i hang out in parks and talk to myself
only i smell better (i hope)


if frank had a cat bubble he could be a fuckin superhero

POWERS OF DRINKING

Going to Scotland - the Mountain Goats
Nothing For Juice was the first Mountain Goats album I ever bought (because it was the only one i could find when i was in highschool without access to all the wonderful hipster music shops I have access to now in MTL). It's not as popular as you know, zopilote machine, or all hail west texas, or tallahassee with the fans, but fuck em. this song is my favorite one off the album, and one of my favourites EVAR. It makes me happy to be alive and lucky enough to love things and be loved by those few who can stand me, in spite of all my inadequacies and short-comings, as numerous as they are.


this is a quote by stephen jay gould that i really love:
"Darwinism compels us to seek meaning elsewhere- and isn't that what art, music, literature are all about? Why make demands of nature and try to restrict her ways when the answers (even if they are personal and not absolute), lie within ourselves?"

take that fuckers.

speaking of awesome things, somehow the lovely miss eli_l convinced me to abandon my hermetic mode of being for a day and come outside. it was awesome, as it involved thai food and shisha. not together though. after she went to work, i hung out in parc la fontaine and drew. it was nice.


i can't wait till carboniferous trees return as zombies and fuckin EAT PEOPLE

i like drawing trees and shit but the problem is that trees aren't inherently really funny and neither are any plants to be honest, except the ones that get you high. so when i draw nature scenes i get bored and end up drawing stupid shit like tree monsters eating children or something. i don't know.

plus it also entails being outside, with fresh air, and smells, and people. scary shit, in short. but also, there are beautiful things like ORCHIDS! orchids are so awesome, not only because so many of them work by whoring themselves out, but also because they are such wonderful examples of co-evolution, and destroyers of Intelligent Design/Creationism.



i found a tiny orange kind with red speckles. then i thought about genetics and evolution, and also read Stephen Jay Gould on the way home, then wanted to cry because i don't know why people like Mr. Gould have to die so early yet fuckers like Ted Stephens (inventor of bridge to nowhere TM) JUST WON'T DIE.


for one of the corporate profiles i had to shift thru at work last week, there was this one guy who was "RESPONSIBLE FOR 12 INCH OPERATIONS"

naturally, being the loserly immature type that i am, i lulzed.





bell has launched a new logo and an ad campaign. THEY CALL FOR DEFACEMENTS NO???? those fuckers must fall. i saw some guy on a SEGWAY trying to hand me a bell/olympics flyer in town today. i would have taken it because segways are obviously awesome, but fucking bell. ruining everything.

first day of work

i want bed
and skittles.

happy birthday, iangil.
may your days be forever filled with LEGAL drinking

PS. craigslist is so awesome.

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BRB hippiefest.
i will have photos and drawings when i get back
and also a significant loss in brain cell count.

Pink & Blue - the Mountain Goats

Other Such Winged Things
Ink & Markers

Soft & Sweet

i hate carbonated water but i'm in love with the san pelligrino bottle.

I thought that Canada Post, by taking only 5 days to go from Alberta to Ontario was displaying some vague sign of simple competence but apparently not because they still haven't sorted jack shit. what the fuck, canada post, seriously. It was supposed to take "7 to 10 days". It's been about 3 weeks.

Also, this guy sitting next to me smells like sweaty towels. This is the first world, people! This means we can shower now. So go home and shower.

Coffee - Aesop Rock feat. John Darnielle

I love John Darnielle more than I love good hygiene. I love John Darnielle more than love or sex with strangers or quoting Caveh Zahedi (it's true).

This place is just becoming a thin disguise for plugging Grand Buffet everyday.

Ann + Jackson = Boodle Twins
They make photographs.

Jackson also makes songs. Sometimes it's about republicans eating kids. Bless 'im.

Top Secret - Jackson

AKA King Grizzlebeard AKA Mr. Pennsylvania AKA Vincent Van Gogh's reincarnation



Yeah, you look at him and you tell me you don't see Vincent Van Gogh then I know you're lying.



just so it's not all grand buffet, here's another one from Tortoise.

I want to do more photography again. I think I might have to join the photo club next semester so i can get into the dark room, or start setting up my own. I'm getting some old photo paper this week. I won't get to use it for a while (unless I somehow win the lotto and have enough money to set up a dark room) but still. I need to get my ass into gear and start doing more art. Maybe when Org Chem II is over. Urrrrrgh. If anyone wants to sell me their old photo stuff dial your emails to me. esp. good if you're in the mtl area.

I found this bootleg of a halloween show back in 98 with Shellac and David Yow as the Sex Pistols a while ago and I was pretty stoked. Now, you might be saying, " hold on, of course you like it. You like the Jesus Lizard." BUT SERIOUSLY!!! For a dude from Chicago, David Yow's Johnny Rotten is dead on.



Shellac & David Yow Halloween 1998
Holiday in the Sun
Bodies
Pretty Vacant
I'm a Lazy Sod
Submission

Oh, and no words on whether the pants came off but considering his track record, they probably did.

what i have been doing:

-writing artist's statements through my arse
-trying to figure out Kirchoff's Rules
-uploading new pages onto website
-organizing art night (Botticelli's Birthday Party)
-trying to piece together a longer animation

auf bau, auf bau:
-i'm going to be in the student art show in kelowna in may
-hey mister sky is going to be submitted to the student film festival in march (shorts under a minute). the exciting part? they're gonna pick a few of the submissions to send to Toronto Film Festival. I'm realistic... it probably won't be that one, but it's the first year that they're running it so maybe it'll get picked by default. who knows.

progress, my friends, progress.

water songs
A Wash, A Sea, Goodbye, It's Me -Aarktica

Lifeboat - John Vanderslice

Louder, Roared the Sea - Jackie-O Motherfucker (caution: 16 minutes of pure fucking awesomeness)

Over the Pond - the Album Leaf

Walking On Water - Richard Hell & the Voidoids

A Specific Ocean - Super Furry Animals

so anyway, that's my excuse for not having too much up these days. i've drawn, they've just yet to be scanned + uploaded... too much else to do. chem & physics lab reports, bio pre-labs to be done, assignments due, second round of midterms are sneaking up surprisingly quickly...

2 flavours for your listening pleasure

sweet:

Skullcrusher Mountain - Jonathan Coulton
My Favorite Things (live) - the Mountain Goats
Babe, You Turn Me On - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Broom People (Peel Session) - the Mountain Goats

bittersweet:
Honey Bear - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
We're Not Supposed To Be Lovers - Adam Green
Ce Charmant Coeur - Julie Doiron
Foothills of My Mind - John Vanderslice
When You Were Mine - Crooked Fingers

let's pretend we don't exist...

Wraith Pinned To The Mist And Other Games - Of Montreal
Broom People (Peel Session) - the Mountain Goats
Breathless - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Maybe We Should Just Go Home -Joel Plaskett Emergency

I am overwhelmed with a list of things to do before monday longer than my arm but I want to just stay home and watch movies all day in bed.

This is one of my favorite songs, I think, of ALL TIME. It's just wonderful and it's on my prozac playlist. I listened to this (along with a few other songs) on repeat for about an hour last night just sitting and drinking coffee and trying to recooperate because I hate this place but I must endure some caterpillars if I want to see some butterflies.

Pigs that Ran Straightaway into the Water, Triumph Of

Sex & Mayhem - Devastations

It's just a very very sexy song. I haven't heard the rest of the record but if all the other songs are like this, I am certain it will be a "shagging record" as Thom Yorke would say.

Nothin' better to get you in the Halloween mood than JD singing "Hail satan! Hail satan! Hail satan tonight!"
the Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton

Hail Satan indeed.

mp3 of the day is brought to you by the letter S for Satan and the number 666 because that's just how we roll.