Sylvie Hill

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – August 25, 2006 Some people would like to know how they get the caramel inside a Cadbury’s Caramilk bar. I would be happy knowing how they mapped a constellation of my birth sign in blue-green mold on the underside crust of the apple pie I bought at a big corporate […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – August 18, 2006 Do I look like I’m getting laid? Pass me the mirror; let me see this. Inquiring minds want to know. Online reader Brad Thomas wrote, “Last article [I’ve Been So Lonely, Baby, July 21] you were looking for eye candy in Quyon, and now you’re writing an […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – August 11, 2006 Listen to the signs, to the sounds Too many mansions coming down My brown-eyed boy you can run Take all I taught you. Take my gun. ~ El Hula, “Songs of Violent Love” Love sucks. It’s like a vampiric craving that clingwraps you to a nasty force, […]

Originally published in The Ottawa XPress (VOIR MEDIA), August 4, 2005 There’s much to love about the French – their food, their sexual energy and their movies. Thanks to the French, we’ve learned a thing or two about feeding the stomach, heart and soul. And how to do it with panache. The baguette is always […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – July 21, 2005 I love boys and music. Too bad it’s not as easy to pick up a boy as you might snatch up the latest Oasis CD from your favourite music store. But an old Ottawa friend who moved to London, U.K. years ago said to me that if […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – July 14, 2005 It was only when I was introduced to cartoon characters Jem and the Holograms that I fully grasped the concept that chicks who rocked out could also potentially wield special powers to, figuratively speaking, kick the shit out of evil misfits. Kind of like the musicians taking […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – June 30, 2005 So Canada Day weekend is upon us and that means a tonne of party people out and about maybe looking for some firecracker action, non? And I don’t just mean the graphic display down at Parliament Hill. I’m talking about in your pants, pal. Or, out of […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – June 23, 2005 “One thing skateboarding has in common with rock ‘n’ roll-both achieved perfection in the 1970s.” ~Steve Palmer, singer & guitarist, The Setbacks What do you get when you pair up a 15-year-old music fan with his 16-year-old skater friend? You get Kevin Kockler and Craig Wheeler, two […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – June 16, 2005 You have risen me from the mines of my broodish depths, and the colour of life has taken on a brighter hue. To frame my feelings for you in words is to dull the luster of their intense and chaotic nature, and it implies an emotional order […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – June 9, 2005 In a male lover’s hot pursuit to prove his macho man-passion pumping action, he often overcompensates for what he fears is inadequate expertise by taking over and givn’er all night long. But you know what? While you’re fucking her like a superstar, contorting her body Cirque-du-Soleil style […]