It's a little gloomy today but at least it's not -20C. I just injured myself walking into the library on Rideau street, they have big, heavy, wooden doors. As I was opening the door some idiot was walking out, I call him that because he made no attempt to be move aside and nearly bowled me over. Then as I regained my balance and proceeded to ( Read more... )

I can't believe it's -20C today. Apparently it's supposed to be 14C next weekend. You gotta wonder just how big that hole in the ozone layer is getting. They say it's directly above Australia, that's why they have the highest rate of skin cancer there in the world. It's illegal not to wear sunblock there. I'm not sure how they know if you're ( Read more... )

I think Canada's an amazing country. Spacious, clean, friendly for the most part but man the weather can be -awful-. Isn't it supposed to be Spring? I'm in irritable mood as a result of that and the noisy neighbours above me. I know they say 'love thy neighbour' but in all honesty I loathe them. I awoke to the sounds of them having sex at 2am ( Read more... )

I've overcome my bout of introspection and have decided everything in moderation, including moderation. Especially including moderation... Ho ho. I think I'm suffering from a pre-mid-life crisis ( Read more... )

Unless fate intervenes I'll be buying a ticket to London this week. I think I'm going to spend a week in Amsterdam smoking myself into oblivion and then stop. It's been several years, I can't remember what it's like not to be stoned which depresses me and the buzz is a cheap replica of what it once was. I still say it's better than booze but ( Read more... )

Last night I met a friend for dinner. I never go out for dinner so it made me feel sophisticated. Well I don't know how sophisticated we were after a bottle of wine and a few beers later. I think I was rambling, hopefully I didn't say anything to embarrass myself. Annoyingly I woke up 3 hours after passing out. I'm supposed to meet a couple of ( Read more... )

Melon refers to brain I think, not something obscene. I'm pretty sure it's a song about E. A lot of Happy Mondays songs have that theme. They're from Manchester and grew up seeing local bands like Joy Division who were definitely not happy at all. Raves started out partially as a backlash against the bleak, self-obsessed gloomyness of many ( Read more... )

It's a sunny Tuesday, it'll be nice when it's warm enough to bike. I know I'm being a wuss, there are people who bike all winter (fearless couriers mostly). I tried last winter and wiped out, in the middle of a blizzard, in the middle of a busy intersection ( Read more... )

I can't think of anything interesting to write so here's a poem I learned from a homeless madman in a park in London. He ate pigeons and said he wrote this poem. I spent 2 hours learning it, reciting it on a bench for the tourists walking by. The guy said I was his last hope, he thought he might die and I had to make his poem live on. Anyway ( Read more... )

Thank God for coffee. I really have trouble getting started without it. I wake up around 4am most days so that's probably part of the reason. At least I can watch the sunrise. I'm listening to a CD called 'Harry The Hammerhead And His Pounding Trance Jawbreakers'. I got it in Montreal a couple of years ago from a friend who would go to raves ( Read more... )