3 Exciting Things + Ben plays Daniel Johnston

Exciting things happening tonight. Not necessarily good, but exciting. In ascending order:

• André Boisclair resigned as the leader of the Parti Québécois
• They've (probably) found King Herod's tomb in the West Bank
• It's warm enough to wear a T-shirt at night!

I just can't get over that last one. No matter how many times spring happens, it never stops making me feel ebullient. As for King Herod's tomb, that's really cool, although granted, they discovered it in a place called Herodium. So, uh, not exactly the last place you'd think to look. As for Boisclair.. meh, politics. But it's still big news.
I sat out in Parc Lafontaine tonight and played songs on the little skylark guitar that Benjamin left me when he was down in Montreal this weekend. We saw Daniel Johnston together (May 5, Sala Rossa) and Ben got to go backstage and give him his The Fox and the Hound CD, which has two Daniel Johnston covers on it. Thanks go to Brian Seeger for that connection, since he was the opening act and also happens to be a fraquaintance of mine from Indigo (tha bookstore). (I'd call him a friend, but I don't think I've really yet logged the conversation time required to justify that.) So Brian got Ben backstage, and for any of you wondering how it went, you can ask him. For any of you wondering how a Ben Vaughan cover of Daniel Johnston sounds, you can go here and listen to Walking the Cow. For any of you who don't yet know what a me cover of DJ sounds like, check the audio player in the sidebar (but be advised, Ben's versions sound nicer).