Summer Retrospective
The last few weeks of summer have been sort of anti-climactic for me. I got Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty and retreated to my awesome man cave to annihilate swarms and swarms of Zerg. A word to the wise: keep a save file from right before you begin the Char missions, it will save you a lot of pointless back tracking.
The school year starts in three days, yesterday and today is orientation for froshes, and the summer is effectively over. I feel like I should have made a bucket list of all the things I wanted to do this summer, but in hindsight that list would have been overly simple and uncreative. As I look forward to what Sheridan 2010/2011 has in store, my bucket list is yet again, simple and underwhelming, despite the knowledge that it’s going to be a great year filled with exciting things.
So with no foretelling what the future holds, here’s a retrospective of the summer:
NXNE – This was the first thing I was granted a press pass too… ever. And it was awesome. I attended the social media
Young Galaxy opening for Besnard Lakes
conference during the week and spent the evenings and weekends at the shows of up and coming musicians. It was awesome. Over fifty venues, booked solid til 2a.m. everynight and some beyond that. There were a lot of notables such as Timber Timbre, The Reason, HEALTH, Japandroids, The Besnard Lakes and tons of other stuff. I’m already excited about next year and how much more I will know and be able to partake in.
Olympic Island Festival – The festival was the day after NXNE and it’s a festival that I’m always excited about. I went a few years ago when Death Cab and Stars were headlining it and it was a surreal experience to spend a day on Toronto Island sitting in the grass and watching mellow bands play to a crowd of thousands. This year Timber Timbre, Beach House, Broken Social Scene (with appearances by Feist and Emily Haines), Band of Horses and Pavement were on the bill along with a few local indie heroes like Zeus. One of the most memorable shows of the summer.
Warped Tour – About a week before Warped Tour I got a confirmation e-mail that I was on the press list for Warped Tour. I’d just about given up on attending but the news was exciting. I’ve always wanted to go to Warped but it’s just never actually happened, somethings come up, it just doesn’t happen. But this year, it happened. And I got a chance to spend the day as my 14-year-old self. It was a fun day of hanging out in the little bubble of pop/punk bands that make up the Warped Tour’s travelling circus.
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