The Land of the Living

borat was great

2006-11-05T17:07:00.000-05:00

i get window with glass - he get window with glass
i get step - he get step
i get clock radio... he cannot afford clock radio. Great success!

LOL

Borat Deleted Scenes

2006-10-04T00:06:00.000-04:00

Here's 2 deleted scenes from the upcoming Borat movie. Enjoy

this one is a little long.. i can see why they removed it

Smallville is back

2006-09-29T00:54:00.000-04:00

I watch Smallville.. i'll admit it. It's one of my guilty pleasures. I will leave it at that for now, and also add a quote from my favourite girl...

"Just because I don't do bad things, doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts." -Kristin Kreuk

Amen Kristin, Amen...

MAd updates to follow...

2006-08-27T11:55:00.000-04:00

I have really fallen behind in one of my new years resolutions to blog on a more consistent basis.. so this is my promise to whoever reads this..

By the end of this week, I will blog about...

Lollapalooza
My new job
MLSB Alumni Tourney
Traffic (as in my ass getting stuck in it every day, not the Oscar award winning movie)Dave Chappelle
and more

In other news, it's my brother's 11th birthday today... they grow up so fast.

What are you going to do about it, sugar-tits?

2006-08-02T02:11:00.000-04:00

Oh Mel Gibson.. One of the lines he let fly in his drunken profanity-anti-semetic laced tirade this past weekend when he was arrested on a DUI charge.

"F- - - Jews. The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world," Gibson is quoted as saying, then asking the arresting officer, "Are you a Jew?"

He also had a tequila bottle in a paper bag in the back seat (classy) and said the sugar-tits comment in the title to a female officer at the police station.

I can understand being drunk and belligerent but he picked the wrong town to let the J-bomb fly.. I wonder how this will impact his career? Think of how many Jewish people are in Hollywood.. they run that place!! I know when Passion of the Christ came out he defended the movie strongly and said it was not anti-semetic and that he is against such views.. but a tirade like this screams something deep down. I mean, its one thing to make a "jews are cheap" joke when you're drunk.. but to say they are "responsible for all the world wars?" is a little much.

Already ABC has cancelled a Holocaust special Mel Gibson was supposed to do later this year, and Barbara Walters said she wont watch any of his movies.. bold shit. I think Mel will return to starring in films rather than directing them.. possibly a nice epic, a-la Braveheart, where he can flex his box office muscle and win back the media.

Unemployment ends August 8th

2006-07-20T15:42:00.000-04:00

The summer of Karl will end August 8th, when I start working for big bad Dell . I'll be in corporate sales, ensuring Dell's marketshare grows in teh 200-500 employee size space. For those interested, I can also get a 15% discount on everything Dell. Ya I know, not that much eh? I guess its cause their prices are so low to begin wtih, they wont even sell to cost to their own employees.

OK Israel, let's calm the F down...

2006-07-14T00:32:00.000-04:00

I am all for keeping the peace, and defending yourself when neccessary but I think Israel has taken it one step too far with today's bombings in Lebanon.

kidnapping 2 soldiers = bombing airport, fuel tankers, various parts of Beirut, surrounding Beirut with your gunships?? I think not.. i mean come on. This isn't going to win over many people in the mid-east, which is why I think it may be a way to get Iran in on the fight. Think about it.. Iran attacks Israel, now all of a sudden the Israel (read: the US) has a reason to attack Iran nuclear facilities. Hmmmmmmm...

Greetings from Richboro, PA

2006-07-01T01:03:00.000-04:00

Well i am in the US of A for the long weekend. Usually I skip these family outings, but my uncle's 50th bday was one of those unskippable events, so here I am. The worst part though was the 10 hours in the minivan. It has been almost 6 or 7 years since I've done a trip like that, and my body just can't take it . I need leg room, and plenty of it. Let's just say the Pontiac Montana does not accomodate a man of my size. Then there was just the boredom of being in the car, and the massive lines at the border .. I managed to sleep a bit here and there, but I wish I shelled out for an mp3 player prior to leaving.. i was f'n bored for most of it.

Some little tidbits...

1) One of the rest stops had the Terror Alert level posted onthe window when you walked in.. I shit you not. For those interested, its currently Threat level Yellow. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHh

2) Massive flooding in some parts of Pennsylvania. Its unreal to see just how bad the flooding has been in some parts here. We drove past it as we entered in the states, but I shit you not, some places are under like 10 feet of water. Picture what you saw on CNN when Katrina hit.. some parts are like that!

3) My uncle has a f'n big house. It's massive. My parents kept telling me it was big, but this is downright ridiculous. 20ft+ ceilings in the family room, huge basement, stone interlocking tiles in the backyard.. I'll have to post the pics sometime

4) There was a street on the way here called Street Road. Which is akin to calling something Boulevard Avenue. I do have a pic of that to prove it :)

5) I am going to buy a shitload of booze on the way back home at Duty Free.. the prices and deals this weekend are incredible.

Billy Talent I&I

2006-06-29T10:13:00.000-04:00

OK.. so today I was at the Billy Talent I&I at Much Music. I will keep this short

The Good:
The band was AWESOME. THey really know how to put on a live show
Stage/setup/venue was great too. I guess that's the whole intimate part of the Intimate and Interactive

The Bad:
The "Interactive" Part

You see, I learned that so much of this supposed "live" show is scripted. IF you watch the replays you will see me in the crowd during one of the audience questions, and on one of Devon's "throws" to the stage. What shocked me was that about 40 mins before the show even started, the producers came up to people sitting in the row below me "Can you read this and say you are this person and ask this question" and then handed a piece of paper with the cookie cutter easy question to them. I was shocked and appalled. So much for being interactive. I was pissed

If they asked me to read one of those bullshit questions I would have agreed, then when it came to me switched it when I was on air. I wanted to ask what they recommend for the munchies, since I had enjoyed a nice session before leaving for the I&I.

So ya.. that part sucked. Oh ya, and being surrounded by 15 and 16 year olds.. that too.

Check out the new Billy Talent Album though if you haven't.. its pretty good, and if you were a fan of the first (commercially successful) album, you will love this one too.

Superman Returns... I like very much

2006-06-28T12:38:00.000-04:00

I will write this post in Borat-speak. You know Borat don't you? If you don't, watch Ali G.

Begin Borat...

Yekshemesh.

Yesterday I see movie Superman Returns. This movie have a great story of Superman fighting evil. I like Lois, she is nice. The movie have many explosions and effects. In Kazackstan we have only explosions, no effects. The man Kevin Spacey play Lex Luthor.. he is a very badt man, like gypsy that try to steal your money. He is very good at being bad man, and has many nice things like boat, house, electricity, light, and water.

(end borat)

OK enough of that.. The movie, in all seriousness, ROCKS. Brian Singer does it again!! This is the same director that did Xmen 1 and 2, and you can notice a lot of similarities in this film. It also explains why Xmen 3 sucked ass (he left the franchise to do this movie). The action scenes are INCREDIBLE. Especially the plane scene often depicted in the commercials. Another cool scene was the chaingun scene. The bad guy shoots Superman in the eye, and you actually see the bullet hit his eye, compress and fall to the ground like it was nothing. Unreal!!

The cast was probably the best part of it. At first I was upset when I heard nobody from Smallville would be in this movie, but having seen the movie, he made the right choice. The calibre of acting is quite good, and Kevin Spacey is a mean Lex Luthor!! Definately not as laughable of a villian as he was in the old movies when Gene Hackman played him. Lois is good looking as to be expected, but not stupid hot, - she's classy hot (Yes there's a difference :). Brandon Routh does a good job as a believable, relatable Superman, and he looks remarkably a lot like Christopher Reeve (which no doubt played a role in his casting I'm sure).

So go see superman.. because really, for $11.95, you would be hard pressed to be entertained for 2+ hours at a theatre for any other film.

Edmonton.. so close

2006-06-28T12:27:00.000-04:00

My heart goes out to those Oiler fans. So close. So fucking close to winning the Stanley Cup. The Stanley Cup is probably the hardest of all the professional sports championships to win, and yes , even harder than the Superbowl. Why harder than the superbowl? well for starters, you got to win 16 games over the course of 1.5-2 months to with the Stanley Cup. To win the superbowl you have to win 3, maybe 4 games, over the course of 1 month. But I'm getting sidetracked.. back to the Oilers

Why did they lose??

Simple.. they did not shoot the puck. Don Cherry said it best, what happened in Game 6 (a 4-0 whipping) was the worst kind of victory that could have happened because it totally exposed flaws in Carolina's game, and gave them plenty motivation to come out flying in Game 7. You can argue they would have done that anyways, but people perform differently after being embarrassed before. Edmonton, rather than executing their own gameplan and being aggressive as well, used up all their time to try to stifle the Carolina attack and ended up with something like 13 shots in the first 2 periods combined. They started crashing the net in the 3rd period, and Pisani got a nice goal (and almost scored another) but alas, too little, too late.

Edmonton was the best team in the playoffs, but I dont think it had the best players. Nor do I think they will make the Stanley Cup final again next year. This really was a missed opportunity. I can trace it back to 1 event - Game 1 of the finals. They blew a 3-0 lead int he third period and lost the game 5-4. Had they won that game, things would probably have been a lot different.
And in a parting slap tot he face, Chris Pronger requests a trade out of Edmonton not even a week after they've been eliminated. He did play his heart out for Edmonton during the season (unlike Peca) and playoffs so its not like he pulled a Vince Carter, but still.. has to hurt for the fans. But don't you worry Oilers fans, I'm sure you will get some good stuff in return for Pronger. He's still young, and put up a huge season/playoffs and would no doubt have won teh Conn Smythe Trophy if Edmonton won the Cup. Plus, think of all that cap room now and playoff revenue to spend on a free agent or two :)

Big Love

2006-05-14T23:15:00.000-04:00

There's this show i've been watching now on TMN on Demand called "Big Love." Stars Bill Paxton, and he is a polygamist trying to make a living in Salt Lake City, Utah. The show is really about 3 things as far as I can tell:

1) Bill Paxton getting massive amounts of sex from his 3 wives. There are usually 2 sex scenes per episode, and these mormons are not shy about where they do it.. , in the hallway, hotel rooms during lunch, the front seat of the Yukon.. its nuts

2) The wives competing with eachother. While the wives live together happily, the fact of the matter is they all gotta share Bill and sometimes they cheat and sneak in time here and there.

3) The secret lives of polygamists. The guy owns 3 houses on the same street beside eachother, and they all share a common backyard. In the neighbourhood nobody has an idea, and thinks 2 of the wives are single moms. Even simple things like talking to the neighbours they got to be careful about.. after all, polygamy is illegal and nobody wants to go to jail

Typecast Actors

2006-05-14T18:18:00.000-04:00

I watched a couple of classic movies today - Ransom and The Fugitive. Both these movies are quite good, but a few of the actors in it keep playing the same god damn roles. Tommy Lee Jones is an obvious one.. he knows how to play the FBI Agent role to a tee. Need proof? The Fugitive, US Marshalls, Men In Black 1 and 2, Double Jeopardy, The Hunted.. Yes I IMDB-ed some of those but you can see... clearly the government agent role has been good to Tommy Lee Jones

How about Gary Sinese? He plays the kidnapper in Ransom, but he's a dirty cop in the movie. He also happens to play a cop on CSI: NY. He's also played a corrupt army guy in Snake Eyes. OK I got no more for him. :)

Other typecast actors that come to mind - Hugh Grant and Paul Walker.

The 2 Utes

2006-05-12T21:26:00.000-04:00

what movie is that from?

Man I am loving this Oilers vs. Sharks series. I missed the 3OT marathon on Wednesday (i can't stay up for that shit) but today's game has been very fast paced.

Memories

Its funny how hockey is a good segue into my next topic - memories. See at the beginning of the game (on CBC) Jim Hughson, the commentator, does his usual introductory schpiel, and its so similar to what he does in EA SPorts NHL 2006 (and 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, etc.. ) For us guys that have played this franchise growing up, Jim Hughson's voice is ingrained in our heads. When I hear him on TV its like i'm playing the game - and he says the same shit too!!! Get some original phrases Jim !!

But there are other things I will remember. For example, scents. The smell of tequila will half the time make me want to yack and bring back memories of a fateful night in 1st year at UW when we stupidly drank 3 bottles of tequila amongst 4 of us. :) Other smells - perfume. I was in best buy a month ago browsing the DVD aisle, and one of the female employees walked by me, and the perfume she was wearing was identical to one of a girl I dated last summer for a little bit. I remembered it instantly. I don't for the life of me know what brand that was, but I know which girl wore it.

You know what really grinds my gears?

2006-05-10T21:16:00.000-04:00

People that don't fucking give the wave when they blatantely change lanes at an inopportune time.

So my commute to work is usually between 35-1hour depending on traffic. In that time I usually make a few dicey lane changes, but I signal and give the wave whenever a fellow driver makes room for me to change in. As such I expect the same in return. Sometimes I get it, but there have been a few annoying times when I dont.

I will be driving, there will be maybe 2 car lengths in between me and the next car, and some driver to the right of me will have his blinker on and since he's in some shitty car with no horsepower, he can't overtake me to get in there, he has to rely on me slowing down so he has room. So sometimes I'm a nice guy and I let people in - hey - getting to work 10 seconds later isn't going to be the end of my day - BUT - I expect a fucking gesture of appreciation in return. What do I get, nothing.

I decided to do a little experiment a couple days ago after I got tired of the few drivers that would pull lane changes that and did not give "the wave". What I would do is change lanes and see just who the fuck is in the car - i.e. - their race :)

Now I recorded 7 times this happened to me Monday through to today and 6/7 times I shit you not were Asian drivers. I'm not saying they are bad drivers, but come on, these people are definately not helping out the stereotype. I would think Asian drivers would want to be the best drivers since everyone expects them to be the worst. I mean they excel at almost everything, why should driving be any different?

OK, i'll end that rant there before I get slapped :) Seriously, I love you asians, but give me the fucking wave if you changing into my lane and I got to make room for your Toyota Avalon.
:)

Touch 'em all Joe

2006-05-08T21:32:00.000-04:00

Where were you the night Joe Carter his "the home run" to win the 1993 World Series?

I was doing random Wikipedia searches the other day and decided to search a couple of sports heroes (according to yours truly). Doug Gilmour, Wayne Gretzky, Michael Jordan... then one shot into my mind - Joe Carter. If you ask anyone that grew up in the TO area in the early 90's they will tell you the Jays were the shit, and watching them win those 2 world series' was an awesome sight. 1992 was amazing, but 1993... that was ridiculous.

I still remember it. My dad told me to tape the game (we hadn't taped any of the other ones, but he told me to tape that one). So i set the VCR and press record for 3hours or so. This would come back to haunt me, but more on that later. I watched the majority of the game in the kitchen. Growing up we always watched Jays games during dinner, since they came on around 7PM. This time, instead of going downstairs after watching, we all stayed in the kitchen. Talk about family bonding - sports will do that. Jays are down 6-5, bottom of the 9th, 2 man on (Rickey Henderson and Paul Molitor), and 2 out and who walks up but Joe Carter.

Carter was a popular player, but by no means was he AMAZING like someone like Albert Pujols or Alex Rodriguez is today. He was a great run producer with a decent average. I guess for the day he was the man though in terms of driving in runs. Carter had not done much vs. Williams, in fact - i have a screen shot to prove it :)

Every fan was nervous as hell.. i mean it's the bottom of the 9th. If the Jays lost, they'd have to go back to Philly, and nobody wants to go to Philly, especially not for a Game 7. Also, despite Joe's ability to hit clutch RBI's, he had a tendency to swing for balls low and away, and down and in so striking out was a real scenario as well. But Mitch "Wild Thing" Williams left a pitch more over the plate than he should have, and Carter golfed that pitch into the sky. AT first I wasn't sure if it was going to be out - it looked like a double, but my Dad shouted right away.. and i watched in disbelief as the ball kept going.. and going... and going ... GONE. In fact you can see the moment when 50,000 people in the skydome have a civic orgasm and just go buck wild. Had this been the 60's i'm sure there would have been thousands of people on the field too. I stared in disbelief and screamed and jumped up and down the kitchen and the hallway, ran upstairs, then ran down, then ran outside and shouted some more. I couldn't believe what I saw.

I celebrated as good as a 12 year old could.. I can't imagine how crazy it would have been to be in university or college watching that. Or being at a bar downtown in TO. Thousands of people got laid that night I'm sure. They should do a statistic and see how many babies were born between 8-9 months of that day. I bet there would be a huge spike - just like i'm sure there was 9 months after June 1967 when the Leafs won the cup last.

To this date the only other series-winning HR in the World Series was hit in 1960 by Bill Maseroski. Joe Carter's homerun was the first come-from-behind homer to win a World Series so this indeed was history in the making. Good thing I got it on tape right? I go downstairs, and what do i find.. the TV is on, and they are showing the team mobbing him on the field, but the video stopped. I couldn't believe it. I rewound a bit and pressed play, and I shit you not, the tape stopped the very pitch before Joe Carter hit the home run. Guess I should have recorded for an extra 30 mins ... fuck

Now I can't even find that tape, shame too because I'd like to watch it again. I pressed record after to get the post-game, trophy presentation and all that.. I got plenty of highlights of the homer, but not the homer itself. It still bugs me - a little bit. :)

Click the pic to watch Joe hit the home run.

Ben Johnson has hit rock bottom (again)

2006-05-04T20:22:00.000-04:00

Seen the ad for Cheetah Energy drink?

Ben Johnson (Canada's disgraced sprinter from the 1988 Olympics in Soeul, South Korea) is on this fake talk show hosted by Frank D'Angelo (of D'Angelo foods fame). Anyways he says the show is called "Being Frank" and guests should feel free to express their real opinions. He then asks Ben "Ben, when you run, do you cheetah?"Ben: "Absolutely... " (Crowd gasps)Ben: "I ..Cheetah all the time" (show product shot)

I mean COME ON. Yes its kinda funny, but to associate an energy drink with a tainted sprinter?? What kind of marketing message is this? The Toronto Star agrees: "They're trying to promote an all-natural drink with a guy who stands for exactly the opposite. It just strikes me as really misguided." (Tor Star Article)

And what does this say about Ben Johnson? Has he no pride at all? As if he didn't disgrace the country in 1988 (and later on when he tested positive again sometime in the mid-90's) now he's rubbing it in our faces again all in the name of selling energy drinks. Fuck you Ben. All they need now is the drink to be pulled off the market because it had too high a Taurine/Guarana content and a US drink to take its place..

Which brings me to my next topic - Cheating Competitions :)

While I am totally against athletes who take drugs to get unfair advantages, how cool would it be to see a sporting event where drugs *were* allowed. All the dopers could just go here and compete with other dopers. It would not be official, it would not have high value, but it would be quite the spectacal to see.

Imagine someone finishing the 100m in 9.20seconds LOL
Weightlifting? Shotput? Javelin? Rowing? Swimming? Home run contest? Oh wait.. they already do that with cheaters now.. :P Obviously this is not safe for the athletes, and i'm sure everyone participating would either die in their 40's and have balls the size of ball bearings.. but dammit, it would be crazy to watch.

American Idol... damn

2006-05-02T23:22:00.000-04:00

I wonder what Paula Abdul really looks like after they disassemble her and wash her down?

Katherine McPhee is also cute.. I'm a sucker for girls that can sing.

California, show your teeth

2006-05-02T23:16:00.000-04:00

If you haven't heard the new single by the Chili Peppers go download the song - Dani California. Then, if you like it, buy the album Stadium Arcadium, this Tuesday May 2nd :)

Seriously I haven't been able to get the song out of my head, I keep listening to it at home and at work and sometimes on the commute to and from.

What else am I listening to now?

Pearl Jam - worldwide suicide
Bon Jovi (no surprise here)
Billy Talent - Devil in a Midnight Mass (this song is solid)

and to top things off, a classic.. Triumph by Wu Tang. All I need is a sub in the civic to do those music drivebys at mall parking lots.

My recent indulgence in these songs also made me realize i dont have nearly enough music on my work laptop, so rather than transfer some files from my desktop, I decided to do a search to find some songs to download. I thought - how about getting the 100 best songs on my computer? Not a bad idea! So i searched something like "Greatest 100 songs of all time" And out popped an article from Rolling stone. Now some of the songs were good, deserved to be there... songs like Thriller by MJ, One by U2, Shook me All night Long by AC/DC.. these are classics. but then they kind of went south and included bullshit like "Baby one more time" - Not cool. I think there was also some

But anyways, of the list, I decided to download a few.

Bon Jovi - livin on a prayer
AC DC - shook me all night long
George Michael - Faith
Radiohead - Creep
Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Radiohead - Just
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Michael JAckson - Thriller
Alanis Morissette - Oughta Know
Eric Clapton - Layla (Acoustic)
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge

it's a beautiful morning

2006-05-02T10:25:00.000-04:00

ahh yes the sun is shining and its going to be a 20C day in Toronto today. I was driving into work today with the windows down and it felt great.

Hockey

I started watching the DEtroit/Edmonton game after 24 finished last night, which worked well because it was just before hte start of the 3rd period. Edmonton was down 2-0, and it looked like it was 20 mins away from going to a game 7 in Detroit. However, what I witnessed was one of those great classic comebacks - Edmonton scores a goal within 2 minutes to make it 2-1, then ties it on another goal about 7 minutes later. The place was going crazy. Detroit scored soon after, making it 3-2, but does Edmonton give up?? Never, not in the "City of Champions" as it's called. Hemsky scores a beauty of a goal to tie it, and then with 50 seconds left, Hemsky scores again on a botched defensive coverage on DEtroit's end.

The purpose of this post is not to give a play by play on a game that really doesn't do it justice, but to express my happiness at Detroit losing and a Canadian team moving on. Nothing makes me happier than seeing detroit lose. Every year they don't win the cup is a good year. I dislike them more than I dislike the Canadians. Where does this come from? I think it goes back to childhood..... (wavy lines)

Back in the day, one of my good friends growing up was Roger, who lived on the same street as me. everyone in the neighbourhood was leafs fans.. i mean we knew no other team. Roger however one day he was not going to be a leaf fan, and instead joined the dirty red wing nation. It was this that spawned my hatred for the wings. How could one of my good friends growing up support a team so evil?? Oh yeah, it helped that they were winning cups.. :S

10 Years later I can look back and laugh - I still hate Detroit, and have already rubbed into some of my red wing friends faces that they lost last night - but they know how to manage a hockey club. They've been winning consistently for the last 10 years, and tha'ts hard to do without proper scouting, coaching and leadership. Some of the Canadian teams are now showing this, and no, the leafs aren't quite there yet. I hope a Canadian team makes it to the stanley cup final this year.. I would like to see Calgary do it, but if not, Edmonton would be a second. Ottawa.. meh, its not the same if they don't beat the Leafs to get to the cup :)

and now.. a reflection on race

2005-12-02T13:33:00.000-05:00

There is another blog site called Xanga.com . Is it true Xanga is primarily asian? This is what I've heard. I checked it out earliar today and discovered -yes it has been taken over by Asians. I find when asians like something, they REALLY like it, and take it over. I can give some examples. ICQ, Dance Dance Revolution, Faculty of Mathematics at UW, Friendster, Markham, I could go on and on. What I want to know is, in today's age.. almost 2006, business and technology are booming.. how the fuck does an asian store get away with charging cash only, not taking Interac or CC and not giving refunds? If a white guy running a store tried that he'd be out of business. I guess we love getting deals from Asians.. we just love it. I dont know why, but buying a copied DVD for something like $5 cheaper at Pacific Mall, knowing full well it could be a screwed up DVD, is worth the risk. I guess we like the thrill of it.

Brown ppl got the same thing too, Revolution in Waterloo, Skybar, and most of Brampton. Since brown people are immigrants like our asian brothers, we had to adapt and change when we came over here. Before I hear shit from brown friends here this - half of who we try to be is black and the other half white.. you know it. We did not just come up with "what you sayin?" or that stupid thuganomics handshake you have to do - we didn't learn that on the boat over from Calcutta - we ripped that off. I guess you could say our dialogue and mannerisms are a mixture of black culture and to some extent white culture - yes you are a bit white too. I know you have some Weezer mp3's on your computer.. don't lie. It's OK they are a great band. It's also why we choose to have pizza or pitas after the bar instead of samosas and chutney. It just goes better after a night of 8 beers - be honest.

There are things white people will flock to as well - Silver Spur, weed, Oakville, keggers and any form of a tragically hip concert. The Hip could be playing in Nunavut and people would still show up.. I dont get it. Where would university be if it wasn't for keggers? it would suck. I'm sure some enterprising asian would have thought of it eventually, but still - much of the party-hard north american university style we have today we owe to the white man and beer. There's also one more thing - porn. Yes the white man is probably the founder of porn, or at least, the one that brought it to the powerhouse industry it is today. Now i know what some of you are thinking - "but brown people wrote the Kama Sutra." Yeah we wrote it, but let's be honest - white girls are the ones reading it.

And that's the word.

Casby Awards

2005-11-28T15:08:00.000-05:00

What a night. So i won tickets to the Casby awards from Edge 102 by participating in their EA NHL 06 tournament the Saturday prior. The predrinking festivities started with a 12 pack of Sleeman, of which M.li and I finished 10/12.. not bad for an hour and a half. We then went to this Donner place for some food and got into a debate about women (I wont go into specifics) but it ended with one of the customers walking out of the place after his meal telling us "remember guys.. Weddings cost $10,000 but Divorces cost $100,000." Good advice, I better start saving up in either case :S . Now for the bands at the Casby's - The bands were decent - I mean, for for a free concert. I thought Metric, Bedouin and Hot Hot Heat were great. Tom Green also was a decent host, and an alright MC.

After the concert was over (I say concert because there were only like 4 awards given out) the Afterparty started at the Guvernment. M.li and I make our way over there and happen to see some people leaving with VIP passes. We asked them if we could have theirs but only managed to get one. So we got in the Guv, then went to the VIP area. Only Mike was able to get up there, but he came down 10 mins later and told me of all the free food and shit that was up there.. great.. We continue to walk around and run into these guys from Thunder Bay or Sudbury or something.. I can't remember but they were HAMMERED. One guy was falling over hammered. We had a beer with them and walked around some more. We find some more people leaving with VIP passes and was able to get one more for me. So we go up into the VIP section and feast on free wings, wraps, and other appetizers and see the people from the Edge schmoozing with random people. I wanted to get a picture with Dean Blundell but he was always surrounded by people. Oh well. All in all it was a great night.

Pics will come later.. blogger is being a bitch right now

My afternoon at the Edge Studios

2005-11-19T22:47:00.000-05:00

I was going to wait about posting about this until Edge102 put up pics, but 2 weeks later the realization has come to me that there is better shit for them to put on their website than 32 guys playing Xbox. So here is my story from Saturday Nov 19th.

So today I was one of 32 people to participate in the first ever Edge102 EA Sports NHL tournament. Over 5,500 people entered and I was lucky enough to get selected.

So the tourney starts jsut after 1PM, and my first match isn't until around 2PM - Solid win, 6-5, but I let in some garbage goals at the end. In between matches we help ourselves to free pizza and pop and you can imagine, nobody is realyl talking to eachother that much - what do you expect at an all male video game tourny? But I made some conversation with some people in the same tourney bracket as me. My next opponent brought his own controller (oooooohhh) and then tried to change his controller button settings, but since that was against tourney rules, JD from the Edge shut that down and he had to play with the standard config. I ended up winning that game 3-1, pretty convincing, i was dominating the play.

What woudl be my last match of the day, in the quarter finals, was versus probably one of hte top 4 people there. Basiaclly a back and forth game, I was leading for most of it but the guy pressured in the 3rd period like you would not believe. 3-1 (me), 3-2, 3-3, 4-3(me), 4-4, 5-4(me) then 5-5.. and with 14 seconds left he scores to go up 6-5.. SHIZA. After the game was over we shook hands, and both of us were noticibly sweating from such a grulling match. I was hoping that guy would have won the tourney, but he got beaten 5-3 in the semi finals. Oh well. The good side of it - I got Casby tickets . SUCCESS!!

Those Edge guys are awesome.. they honestly have some of the best jobs in the world there. Todd Shapiro from the dean blundell show stopped by during the tourney as well, and some random hot girls, who may or may not be radio groupies.. who knows. Video game groupies are probably not happening any time soon.. at least not the chicks i'd want.

Matt Bonner has no business dancing

2005-11-18T13:21:00.000-05:00

Raptors fans.. have you seen that pathetic intro video they introduced for the 2005-2006 season? If you haven't, here's a link to a low-quality version

The highlights include Matt bonner attempting to dance, Jalen Rose swaying from side to side like an idiot, and Rafael "Hoffa" Araujo pointing to his tattoo's to show his strength- as if his 1.1PPG average wasn't scary enough now he is trying to intimidate people with this shit? Give me a break.. maybe if he played more than 5 minutes agame, and MAYBE if he had skills he could point to a tattoo or flex or do anything like that. It doesn't help that the last game we played vs. the 76ers the raptors got torched by Andre Igudala, who - surprise surprise - was drafted 9th overall in 2004, right after Araujo.

Now I can't forget about Bonner.. this guy became the darling of Toronto fans last year with his consistent shooting and red hair, and overall pastiness that appealed to the Toronto fans. So he plays hardball for a contract this year and what does he do - stink up the joint. Looks like even the Red Rocket can play like shit after a contract year. Last year - shoots 53.3% this year 37.1% . As Bill Walton would - atrocious. And what the hell is he doing in the video - spinning around like an idiot, doing shit from the 80's.. proving white guys still can't dance unless their name ends in Timberlake. (I can't dance either.. but you wont see me doing that in a video, guaranteed)

There are some other sad performances in this video too.. Loren Woods trying to "take it to the car wash," Eric williams pointing to the back of his jersey - yeah like that is going to get you playing time - Charlie Villaneuva leaning back on Joey Graham, and Jose Calderon just smiling and not knowing what the hell to do.

And lastly, what the hell was the Raptors org. thinking using "Crazy in Love" as their intro/hype song for every game? How is this supposed to strike fear in their opponents? No wonder we are getting killed every game. Iverson, Lebron see this intro video, and can already start thinking "which personal best am I going to break tonight?" How about something a little more intense.. like anything by G-Unit, 50 Cent, Eminem, whatever.. sound angry, show Araujo flagrant fouling people, show Peterson hitting insane 3's, show Bosh dunking over people, show Sam Mitchell making Rafer Alston cry, I dont care - SHOW SOMETHING BETTER. Don't show stupid shit like them dancing to a Beyonce song...

Bullet in a Bible - Green Day

2005-11-17T16:24:00.000-05:00

I don't buy shit anymore... but I bought this. This DVD/CD is solid - great performances and interviews in between songs. I wish I saw them on their American Idiot tour, the show looked amazing. Song list (on CD and DVD):

1. American Idiot
2. Jesus of Suburbia
3. Holiday
4. Are We Waiting
5. St. Jimmy
6. Longview
7. Hitchin'a Ride
8. Brain Stew
9. Basket Case
10. King For a Day / Shout
11. Wake Me Up When September Ends
12. Minority
13. Boulevard of Broken Dreams
14. Good Riddance ( Time of Your Life )

Kazakhstan Not Laughing at 'Ali G' - but I am!!

2005-11-16T20:57:00.000-05:00

This is complete bullshit. Their government is threatening to sue Sacha Baron Cohen (Ali G) for his Borat character. According to Borat, Kazakh's like "sexy time," "shoot-dog," and shitting in urinals. They also love booze, cheap women, and multiple wives. I highly recommend watching some Borat clips.. you will laugh your ass off. Watch the MTV Europe Awards.. it's great, and it's not even his best Borat stuff.

If anything, lets be honest, this character has brought Kazakhstan more attention than Nikolai Antropov ever will . Sure, he's exaggerates about a lot of things, but it's all in good fun. If India can handle Apu from the Simpsons, and Puerto Rico can tolerate Ricky Martin's existence, then Kazakhstan can handle Borat. SUCCESS. Chenkui. High-Five.

Vin Diesel can speak in Wingdings.

2005-11-16T20:32:00.000-05:00

My good friend Lebaron forwarded me a site the other day that completely wasted my whole afternoon - that site - the Vin Diesel Random Fact site. This thing is hilarious, half for the comments, and half because a site dedicated to a garbage action star will probably bring him back into fame. I've decided that my MSN names for the next week or so will be some of the funnier comments I've gotten from the site - and oh yes - I've spent some time finding some good ones. Check it out. Some of my favs..

Vin Diesel has solved all of history's greatest problems with ho-slappings and his unique ability to ejaculate anti-matter.

On his birthday, Vin Diesel randomly selects one lucky child to be thrown into the sun.

Vin Diesel invented gunpowder. He was trying to make a protein smoothie... from rocks.

Vin Diesel once challenged a canoe full of epileptics to a shaking contest and won.

Dairy Queen used to be Dairy King before Vin Diesel made it his bitch.

Vin Diesel taught Hellen Keller how to speak Dutch.

When Vin Diesel goes to donate blood, he declines the syringe, and instead requests a hand gun and a bucket.

Change your MSN name today... you know you want to.

It's on like donkey kong

2005-11-16T17:14:00.000-05:00

Alright.. so I've givin in and joined the blogging community. My goal for this blog is to have you waste as much time possible reading it - while at work, while you should be doing something more productive.. you get the idea. In return, I will try to entertain you, provide you with cool time-wasting links, and update you on the drama that is my life. Don't worry - no OC type bullshit.. watch the show if you are looking for that kind of thing.