Sarah Slean @ The GIG Theatre

So last week, Sarah Slean performed at The Gig Theatre in Kitchener.

For those of you that don't know the place... it's an old movie theatre in the Setman Building (Duke and Ontario) that is a super cool, chic little place to host a show. It's got about a 500 person capacity and sometimes that's bad (if your band draws about 25 people), but in this case, a packed house, it was Amazing. Super good energy and acoustics.

Royal Wood - a Canadian Singer/Songwriter opened up for her, he was pretty hilarious, even did a cover of the oompa loompa song from Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory. You can check him out HERE.

Sarah Slean, what can I say? She's fucking gorgeous, her voice is fucking unbelievable and she has a personality most girls would kill for. (jealous, much?)

Scott McQuarrie took some pretty fantastic shots, and was kind enough to send a couple over. I love how she does that head down, possessed by the piano thing. Here they are: copyright of re:action photography, copyright of re:action photography, copyright of re:action photography

If you have a chance to check this woman out. DO. IT.

Her voice and piano playing is beyond beautiful, and her professionalism and charisma is sooo unique.

Here's where I was going to put up the foto of her and I, but I'll spare you ;)
H.

only 4 calories

'tis crunch time yet again. however, this month its doublecrunch time as we are putting out 60PAGES! last night (at around midnight) a good friend of mine suggested that I try a 5 hour energy drink. available at UPI. i checked out the website and it promises 5 hours of energy (who'd have guessed) and no crash* later! crash is described as energy below baseline. i didnt go get one for a few reasons. A- i don't want a self induced heart attack. B- I thought, it's 12am, i dont want to be awake for 5 more hours..even though i was here until 4am without it... and C- there isnt even a UPI in the proximity. BUT it did get me thinking that it would be cool to do a feature in the mag about energy drinks and stuff. and have someone drink like, 5 of these and see if they can actually stay up and feel like not-shit....or have them do it and die and then we can bust all these companies and sue them and make mmmmmillliiioooonnnsssssss. Ok. so our new friend Livia is proofing the magazine right now, (and its funy because she's snickering at my desk and i know EXACTLY what article she's reading...SCD!) and then I have about 50 more hours of work to do on it. and then we send files at 4! yay! wait. that doesnt add up. IN OTHER NEWS: day 5 of protest out side our office. WITH ADDED BONUS of jack hammering construction (hello cruel world). alright. time to finish this coffee and scone (thanks kevin!) hang in there. C.

Lawn Furniture for Literalists

So, we've been tossing around ideas for the "reclaimed" patio behind our office.
Basically - we've got this pretty big green space that just has all this useless flora all over it. We need a usable space to hang out, that isn't gonna cost very much money.

G was kind enough to pass this idea on to me.

Any volunteers to come over and help us level the ground so that we can get to work on this: H.

Lock Out

So.... THIS is going on pretty much outside of our office.

It's a little weird... lots of honking and cheering, but it's for a good cause.

Maybe qatalyst should offer a pro-bono course on Picket Sign Design... I really feel like they could be using some better fonts.

H.

The Today Show

So we had some lovely guests today.
I feel like we're on a talk show sometimes... and people come on the show for a quick Q & A.

QM: Hey, nice to see you, thanks for coming on the show!
GUEST: Yeah, thanks for having me on!
QM: So what's new, what projects are you working on right now?
GUEST: Oh, you know, this and that.... side project for Y, doing some design for X.

It's amazing! You are jealous :)

Today on the show, we had Chris DePaul of Foundinthemargins.com and Kevin Suess, frequent Qatalyst Contributor and Artist. Here is a picture that Kevin made of himself. It is very accurate.
I took a couple pictures, but I am an idiot and deleted them before downloading.

Who wants to come on the Show tomorrow?

H.

holy whiteboard!

there is not enough coffee to make that seem do-able today. bring me a coffee and i'll love you forever. C.

What are you up to today?

This blog is...

Fucking Boring lately.


What's going on? Nothing.
Maybe that's the problem.
All work, no play.

OH, AND WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF DROPPING A 56 PAGE MAGAZINE AND NEW WEBSITE.
Be Patient people.

(We'll try to do better :)
H.

Words Worth Hearing

So Last Night G and I went to hear Dr. James Orbinski talk about his new book "Imperfect Offering". Hosted by Words Worht Books.
Orbinski is the president of Doctors without Borders and has some pretty insane stories to tell. But he was pretty inspiring and it is nice to hear a Canadian talk about how fucked up our country is - as opposed to just pointing to our Southern neighbour and calling the kettle black.... if you will.

Some extra interesting comments Dr. Orbinski made:

When a question was asked whether he experiences/ed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, he said that he believes Western society has "a tendency to medicalize anything uncomfortable". Interesting.

and.

While G had his book signed, I asked Dr. O if he had any advice on publishing a magazine that attempts to encourage and motivate young people of our community to speak out and stand up for things that are messed in our world... his answer?
Don't be condescending.... and always be raising the bar of what is expected from your reader and peers.

(I'll start working on that first part today)

H.

GOD.

post something new, why don't you?

yo mama.

Since I am such a helpful person, I thought it would be appropriate to post some lovingly humorous jokes in honour of this sunday. (mothers day people!) yo mama so ugly when she applied for the ugly contest they told her 'NO Professionals' yo mama so old jurassic park brought back memories yo mama is so fat she's once, twice, three times a lady. oh my god i think i hate myself a little. these are so bad. so bad they're AWESOME. anyways... if you've yet to get a gift for your madre, in my experience anything to do with freddie mercury, the eurythmics or brunch seems to work. ALSO: the CASBAH in hamilton tonight for Rogers Spring Music Festival! COME! we'll be there from 830 on. oh, and TGIF!!!!!!!! C.

Food not Bombs

Not sure if anyone has been following this...
but I'll be at the council meeting tonite.

Basically, there's a group that's been feeding the homeless population of KW in front of city hall for many years.

All of a sudden, they received a cease and desist order from the city.

It's been suggested that they move their operation to a back alley of downtown.

Original Story HERE.

And new Article in today's Record HERE.

weekend consistency

sunday afternoon...and it's not raining! hooray. since the magazine went out last week, this weekend was more stress free than most, as we have a few days of downtime before we start working on our SUPER EXCITING one year anniversary issue! friday night consisted of me taking a beer tour through quebec, and getting way too competitive in pictionary. (our team won). but i guess thats what happens when you mix me, 9% beer, pantone markers and good friends. saturday night elena and i decided to take a stroll uptown to the Ugly Sweater Party at the Jane Bond. you know.... it was really hard to tell who was wearing an ugly sweater, and who was just...wearing an ugly sweater. Kate Cox put it best i think when she said that people there are just really good at looking bad... in a good way. James insell was taking photos, so i will get some from him and post them. then as we were leaving we ran into my other friend james and he didnt even notice i was wearing an "ugly sweater". that must say something about the way i normally dress. My sweater looks somewhat similar to this: Well, no it didnt, but it pretty much did. Go Monday! C.

May Issue is Out NOW

Happy almost weekend -
The May Issue is out Now.

Available at a million locations across KW, and Guelph on Friday.

Happy Reading!
As always send me a line with thoughts...
H.