Montreal and, wow.
Lucy and Kurt, where are you guys? We have to have a fun-filled pre-Montreal chat. The excitement has just taken hold of me for real - I just printed off all this event stuff & not to mention MY FAV SUBWAY MAP IN THE WORLD! I wanna like, climb up the mountain, and see free jazz ballet in the park lafontaine, and take y'all to the biodome, and attend some psychedelic folk at la sala rossa, and and .. eat chinese food in Chinatown, and watch the night pride parade, and be cool at Cinema du Parc and y'know. Jazz at the bistros.
In other news. Today is my day off and I was wandering Halifax for a bit before Dad's show at the Jazz Festival when I ran into Marlee. We talked for a moment and she is going to NSCAD in the fall too! . . So much to look forward too! I was so hyped.
Last Tuesday was my 18th Birthday, my Warhol-Basquiat Poster came that I'm going to mount.. Steph came over for dinner after our long shift, we had delicious coffee cake and vindaloo ish spicy curry. Speaking of curry... There is lots of Indian food in Montreal. Anyway. Kathryn got me a BEAU-tiful book for my birthday. It's called "Fun Home" by Alison Bechdel and you can purchase the sumptious hard cover edition at Strange Adventures, and Amazon.Com. or E-bay, or wherever you buy your graphic novels. Wow, just, wow. I stayed up really late the other day finishing it. It's an illustrated Memoir, perhaps even more sophisticated than Blankets [though I loved that one, too,) extremely literary, gorgeously drawn, story about her and her father. In a nutshell, her father devoted his whole life to renovating their gothic revival funeral home, and was a closeted homosexual. 4 monthes after she herself came out as a lesbian when she was in college, he died after being hit by a truck crossing the road. It's tagged as a "Family Tragicomic."
. . . Anyway it was super awesome, and provides literary parallels to James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Albert Camus, Oscar Wilde and a variety of feminist literature and more. Highly recommended by me and anyone else who has seen it. It also serves as proof of the graphic novel medium really maturing and coming together as a whole as a viable way of storytelling. Ah, my future career, I've found you explicitly at last . . .
-KVC
In other news. Today is my day off and I was wandering Halifax for a bit before Dad's show at the Jazz Festival when I ran into Marlee. We talked for a moment and she is going to NSCAD in the fall too! . . So much to look forward too! I was so hyped.
Last Tuesday was my 18th Birthday, my Warhol-Basquiat Poster came that I'm going to mount.. Steph came over for dinner after our long shift, we had delicious coffee cake and vindaloo ish spicy curry. Speaking of curry... There is lots of Indian food in Montreal. Anyway. Kathryn got me a BEAU-tiful book for my birthday. It's called "Fun Home" by Alison Bechdel and you can purchase the sumptious hard cover edition at Strange Adventures, and Amazon.Com. or E-bay, or wherever you buy your graphic novels. Wow, just, wow. I stayed up really late the other day finishing it. It's an illustrated Memoir, perhaps even more sophisticated than Blankets [though I loved that one, too,) extremely literary, gorgeously drawn, story about her and her father. In a nutshell, her father devoted his whole life to renovating their gothic revival funeral home, and was a closeted homosexual. 4 monthes after she herself came out as a lesbian when she was in college, he died after being hit by a truck crossing the road. It's tagged as a "Family Tragicomic."
. . . Anyway it was super awesome, and provides literary parallels to James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Albert Camus, Oscar Wilde and a variety of feminist literature and more. Highly recommended by me and anyone else who has seen it. It also serves as proof of the graphic novel medium really maturing and coming together as a whole as a viable way of storytelling. Ah, my future career, I've found you explicitly at last . . .
-KVC