January 31st, 2008 Alison
I remember the first time I saw Andrew W.K. live. Matt and I had tickets to see Danko Jones at the Docks, and Andrew W.K. was opening. I was so excited to see him! Matt, on the other hand, was dreading it. He hated AWK. We’d even had “heated conversations” on the topic. Our difference of opinion went that far.
Then Andrew W.K. hit the stage. Matt was converted for life. If you’ve never seen him live, you don’t know what you’re missing. It is the best live show you’ll ever see in your life. I’ve seen him live at least five times (although I’m pretty sure there’s at least a sixth that I can’t think of right now), and not once have I looked at my watch during one of his shows. And that says a lot, because I’m old and I get tired easily.. hahaha!
It’s been at least a couple of years since he last came here. I’m not sure what happened, but his last album was released in Korea and other Asian countries months (if not longer) before it was released in North America (thank you ebay for letting me get my fix!) I’ve been going nuts wanting to see him live again. Those 5+ times were within a two year period, so you can imagine a two year+ drought was agonizing!
This morning, there was a message in my facebook inbox from Kat telling me that he’s coming back to Toronto FINALLY to the Sound Academy (formerly the Docks - how fitting) on Feb 14th! I’m so pumped! I listened to Andrew W.K. on my iPod on my way to and from work today, and it was all I could do to not pump my fist to the beat (part hard party hard party hard…) as I walked along. I’ve been really listening to the lyrics so I can pick which line to write with a sharpie on a white shirt - I’m thinking either “You Will Remember Tonight” or “I Wanna See You Go Wild”.
Party Till You Puke,
-Alison
Edit: As I was writing this, I saw on andrewwk.com that it’s a “solo appearance - DJ set”.. here’s hoping it’s not a let down.
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January 27th, 2008 Alison
Matt, Andre, Dan and I all went snowboarding at Blue Mountain yesterday. The glades weren’t as good as usual, so we just rode around a bit, then at the end of the night, we went to the Greatest Hits beginner park.
First I went through, went over the first kicker, then hit another little jump thing and landed, then fell. I missed Matt and Dan going through, but right as Dan came up beside me after going, he caught an edge and landed hard on his bum. He said it felt like either his had bowels released, or he was bleeding.. this is probably what it would have looked like if that had happened:
Then at the end of the night, we were happy with the nice change room that our new Honda Element SC made with the suicide style doors - you can stand between them and strip down to your undies to change into jeans. Then you don’t have to wear your snow pants when you stop for dinner on the way home! This is how it works:
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January 17th, 2008 Alison
Sometimes it’s hard to wrap a gift. Some things are either intangible, or too big/obviously shaped.
For Christmas 2006, there were two such gifts that I was giving. The first was taking our friends snowboarding as their gift. That’s not a thing, so you can’t really wrap it. The second was giving Matt his Fender P-Bass (well only half was from me.. but I still got to physically give it to him). The shape of guitar boxes is always the same, and therefore obvious.
So what can you do in this type of situation? Draw a paint drawing of it and put that in a box and wrap the box.. obviously!
Snowboarding present:
**
Fender P-Bass present:
**This was from before Matt had tried snowboarding, so he thought he would hate it.. he was sooooo wrong!
Posted in I love MS Paint!, Music, Snowboarding | Party of 2 »
January 7th, 2008 Alison
This is a new drawing.. for the first time in ages!! (Because the other ones up to this point were all preexisting that I just decided I should do something with)
So today, Matt and I were talking about things we used to say as kids, and this one came up:
I don’t like “shut up,” I like 7 Up, I barf it up, you lick it up.
I tried looking for the phrase on Google, but there were no hits! Now there will be.. and it finally made me make a new drawing! Yay!
Posted in I love MS Paint! | Party of 6 »
January 2nd, 2008 Alison
I had 11 days off in a row.. and I hardly even got to do much of this! But here it is anyway…
Posted in I love MS Paint! | Party of 3 »
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