Jounetsu/Passion

A friend and I exchanged Saint Nicholas gifts the other day and all I can say is that if my ego weren’t already about five times the size of the moon, the look on her face as she worked out what the paper I had strategically placed inside of the enormous collection of Shakespeare’s works was (she likes Shakespeare–this wasn’t a joke gift), she would have made it grow to at least that size. Maybe bigger, but whatever.

In short, we’re going to see Dir en Grey* live at The Guvernment on February 9th.

To elaborate on what that one sentence means: my good friend adores Dir en Grey, and we missed the chance last year to go see the band perform (with other bands that time) in a big stadium full of people. Now, we’re going to see them as the main attraction (with, I think, two opening bands), in a place that can host no more than 1600 people (and that’s really pushing it, they say). I’m pretty sure she owes me her firstborn for these tickets.

Not to mention, the Guvernment nightclub’s in Toronto, meaning we’ll probably be staying there the whole weekend (as opposed to staying there only for the Friday and then leaving as soon as possible to go back home). I’m pretty sure I can work it out so that we stay with my cousin that weekend (the same cousin who was cool enough to watch Gokusen with me), and then we’ll thus also be able to get in some good shopping time or something. Which is usually the only reason I ever go to Toronto, so everything works out in my mind.

I’ll be honest and admit that the present was as much for her as it was for me, but hell, I’m still going to bask in the glory of being the universe’s best friend ever. I have no idea what I’m going to get her next year, because nothing can really top this gift…

*Dir en Grey is (I think) a fairly popular J-Rock/metal band from Japan.