sometimes i make sence...i suppose

2003-06-19T15:07:00.000-07:00

fucking windows 98! and by windows 98 i mean the school. they won't give me a yearbook. what is this? communism?

2003-06-16T15:54:00.000-07:00

holy crap! i haven't posted in like forever. well let's dicuss what happend
1) ummm let's see. i asked andrea out on a date. she said yes , but we've yet to do that.
2) i had a molasas fight. if you want details of how or why ask me. i'm too lazy to write it now.
3) i performed my play. it was ok.
4) and i got the job at the film program. that's gonna be sweet.

oh yes and i've decided not to do those reviews anymore. i'm lazy. i'll do the top 5. later. ciao, and may the force be with you.

2003-06-05T15:31:00.000-07:00

dude, last night was chillin.
at around 2 in the afternoon i went to daniel's house. we sat in the yard listening to ZZ Top and drinking beer. yep.

then at around 8 me and michael kyd went and got some of kaylah's crazy weed. we headed over to may's to see if she wanted to join us. she said she would later so we rolled up a joint and left.

we went to the feild out by the school in the front and smoked it up. we just kind of sat there for about half an hour. then we went to charles house took a box a triscuits a box of wheat thins a block of cheese two cans of peaches a bag of apricots two liters of juice a big jar of milk and four muffins. then we just took all the food and left. it was great.

we went back to the field and waited for may. when she arrived ( with more milk and a cucumber) we rolled another one smoked it and went back to mikes and watched vanilla sky. then i passed out and woke up at ten this morning. good fun.

2003-06-01T18:15:00.000-07:00

wish you were here- pink floyd

wow. last night was fun.

2003-05-30T22:17:00.000-07:00

i'm too lazy to write a good review right now for glengarry glen ross. so i'll just say this. it has alan arkin, kevin spacey, al pacino, jack lemmon, alec baldwin, and the script won a pulitzer.

2003-05-28T23:19:00.000-07:00

new york, new york- frank sinatra

i shall take a page from the book of sofia and post what song i am listening to from now on.

2003-05-28T23:02:00.000-07:00

there's a school in markham ontario, the place i call home, called father michael mcgivney. it's a catholic school. a student there recently contracted SARS. this is scary. i know people there. there not my friends or anything but i know them. also, my dad lives less than a mile from there. not that i care if he dies but my brothers visit him you know. also this student got it from a parent who works in hospital. and courtney's mom works in hospital!!! he may hate me now but i still like him. don't want him dying.

2003-05-28T14:29:00.000-07:00

#20) Vertigo- Alfred Hitchcock (1958)

``Did he train you? Did he rehearse you? Did he tell you what to do and what to say?''

This cry from a wounded heart comes at the end of Alfred Hitchcock's ``Vertigo,'' and by the time it comes we are completely in sympathy. A man has fallen in love with a woman who does not exist, and now he cries out harshly against the real woman who impersonated her. But there is so much more to it than that. The real woman has fallen in love with him. In tricking him, she tricked herself. And the man, by preferring his dream to the woman standing before him, has lost both.

When people think of Hitchcock the first thing that generally comes to mind is control freak. Which he certainly was. People do not think of him as a visual master. But they should. The story of this film as good as it is cannot compete with the visuals. There is one shot or scene rather that you should look out for.

The great scene takes place in a hotel room, lit by a neon sign. Judy has arrived, not looking enough like Madeleine to satisfy Scottie, who wants her in the *same* dress, with the *same* hair. His eyes burn with zealous fixation. Judy realizes that Scottie is indifferent to her as a person and sees her as an object. Because she loves him, she accepts this. She locks herself into the bathroom, does the makeover, opens the door and walks toward Scottie out of a haunting green fog that is apparently explained by the neon sign, but is in fact a dreamlike effect.

As Hitchcock cuts back and forth between Novak's face (showing such pain, such sorrow, such a will to please) and Stewart's (in a rapture of lust and gratified control), we feel hearts being torn apart: They are both slaves of an image fabricated by a man who is not even in the room--Gavin, who created ``Madeleine'' as a device to allow himself to get away with the murder of his wife.

As Scottie embraces ``Madeleine,'' even the background changes to reflect his subjective memories instead of the real room he's in. Bernard Herrmann's score creates a haunting, unsettled yearning. And the camera circles them hopelessly, like the pinwheel images in Scottie's nightmares, until the shot is about the dizzying futility of our human desires, the impossibility of forcing life to make us happy. This shot, in its psychological, artistic and technical complexity, may be the one time in his entire career that Alfred Hitchcock completely revealed himself, in all of his passion and sadness. (Is it a coincidence that the woman is named Madeleine--the word for the French biscuit, which, in Proust, brings childhood memories of loss and longing flooding back?)

Well then that's enough. Tune in next time for Glengarry GlenRoss

2003-05-27T15:54:00.000-07:00

i've decided to review my favourite 20 films over the cousre of the next week or so. we'll be going from 20 -1 so as to add suspence. keep in mind i've see a lot of movies so a lot of them you might have never heard of.

anysways here's the list and the reviews will start tomorrow or later today;

1) Manhattan - Directed by Woody Allen (1979)
2) Apocalypse Now- Francis Copella (1978)
3) 8 1/2 - Federico Fellini (1963)
4) M*A*S*H - Robert Altman (1970)
5) JFK- Oliver Stone (1991)
6) 2001: A Space Odyssey- Stanly Kubric (1967)
7) Annie Hall- Woody Allen (1977)
8) The Shawshank Redemption- Frank Darabont (1994)
9) Say Anything...- Cameron Crowe (1989)
10) The Silence of The Lambs- Jonathan Demme (1991)
11) Clerks- Kevin Smith (1994)
12) Chasing Amy- Kevin Smith (1997)
13) Platoon- Oliver Stone (1986)
14) Amadeus- Milos Forman (1984)
15) Fight Club- David Fincher (1999)
16) Reservoir Dogs- Quentin Tarantino (1991)
17) Raging Bull- Martin Scorsese (1980)
18) Get Shorty- Barry Sonnenfeld (1995)
19) Glengarry GlenRoss- James Foley (1992)
20) Vertigo- Alfred Hitchcock (1958)

2003-05-26T20:37:00.000-07:00

i was sleepy today. sleepy till oh about 2 pm. hence i did not attened school. because you all know i never skip.(guffah) then i went downtown. i had one of them red bull energy drinks. you know. the one with bull testicle. it was gross. tasted like cough medicine (which i spelt wrong but like i said before i'm too lazy to change my spelling. even though it takes much less effort than explaining that i'm i'm lazy)so ya. shut up. anysways. then i went on MTV Canada. it was ok i guess. they gave me free stuff.
the i returned home. it was joyful. i guess. oh and i talked to andrea on the phone. she's sick. poor her.

oh and yesterday i went this crazy cool russian place on broadway call rasputins. check it out. good food and very nice servers. it's funny. right beside there's this place called the afgan( spelt wrong..too lazy. you know what i mean by now) horseman. i wonder if during the afghani - soviet war they were at each others throats? i think that would be funny. they could pull pranks on eachother like in seinfeld. hilarity ensues.

now join me in the mans prayer(if you have a Ychromosone that is)

i am a man,but i can change. if i have to. i guess.

2003-05-25T17:21:00.000-07:00

dear sofia, sublime sucks.

2003-05-25T01:17:00.000-07:00

and today. well i woke at the same time. but i remembered my pass this time. HAZZAH FOR ME!!! so ya. my first workshop was movie magic. it blew ass. goat ass. twas boring as sin.but the next one was crazy go nuts. it was culture jamming with a guy that works with addbusters. then lunch. then stunts. which was bar none the coolest thing in the history of mankind! and by mankind i mean my workshops. it was just fun. i even got a blank from a gun. let's see what did i do then? do you remeber? oh wait. i'm telling you. let me think then. i'll get it. JUST HOLD YOUR HORSES I'M THINKING!!! oh ya. i had directing for film. it was super boring.

that was all the workshops. all done. so i went home to prepare (which i think i spelt wrong but i'm to lazy to fix) for the final sceening tonight of the first place films. i trimed my hair. well...my mommy did. then i showered and put on a suit( not atthe same time).

the screening was ok. i managed to get an entire licorish down my throat on camera. probably not something to be proud of but kai got it all the way up his nose so i'm not as bad.

let us see. then evan and kai and adrian and i went to cafe deux solies and saw this crazy go nuts band called freeflow. they were kind of like sublime but you know...not shitty. krista showed up later in the evening. we( kai adrian and i) moshed for some time in our suits and then went to the land that is called home. i shall now go watch M*A*S*H ( the movie not the show) and then go to bed. adieu.

2003-05-24T00:26:00.000-07:00

let us re-cap on the last 2 days.

ok. thursday....thursday was the first day of the film festival. adrian kai gab meg gabe and i went. it was just showing the films that came in third in the varrious cadigories. a lot of them sucked but some of them were really fucking good. like super moose. and red ball. and of course a man with a movie cam. that was it though. no workshops.

friday i got up at 7 in the morn. which is really difficult for me so i was dazed and forgot my pass. when we got there though they just mad me a new one. then i was off to my first workshop. it was documentary film making. it was pretty cool but not in the least hands-on. next i had directing; the vision. IN THE SAME ROOM!!!! SO I WAS SITTING IN THE SAME CHAIR FOR 3 HOURS!!!!! however that was much more fun. although still not hands on. then it was time for lunch. afterwhich i had an editing workshop which was really cool. and hands on!!! yay!!!! that was the last workshop for the day. we then had a period of three hours of socialization during which i only socialized with those i already knew. strangers are just no fun. well i'm sure they are. but my friends are better. and then we watched the 2nd place films. that was the end of the film fest for friday.

right after that i went to the cafe deux solies with krista. we discused film making and politics. and watched a blues band.

so now i'm home. and i'm gonna go to bed now. i have to get up early again tomorrow. well later today. i'll post about the rest of the film fest tomorrow.

until then, keep your stick on the ice.

2003-05-20T22:28:00.000-07:00

1st: KAI POST YOUR DAMN BLOG YOU LAYABOUT HALF EYEBROW!

2nd: i have an ingrown hair in my nose and it really fucking hurts

2003-05-20T16:46:00.000-07:00

MEGAN IS COMING TO VISIT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2003-05-18T15:21:00.000-07:00

today is my semi-annual reading of the art of war. the only book that helps me to make sence of this crazy world. then perhaps i'll see a film at the fifth avenue thater. maybe i'll even see people today but that's not a priority.

2003-05-15T22:34:00.000-07:00

fucking hell damn crap. my dad got off with anger management and parole. and no child support. fucking lawyers.

2003-05-15T22:33:00.000-07:00

i saw the matrix reloaded. awesome flick.

2003-05-13T17:42:00.000-07:00

oy i'm tired

2003-05-12T23:27:00.000-07:00

oh and kai? this coming from the boy who listens to banjos?

2003-05-12T23:15:00.000-07:00

i had my interview for the summer film program today. it went well. oh and tomorrow i start twelth night.

2003-05-11T18:34:00.000-07:00

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later

2003-05-11T16:51:00.000-07:00

dude catch me if you can is an awesome flick.

2003-05-11T14:21:00.000-07:00

i never went to dennys. i went filming with krista and was doing it till 10 in the pm. then she and i went to a little party at chucks. and then we filmed some more today. all in all i'd say it was a good weekend

2003-05-10T11:30:00.000-07:00

so here i am. 17 years old. today. the party went well last night. although i was bored. i met this chick who seems pretty cool. hannah. anysways i'm going to denny's with mom today for brunch. then i'm off to the east. see max's car, go partee at chucks. good times. well guy and gals, i'm off. catch you on the rebound.

2003-05-09T16:08:00.000-07:00

a day is in store for me. well. a night. i'm currently at val's. then i'll soon be off to pick up my mom from work and buy some sandals. then to me aunt's for suppa. then off to sofia's birthday party. it's on a beach. hope i can find it.........

2003-05-08T22:08:00.000-07:00

fucking hell damn crap. like i asked prior. what are they the leafs? oy

2003-05-08T18:06:00.000-07:00

if the canucks win tonight i'm going downtown to celebrate. if they lose i'm going downtown to loot.

2003-05-07T20:34:00.000-07:00

fucking canucks! they keep fucking up. i mean what are they? the leafs?

2003-05-07T15:16:00.000-07:00

i like walruses. i think they're just super cool.

2003-05-07T10:46:00.000-07:00

oh yes and my birthday is on saturday. for anyone reading this i really would like a cd called clarity by jimmy eat world. *wink wink*

2003-05-07T10:45:00.000-07:00

oops. i slept in. now i'm late for school. so i guess i should go instead of wasting my time telling you i should go............so ya. bye.

2003-05-06T18:50:00.000-07:00

holy crap. max gotta car. it's so nice.

also on an unrelated note....i have sticky things on my nose

2003-05-04T19:18:00.000-07:00

i miss lotsa people. well. the following:

cathi dorris
cathy taylor
megan rashig
timothy burns
huson burns

2003-05-04T19:05:00.000-07:00

i have no idea what day it is. oh wait yes i do. it's sunday. anysways. let us see how did the weekend go?

well on friday i organized a barbeque at kai's. he'll probably get the credit just because it was his house. that went good. sofia was there and i thought i would freak but i'm told i handled it well.

then saturday. i was sick. damn it all to hell.

and sunday. well. i watched this wicked flick at charles' house called the professional. you should watch it. NNNNNOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWW!!!!!

2003-04-30T20:52:00.000-07:00

today i watched kai make out with kaylah.
he told me to say that because i didn't know what else to write.

also. i gave a testimony about me pa to the po-po in the morn.

2003-04-28T23:12:00.000-07:00

LEIGH'S CHEMO WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY HAZZAH HAZZAH.

2003-04-27T12:53:00.000-07:00

i also talked to sofia yesterday. we decided that we can try and be friends at a later date. just not yet.

2003-04-27T12:50:00.000-07:00

i stayed at chucks again last night. got drunk. and get this. some drunken asshole punched me in the face for moving him asde so i could get downstairs. i hate people.

2003-04-26T13:49:00.000-07:00

so i'm at leigh's last night. we watched the princess bride.and got ripped. good fun.
then i went to kai's house. we watched best in show then walked kaylah and mya home. (they were at kai's before i got there)
then me and kai went over to chucks. where i ended up falling asleep on the couch at like 2 and waking up at 1.

2003-04-24T23:32:00.000-07:00

bloody hell. dames. they're evil i tell you. and they lie! LIE!

2003-04-23T21:38:00.000-07:00

i think after this summer instead of going to school i'll just go. to where i don't know . probably europe. and not tell anyone. except those of you who read this. so that makes......i dunno. probably no one.

2003-04-21T23:59:00.000-07:00

see me feel me touch me heal me
see me feel me touch me heal me
see me feel me touch me heal me
see me feel me touch me heal me

listening to you i get the music
gazing at you i get the heat
following you i climb the mountain
i get excitement at your feet
right behind you i see the millions
oh you i see the glory
from you i get opinions
from you i get the story

2003-04-20T16:03:00.000-07:00

yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away. now it looks as though they're here to stay, oh i believe in yesterday. suddenly i'm not half the man i used to be. there's a shadow hanging over me, oh yesterday came suddenly. why she had to go i don't know she wouldn't say. i said something wrong now i long for yesterday. yesterday love was such an easy game to play, now i need a place to hide away. oh i believe in yesterday.

2003-04-17T00:54:00.000-07:00

computers are the devil and i can prove it!
ok no i can't. but still. when they don't work they suck hard.

the roof of my mouth isn't healing and it hurts when i eat things. oy.

also. upon further inspection pearl jam is a really good band. especialy this song called "rearviewmirror"

anysways. t'is late. i'm gonna go have a late night bath like always and read. adeiu.

2003-04-15T21:46:00.000-07:00

last night i got very little sleep. like i fell asleep at 5 and awoke at nine.

at school i found out i have to direct 2 movies about racism for an assemley. plus i'm already in a play for said assembley.

i can't spell.

oh and i get to go to the film festival. i'm taking a bunch of workshops and one of the teachers is the editor of adbusters! keen.

afyer school i went to sofia's house. we went for coffe with kai and adrian where we discussed mail boxes and their placements.

and i burnt the roof of my mouth with hot tea.

2003-04-15T21:32:00.000-07:00

well what did you know. it did.

2003-04-15T21:31:00.000-07:00

i tried to change my template. i don't think it worked.

2003-04-15T21:26:00.000-07:00

i wonder what would have happened if courtney love shot herself instead of kurt cobain

2003-04-14T23:04:00.000-07:00

today is one month. for sofia and i. our anniverary. yay!

i went to her house thinking she wasn't yet home and talked to her dad outside. then i find out that she was inside the whole time. oy

we went to this park where we sat the first time we ever met. and we carved our initials in this wooden thingy.

then i had dinner with her family minus her brother and plus some lady i've never met. i think she was from los angles

anysways. it was a great night. man. that chick. sofia. i've never felt like this about anyone before. a bit scary.

2003-04-13T21:28:00.000-07:00

man. peanut butter and banana on toast is sooooooo good.

2003-04-13T19:56:00.000-07:00

how do you know if you're falling love?

2003-04-13T19:55:00.000-07:00

i watched the meaning of life last night good times.

2003-04-11T13:25:00.000-07:00

i ate corn nuts today. tyhey were yummy.

2003-04-11T13:23:00.000-07:00

i am in hell.oops. i mean school.

2003-04-11T01:34:00.000-07:00

i saw grease today. not the movie. the play. and sofia was in it. it was pretty keen.

more importantly. i got to see sofia. hazzah! as soon as she got off stage i gave her a kiss and a rose. good times.
she has the play one last time tomorrow and then it's done. good luck my love.

also, kai came with me and finaly had the balls to ask this dame he likes if she would go with him. she said yes of course because kai is a delightful little fellow.

oh ya. and mike stack who directs bard on the beach wants me to be in a rendition of 12th night next month. and my movie was submitted to the film fest today. wish me luck.

i'm listening to this track marc sent me. it's crickets. for like 37 minutes. lol. relaxing as hell. i'm gonna listen to sublime after.

anysways. tis late and i must go to school early and ride a frreaking bike as opposed to bus. bah. alas. goodnight

2003-04-09T22:32:00.000-07:00

i woke today to the sound of an alarm clock at 10. i then ate toast, while listening to back in black by ac/dc.

at school i :

-had a water fight
-found out a movie i made in the summer is going to be entered into the bc film fest.
-rassled with andrew. ( i got three rug burns. meh)
-watched some movies made earlier in the year by some of my fellow students.
-went for lunch with leigh. we had fries from belgian fries. yummy,

then i:

-went for lunch with leigh. we wnet to belgian fries and had this really good dip with our fries.
- played street hockey for an hour and a half with chris mya tamas kai and kaylah
-watched the mind fuck of a movie that is donnie darko
-went home

i've listened to "crime of the century" by supertramp about 14 times in a row now.

today was one of the best days of my life. if only i had seen sofia at all. but i did get an e-mail from her!! she misses me. i miss her too. i will see her tomorrow.

2003-04-08T00:44:00.000-07:00

fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!

i just found out my cousin has lukemia. fuck. i'm scared. i don't want her to die.

2003-04-07T22:43:00.000-07:00

yay! sofia came to visit me!

i told her i was sick and she said if she was at home she would make me soup and bring it to me.
but she was at rehersal for her play.( it opens tomorrow. good luck sweety)

she cam for about an hour. we listened to weezer. good times.

2003-04-07T16:19:00.000-07:00

ahh! i'm sick.
i have decided that the kid in those toyota comercials that says zoom zoom is the devil.
wearing that best funeral suit of his. standing in the middle of the desert. *shudder* creepy.

this week is gonna suck. sofia is in a play all week and i'm only going on thursday. so i probably won't see her till then. boo hoo. i'll miss my sweety.

2003-04-06T20:55:00.000-07:00

hell of night....last night i mean. i went to see big haas. a band that really isn't very good but i still had a very fun night. probably because i was slightly drunk, and wearing a sweater vest.

that might take some explaining. i went to value village a few hours prior to the show with kai. we both bought sweater vests and bad ties. then we both wore them to the concert and went crazy. my neck still hurts from the headbanging. i stayed a t kais last night.

this morning i went for coffee with sofia then helped her pick out a present for tompi's birthday. after that i watched kai's akkido class, and went home. now i shall sleep.

damn school. damn it to hell. it is the bane of my existence.

2003-04-05T13:45:00.000-08:00

well well well( that's the name of a cool song by john lennon by the way) my first entry.

ok. well today nothing has happend as of yet. last night i went to this crazy gypsy hungarian jazz thing with sofia (my girlfriend) it was superfly.
good times.