Dunno if I can make it to tonight’s Holy Fuc&/Shout Out Out Out gig. Martin’s unenthused & I’ve bailed on two commitments in the past 24 hours…so that’d make my punking out record 3 for 3 in two days. Slacker impressive. Last night I was overwhelmed running from work to CopyCamp training & suffered at the mercy of a disoriented & stubborn cabbie trying unsuccessfully to get me from Ry-High to this work-related event…his ineptitude, in an ass-backwards-lucky way, convinced me to come home & scrub-up & read Found magazines in bed from 8:30 til lights out at 9:30.
I feel like i have to play defense & cut off the impending cold at the pass. Resting, veggies, vitamin C & Purell = virus jihad. So much has happened since the last post, I’m getting lethargic thinking about typing. I’ve already mentioned CopyCamp, so, um, it’s going to be wicked. I’m a wiki chicki so please be patient of any Saturday typos, hokay?
The b-day came & went with less embarrassment than years past…tho the requisite scene where an unfortunate waiter belts out that-song to a roomful of rubbernecking diners gaping at yours truly played itself out, so there are some things you can count on…Like old friends relishing in your discomfort - that means you’re at the family stage of the friendship…
…The Maytree Foundation continues to blow my mind…they are the epitome of what good NPOs set out to do…provide selfless work with a savvy & efficient & simple no-b.s. attitude; it anticipates what its clients need, most importantly, giving clients the tools they need to improve their lot in life. Teach a man to fish - works with NPOs & artists & musicians & all sectors - it’s a cliche for a reason.
…SXSW’s early-bird-cheapo badge purchase date is in seven days…but who’s counting??? It’s not prohibitively expensive, but I’m making a conscious effort to not be a total moron about expenses this year (types the chick who just got basketball shoes - but they weren’t Jordans or anything…not for child labour reasons, it was pretty much that I can’t disassociate that brand from the gorgeous Jungen sculptures anymore…I mean, besides the fact that I’d look ridiculous & feel ridiculous in a pair of $200 athletic shoes…or any type of $200 shoes for that matter..but I’d be less disappointed in wasting the money than wasting materials that’d be better used in making a new-wave Haida mask stuffed with human hair. Classic Meghan logic, huh?)…
…Add to the annual siren song of SXSW & general travel angst & antsiness (& I checked & the Legislature isn’t sitting during SXSW this year, which makes sense because I was in Nashville during SXSW last year…)…Gotham. I just found out that KJAE is recording with uber-mega-high-calibre-hip-hop-producer in NYC two weeks after CMJ…which is ANOTHER weekend when I’d love to travel & immerse masself in music & workshops & parties….Two November opportunities to hook up with ATX music buds at a geographic half-way point…I get all misty thinking that KJAE is all grows up - I remember when he was just another embryonic data-entry-file with his lil’wav.file wagging in our cobbled together database…le sigh.
…Trying to contribute as much as I can to the NPOs that I’m hooked up with while still givin’er at the new full-gear full-time. Can’t believe that I’m an OLIP ‘alumni’ - creepy. So I’m trying to organize this year’s first event @ Supermarket next Tuesday to simultaneously erupt before Mike Evin’s Toronto gig on his ‘Cree-vin’ tour with Andy Creegin…Gotta get strategic on my social life & also trick unsuspecting new peeps into falling in love with the pop stylings of my musical buds…Taking on more events/responsibilities with Churchill stuff, too…& looking forward to November when NXNE’s Film Fest meetings start gearing up - I really want to get involved more with the fest’ this year & I think that this is a good growing tentacle of the org that’s a good fit for me - personnel-wise & programming-wise…It’ll be a challenge to move out of the regular music grid & learn more about film & that industry…
Perfect shuffle moment - Buffalo Tom’s version of ‘Spider & the Fly’ + Stones ‘100 years ago’ + Elliott Smith’s version of ‘Jealous Guy’. That kind of stuff makes me wonder if there is a higher power.
Since it doesn’t get any better than that…I’m signing off
See you at Zoi Zoi?
Peace
Meegs
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