High-fives for me

Hey everybody! Guess what? On Thursday, I finished all the recording I had planned to do for my first recording. I have 5 songs in total, enough for an EP. My friend Brad helped me a whole lot (actually he did most of the work) and made magic with wires and adapters and cables and oh my gosh I don't know what I would have done if he hadn't been there. Then we all ate dumplings with mustard in celebration.

That means I'll be starting to design the packaging for the CD, which is exciting! I love doing that kind of thing, and my friend Elgin-Skye is going to help me as she is an expert and her CD covers are lovely.

I'm also designing a tattoo for my friend Eva, which is kewl, as I've never had one of my drawings permanently drawn on someone's body. It's going to be a swallow, and I've made a couple of sketches to get an idea of what I'm going to do.

I'm going to post a couple of the songs on the EP to the mySpace, after I decide which ones to post and which ones to hide until the actual thing comes out...

So long, and may all your dreams come true before we meet again next time in the cyborgsphere.

Oh my!

Saturday I took part in an event in the Maguire Meadow of Mile-End, also known as the vacant lot behind the Jeans Jeans Jeans building. I always pass through this field on my way to Rosemont métro but I never stopped to notice how beautiful and lush and green it is. The grass is tall and there are clumps of big trees to sit under. There's a grey stone wall bordering it and fencing in the convent on the other side.

There are some people who want to protect this space and keep it as it is, free for anyone to access and free from any governmental or private development. I'd say that's a pretty swell idea.
There was a camera crew filming a documentary about the garden, so hopefully there will be more awareness that this space exists and the need to preserve it. We made some music under the trees afterwards. I sang some acappella stuff and a Woody Guthrie song before my guitar string snapped. My friend Alexis (who also has a blog) came along and did cartwheels with me in the grass.

Trailer bikes!

Frolicking!
Pharmaprix!

I've got a few shows coming up in the next little while, one this Wednesday at the Cabaret Playhouse. I've added the other shows to the mySpace page so check it out if you want to know where I'll be next.

I'll also be doing some recording this week, and if I remember to bring my camera I'll post pics of that too.

Toooodle-oo! Enjoy the hot sticky weather.

Cuteness up your ying-yang

Oh boy, it's been a while since I've written anything. The Blog-Gods are surely frowning on me.

I finally went and took pictures of the collaborative drawings installed in the Sustainable Concordia Gallery, where, by the by, I will be showing my own stuff for the month of June. There'll be a little end of show party on June 25th, with musical guests and I'm hoping a game of charades.

Other exciting news: my mom found a tiny kitten in the backyard of her house on Monday morning, and she rescued it. Now I'm in love. His name is Ralph. Or maybe Mister Mustache.

Luv-er-ly

The weather seemed uncertain on Monday morning and it seemed like the live drawing/BBQ/plant sale organized by Sustainable Concordia would have to be moved inside, but fortunately the sunshine came out with incredible timing (and blinded those of us who were staring at a piece of blank white paper.)
There were bean burgers, ukuleles, flutes, face painting, roasted asparguses (asparagi?), lots of lovely people and lots of very fast moving clouds. Bronwen and I created a magical neon animal kingdom, complete with pick-up truck. I forgot to bring my camera, so I'll have to post a picture of the finished work later on in its new gallery habitat. Someone painted this on my face:




Today I made a scroll drawing that I'd like to put in a show that it's in the works for said Sustainable Concordia gallery. I collect pictures of animals, so the show will probably revolve around cute animals made cuter by fashion accessories.

"Mrs. Murphy's Waltz" is now finished! Glenn put some lovely fiddle lines on it and I'm very happy with how it sounds. So basically I'm expecting this song to be my triple-platinum selling single, with heavy rotation on CHOM and Virgin Radio, and in-store play at Wal-Mart stores across Canada. I'll be crushed by anything less.

Here are some photos from last month's show at the Nu-Art Café:

Some dork playing the guitar

Elgin-Skye à son piano

In other news, I have to move in July and so far my apartment search has been fruitless, so if you hear any of apartments that are freeing up (and that you yourself are not moving into), I would be eternally grateful if you could bring them to my attention.

Until next post...