Hello!

I recently received the new issue of Glow magazine, and, with a huge shock, I saw an article of our own Sarah!

It's about 2 pages long, with some really good photos. It talks about her creativity, and her dislikes and likes.

I would very much want to scan it for you guys, but my scanner is broken.

But, you can look into it! And I hope you can find it!

thanks for the heads up!

my experience with Glow Magazine:

First off let me say that I had no idea what kind of magazine Glow was. I remembered only the name and when walking through chapters decided to look for Sarah's article. I started in the music section...lot's of one word, one syllable magazine names but no Glow. I moved over to the Entertainment section. Again, between the words BRAD! ANGELINA! JENNIFER! I didn't see any Glow. I debated asking an employee but figured that'd I'd just scan all the racks. Then to my displeasure I saw it. In what else but Women's Intrests. I kind of paced the length of the magazine section a few times before chalking one up for guy slean fans everywhere and snatching up a copy, checking to see that it was the right one and then trying not to look to weird at the checkout.

So yes, I don't have time to post the entire article right now, but I CAN say that they do mention us passioneers! Specifically the ones on the board...oh! and that Sarah is moving to Paris.

Thanks for sharing that info BW. Way to take one for the team :wink: I'd be too embarassed to buy it.

Wow, moving to Paris. Good for Sarah, I'm sure she'll really enjoy that. Too bad this most likely means fewer shows in our area.

Weird. Buck 65 must really have had an influence on her. Perhaps Paris is the new 'cabin.'

PS, I buy women's interest magazines for the music articles on a regular basis... I've also purchased children's books written by Madonna because, well, they were written by Madonna (and are surprisingly good)... eithe rway, it's nothing to be ashamed of

[quote:ea015f6bbd="BoyWonder"] but I CAN say that they do mention us passioneers! Specifically the ones on the board...[/quote:ea015f6bbd]

yay passioneers!

[quote:ea015f6bbd="BoyWonder"]...oh! and that Sarah is moving to Paris.[/quote:ea015f6bbd]

Say it ain't so!! Hopefully, as Neal suggests, Paris is tne new cabin.

...jim

i think that Sarah is probably really inspired by Leslie's success in Paris. their music industry is obviously much more receptive to Sarah's brand of cabaret-influenced pop than the labels in North America are, as evidenced by Warner U.S's determination to not release her albums despite signing her to an American deal. =(

Renaissance Woman

She loves musicals, studies philosophy and believes in magic carpet rides, but Canadian chanteuse Sarah Slean is more down to earth than you think.

Read any article about Sarah Slean and you are bound to come across one word the attempts to sum her up: Quirky. It�s a word usually bestowed upon women who don�t somehow fit into a carefully crafted box. Quirky women wear swan dresses to the Oscars. Quirky women readily admit to believing in fairies. And quirky women are usually perplexed by the word. �What does that even mean?� Slean asks. �God, I just hope it�s not derogatory.�
Currently, Slean is spending most of her time touring to promote her fourth album, Day One. Touring Canada and the states is old hat for her, but this time she got to go to Europe and was pleasantly surprised by the response she received. �It was fantastic,� she says. �I go over there thinking people don�t know me from Adam and I�ll be lucky if there are five people. I show up and there are lots of people.�

Born in Pickering, Ontario, 27 years ago, her family wasn�t overly musical. �My parents had about 20 records,� she says. �Some Beatles, some classical ones. A Grover record. And some really cheesy tapes.� From a young age, though, she found herself attracted to the piano that stood, mostly unused, in their living room. �There was a picture of my aunt Peg on top of it who always seemed very mysterious and creatively powerful to me � I never met her, but apparently she had all of this beautiful light in her that you could see from every picture. The piano seemed like a reflection of that � I was really drawn to it. I think from five on I was starting to play.�
She began playing classical music, and was soon writing her own songs. �I fancied myself a composer � I thought songwriting was something that somehow got tainted with words.�
In university, she began feeding her other passions � art, philosophy, science and, most strikingly, literature. Devouring authors such as J.D. Salinger, T.S. Eliot and Jean Rhys, Slean became fascinated by finding a way to marry her great loves. The result is a unique sound � heavy on the piano, and packed with smart, heady lyrics. Members of her forum at Sarahslean.com can usually be found arguing and discussing their intended meaning, helping each other chase down obscure literary references. They are also treated to Slean�s drawings and paintings. Slean herself provides lists of her favorite writers, causes and films, in a section of the site called Vitamins. Her obvious yearning for the academic life is clear here. Visiting her site is a little like taking a course with a wacky, barefoot professor who you just know gives lots of As for effort. And who clearly loves what she does.
�I just want to speak to people who are sort of tilting theirs heads to the wind and listening because they�re curious about life and about ideas. I like to think that I have thinking fans. That�s all I ask. Cause those are the people who I want to talk to. While she is a self-described �Disney kid� who happily admits to believing in magic and soppy dreams coming true, Slean is unabashed when it comes to talking about her more complicated times. Her teens were tough. �High school by nature is horror for anyone who goes there,� she says. And she�s experienced some rough patches in her twenties. The most recent one sent her to live in a borrowed cabin, alone, for four full months. �I�ve always had this fierce desire to understand everything. I�m really obsessed with all the big terrifying questions and I think we spend a lot of our lives running away from them or just trying to calm them down. And they got so loud and so rambunctious at that point in my life that I just had to go sit in the same room with them and go, �Okay! What?� and let it all happen and witness it with no disguises or escape routes.�
Coming out that introspective time, Sarah wrote and recorded Day One. �I think that if I didn�t find music or didn�t have it swirling around in there, if I didn�t have books, I would be at a loss to figure out how to remain here,� she says.
�I have these two friends that I have personified who live in my mind,� she says. �One is fear and one is madness. They will never leave, they are always going the be there anywhere you go � no matter how beautiful it is, and how drenched in sunlight and accolades and freedom and confidence � it doesn�t matter how Edenic that place is, you turn around and that guy is going to be there, in his bad suit and top hat grinning at you. I think that I�ve discovered � after dragging those two characters around my whole life � that they are your allies, not your enemies.�

Slean�s live performances defy the staid girl-at-a-piano image. She dances, she boxes, she convulses. The sheer physicality of her nights onstage leaves her drained. For someone who hates shopping as much as Slean does, (�I can�t stand it,� she says), finding clothes to wear onstage can be a huge chore. There are a lot of restrictions to what she can and can�t wear when performing. No shoes. No short skirts (�When I sit at the piano my legs are often wide apart, so it�s got to be long.�). A top that doesn�t restrict her arms in any way but she won�t pop out of. �And then, on top of all that, you want it to look good, so you could e trudging through a mall for three hours. Which is my idea of premature death.�
But as much as she hates finding something to wear for her performances, there is one ritual she loves before she hits the stage. �When I�m backstage putting makeup on, I am becoming the person who will be on stage. You can leave the very human, flawed, humble person you are behind and step into this character who is going to have the audacity to et onstage and sing ands cream in your face and do these things that bizarre, really, if you think about it. It�s like a mask.�
When not performing, she rarely wears makeup and keeps her clothing as simple as possible. �I think that part of my job is to be among people and go quietly and unnoticed so I can watch them. For that reason I don�t like to wear anything with logos or too much pattern. Simple. As simple as possible.�
Having lived in Toronto all of her life (with the exception of a �brutal� month when she tried living in L.A.), later this year, Slean is moving to Paris for an indefinite period, to tour Europe and properly learn French.
For the past two years, Slean has been working on writing a musical, a natural progression for someone whose performances are so theatrical. �I have always loved musicals. It used to be my secret that everyone would laugh at, but now it�s like, hey, man, that where it�s at. I really think that whole are form needs reinvention so badly right now. It�s just become so cheesy and terrible. Her own musical, called Boy Wonder is a labour of love she works on whenever she has a chance to stop and catch her breath. �It�s kind of a magic realism tale � a cautionary tale � about that future and what happens when wonder is gone.�
She is also excited to continue studying art, music, and literature. �I am a novice at all three of them. I am just getting started,� she says. �I think songwriting is one of those rare art forms that allows � and maybe even celebrates � your na�vet�.
�I think that the task of life � the best one � is unpeeling yourself. It�s like the Michelangelo thing � the sculpture is in the stone already And it�s not that you have to become something. It�s that you have to discover something. I really feel like I�m finding out who I am by doing this and going with my gut.�

That's a very nice article.
Thanks for posting (typed?) the whole thing, Joel.

yeah....I typed it...lol

Wow, you typed the whole thing? Thanks for going to the trouble. Nice article.

Joel, you rawk!

thanks for typing all that up!

A great article....and i perused the 'zine at the local corner store earlier today - the pics are very *swoon* worthy :P

...jim

[quote:5c5b98af48="BoyWonder"]yeah....I typed it...lol[/quote:5c5b98af48]

:shock:
Gracias! Merci! ThankYOU!

thanks so much joel, and it was nice to see some fresh press.
I thought Glow magazine was free from Shoppers drug mart as a health/beauty/wellness magazine. You did well.

She's going to really learn French! I guess that's why France was marked on the tour page =p. I wonder how long the move will be as she has her Art show in Feb.

Cameron Bay.

Thanks so much for typing that all up!

[quote:bda119c317]Having lived in Toronto all of her life (with the exception of a �brutal� month when she tried living in L.A.), later this year, Slean is moving to Paris for an indefinite period, [b:bda119c317]to tour Europe[/b:bda119c317] and properly learn French. [/quote:bda119c317]