what would julie draw?

had a lovely chat with my friend julie today, and was checking out some of her work online. it's amazing! she's based in calgary these days, and has done a load of work for beatroute magazine and others, and i think she even got a mention in the national post last month. also, the first image i posted above is the amazing feist poster she did for the 2007 polaris music prize, and i think it's all lovely lovely. check out her gig posters, which are some of my favourites, or her design blog, or just hire her for all your freelance illustration needs! xo.

ps. got the keys to my new apartment today. hello housewarming!

chelsea school of marine biology.

also, i forgot to mention the mythical sirenfish sighting! oOo.

this day in history.

“We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.” (Inauguration Speech Quotes).

giver giver liver.

the jue festival is finally over, which means my liver can start it's long road to recovery. busy day at the agency, so for now will just leave you with a couple'a photos. xo

almost the weekend.

i feel like this cat. i am the cat! i am also tired. oomf.

beep boop beep.

terribly gratuitous last couple of nights. four, to be exact. i've been in the office all weekend during the days, and at night it's dancing and carrying ons. maybe it's the winter cold that's got me on this crazy bender, i think i'll stay in all next week until the awesomeness of the jue festival and all those crazy maybe mars bands draw me back out of my cave. (by the way - hey, josé gonzález!)

went to see the south rakkas crew at shelter on thursday night after our crazy annual wieden+kennedy chinese new year dinner - it was relatively empty, which was disappointing, but everyone had fun and huge huge huge props to those guys for being so crazily high energy and enthusiastic to a less than packed room.

on friday, i went to see les enfants we are enfant terrible at logo, another great part of the line up of the jue festival. the music itself was fine, party happy & fun, but the crowd! so crowded! i will never understand promoters that oversell entry, the whole place was totally nuts and packed to the bones and no one could move (nevermind get a drink) and it was just a smoky awful mess. also, there was a bizarre amount of what appeared to be high school students losing their shit all over the place. where did all the high school kids come from?

all i can do right now is listen to otis redding's 'try a little tenderness' on repeat. i wish i could go back into time and make 1986 era jon cryer my boyfriend.

ps. i lost my wallet last night at jz club, where we went for one last drink somewhere around 4am. mark my words - drinking a shot of anything that is literally ON FIRE is always a bad idea. however! many phone calls have been made today & the wallet is still at the club. hurrah! two thousand and nine, you're lookin' pretty sweet to me. xo

rain on every weekend.

some pictures from hong kong. tonight, big W+K CNY dinner and then wandering down next door to shelter for the sure to be awesome south rakkas crew!

JUE | MUSIC | ART

totally utterly stoked about this upcoming festival put on by the fantastic people at Split Works. check out the festival site and the festival schedule!!

the rock shows (especially the Carsicks Cars/Snapline lineup) is sure to be crazy crazy packed, so reserve your tickets in advance and be sure to turn up at the gig early & ready to be smushed.

hello 2009.

first post of 2009. hello, year of the ox!

i spent the weekend in Hong Kong, sneaky trip away for a few days of shopping and warm weather, endless amounts of food, it was a nice way to start off a new year.

did an interview on CBC Radio One's Early Edition a few days ago, those of you in Vancouver who were awake at 7am may have heard me rambling on about the State of China & all it's luxuries.

hope you're all well. i've got a scratchy throat & deep, lusty sounding voice right now thanks to too many nights out and endless karaoke'ing, will write a more fluid post once i've recovered. come visit me in china!