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I don't always watch sports
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but when I do it's sitting in a pub somewhere filling my face with wings and Half Pints creeping on first-year film students who have to listen to our booth getting progressively more obnoxious and rowdy the more beers we have the better the Jets play
and I drink this Half Pints because it's the best beer out there which makes the fact that the Garbonzo's on campus only carries their Bulldog Amber and had the gall to run out of it towards the end of the evening.
and I hang out with these two fools and argue about politics despite my best efforts (for once) and swap stories because we almost never see Will because either I'm too busy being a student or he's in Vancouver, again, so when I had to resort to hanging out on twitter because they were talking about cameras and video editing software it was like a warm, familiar, annoying hug.
and I make this is the stupid face after a bunch 'o beers when the Jets are destroying the Panthers which is a combination of beer, joy, spicy hot wing coma, and disbelief over the fact that I actually knew which two teams were playing
and I don't even give an f that it's going to snow like a mofo overnight and I'm going to slip three times while walking through this to get to work
I haven't edited my photos from the Festival du Voyageur
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which is just another thing to add to the pile of things I haven't done that I need to get around to, such astranscribe my Thomas Dolby interview
write two term papers
edit all the photos I've taken over the last month
get my notes together for tomorrow's MEME 2012 meeting
hit the gym so I can indulge guilt-free in wings and beer with Tyrone and Will tonight
file my taxes
find a summer job (wanna hire me?)
buy a bday gift for my mum
get my picture taken for an article in the The Metro
make more time for more sexy rumpus
among other things
if I were a responsible student I'd be more on top of these things but honestly I think I manage to keep my shit pretty much together while working and partying like a rock star on the weekends (not pictured due to laziness)
which is pretty good considering all I want to do these days is have Daft Punk dance parties and drink whiskey and have 'play dates', Elmo stylez.
How messed up is it The Lorax is endorsing SUVs?
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I'm not sure how an SUV is "Truffula-Tree Friendly"
or how bastardizing a children's book that talks about
conservation
and preserving our resources
and being responsible
for future generations
can be made into a zany capitalism-hugging monstrosity
but it's happened
and in the words of the great Doctor:
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot
nothing is going to get better. It's not.
just finished an interview with Thomas Dolby
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had to skype 'm because downtown LA has no cell reception
and so we skyped and I sounded like a dumbass
asking him about his new album (which I love), his floating studio, and the music scene
and he was nice and clever and charming
which of course is no surprise
my interview will be up at The Spill Magazine soon
and until then you can purchase A Map of the Floating City here
which you should do because it's really, really good
why did nobody tell me it was Zelda's birthday?
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yesterday, I mean, since now it's Wednesday February 22nd and yesterday was Tuesday February 21st and on that day The Legend of Zelda: The Hyrule Fantasy was released and sometime down the line my parents bought a little girl a SNES for Christmas and we rented The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past from the mom & pop video game store in my neighbourhood and became so hooked on it that my parents continued to renew the rental for nearly a year.but good things can't last and just as my mom (who played it at night after went to bed) was reaching Ganon my little brother erased the game. tragedy. so my parents bought themselves a copy and I spent the better part of my childhood glued to the SNES, Zelda, and a few other SNES classics.
and so a n3rd was born
but back in the day it wasn't so cool to be a n3rd and I was one of the few kids I knew who was obsessed with video games until I hit highschool and met some other nerds which was okay because most of us were in french immersion and the french immersion kids at my high school were all deemed social outcasts to begin with, so I wasn't doing that terribly.
we would get together and play the free PS2 trial discs and some of us (not me) got really good at DDR and I had two separate boyfriends who lent me their PS2 and Xbox, respectively, for long periods of time which was super nice of them.
but Zelda has always been my fave. there's no annoying grinding like in Final Fantasy, it's not gaggingly cute like Eternal Sonata, and even though it's (almost) always the same guy saving the same world from the same villain it's always so different and do much fun and so damn unique I still can't believe the games don't suck yet.
which of course they won't, ever, because if there's one thing Nintendo doesn't do is dick around with their flagship franchises. Zelda will be good even when it hits its 50th birthday and then it's 75th and I'll be playing it from my hovercraft wheelchair in some future seniors home still unable to use the motion controls to get bloody Link to swim the fuck downwards.
yesterday was Tyrone's birthday
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but I didn't blog it out of love
because then you'd be all "how old is Tyrone, Alyson?"
and I'd have to be all
"he's older than a Conker tree
he's older than the dead sea scrolls
he's older than Rod Stewart"
when he isn't, really.
because what actually matters is that he doesn't act his age
not all the time, anyway
otherwise he wouldn't date a silly girl like me
and eat Chinese food with me on the couch watching Sherlock
after staying up all night together
and letting me kiss him at midnight and say
"happy birthday you old bastard
I love you"
Hip Hop Sunday #31 The Karate Rap
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getting a little silly with this one, courtesy of @AlexRidley
happy Hip Hop Sunday!
Tyrone's #BreakItOff report
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yes I know things have been quiet on the #BreakItOff front but not for tryingI recorded a VDay vid earlier in the week about what it was like to begin dating a smoker, and how I was against it and thought Tyrone was smelly and had bad breath but it got lost somewhere between the memory card and my iPhoto and it's gone awol
not that there hasn't been progress in the Shane/Deise household!
I have to say, I'm incredibly proud of him for sticking with it. midterms have had me acting like a crazy person the last few weeks and I'm sure that he would have liked the excuse to get away from my frazzled, stressed-out self.
and even with me being a stressed-out ragelor all over the place Tyrone managed to find the time to pick up where I
on a more personal note, I've decided that I'm not going to watch the videos that Tyrone posts. I'm not sure why, but I feel like maybe this will allow him to be more frank when speaking about his progress in his videos? who knows?
anyway, I'm proud of him as always, and have been glad to be speaking with some peeps & tweeps lately who have been inspired by his decision and are making a (private) #BreakItOff pact with themselves, too! good for all of you :)
