To My Brother:

This Is Embarrassing

I just went through every single episode of Grey’s Anatomy, skipping around to each great scene between Meredith and Derek.

I’M SUCH A LOSER. I cannot believe I just did that. It was like an addiction. I’d zoom through each episode, searching for the next moment between them. I need to get a life. I don’t like this romantic side of myself. Relationships suck, and I’m aware of it. But when they’re glamorized like on Grey’s Anatomy, it makes me all lovesick and swoony. TV relationships are like DRUGS.

The Warning

There’s nothing I can say about Hot Chip. They just released The Warning. It rocks.

PLEASE watch the video for their first single: Over and Over.

They’re the bee’s knees yo.

AND, they’re playing Montreal November 5 @ Sala Rossa, and Toronto November 6  @ Mod Club.

4:56 am

The time I got home this morning.

Marvin, Rosalba and myself went all out last night. The show was absolutely perfect. I haven’t had a night like that in a long, long time.

MSTRKRFT and The Juan Maclean were so damn good. Even the little 19 year-old opening up for them played some really good stuff. He’s from Miami and after hearing him one night they just asked him to go on tour with them. How amazing is that?

We seriously danced the ENTIRE night. Here’s Marvin dancing on stage in front of the giant Trojan screens. haha.

I’m still in shock over how the night ended though. Towards the end of the MSTRKRFT set Rosie and I were dancing on stage, then we moved and danced behind the DJs and equipment. We recognized John Maclean backstage and went over and started talking. Rosie was talking to him about Brazil until the end of the show. It’s crazy! This guy has been working with James Murphy (DFA Records, LCD Soundsystem) for years, hanging around the New York club scene. Then everybody came backstage and the lights came on and we all hung out til the club closed.

It was so wierd, we might as well have all just been chilling at a friend’s house, it was fun and relaxed. Jesse Keeler (MSTRKRFT, Death From Above) told me he loved my shoes. Just out of nowhere, said he liked Rosie’s vintage bag and complimented my high tops. Sweet…..

We made friends with the sound tech, club promoter, video projections guy, Trojan tour manager, and all ended up hanging out on the tour bus drinking Coronas of all things. We talked about how rock and roll isn’t nearly as bad ass as it was in the seventies. The tour manager told us how when a band goes on tour now they are travelling with two accountants, a lawyer, etc. There’s just too much depending on it to let everything get messed up by the band partying too hard.

Talked to Maclean about how he was in Italy last week playing infront of 6000 people and how he can’t wait to get to the hotel in Toronto so he can have a bath, with lavender candles and bubbles. haha.

Finally the bus driver arrived and we had to go. We were walked to a cab by the promoter and sound guy, wanting to make sure we’d get home safe.

I had to stop and run into a dep to withdraw cash for the cab at home, but couldn’t find my bank card. Dep man asked me what I was doing and I explained, and he took ten bucks out of the till told me to pay the cab then come back in and look for my card in less of a rush. SO NICE!

I slept until 11 am then went for breakfast with Laura and Cora.

I’m in a daze over the whole night.

Jersey Fruit

I bought blueberries yesterday. There are scary little gremlins on the box.

WHY AREN’T PEOPLE THINKING THIS STUFF THROUGH?

I’m Cooler Than You

or not at all.. but I’m the only one who knows that. ha.

I’m hitting the MSTRKRFT show tonight. They open with The Juan Maclean who are supposed to completely rock live.

Listen to MSTRKRFT’s remix of The Panthers – Thank Me With Your Hands

In case you don’t know, MSTRKRFT is the electro-dance side project of Jesse from Death From Above and his producer pal. They’ve just released a full-length album. Though they have some original songs, it’s really the remixes that kill.

Try and listen to their Metric remix: Monster Hospital

It’s totally hot.

Demetri Martin

I know it may seem as if I’m just jumping on the whole “Demetri Martin is the funniest man in the universe” bandwagon. But in all honesty, I can remember laughing in my room watching him sing about MySpace on The Daily Show.

Actually, you should laugh about it too:

That was in February. yo.

His last two shows at Just For Laughs are Thursday July 20 and Saturday July 22. I’ve decided I must go. Now, I just have to find someone to go with me. That sounds really ridiculously sad. But I’m willing to acknowledge the levels of my desperation and move passed them, with the one hope that it will end up with me sitting at the venue excited as all hell.

Tomorrow I’m calling everyone I know.

Montreal’s Finest

My neighbourhood is interesting. Some people just call it ghetto, personally I like to refer to it as “The Concordia” – Ghetto to make it seem as if it is supposed to be this dirty and… interesting.

A few nights ago I heard a girl sobbing with her boyfriend (I actually think they were my next door neighbours – balconies rock!). She just kept crying and crying as he starts saying things like “Baby, baby, I love you baby. Seriously girl, you mean the world to me.” Blah blah blah this continues, she starts sniffling, sobbing stops. Then do you know what he actually pulls? He goes “Girl, you wanna know something I did? You know how much you mean to me? I put you in my will, I put you in my last will and testament.”

WHAT? I wanted to die! It was all I could do to not scream out “Ohhmygod noooo way!”

LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT??? wow. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a guy THAT smooth before.

But back to my reason for writing:

Tonight I’m drawn to my window by the sounds of a girl yelling at a guy. Thinking it might be the same couple as above, I had to look. So.. there’s this girl…. across the street… yelling at a drunk to stay put… and beating him with a snow brush from her car whenever he tries to move. Like.. THWACK.. beating him.

From what I heard he busted up her car or something. Her boyfriend is trying to hold her off of the drunk when the cops show up.

First: one car, two cops.

Then: three cars, four cops.

Finally: five cars, seven cops.

Is that not completely ridiculous?

Kiss me I’m drunk. (don’t worry – it’s true)

Fuck fuck fuck fuck. I cannot believe I missed this.

Bumping around Pitchfork, I recognized the names Death From Above and Diplo in the same MP3 link. Astounding and intriguing, I had to follow the tempting link through.

And that’s how I discovered CSS (or Cansei de Ser Sexy) this completely rocking disco punk group from Sao Paulo. Apparently mr.Diplo was completely blown away by their live act, and whaddaya know? He grabbed them to open for his most recent tour.

And the worst part of all of this? Today is Monday (kind of), and WHEN did Diplo play Montreal?

Saturday.

No fucking joke. They came through town two days before I fell head over heels madly dancing in love with them.

I need to spend more time online. Less time outdoors.

Here’s the video:

CSS – Let’s Make Love And Listen To Death From Above

And so I begin….

I’ve come to the obvious conclusion that I have spread myself too thin. Between the worlds of MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, Flickr…….. my friends, my photos, my stories have all been divided.

And so, in one single effort, I find myself here, and hope that everyone else will find it too.