press 'Shuffle'

do you ever feel that you meet or talk to too many of the same people in a day? are you the kind of person who takes pains to remember little things about relative strangers and good friends alike so as to make them at ease when you converse? when does it all become too much to take? have you ever felt like completely swopping a whole set of acquaintances like you exchange tiles in Scrabble?

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went downtown today for Thursdays At The Square.. Irish band Stand opened with a pretty good set, guess they can be called pop-alt.rock.. they did look like a bunch of talented blokes, and should end up with a couple of Juno Award nominations at least.


the main act was Canadian band Great Big Sea, who play a very folksy, Celtic based kind of music.. and as they came on stage we discovered that they are an annual Buffalo fixture.. in the huge crowd there, we started feeling a tad bit outta place cos we were the only ones who didn't know the lyrics to 'The Night Pat Murphy Died ' and 'Yarmouth Town'!! but they did have the half-Canadian crowd in raptures.. i gotta say it's the Canadian contribution to the Buffalo population that gives it the laidback and chilled out feel.. break out the bottles of Labatts & Molsons, aye!