ten days, nineteen hours, fourteen minutes and forty-six seconds...

oh. my. god.

I'm never going to get all of the semen cleaned out of my keyboard. I don't need to sleep tonight, either. I'll just watch this over and over and over.

one day, I will marry zach braff.

Woot!

I may actually have a job in Vancouver! Joy!

I'll blog more about it on my own site later. I just had to do my electronic jump for joy somewhere.

UPDATE----------

By the way, I'm also gradding on Wednesday at 2:30 at SFU. Anybody who happens to be up there is welcome to yell lewd things at me and my funny hat.

Damn, everything's coming up Paul this week!

DOXA (revisited)

I'm most likely not going to the doco-fest with movies about scrabble and freestyling tonight as I have way too many other engagements to deal with. Sorry, to anyone who has decided to go with me, but alas....Maybe another time.

Harry Potter

Are we going to make an event of the opening on June 4th? If we all want to get tickets in the same theatre we should organize soon.

Just to let you know next week is also International Environment Week. June 2nd is Clean Air Day. So remember to feel guilty and attempt a pretence of appearing green for at least half the week your grandchildren will thank you.

June Chaos

Well, it looks like there is a trip to Seattle for my birthday on the weekend of June 11-13.

In the one car so far is Graeme, Me and Miyuki.

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Also, there have been some tentative Girls' nights being planned, but since I get back from Seattle on the 13th of June (the next scheduled one), I might not be able to make it (sorry, girls, but it also turns out they snuck an exam in for 10:30am the next morning, too).

The following weekend looks the most promising (the 20th) as some other major tentative plans are in the works for the 27th of June. I'm not saying anything as to not jinx it.

Asian Heritage Month at the D.o.S.

hey kids,

now that asian heritage month is just about over, i figured it was time to program a couple of banana flicks (also in honour of bob & rachel's shindig last weekend).

7pm: The Wedding Banquet [1993] -- Ang Lee's tale of a gay Tawainese yuppie happily living in New York with his boyfriend who decides to enter into a marriage of convenience with a shy Chinese immigrant desperately in need of a green card in order to appease his nagging parents. It seems like the perfect plan, until the 'rentals show up to plan the titular feast. Hilarity and heartache ensues.

9pm: Better Luck Tomorrow [2002] -- A bunch of overachieving Asian American kids go power trippin' with some criminal extra curricular activities. Yes, I know it sounds like an after school special but you know it isn't because you can count all of the Asians on American television (who don't read the news) on my hands. Also caused quite the sensation at Sundance when it premiered.

pop fund, rsvp, blah, blah, blah...

Karen's New Pad Party

Hi.
I've been getting used to my new place for about a month now and I think it's about time to have a party. I love my new place and I'd love to share it with you.
So please come to my party on Sat. 29th. This is one week after Bobu's and Racheru's gathering au banana.

My theme is Primary colors (red, blue or yellow). There may be games involved but nothing demeaning. sorry guys...
All those reading this are invited and requested to bring a friend. Friends are to wear primary colors as well.
BYOwhatev.. around 8pm..
good?
email for info: jkmarque@sfu.ca

damn the man!

sorry folks, but the donnie darko screening at the SIFF is sold out. no tix to be had anywhere. they are planning on showing it in seattle sometime in july as a limited engagement, so maybe everyone can make a road trip down here then instead.

I asked about garden state, and was told there's no speculation it's in danger of selling out anytime soon. so if yous guys want to go see it, I suggest you make up your minds relatively soon and get some tickets. you can buy them here. this applies to everyone but miyuki. she gets free tickets for letting me grope her occassionally. and no, I won't buy anyone else free tickets if they let me grope them.

well, maybe bj.

moobies galore.

okey folks, miyuki is already planning to head down to visit me for the american memorial day long weekend (may 29-31). I'm thinking the rest of you might want to come as well. why? feast your eyes on this!

saturday, may 29, 6:30pm: donnie darko director's cut
saturday, may 29, midnight: a tale of two sisters

and the coup d'etat?

sunday, may 30, 9:30pm: drive in party. 281 minutes of gore! "Like a good zombie, the Drive-in Party is back after a two-year hiatus! The authentic drive-in experience was a lost SIFF tradition, originally resurrected for the 25th anniversary. Put away your lawn chairs and head out to the Valley 6 Outdoor Theatres in Auburn on Sunday, May 30th, for a triple bill of zombie mayhem and one French slasher flick, to be enjoyed in the vehicle of your choice!"

I'm planning to attend the two former movies... if we can get some more people willing to go, I'm thinking the latter would be a kick in the shorts as well. quit you're whining about not having money, that's what credit cards are for. quit bitching about exams or papers, you can always re-take the damn class. how often do you get a triple bill of fucking zombie movies at the drive-in?!

there is ample crash-space at the newly vacuumed Laboratory. come one, come some, and we'll have a jolly good time...

Doco Film Fest (It's called DOXA if I'm not mistaken)

Not too much that I want to see except two flicks on Sat May 29th:

4:30 - Word Wars, Pretty much just a light hearted doco about Scrabble, trailing 4 different competitors on their quest for the 25k in prize-money.

Followed by:

7:30 - Freestyle: The Art of Ryhme A movie tracing the history and cluture of hip-hop freestyling. Featuring appearences by Mos Def, PLanet Asia, Cut Chemist, and the Freestyle Fellowship.

Anyone else interested?

June's Games Night

It will be held on Thursday June 3rd, as the Friday is Harry Potter's release, the Saturday is when my parents are doing something for my birthday and the following weekend is supposed to be my birthday something or other which I haven't planned.

Housewarming

Everyone is cordially invited to Bob and Rachael's housewarming on 7pm Saturday, May 22nd, 2004.
The housewarming is Banana Themed. I have bananas and banana bread but other banana themed food would be welcome such as banana fruit salad, banana sandwiches, banana chips, banana cream pie etc.
Give Bob a call on his cell phone for directions.

lots of love,

R

What I do in my spare time

So, the project I'm modeling for right now has a livejournal! Yay!
It can be found here.

Here is a synopsis by the creator, if anyone is interested in participating:

Of Shadows and Flame is a Photo/Graphic Novel currently in the initial stages of development.

The basic story is about a woman who, overwhelmed by the death of her lover, takes on a sort of super-heroine persona to, eventually,combat her personal shadows. She is granted the ability to enter other people's dreams and make changes...

The novel will be a collaboration between photographers, artists, cartoonists, etc. I intend this to become a venue for introducing and showcasing different writers and artists, as each dream-sequence would need to be produced by different artists.

Interested? Drop me a line at shadows_flame @ geoectomy.net.

A Meta-Review of "Supersize Me"

By Meta-Review, I mean one which pretty much looks through other reviews for what glimmers of truth they may have. This is all because I am too lazy to write a full review of my own. I liked it, but wasn't as sickened as some of the other people I know who have seen it.

"This attention-grabbing stunt is getting the film lots of free press, but it proves nothing that any normal doctor doesn?t already know about the links between bad food and bad health. Forget that this stunt is completely irresponsible; Spurlock is a healthy guy, and he succeeds only in trivializing people with real eating disorders. "

Yes, junk food is bad for you. This is nothing new. If I went on a all-cheese diet for a whole month, I bet my symptoms would be pretty bad too. (Not to mention that this was hardly a rigorous study, what with the sample-size of one.) This particular link also shows one of the strange bits that I found the movie. There was a scene in which an overweight teen is interviewed and talks about how there is so much pressure to be skinny. It seems to downplay the problem of body-image, and seems to suggest that perhaps the shame tactic is permissable, thereby trivializing the problems that overweight kids might have.

"Like several other areas of genuine concern, a maddeningly underdeveloped sequence depicting the deplorable state of our nation's school lunch programs is quickly wiped off the screen to make room for more long segments in which Spurlock prances around in his red-white-and-blue bikini briefs while tugging on his new love handles and whining about his "McStomach-ache."

The movie is funny and engaging. But the real important issues that it tackles are given far less time and concern as the apparent health degeneration of Spurlock, not to mention the scene in which he finds a hair in his sundae (OMG A HAIR!!!! APPALLING! That never happens at restaurants.)

I enjoyed the movie, but found certain aspects of it obvious, and others a little troubling. It's obviously severely biassed, and more than a little narcisistic, but brings up some imprtant issues. It hasn't encouraged me to stop eating fast-food (actually I haven't eaten McD's for some time now) but has persuaded me to get more excercise. (The fact that he wasn't excersizing was given far too little examination.)

In the end he offers very little in the way of solutions, sugggesting that McD's and other restaurants bear a lot of the brunt of responsibility which is really only part of the problem. The conclusion seemed too much diatribe, too little of anything constructive. People should see the movie, and it is a good step in making the world a healthier place, but watch it with a grain of salt.

wilderness adventures revisited

okay, we need to go camping. we need to go camping with alcohol. possibly a keg (funny side note, I've never actually drank from a keg). it has to be a keg of good beer tho.

we need to make some decisions. first of all, who is going? second, where are we going? third, when will we go?

please comment with your weekend availabilities (including possibilities for longish weekends or the three and four day varieties, not necessarily just holidays) between say, now and august. recommendations for locales would be keen as well.

nearby is good, no need to drive three days to sleep on the ground. cheap is gooder, as we're all pretty piss fucking poor.

I won't even mention camping in the states unless there's an overwhelming urge to. easier for me to drive up there...

so?

PacManhattan

Live action PacMan, played on several square blocks in Manhattan. This video made me smile.

It's amazing how difficult it is to translate Pacman into reality. One challenge is allowing pacman to know where all the ghosts are, without the ghosts knowing where pacman is. This requires (apparently) a great deal of technology and organization. Ironically, it seems the amount of data processing required to play pacman in real life (cell-phones and software for player-tracking) far surpasses that required by the original computer game.

PacVan anyone?

P.S. You can play a Flash version of pacman (and several other vintage games) here.

For All You Postal Service Fans out there

Just cuz, I love you all. (Sadly, it requires Real Video)


It appears I have broken the blog. I'm not sure how.

Ugh.

Super Size Me is highly recommended, and really unsettling.

Now I will eat only fresh veggies and cold water fish, for the rest of my life.

Or nothing. Yeah, nothing is good. Nothing forever.

That poor, dumb bastard.

The story of how Stupid Slut Tricks night became the weekly Den of Sin Movie Night.

Mariko used to be evil. A person that would go out of their way to decimate a person's dignity and soul. The best example of this was her weekly Stupid Slut Tricks night where she would troll bars and gather Stupid Sluts to her house with the promise of cocaine and cock. She would then make them perform stupid tricks or stunts and make them snort laundry detergent. While I found this to be drunkenly amusing for the first couple of weeks I quickly sobered to the fact, while burying the bodies in a wet shallow grave in Ladner, that what she was doing was wrong. Well long story short we discovered together the teachings of Jesus, repented our old ways and now every tuesday we watch a double feature of Kick Ass Films instead of murdering drunken sluts while Bauhaus plays loudly. With this in mind I bring the rest of May's Den of Sin Program.

MAY 11
The President's Choice of Star Wars or (In another Galaxy Far, Far Away)

7:00PM - TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR (1983): "This is an extremely rare example of science fiction, Hong Kong style. But, fittingly, it's unlike any sci-fi flick you've ever seen. Alien abductions, suicide pacts, superstardom, and the reality of science fiction itself is spotlighted in this bright, crazy, truly out of this world epic--one of the more unusual movies in the Hong Kong cinema of the early 1980s. And if you know '80s Hong Kong cinema at all, you know that's really saying something!" - HK FLIX

9:00PM - MESSAGE FROM SPACE (1978): Now we all know Fukasaku rules right. His contributions for his Gangster films alone already makes him a King but then he makes "Battle Royale". Hail to the motherfucking King baby. Shortly after "Star Wars" came out Fukasaku decided to make his own sci fi epic(though the Japanese have been making Space Operas years before Lucas' chins got around to it [to be fair he only had one at the time]) and got Sonny Chiba to play a guy named Hans! Special Thank You to the Duke for lending me his copy.

MAY 18
"ARE THESE GUYS RETARDED OR WHAT!?" DOCU NIGHT
7:00PM - JEFFTOWNE (1998): a DOCU about 38 yr old Jeff Towne. He lives with his 96 yr old senile foster mother, drinks beer, watches and draws porn, loves wrestling and has Downs Syndrome. This cheapie doc manages suprisingly not to be exploitive, it just follows Jeff on his daily routine (Drinking, Porn). I guess the lesson here is, "Aren't we all drunken horny retards?". Yes, yes we are.

9:00PM - THE BACKYARD (2002): That's right we're watching a doc about Backyard wrestling. These dudes are fucking harsh. Barb wire, household chemicals, lightbulbs, staple guns HELL YEAH! WWE is a pack of pussies. Hope you enjoy.

Games night TONIGHT

Sorry about the late notice, but nights like these are about having nothing else to do, right?

Tonight there is a games night at the Clubhouse, feel free to bring a board game or a multi-player gmae for the GameCube or PS2 (although, there may be some restrictions on use of technology to ensure something more social than "fuck you!" is occurring--we'll see about the turn out and such).

I know that the website says Saturday but there is no way I can attend as I'm going to Cirque de Soleil.

Try to be here around 7:30-8pm

everyone else is doing it, so why can't I?

I'm not so keen on my draw. and while graeme and corinne have obscure tastes, mine is merely bad. which is, in its own poetic way, obscure...

1. I haven't gone anywhere but out of my body
2. there are still some things that make us all the same. you. me. them.
3. when I was driving once I saw this painted on a bridge: "I don't want the world, I just want your half
4. then we'll get to the fact that it's always my fault, just because you're breaking my heart
5. they think I'm crazy, they don't that I like it here
6. I hear you're looking for someone to love
7. I'll never win a title, and I'll never win the cup, but when it comes to ladies, I've had the best of luck
8. for you I bleed myself dry
9. trudging slowly over wet sand
10. finally I've found that I belong here
11. to forgive but never forget, so the past reappears
12. life is peaceful, in the open air
13. we slip and slide as we fall in love
14. think I'm drunk enough to drive you home now
15. it's that time of year again, I can taste the air
16. you give me so much love that it blows my brains out
17. say after me, 'it's no better to be safe than sorry'
18. formal photographs refuse to mention his tiny feet, that birthmark on her knee
19. 'cause there's no place that I could be without you
20. your ears are full of the language, there’s wisdom there you’re sure

And yet one more:

1) "Babydoll, should I give up…Yeah!"
2) "Do you think you've made the right decision this time?"
3) "Look at all those stars, look at how goddamn the stars are"
4) "It's all syncopated to your hard heart's heartbeat time"
5) "You reached for Heaven at seventeen and caught the clap from some teenage queen"
6) "the only cure for my sorrow: free your soul, don't follow"
7) "Keep sending space monkeys, Nasa's trying to play us. Keep sending em and we'll send back Dr Zaius."
8) "a flash of life like lightning electric blinding blue reminded me of you."
9) "You can't play both sides of the fence 1993 mad kids are gettin tense"
10) "I stay sweet as a nut, sweet like Tropicana, When I hammer in your head splits like banana"
11) "No bra with the blouse it's so necessary No panties and jeans that's so necessary"
12) "building a revolution to heal nations it starts within you"
13) "with fears i see lights that shine like frozen television tears or dying embers of another day"
14) "hey you, Mr. FCC, have you no advice for me?"
15) "I'm a diamond in the rough, and you're lucy in the sky with a cubit Your raps don't do it"
16) "In the kinetic energy of a moving fist lies a birth-machine for a parallel universe"
17) "And if I were the king of all the kids, you'd here me singing in my spit."
18) When the world is too dark, And I need the light inside of me, I’ll walk into a bar, And drink fifteen pints of beer
19) "i’d rather hum or have my soul tattooed to my tongue and let the scriptures be sung in gibberish as words be simple fish in my soulquarium"
20) "we're soaring furious airmen, we're saccharine bedhead, we're mexican wrestlers, we're pacifist gossips."

Per Christian's Demands

1. It died an ugly death by back catalogue.
2. Might as well start my drinking days now if I'm really alone
3. Your father made fetuses with flesh licking ladies while you and your mother were asleep in the trailer park
4. By the way I say your name I always know, and by the way, I always say your name.
5. And our sea sick smiles screaming sweet nausea
6. And that's when we'll explode (and it won't be a pretty sight)
7. They revamped the airport completely now it looks just like a night club
8. And your Mom would stick a fork right into Daddy’s shoulder
9. Note to self : No one cares. Your voice is average.
10. Lack of consequence has got me making decisions based upon truth or dare decision making.
11. If we never meet again it would be too soon.
12. Did I open an old wound?
13. We couldn't help but call it treason
14. We set to sail on a packet full of spice, rum and tea-leaves.
15. While you're counting sheep, I'll count my lucky stars. You were the last good thing I ever saw.
16. It's been a year or two since I was out on the floor shakin' booty, makin' sweet love all the night
17. I'm not the percent you think survives
18. We never will make load in if the Ephedrine don't kick in.
19. With white elephants, sitting ducks I will rise up
20. You sweet talk like a cop, and you know it

Silly things my friends none of you know do:

On your current playlist, hit shuffle and pick the first twenty songs on the list (no matter how cheesy or embarrassing), and write down your favorite line of the song. Try to avoid putting the song title in the line. Then, have your friends comment and see if they know the songs.

#1 Seven years under the bridge like time was standing still.
#2 Your crystal ball ain't so crystal clear.
#3 I can't look without being watched.
#4 Turn off the sun, pull the stars from the sky.
#5 No you can't take that away from me.
#6 Where it's at and where you see, you're making me laugh out.
#7 Nothing or no one will ever make me let you down.
#8 Now that I know what I'm without, you can't just leave me.
#9 Hush little baby, don't say a word.
#10 Johnny wants to think up a joke.
#11 Fancy cars that go very fast, you know they never last.
#12 Experience has made me rich and now they're after me.
#13 You're so sweet you make my mouth water.
#14 Well there'll be music all around you, you should see the way it feels.
#15 I wonder why you choose those others, and you never come to call on me.
#16 I can turn and walk away or I can fire the gun.
#17 What could I say to you except I love you?
#18 Golly jeepers, where'd you get those peepers?
#19 Well off we go to see what we killed and watch the damn thing bleed.
#20 Then tonight we're gonna party like it's 1699.

I skipped the ones in German...I can't write it, I don't expect you to read it, and the instrumentals...

Moobie-related goodness...

Eva and I (and probably Bree and Nick) will be gorging ourselves on Super Size Me on Saturday. Looks like a mid-afternoon show, though flexible. Anybody else interested?

Side notes: Saw Touching the Void, an excellent semi-documentary about two intrepid yet deeply unwise young Brits tackling an Andean peak for which they were woefully unprepared. Completely conventional, yet gripping nonetheless.

Finally saw Spirited Away, confirming me once again to be several years behind the trends (damn, I'm totally indifferent to anime, however good). And Bubba Ho-Tep is finally out on DVD, freeing me from the mummy-like clutches of Christian's incessant mockery.

That is all.

wilderness adventures?

so my birfday is coming up next month, and I'm thinking it would kick ass to go camping for a long weekend at the end of june.

problem with camping, it's only fun when you're getting drunk and pishing in the woods with your friends. so who would be game for a weekend of woodland debauchery? sometime around the weekend of june 25, with either the friday or monday to make a three day weekend?

this ends here.

paul has been quite insistent on deeming me successor to his title of "queen of booze"... I feel he jumped the gun and should be stuck with his hooch bitch status forever. he's been eagerly waiting for anyone to make any sort of ass of themselves to he could spring the title on me. but really, let's discuss this.

paul claims the consensus of the party was that I committed enough attrocities to earn the title. there are two problems with this claim.

a.) the general consensus of the party was in no position to make such a decision. first of all, how many people in saturday's attendance witnessed the pukin' paul incident? fair and accurate comparisons are necessary. plus, there were a lot of REALLY drunk motherfuckers at that party. I don't trust their judgment.

b.) the attrocities committed by your humble narrator could not possibly compare to vomitting the entire contents of one's stomach on such a sacred place as another's bed, site of sleep and sweet sweet lovin'.

did I take certain liberties lifting my toga while drunk and pantsless? yes. were my boxer shorts lacking in proper closure at the fly? yes. did I punch paul in the cack on a BRILLIANT no look jab? yes. did I do my damnedest to scare the crap out of peyvan as a drunken lech? yes. did I just generally act like a total git for much of the night? yes.

however, none of these crimes are even in the same league as depositing several pints worth of disgusting hazmat on a bed. I feel the only possible way to top the pukin' paul incident would be to totally shite oneself on someone else's bed, a la spud from trainspotting. that's really the only thing more vile and disgusting than paul's vomitus.

paul should be punished for his slander. let us all remember the story of the boy who cried wolf, and keep this in mind next time he attempts to excrete his despicable badge of dishunour on another innocent victim. and we should all cockpunch him until he pukes.

please, feel free to discuss. I would LOVE to hear how paul could possibly justify his argument, and wouldn't mind hearing from this "general consensus" that paul claims exists...

I mean REALLY paul, if you wanted to pick on the truly disgusting, why not attack bj and his choice of lawn decoration? personally, I thought that was totally awesome, especially the "edward pussyhands" marker left on top of it. but I guess other people were disturbed by both the fact that bj's puke resembled far too closely its previous life as phad thai, and the fact that every chunk of noodle was EXACTLY the same length (thus leading to bj's admission that he's a robot).

Friend seeking accomodations

Hey all,

My friend Shannon from Campbell River is moving back to the big smoke for a year to do her BEd at UBC and is looking to share accomodations to mitigate the cost of living around here. Anybody looking for a roomie who currently lives on, or is thinking of moving to, one of the major UBC bus routes in Vancouver?

Hey. You like movies?

Hey I'm on time you ungrateful ingrates. As usual we promise more entertainment space battles, drunken retard, Gimli versus Dragons and other good and not so good stuff. There were going to be space boobies this month unfortunately something even sweeter resurfaced in my brain.

MAY 4TH - MYSTERY STORE SCREENERS NIGHT

Today in history a Dutch guy showed up on some island that would later be Manhattan (then New Amsterdam). It's also Bird Day and in observance to those I bring you

7:00pm - DRAGON STORM: Apparently an Ill recieved Sci Fi channel TV Movie. But hey Gimli's in it and they are Dragons. And unlike Reign of Fire we already know it sucks thereby lessening the blow. TROGDOR!!!

9:00pm - DEATHWATCH: It's like Predator but in a WWI no man's land! Or at least that's how it was described to me. looking back this is definetely a program for the brave or for those with low standards (you know who you are).