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We interrupt this new music week to bring you an exclusive bulletin:

Much to the delight of my music-loving self, I (and my sister and two of her friends) have secured tickets to go see Great Big Sea in October! The closest show to my current location? 8+ hours away in Albuquerque, NM. Awesome.

Hopefully, the new GBS CD will be in my mailbox tomorrow.

My webiness has waned in the last few weeks, but I'm not sure why. Perhaps it was just 'net overload that made me back off from facebook, twitter, urbis, and this very blog. The thing is, I didn't really even realize that I was doing it, and I didn't miss them much. I'll try to remedy that by stuffing as many links as possible in this post.

Tuesdays are climbing back up on my list of favorite weekdays. Since we've got fancy cable now, BBC America is my go-to channel. Besides Gordon Ramsay yelling at every chef in the UK, they've got comedy night on Tuesdays. The 1st show is Coupling, which I've seen before, followed by my current favorite show Not Going Out (I had an instant crush on Lee Mack and am still trying to figure out exactly how that happened.), with Absolutely Fabulous bringing up the rear. Apparently AF was a very popular show in its day, but I've got to admit that I just don't get it yet. I'm still watching to see if I will understand it one day. If someone told me they arranged for me to live in England, I'd take the offer in a second.

The other reason Tuesday are great? New music! This morning before work I picked up Coldplay's new cd. I saw Coldplay last time they came to the city, and they're coming back this summer. Friday night is the KC Clifford concert/cd release, and next Tuesday Great Big Sea's new cd should be arriving in my mailbox from our northern neighbors (Canada, not Kansas). I would love, love, love to see them live, but I have a feeling that would require a special trip north for my favorite Canadians; they don't seem to do much touring outside of the Northern states.

It's full-on storming here today, with lightning and thunder and flooding roads. My favorite weather, actually. And today's soundtrack is brilliant.

This week mental_floss has got a guest blogger- a grammarian! She's written some really nice refresher pieces on grammar and punctuation, and an interesting etymology piece. Tomorrow she's answering reader questions. Check it out. Your commas will thank you.

By the way, June is shaping up to be a lovely music month. Well, late June, that is, as both Great Big Sea and KC Clifford are delivering new music to their fans and soon-to-be fans. Let the countdown and change collection begin!

If you haven't heard of KC Clifford or been lucky enough to hear her music, I am sad for you. Her music is AMAZING! Sadly, I do not have enough words to describe it.

But what I can offer you is your own taste of KC! At her last concert at the Blue Door in OKC, she recorded a live CD (woo hoo!) and taped a song for a little thing called YouTube. You may have heard of it. My friends and I are in the second row on the right, singin' along.



This is only a teeny, tiny slice of the greatness that is KC. Ooh, I cannot wait for the live CD!