115 people dead in a car bomb in Hilla, Iraq. The worst single event casualty since the beginning of the American occupation.
Here is an article that discusses the psychological trauma that soldiers have after they have finished combat.
I can't imagine constantly being plagued by images of horror and violence, combined with vicious bouts of depression. I would kill myself in a matter of days.

music news

Montreal's "the stars" recently got a 4 star review in Rolling Stone, for their latest album "Set Yourself On Fire." She's a tasty album I must admit. Download the first track from it "Your Ex-lover is Dear" and go from there. My non-related cousins band is in the studio right now recroding their 3rd album. The Constantines will be in Montreal for two shows on the 30 and 31st of March. Also in Toronto for 3 days at Lee's Palace starting April 7th.

And another wonderful quote from the retarded anti-christ "This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. And having said that, all options are on the table."

I was recently back home and got a chance to watch some tv. It appears indie/whatever rock seems to be taking over the mainstream. Killers tune was #1 on muchmusic. Dear old hip hop seems to be on the decilne, 50 cents new album will be the true test of this.

I saw this on some other guys blog where he selects all his mp3s puts them on random, and then posts the first 5. I am now doing the same:
Stereophonics - Dakota, Doves - Black and White Town, Pearl Jam - Throw Your Arms Around me, Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure, Kaiser Chiefs - Oh My God.

oh i love montreal

Back in Montreal, and thankfull as hell to be home. How I love this city. mmmm it is so sweet.
Apparently our phone has been disconnected due to "not paying the bill". Fuck bell is what I say. But apparently our high speed internet connection still works. I personally don't need a phone. I have msn messenger, and a wireless internet connection that seems to work anywhere in this city.

Found this great website via Mblog, it is titled "american's are dumb", and everyday lists 3 reasons to why America is dumb. Pure genius.
Watched the Oscars, and I Chris Rock is a funny mother fucker. Everyone else their was pretty fucking lame. Was happy to see The Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind won best original screenplay.
Anyhow I have downloaded all of the Oscar films. I will let you know if any of them don't suck.

American government isn't purely controlled by corporate interest

America has a long history of signing bills, but never sending them to congress, thus not offically approving them so that they are never legally binding. This one deals with tobacco.
Read the article, and then take into account the amount of money tobacco companies have donated to the only two political parties in america.
and on that note, we should all quit smoking.

more blogs pissing people off

Blogs really are a legitimate form of free speech, while most tend to deal with complete nonsense, apparently they are doing a great job of pissing off the government and mass media.

The Iranian government has been arresting a large number of bloggers recently.
It really is amazing how pissed off people still get over words and ideas.

I guess Shakespeare was right, but in our technologically advanced society it has changed to
"the blog is mightier then the government and their militaries."

blogs are changing the world.... you wait till i start mass distributing literarture, audio and video for free over a massive P2P system.

Go fuck yourselves mainstream media!

hometown bordem

After spending the past few days in Tremblant binge drinking in a Cabin, I am back in my hometown. I must say it is quite dull. But dull and quiet is most likely what i need right now.
First and foremost, matthew good's blog is back in full action. I am thrilled.
A conversation between him and Angelo's gf is posted on the website. I am jealous. I want to talk to Matt Good.

I want to buy a new laptop and a digital video camera, then make my own tv show. I then would spend the summer hanging around the CBC trying to get them to put it on the air. I think my show would be great. It would be like this hour has 22 minutes, meets the buzz, meets fubar with a kick ass canadian rock soundtrack . Apparently the censorship boards havent had anything to complain about lately.
They would love me, because then they all could rationalise their tax payer dollar sallerys.

Bruce Springsteen is much better with just an acoustic guitar and a harmonica.

130

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

i was going to post this on valentines but i didnt. so i am now:

love, confused adoration or nothing at all?
Comfort, familiarity, and seurity or repetition, bordem, and trapped.
romance and passion or just lust and fucking
a relationship based on sex or a relationship based on not having sex.
by yourself, with someone else or everybody else.
appreciated, unappreciated, or you cant bring yourself to care for the person despite how well they treat you.

no matter what or where you are on valentines day, dont let the made up event get the worst of you, just the best.

cinnamon buns are good

Haven't been blogging or writing anything lately... Haven't been able to bring myself to give a shit about it. I guess I have been slightly depressed lately most likely caused by not eating properly, drinking too much alcohol, coffee, and smoking too heavily. maybe im just sick of the fucknig winter... but i'm fine now.

So back on track. First things first... Syria and Iran don't look too pleased with America. So if America does decide to invade Iran, they are going to have to take down Syria aswell. Just in case none of you have looked at a map of the middle east lately. Starting from left to right you have: Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afganistan. 2 down, 2 to go.

PBS has got another one of its TV shows available for streaming, this one titled Rumsfeld's War. I haven't watched it yet, but I'm sure it will be interesting. This I didn't know until recently. Apparently Cheney was the one who convinced George Bush of having Rumsfeld join the administration. Cheney was also Rumsfeld's personal assitant during the Nixion administration.

and a brief article about American Imperalism.
The Pentagon's budget this year is $419.3 billion dollars. That is over a billion dollars a day. THe Soviet Union's economy collapsed because of the arms race... aka too much military spending.

ive been drinking too much lately

I havent been writing due to too much drinking and smoking of dope. I will try not to have an ounce of alcohol for a week. I will be posting a brief auto-biography that I have to do for my Canadian Political Parties class, as well I will try and write something smart and witty for valentines day.
Apparently the oldest man lives in Cuba.
CNN News cheif resignes after row over "Mr Jordan appeared to suggest that US-led forces had deliberately targeted journalists, killing some."
36 jounalists and 18 media support workers have been killed since the invasion of Iraq. At least 9 have been killed by American fire. Anyone who has seen the movie control room will know the seriousness of this situation.
I'm way too hopped up on caffine and cigarettes. aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Twenty Questions: Social Justice Quiz

Wal-Mart declares war on the workers of Quebec.
fuck you walmart. I hope every single fucking one of them gets run out of town.

I think i'm going to get a bunch of dogs and move up north. Sled around with my dogs... that would be nice.

And the SAQ strike was a success. Conrgatulations saq workers, I'm sorry liver.

sweet jesus

Man would somebody shoot or calm down these crazy jews. (the ones opposed to withdrawl)

How America can think it can complain about Russia selling other countries weapons is ridiculous.
So thank you Russia, and fuck you America, and fuck your bull shit CIA installed government in Columbia. I love how, war, death and conflict only become a problem once it effects your pile of cash.

I was so drunk last night. Went to this bar with 2 dollar shots. I also saw "The Life Aquatic", it was good, but not as good as I was hoping it would be.

im stoned

I saw this bull shit article about some 19 yearold that is getting thrown in jail for being incredibly gifted with a computer. Well he created a computer worm that would fuck up anyone using the shitty Microsoft Windows operating system.

Anyhow on the note of computer hackers. I remember when I was kinda into the whole scene. However the only thing I succesfully hacked into was my local public library's computer system, and even then that was with little success. Anyhow I remember reading this when I was younger and thought it was fucking cool... I think its much less cooler now. Heres the full thing but here's the good part:

This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.

Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.

I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike."

This is my gay roomate Greg and Mr.Biddell (2004)

Andrew Forsythe is a critical bitch.
Here is a picture of him. He likes to sit on fences, and make observations from clever clever land.

on ward churchill

After further reading apparently this essay has been turned into a great book.
You can purchase a copy of it here from chapters.ca
If you would like to purchase this book, please email me, i can get you 15% off of the the cover price.

"Patriotism," a wise man once observed, "is the last refuge of scoundrels."

I hadn't heard about this until I saw it on ircspy.com
Apparently a University professor from the University of Colorado might lose his job because of an essay he wrote in 2001 that compares America to Nazi Germany.
You can find it here (it's near the bottom)

few brief interesting points: People that flew the planes were neither extremists or religious fanatics. The pentagon and WTC are fair military targets, thus the people inside these two structures were not innocent civilians. The complete lack of ability historically demonstrated by the CIA, FBI, pentagon, and all other "Intelligence Gathering" agency.

The essay is highly critical of America and is well worth the read. Scratch that ITS A FUCKING GREAT ESSAY. Beautiful just written in a stream of conscious, full of passion, character, and conviction.
It is good to see that objective opinion still exists in American Universities, however apparently it will most likely lead to the loss of your job. I'm hoping this item will make headlines in the American media..... most likely not.

the human torch was denied a bank loan

Who owns CNN, NBC, and other tv channels you might be watching.
Wikipedia is quite possible the greatest website ever.

Oh jesus, sony unveils new processor. Faster then 4 ghz and able to shuttle data to and from off-chip memory at speeds up to 100 gigabytes per second!! Fuck you microsoft and intel, may you both go down in the blaze of glory. An open source operating system is the wave of the future!

American Guard admits to giving Goering his suicide pill.

finally a fucking article about the positive sides of P2p, and music swapping over the internet. Fuck all bands opposed to the future of music distribution!!!

My idea for a new way of writing music: The idea is this, a songwriter comes up with a basic idea for a song, and publishes it over the internet. Song lyrics, tone, song structure and everything else is up for discussion via the blog medium. Feedback, and opinion are taken into account and the song develops from their. Anyone can suggest song lyrics, or different apporachs to the song. The idea behind it is this: Interactive music. So all of the people that have ideas for music, however no musical talent can be part of the creative process. This way struggling musicians that think they know everything are aided in the fact that they can create more "ear friendly" music, and are awarded an instant fan base all from the comfort of their own home. Traditional music fans and critics are now part of the process....

I may try and put this idea to practice. COMMENTS FUCKERS!?!?!?

GROUPER!!!

This is a new peice of software that I found on download.com
It allows you to setup your own private P2P networks amongst your friends.
So its like a KaZzaa network, but limited to people you know.
Fucking sweet I say. If I can get this working properly I'll be able to share all the movies, music, software, pictures, etc... and crap that i have.

go download the software and install it. I've got a network running, click me to join in.

It's only in its beta stage but hopefully it will work well. Yeee

Once you have it, either leave your email address in the comments box or something.

.... fuck you for not posting any comments.

beards keep you warm in the winter

id rather have a pay cheque then be waiting for the lottery

a girl i know told me that back pain might be caused by repressed emotional issues of somekind.
There is a doctor that swears by this, but their is very little actual evidence to prove his theory is correct... who's back isn't sore from time to time?

Here is an interesting kind of porn I came across while reading wired.com. Though I don't know if you can call it porn seeing that all you see is someones face, fucking clever none the less.

everyone should quit smoking. come on, I know how enjoyable it is, but fuck it really is stupid. Plus you are supporting a bunch of evil fucks that have absolutly NO FUCKING PROBLEM with making a profit off of the misery and death of millions of people.

To all of you trying to quit, or have quit, congratulations. I'm still fucking around with it.

well i haven't posted anything lately due to all of the problems I have been having with my computer. Either the battery or power supply is fucked on it, and its annoying as hell.

Not having a computer for a few days has pointed out two things to me: first off, I spend way too much time on the bloody computer and that without one I have no idea what is going on in the world around me. Secondly i either need to stop blogging or actually put the effort into creating a better website. knowing my lack of ambition or drive to do anything, this website will be completly forgotten about by the end of the week.

I don't know what to write about anymore...

I saw the movie Halos and Horns. This movie is a documentry about the book "Forunate Son" by a J. Hatfield. The book recieved alot of press around the time George was running against McCain for Republican Presidental Candidate. This book was the first to bring up claims of Georges coke abuse in the 70's. The film goes through the difficulties of publishing the book, the sketchy past of the author, and so forth... What really makes the film interesting is you get to see what kind of effect all of critisim, and character assasination, that the author recieves takes on him. This combind with the 3 strikes and your in jail for life law leads to his eventual suicide.

I worked out in front of a wall mart in a small town outside of montreal on saturday promoting playstation 2 videogames. It was an easy job, but a fairly depressing experince.
Don't shop at Wal-Marts, don't eat at McDonalds, and for the love of god stop playing so many fucking videogames.

i am in favour of the draft

I feel like a sack of crap still. Drinking too much will lead to a cold. I've been drinking cough syrup and no-name neo citrons so I have a fairly decent buzz going. However someone drilling a small hole in the side of my head still sounds nice. Head and sinus pains are... painful.

But yes after reading this article in Rolling Stone magazine, I am in favour of reinstiuting the draft.
That way everybodys children would be forced to go fight this awful stupid war, rather then the poor, and poor working class. If the draft was around before they went to war in Iraq, they never would have gone. People in congress would have voted differently if their little Billy or Susy was the one over their taking the bullets in the ass.

Also without the draft the anti-war movement doesn't have much of a personal effect on people. oooh my head feels weird. Nowadays even woman could be drafted. I'd love to see Canadian universties become flooded with peace loving american woman.

Bush's speech last night was pretty lame. So much bull shit, and showmanship. The poor fat couple from Texas, they had sitting behind Bush's wife... that made me sad. Their only son is now dead, and what do they get in return, to be used as tools for a brief period of time. I don't ever want to know what its like loosing a child, especially for such a ridiculous reason.
im going to lay down.

fuck you groundhogs

2 out 3 groundhogs say we are going to have a long winter. fuck you winter. How did this traidtion start?
I have a cold or something and feel like shit on a stick... thankfully my wonderful critical reading prof said I can write my test next week. Yaaaa.
Nobody is visiting my site lately so in an attempt to get more visitors.....
PORN FREE PORN

I wonder if that will have any effect.

and to all of you people that are opposed to same sex marriages... you are all terribly narrow minded, self-righteous, misguided morons. Not a single one of you are in any position of moral authority. Take your relgious tradition and stick it up your ass. The sanctity of marriage is a bull shit lie, and you're the only people swallowing. Why don't you create a law that makes infidelity a punishable criminal offence.... Your mind set is on the same lines as those who were against woman having the right to vote. You sad homophobic fucks, go back to the stoneage and die.

ok that is a little harsh. All I can say is that if you think that two men or woman shouldnt be allowed to get married, then you have never been in love before. As anyone who has ever experinced the happiness and joy of a loving relationship would never want anyone not to feel that same way, or deny their ability to express those feelings through the public display of marriage. And why the fuck is Carrolin Parrish claiming to vote against same sex marriage... that chick must really be fucking crazy.

well of course it isn't in our news

Anyone who has seen the movie "The Take" will know what I'm talking about.
I had missed this headline untill recently.
The President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez nationalized the paper and cardboard company Venepal under Worker control. This is another step in what is a Workers Revolution in Latin America. Marxist economic and labour principles being applied in a Democracy. A democratic nation controlled by the people who actually do the work....... Im way too hungover to be writing about this, but i should be.... damn im pathetic...... I need to ban myself from Bifteck.

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