Our February pinup girl Emily!!! Grrr....meow 

My day starts with Kitty talk. I am a singer with some bright ideas. I think I'll give some of those a try.

This is our December Pin-up Jillian...all artsy and stuff. Tres fun!

Tiger Lily aka Veronica Michelle is a writer for Upfront Magazine and Apt613.ca; a visual artist; and as one of the founding members of Rockalily Burlesque, a burlesque performer. She is also a founding member of YWTF: Ottawa (Younger Women's Task Force). She's an avid lover of live music and art showings. 

The Lady in The Evening...an installation artwork by Sean Rioux and Gilda Furgiuele. On display at the Atomic Rooster 'Trash Revisited' event.

Check out the Donna Litas on MySpace.

The ArtSocial.... live art.... conversations on post-humanism and how it relates to electronic mediums..... experiments and video installations, break dancers....Mrs. PAC MAN and Galaga and live printi making.....delicious soup that warms the blood.....we'll there was no soup but soup is good. Maybe nextime. 

Electronic music has several barriers that separate it from other musical genres. Like any sub-culture it’s got its own comprehensive vocabulary of descriptors; drum and bass, dub, trance, jungle, electro. The difference here is its hard lined adherence to the electro cultural isms, almost exclusive in their approach to the genre and its sub genres. As an artist you are designated by the intensity of your kick drum, the intensity of your breaks, and the range and depth of frequencies you explore.

Also exclusive to electronic music is its wayward definition of what music is, which sometimes borders on noise. Often without any apparent background in music theory, many of these artists approach their medium with a blank slate, ready to create a blazing whirlwind of crunching insanity without any regard for the past 100 years of popular music which is available in a record store near you. It’s liberating, it’s transient and it’s a blast beat to dance to. Their influences are exclusive, the sub genres defining the approach without need for influence from other musical styles, contemporary or otherwise. It reflects only itself and the street culture that birthed it.

 Why is the mircokorg such a common used tool in the Canadian indie scene....? let me do a quick demo for you......when experimenting with sythns, reading the manual is key....the korg can do anything...seriously read the manual its all there...brilliant arpeggios can come together will just a few keystokes and tweaks....fun stuff....working on MIDI tempo Syncs...exciting.
 
 
Here is my experimental glitched video demo of me using the MicroKorg. Enjoy:
 

 
 
In the production phase of Sunjet's next EP release, NO official date or title. For those of you don't know Sunjet (my band) check us out Rah Rah/Sunjet/Ketch Harbour Wolves/Ship Shapes. Should be a fantastic show and line up...
 

.....went out yesterday evening, Mercury Lounge...talked post heterosexuality and drug culture with two old friends....danced and admired the hardware of local musician Ph; miniMoog....Boss Re-20......chaos pads, too many to count including a Korg Kaoss Pad KP3....met up with Iva from Ottawa's hypno pop outfit Ennuie quite randomly....danced....drank a 50 or two....Murcury Lounge is funkalicious, can't help but dance thanks to the laser light show and visuals....wish I could say more about the artists, but I googled Ph and all that comes up is the chemical attribute that determines acidity.....will have to dig deeper.....digging the heavy bass grooves offered up last night, and I will be checkin out the Last Sunday of The Month.....on to other things.....heard feedback from a harsh review I did of Male Nurse's 'my friends are all assholes' EP.....sorry Davey....sometimes I'm a big hater.....I promise that I will show you infinite love in future encounters.....I apologize and offer you free studio time in my geared out east end basement, any time you like.....seriously....I'ts on the table......as for the rest of you out there reading this.....give the person closest to you a hug....peace.

  As an avid web technologist, I'm privy to the wonderful world of open source information. While some artists, or purveyers of creative media are desperately trying to recover revenue in this age of digital information, others are paving the way for a world where information is free.

check:

• http://creativecommons.ca/ 
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source 
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_software 

..to learn more about the specifics. point is, I almost feel tempted, as an artist, as a musician, as code monkey, web junky, to declare myself offically open source.
Imagine a world where truely inspired creation could happen between groups of individuals. Remixing, rebuilding, seperate creative beings contributing to the same stream of thought as it deverges and converges and callapses in on itself.