LARRY KATONI!

in closing,

2008-05-30T06:58:00.001-05:00

i would like to leave on this note

NEW BLOG!

http://tighterbluejeans.blogspot.com

miles and miles

2008-04-19T15:26:00.004-05:00

this will be my last entry in this blog.
i'm not going to delete this blog, because i can't access my old flickr photos otherwise (hah). i've already got a name for another blog, which i'm going to start once i move (may). i'm excited. new chapter, new blog. i'm going for a whole different kind of thing with my new blog. i'm going to try and model it somewhat after other blogs i really enjoy.

those of you who i talk to regularly need not read further.

NEWS.
not breaking, but totally penetrating.

* MOVING! not anywhere exciting, but that's besides the point. for the first time ever, i will be living ON MY OWN. no more roommates (it's bittersweet). a bachelor. in the annex (my favourite neighbourhood): home to my favourite comic bookstore, bookstore, movie theatre, sushi place, and just all around favourite. and another first, i will not have a window facing a main street! it's very small, but i'm painting it, and i've already found some cute stuff for it... and it's mine.

* SEXING! me and ainslie (although yet to officially start) are working on an animation for sextv!

* COMIC-ING! me and nick have decided to try round 2 of creating comics together. not sure how this time it will pan out (but since my last years efforts sucked, i don't see that this could be worse). i'm taking the approach i learned in class, and am scripting it all out first (for my first "long" one - 22 pages-ish).

* EARNING! my friend and i both have the same day off this summer, so we are turning it into earning potential. more on this on my new blog in a couple weeks. she's an insanely amazing cook, and well, i'm just there, so together we are going to rock your taste buds into eternity. i'm going to be posting photos from this also, and we're making a facebook group. we both hope to earn enough to travel a bit. i want to use my $$ to visit my best friend in new york for a week.

also,
cannot wait to see THE STRANGERS.
ONE MONTH.

it's apparently a semi-rip on some french movie, but who cares, it looks awesome, and who doesn't miss liv tyler.
FUCK.

alright, see you in a few weeks.

tastes like butterscotch

2008-02-28T19:32:00.001-05:00

YESSSSSSS
SUPERJAIL

can't wait

also, in case for some reason you haven't seen this because you actually happen to leave your house:
(fatal farm)

OR LASAGNA CAT!!!!

then watch it.

i have no real personal life updates that don't involve the words homework, cock or microwaveable pasta.
but i'm sure any week now i'll have an exciting infection, new hair tint or beer-related injury to weave a wizardy word spell on you.

use me as a doormat, i've got nine inch nails for threadbare

2008-01-30T22:59:00.000-05:00

i know it may seem as if i've given up on this blog, and basically i have.
however, i will continue to update more frequently as i prepare (and yes this time i mean it, as i have come into possession of flash and dreamweaver programs very recently, and tutorials - one of which i have already kind of conquered) to make my fuckin awesome-ass website, and some sweet-ass animations with some serious (seri-ass?) comics and drawings on it. this threat may sound empty, but that's just your head.
i joined uber.com a month or two ago, and i have yet to actually use it, still not sure if i will, but when my website is finished, i'm going to try a more "professional" approach to blogging, by starting a new one, that doesn't involve me writing things on it when i'm drunk or pissed off at a guy. i also got a new scanner, and i'm ready to try it on like a new pair of... skinny jeans...? are skinny jeans uncool yet? are we back to bell-bottoms now? i'm so confused.

i can't be bothered to write about anything i've been working on (or will be devoting time to), because then i might get a false sense of completion or satisfaction, and that's just awful. so i'll just upload some artsy crap shortly. things are looking up. my drawing has been improving, my writing (blogging notwithstanding) has been improving, my layouts have been improving, hell maybe even my looks have been improving (except for this "morning 'under the nose' dryness" i've been experiencing.... fucking winter).

to contradict what i just wrote, (for the people who actually read the few i posted). i'm doing more of the comics i did with the ambiguous title "the list" seen here, and i'm trying to shift my focus from being entirely auto-bio (which i'm beginning to realize doesn't mean "YOUR LIFE STORY... no seriously, every corn flake, every snow flake, every skin flake" but means "edit for funny/deeply tragic moments... no fuckin' backstory - rewrite if necessary") to a lot of fiction. i'm actually becoming insanely excited about the one i'm doing for class, and can't WAIT til it's done. it's going to be 22 pages (as per instructors teaching).

i've had all these links to post on here, but trying to decipher my bookmarks bar is torture, so i'll just post the ones i can currently think of.
the french are totally on it right now with the advertisements:
this KIT-KAT commercial is so amazing, i actually went out and totally bought one after (and then i remembered how much i don't really like them. but i kind of liked the strawberry ones. are those still around?) i can't even believe this is an ad.
SO GOOD
AND BY THE LOOKS OF IT, it's to be... CONTINUED.

and the one for ORANGINA... new respect here. never again will i pronounce it like it's a bottle of fruity genitals.
you can watch it in its lower quality below (youtube) or the actual website which is SO much better.

I ordered "madame tutli-putli" off the nfb website (it's one of the oscar noms). i can't wait. it's 17 minutes long. i used my work visa gift card. i knew there was a reason i hadn't been buying my weekend lunch burgers with it. MY FIRST ONLINE PURCHASE.

oh and i was doing a little research on some animators i like, and i came across michael patterson's (aha video, and paula abdul video) student animation "commuter" (1981). i can't figure out how to embed it, so here's the link:
COMMUTER

Ralph Bakshi's book UNFILTERED comes out in a couple months. I'm really on the fence about him. On the one hand i LOVE the animation and characters and TOTALLY love PARTS of his movies. but i never seem to love his movies as a whole, like i more or less just want to condense and watch. i will probably buy it if i have any money lying around, because i find his concepts and his view on animation extremely interesting and relevant.

i finally joined a gym... at the dufferin mall of all places. i want to be able to snap someones neck with my thighs in exactly one month time.

i went to see CLOVERFIELD on opening night (SPOILER!!!!). i really really really wanted to like it (the same thing happened to me with art school confidential). and it's not even like i disliked it. i found the intro to all the characters really engaging, and the commentary of hud the cameraman enjoyable and relatable. but there was something that just fell flat and failed to really hook me/frighten me in all of the events in the middle. i realize that they were trying to capture this like "essence of reality - panicked city; a view from a desperate civilian in love" - but a movie is still a movie, and i want to taste some fuckin' meat in my sandwich. if it ended with them in the helicopter - as the "beast"(?) bites into it, it would've been so much better. but it just went ON... and ON... and ON. the ending was so fucking bad, i was embarassed. like i WANTED them to die. even if it had stopped with them surviving the helicopter (which was SO far-fetched as it was) it should've ended when the mega-dino-zilla saw them. NOT UNDER A BRIDGE WITH A CRY-BABY EMO MOMENT. i'm not saying don't see it if you haven't. it just felt contrived in the 'hey this is what would really happen/how people would behave' scenes.... also take note, i'm in no way a film critic or a writing critic and one of my favourite movies is sleepaway camp. so you be the judge. now go spend your money.

i'm at my parents place tonight, and they're repainting the upstairs, so i'm exiled to my moms "office". i'm SO hungry, but i think my dad's watching a softcore porn in the living room (i keep seeing clips of ambient skin through the glass doors) and i might have to chew my own arm off before i can get to the kitchen.

uggg...

THE END.

thar she blows

2007-12-17T15:19:00.000-05:00

still not sure how i feel about this
but i have hope

WATCHMEN

my stomach has been killing for days now. i haven't really had any appetite at all. i think i have an ulcer, i hope it goes away. i feel better, but yeah. anything that might interfere with my holiday binge-drinking; not cool.
it was nice to see my brother back from new zealand, i wish he would've stayed there though.... you know, so i could go stay with him for free, being family and all.

lying in bed watching x-files and cutting out pictures for my comic journal thing for class.
very relaxing.

god this blog blows now.
hopefully all the christmas presents i want to make (due to cheapness) will be done in time.

you're so hot, you're making me a sexist

2007-10-24T11:58:00.000-05:00

i've had these like stupid youtubey things to post for a while now, but i keep waiting til i have a proper post to upload them... well since that's taken me a while, i've forgotten all but one. and that's because of the haunting meoldy that charmed my icy heart.
ricky gervais was actually
TOTALLY
FUCKING
HOT
wouldn't you totally hit that???

can you even believe it???
i mean, now, he's like all chubby and loveable, but who would've thought like 20 years ago he'd be someone that could inspire pants-throbbing and crotch gesticulation.

anyway, i keep spending way too much at wal-mart on "necessities". it's kind of annoying. can i also mention how ridiculous they are, that 2 times since i moved to this area (may) i've been in there and bought an R rated movie. ok. both times i've gotten ID'd with the ladies refusing me until i showed them.... i'm sorry but since when did i start looking 17? like i snuck out and want to buy a scary movie without my parents knowledge? give me a fucking break. exercise what little power you have old bag!
i also need to find a way to stop drinking pop. it's like, i never had this problem until recently. i feel like my body is 50% dr pepper. but i mean, since it has dr in the title, shouldn't that mean it's healthy?

my family is coming down today. my brother is MOVING to new zealand in a week. i'm really excited for him, but also sad. mostly because i miss my friends there. hahaha. check out this awesome poster my friend HADLEY did. i'm not really into the gossip anymore, but nice posterrrrr.

i'll update something of my own in the next couple days, although i wouldn't hold my breath... unless it's bad.

... oh, and now i can hear one of the whores upstairs yelling at her slimeball boyfriend, which means i'm sure in an hour i'll hear sobbing and some more jann arden playing. the next time that happens i'm going to sing along really loudly and mock sob at her... guys.... my street justice bone is getting itchy. someone better soothe it before i take matters into my own hands!!!!

yabba dabba die

2007-10-16T15:39:00.000-05:00

a friend sent me this link and i almost croaked.
HYUNGKOO LEE
his work is SO FUCKING AMAZING
this guy makes cartoon animal bones!
out of resin and aluminum

look! roadrunner and coyote!

he also does these lovely studies of them.

i was going to do my skeletons for class really basic, but now i want to make them sort of inspired and careful and beautiful like these. although i'm sure the closest i'll come is "paper only half destroyed by eraser", "a muddy mix of abstraction and representation" or "i think this thing might be dead".

this guy has totally changed my perspective on bones. i now find them exciting.
(well i mean i always found some bones exciting, but that kind doesn't stay still for very long).

i also found these on his site by accident

hot spot, wet spot, liver spot, sex pots, metal pots, pock marks, head starts.

2007-10-14T19:58:00.000-05:00

sometimes i like to google myself.
i found out a Neptune Moon is named Larissa. i would imagine i'm more of a star, but from what i can tell moons are rarer. so there. i may eventually impact neptunes atmosphere. i was also a lover of Poseidon in greek mythology. which is really the hottest god to me. i mean, he's basically the alpha-merman. king of the sea. imagine you could have sex like a dolphin. hey did you know dolphins are the only mammal besides humans that gang-rape it's females. just some trivia.
here i am!

i'm not so hot on my last name (sorry dad) it's just really boring. so i had to reaffirm that it was okay by looking up others with the same surname. so i'm ok with it now. there's dylan thomas, isiah thomas (american boxer), linn thomas ("american exotic model"), and roy thomas (comic book writer/editor and stan lee's successor as editor-in-chief at Marvel).
i don't exactly know what this proves.

this weekend i got loafed on by a bird, stuck my hand in battery acid and saw COREY HAIM (christ, no need to convince me of the perils of cocaine abuse) on queen street.
do you remember him? of course you do. because 80s nostalgia is just so fucking trendy. i did a speech on him when i was in school in new zealand (2001)... i think i was supposed to pick something fashion related, but nevertheless... i did it on corey haim and corey feldman, and entitled it "THE COREYS: 80s FAME TO 90s SHAME". and i think the only person in the class that actually enjoyed my powerpoint presentation of nude movie stills, and out of context quotes was my teacher, rachel, who always brought harlequin romance novels to class. i wish i got my speech back, cuz it was actually really funny.

i have so much god damned homework right now. if i thought somehow burying myself under an avalanche of booze, boys and books would help i would so go scream at the bottom of a snowy orgied peak... but yeah... i'm FUCKED. i'm at that point where i'm so overwhelmed that i actually am too frozen to even begin...
ah... baby steps.
i'm so looking forward to reading week, even though it's actually going to be homework week. there will be a lot of drinking and crying happening. i also get to see my brother off (hopefully) before he moves to new zealand to work at some company for my moms friend. i'm really excited for him... aaaand awesome awesome becca got me a free pass to see MULBERRY STREET at the after dark film fest. GOD I LOVE HORROR.

i really want to learn more about the genre. i want to learn how to write for comics and stories and film even in that specific genre, i'm just not sure how one does that. i guess studying specific films and novels maybe. another thing to add to my to do list. christ it's long. there's not enough hours in the day.

there's a PLANET AID donation bin at the GOODYEAR at dundas and dufferin now. so if you have clothes to donate you should. i used to work at the one on yonge, and i know for a fact the underloved, undersexed and the very willing to show newly transitional appendages transvestites that shop there would absolutely love any black crocheted vests, pvc thigh-highs or hot pink booty shorts you may have.

i wish that i had someone to make me eat sensibly. i've stopped eating mcdonalds and taco bell. i'm actually slowly going off meat again... it just tastes like total fucking crap to me these days, and i have no clue why (with the exception of pepperoni on pizza) it smells and tastes like skin sewage. but cheese always seems to be on sale, so i've been buying those huge marble bricks that give me total acne face. and then cutting huge chunks and letting them melt into oily slicks on my tomato or fiesta vegetable soup... it tastes SO FUCKING GOOD.

photos.

one of these racks is not like the other, one of these racks just doesn't belong

anyway, i still really want to have a ouija board party.
i don't know if it's the worst idea EVER. but i want to do something totally haunting around halloween. i really want to get in the spirit, so to speak.
everyone HAS to get high (and trust me, i get high maybe once every 3 years, because it freaks me out so much, i can feel every vein and organ and muscle matter... SCARY), everyone MUST participate... in the ouija boarding, and the seance... i think everyone should pick a specific person to contact. i'm going to look into how to do it. i want to set up a videocamera to record any paranormal activity, should it occur. i'm not sure more than a small handful of people would think this is actually a "good" idea, but that's allllll you need. i also don't really know if i want it done at my place, because i'm convinced i used to suffer from some kind of parasomnia, and i could swear i was haunted by an incubus. (or i just have a really vivid imagination).

BOO!

isn't that right hostess judy

2007-10-08T02:02:00.000-05:00

i would just wait to update but i felt in keeping with the spirit of blogs, i had to post my celebrity sighting.
on my break, when i went to get food today, i saw jude law on the street corner (queen + bathurst aka injun' crossing). and i contemplated being a total jerk and running out screaming "JUDE! JUDE! SIGN MY TITTY" but i was too hungover. so instead i phoned work, and edgar waited motionless in the window to take a photo of him when he walked by. haha. in movies he's hot in a charmingly boyish kind of way, but in person he looks like a stylish euro-rapist.
UPDATE!!! here's the photo! doesn't it look like he's having a heart attack?!?!

and apparently paris hilton came in this week and bought $600 worth of paint. god fucking knows what creative genius would spew forth from her nimble fingers. i can't imagine anything besides paintings of landscapes with chihuahuas or paintings of herself doing some kind of cutesy pose in a landscape holding chihuahuas.

i decided to go wild with laura last night, since i haven't for a while. bad idea. we ended up narrowing our choices down to a drag show or the boat (haven't been there in 2 years) but ended up in a reggae bar. it was... an experience.

after work i just felt like chilling and drawing. i've decided before i start doing the animation i'm doing the music for, a good exercise would be to try and do some for songs i already know and like. i'm doing this in a loose, gestural style sort of like a more fleshed-out animatic. i know exactly what song i'm doing first, cuz whenever i'd listen to it, i'd always picture it with a completely animated video anyway. here's some roughs i just did randomly when trying to think of what one of sub-characters would look like.

no clue as to how i'll get it on my computer after it's all drawn and coloured. my scanner is a hunk of junk, my camera doesn't really work now... and it's looking like creative suite will take 2 weeks to download, but that's okay because i won't have the drawings finished for 2 or 3 weeks anyway.

i forgot to post this before, so when i was looking up information on eli roth's new in the works movie (an adaptation from a stephen king novel) "CELL", which is based on the theory that bees are being fast killed by cellphone waves... and somehow this creates zombies... of course. i decided to look into it futher. "The alarming decline in bee populations across the United States and Europe represents a potential ecological apocalypse, an environmental catastrophe that could collapse the food chain and wipe out humanity".
apparently the cellphone theory has been disproved, but it's true, bees all over the world are dropping dead rapidly (in some places in the states and europe up to 80%). and einstein proved that as soon as bees are gone, the human race has exactly 4 years to live. there is speculation that it's caused by a simultaneous accumulation of bee diseases (many were found dead with systems full of fungi), mites from asia, pesticides, new toxins introduced to bees through genetically modified food, or through the g-m insect-resistant genes. i don't even understand the practical application of modifying food in any place that isn't 3rd world country. but for the most part scientists are drawing a huge blank as to why this is happening. guys wtf? why can't people stop fucking with nature. when all is said and done, sometimes i truly think i want to move away to some secluded well-wooded area on a mountain with a hot guy and some friends, and a reservoir that naturally ferments itself into alcohol, and just prepare for the worst. if it isn't smog or global warming, it's going to be toxicity levels, deep-sea pollution or dead bees, bombs, diseases... it's all a bit much sometimes.

it's just a crime of passion baby, don't hold it against me

2007-10-06T00:02:00.000-05:00

i'm not really sure how to update this anymore,
i don't have any exciting photos, and i haven't scanned any school work on my tiny shitbag 2-in-1.
so what have i been doing? i don't know, i think i regularly sleep 5 hours a night at most. i'm not sure if this is how second year is sposed to be, or if i'm just terrrrible at time management. nevertheless, i'm enjoying the work, i'm enjoying being so busy i have nothing else to worry about other than "is this compositionally sound? how could i better move the eye around the page? am i awake or sleeping? have i pissed my bed? are these heart palpatations normal? what happens when your blood-caffiene level reaches 5 times the legal limit?" - which is a welcome change from the ridiculous things i worry about usually. although it has done nothing to change the fact that i feel like i haven't been laid in months (which i guess is because i haven't), it's so fucking aggravating. like i don't even want some annoying boyfriend. when are the god damn japanese going to come out with a cheap, effective, totally marketable to the general public sex doll?... or something resembling the hot and sometimes dead dad from SUPERNATURAL

...ummmmm...
whatever.

god, you know what i'm talking about. i know there's a time frame when you get over it, and just sort of accept the fact that sex isn't a guaranteed thing, and by that time it's really easy to discern who's disgusting and boring and lame, because rejection, rationale and sobriety make you really choosy again... but i'm not there yet. i'm at the "wow, everyones attractive" phase... you know "look at how that coarse hair swirls around that large pink nipple like an asteroid belt, and it's whispering 'come with me into the universe, let me show you how loving our nourishing nothingness can be', or... wow... look that guy has jeans on... with a fly... oh man... there's something TOTALLY under that fly that i could have sex with!!!!" I JUST WANT TO BE TOUCHED! in a hygienic, sterile, non-committal yet extremely passionate fashion.
seriously, donate to my rubber-friend foundation. all forms of payment acceptable.

i thought about going out tonight, but then i started reading a bit, tried to pop a zit, ate a popsicle and lay around drinking the other half of a bottle of some cheap red (good for circulation guys). and began drawing. i've had all sorts of ideas for a short-ish animation to work on, in life drawing the other day it all seemed to come together in my head, so that's what i feel like doing in my free time now, as opposed to attempted home-wrecking. i'm also making the "score" (HAHA!) for it in garageband. no clue what i'm going to do it on, in or anything. it'll probably turn out to be a total shit waste of time, but i spose it can't be any worse than any of my other wastes of time. such as watching HEROES... which i'm really excited to see back on. eli roth is directing an episode, so you know it's going to be suhhh-weet.

i went to union station by myself to draw on monday, it's nowhere near as fun as going with other people, and i felt really on edge, but then there's always at least one horrendous gem that stands totally still for at least 15 seconds. i've thought about going and having a pint or whatever at bars near here to draw, i just don't want some creepo portuguese man trying to paw at my luscious youth and delectable scent. maybe i'll go to yorkville and get bought chocolate martinis by rich business men with casual comb-backs.

i tried learning some dutch this week over podcasts, while doing homework (that being because i wanted to learn one of my two "native" tongues, the other being italian) and well... ew. giving up on that one pretty quickly. anything that sounds like what i do in the morning shower in the dead of winter... i don't think that's going to get me put into the "hot hot hot" category any time soon... guess the aryan fantasy will have to be put on the backburner for now.

seeing as how i bought the BLACKSAD comics 1 and 2, and they both happen to be in spanish (don't ask) i've decided i'll learn that. for a while i used to get spanish sub-titles (always on when leno was on, not that i watch leno) and i realized it would probably be kind of easy to learn. so that's going to be my new podcast conquest (p/s - podcasts are going to save my life this year, i can feel it). anyway it has some really beautiful drawings in it... i kind of told one of the guys at silversnail when i was overly excited to see it on the shelves that when i first saw the art i loved it so much i wanted to punch/beat the book i was driven so wild... or something graphic and sexually violent... kind of embarassed to go back now, i know how creepy customer comments get circulated.

ainslie (and schoolmates) is (are) working on a documentary for her (their) end of semester project. it's about fan fiction/art and its' subculture... which just rules so hard. i wish carolyn and i (CAROLYN!!!!!!) would have gotten our buffy comic done now... i think ainslie got in touch with people at SPACE. oh how i miss satellite. anyway, i'm going to do the art for it... "art".... ha... the lettering for the intro "THE ART OF FANDOM" and without giving anything away, other drawings. probably in black and white... and i'm intent on finding a way to sneak in my own likeness.

still haven't gone to see resident evil 2 yet.
i finally found the PERFECT womans deodorant. for a long time i wore guys ones, because all the baby-scenty stuff makes me nauseous. it's the perfect smell. i won't tell you what it is of course, but it's what sweat dreams are made of.

i think lindsay lohan is some kind of amphibian.
it all makes sense, just look at her, look at that skin.
i bet when she dies she'll naturally pickle and you'll be able to find her in a trinket store like one of those cane toad australian coin purses.

ahhh this post felt really good.

oh and i'm stealing charlene's ideas of using tags, i don't know what they do, but they look fun.

SUCCESS!!!!!

2007-09-22T19:16:00.000-05:00

since the beginning of the summer i've had this song STUCK in my head,
but for the life of me, i couldn't remember the lyrics, so whenever i'd get really drunk i'd start reciting
BEE BOH BOAH BYE EEY AYE EEY AYYYEE
ALL SUMMER this was stuck in my head and driving me nuts (weirdly enough cuz i'm pretty sure it was a mid 90s song). usually when you get a song stuck in your head you don't know you can lyric search it, but how the hell do you search "bee bop bideeayayaya" or whatever?
a little while ago andre started playing it at parties (my sister told me for me, but i don't know about that, ha), and so i'd be like wooo! SHAKEY SHAKE IT! but always too drunk to remember any key words (and always forget to ask him the song name soberly). but JUST NOW as i'm lying on my bed checking my messages, and yelling into laura's room, some scrub drove by blaring it and i caught the words "through my miiiiiiiind".
so i finallllly found it

THE BOMB - THE BUCKETHEADS

i like how they clearly HAD to insert the lyrics part way through so people wouldn't be like "what???"

apparently i'm not the only one to mistake the lyrics in this song, i also found this on the internet:

ACTUAL LYRICS:
These sounds fall into my mind.

COMMON MISHEARD LYRICS:
Pizza swirling through my pants.
Peas, pies, burgers, chips and rice.
Cheese fries boogie in my mind.
Each time boogie to my mind.
Squeeze black pudding through my eyes.
This cheese blows my mind.
Fifan sucker took my mind.
Tea towels runnin' through my mi-i-imind.
Please no pudding in my pie.
Cheese style's runnin' through my mind.
Beans on toast, you blow my mi-e-i-e-ind.
Beantown boogie to my ma-aa-an.
Beantown, put it in my eye.
My p**** is swollen all the time.
Peace signs swirling through my mind.
Cheese clowns dancing on 'The Grind'.
Pizza push it up my thigh.

AHAHAHHA what a delight.
and i can totally see how you would hear any and all of those lyrics, and i love how so many of them are food-related.

man if i ever write a song, it's gotta be like that.
its kind of like a musical rorschach test.
a)
b)
c)

a)i see the face of a snarling, ready to pounce wolverine/wild dog.... but then when i looked at it again, i saw two winged pigs flying upwards trying to pull a missile.
b)i see two fat kids reachiing up to fight for food at a table.
***didn't realize it til later, the second one is actually the first one inverted.
c)i don't know that i should actually post what i see on this one... but it looks like someone REALLY sat on that photocopier at an inappropriate time of the month

whatchoo see?

wearing a bra changed my world

2007-09-20T15:58:00.000-05:00

i don't really feel like digging deep for this entry, i just felt like updating
i finally have a computer as of today, after having to scam off my sisters old one, and then when that conked, sneaking to use her new one, so yeah... finally after like what? a year and a half or something.
it's awesome. my own desktop background!!! download all the porn i want!!! all the music i want!!! watch dvds in THE PRIVACY OF MY OWN ROOM! and finally maybe get some kind of website on the move... and... animations!!!!
even though i'm not in the animation program technically, i bought a used animation table w/lights/disk/peg, etc for cheap off this guy that went to my school that's moving to china or something.
so here are some things to look at, which you should.

trailers i found for animations showing at the festival this weekend, next year i am SO going, even if it involves getting on a bus alone and sleeping at a hostel where i'll catch crabs... in fact, i'd take preventative measures by waxing and rubbing on whatever it is you rub on
a trailer for ARK

preview for "la ballade des enfarines"... this is actually quite depressing, this girl (julie rocheleau) is from montreal and is a year younger than me... oh god... ok moving on

here is a japanese animation i found randomly on youtube, man i totally hate youtube quality everything
UGOKIE-KO-RI-NO-TATEHIKI(1933)
Ikuo Oishi

now i have to tear myself away to do some layout/composition homework, i actually really want to do, but god dammit, why didn't i do this on the weekend? you guys, whoever "you guys" means, won't be seeing much of me til christmas. and by then i'll be superfat, because laura just started her job at Dufflets.. and she gets lots of freebies... oh god... so fat.
also as a sidenote, i have ty templeton for one class a week, and he's SUCH A GOOD FUCKING TEACHER. so if anyone has any friends or anything that just offhandedly want to take a comicbook class or whatever, he does weeknight classes for part-timers. it would be so worth your while. mark lent me a couple of justice league's he pencilled for, but i haven't had a chance to look at them fully.

oh... screw this, i just phoned hmv, death proof is only 23.99$, i totally already bought groceries this week... hello dufferin mall! goodbye homework! (just kidding i'll do my homework while i watch it!)

i can't wait for planet terror!

today is september 11th

2007-09-11T10:10:00.000-05:00

do you ever have something (within your personality) that's been turned on so long, you actually can't turn it off, and in fact as time goes on, the knob that controls it (if anything does) seems to be slowly cranking it louder and louder, to a deafening volume... that's how i kind of have been feeling lately.
powerless to just stop myself from being me, and doing and saying exactly what i feel like in the moments that they happen.
i'm not sure if it's a good or bad thing, so i'm just sort of trying to ride it out.
god, could i be any cheesier.
school has me so psyched right now. last year i felt as though i was totally drowning. and this year even though it's only day 2, i just feel SO excited. i've never felt this way before about school. i just feel so thirsty to know everything i can, that's going to make me able to better express myself and create everything i want to create. such a good feeling.

nick had his art show, friday night, oh wow, it was so awesome. his art just keeps getting better and better, and i'm really proud of him. and as usual, my photos do no justice to anyones artwork, but nevertheless i'm posting them. the show is still on at LE GALLERY you should go (dundas, just west of ossington).
in keeping with my proudness post, i'm also really proud of my friend andrew. i should never have doubted his musical talent, his band DAWN OF HUMANS was really good, when i saw them like a week or so ago. really awesome. in fact, i'm also proud of my other friend nick! haha! so much pride! he's been making remixes of songs, and they are REALLY GOOD! oh and i'm so happy that laura moved in. i fucking love her. i wasn't sure if i could live with a good friend again after attempting and miserably failing with that not so long ago, but it's going really well, and i'm just yeah... happy. hey guys, whats going on? do i sound like i'm on ecstacy??? jesus. i'm just a lot happier these days, than i have been in a really long time.

i get my new computer tomorrow or thursday i think (depends on my student discount situation... man do i want that free ipod)
so here's nick's show (the paintings are his)
the sculptures are julie moons. i especially liked these first 2. they reminded me of jessica rabbit lips, and anything roger rabbit is fuckin sweet.

this was from our sushi-warming. it wasn't a party, although at one point we had quite a few people, it was all really good people. some people i would've liked to have over couldn't come, but all in all, it was pretty much my favourite people. it also renewed my faith, that not everyone is concerned with going to stuff with the most currently cool djs, where they're going to get photographed, or how much free coke they can score. i'm surrounded by good people... i know i made an ass of myself that night, but i know that no one that was there gives a shit, and loves me for it.
i also got to hang out with people i haven't hung out with in a really long time, like ronny and colin.
besides our sushi, which was saved by frank's genius sushi knowledge (... and pretty much all made by frank, i was totally useless, oh frank, thank you thank you) and edgar generously has given us his rice-cooker, sam made some SO GOOD dips aaargggh *dribble* and naomi brought some good cupcakes.
as per usual i got too drunk to keep taking photos, but i kind of ruined my camera by submerging it in smuggled wine on friday anyway... no more zoom function... i might go take it in to get fixed if i can... such an idiot.
unfortunately rachel wu will murder me if i post her hot upskirt photo... so you guys are missing out

i went to the beaver last night, because paul julien was djing, i ran into him a short while ago, and i really wanted to hang out with him. he played old-timey awesome stuff, that you don't ever hear in toronto. he's moving to BC with a girl he fell in love with a couple weeks ago. i'm really in awe and kind of jealous that he lives his life like that, he has since i've met him. just really passionately, i guess in a way i'm kind of unpredictable and spontaneous, but not with matters of the heart, i protect it like a crown jewel or some shit. but even if i didn't, there hasn't been anyone really that's even come close to inspiring me just to pack up my shit and leave town, and i hope i experience that before i'm too old to really enjoy it (but not til i'm done school... haha).

well guys now party-time summers over, and it's time to calm down, i better find a boyfriend to quell my raging libido during those long cold homework nights (just kidding... heh... not really)

when bad touching becomes good touching

2007-09-05T12:35:00.001-05:00

yep, totally keeping this impersonal, trying hard to keep this impersonal, since august something 2007

oh, but on a slightly personal note, i think i'm psychic, i mean i've always kind of thought i had an alluring mystical quality about myself, but now i have proof!!!! haha
i had a dream last night about someone, kind of random, that they were in a car that exploded and they were set on fire and died. so i emailed him, cuz i was kind of scared he did die, he wrote back, weirdly enough, that last night he had been ultra sick with a major fever and the sweats.
I AM PSYCHIC! BOW TO ME YOU MERE PLEBIANS!!!! (or else i have an evil gift, a very evil gift, i need to harness to destroy my enemies)

moving along
excited to be back in school, and was so excited got insanely drunk with my classmates (CELEBRATION!) but today i'm feeling the horrors of drinking tap beer, supposed to go draw animals, i don't think it's mandatory, but i'm scared to leave my bathroom for longer than an hour.
anyway, photos
at char's

and you guys thought thongs were hot
granny panties are so this season

even though she got punched in the face, she's still hotter than you, feel it feel it

and now here are photos i totally stole off laura's facebook, all of them, til the end of this post
our JOE MATT stalk-files

breakfast at sunset grill. there were so many fucking wasps, but look! one wanted my food so badly, i really fed it that sausage, yeah drown in that maple syrup you tiny pointy piece of shit!
YOU WANT IT!!! YOU GOT IT!!!! YAAARRRRGGGGG!!!!
(i really hate wasps)

ok... going to try and pull myself together, and i think go with oliver to see if BMV has any of the books we need, but cheaper.

when the morgue gets warm

2007-08-27T01:54:00.000-05:00

goodbye sherri, we're gonna miss you
hello laura, i'm gonna kiss you
when you move in tomorrow

this weekend was FAN EXPO
which for the most part, man, i wish i had a better camera - because the FREAKS WERE IN FULL EFFECT!!! holy shit! it was AMAZING. girls being pulled around on leashes! half-naked horny nerds. SO MANY MANGA FREAKS!!! manga-wigs... everything. where do these people get this shit??? i don't get it, i just don't get the whole manga thing, and god dammit, i never will.
i volunteered at the RUE MORGUE booth, which was awesome (thank you becca).

and i went to see DEMONS 2 (argento 1987) on friday night with laura (ALSO AWESOME).
when i was looking on youtube for a DEMONS 2 trailer, i found this instead, seriously, watch it... ITS HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!
YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS your life will be richer for it. trust me. brings new meaning to the term lipstick lesbian.
and if it even matters, i totally recognize her from an episode of 21 jump street, where she plays a 'roid-addicted gymnast.
NIGHT OF THE DEMONS 2 i need to own this movie at all costs.

before demons 2, they had a trailer for this argento movie, which i need to find
SUSPIRIA (1977)
so hysterical
(you can't tell in the small youtube version, but the title name is actually written in like veiny throbbing skin)

photos!
the coolest part of fan expo was definitely the horror stuff. i'm definitely into horror everything (well... movies and books), but i'm not even remotely close to being an afficianado, i own what i own, i like what i like, but i'm not like an active horror fan... i used to be REALLY into horror novels and stories, which was more accessible to me as a youngster (than movies - i remember having nightmares after watching cujo and IT for the first time in grade 6?), but this whole weekend made me kind of want to become more versed, learn up on some things.
here are some photos

MALCOLM MCDOWELL!!!!
check out his shiny head. remember how hot he was in CLOCKWORK ORANGE?

CHARISMA CARPENTER!!!!
yaya!!!!! (cordelia on BUFFY!!!)
and in keeping with my retarded star-struckedness last week, i got to butt in line to "meet" (ie: say something short to... seriously that bitch was just pumpin out the autographs, no photos with fans!) her, and i just screamed "I LOVE YOU!" and scampered off, then snuck back to try and get a photo.
WAY HOTTER IN PERSON. HOTTER WITH AGE. HOTT.

who loves GWAR?! who loves ass?!

i gotta hand it to these 3, they had impressive costumes

edgars bday, and of course as usual, once the party actually gets started, i never take photos (too drunk)

and then i tried to get some photos for a series i'd like to call "UP-SKIRT: party violation"
but none of them really worked

i went to see SPEAK OF THE DEAD tonight with andrew c
it was this thing at the bloor on GEORGE ROMERO
(sidenote: i was an extra on LAND OF THE DEAD... SWEET)
and it was showing part of the documentary being done on his career/life, preview of his new movie that will be at TIFF this year (so going! now i have a friend to go with to these things!) and a q + a session with him.

i left with a huge smile, feeling really inspired. i used to write scary stories and stuff all the time when i was younger (i remember in grade 8, writing at least 15 pages on a computer of this horror "novel" i was crafting... haha)

...
decided to go through my blog and delete a whole bunch of personal bordering on emo posts. no more of that!

daylight come and me wan' go home

2007-08-23T15:57:00.000-05:00

wow
summer is pretty much over now.
on the one hand i'm like NOOOOOOO sweet sweet freedom and bike-riding
on the other hand my room will stop being an oven, i'll be getting a computer and i'm SO excited for this year of school
i am psyched for EVERY SINGLE CLASS (last year... well last year, was foundationy stuff, which i for the most part struggled with, mainly because i'm not really into representational anything... yes yes, although learned a lot, useful things were learned)
BUT this coming semester i have drawing heads + features (UGGG@!!! YESSS!!!), cartooning, comic book layout + composition inking, backgrounds etc, cinematic storytelling... and well life drawing, etc. YESSSSSSS.
i'm also not going to wastrel around on my breaks this year, i spent too much money on vending machine crap and just chit-chatting, i'm all about getting down to business now.
i'm not sure who all is teaching it, i think maaaybe richard pace, who i really liked having last year, and maybe ty templeton? i know bojan redzic is, and i think he totally rules. he's such a hard-ass and he scares a lot of people, but he's actually really fucking hilarious, and his drawings are INSANE.

i'm volunteering at rue morgue tomorrow and part of saturday, i wanted to do sunday too, but then andrew got fired, so i can't. i'm looking forward to maybe getting to watch some awesome horror movies and stuff.

i realllllly want to go to THIS
just not sure how i'd get there or how i'd pay to get there, or where i'd stay

i'm going to post the joe matt stalking photos when laura moves in (monday) cuz they're on her camera... yeahhh.... it's not a good idea to get really trashed in the general vicinity of people you like admire and shit... because hearing "OOOHHmmmgshhh my ghosshshh i luuuurrvvvv youuuuuu" is only maybe flattering once or twice... not 8000 times. i don't think i'll elaborate any further.

here's some of my comic scores
i really liked the drawings in CORPSE (zach worton) and i wish i would've gotten more

this one is THE BEAST MOTHER
which you can get here
it was only $5, and just the cover alone was enough to sell me, the drawings and story were really cool too

ben's bday at the redroom

ooh look, i seem to have found another mirror

secret shots of southern comfort out of empty creamers... uhh... happy birthday ben, i'm too cheap to buy you bar beer

and to end this post with another NICK SNACK sighting
how exciting

actually that wasn't the end... this is.
mmm peter chung, so amazing (aeon flux).
found these ads he did (for a burger place?)
definitely not as into this style (because it's really computerized?) but i still appreciate it... yeah, a lot.

and then i found this one randomly... it's so sad, i don't think i can actually watch it again, but you should

double penetration

2007-08-19T02:59:00.000-05:00

i realized i haven't updated for 10 or 11 days, which is kind of irregular of me (i think?)
and i don't even have many photos

i've been busy pulling out all the last minute stops to finish me and nick aoki's comic DOUBLE PENETRATION (also with a comic from edgar - a star wars *starring daft punk* version of the ARISTOCRATS... haha)
i think it ended up being 40 or so pages... so many problems... oh... so... many problems
nick's stuff looks really nice, my stuff looks totally shitty, and after we made it i wanted to rip it to shreds, but that's ok. i actually ended up barfing the night before i was so anxious. one day i'll look back on it, with a ... grimace. i keep going back and forth on the "oh god people are going to think i'm the hugest loser, i can't believe i wrote that" vs "i don't care what anyone thinks, i'll write and draw what i want, how i want, i rule, and they can all suckit" front.
TCAF: we sold out today, so we had to print more tonight (but instead of using the nice glossy paper nicks dad gave him we had to use regular printer paper... bleh), which kaboshed my plans of all-night party celebrations.

i saw some awesome comics today, but am waiting til tomorrow to buy anything. i like chris kuzma's work a lot, so i'll buy his, not sure who elses. money and me aren't so friendly with each other these days.
i'll upload some (good quality!!!!) scans of the comic this week
i'm really excited to do our next issue (triple penetration?), i want to start working out some things tomorrow, and draw some ones i had wanted finished for this issue. i don't know how many people will end up reading it, but i'm kind of more doing it for myself anyway.

i also embarassed myself really badly in front of chester brown, which was kind of a bummer. he was standing at our table and i yelled at him that i loved him, and he just kind of stared at me with disinterested fright (and possibly recoiled when i touched his hand to shake it). i was going to go get my copy of the little man signed (which also has "the little man" comic in it, which is the fucking funniest thing ever) and my friend joe's ed the happy clown which i never gave back to him from like 2 and a half years ago (and i thought it would be cool to get it signed to him and then give it back) but now i'm too embarassed. i might go get one signed by joe matt though. me and laura talked about getting stuff signed together, but we're both worried they'll be all "oh, well THAT's in good condition... NEWBIE" or "jesus christ, they obviously don't respect my work, check out the shit they put this book through"... even though we both know that's fucking ridiculous and they don't give a shit.
that whole scene makes me really uncomfortable. i think because half of the comics i like to read are autobiographical, or thinly veiled autobiographical, you feel as though you KNOW the artist/author... i don't know... and so many of the people are awkward, and even having people look at this stuff you put all this energy into and either just put it down or pay you for it... it's werid... this is really just late-night rambling.

photos.
work in progress... nick has better photos on his phone, but can't figure out how to upload them

laura's bday at unit

TCAF
(only one of those things are mine - the rest are from steven and jacob and nick, it was really nice of them to let me sit at their table)

i'm going to take photos tomorrow
i think the FULL THROTTLE effect has finally worn off and i can now pass out

two for one

2007-08-08T01:01:00.000-05:00

robert crumb explains THE BEAN EFFECT

INVISIBLE HANDS (richard sala)

WINTER STEELE

JAPANESE SPIDERMAN

i got in a non-argument with nick a this weekend over whether or not WINSOR MCCAY was also an animator (besides being a cartoonist - which he was really great at) - and i said yes he was, because i remember having to watch that fucking GERTIE THE DINOSAUR video, what seemed like 20 times
so i went on youtube to see what i could dig up, and i forgot about THIS hilaaarious (whether or not it's sposed to be) animation he did,
THE CENTAURS (1921)
(notice the baby at the end looks like bobby hill)

DOG BOY (based on CHARLES BURNS character) for LIQUID TELEVISION (aka amazzzzing television)

watched SUNSHINE... i dunno wasn't too blown away, i guess i was expecting more from it considering 28 days later and trainspotting i've watched a hundred times over each, it wasn't like excrutiatingly awful it just wasn't... good
i also vicariously watched 300, because my dad had it cranked downstairs (yup still here) and it sounded just as cheesy as i thought it would be

although i know this would've come out ages ago, i loved the INCREDIBLES, so this was a spontaneous part of my bday present

he puffs out his chest and EVERYTHING

laura gave me explicit instructions to get comics with her bday money, so i got
THE QUITTER (Harvey Pekar)... i almost bought a zombie comic, but this type always wins out

any time i have money now, i can't stop spending on discounted comics
but some of them are so amazing

like this one, VALKYRIE (no affiliation with tom cruise) which was published by ECLIPSE, and is no longer in print, so scoring them in their full 3 part, i was psyched - it's about an ex-nazi renegade pilot transported 40 years into the future, turned supermodel caught for her war crimes - the ones she did not commit... hilarious right.

the art is by PAUL GULACY and it's just funny because i was freaking out over how much i liked his drawings, so i went on his website and realized i actually was an unconscious fan already, buying an epic issue with a cover he did, and had come incredibly close to buying other comics he's worked on. i guess the reason i'm psyched about it, is because for the most part i stick to alternative comics in the fantagraphics kind of vein, slowly veering into vertigo, but lately have been getting really into comics i would've never seen myself picking up a year ago. i guess because when i look at most in the superhero/villainous/spy/adventure sort of vein (excluding many people of course) especially contemporary comics, they all just seem to look the same, the colour, the lines, the faces - but you don't get that with chester brown, clowes, bagge, etc. anyway i'm going to stop, because even this is starting to bore me just typing it.

i've started switching over to working in marker trying to finish up comics for TCAF, because they're so much quicker than using a fucking nib. and honestly, i can't tell THAT much of a difference once it's shrunk and scanned. can't decide whether to go to bed or keep drawing. i'm feeling mighty tired.

stunned silence

2007-08-06T15:40:00.001-05:00

BEOWULF
i'm not usually that big of a fan of any angelina movies (with the exception of HACKERS, which ruled) but this one looks good

Beowulf
Uploaded by xframe

zack snyder is making WATCHMEN (2009). he directed 300 which i still haven't seen, i have no real desire to though, and dawn of the dead (2004) which i own/like.
apparently billy crudup (PUKE) is playing doctor manhattan. i don't really see how this movie could be good, the graphic novel is amazing, but turned into a film? i just don't know, unless they cut out a lot, or make it really different. who knows, i'll go see it regardless of the reviews, but yeah.

MITTENFISTS
magic pony
i took all of these really early in the night, before it became hot and sweaty
(the hottest day of the year, in a gallery full of people, without air-con...)

ANDREW (wilson)
i LOVED this one

unfortunately my flash kept reflecting in the resin

reaaally liked this one too

haha, awww, momma's so proud

MELINDA JOSIE

my favourite melinda one is this one on the left with the laundry
man, i wish i was rich so i could collect art

JACOB (whibley) aka PLAYAH #1
really different from anything i've seen of jacobs before, and really different from anything i've seen at magic pony before

this was my favourite jacob one

the GLADSTONE

BIRTHDAY POOP! (starring me and laura)

haha
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right before me and laura did our karaoke version of DREAMLOVER (mariah)
it's pretty awful, the karaokemaster tried to cut us halfway through and kept getting mad at me, i uploaded the video to facebook cuz i'm too scared to put it on youtube

nick a's AMAAAAZING airbrushed t-shirt, jesus this guy needs to start a business

CAM'S COTTAGE (bala)

blazing saddles

2007-08-02T13:36:00.000-05:00

i never know what to write when so many hilarious things have happened, so i just sort of can't be bothered to write about any.
same with posting photos on here, once they're on here, i have no desire to put them on facebook, even though it's fun for more people, i just like having a photographic diary i can look through i guess.
seriously thinking about signing up for 3 months of muay thai, which basically would mean, i could kick your ass, man, tiger-style. i might just take a form of grappling, but i really need a physical outlet for my anxiety (which disappeared for a while). and i think channeling it kind of violently would work really well. laura is hopefully moving in here, in september, so we talked about joining the ymca, but i don't know if that can satiate my ravenous bloodlust.
i realized the retarded amount of photos i was acquiring on my camera, and decided to unload.

PATTY'S PIZZA PARTY

hey guys, chugging poison is the new black

ENDOR NIGHTS

at the beaver

never acting, always watching

the new crime-fighting
watching a small crowd of 20 somethings get drunk at a bar

"ooga booga" - pico paco

before the

WHITE ORCHID

apocalypse

nick and his best self-made shirt ever

mary pussy-poppins'

WHITE ORCHID

aww, old friends

EXTREME MEAT PARTY

the irony of this was, i actually became so disgusted (mostly to do with the blood sausages, and the smell that started to happen around midnight), that i don't know if i can eat meat again (this does not include clams in clam chowder)
i haven't tried to be even vaguely vegetarian since approx 5 years ago, and my diet basically consisted of potato chips... which changed when i went back to meat eating, and it became potato chips + cheeseburgers

a live one

brown puddin' rips dem ribs apart
(a 5-part ballet of photographs)

and then suddenly, our worst fears came true
the hormones that had been pumped into the flesh of the unwilling beast the men had been eating...
aroused senses they were unable to control

THE REAL MEAT PARTY

JACLYNS RETURN

(pretend)naked taxi
***sidenote, in case you somehow figured out any of this night through our photos, we're not bad people, we were just doing dares (and you HAVE to do dares)

and where do i even begin with this guy... where do i even begin

here he is working his wonderful magic

this guy threw an absolute fit on us, although we don't remember why, it was really hilarious
"I'M WAY COOLER THAN YOU!!! I KNOW THE PROMOTER!!! I'LL GET YOU KICKED OUT!!!!" uh huh...

aaand now he has no shirt on... at the bar

FIRECROTCH: a new shot, by Lindsay Lohan, just add 1 part tobassco + 3 parts urine
(just kidding...)

p/s i dont know who this guy is

this guy was the best though, of the night: "ARE YOU JUST USING ME?"

if you can believe it, the place we went to had "pigeon" ($12) on the menu
PIGEON
WHO WOULD ORDER A FLYING STREET RAT FOR $12??????

jaclyn took me to SOUTHERN ACCENT for an early birthday present, because she is the best friend ever
the food there is so the best
almost one year ago exactly we went there, and got really drunk and had our tarot cards read... although she kind of sucked, so we didn't go back this year (unless ron ronnerson, you truly are out there)

and then we went to LAST RESORT for beer with laura, and this amazing man wouldn't leave us alone
apparently his name was "Paris Rome"

PARIS ROME: what is the longest sentence in the world?"
US: i don't know
ME: 122 words
PARIS ROME: marriage
and then he proceeded to tell us about his 427 pound wife, and how hydro must hate her, because he doesn't need heat, she wraps him in her huge breasts and keeps him warm all winter

presenting HYPNOSE with CLIVE OWEN
now i can spray it all over my pillow, and float away to an imaginary sensual palace

why did i take, and then post these photos of a guy doing yoga in the park?
because i'm really immature

the list

2007-07-26T20:06:00.000-05:00

my scanner is a piece of shit
(not that these are works of art on a nice scanner) but yeah every page got cropped (especially the first one... which isn't actually finished as you can see in the speech bubble at the top - i just wanted to post SOMETHING on here), warped, blurred and patches of grey, etc
but you get the idea
i did this sort of as a joke, like inspired by clowes "i hate you deeply" but it's also a little do's + don'ts - but now i think i'll end up putting them in the comic me and nick are doing
i started a 7th one, but not sure if i'll make more after or not
i don't really want to post my good ones on here, because i'll definitely get depressed when the scanner destroys those, but here goes... something
(oh yeah, and all content copyright larissa thomas!)

no one depicted is an actual person (besides me, and the one that was sort of meant to be jaclyn in "riot girls"), in case you're like "OH MY GOD! WHO PULLED OUT A DENTAL DAM?!?!"

skin supplement

2007-07-26T18:24:00.000-05:00

in the past week i've had 2 really extraordinary bike crashes, sounds funny, cuz it is
one involved a collision with a friend, belinda carlisle and a hand going up my dress (accidentally of course) and having it observed by a bunch of freaked out blonde girls
another involved seven-eleven toquitos and lying in the middle of the road making out
sometimes i have the best worst luck ever

XPACE
NO PANDAS

and now presenting a miracle of miracles, nick aoki + geoff snack in one body
presenting: VOOSE (or something that sounded like "voose")

MORE PROOF

RORY BIRTHSTONE

COCKROACHES

DO DIIIIIEEE

BUSTED

i hate my stupid scanner, and the comic scans look so shitty, i might post them anyway, but i have to get ready now

waaave babies, and i want them in my hand

2007-07-17T15:49:00.000-05:00

so i know i never post any drawings or whatever really anymore, and it's because they always look so crap and warped when i have to photograph them, so i'm making a point of scanning some tomorrow on my old computer, then putting them on a transfer stick thing, and then putting them on my sisters computer... which really isn't that hard... just... annoying
but what's more annoying is that this blog has somehow become a party-party-photo blog, which is something i didn't want it to be... although come september, i'll have nothing to take photos of but packages of mr. noodle and my gaunt, tired face, leaning over drawings i'll have spent 500 hours drawing and redrawing to not-near perfection, so live it up guys, live it up

NDEUR
at OMY
(yeah my camera sucks guys, just live with it... or tell me how to operate it properly)

char's... tiny teetle totter char might be moving in with me and ainsel... yay!

apparently this was some guys art installation...
whatever

PLANET OF THE BABES moment when we discover it's only local cable tv
corner fucking gas?!?!?!? ROOOOOAOAAAARRRWWWWWW!!!!

char char's binx

yay! yes! me and laura back together for a one night photoshoot!

and now it just becomes a labatt 50 ad

spent wwaaaayyyyyyy too much on comic books/graphic novels this week (although i didn't find what i actually went in for)
but i haven't bought any for so long and i was going all crazy (and it's research anyway right? tax deductable??)
i'm so glad i finally have my own copy of SUMMER BLONDE, since no one would lend it to me! but i'm actually glad, because it was only $10 (in rough condition... the condition it would've gotten in anyway if someone would've lent it to me... which is why no one lent it to me) and i really loved the story "hawaiian getaway"... for reasons people that know me will know... my how inspiring... hah....
also went hog wild on discount comic books
OHHH and i found DRAGON TEARS (dean koontz) for $1. this was like my all-time favourite book in grade 8, and i became obsessed with him and stephen king for several years. although stephen king... always had smaller font and went on for many more pages, i want to rekindle my old romance with some of these books, i know mine at home are probably long gone thanks to my dad...ggrrrrrr.... but at least i can get them for fairly cheap now secondhand
yesterday made me want to work work work, so i can spend spend spend

EXCITING!!!! IN TV!!!
DAVID EICK (battlestar!!!!) is doing/did a new BIONIC WOMAN for fall
and it looks awesome
me and ainslie went totally tingly when we saw who was also cast in this show... WOOO!!! STARBUCK FOREVERRRRRR
(wait... if she's in this, does that mean she really did die??? wait... oh no... is BG still filming? i'm gonna cry...)

oh and i dyed my hair back to really dark again
(not black... fuck no, never again after that ordeal)
because people told me it looked way better than when i was blondey... i still like blonde better
hrrmmmmph

spam purse

2007-07-13T14:48:00.000-05:00

wow,
i don't ever in my life want to ever do another 17 hour - with 1000 extras - in mississauga work day ever again.
ever. my bike is STILL in parkdale... hopefully.
my mom and her friend from nz came down
very exciting, we even got into an altercation with the manager (armando) at the pickle barrel. i'm pretty sure in huge chains like that, it's illegal to make the server pay for a food mistake, especially something as simple as veggie vs chicken quesidillas.

the next day we went shopping (courtesy of mumbank) which is awesome, because i never buy any new clothes. i got 4 dresses, new shoes and a much needed new pair of jeans, oh and 2 pairs of earrings, ... and already have lost 1.
went into urban outfitters, i liked a lot of the clothes, but i was pretty horrified to see they're selling books... not just novelty shit like those vice ones, or like "a guide to giving the most perfect, romantic, emo blowjobs" or something, but like JD SALINGER and chuck palahniuk, and maybe even irvine welsh. wtf??? they've hand selected "cool readings" for who? who'd buy a fucking novel from urban outfitters. i don't know why this annoys me so much, but it does. maybe because those were like "i discovered on my own in high school" books, but still... annoying, when a store can make an author "trendy". (although i spose they were before, but still, why don't i pick up my copy of catcher in the rye, with my neon pants and inflatable chair).
i'll probably go to BMV this weekend or maybe even later today if my stomach settles. i need to stock up, the bathroom is getting to be a lonely place.

went to patty's last night for horror movie night
so of course i brought sleepaway camp, it's like my low-key 88 minute party trick
and then we watched some weird birthday gore flick, which ended with some kind of prosthetic twin revenge scenario, reminiscent of something R.L. STINE would write
and then apparently something featuring the backstreet boys

i can't wait for school to start back.
check this shit out
(another adaptation of a graphic novel/comic series)

i was going to mention something about this a while ago when i heard (but i'm forgetful) about ELI ROTH pulling HOSTEL II from theatres, because of all the piracy going on (critics weren't even going to the theatres to see it) - which means he makes less money, and is less likely to make another fucking awesome gorey movie. come on guys!
it makes me really fucking sad, because HOSTEL II and GRINDHOUSE (which also suffered in the box office) (oh and 28 WEEKS LATER) were by far my 2007 favourites (probably 2006 too), and those kind of movies NEED to be experienced in the theatre, but it's the people who watch jennifer aniston romantic comedies that are willing to pay, and the type of people that watch horror, (including myself) are often lazy and poor (which is another way of saying genius), and often glued to the computer, and therefore discover the movie is online and watch it for free
granted i too watch shit online on a regular basis, mostly tv shows i don't get/miss cuz of work/school or just random old animations and shit that i wouldn't be able to see any other way
being able to access stuff off youtube, etc is a great learning and entertainment tool - especially for artists that use the medium for exposure
but i definitely feel a moral dilemma about doing it while a movie is in theatres
although i also feel really shitty about spending $14, which is why i pretty much only go when i REALLY want to see something, i know it's cheaper to go to like rainbow cinema, but i really like watching stuff in the huge, freezing cold ones
i know 100% i'm going to buy grindhouse and hostel II when they come out on dvd, and i really hope there are crazy special features
anyway i also just discovered eli roth is an animator, which totally excites me, i couldn't find "chowdaheads" online but i found "the rotten fruit"
here's an episode in a relevant vein

this ones just funny (should i not post these after all my preaching?)

happy hour

2007-07-09T11:45:00.001-05:00

around...

my darling jojo was in the city for a couple of days, before she goes back to london, england... so i had a picnic for her! although i couldn't get a hold of several people i know she would've wanted to see... yay! jojo!
and it was also cool, because i never see alex anymore

yeah we had a lot of fun with those things...
oh and those things too... yeah, this blonde's got some bombshells
(and potato salad cleavage)

jojo re-enacts her "REBIRTHING"
which is when one of those hokey pokey hippie types, form a hand vagina and stretch it around your body, while you're surrounded in a womb-like structure of red shiny pillows... totally gross and unnecessary... shiver

fun park sightings

yeah, doctor that shit up, bring down the system, one ttc pass at a time

hackey packi... haha oh god... i love you pico

obligatory food photo

because i'm worth it
because i'm disgusting

LE GALLERY

this is what happens when you get triple-nick'ed
TOTAL
UTTER
ECSTACY

i quite liked the graffiti guys art, but i can't remember his name

XPACE

wasn't me this time!

ummmm... (also can i mention this was really huge)... um...
biting tongue... biting face... internal bleeding...

and the best hair ever goes to seth scriver

HOUSE PARTY
i know there are much more interesting photos of this night floating around out there somewhere, hopefully they'll disappear

sexy richardson

found object

CHRISTOPHER CUTTS GALLERY

ted tuckers fucking awesome painting

uhh... i couldn't bring myself to go in any closer with my camera... yikes

i think this was rory's? (nothing had tags on it... ooh how minimalist)
these were too dark to photograph, but looked cool up close

i liked this one the best of his paintings, it's kind of sexy (joe becker)

always my favourite, mat brown
(who i'm pretty sure i terrify, "maaaat brown, heeeyyy, heyyy, mannn you're the best, so the best, yeahhhh *burp*")

peggy k's lovely drawings

richard stipl's nuts fucking sculptures, always so awesome

tibi's rad moon, which would be a really cool fucking thing to have hanging in your ... studio/apt/loft/sex den

ok, so there was this crazy mechanical pig, with a cock that thrusted when you put in a loonie, it also moved, so you could ride on it, and it had lipstick boners that would come out of it's eyes, oh and this weird metal meat tongue... pretty awesome, not sure if we were technically allowed to ride it, but it had a seat on it so...

and then, well, this guy got on the pig

and uh, he well, broke it

these snow globes had paper scenes of i guess post-apocalypse village ruins, or something, and when you shook it, the debris would whirl around like in a tornado, which was pretty cool, but i was too scared to shake it for the camera, after the whole pig incident

and this guy, invoking leigh bowery, looking pretty awesome, not sure how he could see though

and then... things started to get... uh...
there was this kid (i think the owner of the gallerys kid) you see... with a water gun, and then andrew got the gun

what what

saw this hilarious drawing on my way to the bathroom

and this was later, at 7 KENSINGTON...
2 guesses what those puddles are, and what that weird smell on our feet was

LAST TEMPTATION (LAST RESORT would me a more fitting name...)

ok ok, and then THIS pukey little teenager came along... just look at the devil inside this kid, he starts TOTALLY harassing us (for drinking on the street? i don't remember) anyway, he TOTALLY looked like the nasty bitch on "welcome to the dollhouse" (lolita), but i couldn't find a photo of her, so instead i have a comparative clip

and then on my way home, well you know, really drunk, no one else around, singing at the top of my lungs, and not a care in the world, and then some RUDE guy, passes me on his bike, laughing hysterically at me, not even like "aw busted" more like "WOW YOU REALLYYYYYY SUCK! HAHAHA"... well screw you guy!!!
i've been eating wayyyyy too much dairy lately, which isn't good for someone lactose intolerant
my mom and her french friend, and her friend visiting from new zealand, are coming to the city on wednesday, so they're renting hotel rooms, and we're going to have a girls gone wild night or something, it should be fun
finally caught up on my missed HIDDEN PALMS episodes, and so glad i didn't give up on the shows slow start, because it's actually gotten really... riveting

ok not a word of a lie, i can hear the construction workers outside my window, that are rebuilding the road singing something like "i been working on the railroad"... and i'm kind of frightened

a process, a gift and a journey

2007-07-07T10:23:00.000-05:00

so funny

Paris Power Ballad

in case it's not working link

man, i don't want to have to shower, why can't people be self-cleaning... like a cat

oooh also, its 7/7/7
DIVINITY

evacuation from tent city

2007-07-01T14:25:00.000-05:00

so i'm totally going to pull a claudia and post my favourite models
well these were my favourite (they make me tingly) and i never really buy magazines anymore, so there could be someone else out there ready to fill their shoes
i found these photos of DAVID LINDWALL on MYSPACE... god who isn't on that thing?
(speaking of myspace - me and lily think their should be a DANCE CARD APPLICATION added to facebook, where you can request dances with people at events. good idea huh?)

and mexican model LILIANA DOMINGUEZ
the most gorgeous creature i have (n)ever seen
so hot, forever the hottest

ok back to business
i missed my bus this morning (of course) so now i have to take the one that i'll be sitting on for 5 hours, probably stuck next to some fat-smelling fat dude that'll try and talk to me even with my headphones on, god i hate those types.

i gotta say guys (or "guy"... for the lone person who actually reads what i write) i'm having an awesome summer. i didn't realize how unhappy i'd been for the past like year and a half maybe? last summer was a bummer, 3 jobs 7 days a week, dating a guy that didn't like to do anything fun/my friends hated. i'm a lot less cranky. in general, although there are still people i dislike (and am pleasantly surprised to see they're getting dumpy), i don't really care anymore, or allow myself to brood (although maybe that's bad? i need my edge right?). since jaclyn left i haven't had a best friend around. i've actually never not had a best friend, or partner in crime, and it's been kind of a drag. but i love hanging out with my posse, and the new addition of bikin'-nomoredykin'-meichen. it's all about being single. i have several crushes right now, but nothing heavy or devastating, i definitely don't want to seriously date anyone for a LOOOOOONG time. it feels so good not to have to feel responsible for anything (or anyone) other than showing up for work on time right now. i can't wait til school starts back again, but i really want to make the most of my spare time, socially.
jojo is coming down next week! yayyy!!!
i'm looking forward to going home for a few days though, because i wont be tempted to go out (however tempting white trash fun is), so i can get more done on my comic.
but i don't know if i'll be able to make it through the day without 2/$3 gatorade.

makeovers

i'm disappointed it took me so long to get my camera out of my bag, this guy was pulling a full on forest gump move down ossington

SPOILED SPORT
the lovely curator

carolyns work, very nice, very nice
the lil' injun that could

NEON DRACULA (adrienne)

pretty sure this guy just wandered in from CAM H

STEPHEN SCHRAMM
and all of his tasty bodily fluids

this captured moment was when myself and meichen were being the 2 most annoying people on patty's roof (singing the lindbergh remix of umbrella... except we didn't really know what we were singing except "ella ella" and "come in(to) me" which i can see, might be kind of scarily hot to some (and scarily shiny)

i wish i knew who this guy was, he TOTALLY ruled the dancefloor, and i was so sad when he left

this guy on the other hand...

to the left, i remember spending a good chunk of the night chatting with this fine young man, but i don't remember his name (i'm the worst), to the right, my irish buddy i met off set, you can just call him POTATOMAN - we also might work on a comic together (him writing)... the premise is fucking hilarious... you'll see (or maybe you won't)

goodnight.

bend over and take it like a storm-trooper

2007-06-29T08:59:00.000-05:00

my hot sunburn
an epic adventure of a girl without sunscreen and how her skin bubbled and peeled. her mom was always right about those tight jeans bein' a problem - not just cuz they makes the boys crazy!!! weeeeeooowww!!!

another intense week "on set" (haha) i want to start a "set blog" documenting all the gross weinerdudes, tanjobs and the hot production assistant that looks like guyus baltar
jaclyn came down, we went out for lunch at bodega with who i guess is now her art collector guy... from pennsylvania. i was really hesitant at first, but when he started telling me about the giant metal pterodactyl hanging from a ceiling in his house... suhweet.
also jaclyn gave me a present! yay! (no it's not my birthday... yet)
and it's pretty awwwwesome

in some creepy marble mall before the star wars thing

TINY LORD PICO MANNING THE ENTERPRISE

"ASSEMBLING A GALAXY" at design exchange

see, SORRELLs are cool, even storm troopers wear them

yes of course we all stole the blinking ice cubes

it only gets worse from here

y'know what i'm saaayyyin

along came dean

here's me trying to be clever, doing the star trek symbol at a star wars show - only i look special needs

i'm going to go out on a limb and say they didn't mind us violating them

ok no more photos of nick just standing there with a trooper

i don't know these guys, i just thought it was really funny that they wanted to get in on the cape action too... two grown seeming normal guys... seemingly... haha

ooohyeah

i caught ROY MITCHELL (COMMANDING OFFICER OF THE CANADIAN GARRISON) being all slutty with his business cards, but it's ok guys, he told me i was his first, so we re-enacted the moment i took his card-giving virginity... kind of looks painful

and then this little bitch got DARTH-MAULED

YEAH! high five to THAT!

pico clockin' time with the troopies

i'm finding it really hard to upload these right now, because i'm trying to drink tang, and type, and i can't stop laughing...
now this is when things started to get out of hand...

and then i screamed "EW MEICHEN I FELT YOUR PUBIC HAIR!!!!"

saber victim
(you're not a victim if you like it)

at this stage everyone had begun to stare
and then one of the employees came over and took away our tool of mass penetration
and it got really uncomfortable with the scolding and staring
so we left

... but then as we were unlocking our bikes, we saw the REAL darth vader walking down wellington st

magic pony

i tried looking on the internet, i can't remember if it was on like family guy or futurama, or just a one panel comic, where people pay with dogs in the future to put with this, i don't... so... um... but here's the photo anyway

my reaction too...

just kidding!!!!

the end.

grave-robbing

2007-06-25T12:43:00.000-05:00

kavinksy

so this answers the question we asked ourselves the next day
yes we did see each other, in fact we became intimate, slightly

... i don't even want to know

i have a case of schroeder-face

haha geoff snack

i was too cheap/lazy to go get vitamin e, my aloe gel is mostly alcohol, so now i've resorted to vaseline to soothe my boiling thighs, but i kind of think it's just acting as an agent to deep fry them even more. this is kind of a bummer. i hope my legs don't end up looking like pamela andersons face.

We-hell-I see them every night in tight blue jeans

2007-06-24T18:38:00.000-05:00

i guess this post makes me a hypocrite, considering my "i hate posting photos" rant in the previous entry. but my signal is fine now... and i have 3 nights worth of photos to put up. anyway, everything i do and say makes me a hypocrite. but i think it adds to my bad-girl appeal.
i've had such a fucking crazy week.
- biking to vaughan and back - yeah, past steeles. 3 days on set (american pie straight to dvd, haha, actually it looks like it might be kinda funny - got to see a strip/lapdance show with HOT chicks - no zanzibar-quality here, which is always awesome)
- asthma attacks (from smog) during rush hour traffic
- sunburn of a fucking lifetime in the most unsexy of places
- ringrose is back from texas! yay!
- saw my good old friend shitpocket after years of exile, brief, satisfying
- had a bath
- i think my boobs have shrunk
- got told i have ginger hair
- buying hairdye asap
- hardly sleeping because being an extra, actually totally sucks i've realized

press club

makeout party in adrienne's bedroom... before going to EXTERMINATION (which is fitting, because my memory of that night has been exterminated... har har)
it's too bad, because apparently there was some kind of orgy going on under the bridge, and there was also topless wood-chopping

you can't see it because of my shitty flash, but there are nipples on the post-its

bet you can't guess what's on that post-it

i can almost feel the phantom pains of a club beating over my head for when/if pocahotass sees this up here

spooky

show some bitches just a tiny bit of affection, and they'll let you do almost anything to them

that was vulgar, i'm sorry

charlene's crazy warehouse mansion

hey man... obviously i'm pretending, i don't want my unborn future fetus to come out ugly

obligatory shoe shot

steaming up the atmosphere

i wish charlene was my future baby

after-hours visitation

apparently there was some kind of nasty lickylickyian porn showing with these photos, but i unfortunately/fortunately didn't get to see it

another art show to see:
carolyn has art up at xpace, the closing party is on friday or saturday night i think? her art is awesome, and you should enjoy it. you should also enjoy adrienne's wicked NEON DRACULA video in the basement.

the QH
ahh the old haunt
newly renovated! so fresh!

i'm really upset, i can actually see a white hair in this photo. definitely dying my hair this week.

haha

yayyy shitstorm...

group hugs aren't for everyone

today's update brought to you by pepto-abysmal

2007-06-15T13:43:00.000-05:00

so here's the photo...
this is funny for reasons other than how gay we all look, very very funnnnny

this ones a lot less embarassing than the time i got in the toronto star, and i was really wasted on vodka-redbulls in the photo and quoted saying some pretty asinine crap

once again, had to take a photo... the black kind of reflected in the flash...
the comic i'm doing (under the umbrella-ella-ella of SHITSTORM... yep we're "back"...)
EASY
licky licky love it
haven't decided whether or not i'll post pages from it on here or not.

first shit storm meeting since the great falling out months back
... drinking on the j-o-b

i wish andrew wasn't gay so i could force him to be my sexy boyfriend

not all asians are hairless

in extremely good news, i really didn't think my folks would go for it, but i'm allowed to take money from my student loan to get a new computer, so i can finally make a website. i'll have it up before TCAF (august), so i can be all "hey hot nerds, whats up, check out my site, yo leave a comment, and like nerd out" or something.
another delightful thing, i found somewhere to eat brunch/lunch around here at least that is close and not too expensive and not too gross. although now i can't remember what it's called... maybe like gracey's or something.

DONT USE ROGERS

2007-06-11T15:11:00.000-05:00

i know i've already complained to anyone who'll listen about FIDO + ROGERS putting on hidden fees, for phone plans and internet, and them having the WORST SERVICE EVER but i'm going to again.

I was just on my sisters cell phone - for 50 MINUTES with ROGERS.
the only reason we kept on with them for internet was because they said "no extra fees when you move to keep with ROGERS". well it was a HUGE LIE!
even though every single month our INTERNET BILL fluctuated - which is fucking weird, because how can an internet bill one month cost $46 and the next $54.50? they don't have any explanation - i've already asked.

well funnily enough our combined bill from last month + this month should've been $100, instead it was $140. and when i phoned to ask what the fuck we were paying for, they just kept putting me on hold, rerouting me - making me give my phone number again, my postal code and restating my problem.
so you guys figure out how much a daytime cell phone call that's 50 minutes long is going to cost?

all i got was them dancing around. and then FINALLY one of the many girls admitted that $15 of it was a mistake and would be credited my next bill, and i said "well it'd be easier if we could just have it credited off this bill, because there were only 2 people using it then, and now there's 3" she put me on hold (AGAIN) and then came back on saying that she couldn't credit it to this bill and then tried to feed me some bullshit story about "additional fees for april to may" which didn't even make sense. (because we were paying first of the month to first of the month).

by this point, i was SO ANGRY i just was like FUCK THIS!! "I want to disconnect from Rogers, i don't want to use this company anymore" - so once again rerouted, had to regive allllll my information again - to be put on with rudest customer service agent.
told that i can't cancel at the end of this coming bill (june 14th) and had to wait til july 10th. and at that time i had TWO FUCKING DAYS to return the modem to one of the many INCONVENIENTLY located retail agents in toronto.
and i was like, "so i have wednesday or thursday to drop it off?" WHO DOESN'T WORK ON A WEDNESDAY OR THURSDAY? and tell me that we'd be charged $100 if it wasn't dropped off within those 2 days. right so, if my sister and myself are working 16 hours/day on set in some random location, and sherri's running back and forth from oshawa, it'll be really easy right? not only did she insult me about how often i work, but pretty much called me a liar.

i don't know guys, i've had a problem with this company (and FIDO - who add at least an extra $8 a month on whatever plan you sign up for regardless of how much the contract stipulates) for a long time.
what can you do about stuff like this?

so as not to implicate myself --- i won't post anything here
but i'd like to cost them a little money.
STREET JUSTICE ANYONE???

"don't trust your friends, trust your reflection" - me

2007-06-11T03:22:00.000-05:00

i can't sleep. i was really tired, SO TIRED, but now i'm all awake, not lively... but awake.
watched the full season of SKINS... WOW. watch it.
watched HOSTEL 2... 800 thumbs up from me. if even just for the ending.

saw pilar before she went back to glasgow

saw a play this week... i think it was called BETTER LIVING, at the factory theatre. it was really awesome. it has really made me rethink my summer entertainment. plays are definitely a viable and exciting option.
saw/heard kavinsky after... i mean i think...
have completely converted to blush wine, although rethinking portion size.

patty's housewarming burrito fiesta, before art show, before beer-smashing at QH

freeze-frame

etiquette lessons with patty y

CAT SITTING FOR STEVEN KING

oooooooh i'm so artsy

decided to take some low-res, blurry, badly-lit photos of "characters" from my sketchbook... i've been doing for the (autobiographical...hehh...hehh...)comic i'm working on for TCAF. it's structured to begin in junior high (grade 8), and quickly move forward to high school, then onward. so at least i probably won't offend any of my uhhh FICTIONAL characters for a while to come. very few people i know read alternative comics anyway.
less than 2 months to have everything done by.
it's all good, my hate keeps me going well into the night.

you got that right motherfucker, i'm calling it EASY (copyright ME! 2007)... it's charming how often i copyright, right?

loose ideas for how the character based on me should look (in grade 8)... ignore the arms... just like i did

i think i'm getting carpal tunnel from using my sisters laptop
better stop before i RUIN MY FUTURE!!!!!!

dirt smile

2007-06-04T17:32:00.000-05:00

so, my black eye is getting better, which i'm happy about
BUT i'm unhappy that i haven't gotten to use the pick-up line i invented for it.

HOT GUY: "woah man, that black eye is like so crazy"
ME: "yeah man, why don't you throw some meat on it"

i'm also happy about a couple of other things
-like the comic me and nick a are doing for TCAF (now i've got 2 on the go... YES)
-and that i'm volunteering at RUE MORGUE... because CHARISMA CARPENETER (CORDELIA!) is going! and MALCOLM MCDOWELL! oh yeah i'll volunteer to fuckin'... actually there's nothing explicit i want to do to either of those people. ah well.
-that i randomly found BILL PLYMPTON's "HAIR HIGH" storyboardy graphic novel to the animation, which i'm die-die-dying to see... when i was in SILVER SNAIL. ahhhhhhhh so good.
i know i posted this hair high preview before but... drink it in

the test of a true warrior

the failing of a true wimp

lady in red

WINE. IT DOES A BODY GOOD.

WHITE TRASH WEDDING
larry t and nick no digenitals

yay! my loveable school friends!

check out the cross-eyed demon behind us

this isn't necessarily an interesting picture... but it is a testament to how hard the party was to find. i had to use the flash of my camera to guide me through the thicket, and then i fell and got my jeans all dirty.

i wish that i had been dressed for this party
i gotta say i totally appreciate parties like this and hope for more in the future. it's so much better than going to a dirty bar.

wow

2007-06-04T10:57:00.000-05:00

Paris owned at the MTV Movie Awards 2007
Uploaded by mjemec

she is...
THE BEST!

oh and i almost forgot, because last night has left me in a beautiful blur of blush and beer.
i guess it's just like a readers digest kind of moment, but i never give homeless people money because they're just going to spend it on crack, and then spit on the sidewalk, and then i'm going to step in it.
but last night outside sneaky's, this guy was playing this beautiful melody on a keyboard, and i don't know why i thought he was homeless, but i felt compelled to give him a dollar, because of his beautiful melody and then embarassingly he tells me he's actually signed to BMG...
so my one moment of genuine charity... was well... haha

photosynthesis

2007-06-01T19:54:00.000-05:00

family time

getting to know my brother a little better

and this is what i imagine it's like when you ascend to heaven

scaring park-goers with our sand-pentagram

drawing the attention of a hellhound

hey look, isn't that cute... if not slightly weird that school has all these random photos of asian babies in the window

maybe what i meant to say was.... CREEEEEPY

my absolute favourite

i also happen to be my favourite

THE FATEFUL NIGHT

the next day, i ran for the hills
this is my backyard (literally)

my moms a tad camera-shy

we found it in the river and it became known only as RIVERBABY

my dad, the hunter: his new toy (a mosquito zapping tennis raquet)

the hunter takes in the smell of his successful kill

the face of remorse
(not so pretty)

sunset in my backyard complimented by the smog rolling in from the U.S. of A

magic rock

more of my new, improved sexy look - seen on runways all across milan

caribbean queen

2007-05-24T00:14:00.000-05:00

this
there might have been life on mars!
why is this exciting? because ALIENS are exciting.
or maybe it's a hoax. maybe i just saw it on a tv show, but didn't they cut a LOT of the money for space research? i could be so wrong. but if so, the nerds might've cooked something up to get more funding.
ALIENS.

this, well this article is kinda... lengthy... but

"More recently, arguments have been made for the existence of a Martian groundwater system that could harbor an extant subsurface biota... If ever life arose on Mars, is it related to terrestrial life, or did Mars sustain an independent origin of life? If life never developed on Mars,... might contain clues about how life began on Earth?"

a biography of nudity

2007-05-23T14:00:00.000-05:00

ha...ha....ha......oh.......HAHAHA!

and yes, in case you're wondering, all 4 of us ARE colour co-ordinated

iiiii probably shouldn't have posted this... i'm really gross

oh. very close to a nipslip.

but ainer ain't got nothin' on this cleavage

ghostay ghostay

cute lil' jackie

oh and almost forgot, SO PSYCHED for HIDDEN PALMS! ha! best name! from the creators of Dawsons Creek (and SCREAM), and starring the guy who played hot and crazy oliver from season 1 of the OC (oh god... i know FAR FAR FAR too much teen drama television trivia)

AND it's on after CNTM. at least the girls actually look attractive this year... well maybe... like 2 of them.

dr david banner, physician, scientist...

2007-05-21T13:54:00.000-05:00

GOODBYE CREATIVITY BLOCK!
HELLO SVETLANA!
(i was watching a made-for-tv for background noise, on human trafficking, dismal and grotesque... so technically i shouldn't have been uh "inspired" to do this... but nevertheless, i'm tasteless, tacky, heard it all before)

YOU WANT ME MAKE YOU MEAT TREAT?

the colour on these photos are really bad, it's somewhere inbetween these 2 i guess... kind of... not really

photo-time... one day my blog will just entirely crash

my father, the hero:

yeaaah man, take a hit from the butt bong

yeah bitch, when i say fast food, i mean FAST food

delicious flesh

2007-05-18T12:30:00.000-05:00

HELLMOUTH MEETING #2

observe!!! i have discovered camera functions!... i finally started reading the manual!
last night... take note, i'm becoming incredibly lazy about putting captions on anything... but i did take the privacy settings off, so most pictures are zoom-in-able

aww golly

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
(you know what she's pulling out of that purse right? a big cuddly bunny-bear covered in hearts and rainbows and blonde shiny cornsilk hair...awwwwwwwwwwww)

haha

ZOOM IN AND HEAL YOURSELF
(like, in case anyone DOESN'T KNOW, the art is by TEAM MACHO)

you wouldn't know it to look at him, but this lumberjack holds canada's record for being able to hold the most timber (although no one knows where he puts it)

greazy gerace on the prowl

Professor Monsterby-Barr

by far my favourite photo of the night

and then i went home.
and came back out again.

in case anyone is interested, i think this would make a really great background

oh and here's the scary britney spears thing i did for a class project (we had to paint a portrait using a specific colour scheme... hence the hepatitis) it looks bad in person, but it looks worse here, oh well!

douse the mouse, burn down the house

2007-05-13T23:39:00.000-05:00

and here we are so happy in our rat trap
drinking our grey daiqurtinis

last night was the second time i tried my hand/arm/upper body at WII, and boy, i am fuckin SORE... but i also totally rule at bowling
once more, happier times in the rat trap

life imitating art imitating life

(carolyn g in front of the photo meichen took of her) SEXY

fuck guys, i want to do this like, OCAD GRAD SHOW critique, but i don't want the misfortune of experiencing some kind of 2003 internet backlash again...
so i'm gonna leave it up to you to decide what you think of this years OCAD DRAWING + PAINTING PRIZE/AWARD WINNER
i've set this one to public so you can zoom in
* she sourced the fabric from hockey uniforms or something

oh... who am i kidding, i've gotta impart at least some profoundity over this photo

today i saw some bad stuff, but there was also some REALLY well done d + p work this year, especially figurative, this is so reminiscent of last years mistake award, i can't even begin to fathom WHAT the FUCK the judges are doing/thinking when they make their decisions. can a 4th year art award be THAT political? can a student be THAT loved by teachers? blowjobs? money? i really can only shake my head.
i mean, fuck fine, i've never liked abstract art - it's just not my thing, but if it's conceptual and there is actually some kind of research, interesting questions raised, something of substance behind it all - i can appreciate it from an outsiders perspective.
(i'm not being all "wah wah" over unfair juding, because i didn't even have any supercloseys in d + p 4th/thesis this year)

but what the fuck does a an ugly tree by a lake made out of hockey jerseys have to say, that would beat out 100 other students?
the impact hockey has on nature? community vs environment? painting boring shit vs fabric applique'ing boring shit?

in a school that teaches you the skill of bullshit better than it does the skill of drawing and painting

***(i would've taken photos of the work i liked, but you weren't supposed to and the rooms were pretty busy... i just couldn't NOT take a photo of this)

hell is for children

2007-05-08T22:37:00.000-05:00

carolyn and myself have officially begun our sunnydale fandom fixation whatever, with beginning our comic HELLMOUTH.
i drew 2 things each of our faces, they kind of suck, but it's ok. i'm really psyched, because i know i'm a total buffy-loser, but so is carolyn, and carolyn happens to be one of the greatest people ever, so suck on it.
if you want to check it out we'll be adding comics VERY soon - involving buffy characters, somewhere around season 2 - in sunnydale and also ourselves, yeah that's right, we're putting our fucking selves in the comic as super villain/heroes.
THE BLOG
this is all that's on it right now:
yeah i didn't realize i cropped it wrong til i saw it against the black, ah well

here's a small taste of something else i've been working on - animationwise... it's a really shitty scan and won't look like this when i actually have myself organized, but... um... taste it

and now, photos from last nights debacles... yep a classy monday night
the lovely jaclyn was in town

my new bedroom... still not entirely unpacked

the new roommate: shagbags

sisterly love

those are my shorts bitch!

someones shit-wheels

gettin' some pole, while the night is still young

HOT GARBAGE

double fisting $1.50 mix drinks

moonlight desires

2007-04-29T21:25:00.000-05:00

cameron is once again leaving us for a summer of green pastures, blue lakes and brown stars.
this is our pre-dance-party dance-party
starring: myself, the man of the hour, rebecca and elaine.

no that's not a real tattoo - its a pitt pen interpretation of my devotion!

our patented picture posing manouever

wouldn't want to see that thing crawl out of a hole in your apartment HISSSSSS!
just kidding. i'm sexy.

pussy cat doll's newest smokin' hot member

not much is remembered of this night, thanks to camerons new invention - frozen grapes in straight up whiskey. i'm gonna call it SEEDLESS WHISKEY! or in my case GRAPES OF WRATH!
forget your worries, cares and underwears! blow chunks with major hunks!

PRESENTING the grand finale
BOOM BOOM

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i move in like 36 hours. i'm... well i'm FUCKIN DELIGHTED!
gonna re-assemble my drafting table, have proper shelves in my room to keep myself organized, oh so good. get some goodtime drawtime in. and in such close proximity to some of my favourite people.

AND spiderman 3 comes out this friday! YES!

i do NOT read celebrity-trash blogs

2007-04-25T12:13:00.000-05:00

so i found this site, off perezhilton of all places, when he posted this hilarious animation someone did dissing him (look guys, i can't help myself, the guys writing is TERRIBLE - he's not even witty, and the whiteout mspaint is totally asinine - mine are funnier - but i just can't NOT read it. I'M STILL A GIRL!)

and i found this video:
about how to make your bike less easy to steal
(there are also some other cool/culturally relevant videos on there if you look... ah another time-sucker)

i was really glad NOW did that whole bike issue.
i was biking back from the mall yesterday along bloor, a HUGE truck almost completely knocked me UNDER it, i don't know if the guy wasn't looking or if he just didn't care, but he passed me on my bike, then went straight against the sidewalk. i had to "fallback" and JUMP OFF MY bike onto the SIDEWALK so i didn't fucking die. not only that but at the intersection he went UP on the sidewalk corner that people were standing on.

i was SO CLOSE after staring down his license plate to call the police. i am SO SICK of this. i've only been back on my bike a couple days, and this happens. this used to happen to me ALL the time on bathurst street. i'm abso-fuckin-lutely sick of huge trucks - just IGNORING bikers. i'm going to start carrying around my camera - and if this happens again, i WILL be reporting it, with photos. something really needs to be done about these shitbags.

anyway,
SEASON 6 of SMALLVILLE - FUCKING AMAZING. i hadn't been able to watch it the past 2 seasons cuz i didn't get the channel (only here and there). but i'd been really wanting to watch season 6 after watching the last few episodes of 5. SO GOOOOOOOOOD. the story and characters are so much stronger and interesting. this is by far the best season. i'm really not one for superhero comics, but BOY OH BOY do i LOVE LOVE LOVE superhero tv and movies. LOVE.
ooohyeah OLIVER QUEEN, pierce me with your big strong arrow

hey! maybe his real name is ron ronnerson! (aka my soulmate)
check this out - the 60s version of SMALLVILLE

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oh god... back to the packing... it's all i've been doing the past couple days. SO MUCH STUFF. i still haven't gone out applying for a summer job. i think i'm going to go back to being an extra on movies again as well. that was... kiiind of fun... in the free peanut butter sandwiches and sitting around playing cards for hours kind of way.

good times

2007-04-23T09:04:00.000-05:00

lookin' rough these days me doing a perfect job of impersonating iggy pop
reuuunited and it feels so gooood
i would do some kind of love montage but... i'm too lazy
making some private moments public, so cute oooohyeah take it big man ok enough of that love stuff... let's get to the rough stuff and then things started to get a little sexy and then i got too drunk to take photos, so i gave my camera to this guy (stephen)and then i got really scared and took it back... and fell on peoples cigarettes, stole someones pizza and hallucinated that i was breaking out in hives and rode my bike home. good times.

2007-04-22T22:10:00.000-05:00

this reminds me

2007-04-22T20:09:00.000-05:00

of that time me and cameron did acid while watching "the other sister" with my mom and ainslie back in 1999 or something

haha

i'm at pico pacos! we're going to play WII! and we're getting drunk on landlord whiskey! ... so why am i on my blog? because his computer screen is like 8 feet big, and technology is just... so available... at his place

photos from last night to come

quote from andrew: "i like your genitals, they look really good in your pants"

white meat on the black market

2007-04-17T00:03:00.000-05:00

i don't usually do "review" posts, not that this will be one, by a long shot.
i'm sort of buzzed, but
i gotta say GRINDHOUSE RULED
terror planet ugggg so good
and death proof - soooo good too
you know what, watching this only solidifies my desire to learn some kind of martial art - the art of totally annihilating anyone that stands in my way
god that shit makes me horny

ok and here is a "fake preview" that was in between
by eli roth
i was literally in stitches
you NEED to watch this - i'm telling you WATCH IT OR BE SEVERELY REMORSEFUL

carolyn and i also have discussed the cover art and our "characters" in our new BUFFY FAN FICTION BLOG! ( give it 4 days and there'll be a blog with art) for a comic we're doing - being obsessed with buffy as we both are, are re-writing it's history and making ourselves key sex-pot characters. obviously she's an androgynous demon and i'm a wicked but sensitive siren with legs instead of fins.
we're also going to dress up in our respective outfits and makeout on youtube.
love it.

brrrraaaaaiiiinnnnnssss!!!

2007-04-16T11:11:00.000-05:00

WARNING - i just woke up and this is going to be boring... it involves DREAM-TALK.

god, i ALWAYS have zombie dreams. without fail, they usually come in clusters, at least once a month i get a rash of zombie dreams. and i had one last night/this morning.
ONLY it was one of those ones, that you CANNOT wake up from - and i was looking outside of my actual bedroom window onto this creepy street, and 2 of them were people i knew (and maybe one of them was Rupert Giles), and they ran at my door - and THEY GOT IN! and i kept waking up - or at least i thought, back into the same scenario! at least 4 times! and by the 5th i started thinking, hey maybe i can turn this into some kind of kinky sex dream... but finally i woke up, and then i looked in the mirror... AND I REALIZED... I ... look really scary in the morning.

in the spirit of... well, that, i decided i should post the 28 WEEKS LATER trailer
it doesn't really look that amazing, but i LOVED the first one.

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so basically my favourite genre of movie is supernatural, scary (also scary sci-fi and campy-scary), horror, terror - whatever, and i can NEVER find anyone else that actually WANTS to see these movies with me. they're all like "no! let's go see the newest jenny aniston! or that funny owen wilson movie" (or even worse) "i hear an experimental german documentary is playing at the bloor" and it's kind of depressing. because i truly feel scary movies need to be experienced at the theatre, and everything else doesn't. or else the people who WOULD go to the same movies, are always broke, not that i'm not, but i'm willing to sacrifice some Mcdonalds to watch a cool movie.
i remember going to see FREDDY VS JASON all by myself really drunk one summer night, and i sat right in the front front row and actually almost pissed myself. so maybe i'll just start going alone, and really soak up the terror.
i still really want to see GRINDHOUSE so maybe i'll just go today. i'm not sure if there's a theatre at the dufferin mall, but i want to go get sunglasses. so maybe i can do both. yeah... and get some comics, i don't need money! i'm going home for a couple days!

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maybe if i get a job at blockbuster this summer, i can catch up on all the freakflicks i missed out on the past year and a half.
is there a support group for this kind of thing?

PAINTING THE TOWN SEPIA!

2007-04-12T14:30:00.000-05:00

at lunch
AINERSCHNITZEL and LA WEENA
saying goodbye to the annex

don't do drugs

ooohyeah katoni buffet

the recycling gnome,
haha! my crackdealer is SO FUNNY!

our power animals

told you i was going to start posting more

photos?

2007-04-12T00:20:00.000-05:00

(no idea who this licky person is, but it's funny when you catch people "posing"/"molesting" that aren't intended to be photographed)

the hottest gay guy with the hottest lezzie

a boring accidental photo

made instantly sexy with a simple crop'n'zoom

at work the next day, he has his own special section

larissa lopez

2007-04-09T09:52:00.001-05:00

so, seeing as how these are all from 1 - 4 years ago (CAN I STRESS THAT ENOUGH!), i have absolutely no qualms about posting them. noooo embarassment at all about how horrific they are, now i can recognize all those putrifying elements working against each other! well screw you composition! colour! line quality! i still think they're alright.

i hope these don't disappoint you claudia!
they've just been sitting on my computer, waiting for your love to reach out and...

these are from i think 2003 - 2005
i don't know why i drew a crackwhore dressed like a baby... but i did

oral sex is safe sex right?

a lady at this restaurant i used to work at, kind of inspired this, i guess

apparently i thought this one would look even more enticing if i computer colourized it

i'm not going to lie, i still find this one really funny

i remember when me and cameron used to try and astral project back in 2002... oh so fun. wtf? was i teen witch or something? (actually i'd be "early 20s" witch... but)

not sure if these are even going to be legible

same with this... (i vividly remember doing this in my sketchbook after finding out a guy i really liked was secretly boning this really nasty beaster hag)

again with the illegibilty... it seems i took it upon myself to colour "enhance" another page. i love how my characters appearance seems to devolve with each page.

ummmyeah...

i remember posting this slab of drawn meat in my old livejournal, i think right before completely deleting myself. the one of the pixie thing (which now in hindsight looks like a Simpsons elf) with the schoolbus for a cock, i actually sold that one. haha. yep. a few summers ago, i was really broke and i remember sitting with those queen st kids who would sell their art, i sat there for a bit, some woman came up and started like sexually heaving all over the place. i sold it to her, and i got the fuck out of there. to this day it haunts me.

the old talking butt gag...

aaaand... has your computer crashed yet?

the colour on this looks really horrible... i remember doing this and 2 others (don't have the other 2 on my computer) for this "art show" at the century room - if anyone knows the century room, you know i was stupid to think it would be an art show. it was all a haze of coked-up, closeted businessmen and roofed-up office tarts... until i ripped my illustrations off the wall and ran home. haha.

i guess i had subconsciously started embracing my inner nerd when i drew this a year ago

i'm not going to lie, i FUCKING LOVE this illustration. it's flat, you can't really tell what it says (no thanks i'm busy) and the colours are painful, but I FUCKING LOVE IT.

now i'm going to have a sensually tactile shower in my slimy bathtub.
if nick hasn't clogged it with his italian bodyhair.

seriously man. maybe a hose and an alley is your best option these days? (or new friends) JUST KIDDING! (revenge is sweet)