Living and Doing

My friend had an idea for a blog i guess a couple years ago now called thingsthatmakemehappy.com that he wanted to write together with some other friends. That never materialized (lack of a good logo and then we got busy), but if there was such a thing I would probably post this on it:

I love this band right now! I’m going to see them play because it says on their myspace that they are at the Phoenix on Wednesday, yes!

Hmm.. they look like they mean business, don’t they?

Every Sunday at the Rivoli is Laugh Sabbath, a stand up comedy show with a variety of comics every week. I was just talking to my friend who says that he’s just going to go there every week because it’s better than watching TV Sunday night and it’s just down the street. I agree!

Here’s a kind of lame eTalk segment, but it makes the whole thing easy to understand and glamorous!

Also, I was on the team in 2007 and my participation was featured on my “Awards and Achievements” section on my resume. I think it let potential employers know I was a team player. Yes, you are impressed:

The Fringe Festival is in town so I hope you had a chance to catch a few shows like me. Tomorrow’s the last day and I’m saving Baggage (quite possibly the best) for last. My friend Chelle is a co-star in this really fantastic show of loosely related vignettes held by and at the Kapisanan Phillippine Centre. I highly recommend it. I got a chance to see its first run a few months ago and I was blown away. Here’s the facebook message I got about it though, if you need more convincing:

We’ve had a really amazing run with audiences and critics alike enjoying our show. Thank you all for your support and thank you especially to those of you who were able to come out to see the show!

For those of you who haven’t, Sunday’s matinee performance is your LAST CHANCE to catch BAGGAGE, so get your tickets ASAP before you miss out.

BAGGAGE
Sunday July 13th @ 2:30pm
www.baggagetheplay.com

Tickets $10.00
www.fringetoronto.com | 416-966-1062 | or at 1:30pm at the door

KAPISANAN PHILIPPINE CENTRE FOR ARTS + CULTURE
167 Augusta Avenue (north of Dundas, west of Spadina)

*****

See what everyone is saying about BAGGAGE:

National Post’s Top 5 Pick
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=619307

Eye Magazine (4 out of 5 stars)
http://www.eyeweekly.com/fringe/article/31991

NOW Magazine (3 out of 4 N’s)
http://www.nowtoronto.com/fringe/play_details.cfm?play_id=1398

NOW Magazine’s Jon Kaplan’s Review
http://nowtoronto.com/blog/view_post.cfm?post=913

Toronto.com’s Top 10 Pick
http://www.toronto.com/theatre/event/529769

Tandem Online’s Top 8 Pick
http://www.tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=8447

I’m extremely proud that I made this.

I have been super busy with work and going out of town every weekend so I haven’t been blogging. I’m on the computer all day so when I get home I feel not at all like being on my laptop and typing more of all things. However, I can tell you that work is amazing and I love it so far AND after this weekend I will post a photo of my cottage project: Cats on a Piano paint-by-numbers!!! I am so excited to get my hands on that thing again this weekend. And finish!

In the meantime listen to Sebastien Tellier who is coming to Toronto August 4th to the Mod Club:

Bike, meet the internet. Internet, my bike. It’s a beautiful red 70s vintage fold-up… My autre bike is also amazing but very different. I ride to work and sometimes like to go slow. With my other bike I can never wear skirts or flimsy shoes and it’s just so fast (single speed on a quite high gear ratio) and with an aggressive stance so I thought I would like something a bit more laid back and slow so I can just sit and pedal and not be so intense about the journey sometimes. My new bike is really heavy and it’s got huge fenders and thick tires for riding in all sorts of weather conditions. I still need a super speedy, light, hot bike, don’t get me wrong, but my new one serves other important purposes as well. So please give a warm welcome to my new bike.

Now that I have a job that I am getting used to, enjoy and I’m doing it well, I am gaining a little bit of confidence about making my posts here a bit more irreverent.

Some of the big projects I had on the go have ended and now I feel like I can concentrate on myself and take time for cultivating my own stuff again. I haven’t had less than 3 things going on at once for a long time now. Get ready for more introspection as well as my blog to feature things that I’m actually making and doing for myself, which is fun for me. Fun for you too maybe, but definitely fun for me. I hope that posting, showing, living and doing through this medium will encourage the same.

Check out these pictures on flickr of some BFF BFFs at Joy Ride showing now at the Studio Gallery by local photographer Julian Katz. I can’t emphasize enough that Joy ride is a really special and wonderful collection. Go check it out. Studio is just on the North side of College and and a bit West of Spadina.

The fun continues tonight with screenings at the famous Royal in Little Italy at 7 pm and 9 pm. The program is just awesome. No need to be intimidated if you’re not a hardcore biker or anything. I’m not either, but the movies are just very fun and diverse. There are also screenings all day tomorrow at 3 pm, 5 pm, 7 pm, and 9 pm so I hope to see you there. I just think about all the cool people in Toronto who haven’t caught on to this amazing stuff yet and I feel sad that they don’t know what they are missing. We are at the forefront of one of the largest cultural movements in the world. C’mon guys, get into it already.

I was glancing over my recent blog entries and realized the casual observer might have thought I am REALLY into bikes… Which is a little true. But not really. I like bikes a lot, but not more than other really great things. I am simply excited that the bicycle film festival is in town and I think that you would all have fun if you went to see it. That’s all. I am not a “fan” and haven’t been one for a long time. Anyway, I think you should come to Bikes Rock tonight. There will be bike valet parking, beer, attractive cyclists, live bands, and a screening of a 70s documentary about a family that built a bicycle airplane with a live soundtrack. SO VERY COOL.

Here’s your blurb fresh from facebook:

• The Bicycles http://www.myspace.com/thebicycles
• No Cadence (Sandro Perri, Nif-D, Ryan Driver, Matias Rozenberg and Sean Corcoran) plays music accompaniment to bicycle films
• Syntonics http://www.myspace.com/syntonics
• The Cleef http://www.myspace.com/thecleef
• DJ Rob Dyer and more!

Plus other great stuff like beer!

Studio Gallery (294 College St)
9PM doors
PWYC

This is the kickoff to the 2008 Bicycle Film Festival. The full programme is online: www.bicyclefilmfestival.com and features a lot of great events so come on out for it all! This will be a super party.