Movie Night – Ottawa

My friends at Alliance sent this along:

April 14th at 7pm/Empire 7 Cinemas – 111 Albert Street

Following the screening guests are invited to Heart & Crown (Byward) – 67 Clarence Street to mingle and received a complimentary gift bag full of swag. RSVP to 17again@alliancefilms.com with “Movie Night Ottawa” in the subject line. Must be 19+, reply by Friday April 10.

The Streets (CHEW FU fix)

Some music for everyone. Enjoy.

(Yousendit link)
Chew Fu “Cash In My Pocket” DJ Set
https://rcpt.yousendit.com/639028902/60252ba38b1a49e33b9e1a07f459a4d5

The Streets-Get Out Of My House(Chew Fu H=H fix)
https://www.yousendit.com/download/WnBSckhjcklvQnNLSkE9PQ

(Zshare link)
Chew Fu “Cash In My Pocket” DJ Set
http://www.zshare.net/audio/53702409d1f98a2b/

The Streets-Get Out Of My House(Chew Fu H=H fix)
http://www.zshare.net/audio/53706551c09fc2ae/

(divshare link)
Chew Fu “Cash In My Pocket” DJ Set
http://www.divshare.com/download/6247502-e02

The Streets-Get Out Of My House(Chew Fu H=H fix)
http://www.divshare.com/download/6247507-aab

GiG_Dates in Australia ;
Sat Jan 10:  Chinese Laundry, Sydney
Sat Jan 24:  Chinese Laundry, Sydney
Sun Jan 25: Trinity Bar, Canberra
Sat Feb 14:  Empire, Brisbane

Tracklisting;Chew Fu “Cash In My Pocket” DJ Set(ARTWORK ATTACHED/Photo;Manja Van Mastrigt)

0.The Streets-Get out of my house (Chew Fu H=H fix)
1.Wiley-Cash in my pocket(Chew Fu Small room fix)
2.Chew Fu-Chicks & Pills
3.Frank Sinatra-New York New York(Chew Fu Big room fix)
4.Frankie Finch & Chew Fu -Let it Go
5.Chew Fu & King B-hey Shawty
6.The Score-We Got You(Chew Fu refix)
7.Master SHortie-Rope Chain(Chew Fu refix)
8.Chew Fu & J-cast-Bakerstreet(Chew Fu Barfight fix)
9.Missy Elliott-Lick Shots(Chew Fu Refix)
10.Chew Fu & Popov-i`m the man in my city
11.Wiley-cash in my pocket(Chew Fu Big Room fix)
12.Depeche mode-enjoy the silence(Chew Fu fix)
13.OASIS-The Turning(Chew Fu Fix)
14.M.A.W.-Work(Chew Fu Fix)
15.Master Shortie-Dead end(Chew Fu Fix)
16.Busta & Link Park-We made it(Chew Fu Fix)
17.Chew Fu & Steve Clisby-Stand by me
18.the Doors-People are strange(Chew Fu Fix)
19.Kanye West – Love Lockdown(Chew Fu SMall room fix)

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Missing you

Other than the usual stuff most humans miss when they are away from a place they called home for so long (friends, family, etc), there are a few other things that I miss about Ottawa. I semi miss the summer days of walking down Bank Street and being called a hipster by one particular friend. Actually, she’d yell hipster (you know who you are)! I definitely miss a) Bridgehead b) Planet Coffee and c) aspects of the University of Ottawa. I never thought I would ever write “bring something only found in Ottawa to Toronto” but I’m going to do it now, so here it is: PLEASE BRING A BRIDGEHEAD HERE…NOW.

Oh, and I also miss those random nights at Babylon for Disorganised. So does Deyla, who also lives in Toronto now.

The horror stories about the bus strike and the infinite amount of snow Ottawa is getting is making Toronto feel more like home, aside from the fact that my career and condo are both here. In Ottawa, I was merely a student. But if there’s one more positive thing I could add about Ottawa it would definitely be the city’s snow removal program. I complained endlessly about this system year after year because it continously blocks the scarce parking downtown but after suffering through Toronto’s snow removal system, I can honestly say Ottawa really knows how to remove snow. Toronto could learn a thing or two from them because even though we do not have nearly as much snow as the Capital  in T.O., it looks like we got more since they have no idea how to remove snow properly here.

J’en peu plus – musique 2008

It just dawned on me that my university GPA would’ve been much higher if I didn’t spend so much time at the library discussing music over homework and scrolling through music blogs instead of Virtual Campus. Oh well, I ended up graduating with a good GPA and a HUGE music collection. So huge in fact that my Macbook Pro went from 100GB to a mere 12GB. Thank you Morisset library for 1) the inspiration and 2) bringing people together during the most social time of the year, finals. I will forever be thankful to you and to the University of Ottawa’s disastrous VPN client.

So as 2008 comes to a close, I begin thinking back at all the songs that I obsessed over throughout the year. These are the tunes that kept up with the loop button on the ipod (which likes to freeze on shuffle mode and ends up stopping during a great tune, leaving you incapable of completing your magnificient dance moves).

Compiling this list also made me realize that I listen to way too many remixes (Arty are you nodding in approval yet?). Sometimes I forget what the original sounds like altogether. This list is seriously, in the words of George Michael, for the feet. Please note, some are old school songs but were on repeat nonetheless! Also note that when reading through this list, make sure your body parts are coordinated and 100% focused because they’ll all be taking part in the dance marathon you’ll be participating in afterwards. Without further adue, here’s the list that’s more essential than the BBC radio 1 mixes. I would like to dedicate this to Bear, Arty and Dre, all who have strong connections to this list even though we are all at various corners across the world.

1. Cut Copy – Hearts on Fire (Aeroplane Pop mix)
2. Junior Boys – FM (Tensnake remix)*
3. Maurice Fulton mix for Pig Radio
4. Kinky Foxx – So Different*
5. Yazoo – Situation (Hercules & Love Affair remix)*
6. Lo-Fi-Fnk – Want U*
7. Whitest Boy Alive – Golden Cage (Fred Falke remix)*
8. Fleetwood Mac – Never Forget (Cut Copy remix)*
9. Emergency – Too Much (Shazam remix)*
10. Air France – Collapsing at your doorstep
11. Mr. Oizo – Cut Dick
12. Grovesnor – Drive your car (Hot Chip remix)
13. Prince – Erotic City*
14. The Teenagers – Homecoming*
15. The Teenagers – French Kiss
16. The Radio Dept – Freddie and the Trojan Horse
17. Crookers – Gypsy P
18. Charlie Smalls – Never Felt Like This Before*
19. Player – Baby Come Back
20. The Klaxons – As Above, So Below (Justice remix)*
21. Friendly Fires – Paris (Aeroplane remix)*
22. Digitalism – Idealistic*
23. Brendan Canning – Hit the Wall
24. The Twelves – Works For me*
25. Ted & Francis – I wish I was a polar bear (Arctic Urgency edit)
26. Phoenix – If I ever feel better, I’ll go to the disco – Said the Buffalo Bunch*
27. Van She – So High
28. Van She – Changes
29. Van She – Sex City (The Teenagers Remix)
30. Sebastien Tellier – Look
31. Sebastien Tellier – Kilometer (Moulinex Remix)
32. Sebastien Tellier – Pomme
33. Lykke Li – Little Bit*
34. Little Boots – Meddle (Treasure Fingers Remix)*
35. X&Hell – My Fkn Hat (produced by Shazam)
36. U-Tern – Pop Lock*
37. Depeche Mode – Policy of Truth
38. Juan Maclean – Resident Advisor Podcast 2008-01-14
39. Juan Maclean – Happy House
40. Jocko – Rhythm Talk*
41. The Virgins – Rich Girls
42. Cut Copy – Lights & Music (Moulinex Remix)*
43. Au Revoir Simone – Sad Song (RAC remix)
44. Fleetwood Mac – Tell me Lies*
45. Fleetwood Mac – Gypsy*
46. Hercules & Love Affair – Blind*
47. Peter Sarstedt – Where do you go to my lovely*
48. Pnau – With you forever
49. Pnau – Baby (Breakbot remix)*
50. Treasure Fingers – Cross the Dancefloor*
51. One Hand Loves The Other – Don’t know (Treasure Fingers remix)
52. Treasure Fingers – Cross the Dancefloor (Lifelike remix)*
53. Thieves Like Us – Declarations
54. Mr. Oizo – Yves
55. DJ Illo – 1979 shake
56. Cut Copy – Stars*
57. Top Billin’ – Willing*
58. Cut Copy – Far Away (Damn Arms Remix)*
59. George Michael – Too Funky
60. Black Kids – I’m not gonna teach your boyfriend (The Twelves Remix)*
61. Erlend Oye – Sudden Rush (The Twelves Remix)
62. Juiceboxxx and Dre Skull – Center Stage (Curses! Remix)
63. Rufus Wainwright – Chelsea Hotel No 2 (Leonard Cohen cover)*
64. Golden Bug – Barbie’s Back (warning this song is terribly graphic)
65. Louis Laroché – Peach*
66. Girl Talk – Let me see you
67. CSS – Move (Cut Copy remix)*
68. Zingone featuring Nina – Auto Remix Happy face*
69. Hot Chip – A Glue Too Thick*
70. LCD Soundsystem – Get Innocuous
71. Scenario Rock – Hard Task
72. Scenario Rock – Skitzo Dancer (part 1)
73. Johan Agebjorn & Sally Shapiro – Pig Radio Mix*
74. Atmosphere – Shhh…
75. Radiohead – Videotape (Ring Trick mix)*
76. Diplo featuring Rye Rye – Wassup Wassup
77. Daft Punk – Something about us (Eastar remix)*
78. Low Motion Disco – Things are gonna get easier
79. Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele – Meet Me In The Garden*
80. Broken Social Scene – Lover’s Spit (Beehives album version) this one will be on every list I compile. You know why? Because it’s phenomenal, that’s why, so live with it always being here!*

Maintenance

I believe there are some technical difficulties with the website, i.e some pictures are not being displayed (only on Firefox, no problems with Safari). Please bare with me as I try to sort this out (damn you photobucket). Supposedly, if a lot of people click on the pictures, it blows your bandwidth through the roof. I guess I need to find another option since OSS gets many visitors per day that want to see the pictures. I’m fixing it, I promise it shouldn’t be long.

90210, without Beverly Hills

If the OC and Gossip Girl weren’t enough, 40 year old producers decided to resurrect a classic eight years after it went off the air. The beloved Beverly Hills 90210 from the 1990′s is now called “90210″. Although I have much to write about commodity fetishism within these teen soaps (thanks to that degree of mine) I won’t. Instead, I am going to focus on the outfits and the characters in this show. Please note, I don’t have television so I watched the episodes online in terrible quality, and I also decided to sit through five episodes instead of one like a trooper, so I can observe the outfits throughout the episodes (maybe they’ll get better).




My favourite website, Gawker, wrote about how hideous and disappointing the outfits were on the new 90210 and now I know – they weren’t kidding. I think it’s episode 3 where the character Naomi (who slightly resembles a young Charlize Theron) is wearing the ugliest denim outfit EVER (I can’t find a picture online). Come to think of it, she’s supposed to be the stylish, rich and pretty girl but yet her style is not even Abercrombie preppy, it’s just really bad.




Naomi

The other characters, mainly the main character Annie, also has very blah style. Oh Shenae Grimes, she still looks like she’s playing Darcy from Degrassi except with a confidence boost and Toronto is now Beverly Hills. Now, in Annie’s case, it’s okay that her style is boring because she’s from Kansas and all (according to the show that’s supposed to be “ohhh so gross”) but what about the other characters who are born and raised in money money Beverly Hills?

Annie

Throughout the 40-minute episodes, the only one that had any decent outfits was Kelly’s little sister Erin Silver (the actress is smoking hot by the way except she’s f’n skinny).




Silver

And then there’s that druggie music-actor girl Adrianna who is also really really pretty, BUT seems to have had one of those terrible First Choice hair cuts we all got in the fifth grade, except at a much more socially crucial age. Seriously…someone do something about that hair do, there’s just too much hair! She’s so pretty but you can’t see it behind that awful ‘do. Who hired the wardrobe people and hair dressers on this show any way?







Adrianna

Okay, let’s talk about the males. First, Ethan (why did I know they were going to name him that?) is quirky and cute, and he’s also another Canadian actor from the Northwest Territories. The show is packed with Canadian actors and well, good for them, although I would like to see more Canadian shows. Moving back to the males, most of them are good looking, mainly that Ty Collins dude, except they look way too old to be in high school, which is always the case in teen soaps. When I go back to my memory and think of high school (it was not that long ago), I don’t remember any boys being a) that cute and b) looking that old and being so mature (sort of). Ty is like eleven feet tall, scores tickets to great bands, is actually respectable (until episode 5), and took Annie to San Francisco on the first date. Um, 16 year old boys are not usually like that. But even though Ty sweats money, money can’t buy the man style (see episode 4 as reference).




Ty

Another boy on the show with bad style is Annie’s adoptive brother Dixon. Actually, his style is really awful, but the good thing is, it actually reminds me of how boys dressed up in high school. The only boy with fashion sense that suits his personality is Navid Shirazi, the son of the porn king. What I find funny is, although the kid looks Persian or East Indian and has a name that is from that region, we’re told he’s Jewish. Good job casting.




Dixon

In conclusion, the new cast is better looking than the previous one, except far less interesting and a much smaller budget has been spent on one of the most important elements for the rich – wardrobe and hair.




Annie, Naomi and Silver

Pictures from: http://justjared.buzznet.com/gallery/photos.php?yr=2008&mon=08&evt=90210-nylon&pic=90210-nylon-magazine-05.jpg

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A failure in pastiche

Today’s post discusses advertising. Although not fashion related, I felt it necessary to discuss Moxie’s latest campaign as it relates to the “treating women as sexual objects and subject to the male gaze” topic that I’ve discussed here and here.

Moxie’s Bar and Grill has been known to hire girls for the following reasons:

a) they have blond hair

b) they are sexy and/or slutty

c) they are somewhat good looking

Before you say anything, I assure you, the feminists are already on it!

I want to talk about Moxie’s latest advertising campaign, “thingshappen.ca”. Please download the PDF here to see what I am talking about. All three ads are reminiscent of misogynistic Axe advertising. What’s more interesting is the website attached to this, visit thingshappen.ca. Upon logging on, I was asked my age and province of residence (something usually associated with alcoholic beverages websites or porn related sites). Then I was asked to choose a female or male companion to play the “Mojo Game”. It doesn’t end there, I must make a move and I offer my companion a drink, there are three options and I opt for a Double Scotch, he chugs it (it’s a real model) and says “heat all the way down, like the heat I feel with you.” Now we are at dessert and I decide to give him some Cuban Chocolate Moose Cake. He says, “baby that’s what I like.” Wait, why did we skip dinner? The website then tells me I am in the mood for a little romance. I don’t understand the point of this game so I play again.

This time, I click on the woman and she’s much more sexy (not look wise but her voice and gestures) than that male companion I just wined and fed dessert to. She’s got way more chances with me then he does, hahah. Let’s start off with some drinks. My girl is “so glad she gave into this temptation” when I offer her a Raspberry Temptation. Now, I have the option of offering her dinner. WTF? Why was I not offered this option with the dude exactly? Anyway, I offer her Wild Salmon on Capellini, but before I do so, I wait a little bit and she starts checking herself out in the mirror. “Quintessential” female behaviour when we are bored for like two minutes, right? Oh Moxie’s you sure know women! Who is the art director for this thing any way? Back to dinner, my date inhales the meal and tells me it reminds her of Italy. I am 100% she’s never been but she starts saying something in Italian, probably about wanting to skip dessert, take me home and make out with me in the cab. Still unaware I am not the sex that interests her (but with a few more Raspberry Temptations, she may be (the Moxie’s logic)), the dessert menu arrives. I would take the cab offer but the website won’t allow me to skip dessert, and I think she’s going to love the Banana Carmel Xango. Success, she says it makes her “happy”. So once we are done our meal, this is what the website tells me:

“You’re definitely feeling amorous today. Wine, warm ambiance and sensual food reflect your mood. Being a lover not a fighter means you’re always willing to go the extra mile to please. Let the tantalizing and endless possibilities at Moxie’s keep your romantic mood going”

Flooded with sexual innuendo, Moxie’s is really cutting it close here. Their print and billboard advertisements are sexist and mysoginistic. Their website is unnecessary and plain stupid. It reminds me of this website a guy in my grade 10 computer class used to visit called ROMP.COM. The other funny part is, Moxie’s is failing at copying a campaign that’s been done before. Word of advice, it’s better to fail at originality then to fail at pastiche, make sure your ad agency knows this.

Je m’excuse

Dear readers,

I want to take the time to apologize for the lack of street style pictures on the website. This stems from the fact that I have devoted my time to the great indoors as I am religiously looking for employment. Therefore, most of the posts are related to topics I can research while at home. I have also been without my dear Macbook pro, which is under repairs (you’d think for the price the computer should be invincible) and the company that is fixing it is on my bad side right now (I won’t reveal their name…yet). I am working from a loner PC right now. With that being said, forgive me. I will try to see the sun again and take pictures of people. Promise.

Heard on the streets

While walking to our destination in downtown Ottawa yesterday, we had to pass by the Salvation Army on George Street. We were 3 girls and many men were obviously staring but one of them had the courage to get up, put out his arm and ask “hey ladies when was the last time you dated a crack head?”.

I burst out laughing, best line ever, no doubt he wins the prize.

Sorry

I want to apologize for the lack of posting. I have been travelling back and forth these past few weeks with limited access to Internet. Sorry, I’ll post soon ok?