Wellington

"Happy 2nd anniversary, thanks for the good times Miss Howell, now get out." That's my impression of my Aussie departure, anyway. 

Wellington is the national Capital and also known as the hub of arts and culture for New Zealand. Films are shot here, music gravitates here, museums are everywhere and often free. There are also apparently more cafes per capita than New York City--and bear in mind that this is a city of less than half a million people.

Of all of the places I've lived, this has been the easiest transition, except when it comes to finding work. That part sucks because everyone is on holiday for an entire month. I tried to order pizza today and they wanted to charge me $9 for delivery because it's a holiday. December 28th isn't a holiday, but there's no one around to deliver the pizza so I think they have someone fly over to get it to you.

 I immediately noticed how well people take care of others. The generosity is unprecedented for any Western country I've ever heard of. That also speaks to the sense of community within the arts and music scene. 

You can't go far without being smacked in the face with natural majesty. Cliffs, rolling hills, waterfront in the city centre, and a very apparent connection to the cultural roots of the Maori people. I'll  make a list of things that I have found notable and fill you in a bit later. Let me know if I forget something.

Moko (Maori tattoos)  

Finding a home & the cost of living

Job hunting

Cuba Street

San Francisco Bath House (a bar)

Bodega (another bar)

Radioactive (an independent radio station)

Food

Street art

Designers & Independent boutiques

Community markets & Crafting

Zine culture & Ladyfest

Insomnia (the all night music show every night on a station called C4)

Spontaneous kitchen dance parties.

Unrelenting fairy tale vibe throughout the city.

Photo: Heather Stewart. 

Simeon's Kiwi coffee @ The George hotel bar, Christchurch

November 2009

Melbourne

I have spent most of the last two years living here. It, like Wellington, is the cultural (and multicultural) hub of the country.  My feeling is that the heart of the city is in its laneways and its suburbs (i have a preference for the northern ones). One of my favourite things is the older architecture  and cobblestones in the laneways, and the mishmash of cultures. Here's a few things I'll talk about:

Favourite Suburbs

Favourite Streets (Lygon, Smith, Gertrude, Brunswick, etc)

Laneways & their best bits

Live Comedy

Live Music (Bars & bands)

Finding work/housing & the cost of living. --What to expect when you get here.

Triple J (though it is national)

Cinemas like the chain of Palace cinemas, the astor and the Rooftop

Hamish & Andy 

Public Transit

RAGE (the all-weekend music show on ABC) and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation 

Crafters & Favourite Indie Boutiques, galleries and other shops

Op shopping

"Three Thousand, " online gig guides and other great websites.

Photo: Nicole Shaw.

In the lounge room of my first home in Northcote, Melbourne. 

Housewarming party during Earth Hour, March 2008.

Toronto

I went home for the summer (May through September) and spent virtually every other weekend in Toronto. If you are into music or television and you're in Canada, this is where you will end up. I heard somewhere that Toronto is the most multicultural city per capita in the world. That might be total crap but it sounds right. When I go back to Canada next year I imagine there's a good chance I'll be living there.

This list thing seems to be working. Here we go. Let's talk about:

The Annex, Kensington Market and other favourite neighbourhoods

Sneaky Dees,  The Horseshoe, Rancho Relaxo, Lee's Palace and other favourite rock bars

Canadian Music Week & NXNE

Red Room, All you can eat sushi,  & other favourite food places.

Pages & other book stores

Rotate This & other record shops

The Edge radio station

Public Transit

Photo: Kara Watts

Rancho Relaxo upstairs, Toronto, March 2007

Montreal

My first trip all by myself away from home was a visit to my aunt in Montreal when I was 13. I got my period on that trip, much to my aunt's dismay. 

Perhaps that is why I haven't spent as much time there as I'd like, residual trauma?  I visited briefly when I was at home, and have been several times on tour or to visit friends. Every time I go I tell myself to spend more time there.

Montreal is also special for a few reasons, aside from feminine rites of passage. When my mother first moved to Canada from London, this is where she lived. Mom put herself through school and worked at the Jewish General Hospital. I think this might be why I grew up familiar with as as much yiddish as silly English phrases like "knee-high to a grasshopper" or "silly buggers." This could also explain my soft spot for Jewish men and why I deeply envied my best friend in middle school while she prepared for her bat-mitzvah. 

My Dad is an Anglophone (speaker of English--when he's not trying to act like Deniro or Pacino) from Montreal. He met my mother in a health club and they danced and made spaghetti; and then me. And then my little brother. 

My favourite band from Montreal at the moment is a band called Parlovr. Their drummer used to be in another band called Shamus, whom I would visit as spontaneously as our first meeting in Toronto during Canadian Music Week. 

One time in particular, I had finagled my way onto a Cross-Canada tour to promote my magazine called FreezePeach with some bands. I bought a 30-day greyhound bus ticket, couch-surfed and backpacked my way West and back. After a particularly arduous experience, I had one day left and decided to visit Shamus in Montreal before it expired. 

One of the guys invited me over to their jam space where they were rehearsing. Immediately when I arrived, their reception was a breath of fresh air I desperately needed. They decided for me that I would stay for their show the following evening.  

Without hesitation, they put me up for the night, and paid for my ticket home; one of them even came back with me. I'll never forget that, unless I lose my mind, which, judging by the women in my family, is entirely possible. I will warn you never to play Monopoly with them though. They're bloody bastards when it comes to that game.

More recently, I rediscovered Jeremy playing for this band called Parlovr back at Canadian Music Week in  Toronto. Just as Shamus won my heart in about 5 seconds flat, Parlovr scooped me up immediately as though they'd fitted me with those magic dance shoes you've seen in the movies. 

They have a style that I feel stands out as being distinctly Montreal; gritty jangly guitar and synthesizer power-pop with loud yelps, gang vocals and very hard, loud, exciting drums.  Check them out at www.myspace.com/parlourmontreal

Photos: Ming Wu

Dancing to Parlovr 's set with Jacquie at Cafe Dekcuf, Ottawa 

I don't have any photos of Parlovr or Montreal; This is the closest we'll get for now.

Food Tattoos

August 15, 2009
August 31, 2009

Both done by Guen Douglas, now at 25 to Life Tattoo Studio, Rotterdam, Holland http://guendouglas.blogspot.com

The Maritimes

Perhaps responsible for our reputation as being kind people, The Maritime provinces of Canada are home of hospitality. Halifax, Nova Scotia is their biggest city. When I was on the road with a band called For the Mathematics, they ended up having a relatively significant fan base here. Enough to convince us to make the 20+ hour trip out there more than some places closer to home. Favourite stops included:

Halifax

Cape Breton

PEI

Moncton

Photos taken in Halifax, Nova Scotia 

and Charlottetown, Price Edward Island,

July 2005

Sydney

When I first arrived in Australia, I was in Sydney with my old friend Albert who had moved there earlier in the year. After he returned to Canada for a family wedding, we arranged to go back around the same time. We stayed with some of his family out in the Western suburbs. 

When I decided to venture out to a hostel in Bondi (some famous beach, I would later learn), he hung back until I found a room to rent near the city for the summer, and invited him to join me.

I found Sydney very challenging to get into. I managed to discover a few places but for the most part it seemed that you needed to know the right people to get into it, and it will cost you approximately 9 arms and 3 legs to pay for it all.

It was actually after I left Sydney after a few months when I started to meet people from there who convinced me of its merit. It can seem like Sydney has no soul and I still feel like a weekend is more than enough time, but I am willing to be open minded, and I'll share the few bits I enjoyed and the tough parts as well as things to be aware of should you decide to move there.

Cost of living, finding a home, getting work

Paddington- Palace Cinemas

Newtown

Annandale Hotel

Spectrum

Oxford Arts Factory

www.twothousand.com.au

Kings Cross

After a couple of months, a terrible "tin-man" style sunburn, and an even worse case of bedbugs (that Al managed to dodge), we moved out and Alby moved above the restaurant he cooked in and I eagerly moved on to Melbourne, via sleeper train! Just like the Darjeeling Limited-- only less Indian.

Photo taken at the cliffs on the Beach Walk between Bondi and Tamarama

November 2007

Brisbane

After about 8 months in Australia, I decided to leave Melbourne to work on some farms. Ok it wasn't quite that simple. Australia offers working holiday markers an extra year if you spend three months in your first year working in regional Australia working in a primary industry like farming or construction.

I decided to take it as an opportunity to see a few places. I finished things off in Sunshine Coast, Queensland and made my way down to Brisbane, which I promptly fell in love with. Instead of heading straight back to Melbourne I ended up hanging around for a few months. Brisbane is nice and laid back. Queensland is known for being a bit slow in pace. The only work I managed to get was a couple of weeks promoting a Julian Lennon environmental film called Whaledreamers. 

Some valuable points:

Westend - especially Forest Cafe and Three Monkeys

Brunswick Street & China town

The weekend markets, there are several

Sushi Train

Southbank

New Farm park

The Riverwalk 

Mount Cootha

Four Thousand - Brisbane's version of the website Three Thousand.

Los Angeles

Several years ago I ran a little magazine. I managed to squeeze onto a few tours to promote the thing while I was doing it. One tour was the Vans Warped tour and it happened to have a "zine booth." The booth was run mostly by volunteers who ran zines and would come and help out on the day the tour ran through their town. I threw caution and sensibility to the wing and organized to volunteer first for 10 days and the next year for a month. 

During that time I got to go all up and down the East coast of The US (plus a couple of Canadian dates). Most of the people who work on the tour are from Southern California. Perhaps the best part of the whole experience was meeting one of my very best friends, Kyle, from Los Angeles.

Since I met Kyle I have visited him and some other friends nearly a dozen or so times, originally to clear my head on vacation, then to break up the rough winters Canadians face, and more recently on my way to and from Australia & New Zealand.

LA is huge, of course. But it's not all Hollywood and Beaches and Snoop Dogg. 

My favourite parts of LA include, but are not limited to (and will surely develop beyond):

In n Out Burger

Amoeba music

Downtown LA

Second hand shopping on Sunset Blvd

Silverlake

Little Tokyo

Kyle's gross humour.

Ottawa

Now, onto my hometown. Ottawa is Canada's capital city. When I went home this past summer I had mixed feelings.

I've always loved Ottawa more than ever when I come home from traveling around, but before I had moved overseas I had never been away for more than a month or so. The beautiful parliament buildings and the Ottawa river, the canal, the trees, the cleanliness, the parks, the sense of security. What a relief to come back to.

This time, however, after being away for a year and a half, I'll admit it doesn't feel like quite the right fit. There are a lot of wonderful things happening in Ottawa, but often it takes a bit of time to get into. It's downtown core is pretty easy to navigate, but to truly know the city takes effort. 

There are a few main areas worth noting:

The Byward Market & Sandy Hill

Centretown & Chinatown

The Glebe & Old Ottawa South

Little Italy, Wellington Village & Westboro

Some favourite bits I'll talk about:

punkottawa.com, Xpress's Best of list and the underground community

Aunt Olives, Victoire, Orange, Ragtime, Venus Envy, Workshop and other great shops

Ladyfest, Aunti Loos and DIY culture

Babylon, Zaphods, Black Sheep Inn, Cafe Dekcuf, and other bars

La Petit Mort and independent art galleries

More on the ups and downs of growing up in Ottawa to come...

Photo: Kara Watts

Clayton's basement, December 2006

 Remind me to to talk about basement shows in Ottawa later.

Photo: Cait Powers

Dancing with Dario at Babylon during Chromeo's set

July 2007

Bustin' out moves with Pauline "Poppy" Garcia at Barrymores in Ottawa. Winter 2006. 

I think this photo was by Paul Galipeau, thought it could have been Cait. Anyone?

For the Mathematics

You'll likely see a number of references to a band called For the Mathematics. This is a band I became friends with from around Ottawa and started volunteering my time with on the road. I got to share thousands of hours of monotony, adventure, tedium and excitement with who turned out to be some of my closest friends. 

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Ottawa, July 2005

Charlottetown, PEI, July 2005

Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 2005

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Ben Harper and Moko

If you have grown up, as I have, seeing bogan after meat-head after douchebag walk into a Tattoo shop and pick out some wanky drawing similar to Pam Anderson's barb-wire arm band, you may pull a sour face when you hear someone talking about their latest tribal tattoo.

If this sounds familiar, I urge you to check out what is called Moko, the traditional tribal tattooing of New Zealand's indigineous people, the Maori.

When visiting a very lovely friend of mine who works for the guy, I went to see Ben Harper perform with Pearl Jam in Christchurch. I noticed during his performance that he seemed to have some Moko. Curious, I looked into it, and found this, from NZ television:

Hearing another foreigner like me express so eloquently, such a deep connection to this country, resonates sharply with me. I can identify very well with the pull to start a life here, and his appreciation for the history and beauty of their artwork. 

Similarly, since having left home, Wellington is the first place that I could see having a future, if I had the opportunity.

Christmas, how do you celebrate?

2007: Spent indoors with sunburned tin-man legs and all-over body rash in Sydney

2008: Unholy debauchery with Jewish ex-boyfriend in Melbourne 

2009:  Eating cold pizza with no pants on in Wellington as housemates visit families and I rule the roost.

Rock music

What I've been listening to (not restricted to Rock music):

Australia: 

Wolfmother (Sydney/Brisbane)

Ash Grunwald (Melbourne)

Alba Varden (Melbourne)

The Presets (Sydney)

The Grates (Melbourne)

USA: 

TV on the Radio (New York)

The Roots (Philadelphia)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs (New York)

The Strokes (New York)

The Gossip (Olympia, WA)

Ben Harper (Los Angeles)

Queens of the Stoneage (Southern California)

Them Crooked Vultures (Los Angeles)

Foo Fighters (Seattle)

The Rapture (New York)

The Mars Volta (El Paso, Texas)

Rage Against the Machine (Los Angeles)

Michael Franti & Spearhead (Northern California)

Modest Mouse (Seattle)

New Zealand: 

Minuit (Nelson)

Fly My Pretties (Wellington)

Ladyhawke (Wellington)

Gin

Canada:

Sleeping Pilot (Ottawa)

Metric (Toronto)

Parlovr (Montreal)

Higher Rites (Toronto)

The Balconies (Toronto)

Shout Out Out Out Out (Edmonton)

Woodhands (Toronto)

Hi Lo Trons (Ottawa)

UK

La Roux (Brixton)

Kate Nash (London)

Pink Floyd (London)

Joy Division (Manchester)

Led Zeppelin (London)

Mogwai (Glasgow)

Franz Ferdinand (Glasgow)

Paloma Faith 

Also:

Max  Romeo & The Upsetters (Jamaica)

Sigur Ros (Reykjavik, Iceland)

Favourite Festivals:

Osheaga (Montreal)

Bluesfest (Ottawa)

Radio: CBC (especially cbcradio3.com)

ABD (especially abc.net.au/triplej)

Gublerland

This deserves its own post. This is where I go sometimes when I need creative inspiration. It's just delightful. This intro doesn't really do it justice. It doesn't really fit any category, other than wonderful.

Gublerland

Crafting & DIY

This is one of my favourite things. I have been knitting for about 6 years and have loved collaging and scrapbooking for as long as I can remember. That's probably why instead of starting a band in high school I started a magazine. I liked the idea of taking all of my favourite things and putting them together. My favourites and some new crafts:

Knitting

Crochet

Scrapbook

Decoupage

Knotting

Embroidery

zines (ie Mixtape zine)

Favourite events:

Stitch n Bitch

Stiches n Craft Festival

Spins and Needles

Disco Bingo Craft Night

Ladyfest

Britcoms

Home of some of my very favourite television:

Nevermind the Buzzcocks

The Mighty Boosh

The IT Crowd

There are others, but these are my favourite. More on them soon...

New York

For my 21st birthday, six of my best friends and I piled into a couple of cars and headed down to a rented apartment for a few days. I've been down on a few other occasions on tour, with a friend on the way to LA and to visit a friend living there and get a feel for things; I'll get to that later. We went to CBGBs before it closed and noodled around Brooklyn and Manhattan. Hot and sweaty and filthy and just wonderful.

My favourite parts:

Lower East Side

Williamsburg & Brooklyn

Relish

CBGBs (RIP)

London

Same deal as Vancouver. I haven't been in a long time. I plan to spend a few months over that way for the summer next year. I'll be all over England as well as a trip to Holland to see a friend and visit my favourite tattoo artist. In the meantime I'll leave this as a marker and come back with the goods soon...

Vancouver

I have been to Vancouver 3 or 4 times and absolutely loved that part of the country. I have some great memories and even better friends out there but for now I'm just going to leave this post as a reminded to come back and fill in the details later.

San Francisco

On my way to Australia for the first time, I decided to stop in San Francisco. I'd visited once before with Kyle when I visited him in LA. San Francisco is quite simply amazing. On my last trp I rented a bicycle and nearly collapsed from exhaustion. China town to Haight/Asbury? no problem! not! 

I'll be visiting in a couple of months and I'll have more to share with you then. For now, my best memories included the people--some of the coolest, most interesting and easy going locals in any place in America (they do say 'hella' quite a lot though, I must warn you) and the Haight/Asbury area. I'll do some deep meditation and drag up some favourite memories for you shortly, sorry it's been so long and I've been terrible about keeping records until now.

Touring and Travel 2008

Trying to piece together my old touring stops. It's been great for jogging my memory and I'm mustering up some of my favourite stories and worst nightmares. But getting the dates and places in order is proving challenging. This is a work in progress...

Moved to Melbourne
Farm work in South Australia, Victoria & Queensland
Lived in Brisbane
Cruise with Mom
Road trip (Sydney to Melbourne)

Touring and Travel 2007

For the Mathematics
Sydney

Touring and Travel 2006

For the Mathematics (All year) - many places between windsor and the maritimes.....

New Years in California

Birthday in NYC

Photo: Sean Lacroix

 Elgin St couch dancing with Clayton, Ottawa

 Winter 2006

Touring and Travel 2005

Scotland, Spain with Kara
For the Mathematics - Maritimes, Ontario, Quebec
New York/LA

Touring and Travel 2004

Canadian Music Week - Toronto, March
NXNE - Toronto, March

Warped Tour 2004:

Jul 20 - Milwaukee - Marcus Amphitheatre

Jul 21 -23 - Days off in Chicago

Jul 24 - Chicago - Tweeter Centre

Jul 25 - Minneapolis - Metrodome Lot

Jul 26 - Kansas City - Verizon Amphitheatre

Jul 27-28 - broke down in Georgia & Nashville. Birthday party at Applebee's in Perry, GA

Jul 29 - Orlando, Central Florida Fairgrounds

Jul 30 - Tampa, Vinoy Park

Jul 31 - Miami - Pompano Beach Amphitheatre

Aug 1 - Jacksonville, Jacksonville Fairgrounds

Aug 2 - Charlotte, NC - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Lot

Aug 3 - Virginia Beach - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Lot

Aug 4 - Washington, DC - Nissan Pavilion Lot

Aug 5 - Pittsburgh - Post Gazette Pavilion

Aug 6 - Philadelphia - Tweeter Center 

Aug 7 - New York - Randall's Island

Aug 8 - Asbury Park, NJ - Englishtown Raceway

Aug 10 - Hershey, PA - Hershey Park Pavilion

Aug 12 - Quebec City - Colisee Pepsi Arena

Aug 13 - Montreal -  Parc Jean Drapeau

Aug 14 - Toronto (Barrie) -  Molson Amphitheatre

Aug 15 - Detroit - Pontiac Silverdome

Aug 16 - Cincinnati, OH - Riverbend Muic Center Lot

Aug 17 - Columbus, OH - Germain Amphitheatre

Aug 18 - Buffalo - Darien Lake

Aug 19 - Boston - Brockton Fairgrounds

Oct 22 - Nov 5  California

Photo: Ben Welland

North By North East, Queen Street West

Toronto, June 2004

Fall 2003: Billy Talent tour with FreezePeach

Aug 12 Toronto - Billy Talent show at the Horseshoe. After the Warped tour wrapped in Boston, I made my way back up to Toronto with my travel buddy Drew and went to this show on my own as he wanted to go straight home. 

This is where they announced their tour with Alexisonfire in a month. I got the bright idea to come out with another edition of FreezePeach and go follow the tour via greyhound to peddle it. The singer for BT and manager for AOF were kind and/or foolish enough to let me do it.

Certain members of other bands were not so kind to a lone, nerdy and naive teenaged zine girl such as myself. I was pretty awkward and an easy target so I got walloped with some foul treatment for much of the trip. To be fair I had mostly no idea what I was doing. 

The Warped tour had a way of making me feel welcome as it was a much bigger thing with all kinds of people to interact with, also I was never fully on my own as I was on this tour.

However, the Billy Talent guys were absolutely wonderful, encouraged my ambition and even kept an eye out for me to make sure I was eating properly and carried my gear on their trailer for most of the tour. 

Even as recently as last year when they played at a festival in Brisbane, they invited me to kick around their Melbourne visit and, especially the singer, drummer and tour manager remain some of the kindest people I've encountered on the road.

Billy Talent & Alexisonfire w/Death From Above (Fall 2003):

I just dug this up from very old emails. This was a rough plan I emailed myself, I'm assuming after the first few shows (Toronto, St Catharines, Montreal, Ottawa and Sudbury). This pretty accurately describes how loose my planning was at the time. I slept on the overnight busses, in a few hostels, one women's shelter in sudbury that had no hostels and with friends, friends of friends and a few jerks, it turned out. 

When you're 18 you're invincible, right? As long as you get to the bus on time...

Tuesday, September 23rd - off

-Go back to Toronto; Bus @12:50am

-In @ 5:50am (stay with Matt/Julie/Brad/Rayna/Steve/Steph)

-Day in Toronto

-Leave for Thunder Bay; Bus @ 5pm

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Wednesday, September 24th -Thunder Bay - Show @ "Warp 9"

-Bus in @ 12:50pm

-Leave for Winnipeg; Bus @ 11:30pm

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Thursday, September 25th - Winnipeg - Show @ The "Pyramid"

-Arrive at 7:20am.

-Take 21, 22, or 11 (local bus) 

-Stay with Josh

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Friday, September 26th - off

-Day in Winnipeg

-Leave for Saskatoon; Bus @ 8pm

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Saturday, September 27th - Saskatoon - Show @ 'U of S'

-Arrive @ 5:20am

-Overnight Bus to Regina ** Catch a Ride?

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Sunday, September 28th - Regina - Show @ The "State"

-Catch a ride or leave in morning. (stay in hostel?)

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Monday, September 29th - Edmonton - Show @ 'Red's' in W. Edmonton Mall

-Leave for Edmonton; Bus @ 8am

-Arrive @ 6:20pm. Doors @ 7pm

-Stay with Greg and Jake

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Tuesday, September 30th - Calgary - Show @ 'MacEwan Hall Ballroom'

-Leave for Calgary @ 1pm or 2pm

-Leave for Kelowna @ 11:15pm (arrives @ 8:05am) or stay in hostel and leave next day @ 7:15am (arrives @ 4:25pm)

-OR, Leave for Vancouver @ 11:15pm or stay in a hostel next day

-Stay with Anna

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Oct 1 there was an AOF show in Kelowna. I remember goingt o Kelowna but I don't remember being at the show. I do remember meeting up with someone named Ryan and going to the mall for dinner.

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Thursday, October 2nd - Vancouver - Show @ 'Croation Cultural Centre'

- Leave Kelowna from hostel for bus @ 8am/8:45am (arrive @ 1:20pm/2:25pm) if not already in Van

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Friday, October 3rd - Whistler - Show @ 'Garfinkels'

- Leave Vancouver for Whistler @ 12:30pm (arrive @ 3pm)

-Stay in Hostel.

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Saturday October 4th - Leave for Ottawa next day @ 10:30pm or 1:30pm (3 days, 3 bus changes)

OR Go back to Vancouver @ 10:30 (arrive @ 1:10), 1:30 (arrive @ 4:15) or 4:30 (arrive @ 7:15) & use up pass until the 6th @ get american pass back home (to montreal) --stop in

[Note: I ended up extending my bus pass in vancouver from 21 days to 30--spent a few more days with some neat characters in Vancouver and headed home at a more leisurely pace.]

Summer 2003: Warped Tour

Warped Tour 2003:

Aug 1 Montreal - Parc Jean Drapeau

Aug 2 Toronto (Barrie) - Molson Park

Aug 3 Detroit - Pontiac Silverdome

Aug 4 Milwaukee - Marcus Amphitheatre Lot 

Aug 5 Cleveland - Tower City Amphitheatre

Aug 6 Burgettsown, PA - Post-Gazette Pavillion @ Star Lake

Aug 7 Darien Lake - Six Flags

Aug 8 Camden, NJ - Tweeter Centre

Aug 9 New York - Randall's Island

Aug 10 Asbury Park, NJ - Asbury Park Convention Hall

Touring and Travel 2003

The bulk of my travel in 2003 consisted of promoting the magazine I had run called FreezePeach (sounds like Free Speech--this was the one thing i accomplished in 10th grade math class. )

The two tours I participated in were The Vans Warped Tour and a cross-canada tour with Billy Talent (from Toronto) and Alexisonfire (from St Catharines, ON). They were joined by support acts Death from Above (also from Toronto) and Spitalfield (from Chicago).

Photography & FIlm

Wes Anderson

Kara Watts

Niki Profous

Ben Courtice

Op shops & Brooches & Chachkas, oh my...

Op Shop favourites....

Brooches & antique jewellery

ceramic characters in need of love.

knitting needles, yard, craft kits

Funny people

US:

Bill Hader

Tina Fey

Amy Poehler

Kristin Wiig

NZ:

Dai Henwood

Cori Gonzalez-Macuer

Australia:

Dave Thornton

Hamish & Andy

Ryan Shelton

UK:

Simon Amstell

Noel Fielding

Julian Barrett

Media

Portland

See Seattle

Seattle

I am visiting Seattle for the first time this spring. Here's where I will include places I plan to check out.