I have a new blog, sorry guys I got bored.

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I'm sitting on the floor in my bedroom giving into my nicotine addiction, staring back and forth between my computer screen and the lingering smoke caught in the one stream of sunlight that is cutting through the room. It's been a while since I have posted. I've been working full-time, and spending a lot of time with friends, more-so new than old. I think it is because my more recently found friends are more sincere and genuine, more exciting, and have more common interests than the majority of my older friends. There are plenty of people I need to spend some time with catching up on lost time and whatever else that entails.

I am pretty interested in attending this: http://crimethincconvergence.com/node/1 but I am not sure how to go about it.

Urban Blight

Long Island

Uxbridge

Pollution

Saturday I started my summer job, full-time work is about to begin, and I can't be more excited. After work I did some cleaning and stuff, and scraped together all the money i could to head over to a show Shane was putting on. Ulysses and the Siren, and I am Committing a Sin were both really good. Hesh, Jess, and I left for Toronto, stopped in Beamsville for gas and coffee, then drove to Hesh's at Finch & Pharmacy, Jess and I drove back downtown to check at the Mature Situations show at RearView Mirror which we totally missed. We grabbed pizza, and went east again to her house near Danforth and Broadview. I checked out her apartment, and drove down to Bloor which was awefully busy, then down Bay only to find out the on-ramp to the Gardiner was closed, so I continued down Lakeshore W. attempting to merge on every on-ramp I could find, only to find out the Gardiner Expressway was completely closed through to Missisauga. I finally got on the highway and was stuck in one lane traffic blasting Ceremony 'Violence, Violence' and chain-smoking in an attempt to stay awake and not rip my hair out from annoyance. I had to stop in Grimsby to get more gas, and said hey to my brother who was working overnight. By the time I got home I had driven from 10:30pm-4:15am to Toronto and back only getting out of my car for gas an pizza. At this point I was so irritated, and had gained a serious disgust for cars. As convenient as a car may be, I really do despise them. The traffic, and congestion I drove through was the worst I had ever experienced, and I never want to again.

Although I just learned...I think I would much rather just go sailing.

GET IT AWAY!

The song Glue by SSD which is track 1, side 1 of the band's second release "Get It Away" has gotten pretty popular over time, the song consistently gets covered by hardcore and punk bands paying their respects to SSD. Not the best examples, but of the covers I have on my computer, what's your favourite? And what are some other Glue covers I might not know of.Original Version
I Hate You Version
Shai Hulud Version

Honorable mention to the hardcore band Glue who (obviously) got their name from this song and always cover it.

;)

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Good Morning

So here I am, at a bleak university campus, sitting in the lounge. My typical Mountain Equipment Co-op backpack, cargo jacket, pashmina, cell phone, and coffee are taking up the majority of this hideous purple faux leather couch I am seated on. Avoiding studying at all costs, I was browsing Brooks Reynolds' new website and portfolio. I came across a photo of a member of pre-teen generic 'hardcore' band Dead and Divine and was reminded of a night around this time last year.

Some friends and I spent some time at Grimsby beach sipping on beers, awaiting an adventure, we wern't sure what type of night it would be, but we were set on having a good one. As the sun was setting I remember we stuffed our tall cans, mickeys and wine bottles into our beach bag and set off to a birthday party. The party was pretty dull so, some friends and I sat in the corner chain-smoking, and finishing our drinks as quickley as possible. Here is the part of the story I was reminded of; some little lady walked onto the deck of the party, scanning for people she knew which was ultimately comfort. She settled in and began to eye the three of us in the corner. Tyler who I was with happened to have quite the moustache at the time. She exclaimed "WHOAH, YOU LOOK LIKE MATT TOBIN, OH MY GOD ARE YOU GUYS RELATED!!!!!!!??" Ty then rolled his eyes, behind the lense of his sunglasses and replied along the lines of "Fuck you, I am not, and never will be similar to Matt fucking Tobin!" Drunken Nicole and I thought this was hilarious while the host of the party thought it was rude and embarrassing. We then took our drinks and smokes to the driveway where we invited the attendees of another birthday party which the cops had broken up. Those who we invited showed up with a box full of firecrackers and began to set them off with hatred on the birthday girl's front lawn. Cops were called and we left. We headed to the broken up party in hopes it was a party again, got harrassed at the door, and continued to the backyard. By the time we left the cops were back on their way, and I was behind the wheel of Vanessa's crappy brown corsica, with a passenger, and a backseat full of friends who were aparently more intoxicated than me. I literally pulled around the first corner and Tyler and his moustache were calling for a stop. I stop, Tyler leaps from the corsica onto someone's lawn and began to puke. Lights went on in the house, cops were pulling around the corner, and we pulled Ty back into the vehicle and quietly drove home.

This also brings memory of Brent and Ty's race for shotgun which turned into Ty's head getting slammed into the door, Ty going unconscious, followed by seizing, me waking him up, and forcing everyone to take him to the hospital. That is another story alltogether, but overall, sucks Ty now moved, he is a fun pal.

I'm so hip, am I a hipster? This is hip of me right?

Ok, I thought of something worth posting. Here we go, Incase is awesome right? Any mac user knows this, but I didn't really look into it. They have unreal collabos going on.
The perfect messenger bag


For anyone who writes, you know what the deal is with KRINK markers, drips, drips, drips. Has Krink imprinted zipper pulls, and a wicked inner label, Check this...
Steven Harrington cases:

Also collabos with Parra, Fragment Design, and skater Paul Rodriquez. (It's all fucking hipster shit, I know)

Download Limp Wrist S/T, album rules...

Blank

Havn't posted anything in a while, I guess I just havn't got much to say that is worthy of posting. Livejournal is for mindless bantering, not this. I like to think of my blogspot as something worthy of reading, but not lately. My brother is moving back home, I guess thats good news, I was going to take him to the Bouncing Souls for his birthday but I can't afford it. Sucks.

I am almost done school, and I don't know what to do with my life. I am so lazy

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Classes seem to be either exhilirating, thought-provoking, and interesting, or the cause of major deterioration of motivation. With the ruthless treatment I have been given this year of university, my motivation to learn instills depression even at the thought of attending class. 50% of my class schedule is an excitement, the latter 50% is dull, and a complete bore. I have the worst attitude towards my education sometimes, and I feel guilty because of it. I avoid my mom's calls in the case she is asking about school. I am so guilty of treating this year with such lethargy.

I havn't attended WRIT 1P96 in a month, and these are the participation assignments I have missed.
I am letting my education slip through my hands, and most of the time I would rather be sipping on coffee or listening to music.

Tops

Last night, went to Buffalo for Converge, Coliseum, Ceremony, Rise&Fall, and Pulling Teeth. It was fun, got to see some pals I hadn't seen in a long time. Made it over the border with 1 ripped birth certificate, 1 temporary driver's license, and 1 potential warrent for arrest. Let's just say Polish Phil was pretty happy he didn't get detained. Erin broke her wrist, everybody ate burritos and tacos and hoagies and stuff, loganberry is the best drink.

All the songs I hoped to see get played were played!

Mikey Vs. Milo

Which vocalist do you like more?

Mike Yannich (Ergs!)

Milo Aukerman (Descendents)

Free Poll

OD'd on pop

For the record, Tyler Adair is hilarious and awesome. It is super funny when he laughs really hard and can't breathe, also when he panics while trying to say something. We enjoy many of the same things including "FOLK ART" hahahhaha.

Shout outs to Niagara Records for having good records, Mama's Pitas for being offering undoubtedly vegan pitas that fill my tummy, Timur for stealing from subway, J.R. for riding a unicycle, Natalie Ortiz for being alive, Kristina for dressing like me today, and anyone else I saw because it is only 4:45 and I have already successfully had a fun day.

Currently Listening: Children of The Revolution-Violent Femmes
Once again, I am boring.

Pedalling Faster

Fixing up my bike this week and next, need to drop some money on it, but will be worth it. Goal with Kristina: ride entire Glenridge avenue by end of summer. This WILL happen.

Update: Latest Vegan Police (#16) is up, includes some good shit!
Stay Tuned: for Pizza Tuesday

I am boring

The snow is melting, my jobs are ending, exams are nearing, my dog is currently snoring.

Spring time is a strange time. I want to go for a bike ride on my "redbikeredbikebikeredbike" but I have to pump the tires. My dog is so hyper she would probably drag me all over town anyways. When my tax money comes in, I am going away, either out west, or Montreal. Out west would be ideal, fly to Vancouver, get my aunt to pick me up, stay in Squamish for a few days, check out Quest University, climb Shannon falls, maybe rock climb with my cousin, Head to whistler, snowboard for a few days with my friends. Get to the ferry somehow, head to Vancouver Island, hangout with my grandparents for a bit. Ferry back to Vancouver, hangout with Kayla and go to the Aquarium (DUH). Then home! Would be even more ideal if I could get out to the okanagen valley and visit my brother.

Hopfully this happens.

Recipe

Thai Peanut Dish:
Ingredients:
-tofu
-mixed vegetables (chopped)
-peanut butter
-olive oil
-hoi sin sauce
-peanuts
-brown sugar
-thai noodles

1. Cut tofu into cubes/triangles/etc, grill however you please (I did triangles in a bit of olive oil)
2. Heat about half a cup of peanut butter in pan, add almost equal parts in hoi sin sauce, maybe a 1/4 cup oliver or vegetable oil, heat until smooth, put in a bowl and mix
3. Cook noodles however you are supposed to
4. Cook/steam/whatever you want to mixed vegetables
5. Crush peanuts in a grinder of some sort + add a few spoonfuls brown sugar and mix together

Serve all together and drink with something good like tea

Pizza & Beer

Western ideas of what pizza and beer consists of usually takes place in a sports bar or a large living room with leather couches and a table. Pizza on delivery, and frothy beer in mugs.

Yesterday I woke up, took my car in to get a quote to get the back bumper fixed (for the second time in the past year), I continued on my way to J.R.'s house where we took off to get groceries for his house and vegetables for the pizza. All I contributed was some stolen packets of yeast to bring the dough to a rise. We put the groceries away, and grabbed coffee where Kyle met us there and we all left and began the (vegan) pizza making while listening to Daniel Johnston. We made one pizza, devoured it, made the dough for another pizza and while Kyle and J.R. jammed, I read "What White People Like". We made a second pizza which was equally delicious, I drove Kyle home, and Amy came over to enjoy the pizza we saved her, and watch Darfur Now and have some beers. We all got sleepy and almost put the film to shame by not paying attention. Overall was a good night.

Est-ce que vous aimez les bananes?

This fucking rules...
Love you Dayn.

Rain

is no fun today.

"This Machine Kills Fascists"

I get caught up in laying in my bed too often, being a sloth, smoking and drinking coffee while self-informing via internet. Breaking myself of that habit slowly lately, sitting at my cozy desk in my shitty chair. When distracted I can grab a magazine from my collection of favourites and newbies, stare at my cluttered bulletin board, reach southwest and play a record, or grab a pen and doodle. I should spend more time at my desk, will probably do me some good.

-Cavalier Eternal 7" is my latest repetition
-1984 in french is my latest challenge
-saving money/paying bills is my latest goal
-staying motivated in school is my latest roadblock
-reading before class on the sunny benches in Academic South is my new found vice

If I had a guitar it would resemble that of Woody Guthrie (figure it out)

Dusty Pages

In the past two weeks I have gained 8 new reads to my small book collection. Not sure when I will get the chance to finish these but I have dug into one and I will continue to pry at the others. Books include:
-George Orwell-1984 (fr. version)
-William Kotzwinkle-E.T. The Extraterrestrial
-Ken Kesey-One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
-Miriam Toews-A Complicated Kindness
-Robertson Davies-The Fifth Business
-Lewis Carroll-The Annotated Alice (Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass)
-Dr. Paul R. Ehrlich-The Population Bomb
-Matthew Arnold-Culture and Anarchy

Below are some photos I like...

Cutest Goat
Garage Sale
Euro Cyclist

Books Galore
Smooching?