come on girls we're going to paint the town...

ahh...the jazzy jazz festival as i like to call it...quite the experience...i myslef like all types of music, however am not an uber big fan of the jazz...other then bill cosby scatting that is...but alexis asked me to go and wanted me to bring matt so she could finally meet him and so i decided to broaden my cultural stance...

we met up at waterfront and began our musical journey...

matt made the most freakin amazing shorts EVER...he found some vintage wool at his grandmother house and made these...i cant get over how fab they are...they're a smige tight beacuse matt doesn't know how to make clothes big, only really really tight - matt is a bit of a skank

he is really going to be famous one day...i just know it...his designs are amazing, his clothes are amazing...everything matt does just blows me away...i dont get how someone can be so creative and fashionable...everything he buys some how comes into fashion - he is beyond his time



alexis took us for sushi in a 50s diner...it was odd...i had been there before but when it actually was a 50s dinner...i guess the people that bought it didnt feel like changing the decor...it was really interesting being in a place that was so one thing and being served something that was soo different...the food was good...but the noodles were sketchy, so matt ate them, and alexis ate my chicken, and i ate my sushi...



once again my photography amazes me...this should be an ad for something


matt made sure that before he came to the jazz festival he knew how to scat...so he got his brother to teach him...wasn't as good as bill and his cosby but it was pretty funny...click to watch the video...it should work - and if not at least you get to hear it!!



we sat at the park on the cornor of hastings and cambie where one of the stages was...we listened to jazz while alexis and her friend D, who joined us, looked through the georgia straight at all the adds for transexuals...whats a jazz festival with out transexuals???

matt wanted to go into pappas furs since it was across the street, but i didnt think we looked classy enough, so instead we took random pictures of people...that is always more entertaning

while we were sitting there some guy from some AM radio station asked if he could come up and interview us...alexis and d were willing but matt and i knew nothing so we didnt...



eventually we got joined by more of alexis friends, dave and k bot??? - yes...anyways...decided to go to dressew since we were right there...two fashion students and a bunch of crazy people - dressew was a must...D decided to try on this R2-D2 mask, which we thought was pretty sexy



in the eve matt went home and friends left and we met up with alexis' fam (which was half of my family too) and we went out for dinner...her cousins from north carolina were visiting and andrea was the cutest ever!!! she kept calling alexis' dads cell secretly from under the table and he was getting so confused...it was great



there is never a dull moment when alexis is around...one day up at manning park i decided that i was going to give some of my cousins names of beatles songs... Maria was lady madonna, Elise was mean mr. mustard (i didnt like her at the time) and Alexis was sexy sadie...so today she tells me this story that her parents originally wanted to name her mercedes but it would have sucked beacuse the only short form for the name would have been sadie...and i was like OMG you could have really been sexy sadie!!!! see it was so meant to be...

but yes...our jazzy day was fun and i am glad i went...and all that jazz (sorry sadie i had to say it!)

for more pictures from today click here and view the jazz photo album