Wake me up when September ends.

Hello my dears,

I hope everyone's well. I just wanted to say hello and let you all know that I'm in Rock Star withdrawal. As I believe I mentioned before, I was more than slightly obsessed with that show. What to do with those Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday night timeslots??? Oh well... even though none of my favourite performers prevailed, I do think that the person best-suited to the particular job won. And hey, he's a Canuck which is pretty kool.

I now have a My Space page, so be sure to pay me a visit there. Also, I have a performance date to announce. On Saturday November 5th, I'll be doing a show with the enchanting Lindi Ortega and the lovely Kelly Goodlad. It's at 8:30 pm at the Victory Cafe, on Markham St. near Bathurst and Bloor.

I had a wonderfully happy and an incredibly sad experience in the last couple of weeks. I got to see my friend Rachel and her fab hubby Brett who I hadn't seen in eons. It was great to actually sit with them and talk and laugh and give them big hugs before they had to leave Canadian soil yet again. And I got to hear Rache sing in person for the first time in years, which I imagine is similar to what it must have been like to listen to Mary's lullabies to Jesus.

Earlier that same week, my friend Eric Richards died. Heart failure at age 32. We'd chatted a few days before and made a lunch date. He didn't live to see it. It's true that neither darkness nor light can truly exist without the other, but when you experience the two in such close proximity it's both a blessing and a really twisted joke. You know when the weather can't decide what it wants to be? You try to adapt back and forth but you just end up getting run down and lying sick in bed in the fetal position. It's kinda like that.

So naturally I've been very pensive, thinking about Eric's years on this earth and mine and trying to figure out exactly what the heck the point of it all is. And of course, where there's a pensive me, there's a new song. It's the first tune I've demoed in quite awhile and I felt a bit less tangled after getting it out of my head.

Tell one friend that you love him or her today. And if you're in the same room, touch them.

Bonne nuit Eric.

Bring on October, Tanisha.