February 2012
17 posts
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I just spilled half a mug of coffee in my lap.
I just spilled a half mug of coffee in my lap.
Watchbeatonna:
This documentary is so good, it’s SO GOOD. I’ll let the description speak for itself: Part one: “director Donald Brittain chronicles the early years of Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René Lévesque. From their university days in the 1950s to 1967 when Lévesque left the Liberal Party and Trudeau became the federal Minister of Justice, Brittain attempts to get at the heart of what makes...
The Travel Press Has Landed
So this is turning into a miniseries.
This week I returned to work, as the house returned after rising in December, in the wake of the Shittle-Dittle incident.
“Allooooooooooooo, mes amis.”
I decided to decorate my cubicle, finally. Asquithmath’s Canuck swap netted me a pretty fly melting clock clock that doubles as an extremely distorted rear-view mirror so I know when...
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I have never eaten at an In-N-Out or an IHOP.
These are two places I really want to eat.
Like a steering wheel in my pants.
Look, this drives me nuts as a strong defender of my native tongue.
You say “Archetype” when you mean to say “stereotype”
You say “Consequently” when you mean to say “subsequently”
You say “Disposition” when you mean to say “disposal”
WatchLily Allen - The Fear (2008)
Record Review
It’s loud, but soft all at the same time, and I’m not guessing this will be the first contradiction of the night. She’s saying something, but I can’t quite make it out. It’s 3:00 after a long night at the Disco, and we’re sitting in a favourite corner booth of my local diner. Just as I think it’s my ears ringing which make me feel like I’m going...
Correction Notice
Earlier today (as in well before most of my friends who live on this side of GMT) I posted a chirpy little post kind of making fun of the blogger for Disco Naïvete who posted The Weeknd’s video for Montreal.
I was kind of being a little dickish, and I didn’t think anything would happen. Typically when I whip out my enormous… knowledge of unpopular music… online,...
January 2012
49 posts
The Weeknd - Montreal
disconaivete:
High5Collective’s first video ever was that one for The Weeknd’s The Morning with those four babes running around in the desert - remember it? Today, eight months later, they bring us another video for one of The Weeknd’s tunes. It’s about a family (dinner) that isn’t as ordinary as you’d expect it to be, set to Montreal off Echoes of Silence. Actually, the theme comes from the...
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Tee-El, Dee-ar, El-Dee-ar.
Well, it’s no surprise that Lana Del Rey has managed to sell a number one record in under a week.
“Oh hi, I didn’t see you there. Let me continue to show off my crotch, nails, lips, hair, and Victorian fainting couch.”
That’s right, and what’s more is that she’s moved more units than the entire UK top 10 combined. Wow. What an accomplishment....
"Vampires are supposed to be frightening and...
Ohh Erin Gibson.
That moment when you start laundry...
..and you realise that most of your clothes smell vaguely smoky, kind of like fall, but mostly like burning—uh—leaves.
…Yeah. It might be time to go back to work.
Class Cancel'd!
My French class was cancelled. Now I have no plans for the day.
Can someone explain to me why the most popular...
Sorry for party rocking. I will augment my programming so that it won’t happen again, Dave.
Hey You, Do You Want More Content Here?
Of course you do. You love reading about my hilarious adventures in and around Ottawa.
The problem, my friends, is that I don’t often have a lot to talk about. So if you want to hear some stories about some things, please, shoot me something via my “ask” box.
Seriously, if you write me something— people who aren’t Tumblr users can do this too— I’ll...
"An American president who can create a...
Newt Gingrich, you so crazy.
This place is the best. It's a shame they are... →
Where else can you buy grass fed beef? Jeez!
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Internet-Age Problems
You know you’re spoiled when you’re annoyed that Big Bang Theory is coming down faster than Parks and Recreation.
The Conn Man: Part 5
I. The men’s locker room and group showers at the YMCA I go to are usually pretty busy.
II. Everyone, like me, seems to be in that bizarre pseudo-in shape look of kind of being half chubby. There are a lot of tribal tattoos on backs, legs, arms, chests, faces.
III. To quote Ginsberg: Cock and endless balls.
IV. The sauna is one of the oddest things, though. Many are vehemently...
ATTENTION BEAVCO. EMPLOYEES
ONE WEEK STARRING JOSHUA JACKSON IS NOW ON NETFLIX.
PLAY SPOT THE BEAVCO. PRODUCTS IN THE MOVIE AND WIN*
*Lose
Ughhhhh I just want to lay on a Victorian Fainting...
Maybe I’ll just do that on my regular ol’ contemporary couch.
Yeeeh.
Apple's Favourite LCD Soundsystem Song
Me: Oh look, I created a genius playlist and iTunes picked an LCD Soundsystem song.
Carly: Really? Which one?
Me: Oh I'm not sure. Let me look.
Carly: Is it "All My Friends"?
Me: Yes! It is! Because it always picks "All My Friends"! I'm SICK OF ALL OF MY FRIENDS. I HATE MY FRIENDS BECAUSE OF iTUNES NOW.
But seriously, Apple. There are other LCD Soundsystem songs in my library... like... all of them.
No, Seriously.
Adele should throw Lana Del Rey off of something for stealing her shit.
CUBAN LINX STYLE!
Californication Season 5
So basically… They just surround Hank with people even more despicable than he is in order to make him more likeable.
Charlie keeps inexplicably getting laid. It makes no sense. However, it makes sense that he’s into sexual humiliation.
Karen has stopped being a person completely. She is a sexual plaything for Bates, while she is just there to giggle and fawn over Hank.
Marcie and...
Is it just me, or does Lana Del Rey sound like...
I’m skeptical about her. I find her suspect.
But don’t forget: The Strokes were Trustafarians too.
Spend an hour of your life listening to this. →
It’s freaky-deaky.
A dude travels to China to visit the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, where apparently there are 20 cafeterias that can serve up to 10,000 people daily, people get hands crushed while manufacturing MacBook Pros, and 13 year olds wipe down iPhones by hand.
I seem to talk a lot about business practices right now. I wonder what’s up with that?
How about a steaming hot cup of Karma?
The other day I confessed to perpetrating environmental crimes against the go… er… a certain organization’s men’s rooms. I realize that sounds a lot worse than it is, so I’ll clarify and say that I confessed to dumping my press-cup’s coffee grounds into the ill-equipped sinks in the men’s room of a downtown building.
At the time, I felt no guilt or shame,...
The Conn Man: Part 4
I. I love the song “Last Friday Night” by Katy Perry.
II. I think part of it has to do with the fact that I never really had a “go crazy ahhhhhh college college college!” phase, nor did I have really a ‘bad’ phase in High School; going to parties that were broken up by police, going skinny dipping, using fake IDs to buy liquor—these are foreign concepts...
An Insensitive Comparison, and a Confession
A while ago I talked about my new Bodum Travel Press, which I was a big fan of.
As some of you may know, I have a job with a certain… privilege… to access certain floors of certain buildings owned by a certain well known organization. I won’t get specific.
However, this organization that I am affiliated with also comes down on the pro-Tarsands side of the coin, whereas...
Every time I try to type...
…the budgie tries to fuck my hands.
What a bastard.
