my tattoo is shitty. the day i got it done zach slapped it at sound academy so it didn’t heal properly and my tattoo guy is MIA in canada so the free touch up never happened. annoying.
i was in search of something to wear to a thing i’m going to later but i just saw pics on casie’s blog and see it’s casual chic so i am relaxed now. aunt flow arrived (FINALLY) so it’s funny farm time, funny how there is nothing funny at all about it.
he’s funny. he’s like, i figured out the secret to the maze, you can just walk through the lines. some fitness chick walked through it too as we were mucking about and i said yeah see SHE figured it out too! she chuckled.
i chose the happy dots. i am impulsive yet i have a theme i like to stick to with my minx choices. i’ll do a post of every minxing i’ve had to date when i next have time. kathy, who has also done lady gaga, is now going to be doing all the bollywood peeps. something i said to her last minxing resonated, i said, things don’t exist until you invent them, so invent them she told me she thought about that for awhile. i was like, you listen to me? haha. arran said that inspired him to do some thing or other as well.
nail art is so huge right now. i almost went with the blue japanese flower print but i wanted something a little more poppy and young, slightly more rock and roll. it’s our goal to have a custom raymitheminx decal i have to come up with a design. obvs it will be princessy pink sparkly retardo extreme.
beneath the heat lamp. these last ten days if you don’t get them too wet. i feel like these ones are lasters cos they have a bit of transparency and really took to my nails adhering-wise. just something about the texture gave ‘em a good stretch.
i have three thousand face lines great. i am never doing that with my face. remember when everyone got digital cameras and then everyone began their digital documentation quests with zany stupid faces. me included. it’s that or emo pout.
so if you want to go understated casual gear, it’s cool cos your fingers are wearing outfits. go see kathy at heartbreaker salon and say raymi sent ya. she’s the sweetest thing ever. 889 dundas st w.
this walk began as a coffee walk, then i said hey i’ll call kathy so we can extend it then eat. i didn’t even wear underwear i figured it’d just be a little amble.
i realized i looked like a disaster. we were set to go to shoppers to get the blue shade toner conditioner cos my hair is a little on the yellowy side, normally it’s ice white which i prefer so i’ll tone it once i hit publish on this beast of blog burden.
meet my new misfits bikini. i don’t think it’s legit misfits but who even cares it’s hilarious. there’s one with skull claws grabbing at the boobs. my mom and godmom are going to hate me in south beach hahahah.
It’s been a right long while since my last random e-mail. Rest assured, I’m still loving your writing.
And speaking of writing, a recent post harked back to Marketable Depression. So – especially as the black dog is biting me hard in the arse again just now – I dug it out and read it again, and it’s as fresh now as ever. And even more pertinent, I’d suggest, given how now more than ever depression is “being sold back to us”.
I also followed your link back to drawing bad. This is true:
By the way, you can post as many videos as you like as far as I’m concerned … I hope people appreciate the qualities of your voice. Because me, I could listen to it all day.
here’s one of a billion videos i took of fucked up. i was scared for the girls in that crowd but they kept on going for it, being smushed and buried and trampled by sweaty punk loving dudes screaming their faces off. it was a sea of arms and legs and camera flashes, the crowd was just as much of the show as the band. i reserved myself from crowd surfing, i wasn’t in that kind of spirit plus i already have a bruise on my thigh and any more i’ll be looking like courtney love in the people vs. larry flint, not a good look for a film. or life.
we were caught in the corner and as the shit show began teacher was on his way back from the john, it was a momentary apocalyptic adrenaline surge, when shit goes down and loved ones are separated in a mob.
someone nicked fifteen bucks from the bar that i put down for two seconds. i asked teacher if he had the money and i thought he said yes but when another beer time rolled around turns out he thought i asked something else entirely. oh well. i found a hundred bucks in a cab not too long ago so, you win some you lose some.
overhearing girls in the wrongbar bathroom is a guilty pleasure especially when taking photos of yourself and they’re whining on the outside of the door. i had to wait now it’s your turn.
pure theatre. raw, loud, therapeutic and i would do it again. i like these dudes. it’s neat to me that my dad’s band Dr. Robert played this very stage too, and i joined in for a few.
and a month before that i sang enter sandman to a packed house and i killed it.
we had a chicken wing date at the caddy first. the patio was in proper shit show form. it was fun at first but then turned on us and we became slightly irritable. loved our waitress. for once.
i couldn’t possibly be any more overwhelmed right meow. well, maybe if i had a gun pointed at my head, which it feels like, trying to crank out some deep thoughts and observations amidst a barrel of things on a confusing to do list of choice and prediction. ok i choose to go to THAT party, but, it’s during THIS showcase AND it’s on the other side of town BUT something “might happen” and if i miss it… i WISH my brain activity was equivalent and as simple as a hamster running on a wheel, but it’s not and lets face it, it never was nor shall be so lets excuse the fancy pantsy charade and get on with the raymi show so i can put another raymi outfit together and get my ass out the door for some rock ‘n rollin’.
yesterday my colleague pushed it to the limit, blew his shoulder out (maybe he is faking it so he can have another fascial therapy sesh with kash) so i had to take some pics, look at me go go.
at the annual nxne kick off jam. it was neat to walk around blonde there, i was a literal ghost, looking into faces i’ve seen for years, they double take me, i only half recall names, always the faces though, but yeah, they remember me as brunette raymi. i surprised crispin at sneaky dee’s today. he suggested going to silver dollar tonight, and so we shall. got teacher a wristband. oh ps that little lesbo hairdo belongs to my long lost pal alicia. she was drunk and i couldn’t even tell. hi alicia i missed you, your partying skills have improved and they were always stellar so i look forward to rippin’er with ya this season. courtney of course is my gal pal forevs.
i saw a lot of my friends i haven’t seen in awhile, all in various drunken stages, it was pleasant. i didn’t get there til ten. there are always two parts to a party, the early part, and the later part so you’re choosing your own party adventure with option early or option later. both have their downsides and upsides omg what am i a party zen master now, bad sign. i will tone down the tara reid.
at one point the light in the loo went out. leslie wanted me to send a pic of my face cos she was hanging with a billionaire and wanted to sell me to him or something.
got teacher a pair too, he rsvp’d but he’s a teacher so, you can’t teach class from a shoe launch party. maybe someday. the shoes are gorgeous. he’s turning into a greedy monster with all the social media spoiling i’m bestowing on him. one of my perks.
what does your office look like? sorry not rubbing it in, if you think about it, this makes sense. we’re out on the street hustling from party to whatever to do the thing, get the coverage, then on to the next, it’s a very fast-paced thing and sometimes you wish there were two of you to do it all so when i get a snarky jealous mean comment it’s a bit of a piss off as, i earned this. so to keep the blog going, the one you read at your desk, i gotta go do stuff and get things to put on to the crap-o-blog for you to be seduced by. MAGIC!
putting a dumb outfit together can be gruelling enough. one for each day, or 3 in a day. can’t wear that one thing that would pull it together because you wore it the day before. sometimes it’s like fuck the blog i want to wear the same shorts everyday until they wear out. i am also still supremely annoyed that all the crap i bought at UO last weekend went on sale immediately afterward.
how dumb are you, honestly. someone needs to go back to said school but i guess they can’t cos it’s something else now and what does it matter anyway you moved on to highchool assumedly? if you’re going to go to the trouble to make a statement with graffiti, two things: spellcheck and make sure it’s something a little less self-involved.
hair appt. brennen was doing luminato and cos i was the bonehead who missed my appt tuesday, bringing half of yesterday’s stress-doings on to my shoulders. jackie was a darling and took me on. her flower shirt matched my jumper.
it was the only time i had to sit down. i saw a girl sitting on a curb casually playing with a bottle of san pel today while i cabbed over to ossington and i was envious of her, despite how slovenly and street urchin she appeared (she wasn’t a hobo) she just seemed mellow and i was like, when will i have the time to sit on a sidewalk like that, not that i would, but like, maybe in august i could schedule ten minutes of solid loitering. that would be a dreeeam.
this a blog post for another day, or not. lets just say that i am a bonafide athlete and this was the rickitiest rustiest most out of alignment deathride straight outta hell like the icing on the omg my head is going to explode right meow cake and my ass was oh yep you betcha, all out there, prob some labe too if you’re lucky. i’m lending her to melodie cos i can’t bother dealing with the maintenance. she sat out all winter long and has the battle scars to prove it and i’m pretty sure riding it with zero oil on a brown/orange rusted chain didn’t help. why don’t you sell chain oil, shell? i’m like show me your oil and he shows me motor oil. i bet any kind of grease would have sufficed but why the hell do i want to buy motor oil and have the entire universe watch me pour it all over the fucking place?
crabby media line-ups are the best. you (me included) guys criticize and whine about everything for a living, gonna write a review about a line-up? no don’t, i want to first ahhaha.
we had to stop power-eating hamburgers for like, a day at the v least so we had parkdale sushi finally at that one place near duff/king and the view is totally worth it, nothing but constant entertainment with a rotating cast of parkdale characters. i think i saw craig walk by, if he has long hair now then it was him. i almost ran out to yell CRAAAAAAAAIG down the street at him but i wasn’t sure so shyness won that round.
we watched sex and the city 2. i’d already seen it with meredith in the theatre but wanted to see it again, hangover days call for guilty pleasure cinema.
i’m going to move some of these up to the roof for our next jam up there, whenever that will be, probably never because THERE’S NO TIME ever never again all the time? gone!
micki is sample size (7, jeals) so she gets all the goodies. i would love to see her swag closet. no i would likely start crying with my fists in my eyes and pout like a pro.
harlan pepper are total talents. if you don’t sound like raging idiots during soundcheck then raymi is your fan. i worked at the central for 8 months, 150 bands a month, (and NOT all of them were winners) you do the math i am all soundchecked out, but these kids, what were they playing, zeppelin? i dunno but it was perfect for my vibe at the time. brought me up.
this guy broke his leg skateboarding in edmonton, many more tour stops to go brah good luck with your project 12 tracks. they’re recording a band in every tour stop. they won a pepsi grant cos their idea didn’t suck.
den levy and his three phones. he’s one of ten people who told me today they stayed up til 7am. wtf. i can’t wait to try and hold a conversation with someone come saturday, complete messes by then ha ha.
one is for a review, another is his main line, and the third, no idea. i couldn’t care less as my blackberry is a POS and i’m tired of blog nerd tweeters and their free gadgets up in my grill, no offence dan i just want to simply THROW MY PHONE INTO THE ^&$*&$ SUN.
i wonder what’s going to grow out of that plot? a job? HAHAH sorry i am starting to lose it i also got in a fight with a hippie woman at a ring stand cos she said no pictures. i’ll spin that yarn later.
it’s funny to me that there are now entire think tanks about stuff (brand) i started when i was 17, like, are you all idiots or something? come up with a good name, cool it up, share it and blammo. i was kinda insulted by this chick yesterday who said not to worry/bother coming to these geek chic nxnei circle jerks and to just live my life. she’s a long time reader. it was insulting like i am some (i am) idiot incapable of talking to a room of smug nerds. no matter, you can all glean it from my book. meeting with editor next week. booyah.
bf is getting hotter. i was like, are you going to dump me now that you bought a good outfit haha. this isn’t it but yeah someone’s coming up to my level now.
this is my casual girlfriend outfit we came up with a song about it. the lyrics are endless and hilarious and the song is horrible, it’s gonna be a big hit.
The history-making day arrived where i learn the trade secrets of an empire, put them to practise, steal them, blog them, and take a cake for the road.
My admiration for Carol and Michael is swoonily apparent when we get together, they are theatre-incarnate, such a pair (like my nana and papa, inseparable) the Carole/Michael show is entertainment at its finest I am happy to be on board.
the whipping cream (slowly) goes in after the cream cheese, which is fun to watch fold around and around as the texture takes on a gloopier form. i am clumsy and often don’t trust myself, had a few hand mangled by blender visions to get over and shut out in order to pro it up in front of these ladies.
can you see the fear in my eyes? hahaha. somehow the apron made me look more naked so now i have the idea for my own raymi nudist cooking show, episode one, bacon frying ahahhaa. ouch.
carole expertly doled out many helpful tips along the way, to turn the speed from 1 to 2 when adding ingredients, stopping to spatula the cream cheese batter from the sides of the bowl and beaters. it’s a process, not a long one, but still you mustn’t rush it.
can you picture this woman in her basement making cakes as a hobby, and now look. not only did she create for herself a sensational success of a cheesecake company, she also started this city on carrot cake. careful when you browse the cake selections though because i tweeted a pic/link to the site yesterday and someone said they spent 5 minutes drooling.
michael had two costume changes for his dish presentations (the first he taught the class was how to make his rapini, oh so garlicky yum i inhaled a plate the second we got there, yesterday was a full busy one) so i think we have uncovered who the real diva is in this duo. i am adding vanilla and almond extract i believe here. potent stuff.
make yourself useful any way you can. it was a fun relaxed atmosphere, like cooking with your mom, joking around and when too many cooks in the kitchen, take a step back or two this is the carole show here, i am shadowing her.
my hair matches the batter, that’s what i asked for yesterday at the salon, please match my hair to cheesecake as i will be making one immediately after this appointment i might need a caption filler to save my ass on a few pics in case i run out of jokes thank you.
add the eggs. always crack them in a separate container (like on tv)(or in real life if you aren’t an idiot) cos you never know what’s inside that shell, not to mention, shell cakes never really caught on.
pouring the batter in. this is the almond cheesecake by the way, you missed the part when i poured in the crushed fine almonds as slowly as possible carole’s like, you can go a bit faster raymi. i got tempo-paranoia, too fast too slow everyone is watching infomercial live ack!
and get michael to bring you a pitcher of water while he announces in a shakespearean accent a pitcher of wat-ur my lady. haha so funny. the water in the square pan heats up in the oven and i guess that’s the extra secret magic behind making cheesecakes right.
and sweating by the ovens. speaking of shadows, colleague has himself one, she helped take these shots (thanks lindsay!) a much welcome addition to team crazy raymi colleague. also, she’s carole’s granddaughter, a very cool chick.
this was fun, fun to watch, beautiful actually, seeing liz expertly spin the turntable (where’s a dj when you need to make fun of one?) as she spreads the decadent rich chocolate icing with that implement doo-hicky thing i didn’t hear what it was called cos a surgeon was too busy complimenting my writing, intellect, and teeth, and hair too hahh. when i meet blog readers/lurkers, some of them really like to discuss how i write, that i write, it makes me blush. i can’t describe the process, well maybe one day i will, but not now grasshopper it’s brownie time.
i guess you make a divot gradually in the centre because next you will be adding caramal (omg mmmmm) and it will need a place to go lest it overflow? though, (stop rhyming raymi!) you will be stacking little brownie squares all around the top so the caramel will be safely confined within the brownie castle, and then my stomach.
don’t you just want to dump that chocolate right all over it once you’re done with the building? one would think that’s the way to do it, the end result of course being totally sloppy ugtastical. this is why you don’t do that, you ladle it on. AH HA it’s a ladle! i’m so smart.
that’s little lindsay. rules. and bill the dental surgeon, lovely people. see michael’s costume change? i suggested to carole having a michael figurine commissioned, their cafe regulars would so totally buy one. i’ll have a napolitana, a nicoise salad and a michael please, that’s all.
liz is so sweet and soft spoken where do all these nice people come from!!? i may or may not have left with my own chocolate squeeze bottle (such a great idea). ok no i didn’t.
a communal piece goes around (we all had our own forks haha yeah and the communal fork too can you imagine) to sample. it was a very oprah winfrey moment. i love when they would only give like 5 samples out to the audience and you could see vicious looks from the ones who weren’t chosen.
too hot he said, back in it goes. oh that was fun. i left with an almond cake, (uhh totally that almond one that i made i swear! hahah) for my dad for daddy’s day this sunday (dad i have an event in the day so we’ll be coming later in the day sorry!)
huge thanks to Carole’s Cheesecake for this (and for my birthday cakes too). i love cooking. i love eating. i love photographing, blogging and talking about food. it is no secret. it is my dream to have my own cooking show someday. oh and by the way their groupon deal sold through the roof like we knew it would, Carole’s back baby and she never left. next time i am shooting all her framed media glory from over the years adorning the resto and loos, great big hairdos in her past haha.
XOXOX your pal raymi.
ps. my title is french for let them eat cake i’m sure you’re familiar with this infamous proclamation.
wednesday we are here. i am a bonehead and forgot abut my hair appt tomorrow despite it being printed on the fridge. totally have zero time in my sched to resched it today but had to and they could barely squeeze me in too. made it happen thank you thank you thank you roots are out of control, tired of having to wear hair down even though it looks chic i will be wanting to put that messy sweaty hot mane up for sure later in the week.
my aunt gave me that jewelry box for xmas and now that i am amassing jewelry thanks to lance romance i lifted it from the shelf at my dad’s. more glitz mooooore!
teacher said he liked brock. i guess in our brood you have no choice but to get along but when you actually do, the good times roll. sabrina had a dentist dude friend in attendance gratefully for teacher. that sounds like a joke set-up, a dentist and a teacher and a rabbi… anyway teacher liked dentist too.
i ate that. holy free f–ing advertising much. i’m sorry but my romantic balcony view is BK how long til YOU would break? it was closed so the next evil kiddy corner to it was a land of a slightly different garbage.
i didn’t bring my empties afterall like i joked. i read they aren’t accepting them there, is that to ward off hobos in precious libville? hope not. can i bring empties here?
it looked like we were just parking lot hanging so i made them pose before the tent. drove by this spot yesterday and the absence of party tent is blatant. party sentimental.
sabrina was impressed by how i had teacher trained, i don’t (i do), it’s just here’s my camera, do the thing and we can get the heck outta here and tart dranking. i’m not exactly doing rocket science here right. debatable. i think if you’re gonna throw down with 8 chicks you know what to do pretty much immediately.
going back in time waiting for the cab i was having outfit doubts cos of the chill and the getting psyched out but i went for it and look how much fun i had. always push it girls don’t give in to the shy monster.
eat your heart out celine dion. titanic, my heart will go on ok ok not everyone is as clever as me omg i’m getting lost in my flickr trying to find something i already forget what thank god for multiple browsers.
took this in vancouver, mg and k-os backstage at ubc . metric was also on the bill. k-os asked if i was in the band. we later got chatty on myspace, i was with my ex at the time. it’s amazing sometimes the people you can reach, and inspire. k os said a photo of me was inspiring to him. anyway this was in april 2005. mg and i were tight then.
i was a witness at city hall with jamie for a lesbo wedding. i signed it. proud day. these two girls came to canada just for this, both new yorkers i think. jamie, jamie jamie where have you been? need to reconnect.
my brother loved kurt cobain. i took it further, i BECAME HIM. AHAHHAHSHS see how depressed and emo teen angst yet young i am. apparently i was a cholo too. my mom is feeding a horse and i am like i do not give ^$*^& i’m hardcore son.
i love jeremy the bear. ok i have to give up this post is taking me long to find the photo i want. see you later. hope you enjoyed this distraction brought to you by the letters A, D, H, and D. sayonara!
i just want to simply THROW MY PHONE INTO THE ^&$*&$ SUN.
