Saturday, December 13, 2008

theduffster

theduffster

this song makes me want to barf everywhere... first I was mad at Hilary Duff.... then I was mad at Depeche Mode for letting it happen.... then I watched this & didn't care anymore



Friday, December 12, 2008

lights n things




under the sea candle



Everything's been going ok, coming along just fine. straight forward, more or less to plan. which is fine I don't mind. Photography I'm learning, music I'm, I guess you could say returning to, playing more regularly & whatnot. My mini callus wound is getting better & all seems to be well.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

meh

so it goes...


aimee♥



Aimee, who is always kind enough to lend me a hand. I was supposed to be doing an assignment with flash... portrait, outside using flash to illuminate the subject. Easy enough except my teacher didn't send out the assignment until 3 days before class & I don't really have time during the day to do that kind of stuff. I tried to do it inside, but it didn't really work... still got a couple ok shots though. I still haven't handed the original assignment in, haha. I suck.

Music's been going ok, slowly pecking away at it as usual. Christmas and the general doom & gloom of the winter season are hanging over my head. They have a tendency to either inspire or depress... let's see which way it goes this year.

I can't leave you on such an icky note, so to liven things up, here's a little bit of amazingness for you!




Wednesday, November 26, 2008

tra la la!...♪♫♪

learnin light

starting to learn about lighting in class. So far so good, it's starting to feel like real school (not so good) in that there's so much to learn and I have actual reading to do...


M83 Nov 08

Saw M83 at the Opera House last week, on the recommendation of Mr. Blogdan. It was a decent show, I have a feeling it would have been alot better if the sound and lighting guys had actually been doing their jobs.... both sound and light were just garbage until about the last 2 songs of the main set. I have no idea what the hell happened there, maybe they were late?? or fell asleep.. I really can't imagine another explanation as to how or why it would be that bad. I do however have a feeling that they finally realized what was happening when the band played a song that featured the female vocalist prominently and you couldn't hear her at all.... Basically what I'm trying to say is, is that the last 2 songs and the encore were good, the rest, meh. but not at the fault of the band.

some friends of mine created this little piece of glory and I would like to share it with you, enjoy!!


pure gold if you ask me...

time for homework & music & things... more hiding inside, yay!... *sigh*

Monday, November 24, 2008

Arts & Crafts night!!



arts & crafts night

arts & crafts night

arts & crafts night

arts & crafts night


& Marcus took a few shots at the Free Times gig as well;

free times nov

free times nov


Tuesday, November 18, 2008

progress

Lisa Marie

I know I'm a bad blogger 'cause every time anything worth blogging about happens, I'm too busy doing said thing to care about blogging it. It's when I'm bored that I blog. meh.

My friend Deanna visited me last week!



and I played a gig at the Free Times Cafe



and good 'ol Aimee got my back as usual.
free times nov
(photos by Deanna)

My cousin Colleen visited me as well but alas, I have no pics from her visit.

Photo class started up again and I've taken a second part time job in an attempt to pay off debt & save up money for another CD and future misadventures... so I'm going to be a busy girl, but that's ok 'cause I'm looking forward to it.

oh yeah!! and one more thing;

Nine Inch Nails

yay!! It was an awesome show, even though I was getting sicker & sicker as the show progressed... the visuals were AMAZING, and the performance was of course great. I'm not a huge fan so I can't give a stellar review but the show did make me dig out my old CD's :)

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

lateoween





(photos by Aimee)






(photos by Kylee)

Science!

Science!

Science!

bah!

Another Sad day in Lisa land; Mr, Michael Crichton passed away yesterday. I have been a long time fan and am filled with sadness.... and an urge to go pick up that last book of his that I haven't purchased yet...

*sniffle*









and just Monday I was reminiscing about how much I enjoyed the book Jurassic Park and how much better it was than the movie... just like most of his books...

but on the other hand it is what I'm sure will be a historic day... the day after Mr. Obama's election as the President of the USofA and there is that strange tinge of hope & excitement floating in the air....

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Sunday, October 26, 2008

well lookie here....

some people that I know have music videos.. check em out.










Thursday, October 16, 2008

Not everyone likes smooth fucking jazz...

Nuit Blanche.

I know it was a million years ago allready, but whatever.


Nuit Blanche

Nuit Blanche

Nuit Blanche



oh man, I miss the school computers so much all ready...

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

school's done for now...

now I can spend my time really focusing on my blog... you know, taking it places!!!

party blog


but not really.


Sunday, October 12, 2008

the distance between

every time I wear this shirt out and about hilarity ensues.

evil dead
(that's my thinking face)


ok, well maybe not hilarity per se.... but I always have some guy stare at me in shock at some point during the day, and to me that's amusing.

I got quizzed by the cashier guy at the grocery store yesterday when I was wearing it, guess he was trying to test my worthiness of owning such a shirt or something. Which is somewhat understandable considering the high amount of hipsters who just through on a Joy Division Tshirt or something that they have no idea about but just wear it too look cool.... First he asked me if it was 'an actual Evil Dead shirt, or one of those Evil Dead the musical shirts', to which I responded 'Does it LOOk like an Evil Dead the musical shirt?'... the conversation carried on for a while about how he hadn't seen the musical yet as he felt it was ripping off other zombie musicals and how he didn't like the idea of another Ash being in existence 'there can only be two' he said. I got the vibe that he expected me to stare at him blankly, but I just asked 'what as in Ash and Evil Ash?' he seemed surprised that I knew what he was talking about.

Guess I'm worthy of the shirt.... ;)

Bruce

haha


so I've been having some problems as of late;

finger


There's been this horrid little blood spot under my callus for about 3 months. I finally got sick of it the other day as it hurt every time I played my guitar! & took a needle to the callus (it's a callus I felt nothing) and exposed the blood.... now I wait for it to heal. So it's band-aids and guitars for me.

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Bolan's smiling down on me...

I was bored the other day and made some Tshirts designs...

Jamestshirts front copy


I have no idea how to make them real, but designing them was fun.. maybe I'll make more sometime.
oh & I'd print them on these tshirts...



Tuesday, October 7, 2008

mergetacular

more photoshop class assignments...


original
original

original
original

merged
merged photo

Thursday, October 2, 2008

My everything hurts

busy couple days.

Went to the Horseshoe's new music night & saw the The Waking Eyes. Really good show, had a good time, and after the James shows felt the need to carry on with actually enjoying concerts while I'm at them and danced a bit. No one gave me a weird look, mostly they just started boogieing too, awesome.

Photo class then Nick Cave last night...

Nick Cave 08


awesome, awesome show (I enjoyed James more though...) so high energy, so... NICK CAVE!! (forgive me my brain is mush from lack o' sleep). There were only 2 things wrong with that show, 1. it was at the kool haus, there's just something sterile and weird about that venue that doesn't quite do it for me. 2. There was too many people there just standing around not caring about the music, as too be expected in Toronto, But yeah, thanks for coming out & paying $40 to stand in front of me and block my view.

Saw a screening of "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People", funny movie... nothing amazing or anything, but good...

like i said. brain mush. sleep required.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

rar rar rar

Holy Shit am I ever getting awesome at photoshop!!

flowersun


my parents must be proud...

lalalalala

So I got to thinking today, whilst I was listening to James & cooking. That I praised the Tom Petty concert but said nothing regarding how much I enjoyed the 2 James shows I saw (probably because I was busy being excited over how good they were), so I thought I'd clear this up. The 2 James shows I saw last week were probably some of the best concerts I have ever seen. ever.

there I got that off of my chest.

That fact however makes me concerned for the Nick Cave concert that I was sooo looking forward to that's in 2 days. I'm sure it'll kick ass, but can it possibly compete with the James shows?!?! only time will tell!...

so anyway.

cuteness!!
llama!!


Saturday, September 27, 2008

and the air is getting hot

Saturday night in with half a bottle of wine and my guitar. my fingers hurt.... I am bringing them back to life.

an assignment from my photoshop class

original
original

new version
liquified

hee.


I really want this if anyone wants to buy it for me...

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Back from adventures!!

oh goodness what a 'weekend'....

went to Montreal

Montreal 08

Montreal 08

Montreal 08


went to the James concert...

Montreal 08
(photo by Bogdan)

got to go back stage, yay!
Montreal 08


James Montreal



zipped back to Toronto to catch James here... THIS TIME I brought my camera and managed to get a couple decent shots before I was asked to put my camera away, however I snuck it back out when Tim joined the audience to sing...


James @ the Phoenix

James @ the Phoenix

James @ the Phoenix

James @ the Phoenix

James @ the Phoenix

this is a photo taken by Larry the guitarist (a better version of which can be found at the bands tour blog). I'm in there can you see me?...
James Toronto Larry


James Toronto



got to go back stage again, double yay!!

Near the end of the Toronto show some chick front row almost center got pissed at me for dancing near her. We were in a tight space and I barely even touched her, compared to how it usually goes at concerts this was nothing, nicer than usual concert going manners. However it must have been her first show as she could not stand my dancing and told me to 'fucking stop it'. I got the personal satisfaction of relating this tale to the singer Tim after the show and watching his face scrunch up in disgust as he said 'that's horrid'. heh.

if you don't know who James is watch this, it should help start to get you up to speed..

If you think this post was bad, be glad I wasn't blogging when I saw Gomez play three nights in a row in NYC...