:::House 77:::

2011-08-18T00:32:00.002-04:00

I cannot believe this place still exists...bless Blogspot for keeping it alive...it started nearly a decade ago. A decade. Ten years. A third of the lives of the original posters. That is an incredible accomplishment. I was just 19 when it started. Now I'm married and a working stiff - the others are the latter, though none the former yet.

I don't know if anyone will even read it, but seeing it now brings a flood of memories, both good, bad, bittersweet and fantastic.

Long live House 77.

2009-09-21T16:10:00.002-04:00

Anybody home?

2008-03-27T21:22:00.001-04:00

one of my new most used items.

2008-02-14T20:26:00.000-05:00

fortune cookies reveal the hidden mysteries of the universe:

today, your life was saved.
you may not know how.
there may have been no way for you to be aware of it.
but,
there's a hero out there.
one that saved your life without asking for anything in return.
now there's an example we can aspire to.

2007-11-18T18:28:00.000-05:00

Steven says:
My xbox is fine
Steven says:
just an fyi
Lyric says:
I didn't know there was something wrong with it
Steven says:
i spilt a glass of water on it
Lyric says:
Nice
Steven says:
yea
Steven says:
it was like accidently dropping your child off a 3 story balcony
Steven says:
it can be bad or it can be nothing
Steven says:
thankfully it was nothing

2007-11-11T19:46:00.000-05:00

santa cruz was amazing.
thank you jesse and jodie
for putting up with me,
and teaching me how to surf.

2007-09-19T12:06:00.000-04:00

well then,
what do you think?

2007-09-11T18:56:00.000-04:00

here's to you,

i'm not one of those boys that's afraid to cry.
i don't brag about being unfeeling.
i embrace my emotions.
i cherish the pain my friends cause me.
i savour the desperate heartache left to me by lost loves.
i never want to be one of those guys that never cries.
a good book,
the right scene.
i'll shed a tear.
because, why not?
life is hard.
and tragedy can be beautiful.

2007-08-29T18:30:00.001-04:00

"I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uhmmm, some people out there in our nation don't have maps and uh, I believe that our, I, education like such as uh, South Africa, and uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uhhh, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, should help South Africa, it should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for us."

2007-07-27T01:43:00.000-04:00

Dear 1:43am,

They say bloggin' ain't easy.
They say nothin' matters, even your will to survive.

I've been a wreck on the verge of rest.

Thanks to those for July.
Sorry for those lost in my anonymity.

Summer, you've been away, you've come back expecting me to wait in your absence.
I've always been here. Pissed, waiting, it really doesn't matter with you.

Boys, sorry I wasn't there tonight. Heaven forbid you still read this thing. I don't expect you to, but I can always wish.

I am on holiday starting next Monday, recording an album. The love I've bent myself over is back. It hurts but I play on. I play on.

I'm always there for you.

2007-06-26T11:32:00.000-04:00

2007-06-08T01:46:00.001-04:00

i look into her dark brown eyes, but it's too much for me.
i have to look away. my eyes travel to the floor.
with my weight mostly on my left foot,
the outside of my right foot presses against the floor as my ankle twists sideways.
i can still feel her gaze on me,
it feels so heavy.
under her stare i tremble.
i can see her lift her right foot to fidget.
at least i know she's nervous too.
i attempt a wry smile and steal another glance into her eyes.
she hasn't taken her eyes off me.
my hands jam themselves further into the pockets of my pants.
my shoulders hunch further forward,
and i have to look away again.
my right ankle begins to hurt from the unconscious pressure i've been putting on it.
suddenly i feel her hand, soft, and delicate on my right cheek.
with her thumb she brushes away a tear i hadn't noticed i'd shed.
and she says, "it's gonna be ok, you know."
i force myself to look at her again.
still, her eyes haven't left me.
holding my wide eyed stare she slowly leans in,
and for the first time,
she kisses me on the cheek,
and somehow,
i just know,
she means it.

2007-06-04T17:00:00.000-04:00

absolute truth has never been illustrated so clearly:

SergioThree: there's other fish in the sea, man, she's just a girl
Beatsfromkorea: no dude, that's bullshit.
Beatsfromkorea: Think of it this way. if your precious copy of street fighter third strike broke and i told you "it's ok man, there's other games in the sea. here, play mortal kombat instead" what would you say? you'd be like, "fuck that, gimme third strike."
SergioThree: ...

2007-05-06T00:21:00.000-04:00

I know it's an old game, but I'm digging double agent. I just starting playing it again after having a little more patience. Only other Splinter Cell title I've touched was Pandora Tomorrow, sick game too. Aparently I gave up playing that one just as I reached the last level according to Brad.

Jamming to Y Control.

Super strange week. Things are under control as much as they can be. Trying to go for cupcakes with another cute girl. Hype. Right now I stand as a gay friend with her. I'm trying to make my way up to throw pillow.

Saw this guy open for RJD2 earlier in April, I think he should've been the main act. Seeing a poet fly off the handle and control the crowd with an intense stage presence and obscurity = awesome. Check SunshoweredIT redo.

Quick RJd2 show review:
Mehhh (show consisted of him and some friends trying to transcribe his older mixes into pieces that could be performed with a live band. Concept, 10/10. Execution, 5/10. The problem was that they tried to follow his mixes note for note, crossfade for crossfade with a live band that lacked syngery and experience. It didn't exploit the energy of a live band and the songs stayed confined as covers).

I jammed on my first Marshall stack this weekend. Hype. I'm pretty sure I risked permanent hearing loss to experience it. I can see why there's so much love for the tone. It's beautiful... seriously.

2007-04-21T13:53:00.000-04:00

D: Whose your hot friend?
M: That's Shannon.
D: She like Filipinos?
M: She's got a boyfriend.
D: Then why she dance like that?

Happy Awesome Weather Day!

2007-04-16T20:05:00.000-04:00

No more drunken posts I swear. They're getting a little embarrassing.

It's been busy and go go lately. Favourite part of the week is knowing you can pass out on Friday night and sleep in 'til the early afternoon. Bury your face in your pillow and peace out.

It is Monday night.

Saw Andy and Brad two nights ago over Mexican food and brew. I also hassled Paul last week. He was trying to get me directions for Rippers in Richmond Hill. Apparently there are none in my immediate vicinity. The boys are alive and well, though you can't tell from this blog. Zing.

Today I got insured for "Accidental Death & Dismemberment" I'm not sure what the stipulations are but I am weighing which limb I can sacrifice for a ridiculous home entertainment system. I'm almost positive I can use a remote with my toes.

That, a half decent tax return, a settlement claim from this dude, and I should be in good shape to buy me this.

There's a party at the old stone cottage for melly on Friday.
The Live Amps will be playing Q-bar on Friday April 27th, 2007.
I will be eating dinner downstairs in 5 minutes.

2007-03-25T03:09:00.000-04:00

I hold you. You're cold and distant. I don't care. I have my music, my friends.

I scrape the body of the guitar like it was your skin. You moan and bend like all the little things mattered.

I am more than I have been, I bend and scream like your first love, fierce and unapologetic.

You cry, I'm there with you but you don't know. You are caught up. I can't explain it but you're with me. The noise, the little nods you take for granted, I am with you. You listen and I am there. You shake, and I am there to keep it alive.

It's what I have to do. Break.
.

2007-03-20T22:35:00.000-04:00

Ain't too proud to beg.

Again, she's been a while. Ever feel like you're alone in the forest talking to the sky? Hey blog.

Whatevs. I got Pinkerton playing in the background. Good to have you in the tray again old friend. She's all I got and I don't want to be alone.

Work, she's been busy. I'd like to say the creative engine has been ploughing along, but that'd be a lie. She's stuck and needs a jump start, a push, a kick to the proverbial balls. I think I need to design panties for real. Laugh, but I wouldn't mind being associated with an awesome medium. Some people paint on canvas, some people draw on panties. Fact of life.

Oh yea, I'm doing the CN Tower stair climb thing. Instead of taking bets on which floor I'll have a heart attack on, you can donate that money to help sponsor my team on the 26th of April. If and when my heart stops, feel good that you helped protect the environment. Details to follow. I officially started training today. I had a side of salad with my bacon cheeseburger at Harvey's instead of fries. My muscles are super sore.

A good friend of mine is on a trip to Asia for 2 months. I'm pretty jealous. In my books there are two kinds of trips. Debauchery and escape. I think she's on a trip to escape (at least I hope). I wouldn't mind a vacation. I ain't about to complain about how I need to escape. I think I need some debauchery. Pretty sure I can do that locally if I really tried. I'm fucking lame.

When he first started mic respect's what he was after
And so he got inside his mind, day and night, and he'd write
Constantly his art and craft he'd try to master

2007-02-12T21:57:00.000-05:00

Evenin'

I don't know if I'd call this place dead, I think we're all a little reserved lately is all. All four of us have a lot of things going on, maybe a lot held in as well. Or maybe I'm talking shit and not speaking for everyone on this thing. Regardless, I've been feeling like I had to deal with some shit on my own.

I sat down the other day with a notebook, a pen, and a peppermint tea and tried to write down whatever. Things happening, things that happened, random thoughts, nothing came out. The pen felt a little heavy and the page stayed blank. Maybe it was because I was left to reason with myself. Maybe I feel that there will be someone on 77 to keep me in check when I've written or done something stupid or silly. It nice to let go here.

Sometimes you got to keep things to yourself though, so I can't knock notebooks or anything that gives someone an outlet to just be.

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Google is forcing the new Blogger on us. I couldn't log into the 'Old Blogger' If you're having problems logging in guys, I can send a revite. Check your inboxes just in case goog sent something.

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3 Live Amps show dates:
The Live Amps with Boochika
Feb 24th, On The Rocks - Scarborough(again)

TBA
March ??, Q Bar Restaurant & Grill - Toronto
March ??. Surprise Venue - Toronto (after/if we play here I am retiring, seriously it'll be a dream come true)

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Christmas decorations coming down in July. Always behind.

2007-01-31T23:15:00.000-05:00

This place is kinda dead lately huh? Hopefully a couple people will read it.

So I watched the Departed just now. Meh...it is the same as Infernal Affairs parts 1, 2 and 3 except for some knit-picked details. The basic plot is the same. Bad-guy pretends to be good-guy, good-guy pretends to be bad-guy. For those who may not know - the film is in fact BASED on Infernal Affairs, a Hong Kong flick with the same plot-points save for again a few minor details. Also The Departed tries to fit parts one and two into one film. Part three of Infernal Affairs is after the main plotline.

ANYWAY...I liked the film. I liked it a lot, the same way I liked Infernal Affairs. The plot is EXTREMELY well planned. The script is well executed by ALL actors - especially DiCaprio (who I normally really don't like save for the Aviator) The direction is fantastic - better than the original Chinese film. I'd easily call it one of the best films of 2006.

But I have this continually nagging voice in the back of my head saying "you've seen this before." And I have - granted I had to read subtitles to understand Infernal Affairs - but Infernal Affairs was no less of a film, and it has originality. That being said, Star Wars steals elements from other films. The Matrix is said to borrow certain concepts from anime like Ghost in the Shell or other sci-fi flicks like Dark City. There are lots of cases of modern remakes of older classic films like Oceans Eleven, The Ladykillers, King Kong (two times no less!). Hollywood often remakes films. But the thing that bugs me is that it is one thing to introduce a film to a generation who never had the chance to see a film when they were younger. I mean in the case of King Kong's original remake in the 70s - it had been 43 years since the original was made. That is a lot of people who had never seen it. And so the film made it accessible to them.

Buuuuut The Departed came out four years after the original Infernal Affairs. And three years after the finale of the trilogy. So I guess I just find it a shame that while The Departed is getting a huge amount of praise (as it should - it is a great film in every respect - be it acting, direction, cinematography or script), Infernal Affairs isn't getting the respect it should considering it is also an excellent film. So I encourage you to find the Infernal Affairs trilogy and watch that as well if you see the Departed to see what it was based on.

Finally...all I know is that if this film gets Martin Scorsese a freaking Oscar for best director...I'll be happy.

2007-01-19T00:27:00.000-05:00

To the AGO I go!

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Drawing For No Longer Absolute Beginners
Thursdays, 7 to 10pm

Tuesdays and Fridays, 10am to 1pm

Experiment with traditional and non-traditional drawing media with more sophisticated exercises designed to sharpen visual perception and extend technical knowledge and competence. Working from still-life and live models, students produce work that reflects personal interests and leads to challenges in other media. Drawing in the galleries allows for focused studies and the opportunity to develop skills. Drawing for Absolute Beginners or other previous drawing experience recommended.

$10 model fee
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Life Drawing
Tuesdays, 10 am to 1 pm
Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 7 to 10 pm

Gain the technical and perceptual skills to produce drawings with confidence through a series of exercises designed to build on the basic understanding of anatomy and general composition. Explorations of the human form in historical and contemporary art will inform your study sessions in the galleries and in our Marvin Gelber Print and Drawing Study Centre. Drawing for Absolute Beginners or other previous drawing experience recommended.

$45 model fee
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Need something to do you know.

2007-01-12T09:23:00.000-05:00

And so the series continues of....
****HOW MY XBOX 360 GOT THREE RED LIGHTS OF DEATH BECAUSE OF A SOFTWARE UPDATE , AND NOW I HAVE TO SEND IT IN TO BE REPAIRED AT A COST I DON'T WANT TO CONTEMPLATE.****

So I know what the cost I contemplated was.

I called in right at 9am, dealt with the minefield of shitty "Please state what you need help with" electronic menu, and got through to an operator. I gave them the reference number. I told them that moving my XBox to a better ventilated spot obviously did nothing to help. They asked me if I'd tried with and without the hard drive. Yes. They asked if my power bar was green on bootup and yellow when off. Yes. They asked if I wanted it sent in. Yes. I asked if I could buy the extended waranty similarly to when I purchased my original Xbox. No, and it falls outside of its warranty period. Hrmm. How much is the repair?

ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY US DOLLARS??? sadhflkdsfds

I got pissed. I mean REALLY pissed.

"Wait. You told me I have a ventilation problem. I told you guys that I don't because it's sat there for an entire bloody year. I told you that IMMEDIATELY after installing YOUR bloody update on MY machine, MY machine CRASHED, and CONTINUES to crash. You are telling me that because of YOUR bloody update and MISTAKE the cost of repairing MY machine falls on MY SHOULDERS? How can I POSSIBLY be held responsible for that?"

"......"

"Mr.Day (I might add she called me Paul up until that point) I am sorry let me just check something for you."

*cue in On Hold music for a couple minutes* About two minutes in she came in saying she was sorry for the wait and if I minded holding a bit longer. I obliged.

"Mr.Day it appears as though Microsoft has extended the warranty to a full year on all Xbox 360s, your Xbox is covered for repairs free of charge."

Here is the funny part. I bought my Xbox sometime in December. It is now January. Uhm...whatever, I don't care. I am not being charged.

Now...with all that being said - to the woman who helped me out, I am REALLY sorry I bitched you out. You just started your day, and I probably put you in a sour mood. I am sorry for that. But I wanted my 140 USD in my own wallet, and not a $1000 paperweight.

Also - I keep my hard drive. So I am happy now. I am just so on edge about my property because of the whole fiasco from Canon. Not to mention this is the second time I've had to send in an Xbox.

2007-01-12T08:15:00.000-05:00

This post starts a new series on House 77, with it I will bring you in depth and up to date coverage of something very dear to me, something which since last December I have been very close to, and spent hours of enjoyment with...

And so begins the series of....

****HOW MY XBOX 360 GOT THREE RED LIGHTS OF DEATH BECAUSE OF A SOFTWARE UPDATE, AND NOW I HAVE TO SEND IT IN TO BE REPAIRED AT A COST I DON'T WANT TO CONTEMPLATE.****

Yah. That's right. I basically now have a $1000 paperweight. The other day (Wednesday, January 10th, 2007) I signed in to play some Rainbow Six: Vegas. It said there was an update to be installed. Strangely enough, I felt wary about it because I hadn't heard of this update. But whatever, it's probably for some kind of software edit, no biggie. I installed it. Then I go to play Vegas andddd SCREEEECH. The screen freezes when I was loading up a single player game. Odd. I turn off the box, and try again. This time it freezes in the menu. Then it froze in the game. Then as it booted up. And then and then and then...and then it showed me the three red lights of death. Super.

So I tried what it suggested online to solve such an issue. It did absolutely nothing. I called Microsoft...went through a huge long process of getting to an actual PERSON to talk to. They told me to do the same bullshit it mentioned online. Absolutely useless. They then asked me if I had it near any other items. Yah I do - my desk and my computer. "Oh well you should keep it at least a foot away for ventilation. Try that and call us back." ...it sat...in that spot...for A YEAR!!!!!! Through the bloody hot summer, through hell and high-water. It makes NO sense that SUDDENLY after a freaking software update EVERYTHING would go to hell.

So now I have to call them, find out if I can buy the extended warranty, and then ship the damn thing off to get replaced. What is the best part? I will undoubtedly lose all of my downloaded content and saves. Super. Super fucking dandy. I can't even boot the thing up to save my stuff to a memory card.

2007-01-07T22:15:00.000-05:00

mixer pack

PM Dawn - Set Adrift On Memory Bliss

Xscape - Just Kickin' It

Team Canada - High & Dry/Passin' Me By

Tony Toni Tone - If I Had No Loot

Monica - Don't Take It Personal

Method Man (Hot Nickels, Johnny Blaze, Tical, Johnny Dangerous, The Iron Lung, The Shaolin Assassin)/ Mary J. Blige - I'll Be There For You

2007-01-05T13:30:00.000-05:00

Jessica has her airline ticket now. For those who don't know, Jessica is my girlfriend who lives in Malaysia, yes we met online, no we've never met. She arrives February 8th, and leaves February 24th. The weekend of the ninth is when Andy plans to celebrate his birthday, so I will try to get her out for that so you can all meet her. Then the following weekend we'll also arrange some nights at the bar/pub/club/whatever. I encourage you all to come out and meet her!

In other news, I have two tickets for the Explosions in the Sky show at the Opera House on March 24th, which is a Saturday and starts at 8:30. If anyone is interested in coming let me know, as other than Jesse - who is still in Ireland - I know of no real fans of the band.

2007-01-03T21:53:00.000-05:00

DC Comics would be proud

2006-12-31T13:36:00.000-05:00

2007 Resolutions:
1) Don't get fired
2) Buy Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy disc (out March 2007)
3) See the boys more
4) Win the heart of a beautiful girl
5) Learn the words to Auld Lang Syne before 2008

TAXI!
Arrive Alive (Or I'll Kill You!)

Toronto
Beck Taxi (416) 751-5555
CO-OP Cabs (416) 504-2667
City Taxi (416) 740-2222

Scarborough
Scarborough City Cab (416) 438-5151

Mississauga
All-Star (905) 602-0000
Blue & White (905) 274-4444
Golden Taxi (905) 271-3333

Oakville
Halton Taxi (905) 844-4300
Oakville United (905) 338-0044

Waterloo
Waterloo Taxi (519) 886-1200

Ottawa
B & R Taxi (613) 446-7272
Caddy Cab (613) 260-8585
Blue Line (613) 238-1111

2006-12-28T22:12:00.000-05:00

Lyric says:
Dude, Atena is coming over with my present
Lyric says:
And basically I didn't buy her anything
Lyric says:
So I'm going to give your gift to her instead
Lyric says:
Are you there?
Drix has a posse says:
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

2006-12-27T11:56:00.000-05:00

Happy Cup Cake Day!!!

This place is awesome. I suggest you go if you have time over the break. It's a little cup of heaven this place.

Goog Map

Don't ask questions, just go.

2006-12-24T11:34:00.000-05:00

1 more, 1 more. I need 1 more.

I'm off to the mall. If I don't make it back alive, someone tell my family I love them. Bury me under Hillcrest mall so I can haunt it's treacherous marble halls.

'Oooooo beware this mall for she will consume you with her eternal lines and frenzied shoppers. Get ooouuuuttt ooooOooo!'

2006-12-22T11:36:00.000-05:00

Enjoy the holidays everybody!

2006-12-20T18:25:00.000-05:00

hahahahahahhahahaha. Okay, this may be better than last years Lazy Sunday. Honestly, this year's SNL cast sucks ass, but this skit is just amazingly funny.

"Christmas - dick a box. Chanukah - dick in a box. Kwanzaa - dick a box. Every single holiday it's a dick a box. Over at your parents house a dick in a box
Midday at the grocery store a dick in a box. Backstage at the CMA's a dick in a box...yeah...well, well, well, well, well." hahahahhahahahhaha

2006-12-20T00:01:00.000-05:00

My boy

Pretty badass if you ask me.

2006-12-14T21:56:00.000-05:00

90!!!

FYI Martin Vannier is on facebook.

90 and 77, sister companies of the Daniels Corporation.

2006-12-13T21:39:00.000-05:00

Well, so it's official. Jessica got her visa...meaning that probably February 8th to Februrary 23rd she will be visiting Canada and chilling out in the T.O area. Soooo everyone figure out those days and make your schedules open so you can meet her!

2006-12-10T12:06:00.000-05:00

Like seriously, wtf?

24
Everything else

Thanks Jay.

2006-12-09T17:19:00.000-05:00

Kay, well, unless something else comes up that is REALLY good, I am stating that Brand New's The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me is pretty much my favourite album of 2006. More deep than BSS's genius self-titled album, more powerful than Alexisonfire's Crisis, less self-endulgent than K-Os' Hymns for Disco, and more complete than TV on the Radio's Return to Cookie Mountain (which is without doubt my next fav album of the year)...it's just awesome. Every single god damned song is amazing. I don't think I've ever appreciated listening to an album as a whole as I have this album. I don't find myself repeating one song over and over endlessly. I play it the whole way through, and then play it AGAIN the whole way through. It's fatastic. GO BUY IT.

2006-12-07T10:00:00.000-05:00

2006-12-05T17:14:00.000-05:00

Hot Asianteen XXX

2006-12-04T20:17:00.000-05:00

oh geez.

2006-12-03T17:07:00.000-05:00

For alternate weather minima, reading the TAF correctly to predict if your chosen alternate aerodrome is legal is an important skill as an IFR pilot.

If your intended ETA at your alternate is 2200Z, and the predicted weather reads:

TAF CYKF 031939Z 032005 24012G22KT P6SM BKN025
RMK FCST BASED ON AUTO OBS. NXT FCST BY 02Z=

...then you could probably fly, even with a non-precision approach. However, if the TAF were to have a TEMPO, BECMG, FM, or PROB 30/40 that could drastically alter your flight. If you had the weather above but also had:

TEMPO 2023 1/2SM OVC002 then you cannot fly due to the fifty percent chance of that weather occuring.

FM2200Z 24010KT 1/4SM VV002 then you also could not fly because the weather from that point onward would not meet alternate weather minima.

PROB 30 2202 1 SM OVC006 then you could probably file with that airport as your alternate as you don't need to use alternate weather minima for the approach, instead use the published approach weather minima straight out of the CAP.

BECMG 2023 1/8SM VV001 won't work because BECMG implies the weather will change sometime between the two given values - in this case 2000Z and 2300Z. The forecast doesn't know the specific time, and the weather is worse than the original forecast in the TAF, and thus we must use the first time in the range of times given, hence at 2000Z we can assume the weather is below alternate weather minima.

Conversely, if the weather was already below minima, and we read:
BECMG 2023 P6SM SKC we still cannot use this airport as a legal alternate because if the weather shows an improving trend we cannot assume it will change until the last time given in the range, in this case 2300Z.

Food for thought there kids. Remember to ALWAYS pick your alternate based on a THOROUGH reading of the TAFs or GFA.

My entire weekend consisted of reviewing the rules for IFR flight in Canada. If someone had shown me this about a year ago, I'd of cried in the fetal position.

2006-12-03T12:17:00.000-05:00

I left my ipod in el segundo.

R.I.P.o.d.
Dogpod 2004-2006
Lost at Sea

'it's ok, it's only a shuffle.'

2006-12-02T20:55:00.000-05:00

Wayans - 400 - 1 or 200 - 1/2, 600 - 2 or 300 - 1, 800 - 2 or 300 -1, whichever is greatest. says:
I feel like my brain got scooped out of my skull, plonked down in front of me in a bowl with a little label that says "strawberry ice cream" - then fed back to me and somehow magically gets reabsorbed through my stomach and bloodstream back into my skull...

Wayans - 400 - 1 or 200 - 1/2, 600 - 2 or 300 - 1, 800 - 2 or 300 -1, whichever is greatest. says:
Vis a vis the song I just finished listening to, haha

Hendrix - peppermint mocha = cocaine says:
hahahahahahahaha

Wayans - 400 - 1 or 200 - 1/2, 600 - 2 or 300 - 1, 800 - 2 or 300 -1, whichever is greatest. says:
You can go ahead and quotable quote me on that one there.

Wayans - 400 - 1 or 200 - 1/2, 600 - 2 or 300 - 1, 800 - 2 or 300 -1, whichever is greatest. says:
haha

Hendrix - peppermint mocha = cocaine says:
i was opening ie to post it

Wayans - 400 - 1 or 200 - 1/2, 600 - 2 or 300 - 1, 800 - 2 or 300 -1, whichever is greatest. says:
haha

Hendrix - peppermint mocha = cocaine says:
hahaha

Wayans - 400 - 1 or 200 - 1/2, 600 - 2 or 300 - 1, 800 - 2 or 300 -1, whichever is greatest. says:
Yah, I would have done the same but I figured it'd be weird to quote myself.

Hendrix - peppermint mocha = cocaine says:
hahahahahaha

Hendrix - peppermint mocha = cocaine says:
hahahahahaha

Hendrix - peppermint mocha = cocaine says:
no i think it'd be gold to quote urself

Wayans - 400 - 1 or 200 - 1/2, 600 - 2 or 300 - 1, 800 - 2 or 300 -1, whichever is greatest. says:
haha

Wayans - 400 - 1 or 200 - 1/2, 600 - 2 or 300 - 1, 800 - 2 or 300 -1, whichever is greatest. says:
Check that - shall I then?

Hendrix - peppermint mocha = cocaine says:
'no i think it'd be gold to quote urself' - hendrix'
Hendrix - peppermint mocha = cocaine says:
hahaha yea man

Wayans - 400 - 1 or 200 - 1/2, 600 - 2 or 300 - 1, 800 - 2 or 300 -1, whichever is greatest. says:
hahahahahhaha

Wayans - 400 - 1 or 200 - 1/2, 600 - 2 or 300 - 1, 800 - 2 or 300 -1, whichever is greatest. says:
Okay I am posting this conversation.

2006-11-30T21:43:00.000-05:00

Well.
That pretty much tears it.
Don't buy Canon.

They told me they'd send me a new one? So what do they do? They send me a DIFFERENT freaking camera. I can honestly see what they were trying to do - the camera is very similar to mine. I have the A710 IS and they sent me the SD800 IS. What is the difference? Well the SD800 IS is smaller, has a bigger LCD, and has a better wideangle lens, not to mention costing nearly 150$ more.

So why am I not jumping for joy?

Because it lacks entirely the features I wanted from the A710 IS: a good zoom range, from 35-210mm as opposed to the 800's 28-105mm. It also doesn't take AA batteries - the battery life may be better in the 800's lithium-ion batteries but if I run out of charge on the one or two batteries I have, I'm screwed - the A710 meant I could just pop in a couple alkalines from a local shop. Finally, and most importantly - I do not consider myself a master photographer who knows how to get the perfect exposure...BUT...I like the freedom of experimentation via the shutter speed and aperature controls. And the SD800 IS lacks that. If it had full manual controls, I'd maybe be convinced to keep it. But it doesn't. Not to mention the fact that I bought an extended warranty from Henrys for the A710 IS. No way will they cover a different camera, so that would be $50 down the drain.

Honestly, Canon makes probably the best point and shoot cameras on the market. They have the perfect list of features, they make beautiful photographs, and they are easy to use. Supposedly they also have a good build quality but mine had dust on the interior lens, so I can't attest to that.

But the thing is that I've been without this camera for nearly one and a half months out of the two I've owned it. And then they decided to send me a DIFFERENT camera to the one I bought. They may think they are doing me a favour but clearly I bought that one camera for a reason, and it wasn't even money - if my camera had cost $200 more I think I'd of bought it. I am just really unimpressed that they wouldn't call or email me to ASK if I wanted this new camera. It would have taken five minutes of their time to dial me up and ask. Instead they've wasted both my time, and theirs, and they've really soured me off of Canon. I was almost starting to think that if I were to buy an SLR in the future, I'd maybe go for the Canon, but screw it, now I'll go with Nikon, or even Panasonics.

BAH!

2006-11-30T21:28:00.000-05:00

Imma get messed up tomorrow night. Give me a call and maybe we can meet up.

2006-11-29T17:11:00.000-05:00

***WARNING - SACRELIGE AHEAD***

The Beer Prayer:

Our lager,
Which art in barrels,
Hallowed by thy drink.

Thy will be drunk
(I will be drunk)
At home as in the tavern.

Give us this day our foamy head,
And forgive us our spillages,
As we forgive those who spill
Against us.

And lead us not into incarceration,
But deliver us from hangovers.

For thine is the beer,
The bitter and the lager,
For ever and ever,
Barmen.

I just found me a new religion.

2006-11-27T20:25:00.000-05:00

I seem to be cursed with being around people who know everything. Who know everything and are never wrong.

Just got home and I'm already in a discussion that escalates into the most annoying banter. When I'm finally at the point of letting the person win because the argument isn't worth shit, I am thrown more bullshit in the form of drama. This person isn't mad about the points I've made in our talk, but about shit that has never happened and for things I never said.

Last weekend I went out with a couple of people from high school to see a friend's show (the reason I missed the cottage below). Everyone had an awesome time. Insert alcohol and two venues later bullshit flies between myself and a good friend. The animosity I felt about him the week before rises up. He was wrong, I was right. I was wrong for bringing it up then and there... but I was tired of the bullshit coming out of his mouth.

Dealing with idiots who you love but can't seem to listen to anything you say is beyond frustrating. I take on the shit I'm responsible for, good and bad. I guess I'm just saying I'm tired of letting the other person win to protect a pride built on lies. Own up.

2006-11-27T12:55:00.000-05:00

Raging Alcoholic Boy Drunk Report:
Well, it's been a while since I've REALLY had a reason to give a weekend one of these reports. This weekend qualified. The cottage crew (myself, Steffen, Stephanie, Ryan, Kien, Huong, Mike, Allan and Alister) hit up not our usual cottage haunt of the Vega but instead we were at 58 Cranberry Surf. The name is pretty gay but the place was a nice townhouse - replete with the DVD game Scene It and a wicked CD collection with such highlights as Enya, Genesis, and Elvis *shudder*.

But yah, was a good weekend. Allan and I decimated the scotch I brought. I swear we'd downed the whole bottle in maybe a half hour. The highlights of the weekend really involved Mike getting beat down on Steffen's Wii by Aaron and Sparkles, as well as the massive quantity of meat we consumed. I gotta say - those hamburgers were just out of this world good. A little bit rare, but oh god, so tasty. My kudos go out to those who organized and came to the cottage - especially Cirkopath who made it out with only three hours prior notice. Our fallen comrades - Drix and Doug - were sorely missed, even if their excuses were pretty bad (only teasing Drix - but Doug, seriously your excuse sucked). So good times had by all. I look forward to the next weekend of debauchery.

Now, on a different note - my Canon Powershot A710 IS is no more. For serious, I called Canon, and they've decided to just give me a new one. I am happy with that - as after the first repair the camera felt tainted - ESPECIALLY considering they damaged a part of the plastic housing of the camera. But yah, kinda sucks that I haven't had it for the past month. But I'll hopefully have a good camera now.

2006-11-21T22:06:00.000-05:00

“Not blogging is the new blogging”.

2006-11-19T09:17:00.000-05:00

The new Bond flick kicks ass. The new car is a fantastic Aston Martin DBS, which is to replace the Vanquish as their flagship model. The movie also shows the original Aston Martin DB5 which Connery drove in Goldfinger, which is pretty sweet.

But yah, more importantly, the movie. It has action, it has plot, it has character development (I swear its the first Bond film to ever actually FOCUS on that), it has DEPTH. Now don't misread me here - it is a Bond film, it won't win oscars. It has some disjointed moments of time which are a little confusing. The acting is also of course not exactly stellar. Though without doubt Daniel Craig is my favourite Bond since Moore or Connery - he has added a lot more realistic substance and humanity to the character which was reduced to an automated one-liner machine by Brosnan. (there are still one-liners, but they are fewer and farther between, which I assure you is a good thing).

But probably the best thing of the entire movie is that it doesn't rely too heavily on gadgets or ridiculous stunts. In the scene after the opening titles, there is a moment where Craig hesitates to jump down onto a building, because he is damned scared. This really makes the movie stand apart in the sense that they are showing his flaws as being real rather than quirky and funny. The movie doesn't entirely eliminate gadgets either, but they aren't over the top like the "Vanish" car, and the movie doesn't rely on the gadgets to make a scene, rather they support it.

Anyway, go see it, it rocks. Better than the past three without doubt, I think it's better than Goldeneye was by a longshot too, and probably better than some of Moore's and Connery's movies as well.

2006-11-19T03:29:00.000-05:00

jason levesque - bang bang
Audra Green
Pucker Mouth
lip biter

JUN - Birth
bleeding hearts broken art - 2 of 3
bleeding hearts broken art - 3 of 3
flood

dennis brown

pieter frank - cult classic

christopher cox - collage
semiperm entries

mauro gatti - Sex is the key to happiness
love and hate

sixten - 07 score
the kiss
Two

Michael Lewis

Erickson Enriquez - Oh Yea! I love it!

2006-11-18T10:33:00.000-05:00

So this past week has been kind of crappy. I got a wickedly bad cold, and only today has it really started to get better. On Wednesday I was kind of annoyed because I figured it would prevent me from flying on what was otherwise an okay day to do training.

But that is what made the week REALLY crappy. On Wednesday, I was working in the morning having lunch and heard a radio call for us "Brampton Unicom this is Papa Hotel Kilo." Andrew, my multi-IFR instructor happened to be behind the desk, and he answered. The plane came back and said "Unicom I am currently over Alliston, I was performing a turn and we lost elevator control." For those who might not know, the elevators control the pitch up and down in an aircraft.

Sooo panic set in at the airport. We had to call our general manager, our chief flight instructor, we were trying to figure out what we could do. The pilot on board the plane - which by the way is one of our two twin-engine aircraft - was luckily our most experienced instructor with something like 9000 hours of flying. Anyway, they got back partial control, then lost it again, but they managed to bring the aircraft back to Brampton entirely using what is called trim, which is an ancilliary control which controls pitch indirectly, and - most importantly - separately from the elevator controls. So the instructor and his student landed safely thankfully. It was a rough landing but about the best you could do under the circumstances. The cable connected to the elevators snapped.

And now the plane is in for repairs for at least a month to two months. That is one of the two planes I am doing training in. What's worse, is that if we discover that a similar process that lead to this issue is occuring to our other twin, it will go down for a month or two. And those are the two aircraft I was training on right now. Sooooo GOODY my training might get delayed AGAIN by shitty circumstances. Can't say I'm too happy about that.

I started other training as a flight instructor this week. Hopefully by some time in April or May I'll be a class four flight instructor possibly working at Brampton Flying Club.

In other news, go and pick up Brand New's latest album called The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me. It's fairly different from Deja Entendu, but I would say it's possibly the best album I've heard in a VERY long time. I've been really put off of rock/alternative/emo/punk lately (especially on the Edge...when the HELL did it become such a perveyor of utter awfulness - ie. My Chemical Romance, Champion, Three Days Grace, 30 Seconds To Mars, illScarlett, Evan's Blue, and Stone Sour). But this album is good, it's not got the stamp of being mass-consumed by tweens or teens (even though I am sure it will be) or being "the next big thing in rock" (even though many of those bands I listed above seem to be part of the machine of hype that gives them that label, despite all of them being totally unoriginal). Anyway - go grab the album, it's really good, my fav songs include Luca, Jesus Christ, Sowing Season (Yeah), and The Archer's Bows are Broken.

2006-11-16T13:11:00.000-05:00

2006-11-13T22:31:00.000-05:00

How to turn a perfectly hot song into bullshit.

2006-11-13T19:54:00.000-05:00

Thanks to everyone who came out on Friday. It was filled with hilarity and loud music. Dropkicks have been mailed out for those who did not attend.

Xpresspost™ Canada is a shipping service for documents, packets and dropkicks to the face.

Much love to the 77 boys, CCITers, Newmanites, Barbaras kids, and family who made it out. The guest singers and guitarists added to the song selection and flavour of the night. The security lady bought me a drink and gave me a stack of Pringles after everyone packed up and left for a job well done. I apologized for all the noise and broken glass.

'Raycroft... I don't want your shit!' Andy never ceases to amaze.

~ARJB~ and 'sMuRf have pics up. More to come for sure.

Been a hectic month so far with no signs of slowing down. I'm being sent to an Adobe Seminar tomorrow! Word.

2006-11-10T09:26:00.000-05:00

2006-11-10T00:38:00.000-05:00

After tonight I am going to sleep for 8 years.

2006-11-06T00:02:00.000-05:00

= = = = REMINDER = = = =
The Live Amps play On The Rocks November 10th.

I ain't asking you to come out, I'm fucking telling you!

I'll give you 10 reasons to go:
1) I'll dropkick you in the face if you don't attend!
2) All the cool kids are going
3) You'll get to see The Live Amps LIVE!
4) We have a song called Japanese Fellatio
5) There will be beer and a merch table
6) We're so indie we don't have a myspace!
7) We will vibrate your soul from head to toe
8) If you had a band we'd go and support you
9) The guitarist is fucking sexy
10) It will be a blitzkrieg of sonic fury doused in gasoline and set a light by the fire in the hearts of the crowd! (that's you)

I know it's only rock n' roll but I like it! Like it! Like it! Yes I do!

2006-10-28T18:34:00.000-04:00

Raging Alcoholic Boy Drunk Report:
Haven't done one of these in a while. Last night wasn't too heavy on the drinking, but I figured I'd bring to the attention of you all a little establishment called the Beer Station. Now, I'd be the first to say it's a bit of a dive. But it has the World Tour of Beer. Basically they have like 80 types of beer, and you get a card, as you drink them, they mark it off. When you've completed the entire list, you get a free jacket. I don't so much care about the free jacket but I like the concept. And the beer list is relatively extensive. For example, Steffen and I tried Trois Pistoles, haha oh man. 9% Quebec dark ale. The bottle has a freaking flying horse on it! What more could you ask for? It actually tasted pretty good too, I was surprised.

Anyway we chilled out, had a fair number of drinks, and shot the shit. Was good times. I highly recommend others come join us there again. It's directly next to Paupers, with the ridiculous blue and white sign.

2006-10-28T06:30:00.001-04:00

That was an interesting night.

Brad, this is Skanky Panky. Its a big tune.

2006-10-25T11:09:00.000-04:00

DJ Kentaro!!! It gets real intense at 3:27
---------------------------------------------

Like a painter that doesn't paint or a dancer that doesn't dance, I am a DJ that doesn't spin.

I don't even own a single piece of vynil (my pops has led-zeppelin, the saturday night fever soundtrack, kenny rogers the gambler, and rod stewart records somewhere in this house), but I NEED a dj name.

Jono told me that trying to get an original domain name is hard. I'd argue coming up with an original DJ name is just as hard. As original as I thought these were, they were taken:

DJ Barrister
DJ Google
DJ Noname
DJ Drix
DJ Drixx
DJ 77 (this guy ain't half bad)

You could always come up with something cool like Kid Koala, RJD2, or Dan The Automator. Coming up with something that cool is next to impossible.

How bout DJ Frets?

Maybe the monicker is second to their actual work. DJ Monicker? Monicker5000? Fuck.

Aphorism of the day: The more you dance, the more you romance.

2006-10-24T02:46:00.000-04:00

hahaha The Live Amps Rule!

I finally got around to uploading the colouring contest images.

You can download the original here and submit your interpretations here.

Next show is November 10th. No more Mr.NiceGuys, we're going to rock you from your head to your toes!

2006-10-21T14:54:00.000-04:00

Tonight is CCIT Alumni's get together at D Martini's.

They're asking business casual. Oi, seriously I just woke up and the last thing I want to do is iron my shirt. As reluctant as I am to dress up and trek it to Mrs.Sauga, the H77 chapter has to represent. It'll be good to see CCIT ppl though.

I know Polly Pocket is going, Brad and Andy, u coming?

2006-10-20T01:37:00.000-04:00

I completely forgot to remind all you.

Oct 20th @ The Courthouse
PILLOW FIGHT LEAGUE 4
The Persian Princess is defending her title against Champain

hahaha check the rules:
Loading a pillow with a foreign object such as a brick is strictly forbidden.

I was just informed that Sneaker Pimps is also tomorrow... I mean today.

2006-10-19T19:35:00.000-04:00

Peterborough -- Head of the Trent 2006

2006-10-18T18:45:00.000-04:00

Today for the first time I flew IFR (instrument flight regulations) actual. I have done IFR simulated, but never actual. Oh my, was it ever fun. We went into cloud at 3000 feet, and were inside of it until 5000 feet. When you are going straight though it, it's like you are in a thick soup of fog (which is really the same as cloud anyway). We actually broke out into a giant hole inside the cloud as well - but a cloud that had neither blue sky above nor the ground below. Was really neat to see just all cloud around you in a sort of mile wide swiss-cheese show-off.

Then there was above the clouds, oh MAN was being above the clouds amazing. At around 4900 feet we broke out, and so we were skimming right over the tops of them. I got a couple photos, I'll put those on my Picasa space soon, and hopefully video if I can figure out how. It was a lot of fun.

In more sad news, my brand new freaking camera has to go in to Canon for repairs. There is a nice sexy dark spot on every photo I've ever taken. It's only really apparent in blue sky ones so while I noticed it before I thought it had gone away and was just dust. Apparently not so. *sigh*

2006-10-17T10:58:00.000-04:00

Hendrix,

Whats this about a new job?! ... a job?! Crazy!! Glad to hear it. In case you missed it, the Chicago Bears came back from a 20 - 3 half time deficate to beat Arizona on MNF. They're still unbeaten at 6 - 0... who would have thought the Bears could have done that?? Thats all for now, oh, and also my fake movie company is producing another short film.

HOLLA ATTCHA BOY,
Andy MacKenzie.

p.s. -- the banner is dope.

2006-10-14T23:16:00.000-04:00

For some reason I swear that the BBC news doesn't take Canada seriously as a nation.

2006-10-13T17:45:00.000-04:00

Your boy is a Junior Media Producer

2006-10-13T13:14:00.000-04:00

Whoever introduced me to that goddamn stumpy midget girl who would not stop biting me....I hate you.

2006-10-11T22:15:00.000-04:00

2006-10-10T11:33:00.000-04:00

I was going to use Picasa's post feature to blog my photos from Chicago directly, but screw it. Instead just go here to see the photos.

I have put captions underneath to describe everything, and vaguely tell the tale of how I ended up getting stuck in Windsor at two in the morning on Monday.

Seven hours sleep in two days, along with eight hours of flying makes for a very tiring and frustrating weekend. It involved customs problems (not what you might think though...mostly that they were CLOSED in London, ugh), my co-pilot managing to lose our aircraft documents (which are legally required to fly), and some rather late start times which lead to problems further down the line.

But anyway I was very happy to go to see Chicago. It really is a beautiful city. I just wish I'd had more time to explore it.

2006-10-10T08:43:00.000-04:00

The Live Amps Tour Dates

OCT 14th : The Button Factory, Waterloo (10pm)
NOV 14th : On The Rocks, Scarborough (TBA)

2006-10-08T11:58:00.000-04:00

So I'm in the Windy City. Flew in here last night. Was a pretty uneventful trip. The most entertaining aspect of the trip was the American air traffic controllers stumbling over our callsign. See in the U.S, aircraft are given designators like 12345AB or 678CD, with numbers then letters. But Canadian aircraft all have five letters, and it always begins with a C. So our callsign was C-GNUE. Or Charlie Golf November Uniform Echo. So just past Detroit we got transferred over to Lansing Approach, and we call them, and we get back "Charliee.....uh...Golf...November Uniform Echo." It was hilarious because the speed at which they could spit out the numbers was epically fast, but saying our callsign was a struggle like no other for them.

Anyway, other than that, things went fine. Although crossing customs was an ordeal. But not the kind you'd think. The girl who was processing us? Yah...she had NO clue whatsoever what she was doing. She was asking US what she had to do. Was a struggle.

Today I am going out with Mak and his cousin Noman to see the sites, so expect photos in a day or two.

Mmmm...can't wait to get me some Chicago deep-dish.

2006-10-06T02:24:00.000-04:00

Anyone seen Brad? M.I.A. since July 21st, 2006.

2006-09-30T16:13:00.000-04:00

haha deja vu

awesome

banksy

2006-09-26T13:29:00.000-04:00

I dreamt I was at a kegger last night.

I remember a former friend mentioning something about one last weekend.

'I'll call if its good and I'll call if its bad, either way I'll call you.'
A Paul Day guarantee is only as good as a Paul Day.

Thanks Paul. Check it out, I made a blog for you. You can post there from now on
H88.BLOGSPOT.COM!

Login: Liar
PW: YouBrokeMyHeart

2006-09-25T21:04:00.000-04:00

Hey Ya. Mmmm acoustic guitar goodness.

2006-09-23T09:19:00.000-04:00

Holy crap! Mythbusters was wrong!! Yah, for serious, just watch that whole video, it's unsane.

Also, for you Postal Service and Ben Folds fans. Such Great Heights.

2006-09-21T22:04:00.000-04:00

The Amps ride again.

The Live Amps @ The Button Factory
SATURDAY OCTOBER 14th, 2006

Fresh Basement Jams:
1) Drifting (This one is sick! It's DJ Drixx approved!)
2) Japanese Fellatio (This one needs work!)
3) Without A Trace (This one too!)
4) Off A Cliff & Into The Sea (Hardcore Cock Rock!)

2006-09-20T22:37:00.000-04:00

08:00 - 13:00:
Garrett Turbine Engine workshop and Multi-Aircrew Simulator Training.
14:00 - 15:30pm:
NDB approaches and missed approaches on the Truflite 142 multi-engine simulator.
15:30 - 18:00
Worked behind the front desk with Judy.
18:00 - 21:30
Worked behind the front desk by myself.
21:30-22:00
Stressing out behind the front desk working by myself because the daily invoices weren't adding up at all and none of the Mastercard, Visa, or Debit numbers were even remotely right.

...

07:00 - 14:30:

I work again tomorrow morning. 21.5 hours out of 48 at the airport.
The worst part is that if I become an instructor, I've seen the guys there from 7 in the morning till 10 at night. 15 hour shifts. WOOO.

2006-09-18T22:49:00.000-04:00

2006-09-17T18:15:00.000-04:00

Aight so it's been like...a long freaking time since I last posted. This has been for a number of reasons. One is that I have started working again. Craziness hey? I didn't work for over a year before I got that job. So anyway yah, I am at the Brampton Flying Club, as a dispatcher. I dispatch planes. I take phone calls from crazy people who think we are Pearson and have jets. I process stuff. Etc etc.

I have also been working hard on my multi-engine aircraft rating. This means I can fly aircraft with (surprise!!) multiple engines. Or in this case, two. I have been flying the Piper PA-44-180 Seminole. It has two Lycoming O360 engines producing 180hp each. I cruise between 120-160 knots (220-300km/h), and have a boatload of fun doing so. But it costs around $400 an hour to rent, meaning my credit card got raped this month. But on the bright side, today, oh glorious day, I passed my multi-engine flight test. I did it in 7.3 hours. They say that it averages around 10 hours, so I just saved myself nearly three hours, or $1200 worth of flying. That = me SUPER DUPER HAPPY.

So other interesting things. Firstly, my birthday is on the 28th, I am planning to do something possibly on the 30th. Further details will come once I decide, and you are all invited provided you promise to consume near-lethal quantities of alcohol. NEAR - LETHAL.

I might also be getting a second job. Ugh. That will hurt.

Other fascinating things. People with bionic limbs = awesome. Montreal shooting = absolutely terrible (I hope that Harper realizes what a fucking tool he is and does something even MORE drastic than the registry to stop this from happening in Canada, he will look like a hypocrit, but he has to).

I am excited about the new fall season of television. Weeds. Lost. Battlestar Galactica. But alas, Entourage is over...how I will miss thee until the next season.

And finally, I get to work on my multi-IFR rating now. Translated to land-people speak, that basically means you are certified to fly a multi-engined aircraft using Instrument Flight Regulations. Basically it means you keep your head down and look at the purdy instruments to guide you along. That is the final piece of my commercial licence, and once I have that (as well as completing a 300 nautical mile trip) I will be legally able to earn money to fly. And then on to being an instructor at (you ready for this?) a whopping 900-1000$!!!!....per month. UGH. Easy street here I come...I'll be flying your sons and daughters as they learn to become underpaid flight instructors too.

2006-09-15T03:07:00.000-04:00

Let's talk about love.

I finally got to see What Dreams May Come. It was okay. I only really wanted to watch it for the visuals and was slightly intrigued by the story. Basically, dude dies, wife kills herself, dude goes to heaven, wife goes to hell, dude goes after wife, they both end up in heaven. The tear jerker is how someone will go through hell for the one they love, and that true love prevails by will alone.

So this is my qualm. The movie takes place in an afterlife where your wishes and desires come true. This setting is stupid because death no longer serves as a device to challenge the character's love if all they have to do is wish.

Granted it's a movie. It becomes interesting when you apply it to real life. When do you stop loving someone because of factors out of your control? And to what degree? In the movie it was the death of a spouse. But it could be something like unrequited love, distance, or anything that would force you apart. At what point do you decide to keep trying or to give up? Does it make you any less noble for wanting to let go? Does it make your love less true? It might be healthier not to wish for impossible things.

Call me a pussy for talking about this shit, but I thought the movie was interesting and pretty funny.

My mind has changed
My body's frame but god I like it
My hearts aflame
My bodys strained but god I like it

2006-09-13T12:19:00.000-04:00

``That was such a pinko commie show: They all live in a collective, everyone works as much or as little as they choose, everyone is considered equal no matter what they contribute, there is no private ownership of property, there is no money, there is no sex, and their enemy is a big evil white guy who tries to catch them and turn them into gold. And come on, who doesn't realize that Papa Smurf is nothing but an idealized Lenin. Don't get me started. The show even started in Sweden. I actually wrote an essay in college about how that show was nothing but a thinly-veiled utopian socialist propaganda device. I got an A. I'm smart.``

2006-09-12T18:01:00.000-04:00

I finally get the humor in this video... and it only took 11 years.

They say misery loves company
We could start a company
And make misery, Frustrated Incorporated
I know just what you need
I might just have the thing
I know what you'd pay to see

Get it?! They're making misery in the video. You can't fool a fooler.

2006-09-05T20:18:00.000-04:00

hahahaha

2006-09-02T21:55:00.000-04:00

Gonna get rdy to head out in a bit, but thought I'd type a lil tidbit about my past week.

Thursday:
First off, the Circus Room gig was a lot of fun. We held a colouring contest with our logo on it and passed around crayons. Rewards included 2 plastic Uzis, 1 pair o' handcuffs, 2 whoopie cushions, gag glasses, and a badass slingshot. The submissions were incredible. Since we're all about journalistic truth on this blog I'll scan'em soon enough. We had cutesy submissions with bunnies humping around the amps, others drew flames and set the logo on fire, another drew arms and legs coming out of the logo. Crayons are awesome... I don't know who won because I left early :( I also refused to judge them because they all blew my mind away. We didn't sound half bad either, you could say we sounded half good. Bellevue was awesome as always.

Took a shot of JD and ran out of the Circus Room to head back to Mississauga with Trace. Had to leave early because I had a one day placement in the morning.

Friday:
Running on what must've been 4 hours of sleep I arrived by the beaches. My assignment revolved around simple production work for an existing banner campaign. The people at the shop were awesome. Their workers are freaking talented. I would look over and they'd be working on 3+ pieces and being shuffled around by the project manager on other tasks. I can't be satisfied with how I performed when I try to compare myself to any member of that team. To say I was out of my league is an understatement, but I loved every second of it. They had DC action figures everywhere. They also handed out beers and pizza. It was a one day placement, a glimpse, a morsel, an iota of the industry, and I want more. I passed out once I got home.

Saturday:
I woke up this morning to Jo's phone call. We were to head to the FanExpo at the Convention Center. Think comics, gaming, horror, sci fi, and anime. The penicle of geekdom. I went for the comics and gaming. I also went for this man. That is Jim Lee. One of comic books's biggest and most influential artists. He illustrated Uncanny X-Men, X-Men (the series most familiar in pop culture), founded Wildstorm Productions, created Wild C.A.T.s, drew for Batman etc. etc. In short, this guy is fucking awesome. I ended up lugging around a backpack full of comics from my childhood to be signed, only to be detoured by long lines and overpriced passes for his booth ($45 to stand in line for over 2 hours. Maybe if he danced and sang a number I could justify it). It wasn't a total loss, I saw Alice Cooper, Roddy Piper, and Gates McFadden (aka Dr.Crusher). I was also under the same roof as Carrie Fisher. Also played some card games and lost. I would call the people who dressed up giant nerds, but I can't knock on people if they're having a good time. They aren't hurting anyone... just their social lives.

Sunday:
TBA

Monday:
CNE. The Ex is my summer fling.

2006-08-31T09:56:00.000-04:00

You wouldn't think this would work. But it does. Simpsons vs Star Trek.

2006-08-30T12:15:00.000-04:00

What dudes must be saying to themselves on a Friday night by Richmond.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to iron my striped shirt.

2006-08-28T08:46:00.000-04:00

AHAHAHAHA, so I got a good one for all you CCITers out there. Who all remembers good ol' CCT100 with Pascal? Well, apparently Sam Logan of Sam and Fuzzy knows a thing or two about our cirriculum, as this weeks comic would suggest.

hehehhehehe semaphore.

2006-08-24T19:36:00.000-04:00

Last day as a temp tomorrow.

2006-08-23T21:40:00.000-04:00

I bought the new Alexisonfire album Crisis yesterday. It's hard to say what I think about it because I really cannot decide if I find it to be their best album or their worst. That sounds absurd I know but I'll explain why.

None of the songs stand out immediately as huge radio hits. Songs like Accidents, Pulmonary Archery, 44 Caliber Love Letter Straight From My Heart, and other truly massive radio singles (massive for a band of this genre) are not really on this album. Boiled Frogs, This Could Be Anywhere in the World, and maybe We Are the Sound come closest, but they lack the individuality that previous singles they've written had.

That being said, as far as an album works, this is their best album to listen to from start to finish. The songs are all very distinctive, and the relationship between Dallas' and George's singing has grown even more complex, and they compliment one another instead of acting as two voices talking back and forth as on previous albums. The music has taken the best aspects of their self-titled and Watch Out! and combined them, with hard hitting, complex guitars ala their debut, and the fantastic melodies and harmonies of their second album. It's one of those albums that just gets better and better with every listen.

So I would definitely recommend picking it up, the album is VERY good. I just have trouble labelling it as their best because I think they have maybe made it too generic in the sense that while it's a solid album, it lacks the occasional punch that an album needs to knock you back and think "wow". In their debut, it came from the first track, Water Wings, and Pulmonary Archery. In Watch Out! it came from Accidents, No Transitory, and Happiness by the Kilowatt. In this album, the songs all compliment one another, and can't stand by themselves.

2006-08-23T05:29:00.000-04:00

Okay, so, I can now confirm that indeed breaking one's elbow is far worse than getting four wisdom teeth pulled, though I am a little concerned about one thing which I'll get to in a minute.

Now, I have got pain, don't get me wrong, and although they gave me T3s, the pain is not really going away. I thought everyone told me T3s were supposed to just make you feel amazing?? I have NOOOO such reaction. Last night it was great, it stopped all the pain, but right now it's having no such effect.

But yah...I am concerned because I can't feel the left side of my lower lip, or the area roughly one inch around it. At first I wondered if it was just the anesthetic because there was a much bigger area I couldn't feel, my tongue included. But now my tongue and the rest of my face is mostly okay. Has anyone else had this experience? I know that it's possible that during the surgery a nerve can get hit on the lower jaw, and I know that my lower jaws are the ones that hurt the most...but yah...did anyone else get this lack of feeling after? I just hope that it's not something permanent.

2006-08-21T00:56:00.000-04:00

The Live Amps open for Bellevue
AUGUST 31st, 2006 at Circus Room
8:00pm, $4 at the door

I hear their lead guitarist is a hot piece of ass.

2006-08-18T18:07:00.000-04:00

Soo. I passed my commercial flight test today. I started at ten, and I finished at THREE thirty. Longest test of my LIFE. I have a headache because I am dehydrated, and I want to sleep for days, and let my brain ooze out my ear. But be damned if I didn't pass that mo-fo. Makes me happy.

And for the record, no I cannot fly the big planes now, haha. I can't even get my commercial licence yet, as you need 200 hours and I only have 160. Hopefully by the end of September I'll be fully rated etc etc.

2006-08-15T20:02:00.000-04:00

It seems Brad has one upped me yet again.

www.hirebrad.com

2006-08-12T23:36:00.000-04:00

Holy crap the sky is falling, the end is nigh, the four horsemen are upon us, Hell froze over, pigs grew wings...and Canada qualified for the Rugby World Cup???

I dunno bout you...but I am scared.

2006-08-10T23:27:00.000-04:00

joyce joyce says:
drix where u going
joyce joyce says:
i missed your call
Drix, packing says:
yo guyyyy
Drix, packing says:
going to italy
Drix, packing says:
fuck this shit hole
joyce joyce says:
OMG
joyce joyce says:
YAH RIGHT
joyce joyce says:
FUCK YOU
Drix, packing says:
hahahaha
joyce joyce says:
WHEN
joyce joyce says:
OMG
joyce joyce says:
WHY
joyce joyce says:
WHEN
Drix, packing says:
I'm going camping
joyce joyce says:
oh
joyce joyce says:
IN ITALY?

===============================================

lisa says:
where are you going?
Drix, packing says:
italy
lisa says:
what!
lisa says:
are you serious?
Drix, packing says:
Yea guy
lisa says:
with who
Drix, packing says:
myself and a 2-4
lisa says:
...
Drix, packing says:
I'm going camping
lisa says:
dumb ass

2006-08-08T21:47:00.000-04:00

Ugh.
So around it's around 9pm, the sun has set, and the night is taking hold outside. Venne my dog starts howling at the back door. So I figure I'll let her out, maybe it's a cat or a squirrel. I get up, waltz up the stairs, and go to the back door. She is eagerly anticipating her release into the wide world.

I open the door. She dashes out like a bolt of lightning barreling into the ground.

I hear the barking stop. I see her out the living room window rolling on the ground, digging her snout into freshly laid pine mulch. My immediate thought is "shit she caught something and is eating it". I yell at her, she doesn't stop. I jump out the front door to stop her quickly before she makes some god awful mess.

Then I see it.

Its beady little eyes had both a look of terror and something vaguely resembling "You want summadis? Cuz I GOT summadis." My face looks of terror and something vaguely resembling "My day was going so well until now..." A split-second stare-down occurs as I try to stop myself in midair from leaping from the deck steps. Our eyes are locked in an ancient dance of would-be-attacker versus definitely-is-attacking-out-of-defense.

Its tail stands straight up, its ass flexes. Then it briefly shivers, twice I think.

I yell out a number of expletives, meanwhile drawing my arms up quickly to cover my face, meanwhile putting the pieces together: Venne barking; her barking stopping, seeing her rolling in the ground - but not to kill something. No, she was rolling to get something off, something rather foul.

Something produced by the very skunk that is currently spraying me. Twice I think.

Now all I can smell is something reminiscent of burnt rotten eggs, burnt vinegar and burnt rubber. My dog is looking at me angrily because I gave her a bath – which did nothing. And finally my house stinks like high hell because my immediate concern was getting the hell away from the skunk – which stood between myself and the door after I leapt down – and not closing all the doors and windows.

So what is the moral of my story? Why it’s none other than the old adage: “Old dogs don’t learn new tricks.” Actually that’s not entirely true, the moral should be more like
“Old dogs don’t learn from old tricks.” She has in fact been sprayed three times.