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What's In Your Fridge is where the Straight asks interesting Vancouverites about their life-changing concerts, favourite albums, and, most importantly, what's sitting beside the Heinz ketchup in their custom-made Big Chill Retropolitan 20.6-cubic-foot refrigerators.
Jalen Saip
I've been the artistic director for the Improv Centre for the last three years! I am also a performer and co-creator (with Helen Camisa) of the show I Know What You Did Last Weekend that is running fro now to November 1. I Know What You Did Last Weekend is based off of the similarly titled 1997 teen slasher movie I Know What You Did Last Summer, where a group of adolescents deal with the aftermath of a deadly accident that they were all involved in. Our show plays off of the ridiculous and tropey world of teen slasher and the comedic fun of letting our audience determine the where, how and when of our "terrible accident". What's fantastic about me? I am transitioning out of my role as AD to welcome my first child into the world ANY day now!
It must have been when I was around two years old and my parents took me and my older sister to see Brooks & Dunn at a state fair over the border -- I still love Brooks & Dunn, 35 years later, so it must have a been a pretty decent show!
I have had two concert moments that made me feel like I was on another "plain". The first was listening to Florence from Florence & the Machine sing "End of Love" in Seattle while floating across the stage. And the second was listening to Dolly Parton sing "Little Sparrow" here at Rogers Arena. Both songs were stripped right down to almost no accompaniment and their voices shook me to my very core.
Vince Guaraldi Trio A Charlie Brown Christmas I know what you're thinking -- "A Christmas album in your top three?" -- but I don't care! Fight me if you must! It's so good and I can hardly wait for the middle of November so I can whip that record out!
Fleetwood Mac Rumours It's just brilliant. "Second Hand News"? "You Make Loving Fun"? What a joy.
Phil Collins Tarzan Soundtrack Phil Collins. Try to listen to this without feeling ALL THE EMOTIONS. I dare you.
Backstreet Boys "As Long As You Love Me" As a '90s kid who was moderately obsessed with the Backstreet Boys, the editing BRILLIANCE that was the chair dance body swaps in "As Long As You Love Me" had me running to turn on channel 17 (MTV) after school.
Probiotics that I keep intending to start. I have these aspirations to be more intentional with my health and wellness practices...hence the rotating, and somewhat expensive, bottles of probiotics I keep meaning to take daily that end up being abandoned/ignored until they expire... Oopsy!
LaCroix LimonCello. I'm not talking lemon. I'm talking limoncello. It tastes like an absolute dream come true. It's the fanciest sparkling water around and I buy it when I want to feel like a real snob.
Canned Fruit that my 94 year-old Grandma still makes. My Grandma still lives in her two-story home, does her own gardening and makes canned fruit -- and a myriad of other treats -- that she passes along to family members. I'm quite positive that the sugar levels are wildly high, but she's 94 so I have to believe that her fruit is better for a human body than most raw fruit... That's just science.