The Face Transformer!

so much fun! maybe a little later i will brave enough to post my results...

a whole day online. tgif

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

thompson, originally uploaded by slo___mo.

bill maher on jeff gannon

whuh? click for video clip.
american politics.
almost as hot as brad and jennifer.
woohoo!

lovely bad things that i love badly

smoking
booze
rock stars
visa
staying up all night
fried food
suntans
sex w/o condoms
survivor
the o.c.
driving everywhere
catalogues
too loud music
kraft peanut butter
gossip
message boards
tight clothes
starving artists
show offs
soap operas
drunkeness
writings, photos and/or videos depicting any/all of the above

what i need i will get, what i hate i'll forget

the ecma's were great fun. jill barber was my pick o' the weekend. she is fabulous.

maybe juevenile, but here's my lists.

favourite moments:
-mark green's cd on our way out of town (it ain't easy being sleezy)
- picking up some hippy hitchhikers who smelled like they washed with rum (supposedly for good karma)
- getting stopped by the rcmp after stopping to let out hitchhikers and not getting a ticket
- hollering along with skid row, coming into sydney
- ordering pizza and having a little party in 107
- harassing chris murphy and jian ghomeshi at every opportunity
- jill pinching jian ghomeshi's ass
- free breakfast at midnight, including champagne and orange juice
- jill's hairdresser, and his wild goose chases
- hearing later that organizers had enough food to feed 500, but ran out after serving 300 ("my buddy alone ate a pound and a half of bacon...")
- back stage at centre 200 or whatever it's called (so exciting.)
- seeing the sign that said " -> nathan wiley's dancers"
- roses for ashley and joel <3
- shopping at the mayflower mall
- driving around all day on sunday ("we are fucked.")
- meeting isaac
- burgers at jasper's
- the rita macneil tribute
- the weakerthans
- hugs with my guys when i got home



least favourite moments:
- not getting a smoking room -( "i don't know who made the reservation for you, dear, but...")
- waiting forever for breakfast at the mapleleaf
- finding the pot room, but not finding any pot
- missing tyler messick at smooth herman's
- missing joel plaskett all around town, everywhere. why?
- too much smoking
- driving around all day on sunday
- scary driving sunday night
- asshole who was the king of the tim horton's parking lot when we were late for the big show
- why did it have to be sooo cold?!?
- eating at dairy queen, but it had to be done

after the last tree is felled, christ will come back.

religion=scary.

here's half of an article by bill moyers on jesus in the whitehouse and how we are all screwed.

"One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of power in the Oval Office and in Congress. For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality. When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts.

Remember James Watt, President Ronald Reagan's first secretary of the interior? My favorite online environmental journal, the ever-engaging Grist, reminded us recently of how James Watt told the U.S. Congress that protecting natural resources was unimportant in light of the imminent return of Jesus Christ. In public testimony he said, "after the last tree is felled, Christ will come back."

Beltway elites snickered. The press corps didn't know what he was talking about. But James Watt was serious. So were his compatriots out across the country. They are the people who believe the Bible is literally true -- one-third of the American electorate, if a recent Gallup poll is accurate. In this past election several million good and decent citizens went to the polls believing in the rapture index.

That's right -- the rapture index. Google it and you will find that the best-selling books in America today are the 12 volumes of the "Left Behind" series written by the Christian fundamentalist and religious-right warrior Timothy LaHaye. These true believers subscribe to a fantastical theology concocted in the 19th century by a couple of immigrant preachers who took disparate passages from the Bible and wove them into a narrative that has captivated the imagination of millions of Americans.

Its outline is rather simple, if bizarre (the British writer George Monbiot recently did a brilliant dissection of it and I am indebted to him for adding to my own understanding): Once Israel has occupied the rest of its "biblical lands," legions of the antichrist will attack it, triggering a final showdown in the valley of Armageddon.

As the Jews who have not been converted are burned, the messiah will return for the rapture. True believers will be lifted out of their clothes and transported to Heaven, where, seated next to the right hand of God, they will watch their political and religious opponents suffer plagues of boils, sores, locusts and frogs during the several years of tribulation that follow.

I'm not making this up. Like Monbiot, I've read the literature. I've reported on these people, following some of them from Texas to the West Bank. They are sincere, serious and polite as they tell you they feel called to help bring the rapture on as fulfillment of biblical prophecy. That's why they have declared solidarity with Israel and the Jewish settlements and backed up their support with money and volunteers. It's why the invasion of Iraq for them was a warm-up act, predicted in the Book of Revelations where four angels "which are bound in the great river Euphrates will be released to slay the third part of man." A war with Islam in the Middle East is not something to be feared but welcomed - an essential conflagration on the road to redemption. The last time I Googled it, the rapture index stood at 144 - just one point below the critical threshold when the whole thing will blow, the son of God will return, the righteous will enter Heaven and sinners will be condemned to eternal hellfire."

the rest of the article can be found here.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5211218.html
and you should google the rapture if you wanna be more scared than you were when you watched 'the ring' or 'the shining'.

oh yeah, and what's with the catholic church of canada compelling their congregations to oppose gay marriage? fuck, that really really pisses me off. what a bunch of cowards and hypocrites, following along with the fucked up dictates of those withered old pricks in rome. (don't we all secretly think that the pope's physical decay only mirrors the internal fungus of his soul?) why do they have to be such haters? come on, catholic folks - rebel! show us that you aren't the woman-hating, self-hating, dogmatic guiltmasters that you are sterotyped as. it's not like someones gonna car bomb ya if you write a letter to the editor. there won't be any snipers to pick you off if you stand up and walk out when your priest starts talking the hate talk. do it!

oh! and i heard some really good juicy gossip!!! it seems that our good friend stephen harper has an uncurable ... what do they call them out west? ... oh yes, a "social disease"! apparently it is a souvenir from his wild university days. yikes! look out for him when you are picking up in the clubs, ladies and gentlemen - talk about hypocrites.

that's enough semonizing and gossiping for me today. i need a drink.

democracy

not that it's really any of my business, but i think that the reason so many people turned out to vote over in iraq is because they are so desperate to end the occupation and get rid of the americans. the vote was not for the any of the anonymous candidates themselves but for an iraqi government of any kind. it makes me so sad to hear people talking about how it was better under saddam hussein, or that people have to wait in line for hours to buy gas, or that children are dying from the same preventable diseases that children always die from when nobody cares about them. anyway, those voters sure are brave. i'm not sure i'd be dragging my veiled self to a poll. i might not even have the guts to go to the market. so yeah, i just wanted to wish iraqis luck (and good government).