Saturday, April 29, 2006

an open letter to Shari's.

I cannot in good conscience support a restaurant whose ownership does not understand how to properly use an apostophe in their logo. I will be spending my diner oriented dollars at Denny's until you rectify this situation. Intelligent Americans can no longer turn a blind eye to this sort of literary laziness. Please think of the children.

P.S. Please tell I.H.O.P. to use periods in their acronym.

[actually emailed via the contact us form at www.sharis.com]

BLIND DEAD

SAM: Peter Jackson must be a total fan of the Blind Dead series 'cause he completely ripped off the look for the Black Riders in Lord of the Rings off that.

B.J.: Really? The Black Riders in the movie was almost exactly how I imagined them when I first read Lord of the Rings.

SAM: Totally ripped off. Have you seen any of the Blind Dead movies?

B.J. (hangs head): No.

Well we're rectifying that this week with the first two Blind Dead movies.

Mon. May 1

7pm Tombs Of The Blind Dead (1971) : IMDB: In the 13th century there existed a legion of evil knights known as the Templars, who quested for eternal life by drinking human blood and committing sacrifices. Executed for their unholy deeds, the Templars bodies were left out for the crows to peck out their eyes. Now, in modern day Portugal, a group of people stumble on the Templars abandoned monastery, reviving their rotting corpses to terrorize the land.

9pm Return Of The Evil Dead (1973) : The evil blind knights awaken during a festival celebrating the 500th anniversary of their defeat at the hands of the villagers. The drunken shouts of partygoers are quickly replaced by screams at the sight of the skeletal zombies and the massacre is on. A group of survivors ? including fireworks ace Jack, his old flame Vivian, the town's crooked mayor, and a few other eventual victims ? all gather in an old church that is quickly surrounded by the saber-swinging ghouls.

Next week if I can find it PHANTASM DOUBLE BILL!

Stanley Cup Canadiens Vs Hurricanes Sunday 4:00

Sunday April 30th Game 5: Montreal @ Carolina


All you hockey lovers and tolerators are invited to watch the game five in the exiting series of the Habs vs. the Canes on the drive.

(Near Cafe Duex Soliel (Check Forum for Addy and Phony) I am house sitting my folk's place for the next few days and they have a big TV)
Come at 3:30 or so. Game Starts 4:00 Probably go to 6:00 or 7:00 depending on if there's overtime or more / other shenanegans.

Bring beer or other game libations or snaques, and cheer on the Habs (or Carolina for some reason).




New X3 footage.

link

Um yeah. Whoever has been cutting the trailers and tv spots for this movie has been doing an amazing job. Even with the only 6 week prep Ratner was given and the fact Ratner was directing it the trailers look great and gave us hope. After watching this...damn it looks cheesy and cheap. What do you think?

Thursday, April 27, 2006

Voyage to the Emerald City

Anybody feel like taking a drive down to Seattle on Saturday? Corinne, Alex and I wanted to visit Christian and Miyuki while stopping in at a few places that are just essential to any Seattle visit...

- Sharis (no apostrophe)
- Sonic Boom
- Scarecrow Video
- Pike Place Market
- International district
- Coffee Messiah
- Fremont Bridge Troll (I think I want to go bouldering on his face)
- COLD STONE!

I think we planned on leaving at 7am and coming back at around 2am...

Comment if you wanna come along!

Monday, April 24, 2006

Rino Ultimo!

No es 80 minutos but only 62 minutos!

Rino Diantonio
Vancouver B.C.
#13568 of 50000
01:02:23

06:14:46/km
10:03:00/mi

Howe & Georgia->
Stanley Park->
Beach Avenue->
Burrard Bridge->
2nd Avenue->
Cambie Bridge->
BC Place (10K)

Next year, Rino beat 29:37 and win grand prize. Southbound bus from Granville and Hornby to BC Place Stadium.

Sunday, April 23, 2006

Back Yard Bash

Thank you all for coming!
That was everything I hoped it would be.
Sun, Hacky Sack,
Swings, Trampoline, Great Food,
Fun Stories
(Trivia was a surprise hit too)
I hope to have more of these noon til Dusk type things this Summer..
Seems like awesome to me..
woohoo and hugs
Jessica Karen

Saturday, April 22, 2006

Variety of Movie Choices!

BIG SMASH, the Music On Film Festival run by Kier-La (Runner of Cinemuerte), is happening this weekend at the Cinematheque til Monday. On Monday they'll be playing 35mm prints of...wait for it...

THE MUPPET MOVIE at 7PM

and Brian De Palma camptacular classic

PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE at 10PM

with PAUL WILLIAMS in attendance.

Myself, I'll be home watching an western, a WWII movie or the first two Blind Dead movies so I guess MOVIE NIGHT is formally cancelled but come by if you not up to anything (though you probably should check out BIG SMASH that night). Hey maybe I'll be watching a movie about a vigilante cop, I don't know.

Friday, April 21, 2006

Ridiculously Inane Post

I've said it before but now we have proof Brendan and Paul are doppelgangers! I just noticed they picked the same background for their blogs!

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Sun Run

Doubt anyone else is doing this, but if you are let me know.

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Waiting for Godot

$23 (I think) for students with ID (that's almost all of you), 7:30pm this Thursday night, Stanley Theatre. Meet up at my place at 6:30pm to head over and buy a block of tickets?

RSVP and I might just buy tickets on my way home from work to save time and possible separation of friends!

kinda last minute

so i just realized that "the Devil and Daniel Johnston" is playing tonight at the cinematheque as part of the Big Smash music on film festival.

i'm not sure if i'll be able to go but i'd like to. it sarts at seven and i'll be climbing in north van before that but if anyone is interested call my cell and let me know cause i've heard good things about it and i'm not sure when it will play again here.

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Sunday, April 16, 2006

Slack Shack Idol

(or, Everyone Vs. Everyone Else's Eardrums)

Friday, April 21st
@ The Slack Shack (address in the forum)
6:30pm - 2:00am

I'll be spinning the new library with new music inspired by motown, DC's block party, purposely forgotten 80's tracks, the films of Tarantino, the rolling stones, cher and, of course, requests from the last month.

Sound courtesy of Bob.

The list will be available here.
New additions will be available here.

Updated THIS EVENING.

All are welcome, bring friends. If you'll be really late, put in a request and give me a time when you want to be scheduled for.

CHARLIE MURPHY has a funnier brother? Say what?

Gonna keep this short 'cause this requires little explanation.

Two stand-up concert classics by Eddie Murphy. Nuff' said.

Mon. Apr. 17

7pm Eddie Murphy: Delirious (1983)

9pm Eddie Murphy: Raw (1987)

This is going to be some raunchy shit. I can't wait.

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

homecoming.

miyuki and I are gonna be up in two weeks, likely heading up friday the 21st... here's what _I_ would like to see happen, we'll see how much is actually possible...

friday night - private karaoke at some gracious host's home? I'm not feeling up to somewhere public...

saturday noon - chineefoo. same bat time, same bat channel.

saturday afternoon - movie maybe? paul wants to see slither, so that's an option... potential housecalls to new homes

saturday night - family time with the in-laws

sunday morning - breakfast in kits? eggs bennies at sunshine diner (I think that's what it's called). visit bean's new place while we're out there.

sunday afternoon already accounted for...


I won't be terribly disappointed if any/all of these requests aren't feasible... it's just how I envision things working out best for us. and we're the ones that matter.

Faith of the Hanson Brothers in the Hillside Thickets

While I strongly encourage you to check out Destroyer tomorrow (which I sadly will be unable to attend), there is a pretty sweet show in Langley on Thursday night as well. Langley? Where's that? I don't know, but if you were to meet me at a surrey skytrain station, I'm sure we could find it by car.

VENUE: 8 Seconds (formerly China Beach)

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY 9PM
You've met these guys at my last karaoke gig - Aidan, Jesse et al.
They'll be mainly covering Faith No More, angel dust era I'd imagine.

THE HANSON BROTHERS 10PM
Two members of NoMeansNo, Victoria punk legends. Hockey meets punk.

DARKEST OF THE HILLSIDE THICKETS 11PM
Local legendary valley rockers with an HP Lovecraft theme.

So there you go, an evening of Angel Dust, Hockey and Cthulu.

Tickets, I'm guessing $10?