weekend

Friday night - we went to TACF... it was far away. On the way we passed an anime convention. The world was filled with outcast teens in goth/furry/weird-cloaks-and-swords outfits. TACF was not quite as strange.

On Sunday, I went to meet people at Mars for breakfast, and then we went to put new floors in at St Stephens. I actually ended up painting for most of the day - finishing up what we did last week. The floors look great.
That evening, we ended up going to the Rex to see Michael and Don's new(ish) band.

On Sunday we went to hang out with D&J at their street sale event. I bought a few books and records. After lunch at saving gigi, Leah and I walked to church. Afterwards we went to the Wood's for a pot-luck.

On the way home (walking from Ossington station) we saw a couple of sketchy guys running down the street. Afterwards another guy ran after them, and then a distraught lady ran by a minute later. Turns out she and her friend were robbed going into the subway. The cops showed up a few minutes later - Leah told them the guys ran into the subway - so the cops peeled out and locked down the place. Apparently they caught 3 out of 4 guys - and we got to wait around forever and eventually give statements.

In the midst of all this excitement, I missed my bedtime...

May Two-Four Weekend

I got off work early on Friday, for the long weekend. That night we went to Laura's (karaoke) birthday party.
Saturday was an epic day of painting at St Stephens church. Our church is moving in June, so we are having a few weekends of getting our space in the "new" building ready. We met up with Kate and the Royals for breakfast at Mars (at 8.30)... and I got home around 9pm. We watched Rachel Getting Married, which was a pretty crazy movie.
I walked to church on Sunday, and then we went to LL's after church for dinner. We walked home afterwards - so all in all I walked for about an hour and a half.
On Monday we were dead tired, and I had a pretty sweet headache. We went for a walk, even though I felt like collapsing. That night we went to D&J's, and watched the Wrestler, which was a very crazy movie.
Somewhere in there we also did some grocery shopping and laundry. And I also hit up a couple of yard sales, where I picked up some Annie Dillard, Flannery O'C., Beck and Bad Religion...

weekender

On Friday night we went to a birthday party for Joel. There were a good few people there, and an unsceduled performance by Nicholas Cage was a part of the evening's festivities.

On Saturday morning I made a big breakfast. We also bought Sonic Youth tickets. That night we went to another birthday party...

On Sunday, I walked to the annex, bought a coffee, some art supplies, and another(!) birthday card. I went to church early, to help set things up. I also ran sound at church. Afterwards, we ate carrot-turnip soup and apple crisp!!!!!!

weekend

On Friday night I went to Joel's let's-play-video-games-while-Anne-has-a-baby-shower party. Everyone pitched in money to go towards pizza and beer and diapers. I haven't really played video games for a good decade or so... and I now find them almost seizure inducing in their ridiculous speed and camera zooming (yes, I'm old).

On Saturday we had an elders' meeting at our house. Our church is moving at the end of the month, so there is a lot going on. That night we went to a birthday party for /dr., which was fun. We partied like married people, which is to say we were home by 1...

On Sunday, I went to see the Wolverine movie. I am generally quite forgiving when it comes to superhero movies... and I really enjoyed this one. It could have had a better bad guy character (see the last Batman - which I actually didn't enjoy as much as I was supposed to), and it could have had a better female lead (see Iron-Man - which I did enjoy as much as I was supposed to), but it would be difficult to find a more bad-ass/awesome hero than Wolverine. He's Canadian!

After church, we ended up (with Brad) at D&J's again, for dinner.

weekend

On Friday we went grocery shopping. When we got home, Leah made granola and I went to bed.

On Saturday we took M to the vet for her shots. She was scared, as usual...
In the afternoon we went to A's to play music. And that evening we went to D & J's, where we finally watched Slumdog Millionaire. I'm still not sure why I didn't love this movie as much as (almost) everybody else did!? I really do like movies with fully developed characters (and where nothing happens!). This one has everything happening and pretty flat characters.

On Sunday, I walked down to Queen street and stopped in at a bunch of art galleries, where I saw some pretty cool stuff, like this. After church we went to D & J's for dinner.

Update

Well...

Friday night I went to A&E&J&A's house - Andrew was hosting a party to give away/swap some of his old unwanted records. It was a fairly low key affair - but pretty fun.

Saturday morning had peoples' fists in my mouth. Turns out I had a cavity in one of my molars, so that was a good time.

Also, it was record store day! Leah and I went down to (a rammed) Queen street, to stop by Criminal Records. It was crazy! The only time I have seen that many people in there was for the Julie Doiron in-store show. Leah bought a Cat Steven's record, and ended up winning a grand prize, which turned out to be mostly a massive amount of City and Colour swag!!! If anybody is a big fan, we have autographed CDs, DVDs, t-shirts, a bag..(!?) (Leah loves the song Coming Home, so she was pretty excited.)

I bought the Dan Auerbach record (which came with a CD copy). If you like the Black Keys, then you will probably like this too...

On Sunday - Leah did some laundry... and I went to the Dufferin Mall to drop off some film at Blacks. How old-school is that??!

Church.

The end.

Fun

Zellyn tweeted about this music maker thing...

Easter Weekend Update Extravaganza

Leah was complaining that I did not update yesterday.

Thursday night we watched Napoleon Dynamite at D&J's. I forgot that that movie is so good!

Friday, we went to church at St Andrews for the (first ever?) joint StA+Ft service. Afterwards, a bunch of people came over for a giant brunch. Later we all migrated to the Woods' place for a giant dinner, and a game of Apples to Apples. It was an exhausting day of hanging out.

Saturday, we didn't do all that much.

Sunday - I did laundry. Easter church was good, and we went to Korean Barbecue afterwards with a bunch of people...

The end

weekend

Mostly we did things like taxes and studying. We also watched some movies - Thank You for Smoking and Dog Day Afternoon - both of which I would recommend.

I also got a bad haircut, and then shaved it all down to 1/4 inch.

Ha ha ha

This study is funny. Since I ran across the article whilst at work, and am now blogging about it, I guess that makes me a more productive worker...?!

Weekend

This weekend involved some epic moving. Three couples that we know all moved into a mansion - so Saturday was a long day of loading, unloading, and driving back and forth across town. The weather was great, there were many helpers, and it everything went well. It was actually fun.
That evening Leah went to a wedding shower for another friend. I stuck around at the mansion to drink some post-moving beer with the lights out (earth hour seems like such a bad joke to me, but whatever...)
On sunday Leah worked on some homework while I went to drink coffee and read about minimalist art. Church was good - David was pinch-preaching due to the early arrival of baby Justus. Afterwards, we had a last minute pot-luck dinner at our house.

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On Friday night we went over to David and Jen's. We ate delicious food (as always) and watched Happy Go Lucky. I really liked this movie...

On Saturday I did laundry in the morning, and we went grocery shopping in the afternoon. I also bought the Saint Etienne Travel Edition CD.

That night I was kinda bored, and ended up renting Mystery Train. We watched 2/3 of it before going to sleep. I love the first third with the Japanese rockabilly kids making a pilgrimage to Memphis...

On Sunday, I finally reassembled the record player table, with Leah's help. It took quite a bit of swearing on my part before things were together and not too crooked.

I was on setup for church - which went pretty well. We had a guest preacher (Joe Manifo), and after the service he showed a documentary that he made on churches in Canada (he himself is a church planter in Sarnia). It was well done and interesting. After that there was a panel discussion starring David, Justin Broadbent, John Franklin (of Imago), and Joe, about faith and the arts. It was excellently moderated by Jen McNaughton, and actually super interesting. After tear-down, it was really late and I had a wicked headache.

Colored Lights Video

I finished making my first ever video tonight. It is shot on the world's worst digital camera, and it is my first time trying to do video or audio in Flash, so bear with me... (and let me know if you have issues running it).

Check it out over at Immigrant Design. IT'S INTERACTIVE!!!

WKND

This weekend was good. Leah had an idea for a new coffee-table. After some design alterations to account for the fact that we can't make 45 degree cuts, and have to rely on the 'accuracy' of the peeps at the hardware store who cut the wood, we ended up with a new coffee table. It turned out quite well. I will put some pictures up at Immigrant Design when I get a chance...

On Sunday, I went for a walk and took some pictures (35mm film - oldschool). I also stopped in at a few art galleries.

Church was good.

Toe Knee Heart

Today I was walking to work from the streetcar stop - and I was looking off to the side at this mysterious huge house on Wellington...
when I walked right into one of those posts that you lock your bike to.

It was funny, but I totally smashed my knee into it.

weakened

The weekend was somewhat busy and mostly unremarkable.






I should trade in blogger for twitter.

Mrzic

I need some good working music...????

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This American Life has another very good program on the current economic situation - explaining what is going on and why...

Listen to it here, if you want to understand more/scare the mess out of yourself.

wkkendupdtte

I am slightly sick today - my head feels heavy and full and my throat hurts.
On Friday I met Leah after work and she went to buy a bathing suit. Later we went to visit Kate in her fancy-schmancy Yorkville hotel. We went swimming in the lap pool, tried out the sauna, and hung out in her room.
On Saturday, Leah and I complained about the cold. We went to greenavi for coffee, where Leah read Thomas Merton and I read Flannery O'Connor... Afterwards, we went to Magic Oven Pizza, for expensive gluten-free pizza. Instead of doing anything that evening - we fell asleep for a few hours. When we woke up, we ended up watching/rewatching Before Sunrise.
On Sunday we did laundry. After church we watched Before Sunset - which was interesting but not as good...