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.

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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?

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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?