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I didn't know her very well
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but I knew her well enough.as well enough as you can know someone you see a couple of times a week for close to a year, I guess.
she always tried to give me something to eat. a banana. some chocolate cake she'd made. a cup of coffee. I swear she got a meal ready just because she knew I'd be stopping by.she reminded me of Greta Garbo in Inspirationshe always looked so damn good. blazers and slacks and heels and lots of gold jewlery. real diamonds and pearls.
some women never stop being classy, no matter how old they get.
she was one of them.
she held my hand when she saw me. looked me in the eye. leaned on me when she had to get up but asked me not to tell anyone.
she called me "sweetie" and always wanted to know when I'd come by so she could go to the hairdresser in the morning.
the last time I saw her she was waiting for a ride to the hospital. sitting in the lobby by herself. she called me over and took my hand. she told me she was scared
and I hugged her
I told her I'd see her soon, that she'd be okay and I'd see her for our next appointment.
turns out I lied.
because there won't be a next time.
goodbye, Carole
can you believe I haven't seen the new Mad Men?
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I know, I feel like an assholebut I've been busy doing MEME 2012 stuff, and writing my papers, and figuring out my un-supervillain costume for a party this weekend
so I'll just leave this gif here, which Mulligan posted which has be me all aflutter
and will come back to you once I've written this paper and watched this episode
muah!
Hip Hop Sunday # 34 Ol' Dirty Bastard feat. Kelis - Got Your Money
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I have Wu Tang on the mind after drawing Rza in Draw Something yesterday
I didn't have the foresight to save the photo, but here's one I did instead
Happy Hip Hop Sunday!
Happy 2nd Birthday Secret Handshake!
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my favourite monthly meetup of awesome Winnipeg types turned two last night and we were out in full force to celebrate at The King's Headthere were tons of name tags and raffle presents and snacks (not pictured)
and the lovely Leanne made a lovely speech and we all heckled her
and I got dragged onstage to help her pick some raffle winners, of which I wasn't one but congrats to the fine tweeps who walked away with some awesome Parlour Coffee swhwag (I'm so jealous)
of course the obligatory Secret Handshake Ladies' Trifecta of Awesome bathroom shot featuring myself, Leanne and the short-n-lovely Stef
though when Leanne brought out some tube socks from her purse I knew things were getting weird and it was time to get some Smoke's Poutine and go home
T-minus four hours
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awww yeah
Today I watched some My Little Pony
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because after attempting to watch some Jersey Shore last week I thought that maybe I should try my hand at understanding another 'trend' that at a glance I assume is both completely stupid and a total waste of my time and here is what I learned:
I don't get this crap, either
apparently you can't watch My Little Pony on the hasbro website which makes my eyes want to bleed, so I had to find an episode online to watch and this is what happened:
some still images and a voice-over told me about two unicorn sisters who controlled the light and the day, but the night unicorn got upset that the ponies slept during her time so she decided it would always be night and the other (good?) unicorn harnessed some jewels and trapped her in the moon. which apparently was some story being read by some pony sitting on a hill reading a book. then the intro started which was a song about magic and friends and other stuff, I have no idea, and then the pony reading a book was walking on the road and it has some really stupid My Little Pony type name and some other ponies invited her to the party some other pony with a stupid name was having in a courtyard.
then I stopped because, my god, it's terrible.
I remember the original My Little Pony show being really lame and terrible as far as children's shows go and the closest I really got to being "into" it was someone gave me a pony as a gift with a saddle that opened up so you could store stuff in her back. but it was okay that the show sucked and the toys were junk because it was a children's show that no adult in their right mind could actually find cute or cool
and I think that's my issue with this 'new' My Little Pony.
because I'm seeing My Little Pony stuff everywhere. people are posting pictures of these weird anime versions of horses all over facebook, pinterest, on twitter and don't even get me started on the My Little Pony cesspool that is tumblr and I get it if it were a bunch of tweens that were posting about this kind of stuff, but actual adults who I respect are doing it and I simply don't understand it.
My Little Pony isn't cute or cool or awesome or whatever, it's a really terrible remake of a terrible kids show that happens to look like anime now and for Christ's sake it's called My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. that doesn't even make sense! it's these arbitrary cutsey buzzwords linked together to make you think something is zomg cute when it's just useless fluff.
and you know what
it's not Hello Kitty
it's not Keropi
it's not Chococat
it's not Batz-maru
it's not any of the list of Sanrio characters who it is socially acceptable for adults to think is cute
(and that's still depending on who you ask)
because people my age grew up with those
it's different when you grow up with a show and you're naturally inclined to like it due to nostalgia but as far as I can tell there is nothing beyond the "omg these ponies have big anime eyes" that is actually in any way appealing and
no
that doesn't make it acceptable for grown men (who I know!) to be calling themselves
"bronies"
really, guys? really?
see, adults watching Jersey Shore I can kind of understand. it's escapism. it's just people wanting to forget their dramas and shitty lives and watching other people's dramas and shitty lives and even though I don't agree that it's valuable to society in any way I can at least rationalize why it's so huge. plus at least on Jersey Shore the characters actually have sex with actual people unlike the disturbing pony-on-pony pr0n people post on tumblr.
I just can't rationalize the pony thing.
it's fluff. it's stupid, useless, annoying, fluff and there's actually less reason for us to be excited about animated ponies than Jersey Shore because at least the useless annoying characters on Jersey Shore are at least (to some extent) actual, physical people. these are just ugly, misshaped, fake-anime horses.
basically this is how I felt watching it:
I'm done.
Got an invitation in the mail today
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Kat & John, I love you guys
see you at the party!
found this weird video today
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the animation reminds me of some anime but I don't know what, I'm sure it will come to me if I type long enough
the weather here has been bananas and by that I mean blazingly hot, the normal for Winnipeg in March is 0 and it's been 25 the last few days and muggy as hell and it's been like waiting for a bomb to drop anticipating the storm that's coming. everyone was saying it wouldn't but after days of heat and damp and thick muggy air to for it to get mild without a storm is like an unreached orgasm, if you ask me
you're waiting for it but it just doesn't come
except now it's raining like crazy and there's thunder and lightning and the trees all around our apartment are blowing around and some weird part of me wants to go run around outside in it
especially since the lights just flickered in here, so there might not be anything else to do
I'll keep you posted
ps the anime is Serial Experiments Lain
Hip Hop Sunday # 33 - Sons of Science - Motherf*cking Bike
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cred goes to Tony for posting this a few weeks ago, though it's just as good today as when I first saw it on his blog and it's applicable because with weather looking like this:
BOOM!
I'm going to be out & about on my motherfucking bike. you'd have to be a fool to stay inside on a day like this.
enjoy your Sunday kids!
Yesterday I saw Father's Day at the Cinématheque
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but don't be intimidated by the fact that I saw it in a movie theatre with an accent aigu in the name because it wasn't as fancy as it sounds, though the Cinématheque it pretty much the best place to find indie movies and film festivals playing in Winnipeg.
but I'm not here to talk to you about the great independent movie theatre that I adore in my city, I'm here to talk to you about the amazing grindhouse flick that I saw there which is Fathers Day. I blogged about Astron 6 waywayway back in August 2010 when they were casting for male parts in the movie and then again when I had to turn down an offer to audition because I had so much ish going on which I am thoroughly kicking myself for it now. Fuck!
anyway Father's Day premiered at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival and here is what it won:
audience choice awards: best feature film
best hero
best kills
most original film
best trailer
best poster
and that's just one festival which should be indicative of the credit that the movie deserves. everywhere this movie went it got amazing reviews (some of which you can read here, here, here, here, here and I think you get the point. there's lots more where that comes from).
anyway you didn't come here to read about what other people think, you came here to read what I think and here it is:
the movie is full of people eating other people, vomiting, blood, gore, gross sex, hallucinations, jackets, dicks, lots of topless ladies and one naked dude and I loved every minute of it. the plot goes from being weird and ridiculous about a guy who goes around raping dads to somewhere totally bizarre and way more "wtf" in the 3rd act and manages to keep its shit together. which is saying something. on top of that it's really, really funny. Canadians know humor, what can I say.
what I love most about the movie though, which kind of makes me a suck, is the amount of love that clearly went into making it. you could tell that everyone involved with it was doing it because they supported their friends who were making something really fucking cool and original. it has the same 'labour of love' feel as The Mighty Boosh and Trailer Park Boys except with more penises, boobies and entrails. which is fine by me.
we took John and Kat to see it with us and John loved it as much as we did and Kat made a face and told me "it had funny parts" and then told me that gore makes her nauseous. but she told me that she knew when the gory parts were coming because of the music that would start up so she knew when to close her eyes while the rest of us were trying not to blink and miss anything.
so if you're in Winnipeg and you like grindhouse stuff and you want to support some talented local filmmakers Father's Day is running at the Cinématheque until Saturday March 24th so pick a time to go see it and then tell me what you thought because the more praise I hear about the film the less creepy I feel blogging about how great it is over and over and over.
and if you don't live in Winnipeg and you want to give 'er a watch, Troma should be releasing it on Blu-Ray and DVD on father's day. fuck yeah.
also make sure to go 'like' Astron 6's FaceBook page and troll the collection of articles and fan art they post there so you know I'm not the only one obsessing hard over this movie.
