Two Months in a Row.

I like you GQ. I really do. But I won't buy you when your cover look like this


or this


I'm not sure how old, or what gender, you think we are but you better make it up to us next month.

Ottawa and a Dragon

A couple of weeks ago I took my first trip to our nation's capital. It was a pretty fantastic weekend. The Parliament buildings were impressive and the market area was pretty cool. We had dinner at a great restaurant called Play.

It's a tapas style place, or at least that's what we had. This is scallops on the left and salmon on the right.

For dessert I had bread pudding but their apple cobbler (below) looked just as good.

Actually it was so good we went back the next day for their brunch. Delicious.

The whole reason for the trip though was to see Robert Lepage's The Blue Dragon at the NAC. What a fucking show. I'd never seen Lepage's theatre work live before - although I did see Peter Gabriel's Secret World Tour, which blew me away - and he didn't disappoint. This show is one of the best pieces of theatre I've seen. The acting (in several languages), the set, the projections, it was all truly awe inspiring.

Robert Lepage and Marie Michaud.

Tai Wei Foo and Robert Lepage

Marie Michaud and Robert Lepage

If this show comes close to you go and see it.

Whistlers and Bird.

Usually I hate whistlers. I find it annoying when someone is just whistling away on the subway, or something. It's intrusive. That might be because I'd never heard someone as good as Andrew Bird. We saw his show on Friday and were competely blown away. I really like his music so I was expecting to enjoy the show but not as much as I did. The way he loops the violin and his whistling to build the beginnings of songs is really quite something.

With his last name being Bird maybe he was destined to be such a damn good musician.