We are in Toronto now. Most of us arrived yesterday after a long flight from London. I didn’t look forward to more than seven hours in an aeroplane, but was surprised by how pleasant it was. The seats were comfortable and the DVD player in front of me was perfect. I saw three movies, the best by far being Shrek 3.
I have been flying a lot these past weeks and I’m constantly amazed how the foreign planes are more comfortable than the Icelandic ones. I have to say that the amount Icelandair charges you for a plane ticket is outrageous considering the misery they make you endure on long flights. The seats are uncomfortable, there is no leg space and if you don’t have a laptop and want to watch a movie, you have to watch the same thing as the rest of the passengers.
Toronto seems nice. I had some Thai food with Mark, Númi and Sylvía yesterday, and then we took a walk on Yonge Street to keep us awake (we had a bad jet lag). The night was strange, I lost consciousness around eleven, but woke up at 3, 6 and 7.30, feeling very disoriented.
Tonight I’m just staying in my room, watching CNN. I notice that the TV commercials are very different from those I have seen on local stations in England. British TV commercials are often extremely funny; the ones on CNN aren’t.
There is something to be said for British humour!
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September 7th, 2007 at 12:29 am
Youre in for some annoyingly hot weather here in toronto. dont forget your sunscreen!!!!! and enjoy being here
September 7th, 2007 at 1:28 am
I’m so glad you’re here. I’m going to Niagara Falls tomorrow. Try the Tim Horton’s coffee.
September 7th, 2007 at 1:38 am
What did you see on Yonge Street? Did you go to the HMV record store?
September 7th, 2007 at 10:08 am
Today,
THE WORLD IS ……………….. RUGBY !!!!!!
September 7th, 2007 at 10:17 am
Imagine the All Blacks’s haka dancing on “Earth Intruders”. That tribal beat !
September 7th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Woo Hoo! Can’t wait to see you guys tomorrow!
If you get the chance you should check out Queen St. West, like, west of Spadina - there’s a lot more cool stuff there than on Yonge Street.
And why are you watching CNN in Canada? There are other 24 hour news channels (like CBC Newsworld) that have less of an American slant on the news…
September 7th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Glad you had a night flight Jónas! Didn’t get to see the third Shrek but I add that to my movie list. Hope your sleep is better and your right about commercials in the USA, not to many are fun especially on CNN half the time it seems like their pushing various medicines.
Have fun on your travels and thank you for the blogs!
September 8th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
Hi Jonás! Thanks for answering me 2 or 3 posts ago… I asked you if you are coming to Chile after being in Argentina… Now I know you will! I already bought my ticket! First row!!!
It isn’t weird that we buy the tickets and the concert is still not oficial in the gygography… it uses to be like this (I know people who bought the ticket for the Buenos Aires concert 1 month before the date were in the gygography)… so I’m very excited!
Chilean crowd uses to be a little wild, I hope there will be a good energy in the concert that day…
I’m so happy to see you all again, in the other side of the world (I was in Amsterdam! also first row, I think I said that already), in MY side of the world!
Have a wonderful concert this evening in Toronto… I’ve got a chilean friend there, she says is a very nice city… but too warm in summer… What do you say? Still warm?
Regards!!!
Gaby (very excited and with no money after buying the ticket but I don’t care! I’m happy!)
September 8th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
I`ve just bought my tickets for see all of you in chile. I’m wondering. how is to see the stage from the third row?? Will I see something or not at all? I’m so interested in see you entirerly from my sit, the brass seccion, the reactable, the piano etc.. but doesn’t mather. I’ll be there. good luck this evening!
September 9th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
“Well first there was something wrong with my harpsichord in Toronto. Peter van der Velde and two other stage men stood around looking under the lid like at was an automobile. I never even played it tonight. That’s ok, I faced the crowd all night. We changed the intro back to the way it was in Glastonbury. We stopped marching out to Brennid Pid Vitar, ever since my ass-slapping incident in Scotland. After I gave the thumbs up that my keyboard was okay, Bjork slapped me ten. During Declare Independence, I took one of the Wonderbrass girl’s flags. I ran around the stage with it like a crazy man. I took it over to Damian. He let me touch the reactor table. I changed the way Declare Independance goes. It was the ‘Declare Jonas Sen Mix’. I kicked ass on Oceania as per usual and on Cover Me, even though Bjork was singing over my shoulder and sharing my song book. Good thing, she caught the pages as the wind turned them too soon.”
Thanks for visiting Toronto, Jonas! I was in the front (of 6,000 people). We took 100 pictures. It was worth the wait!
September 9th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
I would love to see some of the photos!
September 9th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
I really don’t know how it is in the audience. I would imagine the best sound is where the front of house sound engineer is, but being near the stage sure is more exciting!
September 11th, 2007 at 2:40 am
I’m almost done posting comments on all my pictures. The sound was EXCELLENT. I couldn’t even really tell how serious the harpsichord incident was. You didn’t lead us to believe that anything was out of the ordinary. I made sure we got photos of everyone in the band. My neighbors were laughing when I was yelling, “Jonas Sen!” We got a lot of pictures of the flags. They symbolize this tour to me. Which one is yours? You said there was a misunderstanding in the design? Do I have too much Einar on myspace? Just kidding. The best is that your photo of Ghostigital is my background. When you scroll down to my comments, all you see to the left is a huge portrait of Peter van der Velde making that face!
September 11th, 2007 at 2:48 am
When you’re in front, it seems as intimate as if you’re playing in a small club. It kept reminding me of when I saw her in ‘95. You don’t pay attention to the 6,000 people behind you. There was nothing between me and the band, except the guard rails. Up front, you have to deal with sweat, being squished and people crowd riding over your head.
September 11th, 2007 at 3:39 am
My flag is the Qabalistic Tree of Life. When the tour started someone had put the flag on the side, but just before the San Francisco show it was corrected.