Dirty Dancing

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i just remembered an impressive thing about the berin “subway/metro” system. they had french fry vending machines on the platforms. of course, i had to try it. and omg. they are fantastic. they actually fry french fries in the machine, and they come out in a cup all hot and with salt and ketchup packets and everything. we need those over here.

and wow…further proof that the Spears family is white trash…britney spears’ sister, who is SIXTEEN and stars in a nickelodeon show, is pregnant. LOL. what a role model!

today brought Dirty Dancing on stage in Toronto with Heather. god i love that movie. and the stage version kept pretty close to the movie. they included every major scene, and every quotable line from “for the adults we have..sex” to “i carried a watermelon” to of course “nobody puts baby in a corner”. the dialog was actually so close i could have recited it haha. strangely, there wasn’t a lot of singing in it, and the singing that did occur were by 2 girls from the ensemble, and the man playing Johnny’s cousin (his name escapes me). there were very very small parts that the main characters would sing (old man shumacker sings a small thing, vivian the “bungalow bunny” sings a few lines, lisa sings her talent show songs, the kellermans song etc). a lot of the music was just played, with the sound as if it was coming from a jukebox or record player (which fit in those parts), other songs were instrumentals only played live. the performers were great, dancing was awesome, and as always, musical theatre people make me so jealous. i wish i had talent. a couple scenes were added, that didn’t really add or detract from the story (the one that sticks out is penny telling mrs houseman about the abortion, and both housemans talking about it). my one complaint was that our seats in the lower balcony were obstructed, and i was not told that when i bought them. it wasn’t a HUGE deal for this show – the ceiling of the upper balcony came down into our vision obstructing the top of the set. for this show, there were stairs that went up both sides of the stage to a top walkway which they used to simulate walking around kellermans…some of the songs, the singers and/or band were up there. so not being able to see more than people’s feet on it was not a huge deal. but for another show that has a lot of props at the top of the set, it would be a big problem. spamalot if i remember correctly would be a big problem haha.

we had gone to a matinée and then got dinner…so traffic leaving toronto was rush hour. it took us an hour to get down king st and spadina to the gardner. re-fucking-diculous. i HATE traffic, and not for the obvious reasons, but because it makes absolutely NO SENSE to me. especially highway traffic. traffic on a highway should NEVER stop unless there is an accident. yet traffic was at a crawl if not standstill on the gardner for miles FOR NO REASON. no accident, no construction…NO REASON. and i HATE HATE HATE that. why can’t people just drive!! arg.

in other musical news, jenn’s getting us tickets for avenue Q at shea’s, and everyone at work is planning a trip to see Wicked at shea’s in june (i think).

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snow

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time to bitch about the weather.

when i was a kid, i don’t remember there constantly being winter storm warnings issued when we were going to get 2 inches of snow. now, again, i was a kid, i didn’t pay that much attention. but even in college when i checked the weather every day to know what to wear to walk to class, i don’t remember there being constant winter storm warnings every time it was going to snow. i swear, every day now, i look at yahoo weather and there is a warning from the national weather service about snow. IT’S WINTER, it’s going to snow sometimes and we don’t need a storm warning every other day for an inch of snow. besides that, almost every warning they’ve issued so far, has ended up being wrong and these “storms” have not produced what they were supposed to.

now all week this weekend was pegged to be a massive snow storm, with 15-20 inches of snow, and high winds on sunday for blizzard conditions etc. it was supposed to start snowing saturday night, so that there would be 10 inches on the ground by the time i got out of work. there was about 1″. then we were supposed to get another 10 inches by the time i’d wake up on sunday…there is about 6″. it’s barely snowing, and they claim we’ll get another 6″ by 7pm. right.

thank you national weather service for scaring the crap out of everyone about a major storm, and having it not really occur, again. i’m wicked disappointed, and tired of the constant wrong warnings.

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this looked fun

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1. Go to the Wikipedia home page and click random article. That is your band’s name.
2. Click random article again; that is your album name.
3. Click random article 12 more times; those are the tracks on your album.

Band’s name: Limenitis procris
Album title: Glycerine (yes the article is the Bush song)

1. Naraingarh
2. Dascylus
3. Arieh
4. Directorate-General for Enlargement (LOL)
5. RFA King Salvor
6. Jacinta Stapleton
7. José Jiménez
8. Valentino
9. Percy Foreman
10. Clarence Wishaw Moberly
11. Pileated Gibbon
12. 1920 in radio

it’s mer des noms part 2 hahah. the last track is the best!

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trent

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trent was quote of the day on perez hilton LOL “While the music industry is doing everything they possibly can to go out of business, can we all make sure to rid ourselves of the Grammys, too? Out of touch old men jacking each other off. ENOUGH!”

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sailing to rome

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for once i had something to do on a day off. i was asked to go shoot a band tonight, called Sailing To Rome (i’d link their myspace but i’m too lazy). a friend at work sorta bankrolls them, and mentioned the show, and if i’d give it a shot. sure. my presense royally pissed off the girl who usually shoots them though. don’t worry honey, my photos sucked, your “job” is not in jeopardy haha. they’re a screamo band, but actually pretty good.

shooting was an experiment, because aside from using my super zoom minolta to shoot a nin show from row s, this is not something i’ve ever done before. i’d like to give it a 2nd try, and do things differently. mainly i shot in raw figuring they’d need a lot of editing because diablo is wicked dark, switched to jpeg for a bit because i was running out of memory cards, and i was trying all sorts of different things and settings. well my hatred of shooting in raw continues. aside from the extreme red tint, the jpeg shots looked much more like i was expecting them to look, and much more like what i like about concert photography. the raw shots all end up looking way too processed (as they are) and noisy and crap. i know i have no clue what i’m doing in raw, but even barely touching them, it was crap. in the end i’ve come to the conclusion that rob sheridan must shoot in jpeg. that, or he’s really skilled at raw and i don’t give him that much credit LOL. so next time, if there is one, all jpeg.

the band that was on before Sailing to Rome did a Hedwig cover – Wicked Little Town. wow. it was only half bad. i was mainly more shocked than anything, and i wondered if anyone else in the bar knew the song. the singer didn’t sing that good, but the band sounded great on it.

left shortly after their set, 1 drink + not eating + my fucked up head = pain. needed to get home and eat and take pain killers.

i was very happy to have not been home alone watching the sabres get slaughtered by LA. the bar put it on after the zombie movie, and just seeing the first period was horrible. thankfully the band played during the 2nd. 😛

the rest of the month gets pretty busy for my days off…well i have next monday off randomly because work is throwing a cocktail party for all 5 year employees…they gave us all the day off, which i’m not all that thrilled about, because it’s apparently unpaid. i didn’t ask for the day off. the party is 6-9, i was going to go eat, and then just go to work at 8. but whatever. jenn and i might go out after, we’ll see. next wed is islanders game with adr2, then xmas party and secret santa with work friends thurs. following week is Dirty Dancing on stage in toronto with heather on wed, ellicott development xmas party after if i make it home in time, then ctrc xmas party on thursday. i’m not sure what day aunt trudy gets in (or when adr1 gets in), but she’ll be here in time for xmas itself. busy busy. then of course, what we’ve all been waiting for, THE ICE BOWL. i don’t care if it’s cold, or if it’s snowing buckets, please god don’t let it be windy.

 

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u2

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you can watch full episodes of america’s next top model on the cw website….omg i’m so lame, i’m excited about it since i’ve been missing a lot cuz of hockey. haha what’s wrong with me?

U2 says new record will be different hahahahah yeah right bono, we heard that before, like before the last record. what a joke…

“U2 in dancefloor shock!” joked Bono. “Normally when you play a U2 tune, it clears the dancefloor. And that may not be true of this. There’s some trance influences. But there’s some very hardcore guitar coming out of the Edge. Real molten metal. It’s not like anything we’ve ever done before, and we don’t think it sounds like anything anyone else has done either.”

sure bono, you also said the last record was a “guitar album” hahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

but i certainly hope to god he’s right

 

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random qs

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today i was informed by one of my supervisors that she burned her nipple on her curling iron…
from believeitup again

1- Elaborate on your default icon.
it’s freaking BRILLIANT..lyrics from the end of u2’s “walk on”

2- What’s your current relationship status?
Happily untaken.

3- Ever have a near-death experience?
well, there was that time leighanne almost killed us on the way to see u2 in toronto. her, james, kate and me. she attempted to sing loudly out the car window, in morning rush hour, as the qew changes into the 401(?) in burlington. she was quite good at sticking her head out the window to belt out songs in her old car, but didn’t quite realize it didn’t work too well in the new car. insert concrete barrier to the left, and tanker truck to the right. life flashed before our eyes…hahahahahahha

4- Name an obvious quality you have.
tall? skinny? i don’t know

5- What’s the name of the song that’s stuck in your head right now?
unfortunately it’s “crumbs from your table” – u2. ug.

6- Any celeb you would marry?
it’s sort of funny that sara/believeitup had TR Knight, but all I saw was the TR and of course thought Trent Reznor, who of course, is my choice ha. i’d also marry bono from 1997

7- Who will cut and paste this first?
no one

8- Has anyone ever said you look like a celebrity?
someone told me i looked like the band geek in american pie. i totally don’t see it, though i think i had orange hair at the time.

9- Do you wear a watch? What kind?
yes it’s a necessity at work. it’s from target. it stopped for a bit today. arg.

10- Do you have anything pierced?
Just my ears now

11- Do you have any tattoos?
2, back and side/hip…working on the 3rd, i think i’ve got it figured out

12- Do you like pain?
not particularly, but i’m not a wuss. i deal with it.

13- Do you like to shop?
omg nooooooooooooo especially when other people are around. that’s why i can’t wait for the 24 hr super walmart to be built in town. so i can go after work when no one is around, without having to drive 40 minutes to get there

14- What was the last thing you paid for with cash?
Food tonight at Wendy’s. *ditto*

15- What was the last thing you paid for with your credit card?
gasoline at tops

16- Who was the last person you spoke to on the phone?
mary i think…or the girl from fisher price who spoke so entirely fast i think i only understood about 5 words the entire time she was talking. and somehow i got the jist of what she was saying out of it.

17- What is on your desktop background?
trent reznor ha. *dork*

18- What is the background on your cell phone?
art is resistance flag in black and red

19- Do you like redheads?
at first i thought that said rednecks…i love redheads. i am one right now

20- Do you know any twins?
yah i do but not real well

21- Do you have any weird relatives?
most of my relatives are weird in some way…one aunt goes to tiger monasteries haha…my uncle rights baseball haiku poems, and was invited to come read them at Chautauqua Institute on my birthday next year…i guess i know what i’ll be doing haha

22- What was the last movie you watched?
oh dear god i have no idea….was it poltergeist in october? it really might have been. i don’t see movies obviously

23- What was the last book you read?
last book finished was Confederacy of Dunces, currently still reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin

24- Is there such a thing as love at first sight, or it is more likely to be “lust at first sight”?
i’m a bit torn on this. i really don’t think so, you DO have to know someone first…but…

25- What’s your favorite book?
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

26- When was the last time you visited the street where you first lived?
Elmwood is a pretty busy street, so…alot…I guess when we went to lunch at Pano’s after sabres autographs a few weeks ago

27- When was the last time you googled your own name?
it’s been a long long time. it’s always terminal stuff, boring. 🙂

28- What was is your favorite subject at school?
it’s been 5 years since i was in school, i don’t remember. but i hated english. and i’d like to take some more art classes at comm college, you know, if i wasn’t totally lazy

29 -What was is your least favorite subject at school?
ha english.

30- Do you like having your photograph taken?
only self portraits, cuz that way, if/when they suck no one else will see them

31- What time were you born?
6:45…no i dunno. sometime in the evening

32- Ever seriously questioned your sanity?
Yeah, actually, I have. Everyone else has questioned my sanity as well hahahah

33- How many phone numbers do you have remembered memorized and can say off the top of your head?
Memorized? mine, parents, carlo’s old #, joanne, casino…dat be it. if i lost my phone i’d be screwed

34- Can you Limbo?
i couldn’t do it very well when i was a kid, and was flexible, so i doubt i could do it now

35- Have you ever killed your own dinner?
Fuck no. but i saw a guy with a deer on top of his van today. gross.

36- How long have you been living at your current residence?
one year and 7 months. that reminds me, gotta pay rent

37- What phobias do you have?
spiders….spiders…standing on the edge of high things. other people standing on the edge of high things *ahem*adr2*ahem* and spiders. but not spiders standing on the edge of things, please feel free.

38- What’s your ideal breakfast?
someone else making it!!!!

39- Where are you right now?
at my computer, duh

40- Why do you blog?
for myself. because i don’t have the motivation to keep a private written journal, but if i think that someone is reading what i blog, makes me want to keep it up. that and it’s the main way anyone keeps in touch with me and what i’m doing

41- What would you call your autobiography?
vacancy

42- What’s the longest time you’ve stayed out of the country/where?
3.5 weeks march 2007 in various parts of europe. i’m half hoping that after the chernobyl trip next year, however long it is, i set off radiation detectors in the airports. *random*

43- Do you use ICQ, AOL Buddy list etc..?
AIM and that’s about it

44- Do you have nightmares frequently?
not frequently, they increased with the drug withdrawal but have dissipated. usually they’re about spiders, and i can wake myself up out of them. sometimes they’re about pirates. seriously.

45- If you were another person, would you be friends with you?
yes because i’m freaking awesome

46- Which TV character could you be friends with?
jon stewart…? is he a character? probably not, but colbert definitely is, and i’d be friends with him. i don’t watch any fictional shows i don’t think…

47- What’s on your mouse pad?
a works progress administration poster, with a mom and a little boy trying to read. behind them is an imitation “eye chart” that says JOHN IS NOT REALLY DULL HE MAY ONLY NEED HIS EYES EXAMINED ha

48- What is your ring tone?
default ringtone is Sabredance

49- What did you watch on TV last night?
i was at work last night…before work, i think forensic files or one of those true crime shows on court tv

50- Scary movies or happy endings?
scary movies. happy endings are lame.

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boo

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it’s not been a good thanksgiving for alot of my friends…mary was admitted to the hospital thurs night with a bacterial infection. her lip got real swollen, hurt, looked like she got punched. it spread all into her jaw and face, so the hospital admitted her with a bacterial infection. people at work are paranoid she has a MRSA staph infection. and frankly i’m sorta paranoid too. so not telling my mom about this one, cuz she’s scared i’ll get one just from all the germs at work to begin with, let alone a friend having it.

jenn’s mom was in the hospital for something, but got out friday. pat and heather lost their baby (5 months along) 🙁 🙁 🙁 3 people at work had family members die this week. tis not been good at all…

hope everyone else had a good/better thanksgiving

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hockey

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toni lydman’s game time playlist, SO METAL! hahah rock. oh got some more autographs on tues morning, but still no connolly, bum.

and it’s sooooo nice to be at a winning game. yay. buffalo over evil ottawa 4-2. such a great atmosphere, and with the 2 earlier losses i had forgotten what it was like. we had 2 ottawa fans next to us somehow, and that was interesting. they weren’t too obnoxious, the girl next to me danced when ottawa scored and her boyfriend told her “not to act like a leafs fan” LOL. after buffalo’s first goal, she said she wanted to go home hahah. the people around us weren’t too obnoxious to them either, just when they left with 5 min left, the people behind us sang “na na na na good bye” at them. so now the winning combo is white vintage jersey, dippin dots, and no beer! next game is dec 12th with adr2.

there is currently a severe weather watch for flooding. and it’s hilarious. seriously, this is in the national weather service bulletin: “WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS MAKE THE SMART CHOICE…TURN AROUND…DONT DROWN.”

 

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tigers

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Re the tigers….http://www.tigertemple.org/Eng/index.php I believe that’s where she was, unless there is more than one tiger monastery. they started taking in wounded tigers, and then people started dropping them off, and now they have a whole lot of tigers that just roam freely and are “tame”…

also i saw today that we have a slot machine at work that is called “liger loot”…haha…liger…hahah

and the pants psycho was back today. he makes me so uncomfortable.

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