jubilant june

i woke up this morning to blue skies and sunshine :o) - lovin' it!


courtesy of jasiel :o)

last night, on a quest for seeking temporary escape from all things responsibility-oriented, i decided to take my friend jasiel on a post-weekend night on the town by attending the raul midón concert at the mod club downtown toronto. and though he didn't actually come onstage 'til about 9:30pm, our waiting time was nicely complemented by a couple of opening acts; some local soul/jazz artists who were quite pleasant to the ears and eyes. one of them was a gentlemen (whose name i didn't catch) who spoke with the loveliest british accent and did a fairly good rendition of "come together" by the beatles; and the following act was lori nuic, an up and coming soul artist whose voice i thought reminded me of somewhere in between joss stone and mariah carey... but the moment raul midón walked onstage and made that first strum on his acoustic, everything else before that just faded away - and once the rich sound from his vocal chords fell out of his mouth and into the microphone, it was more than the confirmation we needed that our waiting was certainly not in vain.

wonderful times, indeeed! then again, you can never really go wrong with great music and fatastic company to share it with - such a beautiful combination, really. :o)

note to self: this whole getting-out-of-the-house-more-often thing is something i could really see myself getting used to :o)