I found out last night that Natalie Shneider (I knew her best from the band Eleven and from her work with various artists particularly Chris Cornell) died a few months back from cancer. She was one of my vocalist idols and I was completely caught off guard by the news she actually passed away.

It was mostly because Jon and I were listening to some CDs we've not heard in a while from our collection. One of the ones I picked up was Eleven's Howling Book and I was all "hmm, let's see if they have a new album??" only to find out the sad news.

Then I got the idea for a cover album (well, more like EP, maybe 5-6 songs) that Jon and I could try to put together, as one of Anthegenia Records' first projects. We really want to get at least enough gear together to start on it next year.

Okay, so I went out yesterday... at like 5 pm ish. It started out kind of on the crap side because I was having an anxiety moment and feeling too insecure about my looks. Grr, I HATE when I do that! I ended up actually buying clothes at the mall just so I could change out of what I was already wearing without wasting time going back home (since stuff was going to close in a couple hours). Pretty sad. =_=

With that mini-crisis averted I wanted to look for Etrian Odyssey, as mentioned a few posts back. Didn't find it at all though, blah! It's NOWHERE around Quebec, or something. Anyway, I am going to order it from amazon.ca along with my preorder of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. (OMG. Book 7. I am such a Potter dork.) I am so tempted to play in a HP roleplay after I know how the series ends... isn't that the height of sad? :P