No I’m not talking about my favourite Marilyn Monroe movie, I’m talking about the biggest documentary festival in North America! Hot Docs! The Toronto fest is running until May 8th so I’ve been trying to see as many docs as I can! So far? So awesome!

Here are my top 3 must see documentaries from the fest:

Dragonslayer

Fast. Fun. Beautiful. Raw. Rad. It’s no wonder that it’s the SXSW 2011 Documentary winner. The film organically captures moments of punk skateboarder Josh “Screech” Sandoval’s life.  A mix of stunning cinematography and point of view hand-held footage. Not to mention the perfectly fitting soundtrack.

You’ve Been Trumped – Thursday May 5th 1pm and Sunday May 8th 12:30pm @ The Cumberland

Exposing the Donald for the ruthless monster that he is! Donald Trump taking over a small Scottish town + A journalist = trouble. I don’t want to give too much away, but I was shocked at Trumps behavior. Worth the watch without a doubt.

Kumaré – Sunday May 8th 3:30pm @ The Cumberland

My favourite of the fest so far. A funny yet very interesting look into what happens when a New Age skeptic decides to try his hand at becoming a Guru! Think Borat with more meaning and heart.

Well! There are my picks! Check em out and tell me what you think! Have you made it out to any Hot Docs? What do you recommend?

xo Kate

I’m a passionate Google lover and have been for many years. Google is a huge part of my life every day. My calendars, photos, emails, blogs, buzz, searches. The web really IS what you make of it.

Thank you to the lovely Stephen Greenwood in LA for sharing.

Mum, I think if you every day. Often when I am writing my blog,  I am writing stories to you. I hope you are happy & safe. I miss you.

Have an awesome day 🙂

I pick this, I wish I could sing like the most amazing ever, have the voice of an angel. I mean, I can do a wicked Lady Gaga at karaoke but I’m no Whitney Houston. Anyhoo, this kid, omg this kid is AMAZING. Holy moly. I watched it a few times, reckon I should share the goods instead of hoarding. You are without a doubt going to be seeing 14 year old kid. Enjoy!

One more thing, Prince Harry in his undies. Gah! So much talent in this post.

My birthday is May 8th (Sunday) and I always do something really fun with friends. This year, I’m breaking the mold and having a party online! Kinda 😉

I’m saving the hippity-hooplah I usually cook up for a gun-blazing-rager next year when  I turn 30.

I know I know, I look so young and cute! How could it possibly be? Me almost 30, I know it’s hard to believe. Stop, please. I’m blushing. You guys are so sweet, seriously, I LOVE YOU.

To be honest, there’s only one thing I want this year and he’s 11″ of skinny, sexy, silver beauty.

Instead of a big party or buying me drinks perhaps you will consider donating to a better cause. Me switching teams! NO MORE PC.

I want to get a Macbook Air and rumor has it the thunderbolt update is coming next month. Your donation will not be published but it WILL go directly to the fund for my soon to be new boyfriend, an 11″ Macbook Air.

Join the party! Buy me a beer on Guestlist.

P.S. It was my blog’s birthday last week April 27th! ♥

A blog is an engine and behind that blog is a person. There, in that very chair,  sits a  person with bounds of creativity. The type of creativity that you can not ever imagine because it is unimaginable to your mind. It creates.  By the time you are reading this the engine has worked twice as fast,  faster.  The engine is moved by some type of driver and the engine has many tools. It employs services to work as engines in order to make it grow.

The production must try to keep up with the mind yet the creativity, it DOES NOT STOP.  It flows and drives and moves and the more it makes the more it has for it is infinite.

This post is one of my fav’s and was originally posted Feb. 5th, 2010.

Tonight I’m going to the Sony Centre for Hope Rising! a concert which benefits the Stephen Lewis Foundation. There’s performances by K’Naan, Alicia Keys, Rufus Wainwright, Angélique Kidjo, Holly Cole, Jully Black and more at this first annual event.

I’m most excited to see Rufus Wainwright because I love him. I’m going as media so hope to get a good spot so my photographer & I can get good photos.

No way this rain is putting a damper on my day. Stoked!

My most listened to Rufus song.

I watched the whole thing go down yesterday.  I love voting and feel this election was very exciting. The way information is delivered & talked about today is very different than it was during the last election in 2008. Social media was a hot topic across all media. Voter turnout was higher than previous years, although not by much. I’m interested to see youth vote number, I really hope young people came through!

Someone on Twitter asked me:

“What’s got you so election happy. Is that JUST you feelin’ peeps should be out and voting… ?”

Yes. That is exactly it. It is very important to vote.  Hope I encouraged at least one person to get out there and cast a ballot. I liked seeing the rise in  NDP, pretty crazy they have never had more than 48 seats. I talked to a bunch of people who chose to vote that way for the very first time.  Surprised to how low the Liberal vote was. Excited to see the Green Party in the House of Commons for the first time.

I only want the best for you, Canada.

Laying in the grass.

Dance parties in the park.

I got a rocket stick like this from Wind Mobile the other day.

I grabbed onto that voters card.

and took it downstairs to my polling station.

with my raincoat on.

Then I voted. I marked an X in that box like it was my job. Really gave’r, y’know.

Then I came back upstairs and looked outside.

And read Flipboard, on ipad.

Then I listened to some Metric.

And admired the flowers I got last week.