I Enjoy Bad Singing

and as a result was pleased to find WinAmp has a Karaoke tv channel where you can watch poor drunken fools massacre song after song live. I love it that I'm so easily amused, it makes me a cheap date. Now I don't even have to leave my house to watch drunks act stupid. I guess I really never had to anyway, now that I think about the things that have gone on in my own livingroom.

Retro Entertainment

We hooked up my old Nintendo system. That counts as retro. Trevor broke something again, and that might count as retro except that particular trend has never gone away, so I'm not sure that it happening again can really be considered a revival.

I'm not very into Halloween this year, and as a result, I haven't even bothered with a costume and probably won't. I don't think we will even be doing much of anything, which actually, is fine with me. I've been feeling very lazy lately.

Sometimes my personality needs a break from reality.

Lazy

I have just been feeling so bloody lazy lately that I have not felt like posting. Honestly, I don't even think I have any good stories to share. I will have something by the weekend though, I can nearly guarantee it as either myself or one of my friends is certainly bound to do something worth making fun of.

Needed a Break

I am still around, took a break from the blog because I've been working a lot AND we cleaned my condo which was a major job. So major in fact, that it called for before and after pictures which I will post here shortly.

Mr. Sandman, just knock me the fuck out

I've felt like crap for 3 days now and what sucks the most is that I can't sleep or rather I can't go to sleep early because I just don't work that way and I know most people don't get that but if I try to go to sleep and it's too early and I'm not ready then I think too much and end up being up even longer than I would be if I just stayed up to begin with.

If I had binoculars I might try spying on the many buildings around mine just to pass the time but something tells me the only thing I would see is very bored people watching very boring tv I can almost guarantee there is nothing exciting or dirty or even slightly untoward going on in any of these buildings and my building tends to shut it down around 9 pm being that it is full of the aged and I feel like I am in a training unit for my retirement days.

You might think I spend a lot of time complaining but I like to think of it as purging a sort of negativity bulimia if you will and therefore although it may not be neccessarily healthy to spend so much time at it I still get to look good.

Number 1, Number 2...

It's so much easier to put off taking a shit than a pee. You'd think it would be the other the way around. Then I got to thinking, it would be much worse to have been a "bedcrapper" than a "bedwetter" as a child, so I'm guessing most people are pretty happy it works the way it does.

Photo Fun

Tried playing around with another of my photographs. I wanted it to look more like a painting and less like a photo with the colors more vivid. I think it's kind of tacky, which is almost the look I was going for.

Addiction

Yes, I have an addiction. I cannot go down the air freshener aisle in the grocery store without buying some sort of air scenting gadget. If it's citrus or has some sort of fanciful name like "linen and cottonflower" I'm a goner. Nightlights, sprays, plug-ins, stick-ups, whatever they have I will buy. And dammit, it makes me happy!

I wish I had a cooler addiction, you know, a more "street" addiction, one that would give me credibility. It's really not so tuff to admit you couldn't help but spend your last 10 dollars on "Rainforest Mist for the bathroom".

Fat Asses and Rampages

Yeah, believe it or not we are actually looking forward to Grand Theft Auto San Andreas which comes out very soon and we plan to grow our asses as it gets colder outside by hibernating in front of the big screen playing this extremely addictive and oh so outrageously violent video game while cramming our heads full of meaningless calories and perhaps the odd puff of the funny stuff here and there. I might be a little too old for this, but I could also be a little too dead for this and so I'll take being a little too old if those are my choices.

Also let's face it, you can only burn so many calories having sex and when you are as lazy as me, you know that's the only exercise you're going to get and so I've decided to be a quitter and give in to the possibility of an expanding waistline and a dwindling mentality. It's all in good fun.

Baby On Board Signs

Piss me off. I don't mean to sound rude (well actually, I suppose I do), but it's not my kid it's yours and therefore don't expect me to extend any special driving habits around your car. It's funny too, these people always seem to be the ones that do the really stupid shit in front of you while driving. It's like that damn sticker is a special license to have no awareness of other traffic.

That's all.

P.S. What's this with Hillary Duff singing a Go-Go's song with her sis? I guess it's kind of cute but come on.

And My Punishment

For being a bad friend is that I have cigarettes but all my lighters are down in my car so now I have to use my toaster or maybe my stovetop to light the damn thing and that's pretty ghetto or so I hear but actually it sort of makes me feel all poetic and original like I'm too cool to use a lighter or something like that, you know, something that makes me feel less like trash and slightly more special than I really am.

I should probably quit but then what would I do with my hands?

I Didn't Think I Was The Type Of Girl

to blow off her friends for a boyfriend, but hell if you were getting laid you'd do it too, no?

Bubbling Just Beneath The Surface

I wish I could explain to you why I feel like contradicting everything you say, why looking at you today made me feel so angry especially when you kept making smug replies to everything I mentioned, why I needed to challenge your belief system even though the words that came out of me were pure bullshit simply because I don't believe in the cause after all, why I thought I might cry just because nothing is wrong at all and I am unfamiliar with that feeling, why I had to come home early or explode and why I'll be coming back a mere 3 hours later because I miss you.

Montreal Sunset

I finally felt like screwing around with some more photographs. This one was taken from the car on the way home from Montreal a while back. It was a brilliant evening and a great beginning to a semi-long drive home.

That's Why I Try Not to Drink too Often

It sucks when you wake up the next day with a bruised hand, sore ankle and black shit all over your pants and no idea why.

Is Television your Pimp Daddy?

Television is so fucking toxic and yet I still watch it and quite frankly the stuff I watch is maybe, maybe one step above subnormal and that might be stretching it just a bit. It also makes me feel angry, and that's irrational too, the anger, because the anger is this: Why do people let themselves be so fucking stupid? I really don't think there is any irony in most people's television habits and yes, for some reason that pisses me off. When I hear that pathetic lowest common denominator audience on America's Funniest Home Videos cackle at yet another not even remotely funny Tom Bergeron joke I feel like snapping necks. And that retarded way they have of acting all shy and obsequious when he actually let's them be on camera brings on such a deep rage I can feel in every bone. Maybe I need help, someone needs to tell me why I feel so much anger at this stuff.

I don't watch Survivor. That would certainly put me over the edge. I might watch if one of the contestants really got into the game and went all primal on the other contestants. I'm sure there's a legal loophole given the abnormal environment they endure.

I'm Too Tired to Think Up a Title

Still house sitting and decided to write a little bit. I've been working with Tom all week doing upholstery and I have to admit it is very relaxing and quite enjoyable. It's tiring though, and as a result, we haven't done much else all week.

I started to watch a documentary called Stupidity tonight about you guessed it, stupidity, but I turned it off because it was stupid.

Just Checking In

So yes, we went to a wedding on Friday. It was actually a good time and I got majorly drunk which I have not done for awhile. I guess the fact that we also got up to no good later on in the parking lot (sex in the truck is kind of cool!) added to the enjoyment factor, but we also had decent people sitting at our table so overall, it was a good night. I also decided to quit this school photography gig, it's just not worth it, so much driving in my car which is weighed down by too much equipment for too little money in return. I never thought I could hate photography, but in this case, man do I ever.

I'm still house sitting for my parents, so Tom and I have been hanging there, eating good dinners and just chilling out at night. He's really busy with work which is good, but makes for a tired guy during the week.

Does anyone else remember the childhood urban myth about the black van that came out and stole children off neighborhood streets? I always wondered if that was a local story from my childhood or a general tale that was told everywhere...