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I went to see a hardcore show last night! An old friend recommended that I go see local band and friends Kleener and they were phenomenal. It was kind of funny to me that they were the opener and the best band of the night. (Their sound is distorted as hell, you've been warned.) There was also named Ilusión that was excellent (I don't think I've found the right Bandcamp for them, so no link). Nowadays hardcore shows skew older (40+) but there was a fair quantity of younger people there, which was great. There seems to be something of a scene past around High Park? That would be something. I also discovered that a friend of a friend is a sports journalist that I follow on Twitter, and she recently did an interview about Dear Coach's corner with the insane Propagandhi fan podcast, Unscripted Moments. Looking forward to that.

Anyway, that show did me a great bit of good but I still went in bad feeling spiral afterwards. Sigh.

Listening to an old Spitboy CD... They are as good as ever. Woman-fronted hardcore bands just rock.

Incidentally, I was sporting a Submission Hold t-shirt over the weekend when I went to the Toronto Anarchist Gathering, and a friend asked me: "Do you actually like Submission Hold, or do you just like the idea of it?" After admitting to liking the band, this friend told me she was in the latter camp, since she can't stand Jen's voice. I thought that was a hilarious idea, liking "the idea of a band" but not the band itself.

The Anarchist Gathering itself was a low-key but good affair. I missed most of the workshops, as I went later in the afternoon. A whole lot of people were attending the Indigeous solidarity workshop, which I decided to skip on to browse books instead. I bought books from the This Ain't the Rosedale Library table, but I haggled them down because they were trying to pass damaged/used/marked down books at retail prices. I bought a collection of Ulrike Meinhof's writing, amongst other things.

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I just noticed that the "tags" field in the LJ posting interface has an autocomplete feature, looking up your past tags. That's pretty cool. I wish my browser plugin with which I usually post with (Deepest Sender) would do that. I does allow me to browse my tags, though.

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I tweaked with the CSS today in typepad for my work blog and it was the most interesting thing I did all week. And I'm not bashing my work, I actually like doing CSS.

JOE!! If you're still swearing at CSS for the new tabnet setup, let me handle it!!!

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I've decided to make a weekly trip to the used CD store close to my place. I feel like I'm jumping back 10 years in time.