December and Kitty Kat's KrAzY busy!!

And I love it... :o)

I did a show at the Wired Monk last Thursday with some wonderful artists:

* TÉA
* Chantel Upshaw
* Colin Bullock

I was extremely happy to share the stage with these talented people. Definitely humbling... I'm just getting back in the scene, and I am so inspired to keep working on my show and getting things better and better for my live performances! It was a bit scary opening for these guys... getting up there and looking around and being the ice breaker. But I'm taking what I can from it and pushing forward. I have to. This is the one thing I just can't let go of!

Yep. The Stage is addicting. Singing is addicting... Music is addicting.

So I'll be back at the Wired Monk with Ambre Rippon and Adam Gibbs this Thursday. Leah, who runs the place, is SOOO sweet and I'm really happy I met her! Thank goodness for places like these.

And the show goes on!

Vancouver City Limits/RPW/Violet Femmes

After a couple of days of recouping, I can take some time now to talk about my latest involvement!

I recently got asked to help out with RPW Records, an indie label just starting up. Pam Southwell has been kind enough to give me a shot. And I'm looking forward to it because I want to learn as much as I can whilst recording this album - getting the ins and outs of the business, and soak in what I can to help me move forward. I'm pretty stoked!! RPW Records started a compilation CD of women artists called Violet Femmes, Volume 1 has made a big impact in the indie scene... and Volume 2 is on its way!! (I'm trying to sneak in one of my tunes in this one. *snicker*)

When Pam got in touch with me, she mentioned that she got a new office at The Beaumont Studios which is a few blocks away from my place. The Beaumont Studios started a weekly Monday Night thing where they feature local artists and they share it on their YouTube Channel - Vancouver City Limits. It became a quick success, and they decided to throw an artist and music festival in September. Pam mentioned to the lovely staff there that she will be working with me and I used to do some event coordinating back in the day, and then I got a call from Bruce Gerrish asking me to lend a hand! I was really excited to get involved!

So I jumped in and helped out and I am proud to say that I was part of the Vancouver City Limits Festival!! We blocked off the parking lot of the studio, had 2 stages, one inside the studio at the Theatre, and one outside. We had 15 acts, some of them being Adaline, Chantel Upshaw, Adrian Glynn
, Orchid Highway, Mud Dog and Tea ... that's just scratching the surface of the amazing talent that performed that day. We had mural painters, face painters, balloon twisty-doers, a beer garden, food from the Red Square on Granville, and even tarot card readers. It was truly something else! While people were performing you could leisurely walk around the studio and look at the art and even buy a painting or two if you chose to... and the live music was being played through the speakers around the studio, so you didn't miss anything! It was a fantastic event, everyone was there to just enjoy what Vancouver Artists and Musicians had to offer. It was a huge success, and we will be doing another Festival in the spring! WOOHOO! :-) (Trying to sneak myself in there too... hehehe!)

Other than that, I'm awaiting the final product of a new song I recorded at FaderMaster Studios. Then afterwards going to go back in there and track for a new one.

The journey continues...

MYSPACE and Other shameless self promotion

Yo yo!

Check out the new MySpace with the songs from the demo up. Produced by Daniel Byrne at FaderMaster Studios

CHECK OUT MYSPACE!

Also, I'm on ILIKE!

June 22nd I'm doing my first photo shoot with Jen Echols! and being styled by Emily Roop!

It's exciting. I've been fake and bakin' in hopes to get a nice golden tan, but I'm getting freckles along with that. Darn it! Just kidding, it's fun!

Lessons Learned... but moving forward :-)

Someone said to me not too long ago to have no regrets... it's funny 'coz I find those kind of people seem to do the same stupid thing again and again. I am one to go:"Wow... THAT was dumb, I know I'm never doing THAT again." But I guess to each their own. I have definitely learned a lot working on the upcoming album, and a lot you might have heard about already, some you'll get to hear a bit about it in the album. But it's been good, a great experience, I'm learning a lot about the whole music business side of things, about people, about me... *insert chorus of cheesy violins here*

The demo is finally done. Going to get it mastered. But I will have some edits of it up on MySpace soon with a new look and everything, consider this your preview! Next week, photo shoot. The week after that, starting to build the actual website with some of pics from the first part of the photo shoot. Then in July, back in the studio to get'er done!!

Will be announcing the new MySpace Page this weekend. Working on it as we speak... or type? Read? Whatev!!!

K HOLD UP!... This ain't Hip Hop!

Yes... I must admit, I have actually put a line like that in my album. It's pretty wikked, I'm happy with the way things have been going. Things are coming together!! I have my first photo shoot for the album in June with Jen Echols and I got my hair stylist Emily Roop in on it getting my hair all PERRRDY for the shoot (she's been doing my hair for 3 years now, so I'm stoked to have her involved!)

Getting ideas for the website in place. Going to Edmonton for a label meeting. It's been quite a journey... discovering more about myself... Every layer of myself comes out in a song somehow, it may not be lyrically but a piece of me does come out. Then once it's there on the table I look to find another layer of complexity there that I start writing about. Didn't realize how much I was covering up. Well, some stuff was hard to sing about but it's been good for me.

More to come...

Hello World!!! I'm back!!!!

HELLO AGAIN!



Well, I'm back on Blogworld... been a fantastic summer so far. Great friends and good weather! Scavenger hunts, beaches, parties with friends, new beginnings... loving' it! I've also been getting great friends from afar visiting and it's good to get in touch with them again. My best friend Michelle is coming to visit soon and that'll be sweet! I'll definitely be posting up some stuff on that. For now I should get ready for work... yeah!

I love the summer!!!

My Inner Sexy Cartoon Chick

I agree completely with this one!!!



Happy Saint Patty's Day everyone! While you are all out enjoying green beer, I will be at my pub kicking out Drunken Canadians for thinking they are Irish and for some reason that gives them a right to grab my ass and kiss me... take that lucky charm and stick it up your heiny!!!

It's gonna be a great night!!!

Cheers!!!

Urban Ninja

Woah... can you imagine being able to do this shit???

After a weekend of playing Nintendo Wii

I was all against it... the whole two controller deal and moving around with your character. My argument, since the Nintendo Wii came out during the Christmas holidays, was:"Playing video games is supposed to be relaxing!! I don't want to start jumping around and shit! I'm on my feet almost 8 hours a night at work!!! YEEEESH!!"

Well, after being introduced to it this weekend... I am, of course, hooked!

Remember when you were a kid (if you were born in the early 1980's, yes, I've gotten old enough to refer to my year of birth as a close to extinct generation... *le sigh*), and Nintendo FIRST came out?? You would get Super Mario and Duckhunt as a package deal. Well, I think the Wii has given me a nostalgic feeling bringing me back to those days. Why? Well, I remember playing Super Mario and everytime I would make Mario jump I would move my arms in the same direction Mario was jumping - thinking that the constant movement of my arms with the hands on the controller would "help" Mario get to that one block ledge. LOL! And I also remember being completely into Duckhunt standing with my gun and moving around to get all the ducks. I even remember trying to shoot the dog that would laugh at me when I missed... why couldn't we shoot that dog!?!

Well, with the Wii, you can do all these child-like movements but do WAY cooler things!! And the whole addition of creating your own Mii character... Tres Cool!! I'm loving it!! I have played all the sports games and I'm totally losing myself in Twilight Princess. The speaker that is built in one of your controllers makes using your bow and arrow addictive!

And for those men out there who need a little trimmin'... trust me, a few days with a Wii and you feel a workout. You even get the Wii Sports games to give you a fitness test!! LOL!! My biceps hurts man... I'm ready to take on any fool tonight at work!!

No! Really... I mean it worked for this guy:

*CLICK TO ENLARGE*

I could have passed Math...

If you're REALLY not happy with the way you look...

Go to Zwinky's! It is a new revolutionized way to communicate with your peers! Yes, we have MySpace, we have Facebook AND MSN Messenger ... time and time again I tell myself that I do not need another internet website to self promote myself and post on the World Wide Web about how bad a day I'm having... so bad that I simply can't pick up the phone anymore and say:"Hey {insert name}... let's go for coffee, I've had a bad day and need to talk about it." No, no, no. Instead I post a blog about it.

To tell you all honestly, if somebody asked me in person why I'm having a bad day, I wouldn't be able to articulate myself as well as I do when I write in my blog... that's because the internet has raised me into a moron when it comes to public speaking. (the word "DUR" comes to mind for some reason) I don't need to speak anymore, I can just say:"Go visit http://katmobile.blogspot.com and you'll know why..." and heck, while we're on this topic, let's talk about how we can't even deal with confrontations anymore in person. No... we seem to wait until we're on MSN and wait until you hear that oh-so-lovable bell tone that tells you someone signed in, and you frantically run to your computer (you have left the tap running and didn't even dry your hands from washing your dishes). You grab the mouse, open up the Messenger and scroll to see... is he? Did he?? YES!!! He's on!!

Ok you need to talk.

Shit! What do you say...

Ok just type something... you do...

He didn't answer...

What's his deal?

You wait...

Wait some more...

WTF?! He signed off!?!?!

Bastard, fuckin' bastard!!! How could he DO this to you?!?! You are MAAAAAADDDD!!! He knew that you were going to be online. So now you've decided that he's a jerk and doesn't deserve your time. His loss, right??!!

Have you not thought about calling the poor bastard?!

Poor, poor bastard.

AAAANYWAYS! That was a nice tangeant!! But seriously dudes, go check out Zwinky's. Not only is it another way to communicate with your peers, but you don't even have to find a good picture of yourself to impress that guy you're so pissed off at because his computer broke down and couldn't answer back on MSN (you would have known this if you called him you know!), NOPE! You get to CHOSE what you look like, you get the option of Female Hottie, Male Hottie, Male Cutie and Female Cutie... and man, they are ALL cute really! So you don't have to worry about taking a pic of yourself from your webcam at the right angle to display online. You can even change the shape of the eyes, the hairstyle, the skin tone. SWEET!
Now the fun part starts, you get to dress these decoys of you up!! You get a whole bunch of shirts, jackets, hats, boots, shoes to chose from! And it covers more than one demographic too. You can chose goth clothes, raver clothes, prep... etc... nice, way to be wordly!!!
And JUST when you thought that you had enough, you get to chose a pet and an accessory that shows what you do as a hobby or a living. I chose a microphone... I wanted to have a microphone, a laptop AND a video game console, but you can only chose one - DAMMIT! I wanted to show that I was a WELL ROUNDED person!

Anyways... after playing around with this site for a bit, signing up and whatnot... This is what I came up with :

Pretty accurate no?? Now parents don't have to worry so much about their kids online, 'coz they can now have cybersex with other cartoons like these ones and if their partner ever goes 'stalker' on them they won't really know what they look like. Way to fool them! (What I.P address???)

And yet again I wasted yet another afternoon online instead of finishing up my homework for my seminar tomorrow morning.

Did I not say that the internet made me a moron???

Have a good one!!!

Happy Singles Awareness Day!!!

So us singles are looking to this day with scorn. Some of us are even displaying attitudes of bitterness and contempt... why?? Well here is why:

For all those couples out there who have today, and TODAY ONLY, to decorate their lovers bedroom with roses, heart shaped candy and heck, let's even take some of those roses and rip off their petals and shower the bed with them ... then later, when your lover comes home and sees that you have killed a rose or two to decorate their bed to create the mood to copulate, you two will make out a little and as you both fall onto the bed... you quickly wipe those petals off onto the floor while you are both taking your clothes off. What a waste of a rose to just simply create a mood, only to vaccuum it all up when you're done in an hour (or less, if you're THAT bad!). What happened to the days when the mere sight of your lover made you want to take off your clothes! Now you must go to the extent of buying chocolates and roses, LOTS of them for this day especially to prove your love. The more you buy for that one your love, the better your love for them is!...
Oh oh oh! And let's NOT forget the fact that the lady has bought expensive lingerie to wow you with! It might have taken her, oh let's say, 3 hours to find the RIGHT undergarment outfit for you... only to last a mere few seconds on her body then you quickly rip it off and it too ends up on the floor with those rose petals.

My take... Valentine's Day is a waste of time, energy and money! So much pressure to prove your love to one another! I know some couples who have opted out on the celebration of Valentine's Day. I applaud them for doing so. They claim that they don't need that day to prove they love each other. I ALSO know of someone who went through the trouble to book off a tiny plane to fly his girlfriend to some island nearby to be all romantic and shit. Yeeeeesh! (Loser)

Ok ok ok, I'm sure if someone did that to me I would be a little blown away. 'Coz it IS pretty cool. And I'm just enjoying being all bitter right now. But honestly, what would blow me away even more is if someone did that on some other day, not any particular day, and he would have done it 'just because'. Spontaneity is far more cool. If you can come up with that on a whim one day out of the blue, and show that you haven't put so much pressure on yourself to prove your love to me on a specific day - you just did it because you wanted to do something cool for me, then THAT would give me that WOAH feeling. No stress. Just a random act of romance. Now that's far more impressive than the thought of you running around stressing out a few days before today, wondering if you've bought enough stuff to prove that you really, really really, love me.

Upon doing a fun research on Valentines Day, I have come across a few interesting historical facts about this economical waste of a day:

* In Ancient Rome, February 14th was Lupercalia. The term came from the greek word lupus, meaning wolf - the connection was when the she-wolf nursed the two romans, Romulus and Remus, who later traditionally became the founders of Rome. Priests of a cult called Luperci would travel to the cave where legend said to be the place where this she-wolf reared Romulus and Remus. They would sacrifice two goats and a dog and scatter the blood in the streets to bring fertility and keep wolfs away from the fields.

* A Greek Historian, Plutarch, commented on Lupercalia:

Lupercalia, of which many write that it was anciently celebrated by shepherds, and has also some connection with the Arcadian Lycaea. At this time many of the noble youths and of the magistrates run up and down through the city naked, for sport and laughter striking those they meet with shaggy thongs. And many women of rank also purposely get in their way, and like children at school present their hands to be struck, believing that the pregnant will thus be helped in delivery, and the barren to pregnancy.

* On St. Valentine's Day in 1349, roughly 2000 Jews were burned to death by Christian mobs in Strasbourg. These mobs, led by nobles who owed large sums of to Jewish moneylenders, blamed the Jews for bringing in the Bubonic Plague.

* Saint Valentine refers to one or more martyred Saints of Ancient Rome. The reason for the martyr : for being a Christian.

Hmmmmmmmm... and from that we get cinnamon hearts, heart shaped chocolates and cupid!





Now wait a sec... arrows to your heart... to create love??? HUH?!

Have a good one!