I'm definitely on the mend, though still pretty tired. I think it's probably best to be upright, however, so I'll go in to work. I expect I should be able to make my Thurs. evening event (Naked Lunch at the Revue) and Friday night concert (Elvis Costello at Massey Hall). I think the general excitement should carry me through, as it did last night. I actually don't have much planned for Sat. until the very late afternoon, so maybe I will sleep in a bit and then see where I can go swimming. Perhaps it will be Jimmie Simpson, unless Regent Park has finally got back on track and has their normally-scheduled lane swimming.
It threatened to rain all evening, and in fact since I didn't want to be sitting out in the rain longer than I needed, we skipped the opening act (Lene Lovich). I'm not even 100% she actually went on at 7, but she probably did. We got to Budweiser Stage at 7:45 and Devo was just launching into their set. It was good, though there were two songs towards the end that were kind of grating. I mean there is absolutely no way I would have gone to see them on their own, but it apparently was their tour and they invited B-52s to join on one leg. They did their full set! It still hadn't rained, but it was threatening all night.
I think the B-52s actually cut their set short by about two songs, mostly hoping to get to their big hits before the rain started. Now maybe they aren't actually doing encores because they are co-leading the tour, and Devo didn't do an encore, but I suspect it was just to try to wrap up in time. It doesn't appear they have played 'Channel Z' in some time (this is the song my wife wanted to hear). They often but don't always play 'Deadbeat Club,' and that was the song I was hoping to hear (even beyond 'Rock Lobster' and certainly more than 'Whammy Kiss'!). Oh well... It was still a lot of fun, and they certainly won't be touring much more, so it was worth grabbing the opportunity to see them. We really did luck out that the rain held off until after the show. We just missed the GO Train, so we walked and walked and walked to get to the streetcar loop. (Such poor design on the part of the TTC at Exhibition Place. Just in general the transit transfers there are terrible.) We got back to Pape at 11 or so when it finally started to rain, and then it rained quite steadily all night, so overall we really lucked out. The B-52s and Devo are off to Pine Knob today. That's also an outdoor venue, so hopefully the weather is more cooperative for the fans out there.
Now that I am on transit more due to all this rain, I am reading more. I finished Kundera's Ignorance (just not that good) and made great progress on Ellen Foster (just shy of halfway through). Tonight, I plan on taking TTC over to the Revue to see Naked Lunch, and I'll bring Auto-da-Fé along. But I just got my bike back from the shop, so I may not have quite as much transit reading time as before. That said, I actually am flying out to Quebec City for a conference soon. I think I might take Scarlett Thomas's The End of Mr. Y and Ariel Dorfman's The Last Song of Manuel Sendero and see which one grabs me more. If anything, it's even slower than the weight loss, but I am making some headway in bring down my book piles. Speaking of book piles, I was pretty sure Thammavongsa's How to Pronounce Knife was at the very bottom on one of these piles. Indeed it was, but I have freed it now and will make sure I have my copy with me when I go to her reading in a few weeks.
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