Alas it is fall,

Did you ever imagine? I didn't, but I live in a dreamworld, what's your excuse? Regardless we are now to be besieged by angry red leaves that refuse to attend their former placements for a moment longer, they will now make a mad dash to the ground as we sip our cinnamon lattes thoughtfully and consider how we will once again pick a terrible last minute costume for an event we knew was going to happen all year. If this is not what you are thinking then I highly recommend thinking it because the alternative, (apocalypse nowish?) is just too unpleasant. Nay, I say, drink your mulled wine and coffee spiked with spiced rum (or chai for you tee-totalers out there) and imagine how you wish things to be, then get off your cute, little, cinnamon butt and go for it. After all if the ol' hourglass has been severely shaken we may as well make the best of the weird and wacky sand we have left, hey?

In keeping with that, here is my new obsession (not really that new, I've been obsessed with scores since I was a wee little peanut as you can see from my former blog on scoring, (I really need to get a handle on my use of parenthesis) I am absolutely desperate about it) hopefully it will motivate you to do something you have always longed to. Take your fears and put them asunder before your vessel lands down under! I mean, that was terrible but whatever, just do it! 

Have a desperately brilliant week!

Just When You Think You've Got it Down.....

You can hear the people peeing upstairs. Ah life! It sure does have a way of upending things and 2016 for absolutely certain. I have thus far been to a funeral, been hit by a car, laid off work and bid farewell to more fantastic artists than I care to mention. It's a doozy this year, and aren't we all just struggling to get out alive while still being clever enough to use the oxford comma?
As a result of the terror this year has rained upon us, I have decided to make this the unequivocal year that I finish and release my EP. I have One and a half songs left and we're nearly there, because while there may be darkness, an absence of liquor and a strange sensation that the robots pressed waaaay too many buttons and switched the matrix from a utopia to a dystopian hell (Aside: I think it's funny that autocorrect doesn't seem to know what dystopian means, in 2016? I mean really), you and I are still here, and so is the music folks, and that at the very least is worth some celebration. So queue up your Netflix, ready your wine and popcorn and watch every damn thing you ever wanted to watch, go outside and run every damn track you wanted to run, or get yourself on a bus and window watch every damn thing you wanted to window watch, paint that painting, finish that book, deck the halls or paint the halls. For God's sakes finish that damned script and tweak that damned novel because now is the time people!!!, and come the end of the year your ears will be very busy.

Peace (where you can find it) Love (within yourself) and Kittens (always kittens I mean, c'mon)!


P.S some pep for your step

La vida es un carnaval....

Okay, it's not but you believed me for a second didn't you? Well at least last night was a carnival because the incredible Sergio Mendes came to thrill Toronto with his incredible music and he played this right off the bat! He was (as expected) incredible, a true MC and he had some incredible back-up (sorry I'm simply gobsmacked) in his band and singers . This was all in support of the PanAm Games closing ceremonies in an event quite accurately dubbed Panamania. Which saw the likes of Mariana's Trench, Tessanne Chin, A Tribe Called Red, Colin James, Jully Black, Wyclef Jean, Serena Ryder, Calypso Rose and Kobo Town and so many more. Impending Panamania includes: Janelle Monae, Jann Arden, A Tribe Called Red, The Roots and many more.

Anyway, as expected I made a playlist in preparation for Sergio Mendes' arrival and it is as exciting as it appears, ladies and gents your Spanish music playlist (okay, the name kinda sucks). I must warn you that as I am now on deezer, as opposed to the newly defunct grooveshark, I don't believe this is viewable on your smart little phones unless you have a deezer account. Therefore, either sign up for deezer or listen on your laptop! Enjoy, beautiful people!!

Uh-oh-ohhhhh

While I haven't got the right stuff yet I do have new playlists but unfortunately they are on deezer and I'm pretty sure you need an account to hear them. Getting back into that gym life myself so if you wanna wanna hear some bitchin' gym tunes, sign up with deezer and clicky-click above so you can get yo' fit on.

In the meantime I'm songwriting and looking for some gigs to book. Wrote a sweet folk-y, country ditty the other day with my friend Rachel E Robinson called "Homewrecker", just kidding. It's called "When You Love Me Like That" and I may one day venture out into the folk-y, country territory and release it on an EP with Cheap Bottle of Wine and No Way Now.

 I do have a sweet spot for country music and my latest crush is on a fabulous singer named Mickey Guyton, all her songs have (quite happily) been in my head for the last week, I sure hope she books a show in the T-dot, as I'd love to see her perform live. Wonderful!

Another current obsession. Nick Jonas' album, don't judge me. Okay, okay judge me, I deserve it but this album is A-freaking-K with me. It's on repeat all day, errrr-day. I highly recommend it, especially in the gym. Speaking of gym-ing, my girl Katrina's instagram account, she is not only fit as *beep* but an incredible make-up artist to boot. If you want that summer body inspiration or tips on how to do a cat-eye then follow her, follow her to the ends of the eaaaaaaarth!!!

Well that's it my peeps, I'm out. I hope you get a deezer account so you can hear my new playlists ( I tried to replicate the Beverly Hills 90210 playlist as best I could) and so you can support the musicians (who apparently weren't getting money for streaming their wares on grooveshark) and I hope you have a faaaaabulous week!!


Ta!

Friends of Canadian Broadcasting launch anti-Harper ad

He's dead, Jim!

Sooooo .......my apologies at the prolongued absence, I have been floundering (and slightly virus-y or allergy-y haven't figured out which yet)

Grooveshark has gone to that great big puppy rescue in the sky, randomly, unceremoniously and very very suddenly and it has taken with it my incredibly awesome playlists. So here's this and I'll see you all when I figure it out. Cheers to regrouping?


P.S Today they passed a bill in my country to take us one step closer to The Handmaid's Tale. Margaret Atwood would like us all to know that that was a work of FICTION and in no way representative of some kind of Government for Dummies Handbook.

P.P.S Yesterday, famously right-leaning Alberta (whom we all like to jokingly refer to as America or Texas (and will probably have to stop doing now) to amuse and console us) voted in a Provincial NDP government for the first time in history!!! Might I also add they voted in the most women EVER!! I'm going to hold on to that hope irrespective of C-51 Trudeau/Harper nonsense (and now C-24 catastrophe) and hold onto this quote:

"Let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic and we will change the world." Jack Layton

Oh you silly silly "superheroes"....

Avengers: 2 Age of Ultron press tour is making all sorts of news, and not in a good way. If you've just tuned in, Robert Downey Jr. is still a jerk and Chris Evans and Jeremy Renner are currently vying (hard) for his title. Robert Downey Jr made headlines this past week for storming out of an interview after being confronted with his drug-addled past, hot on the heels of this muddy affair Chris Evans and Jeremy Renner made headlines by calling Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow a "slut" and a "whore" and agreeing when the interviewer (erroneously) declared that Natasha Romanova would always be a sidekick and that no Avengers fan had any interest in seeing her spinoff into her own movie or series. As if that weren't enough Robert Downey Jr scored the cast a trifecta (in the worst way) when he inferred that it was impressive that Birdman Director and Oscar winner Alejandro Inarritu could manage (in his bilingual state) to string together the words "cultural genocide" in response to a question regarding Inarritu's (well-informed and intelligent) opinion on superhero movies. If in the next week any of the cast happens to have errant words to absently hurl at the LGBQT community than they will have successfully covered all the isms with homophobia as the brass ring. Truly a great feat.

As a comic book fan this disappoints me verily so I thought to take a step back a few years (try a few decades) and create a playlist that is reminiscent of a time when social media didn't exist and youtube didn't unveil the sad, stupid people that some unfortunate celebrities turn out to be. It is certainly in my opinion its own little Shakespearean tragedy that people in such a beautiful situation can turn out so entitled and solipsistic but, it is what it is, and the 90s (and early 2000s) were what they were which frankly was....better (at least musically and culturally) so here we are and here's your playlist and all I can say is if the sexism unveiled from Captain America and Hawkeye...wait who?,(I know, he's irrelevant to me too) bothers you too, there's always tumblr all the feminists and good human beings hang out there, (and they make gifs about it!) so with that I bid you a good great week and do enjoy your trip down memory lane! Enjoy the music and the (lack of) mayhem.

Later kittens!