Meme, part 2

Answers for [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]. For the music-type people, I'll add links when I get home. :)

blue rodeo: Canadian band [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] introduced me to. Sort of rock with a country edge, I'd come across the name back during Walkabout when I kept seeing posters for a concert: Blue Rodeo, with The Whitlams as support. I was cursing that we seemed to be a couple of weeks behind them travelling across Canada...

.-=k=-.: The signature a friend of mine from the Subreality days, [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] used on her emails. She passed away two years ago.

k-os: Canadian rapper/musician, again introduced to me by the roomie. Very talented man.

lacuna coil: Another band, this time recced by [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]. They sound not unlike Evanescence, only less whiny. ;)

lamb: English electronica outfit, that I discoved via the soundtrack to the movie One Perfect Day. You know the bit in Moulin Rouge where Ziegler tells Satine to end it the first time and she starts singing": "If I should die, this very moment..."? That's "Gorecki", by Lamb.

not drowning waving: Wow you hit almost all bands. Australian outfit, comes up "Unclassifiable" half the time on iTunes, and "Folk" or "Alternative" the other half. David Bridie, the front man, has a very distinctive sound and went on to create My Friend The Chocolate Cake (the two ran similtaneously for a while despite having shared members) as well as producing a couple of solo albums ("Act of Free Choice" is my favourite) and many, many soundtracks. I think I came to these guys backwards - the ex and I heard MYTCC at a gig, possibly at university, and we backtracked to NDW. Although the song I will/have linked to I remember hearing on the radio in high school, about the only one of theirs to make commercial release, iirc.

st. kilda: Not a band! *grins* St Kilda is the suburb of Melbourne I lived in for two years before I moved to Canada. As the Wiki says, it had something of a seamy reputation - back in the 70s and 80s, it was pretty much the drug centre of Melbourne. It's cleaned up a lot, but not so much it's lost the bohemian type edge that I like in a place to live (I spent a lot of time living in student digs). Grey St, was usually an adventure - it's still the place to pick up prostitutes.

Edit: Wow, looking through the St Kilda entry on the Wikipedia is making me all nostalgic. I used to play for the St Kilda Sharks, go me!

Breathing space

So, the bank granted me a $500 interest-free overdraft, which will tide me over until I get paid. I kind of wish they'd called and told me I had it when they were supposed to, last Friday, but hey, at least I have it now. Hopefully it'll make for a less-stressed me.