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Schematic visionaries
OK lets put our thinking caps on and I’ll grab my notes. The conference feedback about your hero was: wow she has a plan – she knows what she wants and she is going after it. – congrats and u looked gorgeous :).
Raymi Lauren White
Blogging Pioneer
Raymi the Minx aka Lauren White or, Raymi Lauren, built her brand at the age of 17, spawning raymitheminx.com in 2000. She is a pioneer of blogging and was amongst the small pool of bloggers during its first wave of popularity in 2002, drawing the attention of The National Post and SEX TV. A provocateur savant, unabashed black sheep of the digital age, influencer, trend setter, wordsmith; Raymitheminx.com has been a MUST READ in the Toronto’s hip and in-the-know arena for over a decade. Raymi is on par with media, a notable invitee to all the to-dos, touted as the Penny Lane of Toronto (long time music industry ties), muse to the stars, spearheads a bounty of fellow Little Raymis with copious pop-up copycat raymi blogs. Multiple times over viral, donning garb and trends before you got over the last one. Raymi has singlehandedly made a business of her personal everyday life, is a spokesmodel for a plethora of elite brands and has successfully married her hobbies and passions with business, sometimes it’s hard to distinguish between the two. You need to meet her to fully experience and grasp her special brand. A closet feminist, comedienne, exhibitionist, Raymi wears all hats and didja know, she’s HUGE in the foodie scene too, not to mention, a rapidly budding and requested burlesque dancer?
Blog: www.raymitheminx.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/raymitheminx
Twitter: www.twitter.com/raymitheminx
Youtube: www.youtube.com/user/raymilauren
Showed up a little early (for once) to catch the panel before mine to see how these ladies were doing it. they would set the bar and I would be cartwheeling over it. That was my trick to settling my nerves. It worked. Was still nervous though, but I am always nervous so it doesn’t much matter. I’ll distract them with dazzle camouflage.
Following people on twitter and they thank you by spam blasting you with something you have zero per cent interest in. No thank you. Unfollow.
Katrina tweeted are you wearing pants? I replied with oh sh- where are mein pants? ILUVHER.
I guess colleague was bored at points. He is already well-versed in all my wacky hair-brained schemes.
That baby was calming. We vibed off one another. I don’t know protocol in talking to babies, is it ok? I picked up a dog once in a movie store and my bf was like NO. That’s the equivalent of picking up someone else’s baby. I get away with stuff all the time and I know that what I can do isn’t necessarily ok for everybody else. Yes I get special privileges.
They all followed my twitter straight off the bat thanks to Rose. I am this close to being a pyramid scheme (what’s a ponzi scheme that sounds fun!) or a televangelist.
I know and don’t know what they were saying. The room was packed! No seats or, I just didn’t want to interrupt. I saw that no one was being as insane and boisterous as I had been plotting. My nerves went away. I’ve been on network autopilot for weeks it is second nature now and annoying all of my friends. I can’t stop selling.
THIS GIRL HAS SOME STAR QUALITY (AND I’M NOT SAYING THAT BECAUSE I’M TOTALLY AROUSED RIGHT NOW AFTER WATCHING THIS). BUT, REALLY. SHE HAS MORE TALENT AND SEX APPEAL THAN MOST OF THE BIMBOS ON TV TODAY. WHY NOT? PUT THIS GIRL IN A MOVIE PLEASE!
It’s super weird to get comments daily to a ghost of a girl. Like she lives in a dance video in a condo she used to live in. Click that link to see.
More of that.
@1ofthose2girls the tiara chick had the fortune of washing her hands precisely when I was in the loo putting on my magic final touches and thus became deeply entangled in a massive sharing of ladies room banter. That’s Katrina, the new treasurer of empire raymi. She is paid in Brie.
@KarmicEvolution screamed out I LOVE YOU. I dared her to. It happens at the end of my Intro here. I knew she’d do it cos she had a whale on her head. People with animals on their heads typically are wont to yell things out in public.
This is what I call being a team player. Did you wear your shirt?
I wore a bra in case my party hats would be showing. I chose my colour over summer and everything was easy breezy sunny and I was a surfer babe 24/7. Farah said she expected me to show up in my lifeguard outfit. She said it’s infamous hahaha. Totally. Maybe I’ll do a post of photos of me wearing it all over town.
All #SCCTO babes get a discount to AndroidTO. code: RAYMI. Android and Connected sitting in a tree c-o-n-f-e-r-e-n-c-i-n-g. Hot geek love.
Another baby.
So adorable.
Your baby is a thief. Her mom was like I am trying to train her to pull people’s rings off. Loved that. I love when they take you to task for the bluffs you throw out there.
Pfffft.
One of the first things I said was I FEEL LIKE I AM SITTING AT A BAR. I was jokey. People listen to stand-up.
They are all staring. It’s like a dream and a nightmare simultaneously.
I want those shots. or maybe not. You get the idea.
OOh that hat was a good idea, face hiding. Like when people whisper, you listen closer. If my face is obscured you will constantly look for it.
Ok I will for real get up off my ass now and get my notes. It was hard to say all the things you planned to because it was a discussion and specific questions lead to specific answers. What works for me might not necessarily work for you and I knew I couldn’t convince a room of 200 proactive techy chicks that the recipe to success was heavily beauty based or being a constant gag-making stooge, I can tell that to you guys but to a room, nuh uh. Everyone likes to think that they have all the answers better than you. Fine then go get invited to a panel and tell it on a microphone. Mantain relevancy and longevity. That is the goal. I am eleven years old this blog, one woman rushed me about blogging back in the day too but yeah, are you notable?
Well done clap clap now lets see what the feedback is.
That guy interviewed me on his little blog tv show thing haven’t heard from him yet. I get 80% more traffic than him, my colleague said, THAT is why RAYMI when he asked “innocently” about what the big deal about bloggers and brands is. Advertising, dude. That’s what. It’s just a channel of preference. Have something neat you wanna raise hype and awareness for, email ME: RAYMI@RAYMITHEMINX.COM Think your brand is too elite for me, you’re fooling yourself and asleep at the wheel. My fingers are in every pie.
@zchamu was in my Blogher San Diego crew. LOVE HER! Which is blog code speak for SHE LOVES RAYMI.
YES WE CAN!
Moments prior to this I was like you have to be a punk rock mommy blogger these days to be interesting again and WHAMMO! Dreams answered.
Shannon was on her way back to Ottawa. Wah. Go hang out with my aunt and uncle! They’re like me (nothing like me) but way more posh.
Amen blonde sister. Don’t feel alienated other girls. Colleague said I alienate people sometimes when I write I had no idea what he is talking about cos he hasn’t any hair at all!
Here is a picture of what me pretending to know EXACTLY what african drumming is. Like, Peter Gabriel’s concerts? Gahaha. Please totally invite me I dance like a chicken to tribal music it will be hilarious.
Wait for it!
Hahahaa.
I am doing my patented MIB-rip-off memory record wiping by waving at the air. Photographic evidence unfortunately doesn’t delete the same nor does willingly typing html code into the body of your typing field for the photo either. It’s unfortunate that this entire post is tainted for me based on one rotten egg of a woman talking shit about me. My brand isn’t “for her” and had I known this our conversation meet and greet that I was nothing but lovely during would have been wildly different.
It’s ok, I’m wearing a hat. I got this covered.
She liked me, I liked her, blah blah blah oh that’s right she was at the picnic too!
Give me some.
I want a tiara! I’ll be a stagette party forever no problemo!
Conference sponsor what’s up!
Give me one.
Sometimes I look Japanese right? That is because I am related to David Suzuki. No just kidding. Notice how I antagonize a notable periodically here for about a month’s time to get a reaction out of it. WINDOW’S CLOSING, SUZUKI. Why weren’t you at the picnic? I planted a tree in your honour.
There’s a video of this but I think it was TMI so won’t be posting. If I knew how to edit. Hmmm.
Ha. Who even knows anymore?
Tracey was like what would we talk about on tv? I’m LIKE WHAT WOULD WE TALK ABOUT????
She said I had it going on and I said you distracted me during my panel, I saw you look down and was trying to figure out who you were and then saw you typing and thought, “what is she typing about me?” I am totally self centred.
I wish I didn’t look like this when I laughed, but I do. Oh well. The point is what WOULDN’T we talk about on CityLine? What is the live delay, 5 seconds? Bahaha.
Don’t I look like Sam Crenshaw sometimes?
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Something neat, this photo is trending right now on tumblr:
It took my breath away because I took a photo of the same steps in New Orleans Louisiana in April 2008. Crazy!
See the cup in the mailbox?
We’re just looking at a life
Using the audio wasn’t an option, sounded muddy and underwater. Not a bad activity to practise your first video by. Maybe they’ll let me take the go-pro up on the CN Tower. They’d have to duct tape it to my face. Well just another day in the life as usual right? This week seems like it’s flying.
We made our promo video the other night for Andy Milonakis. He raps too did you know that? Did you know he rapped with Snoop? Do you know that he is the funniest person you will ever have the chance to breathe the same breath as ever? Exactly.
I hope his response video isn’t ten times better. It most definitely will be.
This made me laugh hysterically for ten minutes. The camera takes stills every so often so you know what video clips to look forward to.
Don’t forget to get a ticket to the HARTH FEST PARTY OCTOBER 26 7PM @ 99 Sudbury (same space the Android TO conference is held). Tell your boss to cover your ticket, say it’ll be comprised of all the conference savants which is where the real business deals go down: strip clubs, on the green, wasted someplace. This is a key networking rule, meet the people first and see if they want to work with you (and likewise) then the next time you see them, blather a proposal or follow-up email with one. Short of that, it’s going to be a hysterical f-ing time, over the top and unprecedented. ROLLER GIRLS WHIPPING AROUND THE ROOM, Burlesque, an MTV CELEB, ME! YOU! EVERYONE! Val Toronto Gal pumped it up too. She and I have wicked dance-offs so I am personally excited about her attendance.
See?
*Early bird tickets aren’t going to be available forever.
**You help us spend more money on this event when you buy these tickets.
Thank you.
All the machines will kill us one day if we don’t be nice to them, basically.
Picnic basket case
I agonize over making separate posts or just adding to the original and telling people to scroll. I find people don’t listen to anything anymore, I sure don’t. Anywhoo let the gorging holiday continue.
Colleague has another Raymi, named Reagan. I know right. Hahhaha.
Shameless. There’s our hero. I had to hold my hat to finish off each glass.
I relented.
Pasta from scratch. Yeah, awesome if I would allow myself to eat pasta.
Stephen will be our party caterer for AndroidTO/Harth fest OCTOBER 26 – he’s The king of the Palais Royale castle. Their food is amazeballs. Come to our party!
Teaching me a word he wants to bring back into the cuisine world vernacular.
BONDINETTE. It is what those little horderve things are.
You shove them in your mouth at parties to combat boredom, annoyance, hangover and to be elegant and know that you are “living” the “life”. I had syrup all over my hands.
One of my top faves for sure. I’ll find out what it was again from the grid’s write-up.
Good eye, colleague.
That was a monster salad with ten million components. I do the same at home too. Notice the Mary Poppins following me around. Hot team much?
Laughing at my own joke WHAT ELSE IS NEW?
Gorgeous.
Reagan noticed the butterfly.
My hangover is gone dance!
It was a great time. If you dress like an idiot at a picnic where people spend hundreds to be at and get sozzled and eat like royalty and every 3 second someone hugs ya or tells you you’re great, you see someone famous, or a friend, just try frowning. No matter how hungover from Nuit Blancheyou are, or the rain. BEST PARTY EVER!
That guy’s windbreaker is wicked. WICKED LOUD. We made fun of him with his girlfriend/s I dunno it was a hilarity wino vortex after awhile.
Cheers. Cheers! YES! Good work, why thank you. Baha. Reagan said the video is going to be effing hilarious. That is PERFECT NEWS. I also now have a strong urge for clove wine and Scrooge by the fireplace ooh cozy.
How to annoy cooks 101:
Tell them you’ll eat straight off the tong.
Do just that.
Nevermind annoying cooks, I’m annoying that guy just by merely taking up space in front of his eyes ahahha. I am polarizing. That is a new compliment to models who are hated on america’s next top model. I only learn from reality tv shows now.
No one could properly direct me to niagara street cafe’s table. By the time we found it they were done. Didn’t much matter though we’re just shootin’ the breeze. I really want to have a food/travel show. GOAL.
That is SO cool.
I had some pyro aggression to sort out.
I love the many eccentricities of Brickworks. Should go thanksgiving shopping there. Hmm. Ugh there is always some commitment INEEDAHOLIDAY.
Cool I didn’t try one was it good?
Ambush. Do you remember Dave Attel’s show called Insomniac. He went to every city and got wasted and ate everywhere cool and weird til the sun came up. I watched it while I lived in Maine and we loved him. He is a comedian. The cogs in my head are whirring.
These guys were cool. By chatting them up I got a tip on a table and a caramel bar to-go out of it. Yum.
This picture rules.
Softest caramel ever. I wanted a jar. That’s sea salt on it. Thank you Grant Street caramel co so much we’re almost finished it. I want jars next for xmas time.
Normal at a place like this.
Also normal at a place like this. She’s about to burst!
Here we go.
I AM CHAMPION OF THE FOOD FAIR!
Then it went a little YMCA.
Go on then give us a kiss.
“…a horny mob approaches.”
Ha ha.
Nahahahaa.
Evolution. GAY!
Blabbity blah.
Come on keep it together people.
Ha so Charlie Sheen in Hot shots. I am a total spoof.
Southern Ontario represent! No seriously, get involved with this place, talk about it. Do some good for our planet, sustain, be environmentally conscious, support farmers, recycle, donate, when you spend, do so locally, and from the indie businesses wherever possible. Ok no more Starbucks, I am drinking my last cup right now.
Always have flare and be zany, makes life fun.
Always self promote.
Expand your minds! I broke into this zone, it was gated off and closed baha hopped the fence SOMETIMES you have to be a rebel.
Yeah that’s right I climbed this. WHAT! WHAT!
That’s enough for you.
Jolly good work team! Pip pip. Time for a snack!
XOXOX RAYMBO
Ps. I look liek the drummer boy from this video.
It’s so fall right now right? wow. I do my best creative stuff this time of year.
Lets go on a pic-a-nic
LETS DO THIS! Captain Evergreen Eataholic to the rescue!
Every time I raised my arm I’d ask if I looked stupid? DON’T ANSWER THAT.
I’d draw them in, Reagan would have them swarming. Can’t wait to see the footage bahaha.
Thanks to Rob’s post here from last year I recognized some table vendors. I bee-lined for one guy and completely weirded him out. Right, won’t be doing that again.
Stink-eye. We were quite the social experiment, me, Reagan’s camera head, colleague’s camera on me and us, people sloshed on wine and chatty. Such a fun day, like a total extension of Nuit Blanche.
Heat lamps everywhere thankfully. Sunday was rainy and dreary. Not for us!
Remember your posture always, someone’s always looking. Mine is shit.
Everything was like the Rolls Royce of food.
Boyfriend count of the day I think Reagan won. It’s ok he and I made out later on baha I got sloppy seconds.
Everyone felt bested by the go-pro camera why didn’t I think of that!? Like jesus, relax.
Take a picture it’ll last longer! Good idea!
The hot mulled wine from Harbord Room was amazing. We had three rounds of it. Reagan and I are going to go on a bender in Ireland together to see who the real man is.
Next time to the top and I will come back less.
There were wine glass rinsing stations.
Don’t forget the nutmeg dusting. I asked if he had any accidents with that grater yet, he said no. What’s that cut on your thumb then?
Your turn.
Ooh look it’s hot lil ma miss Arlene Stein. Thanks for the party!
She loved my rings.
You ate this with a wooden spoony thing, it was rich roast pepper something or other. Like a super high-end baby food.
I’m like what is the meaning of this fireplace ipad? She said to keep warm. Clever I said. Cheers.
It’s funny bumping into people you party with at their restaurants and they’re like raymi what the hell are you doing? as two cameras are encircling us, what’s wrong Ian, nervous?
Hobo chic.
They looked at me and so I looked back and loved that scarf.
Shoved my hands in this oven a few times to keep warm. I hope my jacket doesn’t reek of campfire now/still.
Guess which famous chef is a fungui?
Jamie Kennedy! Starstruck. At least I look like a Royal.
Trista and I always bump into each other at these things, I love her. She works at Crush.
Last time was at the Zoo. This time my camera coverage multiplied, she was extremely amused by that hahaa.
While I was extremely amused by the pinot noir.
Do I look stupid? He said on twitter this was awkward, yeah maybe for you baha.
Dude you look in love not at all awkward. These moments are what life is about. I’d rather be dead than ordinary.
Hottie chef on the left kept trying to feed me “meat butter”. I finally gave in.
Who knew that chefs would one day become rock stars. Thanks to Anthony Bourdain’s kitchen confidential book I think. (omg I would claw my way up a mountain to travel with him).
OM NOM NOM etc. Hmm did a yoga hippie start that meme? “om”. Zing.
Mmmm. By golly wow.
Class act.
Explaining why I can’t eat meat butter at that precise juncture in time. Needed to find my sea legs. I had partied the night prior as a kurt Cobain Teddy Bear Punk.
BRB laptop needs a break cos SOMEONE didn’t turn it off proper last night. Must be cos I use it for hours on end. Omg I need more laptops this is ridiculous. If I go on a blog strike for how many days will you go mad if I don’t update? Did that once and only once for 4-5 days and people actually became irate.
Anywho lets go for a jog.
Ps. send all business inquiries during day time hours only cos by night I am like this O_O and your stuff gets pitched into a black hole. (someone wrote to me about a new dating service revolving around jogging, I thought I hallucinated it. So you like, won’t pay me AND i have to RUN my ass around? WHAT?) What part of I don’t do anything for free do you not understand?
Viva Foraymi
*clock battery died. it isn’t that late at all. so late and so light out. magical! yay!
Harth Fest
Oh man so many things. It feels like a bongo band is playing in my head right now. Well, I am playing bongo music afterall Gu-u-u-u-ilty as charged (gay sing song voice).
THIS IS THE ONE WHERE ROLLER GIRLS & A WRESTLING RING, ANDY MILOFUCKINAKIS, HARTH AIRLETTES BURLESQUE, INTERACTIVE SHIT, And partying will go down. 99 Sudbury 7pm. October 26 Wednesday.
Let’s play follow the wizard to her wizard chambers. (this blog post isn’t officially done yet but I blast them out half way to be nice and opportunistic and they’re long winded).
I’m wearing a bikini beneath this, not depends, but they may as well be now cos I’ve shrunken and they haven’t. See how fast I carve a trail, stay close or get left behind. I am ruthless. And a giraffe.
Line.
Baha look at sean over there in the corner. I got transfered around the room a lot in elementary school classes cos I talked to every one person place and thing around me then would immediately start up my second groups of Raymites over there too. Ultimate teacher diss is a desk island all alone, like so. Sean and I are getting together today to take over the world so I am going to rip him to pieces for our amusement. I wanted to blog the picnic pics but we have 1000. 0_o!
This is AndroidTO and I had no idea what that meant so I looked for the nearest guy in flip flops…
PHEWF!
I still have no idea what he said, something about androids and terminator 4. I asked Sean if I could get a phone and he said I am like 30th in line. ABOUT AndroidTO: It’s a conference. There. This is the second one. If you want more info you can email me: raymi@raymitheminx.com or one of them. The main project we are working on is the after party for it. These dudes LOVE their parties and HARTH FEST began as a joke then got big fast and furious. My kind of people. It will be the clash of the Titans, RAYMBO WORLD + GEEK ELITES + MTVILONAKIS.
Everyone who works at Harth has an IQ of seven billion at the very least. I am working very hard on getting their leader Alkarim to allow me to make him more public. I am a PR girl now. Anyway, instead I will interview his dad (The CFO). Guess what his dad’s name is?
DIAMOND!
You cannot write this shit! Like When Heaven fell up/down and INTO the spiral staircase (HAHAHAHahhaha) upon her turfing of Big Brother UK, Anton said in the diary room, “You cannot write this shit.” it is better than american BB cos there is nudity and swearing and cameras everywhere even in the pisser and shower. I dream about these people. Yesterday was some serious couch surfing fyi, we caught up with all of our friends, ANTM, Survivor, Jersey Shore. Actually no we didn’t finish ANTM so don’t spoil anything for us please, some girl already did that for Heaven. Speaking of here is the clip. BEST thing you will ever see. She’s the nutbar who talks to the sun king and thinks tall people came from giants and that rockets are powered on melanin GAHAHAHHA!
Skip to a minute. So good. And then she falls AGAIN! Keep in mind that everybody hates her too. I love her cos she’s insane and has the best round-up clips and bungee jumped in to the BB house. I like Thom’s voice the best cos it’s all high and nasally like an old man’s from tim burton’s Nightmare before xmas, “Aaaahhh-oooooh noooooo.” Omg I need a life outside of non-stop blog/working and obsessively watching BB UK marathon episodes.
I picked up that rubics cube that’s not actually a rubics cube, squeezed and exploded it into pieces, putting my phone charger down at the same moment out of humiliation and left it there for the weekend. I got a round of applause. That’s their quirky thing too, they clap for everyone who exits, so endearing. They’re too busy to look up from suicide night coding missions, someone’ll notice and clap then they all clap which means good bye in geek world. None of these assholes around here clap for me when I get up and leave. I get to blog in my underwear though.
There is zany stuff everywhere.
Going up to the 4th floor now.
@fragileheart works here too, at the desk. I don’t know what she actually does though other than flirting with me, asking me why I am so hot, staring at pictures of hot naked chicks she tacks up to her desk (she isn’t gay) and I think she carried a stack of napkins once. We interviewed her on our The Issues (that you will get to see sometime never) and she chose to discuss “MOMS” specifically phillipino moms. Hilarity ensued. These are the Harth cast of characters fyi so pay attention, they’re going to be your party stars. Right behind Andy Milonakis and myself of course. Ha.
Harth Pod is designed by the modern future. Tech elites. They were watching TEDxTO by feed in the lounge, which consist of pod chairs and loungers designed by some Swiss guy I bet. More than that, the guy who FOUNDED TxTO left it and started up Harth with the rest of the boys. Boo-ya slam dunk who’s who swish.
Ps. how cute is this?
Jokes upon jokes upon jokes. These are magnets that are affixed to the water cooler. Which is where they all stand around and talk about Seinfeld like it’s the 90’s (which is my colleague’s Seinfeld-internet-relevancy metaphor I have heard a billion times before).
Pooched. Full of Yogurt.
Trying to see if my spine likes being curved like a potato bug.
Gahahha nice try. Did you throw the word “penis” somewhere in there?
Bahaha. DEATH TO EXPLORER WORST. BROWSER. EVER.
Me getting that guy’s name wrong, Glen? No, but that’s my dad’s name. Oh well you tell him hello too. Baha smooth. I have a crush on every one of these dorks. I am projecting Microserfs on to all of them and now I’m their Jessie Spano.
Spooning rewards? Nope just totally hard workers.
It’s nice to finally be challenged and not the only brainiac I know outside of looking in a mirror. Just kidding! You’re all very very smart too!
Answering the question of why I’m so hot. I said it’s all a trick. An illusion. I’m not!
Then of course I noticed another weird thing, some magnets a genius (a real one and this time I’m not being sarcastic for once) stuck to the drink trolly baha.
In summation, come party with us on OCTOBER 26 – FOR HARTH FEST. some little raymis seem to be confused between the two events that are CLEARLY SEPARATE and DIFFERENT. One is Burlesque (at the Bovine SATURDAY OCTOBER 29), and the other THIS ONE THE HARTH FEST ONE is Andy Milonakis at 99 Sudbury three days prior. Seriously I am going to lose my mind if I have to repeat myself again and again and again. I am surrounded by idiots. Please get it straight. And guess what in-between if everyone pisses me off enough I will be jumping off the CN Tower. KIDDING! That’s the Edge Walk on Oct 28. Lunatic right?
THIS IS THE ONE WHERE ROLLER GIRLS & A WRESTLING RING, ANDY MILOFUCKINAKIS, HARTH AIRLETTES BURLESQUE, INTERACTIVE SHIT, And partying will go down. 99 Sudbury 7pm. October 26 Wednesday.
I will be doing a separate post about this one.
BRB!!!
girls are the new boys
Hands down the most interesting of socials experiments of all the stupid things I have done. That’s Raegan, she got more attention than my Captain Kangaroo get-up I KNOW right? Everyone came up to her asking the same thing, I like your hat is that a camera? No, it’s a banana Einstein. Hahaa. I was on fumes from Nuit Blanche so obvi got loaded in seconds and we enforced a rule off the bat that Raegan would match me drink for drink. Funny right? So you have me, your hero, on camera and then a second party looking down into their goblet POV-style. Can’t wait to see the footage, it sounds under-water because of the case (it was raining) on it. I am going to take it to Portishead and do a spiral launch in to the mosh pit. Just kidding. Ok these are just my blackberry shots of all the crap I’ve been up to since the beginning of the week. Felt like an 8 day work week for me.
I look awful posh though no? Sorry for burning your boxes for empties black oak (I’ve seen their brewery before, it’s across the street from a jail. I laugh at the idea of a guy breaking out and then in to a brewery).
Don’t worry I have lots of experience with pyromania. Have you got 5 hours? Ooh look we’re being photographed by that guy. Media everywhere and bloggers but like, elitist eccentrics. Chef royalty, celebs, what a freak show. Such a good day.
One part of ONE hall. It was packed to the tits. Remember I gave you a tour of the Brickworks before? And I climbed that thing? Same place.
My jacket was a hit. I always dress setting-appropriate and this jacket is worth more than my life, so… It goes with my legally blonde delusions of grandeur. The hat is from Fabulous Valency her hubby is an air force pilot and his crew (platoon, fleet? I dunno) were in Transformers, the first one, in the beginning they chopper in to the desert blabbity blah transformers show up cue explosions. I told this story fifteen times or so thanks to wearing an air force hat and I am soon to own another one thanks to Harth Air uniforms. Ps. do you think Megan Fox should have been canned for her Nazi remark?
I was in the bath, somehow my nail polishes are scattered to fro and sunder so we came up with silver and purple and it seemed like a good idea coming out of the art crawl zany dress-up of the night prior. It’s not a brickworks tour unless I am sleep deprived and hungover yah. Mom don’t start.
Nothing like a hot bath. What is it with crazy girls and baths?
McDonald’s won out over a wrap. I wanted poutine. Line-up no way.
Side stage left was where all the cool kids hung out, the musicians. I was shy. I came I sang I conquered I split. The spirit of Kurt was in me.
Oh my god can you imagine if one of those things popped? Nightmare.
My phone click made a noise when I took this. Was embarrassing. People need to loosen up though, it felt a bit tense. Seeing seas of hating me faces (my perceived) and loving me faces, I was on autopilot and guess what all my methods I have put to practise and they are tried and true. Some competition in the room, I’m sorry lady (a certain panelist didn’t want to meet me) but you may be a notable via your tv start proper but I earned my way here via this very thing that this fucking panel is about (I haven’t had a swear word on my blog in weeks til now thanks by the way, to you) so maybe you should ALL listen to me. I got here by working twice as hard as you, with substance, honesty and integrity, I didn’t have a media pr start and leave out of that with contacts and kiss-ass suck-ups throwing me media bones and I DON’T backstab and throw people under buses I RECEIVE THAT INSTEAD. By the end of my panel I was finally heated enough to cut off a long and boring droner of a woman who was only there to talk about herself like everybody else always is at panels, I can’t remember but it was something like needing more buzz and then all the “professionals” chimed in and listed some indecipherable “strategies” based on bullshit so I interrupted and said YOU HAVE TO CHANGE IT UP, WHATEVER YOU’RE DOING, CHANGE IT. You want buzz? MAKE buzz. I’ll save all this for my post with my shots from the conference, which was a totally great time, experience, and success. Love ya Donna!
GTG BRB.
