Concerts and Films

A bit of a recap from the past month or so. I went and saw a Chris Cornell solo concert which was pretty sweet. I had seen em once before in NZ and although the concert was pretty similar it was still amazing. Got another Chris Cornell shirt so I'm slowly building up a collection of band shirts again here. I also went and saw Ed Kowalchk solo which was OK. It was pretty clear he was in a different league to Chris though. Just not as good on guitar or at singing! I was also pretty stoked to get a ticket to see Pearl Jam. I had tried to get tickets when they went on sale but all the GA tickets had sold out. Then I thought I would check Craigslist one week out from the concert and some guys wife couldn't make it and he was selling the ticket. When I had a yarn to him at the gig he said I was the first person to get in touch about 10min after he posted the ad. After that he had dozens of people get in touch offering him beer and dinner and stuff! I was pretty lucky! The concert itself was incredible. They played for just over three hours! It was awesome to be about a 2 min walk from home after it finished!

I also went to see some pretty inspiring adventure movies at the Banff film festival. I thoroughly recommend going to check out the festival if it ever makes it close to you. The common theme amongst all the films seemed to be that the people in them were doing exactly what wanted to be doing. I went with Matt, Lieke and Dave from my running group and we went and had dinner afterwards and talked about how we weren't out being as awesome as all the people in the films we just saw. Note to self: buy snow shoes!

Other notable events were going to check out a new pub in town call "The Craft Beer Market". Its a massive warehouse thing that has been converted into a pub/restaurant. They have over 100 beers on tap. Needless to say I have spent far too much money there already and it has only been open a couple of weeks. I also attended the staff party at work. It was a pretty swanky affair at the Canada Convention Center. Lots of shenanigans ensued.