I lied.

30/05/2009 at 18:04 (Uncategorized) (filler, foo fighters, friends, names of foreign towns, sorry, this is not a post)

Because this is my music blog, not anything about my personal life, I’m not going into why but I don’t even feel like writing today, however glorious Antony was. (And he really was, it was an incredible night). I promise to write an album review too once I get over myself, probably of Reconstruction Site by the Weakerthans, but for today I will leave you with posts about things two of my friends have done, because I have some truly brilliant friends out there.

Firstly, there’s Kat. Kat is, like me, a writer. She is also my oldest online friend, the only one I’ve met up with in real life, and one of my favourite people in the world. I’ll try not to get too misty-eyed, but she’s brilliantly funny, caring, sensible and mature but also absurd when the situation requires it (and believe me, there are few situations that don’t benefit from Kat’s absurdity.) She also keeps a blog, puportedly to write about writing and literature, but it’s a little more wide-ranging. I suppose she writes about things that inspire her, and one of those things is music. Yesterday she wrote a beautiful post about her favourite band, Foo Fighters. Regardless of how you feel about the band, it basically touches on everything that makes music so important, and that is a damned hard thing to do.

And secondly, there’s Matt, who I have known for a fraction of the time I have Kat, but managed to hit it off with exceptionally well. Once again, he’s very funny and has a good worldview – like all of the people I find myself looking up to, he knows the importance of being happy. He also has excellent taste in music, which is a pretty good thing considering that he’s a musician. He writes, sings and plays various instruments in a band called Names of Foreign Towns, who have just put up a couple of demo recordings on Myspazz. It seems a pretty sweet endeavor so far and I wish him and his friends luck in it.