I need one of these!

Check out oopsmarks Etsy for this delish BICYCLE WINE RACK! Obviously this dude is from Montreal!




I'll take 2!

News out of Cannes

Film director Michel Gondry is to head up the short film and Cinéfondation jury of the 64th Festival de Cannes, following in the footsteps of Atom Egoyan, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Martin Scorsese and John Boorman.

Full article over at Deadline

Overdue Photopost

Took these puppys in August and just plum forgot to post them. I was location scouting for Project Cross Match and I had to stop for gas. I've always loved the water tower, and the "Bar Ormstown/Bar Harem/Club O-Town" is the local dive/strip club, that everyone is scared to go into for far of the HIV and saggy strippers. It's basically used to launder money... or so everyone assumes. As far as I know it doesn't do any actual business. The barn is my uncles, and is very old and sorta falling apart.
As much as I some times try to stay away I do find inspiration in my home town. Now all I need to do is buy myself and actual camera s that I wont have to steal my moms all the time.

Before and After

So I like to get crafty,
Here some before and after goodness I've been participating in.
I bought this set of chairs for 5$, they were shit brown, and ones had a faded yellow cushion and the other had a dirty white one.



So LF and I spray painted the bases white.

I then went to Faricville and picked up 2m's of this real cute fabric for like 5, and 2m of Therm-O-Webs Iron on Vinyl with cost me about 10$ (actually it ended up being 20 cause I have to go back for seconds as I messed it up the first shot. I cut out the right sized pieces, ironed on the vinyl, stapled the fabric over top the cushions and VOILA! SUCCESS!





I'm hopefully going to be able to keep these babies outside for at least another month, then I want to move them into my dining room or kitchen seeing as my current chairs are garbage (my next project, better chairs!).

End of Day 2 & 3

Yesterday ended nicely, we arrive in Kincardine after a 2 hour drive. Highlight of the ride was a stop at "Cheese Haus", Erika freaked and pulled over.
Luckily the ridiculous name, is only upstaged by the WICKED awesome cheese there. We looked around for a bit and actually picked out some awesome 4 year old cheddar. Unfortunately we encountered the mouth of the south behind the counter and we had to hear about her store, her choir and her pastor before we were allowed even buy cheese.






When we got to Kincardine we stopped at an LCBO, and a Bulk Barn (coolest store ever! I want to open on in the PQ, it's like Costco but with stuff all in bulk, so you take the amount you want an pay for it)then we met up with Jim at the Country Depot on Hamilton Lane, looked around town and headed home for dinner. Chilli, cheese, coleslaw and sex in a pan, + way too much wine and Amarula and we all headed to bed.


Today we trekked up to the Bruce Peninsula with Jimbo and Nance.

After a quick lunch and a 1.25 km hike we found ourselves at the craziest rock beach/ grotto/ clearwater beach I have ever seen!


I can honestly say that I've never seen such clear blue green water in Canada!

Coolest/most-panic-enducing-thing about it is the grotto has a pool in it that connect underwater to the beach on the other side.I was neither crazy enough or brave enough to attempt this, but it was nice to swim around the freezing cold water and climb on the rock.

We hiked back to the are and headed home, where we just happened to stop in Sauble beach where there just HAPPENED to be a classic car show.

Needless to say Jim is still there with the Chevy and we had to bring Nancy home in the SUV.
I'm so tired, gonna eat and head to bed, today we head back towards home, with an overnight stops in Kingston and Gananoque.

Adventure Weekend/Sunday

Another successful adventure Sunday this weekend with Tara and Gaël! Gaël had the brilliant idea of hitting up the beach and therefore we ventured out to park Jean Drapeau, spiked punch, sunscreen and chips in hand. Gaël built sandcastles, I read and Tara tanned (using the most bizarre tanning lotion I have ever seen, basically it induces an allergic reaction and apparently that's supposed to help you tan...)

The castle was mostly successful as was the tanning. The highlight of the day came when a couple of FULLY dressed tourists tried to go for a swim on the one part of the beach your not supposed to use and proceeded to basically have sex in the water. They were then kick out of the water by a lifeguard with washboard abs, so they headed to the picnic tables to strip off theirs clothes and finish there.




This weekend also marked the beginning of the Jazz Festival here in MTL. So Grace Tara and I headed out to the Festivities to watch opening act Brian Setzer and his orchestra light up the night. I was unfortunately too late to catch hometown favorites the Hellbound Hepcats play but I told that both of their shows were a riot. As expected the place was PACKED but we did manage to get within 100 feet of the stage and were able to better see the screens and tell that there were in fact people on stage. later that night Duke and Tristan met us for beer and we spent the rest of the night watching the show from there n their handy dandy TV screen.




So all in all it was a fun and cheap weekend! Which is good cause this week is moving week and it promises to be hell!

New Years Resolution

Kinda late right?
My resolution this year was to A) loose weight 2) to enjoy Montreal this summer, And enjoy it I have!Last night was my I popped my Fringe fest cherry with The New New Underground's show I Like Cowboys. I went into this knowing absolutely nothing about, only wanting to go to at least on Fringe show ( it was that or Francofolies, and I love Couer de Pirate but it was PISSING rain outside so I said FRAK IT!) and apparently I was a spoiled. They had a huge freakin' set, with a band! Who by the way rocked! It rekindled my urge to learn how to play the banjo. The show was also an hour and a half long, which I'm told is unusual for a Fringe show and I can understand why, it was a bit long. The beginning premise and introduction of characters were great, Pearl, being by far the most hilarious character, but as the play went on and her scenes dwindled so did my interest. This may be my fault, seeing as I went to a 10:30 showing, but I feel like the play had alot of great things going for it and didn't take advantage of many of them. All in all though i thoroughly enjoyed the show, it was nice to hang with friends.

So along with Nuit blanche, free Museum day, tam tam's (see the photo of Jimmy) and many other adventures, I think i'm doing pretty well in my attempt to enjoy MTL in the summer. This sunday, drinks on the Mclausan breweries terrase!