July 2008
Chairlift opened for Ariel Pink last night at...
Sarah's 1950s birthday party
Last night’s 1950s cruise boat themed birthday party for my bestest-from-birth, Sarah was a blast. Most of the boys dressed as sailors. Most of the girls wore pretty dresses. Ian made us two delicious takes on spaghetti. We listened to records (Elvis’ Blue Hawaii, Chubby Checker, Leslie Gore). We swam, we twisted, and we limboed (Marty won!)
After playing with Marty’s iPod Touch...
Happy Birthday Sarah!!
Alana Celii via vvork, Marco Pietracupa via bookmarks
Marilis came over tonight and we listened to the...
Savvy PR is a social person
Hey sorry, the whole point of this post was to mention something perhaps really obvious that I thought of while reading Eric’s post. I got totally sidetracked and then made dinner and just remembered what I was trying to say.
So…Eric was saying how it’s a problem that PR companies try to do social media, when in fact the media are very much the message. The key word in social...
I stepped ankle-deep into wet cement...
While walking my bike across the street on the my way to the Pomme Pomme Craft Fair, I stepped ankle-deep into wet cement and almost ruined my favourite shoes (thanks Melke!) as well as my favourite quality about myself, namely the quality of not having a permanently cemented foot.
Ugh, I can still remember the confident feeling of stepping full stride out onto the pavement and instead sinking...
Me and my friends Marilis and Amy are having our third Clothing Swap tomorrow at Atelier Woodenapples! Amy’s shop is moving up the block to a new space beside Phonopolis. I’m going over to Woodenapples tonight to help box up the store so it’s clear for maximal swapping tomorrow morning.
Come swap with us! It’s free and fun and everyone is welcomed
Sunday July 27th
Bring...
I love reading this sort of thing. I’ve talked a few times about email ettiquette and press releases. In the beginning, I was frustrated by my own inexperienced, and other people’s over-experienced (ie. outdated) marketing attempts. After a year or so, I can say I’m disenchanted with press releases in general. There are far better ways to talk about the awesome things...
Goal!
Above Cafe Olympico on Saint Viateur
Last night I went to the opening party for the M60 Montreal 60 Minute Film Festival and registered to make a film. That means I’ve got 1 month to make a 1 minute movie on the theme “In a Montreal minute”. All the finished films will be screened back to back in a hectic hour of judgment on Sept 24th and 25th.
This is the cool flipbook they gave us.
More info: www.m60.ca
The internet arrives at my apartment tomorrow…
Late night bike ride in La Petite Patrie.
Amazing sign for a chinese restaurant called “Translate server error”.
Thanks Conor!
Igor Eskinja
Wabbi Sabbi by Omon Ra
This is awesome. Now in it’s 7th year, Pop Montreal has expanded to include Film Pop, Art Pop, Puces Pop, and an Industry Conference/Music Symposium.
And this year they’re adding KIDS POP!
Kids Pop is a music and art fest for kids. It runs from October 4th-5th.
Workshops include: Open-source Cinema, Recycled Fashion, DJing, Rock Music, and Screenprinting.
!!!!!
Screenprinted tshirts of my neighbourhood and my street by Tres Normale.
I wrote a review of Chez Schwartz, which I rented last night. Read my review on Indyish.
Pan’s Labyrinth=good.
Tobias Madison
over-used words
Every now and then I find myself over-using certain expressions or words. It’s usually at the same point that I stop using them in meaningful ways.
Right now, I’m ready to let go of: random, intense, and brutal.
We’re playing a show tomorrow night at Sala Rossa. It’s the closing night party for Pomme Pomme Craft Fair, which runs 10am-4pm today and tomorrow. Pomme Pomme is a curated art fair, organized by my friend Amy who owns Woodenapples Atelier along with Tom from Drawn and Quarterly, an independent publisher of books, graphic novels, comics, and art books. I was over at Sala today, poking...
I posted some photos from our tour on indyish today. I’ll upload more here soon.
Here’s a photo collage of our trip to Ontario with Dirty Beaches. We played shows in Toronto, Hamilton, and London and spent the rest of our time getting to these places, hiking around, visiting friends, eating good food, and sleeping in strange locations. Some of these photos are Alex’s (Dirty Beaches). You...
Today at work, a girl complimented me on my...
Today at work, a girl complimented me on my perfect English.
ahahahaha
Does this happen to every Montrealer at least once?
p.s. I’m from Halifax. And English is my first language.
Do we all fear being ignored?
I am totally sick of people giving me a hard time for being “standoffish” and “cold”. My entire life people have reacted strongly against me being “aloof”. And lately, it’s been happening a lot. I’m talking about people actually getting angry about another person being reserved.
I’m shy.
Do guys ever have girls getting up their faces for...
Home
We got back into town 2 days ago. Tour was awesome. I’m slowly uploading all the videos and photos, but we don’t have internet at home anymore. I promise lots of tumbling very soon. I find it hard to blog from public internet spots.
There’s plenty of work to catch up on, and sleep too. Work is exciting for the next little while. Three new Fixture releases before the fall! Stay...