

The additional exercise would be good.  I actually am now able to fit in a relaxed cut jeans with 36 inch waist (probably more like a 38+ inch waist in a standard cut), but still some progress, and it means I have a decent pair of jeans I can wear!  If I really crack down (and improve my eating habits!), I might squeeze into a size 34 before the summer is over.  Something to strive for, I suppose. 

A few weeks back I was writing about going down various musical rabbit holes.  Well, it has happened again, though I haven't let it completely take over my life.  I recently found out that most, but unfortunately not all, jazz recordings on the Venus label are on iTunes.  I then had to run down the list of all the various Venus recordings I had tried to pick up in the past (mostly Archie Shepp and Barney Wilen, though there are quite a lot of great Eddie Higgins albums and even one or two by Eric Alexander).  Most of them are indeed are on iTunes (and are currently in my queue), but then I was trying to figure out what was missing.  It looks like a couple of tracks from Archie Shepp's True Ballads #2 and Lonnie Smith's Afro Blue and a few by Eddie Higgins, including Bewitched and Haunted Heart.  Fortunately, Haunted Heart is available at Bandcamp, but the others do not appear to be unfortunately.  I was pretty interested in this double album that paired Bewitched and Dear Old Stockholm, but this doesn't appear to be available any longer, even in Japan.  Still, I am trying to focus on having access to the bulk of the Venus catalog, which is quite nice overall.

I'm also missing some bonus tracks from Vee-Jay albums by Eddie Higgins and Benny Green.  There does not appear to be any way of tracking these down, which is always a bit upsetting.  Maybe they will surface one day, as I believe this material fell out of copyright, at least in Europe.