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It’s been a while, and so much has happened, so I’ll just pretend like you all know everything up until two or three days ago.

My Friday afternoon started with a free Metric concert on behalf of those nice folks at Ryerson University. They played the same venue as last time (Olympic / Center island), only this time they were playing on a stage roughly the size of the show-mobile. Their set was almost entirely comprised of older songs, which I think was mainly a way to piss off non-Metric fans that were there (it was the Ryerson Parade and Picnic, the final frosh-week event). It was a pretty good set, but there wasn’t too much to dance to. Best part of the entire experience was the fact that the bassist was the only member of the band wearing a shirt with something on it. It was a Unicorns shirt. Later, Adam and I were visited by Cotey, Becky and Alice. We all went to watch the Wizard of Oz featuring Dark Side of the Moon as its soundtrack at the Bloor Cinema, inarguably one of the best joints around to catch a flick at. After that, Adam and I stayed up all night watching Gozu, a Japanese surrealist horror movie. It was weirder than it was scary, but boy oh boy was it weird.

Saturday… umm… Saturday I played video games and read books. Adam and Julie were gone for most of the day, which is what resulted in me playing video games and reading books for the better part of it. I bought a cd (can you believe it?!), as the lack of internet access makes me do crazy shit like that. It’s called Legs to Make Us Longer by Kaki King, and I recommend it to anyone who likes instrumental music. I almost got into Sufjan Stevens, but my literate, J-Skooler friend Natalia had a slip of the tongue and called the scalpers prices “criminal” (read: too high). However, the scalper took this the worst way possible and gave her a lecture. Later on, he wouldn’t sell us the tickets at all.

On Sunday I enjoyed a very brief visit from Jen “f-ing” Pilles. Although it only lasted about an hour and a half, we had a good time, and it was quite nice to see her. Kensignton and book shopping and bffs, oh my! Basically, this weekend was filled with people from home, and that was a good thing. I picked up a very cool book from the library on Sunday as well. It’s Fuzzy Dice by Paul Di Filippo, and I think just about everyone should read it.

Today was my first day of classes and buying books. It was, ridiculously, 32 degrees outside, which resulted in me being much too hot for the entire day. I rode my skateboard to class in the morning and found out that it halved my time to get there. I now only live 5 minutes away from my furthest class. Also, I sincerely believe that Toronto was built to accomodate skateboarders, the UofT campus especially. Does anyone else think that three math classes a day is just a tad too many, maybe? Oh well, I’ll tough it out; I’m good with math that way.

No more huge entries, okay? I promise to update more often instead, and stuff like that.

It’s late night on YTV, 2 episodes of the Superfriends and one episode of the Galactic Guardians. I think I’ve figured out the formula.

Any episode of the Superfriends

Villain is introduced. Normally, the villain is a modification of some historical or literary character; which they’ve bludgeoned the hell out of. Example: Dracula shoots eye beams to turn other people into vampires, who then shoot more eye beams to transform others.

The Superfriends attention has been roused, and the villain is revealed. Robin says something stupid.

Superfriends go “oh crap oh crap”, and pitifully make a first attempt against the villain. Invariably, since they each fight separately, they fail; and one Superfriend is brainwashed. Side note: If Aqua Man does anything at all in the episode, it’s normally around here. He uses his aquatic telepathy, and then leaves for the rest of the episode.

The Wonder Twins decide that since none of the other Superfriends could make any difference on their own, they should try, as they’ve never actually done a mission successfully and maybe, just maybe, today’s their day. Sorry guys, it isn’t. They get captured to, mostly because they can’t tell the difference between a regular Superfriend and a brainwashed one.

The Superfriends try to contact the Hall of Justice, but uh oh! The Twins are gone.

It turns out that the Superfriends already posses some kind of guard against the brainwashing, but just haven’t used it yet, because they didn’t think it would be necessary. Now, they use the cure on themselves. Robin says something stupid.

They go and rescue their captured friend and the Twins, and beat the villain with ease. As it turns out, he’s pitiful once you get more than two people around him at a time.

The space monkey does something completely stupid and un-funny, and everyone laughs. Roll the credits!

Dreary days make for odd trains of thought.

One thing that tends to float to the top of the pile on days like this one is my admiration / [drastic want to have been a part] of the beat generation. I mean, the whole lifestyle appeals to me, but a big part of it (today, at least) is the concept of binge creativity, what Kerouac called the “Modern Spontaneous Method”.

In the most basic sense, an overnighter could qualify as a sort of binge creativity. You stay up all night, preferably wracking your mind with caffeine and guarana in an effort to expel a completed work by the next morning. True binge creativity extends that to a further level, by emulating people like Kerouac and Burroughs. Kerouac wrote all of “On the Road” on a 3 week speed binge, and a lot of Burroughs collected stuff was written while he was suffering from junk sickness.

I guess I’m just a fan of pushing the human body to extremes, and seeing what kind of results you can produce while out there. It’s like psychedelia, but without all the psychedelics.

If this rain continues, I may just stop sleeping.

Also, I’ve got blood in my mucus. Yummy and fun!

Out top story tonight: I just slipped a plugin into place that should be dealing with this comment spam problem. If you haven’t noticed (and I doubt you have, as I was fast to delete comment spam), I was being spammed by an online poker site. It kind of reminded me of the days of regular old email spam. But this new plugin should deal with them quite nicely. Sorry guys, no one’s interested in free-online-casino-poker-money here.

In other news, I’m going to try to organize my time so that I can have more fun. “Organizing for more fun?” you might say. But yeah, right now my time isn’t organized at all, so I don’t get any work done and I don’t have fun either (ie- playing WoW or reading). In fact, lately I’ve just been wasting my time sitting around. So, after I put this post up, I’m going to step away from the computer for a few hours to get some work done, and later on I’ll be able to play games and get back to reading Catch-22. And I’ll stick with it, most definitely. (No more | A lot less) sitting in front of the computer, doing nothing at all. And I think that’s a good thing.

Apparently I can use the net in the lounge on the first floor of my building, so this has become my new spot to sit for hours at a time.

So, my class has just ended (and if you hadn’t realized, that last post happened near the end of the class itself), and I went to HMV afterwards. I swear, I live right in the music district of Yonge Street. Right at the end of Gould, there’s an HMV, a Sam the Record Man and a Sunrise, just at three points across the street from each other. The HMV here is like, the biggest one in toronto too, and I’d have to assume that this carried over for the Sam’s and the Sunrise. It doesn’t make much sense, business-wise (at least, to me) for all three of them to be squashed together, but hey, it was their decision.

Now normally, I’m not one to buy music. Anyone who knows me can attest to that. However, the Death From Above 1979 cd recently came out, and that’s one group that I’d go out of the way to support. Since it was in the ’2 for 25$’ category, I picked up a Flaming Lips cd too. Both of the cd’s were basically 20$ each without the deal, so it made sense to get them together. Actually, I can’t remember which cd it was, but there was one with a sticker price of 27$ or two for 25$. I mean, wtf?! They not only give you a second cd, they actually give you 2$ off of the price. That makes absolutely no sense. There was another cd there that I was debating getting, but I settled on the FL. It was Interpol. Therefore, if anybody has the Interpol cd, I’d like a listen.

Hmm… lunch, then homework.

I’d have to say that three posts in one day is redeeming, if nothing else.

Signing off so that I can go do all that ‘university’ stuff.