The other night I had a dream that my apartment was littered with kittens the size of my hands. As the dream progressed puppies started showing up within the mess of kittens. I told my roommate about this dream and said that all I needed was a pony to show up and I would have officially had the dream of a four-year-old girl. My roommate then wondered what some poor four-year-old girl had dreamed that night.
Someday you will die somehow and something's going to steal your carbon"Parting Of The Sensory" —Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before The Ship Ever Sank
Somehow something else will die someday and you will steal its carbon
I guess in the new world of Kyoto, Carbon Exchange Markets and Taxation of Carbon Emissions the new currency symbol is C. There is probably an Orwellian-type novel in a group of bandits that grave rob for carbon. Too bad I don't have the discipline to write it!
As for the rest of the new Modest Mouse album I am still digesting. As per usual it is a dense and contorted masterpiece. Initially, I can say that it is less accessible than its predecessor and is more to the Modest Mouse routes of angular-obtuse rock.
And now for another one of my famous sexy parties...
A game I play from time to time is come up with alternative names for bars and venues in Toronto. The best ones I have come up with so far are:
I am sure I'm not the first one to use "Sneaky Disease". I wonder what other creative alternates there are out there?
... or just give me a glass of that wine! (Elliot)
Well the the satire-free grace period for our Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, is over... oh, wait there never really had been a grace period!
This latest poke was from a "hacker" who took over the digital signs on a commuter GO train today and programmed them to proclaim that: "Stephen Harper eats babies!"
Humourous? Yes. Digital vandelism? Most certainly. I had a hard time, in fact, figuring out which category of my blog to put this entry under. Is it mischief, mischief/politics or mischief/technology? I guess in the interest of kindness I'll settle on the first.
More humourously was that a Google search on "Harper eats babies" yieled the Wikipedia entry for Cannibalism in which someone enter this phrase as an example of cannibalism in popular culture.
Probably my favorite satire so far of Mr. Minority is that portrayed by The Royal Canadian Air Farce who present Harper as a near-androgenous robot with "frickin' lasers" coming out of his eyes!
Incidentally, GO Transit are turning off the signs for three days to update them so they are password protected. I imagine given the lack of difficulty our hacker had at taking over the signs in the first place it'd be rather easy for him or her to run a brute force attack and crack the password. Expect more digital hilarity.
... so here's a picture of mine (Billy) wearing a scarf.
