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cut_copy_paste @ 2008-09-11T20:57:00

2008-09-12T04:18:50Z

So the basement renovations are almost done and Valerie and I will soon be 'moving in' (although we're already there) and treating it as our verruh own pad. As such, we come to need various devices one normally takes for granted.. so we're gonna off and buy some stuff.. but before we do that, I thought we might as well just put the word out to see if anyone has stuff that's usable but lying around not getting any.

We are on the lookout for include things such as
-microwave
-toaster oven
-pans or pots
-general cookware
-baking shiz
-tv stand
-broom

No need to look hard, just let us know if you have something that may be appropriate.

It will all make the kick off party (details pending) that much homier.

The hey who in the what for where why do.

2007-09-07T18:14:16Z

YO.
Hey.
I don't really have my own site anymore, so I guess I can stoop to using lj. Beautiful beautiful lj. ooooh my back.

Anyway. I'm living in London again on a permanent basis. Theoretically that means I'm looking for a job.. we'll see how that goes.

There's a few points I thought I'd let you in on.

if you go to http://www.theatreinlondon.ca/auditions/index_auditions.htm and scroll down to the 8.22 entry.. there's a call for scripts.. mainly 10 minute ones using up to 4 actors that deal with the theme 'the sacred and the wild'. and you have till october 31 to write one.. so why not give it a shot. I intend to see if I can come up with anything interesting.

I went to an audition for Death of a Salesman on Tuesday. That didn't go so well. I tried to learn a monologue that day and impress people with it. not a good idea. at least not for me. The director, whose name I've forgotten, seemed rather outspoken, and he said he "might have a small part" for me. but since I've not heard anything I assume that's a no-go. There's auditions next week for 'the pizza joint' and some coming up for some Western related thing which I will have to get the details for from Carolyn (i saw your name on the death of a salesman audition sheet, btw, i guess you didn't end up turning up). I don't fancy myself much of an actor, but being in a play would keep me from becoming too artistically lazy and maybe meet me some likeminded artsy types

Also some interesting music things happening in London upcoming..

Fri Aug 14 - Spiral Beach Live at the Alex P Keaton. Great fun young band I have had the pleasure of seeing before, and was impressed enough to buy their CD. You don't see me buying CDs often, so you know that's a pretty good endorsement. Also, it's pay what you can.. so.. cool!

The weekend after that is the motherfucking LOLA festival, which is very cool and a bit unprecedented as far as London goes. non-indie music fans might not see the great deal about the constantines, prefuse 73, grizzly bear, final fantasy, beach house, akron/family and a whole bunch more playing in LONDON of all places for FREE. But I for one am extremely stoked. plus the general idea of the fest is way cool. I sorta wish I had a sort of portable recording device so I could go around and do interviews and stuff and make an audio feature for my podcast, because that would be so fun, but I don't really. So it can remain a dream.

The annoying thing about this, is that there is another unprecedented event happening in Toronto on the Saturday evening.. my second favourite band in the world is finally leaving Australia and coming to Toronto to play a gig. (that's Augie March). !!!!!. Except. EXCEPT. that they're opening for some other band that I don't really give a shit about. That's annoying. I mean, how long will they play for? will they just play stuff from their new album that I don't like particularly? Is it gonna be worth missing seeing the constantines and akron/family for FREE and going all the way to TO for? Hrm.

Ok, then you have Caribou playing at Call the Office on Monday, Oct 1. The new Caribou album was sitting as my favourite album of the year for a while, because it's utterly awesome. It's just a joyful thrill. He took the ultra-busy millions of (well-synthesized) instruments technique of previous albums and plopped in some wonderfully listenable melodies and vocals. Damon approves wholeheartedly. So I'm going to be at that show.
Chad VanGaalen, Besnard Lakes and Malajube are also playing at CTO in the next few months. I may see those, if there's nothing better to do.

Then of course there's Toronto. The hub of Canadian culture and commerce and things worth doing. And of course lots of concerts to want to see there. Most especially:
sept 12: Dan Deacon (i rather do love him) w/ Girl Talk (overrated, probably a good party though)
sept 22: Augie March? (see above)
sept 25: Iron and Wine, The Mountain Goats, or Andrew Bird (all at different venues on the same night.. what the flying fuck! I'm probably going to choose mountain goats because i've seen the others before, but iron and wine's new album is flipping awesome, but mountain goats is cheapest and really good opener [bowerbirds])
Oct 8: The National (already have my ticket.. also favourite current band. not gonna miss that. recommend you don't miss it either.)

As for getting to Toronto.. I just got a job there :p so.. it's extremely temporary though. basically standard patient test.. I have to go and pretend there are things wrong with me and see if people taking the test can deal with it properly. it's four separate days in toronto through mid and late sept, which seemed like such a hassle. Except when I found out that two of the days were sept 13th and 24th.. so i'll be able to be around TO for 2 of those concerts and be partially reimbursed for travel (they still think I live in Hamilton and I've been advised that this particular organization is a bit stingy and prolly won't give me more for travelling).
for the national i may try and borrow the van for the evening, or see if anyone else in London is planning on making the trip.

Ok if I had anything else to talk about, I sure as hell don't remember anymore.
And apologies to everyone who doesn't care about underground music and actually read all of that.

geekstuff and theatrestuff

2007-08-16T07:22:13Z

2 orders of business today (meant to post this a couple days or a week ago, but ah ya know)

the first is Nailing the Hammer! yos. As people on facebook and certain others already know, the play i co-created with 2 friends is in the Hamilton Fringe Festival.. it opened last weekend, and there's 3 more shows.. on friday evening, saturday early evening and sunday afternoon. (details at www.productivesmog.com or www.hamiltonfringe.ca) it's almost like it was made for people coming from out of town to check it out :O. Anyway I'd really love it all of you could come out and see it, especially if you missed it the first time around. It's been a lot of work getting this thing going, and I think it's even rather good. Which is to say I'm generally very pleased with how it's turned out. Also the mayor of Hamilton said he thought it should be required viewing! so.. well.. yeah I know he's probably a bit biased, but still.

Anyway, I think my parents may be going up on Sunday and they probably have some free room in the car, but I don't know how much.. but probably at least 2 seats. I know Adam K was thinking of going up on Saturday, but I'm not sure if that's going on or not. Phil has also said he might try to go on Friday.. but that was rather indefinite. So yeah. If someone is for sure coming on Friday that would be awesome, cause then we might be able to keep brian for one extra show.. as he's running sound effects and the guy who was going to replace him is not gonna be there then.. heh.

the second order of business is geek related. I'm gonna be pre-ordering GURPS: Martial Arts from sjgames' online store called warehouse23. I'm so stoked for this book I must preorder it from them as they will ship it first, y'know. Now shipping from them is rather expensive.. so I thought, maybe some of you in the hinterlands or the nearlands of my lj friendslist would like something from w23.. now they don't just sell gurps stuff.. they have most popular systems (dnd, white wolf, though you might wanna hold off buying dnd stuff till 4e is available next year) as well as accessories like dice and plush toys and some pretty cool tshirts (http://warehouse23.com/info/tshirts.html#aaron) as well as like cardgames (munchkin) and board games and all sorts of crazy shit. so if there's anything there you're interested in, lemme know, and you can get it for the price there and no shipping charge. :)

inhabitants of northenden.. hear ye

2007-06-02T18:05:53Z

gurpsing on the june 8-10 weekend?
Saturday afternoon before vdog's party is looking best so far. Please advise further on availabilities.

play and stuff

2007-02-16T08:29:01Z

my parents will have 5 free spaces in their van on friday, so if anyone wants a ride with them and can get down to our end of the city.. they plan to leave at 5:30. if you can make it or whatnot you can call my house at 649-0309.. or try and email me or something and i can let them know on your behalf, but i'm not sure if i'll be able to get to a computer to check mail easily tomorrow.

in the white room

2007-02-14T05:37:59Z

I don't post much here.. not finding things to say etc. whatever.. but I thought my upcoming play/thesis project might be worth mentioning.. so i posted a thing about it on my website.

Check it, son.

happenings and wendings

2006-05-18T01:26:09Z

not much to say, really.. just 2 short points of interest

I and Kevin and Mike, and anyone else who would like, are going to see the film 'Brick' tomorrow night at 7 at Hyland cinema. it looks really cool (brickmovie.net has a nice trailer) so anyone who is interested in capital l fiLm, consider yourself invited. I've been pretty psyched about this movie for a while. Premise in brief - classic film noir in a high school.. I know at least Caleb was quite interested.

Also.. Zees weekend. There is a shindig in effect on Saturday in Waterloo to celebrate Colin's 22nd birthday, and I guess mine too, since it's as close to saturday as his is. As a birthday present from me to you (i swear it's not supposed to work like that) I'm going to be providing shiny white vanny transportation. Air conditioned, comfortable seating, and guaranteed good music is offered. So if you would like a spot in the harpmobile (as currently undecorated as it may be), speak up.
I will be leaving probably around 1:30-2:00 and heading back that night. The intention is that it's going to be more of a bbq deal than a boozing thang.

That is all.

baies sauvages!!! (shock, shock, horror)

2006-04-10T07:44:37Z

Well I'm back in London on a semi permanent basis now (till septemberembero). Still have 2 more exams, but that's not for 2 weeks and i'll only be gone for 3 or 4 days or something.

Northenders: upbraid me with your schedules.

and erm. yeah. hi.

now i need a job. anyone can help in that dept will be honoured with 100 days of gladiatorial games.

which reminds me.. we have a real home theatre system in the basement now.. projector and a screen that takes up most of the wall, 800 dollar speakers and 5.1 surround and whatnot. at least until kevin moves out anyway... just gotta keep him buying sweet stuff so he can never afford to. but yeah. pretty awesome cuz like better picture quality than rainbow and probably relatively just as big (depending on how close you sit =p)

Go to Wikipedia, look up your birth day (minus year), and chose 3 facts, 2 births and a death

Facts!
1535 - French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's two sons (whom Cartier kidnapped during his first voyage).
1604 - The town of Montreal is founded.
1780 - Never-explained complete darkness falls on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 2 pm.

Births!
1925 - Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (d. 1965)
1925 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (d. 1998)

(runners up: Ho Chi Minh, Andre the Giant)

Death!
1536 - Anne Boleyn, queen of Henry VIII of England (executed)

the music meme!

2006-03-06T18:16:43Z

alright.. i just can't resist this one.

So.. pick 3 numbers between 1 and 38075. I'll look at my current winamp playlist (loaded to the max just for this occasion! .. cept i decided to edit the sound effects out.. cause.. that's just silly) and share with you the corresponding songs. Who knows what ye shall find?? (le gaspe)

I won't actually do this probly till laterish tomorrow at the earliest cause of essays and stuff.

shine a light

2006-02-06T22:20:13Z

Livewhatal?

I don't have anything to say really, except there is no cheese in the house and that is grave.

Also, all you London people.. if you like music, go to Call The Office on Friday the 10th to see The Constantines. These guysss are awesome. I have seen them 4 times now (#5 will be the 17th in the Hammer). If you like Rock music. that is music that just unapolagetically goes for the jugular in a rocking fashion, is dark and dirty, intense, wild and on fire.. this is the sweet stuff. About 5 years ago they played with Sanseiru (and i didn't see it. augh!) Now they are one of indie rock's brightest stars, and they originally from Guelph, yo. It's 10 bucks (9 in advance) and all i'm saying is it will be a good show.

For proof of my insanity, you can also look at my top 111 albums of 2005 on my site, if you are at all interested

Northenden!

2005-12-11T00:09:45Z

Alright, this is for those of you who frequent my roleplaying campaign... everyone else can just ignore it if they so choose.

I'm going to be back in London on the 13th. After that, and before I have to go back to Steeltown on the 2nd or so of January, I would love to get in some sessions.. so this is where you let me know when you will be able to play etc. Hopefully in the holidays it will be not too hard to plan out... but then we always play on holidays anyway.

So, yeah. I know all of you have ljs except for phil, so let me know here and let's arrange something.

Bus! ?

2005-12-07T18:28:19Z

finally i have something to report here. and yes it has to do with my other website.. but uh. check out my solo performance from acting in written form over yonder. There's also new radioness, but on a tuesday, or wednesday (i meant to post this last night but forgot to hit the button) that really goes without saying.

I just had about 11 hours of sleep. Delicious.

cut_copy_paste @ 2005-11-22T04:56:00

2005-11-22T09:59:46Z

new radioness abounds

enjoy it while it lasts. cause it will last for a long time.

if i take time to think about the amount of school stuff I have to do (test and essay on thursday, test on monday, essay, paper and other essays the next week), and the amount of time i have to do it given that my evening tomorrow is taken up with auditions, and wednesday through saturday by henry... i would realize that there is probably less time than is required for completion of said things. luckily i don't think about things like that. i just go to sleep. sleeeep.

who else is really looking forward to the end of the term? (the correct answer is everyone)

i would like to draw your attention to the following...

2005-11-15T10:13:24Z

Theatre stuffola

Radioness.

I hope you're happy. Cause I'm pretty fricking happy.

On the life front..
I've been mad busy with stuff so I haven't had time to do anything useful. I did write a retardedly bad essay, though. I will almost have time to breathe this week, which is nice. I need to watch two new episodes of Rome. I need to go shopping for food, but I won't have a chance until Wednesday. I have a beard now for no other reason than that I'm lazy. I got a 3300 dollar cheque from the university. I'm dead dead dead tired. My room's so messy I can't easily walk in it. I haven't showered in several days and I'm wearing exactly what I wore yesterday, including underwear. Yeah, gross. I ate supper tonight at 2am. Can't really complain, though. Things are going pretty good.

i hate memes more than i hate banana bread

2005-11-11T05:38:47Z

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don't speak often, please post a comment with a memory of you and me. It can be anything you want, either good or bad, or possibly illegal.

When you're finished, post these little paragraphs on your journal to see what people remember about you.

I usually avoid memes like the plague but this time I couldn't help it. memories are fun.

A Public Poll

2005-11-09T21:05:32Z

Do you think I should cross-post the posts on my website to my livejournal?

Pros: People will actually read them. Or at least, be more likely to.

Cons: You won't go to my site anymore. I like my site. Also, it will get fewer hits. My site looks way better than lj because i don't have time to learn how themes work. The stuff on my site isn't usually conventional lj-type fare so it would confuse people. It's a little bit more work for me.

Discuss!

Oh, also. On my site I can do whatever I want. For instance, I could have a poll without having to pay some asshole in a tweed suit.

yay! whee! kerplunk!

2005-10-06T13:02:00Z

hear ye, see ye, touch ye, feel ye

I have this feeling that I'm likely to be in London for the weekend. I feel that this should and will amount to a perfect opportunity for a veritable hullabaloo. I'm thinking and feeling and seeing that the hullabaloo will likely loo bas and hullas on friday evening (that's tomorrow "Frank", now learn how to read a calendar before I break your goddamn jaw). So clear your calendars and await further instruction.

last post ever?

2005-09-10T19:41:51Z

I don't intend to use this account at all other than to comment on other people's ljs, so you probably won't want to check here every day. Maybe every other day. But it will still always be the same and you will be disappointed. Maybe apathetic.

Now go to my real website: http://slipstream.brokenuniverse.com