MMVA's 2005 - Out my window

So the MuchMusic Video Awards were on Sunday; and seeing as Rich and I live next door to Much Music, we were pretty excited about it. On the Monday before, we invited Rich's Dad (John), his Dad's girlfriend (Brenda), her daughter (Cassidy), Rich's cousin in from Florida (Michelle), and the grandparents (Peg and John Sr.) over to our place for Father's Day dinner on the Sunday. We thought it would be fun to have everyone over to watch the awards and see all the people.

On Sunday morning we got a call from Rich's Dad that in my so skewed interpretation said "guys, we're too scared of the crowds and we think it'll be such ridiculous mayhem down at your place that we'd rather have the dinner at our place out here in the burbs". This message shocked me for two reasons: 1) cause it's Toronto, and do things ever really get nuts? no. and 2) because Rich's Dad and Brenda are the kind of people that are literally up for anything - usually they just want to relax and have fun (Rich would argue with me about that - but that's only cause it's his Dad and I'm pretty sure they have to be parenty sometimes).

We later determined that it was the grandparents that didn't think they could handle the noise. After many years of denial, John Sr. finally gave in and got a hearing aid last year. Seems he was always quiet before just because he couldn't hear much.

Ended up as lunch with the grandparents and dinner at our place. We all had a really nice time too. As soon as we heard a band that we liked, we would go downstairs into the "crowd" and see them on the stage.

As well, the day before (Saturday) we saw all the bands during their sound checks. Must say that Billy Talent was by far the best one we saw. Ashleigh Simpson was as expected, and the Black Eyed Peas with their "don't phunk with my heart" made me want to jam an ice pick into my ears (as was also expected).

Hmmm - that was a pretty boring post, but not a lot of interesting things happen in my life (which is of course my own fault) so that'll have to do.