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MEME is over and I'm sick
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which makes sense because over four days I got less than four hours' sleep and was basically running around the whole time.
and even though it was all worth it.
cuz I'm in it for the glory and the music and the people and the love.
and there was lots of it to go around.
now I've got sniffles and am stuffed-up and have totally lost my voice. I've been drinking this tea with fresh ginger and lemon juice and cayenne pepper in it hoping it comes back soon.
hopefully my energy makes its way back shortly as well.
once it's back and I've pulled all my photos there'll be a photo essay coming yr way but for now I wanna talk to you about a show Tyrone showed me the other night
after he brought me home and fed me thin crust pizza and brought me blankets and pillows so I could lie around on the couch
the sweet thing
is a show called Continuum which is a Canadian show that we are three episodes into
it's about the future and time travel and terrorists and so far it's pretty good
or at least has potential
and not only because badass William B. Davis is in it
who you might remember as this guy:
Football, MEME & acoustic covers
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usually on wednesdays I go golfing with my dad because it's the only night of the week we know we're both free, but what with MEME starting YESTERDAY OMG I was all "dad I'm too busy to golf, I need to rest sry"
and he understood because my dad is the greatest, but then my work was all "hey Alyson wanna go see the Bombers exhibition game for free?" and I was all "yeah I'm gonna take my dad!"
so we went and shot the shit and drank some beers and it was nice to watch the sun set over the old (old, old) arena and watch our team lose and hang out with one of my favourite men in the whole world.
I made him take a photo with me and we made the same stupid face and it made me happy.
yesterday MEME 2012 started and we were all out at BOA Lounge which wound up being mega-packed which honestly was surprising because it was a Thursday and all. I've been going crazy all week posting stuff to the site and the twitter and thinking about all the running around and work I have to do this weekend makes me want to lie down.
no sleep for the wicked.
which is why after being awake till 2am I was up at 7:30am and here I am now raring to go. I feel exhausted and worn-out and I have a headache from a busy week at work but fuck it here we go.
I've got photos to tweet and videos to take and swag to give away all weekend while hanging out drinking beers in the sunshine.
MEME has to be one of my favourite weekends out of the entire year -we spend all this time and effort building this massive project and it's so satisfying to see it come together.
because you know a lot of people shit on electronic music. they figure we're all gross sweaty ravers lying on gymnasium floors in the dark eating our own faces and while there's definitely that subculture it's not what we're about.
we're about the good shit.
like this video, which isn't the sort of sounds that you'll find at MEME, but is still terrific
something's been off lately
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and I don't know what it is. I'm in this weird funk and I can't seem to shake it and I don't know if I need a vacation or a slap in the face or a nice long fuck run but something's eating me lately.it's like, you know when you leave the house and are halfway down the street and are all "did I lock my front door?"
it's like that. I didn't lock the front door in my mind and now it's nagging at me.
maybe someone's in there. maybe someone isn't.
are they going to break my stuff? steal it?
maybe just rearrange it so when I come home I don't know where anything is anymore.
so now I'm scared to walk around in the dark because I might bump myself on something sharp that didn't used to be there.
I was never scared of the dark before.
Hello blog
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you know I love youmiss you
so much
and I don't take care of you like I should
don't hold you at night
don't tell you how beautiful I think you are
the way you look on my iMac screen in the early morning
how much I appreciate you for connecting me with people I care about
how you're always waiting for me when I've been gone away
too long
but baby
you know it's almost MEME 2012
which means I'm posting stuff over there
and there's so much going on with that
that maybe I don't share as much with you as I used to
but that doesn't mean I'm not doing stuff
thinking about you
it just means it's focused through my twitter instead
so to tide you over
here's a photo of me looking important on the phone
and also a rainbow
before Kat and I destroyed the beer garden at Jazz Fest
xo Blog
yr grl, Shaner
Deer + Almond
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is a place we went to last night after prowling around The Exchange looking for a place that was open after 9pm where we could get a cup of coffee. one f my major gripes about this city is that pretty much everything shuts down after 9pm which leaves people with little incentive to go & stay downtown, but that's a post for another day.there used to be this greasy diner on the corner of McDermot and Princess where I used to like going because they'd have 1$ hotdog specials from time to time so I led us back that way hoping that, even though the diner was closed down something good would be there.
which there was.
the other great tapas place in town is called Segovia and holy hell is it good but it's kinda expensive and there's barely any seating and Deer+Almond was both pretty inexpensive and had tons of seating even though there were probably a dozen or so other people in there. it's nice but so is this and in a more casual, "you don't have to wait an hour and a half to get in" kind of way.
again, this is 10pm on a Tuesday night in downtown winnipeg. this is unusual. but good.
we had americanos and the kale and quinoa salad which also contained the following: lentils, pickled beets, quail eggs, shredded carrot, sesame and was cool and refreshing and tasted sort of like cucumber. one bowl to share was almost too much food and today I'm eating quinoa in my lunch-salad because it was such a good flavour combination.
we also had the pork belly which was too good for words. as in I actually can't describe how good this crunchy, fatty, sizzling piece of meat was. just have it.
we'd already had dinner hours before so this was more of a (large) late-night snack but we'll definitely be bringing friends back with us to share a bottle of wine and some of their daily specials.
we need more stuff like this downtown: trendy, dark (but not too dark) with night lighting, exquisite and interesting food, a chilled-out atmosphere and it's actually open late on a weeknight which I can't stress is crucial.
afterwards we walked around some more and I took silly pictures of Tyrone but you should really go. you won't be disappointed.
we're watching X-Men First Class
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and it isn't very good.
which isn't surprising because it's a prequel to a movie that I liked which spawned a series of movies that I didn't like but this has Michael Fassboner in it and Tyrone wanted to see it, so, we're watching it.
why are there so many terrible movies nowadays?
lately I've been much more impressed with tv shows (Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones) than any movie I've seen lately which makes me sad because they have big budgets and good actors are out there but I don't remember the last time I saw something that made me go
"wow that was a solid flick!"
maybe it was The Social Network but how long ago did that come out?
I need people to recommend some seriously good movies that I haven't seen that I can watch and have my faith restored in the movie-making community because, damn, it's been letting me down lately.
and not like "Reservoir Dogs" or "Black Swan" or whatever, something really different and unique and original and ideally not some blockbuster crap.
so gimme what you got, people.
tweet at me, email me, leave me a comment here or on facebook
but help a sista out
'cause now Fassboner is sporting the grossest puberty 'stache and I can't handle this anymore.
It's too hot to blog
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Apology
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I'm sorry for being so stressed out lately.
I'm sorry that I ate that last slice of pizza even though I think you secretly wanted it.
I'm sorry sometimes I demand too much of you.
I'm sorry that I was mean to you when you were little.
I'm sorry that I pushed you off the dock into the lake that one time.
I'm sorry that I didn't fuck you when I had the chance.
I'm sorry that I kept fucking you even though you didn't mean anything to me.
I'm sorry that I laughed along with everyone when you got hit in the face with the tire swing.
I'm sorry that I made you cry.
I'm sorry that I pushed you off the swings because I thought you were going to steal my best friend.
I'm sorry that I led you on.
I'm sorry that I walked away from you when you needed me.
I'm sorry that I made you come pick me up from Unicity after I took the wrong bus and got lost trying to get back.
I'm sorry that I picked my stupid boyfriend over you and we never spoke again.
I'm sorry that I made you the scapegoat for my broken heart.
I'm sorry that your mom didn't like me.
I'm sorry that I'm a sore loser.
I'm sorry that I broke your heart.
I hope you understand.
Hip Hop Sunday #41 Obadiah Parker - Hey Ya (Acoustic Cover)
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slowing things down a bit on this time
partially because it's still Outkast, and mostly because it's a stunningly beautiful cover that Tyrone reminded me that we once saw
many, many moons ago it seems.
it just shows the quality of the lyrics they wrote
and also what an amazing voice this dude has
so grab a beer, light one up, and enjoy.
Happy (acoustic) Hip Hop Sunday.
