June 2010
10 posts
I know it’s not good to ride a bike and listen to head phones. But on a quiet summer evening, riding with some loud tunes and feeling the breeze against your skin is one of the greatest feelings EVER.
This cd is a selection of a lot of the songs that I have found myself turning on and turning up while biking this summer. Consequently, I have become that girl on her bike, bopping her...
QUIET IS THE NEW LOUD
I am still coming down from the King’s of Convenience concert I went to a few days ago at The Phoenix. The Norwegian band’s members, Erland ∅ye and Eirik Glambek B∅e, are an updated version of Simon and Garfunkel - only cuter. Their gentle melodies are beautiful, soft, profound and fun, and so was their show.
I took my mom, Janice, to the concert. She does happen to be exceptionally cool, but...
On Friday night I got a call from a friend: “You like Arcade Fire right?” Well ya, Funeral was pretty much the sound track to my life in second year university. Little did I know what was to follow.
On Saturday morning at 10.00am we lined up with hundreds of die-hard fans for tickets to Arcade Fire’s surprise performance at the The Music Hall. Although I would not consider myself to fall...
An afternoon at Riverdale Farm
Farm animals live happily at Riverdale Farm in Cabbage Town.
Ice cream and T-shirts!
Summer is here! And the Drake Hotel has opened a Pop-Up Shop for the season that sells yummy ice cream and locally made T-shirts by Shared. The Pop-Up Shop is located on Queen Street, just next to the hotel’s General Store. Flavour highlights include Maple Walnut and Lemon Olive Oil; and my choice T-Shirt features a sweet picture of ballerinas. Random, creative, delicious, collaborative...
It's peony time in the city...
There’s nothing more beautiful than a city full of flowers.
Cal Lane
I recently saw the work of Cal Lane at Art Gallery of Mississauga. Lane takes the rough, macho art of welding and transforms metals into delicate and girly lace. The cover of the exhibition’s brochure shows Lane sitting on top of a large metal oil container, long hair over her shoulders and a blow torch in hand. Without effort she embodies what many girls strive for,...
