okay okay sun, I see you, I'll go to bed now!

I owe you something for your monday morning.

I'm going to sleep in as late as possible.
I can't believe I kept up this party-attitude throughout this weekend.  All my interiors hurt right now.

Sometimes I think about having a boyfriend and I get the creeps. Occasionally it's something I think I want, and then when I consider it further, it seems like the worst idea ever.
The shit people put up with! hahaaaa jk I'm stable and nice and could possibly settle down at some point.



Happy Fathers Day!

I am not a dad and I do not have a dad, but I suppose some people have them! I've even met some dads and some people who have dads!

I'd like to wish an extra-special thanks and well-wishes to my bio-dad (Meredad, as I like to call him), for donating sperm and making me!

There's a bit more of a detailed entry here about my bio-dad...   Ha, it's funny how quickly one can feel embarrassed by past writings.

Okay this entry obviously isn't about anything.

I made gluten-free cookies tonight and now I'm eating them all to bits!!

bud lightly

Last night I was talking to one of my buds (I use the term "bud" lightly here on account of they know my name, so close enough, RIGHT. ahah bud light. sorry.) from Elliott Brood last night and he was like "If I get home when the birds are chirping I'm going to be mad!"
People are so bad at being rockstars these days, eh? PARTY TO THE MOON.

Also, apologies to everyone who heard me say "party to the moon" about a billion times last night. It was just stuck in my head.

Elliott Brood are so nice. And so fun. I wish Mrs and I had gotten there sooner to see more of their set. Luckily made it to see Miss You Now which is one of my favourites! I love their fancy dress, too.
Plus that guy's voice, eh? 
Actually people have found this blog from searching "Mark Sasso's voice". Mmhmm. 

Mrs and I were both being wienery last night, it's kind of amazing that we made it out of our houses at all.
But we did it!

And we went to a secret after-party for This Movie is Broken and wandered right in and Mrs ate all the food! Aaamazing!
And some of our buds were there and we chatted them up. In the front part of the bar there was a roller derby somethinsomething going on? Who knows!

Oh yeah, before all of that I had drinks with Raymi on the Drake patio. Very lovely and Raymi and I are both pretty bossy, which I find very funny but she gets mad sometimes. Not really though. I sure did take some nice photos of her though (all photos from Raymi because I'm too lazy to take pictures these days). Very pretttttty.

This day already does not have enough time in it!
I might have slept in until 2 p.m. YIKES.  Whatever, I had to build up strength for working tonight then partying more then working tomorrow morning then partying and partying and then working on sunday and then partying. NXNE is kind of tough!

Oh yeah, here's a video in which I explain why I am vegetarian and then Raymi says "But you're missing out on so much" which is my faaavourite argument:



I talk like a child!

haaaaaaaaaaaaaa alrighty then. I guess I'm not posting my nxne picks this year, am I? Too bad but also makes sense I'm not as into the music music music as I have been in the past.

en ex en ee

NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I'm kinda trying to build up my own hot buzz for tonight right now!

I'm tired right now like I can't explain plus I am STRESSED OUT from numerous stupid asshole situations and I'm hormonal, etc. etc. etc!!!!!

BUT. I'm going out tonight. Mrs and I are going out. We will have fun. I hope?

ughghghgh.

I called up my mum to have a cry at her but she was too busy for me! Worst mother! Guess who's not getting a fathers day gift this year!

Last night was fun though, hey?

Look it's, NN! neato!


Okay I thought I was going to post all my pictures but I'm too lazy/in a hurry right now.

CLASSIC.

I have never been prettier than in the photos Raymi posted. Jesussss talk about boner killers.

hahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa nice moves, everyone!

It was fun last night, though. Tonight has potential to be fun, also it's just bad how stressed out I feel/annoyed/etc. etc.

I feel like the moon must be a weird place right now or some shit because everyone is acting kind of crazy and there's so much conflict, etc.

Want to scope babes but also want to have a nap for 10 years. Also I kind of care less and less about live music if there's no dance party. Kinda makes sense.

OKAY I HAVE TO GO AND GET READY FOR ALL MY FUNTIMEZ TO START HAPPENING NOW.

bruises and salads

I made a couple of salads for set on Saturday. Yeahhh we've been shooting a little short. Funnntimez but more on that later right now I want to tell you about what I made:

POTATO SALAD
(I had never made potato salad before)

First I cooked the potatoes (7 medium potatoes) for until they were softish but not too soft

while that was going on I put 5 eggs (I secretly think that potato salad should be almost half egg salad, anyone else?) in a pot of cold water and brought it to a boil. Then I took it off the element and let it sit for about 11 minutes in the hot water. Then I dumped out the hot water and soaked them in cold water for awhile longer before I peeled and chopped them all

then I chopped up:
1/2 green pepper
lots of green onions
5 radishes
(you could put in red peppers, that'd be good or celery but I don't like celery also maybe peas? or green beans?)

mixed the potatoes in a bunch of mayonaise first then mixed some (lots of) mayo with a little bit of mustard and some vinegar then I added everything all together with some garlic salt and some pepper.
FUCK YEAH.





(Noodle, I still have your sharpie pen, also by making me call you Noodle here I feel like it lends kind of a nice sense of intimacy to our relationship..uh huhh)


GREEK (rice)PASTA SALAD
(also never made before)

cooked up the rice pasta and cooled it, then mixed it up with
Green peppers
Cucumber (thick sliced)
tomatoes (thick sliced)
black olives
thick crumbled feta

I can't remember if there was anything else...
then I tossed it all together in a greek dressing.
UH HUH.



Don't you feel like craft on set can really make your day? Or break your day?
Since I have the most dietary restrictions I thought it was best I bring a few things and plus I secretly love cooking/baking for people but I live by myself and get involved with babes who don't like anything healthy or good, so I never get to do it...



Gluten-free flour and cookie mix was on sale at Metro tonight, first time I'd seen it discounted. I've never tried this brand before. I'm excited!
Who wants to come over for a dinner party??? Mmmmmmmmmmmm


(oh, lordy, my legs are so bad these days. no wonder no one wants to get all up in this candy)

Shit, son, later on I'm going to tell you the recipe for baked macaroni and cheese casserole that is my favourite thing of life and that I made both yesterday (for set again) and today (for me to eat until I felt so sickly full I was unsure of if I could bike to the play or not).



Yeeeah I went out with my bud, who I will call The Fever (or possibly Feve for short), tonight. We went to see some people we know do David Mamet's Speed the Plow.
The play was good. Solid. It's nice to see old chums/work chums doing what they love and making their own work (that's the only way any of us get anywhere around here)

While I was waiting (I arrived early, which never ever ever happens) I took all these pictures and I am impressed with my camera's macro setting. I wish the zoom weren't broken. I wish someone would buy me the new iphone just as soon as it comes out...



Feve is the one who wrote and was in the Fringe play that I did a couple of summers ago. She works with me at ACC and the dome and is very funny.
This is a close-up of her eye:


After the play we went to Cadillac to have a drink and gossip. Told some preeeetty good stories, epic moments in our lives, tales of our own true terrible behaviours.
Now I want to write a billion plays/shorts/stories/sketches based of how dumb we all are sometimes. And about cast parties. Cast parties are always so dramatic, eh? How could they not be?
I would never go back to being 20. Nuhh uh.
Feve has a sort of webbed hand in the middle there:

She made me take a picture of it.


My hands have very few lines on the palm. And they are very light and simple. Supposedly this means that I won't have to work very hard in my life. I bet it's because I never work very hard, ever.


I'm in the middle of a few days off and I thought I would get some stuff done today but instead I hung in the park mostly with Niki and Bee and Noodle and Kaya and then went out forever.
Maybe tomorrow will be the day of getting things done. Also tomorrow planning on planning NXNE (I guess actually deciding if I'm going to go) and posting my picks. In theory!

quit your meow meow meow

Okay so it is 6:03 a.m., I just checked, and there's a Toronto Cat Rescue driver coming to pick up Tildabeast for her little operation at 7:30a.m.

...

so?

I tried to go to sleep at 8 p.m. at dinner, no one would let me and I still haven't managed any shut-eye yet.


I feel like closing my eyes right now might spell disaster. I might not wake up for 12 hours or maybe three days whichever comes first.


It's fully light out.
So bright and so early and shiny.

I've had a sort of thick contented feeling in my chest all evening that doesn't always make sense.
I love my life, I'm tired.

feeling it

Last big night of NXNE tonight.
Wow party.

Yikes.

I forgot to bring my camera out with me last night and I regretted it multiple times. C'est la vie.


Tonight's NXNE Picks:

6p.m.
START GETTING IN LINE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE SHOWS

9p.m.
Woodpigeon - Horseshoe - Horseshoe has a very strong line-up so it will be lined-up
Casey Mecija/Evening Hymns - Whippersnapper Gallery

10p.m.
The Mark Inside - Velvet Underground
DD/MM/YYY - Horseshoe
Will Currie and the Country French - Reverb

11p.m.
Ruby Coast - Horseshoe
The Zoobombs - Velvet Underground
By Divine Right - Whippersnapper

12a.m.
Jason Collett - Horseshoe
Brian Borcherdt - Whippersnapper

1a.m.
Entire Cities - Mitzi's Sister
Grand Analog - Reverb

2a.m.
The Mark Inside - El Mocambo (down)

3a.m.
The Beauties - Dakota Tavern

I thought I wasn't hung over at 1 when I woke up... but it seems to be kicking in now, maybe I was just still drunk.


Okay I have to go work on my British accent by watching Extras. <3 Ricky Gervais so hard.



amazing.

now 3 p.m. feels more like 11 a.m...

Aw, man, I'm so Eddie Murphey's girl.

Too much party. Or just enough?

PICKS FOR TONIGHT::::

7p.m.
Spiral Beach - Whippersnapper Gallery

8p.m.
Matt and Kim - Whippersnapper Gallery

9p.m.
$100 - Dakota Tavern
Foxfire - El Mocambo (down)

10p.m.
Deep Dark Woods (saskatoonfriendspartytown) - Dakota
Wintersleep (9:45, actually) - Yonge and Dundas Square (ugh I wish I didn't have to choose between these two!)

11p.m.
Magneta Lane - Montana mainstage
Hooded Fang - Dakota
Birds of Wales - Cabin

12a.m.
The Coast - Dakota
The Magic - Reverb

1a.m.
The Sadies - El Mocambo (down)
Matt and Kim - Wrongbar

2a.m.
?

3a.m.
The Beauties - Dakota



Day 2 of NXNE went swimmingly. I was a little iffy on the night at first as I wasn't particularly sold on any of the showcases and didn't feel like standing in line for hours and no one seemed to be up for giving her. Except then I called Niki and we borrowed a friend's pass for the night and off we went.

It's kind of nice not having any shows you have to get to, you're free to go where the wind blows ya.
We ended up at the El Mocambo for Natalie Portman's Shaved Head. You can tell by their myspace page how fun these babes are. Preeetty fun. They were really clean sounding magical space odyssey sort of dance party goodness. And Niki and I approved.


We stayed on for You Say Party! We say Die!, I'd heard them and heard of them and never been to see them, so you know, it made sense.
Pretty good. I didn't fall in love with them, but I probably could given opportunity. Or something. Who evens knows what I mean by that.

Then Niki and I went back to my house to drink some more (cheapskates) and play with Tilda Swinton.

Then we went to the Dakota just after 2 to see The Beauties play at 3. Of course, of COURSE it was lined up. Classic.



We got in pretty quickly though and when we did it was very fun. Met up with some of Niki's pals, made eyes at some babes, danced, loved The Beauties, etc.
Aw man I love The Beauties. Forevers. So good. So fun to dance and sway to.
am I old and boring and only like the same things over again?
Probably.



All their cuffed-pants kill me still.


Proof of how late/early it was when I went to bed last night...


Okay, here's some photos from Wednesday for you.


From when lowercase carmen and I hit up the Drake to meet up with Sass and co.
And took pictures in the washroom. The tiny tiny washroom we were in together. Paaaaaaarty.


We caught Woodhands' set and it was pretty party but I was not feeling it as much as I could have been maybe. Who knows why.


Definitely wearing rubber boots. So practical, so comfortable.



Sass might have been a bit drunk. I don't know, I'm just guessing.

We ran into Lisa and we, of course, had to take photos. Obviously.


Carmen ended up leaving and it seemed like Sass wanted to party foreverrrrr but then we were both hungryhungry and so we walked ourselves right up to Lakeview Lunch for some breakfast.

Chatted with our favourite servers, some of whom where there working and some of whom were there drinking...

I tried to stop Sass from using her Blackberry inappropriately, but... well... not as effectual as I could have been. Win some, lose some.


I will say that there are possibly even more slimy creeps out and about at 4 a.m. (oh yeah, did you know the bars are serving until then this whole weekend? talk about overkill I mean partytown). As soon as The Beauties finished their set last night and dudes realized that Niki and I weren't necessarily claimed by anyone, then the drunken approaching began. Laaaaaame.
If I am obviously trying to not talk to you, do not point it out as a way to try and make it less awkward. That will not work.
I will not suddenly realize that I do want to talk to you.
No it is not your hat that's making me uninterested.
No it is not that you're from Texas.
It's that you're creepy and I don't care to engage in conversation.
FAIR ENOUGH.


Okay back to the party-grind. Woooooooooooo.

NXNE takes over

Night one of NXNE is already done, and I still haven't posted my show picks!

Haha, i just re-read all my NXNE posts from last year and I definitely have a lot of the same picks. Whatever I love what I love forever.
I wish that Dollface was unemployed again this year so she could be my partytown party-all-the-time partner. SIGHS.
Why do people have to have jobs all the time? Or not have jobs and therefore not have money?
I am sooo broke but I bought an NXNE wristband and a big bottle of vodka..so...
You know.

OKAY

TONIGHT -- THURSDAY:

(I'm doing by venue because that's what tonight seems to be about)

Clintons has:
Boys Who Say No
Great Bloomers
The Darcys
and more
(of those I've only ever seen Boys Who Say No, but I've heard great things about the others)

The Courthouse has the Arts and Crafts showcase:
Timbre Timbre
Still Life Still
Most Serene Republic
and "Special Guest" headliner
(apparently it was Feist and Broken Social Scene last night, so probably not them again tonight? I'm going to bet on something big though)
and more

Lee's Palace has:
Jim Cuddy
Royal Wood
Kevin Hearn
Jenn Grant (!)
Luke Doucet
Justin Rutledge
Skydiggers
and "Special Guest" headliners
(I like this "special guest business, like these shows aren't going to be fucking lined-up as it is)

Also I would suggest

The Beauties at Dakota 3 a.m. (every night this week)

or our old pal Wordburlgar doing a set with Peter Project at Rancho Relaxo at 3 a.m.


Okay hopefully I'll have the rest of my picks posted soon! So that we can party all the time!

aw, jeez it's really coming down out there

Rain? Rain? Really? Really you want to rain all the way through North By Northeast?
This happens every year, doesn't it?

Gotta pick up my wristband on my way to work. Then work. Then get this party started. Yeah? Yeah.

Looks like The Drake is going to be the place to be tonight. If you are Sass or I, at least.
The after-party for the NXNE launch is there, with a pretty loaded line-up. DJs upstairs and in the basement peeps like The D'Ubervilles, Lioness, and Woodhands. Uh huh.
I hope I can make it over before it lines up!

How was my wedding reception, you ask?
Quite swell.
Pretty party all the time.
The bands were awesome and party and I do wish more people had dressed up, but what can you do? Some cute costumes but nowhere near enough terrible bridesmaids dresses.



Oh, yeah, I ended up making my reception dress yesterday out of a sweatshirt. 'Cause that's how I roll? And I wore this weird/pretty crochet urban outfitters poncho(?) thing overtop. I felt pretty.



I made a pretty sweet wedding song playlist that I had fun dancing to. It included such hitmakers as Boyz 11 Men, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Whitney Houston, and Enigma. We danced our first dance to I Believe I Can Fly and it was magical.
We cut the cake and I tossed the bouquet.



We were treated to watching a video of our wedding.
I laughed until I cried. The video didn't end up getting edited, and the sound was shitty so music got played instead. It was still amazing. I want to show it to you sometime.

Yeah funtimez. Also, the new issue of the GangLion comic looks pretty amazing. Seriously impressive.


Holy lick I've spent the whole afternoon editing photos and I'm nowhere near done. Tonnes of neat pictures have been backpiling. Hopefully the next few days of having little to do besides party will help me make a dent in it.