RockStar Working Mom: SheMachine

Ever see a totally crazy cool music video that's somewhat outrageous, far fetched, colourful, crazy, insane, reminiscent of Lady Gaga, and an ode to Haute Couture that clearly takes place in an alternate reality but nonetheless challenges some people's morals so much so that those people irrationally react to what they think are suggestive bad examples destroying the youth of today...but really it's all just a metaphor for something so wonderfully wonderful...and you can't take your eyes off it because the visual stimulation is the equivalent of crack to the brain? Ya...well I'm gonna be making one. A music video. Wow...that first paragraph was the worst run on sentence in the history of run on sentences. Oh well....it's my blog....and I'm going to write like I speak. If this offends anyone...please raise your hand. To those of you who raised your hands....YOU SUCK! So...like I was saying....My best girlfriend Stephanie Clattenburg and I....now officially the hottest female dance/pop/disco duo (you heard me) in Halifax, are going to be making a music video that kicks ASS...and that may potentially get people high on SheMachine - our band. I know what most of you are thinking...."What?? Another band? A Dance/Pop/Disco band?????" Make no mistake...I am still "blacker than the blackest black...times infinity" - not just my skin - the Heavy Metal within (That was a quote from Metalocalypse by the way), but sometimes I just wanna freakin' dance! So I figured, why not make pop music I actually want to dance to, and that I can stand to listen to for more than 30 seconds. Stephanie more known as the drummer for one of Halifax's former fave bands "The Superfantastics" comes from an indie rock / punk rock sort of background....but has traded in her laid back ways for a life of drumming in high heels (hot) and GLITTER (not the lame Mariah Carey movie). This is the real deal yo! Really....like real glitter....the kind that only Mena Von Fleish famous Halifax / Toronto Burlesque Diva - could make stick to everything for EVER! Mena glitter magic. In a late night meeting at starbucks last night, we hashed out our wicked plot for the video which Stephanie (also an amazing camera-man for CBC) will be writing the treatment for and directing, and laid out the structure and melody for our official first single for which the video will be made. It was an awesome moment in time...that and meeting Jonathan Torrens for the first time, and having a conversation about surprises. LOL. Oh...late night rendevous at Starbucks....the gathering place of artists. My life Rocks!

Rock Star Working Mom: My Crazy Beautiful Life

Hello Blog spotters...or whatever you are called. The people who read blogs. I am a 29 year old, Brown skinned Jamaican/Canadian working mother of three children (a gorgeous bi-racial 6 year old little girl version of me - and 16 month old twin boys...one white...one brown...TRUE STORY) who gave up a lucrative career as a Real Estate Agent (to have the twins) and I'm now diligently working on building my career as a performing artist. I'm doing all this while also building a new interior home care business (cleaning, organization & home staging) with my friends (also performing artists) for extra income and raising my young family. I'm the front woman for Halifax's only female fronted Progressive Metal band called AQuestrya, as well as the singer in a new hot female dance/glam/disco duo, a member of a dance troupe led by my youngest of two sisters, called NATURAL HABIT, an amateur home cook, a professional (ACTRA) actress model, and abstract visual artist. You name it...if it's some kind of art related talent...I'm doing it. I suppose I could include writer/blogger to that list now. I'm engaged to an amazing younger (white - hence the white baby) man (6 years younger in fact...what? I like 'em young LOL...wait....does that sound wrong? I think it sounds wrong) ...who left a well paid career in the Military to also pursue his passion for the arts. He is now a popular comedic performer in a well known Halifax burlesque troupe more famously followed in the Halifax gay community (he's loved by the guys and the gals...certainly makes one feel sexy *raarrr* claw*), a stunt performer working toward earning his credits to become an official Professional Stunt man, writer for the dirtyword.net, environmental & equal rights activist, absolute LOVE OF MY LIFE, and soon to be Journalism student at Dalhousie university. Our life can be pretty crazy as I'm sure you can imagine...but it's CRAZY BEAUTIFUL!! So...I wanna tell you about it. So come with me on the journey of ME: RockStar Working Mom, Peter Paranoia (my partner in crime) and our hilarious little princess sidekick and evil yin/yang demon spawn. Either you'll think we're nuts...or maybe...just maybe our passion and joie de vie among the insanity of child rearing will inspire you. I certainly hope it inspires other young women and men to know that you CAN DO IT!!! What ever "It all" is for you. Did I mention that we have Koreans that live with us???? Another story for another time.