I gotta say, I'm pretty happy about the outcome of the election, all things considered.
I've a stern look for any of you Canadian types who didn't vote.
Now, to get rid of Dubya.
I spent my lunch hour today looking for a backup guitar. I keep one at the office, and the much-storied Parker is in the shop, and so I want a third-tier...
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I've a stern look for any of you Canadian types who didn't vote.
Now, to get rid of Dubya.
I spent my lunch hour today looking for a backup guitar. I keep one at the office, and the much-storied Parker is in the shop, and so I want a third-tier...
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Well, the surgery went well, the surgeon is really happy with how things went, and my father seems lucid, comfortable, and looks really good. Everything seems promising, and it was a tremendous relief to spend a few days with him and see that he was doing well.
My TO trip was otherwise uneventful. It's amazing how something like this just saps your drive to do...
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My TO trip was otherwise uneventful. It's amazing how something like this just saps your drive to do...
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sixfeetunder:
Hey man - have you seen Fahrenheit 911? I'd be really interested in your spin on it, being both a film cat and, iirc, a republican.
I saw it this afternoon (full confession: I'm firmly on the left and a longtime fan of Moore) and thought it was outstanding.
Sighs
I do want to see it but I don't want to pay for it.. Every cent of that film is a cent to helping that issue swapping leno looking kerry to the whitehouse.. I mean I'm really wanting to see it but gigi will not go and I understand her reasons.. Besides contary to popular belief I'm not a republican.. Independant here with mostly Conservitive viewpoints.. I believe the war in iraq was justified.. I know that the war on terror will go on for years.. People don't remember but W did tell the nation that it would last years.. I believe in republicans on fiscal issues.. I believe in the death penalty.. Why should people who have worked to be rich be taxed more????.. WHAT IS SO BAD ABOUT MAKING MONEY? .. Iiberal???? Equal rights for everyone. ( gay marriage) When W became verbal about how marriage should be between a man and women I have to admit he pissed me off. Oh yeah... I'm pro choice.. I'm against affivemative action.. I understand 40, 30 even 20 years ago but not now.. Get this.. Most people who are against abortions are pro death penalty.. Most who are against the death penalty are pro choice.. So I'm independant.. .. Your from Cananda right?
I saw it this afternoon (full confession: I'm firmly on the left and a longtime fan of Moore) and thought it was outstanding.
Sighs
I do want to see it but I don't want to pay for it.. Every cent of that film is a cent to helping that issue swapping leno looking kerry to the whitehouse.. I mean I'm really wanting to see it but gigi will not go and I understand her reasons.. Besides contary to popular belief I'm not a republican.. Independant here with mostly Conservitive viewpoints.. I believe the war in iraq was justified.. I know that the war on terror will go on for years.. People don't remember but W did tell the nation that it would last years.. I believe in republicans on fiscal issues.. I believe in the death penalty.. Why should people who have worked to be rich be taxed more????.. WHAT IS SO BAD ABOUT MAKING MONEY? .. Iiberal???? Equal rights for everyone. ( gay marriage) When W became verbal about how marriage should be between a man and women I have to admit he pissed me off. Oh yeah... I'm pro choice.. I'm against affivemative action.. I understand 40, 30 even 20 years ago but not now.. Get this.. Most people who are against abortions are pro death penalty.. Most who are against the death penalty are pro choice.. So I'm independant.. .. Your from Cananda right?
tony_burrito:
Wait you like Michael Moore and you are from Canada? Even after Canadian Bacon? 
J/K
Check out my pics, I built a MAME cabinet out of a video poker machine.
J/K
Check out my pics, I built a MAME cabinet out of a video poker machine.
Spam headline du jour: YEP! Ass fucking is a beautiful thing.
Wow - three pages of journal comments yesterday... I've never hit that mark before.
Not much new here. I didn't get to check those arcade cabinets out yesterday (both my friend and I forgot about it until it was too late to head over), but we're going to go tomorrow at lunch. I spent...
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Wow - three pages of journal comments yesterday... I've never hit that mark before.
Not much new here. I didn't get to check those arcade cabinets out yesterday (both my friend and I forgot about it until it was too late to head over), but we're going to go tomorrow at lunch. I spent...
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karismic:
thnaks for the comments on my set! 
best of luck with your dad!
best of luck with your dad!
gigi:
I hope your father's surgery went well!
Argh. Nobody in this city can drive.
I'm convinced that nobody within 100km of here can drive.
Argh.
I got my first piece of snail mail spam yesterday. I don't mean junk mail... I mean something that was addressed to me (ie Mr. _________, although with no first initial. If you want to know how that is pronounced, ask Flux), and the return address...
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I'm convinced that nobody within 100km of here can drive.
Argh.
I got my first piece of snail mail spam yesterday. I don't mean junk mail... I mean something that was addressed to me (ie Mr. _________, although with no first initial. If you want to know how that is pronounced, ask Flux), and the return address...
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akirali:
hey, i can update wheneverI want to! (she's still sleep right now ) Oh yeah and pictures are in place in the journal,
"The geet shall inherit the earth" now that's a bumber sticker!
) Oh yeah and pictures are in place in the journal,
"The geet shall inherit the earth" now that's a bumber sticker!
dragonchylde:
I don't know..I would really have to think on that one..I'm good at a lot of games..but I haven't been able to play lately on account that my ex has my playstation..and hopefully soon he will be sending it to me!
So I'm at Future Shop the other day. I wasn't looking for anything in particular. I'd already scored the new Beastie Boys record first thing in the morning, and I'd just driven a friend up so he could get the new Matt Good (and so I could then make fun of him for getting the new Matt Good, because I'm not a very nice person)....
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deanna:
wellll you dont live in hawaii, its no good...
but thanks for the offer hehehe
but thanks for the offer
hehehe
natalie:
do they sell those shirts!?!?!?!
where?!@?
~Natalie
where?!@?
~Natalie
Check it, yo.
Still thrilled about snagging great Cure tickets. I hope anybody interested in the Toronto show caught my tip about getting the pre-order before tix went on sale to the general public.
I went to see the new Riddick movie on Friday with the cats from work. It looks great, but really raises the bar for dumb and pointless. The narrative is...
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Still thrilled about snagging great Cure tickets. I hope anybody interested in the Toronto show caught my tip about getting the pre-order before tix went on sale to the general public.
I went to see the new Riddick movie on Friday with the cats from work. It looks great, but really raises the bar for dumb and pointless. The narrative is...
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user209834982:
i want to see that movie... but i have no friends and i dont want to go by myself.. 
despairfactor:
Without any exageration... whatso ever!? lol!
I thought that movie looked a little lame.. but.. ah... Vin... I'd go to see it just to hear his voice! Hahaha
I thought that movie looked a little lame.. but.. ah... Vin... I'd go to see it just to hear his voice! Hahaha
IMPORTANT UPDATE: For anybody interested in checking out the Cure's Toronto gig, tickets go on sale at 10am today (Wednesday, June 9th) on Ticketmaster.ca as part of an Edge.ca promotion. It's a free registration to become part of that deal. Ticket sales open to the public on Saturday. Be there, or be elsewhere!!!
I gotta preface this by saying I have no idea what's going...
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_sarah_:
My friends bailed on me, so I'm not going to the Detroit Cure show. 
Hell is other people.
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peggy:
That wasn't an SG set. That was only a mini-set to practice.
What? You didn't like it?
What? You didn't like it?
Okay, kids. I've read that The Cure are going to be throwing down in early August at the Molson Amphitheatre. Ticketmaster doesn't even have the gig listed (only two american dates are even up right now), let alone have tickets available, but rest assured I'll spread the word as soon as I know.
Who's down?
Incidentally, I'm not a cat person, but if I were,...
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Who's down?
Incidentally, I'm not a cat person, but if I were,...
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do11face:
hey superflea!
Just sayin' hello to all my sg friends!! 
Just sayin' hello to all my sg friends!!
dogslife:
Weakest of the three? I can't let that pass.
In the second film characters were saved by means so poorly set up in the preceding narrative that they can rightfully be called deus ex machina. That this happened three times, utterly killing my ability to be at all interested in their welfare ("I wonder what's going to fly in and save them this time?"), means that for me Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is by far the weakest of the three.
I'd knock the first film because, being an introductory chapter to a long and winding saga, it should have glided easily to greatness. I'm not saying it was bad, it certainly had its charm, but it's not something I could watch more than once. All of the interesting things about it were fairly cheap and flashy, attention-grabbing the first time but pointless to revisit.
It wasn't until seeing this latest installment that I realized how hollow the first film really felt. It seemed all of a sudden that the first film was the Epcot Center version of the Harry Potter world, and now here I was in the actual place. The tone, by which I refer to everything from the cinematography to the performances, was nicely understated. Under Columbus' direction, HP's world stumbles from one neato trick to the next--he seems unable to keep the story moving when there's a special effect to be featured. Cuaron, on the other hand, at least as far as I can see in this first kick at the enchanted can, takes the magic in stride: he doesn't share Columbus' fear of dark colours and shadow; and he's got no qualms about letting a frame breathe--Columbus, by contrast, seems to suffer from the same disease (animato clutteritis) that now afflicts George Lucas. In Cuaron's film Hogwarts feels like a drafty, dusty, old castle, not the Disney-ride that Columbus wanted to make it.
In the second film characters were saved by means so poorly set up in the preceding narrative that they can rightfully be called deus ex machina. That this happened three times, utterly killing my ability to be at all interested in their welfare ("I wonder what's going to fly in and save them this time?"), means that for me Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is by far the weakest of the three.
I'd knock the first film because, being an introductory chapter to a long and winding saga, it should have glided easily to greatness. I'm not saying it was bad, it certainly had its charm, but it's not something I could watch more than once. All of the interesting things about it were fairly cheap and flashy, attention-grabbing the first time but pointless to revisit.
It wasn't until seeing this latest installment that I realized how hollow the first film really felt. It seemed all of a sudden that the first film was the Epcot Center version of the Harry Potter world, and now here I was in the actual place. The tone, by which I refer to everything from the cinematography to the performances, was nicely understated. Under Columbus' direction, HP's world stumbles from one neato trick to the next--he seems unable to keep the story moving when there's a special effect to be featured. Cuaron, on the other hand, at least as far as I can see in this first kick at the enchanted can, takes the magic in stride: he doesn't share Columbus' fear of dark colours and shadow; and he's got no qualms about letting a frame breathe--Columbus, by contrast, seems to suffer from the same disease (animato clutteritis) that now afflicts George Lucas. In Cuaron's film Hogwarts feels like a drafty, dusty, old castle, not the Disney-ride that Columbus wanted to make it.
I took the car into Toronto Friday for a friend's wedding. I can't say the experience did much for my theory that driving in Toronto is like some kind of punishment, where lunatics careen by deliberately hoping to hit you. To be fair, the trip in both directions was almost completely uneventful, although their was one total bitch in a white Lexus who seemed positively...
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ginny:
I don't have the contraption yet, but I fear the ipod people. I fear the mini ipod people even more. They're sure to be closer to eye level, and, as a little person, I'm not used to having people look me in the eyes.
I don't like it. Not one bit.
I don't like it. Not one bit.
peggy:
Good point. I shall make it a band around my arm then.
RIP Catherine Wheel. Curse the entire world for not recognizing their unwavering genius!
Where have I been? Oh, you know, outside.
I have been having people stay with me for weeks at a time. I have been to weddings. I have been house hunting. I have been on the phone arguing with insurance companies over the state of my car. I have not been gaming (GM has had to babysit his father as of late). I have been dye-ing my hair.