[Image: A Zoroastrian "tower of silence," on top of which corpses would be left, arranged in rings, exposed to sun, weather, and vultures]. Current Location:Libes Current Mood: moody Current Music: towers of silence
12:50 pm - Gong Hai Fat Choi meg and i went down to chinatown for the year of the pig celebration. it was insanely busy, the streets were packed, everything was sights and sounds and smells. highlights included the band playing ridiculous covers in the tinseltown mall, featuring a guy playing what looked like an electronic saxophone (keytar, the next generation?), buying umbrellas (of which mine broke the second i took it out in the wind), breakfast and lunch at the same time with joel on a slanted table overlooking the festivities on keefer, the smell of firecrackers in the air, confetti poppers, two giant and very disturbing paper mache heads in the parade, exhausted-looking people running a big red dragon puppet with sticks, buying a basket for meg, getting free skype headsets in red lucky-money envelopes, and easily the best of all, the weird "lion costume eating lettuce" rituals being performed on storefronts. i shot this with my cameraphone:
awesome. Current Location:cold skunk bsmt Current Mood: moody Current Music: joonny greenwood is the controller
The Harder They Come. Made in 1972, the first feature film shot in Jamaica, starring roots reggae star Jimmy Cliff and a guy with the best dreads I've ever seen.
It works on so many levels. Visually it's awesome, with the old film grain and colour, and seeing 70's Jamaican shanty towns is sweet. The music is reggae, but don't let that hold you back, it's 70's roots reggae, Desmond Dekker and Toots and the Maytals and stuff, like origin of the genre shit. Tight. The plot is engaging, the characters are complex, the themes are timeless and universal.
1. Tea - I couldn't live without this. Murchie's preferred, but sometimes I mix it up wth some green. If I couldn't have tea I would probably cold kill a man. Which brings me to...
2. Twenty-Four - A guilty pleasure? Debatable. It's not high art, but Jack Bauer is a hero for our times. He gets the job done, no matter what. That might mean torture, cutting off a guy's head with a hacksaw to gain credibility, constantly getting reinstated on a provisional basis... I want to have his baby. Which brings me to...
3. Tricyclen - No babies. Despite all the...
4. Tension - Crackling sexual tension...
5. Tissue - To blow my nose with. Cough.
6. Tofino - Surfing... We need to go.
7. Torrents - Not the ocean kind. The bit kind. The kind that provides me with music.
8. Two-Thousand and One: A Space Odyssey - This movie put me to sleep the first time I saw it, so I missed the space fetus. Space fetus.
9. T-Shirts - From American Apparel. It's the only clothing item I own.
10. Tzatziki - That shit is delicious.
Bonus list: Things that start with T that I dislike:
Turbidity Mr.T Trigonometry Tests Time Tool Tickling Trying
06:45 pm Seeing the new James Bond movie last night reminded me that 24 is coming in two months.
I can't wait to see how JB escapes from China to save the day again. It takes like 24 hours just to fly home from China, how are they going to explain that?
I'm downloading the full TV series "The Prisoner" from 1967. It comes highly recommended by Grant, the cranky old fucker at work here. He always tells me to get a haircut, but he has long scraggly grey hair. What a burnout. Here's a picture from the show that demonstrates how awesome I expect it to be:
Plus the Simpsons parodied it (all my LJ posts have youtube embeds):
I beat Miserlou on Expert today in GH2. I was proud of myself. Now I have to master Hangar 18. The shit is insane though. Probably harder than Bark at the Moon from GH1. I feel like a metal god though... I think I understand Felicity and Johnslaught a little better when I videogame shred.
11:57 pm - watching tv i'm half-watching jurassic park on tv right now. it kind of sucks, but it has jeff goldblum in it, which reminded me of this scene. probably the best scene in the whole movie. see youtube box below.
i spent today alternately working on my video->sound java program and reading about clandestine CIA activities. probably the coolest term i learned was extraordinary rendition. totally sounds like the subtitle of a spy video game. i also watched a passionate eye documentary on CIA secret prisons. real-life spy stuff is definitely awesome, but i can't wait for 24 to start again.
hahah i just noticed that samuel l jackson is in jurassic park. he's the chain-smoking computer technician who explains to the old bearded man that newman from seinfeld totally hacked the jurassic park computer system. samuel l jackson is such an acting slut. anything for a paycheque.
Current Location:parent's Current Mood: moody Current Music: john williams score
12:23 pm - workin getting paid overtime today, and there's NOTHING to do. i almost feel guilty.
saw "the departed" last night and it was AWESOME. it easily belongs in the same league as the godfather, goodfellas, scarface, heat etc. go see it just for mark whalberg's dialog. the only downside was the boston accents... Whatayou, retahdid?
i want a tshirt of this!!!!!!!
Current Location:work LOLOLOL Current Mood: exanimate Current Music: beep beep beep library noises
08:35 am - first real update ok enough of that tomfoolery. down to the business of journaling.
today was my last day at work doing the 4:30-midnight shift at the library. the nice indian lady who cleans the bathrooms at night gave me a tuna samosa and it was MAGNIFICENT.
had a great morning hanging out with meg, making blueberry pancakes and playing animal crossing ds while she wrote a paper. found out that DESTROYER is more than a one hit wonder (EUROPEAN OILS!!!!!!!). the album "destroyer's rubies" is a goldmine. a rubymine.
part of the reason i'm majoring in comp sci is because i've always had a gut feeling that computers will be responsible for a massive cultural change, in my lifetime. i've felt this way since i was pretty young, like before the www existed.
think about that... can you remember when there was no internet? do you remember sending your first email?
i really think that we are going to see some crazy shit in our days, all because of computer technology. maybe it'll be a kind of digital enlightenment, a cracking open of our consciousness into a swirling rainbow void of limitless possibility, infinite potential, where our imagination is our only limitation.
or maybe it'll be a fucking amazing way of killing people, like a neutron bomb.
did the neutron bomb ever get built or was it only in that movie repo man?
what ever happened to emilio estevez?
i actually do think that something earth-shattering will come about due to technology in the next few decades, and i think it will happen as a result of the convergence of a lot of different research areas, ie AI, robotics, human-machine interfaces, genetics, etc.
what i mean is, i think one big thing will be made out of a million little things.
if you have the patience to watch a 5 minute video, here's an example of one of those little things. or maybe this is gimmicky. it's 2am and it's past my bedtime.
Current Location:leaky basements Current Mood: tired Current Music: destroyer - watercolours into the ocean
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