transmission

launching the psychic satellite

optic nerve

this has been fucking with my head....in the picture below the middle interlocking piece is the same colour in both pictures.....you may think its impossible but if you cover the rest of the pic up so you can only see that part it will all come clear.

the clone wars

SAN FRANCISCO -- Baba Ganoush, left, plays with her cloned sibling Tabouli. The cloned kittens are the first two cats cloned by chromatin transfer, a new cloning technology developed by Genetic Savings & Clone, a pet gene banking and cloning company, who produced the kittens as a precursor to production of the first batch of cat clones for the public. It will cost $50,000 to have your cat cloned.

That Damon from Boston....Not Johnny but Matt

I used to say "Im not a big fan of Matt Damon but he's in two of my favourite movies". those movies being Good Will Hunting and Rounders, but I saw him interviewed today and he was actually a straight up dude, none of the hollywood shit just an actor who wants to be an actor. I dont know the purpose of this entry.

I bought new shoes today <----- thats the purpose.

I dont consider myself to be brand loyal or to be a shill for any product or company but I bought a specific brand of shoes at least a year and half ago ( I wish that I had kept track of when I had bought them ) anyway they have been the most durable shoes Ive ever had. I walk over 10km a day so the amount of wear I do to a pair of shoes is at least 10 times the average person...anyway the last pair of shoes have lasted all this time until the soles wore down ( I feel a good pair of shoes lasts until the soles wear down without any of the stitching coming undone). So today I went back to the shoe store where I got the shoes and dug out the last remaining pair that they had of the same shoes...and now I will know exactly how long they last because of this stupid pointless post.

now im listening to the classics of love

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Leave Alone

This is the text in a spam message I recieved today....W3F

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its actually almost like abstract poetic genius...I like the part about "destroy satisfied bird" and the ending is great "exciting profession bread living" I think what we all hope for in life is an exciting profession bread living.

The best of the best of the best of the best

When I was a kid we used to go the A&P to get our groceries...they had a really weird system there. You would go the check out and ring all your stuff in and they would put it in bags then in baskets (about the size of recycling bins) which had numbers on them they would then give you a tag with the corresponding number and then put all your baskets on a conveyer belt and you would to and get your car and pull up to the front of the store and then you would hand someone your tag and they would fill your trunk with your groceries (because the conveyer belt let to outside).
Sometimes, not very often but sometimes the guy filling the trunk would screw up and mix up 2 peoples baskets so we would get home and find a few bags of other peoples things...some people would raise a huge fuss about this but it was always pretty exciting as a kid and getting to taste a sample of how other people lived...we never really had any frills in our regular shopping items so it we always seemed to trade up. the grocery store tales pt. 2

get in the swing

I was watching TV today and they were interviewing one of the doctors who successfully removed the Egyptian conjoined twins...the surgery took more than 12 hours ( I cant really remember but it was a long process) anyway the surgeon being interviewed made it clear that he believed that a higher power was at work when they
were performing the surgery as if their hands were being guided by God....I hate to be such a skeptic but by that logic it was Gods original plan to have created the conjoined twins. Why would God step in when they were performing the surgery if he created the twins in the first place?? That being said it is amazing that both of the kids survived after the unprecedented surgery.

Watching the tele till all hours

When I heard that Munch's "the Scream" had been stolen I thought 2 things.... 1. I'm glad that I got to see it in person (in 1997) 2. Why wouldn't those bastards let me take a picture of it when I did see it. The painting may never be recovered and I had a chance to take a photo of it but the fuckers at the museum wouldn't let me, even after I said that I wouldn't use a flash. Its ridiculous that they worried so much about photos being taken but yet the security was lax enough for 2 dudes to walk into the museum and pull it off the wall.

hollow teeth spread empty words

I just finished watching the 1962 version of "Day of the Triffids" and the story is pretty much 100% different than the book, which is actually probably a good thing seeing as most adaptations turn out rather poorly in comparison after reading the novel. The only things about the story they kept were the fact that a meteor shower blinds everyone on earth and that there are flesh eating plants called triffids. I didn't mind it but I still preferred the book ( but when the hell isn't that the case.

Humans probably aren't supposed to live as long as we do, I think if we were we would grow a third (and possibly forth and fifth) set of teeth at some point. It doesn't make sense that our first set of teeth last us 8 years and then the next set are supposed to last the next 60. I keep wanting to say "pair" of teeth but that definitely isn't right.

The other day while in the supermarket an old man with about 10 items let me ahead of him when I had 2 items, I said "are you sure" and he said "sure I don't have anywhere to be". This made me happy and Karmacly balanced out my experiences with old men and line ups, because about a year ago while waiting in line for coffee an old man butted in front of me. I was furious, I wanted to scream at the top of my lungs what an injustice it was. I wanted to say "WHAT THE FUCK YOU OLD BASTARD, IM IN A RUSH ON MY WAY TO WORK AND YOU PUSH IN FRONT OF ME, YOU DON'T HAVE ANYWHERE TO BE UNTIL YOUR MEETING WITH ST. PETER TO JUDGE YOUR LIFE". I held in my anger that day ( it was also 2 days after I had quit smoking so I was pretty fucking edgy) but in the end everything is balanced out. I guess the moral of the story is some old men are kind and some are big selfish dickholes, actually I shouldn't really separate old people from everyone else because the same applies for everyone. Big selfish dickholes get old too.

S.F. Sorrow is Born

Summer of 1967 three records are recorded at Abbey Road Studios by Norman Smith.
They are:
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band by The Beatles
Piper At the Gates of Dawn by The Pink Floyd
and
S.F. Sorrow by the Pretty Things.

Until now I hadn't heard the Pretty Things but holy shit they are the missing link. It has a lot of the spirit and vibe of Sgt. Pepper and Piper, but stands on its own. I find it strange that the Pretty things (out of all these 3) are relatively unheard of. I'll have to look into it and find out why.

some redundancy

Sometimes coincidences happen that are way too bizarre to be random, either that or I just had a really strange day .

for the past 5 minutes I've been trying to figure out a way to explain this story and it wont work out right so I will have to paint the scene with an abstract brush.

cafe-->bar
outstanding warrant-->12 o'clock news
bar-->cafe


fuck it...I'm tired.

Today's the 4th of July another June has gone by and when they light up our town I just think what a waste of gunpower and sky

Today I wish I was Greek. Greek with a mild gambling problem. Going into the Euro Cup the odds on Greece were 80 to 1. So if I would have dropped say 100 thousand dollars at the beginning of it all I would have 8 million dollars. Even this last game the odds against Greece were 11 to 1.

Good Time is here again. Good Time ran away last week. Good Time came back. Good Time Seems wary of this house. Good Time was born at the old house. Good Time looked like a mouse when he was born. Good Time hid behind the furnace and cried all day yesterday. Good Time hid under my bed and cried all day today. Good Time hasn't been eating. Good Time is the name of my cat. I think Good Time can see ghosts.

I think cats in general can see ghosts. They definitely seem to be watching things move that us humans cant see. They do have much better night vision than us so maybe they have some kinda infared thing going on.

Catch a bright star and place it on your forehead, say a few spells...

Where to begin holy crap.....

The news story today about the friendly dog that stop the killing spree still floors me. In case you haven't heard a man from New Brunswick drove to Toronto and went to a park with the intention of going on a killing rampage, but while at the park a dog ran up to him and started playing with him. Apparently the man was an animal lover (more-so than a human lover I guess) and he thought that if there was such a nice dog in the neighborhood that the people must also be nice so he turned himself into the first police officer he saw. They found multiple guns with over 6000 rounds of ammunition along with knives and a machete. He was going to just kill people at random.
The dog should get his own tv show where he roams around from town to town and fixes problems (pretty brilliant idea for a show) I've got a song for it too.... there's a voice that keeps on calling me, on the road that's where I'll always be... the show should be called "the dog that stopped a massacre".
In all seriousness though this case with the dog is the 3rd thing that makes me believe in a higher power.

I read the book "All Day Breakfast" by: Valerie Joy Kalynchuk the other day it was a really good little book. Much love to my sister who bought it for me.

Elevate me Later

A few years ago I saw the movie "Bicentennial man" and I had such rock bottom expectations that I actually liked it. At the time I remember sincerely enjoying the movie. Well I saw it again today and I have to say that it is garbage. Which brings me back to the belief that the only good Robin Williams movie is "Good Will Hunting" and the only good Sam Neill movie is Jurassic Park nothing. Neill is one of those guys that you can almost take seriously but he still seems like the poor mans version of someone (whom I haven't yet figured out......maybe Pierce Brosnan).

All this got me thinking about expectations and how they ruin everything. Because I had expected this movie to suck originally I had perceived it as good and I only really find my true thoughts years later. The opposite is even worse, when all I hear is how a good a movie is it is destined to be a disappointment. I didn't like the Lord of the Rings movies (well the first 2 is all I've seen). Maybe in 4 years I'll change my mind.

I was born on the floor

Sunday June 13th was exactly one year since I quit smoking (I would have posted yesterday but my internet
was acting stupid which is another issue all together)

-> I smoked for 9 years, about half a pack a day and had never really tried to quit.

-> Quitting was a lot easier than I thought it would be, in fact it wasn't really hard at all. (I do have
to say that I don't have an addictive personality though, I really learned that from quitting)

-> It is less than a week for the physical dependency effects to go away and then you just have to get over the mental addiction, which for me was just about every hour my brain would say hey its time for a cigarette, and you just have to stop and say to yourself no its not.

-> My only tips for quitting are these: 1. get yourself some cinnamon flavored gum (cinnamon is good because
it has a bit of a burn to it) 2. picture yourself lying on your death bed dying of a smoking related disease. (seriously, If you were at that point wouldn't you wish that you had quit)

-> Quitting cold turkey is the only way to do it: If you think hey I can just cut back or slowly wean myself off that's bullshit and it wont work also no nicotine patches or gum also bullshit how do you quit the substance you're addicted to by continuing to put it in your body?

-> don't try to quit with someone else: at first it seems like a great idea, like hey we can give each other moral support, that's bullshit what inevitably happens is you both convince each other what a good idea it is to smoke. You may be thinking yeah right I'm stronger than that, well if that was true you wouldn't be smoking. It really comes down to making a personal decision and going through with it.

-> don't believe the hype: Everyone wants you to think that quitting smoking is really hard, the cigarette companies (so you wont try) the nicotine gum/patch industry (so you'll buy their shit), all the ex-smokers (so they can brag and feel good about themselves)

-> In the most basic boiled down version of everything quitting smoking (or anything else for that matter) is the easiest thing to do in the world. YOU JUST STOP DOING IT!!! sounds simple, well it is.

how did you quit stabbing yourself in the arm with that knife? I just stopped doing it.

only an impulse buy in the sky

I finished the Da Vinci Code today and here is what pissed me off.

--> First of all I have to state that it took me a while before I even decided to start it after reading
Dan Brown's previous book "Angels and Demons"

--> Dan Brown is a shitty writer (which is why it took me so long to actually start the Da Vinci Code.)

--> I would have preferred to read a completely dry text of all the research that went into both of those books.

--> Brown fails with his paper thin characters, gut wretchingly forced dialogue and imagery, completely
formulaic plot and things that just downright annoy the hell out of me (at least in this one he only refers to Langdons Tweed Jacket 12 times....That's right I counted because in the last book it seemed that he mentioned it on every other page and it really started to make me cringe.....look at the fucking picture of Brown in the back of the book wearing his own fucking tweed and it makes it even more annoying.)

--> One thing that really pissed me off was the fact that because the media had jumped all over this book when it came out I knew every "secret" before they happened so there was no surprises....That's total bullshit...(If you've heard a bunch of stuff about this book, making you think wow that sounds interesting, chances are you've heard all the interesting facts in the book) Why would all those fuckers reviewing the book give away so much.

--> Who the hell makes their villain an albino, seriously?

--> Lastly I will say what I said about Angels and Demons. It was really well researched and there was a lot of interesting info in it......but like I said earlier I would have rather read all that info in a dry direct essay rather than a tabloid novel.

--> I should add that Angels and Demons and the Da Vinci code are the only books that I've ever read which fall into the "modern for the masses" category.... you know those books that you can buy at convenience stores, grocery stores and gas stations....these books may be fine for some people but I guess they're not really my thing.

I found a fatal flaw in the logic of love

People just dont seem to get excited about politics like they used to.

Also people dont seem to wear hats like they used to. Look at that pic its a sea of hats.

Just another Manic Monday

What the hell is it about Prince that people like? I seriously have never understood it. Not even a little bit. He wrote "Manic Monday" for Susanna Hoffs and the Bangles to perform (apparently because he had a crush on her). I just listened to that song and I think Prince is fucked. Listen to the lyrics of that song and then tell me that its not weird that he wrote those lyrics for a girl that he had a crush on to sing.

she's got the river down which I sold her

Aimee Mann is too good. That is all.

This world is not my home I'm just passing through

I read and interview with Ian Mackaye today and it was too good. He just totally gets it and has never compromised his music or ethics. He's a pretty funny guy too.

Canada post is fucked. I learned today from mailing some packages that it is cheaper to mail a package to any of the states (including Alaska and Hawaii) than it is to send the same package 5 miles down the road. The logic behind this is impossible to find.

I heard today that you cant buy tickets to the first day of Lollapalooza only. You have to either buy tickets to both days or just the second day. Of course the first day is the one with the big draws. Modest Mouse, Sonic Youth, Morrissey etc. etc. The big draw on day two is the flaming lips and if you live in New York the Pixies. The last Lollapalooza I went to was 1994 and that's most likely the way its going to stay.

Scream thy last scream

Last night I came face to face with a raccoon on my back porch, I was going to the store to buy ginger ale and he was eating garbage as ususal. We both stood there for a minute just staring at each other, like a couple of deer in the headlights. I took a couple of pics of him but when I went to get closer he ran and hid under the back porch. It got me thinking about raccoons, I really cant picture them living in the wild at all. It seems like they are exclusively city creatures, just moping around at night feasting on peoples trash. I guess I never knew where they lived before either, but now I know its under the porches of the world. Well at least my porch.

Hi it's been a long time

In the past I've heard bad reviews for this record. I really dont know why because its really good, especially when you get it for 25 cents.

Window Shop of Love

Today I picked up this little game called blip. I was hoping that a little electronic device called "blip" would create some interesting vintage blip sounds. Well I was mistaken because it makes no sounds next to the sound of the timer counting down. To make matters worse I got bored of the damn game in under 10 seconds. I guess a "digital" game from 1977 has little to offer in todays world apart from a little nostalgia, but hell its older than me so it does nothing. Anyone want to buy it?

Never mind what theyre selling, its what youre buying

It never ceases to amaze me how much people buy into without even thinking...

Today I heard some people raving on about a low carb diet as if it was the greatest thing ever. I dont know why the millions of people on these low carb diets cant see that its just another diet like the many before it. Cutting Carbs as opposed to cutting fat, wow what a brilliant idea. The expression "Everything in moderation" is best for this situation. If you eat a balanced diet and exercise you probably wont need to go on a fad diet. It wont be long before cutting fat out of your diet is what youre "supposed" to do again.
anyway this is just a very stupid example of what I was thinking about...

A long time ago someone came up with the brilliant crux of marketing "create a problem and then sell a solution". I really have to commend the person who came up with that one casue it really is quite amazing that it was pulled off so perfectly. Its actually so far advanced from the basic concept that it is more like web. Here is a breakdown.

Fast Food/Junk Food<---You are too busy to cook for yourself, and processed food is so fucking good....you know you cant live without it.
+
TV<---Hours and hours of non-stop programming that provide you with commercials (which are really just public service announcements about new products. Isnt it amazing that they provide this service for us for free?? and cable is so cheap.) Tv also provides an alternative to exercise, a window into "celebrity" life and the the overall feeling of inadaquacy.
+
Magazines/Movies<----More unrealistic expectations for the general public.

But wait maybe not...you can be happy too if you just try out this new diet...it'll
work we swear...
by the way the diet industry is a multi-million (probably billion) dollar industry.

I know this all seems very simple and if youre thinking all this is so obvious that it needs not be stated then I commend you, but Ive had similar conversations with people who honestly never think about this stuff and amusingly enough find it rather profound. Most of those people are what you call consumers.

no way to collapse the lung

My internet was down for several hours tonight and I realized how hopelessly addicted to it I really am. Here I have this amazing computer cabable of running all sorts of interesting and exciting programs and yet when my connection is down I feel cut-off and out of touch with the world of data. Not that I would be doing anything terribly important but I still feel like there is so much missing running the ordinateur with no internet. Its almost like having one of your senses cut off, hey for the next couple of hours youre going to be blind. I became extremely irratible and angry. It may be due in part that the only thing I could watch on my cable-less tv was the season finale of the Swan. That show is totally awfull for many many reasons, but at least it affirms an important point-----> If you are beautiful(beauty being defined by a television show) you
will be happy. Its crazy living in the future.

All I ever wanted was to be your spine

Within the past few days Vivendi Universal completed a merger with NBC and it was barely a blip in the news...This kind of stuff isnt even on peoples radar. I dont know if many people know that there are only 6 major media moguls left. Bertelsmann, News Corp., Vivendi Universal, Walt Disney, Viacom and AOL - Time Warner. (although I think that Time Warner dropped AOL, Im not sure if thats true but I think I remeber reading that.) Anyway if you could see all the holdings of these individual companies you would be surprised to learn how much information is each of these companies control, and as they continue to merge more and more of everything we see, read and hear is controlled by less and less people (higher up the ladder). Six compaines may seem like a lot but when you look at the breakdown these 6 compaines were once hundreds of individual companies. Someday there may only be one or two of these moguls left yet everytime a merger or buyout happens it is buried in the news. Can you figure out why that might be.

Rip This Joint

Gas Prices are the highest they have ever been and today was one of the earliest smog advisories reported-----> The answer seems simple to me.

Latoya voted off of American Idol

Its really humid up here today-> Diet Caffeine free Coke isnt as bad as I thought I remembered it was-> That old guy at the hardware store looks like a caricature of a cheap imitation of a muppet-> the crack head was back in the office today standing beside a puddle of spit yammering on about the most absurd things yet acting as if it is important business (I guess it is to him)-> I bought a copy of "Standing in the Shadows of Motown" for $5 (its worth just buying movies when the cost $5, when you take into account the $3 rental charge and the inevitable multiple day late fines)-> Latoya really shouldnt have been voted off though, I really saw her winning the competition.