Cold War Kids video

Delvyn emailed me a while back with a YouTube link to the Cold War Kids video that he is in. Due to my employer's YouTube ban, I wasn't able to watch it. I figured I could just wait until it was up elsewhere... and I was right.

If you don't blink, you can catch a glimpse of him enjoying a lovely family meal!

All about the Benjis

Check out this sweet article about LNeef, JBiv, and myself.

Weekend Update

On Friday I got off work at noon, and went to meet the team at Trinity Bellwoods. Actually, we met at Tealish, one of them fancy all-tea kinda places. Afterwards, Leah went to help Katherine paint her new apartment.

That night we went to the Gem. Afterwards we watched Dark Blue, Almost Black (or azuloscurocasinegro), which was pretty cool-but-weird, in that most-bizarre-scenario-we-could-imagine kinda foreign film way. And Leah came up with a hair plan.

On Saturday, we took the expensive cats to the vet so that they don't get the rabies. It was hilarious trying to get them into their carrier, and I am pretty surprised that I don't have bloody meat ribbons for arms. After their shots etc. at the vet, they were quite happy to return to the confines of what was, just 20 minutes earlier, the last place on earth they were going.

We also went to get a free couch from next door to our new apartment. After contemplating what to do with the stupid thing, we ended up leaving it on the porch, for us to get later. After that, we decided we don't even want it, so the whole thing was an exercise in wasting time and in lifting really heavy stuff.

We also practised music a bit for church...

Sunday - I tried to get more boxes for packing, but failed (Leah scored big at the Dufferin Mall though). I took down shelves (and with the shelves, big chunks of paint), blinds, and other random hooks and nails, and packed a few things.

Church was kinda frustrating, 'cause the sound was sorta bad. Afterwards we went to the Rice Bar with Jen. It is a great place to go if you want to try eating a huge bowl of rice with chopsticks. It is also a good place to go and sit on a patio when Kensington is in pedestrians-only mode, and there is a live reggae band performing up the street.

When we got home we talked to brother Reeve on the phone !!!!!

The bus

I don't like to laugh at crazy people, but yesterday I couldn't help myself.

I was waiting for the bus on the way home, and couldn't help but notice this old man walking with a cane, and wearing a tshirt that read (in really large print):

EDUCATION
IS FROM
THE
DEVIL

as he walked past, I checked out the back of the shirt:

TELEVISION
IS FROM
THE DEVIL

THE INTERNET
IS FROM
THE DEVIL

The guy was also yelling/mumbling a not unexpected mess of bible-based nonsense.
I went to go and stand nearer to where the bus stops, and ended up near enough to make out some of his message. Apparantly, according to this guy, the bible explains that HONEST ED IS IN HELL.

How was I to keep a straight face given the bizarre randomness of this news?!

Weekend Update

Let me see...

Friday night we wanted to go see a movie with David and Jen. After much deliberation and general apathy, we decided on Sicko. I was not expecting much more than a bad taste in my mouth, but it turned out to be pretty good. I would even go so far as to recommend it - but only if you want to see some pretty depressing things about the US of A. I think that all the personal-freedom-from-government woven into the United State's political structure left the doors wide open for corporate despots to fill the vacancy. Individualism means the right to trample your neighbour if it benefits you (especially financially).

Saturday - we went out for breakfast, which was fun. Leah is able to eat omelettes and other egg-centric foods, as long as you leave out the dairy, toast, sausage, bacon, coffee, hash-browns etc. Afterwards we disassembled various household items... including our bed.

Sunday - I picked up some empty boxes, did the laundry and the dishes, and broke out the barbecue for lunch. After church (Kate is back - hooray!) Bradley came over for pancakes and good times.

Off the juice.

I've tried to cut out the caffeine, and have, for the last week, only been pounding decaf coffee and tea. And decaf water.
Hopefully I will stop getting headaches as frequently.

Another photography link...

Check out these rad monochromatic pics by artist Helga Steppan.

Subway Animals

Check out this neato website of subway animals. The only thing I could come up with for our wimpy underground is this sort of deer-like creature...

Or, like, a worm.

La Chute

Check out some pretty amazing photographs from Paris. The kids are not alright.

Weekend

I'm getting tired of blogging...

Let's see here - in no particular order, the weekend:

Die Hard. This movie was ridiculous, in every kind of good way.

The Last King of Scotland. I wish I never watched this. I know it might sound sort of hypocritical to say that Die Hard is fun and OK, despite the carnage, and that this movie is horrible, (at least partly) because of it... but that's what I'm saying. I don't know that there was anything good about this movie, except maybe some acting.

Bradley came over for dinner, and to play music. This was fun indeed.

Church.

Leah finished recording for her 4 song EP.

We bought a couple of items of clothing at the 'we don't support sweat-shops, we support smut' american apparel.

I helped Rachel's sister and family move into their new house. And by help, I mean show up just in time to carry the last 3 boxes off the UHaul.

I made a large pot of sweet tea, just because.