Dianna Krall to play free concert today

Dianna Krall is performing a free concert today in downtown Toronto at the train station (strange location). She'll be singing five songs to promote her new album. The show is being hosted by, and Dianna is being interviewed by, Jann Arden. I wish that I was working from my downtown office today and not my home office. I may just have to head downtown this afternoon anyway.

Gawd, I love this city!!! :D

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Originally Posted by ForeverAutumn

Dianna Krall is performing a free concert today in downtown Toronto at the train station (strange location). She'll be singing five songs to promote her new album. The show is being hosted by, and Dianna is being interviewed by, Jann Arden. I wish that I was working from my downtown office today and not my home office. I may just have to head downtown this afternoon anyway.

Gawd, I love this city!!! :D

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...have just raised my property taxes 3%. I'm sure it's to pay for their friggin annual raises, those parasitic weeds. And my garage now resembles a recycling depot (wets, drys, bottles, newspapers, are sorted and cut down to size so the weeds can pretend they are doing something nice for the environment when all it amounts to is a large tax subsidy for the manufacturers.

Why don't they just confiscate our entire salaries, stamp SLAVE on our birth certificates, and send us a supply of Solient Green to keep their tiny little brains and friggin' huge altruistic egos bloated. They should be embarrassed to call themselves human beings.

Now, given that the Ontario government forked out about $10 million for that silly publicity stunt concert with the Stones so that they could have their pictures taken and pretend that they were doing something important with our money, I would be surprised if they aren't paying Krall and Arden for their little publicity stunt.

Why is it that, for the most part, the stupidest people in the world have amibitions to become politicians? Is it magnetic attraction of legalized corruption?

Glad I'm off to the Bahamas. Maybe the world will be different when I get back.

Well....thanks for raining on my parade!

Have fun in the Bahamas. I wish that I were going with you. But I declined the offer of tagging along because I had commited to a meeting in North Bay today, which was cancelled yesterday. The &@*%$@!#s.

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Originally Posted by ForeverAutumn

Well....thanks for raining on my parade!

Have fun in the Bahamas. I wish that I were going with you. But I declined the offer of tagging along because I had commited to a meeting in North Bay today, which was cancelled yesterday. The &@*%$@!#s.

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A parade would be a different story. Would there be clowns and ****ting horses? I like it when the upside down clowns step in doo doo. All the kids laugh!! Bwahahahaha. (A momentary Yech-relapse).

Hey, I just felt like having some fun, honest. I don't really think all politicians are weeds. Some weeds have medicinal benefits, after all.

I guess, with the meeting cancelled you don't have to risk driving in the snow, and you get the day off!

You wouldn't want to go to the Bahamas. Its just warm and sunny, and there's lots of salt in the water. Somebody ought to do something about that.

Bahamas?

I thought all Canadians went to Cuba. ;)

Have fun Barry.

Autumn,

Diana Krall? She's a jazz pianist that had a popular album a couple of years ago called Cafe Blue or something like that right. Never listened to her before.

Darren

If I got snot slingin drunk I might be able to handle a Diana Krall gig.

Yes plays here tonight and I am not going.

Can you believe that?

I am bummed, kind of.

But I would rather buy a few dvd's and cd's and bike parts and all as opposed to seeing them again for the 10th time or something like that and shelling out 80 bucks for the ticket.

I can hardly handle concerts anymore.

Dave

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Diana Krall? She's a jazz pianist that had a popular album a couple of years ago called Cafe Blue or something like that right. Never listened to her before.

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You're right Darren. She's a Jazz pianist who has had several popular albums. Right now I'm listening to Love Scenes. She's a fabulous singer if you like that kind of thing. I only have the one CD by her and I enjoy it a lot when I'm in the right mood for it. I've never seen her perform live, but I have a friend who has seen her several times and says that she's great live. Apparently, she has a bit of a cult thing going with fans that will travel all over the world to see her perform. Her own Kiss Army or Dead-heads (Krall-heads?).

If you like soft Jazz, you should give her a listen. You may like her.

Oh yeah, just as a point of Trivia, she's married to Elvis Costello.

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Yes plays here tonight and I am not going.

Can you believe that?

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Sorry to hear that you're going to miss the 35th Anniversary tour. They'll only be doing that once, you know. ;)

They play here on May 7. We're going! If only because I need a place to wear my Yes tye-dye t-shirt that I purchased at the 2002 show and have never worn (it's almost long enough for me to wear as a dress!).

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Bahamas?

I thought all Canadians went to Cuba. ;)

Have fun Barry.

Autumn,

Diana Krall? She's a jazz pianist that had a popular album a couple of years ago called Cafe Blue or something like that right. Never listened to her before.

Darren

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Yeah, lots of Canadians go to Cuba, but ignore the fact that they're supporting a dictator who pays his hotel staff $0.05 and hour and keeps the other $70 bucks or so that you pay for the room.

The only way you'd get me to go to Cuba is to dance on Castro's grave. If he was smarter than he is, he would follow Khadafi's lead by declaring Cuba a democratic socialist country and become a global hero to folks who couldn't reconize justice if the blindfolded lady dropped her scales on their toes.

Man, what's with me today. I need a vacation. I'll have fun in the Bahamas. Thanks for the well wishes.

And when I get back, I have prog music to send out!

Hey Darren, Cafe Blue was a record by Patricia Barber, also a jazz pianist/vocalist, but much more substance than fluffy/formulaic Diana Krall.