thanks justin!

new home.

turrdd

If I could have it my way, some people wouldn't suck so much. I would also not be allergic to cats and I would get a kitten and name it Kyle. So there.

a few photos from Belonging

not the best photos i know but oh well...

Unrequited...

the worst.

The great Bessie Smith

The lovely Victoria Hall has made a logo for my dance collective.

show done. next project please.

byebye old apartment.

outta chinatown

I'm packing. I hate packing. Moving is annoying. I'm moving 2 blocks away for a month and then further than 2 blocks after that. I have been basically carrying my boxes over to my temporary September residence one armload at a time. FUN. Actually... its not that bad. I don't have that much crap to move. ANDDDD Vicky's Gastown apartment is awesome so i shall enjoy living there for the month. I'm going to miss my little Chinatown place with Jill and Cheech though. Shanghai Alley has been good to me.

BYE BYE JACK CHOWWW

p.s. RIP MOMO

ottercutex1000

for sure one of my favourite videos...

all limbs on stage.

I get to wear a tutu in this show.

I am the burrito champion.

It doesn't take much...

Rehearsal clips #4

SHOW SHOW SHOW

Poster By Victoria Hall

I'm planning on moving at the end of August. Leaving this place is going to bum me out big time but I think it's for the best. I need my own space real bad.

I should eat more burritos.

straight up.

Lately alot of people I consider friends have most definitely not been acting like it. It really isn't hard to be even just a little bit kind and considerate but apparently some people would rather be an ass for absolutely no reason. Why do I still care to call these people my friends? Thats a good question.

N-E-WAYZZ...

yeup.

two awesome things. cats and sushi.

also... hppybrthdy.

Rehearsal clips #2

practice makes... me want to punch stuff

Well we have started on our full group rehearsals. The show is in exactly 2 months! So much to do. I'm going crazy trying to edit and put all the music together. It's taking longer than I would like but oh well. I am prepared to be completely stressed out over the next 2 months. Someone better be around to help me chill out. Why do Olivia and I take on all this work? Oh right, because we are crazy...

Rehearsal clips #1

Rehearsal clips. We are in the process of editing choreography. September is coming up fast and hopefully we will manage to pull it all together and pull of an awesome show. More clips soon to come!

hummmm

I have a problem with the morons who drive those stupid hummers. Why is that stupid thing necessary when you live in the city? You look like a total douche driving it. Taking up two parking space and raping the environment with how much gas the stupid thing uses (Not that I'm even a big environmentalist but still... come on!). What exactly are you trying to prove? Obviously compensating for something. It's not even a good looking vehicle. The old ones... sure... if you live in the desert. These big, boxy, shiny, ridiculous things? The only people I have ever seen driving them are rich asians, lawyer type assholes with too much money to burn, or just complete idiots.

Seriously... get a life.

I'm done ranting now. You can stop reading now.

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Let's have more of the good stuff please. The rest of this sucks and I would prefer to never see it again. Thank you and goodnight.

get into it.

duhhhhh

I am doing my best to hold my head up. Having trouble handling it all though. It's hard to see my family so sad. Its hard to know what to do next. I'm afraid that someone I care about very much is just using me. I'm a little worried that I wont figure all this shit out in time. Fingers crossed and hoping for the best. Well... praying for the best really I suppose. Why do I end up in these situations? Jeepers... you would think I'm smarter after all these years but I think it's quite the opposite.

I'm sure none of this really makes sense to anyone but me. Oh well...

its genetics.

I am related to these people. Are you jealous?

p.s. nice hair mom...

223 A

I've been helping my parents pack up the house. They have to be out by the end of the week. Its bumming me out. I love this house so much. One of the best places in the world. I plan on sitting outside tonight with a bottle of wine being totally emotional and pathetic. I might even cry a little. If you have seen the view from my front lawn... you would understand why. I am not ready to give up this place. But its not like I have a choice. I need to learn once again to just suck it up.

stormin norman.

Tuesday morning, only a number of hours before Grandpa died, Grandpa and Grandma we lying in bed talking. Grandma jokes that she will probably be the one to go first and Grandpa jokes back that he has already given her a few trial runs (he has already had a few heart attack scares that he lived through and now uses as witty stories to tell at dinner parties). Grandma replies with "yeah, but you never follow through."

I guess its one of those hilarious but completely tragic situations. I can picture that conversation perfectly. Their sarcastic banter that i know so well. It seems oddly fitting that that would be their conversation the morning of his death.

miss you Grandpa.

Grandpa died yesterday. I'm not ready to let go of something else. This is not a good month.

feelin scabby.

I recently got tattooed. Was not planning on getting something like this but my friend drew it up and did it and it looks awesome. If you live in Vancouver and want a tattoo I recommend going to Him. Justin at Tattoo Union on Broadway at Main (plug!). Anyways. Sweet.

heres a crappy photo from my phone of it. In case you had any interest in seeing a crappy photo of it.

sentimental idiot.

I have realized that I have trouble letting go of things I care about. There are a couple things I have needed to let go of recently and I don't know what my problem is its alot harder than I thought it would be. I think maybe its because I'm way too sentimental. Nostalgia will be the death of me. Its stupid really.

Worst.

newshownewshow

I have recently started work on my next show with my business partner of sorts, Olivia. Our little dance collective currently called Aubade Collective but soon to have a name change (once i come up with something brilliant), is putting on our 2nd show in September. The theater is booked and we have just started working on choreography. This time around we are bringing in 4 other dancers to work with us. Fingers crossed that Olivia and I will manage to pull this off again. Our last show Grey Areas which we did October of '09 definitely wasn't perfect, but we were pretty happy with it and it was great to work with the musical talents of James O'Callaghan and Jessica Joy Park. No live music this time around though and this show will also be slightly more on the theatrical side. Well, more theatrical than our previous works. Theatrical in the sense of story, costumes and characters. We will see how it all comes together.

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Do you ever watch raindrops sliding down a window? Do you ever notice how the big ones look like pacman as they slide down and eat all the other little raindrop they passby?

Me neither.

accidental exhibitionist

Dear middle aged Chinese woman who works in the office across from my window...

I'm terribly sorry for the nudity you may have unintentionally seen when looking up from your computer. One day I will get curtains but at the moment I'm afraid you and I will have to continue our awkward relationship of you knowing me a little too well and me not know you well enough.

So once again, I apologize.

sincerely yours.

engrishhh

I bought a little notebook at the Yoko Yaya dollar store near my house in chinatown. This is the quote that is on the cover of it.

"Let simple and old-fashioned myself stay with you, while ordinary things have been disappearing in the world."

I don't know what it means but I feel inspired.

harsh engrish!!

PG

Lately I've been feeling especially lucky to have the parents that I have. I know few people as amazing as they are. And i know for a fact many would agree with me.

Russ and Sandy Rosen

If you don't know them... you should.

Lysol anyone?

I can't go to the Waves coffee shop on Main and Pender anymore. Every time I have gone there to use the internet and have a cup of coffee, I end up sick the next day. EVERY TIME! I don't know what kind of poison they put in their coffee or what bacteria they smear all over the tables but I end up with a cold/flu the next day. Not into it. I will never go there again. Even if they do have free internet.

winter?

The Olympics will be here in a week. Not looking forward to it in the least. First of all, it is wayyyyy too warm for this city to be hosting winter anything. Even God thinks the olympics are a bad idea so has stolen our winter. I am also not excited about the amount of people that will take over the city. I think i will spend most afternoons during those 2 weeks sitting on my fire escape throwing old leftovers from my fridge at tourist.

new years fails.

new years resolutions... in no particular order.

- be better with money (or just make more money).

- stop being an emotional baby.

- eat way more perogies than I did last year.

- start training more and taking more classes (out of shape dancer is a crappy dancer).

- learn to NOT procrastinate everything.

- figure my shit out before it comes back and slaps me in the face.

- make friends with the squirrel that hangs out in the wood pile and teach him how to high five.

- oh and quit smoking?

* it is unlikely i will accomplish most of these things within the next year. so don't hold me to it.