The Best!

Ok, so "prepare for the best" last left off when my house burned down - well when my trailer burned down.  But it was my home and that was rough.  It is 3 years later and crap is happening man!  I am in a short film that has been shown this week in the Cannes Film Festival!  WoOoHoOo!  How awesome is that?!  Like Gabrielle said, dreams do come true.  Have I prepared for the best in this situation?  Um, not really, I have been sort of riding the depression wagon a little, low and maybe swimming in a self-pity pool..... And for what?!  It's CANNES!  I need to snap out of the doldrums and stat - life couldn't be better!  For today I am going to be grateful and let the lightheartedness of life guide me in all my minutes of the day!  I am going to bootcamp, I am going to band, and I am going to take JLOs skin care regime advice and apply it darnnit, cuz she looks good!  Look at her skin - glowing and wrinkle free - bring on the Frownies I say!

GIANT KING CON

Giant Con is great! Their music is peppy, just complex enough, and best of all, unique. If I were to drive hard for a comparison I would peg their illegitimate lover parents to be Modest Mouse and the pink bubble gum popping waitress at the drive-in diner (roller skating waitress of course). I really want to say Peaches - but I haven't heard her yet!!!! Despite having been in my life for 8 years now, I have yet to hear a single track. Time to get to the CD store (so old fashioned I know).

Anyways, Giant Con screened their new music video Ciest to Lie at the Yellowknife Capitol Theatre last night. It was a Collective 9 production and a joint city of YK effort for sure. It was set in YK in the 30's and personally I would like to see an entire movie set in that era....hmmmmm idea. But maybe with a different story line (sans black magic). The vitality of the piece is what set it apart from other films that have depicted the North in the past or Canada in general, from what I have seen anyways. I suppose what I am saying is that at the end of the day - the next Canadiana film I see (a genre which I like being descended from settlers who arrived in the late 1700s) I want it to be filmed more like a rock video and less like a school book. Capiche?

Awesome - way to go Giant Con - buy the album, you won't be disappointed!

Music - Movie - Book

I have on follower!! That's pretty awesome considering this blog is about nothing. I have often thought of focussing it and making it about something in particular but what that is does not come to mind.

I just bought a new CD this weekend - The Cat Empire - pretty sweet. It sounds like Jack Johnson singing to funky music a la Jamiroquai mixed with Sublime complimented by some radical scratching and electronic mixing. All of that with some sort of space age Caribbean feel.

Snow is upon us in Yellowknife, the temperature is a comfortable crisp. There are different shades of crisp for sure, some are more comfortable than others; presently ours is very pleasant.

Movie review - The Informant. This was an interesting movie. I was expecting it to be better than it was at the time I was watching it. However, when we were let out and had so much to talk about in terms of content, acting, setting etc. well gosh darn it, I realized that it was maybe more thought provoking than a lot of movies that I have seen lately and so I give it thumbs up. It was like a Vanity Fair article set to a movie. In fact, I am going to research whether or not there was a VF article written on this story... the story of Mark Whitacre and the corn business. Interesting about the corn business - the movie drives home that there is corn in just about everything, both manufactured and some meats and fish (because it is their food source) - broken down into the different compounds that make up corn, this movie focussed particularly on "lycene". This has research project written all over it.

With respect to the "price fixing" aspect of the story, well we have sent our lawyer friend in to watch and to give us the cliff notes. At the end of the movie, we were actually wanting a movie about the movie - i.e. the cliff notes on the legal side of the story.

Book of the moment - A Thousand Splendid Suns - so far, so great. I will review it when I am done.

Peace.

Inglorious Bastards

Wow - I did not like that movie.

Back in the news

Someone, let's say a new friend, thoughtfully pointed out that it had been a while since I last updated my blog... well, a fast and furious update comin atcha:
- Going to NewYork May 13th for a week and then off to Thailand until June 20th (woohoo) - looking forward to the r & r and spiritiual potential, hiking, massages, connecting with an old legendary Australian friend etc.
- Author I would like to add to my academia collection of literature and literary knowledge: Dembisa Moyo (I believe I got it right)
- 3 wedding cakes have been ordered for July - all buttercream, could be fun (but fun mostly because it will be warm out!)
- Looking forward to the summer (intense)
- Immensely enjoying living with my new roomate Shawn in beautiful Old Town
- Pavarotti in 1973 La Boheme - a must
- Still have to go and check out a music mix on Adam's blog - just for me - ok well maybe not just for me but who cares! He is weird and wonderful - I love new music!

Cheers all - thanks for the nudge,
Jessie.

The irony of it all.

It is so ironic to reflect on the title of this blog, "prepare for the best" - I have just been through a lose everything house fire.  Looks like the best is yet to come!

ZOMG...

Oh dear God, it must be minus a million out!