define sarcasm.....

as given br Prof. P:

Prof:

Sarcasm: From the the Poly-Malay words Sars Chasm, meaning the Chasm between areas where SARS can be and cannot be found. Due to degradation over languages and time the words Sars Chasm, slowly has become blended together, and in todays English is now one word, with a different meaning, yet still some what related to the old connotation.
Today sarcasm, means laughing at anothers misfortune. The history to this meaning dates back to the SARS crisis in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 2003. The city officials at the time (one possible being Cardinal Offishal, who was believed to be the head official or offishal) decided to boost the sinking image of the city by hiring late nite American funny man Conan O'Brien.
As was his typical routine for his late nite act he would open with a monologue wit subpar material. Not funny by most standards. But laughter was usually reached due to the idiocy that O'Brien would actually think that it would incite genuine laugh. During his Toronto shows, he did not change his routine, and many people laughed at the expense of Mr. O'Brien. Some laughed so hard that they were hospitalized. And since SARS was mainly found in medical areas in the city some people from this shows contracted SARS and became ill. Hence the explanation from the old meaning to todays.
Sarcasm: laughing at Conan O'Brien attempting a lame joke, and ending up in a hospital with SARS. From laughing in a place that had no SARS and now being in a place that has SARS.
there you go. I didn't spell check it.

Sent at 1:50 AM on Friday

*editors note: Cardinal Offishal = Kardinal Offishal

Panzer The Non-German Variety.

I got Panzer Dragooon Orta for the Xbox last week or so.
Finally got around to playing it. Good game so far.
Got my ass handed to me by the first boss tho.
Tried it again this morning and made it a little ways to level 2. Or episodes, whatever it's called.

Had a Mocha Frappacino today. About an hour ago.
Wasn't very good tho.
The chick did a bad job making it. Doesn't have much flavour and for some reason the 'essence' of the drink is settling on the bottom like mad crazy quick.
Just added some of my friends caramel macchiato to my mocha frappacino.
Looks a little better.
Tastes more like an iced coffee beverage now.
No longer a frappicino, but an iced drink it becomes!
How do you fuck up a drink at Starbucks?
That's all you do there. Make drinks.
Wtf!
Honestly now. At least she didn't put whipped cream on my drink.
Bastards.

Yah, I'm a little wired.
Only reason I'm even posting this is because watching my fingers as the move across the keyboard is kinda tripping me out.
Yay for coffee!

It's Official!

I have no soul.

I was leaving Safeway. Was getting a hot bbq beef sammich (it's cold outside!)
A guy had just exited, so the 1st door was open.
Got to the 2nd door just as it was closing.
AND
it continues to close, almost walked into the sucka.
I'm like: "wtf!?"
Look around, step back a little. A step to the side.
The door opens and I walk thru.
Think it only opened cuz a guy was walking into the store thru the door right next to the exit.

So here you go, I have no soul.
Or at least one not compatible at safeway.

People Need To Be Shot

Get to my doc, about 10 min late. Missed my bus you see.
Get there, receptionist is like: Well you're late, so you are gonna have to wait until all these people are thru.
M: How long is the wait?
R: I don't know.
Cow.
Even tho, I know that if I was on time , I still would have had to wait for all these geezers to go.
You'd think I was in Dr. Kevorkians' office or something. With all the stench of geezer surrounding me
So about an hour and some later, I get called in.

Doc: So what can I do for you?
Moi: You told me to come back!
D: AH right, a follow up. Jump on the scale.
Which I do.
M: I'm the same as last time. I didn't gain any weight.
D: Thats good. People get fat and then they have trouble getting rid of it.
M: You told me to gain weight!
He then takes my blood pressure, which is good he says.
Doc: AT least you stopped drinking. Not getting drunk and all that.
M: No I didn't! I actually drank more between these last visits than the ones before these ones.
Some other nonsense and then we are done.
D: see you in 2 mths.

This all took about under 10min.
Bah.

Later that night: <--(said in 60's Batman voice over)
[cue Batman segue music]
So it's about 8pm. I call up Best Buy.
M: Do you guys have any copies of Layer Cake?
BB: Let me check
He puts me on hold. A few seconds later, 'click'
Fuckers!
Like I need another reason to hate Best Buy.
A&B Sound doesn't have any copies, but Future Shop does. So I decide to go there and I can check out best buy, since they are right next to each other.
I run thru the mall (Polo) and check out HMV and CD Plus. At CD Plus I pick up Old Boy.
Great Movie. Awesome revenge flick.
Run over to best buy. Ask the guy
M:Do you guys have any copies of Layer Cake and Batman Begins: Deluxe Edition?
BB: Lemme check.
So he goes to the computer and looks it up. 3 copies of LC and 6 of BB:DE.
We go to the wall of dvds. Nothing. Checks the sections that they could be in. Nothing.
BB: One second, I'll go check in the back.
Now it's about 10 to nine. I see snatches of him now and again. He keeps saying hold on.
Comes back to me.
BB: Sorry. We can't seem to find either of those movies. The computer says we have them, but they aren't out front and we don't have any in the back. The other guy that was helping me look says he saw only one copy of Layer Cake.
M: But I guess that one is no longer there.
BB: Yah, sorry.
M: Guess it's too late to go to future shop now.
BB: Is it 9 already.
M: Yah.

Seems I do need another reason.
Bastards.

Maybe I should move to Florida......

Then again, maybe I should hope for more hurricanes. I've always wanted to learn Greek.
Idiots.

Arrr! Maties. What Happened To Them Thar Action Movies?

This was originally supposed to be posted on the 19th of September

So I was watching Predator on tv the other day.
good action movie.
It sucked me right in. Captivating it is. More so than Sneakers.
Weeell, maybe not. But on the same level at least.
Which brings me to this question: What happened to the action movie?......Arrr!

Part of the blame goes to Bruce Willis and the rest of the cast and crew of Die Hard. Actually, it goes to the people who rip that movie off. Ever since then, all action movies have an everyday joe who has to have emotions and problems.
Fuck that.
Aye, they should walk the plank.

Predator is a classic action movie.
If you don't like, then my friend, you don't like action movies.
It has Ahnold, at his best. Seriously, I think his accent got worse as his career went on.
It has a bunch of 2 dimensional characters that are expendable.
It has Apollo Creed! And it has a kick ass villain.
There be explosions and shoot outs and some nifty effects.
More importantly it doesn't have a bloated over complicated story. No stupid twists and turns. No stupid surprises. And no hero who is bogged down by emotional problems that are only there to give the story a cheap ass heart and to make him relateable to the audience.

How does it make Bond more realatable when he feels sad that he had to kill another bond girl. Oh yah, that happens to me all the time when I go abroad and do a broad. They always end up being on the villains side. Damn those villains for making me kill this girl whom I just slept with.
Now unless you have a shit load of stds, as we can safely assume that bond has, unless he is genetically engineered by Q to be immune to such things, I don't think people have to worry to much about having some random girl dying on them.

I remember when Bad Boys II came out.
People didn't like it that much.
Why? I have no idea. The only movie that entertained me more that entire year was Pirates of the Carribean.
That's some pretty esteemed company, I must say.
It did what it was supposed to. It was everything the first movie was, except more.
More action, more comedy, more chases and more explosions.
Michael Bay knows how to blow shit up.
It was formulaic like you wouldn't believe, but that's fine. It helps the movie more than hurts it.
I went to the bathroom during the movie, something I rarely ever do. Once a movie starts, there is no leaving until it ends.
In this case though, I knew that nothing important was going to happen and that I had some time and right I was.
Only problem with the movie I had was that some of the shots in the movie were only there because they were in the first one.
Bah.

If you haven't noticed, there be some talk of the sea throughout this piece. If you be asking yourself, why?, then I got an answer for ye.
I originally started this on "Talk Like A Pirate Day!"
Why is there such a thing, you ask.
Well, ummm, because. That's why.
If you would also like to participate in such a glorious event, then you might want to brush up on you pirate speak.
And don't worry, we haven't forgotten you crazy Germans.

Thanksgiving Weekend

So this wknd was Thanksgiving Weekend.
A time to eat, spend time with friends and family and eat.
Eating is good.
Many things that we can all be thankful for.
Health, wealth or food, maybe even the simple fact that you are breathing.
Some things are close by, others far away. Some seem far, yet are quite possibly the closest things to you. You just haven't realised it yet.

Friends.
The only reason that I am sane as I am. Also the reason I am as insane as I am.
I have a bunch of things that I am thankful for.
Some of which I won't mention here, mostly because they be mine and I am wanting to keep it that way.
uh huh, uh huh.
But they know who they are.
I'm thankful for them, so go away world. They are not for you.
*shakes fist
Then there is the whats.
They don't know what they are, or do they...
Either way, I'm thankful for them as well.

But here is something that I am thankful for that I will share with you. Soemthing that happened on Thanksgiving Sunday oddly enough.


Bart Bartell.

Flightplan

I just saw Flightplan.
What, the fuck!
The movie blows.
The first hour or so is boring as all get out.
Then it kinda almost gets interesting........if it wasn't so stupid.
This is one of those movies where the problem could be solved with a kick in the head.
Well, almost. The movie isn't what you think it is.
Well it is, but then it isn't.
Lemme just say the flick gets good (almost) once they get to Canada.
That's right. Canada.
Of course, why the FBI would be in Goose Bay, instead of the RCMP, I don't know.
Don't even get me started on where the fuck a squad came from. I'd say watch the movie and you'll understand, but that means you'd have to watch the movie and I wouldn't want to put that burden on you.
Supposedly there was some controvery over some nonsense.
.
Jodie Foster was annoying. Annoying as hell.
Which I guess means that she is a good actress, cause I wanted to kick her head in so many times. Peter Sarsgaard, looked sleepy or shifty eyed even.
Sean Bean was his good intense usual self. Erika Christensen was pointless and the sexy stu was like a sexy version of Sarah Jessica Parker. Except with much better lips.
Oh my.
The sexy stu. So lovely, those lips. Just lovely, quite lovely.
Kate Beahan. Needs more close ups.

SJP comes up, I think only because 1 of the trailers had her in it.
Oh, did I mention that there was 15min of trailers.
Yah, there was.
Jarhead being the only good one. The rest were boring. So much so, that I cannot remember any of them, other than the one with SJP and Craig T Nelson. Oh, it had Rachel McAdams too.
Mmmm, tasty.

Speaking of trailers, here is a good one. (read more about it here)
It is something rare. A good trailer that intrigues you, yet doesn't really give anything away.
Is good I tells ya!

reviews yet to come:
40 yr-old virgin
hustle & flow
constant gardener
+ some movies I watched on dvd.

The Deal

Why, hello there!
Long time no see. How have you guys been doing?
Whatcha been up to?
Me?
Not much really. I did have a nasty case of the no-posties(tm).
Not as bad as some people, but nonetheless.

Here's the deal.
See, no matter how many teachers say that I'm a good writer, (as you can see by that smooth transitition), I'm not going to like writing. The worst part is the starting.
Can't start a paper or a story or a post or anything, really. Not even if my life depended on it.
If something is already there and I can expand on it, then great, but starting from sratch, this I regualarily despise.
Once I get over that bump though, I'm usually fine. Then I can go on and on & on + on.
The other problem is that I cannot write the words down fast enought for my mind. My mind races around like a maniac and if I slow it down too much to write it out, that train of thought is derailed. The train can be put back on the tracks, but if I don't feel the writing bug, forget about it.

Which brings me to why I haven't updated this sucka.
I wasn't in the writing mood. I just couldn't sit in front of a sceen and put my thoughts on it. I couldn't even put my thoughts on paper. Which is how this post orignally started.
The other problem was that my thoughts just didn't translate properly, from deep speak(tm), into words.
I tried to write but it just wan't happening, Couldn't type for the life of me. The moment I sat down to type something, my mind would just blank.
Writing on paper wansn't any better either.
Random stuff was being put down a litlle but not enough to expand on to make coherent writings. If what you call what I write coherent.
Some bits + pieces were typed up though. Not enought to be posted mind you. But it was something.
So, I decided to take a step back for a little while. Let the urge to write come naturally, not force it.
Lots of shit flying around and I was having trouble sorting it all out.
But now my mind is a little bit more at ease.

So updates should be more forthcoming.
I got some movie review that have been started, which I'll try and get up over the weekend. Also some of those bits + pieces I mentioned, will be expanded on until they are nice chunks and, ahhh, fragments, (thank you thesaurus). So some of them might be slightly out of date. I'm looking at you action movie rant......

So to all those who were wondering where I was, all 3 of you, I am here.
Who would have thought that having a ridiculously early shift at work would be so helpfull.
So there you go.
That's the deal.

The Aristocrats

Sunday(Aug.21st) I went and saw a dirty movie.
A very dirty movie.
An, Oh My God! That mime is pretending to fuck a dog, kinda dirty movie.

It was great.

The Aristocrats.

Simple concept to this flick. Penn (from Penn & Teller) and his comedian friend, take a couple of cameras and ask comedians about a joke. A crap load of comedians. That joke being "The Aristocrats."
It goes like this:

A guy walks into an agents office and says "I've got an act for you"
The agent says "Alright, what do you do?"
The guy the proceeds to do the nastiest, dirtiest, and just plain wrong things. This is where the comic gets to come up with whatever his little mind can conjure up.
The agent, after hearing/seeing this routine asks the guy "What do you call yourselves?"
The guy says" The Aristocrats"

I know, I know. It ain't funny.
On paper anyways, but when you hear the comedians going off, look out!
Now if you've read up on this movie at all, you'd know that Penn has been saying that if you're offended by anything, ever, you shouldn't see this movie.
I agree with that statement.
If you aren't easily offended, then go see this movie.
You learn a little about the process of telling jokes and find out that mimes can be funny.
Some of the best versions of the joke come from female comedians, so you can drag your girl to this as well. I would advise against that, unless she has a wickedly dark sense of humour.

IF that ain't enough to sell you, then lemme just say this:
Bob Saget.
Need I say more, not really.

Now just gotta hold out for the dvd.

If you've been keeping track of this streak of movies, this is review 4 of 6.
1 being Save The Green Planet
2 being Four Brothers.
3 being 40-yr Old Virgin (coming soon)
4 being this

Four Brothers

On theThursday(Aug.18th), following Save The Green Planet, Pslam, Scoop and myself went to see a throwback movie.

That movie was Four Brothers.

Do you like the 70's?
Do you like movies?
Do you like revenge?
Do you like revenge movies from the 70's?
Then my friend this movie for you.

Lemme just get this outta the way first. I loooooooved this flick.

It's a nice revenge flick.
An old lady is gunned down in a robbery in a corner store, thus bringing her four (adopted) children back together. They decide to find the killers themselves.

The movie proper starts out with a car trailing the camera with some 70's tunes playing.
Classic. Sets the mood.
As I said earlier, its a throwback film.
The soundtrack is mostly classics, including 4 Marvin Gaye tracks, and a few new tracks.
I'm trying to think of things that I din't like about this movie, but nothing comes to mind. Took to long to write this it seems. Good excuse to see it again.

This flick hit the spot. It was what I was looking for.
Everybody fit their roles. Nobody stuck out like a sore thumb.
Andre 3000 was good, better than in Be Cool. But that movie suuuucked.
Marky Mark was great as the leader of the group.
Tyrese was smooth as the playa.
The latina chick was smokin'.
The bad guy was evil.
Terence Howard makes a show as a cop that knew the boys from their childhood and he as always grounds the movie in its' reality.
The people that you were supposed to root for, you did .
The people that you were supposed to hate, you did.
When this movie was done, you just wanna go bust some heads.
In a good way.

I'll update this review, once I get my head screwed on properly. Hopefully by next week.

Sleep Deprivation

So I haven't posted in awhile, as you can see. But I got about 4 movie reviews waiting in the wings.
Been having trouble with putting words on the screen.
Mind not functioning smoothly. - more on this later.
Had an interesting wknd. All blended together into one lump due to a lack of sleep. Doesn't help that I wore myself out on top of the not sleeping. Amazing how much you can run around without sleep and proper amounts of food in your system.

What's even more amazing is that I had a wicked game of field hockey. I also had a wicked amount of bruising from said game.
Got smashed in the arch of my left foot 4 or 5 times with the ball. So walking sucks.
Then I got my left thumb busted up twice. So my thumbnail is all bruised up as is my index finger.
Then my left palm is bruised from the butt end of my stick.
Enough injuries to make me bitch (like I need an excuse) but not enough to stop me from hitting up a theatre.


So here's a question for you:

When someone you know has a problem/situation and you are trying to help them out, how selfish can you be in your advice?

Now, I'm not one for being selfish when helping out people and giving advice. I'm known for being quite objective and giving both an outsider and insider point of view.
And dammit, I'm good at it too.
In this case though, the results of the decision at hand kinda effect me as well. Not anywhere as close as it will effect them, not even.
But enough that it changes the relationship that is currently going on.
Problem is that it is not a conscience change. It's just a matter of priorities and things like that.
In this case, I would not be a priority. Pushed to the side I would be. Which would eventually lead to a total lack of communication.
Which is to bad, cause I liked where this one was going or not going as the case would be.

Suggestions? Opinions? Help......?

Save The Green Planet.......Or Is It???

On Monday Scoop and moi went to Cinematheque to check out the Korean film, Save The Green Planet. Or did we?!

My oh my!
What an interesting movie it is. Or is it?!
Save the Green Planet doesn't fall into any single genre. It's a mix of them.
It's part horror, sci-fi, thriller, mystery, comedy, etc.
The movie is about this guy (the guy in the poster) who kidnaps the CEO of a company that he used to work for.
Why you ask?
Because the CEO is an alien.
Or is he?!

As the movie goes on, it jumps from genre to genre easily depending on the info that you were just given.
At one point the guy is torturing the CEO, but is the CEO an alien or a figment of the guys deranged pill popping imagination.
Does the CEO really have telepathic powers that are controlled by his hair?
Who knows?
The movie has some disturbing moments, but it also has some very funny moments.
One of the best sight gags I've seen in awhile. Involving killer bees and a desperate cop with a gun.
Those crazy Koreans. Or are they?!

I can't remember any of the names in the movie. Think they have been overwritten by the movie I saw Last night. Or did I?

Anyways.

Good movie, I recommend it, unless you don't like scenes with torture or implied torture.
Actually, no, I recommend even then.
Or do I?!

Kingdom of Heaven: Supplemental

Last Wednesday I saw Kingdom of Heaven.
I also had some cake.

Juice baked me a cake and brought it to the flick. They made us put it in the fridge.
The bastards.

I made Juice get some rootbeer.
So we watched the movie and discussed cake and how orlando bloom wasn't as annoying as he usually is.
This was do to his lack of talking, I came to realise.
The rootbeer was tasty.
The theatre was cold.

We left the theatre and picked up our cake.
The bastards.
We discussed what to do next.
I pointed out how there is a lovely rootbeer stain on her shirt.
That crazy Juice! What a waste of rootbeer.
We headed over to wal-mart. Helped some venezualens cross the street.
The girls ran into some friends. Our services were no longer required.
Job well done.

Juice got some clothes.
I watched some Ghostbusters.
We caught a cab, went to Smitty's.
We had some wings. She had a beer or 3 and I had a rootbeer.
The wings were alright.
Not great, not bad.

We left Smitty's and went to the bus shack across the street.
Why you ask?
Simple really.
We put on our bday hats, lit the candles and woooooooooo!
Par-Tay!

The people who went by on the bus as we were doing this were sooooo jealous.
So jealous.
And why shouldn't they be.

I had me some cake!

oh, and a friend who can make them.

Yah.
That's important too.

Holy Crap!

Q: You're doing Get Smart with producer Charles Roven, correct?

Carell: Actually, they're still writing it. They have an outline and the next step is to actually script it.

Steve Carell that is.
That would be awesome.
Taken from an interview from the always great CHUD.

Kingdom Of Heaven

I love Ridley Scott.

I liked Kingdom of Heaven.

Only real problem I have with it is that I know that an hour or so was cut form the flick. So now I wanna see all the political intrigue that is missing.

I for once, had no problem with Olando Bloom. 3/4 of the way through the movie, I realized that it was most likely because he didn't really talk all that much.
Edward Norton was cool as the King of Jerusalum.
Jeremy Irons is always good.

I saw this movie last Tuesday. I couldn't really think of much to say about the movie then and I don't have all that much I can really think of to say about this movie now.
It was good, I enjoyed it.
I will enjoy the extended version that is sure to come, even more.

Nuff said.

Splooooosh!

On Saturday night, I went to a couple of more pavilions with some folks.
It was the last night of Folklorama.

We went to the 9:45 show of the Scandinavian pavilion.
In celebration of Hans Christian Anderson, the theme this year was fairy tales.
Titled "Once Upon A Time".
They danced a bunch and sang a bunch. Most of which you really couldn't make out.
It had it's amusing moments, such as the robbers of cardamom city or somesuch.
The kids were singing, attempting to really. They were giggling throughout the performance as they were handed more and more ridiculous things.
There was a rat thing that Pslam was convinced was a demon and that Constantine was gonna show up and send it back to hell.
Other than that, it was alright.
The chowder was good. The deserts, not so much.

We checked out the cultural displays before hand. The was Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. And I'm so missing one here.
We checked them all out. Heckled and protested at the Danish one. Telling them off and letting them know that it's our island.

After that we went to the Portuguese pavilion.
It was the only one that was within range that we could get to before the last show of the night.
11pm the show started. After midnight it finished.
3 or 4 different groups doing there dances with 2 songs thrown in between.
Nothing spectacular really.
Dances kinda were simliar.
Do love those castanets though.

There was one thing other than the castanets though, that caught my eye.
The theme was something to do with villages, I wasn't really listening.

Anyways, at the back of the stage there was a cutout thing.
You know, one of those boards with a picture painted on with people. The faces and sometimes hands cutout so that you can put yours in them. Ya know!?!

Well, at the Portuguese pavilion, there was a guy hiding out behind the cutout and for every other song or so, he would stick his face into the guys headspace and sing into the mike.
This was followed by him sticking his head into the womans headspace and singing in a high pitched woman imitation voice.
Humourous indeed.
This went on all night long.
Good times.
Reminded me of the guy from Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. He was the guy in the town (windfall island) that had the battleship type game.
Good times indeed.

Gosh Darn Technology

I reverse out of the driveway.
The driveway being located at Langside and Broadway.
The tunes are a playin'.
Unfortunately, they are oldies and not the good kind. So while Cinamon Stick is closing the gate, I attempt to change the station.
Key word here is attempt.

I push the preset buttons, one at a time.
Nothing doing.
I push them harder.
Nope.
Try the seek button, the tune button.
Still Oldies.
AM/FM button.
Nothing seems to respond.
I turn the power off - A reset always helps things.
Turn the radio back on. Notice a #1 in the little screen, so I try pushing #2 and 3.
Notta.
CS gets into the car by this point. I look at her and tell her "I can't change the station."
CS: "what!"
Moi: "The station won't change, I tried all the buttons"
SO she goes at it now. Pushing the buttons one by one. Faster until she is just mashing all the buttons on the display.
Nothing doing.
"Nooooooooo" she yells as she starts banging on the dashboard.
I concur with her sentiment.
She turns the radio off.
CS: "We won't be listening to anything then"

Off we go.

We are cruisin' south having our usual nonsensical conversations and no matter what she says, it was funny.
I start to hear a beat drop. I'm going "what the hell?!"
Looking at the radio that nobody touched. Then I realise that the beat is coming from the ringing cell phone in Cinamon's purse.
Crazy phones and their crazy ring tones.

We get to the 'south end'.
Quotes are there due to the fact that the 'south end' is more south/central.
You know, with all the gangstas and fried chicken shops around. Corn bread stands on hydraulics.
weee-oooh, weeee-oooh.
One side of the street has the sweet potato pie. The other, the collard greens crew. And you don't wanna get caught in that crossfire.

Anyways, we get to where we were going. I jump outta the car.
5 or so minutes later I jump back in.

CS is on the phone.
A beat is bumpin'.
Wait, what.
A beat is bumpin'
I take a look at the deck. A slight look of shock crosses my face... a tape is sticking out of it.
For christ sakes.
CS gets off the phone.
Moi: "It was a bloody tape?!"
CS: "I KNOWW!,......miscelaneous loud stuff"
She didn't actually say 'miscelaneous loud stuff'. But you get my point.
Driving now to the actual south end of the city, southwest if you look at the city map thingy.
Talking about how we can't believe that it was a tape.
eahhhhh.
I'm like "I came in and music is going and there's a tape"
CS: "I know I saw your face, so hard not to laugh on the phone"
Some more jibber jabber back and forth.

Then we get to Batty's going away bash, after a quick stop off at BK.
Mmmmm, tendercrisp with spicy sauce.
Par-tay!

One Of Those, You Had To Be There Things

So I gets on the bus and open the window at the seat in front of me.
A couple of stops later this chick gets on, that seems familiar.
I wasn't sure if it was her, since back in the day, she came into class exclaiming how she had to take the bus to school one day and actually hold on to a rail.

omg! How horrible!

But I noticed that she was wearing a Birthright Israel shirt.
So it had to be her. Except a little larger.
I guess the post high school syndrome kicked in for her as well.

That's not the funny part.

So she is sitting in the seat in front of me yapping away on her cell when she decides to have a listerine pack thingy.
Unfortunately for her, the window is open and blowing her hair into her face ever time she tries to put the strip in.
This went on for a few moments until she gave up.
Eventually the call ended, thus allowing her to concentrate on the difficult task at hand.

Man this was so much funnier when it happened and when I din't have to explain it.

Oddly enough, I saw her sister on Saturday at Earls.

Fire Fighters Will Never Look The Same

I saw the gayest video in the world last night.
I can't remember the name of the song, but the video consisted of washing a fire truck and squeezing the sponge out all over yourself.
Now while the guys are rubbing themselves down, you are also shown clips of the blonde doing stuff. I can't remember what, just take my word for it. Stuff was being done.
The worst part is, The most attractive of the bunch is barely in the video.
For shame!
Alcazar I believe they be called.

Magnus and Andreas. Wtf!?

Careful with the link, you must prepare yourself when entering the castle!.....dum dum duuuum!

Worlds Colliding

So, on Saturday I went out to Earls on Main to see a friend of mine(Juice)that I haven't seen in a long while.
Wow! I just looked at the website. They got horrible pics on the front page. Wow!
Anyways. I get there and I find out it is for this guys(Mike = M2) birthday.
In the above chart, I am M1. Juice is F1.
The numbered folk were at the event, the non-numbered folk were not.

Collision of worlds!

From there we went to the new Tavern by the Phonebooth.
This time though, we were upstairs. Half of the space is for VLTs. The other half has a pool table, a couple of couches and a tv. As well as the required tables and chairs for easy drinking. Don't remember seeing any dart boards though.
Good times were had and that guitar busker guy was out front providing some entertainment as well.
Most importantly, I think I'm getting some cake on Tuesday.
I better, or there is gonna be some juice that is gonna go bad....
ta, ta taaaaaaa!.....

In other news:

My feet are bruised. Which sucks like a mofo.
1. Inside left arch
2. Outside right heel-ish
3. Outside right just below the pinky toe.

I hate field hockey sometimes.
There is this one guy who has the uncanny ability to smack the ball right into my foot. Luckily for me, I was wearing my new kicks that I got for my bday. Thus the bruising isn't so bad and it only hurts when I move my foot.
His response is, as always, "I'm just testing your shoes"
Arggs.
Damn that field hockey ball being rock hard.

Anyways, something rather..I don't know anymore, I forgot what this was supposed to be about.
Oh well.
Another time perhaps.

Oompa Loompa Indeed

Willy Wonka came to visit!

Went to Folklorama last night.
For those of you that don't know, Folklorama is the largest and longest running multicultural event in the world!
Rock!
Saw the Spanish and the Indo-China pavillions.

A run down of my night:

After getting home from work(4:30-ish), I went to sleep. Phone rang, P.slam wanting to know if I'm up for anything. I say sure. He's says 6 'o clock. I go back to sleep until 5:45.
Get up and get ready I do.
Hit the LC for a program guide and then head over to Scoops.
Chill there for a bit. Tell his younger brother, Bry Bry, Happy birthday!
Embarass the youngest bro, Robbie, in front of his older girl.
Then we are off.
We get to the pavillion, which is next to Sargent Park Pool.
Got some food. Was good and filling, unless there is 3 of you, then it is good and almost but not quite filling. Chicken and rice and cake and shrimp and mussels.
mmm, tasty.

The show was alright.
The first dance would have been better if they had music that didn't sound like it came outta a looney tunes cartoon. The second would have been better if it didn't sound like it was from the fifties. You'd think they would have better quality sounding music to play with the dances. Cause whats gonna happen when these tapes go bust?
No more traditional music I guess, and that will be the downfall of Spain.
One of the servers there, was an old teacher of the fellas. Her daughter was performing in the show you see. Supposedly Scoop got the thumbs up from her to go after the daughter. But he of course thought it best if he went after the teach.
Shows done. He gets some Sangria, after some peer pressure, he gets another for the teach.
Gives it to her and kinda wussies out.
tsk tsk.
Me and P.slam get him embarrassed outside by hollering at a way to young girl in a very short green skirt.
Good times.

From there we meander our way to Portage Place.
We make are way to the 3rd floor to the Praire Theatre Exchange, for the Indo-China Pavillion.
Here we skipped the very bland, very very, oh so bland looking chinese food. With the exception of the deserts. We got some green jelly things that had a corn flour centre.
Not bad.
The show was very entertaining. Interesting at times, humourous at others. If you ask the fellas, they'll also tell you that it was 'dangerous'.
They flinched quite a bit when the weapons came out. Given that they were within in 4 feet of us, but still.
Good show over all.
On the way out, we stopped so Scoop could get some pics taken with his friend, Alice, who was a perfomer in the show. (pics to be a comin')

From here we took a stroll to back to the car, but stopped in to the new Tavern United, located next door to the Phonebooth, or as it's known around town, the new arena.
Hostess was very nice, as were the waitresses. The napkins they have at the old Tavern, it seems, are what the waitresses use as skirts at the new one.
Quite lovely.
Other than that though, it was quite a cock fest to put it bluntly. Even with a stagette going on.
The place has got 2 floors and the pool tables are located upstairs. Don't know about the darts though.
We had a pitcher of Carlsberg and some nachos. Very good nachos. The cheese was hot and melting until the very last bite. Had a nice kick from the jalepenos as well.
From here we got the car and headed over to Shannon's Irish Pub, for Bry Bry's birthday.
Once we got a parking space, after driving down a one way street......the wrong way. This driving in the wrong lane type thing seems to be a somewhat recurring theme, when us 3 are together. But I digress.
We headed into the pub. Pretty dead it was.
That sucked.
What made it worse was that we had to get memberships.
$5. No big cost, but we hardly ever go there and we didn't wanna spend the money.
Got Bry a sicilian kiss, and P.slam & Scoop had a boiler maker each.
We then had to decide if we wanted to go see Emily at the party at the Argentinan pavillion or get some burgers.

Off we went to Vj's Drive In.
Here we notice some chick passed out on the fence in the parking lot next to Vj's.
Wish we had a camera
Got some burgers and Fries. Nothing to crazy, unlike Burton Cummings, who was in line behind us. He got a double special, a double chilli cheese dog special, fries extra crispy and a banana shake.
Crazy, soon to be fat man.

As we finsh our food, some lovely ladies get there. For once the attractive ladies were outnumbering the guys. Who would have thought it would be here.
The passed out woman is starting to awake. That or she is twitching.
We jump into the car and make our way over to the Salsa Bar & Grill, across from the U of W.
The Patio is packed and there is a dancin' going on inside. We meet up with some folks and shake our booty.
Unfortunately, we are tiring out. So while Emily is out having a drag, we shuffle our way out the door, say our goodbyes and head back to the car.
Zoom over and drop off Scoop.
Get almost to my place when I notice this, ummm, let's go with hottie. Yes, I notice this hottie walking down the street. As we get closer I notice that it's Shannon!
We turn around and give her a lift home.
Lookin' good Shans!
Then I am dropped off.

Thus ends another night.

The Day Shift

For some god foresaken reason, I agreed to take an early morning shift.
7am to be precise.
Meaning I gotta get up at 5:30 to go catch my bus that gets me here for 6:30-ish.
bah.
At least it was only for yesterday and today.

Last night I slept.
Got home, slept.
Aunt came over, so I got up. Had a muffin. She said "Happy birthday!".
I said "thanks".
Went back to sleep.
Woke up. 9/10-ish. Finished watching Snatch.
Went to sleep at midnight.
Tried to anyways. Don't know what time I eventually nodded off though.
Woke up multiple times throughout the night.
Alarm goes off, J-lo and LL are a singin'. Turned the volume down and went back to sleep.
Woke up.
6:03am.
Bus arrives at 6:10am.
fuck.
Made it though.

Day is done now. Off to ze bed I go.
Now all I gotta do is find something to do tonight.

word

A Fellow Leo

Happy Birthday Lindsay!

Deep No Suga

That's right, you heard me.
Deep no suga.
The girls, well, as we all know.
Girls Dem Suga.
But that is another story.

So the results are in. Kinda. The doc didn't actually have the results. He had to call to get them, because the lab didn't send them. Either way I was given good news I guess. My fears were not realized
Now I can go out and celebrate! Gonna get wasted!
Wooooooooo!
Oh, wait. Nope, no can do.
Liver Infection. Maybe.
That or I might be allergic to alcohol.
Rock!
Gotta go back in 6 weeks for another check up. Which sucks, cause I was hoping to get my physical out of the way.
Alas, I cannot.
Not yet.

Is all good though. I'm gonna go out and drown my sorrows with some root beer.
Word!

Staring You Right In The Face

Fear is a funny thing, no?
Only emotion I can think of that you can not be aware of.
It disguises itself. Hides behind other moods.
Sadness, indifference, needy, Denial or in my case anger.

Realized it last night.
Was talking on the phone and it hit me.
Had the shakes I did.
Even said so on the phone. Which tells you how shaken up I was. Me telling shit like that over the phone. Hell, even in person. I'd deny it to your face if I had to.
Not this time though.

My ramblings the other night eased(?) my mind enough to let me sleep. More likely it just tired me out, allowing me to sleep.
This time, I just rambled on the phone.
Just knowing that I was bothered by my forthcoming results, eased me somewhat.
The phone call cheered me up more than it would have, if I had not come to that realization.
But then again, Caw is good at doing that.

Slurred Mind.

I have 3 aunts who live near each other, with the farthest being a 5 min walk away.
2 of the houses are practically behind each other with the 3rd down the street, just around the bend.
Now, I'm just as much family as the rest of my cousins, but then again I'm not.
Don't have the bond that they do, understandable, since they all grew up together, while I just made guest appearances like a holiday episode of a sitcom.
SO I kinda grew up alone. Nothing wrong with that, except when you know what you are missing out on.

That shaped me into who I am. Just like how your childhood shaped you. Most likely why I have no problem getting a long with other people. I'm readily accepting of them and the friendship that they will/may provide. Almost naive, you could say.
Problem is, there is a lot of bullshit out there. Learned that growing up. That among other things added to my bitter, angry persona.
But I'm still accepting, just hoping that the bullshit will be on the low side. Treating folks like the brother/sister/cousin, I never had.
Wish I had.
Trying hard not to fall back into the only child again. Maybe trying to hard.
maybe.

Am I making excuses for myself.
Most probably.
Is this the answer?
Most probably not.
Did the above really shaped me?
Doubt it. More like the lack of. Gotta throw some bullshit sometimes and see what sticks.
Mind is fuzzy. Tired.
Tired the way that only the beach can make you.
Just ramblings in hopes of stumbling upon the real answer. Gotta sift through the bullshit until you find the bull.

I don't know what that means either.

I've been pissed off.
Don't know why, just am. Not at any particular person or thing. Just in general. But I've been kinda taking it out on people. Been lashing out I have. Thus in the process, I might have pissed off some people as well. Normally, this would make one feel good, cause as we all know, misery loves company.
Might have lost some friends for awhile or at least I won't be seeing/hearing from them in awhile. Too bad. Good friends are hard to find.

A lot harder to make friends nowadays. Haven't made any in awhile. Lemme rephrase that, Haven't made and good friends in quite awhile.
Now my grumpy-ness has been here for a little bit. At least a week. The people that I tell my shit to, the ones that help me work it out, don't even know all of it. Just the big things that I have to face the consequences. Actually, I shouldn't say big things. More like the things that worry me more. Big things don't necessarily translate in to worriness.

At the time I though it was how my day started but I realized, not soon enough mind you, that the 1st event just made me snap, I guess and the 2nd event just sealed the deal.
I'm angry, so I took at myself to figure out why, but my angry cloud makes it hazy and I only see how disgusted I am with where I'm at. Cause I know I can do better and I know I should be doing better. But I'm not, which only fuels my anger.
The cycle continues.

Trying to snap outta it but haven't found the thing to do it. Don't know the key to the door or the missing piece of the puzzle if you will. Doesn't help that I'm angry, (separate form the original anger), with the way I played out things, while full of said anger, but, shiit.
Too late now.

Hell, the cake didn't even help.
Seemed off.
Movies aren't as good. Can't decide on what to watch at home. They aren't as entertaining. Ain't doing it for me.
I barely laughed when I went to see the Wedding Crashers.
Don't get me wrong, it's a funny movie and I know it's a funny movie. I can even think ahead to when I'll own the dvd and how I'll bust a gut laughing.
But not this night. Didn't do it for me.
It did lighten up my mood somewhat though. So, it might have worked a bit.
Shows you how pissed I was by the little effect it did have.
Even still, the combination of the flik and the goofy night on the town with the fellas, I dunno, cheered me...up...?? enough so that I was tolerable.
Or so I hope.

Had some tasty chinese food to boot.

Does this make any sense? Ah, who knows. I'm tired. I'm rambling. My words are starting to slur in my mind. You know you should sleep when the words are slurred and you aren't even speaking them.

I gonna go and see if this has emptied my head enough so that I can catch some zzzz's.

meh

meh.
left work at 3:55.
ran to waverly.
missed 78.
waited.
crossed street to catch other 78.
bus stop i was just at has the 80 go by.
blast!
catch 78 at new stop.
went to Danali.
tried on pants and shorts.
went to Meyers for some cake.
meyers closed for holidays.
went to rogers. checked out there used bin.
went back to Danali.
bought said pants and shorts.
joked with the crew there.
feel a bit better.
i like Danali.
went to Food Fare.
bought some cake.
went to the bank.
got some cash.
went to the LC.
got some booze.
tried a sample of iced cappacino vodka cooler.
the chick was cute.
bought one.
iced cap vodka cooler, not the girl
bought a cigar.
went home.
went and got my hair cut
she gave me a discount as a gift.
went home
ate some cake.
drank said iced cap vodka cooler.
shaved.
got picked up.
drank a Yuha. Mango Citrus!
got to Verna's
ate some chicken
i din't even finish.
left Verna's
drank a Yuha. Orange Guava Passion Fruit!
went to The Pyramid.
had a southern comfort & coke.
din't feel like dancing.
kinda did. but body wouldn't move properly.
had a shot of something.
got home 1:30.
watched a bit of die hard 3.
went to sleep.
woke up 10:57
caught bus at 11:06.
now i'm at work.
meh.

In 12 hrs, Officially

This will be updated more fully later. Ah, the update, kinda.

I'm bitter and pissed off* and I don't know why.
Well I kinda do, but not really.

My mum did something that she's never done to me before. Sneak up on me and scare the crap outta me. Luckily, I was half asleep and too tired to respond.
After she wakes me up with a scare....
Mum:

"you working today?"

Moi:

"uuuuuhhhhhhhhhhh"

mum:

"cause we could have gone for chinese"

moi:

"uhhhhh"

mum:

"chinese would have been good to get today"

moi:

"uhhhhh"

fin.

My 2nd call of the day was from Mona and we didn't really talk about anything. Just that Patterson Billboards wants to advertise on her forearms.
But since that call, I can't get this smirk off my face.
Damn you.....

Still kinda pissed off* though.

Not how I wanted to start my day. I wanted to start it off with this. Well the real thing actually, like so:



Bastards.

*english accent please

Multi - Use Napkins

So I get a call. Which is normal, since I do work in a call centre.

Yay! Internet tech support!

I'm talking with this old-ish man from Tennessee. He was transferred over to me from AOL. Now, this old-ish guy is a Comcast internet subscriber. Unfortunately for him, I work in the Earthlink powered by Comcast Department.
Different division of internet providers.
Well, the internet is still provided by Comcast, but the email and things is through Earthlink.
Now this sorta thing ain't new. AOL does this all the time.

So I says to the old-ish guy:

"Unfortunately , you've been transferred to Earthlink tech support."

Old-ish guy:

"Well, AOL gave me this number"

Moi:

"They have a habit of doing that." (or something to that affect)

To which the Old-ish guy responds:

"Yah, what do they know, they're Indian"

Ahh, ignorant racism. Isn't it grand.

Reminds me of the time when I went to Sals with a bunch of the fellas for some late night grub. We sat on the stools at the counter and ordered our food and milkshakes. The waitress comes around with our milkshakes and hands them out to the people who ordered them except for 1. The chocolate shake that I ordered.
The waitress turns to the cook who is native and asks her:

"Who does this shake go to?"

To which the native chef turns and points at me and says:

"The brown one for the brown one!"

I have the look of the subtle 'wtf!?'(or as some people tell me, the 'other' normal look), while Bro has a look of complete shock on his face. And as they all chuckle at this turn of events, Bro looks at me and wonders out loud:

"What are they gonna say when they bring you your cinnamon bun?,
Here's you cinnamon bun, you paki!?"

As we now amuse ourselves with this bit of knowledge, P.slam down the counter suggests making a turban out of a napkin so as not to confuse any of the workers at the lovely local spot known as Sals.

Ahhhh, the memories.

Happy Birthday!

Today is the celebration of the birth of my good friend, cinnamon stick!

On this day, the geezer is turning 25. That is a quarter of a century.
That's almost 10 yrs older than my nes.
Hope your day is great as can be, but since you be in etown, I hope it is at least not boring!

with lots of perverted sick love,
moi

Dearest Emily....

pour vous......mod night and the river.

Either more pics will be put up or I'll just create a new thingy or some such.

tata

The Island

Neelix is in the movie!

He is!
As you can see by the poster above, I went to a screening of The Island with my friend Scoop the other day. Nice enjoyable movie that went well with the Safeway Subs that we had conveniently had with us.
Mmmm, safeway subs. So tasty, so filling. So good.
I should get paid for that.

Anyways.

The movie is about these people who are in a facility where they are told that they are the last survivors on Earth after some sort of fallout. They all have a chance to win a lottery. The prize being a trip to the last uncontanimated place on Earth.
The Island.
aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh ( sung in an angelic voice)
But a certain someone, Lincoln 6 Echo(Ewan McGregor), finds out that this isn't so. He thus takes his very ravishingly gorgeous friend, Jordan 2 Delta(Scarlett Johansson), and they go on the run to escape the evil fate that awaits them at the hands of Dr. Merrick(Sean Bean).
dum dum duuuuuum.

The movie clocks in at about 2hrs and 15min. Not bad. Zips along too, so it doesn't seem to drag. For the most art, unless you get bored.

The movie starts off as a classic sci-fi but then turns into a classic action sci-fi chase movie. Too bad. It had some interesting things to work with. Cloning, whatnot and such. But it is Michael Bay after all. It also starts off with a nice clean stark look, due to the medical type facility in which the movie begins. When they get outside though, we are flooded with brown. Can't say I like that too much. Reminds me of Swordfish, without the orange.

Ewan McGregor(L6E) was very good. Always entertaining he is. The humourous moments that came out of his role were top notch. I like him and I don't really have anything to say about him. Nothing that troubled me, so he shall be spared my wrath this time.......
This time.

Scarlett Johansson(J2D) was, I can't believe I'm saying this, not very good eye candy for the start of the film. Don't get me wrong, she's gorgeous. But something about the way she just stands there with her lovely lips slightly apart, looking off into the distance, was..... off.
That and she looked kinda ditzy. Other than that she looks amazing at times in the film and her pants fit her o so well.
Oh so well.
As the movie went on, she got more and more radiant. The good kind. Not the bad kind that we are first subjected to. By the end though, you won't remember the ditzy, weirdness.
Just the,
"Oh my!"
and
"Why is the movie only pg-13, dammit!"

Djimon Hounsou, as I continue to find out, was one of the best things about The Island. I love this guy.
He was great in Gladiator & was the best part of Constantine. That's right, The.

Neelix is in the movie!
Sans makeup.
Not just a little bit part. An almost big, bit part is what he got.
Steve Buscemi makes a few appearances in the movie. Wasn't even a creepy part.
Yay Buscemi!
As did Michael Clarke Duncan. Bit part that is, the smaller variety. More of a role, time wise, that Sean Bean would usually get. Speaking of Sean Bean....

Sean Bean. What can I say about him. Well, he makes a great bad guy. He is awesome. Only problem is, all his good movies only have him in them for small amounts. This flick has him through out. I think he's trying to ruin my theory. The aptly named, Sean Bean Theory.
Nonetheless, he is evil and conniving in all the right ways.
Well done 006.
Well done.

I can honestly say that I think that this is one of the slowest action movies that Michael Bay has done. That ain't saying much if you've seen any of his other action movies. I'll give him some credit though. The choppers, and there's always choppers in his movies, don't show for almost an hour. He didn't bring the suckas in until about 55min in. But don't worry, you'll see a lot of them after that.

As for the special effects, they were top notch. Nothing stick out like a sore thumb with one exception. The only bad spot was during the 2nd half of the car chase. Jet bikes and blending in, don't seem to go together.

Now here is the major problem with the movie. Other than Michael Bay trying to make a smart sci-fi movie. Let me put it thusly...holy product placement batman.
Cadilac, Aquafina, xbox, msn search. michelob.
Now normally, I don't care , but when it is as blatant as the placements in this movie, I get annoyed. Takes you out of the movie. Real bad.
Example:
One point in the movie, they (L6E and J2D) are told to use the information directory. When they find one, what do we see? A msn search booth. Nice and subtle fellas.
Near the start of the film, L6E an J2D are duking it out in this virtual fighting simulator thingy. Huge scoreboard on the back wall that all the spectators can checkout. Escpecially the huge xbox logos on it. That's right, I said logos. As in, more than 1.
It seems that in the future, the last non-contanimated place on the planet, other than the island, has an xbox.
puh-leese. (eye roll required)

All in all the movie is not too bad. Other than the crazy blatant product placements and Sean Bean trying to ruin my theory.
It makes for a good background flick. Could throw the flick on and just have the images wash over the room as you go about your day. Kinda like in Minority Report when John Anderton gets his eyes replaced. Except that instead of a film noir, you got a somewhat fluffy action movie with less memorable lines and more brown. But nontheless, similar to that.
If you're into it, the movie holds your attention and it kinda zips by. But, if you're not into it or are tired, the movie won't do anything for you. You might even fall alseep. *coughscoopcough*

Did I mention that Neelix is in the movie!

Movies = Crack

So in the last couple of weeks I've gone on a little shopping spree of sorts.
I'm addicted to movies. More precisely, I'm addicted to dvds.

Newsradio: Season 1 & 2 - it finally came out and I found it. So happy!
Zatoichi - I found it for cheap. Only 20min after I got Newsradio. Happy day!

rented Suspect Zero. Watched it then headed home. On the way home I got...
Manchurian Candidate - I was in that intoxicated mood that this movie is great for.
Sky Captain & The World of Tomorrow - I needed another cheap flick to go with it.

A couple of days later I stumbled upon a movie that has such awesome style
Hulk - the transitions between scenes is gorgeous.
Entourage: Season 1 - I heard it was good.

A day or so later...
The Last Castle - A great movie, I found for cheap.

A couple of more days go by. Went to the docs, said I had to fast and get some blood tests, so to cheer myself up I got
Srubs: Season 1 - I love this show
ER: Season 1 - Some intense medical shows never hurt anybody

Before I went to the labs to do the tests I picked up
Constantine Deluxe Edition - was a very entertaining movie in the big seats.

I think I have a problem.

A friend of mine described it best:
This was said while watching High Fidelity during the scene where John Cusack is rearranging his records while arguing with his mother on the phone.
"that's you, except with movies"
That's right. I'm somewhat obsessive when it comes to my movie collection and I argue with my mother. Some think I have OCD when it comes to my fliks.

I need something to watch during my streaks of somewhat kinda insomnia.

The Lab

Went to the docs. Said I gotta fast.
Might have a virus that is going around. Sticks with you then shows flu like symptoms.
12 hours of fasting later:
Went to the lab.
It's a room in a clinic. It had a desk with a chair for the nurse and another for me.
Got poked with a needle, they (she) took some blood.
Had a small box to put the samples in.
Now I gotta wait 2 weeks*.
Bastards.

*The results are in.

Fantastic Four

Honestly.
The most entertaining movie of the summer so far!
I know, I know. You think I'm crazy. But I'm right.
Batman was good.
War of the Worlds was aight.
Fantastic Four, though, was entertaining!

It was cheesy and has some bad plot stuff and Jessica Alba is a scientist. But still. It's an easy going light fun film. And they don't show Jessica Alba doing sciency stuff.

Besides nobody can be worse as a scientist than Denise Richards in The World Is Not Enough. She single handidly ruined that flik. It's true.
Watch that movie and skip all of the scenes where she talks. One of the best Bond movies that way.

Anyways. FF had all the characters down pat. They were just as they should be.
Now here's my problem.
Dr. Doom is the prodigal son of Latveria. So, of course they would give him a prestigous gift. What is the gift you ask, well, it's a metal mask.

Dooms' homeland of Latveria gave him a demonic metal mask as a gift!

The Fantastic Four even use science to fight the bad guy!
Completely awesome!

Either way.
Entertaining movie.
Go see it.

War of the Worlds

The ending suuuuuucks
What is it with Spielberg ruining the endings of movies, so that he can get his stupid theme across.
We would have got it without the ending of choice, since you were ramming it down our throats for the last 2 hours. It started off so good, too. Set the mood, the characters, everything, right quick. Knew where everybody stood.
The first scenes of destruction were cool. Then the movie kinda started to go down hill.
Tim Robbins seemed a little out of place. I love the guy. (Antitrust anybody!) But his character just seemed slightly off. Not in the hes' got a screw loose, which he does, but more of how he just didn't mesh with the rest of the flick.

Not as bad as the ending though. Speilberg and his endings. Man.

Jackass.

It's like in A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. That 2nd ending was soooo unnecessary. Waste of an half an hour.

The rest of the flick was pretty good I guess. Didn't realise that the story was going to be that small. Movie looked good.
Aliens kinda blow though. Nothing exciting on that front. Tripods were cool.

As for how the aliens were beaten back. This is what happened.
Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum flew up into space and uploaded a virus into the mothership thus corrupting the shields of all the other ships. Allowing us to attack the aliens without worrying about the shields.

That's right. Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum. The actors. Not the characters they played in ID4.

Praise tha lord!

Pop

So I ran into an old friend o mine last night.
Anyways a long story short, the lot of us.
Lot being 6.
We were discussing muslim chicks that went back to the motherland to get sewn up for marriage.
Let me put that another way.
The Juice bottles (muslim chicks) go back to the factory (motherland) and get there cap resealed (sewn up).
They do this you see, so that when they get married, the fella will think that she is a virgin.

There was more conversation had, but it is too early in the day and I can't remember due to the early morning fog in my brain.
Yes, I do know that it is 3:30 in the afternoon.
shuuut up.

Gloves To Hide The Fingerprints

I was supposed to have a play by play of some dreams, but it doesn't work without pictures, so I'll get on that and we'll continue down that road at a later time.

In other news.
My mum is thinking of going to India. I say Go!
After all, I do need some more pajamas.
She would be gone for about 2 months. Thus I would have her place for 2 months. Rent free!
Which would be great.

In other, other news.
I think I have found a roomate to move out with. More like she found me. But that is neither here nor there. We even would have a place right away I think, but we could get a better place than that.

At work today, we had a lively discussion on.....
Invisibility.
If you you were invisible, what would you do?
Now before you answer, lemme clear some things up.
1. The invisibility goes as far as anything touching your skin. But only the immdeiate area. So if you are touching the floor in your bare feet, the floor only in the immdiate area would be affected. Within a foot or so. So if I touched your arm, your arm would be invisible and part of your shoulder but that would be it. If you were not a child, even less than that.
2. Logic doesn't count. You are able to see even though your eyeballs are then unable to process the light, etc, etc.
3. The Invisibility will not mysteriously wear off all of a sudden.

So, If you were invisible, what would you do?

I Have A Dream...

Actually, I had 2.
Which is kinda weird, cause I'm not one to have dreams. But when I do, I remember them quite vividly.

The first one I had was last week.
It involved the white house, its courtyard, a lot of trees with grapes on them and monkeys.
And pirates.
Maybe even some monkey pirates.
The vividness is starting to fade it seems.

The other one happened last night.
This one involves 2 of my friends. My pops place, an odd airport sponsered by a bank and me freaking out on the stupidity and lack of concern by said friends.

Bastards.

I wrote down what happened after I woke up. So I'll get that paper(s) and go into more detail on the morrow.

Here is something deep for you.
And something,... oh so shallow.
I also got something with depth. I do like the name.

All which can also be told to you by the crew.

"First things first, but not necessarily in that order."

Saw the season(series for those across the way) finale of Doctor Who. All I gots ta say is that better not be the new Doc. He looks like a dork. That and the daleks looked like they should.(click on ep.6)
Well done.
Maybe they can give the new guy a scarf to cover up his stupid grin.That might help.
Might.
Season 2 (series 2) comes out in 2006. But first we get a xmas special at the end of the year. Season 3 (series 3) has been confirmed as well.
Seems he is the new Doc.
Damn.
Ah well. I'll forget that he is the new guy by the time the xmas special airs.

I was watching The Day After Tomorrow. Movie is aight. Here's what bothers me.
Near the beginning of the movie, when the storms start to hit and big chunks of hail starts to come down in Japan. The Japanese guy in Tokyo has a cell phone. An Audiovox cell phone.
Whazaa!?!?
There is no way that such a crappy cell phone would be used in Japan by a native of said country.
Bah.

Finally finished watching Alexander. What a bunch of crap that was. Don't even bother with this flik. I would tear it apart hear for you, but it would be pointless and waste of my time.
Angelina Jolie looked good as usual and Val Kilmer was good as well.
That ends this paragraph.

By the way, The Muppet Show: Season 1 comes out in about a month. The whole season. Not more of these 'best of ' collections.

You may rejoice.

Things learned on Canada Day:
(can also be read here)

• If wearing a tube top and running. Hold one breast in your hand. The other will tow along.
• Lazy ninjas are unable to catch a bus if it is raining.
  
• If you're fakin' bakin' and are not attractive, rubbing your breasts while walking will only distract people from the rest of you until you stop rubbing your breasts.
  
• Newcastle Brown Ale goes good with BBQ.
  
• The streets of this city are determined to sprain my ankle.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory opens up this month (July 15th). I still think they should have had Christopher Walken play Willy Wonka with Johnny Depp playing Charlie. I know what you are thinking, but remember this, they made hobbits.
Other movies of interest out this month: The Aristocrast(July 29th) and The Island(July 22nd). Also, kinda interested to see Hustle & Flow(July 22nd).

HAPPY CANADA DAY!

Today is the joyous celebration of our countrys' 138th birthday!

Our country came into being as we now know it (kinda) in 1867.
We gots coloured money (scroll down a little).
It's nicer when it isn't all green and safe to sniff without the fear of accidentally snorting dirty cocaine.
The national sport is Hockey. The official national sport is Lacrosse.

I have more to write (not really), but I gots some BBQ-ing to do.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CANADA!

Where The White Woman At?

There have been a lack of updates due to me being sick. So you gonna get a crap load up front.

Boris the Butcher is in the new batman flik.
Boris the Butcher
Boris the Blade
Boris the Bullet Dodger.

Yah, that guy. Seems he's been in quite a few films, but you usually don't realize that it is him.
Anyways. He's in the movie. A small bit part, but a part nonetheless.

So, as you might have figured out, I saw Batman Begins. Really good movie. It loses marks for some of the fight scenes & the bad editing therein.
Also the sound seemed off. Too much in the high end. Very screechy movie. But that could just be blamed on the theatre. That and I got messed up ears.
Lastly and above all, most importantly, Gary Oldman. He doesn't go crazy and kill anybody! He's a straight up good guy. Sorry to break it to you folks. Not that he's bad in the flik, just not the Gary Oldman that we know and love.

Even more important than that. Earl is in the movie. He plays himself I think. Well, without the sleaze/strippers anyways. Since this batman origin film is doing good. They should do an origin flik on him.
Start with his humble beginnings as a parking ticket lawyer and his cracked out dancers in the ghetto. Then up to his criminal lawyer days and strip clubs where they check ID, to his days now with his trips to Montreal, where the lap dancers can be touched, without the need for crack (optional).
Sounds like a winner to me.

Blazing Saddles is a good movie. Hilarity all throughout. What ever happened to Cleavlon Little?
He was awesome in it. Born to play the part of Bart the Black Sheriff. Those velvet cowboy outfits. Top notch. He's been in other things, but nothing anybody has seen I assume. Other than Fletch Lives, that is.
So smug he is and he's got such wicked lines.

Pink Elephants On Parade

what kind of parade you ask

Possibly for the momentous occasion that I was privy to yesterday
My cousin got married!
yay!

In other news:
I'm sick.
blah.

In other, other news:
My spoiler is weighing my head down. So much so, that I have to wear it "normally."
Arrgs to that.
Also this slurpee is unable to give me a brain freeze due to my body being exctremely hot due to this fever/cold/what have you.
Bah!

Tsubo

Japanese for:

Pressure Point
Liberation
relief from stress
Physical comfort
Emotional well being
Intelligent design

(taken from the tsubo.com)

Which is all good and stuff except for the fact that the shoes are slightly too small. Just need to wear them in is all.
But until then, I have Physical discomfort along a Pressure Point which causes me stress. This of course is not good for my Emotional well being. Now the design is Intelligent and my feet do feel Liberated. Mind you, only after I take off the shoes, but nonetheless Liberated.

what are you talking about?

Well, if you haven't figured it out. I got me some new shoes. They are from a designer who used to, or still does, work for Reebok.
They be called Tera. Now that takes you to the html site which doesn't have the shoes in the colour that I got. But if you go to the flash site, you can only see the ones I got and not the others.
Weird.
They are white with black stripes. Soles and laces are also black. A small red circle is on the back and on the tongue. Got anti-bacterial insoles or something rather. Which allows one to wear the shoes barefoot with not a worry.

Why you would want to wear shoes without socks, I couldn't begin to fathom, unless it was in case of an emergency. Such as not having any matching socks to wear with your shorts. Can't have off colour socks that got up to your knees now, can you. Unless that is the point. But, other than that, no.

Going to the zoo is also an acceptable reason.