UPSET

neil young has cancelled bluesfest.
as has joan jett.

ugghhh
i just wanted to hear me some heart of gold.

x.




[neil young unplugged]

update

E-MAIL FROM MY DAD:

"May be a false alarm re poor quality of line up. You will note they announced something like 230 acts the other day. That made no sense because I think Jazz is 300. Just learned that there are another 130 acts to be announced. This is some kind of weird marketing ploy.

Neil Young will be announced. Maybe too Stevie Wonder and Nora Jones. GAGAGA is on the maybe list. Have to be a few blues acts because I only found one in the original list.

Hope to have more info this afternoon."

YEEEE dad. git on it.

festivalen

in my first post re: summer vacation [which i cannot wait for... as much as i am loving norge!]
i requested a killer bluesfest line-up on my wishlist.

unfortunately, the summer sprite only delivered halfway.
i was told that mgmt would be playing
(GRRR DAD IF YOU'RE READING THIS NOW THAT YOU'VE FOUND MY BLOG...WHICH GILLIAN TOLD ME YOU HAD FOUND BEFORE EASTER!)
...and they are not.

the rest of the lineup is pretty good:

- the arcade fire
(i saw them live in our HS cafeteria and it was unreal... and i'm so stoked to see them again!)
- andrew bird
- basia bulat
- blonde redhead
- drake (yeeee degrassi!)
- great lake swimmers
- joan jett (kind of amazing)
- passion pit (!!!)
- rural alberta advantage
- the b52s (love shack, anyone?!)
- the cat empire
- the flaming lips
- the hold steady
- the swell season (SO STOKED. have you guys seen once? this will be beautiful.)
- weezer
- woodhands

...okay so it might seem like alot, but based on all the bands touring this summer (again, MGMT, vampire weekend, mumford&sons, the national, deadmau5, bss, nada surf, miike snow, wale, minus the bear, the lonely forest, laura marling, pavement, tegan and sara, kid cudi, dirty projectors, they might be giants, girls, the tallest man on earth, tune-yards, yacht, dinosaur feathers, band of horses, she and him, the new pornographers, the temper trap... AND SO MANY MORE!)

SEE WHAT I MEAN?!
come on ottawa, try to live up to the fact that you're the capital of the country.

+

add two more to my summer wishlist:

these amazeballs scalloped shorts from the queen's wardrobe:

and these jeffrey campbell 'crunchy lace-up' boots

someone please plant me a money tree?

x.

FOUND

does anyone (ahem...jd'ang) know if they have these at the ottawa store?





















my summer will be off to a good start!


x.

sister sister

this is my eldest sister, gillian:

she was just accepted into the PhD program at this school:

(University of Cambridge)


can you say hero?
GAGA OOH LA LA

(so proud!)

fyi

everywhere i go this summer...
i intend to go like this:






THANKS J-MO!

BEST FRIENDS ARE NEW FRIENDS...

...to da blog world!

this is alex.







she is a second-year creative writing estudiante
at concordia.
check out her blog
with her ethereal poetry
and super dope musical choices.
she be one ma besties.













this is alexis.








she is a second-year communications and cultural studies
estudiante at mcgill.
check out HER blog
she is the go-to music girl
because of her insane taste and breadth of knowledge.
she also be one ma besties.







JEALOUS?

GNAR GNAR GNAR

I HATE SCHOOL.

the only problem with being on exchange?

procrastinating so much that you start a 20-page paper four days before its due.

HELPPPP MEEEEE!!!

stoke it

here are some new purchases that i'm particularly psyched out of my mind about
(ELF reference, anyone? no? just me? mmmkay).

i finally purchased a lomo. da itty sister of the diana +, known as the dianamini!

i'm stoked about the half-frame setting and the fact that it uses 35mm!

here she is... cute eh?

i also purchased this great little satchy at the second hand store in town
and no that 10 price tag doesnt mean 10 canadian dolla... it means 10NOK which
is equaly to less than 2 canadian dolla! EEE!!

beauty, eh?

well thats it for now.

summer wishlist

none of these things are groundbreaking whatsoever,
but it makes me happy thinking about summer(unhappy about how all my friends will be reunited in two weeks...and i won't be for two months!)
but... nevertheless, HAPPY.


just some items i can't wait for!

- a white oxford dress shirt (t-shirt version preferably)

- levis high-waisted cutoffs (i already have a couple pairs...but i'd like some light wash ones)

- VERY oversized lumpy cardigans for brisk music festival nights

- a brown leather briefcase with a long shoulder strap

- turning some of my man trousers into cuffed shortsss

- a pair of sandal heels that i'm not afraid to wear!

- an epic bluesfest lineup

- bikes rides, bbqs, wine&cheese hangouts with my favorite girls!





















photo: jd'ang