(the song that i posted up above truly does have a connection to this story/sled island, but you should probably skip the first 6 or so paragraphs and just read the last one if you want to get right to the point!)
Good morning, although it is 1:20pm, but I feel guilty saying “Good Afternoon” when I am still lying in my bed.
I have a story to tell you.
Yesterday we had our first full Sled Island Team Meeting of the year. All 8 of us. A few new faces, a few um, old faces (hi!), one or two kinda confused faces, but best of all, an entire crew of awesome faces. We’re a good team this year, and I think we’re going to have lots of fun.
That being said, it looks like this year is going to be my busiest yet for illustration, because Zak & Colin have been working hard getting us millions of magazine ads, full-page daily Calgary Sun ads,(which are starting to run on Monday! keep an eye out!) and so much print stuff! Most exciting to me is of course our Molson sponsorship - PILSNER BEER PROMO ITEMS! Dear diary, what’s my favourite thing in the world? PILSNER BEER! So working with Molson is pretty much the highlight of my life! (stay tuned for more on Pilsner in an upcoming post - I am going to put together a photo blog of how important Pilsner is to me.)
Zak also surprised me last night with news that we get to do bus advertisements this year, which is great because not only will we get to see hot pink and yellow giant bunny heads everywhere (CUUUUTE!) but we’ll be able to get the Sled Island word out to people that might not normally even know the festival exists, you know? And hey - remember that episode of Sex & The City, where Carrie and her douchy friends are all standing around on the corner waiting for Carrie’s bus ad to drive past, and when it finally did, someone had Sharpie markered a huge dink onto her face? haha. oh man! Hopefully nobody draws any genitalia on any of our bunnies, but if i did see something like that, I would first cry a bit, but then have a good laugh over it. (but please don’t!)
So yeah. Busy time for us all starting now, but I’m not sweating nothing because I have a secret trick to help keep me focused and working hard. (well, a few secret tricks, actually - one of them being Adderrall, but that’s ALSO a whole different blog…)
Every year before I start working on Sled, I pick a TV series to watch, and then I buy all the box sets. I go to my day job and work all day, (today is a bit of an exception. it’s snowing! my bed is warm! i am computing!) and then I come home, eat dinner, and put on the box sets, and just draw and draw and watch TV! Last year my series of choice was Melrose Place (the original ones!) and man that was awesome, but this year I am watching SONS OF ANARCHY! SO CRAZY!
Holy smokes. Have you ever watched this show? It’s amazing. Its about this Motorcycle Club, they’re called the Sons of Anarchy, (fancy that!) and they’re this super endearing bunch of tough motorcycle guys - there’s a couple of “Old Ladies” of course because a Motorcycle Club cannot exist without one or two awesome biker chicks to take care of the men, and these guys are just super nice dudes, like, they’ve got each others backs, and they love their little town which is called Charming, they have kids, they do good stuff for the community, they sort of work stuff out with the town cops…they’re just nice normal men, unless you do something to mess with them or someone important to them, in which case they will turn around and brutally destroy you. It’s so awesome!
This is where this entire long drawn out story starts to relate to Sled Island in a bigger way than just ‘Oh I like to watch TV while I draw bunnies and stuff!”
Other than being an amazing television program, Sons Of Anarchy also boasts pretty much the raddest TV show episode soundtracks to ever exist. (other than The OC, but there really is no competing against that chick Alexandra Patsavas who does all the music for so many awesome shows and she’s pretty much got my dream job, but again, i digress.)
ANYWAYS! Last night while I was drawing bunnies and mountains, I watched I think 3 or 4 episodes of S.O.A, and twice I had to stop drawing, pause the show, and google the episode to find out what song was playing. AND HERE IS THE NEAT PART!
BOTH SONGS WERE BY THE DONKEYS!
and
THE DONKEYS ARE PLAYING SLED ISLAND THIS YEAR!
so. there you go. The Donkeys. Sled Island 2010. Maybe the Sons of Anarchy will be there and I can somehow weasel my way into their club and fulfill my lifelong dream of becoming some bikers awesome old lady. sigh.
(Here’s their website - http://www.donkeysongs.com/ - turns out they’re from San Diego which is awesome, and it makes this story tie itself together even more, because remember that episode of The OC where the gang went to Tijuana? Well - you can take a bus from San Diego right to Tijuana, so you see - this blog really came full circle, you know?)
