The Dismemberment Plan’s final Toronto show takes place at the Tequila Lounge on July 19, with support acts Engine Down and Dame Fate. Have fun at James Taylor, Kyle!

It damn well better keep raining. I took the subway instead of biking today in expectation of a deluge.

Pumpkin has returned to the wilds of Cleveland. My temporary puppy is gone :(

np – The Dismemberment Plan / Is Terrified

See the new Radiohead video for “There There” here. Definitely more guitars than the last two albums. Nutty visuals. I am getting excited about the new record (to this point I’d heard none of it).

Today was all about food. Two meals, two all-you-can-eat buffets – one all Jewish food, the other Chinese. I am so full.

np – Neutral Milk Hotel / In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

There is a dog in the house! My cousin Annie is visiting from Cleveland, and she brought her dog, Pumpkin. Pumpkin is a nice puppy – not the smartest thing in the world, but very friendly and playful. I took her for a walk in Queen’s Park this afternoon and she nearly had a fit trying to chase the dozens of squirrels around the park. Wore me right out, at least.

Bought Ted Leo & The Pharmacists’ Hearts Of Oak as a birthday present to me. Yeah, that’s the rationale I used for the bike too, but since I haven’t gotten any gifts from anyone else, I feel justified in spoiling myself a little.

So Scott got married yesterday, and my day was spent traipsing around Woodbridge with the folks from work. The ceremony was short and sweet – not even ten minutes long! Way to smash the record for shortest wedding ever. Fantastic. Of course, this meant that we had four hours or so to kill before the reception… Time spent walking around Kleinburg (little little town!), sitting around a restaurant serving pre-reception refreshments and chatting with the limo driver, wandering around Woodbine Centre mall and capped off with my first game ever of Dance Dance Revolution, nattily attaired in my suit. That game is hard! And then the reception, which was quite tasty if not as voluminous in quantity as I’d been led to expect. Mark got pretty drunk and was quite the dancing machine – probably all primed from Dance Dance Revolution… It was a good time had by all. And I have two more weddings in the next six weeks. I better get my suit dry cleaned.

np – Ted Leo & The Pharmacists / Hearts Of Oak

Today is my 28th birthday. Twenty freaking eight. I am going to try and wrap my head around that for a minute.

Nope, not working.

An infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of typewriters may eventually produce the works of Shakespeare, but a half dozen of them will only defecate on the computer and type the letter ‘s’.

Photoshop Friday at Somthing Awful takes on superhero movies Flashdance? The Mothman Prophecies? Oh my.

Friday afternoons… Tick… tick… tick…

np – Gemma Hayes / Night On My Side