"Fergalicious (so delicious)but I ain't promiscuous and if you are suspicious all that shit is fictitious, I blow kisses, that puts them boys on rock, rock and they be lining down the block just to watch what I got. So delicious (It's hot, hot), so delicious (I put them boys on rock, rock), so delicious (they wanna slice of what I got), I'm fergalicious (t-t-t-t-t-tasty, tasty)"
--Normally I'd never choose lyrics even close to this but this is literally the song I heard everywhere and anywhere I was, all weekend --


As many of you may know (because I’ve been telling anyone who will listen, haha), this year I had the opportunity to be part of the 2007 Much Music Video Awards (aka the MMVA’s). I volunteered as a wrangler, which means you’re responsible for whatever person they assign you to. You have to make sure they are at the right location at the right time, for presenting, accepting awards, people performing, etc etc. Saturday I showed up in the afternoon for rehearsal and a bunch of us were in the “pool.” Basically we had no people to wrangle, so we had to wear the headsets and walk the grounds doing what we wanted until they called and said we were needed. We also had the coveted purple wristbands that provided us all access to the building, so nothing to do except whatever I wanted, I was pretty happy. Later in the evening they needed a wrangler for a stand in spot, I volunteered. The Much VJ Leah Miller and Chris Bosh of the Raptors were set to announce the winner of the Much Vibe Best Rap Video. The presenters didn’t need to come to rehearsals so I stood in next to Leah as Chris Bosh, lol. Leah spent the waiting time texting and I noticed her phone screen had Dallas Green’s face as her wallpaper. The fact that they’re together hurts my heart. He’s so talented and awesome and I’m jealous I admit it. He stuck around after the band left Saturday night to stay with her and cute things like that.
Aside from that, I spent the day back and forth between the different stages when different bands were rehearsing. I was kicking myself on Saturday because I forgot my damn camera, but luckily they did it all again on Sunday during the day, so I got to take some amazing pictures  I also met some other wranglers closer to my age who work in the building. Some of them were former interns and were really nice. I really love working in the Chum building as it is, but getting to spend it seeing cool bands, celebrities and hanging with some cool people while being considered a form of “work” is crazy. It really solidified for me that this is the industry I want to work in. Also on Saturday while I was watching Alexisonfire, they sang Boiled Frogs (even though they technically weren’t supposed to) it was excellent.

On Sunday I arrived at noon to wrangle Kevin DeFreitas the winning director of Best Pop Video. I stood in for his award and walked the stage ramp, which was pretty cool. Then I walked around watching more rehearsals. Unfortunately I didn’t get to see Finger Eleven’s rehearsal because they were on the roof, but Saturday night while they rehearsed they put it up on the big stage screens and we got to watch that way. They were amazing and the roof set up was so well done. That night everyone fancied up and waited for the people they were wrangling to show up. While we waited a bunch of celebrities walked by us, but unfortunately they were so close to us that I couldn’t take pictures without it looking intrusive and awkward. I saw:

Emilie DeRavin (from Lost) – she cut her hair off, still gorgeous!
Amber Tambilyn
Sum 41
Kenny and Spenny – Kenny looked kinda old
George (some R&B guy)
Joss Stone
Kardinal Offishall (Canadian rapper)
Genie Backer (from Fashion Television and Canada’s Next Top Model, she looked under fed and doped up)

Later in the evening we walked the parties in the building. I passed Jay Manuel and Nole Marin from the Top Model shows on the stairs and Nickelback passed us on their way out to the stage. At the second floor party we saw Ben Mulroney, and George Stroumboulopoulos. One of my TVA friends I’ve made, Christina has worked for the CBC and knows George rather well, so she helped me “friendly stalk” (as I like to call it), him down and get my picture taken. He was as nice as he always is. He’s like “Hi I’m George” like I didn’t know! Christina took our picture and he said it was a pleasure meeting me, and then in my ear said “Thanks for being so sweet to me.” Now I realize that he is by nature nice to everyone and has a certain image to uphold, but that aside, I was a happy happy girl.

The food was hilarious and unclassy but good. They served what I believe people secretly want to eat anyway: mini grilled cheese, mini hamburgers, mini poutine complete with mini container, soft serve ice cream, and mini chicken skewers. They served a drink called the Smashed up Guitar which was vodka, peach and lemon juice, I’m not sure what else. So good!

There were a few high maintenance stars as well. The Used was the worst, I felt sorry for their wrangler. Saturday we weren’t licensed for alcohol so they left before their rehearsal and went down to the Firkin Pub while they were supposed to be on stage. Sunday they wanted beer when we weren’t licensed until the evening, they wanted a single apple for my guess, a bong and then Bert wanted a mustache trimmer to shave before the show. Wouldn’t you have a razor or whatever of your own? I don’t know, then they brought some weird guys with huge costume heads and no one could find where they went, etc. I just felt they had a lot of antics. Maroon 5 also had a bit of diva behaviour. Someone changed the line that Leah was going to say while chatting with Maroon 5 and they demanded it be changed or else they refused to take part in it. Adam Levine the lead singer also said it couldn’t be a line about women or fashion. I guess he wanted to be taken seriously as an artist? Buuuut he’s in Maroon 5, that’s all I’m saying.

Well I think those are the highlights, I really had the best time and I hope like crazy I get the chance to work within the Chum building after my internship ends. People keep your fingers crossed for me!

"There are places I remember all my life, though some have changed. Some forever not for better, some have gone and some remain. All these places had their moments, with lovers and friends, I still can recall. Some are dead and some are living, in my life I've loved them all..."

It’s becomes a busy summer, which has meant less time for blogging. However, fortunate to have today off I thought it was time to get back to it. Working two jobs makes for a busy summer, but I’m still having a really good time. CityLine is going really well, and I really like the people there, like any job there are a few intimidating people, but that’s to be expected.

Bluenotes however, is starting to make me angry (aside from the fact that most retail jobs are a pain in the ass). We recently moved to a store about three times the size of our original. Not only that, but the store now looks exactly like a mock up of American Eagle just not as expensive. With a bigger store, comes a new manager because apparently the one we have does not have enough experience to run this one. I’m not sure if I quite buy this reasoning but I digress. It hasn’t even been a week since she took over and it’s already frustrating. Now I admit, I’ve had a confusing schedule. I booked off yesterday to attend a wedding of a good friend and I booked next weekend off to work the Much Music Video Awards. I mean, come on! That’s a once in a life time opportunity and with the ownership of CityTV up in the air like it is, the Awards (if still existent) could be very different come next year. The point is, I booked it off in the book, told her I booked it off and she still scheduled me for every one of those days. Also, now that our store is larger everyone’s got that crazy mentality of the iron fist, all work and no play while working that I became acquainted with from my days at Canadian Tire. Not that I obeyed it then, as Dana, Amanda and Brent well know and luckily I’ll only need this job for another 2 ½ months tops, so it’ll be interesting to see how that all goes.


I had a really great time this weekend. Usually I’m not the type to go on about how fantastic certain days/weeks are, but I was pleasantly surprised by this one, which is what I think made it so good. Friday night I dragged Amanda to Slainte which isn’t her first choice of places to attend, but I appreciated. Dana joined us as well for some drinks and some girl talk. Chris Chambers was playing with the band, Matt Danko working behind the bar. Lots of good friends. Saturday was really great. I had dinner/drinks with Brent who I hadn’t seen in a long time. You never know how it’ll be when you see someone and it’s been a while, but I really had a lot of fun (no one tell him that, lol). That night Steph, Morgan and I celebrated the monumental tradition of June 9th. We had drinks and good conversation in Morgan’s big back yard. With 2 jobs and not living in Hamilton I hadn’t seen them as recently as I would have liked, and I was really glad we had such a classic reason to get together and make the most of it.

Last night, with Dana as my date I went to my first Jewish wedding of a good friend of mine. It was a beautiful ceremony, the bride looked amazing and they both looked so happy. Normally I would peg myself as too cynical to think that two people ‘belonged together’ but I feel fairly confident in saying that they do. He even wowed the guests by showing off his guitar skills on stage with the band, and for a relatively shy person like he is, it was really cute. Dana and I were fairly convinced we were the only two single people there, and I had an odd encounter with a lady in the bathroom telling me of her boyfriend troubles. But that aside we drank, celebrated and danced.I can’t wait to take them out post honeymoon for some drinks and get to know this bride better, lol.

Back to work tomorrow, but I think this weekend has put me in a great mood to battle out the rest of the week. Next weekend I work all weekend at the MMVA’s but I think it’ll be exciting, here’s hoping!