they did the mash...

saturday i was out celebrating halloween. we started out at the parade of lost souls festivities off of commerical drive. we didn't make the actual parade but i like the walking around part better anyways. i love seeing how people decorate their houses and yards etc. and seeing all the costumes of the people walking around. i wore part of my devil costume out.

one of my favourites was the place that had all these ninjas hiding in the bushes that would pop out and then run away. the ninjas were below this window but were darn stubborn about when they would appear!



this was our favourite house. the eyes are such a great idea and probably wouldn't be that hard or expensive to do.

this is their front yard.

these are just some fun skeletons i liked.


we then went back and changed into full costume and headed down to the lamplighter for a night of burlesque. here is the best halloween themed burlesque performance...:)

sorry the pics aren't the best. i had to resize them smaller than usual as blogger is being very difficult lately with pics.

if i should fall from grace with god...

i recently read a list of the most popular funeral songs . which sparked me to e-mail my friends to let them know that if any one of these songs are played when i die, that i will come back to haunt them. :)

of course, that brings up the question, what do i want played at my wake ( i shall have no funeral, no mourners for me). i've known for awhile that the song i want played is 'if i should fall from grace with god' by the almighty pogues. i will also expect a drunken karoke version as well. which my friend 'b' has generously offered to lead.

if i should fall from grace with god
where no doctor can relieve me
if im buried neath the sod
but the angels wont receive me
let me go, boys
let me go, boys
let me go down in the mud
where the rivers all run dry
this land was always ours
was the proud land of our fathers
it belongs to us and them
not to any of the others
let them go, boys
let them go, boys
let them go down in the mud
where the rivers all run dry
bury me at sea
where no murdered ghost can haunt me
if i rock upon the waves
then no corpse can lie upon me
its coming up three, boys
keeps coming up three, boys
let them go down in the mud
where the rivers all run dry
if i should fall from grace with god
where no doctor can relieve me
if im buried neath the sod
but the angels wont receive me
let me go, boys
let me go, boys
let me go down in the mud
where the rivers all run dry

here is a small sample for your listening enjoyment.

happy halloween y'all!

ps ...not a real coffin nor corpse. it's taken from the haunted deer lake walk.

sell-out, sell-out your love ...

another week of 'the hour'. here are my thoughts.

things i liked.

making cbc's blog tracker. :)
claire martin being back and pretending to banter.
the new disinformation segment.
being able to watch the show online. (speaking of which, when i went to watch the best of today it was linked to the wrong show. later this was posted up. "oops. we taped the wrong show last night. sorry, we're working on fixing that. but if you're interested in seeing sunday's passionate eye, it's right here. "... this amused me)
muppets with attitude video.
the story on athletes as slaves.
the line mr. stroumboulopoulos used when jian told him about his i-pod being stolen. 'steal my family, get your hands off my i-pod"
"the list" when it's real
the piano playing

things i didn't like.

the gill deacon "interview". if you are going to do a story on ethical chocolate, then do a story on ethical chocolate. don't gloss over it and use it to hide what basically amounted to an ad for her new tv show. this is my big beef this week. i'm so tired of having to watching these in show ads for upcoming cbc shows on 'the hour'.
ludacris' jacket.
"the list" when it's "funny"
hilary doyle and her piece on the taliban.
and of course.... the time slot and the theme music. oh, and the closers.

things i've noticed. the nose ring is out (which i don't care about) but logo t-shirts are in.

things i am not sure i miss. andrew coyne.

how i feel overall after week three of 'the hour'. i feel it's trying way to hard to compete with 'the daily show' and the late nite talk shows. i've read that they hired three new comedy writers and personally, i don't feel the show is really that much funnier. in fact, for me, it's probably less funny because it seems more scripted. the jokes in the past two seasons seemed more off the cuff. the show itself seems much more focused on being entertaining rather than informative. to me, it seems as if the show is going thru it's intial stages of trying to find itself. which is fine for a brand new show. but i've already sat thru those, two years ago.

now, is the point where i normally would recap the strombo show. last week, i mentioned that i would be carving pumpkins instead. that event was cancelled. but i am like seinfeld, even steven. i was then promptly invited to a dinner party.

let's see what was discussed via myspace. oh, look.. barbara w mentioned me. my first mention on myspace. (hee hee). ok, back to the actual show. here are some topics that were discussed on the show according to myspace comments. looks like bob was dissing calgary. scary movies. deathclocks. food eaten with fingers. shoes. specifically bob's shoes it looks like. getting things free because the cashier has not charged you. whether or not you should tell someone you don't like their partner. if anyone wants to fill in any details, that would be great. i am always interested in how funny bob was. and if alex was on, was he good funny witty alex, or need to be bitch slapped alex.

since i have no recap, i will offer up some bits and pieces instead.

here is a link to an article in pop journalism. and here's one in the globe and mail.

i bought strut magazine on the weekend because it was their all music issue. turns out mr. stroumboulopoulos interviewed k-os for the issue.

and finally i mentioned last week that mr. stroumboulopoulos was in calgary this weekend. i offer up links to two blogs with stories. i don't know them but i have read their blogs and i really enjoy them.

i am very jealous of these two because
a. i was never that together when i was that age.
b. they have wickedly awesome red hair.

the first one is by hilary m. among many other cool things about her, she asked one of the best advice questions on the strombo show. she asked for help with her math homework. she's got a great photo up. i originally told her that that it was sweet. but i took another look at it and i've changed my mind. i think i like it so much because they both look really devilish and full of life in it. especially her. :)

the other blog is by melissa bale. oddly enough, she also participated in one of my favourite advice spots. but her's is of a different sort than hilary's. melissa is the girl whose parents would not let her play soccer. she's still having trouble. she's got great pics up as well and she's right about the skulls.

for those interested, as far as i know, the strombo recap will be back next week. but one never knows for sure. :)

ps. this saturday are the gemini's. mr. stroumboulopoulos is up for a viewer's choice type of award. i believe voting is still open. mr. stroumboulopoulos' manager harrased us all by myspace bulletins this week. :)

ooh-hoo, jackie blue...

well, no, actually it's jackie greene. :)

so last nite, "r" and i went out and saw this artist jackie greene. it was kinda cool because we had no idea what to expect as we didn't know any of his stuff.

some background story. house of blues runs the occasional sale that they call 2 4 1 tuesdays. which is buy one ticket and get one free. i think it's a great idea. if a show isn't selling that well, why not try and get more people out so that you don't have to cancel? and it's good for me because a lot of times i have trouble finding someone who wants to come out and play with me. it's so much easier when they can save some $$$. i've seen a few shows that way. dragged a friend to see paul westerberg, did a dance with another when the new york dolls went 2 4 1. and was a "date" with another friend for hawksley workman. just to name a few.

anyways, a few weeks ago, one of the shows listed was jackie greene. i'd never heard of him but i always check out all the listings anyways so i google him and listen to a few snippets of his music. it kinda reminded me of van morrison in a way. it sounded ok. but then i saw that the tix were only 12 bucks before the discount. plus it was at richards on richards and i love seeing bands there. they are going to tear it down sometime soon to make room for condos so i want to get in as much time there as possible. so, "r" and i figure, let's go for it.

so, we walk into dicks on dicks (aka richards on richards.. a not so nice nickname going back to the days when bruce allen used to own the club) not having any clue what to expect. i meant to go back and listen to some more of his stuff but i hadn't had a chance. the crowd was older, semi-middle aged males with a few gals thrown in. no chicklets. i haven't been in a crowd like that in ages. there wasn't a ton of people out but luckily it's not a very big club and they shut down the top level, so it didn't feel totally empty. and the people who were there loved him.

musically, for me, it was all right. turned out to be more stevie ray vaughn than van morrison and i am so not a fan of the white boy blues in general. he did do two songs i liked but unfortunately i do not know what they were called. one was a country/folk sounding number (which i really really liked) and the other must have been one of the snippets i heard online because it reminded me of a van morrison number. but eventually he played one too many stevie numbers and we had to leave. overall, i enjoyed it but i am not looking to rush out and buy a cd. but i would like to track down that countryish number. and i am glad we gambled and went.

i would post a picture here but an extremely nice soundman said pictures were ok but no flash. unfortunately i do not know how to override my flash on my digital camera. and since he was so pleasant when he told me, i did not take any pictures, even when he was not around. and even if everyone else in the placed seemed to be. i did however, take a picture of gumby on the amp, before i talked to him. i offer than instead.

i love rock and roll..

and i do. and i love lists. and fridays...:)

today rocks because i bought joan jett tix today. awhile ago, i was trying to come up with five bands that i need to see but haven't. joan was the immediate choice and sadly, it was a list that was never completed. but maybe that's a good thing. because i will have completed the list in december now. :)

here it is my friday random top ten. i think i feel "cooler" this week. or at least not as lame.

1. intro/go to the floor – missy elliott
2. store bought bones - the raconteurs
3. abra cadaver – the hives
4. remember - the raveonettes
5. sea of alcohol – boy
6. the harder they come – waco brothers
7. and now for something completely similar – nofx
8. a singer of songs – johnny cash
9. futuretarded – the vines
10. all is full of love – björk

allison decided to expand the game into creating a song.

i decided to make a verse in the order of the shuffle. i used mainly the first lines because it seemed to work. but that nofx "song" really screwed things up. there's only two lines! and the first is welcome to our CD!

momma say momma sah momma can u do this
get up on your hands and knees.
ah know what's wrong with me
and i never think you'll get it,
drowning in a sea of alcohol
they never seem to hear even your cry
can you hear the blatant similarity?
i’m not a savior, and i’m not a saint.
i don't know how the future started
all is full of love

i screwed up my sidebar recently trying to fix it. i'm in the process of adding everything back but it's going take some time. so if you used to be linked and aren't anymore, it's not because we've fallen out...:)

who let the dogs out...

i am following the peter mackay debacle with great glee.

i do have a question tho. regardless of whether he said it or not, it is established that someone said it. so shouldn't the tories be concerned on finding out who did?

i have heard the accusations that the tories have thrown out about what was said about rona ambrose. i have heard a few versions of it. 'potted plant' and 'pretty plant'. i am not sure which one is correct. i hope it is 'potted plant'. because that's pretty clever. because that's really what she is. always in the background of stephen harper at conferences. i hope they remember to water her. but i fear that it was 'pretty plant'. which isn't as funny. or as clever. and if so, the tories have a right to complain about it. but they should have done it when it happened. the fact that it didn't seem to bother them then, well, just reenforces in my mind, how they feel about women.

for an extremely funny take on the situation, you gotta check out rick mercer's blog (http://rickmercer.blogspot.com/)

help me if you can...

if anyone can help me move my sidebar back up, please let me know.

dance like a monkey, dance like a monkey....

so another week has passed and here are my thoughts on 'the hour'.

congrats on the gemini win for the show. i won't comment on the host award as he seemed rather embarassed about the whole thing. :)

things i liked.

the iron maiden interview.
the interview with charles mcvety (not because i agree with him but because it made for interesting tv)
the garth turner interview
jian
the graphics for 'the best story ever' segment. very old school, cbc kids like.
and even i have to admit, the opener with the baby and adoption was pretty cute.

things i didn't like.

the closers. they are very boring and tame this year.

all the blatant plugging of upcoming cbc shows.

the lack of the 'canada' segment of news.

the beck interview. this is not because of the interviewer, but the interviewee. i've heard that beck is hard person to interview and by the looks of it, it's true.

the theme music. but on the upside, i think i have maybe figured out a way to deal with it (although my friend and i bitched about it on the way down to seattle. she just might hate the new pornographers more than me.) the new pornographers are on mint, and bill and randy have been nothing but super nice to me. so i will try and think of them during the theme music.

the time slot. i can not express how much i hate the fact that cbc newsworld does not seem to think anyone out west needs to watch 'the hour' during primetime. i loved watching it at 8pm. it was perfect. i could come home, relax, eat dinner, watch corrie street, go out and and walk the dog and then settle in to watch 'the hour'. my dog used to get a big ass yummy treat during 'the hour' so he loved it too. after the show was done, i still had time to do anything that needed doing before it was sleeptime. and if god forbid, i missed something or someone mumbled something, or there was something i really loved, i could catch it again at 11pm. or decide to tape it (sigh.. before my vcr broke down). i don't really watch that much prime time so there was rarely any conflict for me. but now, i either have to rush home to catch it, or miss the daily show and the colbert report. or stay up even later and catch the midnight airing on newsworld. or watch online. i'm catching some stuff on newsworld and some later on the cbc, and then trying to make up the bits online. this is not how i like to watch a show! call me crazy but i kinda like to watch it all in the same order that it is aired. and why has it been replaced by 'the national'... two straight hours of 'the national'?

ok, enough about 'the hour' for this week.

you know, it may have taken almost two years to get up, but at least strombo.com is being updated very regularly. good boy mr. stroumboulopoulos!

you know, there is one thing that always confuses me about listening to radio via the internet from other places. weather. traffic i can figure out. weather, not so much. i'm always like..what do you mean it's raining?

anyways, here is the weekly strombo show recap. i take even less responsibility than usual for the accuracy of it this week. i was suffering from a red bull overdose so not only was my mind wandering more than usual, i nearly fell asleep at one point. plus during the first ½ hour or so, the show kept cutting out.

there are a whole new series of humourous plugs for the show…is it bumpers that they call them? i know that’s what it is called on tv. anyways it's the promo for coming back to the show, before the show is on. if that makes sense.

alex will be on.

bob’s week was kinda scary. another negative fortune cookie experience. this time, his wife got it. it was ‘success is getting up one more time than being knocked down.’

bob loves yard work. he likes to get his hands dirty. when his grandparents first came to this country, they bought a place with a big back yard and grew corn. So did mr. stroumboulopoulos’s baba.

mr. stroumboulopoulos likes the new killers album. i have issues with the killers. i used to not mind them. but now they bother me.

during the commercial break, i learned that it was pierre trudeau who was a virgin until 27. weird.

mr. stroumboulopoulos is digging the new kasbian. bob wants to know if they have big floppy afros and a scarf. alex pipes in with no bob, that’s you. (i spat my bevy out in laughter at this point). mr. stroumboulopoulos checks and so sad, no afros.

alex’s week was all right. he doesn’t like his boss (mr. stroumboulopoulos) who counters with you don’t have to like me, you just have to perform. alex did the opening of the tragically hip special.

cleveland’s new expansion of sex education in all grades including kindgarten (http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061020/NEWS01/310200011/1056/COL02) was discussed. alex confesses that at 29 there’s a lot of sex stuff he wishes he does not know. he used to work at sex tv. and then he totally freaks me out by mentioning sex with clowns. although in my red bull overdose mind, i originally heard clam sex. which creeped me out even more. bob learnt where babies come from a neighbourhood bully during a hockey game. he informed him that babies come from sperm. and then the bully walked away. bob didn’t know what he was talking about. bob doesn’t want teachers teaching sex, because his teachers didn’t do a good job with anything else. they couldn’t teach me the metric system, i don’t want them teaching the tantric system.

frank black is played. an interview was taped with him that will be airing next week or the week after on the hour. i am sad. on 'the hour' they said it would be this week. damn it, i want to hear that interview!

stuff portion of show- topic #1 pizza. (i enjoy the stuff portion of the show)

and all the unique toppings have come out for it. the question comes up.. does chicken belong on pizza? i believe the answer from all three was no. this can be blamed partially on my caffeine overdose, but mainly on the fact that i am unwilling to look in-depth at my notes as i have not eaten dinner yet. the idea that you can put anything on a pizza is discussed. but then it is really just a sandwich. bob and alex are anti-ground beef as well. mr. stroumboulopoulos is not. personally, i love Italian sausage on my pizza…..(focus! stop dreaming of pizza!) . blame for all this is thrown at the marketing gurus. alex and bob are anti-hawaiian. mr. stroumboulopoulos is not. he loves the texture (the thought of this is making me ill now. pizza craving gone.) somebody who is vegan and works for the show talks about vegan pizza. alex is outraged (i think).

topic #2
a female asks do you believe in love at first sight. mr. stroumboulopoulos – no. he believes in extreme like at first sight. lust at first sight. but not love. alex believes in love at first sight, because it is anti-mr. stroumboulopoulos. bob does believe in it. he looks at love at first sight like an albino gorilla. extremely rare and if you find it, you worship it.

the pizza topic lights up the phones. i have never heard so many calls before.

A simpsons clip is played – the bit where lisa is trying to explain she has given up meat and homer thinks she is making up some magical animal because she claims that pork and bacon come from the same animal.

pixies – “velouria”

led zeppelin – ‘whole lotta love’ . zeppelin 2 was released some time in history on this day.

web cams are not allowed in the station. aaahaaa… something i can blame standard broadcasting for! apparently, they are afraid of viruses. a web cam in the studio would rock. i want to see bob dance!

george bush and his smug jackass smile are mentioned.

supremes – ‘can’t hurry love’. first all female album to go number one on this day sometime in history. mr. stroumboulopoulos feels they are one of the most underappreciated bands ever. (can you be a band if nobody plays an instrument? don't get me wrong, i love the supremes)

barbara from the stroumboulopouli offers to read bob’s card. this terrifies bob. he believes in everything. he agrees on the condition that it is done over the phone on air. but barbara is too shy to call in.

some guy from hamilton calls in and says he will make a wager the road to menudo will last longer than ‘the one’. haha

alex gets passionate when he feels mr. stroumboulopoulos is putting words in his mouth.

bob has decided to have his cards read by barbara via e-mail.

bob and mr. stroumboulopoulos like leonardo dicaprio.

advice time.

“our lives may be disastrous on some levels, doesn’t mean yours have to be.” angela the intern needs advice. she has a guy talking to her that she’s not into, but he is into her. he’s not her type, not outgoing. she’s always talking, so much that she even annoys herself. alex tells her to stop messing around and just tell him. that’s it. it will be horrible. that’s life. bob’s reaction is 100% bravo. i have nothing to add. listen to that man.

a myspace message says that alex sounds down on life. he replies.. what the hell is wrong with terri? that’s not what i said (true). i agreed with bob. mr. stroumboulopoulos and i do not sound alike. (true again.)

bob and george like lindsay lohan.

sugar ‘helpless’

adam from grand rapids calls for advice. he has a work permit to come into canada but will have to leave his good job. should he? everybody pretty much says yes.

some guy the same age as mr. stroumboulopoulos has a 12 year old daughter and i think he said she was on myspace. calls himself and everyone else middle age (wtf?!). claims it is creepy that mr. stroumboulopoulos would have a myspace account. (what is your 12 year old doing on myspace… it’s 14+) heated discussion on the merits/creepiness of myspace. alex likes the fact he called them middle aged.

barbara does the card reading by email. Here is a link to her blog on it.
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=80393460&blogID=183708208&MyToken=6808b951-0818-4808-9b6c-89098312cf6d

kenny rogers ‘ the gambler’

mr. stroumboulopoulos hides some info from bob. he responds… don’t i deserve to see my own future?

bob on having his picture on strombo.com. why do you have to share my shame? it looks like you pulled it off smoking gun. actor 36 pulled over by police.

things they liked. mr. stroumboulopoulos – the film ‘the departed’.

bob‘s careless whisper moment. because of the beck interview, he doesn’t think scientology is that stupid. plus paul haggis is a scientologist. bob did not go into the studio when beck was on 'the hour'.

my careless whisper moment…. i really really liked alex this week. possibly more than bob this week. and i liked bob a lot. but alex was so fuckin’ on the ball this week. which is funny because i wanted to bitch slap him last week.

peace out...

ps.. there will be no strombo show recap next week. going to carve pumpkins instead.

pps.. for those that care, mr. stroumboulopoulos will be in calgary this weekend.(http://www.thecareershow.ca/seminars.html)

things that make you go hmmm...

ok, so i saw this product on the daily show the other day and i nearly peed my pj's laughing.





but i went to their website and found out it comes in different flavours!

friday i'm in love...

well, no. but friday i'm full of phlegm just didn't have the right ring to it...:)

here is my random friday top ten...

1. clap your hands! - clap your hands say yeah
2. dirty diesel - paul westerberg
3. i will follow - u2
4. strip my mind - red hot chili peppers
5. i'd do anything - simple plan
6. if - red hot chili peppers
7. if it feels good do it - sloan
8. xmas in tha hood – 3lw
9. you took advantage of me - rosemary clooney
10. the magnificient seven - the clash

today i hit the 1,000 visitor to my site. no prizes but the lucky person was from gainesville, georgia and was looking for information on shirley maclaine. the 2nd person today from georgia that was looking for shirley maclaine. odd.

so here are some new reasons why people are hitting my website.

listen to let's hear it for my boy
shirley maclaine
russell peters on trini people smell my shoe
massive attack sook yin interview
"it's back" red billboard
strombo show
stroumboulopoulos dating
neighbour sex
rush hemisphere music
"tubby dogs"
sleemans brewery raising japan's flag
female sex stories
"narcissism test"
stroumboulopoulos "terry gilliam" retarded
steve-o & jim rose circus
brandon killers
neighbour singing disney blog
prince albert trouble urinating
steve carell vs mr t
shirley maclaine csi grey's anatomy
why did bill welychka leave much music
pitt lake
668 the neighbour of the beast
668 of the beast
my car the beast
ringtones final countdown bell mobility
"music therapy ride" +pictures
good pancakes
london living
pda drunk party
faces and places david cassidy magazine
"bill welychka"
three dog night one is the loneliest number sound
who was kiefer with last nite - ok, i confess.. it was me! haha..

and i can add the following places to my list.

usa - georgia, oklahoma, arizona, north carolina, nebraska, pennsylvania, kansas, new york, minnesota, virginia
canada - saskatchewan
peru
iceland
costa rica
columbia
portugal
spain

shut your mouth....

so, the conservatives have finally kicked out garth turner. what a surprise. i mean, everyone knew his days were numbered from the moment he spoke out during the david emerson fiasco. i’m actually surprised that he made it this long. i’m not at all surprised by the timing of it. the tories needed something to try and distract us from their so called clean air act.

i find it funny that stephen harper won’t shut up about accountability and openness of the government and yet, he will not let his mp’s speak. i couldn't believe he actually let rona ambrose speak today. what are you afraid of harper? are you afraid if they open their mouths that we will actually find out how dumb they really are?

but then maybe he has a point. i mean, if the accusations against peter mackay are true (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/mackay_stronach_slur), maybe they really are that stupid.

here I go again...

ok, so awhile back i posted something about the shitty billboard i saw for the hour. on saturday, coming back from the film and tv expo, we made a pit stop so that i could take a picture of it. i was standing on the street corner when i took this shot.

thoughts on a week's worth of the hour. i hate the theme music. granted i hate the new pornographers. i think the worst part was when they actually had carl and kurt on for the opener on thursday. shiver. it took every ounce of control, not to change the freakin' station. actually no, the worst part is that damn song gets stuck in my head and i can't get it out. it wouldn't be so bad if i could at least be happy for the band, but i hate them so much that i resent having to listen to them four times a week. it's funny. i knew in my heart that when he said on urban rush that the theme music would have a west coast connection, that it would be the new pornographers. but i hoped that if i didn't acknowledge it, i would be wrong.

the show is slowly improving. just as i miss peter and kim from the first season (especially peter.. sigh...), now i miss the banter between claire martin and mr. stroumboulopoulos. and so far, hilary doyle has not impressed me that much. i didn't find her piece either interesting or funny. but i'm willing to wait and see. i didn't really like kim d'eon that much either at first and she grew on me.

stuff i liked this week. the talk of sleeping in space. finding out the barbarba frum's son wrote the axis of evil speech.

overall, my impression of this season's the hour is that it's trying to hard. at times the humour seems forced.

i also watched the best of the hour. although there are no new stories, there are new intros to the pieces. the hosting seemed more natural. however, be warned. the stories are edited versions. for the terry gilliam, they took out the retarded remark. for the letter he send to north korea, they edited to show a properly typed e-mail. and i think they also edited out the good looking comment from adrienne clarkson.

strombo.com finally debuted this week. a few days late, but i guess that's good for him. so far, i haven't really formed any opinion of it. it looks very much like a tabloid and if that is a picture of bob, he's got the some crazy ass hair.

mr. stroumboulopoulos was also featured in last week's hello magazine. a little spread of him at home.

music therapy ride has posted some shots of the whistler run. http://musictherapyride.ca/

Ok, here’s the weekly strombo show recap.

alex is back this week. mr. stroumboulopoulos has a cold. they are all exhausted this week due to the hour premiere. bob doesn’t believe in complaining about his job as other people have it worse. mr. stroumboulopoulos is living on advil. alex is part bat, sleeping in any position. bob & mr. stroumboulopoulos have worked together for 12 years.
nirvana – ‘stay away’.

the police – ‘so lonely’ . this is mr. stroumboulopoulos favourite police song this week. his favourite part is also my favourite part. mr. stroumboulopoulos interviewed andy summers today as he has written a book. He has led a bizarre life. i like the bit where mr. stroumboulopoulos talked about going over synchronicity track by track and about how andy got his track on the album and andy said that people think that the police was a democracy and it was not.

the new york plane crash was mentioned. apparently the woman’s apartment that it hit was the same woman that got hit with an out of control cat in the hat balloon in the thanksgiving parade a few years ago. weird. (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/461236p-388059c.html). a discussion on fate vs. luck follows. mr. stroumboulopoulos states he does not believe in fate, but then wants to change his answer. he feels that it’s all mathematical and that the end is predetermined but we will never know the end. alex feels this concept is dumb. mr. stroumboulopoulos accuses alex of sleeping thru the conversation. alex defends himself by throwing back if he was sleeping; it was because they were boring him. bob believes in coincidence. alex keeps interrupting him.

bob received a fortune cookie this week with this fortune. it is during difficult times that true friends become apparent. this concerns him. what difficult times? why do I need to know this? he wants normal fortunes about handsome strangers etc.

donnie has a story about fate and luck. he didn’t call the woman who gave him her phone number on a band aid (from last week) as he is currently spending time with another girl. he and this girl attended the taping of the hour and she was wearing new shoes to impress. she tripped and cut her ankle and said she couldn’t walk anymore as her ankle is bleeding. she needed a band aid; he had a band aid and whipped out the phone number one. it was all cool.

bob wants to capture the chinese market. he wants anyone listening in china to e-mail in, and then says if you aren’t listening in china, and then says something else. alex interupts and says if they aren’t listening, how can they do that? actually, alex, you need to listen. what bob said was directed to listeners who are not currently in china, not people in china not listening.

alex throws a snit about not getting paid and walks out.

they play the belinda interview and discuss the quote ‘can’t break up a happy marriage’. i had written earlier that i didn’t like that comment. i think the reason i don’t like it, is because it sounded a little too self-righteous when she said it. mr. stroumboulopoulos said he didn’t follow up on it in the interview as he believed it to be correct. bob brought up a chuck klosterman quote, which i will probably misquote. something like monogamy is only possible while you believe it is possible, once you believe it isn’t, it’s only a matter of time. mr. stroumboulopoulos stated that he is awful at relationships. he can have long ones and shorts ones, and they all have one thing in common. he’s in the wrong. the idea of getting married to him is foreign. bob is the marrying kind and it’s fantastic. nick the tech. director agrees. nick and bob disagree on what is the key to a good marriage. in a way they both agree its communication (mr. stroumboulopoulos thinks this is to 'everybody loves rayish'). nick says you need to talk, bob says don’t talk too much.

beck 'girl'

alex still isn’t back yet.

hilary doyle is interviewed. she is the new reporter for the hour and was interviewed for the job by mr.stroumboulopoulos, and producers ben and lindsey. she felt totally comfortable in the interview. bob asked if there was a casting couch and she stated that mr. stroumboulopoulos would not host an audition for that as his life is kinda a casting couch (which he denied). she lives in a coffin factory with no mailing address.

dandy warhols ' bohemian like you'

a plug for the upcoming advice time. bob & mr. stroumboulopoulos care. alex tolerates.

buffalo and outlet malls are discussed. bob loves the buffalo bills.

diddy and the burger king deal is discussed. alex is surprised that grandpa bob could even find youtube. alex wants to know if mr. stroumboulopoulos is upset that diddy has sold out? or because it’s burger king? what if it was harvey’s? mr. stroumboulopoulos loves harvey’s and is upset with mcdonalds because the manager of one mcdonald’s turned in ol dirty bastard and because his local mcdonalds has gotten rid of hot mustard. mr. stroumboulopoulos says he’s boycotting mcdonalds, alex calls him mr. mcdonald’s and mr. stroumboulopoulos says no, not for 2 ½ weeks. they discuss having a fish and chip place sponser 'strombytv'. bob wants mr. stroumboulopoulos in a pirate suit complete with parrot. mr. stroumboulopoulos says he would eat tartar sauce with a spoon. mr. stroumboulopoulos has a crush on the girl from lisanovatv. (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=LisaNova) .

advice time. jon from oshawa. he has been dating a girl for six months now. the other day, he comes home/over early and she is having drinks with her friends. the way they were talking to each other was awful. he described it as garage talk, vulgar and gross. it turned him off. he thought only boys did that. alex says he should leave her. she’s trash. i don’t care. i don’t know him. hilary says it’s a double standard. jon lucked out. she’s a dynamic, complex woman. mr. stroumboulopoulos says guys talk this way and when talk gets like that, alex always leaves the room disgusted. bob says men talk smack, women talk more smack. when you sleep with a woman, her five best friends can identify your penis in a lineup. guys don’t do this.

hüsker dü 'don’t want to know if you are lonely'

johnny thunders ‘can’t put your arms around a memory’ was brought up( http://www.bolt.com/benji-man/audio/johnny_thunders__you_cant/832205. bob suggests ‘can’t put your arms around a memory’s neck’. mr. stroumboulopoulos has been listening to early verve and snake (his cat) still climbs onto his chest and tries to rip the headphones out of his ears.

bob shares a funny story of how he waited outside muchmusic with all the little girls to see beck on the wedge. He is so excited when he sees him that he shouts out ‘hey beck, you represent.' beck looks at him and walks back into building. all the little girls stare at him.

10.35 comedy. mr. stroumboulopoulos imitates alex saying ‘don’t play that old guy with the ponytail’. alex complains that he does not sound like that. alex wants mitch hedberg. and they decide to placate him. the bit was about food and was so freakin’ funny ( http://www.mitchhedberg.net/). alex gets a round of nice call.

bob and alex fight like crazy. this week they almost knocked over a set at the hour. alex kept interrupting bob before he could finish a sentence when he was writing promos.

things they like. bob starts by bringing up outkast and the fact that andre 3000 will be working with madonna. a discussion on how many artists have ruined their careers by working or appearing with madonna. lenny kravitz. britney spears. sean penn. warren beatty.
madonna bad. annette bening good.

hilary is happy that the detroit tigers are contenders. and then she said something i didn’t catch. what it sounded like was trudeau didn’t have sex until he was 27. i am very curious to who it was.

alex liked nothing this week. and then says no, he liked fighting with bob. can’t wait for the show to be over so they can fight some more.

bob likes whitesnake. he was biking and the song came on in his ipod (bob, don’t listen and bike!) he didn’t like it when it was out but mr. stroumboulopoulos did. hilary loves it too, but didn’t know who the band was.

until next week.

hey mister dj put a record on....

i was reading the blog "mellow like jello" (mellowlee.blogspot.com/) on friday which led me to "just a cool cat's" blog (justacoolcat.blogspot.com/) which led me to american idle (blogs.citypages.com/canderson/) . which made me discover something fun called "american idle friday random ten". which is basically setting your music player to shuffle and listing the first ten that play. i listen to mine on shuffle a lot, so i'm used to very odd playlists.

here is mine...and as tempted as i was to cheat.. i didn't. as you may be able to tell. :)

1. six o'clock news - kathleen edwards
2. exactly like you - tony bennett & k.d. lang
3. st. elsewhere - gnarls barkley
4. park avenue - girls against boys
5. dance like a monkey - new york dolls
6. on the evening train - johnny cash
7. we will rock you - queen
8. stripped (intro) - christina aguilera
9. the ring - sarah harmer
10. no smoke without fire - james hunter

here comes the rain...

i love the rain. i'm sitting at my computer, listening to the rainfall. it's downpouring. i have a kahlua and hot chocolate which is making me happy on so many levels. not only is there a little more space in the cupboard, but now the tin can go out with the recycling tomorrow.

i've been wanting it to rain for ages. it actually started last nite. perhaps i caused it by giving the dog a bath. when i woke up this morning, it was still raining. i love rainy sundays. it allows me to stay in, guilt free. i lounged in bed, reading a book and watching coronation street this morning. my dog follows me in the lazy sunday lifestyle, as he too does not want to go out. he hates the rain.

life feels good this morning.

hate and war....

i hate stephen harper. and it's been a classic week for him. i thought last week was good, what with the cuts to funding for womens groups. i am not sure what is funnier, the conservatives having a minister of environment or them having a status of women minister. dear mr. harper, if you really want to save money, why don't you cut these positions? you obviously have no need for them.

so what's so special about this week? first off, had to be his environmental speech. i'd like to ask stephen harper to stop making these announcements in vancouver. i feel like you are giving us a bad rep. we didn't vote you in and this does not impress us. in bc, the number of elected conservatives actually went down, so you went out and bought david emerson. and let me see, you flew to bc to do this? apart from the dollar cost, what does that add to the environmental cost? ooh, and then let's ban environmentalists from the press conference. because it's a private meeting with the press? wtf? umm, how can a meeting with the press be private?

why didn't i like his speech? let's start with tieing in pollution with the economy. so if the economy goes up, we can pollute more. yah, that seems smart. but what else can you expect from some one who is not convinced that global warming is the consequence of human activity?

next up, slagging a beloved canadian icon (rick mercer). don't fuck with mercer, harper.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/10/10/harper-industry.html#skip300x250

however, i do like the fact that rona ambose and the tories were caught out not telling the truth in parliament. she had said that the previous liberals had spent at least 100 million buying carbon credits. she cited a long list, but when the media asked to see the list (damn nosy media), they had to admit that the liberals had not spent one cent purchasing these credits. and i'm not defending the liberals either. it's just that my hatred for harper and the tories runs deeper than my dislike for the liberals. here's a link to the story...http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/story.html?id=e730155d-09bb-4482-8461-2890843ab213

and then harper was off again accusing the liberals of anti-israel. http://www.cbc.ca/cp/national/061012/n101296.html this isn't the link i originally wanted but i am having trouble linking it right now. that one including more of bob rae comments, including something about one shouldn't be either pro or anti israel.

i don't understand why people can not criticize israel without being accused of all sorts of crime. isn't that the beauty of free speech? it reminds me of all the backlash against artists who spoke out against bush in the early days of the iraq war. which leads me to this...

brandon flowers of the killers has decided that green day are anti-american due to their song american idiot. apparently he doesn't think the english and the germans and all the rest of green day fans are smart enough to understand what the song is about. oh, i'm sorry brandon, i listen to green day so i must not understand what is happening in the world, and grasp complicated issues and irony. oh, if i could only be smart enough to listen to the killers and sing along with lyrics like...somebody told me you had a boyfriend who looked like a girlfriend. here is the link to the story http://www.nme.com/news/the-killers/24702. i originally read it on allison's blog. who i don't know but enjoy reading about nonetheless. it was on the same entry as this hilarious story about a pushy man, and old lady and lots of pumpkins. she's also a really good artist and you should check it out. http://www.iduality.blogspot.com/

tears of a clown...

i'm finding this week quite disheartening. on the weekend, i learnt about the upcoming death of of tower records. growing up in vancouver, meant going to seattle a few times a year. and as i got older, a seattle road trip was never complete without a stop at tower records. for years, it was the tower records under the space needle, which we never failed to get lost trying to get to. even now, when i'm in the area of the space needle, i still laugh inside, remembering the drives around and around and around. later on, it was tower in the university district. not because we stopped loving the seattle center tower. and not because we were tired of driving around. but because we always had to go to the u-district anyways, it was more convenient to go there. and eventually we even started heading out to the bellevue tower. i loved the old bellevue store. never liked the new location and eventually stopped heading out there. i'm sitting at my computer and a flood of memories are reeling in. the excitment of finding something cool that wasn't available in canada. scoring in the delete bins. i'm one of those people that can go to my music collection and for the majority of the titles, i can tell you where and when i bought them. and who i was with. for a lot of them, i can even tell you how much i paid. (and yet, i can barely remember what i did yesterday...ha ha). i can tell you i bought a lot of stuff at tower over the years. and don't even get me started on tower london. living in london for a few years, i must have spent at least a couple of months in tower alone. i am being flooded with memories not only of music, but of past and current friends and the times we've spent hanging out, checking out music.

the other sad news this week, is cbgb's is finally closing it's doors for good. sadly, i have never been to cbgb's. but being the music lover that i am, it's always held a special place in my heart. i was always like one day.. i will go to new york and i will go to cbgb's.

i'm feeling very melancholy right now. not up to continuing and i think i will just go and put on the ramones. i wish my turntable was working. i'd put on some vinyl that i got at tower to complete the scenario.

froggy went a courtin'....

i went out for lunch today with a friend and her baby, who is the quietest baby in the world. we went to the frogstone grill in coquitlam. i had froghouse burger which has bacon, cheddar, lettuce, tomato, mustard, mayo and roasted pepper mayo and had the daily soup with it (ham and potatoe). my friend had the same except she had fries and a caesar salad as well. the soup was kinda bland, and the fries were not tasty. also, when i got my beverage it was about an inch short of the top. i did enjoy my burger but i don't think i'll be going back. they seem to have issues with lettuce at this restaurant. my friend's salad had tons of lettuce with brown spots, so much that we had to send it back (which they were happy to replace). and the lettuce on both burgers was old and limp. i would have had it replaced but our server took forever to come back and check on us. i was way too hungry to wait for her. i did mention it at the end. she also never came back and checked on us for drink refills.

but the good part about going there was that i found a tea shop in the same complex. i bought this amazing smelling tea called chocolate lovers tea. i was pratically drooling when i smelt it. i haven't tried it yet, as i am waiting to go to a friend's house and we will try it together.

looking for clues....

i'm fascinated about how people find my blog. here is a random sampling of what people have been searching for when their search engine points them towards my site.

neighbour sex stories
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stroumboulopoulos
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"the hour"
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about calgary death by chocolate
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and here are where people are coming from.

canada - ontario, quebec, alberta, bc, new brunswick, manitoba, prince edward island
india
usa - texas, idaho, ohio, california, florida, michigan, illinois, conneticut, tennessee
bahrain
united kingdom
italy - milan
australia
austria
belgium
chile
germany
denmark

i wish i had made this list earlier. when my blog was on cbc, the hits were coming in from all kinds of places. even china.

good day sunshine..

well, today is another bright beautiful sunny day and i'm feeling better than i did last nite.

i did end up watching 'the hour' last nite. i thought 'the daily show' would be a repeat for some reason. isn't it some kind of holiday in the states? alas, i was wrong.

anyways, i'm glad to say that it didn't suck. did i think it was great? no. i really liked parts of it. i thought the opening bit with the hockey players was awesome. perhaps it was just hearing the word douchebag. :) and i really like the fact that the interviews are live now. last season, they seemed to be much more obviously taped. i thought belinda came off well in her interview except i did not like her comment that no one can break up a happy marriage. and terry gilliam made me laugh when he used the word retarded. i do think that perhaps a set re-organization may be necessarily because during the interviews mr. stroumboulopoulos kept looking at his notes which were at a table beside him, away from the camera and the guest. it's a little disorienting. perhaps a desk is in order?

what i didn't like. the music. apart from everything else, i do not think it's obtrusive enough. i want the music coming back from commerical to be loud and obtrusive enough that i can hear it from another room. right now, i find the music is just blending into the commercials and it's not obvious that the show has started again. sorry, i don't always stay in the room for the ads. i don't like the new graphics and i'm not thrilled with the new set. the graphics seem a little busy and i think i feel the same way with the set. i'm going to have to see it a bit more to decide.

i thought the live audience would be distracting but other than the intial opening which played a bit stiff, it was fine.

if season one was a 10, and season two was an 8 1/2, i'll give season three a 7 for now. i'm still pretty bitter about the time slot choices out west. it sucks for them, because i'm not sure how many people will turn off the daily show.

east is east and west is west and i don't know which one i like the best

well, the screaming blue messiahs may not know but the cbc certainly does. or at least, they certainly have given that impression to me in regards to choosing to fuck bc over with 'the hour's' time slot.

yes, i know 'the hour's' a big deal now, what with it finally heading over the main netwerk this season. and even tho i'm worried that the show will suck this year, i am happy for them. and i want to give it a shot and hope to be pleasantly surprised.

in all the ads and promos for the show, and in interviews, it has been said, the hour is on at 11pm on the main netwerk and 8pm on newsworld. so i'm like great. today is the season opener and i eagerly tune in at 8 to catch it. and it's the national on. i'm like wtf? turns out that you can only watch it at 8pm in the east, in the west, you have to watch it at 5pm. are we all supposed to be unemployed out west?

and yes, i can catch it at 11pm. but you know what cbc, like many viewers of the hour, i like to watch the daily show at that time. and i don't know if i'm willing to give it up. i don't have a vcr so i have to chose. and right now, i am so pissed off with the cbc, i am not sure what i will choose.

thanks cbc, i feel royally fucked over by you.