Toronto music weekend

Is it terribly un-cool and un-Toronto to be perfectly happy spending the second Saturday in a row, home in bed watching a movie? I don't care. I'm content and exhausted so I am avoiding the Hidden Cameras show even though it would have been wonderful to hear them with the background of rain falling.

My aging body is incapable of absorbing more than three live shows in one week anyway. Last night it was Broken Social Scene at Harbourfront. It seemed any Torontonian remotely interested in music was present, thanks to Sarah Liss' NOW cover story about this show = final show. Forever. Half of Toronto can now say they were there to see it end, (psst, I don't think it's the end). Anyway, it was a party on stage and BSS were awesome — what I saw of them anyway.

On Thursday I found myself inside a packed Mod Club Theatre for the subject of Eye's cover story, the lovely Miss Ivana Santilli. Unfortunately, this CD release party for Corduroy Boogie was nothing compared to her Lava Lounge performance in July. We were surrounded by stoic non-clappers — no one bobbed their head. Not even once. The only thing worse than an unenthusiastic audience member is an industry audience member. It's easy to pick them out. He's the one holding a drink and talking very loudly about how far the performer has come from when he first met her. Throughout the entire set. Yes, tall bald asshole in the red shirt, I'm glaring at you.

All angst is gone now. I'm looking forward to my afternoon tea with LL at "Tequila Mockingbird" and the sweet sounds of King Cobb Steelie. I am crossing my fingers for a Tamara Williamson appearance during their set. I still get chills thinking about the first time I saw her on the stage of C'est What (R.I.P.) with all those fancy pedals.

And if the weekend of wonderful live (and mostly free) music isn't enough for you (and why should it be?), Sarah Slean is back on the scene. After her emergence from the woods and her performance at the Rivoli, I was slightly worried that she returned to the melodramatic sounds of Universe and earlier work. But swing over to her website and listen to the title track of her upcoming CD, Day One and you'll hear that she has the pop hooks ready for battle. Then watch her video for the lead single, "Lucky Me."

That's enough about the Toronto music weekend. It's time to watch some gay French film.