The promotional vids are up on YTV.ca, and one of the sequences they chose was animated by me! The clip "Sock Art" was my minute of footage from one of  the episodes I worked on!

You can see the opening sequence, and 2 clips from the show HERE. Just click on "Ruby Gloom Clips".....  watch the opening sequence, scroll down in the "Categories" section, and click on "Ruby Gloom", and the sidebar with 3 clips will come up.

Please, please check out the premiere tomorrow (Friday the 13th of October, 6pm on YTV). It's also playing again on Sunday, October 15th. You won't be disappointed.


Ruby Gloom Show Times This Month:
Friday October 13 at 6:00 PM ~ "Gloomer Rumour"
Sunday October 15 at 11:00 AM ~ "Grounded in Gloomsville" (I worked on this episode)
Saturday October 21 at 3:30 PM ~ "Grounded in Gloomsville"
Sunday October 22 at 11:00 AM~ "Gloomer Rumour"
Monday October 23 at 6:30 PM

"Look on the bright side of the dark side." ~ Ruby Gloom

Now for todays weird, "ZOMG, it's a small world" story. There was a guy sitting in the same row as us, and we pretty much ignored him. Then, my buddy Paul walks up to him and says, "Dude, you're here!"

I look over and see my old roomate, Dave! Who I never ever see. That's not the weird part. I start jittering away in girlchat-fashion to Dave, and Mark looks over and says, "Hey, man!"

Dave replies, "Yo! Mark!"

We all say, "You know each other?"

It turns out that Mark, who I just met last week, was friends with Dave shortly before I moved in with him 3 years ago. In the whole rave party scene. Isn't that SO weird?

Shutup, it's weird to me. LOL. Dave told me he was really glad to finally see me out in the party scene, dancing and having fun. That this was what I always needed. When we lived together I mostly played video games and smoked pot. I tended to not "go out" that often. I DO feel better about myself now. More like "me", but in a good way. He also told me that I can trust Mark, and that "he's good people", as Dave put it. Kickass.

What an awesome night. The music mostly sucked, but the vibe kicked ass. I won't go into the details, but I had fun last night. I can still feel everything on my skin. I was a ball of wicked energy for all of today. Anticipation makes me trembly. I can't wait 'til next time. I wish I could fast forward my life to the good parts, but then I wouldn't get this pseudo-pleasurable suspense.

Rock on.

Dark club. Coloured swirlie lights. Dry ice. Pretty, pretty people all writhing on the dance floor. Everyone else had to leave around midnight, but Mandy and I stayed. She asked me to go dance with her, so I gleefully scampered after her. We're squirming out there gothy style. And this goth boi, black tight longsleeved shirt, black pants, big boots comes dancing over. He's slim, pale with blonde spiky hair.

And he's groovin along beside us.

And then he's between us.

And then he's facing me and dancing with me. And he's pretty hawt. So, Mandy's makin ZOMG! faces at me and during a break in the songs the guy wanders off the dance floor. And his hand brushes along my ass as he leaves. I think to myself, "Did he touch my butt? No, no. Don't be vain, Kat, you probly just danced into him."(Yes, I'm dumb.)

And I'm just feelin' the tunes, when the boi comes back. He's dancing ever so close now, and brushing up against me periodically. Closer and closer. And then, we're SO dancing together. Things are getting hawt and heavy out there. Biting. Hands running through hair, over shoulders, on asses. We've got our arms around each other. Bumping and grinding against the pillar in the centre of the floor, knockin' off my cat-ear headband. I'm SO exhausted, 'cause we've been dancing for a while. So, I say, "Hey, I'm kinda tired, I can't dance anymore."

He replies, "Okay, want to come back to my table?"

"Okay", I say.

I follow hot goth boi back to his seat. He sits and grins at me and pats his leg in the universal sign for, "Sit on my lap."

So I do. And then I really look at his face. And I'm like, "OMG, Chris*!? I didn't know it was YOU!"

I used to hang out with him in high school and afterwards. He knows all my friends. I've known him for years. Although, I'd never considered dirty dancing with him before.

So, he's all, "Oh my god, Kat!?"

He's completely blown away. He had NO IDEA that the "hot goth girl" he was humping on the dance floor was me! But then, I had no idea it was him either. I DID kind of think, "Boy, this guy kind of looks like my friend Chris*." But it was dark, and all those goth bois look kind of similar. So we sat at the table while I laughed hysterically. There was another guy I knew in school sitting at the table and I awkwardly said, "Uh, hey, man. How's things?" It was just so surreal. These kind of things happen in badly written sitcoms and soap operas. Like, how could I not KNOW? And how did he not notice either?

So I started chatting with Chris* again. I laughed and said, "I do have a boyfriend, you know." just so he wouldn't think I was all "Ohhhh, I'm in wuv!" He laughs worriedly and replies, "Don't worry, I have a girlfriend!" At which point it is just TOO funny, and we both start laughing. I stayed and talked for a bit, gave him my number, 'cause he lost it when I gave it to him months ago, the last time I saw him. Then Mandy and I had to leave....Overall? Awesome night.

I'm floating on a sea of glee from all the attention. My ego is all stroked. Even though I still feel nauseous and hung over. And it's been 24 hours since. And my braces scraped my mouth all up while I was numb and tanked last night. So I have to rinse my mouth wounds with hot salt water occasionally.

But would I do it again? Oh, yeah!

I searched for a myspace group for Sanctuary, but there wasn't one. So I made one. Go there if you live in Vancouver, BC and want to check it out.

Sanctuary - Vancouver

*names have been changed to protect the guilty