ATTN: World.

At this time in North York, it is snowing upwards.

That is all.

Sick and Twisted

This is real torture.

From my room at Rez, I can hear a girl two doors down the hall, belting out Evanescence. The song is playing. But what I hear most is this girl’s warbling, horrible, off-key voice barrelling along with the track. You can hear her throughout the entire hallway, even in closed rooms. It’s embarrassing for her, and EXTREMELY painful for us.

This has actually been going on in various forms ALL DAY. From around noon onwards, my hung over self drifted in and out of sleep to the almost absurdly loud sounds coming from the hall to the right. There was Dr.Dre’s album from 2000 being played from start to finish, as well as an amateur guitarist strumming along to the girl from the previous paragraph singing Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. ( I WISH I was kidding.. I mean….This stuff isn’t suppose to happen in real life right?) It was just so bad, and loud. BAD-LOUD.

I’m all for singing badly BUT the key there is singing badly QUIETLY TO YOURSELF.

It was nightmarish.

I’m going through various plans and pranks to protect myself from these sorts of events in the future.

UPDATE: OH NO. Now it’s Hero.

Paula Abdul Has Lost Her Mind

Or just showed up on a morning show COMPLETELY LOADED:

I mean.. wow.

As Requested:

mmm yummy Greasy GTA-er #1:

(yaa she’s so hot.. and doesn’t she KNOW IT?)

Greasy GTA-ers #2 & #3:

(prime example of overexposed breasts – PUT THEM AWAY!)

Greasy GTA-er #4:

And, an example of debauchery of the worst kind, GTA-er #4 AGAIN, in the lap of a really digusting, sweaty old guy:

I hope this haunts you as it haunts me.

Wash Please?!

It appears that a large majority of the inhabitants of the Greater Toronto Area have bad acne or very greasy skin. It makes me sick. These are twenty-something men and woman who look like they just wiped a bag of Ruffles over their faces, and then applied layers of foundation, and lip liner. You can expose as much of your breasts as you like – you’ll never look like anything more than a cleavage-y potato chip. YOU ARE NASTY.

Puppies, Slow-Motion & LASERS

Vitalic – Poney Pt. 1 (aka “Birds”)

Boards of Canada – Dayvan Cowboy

So, in 1960 Joseph Kittinger took a helium balloon up 102,800 feet …. and then he jumped out of it.

It a record setting free fall that was the last of three tests he did to research high-altitude bailout for the air force. The first, from 76,400 feet (23,287 m) in November, 1959 was a near tragedy when an equipment malfunction caused him to lose consciousness, but the automatic parachute saved him (he went into a flat spin at a rotational velocity of 120 rpm, the G factor calculated at his extremities was over 22 times that of gravity, setting another record).

On August 16, 1960 he made the final jump from the Excelsior III at 102,800 feet (31,300 m). He was in freefall for 4½ minutes and reached a maximum speed of 614 mph (988 km/h) before opening his parachute at 18,000 feet (5,500 m). Pressurization for his right glove malfunctioned during the ascent, causing his hand to swell. He set records for highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump, longest freefall and fastest speed by a man through the atmosphere.

This Boards of Canada music video uses the documentary footage:

The surfing isn’t actually from the footage.

Mix CD

I made this CD randomly grabbing songs off my iTunes. I put it in the car on the drive back from Montreal to Toronto.. and I was pleasantly surprised at the very interesting mix I had created (you can click on most of these songs to listen or watch the videos):

1) The Beatles – While My Guitar Gently Weeps

2) Blonde Redhead – In Particular

3) Christian Falk ft. Robyn & Ola Salo – Dream On (video)

4) TV on the Radio – Blues From Down Here

5) Tapes’n'Tapes – Insistor

6) Pulp – Common People

7) Styles P ft. Pharoah Monch – My Life

8 ) Union Of Knives – Evil Has Never

9) The New Pornographers – Use It (video w/DAVID CROSS!!)

10) Kriss Kross – Jump (VIDEO – WATCH IT!)

11) Johnny Cash – God’s Gonna Cut You Down (video w/EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD)

12) Islands – Where There’s A Will There’s A Whalebone

13) Mase – Feel So Good (video)

14) The Dandy Warhols – We Used To Be Friends (video)

15) CSS – Let’s Make Love & Listen to Death From Above (video)

16) Cold War Kids – Hospital Beds

17) Broken Social Scene – Windsurfing Nation

18) Peter, Bjorn and John – Young Folks

Scary Mary

ROTFL