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the last thing I want to be doing today
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is writing my midterm in an hour
I'd rather be with
you
on our bikes somewhere
watching muscles tightening
sweat glistening
smelling of summer
instead its winter
and I'm on campus writing words for potency
words that suggest power and strength
destroy, power, eradicate, wreak havoc
I'd rather be in a dive somewhere
eating pancakes and sipping coffee
talking politics and reading The Uniter
licking my thumb
and wiping syrup off your cheek
instead I'm surviving on water
because I didn't pack a lunch
and I'm too busy writing
words for genus-species
Canadians, teachers, Michael Jackson
I'd rather be under a blanket
curled against you in bed
watching movies on the laptop, saying
"let's watch a Sinatra movie next"
instead I'm chilly in the library
watching the snow dance outside
memorizing words that describe motion
swirl, to do, deflects.
spent my whole day writing
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but not here. I spent it all writing paper proposals and essays and taking notes because it's nearly reading week which means I am buckling down hardcoreto push through two more days of school/work before an extra-long weekend and week away from classes which I am seriously in need of, you guys, because yr girl is tired but there's life to be lived so I'm living it.last week I served a bunch of wine to the seniors at my work for the V-Day dinner and my boss said that they've never sold that much wine at an event before which made me feel pretty good. basically I sat at the tables and harassed everyone who walked by in the way to dinner to come and buy a bottle for their table which most of them did and some even bought two and got all pink in the face and it was really cute.
it's weird working with old people, it puts their age and my youth into perspective and it's a pretty solid reminder that one day my hair will turn white and my joints will ache and my boobs will sag (no they won't) and I'll be talking about "kids these days" not in the ironic way I do not but in the really disdainful old-person way that my grandma does. I don't want to be a disdainful old person.
that's a fear of mine, actually, getting old & getting bitter. everyone does it and I don't think that because you're having a rough time that means you get to take it out on the world, it's like when you're young and bad shit happens and you're like "it's not because I'm a tit that this happened, it's because the world is unfair" and that attitude just gets carried through into your elderly years and you're some teenager with wrinkles and loose skin and your mentality never changed. I know some people like that but I won't say who.
I think your attitude determines a lot in life. yesterday was Valentine's Day and what annoys me most about VDay isn't couples who go all-out or people who stay in, it's the ones who are all 'Valentine's Day is stupid, blah blah blah' because you know what you sound like a lonely, sad, whiny person who is just raining on everyone else's parade. I get that it sucks to be single on Valentine's Day but I was single for three solid years (waah waah right) and even though yeah it stung a bit to not have some guy doting on me while surrounded by couples I didn't wallow in it or shit all over other people for enjoying it because it's selfish to do that.
it's kind of like people who hate on Apple products who have to make a concerted effort to go out of their way to badmouth people who like them. listen, I dislike your "six flagship phones a year" garbage phone as much as they hate my iPhone but I don't constantly go around badmouthing Samsung (or whoever) because frankly I like my phone and Apple and that's really all that matters. it seems to me that when people have to go around putting down other people's preferences in a serious (non-joking, casual) way it just shows insecurity on their part. just get over yourself.
or if you can't pull your head out of your own rectal cavity do what most of us do and get a blog where you can spew your bovine stercas into the wee hours of the morning when you suddenly get a caffeine rush from the cups of coffee you drank while trying to stay awake memorizing the usages of universal topics and clarification devices.
either one works.
happy V-Day
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it also applies to all of you
because you are
aw
happy v-day
(and thanks, as always, for reading)
I promise this is the last time I'll bring this up
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Saturday after wine and singing along for the Johnny Broadway (ongoing) music vid shoot we were at Pop Soda's for Litta's birthday where we crashed a lesbian dance party (literally) and I was standing in the beer line with Johnny and this girl came up to me and was likeI need to tell you how beautiful you are. can I just... touch you? your hand or something?
and I don't know what level of wasted she was (probably very) but I know which level I was so I let her pet my hand like I was The Queen or something because, well, what else was I supposed to do?
so needless to say my ego exploded all over that joint
but it's not nice to brag which is clearly what I am doing (you would too) so this is officially the last time I am bringing up the story about The Girl Who Thought I Was So Beautiful She Wanted to Pet My Hand
so let's move on and watch this trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Hip Hop #30 Transit - I'm So Indie
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much love to this track.
I'm off to skate my hangover away
happy Hip Hop Sunday!
saw this great band last night
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called Sons of York
at a teeny tiny bar that you have to walk through the front part of a restaurant and down some stairs to get to that feels like a grotto and has Big Rock on tap and was filled with people in big parkas because it was effin' cold
Sons of York played for a bit as Sons of York but also played as Teenage Mutant Ninja Band for their 90s cover show which is what Kevin and Rhonda and I were there to see which was also awesome.
they played Weezer and RHCP and some other stuff which was also good, but I forget what because I'm kind of in a rush right now
creep on Sons of York here, here and here
which you should do because they're really, really good.
oh and 5 Fifty Five Osborne please get a website or FB page or something together so I can creep your shows, pls.
I'm outta here guyse, we've got a ride waiting outside.
happy saturday.
saw robocop at the cinema last night
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yeah you heard that right, at the cinema as part of the great digital film festival which means seeing old movies on the big screen for (pretty) cheap, which is what we did last night after I worked for four hours getting cute Italian seniors drunk at the v-day party at my work. so obviously I needed some blood, gore and 'splosions to help me relax.
we went with Kat and jbroadway who gave us a lift because it was colder than a witches tit outside last night and not even Robocop is worth braving -40 weather to go see.
and would you believe I've never even seen Robocop before? yeah, I live under a rock.
it also was released the year I was born along with other such classics as
dirty dancing
good morning vietnam
evil dead 2
full metal jacket
empire of the sun
lethal weapon
the princess bride
the running man
and
harry and the hendersons
just kidding about that last one. plus this isn't a post about awesome movies that were released in 1987 it's a post about how awesome Robocop is and how every movie set in 'the near future' from the 80s just looks more like the 80s than the 80s did?
especially the haircuts
but this isn't a post about haircuts or style in Robocop it's a post about how Robocop manages to be a totally over-the-top satire of corporatism, technology, capitalism, the media and the ideology of progress with ironic billboards and games that involve nuking your enemy before they nuke you and the new car the 6000 SUX.
though my parents had a 6000 when I was a kid and it did suck
but this isn't a post about how much my parents pontiac 6000 sucked, it's a post about how Robocop taught me that you don't leave nuclear waste lying around in back alleys in bad neighbourhoods because some guy could drive his van into it and wind up looking like this:
but this isn't a post about nuclear waste melting skin, it's a post about Robocop and how when we went to see it there were a bunch of super-wasted guys sitting in the row behind us who kept cheering and clapping and yelling and it was super annoying and rude because you know what? even though it's an old movie it doesn't mean you can act like a drunken douchebag and clap and yell at the parts you think are funny because news flash you're not the only one in the theater, dumbass.
but this isn't a post about stupid guys in the theater, it's a post about Robocop and how awesome Red from That 70's Show was as one of the bad guys and how his line "bitches, leave" to the coked-up prostitutes is probably one of the most badass low-key villain lines ever
but this isn't a post about how impressed I was by Kurtwood Smith's wicked performance in Robocop, it's a post about Robocop and how great I thought it was and how I'm glad I got to see it in all it's bad 80s glory on the big screen because you don't get the full effect of the gore and explosions and general badassery when you watch that kind of flick at home, I think.
and to refresh your mind about how terrible/awesome it is, enjoy the original trailer
but apparently the sequels all suck, so let's just forget they made those.
I wish I could be president
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even I can't because you know Donald Trump would be all
we need to find out if she was really born in Winnipeg! where the hell is Winnipeg, even? it sounds made up! and who is actually born on remembrance day. c'mon!
and then he'd realize that not everything comes from the US
like me
and I'd be barred from running
which is cool by me because being president is a big job
but if that's the case
can I at least can I visit the white house
and play with the marshmallow gun?
