product placement super star

this pitch is very Zach Galifianakis and the vodka campaigns he did i can’t wait to hit it big time so i can piss off many more clients.

team adventurehouse + stew have matching red phones now. kind of a relief. i am greedy and competitive, even though i love red i love everything else too and then more plus extra, and again and still that’s not enough.

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andrew sent me along with snot rags, halls and pms chocolate. awww. inhaled half the chocolate and didn’t take vitamin c pills cos i didn’t want that choc orange flavour taste mixture in my mouth. PRIORITIES!

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feel sick still. am sick still but doped up on meds. have the itch, the sick itch, urge to go out and do things despite knowing i need a break. had three double americanos today that might have something to do with it.

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i am so tired of rudeness it just feels like it’s this never-ending ocean of choppy bitchiness waves, gossip, passive aggression and foul spirits surrounding me and trying to get in. everyone always has an excuse or reason to justify being a bold faced twat to me. it starts out by me slightly humouring it then progresses into the fascinated by it stage, then that doesn’t last for very long and i become severely irritated by it. people ask me a lot how i deal with negative comments constantly and that they wouldn’t be able to handle it. i take it and i accept it but every so often it reaches the tipping point and i have to decide to either flip out, make a scene, call someone on it. ugh. but then how does that make me look? not very good. so i cannot win. i am just supposed to deal with this abuse and not give the losers airspace.

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we all teamed up on a racist moron last nite out front of mitzi’s were saying our goodbyes and lucas goes to this guy smoking, what did you mean by “those fucking asians”? just wanted to know because my mom is asian (Phillipino) and he tries to lip us off like it was nothing and too complex for us to possibly understand. lucas and mel walk away then the guy gets drunk brave and says yeah tell your friend to fuck off and all this other garbage and then i go you know what id rather be asian than fat and short like you. he goes women always gotta chime in on things as melodie came back and we were seriously going to scrap. stew was ready for it too. this guy’s friend comes out to shoo us off him and the guy tries to barrel out the door at us again for more. called lucas pimply. i said are you serious he has the most clear skin ever, probably cos of his ASIAN ancestry. the moral of the story is, don’t talk to strangers. no just kidding. these moments happen and while i am told to let things go and rise above, no one else seems to take their own damn advice. lucas was the only one who heard him say that, he could have ignored it. i’m glad he didn’t because that guy had to go sit in the bar and think about what he said for the rest of the night. we gave him a chance to explain himself, i stood on the stoop and arrogantly bowed and said now is your chance please do enlighten us yeah it was kind of an ambush, people mutter stuff thinking they’ll get away with it. not in parkdale. not on our watch. especially when we’ve been drinking 5 hours and the waitress was a total sow to me. again. unbelievable. i was the only one targeted. i wouldn’t even open my mouth just to prove my point and she totally slammed only MY drinks down. i was so angry i almost told her off when i went to pay but i held back. i’ll save it for a rainy day. a raymi day. stewart ordered my wine for me like a gentleman and to be passive aggressive.

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excuse me miss notice how i am the one coming to pay the bill here? maybe this tip option will give you some BEING NICE TO ME NEXT TIME incentive. i was so flabbergasted i tried to do the math in my head of how much money i have spent in that establishment, the tweet mentions, you name it. it’s beyond self-entitlement too. i am a paying customer, a regular paying customer, i bring people there and this employee is just nothing but moody and rude and you’d think she’d be nicer to me seeing as everyone i go there with has been going there years, we’re all friends, pah, but no. it’s the hair, it really is. another parkdale regular said to me he was going to judge me based on my blond hair but because of who i was sitting with at the bar i was therefore acceptable. i’m like meanwhile dude i reviewed the restaurant you work in heheh. you never know who you’re speaking to in this city.

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laundry sweater mountain is growing.

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here i am reflecting on my manic day. at least it was sunny. still can’t find my winter boots. or one of my jackets. or my favourite sweater. grand.

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Salena says

Getting drunk and working out doesnt merit needing a business card. You are basically a kept wife, minus the whole “husband” thing.

that is the dumbest comment i’ve ever read. i wouldn’t be able to get drunk and work out if not for a business, or a card. you’re beyond backwards and the icing on the idiot cake is this whole kept notion. kept women don’t work. i work. in fact today i did three business-related things across the city, no wait, 5, all before 3pm. what the hell did you do? oh, read my blog, said something catty and incorrect on it. cool life you have.

today we are dealing with this

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motion room assault today, sweated a lot. from sickness and working out. felt great. some dizzy spells at points. now off for my first wax everrrr. loaded on advil and dayquil. and coffee. ok bye.

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need new business cards stat.

everything i do turns into some kind of disaster

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got adventurehouse together last nite and stew for an #INQNYE pre-union also a reunion as i haven’t seen stewart since i last bumped into him at unloveable and i don’t remember when he and melucas saw each other last either. so basically last nite was party practice sit-down and i even made a mini speech that was ten words long hahaha.

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THIS IS HOW YOU USE THE PHONE. pre-demo before they all get theirs today.

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feelin’ flu-y.

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on a strongbow kick right now maybe i am trying to convince myself it’s summer.

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throat hurts so much i want to swim in that right now.

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raymi the zombie was here.

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she likes love.

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learn it live it love it, stewart.

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fooling around big time. lots of fun. so excited for NYE. the contest doesn’t close til the 19th so you still have time to enter and vote on photos. please don’t pick losers to party with us thanks. we have high party standards.

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wait’ll you see the videos i dunno if i have the nards to share them. totally hilarious and snarky. even made one explaining how my name is pronounced. maybe i’ll redo that one with my mother.

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melodie loves the artwork/instructions manual.

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this phone has many valuable and useful features. it might get you into the circus.

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it makes you look like this. swear to god i picked it up and in seconds i looked like this. obviously works.

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it’s also a wonderful roti eating companion while all your friends go out for a dart.

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fits in your sock.

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apologies for my weird lumpy body shape. thermal pants baby! twenty seven years of trying i quit.

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i am a ginger magnet. derek is really funny.

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i didn’t know mel could do cross eyes. i can’t do it without a guide. you’d think my humongous nose would be adequate enough.

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it’s lucas’ job to learn us the INQ chat 3G. i love thinking holidays ahhhh.

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first a toast and thank you all for coming and being apart of my exploits.

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party backwards through tiiiiime.

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rugged roti.

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getting the hang of it. easy peasy.

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lamb sweet potato roti. yes i went to mitzi’s two nites in a row. private party at parts n labour and i was too sick for boehmer. will save that for week’s end.

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stewart is pumped can you tell? he said he’s been bragging re: montreal. well, good.

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what’s the purpose of life if not for bragging and influence? you are my party ambassadors. embrace and enjoy it.

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do i look smart?

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i’m gonna have that thing glued to my hand 24/7 hahahah.

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‘scuse me i’m on a very busy imaginary important call.

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stress tore out some of my nails on the weekend. the cycle of life. they’re still long but not as long as they would’ve been.

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ok doke dudes gotta fly, again still time to enter to win this trip for you and three buddies. upload a party picture, be of drinking age, and canadian. done and done. see you in canada’s france very soon.

i dont have time to impress you nor do i engage in any counter-productive pursuit

note to self: sweet potato fries fresh out of the oil burns your esophagus. just add a dash of salt and rosemary. mmm. hahah. gunning for your job, dan. you can see how anal i am about getting every fry out of the seasoning bowl. we made a lot for april. (do you like how i pretend to know what or where an esophagus is?)

slightly embarrassing. evidence of how neurotic i am. nothing prepares you for sizzling hot egg flipping spit oil IN THE NECK. uploading more footage. it’s a sicky sucky snow day plus menses isolation party afternoon. no it’s not the guilt got to me i am truckin’ it to my meeting afterall. two hours late.

email me like a real person none of this DM shit please we aren’t robots people weren’t meant to talk this way

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hello! hallo und Willkommen. i tried to translate hello and welcome to russian but i don’t think you can read that and babelfish is racist against polaks they don’t have a translate option and this joke’s steam just ran out. здравствулте! и гостеприимсво i look like a babushka puffalump i stuffed the biggest sweater into that jacket and now its life fulfillment has been achieved from when i bought it 9 years ago for two dollars at salvation army on battleford road i knew one day some hipster would faint in desire from seeing me in such a backwoodsy adorable cuddly huggable oversized steamy oatmeal number. wow arrogant much! (i’m gettimg russian spam comments now from inserting that crap up there so you better of LOL’d.

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i swear to god fur hats and platinum hair is like walking around as a giant boner it’s obscene and i am LOVING IT. no more bunhead for me not til spring. it’s curls and straight and long and sleek. al was like did you have a night bath? kind of accusatorely (that is not a word but i am using it because i am manic right now trying to get this out and on to my board room meeting. yes. and i am wearing thermal pants to it because i am sick and a sloth) like a bath at night is one-upping everybody. i was sick and indulgent, drinking havana and kuji mango then red wine because i’m out of pain pills and it’s cramp time. hella bad. disabling sort of.

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i made myself the hottest veggie stir fry knowing it wold trigger my cramps but also keen on a magnificent heat high. what can i say i like it cosmic. anyway i doused wasabi powder cayenne chili flakes and green chili paste and it still wasn’t hot enough so i rang darius for a mitzi’s night had a major hankering for the mados. james says chicken wings are super fattening and i kinda knew that already but he really drove the point home so i was thinking of getting a salad and dumping mados all over it but it was nachos nite.

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i was super bloated and crampy and stuffed my gut under/into the table. fuckin’ hot. but i’m telling you it’s the hat what saved me. pure angelic.

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look how long my hair is getting and how fat my face. darius and al went out for a smoke and came back to tell me that all their fat goes to their face. my brother said that’s what happens to the kerouacs so i have a fat face complex huge time. james says it goes to my arms. all your eating, arms. consider last nite the very last pigging out til post NYE. i only wanted nachos to shovel mados with (darius you are a pussy, i fully had more mados than you) but then they said it was half price nachos and well, like a house of cards, we fell. darius is really funny he called me a pussy right back, yelled it out loud. doesn’t put up with my shit. no one really does anymore. everyone hates raymi wah wah wah.

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movie shoot photo interlude. they asked if we were working with them. um, yes, duh. it’s the hat and the tall french inspector (darius). we looked chic and blended very well. a guy with an expensive camera and i stared at one another, he was staring and staring so i laid on the pearly whites and the cute voice and waved and said hiiiiii grinning more, then showed my dimples. then walked away with snowflakes floating in slow-mo under lamplight in that awful cold. we were the only ones in this moment. he looked over his shoulder at me many more times until darius and i were gone. at this moment another woman was talking to darius. it was a cop scene, an ambulance was there too. we thought a real incident had happened when we were coming upon it from king. oh my god i can just talk and talk and talk right.

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eating spree.

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my hand is floating and pure example of the benefits of wearing black. i look tired too.

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no off button. i’m like one of those fat kids who just keep going until they’re eating napkins. thanks weed!

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we psycho-analyzed the girl in the second act. darius backed up my observations. al was telling me off about, everything. i can’t even tell you the good bits about anything anymore cos my parkdale boys club are mad at me. so darius is my next star hahaha and i’m letting a different one take me out somewhere expensive tonight if i’m not too sickly. listen, we’re all adults here. urban adults. if one of my pack wants to take me somewhere nice because he likes my hair, then i shall oblige him.

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darius has been picking up too allegedly. three in one nite. it’s the coat i think and the tall and the winter desperation. we’re all looking for bed warmers. ewww my uncle said that.

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do you want to watch my next cooking exploit at BOOM college street location? throwing a hangover holiday brunch party DECEMBER 21 1PM i have 24 spots available so email rsvp: raymi@raymitheminx.com it’s going to be fuuuuuuuuun.

guide to saturday

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pop art. i loved the colour cross-match.

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get out of bed around 11 or so. make coffee for everyone. wake n bake. start drinking about 1. diet cran oj vodkas. girl weekend. early to bed on friday. i guess i am an old lady by now, in to bed early with me. britt made many comments about it. raymi the pussy.

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tree trim was an all afternoon lazy affair. need to dig out last year’s ornaments, cool black matte, sparkled balls and hearts and stars. very gotham.

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we made dance videos too. starring this hero of course. who knows if they’re usable.

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dad did the lights.

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grandma/grandpa’s tree ornaments. sentimental things. nostalgic. explosion.

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kinda dr. seussy. which is my tree decorating style this year apparently. stoner decorating is hilarious. you get super anal about certain garland tinsel ornament placements. after seeing britt’s tree though, wow, that is what real anal is about. we were so wound up from coffee driving life i dunno we did all her dishes together when back to the city like psychotic robots. she goes monica. it’s my favourite. i am all about control right now, the more i have over things, my environment, tasks completed, structure, order, routine, ahhhhhh like a steam valve releases in your mind.

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watched 15 episodes of 30 rock yesterday. i identify with liz lemon far too much i was inwardly cringing at native richard gere’s when he’d laugh at all her gaffs, nerdy sayings, foibles.

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not embarrassed but, i don’t feel the need to lay claim to another’s character and project it on to myself. i don’t need you to see me in a certain way to feel better or more interesting. you will find these things out on your own time.

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he called me a charlatan. before that, a fraud. i hide. i am gamey he meant, always playing games. i have a mask. i can go between raymi and lauren. people always need to analyze me and tell me their findings like they’re personality detectives and they have outwitted my personality, or, personalities.

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i look gruesome dark and kinda edie trainwreck skeleton here and bonus i am pointing to a now-defunct empire. was eaton’s an empire? i think so. i heard tommy hilfiger stormed eaton’s when they went under (what happened there again?) to snatch up his merchandise so people couldn’t purchase it at insanely discounted prices. is that evil? i wore a pea jacket of his for awhile that was my mother’s and this hippie chick i used to sleep with said he was an evil man and i should cover up the hilfiger modest centimeter square-sized flag logo. i considered it. it was at around the time i was heavily into media advertising in high school and i had adopted an adbuster’s idealism, non-conformist epithet. but really, it’s cos i was a cheapskate and broke most of the time. eventually you get older and you crave quality goods, they are a comfort and they represent comfortable living, achievement. status. suffice it to say i did not tear the tommy flag off my jacket. one of my bike’s is an eaton’s too. leant it to casie.

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my dad was so happy about the tree and not having to decorate it himself, or period. he went over to bob’s to party for a bit and beam about his daughter and her friend britt. bob drove by and saw jersey plates in dad’s drive and then the burlington times hotline was ablaze. he said is snooki over?? raymi’s big news over there heheh i am a thing of lore now like braveheart whatever his name is they’re all AND HE IS 10 FEET TALL AND HAS SWORDS FOR FINGERS AND SLAYED MANY BEASTS!

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does this feel like you are putting a tree together yourself?

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i look like my grade two christmas pageant angel costume. seriously. cheapestly constructed outfit ever compared to all the portuguese kids and the italians i was like lisa simpson in a homer-made thing except the neighbourhood seamstress did it. you’d think chicks who could sew would know style. nope.

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snack time flash blow out.

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recipe: three different kinds of cereal – kashi clusters, some bran high fibre thing and a sprinkle of just right (flakes) add three mini cups of to-go lunch bag yogurts, and a lot of blueberries.

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pop art that shit.

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house overtaken.

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today james called me a diva a billion times. i get really angry and collapse in laughter out of frustration from not being able to stick up for myself cos he does it right before he tells me to begin a set of something, the plank or lifts. he says i should get a shirt that says defensive on it. i don’t deny it. he doesn’t understand why i get defensive though about being called a diva because i yell out fuck you i work VERY hard and he says he knows that i do but i’m also a diva. i didn’t know you could be both, thought you had to be one or the other. he goes wow, you learned something, monday december 13, 10.30am… SUCH A SMART ASS!

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anyway i feel amazing after today’s session. i hit the elliptical for 5 intense maniac minutes afterward. i learned that a picture of me is going on the new flyers. hahahamazing. james says if it works out i’ll be their spokesmodel. i said yeah sure it would be an honour (it would) but also no problem f that i’m going to be in playboy too so never you mind worrying about me not getting fit. i am obsessed and driven. you guys can go check out the motion room for free you know, see how you like it. they’ll give you a session and they won’t intimidate you into feeling on the spot to sign up right away. it’s just as much as a gym if you do the math but you actually see results, it’s a tough work out that challenges you and helps with focus. i am way happier since i joined. i look forward to it too. there are so many benefits.

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these are only interesting to me. rocky was wedged in like a weirdo.

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that’s his chair though. he is like a dog. we are so gay for him.

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coffeeing up for city time.

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i am blown away by the cereal i have and leave and forget at my dad’s. my diet there consists of malbec cereal lots of coffee and supermarket sushi and salads. clockwork.

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raspberry strawberry apple flavoured optivia (what weird word am i thinking of) yogurt. flavour pow. love kashi. used to go to stewart’s all the time after a late central shift to smoke pot and inhale kashi til 6am. crazy summer eh guy?

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think i’ll have a good soak and a read now. lookin’ good monday! reading two books at the moment. superdad and sarah.

cramps dyyyyyyyyyying.

don’t bother trying to find her she’s not there

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gave britt my little dress from f21. looks waaaaaaaay better on her.

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whoops tag. we’re working on an album cover.

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went through my tights box package i received of the phantom silks line. loving them. also watched factory girl the other night. go edie go.

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i want you to be in my movie.

what do yo want me to do?

just be yourself.

which one?

— factory girl

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time stops when i hang out with britt. she is as neurotic as i am. beautifully whole-heartedly neurotic and actually a very charming, caring, selfless person. i am in awe of her. when we first met i think we somewhat hated each other? or at least were dubious. it was work. she thought i was cool apparently.

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the pinnacle was at the horseshoe tavern (for the 60th anniversary party) and i called her a bitch because i was giving her a business card of mine and she said oh i already saw it in the bathroom (in this tone) so i snatched it out of her hand and said you don’t have to be a bitch and that was the first moment i recognized a glint of self awareness in her in regards to me as before i felt like we had been having this unspoken sparring between us. someone finally cared if i called them a bitch. in our clique of friends at the time i never really knew how i was perceived or thought about so anyway here is this girl two years my junior with her own identity now in my sphere, what to do?

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this happened to me many times too but anyway, i knew i could then like her after that. then i went up to tyler stewart of the barenaked ladies and somehow impressed him with whatever bullshit material and then wendi went up and i was like oh fuck, she’s undoing all my hard work and i go to her did you just blow it? and she goes yeah, i blew it. then we howled wit laughter and drunk cackled profusely to one another and in the end dear wendi, did not blow it as tyler and i are very good friends now.

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in the industry, the music industry of toronto, there is a scene that many of you likely would never consider or know even existed and while i am a part of many scenes, my true scene i feel, is this music crowd subset of folk. the people behind the bands who make all that shit happen, the events, parties, swag, drinking, festivals, you name it, serious industry players. how i came to know them is pretty unique too.

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wendi (working for SONY at the time) emailed me one day. she had been secretly reading my blog for three years then finally got the nerve to write and she invited me to this thing called N X N E ? uh ok i look over my shoulder at fil and say hey have you heard about this thing called the north by north east music festival what the fuck is that and do you want to go to some opening gala at steamwhistle brewery apparently lots of important music people will be there?

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he was at his own computer station and he kind of fucking blew his load. so we went and we brought pitt. we networked like crazy and met a lot of people all in the same night and bonded forces and wendi really linked us all but it wasn’t until the NOW party at the courthouse did i first meet britt and it was an amazing fucking time. all of these events are documented on my blog in the archives and my blog sort of became the insider industry morning after news daily for all these guys, i went to a show almost every night of the week for three years. it was crazy. ok moving on.

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rob was mad at me the other nite for making him wait so long for me at mitzi’s. lacquering my nails to perfection was partially the reason why i was tardy. we had a fun nite a late nite then derek came by and fell in love with me his eyes twinkled with sentimental scottish glee when i revealed i was old fashioned and wanted a kitchen and a baby.

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my hair in that furry hat of mine and the blond hair. derek kept murmuring in his scottish lilt, and your blond haaaaair… trailing off. wanted to take me to the game in buffalo tomorrow. i’m too much a princess for ice cold tailgate parties so far from home. next time maybe.

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this one’s pretty boudoir

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can you imagine waking up to a/with sprite hair like that?

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raymiac outfit.

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my adorable doll.

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i say in fashion there is always one wild card. in this case it’s the blue socks that thwart the outfit into tim burton territory. curly haired fuck picked them out for me. the dyke shoes are jen’s from central, she gave them to me.

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i wore this dress one time only, in the rain at the drake, brunch with the beast.

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xiaxue has the same one i think. the ruffled sleeve is still really in. my black shirt like it from UO that was sold as a dress i chose from the website and a guy in colorado bought it for me along with other things. it was before it really came into fashion. i just knew that baby doll is a smart move, also at the time the telephone lady gaga video was big, and she would wear big sleeves. yes yes yes.

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you’re so hot britt.

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i asked the new piece of fish if his daughter would like me. he said she loves princesses. i said man she is in luck. she knows that princesses have to work very hard. truth.

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someone told me recently that i am a princess. with disdain. i told britt and she said so what if you are? yeah well fine ok i come from a good home, upper middle class, whatever. that doesn’t make me a princess though. i work super hard. just as hard as the person who accused me of this princess-stature. i force myself through sadness and stress. i’ve adopted a work ethic inspired by clem. when i get depressed i just work harder. throw myself into work. i just keep going. my new piece of fish (sorting out a nickname) native richard gere, there. he says his new thing is to work less and make more money. i’ll be doing that too. i overheard britt on the phone with her mom say she has a passion for making money. she was talking about stocks. groupon was already bought by google so it’s too late to get in on that right? she said she heard a tip on silver and pot ash, the guy made a lot of money when silver sky rocketed.

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my mom was getting on my nerves yesterday and i was telling her just start a twitter, take charge of your life. make the changes. just do it. act. i do not suffer defeatists gladly, i outright oppose them. princess i am not. i spread myself so thin i’m the anorexia of frivolous behaviour. i resent being called a princess even though it’s what i aspire to be and cavort around as. ps. my dad drank the big beer that came with this double pint i bought him for his birthday.

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i just want to earn a lot of money so i can buy a nice big house down by the water in oakville for my dad and i don’t want him to work anymore.

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working from the dining room now. i like it. in my grandfather’s chair. britt asked me how i would feel if my dad had a girlfriend and if she moved in. i said i don’t care i’m too old to be donig this shit anyway but look at me, i’m his fucking angel like it matters hahaha.

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making up for lost time. i’ve never spent so much time with my family before. last nite britt got cosmic and said you know we’re only in our twenties so long so why waste time being negative and bickering with friends then my dad launched into a lecture about him in his twenties. he had my brother at 21, me at 23. can you believe it? britt likes coming here cos it feels like home and she misses her family and here it’s like, immediately comforting and fun plus my dad is a beatle fanatic and so is she.

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britt says twenty years from now our parents will be sick and we won’t be able to do this anymore so i guess i gotta split time is a wasting. we’ve been playing music, dancing and guitaring in separate rooms, costume makeup changes, dad is jamming out, about ti tackle the tree and some screwdrivers. yes life. happy.