Happy Canada Day!

Wednesday, 02 July 2008

Okay I'm a day late but still ... I had a great Canada Day! I went to see my friends, Sho Mo and The Monkey Bunch play at Queen's Park. Then went to see Martha Wainwright at Harbourfront. It was a perfect summer night. Watching an outdoor concert with fireworks exploding in the background. I can't believe it was a year ago July 1st that I moved into my first house! Holy Crappers! And yet I still have so much work to do on it. It never ends. Being a homeowner is challenging but I do love it. Also hard to believe a year ago WFC was gearing up to go to the Edinburgh Fringe. Part of me does wish we were going back. But it was exhausting and I don't think my liver could handle another month in Scotland.

So we had our first two weeks of rehearsal for the new WFC show (I'm using WFC instead of writing Women Fully Clothed not to be an arsehole but for brevity's sake). There's so much funny material floating around. It has been great to write sketches again. After living in the world a half hour sitcom it is such a different beast to write five to seven minute sketches. We also had a day of music with our wondrous musical director, Bob Derkach. Lots of great stuff there too!

I've been writing a lot (Ralph and I are also working on our new series idea) and trying to enjoy some time off. I went to see the extremely talented Patricia Zentilli (she played Susan on The Jane Show) at the Jazz Festival. She did a cabaret at the Old Mill. She was incredible. Such a beautiful singer and committed actor. And she was hilarious to boot. Not that any of us were surprised. Lots of friends were there. Measha Bruggergosman, Rex Harrington, Geri Hall, Rosemarie Umetsu, Sharron Matthews ... it was great to see so many people out supporting the lovely Patricia. She was accompanied by the uber talented Patti Loach whose husband and trumpet player, John Loach, joined them for a few songs. It was a magical night. And it didn't end there. After the show a few of us headed over to Byzantium on Church Street. Yes, in the middle of Pride madness. It was so much fun. I have some pictures to prove it. I might look a little drunk in this pic but hey, what are you going to do? When at Pride ... wear ass-less chaps and have a mojito. Or something like that. (I know my cleavage is a bit out of control. See above saying)

In other news I'm going to be heading to Montreal for the Just For Laughs festival. I'll be shooting a video diary and blog that will be posted on their website covering the "Just Comedy" portion of the festival. Just Comedy is a two day event that will bring comedy industry people together for workshops, seminars and networking sessions - and lots of drinking I'm sure. It's very exciting. I'll be commentating and interviewing speakers and panelists. Like, uh, Judd Apatow for instance. I hope anyway. Freaks and Geeks is one of my all time favorite series.

So lots going on as usual.

I also posted a picture I took on Canada Day walking through the Skywalk in Toronto. There are some beautiful spots in this city. As much as I often lament Toronto's lack of vision in its urban planning and architecture there are many beautiful places in this city.

'Till then,

Teresa