June 28: my weekend

my weekend, by emm gryner.

wake up. try to avoid coffee for another day. successful. do vocal warm-ups in the car to prepare for house concert performance at Piper Hill near Guelph. realize i have no lashes. buy some false lashes. go home. run over my songs on the old upright, realize there is one song called The Death of Me that has a chord that I always screw up. get in the car and drive for a long time with the help of the GPS. listen to CBC all the reports of rioting in toronto. hard to believe, and secretly glad i live far away. cousin phil says the protests are peaceful. not so sure from what i'm hearing. turn up in the country at gorgeous stone house. elaborate food being made. hope to get in on it later. talk to coco love alcorn who is setting up the self-serve cd table. that's a great idea, i tell myself, i'm going to do that in the future. try to avoid being bit by mosquitos. people start arriving. 80 people are expected. simon, coco's partner, says there is not one car on the property that is a colour - they are all black, silver, grey etc. I surmise my pink Goddess cd will tank in sales. coco and blair packham rock. it rains, everyone moves inside the barn. i get food, i load up on desserts. the brownies are to die for. oh and my bebe is with me. i feed him before i go on. he has a psychedelic butterfly he has become very attached to. he is wearing a led zeppelin shirt. i bought two while i was in sweden last year. the other one i sent to joe elliott. if someone told me when i was 12 i would be sending joe elliott a led zeppelin onesie i'm not sure i'd have believed you. put on sequins, rock, very fast encore, play "troublesome". folks from the audience tell me the protests in toronto are very much violent. "stuff is burning" was uttered. people want more fast songs. better write some more fast songs. sell some cds. getting low on Goddess. hate how expensive it is to press more cds. feed the baby. get on the road. one timmy's stop. realize how horrible food at timmy's is. the apple juice is pretty good though. the double chocolate donut, not so much. go to bed. still not sleeping through night. not sure i need to. still working on new song with joe corcoran - working on lyrics in my head. it is a bad-ass tune with the best title eva and needs more of my attention. weather the thunderstorms on sunday. try to arrange rehearsal with jenna and ashley who are singing with me on canada day in stratford and also in toronto. not too worried cuz they are amazing. they also look good in sequins. tweet a bit. someone uses the phrase "with all due respect" in response to some of my meandering tweets and it's too bad because that phrase is really annoying because it usually comes before something you'd rather not have to read. wonder why i bother with twitter and when it will go away? too bad it's addictive. watch drake on the BET awards. clean up the kitchen. make some tea. very excited for this week's concerts but sleepy now and rock n roll is one thing but parenthood is a real job.

thank you to abigail slater for an absolutely wonderful day of music in the country.