tying up stressful loose ends.

So after a long weekend of basically living at my piano, I have finally almost gotten "Kill The Messenger" to the point that it should be at.  I am still have an issue with playing it as fast as it needs to be played though!  I sat at my piano for a good three hours tonight just playing the song over and over again, each time moving the metronome a notch faster.  I started at half time, which is 80 bpm.  I now have the song at around 130something bpm.  It needs to be at 160!  It's absolutely ridiculous.  But I think with one more solid block of practise time, I should be set.

I am recording it very early Wednesday morning so I definitely have to get on this!  This song has been much more of a pain in the ass than I ever thought it would be though.  But hopefully it works out alright.

I am sad to say that I had to bail on playing "Beautiful Goodbye" for Caitlin's lift project.  Although to defend myself, I technically did not fully bail.  I found a replacement.  I am excited to say that Lindsay will be coming to London to record it in my place.  I have been practising this song like crazy too, but when I went to play it along with the recording tonight I realised that I'm playing it much too slow and that I had done the phrasing totally differently than how Amanda Marshall does it.  I am so disappointed that I don't have the time to get it to the point that it needs to be at because it is such a beautiful song!  But I know Lindsay will do a great job for Caitlin.  I just wish we had a few less assignments to worry about and then I would have no problem spending the extra time to learn it.  Sadly, I just can't give it the attention that it needs right now.

Another moment of this weekend that was filled with progress was Allan's orientation at Fanshawe.  We went to gain some more information on his transfer to their Police Foundations program.  It was a beneficial visit.  We learned a few things that we didn't already know.  Who knew that tranferring between schools would be such a pain?!  Why can't all programs with the same title just be exactly the same between schools, haha.  Then there would be no need for taking extra courses and paying extra money.  But that would just be silly wouldn't it.. ?  Life of course is never that simple.  But all I can say is that I am so excited to have Allan be living with me for next year.  Caitlin and Nikki will also be living in our house.  It is just going to be a fantastic living arrangement, which will make for such a fun year!  I just can't wait!

Now, here I am, back in London.. preparing for yet another stressful week of stressing and cramming to get my assignments done on time.  It just seems as though there are not enough hours in the day!  I find myself needing more and more sleep after my days, yet I seem to be getting less and less.  I suppose that's just the way it is.

Wish me luck for this week because I'm desperately going to need it!
I'm just glad that this weekend is Easter weekend and we get to have Friday off.  Thank God for that.

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4am.

So it's after 4am and I'm still sitting in the MPL at school.
As much as I love my program, I am in definite need of a break from all the crazy assignments.  I still have a million things to do within the next month.. three recording assignments to finish recording and editing, two presentations to do, an interview/paper, weekly assignments that I am a few weeks behind on, and then two practical exams and however many written exams I'm going to end up having to do.
I know I sound like I'm just whining.. I'm not even gonna try to make an excuse.  I'm whining.  I'm at that point, lol.  So if anyone wants to make a quick buck by helping me out on some of my assignments to lighten the load.. please be my guest, haha. ;)
The craziness needs to enddd.. I am just longing for the carefree feeling that summer brings!
Until then...


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Green Zone.

On Saturday night I went to see the movie "Green Zone" with Allan.  I had previously heard that it was very similar to the "Bourne" series that Matt Damon has also starred in.  I found out that those rumors were correct.  Although it did have its differences, I found that the basic storyline was very similar.  Matt Damon's character is given specific orders and he chooses to stray from those orders and do what he thinks is the right thing to do.  It was still a decent movie, but it was nothing out of the ordinary.  Even my boyfriend, Allan, didn't think that this action-packed, war, typical guy's movie was all that fantastic; which is saying something, haha.
So again, it's not a terrible movie.  But if I had the choice now, it would definitely be one that I would wait to rent.

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Happy St. Patrick's Day! ♥

I hope everyone had a very fun and safe St. Patrick's Day this year!
And I hope all of you were festive and wore tons of green! 
I sure did.  :D

So much fun!
Love you all!  ♥

A Night at The Horseshoe.

I am sad to say that this was the last show of Canadian Music Week for me.  The line-up was huge outside of The Horseshoe and not to mention that it was POURING rain.  But finally they us in, and it was absolutely PACKED inside.  For sure a sold out show.  It was my first time at The Horseshoe and I quite enjoyed it.

The first band that we saw was called "Two Hours Traffic". 

I had never heard of "Two Hours Traffic" before but I definitely liked them!  They were all talented musicians and some multi-talented.  They had everyone up dancing and a lot of people were singing along with their lyrics.  They were a great lead into the next band. :)

The final band of the night, and of CMW for me, was The Junction.  They were great!  They were very high energy and a lot of fun!  They even had a saxophone player helping them out for the show!  It was also so cute; on their final song, the singer went on to talk about how he wrote the song for his girlfriend whom which on the day of the show, he had been with for exactly seven years and how ironic it was that this particular song came to have commercial  and radio success.  And she then came up on stage and it was super cute!  I really liked The Junction.  Again, I had never seen them before, but I thought they were great! (not to mention the have some pretty hilarious drunken hardcore fans, lol)

Good-bye Canadian Music Week!  Can't wait 'til next year!

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CMW - Day Four: OUR LADY PEACE! ♥

Sadly, it was the last day of Canadian Music Week. I was sad that it was coming to an end, but at the same time, I was so so sooo excited to see Our Lady Peace! ♥

Our Lady Peace one of my favourtie bands EVER and I couldn't wait to see them at Massey Hall.  Throughout their tour, they have been doing two different shows at each stop.  One show has a starting set from their "Clumsy" album and their other show has a starting set from their "Spiritual Machines" album. 

Diana, Jenny, Scerina and I attended the show with songs from "Spiritual Machines".  Although this is the only album that I am not entirely familiar with, it was still an AMAZING show.  After they do their first set from the specific album, they come back after an intermission to do a second set of their new songs and some other hits.

This is a video of them singing "Life".  I love this song.  ♥

The picture isn't the best because it was pretty dark and I was standing a fair distance away, but the sound is great.

There was a part in their second set where Raine climbed on top of this huge speaker on the right side of the stage, and then kinda jumped over from the speaker up onto the first balcony!  He carefully walked along the edge of the balcony until he got to a spot where he could stand in the crowd.  It was insane!  And there was this girl who came from like, an entire section over.  She made her way over to him to dance with him, haha.  But they both seemed to be having fun!  He was singing with her and they were dancing and holding their arms around one another.  It was awesome to see him have so much involvement with the audience! 

This is a video of them singing "Somewhere Out There". 

Again, the picture is pretty dark because of where I was standing, but the sound is pretty awesome!

And at the end of the show, he said that anyone who wanted to come down to the front of the stage could, so of course we were right there; front and centre!  I almost caught a drumstick, but the guy beside me scratched me, hahaha.  Diana caught a guitar pick.  And due to our bugging of the security guard, I got the set list.  Once we realised that there were two set lists taped together, we each took one!  We lucked out big time!  :)

It was just an absolutely fantasic show.
I LOVED it!

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Videos of Slash's Q&A at CMW.

This is a video of SLASH discussing how he's never been in the business for the money, but at the same time, artists should be compensated for their work.  Also, he discusses his experience working with Ray Charles. 




This is a video of SLASH speaking about his drug addiction and touches on Michael Jackson's death and use of downers; explaining how he relates and understands why Michael would be using them.
Slash shares the story behind his famous top hat and how he stole it.
He also discusses his solo album and an upcoming tour!



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Canadian Music Week - Day Three: Faithdown, illScarlett and Birds of Wales!

Day three of Canadian Music Week was a day of running around from venue to venue.

We started out the evening by metting up with Jakson from "Faithdown" at the Hard Rock Cafe.  He was such a sweetheart!  During his interview with Two Girls and a Blog, he told us all about his band and what they've been up to.  It was great to finally meet him.  jenny and I of course did our signature smooching picture, haha.

After that, we headed over to The Sound Academy, in the POURING RAIN I might add, to see illScarlett.  As many times as I've seen them in my life, I never get tired of them.  AND, for the first time that I've ever heard, they covered BON JOVI.  It was fantastic!  Also, this was the first time that I've ever actually almost fallen over from the crowd being so crazy at an ill show.  It was a great time though!

There were streamers! :)

There was confetti! :)

This is a video of illScarlett covering "Fat Bottomed Girls" by Queen!

After illScarlett, we headed over to The Supermarket in Kensington Market to see Birds of Wales play.  They are one of Jenny and Scerina's favourite bands.  This was my first time seeing them play!  Throughout their set they were going on and on about these "pretty silver markers".  So naturally after the show, we had to get them to sign our posters with their "pretty silver markers", haha.  Their CD comes out in April, so be sure to check it out!

Such a great night of music! :)

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CRMA's - the more interesting moments! ♥

Not that everything about the CRMA's wasn't fun, but there were some moments that were more interesting than others.  When everyone's just hanging out and having a good time, you run into some interesting people and strike up some interesting conversation.  :)


The more interesting moments at the Canadian Radio Music Awards: 

Chatting with the boys from Stereos

Tommy from Hedley

Chatting with Rich from Finger Eleven

Hanging out with Karl Wolf - he's so adorable!

Platinum Blonde was inducted into the Hall of Fame

Karl Wolf and Platinum Blond share some love.

And of course I had tons of fun hanging out with my partners in crime for the week; Jenny and Scerina! :D

The Canadian Radio Music Awards was such a fun time!

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Canadian Radio Music Awards - Performances.

All of the performances at the awards were pretty awesome!  The best ones, in my opinion, were definitely Karl Wolf because he had a full band from Africa, complete with like every instrument imaginable, and also The Arkells were pretty awesome just because of their whole comment on how just because it was an award show, it didn't mean that the audience couldn't clap along with the band.  It was awesome just 'cause no one seemed to be getting into the music/performances until they said something.


Performances of the award show included:

The New Cities

Stereos

The Midway State

Dean Brody

Karl Wolf

The Arkells

Carly Rae Jepson

They were all such great performances!

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