silver surfer

yay for the silver surfer!! I'm not too big a fan of multiple sequels. unfortunately, however, i'm a huge fan of comic-book-adaptions. I have yet to finally buy that issue of The Ultimates where Captain America battles the naked man and uses that great line about France- definately made me fall in love with the whole art form, which is by the way a pretty serious art form when you learn to actually think about it. makes you think, takes people and sticks them in ridiculous situations and extremes and paradoxes and asks them to find a moral solution to their problems. there's a lot of comic-book crap that you should avoid, but seriously some of it is freakin good. I'm such a nerd aren't I.
pipe smoking professor

crazy

wow... you know what i just realized. that song that I wrote on the 19th at 4:00 in the morning... I actually like it... like I really like and I would be tempted to sing it... it's freakin beautiful... I can hear the critics (lol you know who you are) laughing their silly little heads off at that, but wait til they hear it when I've cut a record. bum didi bum di bum didi bum. can you feel it. ya i didn't think so because i'm freakin typing a rythm and that actually doesn't translate to the ears. and that brings me to another thing, the fact that bloggers are just basically talking to themselves when they type. ya sure we swear that we're typing to an audience, that the world wide web is a big place and we rant about how everything that we type is completely public but... wait i've typed about this before haven't i... sure you have man... but seriously i don't want to dissapoint my audience.. no man you've got it all wrong, they love to read a good rant it makes them feel justified somehow inside.. ya or maybe just pity.. dude you're looking at this all wrong again, the more readers you get the more dollars you could potentially make if you set up google ads on this site... whatever man, you're just a freakin corporate sellout... fine if that's the way you feel about it then don't talk to me... well then i wont... well stop then... fine!



























fool sitting here typing

moonshine in the summertime

so I'm pretty much writing this song and this is one of the first songs that I've ever had trouble writing. it sucks. it's taking me way to long to write, as in at least a month. it's going to be good though and it's tenatively titled moonshine in the summertime (although I don't really like to title anything before it's done). I don't quite entirely know why it's such a hard song to write, but regardless of that I got a harmonica for Christmas and as soon as I'm marginally proficient at it I'm going to put the song to the harmonica and then it may be easier to write. so in other words it could be a long time before It's finished. this could be fun. the harmonica though is fairly awesome, i've been blowing and drawing (apparently you're not just sucking on it or breathing in, it's actually called drawing, wierd eh) on it like nothing else because you can actually carry it around unlike a guitar which is like large and you are constricted as to what you can do when you're carrying one, or a double bass were like you can't even just whip it out and play it because generally it's in this freakin huge case that pretty much dwarfs you. although that is a really neat concept of someone carrying a double bass on their back and then sitting by this campfire and whipping it out to play some tunes and like a coyote howls in the background and the cowboys hunker down for the night, all while Emeril over there is plucking away on his double bass and Finn is blowing and drawing away on his harmonica and then they finish of just as everyone is going to sleep and Finn puts his harmonica in his pocket and goes to sleep while Emeril is struggling to get this huge double bass cover onto his huge double bass for the next twenty minutes while everyone sleeps and then when he's just about done he hears a sound in the bushes and wakes the others in time to stave off an attack from a group of marauding flutists who were trying to steal their beans. in fact that's such a freakin good concept that I think I'm going to incorporate it into one of my stories, Knights of the New World which is an awesome story which sort of plays off of the idea of the knights and a feudal system, but with instruments instead of weapons and like it's set in the U.S.. so pretty much the concept is still being developed and the story isn't as far along as i would like it to be, but it's not as wierd as it sounds and it's going to be pretty freakin awesome. now all I have to do is write Finn and Emeril into the story. wow that gives me shivers, this is going to be gooood.
pipe smoking professor

k-otic christmas soliloquy

only 1 hour and 52 hours to go til Christmas Eve day and we just finished watching "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" which was pretty killer... er... christmasy.. traditionally the Davies family has always celebrated christmas on christmas eve and like opened presents and had the whole family over for dinner and stuff... This year is different and on C... holy crap that gap right there was the differnce between like 10:10 and 2:04. at least I have an excuse because I'm sleeping the crap out of myself tommorow... today... after I go to bed... back to it... hristmas Eve we're having a bunch of people over and on Christmas day we're doing our family thing... which is wierd... but what the hell I'll get used to it... yes Stoph, Jack White isn't neccesarily the future of music, but artists like him are... artists with spontinaity and creativity. there are quite a few of those around and I'll admit I was narrow minded in making that statement... that doesn't feel right... like apologizing for my musical preferences and accepting mediocrity... oh well, I still think that artists like him and including him are the people who are going to carry the baton when the music industry collapses... that was wierd- at the moment when I typed music, K-os sang the word music in the song sunday morning that I'm listening to right now. I just bought his latest album Atlantis: Hyms for the Disco (I hadn't bought an album in at least 4 months and it felt awesome to buy one finally) and it's pretty sweet and there's a lot of killer tracks off it like valhalla, sunday morning, the rain, flypaper, born to run, and aqua-city boy... dissapointingly there's a couple of filler songs, but otherwise it's a pretty solid album though still not as good as Joyful Rebellion which I don't own but intend to some time in the future because of the rocking goodness of it.. k-os rules and he's Canadian so go buy his albums people. (though I hate CanLit passionately, I support CanCon wholeheartedly) keep on rocking in the free world people!!!
Pipe Smoking Professor

freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeakin freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!

So finally i join the rest of you hoboes in the beautifulness that is Christmas break. I was still working on my last paper and it was eating me alive, but now it's finished... so now I'm happy... and the song that I was listening to when I finally finished and sent my paper off was "Wrong About Bobby" by the Eels off of the album Shootenanny. So pretty much the Eels are a radically good band and by a random freak of coincidence the second news item on their website has "Townshend" in it which is coincidentally the last name of the pols prof that I sent the paper off to. In the news item, however, the Townshend referred to the fact that Pete Townshend of The Who played a gig with E (the only permanent member of the band) in Los Angeles. By coincidence The Who happens to have been the greatest live band(watch for the improv when Keith Moon breaks his bass drum) in all existence and will always be the greatest live band in existence. Now, however, the members of The Who are either past their prime or dead so we only have the glorious memory to look back on, but there are a few new and up and coming bands that are starting to be great live bands and one of the foremost of those is the Raconteurs, who pack one of the meanest punches on stage making you wonder what the hell they were doing on their debut album. By coincidence (itunes is on shuffle) I am currently listening to the White Stripes which shares frontman Jack White with the Raconteurs. Jack White happens to be the future of rock which, by the way, is going to be extremely bleak. In fact the entire music industry is going to collapse and only live bands like the Raconteurs and The Who (if they weren't stupidly dead and defunct) will survive the collapse... This is a good thing. In fact I have been seriously considering starting supporting pirating music to support the collapse of the music industry and get rid of all these crappy musicians that have clogged our minds. The only thing that holds me back is the slight moral dilema of it being stealing so I'm having to think through it, which (thinking through things) has been done a lot in the last four months since I started going to Trinity, but now I'm not.. for the next couple of weeks because I just finished my last paper and I'm freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeakin freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!..... stupidly dead Douglas Adams would be proud.
park ranger

Don't

So I've just realized that I really don't understand my own mind. I'm supposed to finish this paper tonight and here I am sitting there typing out lyrics at 4:00 in the morning. lyrics that in a way are connected to me sitting here and doing my paper. so messed up is my mind that this actually makes sense and also these lyrics actually make sense. The verses, meant to be rapped in a certain way, are strung together so it could be a bit confusing in that way too. Overall this is the product of a mind that is burnt out from school and suffering from lack of sleep. Enjoy.

Don't
i feel a lyrical power coming on me because my souls exploding in the drivers seat nothing hidden in this one i think i'll let it go but you didn't see the things sittin on top of the car those are the things that drain this mortal man til he's dust in the alley and ashes by the fan blowin away to the sky damn i'm gonna miss you bye

it's gonna drain me dry.
hold my hand baby please don't let me go
i don't want to cry
but baby there's noone where you're supposed to go
i'm not saying goodbye

you know i don't want to miss out on this but sometimes you play hands and sometimes they're fixed I'm not making excuses for what i have done leave that to the boys with their emo and grunge I just feel like i'm dying on a spiritual plane, and survival is rivaled by the problem of pain it's getting too late in the day the minute hand's coming this way

it's gonna drain me dry.
hold my hand baby please don't let me go
i don't want to cry
but baby there's noone where you're supposed to go
i'm not saying goodbye

but it's wrong even now as I sit and remorse missing out on real life i'm just making it worse though the crowd is closing in and it's gettin real close i'm still writing these words and still spillin my verse father and mother and sister and brother, baby there's no you you've gone to some other time for me to save myself now, but I'm not ready for my final bow

it's gonna drain me dry.
hold my hand baby please don't let me go
i don't want to cry
but baby there's noone where you're supposed to go
i'm not saying goodbye

did I mention that I don't understand my mind. ya I probably did.
fool sitting here typing

Not withstanding

I am freakin proud to be Canadian!! seriously. the freakin proudness comes from our most excellent political system. though Canada and the U.S. are both liberal democracies, Canada's political roots differ insanely from the U.S.'s. The U.S. constitution is directly based off of the works of a man named John Locke. this semester I had the opportunity to read his 2nd treatise of government which the American founding fathers used to write the constitution and I can say with assurity that John Locke is one evil dude. from his stance that religion is essential for morals but we should get rid of anything spiritual in it, to his belief in the complete seperation of church and state (something that I wholeheartedly disagree with but it would take too long to explain why), to his dishonesty in writing. there's plenty of other things i don't like about him, but his dishonesty in writing becomes most apparent when he quotes, as he says, "the judicious Hooker". to the casual observer Locke's quotatoins of Hooker appear to support his theories and it appears as though Locke completely supports Hooker's theories as well. when you look up the quotation in the original source, however, it becomes apparent that Hooker is completely contrasted to Locke and had he been alive when Locke published his 2nd treatise of government, Hooker would have vehemently disagreed with Locke on most issues. Hooker as it turns out is actually one of the main influences in the original Canadian constitution. The Canadian constitution, instead of being centered around "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" was centered around peace, order, and good government (noblesse oblige). so Hooker is pretty sweet and you should check him out, but hey I wanted to say some stuff about our awesomely groovy not withstanding clause. There is no other nation with an equivelent loophole in their constitution and I'm glad we do have it. the notwithstanding clause basically allows the Prime minister or a provincial leader to overrule any part of the charter of rights and freedoms that deals with "freedoms of religion, speech, the press, free assembly and association [and] guarantees of equality"(source) and suspend it for a period of 5 years (there is guaranteed to be an election before it comes up for review). Although most democracies include plenty of checks and balances, none of them have anything this all-encompassing. This means that when our courts (which hold way to much powerand that's something I don't like about Canada) screw up and make a really stupid law it can be revoked. exept in the instance of the Quebec language law debates, the not withstanding clause has not been used very much at all. However, numerous governments have threatened to use it and situations usually end up with the courts reconsidering a law and deciding to support the government. to those of you who think having a not withstanding clause is undemocratic or contrary to our rights, consider that Canada, unlike the U.S., was not formed on a basis of "unalienable rights", but it was instead formed on the premises of good government and fortunately sometimes this means going against what the many want (for five years anyways).
pipe smoking professor