January 2008
56 posts
“What you met the man of your dreams, but his dead girlfriend’s ghost...”
– Tagline from “Over Her Dead Body” a new movie starring Eva Longoria.
Do want
Holy shit I want this. The New Yorker’s food issue is (pitiable fact ahead) a reading highlight of my year. Maybe it’s an idiosyncracy of getting older, but I think I love reading about food more than I like reading about sex. I think I will buy this with Chuck’s credit card.
“Is it possible that there are simply no good band names left? First there was...”
– via VF Daily: Michael Hogan: What’s In a (Bad) Band Name? (via cameronr) But what does Macho Man Randy Savage think? Worst band names of good bands: Tap Tap Super Furry Animals continue in comments below I can’t think of any….
We all saw this in the Times already, right?
David Carr says some people who hate Juno are, ahem, rockists. Idolator corrects him. Ladies and gentlemen, The New York Times. Your international paper/blog of record. Also, can we all agree to stop saying “McMansion?” Thanxxx!
Happiness
chuckmore: Rudy Giuliani is done. The piece of shit, 9/11 comparing to AIDSing sorry excuse for a New Yorker has dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination. It is a glorious day… Also, read this in case you are still sad. Or this. I love that the New Yorker totally took out a hit on him. Not that I suspect it had anything to do with Giuliani’s loss, but this line, from...
In which I get an engraved invitation to do...
juliaallison: have you ever written something, then edited it, then had someone else edit it, then edited it again, then had someone else edit it, then edited it yourself again, then re-read it and thought “THIS IS A PIECE OF MOTHERFUCKING CRAP” and wondered how the hell that could possibly be, with all that editing??? and THEN felt really, really, really badly about your writing...
Twin Cinema
So in the initimable words of Amil, this was a dream I had about blogging, so feel free to not read it. Anyways, in my dream (why are you still reading??), I wrote this essay called “How Rude!” which was about the media coverage of Mary-Kate Olsen in the wake of Heath Ledger’s death. Basically it was about how, when the media writes all these stories about unimportant things like...
John Edwards as Kingmaker →
Edwards has been my horse from the get go. Even though he basically has no shot at the nomination at this point, here’s some very realistic silver lining. — chuckmore Chuck has told me several times that even though he is still eligible to vote in the U.S., he does not. I take this post as a personal pledge that he will vote in the 2008 election, and of course in the New York primaries.
In a mood
Babies crying is seriously one of the most disturbing noises in the known universe. First the sound annoys you, because hey: loud, high-pitched screaming. And then you feel guilty about it, because, are you really annoyed by a baby? And then you think: “Maybe why it’s so awful is because I feel sorry for that kid who is a helpless, pure, child of god, who knows not why he’s...
sniffle.
well. it looks as if emily and michelle are no longer in the blogging world. without them, there is no point for me to stay. so it looks like ilovemilyandmichelle will be coming down. it was fun while it lasted. — iloveemilyandmichelle emilymichelledouglas.tumblr.com is no more.
Pee Probs
I hate it when I go pee and finish peeing and walk away from the urinal, and then a bunch more pee falls out into my pants all unexpected and late, and then I have to sit here like I just peed my pants when it isn’t really my fault. — chuckmore I’m reblogging this because I totally understand. The problem is made even worse with grey jeans. — cameronr I am reblogging this becuase...
Juno Sucks - let me tell you why! →
— amilniazi Compare Amil’s review with one by Vancouver’s own blogebrity, Darren Barefoot. ( Juno is Terrific, Jan. 25, 2008) Barefoot cites the following dialogue as an example of stellar writingLeah: Yo Yo Yiggady Yo. Juno MacGuff: I’m pregnant. Leah: What? Honest to blog? Are you sure it’s not a food baby? Did you eat a big lunch? Juno MacGuff: This is not a food baby all...
“Confidential to Elaine: Don’t be such a bummer man.”
– amil, just a second ago. I know dude. I think I have pms. Wait, should that go on Feminiazi because it’s about periods?
I think this is a pretty accurate representation of how everyone I know reacted to Heath Ledger’s death. Not to get all earnest (esp on what is ostensibly the most useless-yet-powerful tool yet in the war of new media immediacy versus thoughtful, longform reportage), but I seriously worry that our generation’s contribution to humanity will be the absolute devaluation of human...
Old man record reviews
I don’t like the new Destroyer as much as I did the last four. — alexbalk I don’t like any of them! (Dangerfield! inaugural disparaging remark about Destroyer)
the funk
ecorden: also, there should really be another word for "funky" that connotes that a neighbourhood is interesting and young and filled with hippies.
(5: 20 PM) ecorden: I hate the word funky
(5: 21 PM) coworker: haha. totally.
(5: 21 PM) coworker: it's kind of a gross word
(5: 21 PM) coworker: b/c you can be like "what's the funky smell?" which is a bad thing.
(5: 21 PM) ecorden: yeah. it should only apply to smells and james brown.
My review of Cat Power's new record at The Tyee →
Did not write the head.
amil and I have a femiblog. Nothing is too small... →
Provincial government uses Facebook to spy on... →
- at the Tyee. Wtf?
Reblogging Julia →
I try not to blog about Julia but sometimes I can’t help it. I desperately want nothing to do with her, but she 1) calls or emails me almost every day 2) ignores the fact that I told her she is a “psychopathic narcissist” who is “evil” and who I “don’t want to interact with” 3) recently hired my brother to do video work for her 4) writes about me...
Bruce LaBruce's CBC Sundance blog →
I just got the call from CBC Radio 3 letting me know I did not get the hosting job I interviewed for. However, Mother Corp does have Bruce LaBruce blogging for them at Sundance so things are looking up. Anyone want to be in the gay porno I’m making? — cameronr Also, suggit, I love Bruce LaBruce
Death of a Music Salesman
As my iTunes account is effed, today I went to buy the new Cat Power CD (shameless plug: look for my review on The Tyee tomorrow), at the A&B Sound at Seymour and Dunsmuir.At the risk of sounding both ageist and sizeist and elitist, I have to admit that the middle-aged, frumpy, Cotton Ginny-wearing, not-even-soccer-mom who rung my purchase through confirmed for me that the record store as a...
WatchSam Sullivan pretends that the homelessness problem hasn’t gotten worse under his tenure. Best quote: Reporter, taking it on at the end of interview: “I understand mental illness and drug addiction will also be on the agenda” Sullivan: “Huge, very important part of it.” Reporter: “Okay, so that’ll all be dealt with today here in downtown Vancouver.”...
How I learned to never have feelings again (not so...
.....long, extended text convo, circa Jan 4, 2008........
elaine: "If there were any justice in this world, you'd have a massive crush on me."
My friend Ryan, whom I have a massive crush on: [deafening, ongoing silence]
Ha! Now I feel nothing!
Elaine, take note
me: i think what your'e thinking of might have been on facebook
davidaplook: oh? maybe i dunno, i am getting lost in a pool of social networking
me: totally
davidaplook: elaine has till friday to start following me, or i am gonna cut her loose!!
-via chuckmore.tumblr.com
DONE!
Scenes from an elevator
Random foreign guy is a "bagel stop" tshirt: You have a very nice chest
elaine, looking down: "Excuse me?"
Guy: "You have a beautiful chest."
elaine: "um, thanks?"
*****20 floors of silence*****
Heath Ledger dead
Were you signed up with Celebrity Death Beeper, you might have just got an e-mail announcing the death of Heath Ledger. I have a weird Heath Ledger story that involves being on a press junket in LA for Lords Of Dogtown , a movie that Legder starred in, stuck in a group interview with a 40something man reporting for TeenPeople.com. I’m not going to tell it now.
Clearly.
Tumblr is some next-level seduction of the canine.
“I am off to read The Secret and snort birth control now. Periods are gross”
– the best part of my fake Tumblr for Amil that she justifiably made me take down.
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Great Moments in Text Messaging, Vol. 2
RC: "I am so terribly, terribly bored. Did anything exciting happen at work today?"
elaine: "uh, no. I am watching the Iowa primary results. I am kinda bummed Hillary Clinton did so poorly, even though she's kinda evil-ish"
RC: "At least she beat Kucinich. I like Ron Paul. Even though I don't think this election will matter at all and we are all fucked and it will be like madmax styles in like five years so don't throw out a broken toaster in case down the line you will need the parts to rebuild your motorcycle helicopter hybrid"
elaine: "Kucinich is awesome. Like a hobbit. Ron Paul is an anti-choice republican who wants to abolish personal income tax. It sounds awesome, because you would have all that extra disposable income, but it would totally suck, because you couldn't spend it on all those abortions you wanted to have"
RC: "I will save my toasters and coathangers then."
Great moments in text messaging, vol. 1
VT: How did the Main Street beardo cross the river?
Elaine: I give in.
VT: A hoboat.
The Nerve Magazine folds
Another one bites the dust. I had heard some rumours of this, but until I read this I didn’t have confirmation. Say what you want about the Nerve (and the Only Magazine article I just linked to does, true to its editorial voice), I think it got a lot better in the past few years - largely due to my friend and collegue Adrian Mack helming the music section. Not only is Adrian a terrific...
Here's how far I ran today with my running mate... →
Something awesome about getting older....
….is that I am no longer required to binge drink on a regular basis. I went out last night, to a donner dinner party (freudian slip?) and then like, out out, because, as many in the girl pack of girls I was with pointed out, when was the last time I went out dancing (months and months and months ago)? Anyways, long story short, being at a large, crappy bar makes one more likely to drink to...
Also
I saw some graffiti today, at Main & Terminal. It just said “Death Camp” with an arrow pointing to the DTES. I don’t know if the DTES was what the graffiti artists was referring to, but it had an effect on me. (welcome to my Luddite blog, where I just describe things I have seen instead of posting links/photos. Have you checked out my colour scheme? It’s like chocolate...