blogger hates me today :(

Hello darling,

Sorry I haven't been updating. It's been five weeks since I had a day off and I have five weeks to go, it's easy to get caught up in other things. 

Prac is going okay and I really love working at my two other jobs. I am really excited about the festivals and exhibitions we have coming up! One of my favourite parts of this story is that you will be home for their openings, we can drink wine and be civilized together.

I saw this band on Sunday and they completely blew my mind, listen to the 2008 album 'Devotion' by Beach House and feel like summer.

I promised I'd show you so...

This is my new crinoline! I'm wearing it under a vintage chiffon skirt, it's the only garment I own that covers the thing properly. I think I will have to find some dresses and skirts with mega a-lines to make it more versatile.

Other than that, I'm going out to dinner with about ten friends on Thursday for my birthday. I hope that you can call me during the day sometime! I will make time for it, I promise!

I did my sister's tax return and she's getting a ton of cash back, so I think she will buy me a bike for my birthday. Hopefully Larissa, Thomas and I find a house soon so I can start riding around... oh yeah, Larissa, Thomas and I are looking for a house together. 

Here is a picture of my bookcase and the new lights I bought on Saturday.

I don't know but I've been told.

On Friday night after work I went to see Handsome Furs who I love so so much. They are by far my favourite rock and roll couple. And the crowds at their shows are so amazing, I have never heard so much cheering and appreciation for a band before. This is a video that I really like, I really like the La Blogotheque Take Away Show series of videos too, they're all pretty amazing...

Sorry for all the videos but I have been spending a lot of time on youtube lately... Its up there on my list of favourite at home past times, along with painting my fingernails while watching The Daily Show and The Colbert Report and laying in the sun and reading on my patio.
Today I am going to hit up Sephora and purchase some new skincare and make up products. I also need to buy another suitcase. I have started packing up my life here in Canada, it is scary and sad but also really exciting because I kinda want to go home now. Don't tell anyone here that though...
I also went to see Vicky Christina Barcelona last week, it made me want to make decisions that probably aren't the best and fall in love with inappropriate people. It also made me want to go to Spain...

The weekend that just passed will go down as one of the greatest in my time in Canada. Friday night, seeing Radiohead, magic! Then hanging out with Americans, awesome! Saturday night involved alot of drinking with my favourite Canadians in celebration of Ben's birthday. He also told us that his wife is pregnant which is some of the best news ever!!! It was just a wonderful weekend.

I also had my festival training last weekend and it totally freaked me out. I think if I can get through working at one of the biggest film festivals in the world, I can pretty much do anything... The films that are playing were announced earlier this week and my top picks for what I want to see would be:
1. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (Michael Cera <3 Watch the trailer!!)
2. New York, I Love You (a New York version of Paris Je'Taime)
3. Zack and Miri Make a Porno
4. Che (if I have a spare 5 hours...)
I get a lot of free tickets so I should be able to see most of them. They also released a list of about 500 celebrities that are coming to town including Brad Pitt and George Clooney, but I'm more excited about the prospect of seeing Michael Cera, Jay Baruchel, Gael Garcia Benal and Adrien Brody. Swoon City!

Last night, me, Lily and Lily's friend Tom broke into a pool at 2am and went swimming. It was pretty awesome.

Everythings on my mind.

I have this incredible urge to go out dancing this weekend. My weekend is going to be EPIC. My last two days have ended up being so fantastic, full of great times with amazing friends and lots of drinking. Tonight I am seeing Radiohead and I'm so excited I can't explain it. Anyway, this is what Canada looks like today from the point of view of my patio.

This is what I want my life to look like.

And this is how I feel sometimes.

I really love this video. The song is so funny and wrong and all the girls are so nicely dressed and The Teenagers are cute so yeah. The End.

Stop raining Canada!

So my apparent Canadian summer has been taken over by bad weather. It has been raining so much here its retarded. My Saturday at Beer Fest looked a little bit like Glastonbury...

But none of us were smart enough to wear suitable footwear :( My life right now is full of limited amounts of sleep and copious amounts of partying. I only have a month left in this wonderful country so I'm making the most of it. For example, tonight I am crashing a fancy party at Kania's work, its on a roof top in the middle of Toronto, there might be a magician there, and lots of free alcohol. Tomorrow is Radiohead which I am way too excited about. And the weekend will bring the first of my TIFF training sessions.
Speaking of TIFF, one of the perks of being an employee is the free press screenings I get to go to before the festival starts. They screen a whole pile of the films that are showing for the festival for critics so they can review them early and we get to go to them too! I'm so excited about all of TIFF but I'm so nervous as well, its going to be really full on. And its also so close to when I leave so its going to be an emotional time.
I have no inspiring outfits or clothing anecdotes to tell you really. I really want to buy a lot of the guest designer lines at Urban Outfitters right now, namely this Play by C. Ronson dress and every item in the Lark and Wolf collection. Its all so pretty! And I want a french bulldog.

PUP CITY!

Highlight of my weekend

Wolf Parade <3 Spencer <3x100000000000000000

This week has been crazy! I've been working a lot, a new friend started at my prac job, I bought lots of things from ebay, went shopping, made other new friends, started reading another David Sedaris book, wrote lots of lists, made some art, cleaned my room, went to IKEA and drank lots of coffee.

All this and I stayed home on a Saturday night! I made spicy lentil soup and watched Eagle vs Shark, probably one of the only films that will come to Australia before you get it in Canada. I liked it, watch it and revel in the New Zealand accent.

Speaking of... home soon!

I am in the process of culling my belongings and looking for a house to live in with Larissa, la la la life.

Going nowhere...

I'm sorry I haven't updated so much, I have had a very lazy week of sleeping in and not achieving much with my days except tanning on the patio and tackling incredibly large books. I haven't been feeling very inspired lately either so theres that too...
So last weekend I spent a lovely Saturday night getting horribly drunk and listening to records with some friends from work. I really wish I had become better friends with these people sooner rather than five weeks before I leave the country :( Sunday involved a family orientated bbq at Mike's house with all of his family plus some dogs and a friend with a baby... Monday was much the same, picnic in a beautiful backyard with another friend with a baby. It all reminded me of that time we babysat and found out we would be the worst lesbian parents ever...
I finally booked all of my Europe trip, I decided to cut Amsterdam out because I don't really have enough time, which sucks but hey. I get to spend more time in London and Paris and maybe it will motivate me to go back to Europe soon. Anyway I really enjoy these photographs by Michael Hughes to get me in the mood for the tourist Europe...

Tonight I am attending Beer Fest, its going to be interesting... I'm doing the same thing on Saturday as well, its going to be a messy weekend!
Oh and last night Kania and I went to see American Teen, it was pretty good and I totally developed a crush on Mitch Reinholt, the cutest basketball jock ever.

Week Two

This is week two of my ten week prac - means eight weeks til you come home, but also eight weeks of mailing brochures and being office bitch. On the other hand, my work is going really well - I have booked two program items this week and I am probably starting on my big gallery projects next week.

Tonight I saw The Savages with Thomas and I really enjoyed it! He said it was miserable but I felt like it was a realistic optimism. Shit happens, whatever, move on.

Tonight I also tried to order an iPhone, but to no avail. Last night I queued for 40 minutes to find out I had less than 100 points of ID, and tonight I had sufficient proof of identity but to secure a phone, I would have to start paying for the contract now and not receive the goods for another 4-6 weeks! No!

I am trying not to think about clothes too much or look at too many, but this picture in Yen gave me so many hot ideas.

Cue looking on ebay for crinoline skirts, factor in excessive postage, and voila! Will update if I make a purchase. I want black but there is a canary yellow one in my watching list. I see... Puffy skirt under sweetheart black dress, floral arrangement on wrist, raspberry lipstick. Now I just need a date for the prom, heh.

I have been looking at http://www.theselby.com/ for interior inspiration lately. I found it from the Yen website and boy oh boy.

I love Lesley Arfin and her apartment is really cute -

but Ryan Korban (interior designer, figures) has the pad I am coveting right now. 

My room is all natural wood, white, grey and purple, but I would love a white fur rug (faux) like the one on his bed right now. I can't wait to assemble a house, I have a semi-offer of moving into a place on Walcott St so I might be decorating sooner than I thought...

Tomorrow I am going to bunnings to try find a light string with exposed bulbs, I need more wattage in my life... plus the pig lamp that I am looking after for Esther blew its replacement light bulb! I will post pictures if I get the glow happening. Talk to you in 8 hours!

p.s. I am loving Electrelane right now.

I hope it will be worth what I give up

We went to see the Virgin Suicides at the free Harbourfront movies on Tuesday, it worked out better than the previous week where Annie Hall was rained out. I had forgotten how much I like that film, I felt like I was in a dream for 2 hours. It made me want to be young and in love...

Speaking of films, I am now officially an employee of the Toronto International Film Festival! I will be a Front of House Assistant at the Scotiabank Theatre so I will pretty much be a glorified volunteer except that I get paid and get a staff pass for all the films! I'm really excited, it makes me feel like all my time here has totally been worth it.

So today I got the new IKEA catalogue in the mail and it got me all excited for when we move to Melbourne and have a fabulous house together. I have an good idea of what I want my room to look like and I want a really cute kitchen to bake cakes and cook delicous meals in. I feel like such a grown up! Life is going to be fantastic when I get back to Australia.

I'm really into Santogold today, its awesome.