Whacking balls around
Sometimes the best fun you can have with yr friends is good, clean fun.
Hitting up the driving range, drinking weekday beers and tearin' it up at mini golf.
which turns out to be a lot harder than it looks.
We posed on fake, crooked bridges.
Saw some questionable-looking buildings.
(and didn't steal any of the Hot Wheels in the street unlike those who came before us)
Made some new friends
including Drunk Pig, Condescending Horse
and our best friend, the Ketamine Cowboy
who says "no more, I'm done".
Books on the go:
(plus this tune by The Airborne Toxic Event, who my dear friend Kat has been trying to turn me onto forever and who I secretly ADORE even though I keep telling her I don't ;) )
- The Jungle
- The English Patient
- The Marketing Agency Blueprint
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Babbit
The weather is perfect and I'm looking forward to lying in a park this weekend and reading in the sunshine. Sounds perfect, eh?
Gimme yr book recommendations, I'll read anything!
Technicolor fabrics
Yo no hablo español, pero me gusta esta banda inconformista mexicana mucho y he estado escuchando a ellos sin parar últimamente.
Just kidding I don't speak Spanish. Blame Google translate for the shitty translation.
Anyway this is Technicolor Fabrics whom I love. They also sing some songs in English.
I listened to them while painting the kitchen over the past two days which not only reminded me that I can actually do stuff around the house but also demonstrated how disgusting my kitchen walls were. I've lived in my apartment for three years and they probably hadn't been painted in over a decade.
It was one of those situations where we started painting, saw the difference, and made faces like this:
Apartment problems for reals.
Besides boring apartment life tomorrow is the Winnipeg Wine Festival which btw is one of the highlights of my social calendar. Because we live stumbling distance from the Convention Center everyone comes over and has snacks and then we walk there, drink too much wine, stumble back and eat more food (natch).
Here are some photos from Wine Fests past (from 2009-2012):
Upon closer inspection it's also the one time a year I curl my hair, apparently.
But enough of my BS, it's almost the weekend!
Jam out kids, and don't do anything I wouldn't do!
And when I awoke, I was alone, this bird had flown
Went for a run this morning in the drizzle which felt nice.
Had to do some running around and got my feet wet which felt uncomfortable.
Came home and took my boots off and felt great again.
(Code for: I need new rubber boots)
One of the things I love about where I live is the view from my third-floor apartment. It's high up enough to be private but not so much that we're cut off from the outside world. In the summer the trees and vines make an amazing green canopy. I can't wait.
Here's what it looks like from my windows right now.
I wish you could smell how fresh everything is.
This song from The Beatles always reminds me of the rain, probably because of the Murakami novel with the title based on the song. I used to sit and read it in a bus shelter on my way home from my retail job years back.
It's still one of my favourite Beatles songs.
Enjoy the rest of your day!
Bill Cunningham New York
Which I just finished watching and I can't recommend enough.
In case you don't know Bill Cunningham is this amazing man who basically has gone around New York for decades and documented fashion on the runway but mostly off of it. People who are interested in people interest me and I'm hugely interested in Bill Cunningham and even more so now that I've watched this movie about him.
One of my favourite parts of the film is when Bill is given an award and he says
"it's as true today as it ever was... he who seeks beauty will find it"
which made me tear up and gave me chills because it's so unbelievably true.
That's what made the film so good and I think what makes people like Bill Cunningham: he's focused on the beauty in the world and that's what he tries to capture in his photos. There's a part in the movie where they talk about a falling out he had with a magazine because they used his photos in to make fun of people instead of praising their personal styles which is so inspiring to me. He celebrates individuality and personal expression and doesn't give a damn about much else.
Oh plus he rides his bike EVERYWHERE which makes him even more endearing.
I can't recommend Bill Cunningham: New York enough. It's a charming and inspiring reminder to do what you love.
Hip Hop Sunday #71 Handsome Boy Modelling School - Breakdown
gorgeous Sunday listening to this
after reading a little of this
about to watch this
going out tonight to look at this.
Hope your hip hop Sunday is just a great.
xox
Finally spring in #Winnipeg
I don't think I've had so many "omg why do I live here?!" moments as I have over the past few weeks when our weather has been bouncing back and forth from almost-spring to nope still winter.
But I still love this town.
Tonight we're going to wash the car for the first time (!!!), make amazing home-made pizza with fig jam, arugula and goat cheese on it, and do some low-key hang outs with friends.
I'm unbelievably stoked about it, so here's my favourite springtime-related (kinda) song from one of my favourite musicals.
Innocean and Hyundai's "Pipe Dream" commercial is getting a lot of hate
The point of an ad is to get people talking and sharing, which is what's happening.
Why are we okay with ads that sexualize eating burgers and plays into racial stereotypes, but can't make light of suicide?
Why is that off bounds while other topics are free game?
I've love to hear your thoughts.
Beers and Disney
Which sounds like an unlikely combination but it's what's happening right now.
After a day of writing exams and using my brain waters nonstop it feels good to sit around with a Hops and Robbers and relax. It's still kind of hard to type right now because my right hand is all cramped from writing, but I'm making do.
Wrote my Visual Rhetoric exam as well as my War as An Institution exam as well. One's a required course and one was an elective and I loved them both; one of the things I love about being a student is the wide variety of courses available to me. As much as I might complain about the stress about being a student at the University of Winnipeg, I know I'll miss it when I'm done.
For now, I'm enjoying the freedom.
Went out for beers and tasty snacks with Kevin, Adrian and Tyrone after work. One of my favourite things about the Internet is how it connects you to people, and Adrian and Kevin are two of my favourite Internet-friends (but don't tell Kevin that, haha)
We came home and I decided to watch some old Disney. Do any other 80's kids remember growing up with The Great Mouse Detective? How great is Vincent Price's song?!
(does anyone else notice how tiny his character's feet are?)
