[most serene republic : content was always my favourite colour]
...cause all i wanna save is a cat in a tree...

I was just reading through the 2006 Juno nominees (Pamela Anderson is hosting btw) and I have a question... when are people going to realize that Nickelback sucks. When are people going to realize that Our Lady Peace sucks... When are people going to realize that Theory of a Deadman sucks. Is this really the 'best of canadian music' that we want to recognize, and then for the world to recognize? There is so much better music coming out of Canada today.

For example, Arcade Fire got 2 nods at the Grammys. At the Junos, their home nation's awards, they got 3... one for songwriting and two for videos.. their VIDEOS, not SONGS. Stupid Canada.

By 'good' music, I mean artists that are actually doing something different. They are rejecting the cookie cutter "alternative rock" genre and producing some really unique stuff. I don't even want to start an 'authenticity' debate because that's subjective... all based on opinion. I just thought "voters" had the brains to listen to real music.

And the good music is all just put in the alternative album category so the big awards can be handed to big names only.

Who is good in Canada today? Metric, Arcade Fire, New Pornographers, Broken Social Scene --> all these bands were in the top of the reviewer's lists this year. Then there's Joel Plaskett, Cuff the Duke, Marble Index, Wolf Parade, Most Serene Repbulic... and countless others that i don't even know!

Juno Awards suck.. then again, all awards are popularity contests that don't really showcase the truth.. or the best of the best... kind of like the Olympics... and facebook.

[the band : atlantic city]
...gonna see what them racket boys can do...

Ottawa was a blast and Gordie is a good host. We were all tourists this weekend - the city by day, the bars by night. What'd we see? Uh, everything:

Parliment Hill, including a trip up the Peace Tower
A Great View of Gatineau, Quebec (formerly Hull)
The Royal Canadian Mint, where we lifted a gold bar worth $250,000 --> HEAVY! The stupid penny flattener was broken though
Chateau Laurier
Winterlude - Yay Winter
Notre Damn Catherdral.. just pull up a church
Walked past the heavily guarded American Embassy and Kuwait Embassy
Visted A LOT of bars and pubs... wish i rememberd them - OH, one was The Georgetown.. yea!
Kettleman's bagle shop... SO COOL

Good weekend, good beer, good friends, good sights, good canada, good capital, good money, good sleep, good weed, good time

I haven't posted (paste?) in so long...

But i just watched the indie Brit horror flick The Descent... frickin scariest movie i've seen in awhile... and with minimal cast, little 'special' effects, good acting, good story, and extremely good.


The ... things... are scary but the scariest part of the movie is what is not said between characters, and then space itself.

SEE IT

That's all for another few months

At the Bottom of Everything...

So there’s this woman, and she was on an airplane, and she’s flying to meet her fiancée, sailing high above the largest ocean on planet earth, and she was seated next to this man who, you know, she had tried to start conversations… and, only – really the only thing she’d heard him say was – just to order – was, “Bloody Mary.” And she’s sittin’ there, and she’s readin’ this really arduous magazine article about a third world country that she couldn’t even pronounce the name of, and she’s feeling very bored, and very despondent.

And then, suddenly there was this huge mechanical failure and one of the engines gave out and they started just falling, thirty thousand feet. The pilot’s on the microphone and he’s saying, ”I’m sorry, I’m sorry, oh my god, I’m…I’m sorry,” and apologizing and she looks at that man, and she says, “Where are we going?”…and he looks at her…and he says, “We’re going to a party…it - it’s a birthday party…it’s your birthday party, happy birthday, darling. We love you very, very, very, very, very, very, very much.” And then he starts hummin’ this little tune, and it kinda goes like this, it’s kinda…one, two, one, two, three, four:

We must talk in every telephone, get eaten off the web
We must rip out all the epilogues from the books that we have read
Into the face of every criminal strapped firmly to a chair
We must stare, we must stare, we must stare

We must take all of the medicines too expensive now to sell
Set fire to the preacher who is promising us hell
Into the ear of every anarchist that sleeps but doesn't dream
We must sing, we must sing, we must sing

And it'll go like this, all right:

While my mother waters plants my father loads his gun
He says, "Death will give us back to God,
Just like the setting sun
Is returned to the lonesome ocean"

And then they splashed into the deep blue sea
Oh, it was a wonderful splash

We must blend into the choir, sing as static with the whole
We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul
Into this endless race for property and privilege to be won
We must run, we must run, we must run

We must hang up in the belfry where the bats and moonlight laugh
We must stare into a crystal ball and only see the past
Into the caverns of tomorrow with just our flashlights and our love
We must plunge, we must plunge, we must plunge

And then we'll get down there,
Way down to the very bottom of everything
And then we'll see it, oh, we'll see it!, we'll see it!, we’ll see it!

Oh, my morning's coming back,
The whole world’s waking up
All the city busses swimming past,
I'm happy just because
I found out I am really no one

... by Bright Eyes

[send me on my way : rusted root]
...how we will run away, we will crawl away...

Alright friends, back to the island for four months... have a good one!

Here it is: the new world without any media influences... does it look promising? hmm decide for yourself.

The Child That Smelt Funny

First dentist trip in about 2-3 years = 2 minor cavities and a receding gum line on three teeth. Oh, and don't eat or drink for 30 minutes + some visible goo on my teeth = don't brush your teeth for three hours. And don't brush like you were taught... no circular motion; simply brush away from your gums only using a soft or extra soft brush. "We love baking soda," say the dentists. Baking soda is gross - tastes gross, feels gross, and is gross. Tartar build up? I haven't had fish recently, sir! Oh, that's tartar sauce - which is gross as well. My worst dental experience? I don't think I've ever had a bad one, but thank you for asking. Oh man! Sweet sunglasses. Apparently now you're concerned about my eyes, staring into that bright lamp of yours. Well, the glasses are really 1980s and I LOVE them. Also, thank you for the poster of a lion on the ceiling. I counted grass blades.