me

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 05:16:52 GMT

what's the deal with puppets? And Canadian literature section of the library?

thought of the day

Fri, 19 May 2006 16:38:09 GMT

the distance between country music and elton john is not so great. it's all about the context.

happy together

Sun, 19 Mar 2006 06:21:52 GMT

how have i not seen this before??? 2 gay guys in buenos aires, and wong kar wai
not as beautiful as i anticipated, because it is mostly filmed in those washed out colors
but there are 2 breathtakingly beautiful scenes, like so beautiful that i actually wanted to cry

1. when Leslie Cheung leans on Tony Leung in the back of a cab as the city lights of Buenos Aires go by behind them and a tango is playing. That scene could have gone on for minutes, hours as far as I am concerned. It's that scene from the cover.

2. When they practice tango in a large white kitchen, still washed out, but so cool

Isn't it strange...

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:36:41 GMT

how the thoughts in your head seem such a mess as they keep bouncing off the inside of your skull, but as soon as you are able to speak them out loud they surprise you by coming out coherent, fairly eloquent, and surprisingly meaningful. Man, I turn myself on with these profound conclusions. :)

neo - italian neorealism

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:35:15 GMT

if you are a famous director doing a pseudo italian neorealist movie, why must it take place in a factory? is that like a rule?

elizabethtown

Sat, 28 Jan 2006 05:38:51 GMT

quite possibly the worst movie i have ever seen. it was so obviously made as a showcase for orlando bloom's cuteness. and he is, but you cant not write a script because your lead actor is cute, and just tell susan sarandon to tap dance a little. what the hell is that??

privacy?

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 20:46:48 GMT

do you think people who keep diaries (I mean real ones, not these fake online ones) secretly want them to be found and read? Are there things you could read in someone's diary that could make you like them less, if you already like them? I think I would just be tempted to rationalize everything I read. I think I am tempted to rationalize everything anyway. Lately I've been amazed by my own ability to make everything fit neatly into a little perspective box that is so obviously of my own making. I am so unsure of whats real and whats in my head. I suspect thats not so good. :)

funny moments

Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:46:58 GMT

in a huge internet cafe on the second floor on yonge street, 2 minutes ago random chicken noises started coming from the window side. And getting louder! we all turned! It was a cell phone! Why would you have your phone sound programmed to "chicken"??
I don't know!
another mystery: why would a catering service in belgium be called Kitchen Bitch?

international travel

Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:53:57 GMT

ok so virgin atlantic apparently rocks, but let me tell you being stuck in a seat which does not recline and amid a group of very loud lebanese who keep yelling over you, and a flight with 300 million babies, yeah all that, not so great!
its weird how different perspective changes things. i remember landing at heathrow 8 years ago and thinking it pretty snazzy. well now i just think its a bit ghetto. although i did sleep for about 2 hours, so that's good. maybe i will just update this from random airports from now on??

france : jim jarmusch :: germany :

Mon, 23 May 2005 00:27:54 GMT

david hasselhoff!!
i am not sure what this means, but this thought struck me as i was watching coffee and cigarettes, actually it struck me enough to walk up the stairs and type this. hmmmmm.....

"something weird"

Tue, 17 May 2005 00:47:24 GMT

my advisor on the phone with a plumbing supply store this morning:
"do you carry 3 inch diameter clear pvc pipe?"
"how much do we need? oh not very much, less than a foot, we just need it for... uhm something weird, believe me you don't want to know!"

ahh, the dutch...

Mon, 02 May 2005 16:39:49 GMT

quote of the weekend: "so what do you think of nietzsche?"

libraries

Tue, 12 Apr 2005 03:38:46 GMT

i've been bad with returning stuff to the library and my late fees are pushing $10. that's the magic number, after 10, they dont let you take out any stuff unless you pay. so the other day i go in and there is this dorky 16-yr-old-looking kid and he is all shy-flirting with me. can't find my copy of baadasssss (how sad is it that i just had to look up the number of s's in baadasssss - it's 5!), but after the movie talk he goes out of his way to reorder baadasssss for me. cool! then today, it's a few days later and i want to check if anything is due, so i dont go over 10, but when i log on, there is $0 in chages. the dorky kid must have erased it all. Way to go dorky kid! the damn lesbian librarians would never have done that, they always trying to guilt me into paying.

quote of the night

Wed, 19 Jan 2005 06:31:18 GMT

went a little something like this: "and now our song about tranny whores on acid called filthy/gorgeous"
this by a band that has been described as "like the Electric Six coming out of Elton John's closet"
and out they came, and covered Take me Out, definitely the highlight of the evening.

I know I wont be leaving here with you
I know...

love and evil plans

Fri, 05 Nov 2004 17:15:10 GMT

last night while we were eating dinner, scott walked in and announced "I am in love with another man's girl!" we were then full of support and coined plans on how he can steal her away during the concert tonight. It was free of all judgment and we referenced various 80s songs for ideas. It was sublime! Go Scott, go!

Thu, 19 Aug 2004 04:12:44 GMT

"I gave you everything you ever wanted
It wasn't what you wanted"
i always really liked that line.

Thu, 08 Jul 2004 03:30:02 GMT

sometimes things don't feel right for weeks, you waste days, you slack, there is a general unease in the air, and then some plan falls through and you find yourself walking through the badly lit streets of the college town you call home. and it's a perfect college town, with small shops, political offices, aging hippies who have now become college professors sitting in outdoor cafes and uttering phrases like "now, this was in the early 70s, you see" just in time for you to hear as you walk by. and then you pick up a Dubravka Ugresic book and it seeps with bitterness and cynicism of the best kind, and you read about how she could have been Ivana Trump and about why Paulo Coelho and Umberto Eco are the authors of choice for nudists, and a million other things and you laugh, and you walk home with a huge smile because all is well with the world, you have found what you've been missing.

nail clipping

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 18:42:58 GMT

nail clipping in public spaces, especially in offices is the grossest possible thing you can do. it trumps pissing on walls, it trumps old people getting it on. it is just indescribably disgusting and should be banned. offenders should be made to eat their own nail clippings. make it stop!

Sat, 28 Feb 2004 01:44:34 GMT

You're North Korea!

Look out! You're absolutely wacko. Completely insane.
There's no telling what you're going to do, and it could make you a danger to
yourself and others. People are so scared of you that they usually just cover
their eyes and pretend you're not there. The main impact this has had is to
make you even more scary, as you yearn for attention and contact with the outside
world. Everyone just wants you to calm down.
Take the Country Quiz at the Blue Pyramid

keoki...

Sat, 13 Dec 2003 19:01:51 GMT

sounds kinda dated now. but ego-trip is still one kick-ass CD!

is this some new trend, or is it me?

Sat, 04 Oct 2003 17:21:06 GMT

but it seems to be in vogue for a guy trying to impress me to elaborate on a gayness theme. a while ago it was someone telling me of his lust for vincent perez. and then last night there was a guy talking about his fascination with a gay hairdresser orgy in one of the andy warhol flicks. I mean i dig it! I dig it very much, but how do they know this during the first conversation (during which i mention nothing of my robert rodi collection)? or is this an established turn on?

what's sadder than

Wed, 06 Aug 2003 10:57:32 GMT

a midget sitting by himself in a cafeteria 2 days in a row??

you dont have a monopoly on 'crazy'

Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:56:05 GMT

when you meet people and hang out with them a certain dynamic develops after some time. it may (for example) become obvious that one of you is crazy and the other one 'normal.' the license to do just about anything comes along with the label "crazy." overreacting, plotting evil deeds, all of these become acceptable and the normal person can just shake their head and say "aw, you crazy, dog!" but... there comes a time when the crazy person steps over the line, yells at a normal, tolerant person, and then, then, you have to say:
"dude, you don't have a monopoly on crazy" and freak the hell out of 'crazy.' after this the dynamic is forever changed, and believe you me, crazy will fear and respect you!

ME!

Thu, 19 Jun 2003 09:25:04 GMT

bythesea
Magic Number	16
Job	Serial Killer
Personality	Procrastinator (If The Apathy Doesn't Kill Me)
Temperament	Pussy Cat
Sexual	Whatever, Whenever, Whoever
Likely To Win	A Place On The Bench (For The Reserves)
Me - In A Word	Divine
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quote of the week

Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:58:40 GMT

from my sketchy misogynistic pool partner last night:
"that's what I've always said: men, we are friendly people"