[NWOntario]

Is anyone else feeling just...lost? I don't know if I can make it up to any of the shows, but also can't imagine that I've seen The Hip for the last time. This band has been such a large part of my life for such a long time. I cannot process what the right decision is. Looking over money and vacation plans with the family... factoring in the newest addition (she's due June 17th too, which is some kind of fucked up karma).

I made the mistake of tossing on an upbeat (read: early) Hip mix. 100th Meridian had me sobbing in my car in the parking lot before heading in to work.

This loss just hits so hard in a place I didn't think it would.

Someone on a Pearl Jam forum made a great point. This band's given all of us so much; we owe it to them to be at these shows, to give it back to them with interest. That swayed me. Before that I was very much on the fence.