Holst's The Planets at the KW Symphony - Tonight and Tomorrow!

The Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra will be performing Debussy's Nocturnes and finishing off with Holst's great cosmic work tonight, Friday the 27th, and Saturday the 28th at 8pm. At Centre in the Square. Tickets range from $19 to $75, so if you've got some cash to throw down you better do so.

To anyone reading this, should I die in battle or of a broken heart, I would like Holst's Mars, Bringer of War to be played at my funeral. Timed well, so that when my pyre is shoveled onto a catapult and fired onto a fierce ship I can sail burning and gloriously out to sea:



Oh, the pre-concert talk begins at 7 if you'd like some background info on the pieces being performed.


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The Mana Bar - And I'm Effing Jealous

I miss arcades.

I miss playing video games in a vibrant, sociable setting. Outside of house. Something downtown, something plugged in, so to speak.

What I don't miss are the obnoxious children. I was one of them. I don't imagine they miss me either.

Well in Brisbane, Australia, truly now a land of wonder, you can go to a nifty bar, buy a beer with ageable people, and sit down to some good ol' vidya game. Either with friends or with random 8-bit bretheren you didn't know you had.

I like video gamey in-jokes, so a place called "The Mana Bar" pretty much makes my eyes sweat, my knees palpitate, and my thumbs hiccup with the promise of point-related ecstasy.

And Yahtzee, famed video game reviewer, hangs out there. Jeez. Check out the opening day vid:



If any wealthy-savvy-foolish-business-types from Waterloo Region are reading this, please blow all of your money on a venture like this so I can go to it for a month or two. Which is the time it'll take to regret your choice and realise you're broke because we don't really have the population base to make a Mana Bar work here.


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