A moment's thought

I sit in front of the mocking glow of the computer screen with my legs crossed, right over the left. My brow furrows, my fingers sleep on black keys, and nothing but a thought echoes between plastic headphones: What the f*** am I going to write on my blog!?

Inner thigh itches. Lingering minutes that refuses to pass buzzes about annoyingly. I scan my faux-wood desk looking for beautiful inspiration, but find none. An empty glass, miniature men & women, and papers strewn about is all was spotted. My knee itches. I am reminded of the thousand-and-one mosquitoes my friends and I encountered at the park earlier that day. How I hate the tiny pricks.

A yawn washes over my body at 1:04 am. I stretch as many muscles to the tune of the blissful yawn, because I know the moment to follow would be a completely relaxing feeling. A thought comes to me, hasten by the fact I should get some sleep. It whispers: take the last seven seconds and stretch it into three paragraphs of filler. Keys dance without hesitation. A barely audible titter escapes my mouth, finding humour in the fact that someone will see through my sad attempt at being a writer. With sleep beckoning to me, I'm sure there will be spelling and grammatical errors, but I don't care. I have finished a post, ending several days of creative drought on my blog.

SONG OF THE DAY
Raveonettes - That Great Love Sound

Ice Crusaders are hot!

You need to check out Diesel's latest campaign for their Fall/Winter 2004 Collection. Their whacked-out design team some how were able to take their keen fashion sensibilities and twisted it to work within the context of an old sci-fi/fantasy comic magazine you'd find in the 70's. Incredible!

SONG OF THE DAY
Unicorns - Emasculate the Masculine

A poem of sorts...

A while back I was messaging with my friend Jen, and I made up a poem on the spot just because. A ridiculous ditty that may bring joy if even for a moment. So today I wish to share it, give you a moment or two of cheer, or at least a seed of inspiration to write something silly.

   Upside down umbrelly to catch all your precious rain

   then sip the goodness of rain that fell from the heavens

   the rest of the heaven juice will be boiled to make tea for two

   with a dollop of honey for sweetness


SONG OF THE DAY
Yesterday's New Quintet - I Am Singing

Another unproductive Sunday...

One of the good things about these kind of Sundays is you're left with nothing but your meandering thoughts to entertain yourself. It's interesting what runs through your head, you go through two different states of thought (or at least that's how my mind is working at this moment): Analytical and Creative.

With analytical thoughts you start analyzing things (outwards and inwards) in your life. Creating a mental list of things that can be better organized or improved upon. And within that list a sub-list of steps to take to create change is created. Now to initiate these changes, motivation is needed. The tasks you've listed may seem daunting, but can be done with the proper inspiration to push you. That's where the creative thoughts come to play.

Your creative thoughts can inspire you to action or it can distract you. The mind poses different questions or situations where you come up with solutions or possibilities. Depending on the solutions or possibilities generated, motivation can be built. And I just lost my train of thought and forgot where I'm heading with this. :P

Oh, well. Happy Father's Day, everyone!

SONG OF THE DAY
Peter Tosh - Stepping Razor

News Update at 11

Today's top story: Man discovers life does not stink. It has been revealed that the stench that was thought to be emanating from life was in fact coming from the world. When asked about this recent discovery, man replies "The world has indeed stunk for many years, tests that were performed earlier show that man just gotten used to the smell."

In other news, man continues to bitch and complain like a baby on his blog. More on that after weather and sports.

SONG OF THE DAY
Queens of the Stone Age - Never Say Never

The only law that CAN'T be broken

Murphy's Law: If anything can go wrong, it will.

All too often this stupid law proves itself irrefutable with the universe's innate ability for ineptitude. Through the years, new laws are formulated and added; it's gotten so numerous, laws can be split into different categories like bus laws and nurse laws. And as much as I loathe to add a new law, it should be included in it's Love Laws: If you are interested in someone, they can AND will have a boyfriend and/or think of you as just a friend.

I find this cynical way of thinking very stinky, but it feels like all I can do is give in. I'm tired of the 'love game', why should I play when I can't even get a chance to bat. How often can one dust himself off and stand back up without having to hunch? Where do you go from there? You go to the gym, then to Perkins for some Eggs Benedict, then complain about it on your blog, that's what.

See you in the funny papers.

SONG OF THE DAY
Spoon - I Summon You

Sunday

Yep. Sunday. And I've never felt so unproductive in my life. I did absolutely jack squat all day, I just sat in front of this ol'computer and watched a less-than-stellar anime series, Ikkitousen (i dunno, maybe you'll enjoy it more than me). The only time I got up was to eat or go to the bathroom. I know there's a lot of things I could do, I'm just not motivated lately. And I really HATE that feeling. Gwah! I should just go to sleep. Good night, people.

SONG OF THE DAY
Lawrence Welk - Good Night

Getting to know me

Know the real Harold...according to Master Rao. I don't believe astrology, but I've always found them damn fun! This reading was taken from combining your western and chinese sign.

"You function almost exclusively with your heart, your reason having no word to say here. With your extreme emotivity, you sift everything through the sieve of your affectivity. Even your intelligence is always colored with sentimentality.

Loving beauty under all its forms, you're inclined to facility and like to profit by the unexpected. You obtain much from others by your charm and kindliness, and can get things accepted without having to fight. In fact, you're more made for enjoyment than for struggle. Your greatest flaw is touchiness.

You've gifts for studies and much chance in examinations. Your taste for letters, publishing, bookselling, for all that's related to distribution of art and beauty can bring you great profits. You also have a good contact with the public and frequently enjoy certain notoriousness. Your friendship or love relations play a great role in your material destiny by facilitating your fortune.

In love, you're gifted for pleasing even though you hesitate to attach yourself profoundly. What you'd prefer would be to live a merry single life. But you'll also be happy in a union where fantasy and an easy way of life prevail."

SONG OF THE DAY
White Stripes - One More Cup of Coffee

Spider-Man was a Power Ranger!

Just one more reason to love Japan. Spider-Man was cool before, but when you add a cool car, a giant robot, evil monsters, and set it in 70's Japan, you get all kinds of ass being kicked!

SONG OF THE DAY
Ray Charles - You Don't Know Me

It has begun...

Blogs. Everyone should have one. It's like one's personal soapbox where one one can rant and rave about how it sucks when you're at the gym and you sit down at a bike realizing too late the previous biker neglected to wipe it down leaving his nasty sweat and B.O., or showcase the latest pic of your drunk lady friends flashing their lop-sided boobies to any horny by-standers willing to look (which I don't have, sorry). It's kind of empowering that way.

Recently my friends, Rob and Ray, started up their own blogs and I'm trying to get more people into it. I found it cool reading what insights they have when you're not hanging with them at the moment. Insights like: Don't you hate it when you have to fart, but someone comes up to you and starts a long conversation, and you try to hold the fart in, but can't, so you try to let it out in a way it doesn't make a noise and pray that it doesn't stink? Yeah, I know I hate that.

SONG OF THE DAY
Kylie Minogue - Chocolate

Have you ever heard of Le Parkour?

Le Parkour is a relatively new sport created by David Belle. You've probably seen commercials with Le Parkour in it. Imagine Jackie Chan taking up skateboarding, only he forgot the skateboard.

I find the stuff they do really cool. I'm surprised I don't see more of it around. Heck I'd take it up if it weren't for the fact I'm, y'know, lazy.

SONG OF THE DAY
Human Beinz - Nobody But Me

Me want your cookies (or some tasty equivalent)

I was going through my old bookmarks and re-discovered a chocolate chip cookie recipe I found while traversing the World Wide Web. Oooh, man! Those were good cookies! My mouth is just watering just thinking about it, I wanna bake them again. Yeah, I bake on occasion, so what? Wanna fight about it?

SONG OF THE DAY
Clarence Carter - Making Love (At The Dark End Of The Street)

Everybody! Everybody!

In my opinion, Homestarrunner is the funniest internet cartoon out there. It's consistently funny and usually have hidden "Easter Eggs" that keeps me coming back for seconds. Here's one of my favourite episodes, check it out!

SONG OF THE DAY
Kanye West - Home

Napoleon Dynamite is the man!

Quote:
"Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills. Y'know like, nunchuck skills, bow-hunting skills, computer hacking skills..."

SONG OF THE DAY
Toktok & Nena - Ich Hang Immer Noch an Dir

The way karaoke should be!

You have to check this video clip out, I couldn't stop laughing when I saw it. God bless karaoke singers! May each and every one of you be one.

SONG OF THE DAY
Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive

Who's got game? Not me, but my pals on the other hand...

Once again NBA's Hoop-It-Up is coming to Winnipeg this weekend, and as suggested by Rob, I thought it'd be fun to profile the team slated to dominate all suckers on the court and take 1st place in their division. Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you (dum, dum, dum....) Max High All-Stars!!!

Rob Carino AKA Max High
Team Captain
This man's proven that a man can bleed basketball. Through injury after injury, this outside treat is still ready to go high....MAX HIGH!

Rhoden Chavez AKA 2 Hype
Hesitate for a moment and Rhod will school you 5 times and call you Susan! Size will not intimidate him, so you better bring your game on.

Ray Hamel AKA the Weatherman
Eye of the Tiger may be a cliche phrase, but still rings true when describing the man called Ray. Through will and determination, he'll take it to you any way he can.

Chris Kolev AKA 2 Dope
You'd think his height would be his major advantage, but it's not. Chris brings mad skillz (yes, with a 'z') to the table and will smash the table with said skillz.

Rey Quiogue AKA Your Daddy
Don't let his smile fool you, inside is a monster waiting to be unleashed. Get into his space and he'll shut you down before you even think of going up.


SONG OF THE DAY
Gang Starr - Skills

Today was a good day

The sun was shining with hot temps and a slight cool breeze, felt like I accomplished quite a bit at work, I got a haircut, took time to sit at one of those neighbourhood parks, had gelati with a friend who I haven't seen in a while, and I just finished up the day with a refreshing shower after a nice little workout. Today did feel good, almost perfect. The only thing that can make it better is if a gorgeous woman fell into my lap carrying a million dollar cheque with my name on it. Well, there's an hour and change left in the day, so here's hoping!

A couple of friends been saying my blog needs some pictures of naked chicks. Well, if there's enough requests for it I'll do it, but in the meantime they'll just have to settle for this.

SONG OF THE DAY
Broken Social Scene - Pacific Theme

I am the Bowman!

You bored? Here's a cool little Flash game that was forwarded to me by my ol' pal Mike. Whenever I got several minutes to kill, this game has continuously kept me entertained. There's something about shooting a stickman full with arrows until he bleeds profusely that makes me smile like a little child.

SONG OF THE DAY
Iron & Wine - Each Coming Night