oh wow, you guys! exciting news!
According to an article in the national post, scientists (I sh*t you not, SCIENTISTS) have finally figured out a way to end the problem of the dribbling teapot.
Um. wow. I thought I had that figured out years ago?! Exciting news for me, pretty sure that means I can now put scientist on my resume.
If I can now just figure out who's in charge of giving 'scientists' grants for these types of experiments? Because I have yet to read an article about dribbling coffee pots, and if the price (grant) is right... I'd be willing to find a solution...
Way to stop drinking from the kool-aid and renouncing the cult, Mr. Haggis.
you equals my hero.
Hey Y'all
So i'm a bit of a nail polish fanatic, it's always been my girly indulgence ever since i was young.
So when i moved to the UK I was a tad upset to part with my collection, but i needed the suitcase room for shoes! Obvi!
So in case you're pondering what colour to paint your nails this weekend, let me give you some direction.
The season for neons is over, tear. I'm sad about that. The fall nail trends are the extreme opposite.
In fact, they're not even shiney! Flat, Matte dark that's the trend. I'm not sure i'll be able to embrace the flat, matte-ness... But the colours are navy's, black or various shades of it, deep reds and plums. And if you just can't pull off the goth colours, go for white, or a muted shade of pink perhaps. Also - ladies - keep the nails trimmed. Nothing is yuckier than a woman with claws for nails!
Happy painting my pets
~M
is this not the most adorable photo you have ever seen in your life?!
isn't it?!
I want them all! But mostly the one to the left. With the man boobs.
omgfldhgkfdghkdfghkfdghkfdhgkfdhg.
effin' precious!
Hey Y'all
So i've been eagerly awaiting this moment - the first photo's of Sparrow James Midnight Madden, and it's arrived!!
Tomorrow morning at 7:30 AM EDT on People.com there will be a photo posted of the little man.
I can't wait. Unfortunately it's not 7:30 AM London time, i'll just keep clicking "refresh" from the moment I'm awake!!
That is all my pets.
~M
Pretty sure I became an honourary lesbian last night.
Yup, I went to see The Gossip’s Toronto gig at the Opera House.
Surrounded by a crowd of music industry types, hawt plaid lesbians you would at first glance think were hawt hipster boys, actual hawt hipster boys and hot girls who could easily swing both ways with overprotective boyfriends who were also there to make sure THAT didn’t happen, I watched every.single.person. swoon in awe when singer Beth Ditto came out, looking like a hot and sassy red-haired Medusa, opening up the show with Dimestore Diamond.
From that moment on, it was near impossible not to be completely captivated with Beth’s larger-than-life stage presence and energy; that pipes on that girl! With a falsetto that could rival that of Mariah’s! and those utterly charming, ridiculously cute dance moves! I swooned along with my 700 other friends, just fascinated. When she wasn’t giving us all a show worth every penny, she was gushing about the city of Toronto, even at one point quipping up and comparing the crowd’s enthusiasm to that of the crowd she was in when Obama won. Hee hee. So cute!
And Tina Turner better watch it, because The Gossip’s cover of What’s Love Got To Do With It, was one of the best covers I have ever heard a band do! And trust, I’ve seen a lot in my time. As if the whole show wasn’t memorable enough, I couldn’t help but fall.in.love when during the band’s performance of Four Letter Word, all you could see was a sea of people mimicking Beth’s dosey doish dance moves exactly in unison. Effin’ adorable! Finishing off the set with Heavy Crosses, The Gossip (with Bruce Paine on guitar and Hannah Billie on durms) knew exactly what the crowd wanted and delivered an encore out of this world with the aforementioned Tina Turner cover.
And before the show was actually, fully and completely over, Beth, a gay rights advocate made a little spiel about reclaiming queer art and lead the crowd in a sing along of Queen’s ‘We Are the Champions’. Again. So cute! Le sigh.
Needless to say, Beth Ditto, has just joined the ranks of Emily Haines and Scarlett Johansson on my totally girl-crushing worthy list.
xo xo
Ang
OMG you guys!
HUGE NEWS! I got the following email the other day:
"AGAINST THE GRAIN and RMS Concerts are starting a new company in
2010 and we want your help with choosing our new business name!
Think MUSIC, art, alternative, indie, new wave, cool but not retro, etc
If your name inspires us or is chosen you will win ONE YEAR OF FREE
CONCERT TICKETS (+ 1) to all ATG, RMS, H-Shoe Tavern, & Lees Palace
shows (non-transferable).
Please send your submissions to shows@atgconcerts.com with "BUSINESS NAME" in the subject line.
Thanks and Good Luck!
http://www.atgconcerts.com
http://www.rootmeansquare.ca "
um..hello, is this not the best contest ever or what?! getting into only the BEST SHOWS EVER in the city for a whole bloody year! My brain has been working overtime, but the only thing I'm coming up with, because I'm totally stuck on relating it back to Against the Grain is Harvest Moon....
bad, right?! Unless, of course, I can somehow become besties with Neil Young, send him on down to the ATG crew...maybe convince him to play a gig or ten at the Shoe, 'inspire' the gang, and ta da!..free shows for me for life!
umm...right. back to the drawing board it is for me, then!
if you think this contest is just as ridiculously amazing as I, then please DON'T send in your ideas. what are the odds of YOU winning?! seriously.
HOWEVER, if you're the most brilliant idea comer-upper ever and hate live music with a passion, please feel free to send in your suggestions to ME. I'll know exactly what to do with them :)
xoxo
Ang
A few weeks back,us TBS ladies had a chance to attend The Verge Music Awards. Hosted by XM Satellite Radio, the Verge Music Awards celebrates the best in Canadian indie music by awarding two $25,000 prizes to album of the year and artist of the year as voted online by XM Satellite Radio listeners. The award show also featured performances by last year's winners and a bonus band!
Las year's winners for 2008 Album of the Year, Hey Rosetta opened up the show and awards with an amazing performance from their equally fantastic album Into Your Lungs (And Around In Your Heart And On Through Your Blood). The fact that the guys, semi-relatively unknown outside the tight music industry circles last year, won for best album last year totally impressed me. Complete kudos to XM Radio and their listeners! After the band's always energetic and memorable performance, inculding a drum off between band members Phil Mahoney, Tim Baker and Romesh Thavanathan, came time for the first award, being presented to Artist of the Year.
Jeff Leake, Music Programming Director of XM Canada announced this year's nominees: Alexisonfire, Dan Mangan, Amos the Transparent, Joel Plaskett and Said the Whale, and while my whole year's rent was betting on the clear and obvious winner (well at least to US!), our dear and darling Joel Plaskett, imagine our shock when Dan Mangan won! While it pains me to admit that I've never given him much of a whirl, I have to admit the fact that he won was definately a good kind of surprise; after doing some research on the dude, I actually discovered he was the one act I REEEEEALLY wanted to check out during last June's NXNE, but had plans to see Sam Roberts at the Mississauga Waterfront Festival instead. After that revelation came out, my heart softened quite a bit and I'm whole heartedly once again two thumbs upping XM Radio and its listeners. For anyone interested, Dan Mangan will be playing The Rivoli this Friday, October 16. Go check him out!
After Dan's win, the next performers up were the Weakerthans, A band I don't necessarily suscribe to as they totally remind me of the Tragically Hip. Not a fan of the Hip, either. Yet surprisingly enough, their performance wasn't actually torture as I would have expected and dare I say I actually enjoyed it? I did!
So after the Weakerthans did their thing, the second and final award was for Album of the Year. Up for this award were: Mother Mother, Arkells, Alexisonfire, Metric and Joel Plaskett. Once again, here I was, hoping for Joel Plaskett to win at least the one award. I mean he totally would right?! So when they announced the winner and it wasn't him, I was, yet again, shocked. And when they announced the winner and it wasn't Mother Mother, Arkells or even Metric...i was kinda fuming...
Alexisonfire?! Really, really?! Have they even released a SONG lately, let alone a whole new record? Well, to be completely honest, I haven't listened to those guys since a show left me with about 35% of a hearing loss from the screeching screaming that I guess some refer to as music...but still. I dun get it... But I digress.... the evening finished off with Metric putting on a dynamic performance with songs off their albums Live It Out, Old World Underground, Where Are You Now and their latest, Fantasies.
Overall, aside from the tragedy that was Alexisonfire winning (don't tar me, I kid!...sort of...), the XM's Verge Music Awards proved once again how amazingly talented our crop of the non-Nickelbacks and non-Celines really are.
Thanks for 'getting it' XM Radio!
For more info about Xm Radio, visit: http://www.xmradio.ca/
that's right kiddies, you heard right.
My favourite backstreet boy since the Quit Playing Games With My Heart video and up until the Tearin’ Up My Heart video where I discovered Justin Timberlake instead, has been diagnosed with swine flu.
Ok, so I totally lied about the Tearin’ Up My Heart thing as I was already wayyyyyy over BSB even before NSYNC came out and I fell in love with Justin wayyyy before with the I Want You Back video, but it just sounded that much better having the two videos end in heart, you know?
Umm..but the thing about the swine flu is no lie! At leat not according to media sources…
MTV is reporting that dude was recently diagnosed and the rest of his bandmates are on medicine being monitored to make sure they’re all good. Um, I was wondering why there was any mention of the other Backstreet Boys. They’re still touring together?... When did this happen?!
Interestingly, and suspiciously and timely enough, the band’s new album (say what?!) is out today.
We’ll see if H1N1 goes away quick time for Brian and friends to perform on the Tonight Show this Thursday. (again…performing on national tv?...huh?!)
On an unrelated, yet completely related note, just cause: http://kirkpatrick.nu/
