AND A BAG OH CHIPS.

Hiya kids! The past week and a half or so have been so totally awesome though, right?? Huge choons all around, I've been a lucky ducky. I went to the Femi Kuti show alone and I used to go to shows alone a lot, in Ottawa and then when I first moved to Montreal and still wanted to go to hip-hop shows but didn't really know anyone. And then, I don't know, I got jaded or something and never went to any shows in eons except for Devin's rap shows and THEN...I recently woke up from a coma or something and am really into having fun again and being a concert-goer and it feels good.

So at the Femi Kuti show I met new peeps via my cool moves and crowd-weaving skills (it's easy when you're short and alone to go to the front.) When there's like a group of people all trying to make their way up they're those assholes but if it's one little lady on the slippery snake tip it's like blink and you'll miss it how can we even be mad it was over before it started party on wayne, etc.



















After the show I ended up at this jazz bar I'd never been to called Le Balmoral and I had some good conversation and whisky. This adventure offered me a ticket to Toots and the Maytals and Burning Spear last night and I'm no reggae connoisseur but I know it makes me feel good and my inviter had seen the latter 6 times so I figured it would be some real good feel good shit. And it was! The show was four hours long and a total funfest.

Toots was wearing like blue leather track pants and a blue leather vest. He was fun and funny and happy and radiated dance energy and love. This was the first jam, which reminded me of working at Bluenotes way back when because it was on a loop all summer long. I got over it and it was perfect.


WHOA. I just looked up when Burning Spear was born and it turns out he's only 61! I mean I know that's old as fuck and all, but I thought the guy was like 74!















Either way, the jam went on for forEVER and our main man had some crazy fancy footwork, not that I could see his actual feet but the way he moved he just like floated and you I could tell his feet were moving like four-hundred thousand BPM and it was total magic.





















Oh and also, on Canada Day I saw Bell Orchestre and it was nice dreamy music to lie on the grass with your eyes closed to...

Also, yesterday I went to Dairy Queen by myself and got a medium cookie dough and Reese's pieces Blizzard and wrote a letter and wore my new blue denimy (but actually jersey knit) tube dress that I love and my tried and true Arizona Iced Tea cowboy boots and I biked to the one in Westmount that was filled with cute kids and I wrote a letter on the patio in the sun and it was such a way ideal summer sunny day, high fives all around.

My recently returned to my life friends Todd Marsky and Nick Paget escorted me to lunch at l'Avenue on Mount Royal this aft and I forgot that the cottage idea was this weekend so I could not join them post-lunch to head up to Nick's cottage because I have to work at 5 but it was a cool idea anyway.

I spent this morning sunning myself in parc Jean Mance reading How to Be Good.











So now you know everything.

Carry on/as you were.

ALSO, for being a tiny moment in at Bluesfest and Osheaga, we get some free passes yo!

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!