TGIF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another glorious Friday; I definitely put on my spring coat this morning. I think we can fffffinally say that spring is in the air and if you are right Noah, I know, I owe you a 2-6! I kinda hope you are right!

Went for a delicious AND CHEAP dinner last night at The Drake Hotel. Imagine this, a burger with bacon and cheese, fries or salad, and a pint of beer, all for $10!!!! Like woah, I know. The food was stellar and included a toy! I got bubbles, my FAV! Is this new recession-friendly menu they have called the "Starving Artist Menu", everything is amazing on it.

Rusko on Monday at the Social. Definitely going to have a tame weekend so I can give'r Monday and still make it in one piece to work Tuesday.

Siiiiiiick!


Featured songs on my iPod this week (if you'll notice I am prepping for Mondays festivities...):

Get Fresh - Kid Sister
Baggy Bottom Boys(DZ Ravestep Remix) - Jokers of the Scene
Kilometer(A-Trak Dub) - Sebastien Tellier
Day n Night(Rusko's Big Trombone Remix) - Kid Cudi vs Crookerssss
***As much as I'd love to post these songs, I do have other things to do with my day. Go search for them on HypeMachine, doooit!

It's almost time!!!!

We should put a volcano under Garbage Island...

"You'd need alot of baking soda for thaaaat." - S. Breitman

HA. HA. HA. HAAAAA.

This one goes out to you.

Post Patties!!!

Well St. Pat's was another success! It seemed more like a good old Western reunion - AWESOME!


AMA-ZING!

Videio Mixtapes? Coooooool!

Strip Steve - Video Mixtape Numero Uno

Found this on the Boysnoize Blog (see you next weekend btw), kiiiinda cool. I like the Black Lips part at the beginning, it' s gettin' me suuuper stoked for this weekend's festivities, enjoy!

PS
Was listening to my iPod on shuffle this morning on the way to work, and The Hood Internet - Mixtape Volume Two came on, like daaaaaamn dat's hawt(!!!), which in turn got me really, REALLY excited for Wrongbar tonight! WAhoooooooooooooooooo!

This weekend, soooo much is poppin'

1.
The opening of a new exhibit at Show and Tell Gallery. One of the featured artists is a friend of mine, Elicser, he actually just painted me a picture which I adore, hehe, and will post as soon as it's hanging in it's spot. Anyways, check out the opening reception Friday, March 13, 2009 19:00-23:00, otherwise it's going on for a month.



Two.
A-trizzle is djing at Circa, alongside Jokers of the scene, some goodies fresh out of Canada! A-track will definitely be promoting his new mixtape Infinity+1 set to be released March 31st, 2009. I really hope he's selling some tee's!


Drei.
CANADIAN MUSIC WEEEEEEEEEEEEEK will be wrapping up this weekend. In my opinion it wasn't as good as last year's, maybe the hype surrounding it was simply lacking.
BUT, a super good showcase is happenin' tomorrow at Wrongbar. Here's a small rundown on a few of the artists I know:
- The stellar, previously mentioned, always in my "recently played" playlist group, Grand Analog
- OPOPO, I was lucky enough to stand behind the scenes and watched the shooting of their new music vid, Blast Blast.
- The Hood Internet, they have one of my top music websites: http://www.thehoodinternet.com/.



If you aren't sold yet, Wrongbar is also serving until 4am, ahahaha, gotacha!!!

See you tomorrow around this town!!!

Eats in TO

Went out on a hot date, with my wonderful mother last night; decided to drag her across the city over to Ossington Street to a sweet little spot called Foxley.

Dinner was fabulous and not super pretentious or expensive. The best part about it was when we got there they were at maximum capacity with a small lineup I was fine to wait, but my mom was a bit antsy. Fret not!!! The waitress offered to take our phone number and said we should go for a drink across the street and they would call us when a table came up. So we did, and they did!

We ordered the wahoo ceviche, the duck and lamb dumplings (my personal fav), the asian greens, and the duck breast in port reduction, and somthing else, cant remember what right now... But everything was top notch, including the service!

What a lovely Wednesday night!

The Holidays are fast approaching...

SATURDAY, MARCH 14th, 2009: BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!!!!!

Doors open at 3pm or 15ooh for those of you on European/military time ;)
$10 tickets only for sale at the door

There will be Irish Fare from the Irish Embassy and entertainment by Fig for a Kiss, The Shamrock Academy, Brogue, Danny Williams and more!!
Also, I will be bartending once again AND ALL MY FRIENDS WILL BE THERE!

Don't miss TO's legendary Steam Whistle St. Patty's Day BASH!

For more info:
http://steamwhistle.ca/events/stPaddy09.php

Check out some pics from last year:

A Room with a View

"The Dynamic Tower, the world's first building in motion, will become a symbol of Dubai, the City of the Future," states the Dynamic Architecture website.

Construction is set to begin very soon on Dubai's Rotating Skyscraper.
Interesting concept, I think its an awesome idea that the view is shared by all tenants. At first, I was a little apprehensive about the waste of energy required, but then I read further, that wind turbines and solar cells will be positioned between each floor, which are supposed to provide enough electricity to power at least the entire building, possibly even neighboring buildings...

It should take about one hour to see the entire (360 degree) skyline view of Dubai. The architect David Fisher calls it "a green power plant," way to get with the times!


Price range on these condos start at $3 million to $30 million - and there are already 1,100 people on the waiting list for these 200 apartments. There will also be a drive in elevator that allows all tenants to park directly outside their suite, yummy, sharing the recycled condo air with car emissions, weaksauce!
To see an animated video of this vision:
http://www.dynamicarchitecture.net/home.html

Is there any other song to get ready to?

Be mine?

Tried these kicks on the other day. Unfortunately, didn't leave the store with them.
Although, I DID leave with a mega crush on the salesman though, tee, hee, hee, giggle, giggle...

Well, It's about time!

The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir today. He is the first head of state ever to be charged while still in power. Let's hope this leads to him actually being arrested.

"He is suspected of being criminally responsible … for intentionally directing attacks against an important part of the civilian population of Darfur, Sudan, murdering, exterminating, raping, torturing and forcibly transferring large numbers of civilians, and pillaging their property," YUCK!

Check the rest of the article if you like:
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/03/04/icc-sudan.html?ref=rss

Spring is in the air....

What a lovely day!
The sun is still shining, there were so many cute, smiling boys on the streetcar, AND my iPod was fully charged.

The featured album to ride this morning was
Calligraffiti by Grand Analog.


A few other noteworthy songs:

Gorillaz - Dare (DFA Remix)
Sébastien Tellier - Kilometer (A-Trak Extended Dub)
Black Kids - Hurricane Jane (The Twelves Remix)
Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You
Lastly, new Crookers - We Make It Good Volume 07

WaHOOOOO!!!!

Monday, Monday.

Although it is deceivingly cold, it's another absolutely FAB Monday and the sun is shining its beautiful rays on us all. The smells on the streetcar this morning were god awful, I cannot wait until I have an alternate mode of transportation; I am going to write my M1 either today or tomorrow at lunch - wAhOOOOO!

Last week was interesting, Stephie and I decided we wanted to do a bicarbonate waste challenge, where we tried not to use things that were plastic, or if we did, at least reuse it. This proved next to impossible. There is PLASTIC ON EVERYTHING! There was plastic, wrapped in plastic, which was wrapped in cardboard, I was deceived a number of times, thinking I was on point, all proud of my purchase until I opened it up. This turned into a social experiment, with sad results. I did say no to lots of plastic though. A few friends of mine have stopped using plastic bottles at work, or so they "claim"... When I challenged Tenny, this was the response I got via bbm:


HAHAHA! Don't worry I believe you now. I'm just trying to save the world one plastic bottle at a time. :D

A super wicked thing has been happening to me; I think I have finally gotten over my apple allergy! When I turned 18 i became allergic to most fruits: apples, pears, plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, I think that's it. Same happened to my father. It really sucked, I had to carry an EpiPen, still do, just in case as I never really stopped eating them until this past summer because the side effects were bruts!
Lately, I have been jonsing harrrrd for an apple, and last week, EpiPen in one hand, apple in the other I ate one, and nothing. To date, I have had 3 apples and everything seems fine.
Fingers crossed that this is the dawn of a new day for meeeeeeeee!


Leave you with this sneak peak at A-trizzle's newest. I cannot waaaaaaait!

Click here for theinfinity+1 mixtape teaser...
(i like it from 6:03 onwards.)

Ciao, Ciao!