i like you

thanks to my buddy luke over on facespam for posting this.



it really is the most wonderful thing ever.

last night i went and saw [016] funky forest: the first contact. part of the kibatsu cinema series showing at the cinemateque. it's part of the powel street festival which, this year, isn't on powel street. at two and a half freakin' hours, it's a loose collection of non sequiturs that are all tied together w/a sloppily and frayed knot.


http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/kibatsu-cinema-eccentricity-popular-culture-and-contemporary-japanese-film/funky-forest-first-contac

i got a new power chair today. it's sitting at home right now charging up so i can take it out tomorrow.

*30*

that construction going on outside my back door, i found out on thursday it's some type of film set.

i phoned the cops on them wednesday night cause they were running their shit and building stuff at quarter to eleven in the fricken' pm.

is this an all new alien?

torchwood really are at their best when they're being bad.

if the monster turns out to be daleks, i'm going to be disappointed.

*30*

i need to buy a new keyboard tomorrow. i hope it doesn't rain.

grrrr. i want to be home right now watching torchwood.

when did u2 go from being good to ok to yuck to douche bags?

and for the win he-man!


what's the deal w/the guy in the white suit coat?

CJSF top 30 for the week ending July 6, 2009

01 Sunset Rubdown---dragonslayer---Jagjaguwar
02 *Various---Vancouver's punk as fuck! Volume 2---vpaf records
03 Black Moth Super Rainbow---drippers---70s Gymnastics
04 Socow---Socow---Tic Tac Totally Records
05 Higamos Hogamos---major blitzkrieg +2---DC Recordings
06 Isotopes---heatseeker/suicide squeeze/poison in the clubhouse/infield fly---643 Records
07 Sex Negatives---parkade---The Broadway To Boundary/Grotesque Modern
08 Preachers, The---who do you love/stay out of my world/hey Joe [reissue]---Sundazed
09 Bad Seeds, The---I'm a king bee/a taste of the same/sick and tired +1 [reissue]---Sundazed
10 Fallen Angels, The---who do you love b/w hello girl [reissue]---Sundazed
11 Camera Obscura---French navy b/w the world is full of strangers---4AD
12 Bad Luck #13---never need a reason/my mind's made up… again +2---Disques NIM Records
13 Poverty Bay Saints---bent prop/tremors/the plutonian fire/pendulum---Organized Crime Records
14 Basketball/The Secret Mommy Quintet---Basketball/The Secret Mommy Quintet split 7" divorce series---Ache
15 Pink Mountaintops, The---outside love---Jagjaguwar
16 Clues---Clues---Constellation
17 Dog Day---concentration---Outside Music
18 Animal Names---oh yes you better do---Indy
19 Sarah Craig---the threshing floor---Indy
20 John Pippus---this city---Indy
21 Stratovarius---polaris---Armoury Records
22 Sam's Falling---simplify---Indy
23 Briana Stewart---hero of fools---Indy
24 Metric---fantasies---Last Gang Records
25 Darcy James Argue's Secret Society---infernal machines---New Amsterdam Records
26 Go Ghetto Tiger---backstage at a puppet show---Indy
27 Adjective---I am sorry for your loss---Indy
28 'It It---hang out by 'it it---Old Life Records
29 Run Like Hell---three headed beast---Indy
30 It Hugs Back---inside your guitar---4AD

in fact mosquitoes some time fly up in my face as if they are saying, in the haughty uptight frustrated whine mosquitoes are known for "i know you're full of blood! but this impenetrable magical witchery that surrounds you... one day this guard you keep up will be down. one day the treasure you hoard will be mine. one day i will reap this bounty. one day... your battle is far from won. fuck you."

there's nothing playing i want to spend money to see today.

so i'm home watching the remaining episodes of the night stalker. the episode is called chopper. which i always thought was a great nickname.

this episodes monster is

a headless cycle rider w/a sword.

it also features

major frank burns

and

a doughy looking thurston howl the third. he tells a funny story about a japanese factory that made planes in the war and now makes motorcycles. he goes on to tell how, in the war, one of those planes dropped something that put him in the hospital. and gosh, isn't it ironic that now i'm selling bikes made by that same company.

hoohooho! good one thurston! a real knee slapper.

the episode of the night stalker i'm watching right now is about witches.

it features

evil mannequins

an unsuspecting cat

getting thrown on a model

and doc

from the love boat playing a doctor.

i really like this show. as a kid i watched it religiously and was routinely scared by it. not so much any more.

one of the vitamins or minerals i take makes me unappealing to mosquitoes.

i have the windows open and in the evening a few of them fly in, but never land on me. eventually they get bored and fly away.

is that all the b i take? or is it something else?

today while i was watching an episode of murphy's law an old lady, unannounced, walked in my apartment through my back door. i wasn't undressed, but due to the heat, i might have been. anyhow, she caught me off guard and i wasn't exactly mean to her, but i sure as fuck wasn't polite to her either. i bombarded her w/questions about why would she walk into some strangers apartment and told her she'd better get t' fuck out before i changed my mind about calling someone.

wtf! do i need to put one of those infant barriers up when i leave my patio door open to stop old people from barging in?

i'm sorry if i seem unsympathetic or mean and that was your grandma, but wtf! what if i'd been taking a shower or a nap and woke up to some stranger sitting on my couch.

next time: i yell and swear at them so the message gets taken back to the home base that the guy in 109 is loud, boorish and to be left alone.

*30*


this cap is from the closing credits of murphy's law. look, at the location manager's name. more like she's in charge of locating yummy frozen cakes.

i wish i worked there. mmmm, i like those frozen cakes.

i see her name has an 'h' at the end, but that's a common mistake.

some douching construction company started clearing land on the other side of the fence, less than 100 meters from my back door. almost all i hear is running motors and the beep beep beep of machines backing up.

shit. not only tearing down all the trees and growth but wrecking my view.

shit heads. like this city needs another construction site. if i was still able i'd sugar their gas tanks each and every night.

i cried a little to.

btw, this sequence from the previous episode, about a rogue robot




demonstrates how it was possible to have a hit tv show in the 70s, yet not spend any money on special effects.

i don't think anyone could get away w/that now.

now, i'm really going to bed.

if jamie farr isn't the worst actor ever, he's certainly on the very short list that makes up that list of thespians who make you wonder how they got work in the first place. then, once they got work, how they kept getting it.

this is him, on the right, w/darren mcgavin, in an episode of the night stalker.

in this scene he plays a high school teacher explaining to kolchak the difference between man and ape. he takes a throw away scene, one that was probably inserted just for padding and turns it into an awkward moment w/a man who hates his job.

btw, the monster in this episode

is a guy in a monkey suit.

i'm going to bed, i really am no rock n' roll fun.

not only did i take a mulligan today, but, i found a barbershop downtown that doesn't charge between $25-$45 to preform a straight razor shave. so that was good. bonus too for it being easy for me to get the wheelchair in to. speaking of which, the second time i got out of bed i read the name brand of the chair it self. it's a, erm, quickie.

then after being home or a few hours, i went and saw [015] moon w/sam rockwell, who is a clone who meets his clone. he doesn't act well when he's acting w/himself, which he does for about 2/3 of the film. he does, however play filthy and grubby remarkably well.

kevin spacey is unremarkable as HAL.

what i really wanted to see was the girlfriend experience w/sasha grey, but it had already moved out of town. sil.