The burning Bush
"Bush is not an imbecile. He's not a puppet. I think that Bush is a sociopathic personality. I think he's incapable of empathy. He has an inordinate sense of his own entitlement, and he's a very skilled manipulator. And in all the snickering about his alleged idiocy, this is what a lot of people miss." That and more in this facinating article about George Bush.

Respect the pussy
I guess that it was inevitable, the rate my picture set of websites has reached it's peak.

That's no moon...oh wait, it is
It's old news, but it's moon news, right? In case you weren't aware, the Chinese have their own moon program which will allow for lunar exports. Does this mean that we'll have a red moon, soon?

In still older moon news, did you know that in the 80s, the land of the Rising Sun wanted to be the land of the Rising Moon? If the Japanese Space Flight Program had gone to fruition, the year 2001 would have been much more like the Kubric film instead of being a Michael Bay blockbuster. Unfortunately for the Japanese, they had no plans for giant transforming robots that would fly us to the moonbases and back. Damn.

The best laid plans....
I was really keen on my update today, really, I was. Duing the down time at work today, I took a free pen that EnCana was offering, took free poster and began writing down my thoughts for the day. I wrote about how I felt, holding a camera (it was like having a new lover), thoughts on film school (dude, we sure got sleepy after we had our donuts, didn't we?) and how my body feels (shoulder and backaches). But when I got here, I didn't know how to write it and keep it interesting. So I scrapped it.

Maybe one day I'll be a decent writer.

Tonight I did something that I've never done before
I've sent an e-mail to the webmaster of a site that I dig. This case, the Whore's Boudoir. Who knows what she'll do with my e-mail. Part of me thinks that she'll like it. It's not every day that you get an e-mail out of the blue by a stranger telling you that someone digs your site. I'm curious to know what will happen next.

Secret Mormon handshake revealed!

Talking with animals
Have you ever wanted to have a coherent conversation with a furry but didn't know the lingo? Thankfully, with this glossary you can pretend to be a longbeast and try your hand at a thrilling yiff!

Battle Royale T-Shirts!
These t-shirts not only capture some of the best moments of the film, but they also make a great Christmas gift. Order one for your loved one today!

It's hip to be Square (and Enix)
Square and Enix are to merge next April. Considering all the interesting developments in the video game industry this year, I'm interested to know where this is headed. RPGers, you may ejaculate now!

The Yost with the most
Ever wondered what became of David Yost, the man in blue in the original Power Rangers? Wonder no longer, this page has all the answers to questions that you've always asked yourself, like "Does David wear glasses in real life", "Where can I see a nude picture of Yost?" and "Where can I find Blue Ranger and Alpha 5 slash?"

Aural Sex
Dated Januray 8th, 2002, You've Got Balls! is my favorite mix CD. Listening to it today brings back a half a dozen good memories. Getting my first cheque from Asterisk Productions, eating lemon cookies, sweeping my floor with a straw broom, working out in my apartment and the smell of the fire place at Christmas. Is it genius, or madness? Take a look for yourself.

Ben Folds Five - Army
Eels - Mr. E's Beautiful Blues
Money Mark - Sometimes You Gotta
Doktor Kosmos - Bl Vita Flinger
Fantastic Plastic Machine - L'Aventure Fanstastic
Damon Albarn - Closet Romanic
Gene Defcon - Life is Full of Parties
the Forty Fives - Drive All Night
April Stevens - Honey Suckle Rose
Yoshinori Sunahara - the Sound of 70s
Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
Takako Minekawa - Recubed
the Pillows - Ride on a Shooting Star
Lovage - Stroker Ace
Beck - MTV Makes Me Want to Smoke Crack
Um Jammer Lammy -
No Cutting Corners
Komeda - It's Alright Baby
Radio Birdman - Aloha Steve and Danno
Parappa the Rapper - You Gotta Believe!

Conversations with Mike

Rob: Sorry. Didn't mean to be an asshole.

Mike: s'ok, I guess my dwelling on Michelle to you was somewhat assholic. By the way, I came up with a brand new word yesterday. We were talking about hobos. and I remarked that they were normal people who were just hobogenized.

Rob: *giggles* Brilliant!

Mike: I've come close to over using it now, but I love it. I must write it into dialogue somewhere.

Rob: Indeed you must.

Mike: It's funny how much of a real word assholic is.

Rob: Indeed. It almost sounds like a temperature, or something.

Mike:And that there reminds me of a discovery I made in early 2000. How you can make any kind of villain name mearly by making it end in OR. Take Thermometer (as I did in the very first test) and it becomes the mad weather genius THERMOMETOR!

Rob: Brilliant!

Mike: Scooter? or SCOOTOR! It works for any word that ends in ER. perhaps even beyond. even some words that DO end in 'or' already, however its more difficult to get the point accros. such as Radiator. and RADIATOR! (pronounced ray-dee-ay-tore). Man, my mind is racing tonight.

What goes around, cums around
An excerpt from a woman's point of view on semen, " If a teaspoon of semen really contained 610 calories, oral sex would be used in third world countries to combat malnourishment."
That's too bad, really. I was ready to do my part and end world hunger.

Die another day because you only live twice and tomorrow never dies
Saw the new Bond film yesterday. Rather than bore you with a synopsis of the film or a poorly writen review, I'll just talk about what I liked and disliked about the movie.

the Good
-Snappy dialogue. The puns and double entendres come hard and fast, much like the super spy himself.
-Nods to the other Bond flicks. The jetpack with Q, Halle Berry's bikini, the Oddjob knockoff. Apperently the director managed to reference the other 19 Bond flicks in this movie. Something for the DVD, I guess.
-A brilliant first half that bucks the 007 conventions.
-Fantastic fights and interesting fights.
-Tony from Grand Theft Auto 3 as the head honcho for the Americans.
-Stylish direction. Jump cuts, slow mo and pixelation. A first in a Bond film, from what I can gather.

the Bad
-The second half of the movie. Bah... what a waste of a setup.
-The shitty cgi snowboarding. Why didn't they get a real snowboarder like the did a surfboarder at the beginning of the film?

The Ugly
-Koreans that undergo surgery to become white? Interesting film plot or a commentary on Asian society. You decide!
-Madonna's song for the movie. I thought that the sound was buggering up, but, alas, it was the song.

Once again, those Asians have it right

My room mate sings in the shower
He sounds like a cat being fucked by a well hung porn star. God help us all.

Conversations with David : Klingons

David: Who says there's never a Klingon around when you need one?

Rob:I hate the quote. When I hear it it reminds me of how inbred the writers of Star Trek are. I hear it and I can see, in my mind's eye, a Star Trek writer typing that line with a smug smile knowing that the fans will cheer. It sickens me.

David: Well I juust watched said episode.

Rob:I see.

David: I'm also not a fan of the quote. It's way too forced. It practically loses all its humor except in a very low-brow way. On the other hand, I don't have quite the antipathy for it that you do.

Rob: It totally feels forced. It's a line that you just know was put there so that the fans could pump their hands up and cheer.And then the next day, they'll endlessly quote it with their friends.

David: Yup. Just like "Assimilate This!"

Rob: "Assimilate this!" isn't as bad. The klingon line is worse because it's a reference to Klingons, and we all know how much fans dig those fuckers.

David: Tee hee hee! Ooh, Shock Video: Refried is on at 1am tonight.

Rob: Is this good, or bad?

David: If you like watching flimsy excuses to show topless women, then good.

Rob: *nods* It is always good.

Geek activism reaches new heights
Taken from the Internet Movie Data Base

"Avid fans of the canceled sci-fi series Farscape have created a commercial titled "I Am Farscape" and say they are buying time on cable outlets in 24 cities nationwide to air it during the week of Nov. 24th. The commercial, which they call "this first ever fan-produced, fan-funded television commercial," is aimed at accelerating what they claim is a grass-roots movement to save the series. In a message posted on the Save Farscape website , the show's fans acknowledge that in major cities they have only been able to buy time in the middle of the night. "But that's okay, because the goal of this project is to draw mainstream media attention to our cause."

Far out, man.

Shatner's Special Edition Cut of Star Trek 5 canned!
SHATNER: Yeah, some people criticize it – and then there are a number of people like yourself who saw it. The big problem was the ending, and I just didn't have any money. Nobody guided me properly... I say that on the DVD. I needed some help and I didn't get it."

More in the interview

Shame. If they put some money into Star Trek 5, I think that fans would eat it up like hot cakes. But then, don't most fans eat everything up like hotcakes anyhow?

Michael Jackson, continued
If Michael Jackson and Pamala Anderson bred, it would be the begining of a race of silicon based life forms. Kiss your carbon based ass good bye!

Who said that politicians don't tell the truth?
Here's some more background on Chretien and Bush's relationship. I can't say that I'm surprised that Chretien's advisor said what he said. He's speaking for most Canadians, I think. Good man.

I believe in Rock and Roll
It seems that as of late Rock and Roll is enjoying a productive renaissance, and why not, it's great music, man. The music media has been telling us about the great stuff that the New Yorkers and the Scandinavians are doing, but not much about Japan. Worry not, friend, the pulse of Japan's rock scene is strong and healthy. Yesterday, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant's new album Rodeo Tandem Beat Specter was released in North America. If you believe in rock and roll, sample Margaret. It's rock and roll served with wine and cheese. And we all owe ourselves some wine and cheese, don't we?

Kikoman! A hero for my generation

Michael Jackson truly is Bad

Conversations with David
Rob: I should go home and dig out *my* old NES and try to make it work.

David: It worked a lot better after doing that, for sure. But I did have to clean my games before every use.

Rob: How do you clean your games?I just used to blow on the bottom. It helped a bit.

David:I use a Q-tip and rubbing alcohol. Blow-jobs only get you so far.

Rob: Sounds like you're treating an STD rather than giving a blow job.

David: See, if nintendo games were like men, a good blow job would be all you needed. But no, they need more from the relationship.

Rob: Sometimes they just need to be held and touched, eh?

David: Exactly. You have to treat them just right. Be sensitive and gentle.

Rob: Very. I hear that at times it's painful inserting those cartridges. You have to give it some loving.

David
Exactly. Be very careful with penetration. You have to push it in and pull it out just right.

Rob: Somtimes it likes it rough, though.I remember my NES liked having a gun pointed at it. Then the screen would flash me.

David: Hmm... mine never liked it rough. When I treated it rough, it would just refuse to be turned on.

It's the small things.
Before this evening I've only had one truly great time in this foul year. It would have to be the fantastic four days that my ex, Pearl came to visit me. Sure, it wasn't anything like the summer of 2001 where we could enjoy lots of time alone together, but after moving from Victoria and working two jobs, 7 days a week for 4 months straight, it looked like heaven. I didn't think that I could top that, considering how shitty life is in Grand Prairie is, but Stephen managed to. We did the usual, talked shit, went out for fine food, hung out with Grandma Louie and did lots of walking. But dammit, in my state of almost isolation from the people that I love, it really meant a lot to me. Thanks Stephen, Grandma. You two really made my year.

Dreams
Before I delve into my dream, I should point out that I'll be using come of David's conventions when it comes to his own dream journal . I'll be using brackets [] to indicate something that I realized after the dream or insight that I became aware of when I was awake. Understand? Excellent! On with the dreams.

Dream #1
For some reason, I was talking to Linda [the secretary from film school , but at the same time she was the head of housing here at the college ]. She told me that I should say "hello" more often to my roomates, explaining that although they appreciate my privacy; they'd like some contact from myself from time to time [a parallel conversation happened with my parents last Friday]. After she and I spoke, I went to the dorms and was willing to be more talkative, but no one was there.

Other dream tidbits.
I also had a couple other dreams, one about Tresa gushing (and complaining) about cops, a dream about being with my family in a new hourse [but not the new house that they moved into] and a dream that I was fiddling with my ethernet card.

Social experiments
Lately, I've been trying some social experiements from Robert Anton Wilson's Prometheus Rising. It's sorta like a self help book, but not really. Instead of giving you feel good exercises or spirit raising soup, it helps you understand how your brain functions and how your perceptions (or reality tunnel, as Wilson calls it) colours your reality. In a nutshell, the book explains how we decide to perceive only certain parts of our reality. A good example would be my room, it's messy, but I decide not to register the mess half the time that I'm in it. Anyhow, the experiment that I've been trying is re-perceiving myself as someone who you can open up to, and so far it's worked. I've met a couple of strangers in lines, at restaurants, stores, whatever that end up telling me about their boyfriends, their cares, their lives, whatever. Interesting how that works, eh? Strange world.

Life sucks!

Touch me, Time Machine!
Yeah, so I bit the bullet and made a blog. What's this all about? Not sure yet. Probably an archive of my dreams, my daily happenings, movie reviews et cetra. Make sure to visit daily to get your daily dose of sugar, baby.