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October 28, 2005
the next sarah slean concert is on the 17th of november at (gag!!) Louie's. man i hate that place. might not matter though as it's my dad's 60th birthday and i assume the party is that night. bah humbug!!
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October 27, 2005
this guy is kinda creepy
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October 21, 2005
if death is the result of sin, and hair and fingernails and toenails grow as a result of cells dying, did adam and eve have hair or fingernails and toenails before the fall of man?
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October 20, 2005
i want to learn to tap on a bass (preferably something between a 6 and an 11 string). guys like Les Claypool and Jean Baudin make such interesting pieces with it. Les does amazing but fairly simple stuff (doesn't mean i can do it) on both his fretted and fretless 4 and 6's. and Jean Baudin does things like this. (scroll down the page to find the movies, his page got overloaded so he's had to change things up.)
this on the other hand, is just wrong. that hair is soooo frightfull.
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October 18, 2005
does anyone else out there study movies? i don't mean go to film school. i mean watch movies over and with the commentaries and with the subtitles on to make sure you catch every word. it's sick isn't it. but i love it. i love seeing why things were done a certain way or what went wrong trying to get a shot. i love the art and craft of films. it's like watching someone paint or listening to a demo of a song and then the final version. art is like reproduction, only it's different.. it's a whole other level. i once heard someone say something like; "making a baby is easy, it's simple biology. art is amazing, taking a thought and turning it into something." interesting sentiment.
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October 14, 2005
this isn't gonna mean much to any of you but i want a link to it out and it's a really cool guitar.
check it!. big props to the first person to tell me who this fine fellow plays for. look at the symbol on the guitar and the way he's dressed.
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October 11, 2005
story time
i found a salamander today. i found him on the road. i was driving back from getting water and saw something very small crossing the road on the other side. since there was no traffic i stopped and picked him up. he was quite skinny, but pretty active. it was all i could do to keep him in my hands without gripping him to hard. anywhoo, showed him to my folks then put him in a flower bed where he won't get squished. i would've kept him, but our only fish tank is a tall narrow one. and he looked like he has white slime on his tail.. don't need a sick salamander.
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October 8, 2005
i couldn't pass it up. since A&B had a 20% off sale on white tags, i bought "Step into Liquid". decent price for a amazing movie. i also picked up both Metric albums. i've wanted Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? for about six months if not more, but other purchases took presidence.
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October 6, 2005
new song on the player at the System of a Down site. new album November 22.
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yesterday, i smoked myself in the head on the metal rafters in the space between the ceiling of the sanctuary and the roof of the church. usually a knock on the head isn't that bad. i do it often. but this bump is sticking around and now it has a bit of a scab on it.. i actually broke the skin through my toque. sucks to that.
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October 5, 2005
here is a bit of recent such'n such.
finished a autobiography by Tina Basich (pretty good for a girl - autobiography of a snowboarding pioneer) on the weekend. i don't snowboard, but i've always loved seeing it and have tremendous respect for it as an artform. tina was one of the first snowboarder i recognized as important (along with peter line), in part because she was not only a terrific snowboarder with great style but an artist. anyway, it's a good read. well written and a decent history of the sport considering she was one of the first female snowboarders (or snowboarders for that matter.)
i've watched a few films the last little while. went with k-rk and andrew to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory last friday (i so rarely go to the theatre) and enjoyed it very much. watching drew loose it over the oompa-loompa's was almost as funny as the movie itself. i also borrowed a couple of DVD's from the library. the Concert for George was a memorial concert in honour of George Harrison that is absolutely wonderful. starts with a great indians section, then a little monty python (they were great friends of his, and he was a big fan of theirs) and then a group of his friends and former bandmates (i suppose Ringo and Paul are all thats left, but Billy Preston and Jeff Lyne kinduv count) played a whole bunch of his songs. what was freaky is that his son Dhanni played with them. Dhanni looks exactly like George when he was 20... freaked me right out. also watched Riding Giants which is a doc on the history of big wave surfing. wild stuff. another great art form. not actually the surf doc i was looking for. i want to find a copy of one called Step into Liquid. i saw part of it at work one day... blew my mind. probably more to tell.. later.
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October 1, 2005
interesting video and an interesting discussion about it. the song is "Rabbit in Your Headlights" by Unkle ft. Thom Yorke.
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