cause and effect

back to school show



how grand that summer's almost done and it's just getting warm out there...




enjoy it while you can I suppose.

Kahawa

I played at the Kahawa coffee house On Thursday, with Signe Miranda and Dan McLean Jr.




It was fun, hot and sweaty little set. It's nice playing in a coffee house environment, no PA needed, laid back, intimate... all that fun stuff. I used to hang out at a little coffee house when I was in high school and couldn't get into the bars to see bands. It was probably my favorite place to hang out... I can't for the life of me remember what it was called right now... it was on St. Mary's just north of the junction. That place introduced me to good coffee and local music, it helped shape me and now it's a bike shop or something.

I'm in love with love and lousy poetry

I'm playing another show at the Cameron House soon! On Canada Day none the less....

I had a fun NXNE weekend, the Sadies, Jason Collett, Melissa Auf Der'Maur, the Mark Inside, Pterodactyl, Wooden Sky and Green Go. After the festival I saw Greg MacPherson at the Boat, which I thoroughly enjoyed.

He's one of my favorites, brought back many a thought about Winnipeg. That place I will always think of as home... it's weird, no matter how long I spend here it seems like it's not real, like a terminal vacation.



I have a gig with Aimee in the suburbs this weekend, at the McNally Robinson in the shops of Don Mills. It's also the Toronto City Roots Festival, that downtown free folk festival thing....

Had lunch at Greenavi today, veggie wrap with no peppers and hummus, yum yum!

all that being said, check out my new friend;

he's not my pet but he's cute as hell and I wanted to share that with you...

end o' May

Well the show at the Cameron House went well! It was felt great to be doing music stuff again. I've been getting more and more back into it, and looking forward to doing more. I have a handful of shows this month and a few more lined up, I'm excited :)







Dave and Conrad played a set as well...






Finished the month off nicely with a concert by my favorite band Gomez...




It was a great show, but then again I think every show by them is great... got to chat with a few of them afterward and drink their wine. I had and amazing time.

Now NXNE is coming up, I'll be at a few shows for sure. It's pretty expensive this year and I have gigs on both Friday and Saturday, but I'll be done around 10... I am however far more excited for Greg MacPherson at the Boat on Sunday than I am for any NXNE shows. I defiantly recommend that show.

This Thursday

I'm playing a show at the Cameron House this Thursday May 28th, 9:00ish cover's $8.

look, I did something!

twitter

I joined twitter, it ain't too bad! http://twitter.com/LisaMKruchak add me if you want.

Aimoo's folks and dog are over, I can hear his little shuffly foot steps in the hall, it makes me smile.

Mediocre weekend. up and down. Jason Collett in London was great, some of my plans fell through (for photo sessions, for jamming and movie watching) which was/is sucky. I'm currently waiting for my photos to upload (25%), will link to 'em for you... then I think it's time for wine & movie.

in Desperate need of new equipment...

I'm currently taking all my photos with a Nikon D40. I bought it about 2 years ago, I didn't want to spend too much money on a new camera as I wasn't sure how serious I would get with the photography thing. I'm still trucking away and hoping to upgrade to perhaps a D700 sometime next year.

However in the meantime I've entered a contest to win a D2H here. Cameron Laid is the kind sir who is handing out this free camera to some lucky person. He's a news, editorial & commercial photographer based in Townsville, northern Australia. You can check out his web site here; www.cameronlaird.com. and or his blog here;
http://blog.cameronlaird.com/. Except for the porkgasm post, I generally approve of his bloging, haha.

anyway keep your fingers crossed for me!!!!!

oh! Aimoo and I trekked down to London last night to see Jason Collett at Call the Office. I'm working on the photos now & hope to have em done soon...

time for an update!

I made myself a softbox!







It works pretty good! though I'm having a couple problems with the velcro staying on though. I got the idea from this website. If you dare to try and make it for yourself I would definitely recommend having a sewing machine handy. haha, I sewed it by hand and of course it seemed to take forever!

I took this photo using my softbox.