It’s strange to think that this time last year I was in the middle of a full-blown nervous breakdown due to living with a worthless-piece-of-human-garbage drug-addict drug-dealer who used to be my friend and band-mate, while I was trying to make a living doing freelance work from home; and now I spend almost everyday with George Stroumboulopoulos and a different member of the Sloan family (they’re on a rotating schedule with me). Thank god 2011 is over. I somehow made it through, and I’m still here, now. Whew! Thanks to all my new friends who helped me become a person again.
Kathleen Edwards played on George’s show on Thursday, and her performance will air on the CBC this upcoming Friday. Look! My roommate’s boyfriend is playing bass for her!
Ivy had her book launch at Parts & Labour that night. She and Mark Pesci wheat-pasted the entire basement with photocopies of her photos, and I think it looks great! It really ties the look of the basement together.
I went to Niall and Jeremy’s art opening on Friday night (which I didn’t take any pictures at) before heading to the Horseshoe to see one of Toronto’s best bands, Biblical!
Thennn I went to videotape Loving In The Name Of at the Great Hall. Jeremy Finklestein said they’re coming up to the 4 year anniversary, and my youtube videos and blog posts are the only documentation he has of the early ones. I wish I could’ve done more, because I knew he was putting together an important thing back then, but alas, I had not the resources and nobody ever gives a fuck about my ideas; they just love the final products I produce. It’s a strange curse I have.
Backstage before the show!
Anywayysss, that was super fun. Saturday night I went to see Monster trucks at the Monster Jam at the Rogers Center aka Skydome on Saturday night with some of the GS Tonight staff. We all met up at Hooters beforehand, a couple of blocks from the CBC. I realized when I got there, the only time I’d been at Hooters before was with VICE Toronto staff after George interviewed Suroosh Alvi a few years back. Yes, before becoming George’s audience coordinator, I was first an audience member.
On Sunday night, Michelle Thrush, George, Gregory Macdonald, Zane Kaplansky, and a few more of us from the show went for dinner at Banu at 777 Queen West with Saman Arbabi. Saman had flown into Toronto that day for George to interview him on Mondays show, and Banu had invited us to be their guests since they are huge fans of Saman’s show Parazit. The food was spectacular!
Saman’s interview was great, he had a lot of fans in the audience who came out to see him and I’m getting super tired so I don’t want to write much longer, but I’m glad my life doesn’t suck so much anymore and that I’m surrounded by so many great people and get to do so many fun interesting things all the time. It’s actually kind of retarded what a lucky motherfucker I can be sometimes. Now if I can just pay off my debt without having to sell all my stuff…
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