If you enjoy any and/or all of the following:
a) a little bit of bad bands
b) a lot of good music
c) free prizes
d) surprises
e) me
You should head to the Tranzac tomorrow night for Torontoist’s back to school party.
Yes. Yes you should.
I will officially be coming out of academically inspired hibernation for this. Then entering back into it (and praying I don’t get the flu in the process). Catch me while you can!
I am taking a class in Graffiti right now. Today we watched Style Wars in class. That was the class. And it was entirely educational in the context of the class.
How cool is that?
Even though I have to take lame Liberal Studies with those artsy types who are too focused on visual things to learn the english language, Art school is pretty good stuff.
I totally skimped on both Torontoist, and my dear old blog this week.
But it was my first week at art school!
I am a little bit worried because I already have my first project (due in a week) and it is already driving me crazy.
It’s mostly a self-inflicted crazy though.
I just have decided to do it the hard way, rather than the easy way my Professor recommended. And I have these grandiose plans for it.
Granted, If I had done it the easy way it would have only taken me an hour or two, and would have felt like busy work, rather than a learning experience - and since I’m a bit older and wiser than a lot of my fellow students It’s tougher for me to get the learning experience out of the thing.
I just want the first thing I complete to be blow you away great, setting a high standard for things to come.
Meanwhile, Liam’s been doing yet more PA (production assistant) days and writing yet more treatments - Yesterday was a night shoot. He got home at 6 in the morning, poor kid, and is still asleep now.
But let me say, how nice it is for him to be finally making money from a job in the field he actually wants to work in some day.
Plus it’s giving us all kinds of cool insight into how these ‘Hollywood’ people are.
Like that actors aren’t (especially on these small scale projects) that hard to deal with. And that, actually, it’s the Directors you gotta watch out for. They’re the REAL ‘talent.’ In more ways than one…
My most recent Torontoist article turned out pretty good. I think it was pretty well written (it was on a topic I know an awful lot about), had a few clever lines in it, and it actually stayed up on the top of the page long enough (thanks to all my fellow Torontoist’s labour day weekend laziness) to garner a few comments.
I mean, I don’t really take it personally that my articles don’t get commented on too often, because that’s not why I write them. There just isn’t anything too controversial in them - like say about advertising or condos or bicycles (all hot-button topics on the site right now).
And when I applied to Torontoist I wanted to write something that was actually useful, and representative of my life, and I what I would love to see more of on the site… and wouldn’t just ignite the trolls. And I’ve done that, I think.
I mean, people seem to categorically like what I say, even if they don’t have a whole lot to say about it.
That’s the way people in this city seem to work sometimes, I’ve noticed. They don’t open their mouths unless it’s to complain about something (anything). So I’m ok with not garnering too much attention with my positivity.
Goodness knows I can be plenty critical (call the National Post critical even) the rest of the time.
It’s good to have range.