Boyo

The Friday Five for August 29th, 2008

How many times a day do you...

1. Brush your teeth??
Twice.
2. Shower?
Once, occasionally a quick flash if i'm feeling grungy.
3. Check your E-mail?
Too many to count...
4. Check LJ?
Too many to count...
5. Eat?
Four, maybe? I eat three meals, and nibble a bit outside - leave dessert until later.

This week has been meetings and work. Tuesday after work John (whose wife had gone to her parents with the baby, so he had a free pass), Miah and i went to see Tropic Thunder. We then met Chris at the Tap for wings and abusive conversation, lol. We discovered Miah was a cheerleader, ha ha ha.

After the Tap, we were a little drunk (i had had 3 ciders), so we went to the local strip club. How depressing. The place is a hole, sullen, dark. You know how strippers get to choose their own music? They shouldn't... One girl was creative and used jazz music (instead of death metal), and actually danced around a bit. She also sat down beside Miah, chatted with him, went out for a smoke with him, and he bought a lap dance from her. She was cute enough, and i don't have anything against the strippers, but i find it depressing they have to walk around and sell themselves that way.

Last night, Chris got a weekend pass from his wife, so Chris, Matt, Miah and i went out - well, after they spent some time at some other teacher's place. I don't find that group particularly interesting. They also joined us at the Tap, and we got to see one of them get really steamed and angry talking about his university education, standing up. His - uh, i don't think he was the woman's husband, friend maybe? Anyway, she was talking aside to him about how to talk in public without appearing angry. Weird. Also, we found one of us (not me) has spit and peed on a woman (and received in return). Whatever, it was just entertaining - he really puts his foot in his mouth, lol. Anyway, the new people made conversation less convivial, and the pub got crazy busy. Our group was going to go to a less crazy place, but was taking forever. I just paid and went outside, waited a few minutes and left. Ugh. I could've thought of more fun things to do.

Sunday i saw the early, early show - boy are tickets cheap! The movie i saw was The House Bunny. It was okay - not on the level of Tropic Thunder, about the same as The Rocker. Some funny moments, and you can't help but love the performances of Anna Faris and Emma Stone (also in The Rocker), who just give it all, but the plot has been pulled from the recycle bin.

"I didn't stay in college for nine years just to go back to my trailer in Idaho!"

"My heart is racing like a nail!"

"A little bird told me..." "I gotta meet this freakin' bird!"

After the movie, i picked up a cake, some booze, and went to Lisa and Russ's for her birthday party. Mostly her family, her friends Karen, Karen's mother, Elizabeth, and me - oh, and the neighbours. Lisa's father was particularly chatty. I got Lisa some books, but ordered late (she wa slate with her list), so i also got her some stuff from Fruits & Passion.

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I put in my two weeks notice at shoppers drug mart.

it was such a weight lifted off my shoulders. they wouldn't even let me take a day off sick.

oh, and i have bronchitis. yaaay!

let 'em all load, lol

( fun with stop motion )

An other year, another Toronto Fan Expo. This year, the lineup was brutal compared to last year (virtually none in 2007). Maybe because we came on Saturday this year? We were in line for an hour and a half. Should've bought my ticket online. This is a portion of the six folding lines, before the big line, before the other set of folding lines.

When i was getting ready at home, after my shower and about to clean the tub, i bent down to pick up a sponge, and something in my back went "SPROING!" - some innocent little twisting. Man did it hurt - still does!

Then, as we ate before going into the Con, i swallowed a swig of Diet Coke really hard - you know how it hurts when you do that? Well, this time it REALLY hurt. It was like a heart attack in my throat, lol (i laugh now). Within a couple of minutes, i started feeling shaky, and had to sit on the ground because i began to feel faint, and sweat profusely (thankfully, it was air-conditioned inside the con). I felt better within a few minutes. I think i'm on a physical low, lol.

( Toronto Fan Expo pics )

I was going to ask why my eyes looked so tired, but i hadn't had much sleep. And last time i had a beard, there was no white! WTF.

( Toronto Fan Expo pics )

I was wearing my latest Scott Pilgrim tee (i have both versions, but i was wearing red - thanks Joan!), and it was a big hit. There was one artist in the alley (Alex Sera) who noticed it and started takng about how great Scott Pilgrim is, then i was stopped by a gang of peoples asking where i got the shirt, then a single girl, and later on, after dinner, someone randomly in the street.

Miah, Mo and Lindsey went to East for supper. I had dumplings and beef pad thai.

Friday, i left work after lunch (then again, i'd worked Thursday night at home to get something done). So, i went to see a movie. I saw The Rocker. It was okay, not great, but not awful. It's the story of a guy kicked out of a metal band that goes on to make it big, and he gets a second chance at fame and fortume when he's asked to join his nephew's band. He's supposed to be immature for his age (40s), reliving his youth, but he's not acting like he's in his 20s, he's actually less mature than the kids in their teens.

Seriously, what decade is he from?

"1991 called, they want their teenage angst back."
"No, they just called again they want that joke back."

This week was back to work for me, which was a mix of getting stuff done, and slogging through other stuff. Monday (or was it Tuesday?) we went for sushi at a new place, which i didn't think was all that John did (not that it was bad). We went with our newest (part-time) teacher, and former student, Angelina. On Friday, we went to a pub for lunch with some admin people - it was a summer coordinator's last day, because of the hiring freeze.

Wednesday was not only comics day, but i decided i'd take a shot at (ha, ha, ironically) Delirium, the movie of the Cirque arena show, hoping maybe the camera would make up for the lack of intimacy. No, it turns out i didn't much enjoy the show itself, which had little acrobatics and a lot of music (the music is fine background for the performances, but definitely not why i go to the shows). So, when i was still bored about a half hour in, i went to see Tropic Thunder again, instead.

I've been lazy about posting, it seems.

Last Sunday, i went to see the latest Cirque show to hit our area, Saltimbanco. It's actually an adaptation of one of their old big top shows to an arena venue. The show was pretty enjoyable - not their strongest, but a heck of a lot better than their other arena show, Delerium. Except, it loses the intimacy. What makes a Cirque de Soleil so fantastic is that there are people who are flipping around above your head, crawing around on poles near you. Even though it's only half the Air Canada Centre, it's just too large a space for the kind of show they do. Also, i ordered at the last minute, so getting not great seats is my fault, but why did i get a seat on the very edge, when there were plenty of seats more towards the centre? Thanks for nothing, Ticketmaster. At least i was able to move during the show.

Bungee acrobatics.

satanicseraphim (5:02:48 AM): NEVER SHUT UP
satanicseraphim (5:02:49 AM): EVER
satanicseraphim (5:03:13 AM): unless I am sitting on your face. or making out with you.
satanicseraphim (5:03:18 AM): or both.
goddamnaseptic (5:03:21 AM): ...
satanicseraphim (5:03:27 AM): hahahahaha
goddamnaseptic (5:03:34 AM): the imagery is...
goddamnaseptic (5:03:35 AM): is.
goddamnaseptic (5:03:43 AM): I don't know
goddamnaseptic (5:03:53 AM): are you a Dali painting irl?
satanicseraphim (5:04:22 AM): yes.

Wow, I haven't posted in... forever? So much has happened it'll be impossible to sum it all up.

My mom visited me for a week last week! It was a lot of fun to show her around Tokyo, and we made a little tourist trip to Osaka and Kyoto.
I'll let the pictures tell the story:


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(More pics and full res versions at my Flickr page.

A few weeks ago, I participated in the National championships for Company archery teams1 I teamed up with Tanebe (my colleague who represented Japan at the last world champs) and Morishita, and needless to say (?) we won the thing. There were only 3 compound teams, sadly...
I also managed to finish 3rd in the individual competition, only losing to Tanebe :)

fragments that you walk on
craving for a little peace of mind.

I went to see Mirrors with Tristan last night, it was okay. I love Kiefer Sutherland and his over-the-top Tourettes Syndrome performance. GOD DAMNIT.
Afterwards, we went to the Embassy for drinks and dancing. Met a gay psychic. Pretty sweet, imo. Then we came home to my place and took the dog for a walk in Gage Park. Saw a guy getting a BJ and peeing [not simultaneously], good times.

zzzzzzzz

One good thing about insomnia, I suppose, is early mornings... the quiet sunrise. while most people were either sleeping soundly, or just getting up, I took Raven to Gage Park. I actually think the last dog I walked there at that hour was Bear, to give an idea of how long it's been... we lived downtown for almost a year so yeah. A bit of a hike to Gage.

At any rate, there was a soft fog settling over the field. I literally watched it roll in, it was neat. Very serene. While we were walking, a pair of bats circled us overhead. I thought they were birds at first, but one flew at probably arm's length in front of my face, and I realized they were not. They made me dizzy, watching them.

I took the dog up to the Bandshell and watched the sunrise.

I didn't really realize how doing that made me get all weirdly introspective and melancholy, til now. gets me every time.

ah well

I just got back from my nanny's, she threw an impromptu barbecue. My cousin James from Manitoba was down visiting his mom in Port Credit, so he took the GO train down to see us. It was fun! Nice to see him.

And now I go hump Jeff's ear.

ryan 's Kat .4 yarrs. says:
myaaar
new sonic looks good
Sonic FHUTA Extreme
or EX for short

Seraph says:
fuck now I have the music from the second world in sonic stuck in my head
THANKS A LOT
DUH NA NA NA NA NANA! DUUUH NA NA NA! DUNNA NANA NA NA NA NA NAAAAA

ryan 's Kat .4 yarrs. says:
lol
GC 2008: Xbox 360 Controller Redesigned
A subtly redesigned Xbox 360 controller has been spotted on the showroom floor at this year's Games Convention in Leipzig, sporting a new-feel d-pad that addresses the previously unresponsive and spongy model.

Seraph says:
lol unresponsive and spongy are also words used to describe erectile dysfunction

-{Nape}- Marla Swinger? says:
lol
I wanna watch fightclub >: (

Seraph says:
I own it haha you suck

-{Nape}- Marla Swinger? says:
I don't have a dvd players

Seraph says:
it's because no one likes the kind of soap you use
aka: NONE
I went to great lengths for that burn, I hope you appreciate the effort
I hope my effort is not lost in your stench

-{Nape}- Marla Swinger? says:
owe my heart

Seraph says:
you are not having a heart attack, remain calm
you are merely choking on your own stench
it is acrid but you will pull through

-{Nape}- Marla Swinger? says:
I'll give that I smell but not THAT bad

Seraph says:
it's awful, it wilts flowers and peels the wallpaper

my lulz of the morning:



Watch out, demons and naga.

Got the notice of my 'step' increase today, which gives me a raise.

Leaving the Museum, i happened to catch a sign for the Locks, so decided to take a look.

( Peterborough Locks pics )

( Peterborough Locks pics )

"Peace. Love. and French Fries." Kinda says it all.