So how do you follow an amazing day of entertaining music?
well, you start by getting up at 430 in the morning, packing your car and only then noticing you have messages waiting for you as you are about to drive out to Canmore for the 24 hours of Adrenalin bike race.
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Saturday brings the first full day of music, with workshops and individual concerts on 6 different stages that run almost non stop from 1030am until 530pm.
I definitely had some people I wanted to check out from what I had seen on Thursday and Friday, but I really wish I could have been in two (or three) places at once because the overlap from one stage to another made it difficult to get to see absolutely everything I wanted.
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Is there anything better than a gathering outdoors with friends to listen to a constant parade of great music?
I only knew the headliners performing tonight, but sitting through the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Charlie Musslewhite, Wendy McNeil, Be Good Tanyas, Andrew Bird, and Calexico before I got to them (Bedouin Soundclash) was certainly not a chore.. in fact, it was downright pleasant. 
Having zero expectations I just sat back and enjoyed everything that was offered to me. In fact, I can’t think of a single performer that had me wishing their set was shorter, or thinking that they were a misfit for tonight… all good energy, good entertainment and great music, which usually means my CD collection is about to start growing again.
I can’t wait for what tomorrow brings
Day 1 brought us Master Musicians of Jajouka, The Weakerthans, Aimee Mann, and Sam Roberts, with 2 of the 4 bands that convinced me to buy tickets for this year on opening night I was certain this is going to be a good show.
The lineup to get in to the grounds was horrendous looking (and kept getting worse), but when we made the decision to line up it surprisingly moved along quite quickly, getting us inside within 15 minutes. Once inside I see Susan selling programs (I talked with her for a bit, long enough to get separated from my group) and in the background I can see and smell food alley…
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So I’m hoping to beat Mr. Thunder to the punch here: The Dark Knight might have just surpassed Xmen 2 and Iron Man as my favorite comic book movie ever. It was everything it should have been: dark, violent (how did they manage to score a PG rating?), twisted, fast-paced, story-driven (not explosion-driven)… it was almost perfect. I really can’t wait for the next installment! The only thing that bugged me about the flick was Christian Bale’s Batman voice. I mean really, we know he’s tough, but that’s because of his actions, not his computer-tweaked growl. But hey, I can forgive that one little gripe for the awesomeness that is The Dark Knight!
And the “but”: the trailer for Watchmen alone was worth the price of admission. That’s easily my most anticipated flick of next year, although the new Terminator might be pretty cool too. Everyone has until March now to take a read through the graphic novel… I’ll loan it out if you’re interested
From one of the best Web comics around…
Over on the “Games Night” page, Scott has been kind enough to provide the latest information. While it was needed, I’m glad to see he didn’t increase his post count while doing it. I don’t know what I’d do if he got to 5 total posts by the end of 2008, so this leaves him plenty of room to work with.
In other news, I finally got around to updating the cycling map page. I decided to do away with the route line (for now) and just go with markers indicating where I finished up each year and where I am currently. Huzzah for being in Atlantic Canada!
I figure that if I maintain my current pace I should be done my coast to coast virtual journey by the end of the year… and then I may modify the route I have been using to include the northern coast as well.
what can I say, I need to have something to ride for. 
Tonight I went out to Canmore to do a practice run for this years installment of 24 hours of punishment, and I have to say I wasn’t totally disappointed with my efforts.
After an initial gong show to get myself on my bike and actually riding (it took 40 minutes to get out of downtown, I forgot my helmet, my camera, my large tire pump, I scratched my car when my bike fell over, I didn’t bring bug spray), I set off up what I believe the start will be for this year (I didn’t see the map until writing this post), and promptly almost bail on some rocks. Fortunately nobody was around to see that (mental note: don’t do that on race day), and I resume riding on what I have now named the highway to hell.
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yeah, so about this p/d/p thing….
The next one is scheduled to run this weekend. Details as follows:
July 5th
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I believe this is another of those friday night ones for us in north america, but I’m not sure
there was no vote for a theme soo… go crazy.
