PROS AND CONS

Should I get an iPhone?

I want one, I really do. But should I?

PROS:

1. It will hold more music than my current iPod
2. It will sync with my iCal, both eliminating the need for a paper diary and eliminating the frustration of my iCal not being in my pocket. 
3. It will remove the need to use my current phone, meaning I don't have to put up with surprise loudspeaker and offensive muffled message tone.
4. It will coordinate nicely with my Apple life.

CONS:

1. It will cost more than double my current monthly phone outlay
2. It might become outdated as soon as the next model gets released
3. I might have to wait for one, they are in high demand
4. I will enter both the yuppy scum and techno-teen demographics simultaneously upon purchase. 

Comments, please.

Welcome back, blog

So the internet came back yesterday...

I am super busy, I spend three days per week at an experimental music producing co., then two days in a magical dream-land then two days in a gallery. I have nine more weeks with not a day off, then you return home to me and I will write my paper and then the festival and then more paper then 

the end then summer, then who knows? Friends might come home and I might go away and I might move house, or that might happen sooner. I might get a job or I might not, life is limbo right now. 

These are the things I am certain of;

I love everything, and hate everything, there is no middle ground. 

Here are some things that are inspiring me lately;

high heeled-shoes and things with studs

my beautiful computer and its' accessories

The photography of Conor O'Brien, doesn't this shit just wanna make you go out and get stupid and be young forever?

Celebrity City!

Yesterday I sold some shirts to Slim Twig at H&M. He's not a very well known musician in Toronto but he was in The Tracey Fragments with Ellen Page a year or so ago and I kinda had a crush on him for a while. Anyway! I was real excited but I didn't say anything, just exchanged some awkward eye contact moments with him, it was awesome.
I'm getting excited about TIFF, they have been talking up who's coming to town for the festival on ETalk, there is mention of Quentin Tarantino and Dennis Hopper, and Michael Cera's new film is premiering there so he should be here. I hope that my current Canadian Jew crush, Jay Baruchel, will be in town too. I need to tone down my celebrity excitement before I start working at this festival...

Time stands still when I think of you

What has happened to our blog! No updates in two weeks, thats almost embarassing... I at least have a good excuse for why I haven't updated, my computer broke about a week ago, totally broken beyond repair. I'm considering buying a laptop in the next few weeks even though I can't afford it at all, I still kinda want one... I had an extremely crazy weekend just past, lots of drinking and dance parties, things inappropriate for discussion on the internet. This coming weekend is Polacko's going away party :( sad times, but at least with him moving to London I will have somewhere to stay when I go there!
So because I haven't had a computer/the internet for a while now, I haven't really been very inspired by anything new. I did get an amazing hair cut last Thursday though which I have gotten nothing but compliments about. It kinda looks like this on one side...

... and its longer on the other. Its freaking hot and I love it so much.
So I also applied for a job at Toronto Film Festival, I haven't heard back from them yet but before I applied, I asked my volunteer coordinator from Images to be my reference (she also works for TIFF) and she's going to recommend me for another position! Its one that doesn't get advertised, only people who are recommended by theatre staff can apply, so thats totally the best thing ever! Working for TIFF will be the best cap off for this whole canadian adventure of mine, I'm so excited!

In other film news, Bloor Cinema is showing some French new wave films in the coming weeks, I think I'm going to see Jules and Jim by Francois Truffaut. I need to feel inspired.

Truffles Oh My!

My friend Nelia got back from Paris the other day and she brought me back a box of Belgian Truffles!

Delish!
So over summer in Toronto there's a couple of free outdoor movie series, one is romantic films (Titanic, The Notebook, Romeo and Juliet) and the other is indie flicks (Juno, Rushmore, The Virgin Suicides). I'm hoping to take advantage of them every week, mostly because it is so hot in our house that I need to spend every night outside otherwise I'll explode! The one I'm looking forward to the most is in two weeks, Annie Hall. I'm hoping to take a boy along and am thinking about an outfit, maybe some kind of reworking of classic Ralph Lauren, something like this picture from Elle...

I do like that Ralph Lauren...
Another discovery I made in Elle is Rizvi Millinery which is a hat/headwear designer who I think you would love given your love of feathery headbands. This is my favourite...

Ok I need to get my beauty sleep and actually do something productive with my life tomorrow.

The Cool School

Today I saw a really great documentary as part of the Revelation Film Festival, at its new home in Mount Lawley.. it was about the founders and artists of the Ferus gallery in Los Angeles in the 50s and I have to say I am positively inspired! The documentary tracked the rise of abstract expressionism and later ceramic and pop art in the west of the country, and its rise to mainstream popularity. These guys didn't give a fuck about what the east coast was doing, or commercial art at the time, they just made a place to exhibit works they were excited about and had parties doing it.

I was definitely born in the wrong era! Everything they did was so new and exciting, pushing boundaries that haven't existed since I've been born. I sometimes doubt whether that kind of passion and fury will exist again but I suppose they didn't predict it then, I won't be able to predict it now. Watching this film and working in an incredible multi-arts complex for the past week has made me intensely fierce about art and I am adding "open a gallery" to my list of things to do in my life. Even if it's a gallery/store/studio type deal or something more prolific, I just want to be doing this forever and ever and always feel this good about it. You know?

I have one more week of full-time work then I move back home and I think I will experiment with form and colour on paper to get out some creative backlog I have stirring. I might update with my progress later on! ADIEU!

Adult Education

When I get back to Australia I am going to take a course in baking, or cake decorating. And then we can have high tea at my house every Sunday!

Feeling better Feeling better

My life lately has been a series of ups and downs. Esther, Stace and Rizz left this morning, we parted ways after TV on the Radio last night, we all got some jungle fever after that show!!! I was feeling pretty mopey today, I had been looking forward to them coming for so long and we had such an AMAZING time while they were and now I feel like I have nothing to look forward to :(

Anyway our weekend away in Montreal was great! The Yves Saint Laurent exhibition made me want to live my life completely differently. I want to stop spending money on stupid things and only buy fabulous clothes. And I want my life to be full of drama. I felt so unfashionable and boring... Montreal is so different in the summer, I could hardly recognise old Montreal without all the snow! I got sunburnt again though :( We ate some nice food, drank some nice beer, laid around in some parks, took lots of naps, generally lived it up! We got home for Canada Day which was full of bucket mojitos and fireworks! I also got to spend some time with my new housemates which was pretty great! But now those lovely friends of ours have moved on and I wish them the best for their continuing voyage!

So I've been thinking about an extreme haircut. I have had this shortish hair with straight-across-fringe things for a while now and I really don't think I have the will power to grow my hair right now... The problem I always have with really short hair is that I'm too lazy to style it so I always tie it up but I have an idea... I'm thinking asymetical, with a long sideswept fringe to one side then gradually into a short bob just at my ear on the other side. My plan is to wear it out as much as I can stand and then have the long bits long enough to braid around so it will be out of my face. Its the best of both worlds! I can't find a picture of it but I hope you get the idea.

I've been listening to The Teenagers alot lately, they're real fun and french. Jessica when I get home we are going to start french lesson and when we are good, we will go to France together ok deal.

Oh and I think I'm going on a date next week. Maybe there will be some french there too ;)