Radio Diatribe

Introducing RD Burst

2005-07-25T01:44:00.000-04:00

A couple days ago, I came to realization that I haven't blogged in, like, forever. Then I remembered I had intended to write some crap on the blog on multiple occasions during the last couple months, but I decided not to 'cause it would too much time (and stuff).

Hence, I decided to try a different format of writing, a format that is a lot less formal, thus significantly less time consuming, than Radio Diatribe. What do I mean by "less formal"? I mean more spelling/grammar errors, less coherent (by at least 80%), and considerably smaller post sizes.

So, without further retardedly incoherent blabbering, I present to you RD Burst, a brand new blog with less than 20% coherence compared to the original Radio Diatribe.

So, you did a lot of drugs

2005-05-20T22:37:00.000-04:00

From Life of a UW Math Student:
"It's a video of him at a park just filming stuff interspliced with footage from Fire Birds. I don't really know how to describe it, it's creepy as hell. Like he kept zooming in on people and then zooming out to the scenary."

I wish I had thought of this.

Back in Waterloo, started co-op job, voted in B.C. election

2005-05-06T01:01:00.000-04:00

I voted in B.C. provincial election by absentee ballot.

It was the most enjoyable vote so far as I was actually able to vote for the party I want to vote for, not the Liberals for the fear of the Conservatives, as I had in every other election that I cast vote in (2003 Ontario provincial and 2004 federal). See, there's no chance that anyone other than the B.C. Liberal (read B.C. Neo/Social-Con Alliance - it's not affiliated with the federal Liberals at all) candidate is going to get elected in my hillbilly inland B.C. riding, so there's no point wasting my vote for NDP, which I don't really trust anyways.

I should also mention that B.C. is having a referendum on whether to replace with the completely retarded "first past the post" system with "single transferable vote" system. There has been a lot of bitching about the new system, but I voted yes as I found most of them pretty unconvincing.

For example, some have claimed that Ireland, which use the STV system, have very few women and minorities in its parliament and the same thing's going to happen in B.C. WTF? It's like that in Ireland because it's a ultra-conservative, hyper-religious country that was ruled by the Catholic Church until just a few decades ago. More popular is the one that goes like "oh my fucking god, B.C. Liberals are going to be in power for ever and ever because STV will stop people from voting strategically and the left vote (which NDP currently gets most of) will be split between NDP, Greens, Marijuana, and Sex Party." Considering that the two major factions (Jesus-freaks vs. secular neo-cons) in the B.C. Liberal Party are always out to get each other, and that the party's made up mostly of ruthless opportunists, with a electoral system that allows candidates from small parties to get elected (such as STV), it's quite possible that the right will be split into even smaller pieces than the left.

Well, at least that's what I think.

I have to work tomorrow; I should sleep.

Just two more days

2005-04-16T23:38:00.000-04:00

I'll be flying home on Tuesday, just in time for the birch pollen alergy season. Pus will be oozing from my eyes the moment the plane starts descending.

This is bad

2005-04-13T23:37:00.000-04:00

I made a startling discovery a few weeks ago.

Three songs on Discovery (yes, the album from Daft Punk) are ripoffs.

(I didn't intend to make that horrible pun; it just happened. Speaking of pun, I couldn't help but notice that every other review for Daft Punk's latest album, Human After All, contained the same pun - something along the line of "This album kinda so so. I guess Daft Punk's human after all. OMG LOL!!!" I didn't realize that there were so many Peggy Hill clones walking among us.)

Other news:
LCD Soundsystem (a.k.a. Jame Murphy, everyone's favourite lumberjack) and M.I.A. are performing at the Opera House in Toronto on May 21. I am going. (I've never been to the place; I hope the atmosphere there isn't too Queen-St.-scary/skanky.)

Gondry at MIT

2005-04-05T22:10:00.000-04:00

Michel Gondry is at MIT, like, right now. Had I the time (and a roundtrip plane ticket, and a camouflage kit, and money, and ...), I would be in Cambridge, MA stalking him right now. Argh!

Throwing $42.54 into the Church of Beck collection basket, pt. 4

2005-03-29T23:05:00.001-05:00

Guero Deluxe 2-Disc Edition: $36.99 * 1.15 = $42.54 (at HMV).

Outside.

Inside.

I can't stop obsessing about Beck, pt. 3

2005-03-28T22:48:00.000-05:00

A quote from a post on Lightning Struck Itself, a blog by Clem Bastow:

Somebody once said, in relation to Beck's eclecticism, that 'no one in real life likes country and hip hop' ... It is his tenth album and his second made having returned wholeheartedly to the arms of a certain celebrity church/cult, the one that actively encourages its members not to seek inspiration, friendship or collaboration from 'no-case-gains' ... Guero led me to something of a revelation: could it be that this 'faith's' cultural isolationism is at the root of Beck's legendary eclecticism? If you're raised within a vacuum, it's pretty hard to worry about liking country and hip hop - and samba and jazz and metal and rock and, and...

This made me remember something I read a couple months ago.

"The revolution that failed", Salon.com:

Spike Jonze, while not as cantankerous as those three, comes off as an immature, insecure skate-punk prankster with little intellectual curiosity and a blissful ignorance of pre-"Star Wars" culture. This may be why his movies, "Being John Malkovich" and "Adaptation," seem so original -- he isn't imitating classic films of the past because he's never even seen them. Waxman reports that one day on the set of the former film Jonze took Malkovich aside to tell him he was overacting a scene. "I was getting a little Blanche there, wasn't I?" the star agreed. Jonze looked puzzled. "Blanche Dubois," responded Malkovich. "Tennessee Williams? 'A Streetcar Named Desire'? Blanche Dubois?" Jonze could only shrug; he had no idea what Malkovich was talking about. "What did you get me into?" Malkovich moaned to producer Steve Golin, who could only respond, "At least it won't be derivative."

Obsessing about Beck, pt. 2

2005-03-25T20:28:00.000-05:00

Oh my fucking god, Beck is a Scientologist (thank you for the info, Dave).

The Guardian says Beck is a Scientologist.

The liner notes in Guero thanks Jenna Elfman who is well, uhh... Here's a link.

Beck showed up at a party with a known Scientologist.

This: The Secret Life of Beck Hansen - A Guide for the Professional Journalist

In the interview published by the Planet magazine, Beck sounds very uncomfortable when George W. Bush and Jesus come up as a subject. (Read The Secret Life of Beck Hansen.)

Beck recently performed at a Scientology gala.

His mom (Bibbe Hansen), dad (David Campbell), wife (Marissa Ribisi), brother-in-law (Giovanni Ribisi), and mother-in-law (Gay Ribisi) are all Scientologists.

I wonder if Sofia Coppola is a Scientologist too. (That would be just terrible).

Only 4 days to go 'til Beck's new album

2005-03-24T23:20:00.000-05:00

With Beck's newest album, Guero, set to drop in four days, I am feeling strangely compelled to disseminate irrelevant and trivial information about Beck (damn you, obsessive-compulsive tendencies that run in the family). So here it is:

Beck is married to Marissa Ribisi, the twin sister of Giovanni Ribisi. Giovanni is a close friend of Sofia Coppola. (God, I love Sofia.)

Issue 9 of Planet magazine (which I bought today at KW Book Store) has Beck on the front cover and an advertisement for Sofia, the alcopop-in-can from from the Niebaum-Coppola Winery, on the back.

Beck's grandfather, Al Hansen, who was a founder of the Fluxus movement, discovered Yoko Ono.

Beck's mother, Bibbe Hansen, was part of Andy Warhol's Factory scene (here's a link to a very interesting interview of Bibbe Hansen by Vaginal Davis for index magazine).

Smokey, who plays bass guitar for Beck, was a member of Cibo Matto, whose drummer was Sean Lennon, John and Yoko's son.

The video for "E-Pro", first single off Guero, was done by Shynola, a British design team. They are represented in U.S. by The Directors Bureau, which was founded by Sofia Coppola, Roman Coppola (her brother), and Mike Mills.

Guero was produced by The Dust Brothers. Beck and the Brothers (who are not actually brothers) also collaborated on Odelay.

The Dust Brothers also produced Paul's Boutique, the album that established Beastie Boys as hip-hop gods. Sean Lennon, who played drums for Cibo Matto, which included Smokey, who plays bass for Beck, was signed to Beastie Boys' label, Grand Royale. That is, before the label/magazine went kaput in 2001.

I think that should do for today.

Yahoo acquires Flickr

2005-03-20T20:01:00.000-05:00

God, oh, no.

One more reason to like Haruki Murakami

2005-03-20T01:40:00.000-05:00

An excerpt from The Paris Review, No. 170

Interviewer: Did you think that book [Norwegian Wood] as an exercise in style, or did you have a specific story to tell that was best told realistically?

[Haruki] Murakami: I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I coulde write a realistic book. That's why I wrote that book. It was a bestseller in Japan, and I expected that result.

Interview: So it was actually a strategic choice.

Murakami: That's right. Norwegian Wood is very easy to read and easy to understand. Many people liked that book. They might then be interested in my other work; so it helps a lot.

Daft Punk, fuck yeah!

2005-03-15T14:45:00.000-05:00

Fuck yeah!

Soon, we'll be assualted by furious storms of poo

2005-03-08T01:01:00.000-05:00

The geese are back
Originally uploaded by gloom.

They are back.

How to get your own Audioscrobbler sidebar running

2005-02-26T19:49:00.000-05:00

After contemplating Dave's rather bizarre offer of forgiveness, I have decided to release the code I used to generate the Audioscrobbler sidebar.

So here it is:

style="width: 340px; align: center;">

The above piece of code will generate JavaScript file that you can link from your blog by putting the following lines of HTML in your Blogger template.

style="width: 340px; align: center;">

The PHP script uses Magpie RSS Parser, which you should be able to get from here. You should read the Magpie FAQ on caching. (For this, all you need to do is create a directory named 'cache' in the directory where you put the PHP script.)

U of W's Computer Science, Mathematics, and Engineering undergraduate web servers are PHP-enabled, so you should be able to run the script from your web space. As for Artsies, ESers, and AHSers, I don't know if you can run PHP scripts.

"What I am listening to now" sidebar

2005-02-25T23:32:00.000-05:00

As you might have already noticed, I now have the "What I am listening to now" sidebar.

For those of you who are technically inclined, it's powered by Audioscrobbler RSS feed and Magpie RSS Parser.

If you aren't already using Audioscrobbler, you really should. I mean, how else would you find out you have 50% musical taste match with a really skanky Finnish man?

Thanks to Dave, from whose blog entry I discovered Audioscrobbler.

Beck LP release date announced

2005-01-20T21:56:00.001-05:00

Beck's new LP, titled Guero, will finally hit stores on March 29!

The first single, E-Pro, will be released next month (that's February).

Yay!

Another year

2005-01-10T20:34:00.000-05:00

Another year, another term, a shit load of homework.

Gah, it's only the second week of lecture!

Mr. Pong's Satanic Panda

2004-12-23T06:00:00.000-05:00

Mr. Pong's Satanic Panda close-up
Originally uploaded by gloom.

Satanic pandas are so kewl.

iTunes Canada: WTF?

2004-12-07T16:57:00.001-05:00

Apple's Canadian iTunes Store does not carry tracks released by Sub Pop, Beggars Group (XL Recordings, Matador, 4AD, etc.), Emperor Norton, Rough Trade, ANTI-, or V2. Only label I found available on iTunes Canada was Nonesuch. This means you can't get The Shins, Peaches, Belle & Sebastian, Dizzee Rascal, Hot Hot Heat, Ratatat, Call and Response, or The White Stripes. Gaahh!

Please, please make indie labels available. If you don't, I can't promise you that I won't kidnap Steve Jobs and make him watch a continous loop of footages from Con Air.

When tards attack

2004-11-15T21:23:00.001-05:00

If you still haven't read Jane Smiley's article on Slate, you seriously should check it out. Of all the post-election discourses, I found Smiley's article to be the most daring, and also the most honest. I didn't think what she wrote about red-staters was true when I first read it, although I can see where she's coming from. (I grew up in a tiny town approximately 25 minutes away from Stockwell Day's riding.)

Now, I still don't believe things she wrote to be true, the conviction with which I disbelieve her is beginnning to wade. Just look at this, this, this, and hundreds more like them here.

I am just going to assume that those crazy stuffs were written by thirteen year olds. Otherwise, it would be just too depressing.

Rescue Americans!

2004-11-03T16:29:00.000-05:00

Marry them.

FUCK

2004-11-03T12:47:00.000-05:00

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

John Kerry leading in early exit polls

2004-11-02T16:15:00.000-05:00

John Kerry is currently leading in exit polls, according to Slate.

Well, yay!!! I hope it holds up.

Terry Richardson

2004-10-18T04:08:00.000-04:00

Terry Richardson is, umm, so crazy. I just can't help but love how he makes everything look like cheap porno. I really should have impulse-purchased that issue of Arktip.

FBI seizes Indymedia servers

2004-10-08T20:40:00.000-04:00

It appears that FBI has seized Indymedia UK's servers, just a few days before the election.

I want to die

2004-09-27T04:37:00.000-04:00

A Google image search for "i want to die".

God, I guess it is not possible to avoid Kurt Cobain, the eternal talentless fuck, for more than three days at a time. I was just so close. Why did I have to search "i want to die"? I want to die.

The Shins on CBC Radio 3

2004-09-26T04:41:00.000-04:00

Yay! The Shins are on CBC Radio 3 this week! I really like the Shins despite the fact that they are so very, very old.

I miss Toronto

2004-09-20T04:17:00.000-04:00

I miss Toronto. Being 4109.9 km away from Toronto sucks.

I really wanted to go to the RESFEST and see kozyndan's show at Magic Pony. Uhrghh!

Well, it's only four months and twelve days before I am back in Waterloo. I hope that crazy crack whore lady and the senile street preacher dude are still hanging out around Queen and Lansdowne.

Beck's album delayed

2004-09-18T20:55:00.000-04:00

The album's release date has been pushed to early 2005 from Fall 2004. This makes me feel very sad.

It's been a while

2004-09-12T01:42:00.000-04:00

It's been a while since the last post.

Time sure does go fast when you eat ice cream and Jello everyday.

"Mr. Wizard - The Legend of Speed"

2004-08-20T05:13:00.000-04:00

I got the current issue of RES a couple days ago, and along with it came the Nike "Art of Speed" DVD containing a collection of short films (about the "speed") commissioned by Nike. I watched it my sister, and I liked it very much. I know I am supposed to throw it away in disgust or at least be very blasé about it, but I was extremely bored and all the pretty colours on the DVD slipcase excited me too much.

The best short was "Mr. Wizard - The Legend of Speed" by Friends With You. Its ending is just absolutely mind-bending.

This is the craziest thing I have seen in last three months.

While most of the shorts were pretty good or at the least worth watching it once, a few were just terrible. Yeah, shame on you Associates in Science; your short is just crap. (These people also made the crap Interpol video. It won't be long before they find themselves on trial at the International Court of Justice.)

Meet you at the CEIT Dofasco Entrance Foyer

2004-08-19T03:09:00.001-04:00

Have you been to CEIT lately? I went to CEIT to milk that sweet free wireless Internet connection a few weeks ago and made a startling discovery; every major part of the building has been named after a corporation. Take for example the March Networks Exhibit Atrium.

You can look at pretty rocks and then commit suicide too.

I, for one, think it is just fantastic that a company that sells techno-fascist digital surveillance systems to civil-rights-stomping police forces around the world supports our university.

Boo!

I don't like Hamilton, so I automatically dislike Dofasco.

What? Theater? Theater?! It's theatre, T-H-E-A-T-R-E. Jesus.

First they change their name from Royal Bank of Canada to RBC, and now they (or the sign company) spell theatre, "theater." Argg! I have to go and vandalize the local "RBC Royal Bank" branch now.

My new favourite word

2004-08-18T01:56:00.000-04:00

I finally got to actually reading the copy of Tokion that I bought a month ago. My favourite article so far is the one called "Megacities"; it's a discussion on the acceleration of urbanization by a group of experts (well, they sounded like experts) that included Kengo Kuma. The reason I like it so much is because the discussion panel uses words like "McMansion", "homo movents", and "Corbusierian".

The word I definitely liked the most is "techno-fascist". I've heard "fascist techno", but "techno-fascist"? It's just such a great word; I mean, you could use it everywhere. Here's an example:

Girl 1: What are you doing?
Girl 2: Taking care of my techno-fascist blackheads.
Girl 1: But, you don't have any techno-fascist blackheads.
Girl 2: Exactly.
Voice-over: Clean & Clear, under control.

Besides the crazy (made-up) words, I really liked Kengo Kuma's completely unrealistic and insanely fucked-up architectural drawings. After all, he's the guy who designed the Bamboo House.

Fun with Webalizer

2004-08-17T03:25:00.000-04:00

If you don't already know what Webalizer is, here's a brief intro: Webalizer is an application that reads web server logs and spit out reports on the site's visitors. It can tell you who visited your site, which section of the site was visited most often, and what files used up the most bandwidth.

I was bored yesterday and decided to do a google search to find some Webalizer reports on uwaterloo.ca sites.

The most interesting reports were the ones for www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca and www.student.math.uwaterloo.ca. According to the report on the CS student server, roughly 30 GB of bandwidth were used in August so far to transfer the sweet ballads of Bryan Adams, Jessica Simpson, and Britney Spears. The report for the Math server shows downloads of weird wrestling videos using up a bit less than 7 GB of bandwidth (again, in August so far). These files, in my opinion, need to be taken down immediately: maybe not the wrestling videos, but the music downloads are definitely abusive usages. More importantly, bad taste in music should not be tolerated.

There were some other interesting discoveries besides the above abuses. Some guy has posted a flash movie about some hockey players. I didn't get it because I don't follow hockey at all, but I thought people who do follow hockey might find it funny (or not funny or disgusting or Kafkaesque or sadomasochistic). And, Lino Demasi, the beloved leader of the Mathsoc has apparently created a nifty script to allow anyone with an Internet connection to see his mailbox. Well, thank you Lino Demasi for taking a major leap in increasing the transparency of the Mathsoc and your personal affairs.

The exams left you frustrated, and you want to die?

2004-08-16T03:13:00.002-04:00

Well, first, please don't kill yourself. I mean, at least you didn't drive into the Kinko's. (If you're the guy who drove into the Kinko's, well, umm, at least you are not this guy.)

But, if you one day found your life completely unlivable beyond any doubt, you have the comfort of knowing that your school, the University of Waterloo, provides plenty of places for easy, quick suicide. This, in my opinion, almost makes up for the horrible teachers, abysmal co-op job prospect, and vitriolic service at the Housing Office.

Now, here are some of the fine places where you can end your life.

Davis Centre 2 has a set of special doors to help frustrated grad students make their problems go away instantly.

CEIT has this garden thingy on the second floor. I think you can jump off from there. (I might be mistaken; it's been a while since I've been there.)

CEIT also has a balcony overlooking the March Networks^® Exhibit Atrium^TM.

MC balcony on the third floor can serve more than 87 people per minute.

Jumping onto the sculptures will guarantee your death. Avoid those embarassing post-failed-suicide-moments with friends and family.

So fucking hot

2004-08-15T19:21:00.000-04:00

I am back in the Okanagan, the home to Sun-Rype apple juice, Big White, and, well, Stockwell Day.

The temperature outside right now (4:00 p.m.) is 36° C, and the night temperature hovers around 24° C.

Anyhow, here are some pictures from my travel home.

The old Terminal 1 at Pearson is being torn down. A part of Terminal 2 also has been torn down.

The freaky, Disneyesque moving installations(?) at the Calgary airport.

Background: the Calgary downtown. Foreground: a plane from the Northwest Airlines, the yuckiest airline in North America.

The WestJet cargo bins.

The Kelowna "airport."

Leaving tomorrow

2004-08-12T23:44:00.000-04:00

I'll be leaving Waterloo tomorrow. I bought Kellogg's Frosted Flakes Cereal & Milk Bars to eat on the planes. (Why won't WestJet serve meals on their planes? Arggg.)

Also, I realized that shipping my stuffs back home (by regular mail, not Priority Platinum Chrysanthemum Express Same-Day Mega-Deluxe) set me back almost two-hundred dollars.

Well, I hope my plane doesn't get delayed seventeen hours like the last time.

Anyhow, I saw a guy who looks like Morrissey wearing a Morrissey t-shirt on Tuesday. I thought it was really creepy. It was almost as creepy as the guy who looks and speaks just like Karl Lagerfeld I saw in Toronto (somewhere between Spadina and Dufferin on Queen St. to be specific).

Thumbsucker

2004-08-07T01:32:00.000-04:00

An excerpt from Deformer, a short film by Mike Mills:

Girl:
Empty hearts lack blood. Feel with your tongue.
I love everyone; I mean I love girls and boys; I probably even love you.
Love is really wonderful, especially if you love a lot of people, just not one.
One is lonely; a lot is fun.
I like fun; I like love. Love, love, love love.

Do you know who Mike Mills is? If you answered yes, then congratulations! You are officially a hipster; you may now collect your certificate.

If you said no, Mike Mills is, selon moi, one of the greatest commercial and music video directors. Among the videos he directed are Air's "Kelly Watch the Star" and "Sexy Boy." Air loved his work so much, they named one of the tracks from their new album "Mike Mills." Also, he created the Volkswagen commercial that doesn't actually show the car (which is one of my most favourite commercials) and the Adidas "Forever Sport" campaign. Yeah, and he makes 85-dollar pillows.

Not everything about Mike Mills is fine and dandy though. He also created of one of the most reviled campaign in recent memory: the Gap West Side Story. Even more disturbing is the fact that he did commercials for DuPont (one of America's coporate Satans), the Partnership for a Drug-Free America (the propaganda arm of tobacco and alcohol industry), and American Express.

A while ago, Mills decided to follow the steps of two other commercial/music video greats Spike Jonze (who is the ex-husband of Sofia Coppola, a parter of Mills' production company the Director's Bureau) and Michel Gondry (who is a friend to both Sofia Coppola and Spike Jonze) and direct a feature film. The film, titled Thumbsucker after the book it is based on, stars Keanu Reeves and Vince Vaughn and features soundtrack by Air and The Polyphonic Spree (two of my most favourite bands).

Now, if you haven't suspected already, I am a huge Mike Mills fanboy, and I want to see the movie so very very badly. What's extremely worrying is the fact that the film has been stuck in post-production stage for almost a year when it is not rich in effects at all. Moreover, Focus Features, the movie's production company, does not have the film listed in the "Coming Soon" section. I am beginning to think the film may have been axed (or maybe not). This really pisses me off. I want the soundtrack (which I expect to be an aural orgy), and I want it NOW. If they -- I am not sure who -- kill the soundtrack, I will hit them with blunt instruments until they die.

The bizarre behive lady

2004-08-01T22:29:00.000-04:00

As you can very well see, this lady's hair is totally fucked.

Does anyone know who this lady is or when or where this picture was taken?

And, is she singing or something? Wouldn't that be a blatant violation of the Singing-While-Looking-Like-Marge-Simpson Ban Treaty?

I can't stop looking at this picture; I think this is the most disgusting single act of human perversion I have ever witnessed.

2004-08-01T22:28:00.000-04:00

God is dead.

Wow, almost a week without posting

2004-07-31T00:25:00.000-04:00

I've been quite busy recently.

I had to sleep, eat, eat, sleep, eat, sleep every day. It was very exhausting.

Yeah, and I went to Toronto on Thursday and bought an Ugly Doll.

Well, I have to go back to pretending to study. Bye!

"Guys Gone Wild"?

2004-07-25T02:49:00.000-04:00

Salon.com is running a story about Guys Gone Wild, a spin-off of the Girls Gone Wild franchise. While the company that produced Guys Gone Wild fervently maintains that the indended audience are straight women, the consensus is that it's really a gay porn. Salon.com's reviewers didn't sound like they bought into the company's claim.

Here's an excerpt:

Nathan: OK, first of all, do straight guys shave their pubic hair like that?
Jen: That's gay.
Nathan: Super gay. That guy's shaved too. Maybe straight guys are doing this now.
Jen: No.

The article goes on to inform the readers that the makers of Girls Gone Wild "has sold $100 million worth of DVDs." Who's buying these craps? Judging from the late-night informercials, Girls Gone Wild is very, very boring, has lower T&A per minute than most shows on Showcase, and only features people in dire need of extensive plastic surgeries.

Here's another excerpt:

Jen: Oh yeah. And look at his tiny little penis! This one looks like he knows what he's doing. He's totally a stripper. OK, and why is it that men make that move?
Nathan: What move?
Jen: That shaking-the-dick-around move.
Nathan: Dunno. Again with the shaved pubes!
...
Nathan: And these are not manly men. They're man-boys. That's much more the erotic territory of the homo. Look: shaved again. Now they're doing "dick tricks." And it looks like the girls behind the camera are into the ass slapping too. Are you into ass? Are girls into guy ass?

So, uhh, well, what's with the "dick trick" stuff? People do this? That's just disturbing.

Vote now for your new global overlord

2004-07-24T14:06:00.000-04:00

Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung, the San Francisco artist of the 60x1.com and MaoDonald/Jesus bin Laden fame, have set up a site where you can vote for your favourite global overlord, or Global President, if you prefer.

It looks like Hung has been doing a lot of work recently (for example, the cover art for Rem Koolhaas' new book). This makes me glad (I thought he got mauled to death by rabid dittoheads or something when the updates stopped).

Well, so who are you going to vote for? I voted for Idi Amin; I think we need more leaders who knows how to appreciate some good human flesh.

The mystery of the missing sculptures

2004-07-22T01:05:00.000-04:00

The mystery of missing sculptures at Hagey has been solved!

Well, I knew where they were for quite a while now; I saw them a few weeks ago while chasing the squirrels. I just didn't have the time to go take the pictures.

Anyhow, they are safe and sound at the General Services Complex parking lot.

Now that the renovation to accomodate Stalin's pickled body has been completed, the sculptures should go back to their original places. That is, once the fine people at Raytheon have fitted them with death rays. (You just don't know what these greedy pig fascists are going to do, you know.)

2004-07-22T01:03:00.000-04:00

Where did the sculptures go?

2004-07-22T01:01:00.001-04:00

Hagey Hall before the construction began.

2004-07-22T01:01:00.000-04:00

Oh, what are those?

2004-07-22T01:00:00.000-04:00

The sculptures, yay!

2004-07-22T00:59:00.001-04:00

400 Philip St.: the happiest place on Earth.

2004-07-22T00:59:00.000-04:00

FYI, J.G. Hagey Hall of the Humanities will be renamed J. Stalin Hall against the Humanities.

Finger Eleven is, like, so rad!

2004-07-17T23:59:00.000-04:00

I didn't have anything to do Friday, so I decided to go to the Kitchener Best Buy and witness the breaking of the Guiness World Record (see the post from July 12, 2004).

I arrived at the Fairview Park Mall bus stop slightly before 5 p.m., so I decided to browse the mall, and, well, I got distracted at the Gap. It was already 6 p.m. when I got to Best Buy.

I had real hard time finding Finger Eleven in the store. They were just standing at the back corner, getting pictures taken by the tards (there were only about twenty of them - no world records broken here).

Later, I was in Kitchener downtown to pick up some magazines at KW Bookstore and to see how many tards have lined up for Finger Eleven. There were only thirty-one in the line. Thirty-one! I was quite disapponted to not see the Guiness World Records for most tards per square feet broken.

It was still a good day though. I got Tokion, Giant Robot, ReadyMade, and a $54.50 Gap shirt for $19.99.

2004-07-17T23:58:00.000-04:00

Best Buy: God's Gift to the Mankind(TM).

2004-07-17T23:57:00.000-04:00

Line-up for Finger Eleven's show at the Element in Kitchener downtown.

Travis, u r my sk8er boi

2004-07-16T00:10:00.000-04:00

I don't know if you have, but I've recently noticed a poster taped to a window at Chemistry 2.

Could it be an Avril Lavigne poster?

Ahh! Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck! It is an Avril Lavigne poster! And, it says "my skater boi." Boi, with an 'i'.

I have never seen anything as disgusting as this.

With the help of Google, I was able to find the culprit of this abhorrent act: this dude.

My heartfelt condolence to those who will be taking CHEM 421 in Winter 2005.

2004-07-16T00:09:00.000-04:00

WTF?

2004-07-16T00:08:00.000-04:00

"Skater Boi"? Isn't it supposed to be Sk8er Boi? I guess silly Avril just forgot how the title of her second single is spelled.

Together We're Heavy

2004-07-14T23:53:00.000-04:00

I got a copy yesterday (the day of release) from HMV. (No, I did not go to the crazy midnight buy-fest cum release party.) For those who don't know, Together We're Heavy is the new album from the 24-member group the Polyphonic Spree.

I have only listened it several times, but I think I can safely say, overall, it's on par with their first album, The Beginning Stages of..., which, by the way, is an excellent record. The recording's definitely cleaner (How could it not be? The Beginning Stages of... was, well, a quick demo tape.), cover's much prettier, and the songs are better.

Given that, the song I think is going to be the first single, Section 12 (Hold Me Now), is no Section 9 (Light & Day/Reach for the Sun).

2004-07-14T23:52:00.001-04:00

So much prettier!

2004-07-14T23:52:00.000-04:00

Even has a bonus DVD.

2004-07-12T00:53:00.000-04:00

This is just too good. Finger Eleven will be playing at the Kitchener Best Buy from 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday, July 16th. The event is, of course, expected to break the Guinness World Records for most tards per square feet.

Anyone interested in going? (I think I am gonna go; morbid fascination has got the better of me.)

2004-07-12T00:52:00.000-04:00

OMG, this is the raddest thing ever!!!

2004-07-10T06:44:00.000-04:00

It appears that the National Post box adjacent to Ira G. Needles Hall entrance has been vandalized.
I think there is another one by South Campus Hall; I couldn't be bothered to check whether that one has been vandalized too.

This truly is a cause for celebration. It's deliciously faux anarchististic like Bathroom Liberation Front. As you and I both know, anything deliciously faux anarchistic warrants celebration.

A major thank-you goes out to the imebriated hipster who did this.

2004-07-10T06:38:00.000-04:00

NAZI POST: It's all LIES, dude.

2004-07-05T01:32:00.000-04:00

I went to the Sobeys at Fischer-Hallman and Columbia to get some instant noodles, boxes of tissues, and a sunblock.

My 240 mililitre "Our Compliments" (a Sobeys housebrand) SPF 45 sunblock set me back $6.99 + 15% tax (1.05) = $8.04!
That's eight Campbell's Hearty Noodles instant meal, thirty-two Sobeys Raspberry Mini Danishes, or thirty-four Tazo Green Ginger tea filterbags!

Tears run down my face whenever I think about the thirty-two mini danishes or thirty-four teabags.

Well, I guess that the price you pay to not get skin cancer.

2004-07-05T01:30:00.000-04:00

Have a Sobeys Raspberry Mini Danish and Tazo Green Ginger tea filterbag, Paul Martin; I mean, you won the fucking election and all.

2004-06-22T00:59:00.000-04:00

"Dear Catastrophe Waitress"

I finally obtained a copy of "Dear Catastrophe Waitress" by Belle & Sebastian at the Sunrise Records store inside Fairview Park mall in Kitchener. It was only $22.99! Or, was it $22.95? Slightly less than $23 for sure. I first saw it at the HMV in Waterloo, but they were selling it for $29.99! Anyhow, it was an interesting experience shopping at the Fairview Park Sunrise Records. For one, they had a bouncer (a really tall hipster type). I guess he was more like blocker than bouncer since his job was to block people from running out with merchandises, and/or making everyone uncomfortable.

2004-05-31T01:55:00.000-04:00

Geese are so annoying.

I hope they all go away soon.

Yes, I really hope they do.

Really. really hope they do.

Uhh, yeah.

2004-05-24T22:19:00.000-04:00

I woke up 2 P.M today.

I felt like sleeping some more.

So, I did.

Still sleepy.

2002-01-05T05:06:00.000-05:00

Being dumb is fun!
You never worry because you're too dumb to realize anything's going on in the first place. People have low expectation of you so no one will care even if you are arrested for buying crack from a non-undercover police officer.