So, I've decided to give the livejournal community a visual update of my life.










that should cover it.

Stolen from Matt's journal:

Top 10 Albums

1.Latterman - No matter where we go...!
2.Greg MacPherson - Night Flares
3.Lucero - Nobody's Darlings
4.Arab Strap - The Last Romance
5.Rocky Votolato - Makers
6.Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (don't knock it til you listen to it)
7.Sun Kil Moon - Tiny Cities
8.Darkest Hour - Undoing Ruin
9.Constantines - Tournament of Hearts
10.Renee Heartfelt - Death of the Ghost

Honerable Mentions:

* Iron and Wine split EP
* Matt Pond PA - Several Arrows Later
* Modern Life is War - Witness
* Annihilation Time - ii
* Against Me! - Searching for a Former Clarity
* Bruce Springsteen - Devils and Dust
* Broken Social Scene
* Shook Ones - Sixteen

Disappointments: AM!'s album didn't live up to the previous (I'm losing tooo-ooo-oouch), Hot Water Music breakup

Best Music News: Lifetime Reunite
Worst Music News: HWM, Q and not U breakups
Best Live Show: Greg Macpherson solo, AM! in December
Best Live Show I didn't Attend: Lifetime (Philly/Jersey)
Funniest Single Song/Video: Steve Earle, "Condi"
Best music DVD: I didn't buy any
Best Best-Of: I didn't buy any, but CCR's comes to mind
Most Overhyped Album: The BSS album was good. But come on, the Reznor-styled 456616146146 layers on every track is just excessive.
Worst Lyrics of the Year: geez. i honestly don't know. it might, might come from that steve earle song. ah, there it goes: "you be the flower, i'll be the bumblebee"


2006 Anticipated:

* New Dillinger 4
* New Brand New
* Lucero coming up North
* Lifetime comp



Worst musical abominations of the year: I'm not really sure, though, but I think I've started to like North Side Kings a little more and Danzig a little less this year.

*** I AM NOT COMMENTING ON FILMS

Best New TV show: LOST (now featuring Adibisi)
TV Discovery of the year: Freaks and Geeks, I slept on it for far too long.
TV moment of the year: Kanye?
Biggest TV Disappointment: None of the new jail-inspired shows living up to OZ.

Most absolutely ridiculous fashion trend: Yeti boots on the ladies. Now, I'm sure my sympathy towards Toronto college girls is well-documented; and, y'know, I REALLY didn't mind the Uggs. They got far too much hate last year - I mean, they're JUST BOOTS!! But these newfangled things are... geez, I really don't know. I hope PETA gets on them, even if it IS fake fur.

Dearly Departed: Shit, I don't evenk know who died this year. These lists get worse and worse each year.

*** NOTABLE STUFFS ***

- This has been the worst year of my life, and hey, that might mean that I've been very privileged.
- Death to relationships, friendships
- I don't really know anyone who lives in either Montreal or Toronto at this point. Hopefully this means I'll be in Ottawa this time next year.
- Fuck the McGill faculty of education

Here's an overly aggressive crotch-grab headed in your direction, 2005. Good fucking riddance.

do people still post on this stuff? jesus christ. i want to die.

yo brahs and brah-ettes

home tomorrow at 10:00 in the morning, see you soon!

i wracked my brain for new categories of people to condemn...

a little late, but i think lena deserves a shout (the fuck!) out for driving our stinking asses to and from brantford, and all the sobe green teas and $40 payments in the world could not match my (our) gratitude. thanks!

and i'm getting lean and mean for a boxing match. could you picture me shirtless and shadow-boxing in my basement? well it just happened!! it's not unlike imagining giving your parents a spongebath... i know it hurts. give me some tips, i need to get fit in a month and face the dude who i predict wins the whole tournament.

and all this occurred while listening to HEADS VS. BREAKERS. oh, sure, call me a pussy, it's not tough-guy hardcore, but i'll do what i can to get pumped, and that includes listening to the world's classiest lifetime ripoff to push-ups...

i also need suggestions for intro music for said boxing match... unless you think crazy train's a good idea, which it truly is for most occasions...

this post, of course, was written with the assumption that people actually read my livejournal...

for those of you who care, the new e-mail address is boys_no_good@yahoo.ca... 100 mb's of storage, and a lifetime-themed e-mail address! can you go wrong?!

can someone score me a napalm death shirt? i've been listening to scum all week, what a classic record...

... and i know i made a bunch of cds for days like these to be distributed to people in montreal. however, if you are not one of the select people, i will outline a tracklisting so YOU can make one of these cds for yourself!! and if you actually DO make one of these cds... whoa, ego trip.

TRACK LISTING
1. Statistics - Sing a Song
2. Death Cab - A Movie Script Ending
3. Hum - Stars
4. Filmmaker - Falling and Failing
5. Limblifter - Vicious
6. Get Up Kids - One Year Later
7. Lifetime - Somewhere in the swamps of New Jersey...
8. Heads vs. Breakers - Calignyphobia
9. Andrew W.K. - Make Sex!
10. Over My Dead Body - Bricks
11. The Backup Plan - Holyshitholyshitholyfuckingshit
12. Ozzy - Crazy Train
13. Cheap Trick - Surrender
14. Chris DeBurgh - Spanish Train
15. Blind Guardian - Nightfall
16. Turning Point - Behind These Walls
17. Righteous Jams - Righteous Dub

It's a magical mix, seriously!! fitting for any summertime occasion. just thought i'd share the wealth, i'm all like missionary-like in spreading the good word.

p.s. there's a skatepark by my house! how bout it! i invite anyone who's interested...

the first song on the new dragonforce album, entitled 'my spirit will go on' clocks in at a whopping 17:25. Epic? Yes. Over-indulgent? Hell naw! They make every god damn second count!

What's a broke asshole supposed to do with no money and a week to kill before any work kicks in?

Leave me something to do!!

You know what really sucks?

When it's a nice warm, sunny (albeit a little wet) spring day in the city and you're walking down your street. Sure, all the snow's melting, birds are singing, the garbage is rotting, but it's all good... it's getting warm out. Then you step in a pile of dog shit. You know how all the dog-owners don't bother to scoop throughout the winter because white, virginal snow covers it up? That comes and kicks you in the ass and just fucks you up. There's dog shit everywhere. Your shoes are going to smell like shit, in a rotting-for-a-few-days-in-scum-melt-water kind of shit way when you get inside. Plus you get some nasty sliding action when you walk.

You know what rules equally?

When you find out that the shit you just stepped on was melted, corroding cardboard box. I swear, this has happened several times during the course of last week. Makes your day.

You know what also rules? Seeing Canadian Olympic gold medalist/host of that How Things Work show/general nancy-boy Mark Tewksbury with his big black boyfriend, who we probably accurately named 'Marcel'. Go Tewks!

whoo!! all-night study session bro-(and sis)dogs!! the positives: the full saves the day through being cool/original demos from soulseek and the new HEADS VS. BREAKERS....

HVSB: ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 2004!!

They're supposed to be coming here with the Backup Plan (see records of 2003) and With Honor (who mighta been record of 2004 except for HVSB) and, to be quite honest, it's what's keeping me through the night/morning.

yeah!

it's 6:34 AM and I conqured 3 essays in 3 days!!

I've successfully kicked the world's fucking ass!!

AND James McGill!!

... that people seem to be doing this band vs. band thing. And since my computer has a virus that won't let me cut and paste and i don't know what to do with it anymore, I've decided to do one of my own.

1. Lifetime vs. The Beatles
Lifetime
2. Lifetime vs. NWA
Lifetime
3. Lifetime vs. Black Sabbath
Lifetime
4. Lifetime vs. Andrew W.K.
errrr.... Lifetime
5. Lifetime vs. Johnny Cash
Lifetime
6. Lifetime vs. Bad Religion
Lifetime
7. Lifetime vs. Nirvana
Lifetime
8. Lifetime vs. B.B. King
Lifetime
9. Lifetime vs. Sinatra
Sina...Lifetime
10. Lifetime Hello Bastards era vs. Lifetime Jersey's Best Dancers era
Lifetime
11. "Ostrichsized" (Lifetime) vs. "Young, Loud, and Scotty" (Lifetime)
Ostrichsized by a hair
12. "Ostrichsized" (Lifetime) vs. anything in the history of song
"Ostrichsized"

Wow, this post is going to hurt me real rough when I stop liking Lifetime in about a month's time. Recent rough times call for Lifetime, however.

Shut up, ya funboy.

1. Taking Back Sunday vs. Brand New
Brand New (got into the new album, due to car rides and the such)

2. Anatomy of a Ghost vs. Coheed and Cambria
Co and Ca, despite funny feeling i get when I listen to their album, leaving me guessing whether I like it or not

3. The Used vs. Thrice
Thrice, and if anyone picked the Used the rest of their choices in this quiz are rendered irrelevent.

4. Thursday vs. My Chemical Romance
Thursday

5. The Movielife vs. Fairweather
Fairweather (were the best Lifetime ripoff on this side of Can't Slow Down and Heads vs. Breakers)

6. Fall Out Boy vs. The Starting Line
Damn! Fall Out Boy.

7. Atreyu vs. Shai Hulud
SHAIIIII!!

8. The Mars Volta vs. Sparta
The Mars Volta

9. Count The Stars vs. The Ataris
Count the stars (are the worst band on the planet)

10. Spitalfield vs. The Rocket Summer
Spitalfield put on a god damn awesome show last night, and their album is pretty dag perfect.

11. Saves The Day vs. Mae
SAVES THE DAY! (Who the fuck are Mae?)

12. Something Corporate vs. Straylight Run
Straylight Run

13. Chris Carrabba vs. Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst, that Statistics band rules (it's not him, but that other dude from desparacidos)

14. CT BATTLE: Doozer vs. Grover Dill
Fuck! Well, Grover Dill obviously! (who the fuck are they? Grover Dill is a great name)

15. Hidden In Plain View vs. The Early November
Early November

16. Saosin vs. Alexisonfire
Saosin

17. Alkaline Trio vs. Vendetta Red
The skeeb wins this one

18. Glassjaw vs. From Autumn to Ashes
Glassjaw

19. The Anniversary vs. The Reunion Show
It's like the difference between shit and MERDE

20. Yellowcard vs. Silverstein
Yellowcard, and Silverstein sucked ass last night

21. Greyfield vs. Trouble Is?
Well, Greyfield of course! (who?)

22. Punchline vs. Unsung Zeros
Unsung Zeros (good band)

23. Senses Fail vs. Finch
Finch

24. Autopilot Off vs. Gob
Whoooo.... those bad band vs. band band questions are tough

25. Homegrown vs. Allister
Allister

26. Less Than Jake vs. Catch 22
LTJ

27. Anti-Flag or Against All Authority
I don't normally leave shows before headliners, but i did at A-F... and AAA used to be one of my favorites... AAA

28. Story of the Year vs. The Used
Refer to the above Used question... SOTY

29. The Goodwill vs. Over It
Goodwill

30. Green Day or Blink 182
Green Day

31. Bright Eyes vs. Longwave
Bright eyes

32. Mest vs. New Found Glory
NFG (are still amazing)

33. Midtown vs. Fenix Tx
Lechuza era Fenix

34. MxPx vs. No Use For a Name
NUFAN

35. Riddlin Kids vs Get up Kids
Get Up Kids (new album rules)

36. MAINSTREAM BATTLE: Good Charlotte vs. Simple Plan
Simple Plan

37. Rufio vs. Rx Bandits
Rufio

38. Motion City Soundtrack or Racing Daylight
MCS

39. Lifetime vs. Hot Hot Heat
Bud... LIFETIME TATTOO!! LIFETIME!!

40. AFI vs. H2O
eeeesh. rough. H2O

SONG BATTLE

41. "Blue and Yellow"( The Used) or "Letters to You"(Finch)
Finch

42. "Ghost Man on Third"(Taking Back Sunday) or "As Your Ghost Takes Flight"(Saves The Day)
TBS

43. "Hold On"(Good Charlotte) "Adam's Song" (blink 182)
Adam's Song

44. "Hands Down" (Dashboard Confessional) or "Ender" (Finch)
Dashboard

45. "Oh Goddamnit" (Hot Hot Heat) or "Chick Magnet"( MxPx)
Hot Hot Heat

46. "Everything Evil"( coheed and cambria) "Deadbolt"( thrice)
whooo...deadbolt rules

47. "Soundtrack to the Ride"(fairweather)or "The Soundtrack for Our Movie" (mae)
Soundtrack to the Ride, great song

48. "Piano"( glassjaw) or "Cherry Kiss"( from autumn to ashes)
Cherry Kiss for the intial metal riffage

49. "All About Her"( new found glory) or "Fucked Up Kid"( mest)
NFG

50. our lady of sorrow( my chemical romance) or razorblades and cupcakes(story of the year)
never heard 'em

2003 year in review



Top 10 Albums
1. 50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Trying
2. The Comeback Kid - Turn it Around
3. The Postal Service - Give Up
4. Mental - And You Know This
5. Strike Anywhere - Exit English
6. Andrew WK - The Wolf
7. Modern Life is War - My Love, My Way
8. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
9. Kid Dynamite - Cheap Shots and Youth Anthems
10. The Backup Plan - Dearest Whomever (would be higher if i heard it earlier ... it's like lifetime!!)

Best New Band: The Backup Plan/Hiroshima
Most Dissappointing Band: Surprisingly not Saves the Day (shut up, their new album rules)
Song of the Year: Righteous Jams by Righteous Jams
Most Highly Anticipated Band: WINKNMOTHERFUCKINGUN
Next Years Album of the Year: Hiroshima and WINKNGUN demos, the get up kids

Top 5 Movies
1. Finding Nemo
2. Freddy Vs. Jason
3. Quebec, Montreal (only cause it's Quebecois)
4. South Central Hookers 24
5. Mike V's Greatest Hits

Best old movie I only recently saw: Best in Show

Man of the year: 50 Cent and Chingy
narrowly beating out last years winner, this years runner up: Italo Aliaga

Woman of the Year: Tautou, for being hot and the subject of a Brand New song


Best friend-maker: like matt seh, alcohol, my general boyish charm, and forcing your way into conversation
Newcomers of the year: too many
Stupidest Trend of the year: pink and black clothing, most things volcom, and dying weird blonde patches in your already dyed black hair hair
you should be killed instantly award: Christiansen, who wrote an album called Stylish Nihilists, and, for the record, stylish nihilists everywhere
Vice of the year: "hot lunches"
The "Jumped the shark" award for played-out-ness: college hip hop, let's face it, most people are really waiting on the roots to write a song about killing cops
Jumping the shark: pink and black, weird color bracelet deals that i have, wristbands
Next Year's style: fanny packs will be the next trucker hats, vans shoes (thanks mark), asian dudes (as the next indie rock fetish)
Style that will never die: brightly colored t-shirts (long live!)
Gadget of the Year: The Epiphone SG
False Advertising of the Year: McDiack's veggie burger than "may contain traces of chicken and/or meat." What the shit Ron?
parties that were off the proverbial heezey (fo sheezey): My house parties (housewarming/halloween/goodbye roommate parties where everyone for some reason smokes weed in my room), chili cookoffs, some party at Andrea's in the summer (it was good), Port Colborne hick parties at work this summer, and of course, the many, many, many, Island Def Jam parties
weirdest event: me and matt up at the cottage getting the jibblies. this is not an inside joke, please consult us for more information
worst event: certain shows, certain ladies, leafs ousted by philly
Scariest event: Staring down 90 kids who expect you to have something to say.
Activity of the year: Bro-ing down to the max (someone understands!)
People who should stop dicking around and move to MTL: Most of you who read this, recognize superiority!! Learn to speak French!!
Landmark of the year: Hootie-Hooooo!! Island Def Jam!!
Most Highly Anticipated Activity: Touring with Winkngun, the Fuckhouse, getting with certain ladies (cause it's going to happen, fuckers)
biggest acomplishment: Student teaching and kids responding (awww), keeping the veg-edge strong
lesson learned of the year: Matt's reply ruled. Chilling is far more relaxing and productive than anything else.
Goals for 2004: Get better at guitar, try to score a journalism gig, and..... like the matts seh.... find the love on more.

"LOVE! Our Love is all that we ever have!!" - American Nightmare (to nullify the ninniness of that last comment, however true it might be)

EXTRAS:
Restaurant of the Year - Taco Bell and Yonge/Queen, specifically for keeping the double decker dream alive
Meal of the Year - Tofurkey with trimmings, double decker taco with rice
Sporting Team of the Year (not the Leafs) - two way tie between team shirt ball hockey and the fuckhouse gentleman's bowling club
Best Road Trip - Cottage day 2 where we terrorized oncoming motorists and rocked saves the day singalongs
Show of the Year - Andrew WK's new show

What's in the past can't be changed so why dwell on it? Seriously, fuck 2003 HAAAAAAARD. 2004 will be both your year and mine.

"You've got to make stuff happen. When I tried to make stuff happen, I often got into a lot of trouble, but still, it was something. I'm not telling you to go out and raise hell, but at the same time, there's nothing wrong with pushing your surroundings to the limit to see what you can pull out of them! Remember that reality is only what you perceive it to be! Don't take anything for granted! Remember that the whole Earth is going to explode someday, and way before that we're all going to die anyway, so live it up now! Instead of sitting around waiting for something exciting to happen, go out and MAKE it happen. It's not easy, but it's a lot better than nothing. Life is complete craziness if you really think about it - a lot of the time we're so caught up with eliminating stress and searcing for total comfort, that we completely loose sight of the wild and wonderful place we're in. Don't be fooled by what people are trying to put in front of your eyes! There's a lot of stuff going on just beneath the surface! It's made to look boring so that you won't want to dig into it, but go get a shovel and start digging deep! The world RULES! And no matter what people say, WE'RE GOING TO LOVE EVERY SECOND OF IT! Some people are lost forever and gone, and unfortunatly, they will never get the chance to breath again, or laugh again, or cry again, or even be bored again, so don't forget how SACRED every single second of YOUR life is, while you have it RIGHT NOW! EVEN WHILE YOU'RE READING THIS! These are moments of your life, ticking away! Every day counts - NEVER WASTE IT!"

- ANDREW WK

But your music sucks, and so does everyone else's. I absolutely denounce it. Fuck your music, my music better to chill/party/drink/partake in any occasion with, and I sometimes really question your personality and general worth as a human being based on the fact that you DON'T want to listen to the following bands (as well as several more) which I will consider my music:

MENTAL
50 CENT

And even if you do listen to the above bands, you're still not above the rest of your music sucking. Rest assured, it does. And mine rules. Feel free to hit me up if you feel you need counselling on this issue. It is serious, you can make serious positive life changes if you can just get around your music utterly fucking sucking. You should know that, even if you don't know it already, both you and I will have a better time if I dominate jukeboxes. (haha)

xoxo

MARK

It just needed to be said. Listen to 50 Cent!

... but I can't go to sleep. and that's when the best quizzes come about!! this will be of no entertainment value to possible readers.

WHAT COLOR ARE YOUR KITCHEN PLATES?
A random mix of 6 people's kitchen plates.

FAVORITE MAGAZINE?
VICE, Big Brother

LEAST FAVORITE SMELL?
Vomited poutine.

LEAST FAVORITE COLOR?
Orange?

FUTURE CHILD'S NAME?
Michael or Jennifer. Yeah!!

WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT IN LIFE?
Partyin', kicking out the jams

ANY BODY PIERCING, WHAT AND WHERE?
No.

DO YOU LIKE TO DRIVE FAST?
I was really going to make a tasteless drinking joke, but then decided against it.

DO YOU SLEEP WITH A STUFFED ANIMALS?
No, but i think i substitute other things for it.

WHAT TYPE WAS YOUR FIRST CAR?
Never have/never will.

WHAT HAPPENED TO IT?
See above.

ANY TATTOOS, WHAT AND WHERE?
"superbia necavit", which loosely translates, in Latin, to "puppy killer"

CD CURRENTLY STUCK IN YOUR CD PLAYER?
Where Eagles Dare/Scraps and Heart Attacks/Death Cab for Cutie/Blue Monday/Trial and a lotta lotta west coast core

TV SHOW YOU ARE MOST EMBARRASED TO ADMIT YOU WATCH AND YOUR FRIENDS WOULD HAVE A FIELD DAY WITH YOU IF THEY KNEW...
THE OC.... there was a huge Marathon this weekend

THE BEST PLACE YOU HAVE EVER BEEN?
Buffalo, NY!!!!!!! Fucks yeah!!! It blows Niagara-on-the-Lake AND Port Colbourne outta the fucking water!!

BIGGEST REGRET IN LIFE?
I'd say something deep like "regretting," or some useless shit, but you know it wouldn't be sincere.

WHAT IS YOUR LONGEST FRIENDSHIP AND WHO?
Steph, established last week.

WHO DO YOU TELL EVERYTHING TO?
No one in particular. Matt's pretty good for it, as well as the roommates.

WHAT SUPER POWER WOULD YOU WANT?
"seeing through clothes"... like nate said, but you know, selectively.

THE MUNSTERS OR AADAMS FAMILY?
Addams family, i suppose.

PEOPLE SAY YOU LOOK LIKE?
50 Cent crossed with David Ortiz (see the BoSox), with maybe a little touch of Colin Powell holding up the classy end. Or maybe Nate Kim.

FAVORITE UNUSUAL SMELL.
Anything but gasoline. It really doesn't smell that good.

EVER WROTE A POEM ON A BATHROOM WALL?
McGill has been terrorized (look at the library's 5th floor)

MOST OVERRATED BAND OF ALL TIME?
Floyd/The White Stripes

MOST QUOTABLE MOVIE?
I really, honestly, have never found movies really that quotable. I know, I'm a fucking disgusting person, aren't I?

AMOUNT OF TIME YOU SPEND ON FRIENDSTER/MYSPACE PER WEEK AT WORK.
5 minutes

WHAT WOULD YOUR BOSS DO IT THEY FOUND OUT?
Springsteen is the only boss I listen to.

TOWN YOU WERE BORN IN.
North Fucking York, Ontario. N FUCKING YC!

TOILET PAPER: UNDER OR OVER?
Hehe. Well, considering we steal our toilet paper from coffee shops... (second cup never knew what hit 'em, the fuckers!)

PET PEEVE OF THE MOMENT
waking up at 6.

PET PEEVE OF ALL TIME
magnified self-importance (yay!)

DO YOU KNOW ANY FOREIGN CURSE WORDS?
speir dalai or something (polish) osstiii tabernak colisss!

WHAT WAS YOUR WORST JOB EVER?
telemarketing! as it was for most.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CLASH SONG?
Complete Control, fuck yeah!

MOST EMBARRASSING RELATIVE?
I don't know, i think the teenage hatred for family is over, so I truly mean it when I say most of them.

NAME OF YOUR FIRST PET.
Never had one (I'm fucking miserable)

NAME SOMETHING THAT REALLY GROSSES YOU OUT.
Spiders, few day old accumulated dishes, babies.

SONG YOU WANT PLAYED AT YOUR FUNERAL.
"at your funeral"