goddamn me and my denim g-star obsession. had a meeting in yaletown yesterday so of course i dropped into global atomic to see what’s new. and whaddaya know…some new jeans that i’m in love with. the “officer radar narrow” but i’ve decided i’m going to go back and talk to warren (the owner) and see if he can special order me another pair that i’ve been lusting after since last fall. stupid g-star and their gazillion shipping windows a year. they’re going to be the death of me….
jibber jabber 
a collection of run on sentences mostly about travel, fashion, technology, formula 1, design and anything else that this worker bee in the vancouver ad industry feels like rambling on about
lazy
you know you’re life is boring when you can’t come up with anything to write about on a daily basis but instead have to come up with the recap…
the past week consisted of:
dinner at Baru for my brother’s birthday. great food, crappy service.
dinner at Chianti’s with the girlfriend’s parents. really not that good anymore.
shopping trip to seattle. gorged myself on the bacon n cheese ciabatta burger at Jack in the Box at 9AM (which i just found out clocks in at 1120 calories for the sandwich alone…oeuf). spent too much money at Ian on a pair of g-stars and a unis shirt. (they were on sale!). lusted after a insane pair of Paul Smith pants at Barneys.
watched “Letters From Iwo Jima“. really really good.
easter dinner at the parents where i got my ass kicked at monopoly.
and that’s it apart from some working, some sleeping, some jogging, some tv watching (the blondies better win the amazing race). and the highlight of today? i gotta go grocery shopping.
Last King of Scotland
so my allergies have kicked in something fierce so this past saturday i spent my afternoon with kleenex shoved up my nose watching movies while my girlfriend mocked me by calling me “plugs”…how’s that for support?!
watched the Last King of Scotland and Forrest Whittaker puts in an amazing performance as Idi Amin. he’s that guy who is your best friend, charming, disarming and then next thing you know you’re caught up in some bad shit. he does such a good job with that role making you like him despite his evilness.
i wasn’t too familiar with the whole Idi Amin saga so i had to do a little wikipedia research to see how much of the movie was fact versus fiction. turns out its VERY loosely based on real people and events but the underlying horror of Amin’s regime rings true.
the movie itself is quite compelling but it left me wishing that dr. nick had done something to redeem himself. oh well…
happenings
i’ve been sitting on this for a while and actually thought about posting it on April Fools Day but word is already starting to get out so….
i’m done…April 30th will be my last day with Burton Snowboards…
no idea what i’m going to do yet. if you have any suggestions let me know…
rotten in denmark pt 2
ok…things are getting a little too obvious on the “helping things along”
tip on the amazing race. seriously, the blondes finish the leg some 16 hours ahead of last place teams and how do they start the next leg? get on a bus…in 16 hours. bullshit.
the producers knew what time people were expected into warsaw cause every team had the option of taking the pre-booked flight. so worst case scenario, teams arrive at 11:25AM, do their shit and are finished by that afternoon/evening. next leg they’ve obviously chartered private buses to Auschwitz so why 1:00pm the following day? why not 6:00AM, 9:00AM?!?! shit, why not let the teams get to Auschwitz themselves?
so its a pretty safe bet to say that they adjusted the schedule to accommodate the late racers in order to:
a) heighten the sense of “tension” or competitiveness
b) reduce the logistics expense of multiple production support teams scattered farther apart
c) get more dramatic shots of Auschwitz by shooting at night and backlighting the windows like some haunted house.
nice way to crush any sense of “reality” in your “reality tv” CBS…
balls!
i just found out about the Ratatat show tonight and its sold out. balls!
oh well i did find their dope remix of “Party & Bullshit” so its all good.
such a geek
is it just me or does my desk look a little retarded right now?
that would be an old TiBook G4 connected via firewire to a MacbookPro with my trusty old iBook G4 in the foreground doing my usual work. sheesh.
word of the day
Ready – a sexually attractive person
oh please…
okay Los Angeles Counter Terrorist Unit…WTF… six seasons in a row there’s a mole?!?! who the hell does your hiring? high school intern? sheesh. way to ruin an otherwise good season of 24…