Monday, October 16, 2006

Writing, Africa, and the Edmonton Oilers

This is a picture I took of a ceramic cat and a bowl of my neighbour's tomatoes. Don't they look tasty?
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I was setting the room for the Edmonton Oiler's the other day: I put up the tables, polished the silverware, put on the three layers of tablecloths (the silencer the underlayer and the overlayer) and was just starting to set the tables when Hans walked in the room.

"No butterknives!" he bellowed in his Austrian accent.

"wha, am I doing something wrong?"

"No no, you're fine but those hockey guys. They don't like the little knives. No little forks or spoons either. Two big spoons, two big knives and two big forks. They got big hands theees guys. If you give them little knives they just throw them in the corner."

"That actually happens?"

"Ya of course, everytime. And no coffee either. They're on diets theees guys. And take away the butter too, that's verbotten."

"So do they, like, throw the mugs into the corner too?"

"No, but they complain."

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So yeah, that's one half of my incredibly! exciting! life! The other half you can find out about by reading Streethawk Magazine, or more specifically, articles I write for Streethawk Magazine like my recent review of The Pink Mountaintops concert at the Plaza.

I had an incredible idea the other day. I should go to Africa. Eva just got a job in Ghana, Danny is in Namibia, Munya is in Zimbabwe and Laura and Verashni are in South Africa. In fact, I have more close friends on "the dark continent" than, well anywhere. If I could save up all this winter and just not pay my student loans I could probably afford it. I'm sure there's other, more productive, ways of going there (like volunteer NGO type work) but I don't have the faintest idea about how to do that.

Read Verashni's article on South African Women's Day in The Mail and Guardian.

See Laura's Photos from inside a South African special forces helicopter.

The following picture is a recreation of the jungles of Africa taken in my mother's garden.

Thursday, October 12, 2006

SHOUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT and other thoughts.


If you can find me in this picture you win a prize.

I got really angry at this concert at the large contingent of fucks who stood in front of the stage and refused to dance to the dance music. I also got really freaked out at the cellphone company who had branded the event as some sort of VIP promotion bullshit. Otherwise, I haven't danced that hard since returning home to Vancouver. Holy Fuck were also especially good, if a bit anticlimactic.

I've been to a few shows recently: The DFA, The Pink Mountaintops, TV on the Radio, I've been playing squash and i've also been working... In fact, I almost threw coffee in David Emerson's face yesterday. I mean, how often do you find yourself standing in front of the most hated man in (BC?) politics with with a full pot of fresh coffee. At the last moment the enslaving logic of Capitalism kicked in and I merely set the pot on his table. Like you'd expect, Emerson has the mannerisms of a mafia boss. He was in a working lunch with a bunch of provincial transportation ministers and obviously loves being the big-man in the room. I hate him: my Conservative member of Parliament.

In other news, has anybody else noticed the startling thematic similarities between Brokeback Mountain and Paradise Now. I'm thinking that would make a good blog post but I'm too numb right now from working overtime to do it.

Also, I bought my ticket for Bonny Prince Billy in November. Sometimes I get scared I might die first and then my life would have been in vain.

Streethawkmagazine.com is something a friend of mine started up. It's pretty much the only site to go to for Indie/decent music news and criticism in Vancouver. Go there.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

The New Camera,







My dad has a new camera and it's absolutely ridiculous. These were the results of me fooling around on Thanksgiving. It picks up the smallest detail and is super easy to use.

Monday, October 02, 2006

Flickr is great! Doesn't Iraq just look like so much fun. WIsh i was there now.