picked up ludacris & entourage at the airport, all access passes, glorious blue sky (and windy) day, beautiful crowds and an all around fantastic event. VERY embarrassing situation with the 30 seconds to mars tent, accidentally asked for jordan catelan… i mean, jared leto. no one was happy.

huge congratulations to the entire splitworks team for an incredible experience. luda whaaaa?

our friends at SPLITWORKS have joined forces with Chinese event company Taihe Live and things are gonna go down in a big way this weekend. check out the festival site here and see y’all on Sunday for what’s sure to be an incredible day of music, beer and salute to summer. xo

the fantastic people at SPLITWORKS have done it again! VERY excited about the upcoming next few weeks, there are so many amazing things to experience and you would be very silly to miss out. looking forward to seeing the Besnard Lakes and Whitest Boy Alive, you can see a full programme of events for both Beijing and Shanghai HERE. See you soon!

just noticed that i never posted any photos from the music festival i went to in hangzhou a few months ago! it was kind of the perfect summer weekend, which also happened to coincide with john’s birthday. we lay on the grass, went crazy for PK14, had a marathon 5 hour karaoke session (hi 6am), drank, rode boats, ate delicious foods and generally had an amazing time.

we leave for our whirlwind stateside tour in exactly 3 weeks! so excited! hey NYC, boston, providence, tiverton, state of vermont, montreal and toronto, i can’t wait to see you!!! xx

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i’m not sure if you know, but i’m also on TUMBLR.

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more photos on SMARTSHANGHAI, peep them sometime on monday afternoon xo.

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it’s been REALLY cold in shanghai the last couple of weeks, with slow flurries and freezing misery. i’ve really been slacking on doing anything except for huddle in bed with the cats and john during this cold snap, but now that the weather has turned (it’s an amazing 23 degrees out today!), i’m back and ready to go go go.

this weekend is going to be very fun, two shows lined up for friday and saturday that i’m very excited for. tonight is DJ VADIM & YARAH BRAVO at shelter – i’ve actually seen them play together more times than i can count, the first time in calgary in 2003 and probably nearly every year since then at least once, either i have good timing for where they tour, or they tour a fuck of alot. in any case, they’ve always been so fun live, love seeing yarah bravo rock it onstage with her antics, love seeing vadim with his ridiculous outfits and skillllls. tomorrow night will be fun too – very different, seeing ST.VINCENT at YYT as part of the JUE FESTIVAL line up.

you can expect photos from both shows after the weekend – after a brief CNY holiday/post CNY hangover lapse, i’m back taking photos for smart shanghai, so check their photo galleries as well… you might be in them! xx

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W+KSHANGHAI had our annual CNY dinner earlier this week, and there were performances, lucky draws (2nd year in a row that i haven’t won – total bummer!), speeches, alcohol and the like. it always feels so good when the entire agency gets together to have fun – there was a salsa performance, kungfu demonstrations, and my favourite of the evening, a really really amazing bitboxland music performance with LED screens, neon outfits and awesomeness. love working with such a creative, hilarious, talented group of people. happy 2010!!

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ohhhh the last week has been fun! ghostface killah was in town, as was fab five freddy doing some spectacular things at the factory. our friends put on a pretty awesome festival on saturday, which kept us all up until the sun came out. lots more pictures, adrian and i have swapped cameras for a while so i’m having loads of fun trying to figure out his G9.

on my way to go pick up my boyfriend from the airport. xx

today adrian and i are booking our flights to beijing so we can go to the strawberry music festival during may long weekend. we are stoked. we are more than stoked! deerhoof and xiu xiu are headlining, which is pretty awesome for china.

also very excited to see carsick cars on friday night & hot pot on saturday. haven’t seen my friends at D-22 in ages either. we’re gonna land in beijing, roll into the park, spend the entire weekend in a ridiculous state, and then fly back for work on monday morning. holla.