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30/09/03- Welcome...
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Presenting Smalrus Abstracts Folio 2- Paintings in the Key of ( )
  
30/09/03(1225am)- things gone on- westmount synagogue, sick and dying me, 2 new rane songs!, john mayer is okay, lewis black/mitch hedberg very funny, 2 trib articles and my name in the masthead, thats whats going on. maybe i should actually write full updates out if i wasnt busy/lazy...
27/09/03(1245am)- l'shanah tovah 5764! im still way too sick, so im going to bed now, but ive got update on thursday, the interview with boy, today at the trib office, and rosh hashanah dinner with james, katie, seth, and david. and then bubble tea afterwards. im sore and achey and i miss her and congested and my throat hurts. i need love. maybe ill update tomorrow if my head doesnt explode.
25/09/03(1050am)- or how bout i not be so fucking sick... ive been trying to get a lot of rest, drink a lot of tea, vitamin c tablets, etc... but i feel the worst today than earlier this week. im going out to westmount shortly to hope that theres still some challahs and brisket left so i can make rosh hashanah dinner tomorrow night. as for yesterday, i wrote my first editorial for the trib and its pretty good i think. on media conglomeration. anyways. i fixed my comments boxes and also the javascript is working on my computer again. so now, i just need a hammer so i can hit myself in the head and knock my sinuses clean. my predictions for the 2003 q awards:
best single- coldplay, "clocks"; best album- radiohead, hail to the thief; best producer- pharell williams; best new act- kings of leon; best video- coldplay, "the scientist"; best live act- coldplay; best act in the world today- radiohead; the q innovation award- super furry animals.
be back later...
24/09/03(340am)- my god, this is like two insomniac nights in two weeks. and, im sick tonight, so thats no good. watched american chopper and all that. i mean granted id been sleeping a lot but yeah. again, i question if i should go out and be productive, but usually, nothing gets accomplished then anyways. not at 4am. so im expecting to be dead tomorrow. on a side note, i got my javascript functioning and i think i know how i can fix my problem with the comments- have elise send me the header file on the computer back home. that has the correct script. anyways, not much to report from today, not much to report from the other day. had first a&e meeting where i was coedit. turned out alright. panthea and i are meeting tomorrow to discuss stuff we want to do with the section and how i can integrate myself into the system shes already been running with the last 3 weeks. coming into this job 3 weeks in is real tough. but its a good crew to work with so it's just a matter of time before i know ill fit in. not much else to write about right now. actually at yesterdays ed board meeting, i volunteered to write this weeks editorial. maybe i could be productive and work on that too now? i dunno, it just doesnt feel like im tired right now, even though im sick. its like if i went to cafe depot and got some tea, maybe itd be better. been writing a lot of poetry in my book. read movement 1 and it sorta goes in that direction. i guess theres always room for optimism. maybe december comes closer than before... *sigh*
22/09/03(110am)- long evening at the trib office editing this weeks section. i did get an advance copy of the new new deal album. and for randomness, i ran into pierre-yves on prince arthur on my way home. that was pretty awesome, so he followed me back into the apartment and we talked for a little bit, i got his number so we can hang out here in montreal and that was that. really random but awesome because i needed some french again and its like during the summer with my francophone customers at the bank- i walked in the apartment with him talking and i was in a french zone- i couldnt think in english. its like i cant yet flow back and forth- once i get in one language zone, i stay there for a little bit. anyways. not much else that happened today since i last updated, other than i worked on my composition and did some editing. still having a lot of issues. i find not being able to resolve them now distressing. but its out of my control for another 3 months. so much i have to learn about myself- to change, fix, and grow- and yet all ive got is no control... i sigh alot these days
21/09/03(330pm)- well i still cant get the javascript comments to work :(. im having a tough day. difficult to reconcile emotion with logic. im starting work on this concept piece, "Opus of Prince Arthur and St. Laurent, No. 03." basically one saturday night a month for the rest of the year, im sitting at cafe depot and analysing the city's most dynamic street corner and writing a poem about it. i worked on the first installment last night, so basically ill do another one around the 20th of october. anyways, here is "Movement 1, ("September 20")
(315am)- that makes what, 3 months from now? pictures now line my walls. only good times, only smiles. 3 months from now those things only should happen. like how i didnt even need to say the news. talking online was enough to give my information away before i gave it away. 3 months. other things in life should only be so hard... *sigh*
20/09/03(125am)- i miss her. a lot. a lot a lot. a lot lot lot do i miss her. *sigh*
19/09/03(1115pm)- i am the new arts and entertainment co-editor of the mcgill tribune. if only my comments boxes were working again...
(1210am)- i wish i had much to say about this week. well there was sam roberts. good show. trib interview for editor (find out tomorrow). there was getting yelled at by haskel for yawning in lecture. i cleaned my room. mmj review is on their website :) thats about it. been kinda lazy to update, although not only is my javascript not working on IE, but i cant get my comments to work in my site. i guess people will just have to email me comments until i can figure out the problem. now, how many days til december 21....?
15/09/03(710am)- heres this week's french composition. much darker than last weeks.
(430am)- look at the time. im not the least bit tired. i feel like i should either go to bed still or be productive, but ive tried the bed thing and look where i am. maybe i should go to cafe depot or something and jumpstart on my day? if im gonna pull an allnighter, i might as well have something to show for it...
14/09/03(520pm)- today would have been 8 months... not much doing today, dropped off my laundry and there was filming starting in the park for the traffic sequel, starring catherine zeta-jones. a producer came by and yelled at me in french that if i took a picture he would expose my roll and if it was digital, hed make me wipe the memory. but i might have discreetly gotten a shot. then, when the scene was done, she was leaving set and she signed a couple photographs (seemed nice about it) but i was gonna ask for a photo when her bodyguards shoved her in the suv and they drove off. then there was one scene where she was basically looking at me and allison. pretty cool. then went to cafe depot to work on this damn french composition. i hate these compositions. so vague.
(255am)- havent been up this late in a while. im watching buffalo trax on aptn. thats sad. whats been going on... not much happened thursday. or friday. basically long day of classes. i need something to keep me awake in EU. seriously, haskell is boring so far. need to do more paintings again. what else. oh right, thursday was ssmu council meeting to talk about the resignation of naeem datoo as president. long boring meeting in which not much was established. so seth and i left early and went to see spellbound, a movie about 8 kids who go to the national spelling bee. its a documentary, really funny, but at the same time, not. hard to explain. entertaining though. anyways. back to last night, not much happened until we went to le swimming to shoot a little pool, have a couple drinks, and watched jai guru, who i reviewed last year in the trib. anyways... that was about it. then today i didnt do much until 3, whence i managed to do nothing again. daphna met me at cafe depot. she's friends with this teacher at mom's school and is from manchester and is a first year because she deferred a year to go to israel to study. so it was alright but shes really intimidated by me i think and basically was like that for a while until we started talking about israeli politics and discussion got heated when i was telling her that ive become less zionist and more moderate in my approach to the conflict. i see zionism as too far right and emotionally driven- something that does nothing to solve the problem and everything to perpetuate it. and being zionist isnt a requirement of being jewish. yeah, i have affinity for israel, but i recognise the other side of the story as valid too. anyways. didnt do much after that and then went late late with david to cafe depot to work some on my french composition. after that we went to else's and talked a while and here im back now. anyways, i should wrap it up, go to bed and finish my work tomorrow. got my composition to finish and also a canadian history essay proposal to write up. yeah. thats it for me tonight. who knows what goes on tomorrow, probably another vapid day....
13/09/03(1245pm)- mommy sent me a spongebob colour-a-cookie!!! :-D having trouble with javascript so i cant read my comments.
11/09/03(115am)- happy 21st birthday katherine (9.9), 20th margaret (10.9), and 20th brandee (11.9)! and my domain is finally working again. the mmj story is finished.
today's the 2nd anniversary of 9-11. theres so much i could say here. theres also a lot of things john ashcroft could probably put me have me extradited and jailed for for dissenting against american policy. lets just say this. bush is a creep. bush was good for one day, but i think most people are starting to recognise his failings again. he did what any president would have done. 2 years ago i turned on the news here at 127 prince arthur. it was only my 3rd week living in this apartment. like most people i freaked. i went back to huntington's clash of civilisations and then ended up reading it and despite lack of current fullscale war, everything in 2 years has been fairly to the nose. that said- what's happened in 2 years since the war on terrorism? lack of domestic interest. sure, homeland security has been bolstered. failings in airport security exist until everybody is screened. rare major terrorist plots have been exposed. bin laden still hasnt been caught. neither has saddam hussein. war in iraq freed iraqis. now they want rule and the us hasnt given it yet. the us wonders why its soldiers are still being killed. the domestic economy has slid drastically. tax cuts given to the rich and the poor get chump change. 87$billion goes to rebuild iraqi infrastructure, the budget is no longer remotely balanced. schools close, no child left behind strains pedagogical resources. yet sports stars make 10 times more salary than a school teacher will in his life. marijuana is still illegal, the drinking age is still higher than the voting age. yet drunk driving continues to be highest in the world. cronies rule government. major financial woes in the corporate workplace. enron and worldcom to name a few. crime is lower, but ethnic profiling is on the rise. civil liberties are infringed daily at the expense of "protecting everybody." the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many.
yes, watching on television the deaths of 5000 people was tragic. yes, it proved that america is vulnerable, despite its hegemony. however, on this 9.11, just remember that theres no price to pay for freedom but the tyranny of humankind. dont use all those lives as an excuse for the dismal state of the union. use them to remember why we're all humans first.
10/09/03(145am)- well, i got a big scoop. interviewed jim james of my morning jacket tonight after the show. writing the interview/cd review/show review for friday. probably will work on it tomorrow. the reason no ones gotten to my site is that it renews the server automatically, but not the domain (why, i dont know). so now its pending renewal. but it should be back shortly. anyways. so that review will be soon here. also, i had 2 more articles published this week: ska show smashingly dull and 2 disc reviews. anyways, ill have my laptop on campus tomorrow, that way i can chat/work on my story. more later...
08/09/03(915pm)- not much going on here. been busy working on reviews for the trib. not much happened this weekend. party at dani's but thats about it. really not much done. also did a bunch of school work in cluding this composition i had to write for french. 3 -5 pages on "the sun was piercing through the clouds." you can read the french/english here... (french is currently being corrected). um, like i said, not much really doing here. no new music no shows no nothing. ive got my wireless internet to work though, which has to be the coolest thing ever. ive used it in shatner, cafe depot, and outside of a.l. van houtte on mcgill college. and outside on lower field. it feels so... 21st century. anyways, tonight might be some more reading/studying at cafe depot and thats about it. dunno what else to say so im gonna go. kinda tired, i was working on that composition til 2 last night with david. had absolutely nothing to say for 3 pages. anyways. its been a pensive weekend again. later...
06/09/03(115pm)- im just about going out to cafe depot to do some reading. but as i said last month, the longlist of music was announced and i made my predictions (not picks). that said, 4/10 of my predictions were correct and 6/10 of my picks were correct. so, later on, im gonna do my pick/prediction of the winner. the shortlist (and albums i own in bold are) is:
Bright Eyes- Lifted, Cat Power- You Are Free, Cody Chesnutt- Headphone Masterpiece, Damien Rice- O, Floetry- Floetic, Interpol- Turn On the Bright Lights, Sigur Ros- (), The Black Keys- Thickfreakness, The Streets- Original Pirate Material, Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Fever to Tell.
04/09/03(1115pm)- *sigh* long day. woke up, did my shit and went to french. 3 other people from my class last year and then a bunch of first years. and some others. then went to arab-israeli conflict class. prof seems boring. in 4 years, its my first class with david. lauren's in that class too. and elliot. and a couple other people i recognize faces. then david and i did lunch and i bummed around for a bit trying to stop in the trib office and the likes. finally was european union, which was alright but the prof was kinda meh- even for the specialist on EU matters. but i want the subject matter so... after that, i went to get my haircut, picked up my laundry and that was that. hung around here for a bit, called jens mom, then we had a house meeting. talked about apartment stuff and went with anton to the planet smashers show at club soda. it was partially by choice but moreso because i was reviewing for the trib and volunteered since i was on the press list. it was monotonous. thats all i gotta say. 30 min of one band from gainesville, fl, 30 min from one band from richmond, va, and planet smashers (from montreal) was on 45 min before i left because i was tired of hearing the same songs over and over. on the way back, we saw some senior citizen midgets in diapers in the window of club envy. i would have taken a picture but i had no film. so much for that idea. anyways, it by far was one of the weirdest things i ever saw. anyways, im gonna do some reading, maybe work on these reviews ive got due for the trib tomorrow, and then go to bed. im tired. tomorrows the welcome back dinner at ghetto shul so it should be good. anyways, im out for now. ps, folio 2 is now complete. more tomorrow...
come on now, don't you want to see
just what a difference you've made in me
i'll be waiting oh no matter what you say
cause i've been waiting for days and days and days
~coldplay
(110am)- its been a tough day for all. first day of classes. schedule goes like this:
HIST 370 Canada:20th c. Political Hist. MWF 10:35 am - 11:25 am
FREN 201 Composition 1 MWF 1:35 pm - 2:25 pm
FRSL 431 Français fonctionnel avancé TR 10:05 am - 11:25 am
POLI 347 Arab-Israel Conflict,Crisis,Peace TR 11:35 am - 12:55 pm
POLI 451 The European Union TR 2:35 pm - 3:55 pm
so only 2 classes today and 3 tomorrow. chili dinner with seth, david, dani, and stefan at davids place. i cooked. then went to ste. elizabeth's with daniel and israel from chicoutimi. good times for all. though stuffs weighed in on my mind this evening. late night phone conversation and the likes. im praying for you and your family. we'll see how tomorrow goes...
03/09/03(1020am)- first day of class woo. and my computer is currently disabled. gotta call dell support. something about a physical memory dump. anyways, im just about off to my first class- 20th century canadian political history, then french composition 1 at 130. tomorrow is functional french, arab-israeli conflict, war, crisis, and then european union. anyways. i hate not having my own computer and ive gotta jet to class. not much going on yesterday. bought books. still scrambled. yeah.
02/09/03(200am)- im really having a tough time. sleep off. emotions not aligned. stars off. random phrases. to talk about- tremblant. spider. cafe depot. radiohead bombardment. bar ste. e's/dan. jarred perspective. jarred realization. profific writing.
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