a guy at work sent me this today. omg it's funny.

i'm sorry i can't make it bigger.

yes...or no...

taken from voenixrising:

1. You can ONLY answer Yes or No.

2. You are NOT ALLOWED to explain ANYTHING unless someone messages or comments you and asks—and believe me, the temptation to explain some of these will be overwhelming nothing is exactly as it seems.

Now, here’s what you’re supposed to do: Copy and paste this into your notes, delete my answers, type in your answers and tag as many of your friends as you’d like to. Or not.

Kissed any one of your Facebook/Myspace/Twitter friends? yes

Been arrested? no

Kissed someone you didn’t like? yes

Slept in until 5 PM? no

Fallen asleep at work/school? yes

Held a snake? yes

Ran a red light? yes

Been suspended from school? no

Experienced love at first sight? no

Totaled your car in an accident? no

Been fired from a job? yes

Fired somebody? yes

Sang karaoke? yes

Pointed a gun at someone? no

Done something you told yourself you wouldn’t? yes

Laughed until something you were drinking came out your nose? yes

Caught a snowflake on your tongue? yes

Kissed in the rain? yes

Had a close brush with death (your own)? yes

Seen someone die? no

Played spin-the-bottle? yes

Sang in the shower? yes

Smoked a cigar? yes

Sat on a rooftop? yes

Smuggled something into another country? yes

Been pushed into a pool with all your clothes? no

Broken a bone? yes

Skipped school? yes

Eaten a bug? yes

Sleepwalked? no

Walked a moonlit beach? yes

Rode a motorcycle? yes

Dumped someone? yes

Forgotten your anniversary? yes

Lied to avoid a ticket? no

Ridden on a helicopter? yes

Shaved your head? no

Blacked out from drinking? yes

Played a prank on someone? yes

Hit a home run? no

Felt like killing someone? yes

Cross-dressed? yes

Been falling-down drunk? yes

Made your girlfriend/boyfriend cry? yes

Eaten snake? no

Marched/Protested? yes

Had Mexican jumping beans for pets? yes

Puked on amusement ride? yes

Seriously & intentionally boycotted something? yes

Been in a band? no

Knitted? no

Been on TV? yes

Shot a gun? no

Skinny-dipped? yes

Gave someone stitches? no

Eaten a whole habeñero pepper? no

Ridden a surfboard? no

Drank straight from a liquor bottle? yes

Had surgery? no

Streaked? no

Taken by ambulance to hospital? no

Passed out when not drinking? yes

Peed on a bush? yes

Donated Blood? no

Grabbed an electric fence? no

Eaten alligator meat? yes

Eaten cheesecake? yes

Eaten your kids/siblings Halloween candy? yes

Peed your pants in public? no

Snuck into a movie without paying? no

Written graffiti? no

Still love someone you shouldn’t? no

Think about the future? yes

Been in handcuffs? no

Believe in love? yes

Sleep on a certain side of the bed? yes

sign fail

took this a couple months ago on spadina ave here in toronto:

busy few days!

it all started thursday night when the kid (h) and her bf invited us to dinner jamie kennedy's weekly eat local dinner. sadly my bf was occupado out of town so i took second runner up joseph instead. the food was amazing! for starters jk is a great chef when he pays attention and the ingredients provided by stoddart farm were exceptional. you know it's good lamb when i like it because i usually hate lamb.

the stoddart farm is run the same way at that farm from the omnivore's dilemma book that i read a while back. it was very cool to have the farmer there and his love for his products came across in spades. also there was the rep for stratus wines who was very charming/nervous. he also has his own wine but he only makes riesling. which is weird as i've never met anyone who just made one kind of wine. he gets different grapes from different vineyards and makes it a special local brand (ie farm A riesling, farm B riesling) so you can taste the difference in the grapes. neat concept.

friday night i was off to the opera with some friends. or at least i thought i was. turns out it was the ballet (ugh). not only that but it was a modern ballet interpretation of the opera carmen. i was totally lost at first with all the poetry and underwater imagery until someone pointed out that was just the opening act and not the main event. gotta say the main part was good....i guess...some of the little ballerinas were a little out of sync and it's hard to picture a stick figure ballerina as a wanton gypsy woman but whatever. there was a little drag number that was hysterical and the guys were way more femmy than the girls...in a good way. it was very well done.

saturday was so gorgeous that i went for patio lunch with friends then a nice little bikeride along the lake and up into the west end. then home for dinner. bf made ribs (yum) and joseph came too so we could play xmen on the xbox....til almost 1am....oy was i tired!

sunday was a totally waste of a nice day. stupid me stayed in and did laundry and warcrafted all day. stupid because it was no nice out!

so lessons learned: sustainable farming is a good thing, you can make great ribs in the oven, ballet is ok in small doses, the lakeshore is great for biking, warcraft is for nights and rainy days!

first bike ride of the year

beautiful day out so i hopped on my bike and went for a great ride. found a couple of nice new (to me anyway) neighborhoods where all the good people of the world have been mowing and planting and washing their cars. i really love toronto: the sights, the smells (bbq's yum...buses..cough). so my legs are sore, my ass is kinda sore but it was a nice ride.

tonight the bf and i are actually spending the night in relaxing for a change. yay!

my digital life is a mess

i need help. i have the worst organized itunes on the planet, my digital pics are stored in folders because i can't figure out iphoto (not to mention the several hundred that languish on my camera) so i can never find the one i'm looking for, my hard drive got full again so i had to move stuff onto external storage but now that's almost full. every time i think about sitting down and getting it all cleaned up i'm overwhelmed and play warcraft instead.

can you hire a digital cleaning lady?

maybe i should take one of those iphoto lessons at the mac store......

this actually helps it all make sense

stolen from voenixrising

No, Muslims don’t believe that Jesus was the messiah.

Think of it like a movie. The Torah is the first one, and the New Testament is the sequel. Then the Qu’ran comes out and it retcons the last one like it never happened. There’s still Jesus, but he’s not the main character anymore, and the messiah hasn’t shown up yet.

Jews like the first movie but ignore the sequels. Christians think you need to watch the first two, but the third one doesn’t count. Muslims think the third flick was the best, and Mormons liked the second one so much they started writing fan faction that doesn’t fit with ANY of the series canon.

new books and the rss feed...

so apparently when i add books to my list of books i've read it doesn't show up as an update.

poo.

so to solve this...i read a book. there...now it will show an update.

stupid tubes....

wolverine was.......ok

so just saw wolverine, which i'd really been looking forward to, and gotta say it was .......ok. not great. not bad. just ok.

some thoughts:
- why do they always feel the need to screw with the timeline? there's lots of material, you don't need to recreate the story again
- the fx were kinda bad in some places. for instance, in the "bathroom destroyed" scene the claws aren't really attached to his hands, prof x's face is so cgi'd that it floats above his skin and the kids running to the helicopter are running above the ground. and that's just a few
- the final deadpool guy was a bit....ridic.
- hugh jackman is hot. nuf said
- liev shreiber might be hot but the most we see of his new bod is his fingernails

all in all the action scenes were good. script needed some work and some attention to the actual backstory would have been nice.

so see it....but i give it a 7.

omg too freaking funny no to post

stole this from fark. wow.

big trouble

so i got in trouble over xmas for never mentioning the kid on my blog. yes my bf has a daughter who came to live with us in 2007 and recently moved out on her own and just announced that her bf is moving in. my god i'm getting old.

henceforth she shall be know as H (more on her at a later date).

it's funny because i actually thought i was doing her a favour by keeping family stuff off of here. i thought i was respecting her privacy. i mean would you want your parent talking about you online?!

it turns out for gen y this is not the case. in fact it turns out i was disrespecting her.

which then got me to thinking about 'the kids' and how they really do approach tech/web stuff way differently than us x'ers do. i mean i like to think i'm a tech savvy kind of guy, maybe a little slow on the adoption of stuff i don't really use (like this sage rss reader which i'm now obsessed with.....5 years later...) but i get how to use stuff. maybe it's just that i don't feel the need to put my whole life on the tubes.

i mean i got onto facebook late in life and there is no way i'd link it to here or put up pics of me on some drunken rampage (not pretty btw). i mean people i work with see it (they read this too) but also clients of my firm can easily find it and i know i don't want them seeing the stuff i put on here!

i've talked to friends who've had to have little 'talks' with their staff about the contents of the facebook pages. their theory being if you want to post pics of your junk maybe you should create a page under a nom de porn and not link it to your work email.

so where is the privacy boundary for gen y? i actually don't think they have one. the public vs private got lost somewhere between email and web2.0 and now everything is just public. i thought maybe once they had finished school, got jobs, relationships that things would change but if it did it was too small a change for me to notice.

maybe that's the problem though, i'm looking for a line and it's more like a blur on the horizon.

best commercial ever

found this from eric. brilliant.

been a while since i was here

as you know if you've been following my tweets, my computer (slash the work computer that i have claimed as my own) was mortally wounded at a work event a few weeks ago. the data recovery people are waiting for parts (dear fujitsu...ship them already!) before they can restore my data.

gotta say it's really sucked. i mean my ipod touch is great but you can't browse or post in any serious way from it. sorry apple, i love you but the typing isn't up to snuff. good for emergencies but not for lengthy missives.

the real tragedy in all this is my lich king expansion pack for warcraft is just sitting there in the box. i mean i was actually on time, pre-ordered, organized (which i never am by nature) and this is what i get. argh.

i may have to start posting from work. shh.

for madhouse6

aka kyle

me through the ages.

yes i used to have long flowing locks and a much smaller waistline.

but then didn't we all!

to cb re starbucks

i know, they are a giant evil empire that is taking over the world. but in my defence they are the only ones in canada that make unsweetened american style iced tea. which i love. as great as tim horton's is they only have the bottled stuff which is just uncarbonated pop as far as i'm concerned and only to be drank when no other alternative is available.

plus my s'bucks near my office has the best team of any i've been to and they are all very nice and know my drink by heart and often have it ready before i've even ordered.

love that.

makes me feel important.

yes that's sad.

broken rule

i confess i broke one of my own life rules this weekend. i abandoned a book. i had started reading christians and pagans by robin lane fox but i just couldn't do it. i kept reading the same pages over and over and nothing was sticking (not that much ever does but it was even less than usual).

so i started reading confessor which is the final (please god) in a series that has been going for over a decade. this is book 13. give me a break. if you stopped repeating everything 8 times we'd have been done at book 6! gah! (sorry..personal rant to terry goodkind).

i will say these are very good books. the story is complicated, more so than the usual fantasy stuff, and the characters are very well developed and flawed, which i like.

i heard they were making a movie of this series but i can't find any info that it's going ahead. not sure that i want it to actually.

maybe someday when i'm ready for a heavy book i'll return to the abandoned one. but next i'm going to read the golden compass novels. i'm hoping they are better than the movie which at least had an interesting concept.

been offline a lot

totally missing my laptop. and by 'my' i mean the one that belongs to work but i drag home every day. sadly though when work needs it i have to surrender it. not good. it's amazing how often i reach for it and it's not there and then i get sad. i mean i totally needed to look up that obscure 'actor' on imdb but i couldn't!

le sigh.

not to mention the several months it's been since i played warcraft. according to the patch i downloaded last week they've changed the whole world! plus i have to respec all my alts and i really hate that. it takes hours. wow i'm such a geek.

but icky winter is coming and there will be more time for cocooning and warcrafting.

the bronx bitch

so it's the bronx bitch's birthday today. for those of you who don't know, the bb is my least favourite/most hated starbucks barista ever. hate her. i won't even get in her line. she's a nasty little piece of work with a weird bronx accent even though she lives/works in toronto.

i'd always assumed she'd been hatched or puked up like that half man thing in one of the poltergeist movies. but no. she was apparently "birthed".

i only found this out because while i was waiting for my usual iced-venti-unsweetened-light-ice-black-tea this afternoon the rest of the staff threw a lei and hat on her and sang happy birthday.

i managed to block out her name so there's no fear of her becoming more personalized in my mind. she is and always will be the bronx bitch.

happy birthday bitch.

really really good day....

got up...way too f'ing early for my tastes but that's what happens when you are surrounded by nature i guess. made the bf breakfast in bed (he's still reeling) so we could watch some murder she wrote (he's a huge fan. hates it when i spoil it).

before lunch we went to vicki's veggie's. very very cool. they had an heirloom tomato tasting today...over 50 kinds! it was awesome. yes i'm a huge foodie fag. fuck off.

came back and make an awesome tomato salad with onion and pepato cheese (like parmesan kinda but has pepper corns in it) with some toasted baguette. pics of my food porn (for daniel) will be available probably tomorrow.

spent the afternoon drinking veuve in a hammock with a good book. honestly, there is nothing more decadent or more satisfying. i could have died a happy man.

dinner was roasted fingerling potatoes (from vicki) done w garlic and butter, some more tomatos and bbq'd steak. haven't quite got the charcoal thing down yet so the steak was over cooked.

should have used my meat probe.

hehe....meat

hehe....probe...

anyway. awesome day.

and now....more jessica! who dun it now?!

later bitches!

you can tell i'm on vacation when....

when i spam my own blog with posts i've been saving up. but i'm sitting here at la cottage ghetto with really nothing to do. plus i brought hard books and my brain just isn't up to it today. so i'm catching up on all the stuff i've missed lately due to working too hard and trying to watch many hours of pvr.

hm...we had olympics. who knew.

so i'm sitting here reading blogs, posting crap, and thinking it's way too nice out to be doing this but i can't seem to get up the energy to walk to the lake. LOL!

we are going to go to vickie's veggies (can't make this shit up) for some lunch provisions. maybe hit the cheese factory.

later bitches!

manga mania....or how i came to look like moby

so my friend joseph suggested that i do this 'make yourself a manga head' thing. so fine. i was bored one night and did it. what ever.

but now i find it's everywhere! the whole world made a manga head!

the real tragedy is that i apparently look like a manga moby. i did think the hat helped though.














i did try to link to faceyourmanga.com but apparently the few people remaining on the planet who hadn't done this before are all doing it now and the site is overwhelmed.

me and the hipitty hop

anyone who knows me knows i'm not really into hip hop. actually even if you don't know me you could probably guess. i like the odd song that makes it to the radio but frankly find most of it just shit.

my friend stephen loves this stuff and is always trying to convince me it's good. sorry steve-o.

but i did come across this blog on strangerelationships who is a friend of cb's who i read all the time (when i have time). this illdoctrine guy is cool. love his style and frankly he seems a lot smarter than most people who seem to comment on this stuff. i especially like his rant on the 'no homo' thing (which i'd never heard of) and his whole stand on us gays in general.

enjoy.

gang rape on a wednesday afternoon....

it started off as just a regular day. i was off sick from work but feeling better so i decided to do a couple of errands before once again taking to the couch. little did i know.

well actually i had an inkling. i mean it's not like it was the first time.

the scene of the crime was a mr. lube in my neighborhood.

i got my oil changed.

now, this might not seem to you like an actual raping but i drove out of there thinking "wow....what the fuck just happened!?".

they always advertise those $30 oil changes but i'd love to meet the guy that actually got one. i pull in and of course they are all busy but i do get a free paper (that's how they lull you).

DING! ROUND ONE! says the carnival barker...let's start with one of the smaller ones!

i'm asked to decide what kind of oil i want, filter, blah blah blah. i go with the ones recommended by honda. doesn't hurt all that bad.

DING! ROUND TWO! the barker is looking a bit more excited as he calls for another participant.

i need new air filters apparently. 3 of them. who knew there were air filters in my glove box!? i feign indifference and pretend like i know what they are talking about. i mean the old ones do look filthy.....

DING! ROUND THREE! ok boys....lets get some size into this one! the barker is practically sweating with glee and anticipation.

things have been going well....they are yelling shit...i'm ignoring them....uh oh. here they come. oh fuck this is going to hurt.

my injectors are dirty.

fuck.

i don't even know what an injector is. does it need to be clean? do they wear out? are they even located in my engine?!

i drive my car. i take care of it. i put in the expensive gas cuz the manual said i had to. i get the oil changed before they car tells me it needs it. i try and pay attention. but let's face it...i don't have a fucking clue. i don't know where shit is, i don't know what it does. injectors? what the hell!?

great. so sure. let's clean 'em. i mean i've resisted the dripless oil rustproofing (sorry guy but i'm leasing and i don't care so back off!) but injectors sound serious.

fuck.

this all leads to me sitting in the mr. lube parking lot with my engine at 2000rpm for almost half an hour while some tube drips into my engine hoping to god this isn't some sort of punk'd stunt and fucking ashton kutcher isn't going to jump out and bust me.

DING! FINAL ROUND! the barker looks around...weighing/measuring his options...hey you! yeah you in the back...bring that big one up here and take a turn.....

$477. that's how much my "oil change" cost me.

now tell me that isn't rape! tell me that isn't a crime!

if i ever win the lottery i'm going to open a garage, overpay the staff and only service ignant folks like me who don't know what the hell an injector does.

oh, for a little "tip" i got a bottle of brake fluid.

what the hell am i supposed to do with that?! he looked all happy and furtive when he handed it over but i'm left wondering...do my brakes leak? am i near death? will i die in a huge pile up ball of fire if i don't check the brake fluid constantly and top it up from my little bottle?! where do i check the damn brake fluid? left out that little bit didn't ya you bastard!

i left just thankful i still felt like a man. well as much as i ever do.

the barker looks at the camera, raises one eyebrow into an evil leer and yells NEXT!

last night at a ball game

was invited to see the jays vs oakland last night (we were losing 3-0 when i left in the 4th) and i was wondering something while we were all standing at attention for the national anthems...do most americans realize their anthem ends in a question? it's so easy to miss with that last bit about "land of the free and home of the brave" especially since, when done right (not a la roseanne) the notes hit you hard and are so inspiring.

but do people realize that it's "does that star spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and home of the brave?".

just something i was thinking about.

worst movie....ever!

wow. this is what i get for staying up too late. bloodrayne is brutal! how the hell did they get ben kingsley to be in this?! don't even get me started on all the bad wigs. i mean billy zane is a good looking guy...just leave him bald! and why is meatloaf prancing around like some aged lestat? oi. bad acting...worse accents...the big question is why am i still watching it!

the long weekend so far....

worked all day yesterday (office closed for long weekend) which isn't so bad. i'm working today too which isn't great but i rarely have to work on weekends and it's year end so it's not so bad. what pisses me off is that it's shaping up to be the nicest weekend we've had in months and i would so rather be on the beach. but whatever. there will be other weekends.

today on the subway i sat down and at my feet was some chicks vomit covered tank top left over from what i can only assume was a rockin friday night. ew.

got off to get a haircut and a bunch of caribana girls got on in costume. it was hysterical! like the subway was being stormed by very large tropical birds.

i love this city.

to everyone at caribana....rock on! but let's hope for a violence free weekend ok?

wow...been a little absent!

been so freaking busy w work and life and summer and shit that i haven't been on in ages. haven't actually been on anything....haven't read blogs...posted stuff...played warcraft...you know...the stuff i used to do every day.

hopefully life will calm down soon but here's a brief recap of the last month or so:

-went to the beach
-toronto set a new record for rain. yay
-ran into the firefit contest
-beat younger ridiculously early rising coworker to the office multiple times and he's 24!
-saw batman - it rocked!
-got ping.fm and sorta tried to keep twittering even though i don't get updates on my bberry
-worked way way way too much
-good bike rides around the city
-put pics on flickr
-saw roger federer play tennis and lose
-felt bad that rubright got hit by lightening
-wondered if cb had lost a bunch o pounds or if it was just a weird/good camera angle
-had a great weekend w my sister and her husband and kids
-ate too much
-probably drank too much
-didn't go the gym
-watched way too much family guy
-ate good tacos made by daniel's new bf (so cute and he cooks!)
-played some xbox (xmen...so fun)
-watched a ton of stuff on my pvr

ok. so there you go. probably did more but can't remember. and now..onto year end at work! pray for me.


ciao!

pride day

actually had a good day. went and had lunch w the bf and then hooked up w daniel. bf went to the parade but i wandered the street and then hit the beer garden. i avoid the parade at all costs...have issues with big crowds. beer garden was good though. ran into some folks...managed to hold onto a table for hours....good times...in spite of the seriously watered down vodka (wish i could drink beer).

after the parade the bf and i went to a friend's place near la village for a bbq. it was great! sat outside, eating grilled meat with good wine and nice people.

all in all i'd say it was a good day.

happy pride all!

i'm a terrible photographer

but i think this turned out ok.


















jasper was awesome. always good to go somewhere where the incredible size and beauty of canada slaps you across the face. fuck i love this country.

wasted days

wow. so i did nothing today. i mean really nothing. i've sat on the couch all day watching tv. didn't even play warcraft (which at least i can pretend is productive). i did load some pics onto flickr (woo hoo) and cleaned out my camera. but other than that....

does anyone else do this? i mean it was nice out...could have gone for a bike ride...planted some stuff on my balcony...hell even gone to starbucks and sat there for a while.

but no.

i just sat.

i can't take it anymore

will someone please kill the new kids on the block.

please.

their new song is on every station and the video is crap.

make it stop!!!

my pics are overwhelming me

i have a huge backlog of pics to post to flickr and i just can't make myself do it. problem 1 is i'm a huge procrastinator. huge. problem 2 is i don't like the interface i have to use with my new camera. my old fuji showed up basically as an external hard drive on my computer. my new canon makes me use this stupid software that i don't want and dumb iphoto puts the pics god knows where (i prefer to file them myself thank you very much). but i gotta do it. maybe tonight. probably not but at least i recognize i have a problem.

that's the first step right?

heading home to toronto

so today we're leaving first thing (as soon as we eat breakfast) and driving to calgary. cool thing (maybe literally) is we're going to drive the glacier highway (i'm sure it has a real name but whatever) where it apparently often snows. even in june.

then flight from calgary to toronto.

good times.

weekend in jasper

the bf had to come to jasper to give a speech so i tagged along (points ticket+free hotel room=good deal). we drove from edmonton thursday morning and it was a beautiful sunny drive along the yellowhead highway.

the second we got to jasper it started to rain and hasn't stopped since.

gotta say though it is insanely beautiful here. the jasper lodge is, in my mind, unusual for a fairmont property in it's level of casualness, although you have to dress up for dinner in the nice restaurant. we have a little suite in a cabin that has 4 rooms in it but we got the one facing the lake, which is gorgeous.

we saw some big horn sheep and mountain goats on our way into the park and there were deer grazing outside the main door of the hotel the other day. i'm hoping to see more on the drive out (no i'm not going hiking in the rain to find an elk).

we're driving to calgary tomorrow through the glaciers so that should be cool.

and now i might have a mid morning nap.

my new tattoo

got my tattoo yesterday and i love it! yes it might be a bit bigger than i had planned but i think it worked out ok. it looks kinda twisted in this pic because of the angle i had to turn my arm to but it's basically a circle on my inner wrist (duh).

not many people have seen it yet but everyone asks what it means. well that'll come later.

14 films. i'm done!

so my final film of the festival was a priscilla drag and sing along. i love this movie, as pretty much everyone should, and i did have a wig bought but sadly nobody in the audience dressed up. well, 8 people in the whole theatre did but we'd abandoned our plan. but it was fun singing along to the songs.

gotta say though that as much fun as the festival was, i'm glad it's over!

saturday, so close to the end

movie 13: lez be friends was sort of a sitcom set in 1969 just after the stonewall riots. apparently it was made by a gay man with 3 lesbian sisters (apparently it's in the water) but i actually found it to be fairly hateful. so i'm not gonna recommend it. at all.

sorry.

friday night...only 3 more films to go

razzle dazzle: a journey into dance was hysterical! an australian mockumentary about the rather disturbing world of preteen dance competitions.

very very funny.

and the reviews just keep coming...

thursday i saw saturn in opposition, also known as film 11, which was an italian film about a group of friends and how they cope when one of them dies. refreshingly the guy didn't die of aids. for once. the result was pretty much the same though. picture longtime companion, in italian, with an aneurism instead of aids, and subtitled. it was good except that i apparently hadn't read the description very closely and took a friend promising that it'd be a hot italian studfest.

then people started crying.

sigh.

wednesday...film 10...aka dear god i'm tired

so last night was one of the "big films" of the festival, as in made by hollywood, full of hollywood people. it got kind of ridic when in every scene there was some new star walking into the shot. the film was the walker starring, among others, woody harrelson, lauren bacall, lily tomlin, ned beatty, willem dafoe and kristin scott thomas....the list goes on.

it was a good movie and i have to say that woody did a good job and that bacall is awesome (and gorgeous in a never been under the knife kinda way) but it was sort of out of step with the time i thought. it struck me about half way through that it'd be really good if it was set in the 50's or 60's, but daniel tells me that i'm wrong (not unusual) so maybe i'm just not all that connected to southern usa culture (not surprisingly since the "southest" i've been is disneyland in florida, which you could argue isn't even on the same planet let alone representative of the south).

i'd still say you should rent it. but don't buy it or pay full price as it's not exactly a "bigscreen" kinda flick. totally ok on a tv..even mine..which isn't flat or high def or connected to external speakers (yeah i get in trouble for that a lot too, not from daniel though since he doesn't have tv).

tonight should be a challenge as i have a work event from 6 to 9 then a film from 10 to 12. even i'm feeling like i need to go for a walk, or a massage...hm....

tuesday...film 9

this might have been my favourite film so far. newcastle is a surfing drama that might just be the most beautifully filmed movie i've ever seen. about a third in you actually forget that the guys are really hot (and they really are in an 18 year old lots of abs and bleached out hair kinda way) you kinda get mesmerized by the cinematography. the way they follow the surfer along the wave until it flows over the camera so you can see it barreling through the ocean is hypnotic.

if you can find this on dvd somewhere please watch it.

click here to see the trailer

my back is killing me!

apparently 8 films in 4 days in those little seats is more than i can take.

monday...films 7 and 8

thanks to the long weekend (thank you queen victoria) monday was a holiday so there was room for 2 films.

first up was 20,13, a portuguese war film set in mozambique during their civil war. it was good but we were still trying to figure out what happened well after we left the theatre, which i don't think is a good sign.

while still railing against the first film i went to see you belong to me. it was a really funny gay kinda horror flick. the woman who plays the landlady was awesome, as was the mandatory best female friend/ex -roommate.