Islands Show at the Opera House

Last night I went to see the band Islands at the Opera House. The show was AMAZING with one exception: the band Malajube was supposed to be opening but they cancelled at the last minute. Boo on them!



Now normally I am not fond of bands with too many people on stage (ie. more than four), but this time it totally worked. Amazing, amazing, amazing....this show renewed my love of rock shows.

A New Tool for Online Narcissists

Ok, check this out: http://www.myheritage.com/ where you can "Find the Celebrity In You"

Here is what I came up with (forgive the hideous photo of me pre-hair colour, but it is one of the few recent, large, and forward facing pictures I have of myself)...



Very flattering!!

Trade Mark Artists

I have been helping my roommate Tyler with his new business, Trade Mark Artists, and we finally got the new web site up and running: http://www.trademarkartists.ca/
Trade Mark Artists is an agency representing hair stylists, make up artists, and clothing stylists. The goal is to create "alternative" images for print, video, etc. There is already a pretty good portfolio online. Have a look, and let me know what you think!

Some Politics...

I was going to try to keep this blog politics free, but I just read about a fascinating woman named Malalai Joya. She is a 28 year old Member of Parliament in the Afghani government. She is a crusader for women's rights and has criticized the presence of warlords and Taliban in the current Afghani government. She was recently in Canada speaking out against the US supported government in Afghanistan, claiming that the government is "still in the chains of terrorist fundamentalists" both pro and anti US. A transcript of her speech to the NDP convention is located here: http://www.ndp.ca/node/4329
Of course there have been many death threats against her, and she has to travel in the company of armed guards.

Wow, I've Really Been Letting This Slide...

...but give me a break! This was my birthday week - starting on my actual birthday, September 11th - the day of the year with arguably the most depressing television. This amounted to three days in a row of varying degrees of debauchery, with Tuesday being the pinnacle. I certainly do not remember going to bed that night.

On Wendesday I started my Macromedia course at Ryerson, so hopefully soon I will be a Flash expert. I am trying to come up with an idea for a short South Park-esque cartoon to work on as my class project. One bonus of being a "student" is that I can purchase the Macromedia Studio for $199- (as opposed to the regular price of $999+).

After school I headed over to Jimi & Robert's new house on Palmerston. The house is absolutely gorgeous and has renewed my desire to make piles of money! They gave me season 1 of Da Ali G Show which I started watching last night. Hilarious.

Because of all this debauchery and school, I missed the last two Rockstar Supernova shows. Doh. I did get several accounts from my friends who do watch the show, so I think I got the gist of it. And my pick to win, Lukas Rossi, won, so I felt smug and all knowing.

And finally, I started watching Survivor last night. This is the one where the teams are divided by race. It was sorta boring, to be honest. Maybe I can finally free myself of obsessive Thursday night Survivor watching. But probably not this season.

Some Updates

Last night I went out for a fabulous Croatian seafood dinner at Josos . It was pricey, but really awesome food/service and a great place, decorated with lots of interesting art...and boob sculptures.
Because of the lateness of my dinner I missed Rockstar Supernova, so I'm gonna have to try to catch up tonight!
My long weekend was pretty low key. There was one drunken night at a house party, but for the most part I stayed around home, ate a lot, and watched dvds.
I finally got to see the Gus Van Sant film Last Days. This was loosely based on the last days of Kurt Cobain's life, but really more about an artist at the tail end of a complete mental breakdown. At first I thought it was going to be too arty and pretentious (there was hardly any dialogue), but after about 15 minutes I opened up to it and it was actually pretty good. One of the stars was Lukas Haas who I thought was really great as The Pin in the movie Brick. Also, Harmony Korine (who wrote the movie Kids, and wrote/directed Gummo) also turned up in a small part as the sleazey drug dealer.


(Lukas Haas as The Pin - Brick)

Coupe Bizzarre - New Do

Yesterday I went into Coupe Bizzarre to see Jimi Imij for part one of my new 'do. I ended up with a very short, choppy mod-ish cut that I really like. Honestly, the less hair I have, the better, since I am so useless at styling it. Tonight I am going to see Robert about some new colour. Right now I have the most natural hair that I have had in about 20 years! Seriously, my hair is pretty much all dark brown. They were playing the new Peaches while I was there and I really liked it. I found out that a Peaches song is featured in a Gap commercial ...crazyness!
I'm not sure what's going on this weekend. Tyler and I have a homeless boy staying with us for the next few days which is fun. I have Monday off - hurray!!
I just heard on the radio that the next Survivor is going to have the teams divided by race. Also, Carolyn from the Apprentice has been canned by the Trump Organization "for excessive self-promotion". I will miss her saying "It was a no-brainer." everytime Trump fires someone!!