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Monday, July 6th, 2009
11:22 pm	From the pits of hell it was spawned Well thus conclueds another week at my cottage. I left on Saturday morning and came back today. As always, a great time was had. I got more fermiler with the new Dream Theater CD and it's really starting to grow on me I must say. Not their best, but still an enjoyable listen and I'm having a hard time putting it away. So while I was up at yonder cottage I visited with Father, Ann and Grandmother. We watched two more of those terrible old sci fi movies. They just keep getting more and more terrible. And yet we loves each moment of it. We also took the boat out for a nice cruse though the lake. My brother came up last sunday after spending some time at our mother's cottage. He then partied with Stewart and his lady friends. While I was up I was reading another book "The Mists of Avalon". I picked it up two summers ago.....wait, no three summers ago...wow....anywhos, I picked it up a couple summers ago at a garage sail for 50 cents. I read the first book of it (there are four books in the book) through the first semester in my second year of university and try as I might I just could not get into it. It was the Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, told though the perspectives of the woman that were in their lives. It was just, for lack of a better turm, boring for me. Here I was expecting battle adventure, knights and dragons. I got 'oh, I loves him but he dosent love me and wah wah wah'. It took way too long to read the first book, so I put it down thinking I'll pick it back up later. Well later it was that I picked it back up again to read the second book 'The High Queen' by Marion Zimmer Bradley. It was alright. It pritty much picked up exsacly where the last one left off, I really don't know why she split them up into different books. I would have called them 'parts' instead of 'books' but hey, what ever floats your boat right? It puts my book count higher, now to 18. I'm on my way. The second book is alittle bit better, we're actualy seeing the knights and king Arthur in this one. Turns out: Lancelot: Total chick magnet douche of Camalot. Really, a man with that much tail and 'oh, I have to be adaramble and I don't take fancey to that such thing even though I really want Gwin and at times all other girls on the court' and Gwinivear? Bitch galore! Holy Cheeze! "WORSHIP CHRIST OF BY GOD I'LL HOLD MY BREATH UNTILL I'M BLUE!" Morgain really is one of the only likable charaters, but really, I think what kept me readying this book is the fact that all charaters are believeable. So often do I read a book and the charaters are just that: Charaters. Tipical cut outs of past charaters. But here, there are some unieque flavours that are actualy believable. Now true, all of the actual action takes place off stange since the story follows the women, but every so often you get a bit of blood or sword fighting. After reading the high queen, I started the thrid book 'The Stag King'. No real brake between one or the other. But while I'm up here I think I'll go back to Sandman. At least there the plot was interesting as well as the charaters. So what did I actualy do besides read? Well I cleared more brush from around the aria, making it look all nice and civil. I also had the second best Canada of my life: Road a ride on mower singing 'I want to drive the Zambonie' to mow the inteire lawn and back lawn, to go inside and watch Comedy network's Corner Gas-a-thon. 7 hours of Corner G. Gooooood Times! And I also got to play with gas powered machines, like wipper snippers and chain saws. Weeeeeeee! Then on Friday Alexei graced my presents. On that night we created a diabolical fire that was an abomination against nature. Birning things that should never be birned, like aged (what we can only geuss as) Counter top, gass, insolation and other half roated half decomposed brush. And we cooked and ate marshmellows with those flamed. Thats just how we role. We also fished. I cought a clam. AWE YEAH! Alexei caught sea weed. AWE YEAH! and thats about it really. We visited for a small time with the naighbors. Alexei had to leave on Sunday Morning. So today I made my trek back up to sudbury. But they closed a portion of the north bound 400 off so I got to take a detour though Parry Sound. It's kinda sad how Compitent I felt when I found my way back to the 400, even though I really just followed traffic and signs. But still, adiquit is always an inprovement from 'nothing'. So now I'm left with a delema: I wants to have a Cottage party for my birthday. The only problem is, I cant have it on the long weekend since my grandmother is having friends up at that time. I really don't want to do it the week after the long weekend seeing that Alexei will not be able to make it. And lets face it, a party without Alexei is just not a party worth being at. That, and it would be me with 6 girls (presuming all the girls I invite attened). I need more male friends. So what I'm thinking of is this: The week of the long weekend, being my actual birthday, I have a good ol' fashin birthday party at my fathers place since he will most likely be at the cottage with my grandmother and her friends and Ann. I can have a 'Pajama wii party: Barrie adition'. Then! have a cottage swindig lasting the week for those who can make it through that time. I will of course provide transportation to those who need it. That is just my thought, no official word yet. And now I leave you. For now..... Current Music: Power to believe II - King Crimson (Comment on this)
Friday, June 26th, 2009
9:28 pm	My name is Indago Mantoya, you billed my father, I've prepaired pie. Why? Why did I do that? All I wanted was robots attacking other robots for an hour and a half, two hours tops. What you gave me was robots attacking other robots, for a time. Then you gave me pain. Physical pain. After a while, I just wanted to walk out of the theater. This afternoon I saw the film 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'. Even though I enjoyed the first fim, I didn't enjoy it to the point were I ran out and by the DVD. In fact, I never did get it. But this? I know sequils aren't always as good as the first.....but really? Bad ethnic jokes? Shila Laboof being annoying as hell? Unbelievibly korny dialoge and charaters I phisicly wanted to punch in the face since they seemed to be punching me in the face. Even Megan Fox was getting on my nerves. How the hell does Shila get someone like that? I'll give it a reluctent 3 out of 10, since there was some really bad ass fight scenes. After I saw that abomination of a film, I came home and desided to watch a real film 'The Princess Bride'. I remeber watching it once in grade 8. Then today I re-watched it since Stephanie lent it to me since it's one of her favourit movies/books, and it was amasing. One of those few movies that have everything: Comidy, suspence, action, love, and miricals. I must find myself a copy of it one of these days. Or just keep borrowing it from Stephanie. Either way. And thats about it. I'm thinking over the next week I'll be at my cottage. More news on that later. Or if not, I'm at my cottage. Current Mood: awake Current Music: Best of Times - Dream Theater (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
1:37 pm	Bord bord bord HAY! bord bord bord. Well, I'm bord. So here you go. And there you go. I also bring you this.      I think this one turned out really nicely.   ( Now you know ) Current Mood: bored Current Music: Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel (Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
1:08 pm	I'm Melting......melting So where was I? Oh yes, Friday..... So once I got back from my fathers audit and roadtrip, I called up Alexei since I was bord. The two of us roamed the mall since we really couldn't think of much to do. I needed coin rollers and blank CDs. So we then went to Staples and I picked up 25 blank CDs with tops that looked like old records. We then birnt my 'Ultimit Song' an epic track lasting 1 hour and 15 minutes. So as we listened to that we then desided to head off to Bayfield mall for some icecream. That was not a good idea on my part since I had way too much and my stummie started to growl at me in a way that only Mikael Akerfeldt can. I tryed to apologize to it, but it would not listen. So then we desided to see year one, and since I knew my brother really wanted to see it we let him tag along. The movie wasn't playing for another hour or so, so we desided on 'Muco Borito' or what ever that place in the south end is call. I didn't have anything since my stumic was still bitching at me. Aparitnlty it wasn't too bad a place. I might have to actualy eat there one day. So then we saw 'Year One'. Year One..........and I had such high expectations for this. Out of all the movies I've seen thus far in the year, that one is by far the worst. It fell victom to its own avdertizing. All the best parts AND jokes were in the trailers. There really was no need to see the film since you could pritty much peice the whole thing together from the material given to you from the trailer, it was just a matter of putting it in order. Very similer to 'Talidaga Nights: The Ballid of Ricky Bobby' the things they didn't show you in the trailers were just juvinile and imiture. Jack Black played Jack Black, and Michael Sera played Michael Sera. Seriously, I know both can act (See King Kong for Jack Black, and see.........ok Michael Sera realy has one charater and thats pritty much it) so what the hell? I'm giving this 2 out of 10 since there was maybe one or two points were I thought "ok, that was kinda funny" and the chick Michael Sera's charater ends up with is pritty cute. Other than that, this was a waste of time. So after the film, we still felt like we needed to do something. And I had many of ideas of what to do, but I was really getting fed up with my brother and just wanted to go to bed. Had he not been there I would have suggested 'parking it!' (going to centenial park) or something to that effect, but I just had enough. I mean, I spent the week with the kid and I can only take so much. He really needs to get friends of his own. For instants, he'll do things he thinks will be funny, but just come off douchebagy. "Oh, I'm going to go 40 in a long streach of road, and then when the guy trys to pass me, I'll match his speed...it will be hilariouse!"..........not so much. That and the added bonis of having a headake didn't help matters. So we dropped Alexei off, and the moment we did BAM! headake into migrane vill. So I had Shane drop me off at my dads place and I emediatly collapsed on the couch/bed and submited myself to the pain. Good times......goooooood tiiiiiiiimmmmmmmmes. On Saturday my dad, Ann and I worked on the apartment unit oposit to Daves. It needed painting and a slight renovation to bump up the rent and make it all shinny. So I got the smaller of the rooms to prime and paint: the bathroom. It was pritty fun looking back. Although I was in the haze of 'day after mygrain' it was still enjoyable. Then after all was said and done my dad and I watched 'The Fifth Element', a film that has been on my 'to watch' list for some time that I just never got around to watching. It was really good. I love a movie that you can think about later and say "wow, they didn't need to say it, but I got it." Those movies really warm my heart, even if the message behind it was mushy mushy goo goo, it was still an amasing concept and film. So Sunday was fathers day, so my brother and myself took my father to Wonderland for the day. First ride was the Bahemoth. Since it was my brother, myself and my dad, there was always an odd man out. I saw that the car infront of us was three hot girls, so I said I'd be the odd man out for this one. The whole time, the chick behind me was giggiling, and myself and the girl beside me kept saying "oh god, oh god oooooooooooohooo!!" after the ride we looked at each other, completely wind blown faces and she said "well then, we now know how we'll sound if we ever have sex." I laughed and said "Well we should put that to the test." The girls behind us kept laughing and told us not to flurt. I'm geussing she had a boyfriend. Although my brother and father have an even better story. While at the top of the hill, my dad's Cell Phone rings. My brother kept telling him "Answer it dad! come on answer it!" I can see the ride photo now: My brother all YEAH! and my dad on the phone......always the bussness man. Best part: It was my grandmother who called. So all in all it was a great day at wonderland. My dad almost blacked out from 'backdrop stunt driver' or 'the Italian Job' since he wasn't expecting it to launch us. He had to sit out a few rides. And four rides broke down while we waited in line: Psychlone, Time Worp (Tumb Rader), The Wild Beast, and Flight Deck (Top Gun). My dad sat out Shockwave (which I love so very very much), Thunder run and Top Gun. I sat out Drop Zone. My brother.....well, by the end of the day I wanted to punch him something good. Even my dad was starting to be anoyed, and it takes alot to get my dad anoyed. But again, all in all, a great day. Then I drove up to Sudbury on Monday and was grasously greated by hot weather. I'm sitting right next to the window, with the fan on, in just my boxers and I'm sweating like a wild thing. It's getting redonkulouse. It hasn't gone below 30 degrees in my room since I got up here. 30!!! Well, to destract me from the heat, yesterday I went out to HMV to pick up Stephanie's Birthday present and Dream Theater's new album "Dark Clouds and Silver Linings". I've got to say that I'm disapointed. The first time I listened to it, I thought "Is that it?" It just didn't hook me like their last albums had. I'm just glad I got the 3 disc speciel edition, with an intramental take of the album, and a disc of Covers. It almost seems like they realized this album is not their best effort, so to make it up to the fans, they put these together. I must admit, the instramental take of the album is far superier that the origanal album. It had me thinking "Awe year, THAT'S it." And the cover songs arn't half bad either. But I'd still have to give the album a 3 out of 5. There are some parts that are really good, like all dream theater albums......but it just doesn't sound like a completed Dream Theater album. Today I also finished the second volume to the Sandman Anthology. I fell instintly inlove with Thessaly. She apeared in a story arc about a Cucoo living in a woman's dream world after a rift in the dream world came about. I just can't help but love all the stories in this thing. I mean, it's just brilliant. So this then puts my book count to 17. I'm going to start the third book this afternoon, but when I go to the cottage this weekend, I'll bring another book along, sine theres no way I'm carrying a 7 pound book around with me. In other news: DAMN YOU AMAZON.COM!!!! I ordered IQ's new CD: Frequency over a month ago on pre-order. It was supose to arive June 2nd. It has yet to be shipped due to delays. I've just recieved an e-mail telling me it's delayed firther and wont be expected to ship untill at least July 7th. What the hell guys? What the hell? I also had a nightmare last night that I was still in Thesis Class, and I had to show my data infront of everyone in mathamatical turms witout any preperation, no graphs or power point. When will the torture end? And thats all I got. I've had quite alot of dreams lately that I've yet to write out here, but I've been keeping track of them on a note pad, so expect a huge post of them soon. Current Mood: awake Current Music: The Count of Tuscany - Dream Theater (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, June 21st, 2009
11:26 pm	I spent the week away from home and all I got was this lousy t-shirt Well, as you could tell with my update thing on Thursday I'm back from my cottage. Since Thursday, I've been here in Barrie, which I will be leaving tomorrow morning to head back up to Sudbury. I just need to get back to my own place; nothing against my father or the people in Barrie, I just want my own space again. So what have I been up to since last actual post? Well, lets see. I drove down on Saterday, and Shane, Steph and myself saw Land of the Lost. It was alright. Not as funny overall as 'The Hangover' but just as, if not more entertaining than 'The Hangover', and one scene actualy had me laughing out loud instead of just 'oh that was funny'. Really, besides that one point, it wasn't overly that funny, more of an adventure comidey. I laughed, and was entertained. I probibly won't see it again, and give it the same rating as 'The Hangover' only because of the one gut laugh I had: 7 out of 10.  Then on Sunday Stephanie and I spent two days at the cottage. Luckaly, Stephanie is alright with doing little to nothing at the cottage, which I was very happy about. Thats all I wanted to do. So we watched all of Firefly and Serenity. Man, those were some awesome shows/films. I really loved Serenity the first time I saw it in theaters, but since I saw it in highschool with little to no background information about it, the only thing that stuck was the Ravers story line. So I had an awesome time. I had to drive Stephanie back home on Monday Evening, and got a phone call from my brother telling me he wanted to spend time up at the cottage too. Well damn, there goes my nice 'alome' time.  So from Monday to Thursday, I spent my time up at the cottage with my brother. Lets just say there were two time periodes I experienced between then: 'oh, this isin't so bad. My brother isn't that bad of a guy. I can kind of tolerate him' and 'please kill me please kill me please kill me please kill me please kill me.' Like I said, so much for 'alome time'. I found that if my brother was on a good topic of conversation, he's not all that bad. Every other time on the other hand is a living hell. I keep remebering why I chose to move to Sudbury at times.  While I was up at my cottage, I managed to read 2 books, puting my book count now to 16. I might actualy make 50 by the years end......we'll see. I brought down two Doctor Who books, the two that I got when I was in Toronto for the Flight of the Conchord concert: "The Doctor Trap" by Simon Messingham and "Peacemaker" by James Swallow.  So the Doctor Trap...........wow. I can now name 'The Worst book I have ever Read' and that is the doctor trap. How the hell did BBC aprove of this trash? First off, the charaters were very losely based off the doctor and Donna. Really really loosely based. I mean, they were nothing like each other. It felt like I was reading bad fan fiction. It was really insulting to read. The story was iffy......it was actualy the only reasanably good point in the book. And with a plot as lame as that one as the 'high point' in the book, you know your book is terrible. I just wanted it to end. The read would have been more talerable if the style of writing wasn't so seratic and chaotic. I didn't know what I was reading at points. I don't mind jumping back and forth through time lines, or charater points or what not, but this was just confusing. Some sort of guid would have been helpful. But overall the whole thing fell flaght on its face. It made less than adiquit sence for a Doctor Who story. Although, as I said, this theme (not so much plot per-say, but themes it presents and perhaps the atmosphere of the noviel) was captered by a skilled writer, this may have been an enjoyable read. But this was just trash, and as I said, I felt persanaly insulted as a Doctor Who fan when reading it. It has tarnished the Doctor Who name. Speaking of Tarnation, the second book 'Peacemaker' has regained my faith in Doctor Who. This is what I was expecting when I pick up a Doctor Who book. The charaters were spot on, and I could visualize them easily. Although the themes presented in this one weren't near as awe inspiring as I'm used to with Doctor who, I really conected with the Charaters and the setting. Since it was set in the 1880s of the West, it was neet to see the Doctor in that kind of a setting. The plot was quite weak though, and it really didn't leave me thinking like "Shining Darkness" or "Wooden Heart" did. But I would re-read this just for the style of writing and charaters. Halfway through the book the story fell boring and it was no where near as enjoyable as the first half. But still an enjoyable read and redeemed 'The Doctor Trap'. So then, on Thursday I drove my brother back home to his place and on the way to my dad's place I drove by Alexei. It was a joyous time. But I was too tired to actualy do anything about it. On Friday morning, I went road tripping with my dad. Fun times, although it was only to one audit and I enjoy going for the whole day, but what are you going to do? He had a full day of audets tomorrow, but I need to head back up to Sudbury, I feel kinda sadened that I couldn't join him. And now I find that I'm falling to sleep so I shall finish this tomorrow when I'm back in Sudbury. Current Mood: sleepy Current Music: It Works - 3RDegree (Comment on this)
Friday, June 19th, 2009
12:24 am	You've Won... So see how long I can last You can pretend that I don't exist for you And I can laugh about it now But I hated every minute I was waiting for your email And each day that you forgot to call Just made me feel so low So low Christmas 1998 I tried to call I just couldn't wait And your message was out of date So I left my voice on your machine But you did not respond OK OK OK you've won You make me feel so low So low   Feel So Low: Lyrics by Steven Wilson; Music by Porcupine Tree. Current Mood: awake Current Music: Feel So Low - Porcupine Tree (Comment on this)
Saturday, June 13th, 2009
10:53 am	It's getting hot hot hot Holy badgers, it's Jubaken' hot here. It was as though someone threw a switch and changed the heat from 'reasinibly hot' to 'lets cook 'em alive boys!' Sweet Jumbaliea. I cheacked my thermistate, it's 27 degrees in my room at this time. 27!!! And geuss what? aparintly, thats not hot enough for my nieghbors. THE DAMNED HEATERS ARE ON! Thats right. It's a stickey and sweaty 27 degrees, and it's still getting hotter do to the heaters. Someone's getting the beats. So my solution to this problem is driving three hours to Barrie, where there is air conditioning. I'm going to spend the week at my cottage, finishing up the work thats left up there, and also enjoying th cold cold water. Oh that cold lake, how once you scared me, now look as a cold savour. Yesterday, to also exsacpe the heat, I went to the theaters where there is sweat sweat air conditioning. I saw the movie 'The Hangover'. It was actualy alot better than I had expected. Very similer to 'Old School'. Not the the most funny movie I've seen, but it was the most fun I've had in a while. The best part about the film was that it was not predictable like most comidies. Nothing bugs me more than a comidy that you can prity much map in your head within the first 5 minutes of the movie. This one was just great. Even though a number of the jokes and funny moments where placed in the adds, they didn't go over board on it showing the moments (like so many comedies these days) and when those moments came up, they still felt new with the build up and delivery of it all. A great comedy, and one that will be referenced when ever people who worked on it do something new. Like "From the creators of 'Old School' and 'The Hangover' comes this years new comedy.....". I'd give it a 7/10.  I'd recomend you see it. And thats about it on my end. Oh, I read the first volume of my 'Sandman Anthology'. So that puts my book count to 14. I'm enjoying it. The depth of this thing is just amasing. I can't stop loveing it. Now thats about it. In about 2 hours I'm going to make my way to Barrie, and then Maskoka to spend the remaining of the week. If you need me, that's where I'll be. Current Music: Transformers, the animated searies - TV (Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
10:08 am	Everything is cool, as long as you dare, to bend a few taboos and sacrafise your pawns Being back in Sudbury makes me realize how much I love being at my cottage. I'm really concidering going back this weekend. Beats sitting up here alone. Between sitting up here alone, and sitting at my cottage alone, I'd take my cottage any day. At least there when I get too bord, I just walk outside and find something that needs to be done. And I left enough up there to keep me busy for at least another week. So maybe I'll head back down. I'm still thinking about it. In other news, my taps in my apartment are strange. I've known it all along, but never really put much thought to it. Both taps, the one in the kitchen andthe one in the bathroom, work just fine. But the cold water knob is a bit....sticky. I geuss that would be the best way to put it. You have to heave it closed, and then heave it back on again to make the water come through. Not like the hot water, you just turn it without much trouble, and the water flows. When you shut off the falve, you just turn it untill its off. No hassle. The cold water on the other hand, is a different matter. I wonder what the last tennent in this aparment did to make it like that. Did they just really like cold water and rubbed the knob raw or something? Who knows.....just weird that it's both the cold knob. In other other news, over the past three or so weeks I've been having my usual weird dreams. I've just been too lazy to write them out. I think I'm still too lazy to write them out. I've made note of all of them on a small pad of paper that I had at my cottage the first few nights when I wasn't around my computer but needed to document them so that I wouldn't forget it. So who knows, maybe my next post will be nothing but 5 or 6 dreams. That will be one increadible screwed up post. Be on the look out for it. And thats all folks. I'm not off to continue reading 'Sandman'. So far, so good. Not a big fan on how Dream is drawn, but aparintly other artists depict him differently. I hope so.... Current Music: Massive Illusion - Gazpacho (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 8th, 2009
4:46 pm	....See me....Feel me....Touch me....Heal me.... Wow, that was one crazy week. And I completely forgot to write out what I was going to do before hand, leaving a select few in the dark as to my disapearince and my whereabouts. Well no worries, I have returned in a flame of glorry! So what was I doing while I was gone? Well the short story of it all is this: Went to Barrie on Friday, T.O. /Stephanies on Saturday, and sunday whent to my cottage for my dad's birthday on Sunday. Then from sunday untill today, I stayed up there and did some clearing and cleaning of brush in and around the cottage. And that's pritty much it. The long story though is much more exsiting in my opinion. Now that you know how everything works out in the end, I can give you some details.   ( The long story ) Current Mood: awake Current Music: Mad Man Moon - Genesis (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
2:56 pm	It's like the prize in the box of Cracker Jacks....ONLY AWESOME!!!! So today I finaly picked up a new CD buinder for my CDs. Once I got it home and opened it up, about halfway through I found 2 discs of the origanal X-Men animated searies. HOW AWESOME IS THAT!?!?! So I'm watching them now, but I'm going to take them back tomorrow and see what they want to do with them. I'm sure they're missing them. As Much as I want them, and I really REALLY do want them, My morals won't let me keep them. Stupid morals. But of course, my morals can wait untill tomorrow after I watch them :P Current Music: X-Men the origanal animated searies (4 Comments |Comment on this)
9:13 am	Duck Tales I'd be their duck. Current Music: Present Face - Garfunkle and Oates (Comment on this)
Sunday, May 24th, 2009
6:08 pm	Status report Doctor McCoy! Damnit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a statustition!........yes....I know its from star trek. But how else to open a post I really have no idea what to write besides just a general update? Nothing much really. I realized that I finished "Fool Moon" by Jim Butcher. It was good, not great, but good. I enjoyed the first novil better, mainly becuse, although in both books Dresden was getting beat up 9/10ths of the book, this one kind of went overbord on the whole thing. It was still an entertaining read, and I enjoyed the werewolf mythology of it, but I'll probibly not reread it. So that puts my book count up to.....crap, what the hell is it. *goes and looks* 11? I'm going with 11. Wow, I thought I'd have more read by now. Oh well, 11. Now I'm onto Bram Stoker's "Dracula". Its actualy really really good. I'm really enjoying it. Vampires before they got all weird and stupid with Twilight. I'm almost tempted after reading this to pick up Ann Rice's 'Vampire Cronicals'. I always fanceyed Vampires. But lord knows I have too many books aready to read before going out and getting more. I even brought back 'The Historian' from my cottage to reread this summer some time since that was really my first vampire book I read and really enjoyed. Its still in my top 5 favourit books. On Friday evening I saw 'Night at the Museum: Battle at the Smithstonem' (if I spelt that right). I really only went to it for Amy Adams who played Emilia Earhart (again, if I spelt that right). Its sad how much I enjoyed that film just for that reason. Ture, there were some awesome lines like "My name really isin't Ivan the Terrible. It was translated wrong. It's really Ivan the AWESOME!" and "I don't know about you fellas, but someone just got to second base"  and of course "Then I'll yell out "ATTACK!!" at which point we jump out...and attack....bam, I know." "But wont saying 'Attack give them warning of our attack, thus rendering the cry usless?"....."ok, new play....I'll yell out "We are not going to attack.....at which point......we attack!!" and of course the whole battle scene with the small Romans 300 style. That amused me gratly. So all in all the film was really entertaining and I enjoyed watching it. I will consider picking it up when it come out on video, if nothing more that for Amy Adams, who stole the show for me. Those tight pants and aviation outfit and her crazy awesome 1940s lingo was to die for. I felt myself gushing the whole time she was on the screen. A very biased 8 out of 10 from me. And I think thats all I really wanted to update. Also, I finaly organized all my CDs that I picked up over the year that I kept on my coffee table. I had so much that my collection on my cabinet is actualy over flowing. I couldn't fit two cds. Do you know how hard it is to find a cd holder thinggy in a world full of MP3 users? Friggin hard thats how hard. There was only one cd binder left in the city, and it only held 9 cds. Current Music: Maybe You're Right - Barenaked Ladies (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
8:21 am	The quality of quantity. People some times ask me why I like progressive music. Well imaginary voice inside my head since no one has actualy asked me that, I'm going to tell you. It's the quality of quantity. It's like a 14 ounce stake. Not only is it in the quality of the meat, but the quantity of it. Not just listining to an amasing song, but listining to it and thinking 'I don't want this thing to end'. Thats why I loves it so much. Can you tell I'm bord? So I woke up this morning ready to stab someone good. My heaters were on, meaning somone in this building had their heater on since they felt that +27 outside was just alittle chilly for them. WHAT THE HELL PEOPLE!?!? I mean, really, what are you thinking? Just because it gets a bit chilly at night, does not mean we have to blast in the hot air. That will happen once the sun gets up on it's own. You know, the origanal heater? We use this 'night time coolness' to get the tempiture in the rooms at a nice cool brisk tempiture to prepair for the blazing heat that will inseue once the sun comes and beats the heat. I am honistly sourounted by idots. "Oh my, it's cool in here. I'm going to blast my heaters instead of grab another blanket because that would be reasonalbe and leave my apartment in a nice tempiture come mid afternoon when it's sure to be blazing hot. I like and enjoy being so hot I stick to the floor." Next year I'm moving to Nunovit. Current Mood: bord Current Music: Valerie's Friend - Gazpacho (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 21st, 2009
3:05 pm	One can no longer simply sit back and only listen to music. You know, my grade 12 drama teacher said it best: No one really just sits and listen to music. I do from time to time, when I just lie back and close my eyes and listen to a good album. But it is a rare occurance, even for someone like myself, who adorse music. The only times this comes close is when I'm watching a consert DVD. Then I wont do anything else, but I'm not simply listining to music, I'm watching it also. The other time is when I'm listining to music while driving. But than again, I'm not just listining to music, I'm driving. Same with when I'm falling to sleep while listining to music, I'm also trying to fall to sleep. Music: the altumit multi-tasking devise. Anyways....that being said, I'm really aditicted to my two Gazpacho albums I downloaded, but I cant just only listen to them over and over again. I need a usless activity/task to help me....and here is the random serveys!    And there you have it. Now I leave you with this: ( 100 Truths ) Current Music: Valerie's Friend - Gazpacho (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
10:46 am	Happy Belated birthday Victoria! Well it was quite the adventful long weekend. Again, I know I'm writing out my weekend's doing halfway through the next week, but better late than never. I headed up to the cottage over the weekend. Alexei came on up with me. We found what was, quite posibly, the most descusting thing I have ever witnessed/seen in my life. We go into the cottage and it had it's usual stuffy-not ben in for more than three weeks smell to it. So after opining a couple windows, lighting a fire to take out the wetness, and just running around getting our musk in the air. After a while the stuffy wetness left the air, but something still lingered. It was the usual smell of death. Ever since my dad did some renivations in the bedrooms/bathrooms, there was more arias for a mouse to crawl into and die, so it's a very normal smell. Although this one was more intence, expeshily aorund the fire place and television. So finaly I broke down and surched around the television wallunit to find what was producing the smell. And there it was. There was a glass on the fire place. At first, I thought nothing of it. There was a dark mass at the bottom of the glass. I thought it was part of the glass design, or that we just left a bit of water in it or something. That was untill I saw a claw and what looked like an eye and snout of a small mouse. Yes...a mouse has some how had the skill to fall into this glass, but lacked the skills nessisary to climb back out. And boy howdy did it reak. I'm talking about gag smell. So I put on some heavy duty work gloves, extended my arm to full legth, and picked up the abomination of nature and took it outside. Lest it to say that for the rest of  the evening Alexei and I were making 'mouse soup' and related jokes. *shutters* Terrible. So than, other than that unnerving insodent, my father, brother and bobshie came up the folowing day. We than watched really bad b rated sci fi films from the 40s. Soo bad. For a movie called werewolf woman, there was a seariouse lack of werewolves. I also had some really crazy vivid dreams, as I always do when I'm at the cottage. We also hooked up the stario system I had in the shake in the mane room in the cottage. That means we can now play tapes again. THAT means we can listen to my mix tapes I made when I was in elementry school and highschool. Yay crazy late 90s alturnitive music! "So what did you do over the May 2-4 weekend?" "We played Jin while listining to bad 90s music." AWE YEAH! Oh! I also saw a Moose! YAY! first moose ever in the wild! It was but a passing glance, but that was definitly a young moose. It was awesome. So Alexei left Sunday eve and my father in-company left Monday afternoon. Your humble narrator felt too comfertable where he was, so I stayed untill Tuesday Monrning.  I only wish I had someone there to enjoy the evening with, the stars were out, the lake was calm, it was perfict. So last night, I come back up to sudbury and broke down and downloaded the two Gazpacho albums I was half listining to over the weekend. Before I left, I put 'Upside Down' on a mix CD. I listened to that album quite a bit, and fell inlove with the song, so I had to get their latest two albums. Now, I tryed Amazon, but aparintly, it hates Canadians, and wouldn't allow me to download it, or even buy the hard copy CD. Well then, to iTunes it was. Even though I'm not a big fan of iTunes, I'll use it when nothing else works. So I downloaded the two albums. Here is why I loves progressive rock. Most albums have more than 10 songs on it. Each song being about 99 cents, each 'populer' album costs about 15 dollers or so, for 13-14 songs. With progressive music, there is the same amount of time on each album, but with considerably less songs. For an album of 55 minutes worth of music, it only cost me 4 dollars. Gotta love 17 minute songs that are worth 99 cents. Not only is the music superior, but it costs less. Can I get a boo-yeah? But aparintly iTunes got wise to this, so within the later album, they split the two 20+ minute songs into 3 parts. Basterds. Oh well, still worth it. And now I must leave you for food. I'll update with my dreams later. It will be legindary. Current Music: Dream of Stone - Gazpacho (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
3:39 pm	Writer's Block: Space Wars Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Serenity, Alien, 2001—there is a long list of movies and TV shows that take place in space. Which is your favorite? View other answers Doctor Who hands down, the best sci-fi franchize out there in my opinion. It's not completely and utterly lame like alot of sci-fi out there. Nothing bugs me more than a Sci Fi thing that is just too cheezy. Honistly, the close runner up would be 'The Outer Limits.' Even though there wasn't a continuouse plot or set in outerspace half the time, with a completely new plot and charaters each and every episode, it's still my all time favourit 'sci fi' show, expesily the newer one that used alot of Canadian Actors. Each episode left you thinking, which is probibly why I loves docoter who so much. Nothing is worse than a sci fi show that draws people in on space alone. Most sci fi makes the audains think, which is what draws it to me. So it isin't so much the 'futuristic technology' and 'fantisy' that I love about sci-fi...but the deep stories that really get your mind juices flowing. That was the let down (at least for me) with the newer starwars. It was all special effects, no deep thoughts. Admititly, Padime was amasing, and the third one had some awesomely sweet action scenes, there just wan't much on the deep side of things. Kinda the same can be said about the first three as well, it was more of a block buster thing. Admitidly, I grew up watching those, so I'm predispositioned to like them. Also, I really enjoyed 'Cube' and those kinds of Sci Fi. Not so much the futuristic set in deep space, but true science fiction, fiction set up on scientific premis. Always a treat. Current Music: Ritual / Nous Sommes du Soleil - Yes (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
7:24 am	...Two Amarican kids growing up, in the heart land....they're still dead.... Last time on Michaels blog post:  Saturday: Stephanie and I were going to see star trek, but the 7:20 show was sold out so we had to settle for the 9:40 show. To kill some time we visited Brittany who gave me back my Scrubs episodes and my christmas present. It was a lovely little fairy figurien, with spiderwebed wings. Then since Brittany had to work on an essay, Stephanie and myself headed to the Bafield mall so that she could pick up a mothers day card for her mom. Unfotunetly, the mall was closed. So we wondered around Sir Games Alot, then we headed off to Chapters at the south end. We looked at random stuff there, and she got two Doctor Who books (which she will alow me to read). So then we headed to the movie. Even though we were over an hour early there was still an increadibly long line up to get inside. So we waited. We also acted like idiots, but it was all in good fun. Then we saw Star Trek. I enjoyed it. I really enjoyed it. Now in the camp of 'Star Trek vs Star Wars' I've always been a Star Wars boy; but after seeing that movie, it has definitly sparked my interest to Star Trek. It was easy to follow even though I knew next to nothing about the seariese. The action sequince was amasing, and the plot, again, was easy to follow. The speciel effects were seemless with the live action, and the acting was really well done. This is how an action movie should be. And there was a hot greed chick with red hair. That alone was a pivit point in the movie where it went from 'really good' to 'wow, I might have to see this again in theaters' good. I also liked how they did a whole 'back in time' or 'alternit dimention/reality' thing. That was an amasing idea! This way, they can screw around with the plot lines and have things not completely add up and the writers can just be like 'oh, it's becuase they're in an alternit reality, it really doesnt mess with what will come later.' Also, they have more lee way to play with next movies, which I'm sure they'll make. I'm almost tempted to go and watch all the star trek movies now......almost. I would definitly rent this movie when it comes to DVD, most likely more than once on a movie night, but I probibly wouldn't buy it. A 71/2 out of 10. So after the movie, Stephanie and I went to McDonnalds. Even though this was my second late movie in two nights, we went to McDonnalds instead of bed. I wanted bed...but I also wanted me a McFlurry. That was a good McFlurry. Then I dropped Stephanie back home. Sunday: Was mothers day. So I picked up my brother around 1 and we went shopping for some groseries and mothers day stuff. I was going to cook up some stakes. My mom wanted cowboy stakes.....and french fries.....yeah....that was not happining. If I was cooking, I was going to bbq properly. I could handle Cowboy Stakes, if I prepaired them just right, they would still be considered real stakes. But french fries with stakes? No. Not happining. I picked up some potatos and sour cream for some bakes potatos. The way stakes should be eaten. Like I said, if I'm doing the bbq, the meal is going to be right. We also picked up some new shoes since my shoe lasses broke. So my brother and I headed to the Gorgain Mall, I picked up some new shoes at Sears. He was hungery so he got some icecream. He also knew one of the sucurity gards so he talked to them. Then I cheacked out HMV. Nothing new there. Then Shane also bumped into a girl he knew so they talked for a bit. Then it was off to Future Shop since we still had a few hours to kill before we'd head over to my moms place. We played a bit of Rock Band, then we headed over to Zhars for the food preperation. Outside they had this little flowers boteique, so I picked up a plant for my mom. Then we got the potatos, sour cream, and a Pie for desert. It was a rhubarb and rasberry pie. Unforctunetly, It was not pre-baked, which I was not aware of. So, anyways, we headed over to my moms place early. Now, there is a reason why I seldom visit my mother and Myron, and when I do it is only for a short time. They are competely and utterly clueless. Really, the best way to describe them is to say they are teenagers that never grew up. Thats pritty much it. So when I come in with my awesome potatos and sour cream, ready for one hell of a scarff, they start complaining about how they want corn and salids and other stupid stuff that has no place on a bbq stake plate. You just need your hunk of meat, and your potato. Maybe a colsaw salid or potato salid. Thats about it. But no, they wanted to make a big deal over how there wont be enough. Fine, My mom and my brother take a drive to the store and get more food. I take the puppy for a nice long walk to get out of that crazy house. But would it end even when they got the food? No, that would be too easy. I just told them "tell me a half hour before you want to eat, and I'll make sure a half hour later, the food will be ready." My brother, who is just coming out of the 'teenage' mindset, still has his teenager moments. He wanted to do the corn on the bbq, but didn't know how. So Myron was trying (and I do mean trying as in he never fully succeeded) to explain to my brother how to do it. I just tuned them out. Let them do what they want to do, I'll do what I need to do for a proper bbqed stake. So at the half hour mark, my mom said to me 'well I think we'll eat around 5.' So at 4:30 I started to wash the potatos, stick them in the Microwave and got the bbq started. 10 minuites later I turned the potatos over and put them in the micro for another 10. After a few minutes I seasoned the stakes lightly with 'Montriel Stake Spice' and put them on the bbq. Five minouts after that I flip them. 2 minutes after that the potatos were done in the microwave so I put them on the top rack of the bbq to lightly crips them. Three minutes later and right at 5:00 BAM! I was done. All the wile my brother, Mother, and Myron were complaining and arguing over this or that. I wasn't paying the slightest attention. I was doing the BBQ. And I did them well. Well, medium rare. And you know your good when my mom wanted meadium and everyone else wanted medium rare, and I put hers on at the same time as the rest, with the same amount of time. Now THATS bbqing. So I had my stake and baked potato and was contempt. Everyone else had a bit of stake, a bit of potato, a bit of corn, a bit of salid, a bit of bread.........I don't know why. Somone niglected to tell them how to eat a proper stake. Then it was pie time, although, as noted before, I didn't realize you had to actualy bake it. So we only had icecream. Soon after that I had to leave, for obviouse reasons. I dropped my brother off at his place and I drove back to my fathers. I was actualy looking forward to doing nothing that night. I just pulled up my computer, put on the TV and did nothing in perticuler. Monday: I drove back to Sudbury. I took my time, stoping off at my cottage to drop off my snow tires and picking up my golf clubs. I also stopped off in Nobel for a Windys Burger. Then I got back up here and just chilled. Unpacked and put me feet up. I was origanaly going to up date this and write everything out then,.....but yeah, that didn't happen. Tuesday: More of the same. I handed out some more resimies, talked to CIBC to leave me the hell alone and stop calling me with 'amasing super speciel offers.' If I want something, I'll come and talk to you. Otherwise, just let me give you my money untill I need it. That was the agreement we set up. I'd give you my money, you'd hang on to it, and I would then spend it at my lesure. Thats how this works. I don't want you wasting my cell phone minutes telling me how I've been randomly selected to experiance the wonderful things that this new program you've set up will give me. Then I picked up some food, since I was running low, and drove around for a bit. Came back here and played up the guitar hero. Wednesday: Being yesterday, I was going to hand out some more resimies, but Ashely, one of my only friends (actual friends, not just an aquantins who says to me "oh we should get together some time, maybe for some coffee) wanted me to go golfing with her boyfriend. Hes a good guy, reminds me of James from highschool, but less socialy alkword (although, thats not saying alot). And man, some guys just get all the luck. I don't know what it is, but not only does he have an amasing girl friend, who I'd die to have, but he got a call from HMV for an interview for today. WHAT THE HELL!?! I've been aplying for a job there since April! Like I said....some guys get all the luck. I kept having to remind myself 'you have the intire summer to find a job'. On the plus side, it was a good game of golf, and made a friend; and thats what really matters, right? Oh well....I just gotta keep going I supose. Find myself a job, and someone to spend the summer with. Both are looking bleak at the moment....At least its cottaging time over the weekend. That will lift my spirits. Current Mood: awake Current Music: Asylum Satellite 1 - Marillion (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
8:25 am	Little diddy, about Jack and Dian.....they're both dead now..... So, I never did get around to writing out my week back in Barrie did I? Well, here goes another dream! So, again, I don't know where it starts, but I do remeber being in this outdoor concert theater of some sort. I think I was going to the second show of th Buddy Wasisname concert. But Garfunkle and Oates were there beside me and I was geting really close to Kate Micucci, who is also The Gooch from Scrubs. And after Buddy did his first song, we stand up and do their 'F&$k You' song, although no one wanted to join in so it was just the two of us singing, until we were told to stop. Then I was in class and Dr. Persigner was teaching and he would put up over heads for just enough time for us to see them. I was doing my best at writing what was on them since he didn't alow computers, but I write out all my notes anyways so it wasn't so much of a big deal. The over heads were of Donald Duck and The Simpsons. It was strange. And thats all I remeber really. So on to what I did when I came down to Barrie. Thursday: I drove down. I arived in Barrie just after four. I visited with my dad and Ann for a while, then changed into my kilt and headed off to the Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers concert. Alexei met us there with his mother and Brother. Tony, Alexei's father couldn't come since he had work. The bugger. So Alexei's brother Nik came instead. My dad and the Anns had a great time. Buddy even played Alexei and mine request way back when we first saw them. I got a new band t-shirt from them, which they so kindly signed. Then we were off home. Friday: I woke up really early since I had to drop Betzy off at Pattersons servouse center for an oil change, tune up and tire switch. So I had to drop her off at 7AM and my dad, brother and myself whent on a road trip to Markham. They went and did an audit while I stayed in the car and read. Woo Reading! Then we drove back to Barrie, to which my father dropped my brother and myself off at my moms and then we headed over to my grandmothers on my dad side, which we four went out for Lunch for mothers day/my grandmothers birthday. I thought the lunch was going to be alkward, but it was actualy really nice. After that my mom dropped my brother back to his place and drove me to my dads.  Origanaly,  I was going to head on over to the library to visit some fermilier faces, but since my mom dropped my brother off at his place, to which he disapeared afterwords, my dad was left without anyone to acompanie him on his next odit. So I said I'd come along. So another road trip was had. My dad went in to do the audit and I stayed in the car and read. Good times. Then he dropped me off at Pattersons since my car was all fixed. Then I drove over to the Library and saw Ashely. We agreed to do coffee on Saturday. Then, since Alexei was going to pick me up around 5ish for our boiling for books, I headed out and got changed. Around 5:15 Alexei picked me up, the two of us in our kilts. It was fun, the neibours next door even said we were awesome to go bowling in our kilts. No one told me it was 5 pin. Oh well, I had fun. I won the first game, and Alexei's sister got the second. Tony won over all, and Alexei one the big price draw of 5 dollars. Way to go Alexei. Then we headed over to 'The Five' for the after party thing. I even met up with an old political science teacher, who recognized me, but had no idea who I was. It was also the second time I'd been to a bar/resterond thing. It was alright. Everything was kind of expensive, and I didn't even pay for my first drink (of ginger ale). Then one of Alexei's friends who also works at the dragon boat thing wanted to go to another place for wings. Alexei and I instead went to see Wolverien. It was alright. I'd give it a 4 out of 10. Why? It was entertaining, but nothing speciel. There were alot of plot holes and lame scenes. I know I'm an X-Men fan and would criteque anything wrong, but they just made it too easy. The biggist problem I had, besides the fact that Huge Jackman, as aweome as an actor is, just can't pull off the raw savage that is Wolverien. He made him way to 'loveable'. I know thats what girls want to see and what audiances want to see, but deep down, what made Wolverien Wolverien, was his untameable savage nature. Yes, he had a small soft side that he felt for his love (which was poorly protraid) and he was also loyal to the inosents, never hearting anyone that didn't deserve it, but where was the gruff? Where was the savage? ( Here lies spoilers  ) And Gambit was just kind of thrown in to the mix. He didn't really make much sence in the film, besides just being in the film. Again, this is what happends when producers and writers listen to fans and fanboys/girls instead of listining to what worked/didn't work in past films. Why didn't spiderman 3 work? Same reason this didn't work. Why didn't Batman and Robin work? Same reason this didn't work. Why did The Dark Night and Batman Begins work? They listened to what fans wanted after the failers. Why did 'The Increadible Halk' and 'Iorn Man' work? They listened to what fans wanted after the failers (and I don't mean box office failers, I mean cult follower failures on the comic book films). They threw in stuff to make the audiance happy instead of what would really work. So that's why Wolverien is watchible again, I'll probibly rent it when it comes out on video, or pay 4:25 for a matinie show, but I'll probibly skip seeing it again in theaters, and not pick it up on video. So it gets a 4/10. Saturday: I got up, had a shower and met up with Ashley for our coffee. We spent the better part of Saturday afternoon together. It was awesome. We also cheacked out this small little art exibition down town, and went to Big Johns and went for a walk. Then I dropped her off at her house and had dinner with my Dad and Ann, then headed out to pick up Stephanie to watch Star Trek. The first show we wanted to go to, the 7:20 show was sold out. So we desided to go to the 9:40 show instead. So we had over two hours to kill. I drove to Britts place since she had my Scrubs DVDs and my Christmas Present. She got me another fairy figureen. It's cute. Then, since she had to work on a paper, Stephanie and myself headed to the Bafild mall. What we found there will be covered in the next post...... Current Music: Interior Lulu - Marillion (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, May 11th, 2009
8:06 am	He was better in my Dream... Alright, last night I had one doosy of a dream. This is like a warm up for the collosus of an update I'll have to do later on today when I write out everthing that has happened to me since Thursday. So without firther Ado, my dream! ( Still better than Spiderman 3 ) And thats all I remeber. The End! Current Music: GPS Culture - The Tangent (Comment on this)
Sunday, May 10th, 2009
4:21 pm	Because I'm bord and not quite ready to write out a compete post. You will do thi too, or I will find you....that's no lie.   ( Well that wasted an hour. ) And I'm done here. I now give you this: Current Music: Way out of Here - Porcupine Tree (1 Comment |Comment on this)