exactly!

"that's one thing i never understood about the media........ i didn't come to your house to ask you a question. you came to me and asked me a question. i gave you my honest answer and now you're pissed?"
charles barkley

so true. not just about "media" but people in general.
i'm not even going to get into it haha.

ps YEAH i saw it on oprah! deal with it!

you a gamblin' man Santy?

happy holidays "and all that jazz."

fab channel

concerts at paradiso and melkweg amsterdam. check it out.

fabchannel.com

iRecommend: bloc party, arcade fire... so far

jenny wilson

apparently "underground," but super good! well, an acquired taste i suppose (good taste that is haha). i've read her reviewed as "sometimes sounding like a female manimal getting her toenails extracted..." pttttsssssssh! they don't know what they're talk about. like "manimals" (half man, half animal) EVEN exist. so by process of elimination and reality, and lots of charts and diagrams, that review becomes invalid which comes to the conclusion that she's a little different which makes her good and worth a download. give it a listen. not a "listen," a LISTEN.

more spoon feeding -

stuDisk

thanks mr. ross

HOV rubbish

so they have installed these "high occupancy vehicle" lanes on a couple highways here AROUND toronto to mimic california, hoping that it will make commuting downtown faster and draw more drivers to car-pool. i see what they are trying to do but i think they've blown it and missed the point.

they have one of these HOV lanes from hwy 7 to the DVP; not ON the DVP, the busiest entrance into downtown. why wouldn't they make it ON the DVP? by where they've situated it, they are relieving traffic on the 404 to the 401, not downtown which they boast that these new lanes will accomplish. people that take the 401 (south of hwy 7) to the DVP to go downtown are still encountering the same amonut of traffic, not to mention the new traffic created when the HOV lane ends and merges back to the DVP. from someone that has to commute, i don't see how this is going to make more people decide to car-pool and ease traffic to the downtown area. whadda waste!

if they want to decrease the amount of drivers to relieve traffic, and better the environment (if that's even a thought), they would put money into extending the subway, and lower the cost of monthly passes. the reason most people drive is because in the big picture, what they are saving by taking the subway compared to driving is worth the drive. someone that does not live in the city directly is not going to make use to their metropass other than to go into and leave work, 5 days a week; 10 trips. if you only pay for the 10 trips, it's much cheaper than buying a metropass, but still expensive. if they lowered the cost to fit into more of the populations budget (a price around 10 subway trips, but at a discounted price), then they would make more money, more people would consider and take the subway more often, traffic would be substantially less (that's just my prediction but it seems logical), thus everyone wins! make sense?

it's funny cause they keep testing it on CityTV (local news station), and they say "(the other driver) got there much faster than me. i was in stop and go traffic and she drove right by me and got here much quicker." i'm pretty sure she said the difference was 10 minutes. 10 minutes. worth it? doubt it!

oh, and i'm used to driving downtown in the mornings. if you start before 7:45am, there's not much of anything to worry about other than drivers that are oblivious to everything around them. 7:45am - 9am? good luck!

i just wrote an email to the mayor of toronto, mayor miller. i'm curious to see what he says, if he responds.

it takes two!

so i had heard this album super briefly and quickly chose to write it off. i think the wording i used was "what a waste of megabytes!" (then i pushed up my glasses and adjusted my bow tie and pocket protector)
oh how the time has changed. after re-aquiring it and giving it a full, in-depth, volume up, pen-tapping to, whooooooooooooop! 180. what an "amazing use of megabytes!" better than the first album. super good! snap!

track 13 - outsiders
soo good! (can you here it pete? ts. ts. ts. ts.)

ps - check me out, spoon feeding you. could it be any easier?

stuDisk

sports village or alcohol asylum

so the local, outdoor, "traditional" skatepark has just been closed for the winter, and closed forever. turns out that this palce they called "the sports village" is nothing of the sort. basically it's a bar surrounded by activites that draw people to drink. clearly, now, this place is centred around this bar. not the activities aka sports per say. they are just devices to lure people into the bar.

their first device is hockey, only because hockey parents seem to ingest more alcohol and food than any other sport. there are a number of baseball fields in the area so i guess that's their summer device of choice. but since they can't have baseball closer to the bar, they needed to come up with something else. yeah, there was a skatepark there that hundreds of kids used but there's a problem - they dont drink alcohol! the bar can't make money off kids attending the sports village for sport. so they ditched the skatepark for their new venture, beach volleyball. that should bring more adults to the bar. they have a climbing wall that they spent a ridiculous amount of money to do what it does - look like a huge piece of feces sticking out of the ground. too bad the only people that occassional use that are kids, who again, don't drink alcohol.

this place needs to get their priorities straight. they need to change their name and get rid off all the sports/devices there, cut to the chase and replace them with a larger bar and some adult entertainment or something of that nature. it might be just me but wouldn't it be a more intelligent idea to update the facitlities around the "sports village"? out more money into the park, which is really the only of its kind in southern ontario? im pretty sure if they made a top-of-the-line park, something that could be run in the winter too, they wouldn't have to worry so much about the bar. skateboarding? "extreme" sports? who does that? but then again, that's with the sports as the priority, not the bar. here's an idea: maybe think of it LOGICALLY! bars not making money, CLOSE THE BAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

completely ridiculous.

of course i'd do that. it doesn't make sense.

you know what's funny? people who sacrifice original intent for reasons that dismiss the original intent. i dont know exactly how to describe it. like when someone does something for one reason and then do something else that ignores the original reason for doing that thing in the first place. does that have a word? does that make any sense? hmmm, how about some examples:

someone who puts pictures up in their house, but turns them down so they don't get dusty and have to dust them.

someone who refuses to drive in the lane closes to oncoming traffic for safety but disregards their life when the other lanes are too bumpy. so you'd rather risk your life than drive over a few little potholes? (dad!)

someone who has one of those motion sensor lights for the front of their house but turns it off at because it turns on in the middle of the night. is that the point? to stay off but turn on when something or someone cross it?

someone who rides a bike for exercise and to get healthy, and smokes.

someone who decorates a room, like a living room, with comfortable furniture, but covers it in plastic and has no intention for anyone to sit on or use it.

someone who is looking for a white snow suit for their daughter who loves to play in the mud.



hmmmm...

toronto + bean sprouts = salmonella mmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

bean sprouts and salmonella link

just a heads up if you live on bean sprouts. you're going to have to find something else for a while. maybe licorice? not the black kind of course.