337/365 (December 3rd, 2009)

Last Thursday I saw one of my favorite bands of all time, Toronto band Do Make Say Think, and to my surprise, they ended up playing for 3 and a half hours as three different bands.

Years, which is DMST's guitarist Ohad Benchetrit's side project, opened up the night.

Followed by Charles Spearin's The Happiness Project, which was absolutely unreal. Basically what he did was, he interviewed neighbours and asked them what they thought happiness was, then listened back to the interviews and chose sections that were either interesting in meaning, or in they way the interviewee intonated the sentence. Using those chunks, he created melodies from the voice intonations and built these jazzy compositions on top.

Then DO MAKE SAY THINK took the stage and blew my mind, just like they have all the other times I've seen them.