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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
11:22 pm	ief i moved, finally. last sunday. only got hooked up to the internet today. my flat is on the fourth floor (top floor of the building), has a partially great view of sunsets, hardwood floors, and is tolerably big. i like it. and the location is great. maybe i'll post pictures some time. i'm getting old, man. moving and lack of sleep really wiped me out. took me a whole day to recover. ... i miss playing xbox. i'm mostly all unpacked and settled in by now. only one or two boxes of random junk left. found a bunch of chairs on the street the day after the 1st of july, when everybody in town moves. two of them even match! found this great easy chair too. rented a truck with discount rentals and it was pretty great. brand new truck with air conditioning, at the best price i've found too. yeah, i think i'm gonna like it here. (1 detail noticed | it's in the details)
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
2:13 am	uh oh, english nerds... looks like i know what i'm doing for the next 12 hours: this. man, and i had work to do. ah well. (1 detail noticed | it's in the details)
Saturday, June 13th, 2009
6:16 pm	snowy hill. so! i got that apartment. singing the lease in a half-hour or so. it's not as great as this place, but i guess hardly any place could be, but the location is great. it's actually right nearby. which is why i took it. also it's clean enough and has hardwood floors. i'll be moving there in july. maybe earlier, since the place is empty as of now. weather's been nice so far. rather cool and/or mild. but that just means it'll be muggy later instead of now... wonder how the new place will be, heat-wise. spent a week in sorel. my uncle got a boat. i drove it around the 103 islands system the other day. good times. (it's in the details)
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
5:34 pm	minutiae made an omelet with mushrooms that had probably gone bad. got the shits, but no hallucinations. profoundly disappointed. having trouble working, but at least i've been making some progress since tuesday. seven more pages to do today. or tonight, rather. it's 18 o'clock. finally went to look at a flat yesterday. kinda crummy; i'd seen places exactly like it before. don't really like it but there aren't a lot left available. might have to take it. running low on cash due to extended lethargy. i should get a proper job, probably. need someone like a roommate and i'd be fine to pay for my new place. head sort of hurts. have had this cold for a few days. cleared up after the first day but my nose is runny. i'm making a pot of coffee even though it's getting too hot here. thinking of going to sorel over the weekend. go out on my uncle's boat. fish. hang out in the jacuzzi. take it easy. don't think anyone can beat the robots-like redwings. pittburg's team too young. repeat of last year's final. the wings are like terminators with glowy eyes. they'll get the next five cups. still waiting for val to contact me. are you still there? (2 details noticed | it's in the details)
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
3:03 pm	festicourt the festival du text court de sherbrooke was this weekend. it was quite good. really awesome time. i gave a writing workshop in a classroom on friday. it was a school for adults who were dropouts and who come back to complete highschool. most of them really got into it. it was amazing. then there was the opening night show at le littoral. many cool people. my friend abdel read a poem, it was his first time ever reading in public. he was nervous as hell but he did well. there were all kinds of styles, including eastern-european traditional songs. my friend flavie was one of the singers (there were 3 of them; a soprano, alto and bass). she's a sweetheart. later that evening there was a thing at a sort of hippy tea room. i used to go there when i lived in sherbrooke, cool place. it was an open-mic kind of thing. very fun. i read a ridiculous story i wrote during the workshop while the students were writing theirs. something about a pirate ship manned by root vegetables (captain potato) attacking a merchant vessel crewed by fruit. it ends with the words : "what a salad! it was delicious." on saturday they'd scheduled a happening at an outdoor food market. there were supposed to be trees given out to people in exchange for their poems or stories, and an installation and poetry by a great poet and dear friend named Gilles Matte. unfortunately it rained for a couple hours at the start of the afternoon and we had to stay under a tent-like shelter thing. we had a good time anyway, and people got their trees. we wrote a bunch of silly things on coloured paper and folded them into flowers with a pipe cleaner for a stem, so we could give them out to people as advertising for the festival. around the end when everyone was gone, only flavie, myriam, marc-andré, and simon (and me) stayed behind on a picnic table in the sun, who had finally decided to come out, and wrote a ton of those flower-poems. actually that might have been the most pleasant afternoon i'd spent in a long time. in the evening the regional slam final was held. incredible show. sherbrooke slam people are the shit, man. the team who will represent them at the provincial finals was chosen. same team as least year but for one of them, actually. sophie, david and mathieu are returning, with véronique suzanne instead of j-f. too bad, because j-f is so damn good! well, all four of them are. then there was another open mic night at the tea room. i was "on the bill," as it were. they have a few special guests each night to warm the room up before the open mics. i did a few of my more dark-humour oriented slams. when the place closed down we went outside and slammed in the street until 2:30 in the morning. so awesome. on sunday we were supposed to close down the street in front of town hall and have a bunch of stuff there. circus people, poets, food, books, etc. but it rained again so we held the event in a brewpub down the street. it hailed, actually. thundered too. pretty cool. the event was good. frank had his four-month old baby in a sling while reading on stage. i don't even think the kid woke up. hahaha. he's so quiet and well behaved, frank can take him anywhere. but i guess all he really does it sleep at this point. later on there was the closing show at the tremplin. they put on quite a show where five people were all painted up in different colours. the second part was a bunch of guests from other towns did a slam or poem. good evening overall but i was more into the slam finals, obviously. kinda makes me wish i was still living in sherbrooke so i could be more involved in planning the festival like i used to. well, it's a lot less stressful to just attend, i guess... i was tired as fuck when i got back, and i think i caught a cold, but damn, i regret nothin. hey val, are you still reading this? i lost your email. and all our old forums are dead. drop me a line. (1 detail noticed | it's in the details)
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
3:20 pm	oprah sucks. so apparently oprah is giving jenny mccarthy her own tv show. and she's asking people to tell her what to put on the said show. sounds like a fun show. what a great idea. this is the suggestion i sent them: "What should Jenny do?" Jenny should stop spreading misinformation and threatening the lives of our children. The only way for her to make amends for the people she killed through her anti-vaccination campaign would be to use her TV show to promote good science (i.e. actual science) and proven medical treatments. Invite real scientists and doctors on the show. Have them explain to people how autism really works (not her pretend version), and how vaccines have saved billions of lives worldwide. And that's just the first couple of weeks. Then you can start tackling other myths and urban legends that plague our society, making people afraid for no reason, and allowing charlatans and crooks to rob them blind. I want her to have Phil Plait (the famous astronomer) over to talk about astrology. Have James Randi on to talk about psychics. Invite Dr. Steven Novella to talk about the wonders of the human brain. Invite Tim Minchin so he can sing a few songs--he's a great pianist and humanist. Invite Christofer Hitchens and talk politics (he gets great ratings--so controversial!). And why not go for the gold and ask Richard Dawkins to come talk about religion? And Noam Chomsky to talk about Israel? Do you think your viewers are idiots who don't care about the rest of the world? It sure seems like you do. Look, get real scientists and experts. Give Jenny the education she never had. This is a show I would watch. But more importantly, this is a show that might save lives. i wonder if they'll listen. i can't figure out why this moronic bimbo is famous. for cryin out loud, her biggest accomplishment was posing for playboy. i mean, hell, i like porn as much as the next guy, but it's not exactly a qualification for giving medical advice to people. oh wait, actually, her medical qualification is apparently being a mom. (it's in the details)
Saturday, May 16th, 2009
7:51 am	start wolfing. google is dead, and wikipedia is obsolete, motherfuckers. welcome to the new world, powered by wolfram alpha. it's on right now. testing over this weekend, until the real launch on monday. fuck yes. oh yeah, and platinum grit finally updated. another "fuck yes" situation. the new episode is exactly as good as you would hope after waiting a year for it. perhaps more! (1 detail noticed | it's in the details)
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
11:31 pm	scones dear motherfucker: start working. if you don't, you'll be a bum within three months. asshole. (1 detail noticed | it's in the details)
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
1:14 pm	(this is about hockey) so i was watching the news at noon today, on both radio-can and TVA. they spoke of the first day of hostilities in the playoffs, where pittsburg beat philly, new jersey beat the canes, and the canucks beat the blues. the SRC focused on the "rivalry" aspect, featuring pilly vs pittsburg, since the habs will be facing the bruins in the first round and they have a storied and historic rivalry (which has, one could point out, mostly been in favour of montreal, who has won something like 23 out of 31 series). TVA focused on the only canadian team who played yesterday, the canucks. what i am saying is they both failed to talk about the most important game of the night! the rangers (7th place in the east) beat the caps (2nd place), who were at home! this is a huge upset, all right? they hardly even mentioned it. idiots! i can't tell whether this is just plain bad journalism or obliviousness or what. maybe they don't know enough about hockey? i just don't unnerstand what they were thinking! anyway, tonight will be the first game of the montreal-boston series. boston finished first so they have home-ice advantage. i hope the habs are up to it, and can repeat the rangers' upset of last night. there are hints in the press that laraque and gainey have some kind of secret plan to fuck with the bruins' minds. part of it was not playing him last week versus the selfsame bruins. i hope it pans out. they did the same kind of thing by not telling anyone that schneider was NOT, in fact, out for the season with an injury, and brought him back into the alignment for that last game against the bruins, as a ... special surprise. it worked, i guess, since we got the point we needed from that game. i am really anxious to see how that first game unfolds. (it's in the details)
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
8:38 pm	went to the hockey game last night. not in a bar, i mean, at the actual place. got a ticket off a scalper outside the box office (where they informed me, ten seconds earlier, that the game was sold out). i was on the second balcony, but you have a nice view from up there. going alone isn't the most fun, but jon didn't have the money, i guess. i had a good time. the place was full (as advertised) and there was a good ambiance. except the game mostly sucked. both teams played uninspired hockey, and we lost 3-2 because heatly scored twice within a minute in the third period. in the habs' defense, their two best defenders are injured, along with their best scorer and goalie. so... it's not a great time to be fighting for a playoff spot. they have three games left, and they sort of have to win two of them. unfortunately, right now they're down 3-1 at the rangers in the second. after seeing them play last night, my expectations are kinda low. (it's in the details)
Saturday, April 4th, 2009
8:58 am	zombie slam. so we rented "dead space" this week. it was fine. i mean, it was good. (i'm talking about an xbox game.) it had an interesting twist. the things you had to kill, some sort of alien zombies, you couldn't kill like in regular shooters. you had to shoot them in the legs and arms and dismember them. that was their weak spot. that goes against all my prior training, you know? i'm used to going for the head shot all the time. avoid the limbs. now i had to shoot them off. it took some adjustment. but once i got the hang of it, it went fine. and the story is pretty good. well, it's all right. i mean for a cheap sci-fi video game. the weapons were also interesting. they had to make new types of guns to cut off limbs with. cutters, tools, etc. it was innovative, in general. good game. yea. went to sherbrooke last tuesday. for a launch of their anthology for last year's festival du text court (short text festival). they published some of my stuff in there. some of it was stuff that i didn't remember writing or giving to them. but that's cool. part of the fun. one (and a half) of my texts they published was in english. that's odd because they're a french organization... i don't know, i didn't think they would publish that stuff. i don't mind, but it's odd. the launch was held in a micro-brewery, so there was pretty good beer. not great, but all right. fun times. i tried to go to the english slam night in montreal. nobody showed up. wish they'd publish the new time/dates on their website, but it hasn't updated in a year or so. actually, same thing happened when i tried to go to the french slam open-mic last sunday. what the fuck is going on? (it's in the details)
Friday, March 20th, 2009
6:19 pm	4th box dude! we already received our new xbox in the mail. what the hell? a year ago it took 42 days, and this time it only took 4. madness. i think i'm gonna go rent left 4 dead again... (it's in the details)
Thursday, March 19th, 2009
4:26 pm	quoting penn jillette "The fact that the president of the United States admits to drug use, and is happy he didn't go to prison for that, we assume, [makes it pretty clear that] it's about time to stop the drug war." there you go penn. totally got quoted from your youtubing. (just in case it never happened until now.) he was talking about obama, not bush. bush apparently never admitted to using drugs, although, well, who's he kidding, you know? (and you can quote me on that.) meh... i had written a whole thing about a part of j-p sartre's novel "la mort dans l'âme" (that title is really hard to translate and i'm too lazy to look it up), and i was going to post it, but it's just a philosophical literary criticism piece which i'm not sure anyone's interested in, and on top of that, i wrote in french. wait, what? I am interested. i'm totally interested. so who cares about the potentially absent "audience?" this is a journal! personal journal only sort-of open to an imaginary public. ( i'm totally posting it ) (it's in the details)
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
12:40 pm	icon madness (because don quixote was mad, get it?) i was about to post something to the effect of "what the FUCK is up with that last entry of mine? did i just turn 12?" but then i finished reading Dharma Bums, and i found out kerouac shared my love of jello. so i guess it's okay. if it's kerouac-approved, i don't mind looking silly. i can't really get behind the odd narrative of the second part, tho. i don't think i was drunk at the time... i made this new icon because the latest xkcd was too freaking awesome. that last panel (which i made my icon out of) is just amazing. there was never a single shred of doubt or hesitation that this needed to be made into an icon. (incidentally, isn't that the oddest response to a piece of art ever? "omg this is great, must shrink+crop it and affix it to my posts!" the internet is so fucked up, man.) this means that all my icons are now from webcomics, apart from the two hockey ones. which are pretty comicky anyway. ah well, i'm a product of my environment. Current Mood: quixotic Current Music: mahler (5 details noticed | it's in the details)
Sunday, March 15th, 2009
11:43 pm	raspberry i made jello. it's red. red and delicious. red, delicious, and jiggly. nat's cousin, ron, who's in the military, came to visit us this weekend. on friday we took him out for sushi at a fancy japanese place called mikado. they make the best sushi in town. it was great. yesterday we went to the irish pub nearby to watch the hockey game. the habs were playing the devils, and they lost, but we had fun and good beer/food. ron had brought his own xbox so we could play (ours is dead. i think i mentionned that already.) gears2 while he was here. we thought we'd get all get to play at the same time with 3 controllers, but it turns out you can't. what the hell man? should have rented left 4 dead. valve always has the best-made games. we played it last weekend, when the xbox died, and it was awesome. (it's in the details)
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
1:30 pm	Post of Good Things - thinking my life is bad or hard is moronic. i'm the end product of the culture with the highest standard of living and material comfort in history. i have it better than the super-duper-rich-and-powerful of a hundred years ago. - the fact that i'm even alive, that i ever came to exist to enjoy things in the first place, is a cosmic event of such an infinitely small probability that it may as well be miraculous. - i'm not sick, in fact i am never sick, and i have no injuries/mutilations/deformities (apart from this tiny annoying cut on my finger that didn't even bleed when i got it this morning). - people around me are generally cool, family is loving and i see them often enough. - i have no reason to feel sorry for myself. i just need to keep shit in perspective. i don't know, this stuff i take for granted is failing at raising my spirit. i need a list of good things that just happened or whatever. which there are none i can think of. condescendingly reminding myself that i'm a petulant ingrate does not help things very much. i guess i'm not really depressed in the first place but this moving business is a bummer. i wanna stay here! i'm gonna go. later. (it's in the details)
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
2:01 pm	arg. stuff is mostly bad: - i have to find a new apartment. roommates don't wanna live here anymore because it's expensive and they want to be left alone (they're a couple you know), which i understand but i hate to leave this place. it's so awesome, neighbourhood is nice, and there's no way i'll ever find a place half as good as this. specially on my own and with my small budget. the only way would be to find a new roommate to move in here but strangers are a gamble... - habs fired their coach because the team was playing badly. or rather, because they were hardly playing at all. - still not writing much. - 3rd xbox is dead. 3/4-ring red death of sorrow. gotta be fucking kidding me. - sleep schedule is moronic. i'm on a 36-hour schedule, more or less. - wasted 100 bucks on a stupid thing that was dumb. - winter is ending. i hate spring. i hate summer more. it's already too hot for my liking. - my ex keeps calling and talking to me. i know we're supposed to "still be friends" but this is ridiculous. i'll try to make a Post of Good Things. if i can think of any. fat chance. (1 detail noticed | it's in the details)
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
5:28 pm	here's a dirty book worth reading ( - Ezra Pound) When I reflect that the task which the artist implicitly sets himself is to overthrow existing values, to make of the chaos that is about him an order which is his own, to sow strife and ferment so that by the emotional release those who are dead may be restored to life, then it is that I run with joy to the great and imperfect ones, their confusion nourishes me, their stuttering is like divine music to my ears. Henry Miller wrote that. he also wrote: To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is that I want to sing. Then this is a song, I'm singing. i find i agree with much of what he used to say. does that mean i agree with everything he says? i don't know, and i don't think that's a relevant question. he wrote in another time. there is no agreeing or disagreeing with him, in that sense, when he's talking about the world and our place in it. that world is gone, and so is he. they say the world never changes, but i think it does. much in the way that your body contains not a single molecule that composed it when you were a child, the world renews itself with every generation, and is fundamentally different with every half-century or so. on art, he's still current. that much i know. (it's in the details)
Sunday, February 1st, 2009
8:28 pm	take my wife! please? holey snowstormey, you guys. there's been like 4 snow storms in the last week and a half, i guess? the people who pick it up haven't even had time to clear the snow from 2 storms ago and they're all overworked as fuck right now. it's pretty sweet. i hope people get the message and don't use their cars so much. kinda hard to imagine montreal without the smog. or any city this size, i guess. erm, i'm still poor, so that's fun. the habs are on a losing streak, 5 losses out of their last 6 games... good times... hey, i wrote a short story. i'm not sure if it's finished yet, seems like it's missing something to make it different or original. i'm sure i've heard this basic story line before. maybe tell me what you think? ( i'm going to post it here. ) i don't know, i think maybe it's sort of boring? no title yet, and needs a new angle. really i was planning on writing this as a play, i think it would work better, and i could explore the interaction between the customer and the clerk more deeply. i felt that was where the interesting stuff would be. just dump the whole "disappearing café" thing and explore the surrealist angle of having a place with only a single cup of joe and a single candy bar. oh, and "dépanneur" means convenience store. you know, one of those small shops on street corners that have a limited selection of groceries, and also candy, cigarettes and booze (in quebec they're allowed to sell booze). seems like every region has a different name for this type of establishment. going back to sherbrooke next thursday, for the slam thing. i didn't end up going to the anglo montreal one. i forget why. next month i'll make an effort. do you guys know Tim Minchin? he's pretty cool. look him up~ (it's in the details)
Sunday, January 11th, 2009
2:04 am	state of the union address My dear Compatriots, ( here comes a very long diatribe of dubious value on various subjects ) On to other topics, dear Compatriots; I have harped long enough on my dim comprehension of the ongoing events on the oriental Mediterranean coast. And also on my growing resentment towards all things spiritual (by which I mean irrational). I have been following the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe podcast for a few months and I am afraid it is starting to show. This is a positive thing. On the creative front, personally, I am optimistic. I have been getting all sorts of ideas and inspirations and the point when they will reach critical mass and pour out of me and onto paper feels very near. I had, when NaNoWriMo started, worked on an outline for a novel I meant to write during that period. It did not quite work out that way, but the outline is there, and it could still happen. I think it would make a good book, if a little soul-destroying and bleak; making people happy is not one of my literary concerns. Many ideas for short stories and plays seem to be taking shape as well, and if I could break free of this paralyzing bout of utter sloth, by some miracle, my creative output could very well soar to heights I had never so much as dreamed of. In fact, I have been to a few slam evenings in the past months, and plan to attend several others very soon. Specifically I have done four slams during two or these nights in Sherbrooke, in French, and I am hoping to make a first English slam at the Throw Collective's first slam gathering of the year at the Cagibi next Saturday. At least, if they are having one. It would be their first of the season. Finally, hockey. The Habs have been doing well, hovering between fourth and fifth place in the whole league (and also fourth in the conference, due to Boston's inexplicable domination of the East). It is nice to see they are keeping their momentum from last year. I credit coach Carbonneau, who has taken this team firmly in hand. They have scored twenty-three goals in the last four games, which is a great sign that our offense is picking up. Our powerplay was first in the league last year, but this year it has been struggling. The six powerplay goals in the last three games should help. Incidentally, tonight's win gets him the All-Star East team's assistant coach spot, with Boston's Claude Julien being the head coach, obviously. I think five of our players made the All-Star team, plus the coach; that is a good showing. The game will be in Montreal; I wish I could attend but ticket prices are astronomical because of the online scalpers like Ticketmaster and Co. I think that is all for now. Have a good year, imaginary internet friends. (it's in the details)