Christian needs to have his typing fingers broken

osama is gonna jump out of a cake monday morning, everyone will ooh and aah, and no one will notice dick cheney stuffing the ballot boxes...

You idiot! You half-witted harbinger of doom, wtf did you say that?

Change in Numbers

Just wanted to let you know that my old cell phone number is now
Grae's cell number as of immediately. Grae's old cell phone, if
you've tried it lately, has been cancelled.

If you need to reach me, the house number remains, or by email.

Although, this may be temporary.

Help with happy fun games

I remember playing this game with dice, where the name of the game is important and the answers are all either even numbers or zero. Actually, zero is an even number, too. So, all the answers are even numbers. And the name is important. What was the name again?

Also there was this other game where it's some kinda world or something, and there are (for example) steers but no bulls and queers but no straight guys. I don't think the name was as important for this one, but I'd still like to know what it is, because every game needs a name.

I don't need a refresher on the rules, just the names. I remember how the games go. And also that this one guy was so amazingly awful at one of them that I wanted to hit something, maybe him.

P.S. If you haven't seen this yet, it's pretty cool. Actually, it's pretty cool whether you've seen or not, which makes this use of the conditional quite odd. I think I read a paper about that once. Something about cookies.

weekend update.

so what's the tentative schedule for this weekend? what's happening?

all I know for sure if party saturday at the clubhouse, all night movie marathon afterwards, and breakfast at kat's...

can't remember what other cinemuerte stuff was going on that people were interested in...

just trying to figure out who is doing what. anyone want to volunteer their plans? any non-muerte movies playing saturday or early sunday? any other social food gatherings planned?

I'd like to get some socialising done this weekend... available evening friday through evening sunday.

edit: cinemuerte tickets can be purchased online at http://www.cinemuerte.com... so who is up for a showing of tamala 2010 at midnight friday, for certain? I'm not gonna buy tix for miyuki and me if it's just us, 'cos she'll sleep through it anyway. tickets are $5.50 US online with a $1 service charge... but it's guaranteed seating without the hassle of waiting in line. paul is pussing out, so we won't have our line bitch anyway...

The Horror Of Moving or "How I learned to stop worrying and accept being homeless".

Well it's come down to this...a month of frantic searching for real estate that satisfies my criteria for location, space and non-leakage...a few offers, one acceptance on a spacious 1030sf condo and many horrible strata minutes later...I've decided that this is a sour time of year to shop for real estate in the GVRD. Hence, I've decided to rent in a brand new 1brdm + den suite that is managed by a family friend who has been incredibly hospitable...

Now the reason for last minute panic...my boss, with the F350, has a family emergency out of town and may not be able to offer help this weekend, hence I'm without a truck and down to 2 definites and 1 maybe for assistance. I'm going to try to see what can be rented at the last minute, but I'm not having a good day...so, anyone who'd be willing to contribute a vehicle or a hand with the lifting of 6 big pieces of furniture would definitely make my "people to appreciate" list and be treated to Mo 'n Meez donairs for lunch and sushi or indian food for dinner.

Not to compete with Paul, but I'm in a real panic over this, I don't have far to move and with the right size truck and a few extra people, I don't expect that the move would take more than 1-2 hours.

Duke

The Joy of Moving...

So, I'm moving out of my beloved apartment on Saturday... U-Haul doesn't have any trucks for the weekend, so I'm recruiting vehicles. I have two people bringing cars (Jim and Christian) but if anyone has a truck available (subtle hint here, Owen) between 1 and 3, then I can move the couch and bed. There will be plentiful Hon's provided, along with much gratitude and possibly beer.

Still unspoken for is my couch (which will go into storage if nobody's interested) and my bike. Anybody who wants to partake in the temporary goodness of my discarded possession, speak now.

Sketchy Sunday Breakfast

Not sure how many will be attending the Cinemeurte exploitation night on the 30th but for those of you who are or are availble for breakfast at 7:30 am, me and my room mate Cat will be having people over for breakfast after the movies.

we'll be walking back to my place after the last film so if you're not going to attend the exploitation night you can either meet us at Pacific Cinematheque or i can email you the adress of the appartement and you can stop by sometime after 8. Either way make sure to let me know.

RSVP, we need to know how much food to make and if we'll be able to fit everyone. if you have any requests let us know, feel free to bring food as well.

Sooooo much greeeeeeeeeeeeeease.

Watch me

Yeah that's it except for the disappointment in lack of comments with my last post. Haters of me. Screw you.

Hallowe'en night

So what plans do people have this year for the 31st?

I plan on going to the Sonar for Something Wicked This Way Comes, and with any luck, I'll experience a repeat of last year's win. Anyone looking to come out is more than welcome (provided they cheer their lungs out for me). I'll be heading down fairly early in the night, at approximately 9pm. If it is anything like last year, judging will occur some time around 1am, so plan on staying out late on a school night.

Top prize is $500 this year, with over $1000 in secondary prizes. Hope to see you there.

P.S. My mom will be attending too, and competing against me for best costume.

references required

I've got my job interview next week... would like to put down a couple of canadian references. unfortunately, paul is leaving for his untimely demise, so I don't think I can count on him. is there anyone else willing to provide a professional sounding reference for me, if need be? need to put some phone numbers down for the interviewer to potentially call.

if you'd like to volunteer, let me know on my email... melferburque at gmail.com

not sure who out there is really good at this stuff aside from paul. never really seen anyone else in a professional context. I'm more concerned with the references making a good impression than speaking glowing praise about me anyway...

ART WOW

I'm going to this:

Electra Exhibition Opening Reception
Thursday, October 21, 6-8 PM (that's today!)

at Electra (970 Burrard Street).

"Please join us for a wine and
cheese reception, celebrating the work of artists in
three diverse exhibits as part of the 2004 New Forms
Festival: Digitalis: Ethno Techno: An Exhibition of
Digital Print, First Nations Exhibit, and New Forms
Festival Media Installation. Local and international
artists will be in attendance. Admission is by
donation. For more information and a description of
the artists and their work, please visit
www.newformsfestival.com."

Anyone else interested? Did you hear that there will be local and international artists? In Attendance!!! Fuck yeah!

Den of Sin updates

Hey big change in schedule next week.

One we're back to tuesday on the 26th (and then back to wednesday on Nov. 10) due to Cine-Muerte starting up the next night.

Two no Orca or Jaws: The Revenge. Postponed til maybe December (and then maybe no Jaws since everyone seems to be sick of me purposely programming crap). After watching last week's "Sympathy for Mr Vengeance", to which Graeme and Brendan can attest to, we've decided to program some goodies as in actually good, really good.

Oct 26th
So this upcoming tuesday is a Chan-wook Park (director of "Sympathy for Mr Vengeance". One of my new all time faves) double bill.

7:00pm JSA (Joint Security Area) - A murder in the JSA of North and South Korea. The only witness commits suicide. Promises to be a decent thriller.

9:00pm Oldboy - Won the Grand Prix at this year's Cannes. Supposedly kick ass revenge movie. Can't wait.

Apologies to Owen after I promised tonight we would be watching Orca but, fuck, let's watch some damn good movies for a change (though Mariko's programming choices are usually excellent. Yay for her. Boo to me.)

Also Corrine rules because apparently she needs to hear that I give a shit. She and Graeme should also see I Heart Huckabees because I'm very curious what they BOTH think about it.

To end here are some previews of upcoming films

In december hopefully
http://www.subversivecinema.com/subversivetrailers/battle.mov

And in January (Oh yeah)
http://www.artsmagicdvd.com/trailers/9souls/qtlarge.html
(I love the music in this movie)

I'm such a nerd...

bosox win the pennant! bosox win the pennant!

My advance funeral...

Decided on the Atlantic Trap and Gill, a fun and tasty Newfie bar at Seymour and Davie, on Friday for my going-away festivities. Nothing fancy, just an eat-and-drink-into-total-insensibility thingy. They have a good house Celtic band and the food and beer are pretty cheap.

I'm thinking of getting started between 8 and 9. I'll try to reserve a table.

There'll be good Douglas College and SFU folk there too. C'mon out, it's your last chance to see me alive.

Another Day Procrastinating

I should be writing a paper, but instead I find myself showing off the
cool features blogger has to offer. Have any of you guys tried Hello
or emailing a post?

I'm trying out the emailing post thing right now, but I have used
Hello as the image hosting by using such program is the absolute
bestest for free.

Offerings...

Okay, I've gotten a handle on how much stuff I have to distribute... all this gear is available for the taking for the next 6 months, possibly longer depending on if I die or get another job abroad.

Queen-size bed (Still interested, Owen?)
Couch
Mountain bike (unless I figure out a way to take it with me)
6-foot-tall bookshelf
Coffee table
Three of those weird little stacking coffee tables
2 Ikea cube seats
Wheeled office chair

I also have miscellaneous kitchen stuff and minor crap like board games...

Also there's the big prize, my new TV, to which I may as well attach my dvd player, VCR, and about 120 dvds, only one of which is directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. All for the low, low prize of offering up a few feet of storage space.

Oh, and there's more free stuff. I have two tix to The Glossy Awards from a coworker, but I'm otherwise occupied that night. Anybody wants 'em, they're yours.

GRRLS NIGHT

So,

this is short notice,

but grrls night is on Monday the 18th.

So far the activities include pedicures and baking cookies.

Start time is around 7:00pm

It's a school night for me so lights out at 11:00pm

Please feel free to bring any female friends along;

we'll giggle it up.

peace and love,

Karen

DUBYA GAME!

To help you through those debate evenings if you're so unfortunate to have cable.

Dubya Game

That karma thing again...

Life is occasionally sweet:

Via the Washington Monthly, some good O'Reilly news.

This is getting ridiculous

http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2421595&nav=168XRvNe