These years of cloak and dagger have left us disappeared.

Random list of stuff from this weekend:

1) The Matt Good show was amazing! The opening number almost made me cry. He came out, shrouded in darkness, and sang a stripped down version of the song While We Were Hunting Rabbits which is a song I love. It was gorgeous.

All of the new songs from this year's album Lights of Endangered Species were great, as were the old classics. I first got into Matt Good (well, back then it was the Matthew Good Band) while in first year university, and I remember getting really emotional the first time I saw him live. I listened to the album Underdogs on heavy rotation while I studied through first year chem/bio/calc/phys and it was just very affecting to see those songs live.

The performances of classics like Hello Time Bomb, Apparations, Load Me Up, Weapon, and Giant were awesome. And, Ian Browne, the drummer from MGB days was on drums, so that was cool. I have to spend more time listening to MG back catalogue. Except...

2) I got a link to an early download of Los Campesinos! new album Hello Sadness! I've been listening to it in heavy rotation all weekend and I LOVE IT. It's a great collection of ten songs. I dunno, I've been thinking that LC! could just take over as my favourite band ever. However, in order to take that title, they'd better come play Toronto in 2012 is all I have to say.

3) Saturday was relaxing. I went for a run, met up with Fea for a rather unproductive marking session, and then relaxed and watched TV in the evening until settling in for an hour of sleep.

4) Today I went for a really good run. I want to do either an 8K or a 10K (or both) next spring, so I ran 8K today instead of my usual approximately 6K. It felt good. Maybe next weekend I'll go for the 10.

5) Then I went back to my old hair salon in Kensington to get my hair done. I think I've found another stylist there that I like. I gave him a carte blanche: I wanted something new done but I didn't know what. It's now much shorter, and a little bit darker with some highlights to frame my face. I really liked this new dude. He took a long time making sure my hair was perfect, so I'm going to go back to him again for sure.

6) I finished a set of marking, so now I'm going to spend the rest of my evening reading the tome that is Jonathan Franzen's Freedom. I've read the first "chapter" and so far, so good. Also, it has a bird on its cover. In those cases, I do judge books by their covers.

And with that, I'm off. Happy Monday folks!