so i think that im having shadiness thrust upon me.
let me explain.
did any of you see the movie click with adam sandler, the walken and mr hoff? i doubt you did, but let me do a brief overview of it, so i can link back to my thesis. so in the movie adam sandler gets this remote control that can like speed up time and etc. one of the features of said remote is that he can speed up sections of his life that he doesnt really enjoy: family dinners, working, foreplay with the wife, etc, so that he doesnt have to consciously do them. so the remote has a ANOTHER feature that makes it learn what you like to do / dont do and it automatically speeds up time for you so you dont have to. then it goes out of control and adam sandler wakes up fat and etc.
heres the overlap
ive done a coupla shady thing lately (rave, others from mr blog) and now im having shady things thrust upon me without my consent. like i was happy to go to the rave and etc, like i chose to be shady for those nights and do that. now its sort of falling into my lap
so 2ish days ago i get a mysterious friend request on msn. its from an address called "calandrawrigley5037@thahotmail". im like. hm maybe this is someone that i know, ill start an msn chat with them.
heres the transcript. i enjoyed it.
ps when i put text in like brackets or italics or something those represent my thoughts on the situation as its happening
To: CalandraWrigley5037@hotmail.com
Start Time: 11:05:24 PM; End Time: 11:24:25 PM
steve says: (11:05:28 PM)hello?
yeah alright who is this...
CalandraWrigley5037@hotmail.com says: (11:05:40 PM)hey
steve says: (11:05:58 PM)umm whats up?
steve says: (11:06:03 PM)/ do i know you?
CalandraWrigley5037@hotmail.com says: (11:06:09 PM)i'm 21/f your a male right?
what? alright this is probably something ridiculous...i guess ill play along
steve says: (11:06:22 PM)yeah sure
CalandraWrigley5037@hotmail.com says: (11:06:33 PM)nice, I just got off work and finally got some time to relax which site did i msg you from again?
steve says: (11:07:08 PM)fuck if i know
steve says: (11:07:09 PM)msn?
CalandraWrigley5037@hotmail.com says: (11:07:19 PM)I know a way we can chat and have a better time.. do you cam?
what. . . ?
steve says: (11:08:10 PM)lol no
steve says: (11:08:20 PM)/ is this like a random dating site thing?
MAYBE wrong email. potentially.
CalandraWrigley5037@hotmail.com says: (11:08:21 PM)Well i don't do yahoo cam or any other cam because i have been recorded before... But i do know one site you can watch me on cam, that assures me no one records...
lol oohhh man
steve says: (11:08:39 PM)like all i know is you randomly added me on msn and that youre 21 /f
and that youre name is probably rick
CalandraWrigley5037@hotmail.com says: (11:08:51 PM)I mean... Do you want to see me on my cam?
lol okay lets see how shady this is
steve says: (11:10:41 PM)yeah sure?
CalandraWrigley5037@hotmail.com says: (11:10:53 PM)Ok go to http://www.mywebcamcrush.com/CrushzSpot accept the invite on the page baby
(its at this point that i grab my roommates and get them briefed on the shadiness of the sitiation. its sick)
steve says: (11:11:10 PM)alright im on it
CalandraWrigley5037@hotmail.com says: (11:11:22 PM)sweet, fill out the info ur info.. i can not wait for you to see me baby let me find something nice to wear
steve says: (11:11:37 PM)yeah just wait there baby
steve says: (11:11:38 PM)soooo down
(steve web flirting. pretty good, i know)
CalandraWrigley5037@hotmail.com says: (11:11:49 PM)its the sites policy to ensure no minors get access to the site, so they might ask for CC to verify your age babe.
steve says: (11:12:10 PM)whats a CC?
peter: i think CC means credit card.
steve: siiirrrrr
CalandraWrigley5037@hotmail.com says: (11:12:22 PM)What color Panties do you think i should wear? i might have you favorite color here somewhere...
steve says: (11:13:18 PM)do you have seethrough ones?
me being witty
CalandraWrigley5037@hotmail.com says: (11:13:30 PM)Your such a good boy, i'm gonna show you what good boys deserve.. you can tell me to do anything you want me too!
man thats sick! i just met this "chick" and shell do anything i want her to! i must have lucked the crap out of this one!
steve says: (11:13:42 PM)id definitely give my credit card for seethrough panties
steve says: (11:13:49 PM)alright wait there
CalandraWrigley5037@hotmail.com says: (11:13:53 PM)Ok let me know when you get in so I can invite you directly to my cam.
steve says: (11:13:54 PM)ill go grab my SIN number
steve says: (11:14:02 PM)ksolid
CalandraWrigley5037@hotmail.com says: (11:14:13 PM)u have to enter a cc, atm, or debit card so they can tell your of age, thats the ony way to see me sweety :-(
man no SIN number? what kind of identity theft system is this?
steve says: (11:14:41 PM)1234 - 3541 - 6879 - 7564
(blairs like just put in some random numbers)
steve says: (11:14:45 PM)is that good?
CalandraWrigley5037@hotmail.com says: (11:14:52 PM)k you in yet babe??
steve says: (11:14:59 PM)yeah i am
definitely not
steve says: (11:15:01 PM)its super hot
steve says: (11:15:08 PM)i have a raging boner right now
definitely do
CalandraWrigley5037@hotmail.com says: (11:15:11 PM)k
steve says: (11:15:41 PM)aww yeah
(time passes)
steve says: (11:18:29 PM)this is super hot
not really. chick hasnt responded in a while. what a bitch.
steve says: (11:19:26 PM)are you still on?
steve says: (11:23:04 PM)alright anyways ima go get my identity stolen a couple more times
steve says: (11:23:06 PM)later!
soooooo pissed
yeah dude thats my goodtimes convo.
BUT after doing this, the always insightful peter told blair and i about this website where you can have random webcams with people and one where you can have random anonymous convos with people. its really creepy, like most of the time you get accosted. its really sweet...
yeah.
also f life. i started this post on like monday or so. and its like thursday right now.
toooooo much engineering.
ALSO
reading week starts tomorrow. i have a super large calculus test at 530 tomorrow. so reading week will start off fantastically like try to remove it from my bum and go home. pretty cool
yeah dude
songs
right now: kelsey grammer as sideshow bob singing on the simpsons lol
on deck: tonnes of calculus
new thing that is sweet: messhuggah has a new dvd out called alive that is friggin amazing. yeah carol, its super solid.
shout outs
not really sure who to do. lets do dr childs. because hes is making life pretty balls right now.
yeah lets go with that
anyways tho. as you guys might remember, reading week starts tomorrow, so expect a couple of posts. ill actually have some time then. check that action out.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Jan 31 Part 2: The Shadiest Steve Has Ever Been Revisted
kman part dos of the post from earlier
also forgive the lateness, this was a hell of a post to write. like i wrote this bad boy in like chunks. super brutal.
also please pretend like there is good grammar in this one. theres going to be some rough parts. i promise.
so this part of the post is just going to be a retelling of the evening of jan 30, 2010 and some hours the next morning
yeah
go
yeah so she started off pretty good, i didnt go out the night before, i got plenty of sleep, woke up at like noon or 1. good start.
pretty easy day, grabbed some food, watched some seinfeld, did some homework, etc. easy
so the plan was to go to TO with the mac crowd, meet up with ruth and shawn, see the rival boys play, remeet the mac crowd at a rave, get some cheques for my landlord later on from ruth, back to mac. no problem
obviously thats shady, but it doesnt sound THAT shady.
it started off well. there was like 9ish of us and we were going to meet at 630 in front of whidden and get to downtown hamilton to grab the 730 bus to the TO. we ended up leaving whidden at like 710, but it worked out. the hsr to downtown was just pulling into the stop as we got there and everything worked out perfectly. we waited like 1 minute for the go to TO and it was cool.
were sitting at about an 8.5 out of 10 right now. i didnt bring gloves, because i wasnt sure about the conditions (coldness vs shadiness) and we did some light running, but everything else was good. not much to ACTUALLY complain about.
k right on so we arrive in TO. im not really sure where theyre going and as far as i know, im meeting my sister her bf shawn at union. so i part ways with the group and try to get my way to a good meeting point. so i texted ruth to text me when shes near, so that we could grab a streetcar / subway to lees palace for the concert. so i sit around union station for a while and catch up with some of the locals. which means i grabbed a seat and didnt make eye contact with anyone. i texted ruth with a where are you? and she was like were close to yonge. so i proceed to yonge, which was actually a lot harder than i thought. i forgot that the bus depot (the easternmost part of union station was the part that went onto yonge and that the bus depot and the like main concourse area was not the bus depot. so i walked to like bay street, then west over to university and got like locked out of like some of the buildings / walkways, so i had to walk through this like creepy construction area. pretty shady, but still no problem. i got to yonge. 7 out of 10
its at this point that im going to point out that it was cold outside. like <-10 with wind if i was to approximate. and my ensemble was not prepared for this. i was wearing thin sweater, peacoat, jeans, shoes and no gloves. so keep this in mind.
k im at yonge and front street. ive been trying to contact ruth and i get a text "lol were not meeting you at union". solid. mission time.
i start northbound and get to like the next block and decide to subway'r. its really cold and bloor / bathurst is a loooong way away. i figure that i would have to do this sort of transit at some point or another, so its cool. a tad irked, but cool 6.8 out of 10. still rockin
so i actually got lost again. the subway actually worked out really well, it basically got me to my location, bathurst / bloor, but i got my north / south mixed up. so i was supposed to go east on bloor, but i ended up going west into korea town. long story short (lol), i got to some bar and it was cool. concert in a bit, stuffs working out, 8 or 9 out of 10.
so we hung out for a while, the rival boys didnt go on until like 1130, which meant get to lees palace at 1100, lots of time. its cool. we go to a different bar and hang out for a while. i got a beer. then more hanging out, then we went to lees. metal. 9 out of 10, 1 beer in system.
we actually lined up right behind my aunt (two of the band members are my cousins), which was pretty weird. it was cool, but it was weird.
we hung out inside for a minute, just waiting for stuff to start, pretty good. i got another beer. so rival boys are on in a minute and ive got one and a half beers in me. 10 out of 10. awesome
rival boys kicked the shit out of the show. they were only on for like half an hour or 40 mins or something, but they killed it. i rocked out on the floor the whole time. it was so much fun and they were sooo good and i dont really know what else to say about it. SO good
check this
http://www.myspace.com/therivalboys
soooooo good
it ended, we said goodbyes to the extended fam and we departed. i did some transit with ruth and shawn and broke off from them at about 1245ish. not really sure what time.
then part two
part two is what you guys really came here to see. no one really cared about "steve goes to TO and had a good time", "steve goes to a rave" is where its at.
it sure is.
heres just some more set up info, just in case youve lost track
its probably about 1. maybe. i just got off of the streetcar and am staring down three ~16 year old kids who are at a door under a sign that says the reverb (the destination). its -93210 with the wind outside and im not really dressed well, because i dont want to look like a weenie in front of the rave people and i dont want to get something weird on very many of my clothes. im feeling kinda shitty, because i kinda just ditched my sister. she didnt really want me to go to this thing by myself because its going to be super duper shady and all that stuff, but i went. because im a champ i guess. or a dick. not really sure. i just had my balls rocked off at the rival boys show. im probably going to be sore, and the rock was quite a bit of energy. im a little tired. ive had 2 beers, but theres probably only 1 that is actually in my system. i texted a few of the people to let them know that ill be there soon, because i need some codes to get me in.
go.
k so here i am. i see a sign that says the reverb over a pretty shitty looking door and some weird looking kids sitting outside. i originally would have said that they look emo, but they definitely werent. sorry. they probably were, because they were teenagers, but they were dressed like way more over the top than regular emos. as it turns out that thats the way that ravers dress. and remember, im in my rock duds: peacoat, plaid sweater, american dollar shirt, jeans and plaid shoes. these kids (and most of the other people) are in neon. its cool
so i go up to them and im like is this the rave and theyre like yeah, but youre probably not going to get in because shes at capacity right now. we decide to walk to the like main entrance when i see ahmed and hes like dude ive been waiting outside since like 1030 (its like 1 right now). so hes like fml were not getting in any time soon and he didnt have a place to stay, so he had to like wait for the rave to end. it was a pretty bad scene. so naturally we went to a bar across the street.
the bar was cool. i have no idea what it was called, or any real info on it. the bathroom was really small, but it was by NO means the worst bathroom that i saw that night. it was pretty empty, which was nice.
so yeah, ahmed and i got a beer and watched maybe like half an hour or so of the leafs game an listened to some jazz music. it was pretty solid.
yup, so we ditched the bar after like 45 mins and decided to head back to the reverb and just wait and hope something good would happen. remember its cold. so we waited outside and talked to a coupla randoms and whatnot when this security guards like you guys should be standing in line, some people are leaving, so you might be able to get in. and were like sweet! good call!. we waited in line for maybe 8 minutes and we got let in.
so the actual space that the rave was in is the second floor of the club. we walked up this really tight and dirty staircase and paid friggin $20 to get in. i was actually really pissed that i had to pay 20 dollars. i figured that it wasnt going to be worth it. i figured that.
then we got to it. upstairs. the rave.
the place was packed. it was really dark, with basically only black lights and like lasers lighting up the place. but it worked out pretty well, because the black light and the neon made like a quarter of each person was really bright. it was cool
so by the time we got inside the rave had been going on for like 5 hours, so the place smelled terrible. there was sooo much BO. like you would get used to it, but every once in a while some dude who spent most of the night givering would walk by and it would smell sooooo bad.
but yeah ahmed and i went and did the coat check thing, then hit the floor. it was nuts. people were just givering. like it was intense drum and bass music and people were just going for it. it was actually really cool
we met up with the original group of people said the whats up and happy birthdays and etc and didnt really know what to do. it was kinda awk. like ahmed and i were the ONLY people there who werent on some sort of chemical drug. like there was soooooo much e and etc (lol) happening. also i probably had like 1 beer still in my system. MAYBE one and a half, but still, i was definitely sober. definitely.
but it was cool. we were both like 'f it' and we went and actually danced. i gaver too. like most of the people i was with probably didnt notice and not many people can really appreciate what that means, but i gave the shit out of her and danced my balls off. i actually danced for like a long time. and actually danced. it was cool
but yeah the actual rave.
so basically everyone that was there was decked out in neon and tons of like bead bracelets and like synthetic dreadlocks and furry boots and shit. and soooo many girls were in like bikinis or like suuuuppppeerrrr skanky clothing. and they were all on e and stuff so i didnt feel bad for doing a bit of staring. it was sweet.
so yeah there was the really hot girls wearing super skimpy neon bikinis, the regular (?) ravers who wore like neon and other accessories, nothing overly slutty, the coupla handfuls of awk males (like myself), some miscellaneous, and more than a few scary older men. like these guys were friggin creeeeppyyy. like VI old man creepy, but with more chemical drugs and more (actually) hot girls in skimpier clothing. it was rough
while im on this subject i would like to make special mention to the creepiest / scariest man that i have EVER seen in my life. so you bar goers (at least the VI goers) know that theres always the obligatory creepy dude with a beer standing at the side of the dance floor staring into the crowd with a beer in his hand, right? this particular dude was like that. but not quite. the dude was probably like 50. he might have been younger, but like it definitely showed that he did some lots a drugs and his body wasnt too happy with him. he his hair was visibly thinning, at about shoulder length and it was died a very obviously not real red colour. like it wasnt ginger colour, it was more purply. dude was short, not much else to say about that. overall, he looked like ronnie james dio and carrot top had a very old baby. thats probably the best way that i can put it. but you might be thinking to yourself, steve thats kinda weird, but come on thats the CREEPIEST guy youve seen? and youre right. ordinarily i wouldnt really give a second thought to this. but there was one other factor here. it was probably like 2 or 3 and the dude was leaning or the bar, watching in the crowd...and he was holding a lolly in one hand. now, i dont mean like a sucker, i mean like a lolly. like its 3 feet in diameter and i looks like it was made by rolling a like candy string up in a circle and its usually worn by 4 year old kids in the 1950s who are wearing like sailor outfits. a lolly. the dude was just holding it staring into the crowd. i really didnt know what to do. im not really sure how i can explain this dude so that you can fully grasp the creepiness. just take my word for it. and get the FRIG out.
i just wanted to make special mention of that. sorry readers. but that was one of the most memorable parts of my night.
so yeah did some dancing, did some awk standing around, some more dancing, more awk standing around, grooved to that drum and bass, etc, etc. pretty good.
and just in case you guys were wondering about this, songs in raves dont actually end. most of the songs that they played played the chorus at like fourteen times. and when the djs get tired of playing that chorus, they just blend the song into a different chorus. and by different chorus, i dont mean like a different song, i mean like the same exact beat, but with a different vocal loop going on over top. you know, a different song. that was cool. like literally, at 330 they said that they would do one more song. and the thing ended at 430. and right after the "last" song started this fatish dude that had devil horns and (probably) red makeup just stood on the stage with his arms spread wide. he stood there like that for like half an hour. like he just stood there. it was really weird. i would try to dance for a minute (i was SOO tired at this point) and id look up and hed just be standing there with his arms out. i guess he was like a dj and he was just doing a like "yes, yes i made this, enjoy it" sorta thing. it was kinda weird.
so yeah its 430 and the last song is FINALLY over. i am EXHAUSTED. ive been rockin and dancing all friggin night and im super ready to do some sleep.
we get out. by now its like 5am, nothings open, most of my crew is still at least kinda high and im still sober. and really tired.
so this is where the reader will need to recall a key bit of information from earlier. its really really cold and i am super under dressed. its going to be really rough until the buses start going again.
we go to this super shady all night convenience store across the street and do the snack, then get kicked out of the store for being rowdy teens thing then head down queen. we are currently at queen and bathurst and the plan was to mission to union station and get back to mac. i also had to pick up some cheques from my sister that i had to give to my landlord. so that means that i also had to get to queen and woodbine, which is basically across town. again.
cool
we end up at a subway. it was the best thing friggin ever. it turns out that the dude was like about to close and like 9 kids who were like high and really irritating walked in like right before he was going to go to sleep. he was really really pissed.
it tasted delicious btw.
so at this point, weve done some walking and i am frozen. like past frozen. it sucked.
i have no idea how the other people were doing it.
yeah
so we went to mcdonalds and the people did the ol 6 am joint time, which was pretty sweet, because that really just meant more outside time.
we keep walking and i realize that these guys are near where they want to be, so i jump on a streetcar that happens to be rolling by and say my goodbyes (yelling "omg the streetcar! ill be back in a bit!"), and apparently like everyone thought that i like randomly ditched them. solid
yeah, so i woke my sister up and got the cheques and headed back to union. alllmost done.
the train ride was actually really solid. like i didnt have to wait at all, i just got on and headed back. good times.
obviously i went to the top floor of the train. and there was maybe 5 people including me. and my second most favourite character of the night. it was some dude with a very large mohawk, who had obviously been partying all night and he was listening to dallas green very loudly on his ipod like speakers. it was sweet because he was dressed all "punk" and etc and he was listening to city and colour. it made me laugh a little.
anyways tho, the music really pissed me off and i spent the rest of the ride in the like middle floor area, trying to keep myself awake. shes a good time.
theres a bus that does a connection from the train station that takes you to the go station in downtown hamilton. it also does a stop that is technically close to mcmaster. i actually missed the stop, because i figured the dude would just stop, but he blew by it. i was this close to getting to go to sleep and now im on my way to shady downtown hamilton. cool.
i actually got a bus back pretty quickly, like the buses were on my side that day. i got back, faced with only one more challenge. i brought my backup wallet, which doesnt have very much space / stuff in it (in case i lose it) and which also didnt have my keycard that would get me into whidden. it didnt dawn on me until like right as i got to the building how dumb of me that was. it was 930 am on a sunday and friggin NO ONE is out at that time. i had to wait in the like entrance way. boo. i think i only waited for like 5 mins tho, it was sweet.
then i got back to the room. soooooo nice. i intentionally made a lot of noise so that i could tell my roomates what time it was (it being 930). it was a really good feeling, not going to lie.
then sleep
awwwwwww yeah
i woke up at 5 pm lol.
successful mission.
go team
thats it
it is currently 222am on (technically) friday. i started this post on sunday. sorry guys that this one took so long, but she was a mission and half.
post sometime later.
EDIT: also i forgot to talk about the floors of mr rave. they were kinda ridiculous. long story short, i stepped in more than a couple of condoms. good stuff.
also forgive the lateness, this was a hell of a post to write. like i wrote this bad boy in like chunks. super brutal.
also please pretend like there is good grammar in this one. theres going to be some rough parts. i promise.
so this part of the post is just going to be a retelling of the evening of jan 30, 2010 and some hours the next morning
yeah
go
yeah so she started off pretty good, i didnt go out the night before, i got plenty of sleep, woke up at like noon or 1. good start.
pretty easy day, grabbed some food, watched some seinfeld, did some homework, etc. easy
so the plan was to go to TO with the mac crowd, meet up with ruth and shawn, see the rival boys play, remeet the mac crowd at a rave, get some cheques for my landlord later on from ruth, back to mac. no problem
obviously thats shady, but it doesnt sound THAT shady.
it started off well. there was like 9ish of us and we were going to meet at 630 in front of whidden and get to downtown hamilton to grab the 730 bus to the TO. we ended up leaving whidden at like 710, but it worked out. the hsr to downtown was just pulling into the stop as we got there and everything worked out perfectly. we waited like 1 minute for the go to TO and it was cool.
were sitting at about an 8.5 out of 10 right now. i didnt bring gloves, because i wasnt sure about the conditions (coldness vs shadiness) and we did some light running, but everything else was good. not much to ACTUALLY complain about.
k right on so we arrive in TO. im not really sure where theyre going and as far as i know, im meeting my sister her bf shawn at union. so i part ways with the group and try to get my way to a good meeting point. so i texted ruth to text me when shes near, so that we could grab a streetcar / subway to lees palace for the concert. so i sit around union station for a while and catch up with some of the locals. which means i grabbed a seat and didnt make eye contact with anyone. i texted ruth with a where are you? and she was like were close to yonge. so i proceed to yonge, which was actually a lot harder than i thought. i forgot that the bus depot (the easternmost part of union station was the part that went onto yonge and that the bus depot and the like main concourse area was not the bus depot. so i walked to like bay street, then west over to university and got like locked out of like some of the buildings / walkways, so i had to walk through this like creepy construction area. pretty shady, but still no problem. i got to yonge. 7 out of 10
its at this point that im going to point out that it was cold outside. like <-10 with wind if i was to approximate. and my ensemble was not prepared for this. i was wearing thin sweater, peacoat, jeans, shoes and no gloves. so keep this in mind.
k im at yonge and front street. ive been trying to contact ruth and i get a text "lol were not meeting you at union". solid. mission time.
i start northbound and get to like the next block and decide to subway'r. its really cold and bloor / bathurst is a loooong way away. i figure that i would have to do this sort of transit at some point or another, so its cool. a tad irked, but cool 6.8 out of 10. still rockin
so i actually got lost again. the subway actually worked out really well, it basically got me to my location, bathurst / bloor, but i got my north / south mixed up. so i was supposed to go east on bloor, but i ended up going west into korea town. long story short (lol), i got to some bar and it was cool. concert in a bit, stuffs working out, 8 or 9 out of 10.
so we hung out for a while, the rival boys didnt go on until like 1130, which meant get to lees palace at 1100, lots of time. its cool. we go to a different bar and hang out for a while. i got a beer. then more hanging out, then we went to lees. metal. 9 out of 10, 1 beer in system.
we actually lined up right behind my aunt (two of the band members are my cousins), which was pretty weird. it was cool, but it was weird.
we hung out inside for a minute, just waiting for stuff to start, pretty good. i got another beer. so rival boys are on in a minute and ive got one and a half beers in me. 10 out of 10. awesome
rival boys kicked the shit out of the show. they were only on for like half an hour or 40 mins or something, but they killed it. i rocked out on the floor the whole time. it was so much fun and they were sooo good and i dont really know what else to say about it. SO good
check this
http://www.myspace.com/therivalboys
soooooo good
it ended, we said goodbyes to the extended fam and we departed. i did some transit with ruth and shawn and broke off from them at about 1245ish. not really sure what time.
then part two
part two is what you guys really came here to see. no one really cared about "steve goes to TO and had a good time", "steve goes to a rave" is where its at.
it sure is.
heres just some more set up info, just in case youve lost track
its probably about 1. maybe. i just got off of the streetcar and am staring down three ~16 year old kids who are at a door under a sign that says the reverb (the destination). its -93210 with the wind outside and im not really dressed well, because i dont want to look like a weenie in front of the rave people and i dont want to get something weird on very many of my clothes. im feeling kinda shitty, because i kinda just ditched my sister. she didnt really want me to go to this thing by myself because its going to be super duper shady and all that stuff, but i went. because im a champ i guess. or a dick. not really sure. i just had my balls rocked off at the rival boys show. im probably going to be sore, and the rock was quite a bit of energy. im a little tired. ive had 2 beers, but theres probably only 1 that is actually in my system. i texted a few of the people to let them know that ill be there soon, because i need some codes to get me in.
go.
k so here i am. i see a sign that says the reverb over a pretty shitty looking door and some weird looking kids sitting outside. i originally would have said that they look emo, but they definitely werent. sorry. they probably were, because they were teenagers, but they were dressed like way more over the top than regular emos. as it turns out that thats the way that ravers dress. and remember, im in my rock duds: peacoat, plaid sweater, american dollar shirt, jeans and plaid shoes. these kids (and most of the other people) are in neon. its cool
so i go up to them and im like is this the rave and theyre like yeah, but youre probably not going to get in because shes at capacity right now. we decide to walk to the like main entrance when i see ahmed and hes like dude ive been waiting outside since like 1030 (its like 1 right now). so hes like fml were not getting in any time soon and he didnt have a place to stay, so he had to like wait for the rave to end. it was a pretty bad scene. so naturally we went to a bar across the street.
the bar was cool. i have no idea what it was called, or any real info on it. the bathroom was really small, but it was by NO means the worst bathroom that i saw that night. it was pretty empty, which was nice.
so yeah, ahmed and i got a beer and watched maybe like half an hour or so of the leafs game an listened to some jazz music. it was pretty solid.
yup, so we ditched the bar after like 45 mins and decided to head back to the reverb and just wait and hope something good would happen. remember its cold. so we waited outside and talked to a coupla randoms and whatnot when this security guards like you guys should be standing in line, some people are leaving, so you might be able to get in. and were like sweet! good call!. we waited in line for maybe 8 minutes and we got let in.
so the actual space that the rave was in is the second floor of the club. we walked up this really tight and dirty staircase and paid friggin $20 to get in. i was actually really pissed that i had to pay 20 dollars. i figured that it wasnt going to be worth it. i figured that.
then we got to it. upstairs. the rave.
the place was packed. it was really dark, with basically only black lights and like lasers lighting up the place. but it worked out pretty well, because the black light and the neon made like a quarter of each person was really bright. it was cool
so by the time we got inside the rave had been going on for like 5 hours, so the place smelled terrible. there was sooo much BO. like you would get used to it, but every once in a while some dude who spent most of the night givering would walk by and it would smell sooooo bad.
but yeah ahmed and i went and did the coat check thing, then hit the floor. it was nuts. people were just givering. like it was intense drum and bass music and people were just going for it. it was actually really cool
we met up with the original group of people said the whats up and happy birthdays and etc and didnt really know what to do. it was kinda awk. like ahmed and i were the ONLY people there who werent on some sort of chemical drug. like there was soooooo much e and etc (lol) happening. also i probably had like 1 beer still in my system. MAYBE one and a half, but still, i was definitely sober. definitely.
but it was cool. we were both like 'f it' and we went and actually danced. i gaver too. like most of the people i was with probably didnt notice and not many people can really appreciate what that means, but i gave the shit out of her and danced my balls off. i actually danced for like a long time. and actually danced. it was cool
but yeah the actual rave.
so basically everyone that was there was decked out in neon and tons of like bead bracelets and like synthetic dreadlocks and furry boots and shit. and soooo many girls were in like bikinis or like suuuuppppeerrrr skanky clothing. and they were all on e and stuff so i didnt feel bad for doing a bit of staring. it was sweet.
so yeah there was the really hot girls wearing super skimpy neon bikinis, the regular (?) ravers who wore like neon and other accessories, nothing overly slutty, the coupla handfuls of awk males (like myself), some miscellaneous, and more than a few scary older men. like these guys were friggin creeeeppyyy. like VI old man creepy, but with more chemical drugs and more (actually) hot girls in skimpier clothing. it was rough
while im on this subject i would like to make special mention to the creepiest / scariest man that i have EVER seen in my life. so you bar goers (at least the VI goers) know that theres always the obligatory creepy dude with a beer standing at the side of the dance floor staring into the crowd with a beer in his hand, right? this particular dude was like that. but not quite. the dude was probably like 50. he might have been younger, but like it definitely showed that he did some lots a drugs and his body wasnt too happy with him. he his hair was visibly thinning, at about shoulder length and it was died a very obviously not real red colour. like it wasnt ginger colour, it was more purply. dude was short, not much else to say about that. overall, he looked like ronnie james dio and carrot top had a very old baby. thats probably the best way that i can put it. but you might be thinking to yourself, steve thats kinda weird, but come on thats the CREEPIEST guy youve seen? and youre right. ordinarily i wouldnt really give a second thought to this. but there was one other factor here. it was probably like 2 or 3 and the dude was leaning or the bar, watching in the crowd...and he was holding a lolly in one hand. now, i dont mean like a sucker, i mean like a lolly. like its 3 feet in diameter and i looks like it was made by rolling a like candy string up in a circle and its usually worn by 4 year old kids in the 1950s who are wearing like sailor outfits. a lolly. the dude was just holding it staring into the crowd. i really didnt know what to do. im not really sure how i can explain this dude so that you can fully grasp the creepiness. just take my word for it. and get the FRIG out.
i just wanted to make special mention of that. sorry readers. but that was one of the most memorable parts of my night.
so yeah did some dancing, did some awk standing around, some more dancing, more awk standing around, grooved to that drum and bass, etc, etc. pretty good.
and just in case you guys were wondering about this, songs in raves dont actually end. most of the songs that they played played the chorus at like fourteen times. and when the djs get tired of playing that chorus, they just blend the song into a different chorus. and by different chorus, i dont mean like a different song, i mean like the same exact beat, but with a different vocal loop going on over top. you know, a different song. that was cool. like literally, at 330 they said that they would do one more song. and the thing ended at 430. and right after the "last" song started this fatish dude that had devil horns and (probably) red makeup just stood on the stage with his arms spread wide. he stood there like that for like half an hour. like he just stood there. it was really weird. i would try to dance for a minute (i was SOO tired at this point) and id look up and hed just be standing there with his arms out. i guess he was like a dj and he was just doing a like "yes, yes i made this, enjoy it" sorta thing. it was kinda weird.
so yeah its 430 and the last song is FINALLY over. i am EXHAUSTED. ive been rockin and dancing all friggin night and im super ready to do some sleep.
we get out. by now its like 5am, nothings open, most of my crew is still at least kinda high and im still sober. and really tired.
so this is where the reader will need to recall a key bit of information from earlier. its really really cold and i am super under dressed. its going to be really rough until the buses start going again.
we go to this super shady all night convenience store across the street and do the snack, then get kicked out of the store for being rowdy teens thing then head down queen. we are currently at queen and bathurst and the plan was to mission to union station and get back to mac. i also had to pick up some cheques from my sister that i had to give to my landlord. so that means that i also had to get to queen and woodbine, which is basically across town. again.
cool
we end up at a subway. it was the best thing friggin ever. it turns out that the dude was like about to close and like 9 kids who were like high and really irritating walked in like right before he was going to go to sleep. he was really really pissed.
it tasted delicious btw.
so at this point, weve done some walking and i am frozen. like past frozen. it sucked.
i have no idea how the other people were doing it.
yeah
so we went to mcdonalds and the people did the ol 6 am joint time, which was pretty sweet, because that really just meant more outside time.
we keep walking and i realize that these guys are near where they want to be, so i jump on a streetcar that happens to be rolling by and say my goodbyes (yelling "omg the streetcar! ill be back in a bit!"), and apparently like everyone thought that i like randomly ditched them. solid
yeah, so i woke my sister up and got the cheques and headed back to union. alllmost done.
the train ride was actually really solid. like i didnt have to wait at all, i just got on and headed back. good times.
obviously i went to the top floor of the train. and there was maybe 5 people including me. and my second most favourite character of the night. it was some dude with a very large mohawk, who had obviously been partying all night and he was listening to dallas green very loudly on his ipod like speakers. it was sweet because he was dressed all "punk" and etc and he was listening to city and colour. it made me laugh a little.
anyways tho, the music really pissed me off and i spent the rest of the ride in the like middle floor area, trying to keep myself awake. shes a good time.
theres a bus that does a connection from the train station that takes you to the go station in downtown hamilton. it also does a stop that is technically close to mcmaster. i actually missed the stop, because i figured the dude would just stop, but he blew by it. i was this close to getting to go to sleep and now im on my way to shady downtown hamilton. cool.
i actually got a bus back pretty quickly, like the buses were on my side that day. i got back, faced with only one more challenge. i brought my backup wallet, which doesnt have very much space / stuff in it (in case i lose it) and which also didnt have my keycard that would get me into whidden. it didnt dawn on me until like right as i got to the building how dumb of me that was. it was 930 am on a sunday and friggin NO ONE is out at that time. i had to wait in the like entrance way. boo. i think i only waited for like 5 mins tho, it was sweet.
then i got back to the room. soooooo nice. i intentionally made a lot of noise so that i could tell my roomates what time it was (it being 930). it was a really good feeling, not going to lie.
then sleep
awwwwwww yeah
i woke up at 5 pm lol.
successful mission.
go team
thats it
it is currently 222am on (technically) friday. i started this post on sunday. sorry guys that this one took so long, but she was a mission and half.
post sometime later.
EDIT: also i forgot to talk about the floors of mr rave. they were kinda ridiculous. long story short, i stepped in more than a couple of condoms. good stuff.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Jan 31 Part 1: Why Starcraft Is Ruining The Blog
k so todays blog is going to be done in two parts. its been like a week, so you guys need some blog. and ive got some stories. prepare.
Part 1: Why Starcraft Is Ruining The Blog
ill start with some introductions. stuff has been up lately. its pretty cool. schools in full swing, so blogging is getting really hard to do. i got a 75 on a large math test on wednesday, which is fucking FANTASTIC. granted, it was a super duper easy test, but still. like i would have killed for a 75 on stuff last semester. and this is the harder course too. i am confident that this trend will not continue, however. dr childs is an angry man, and he is going to WRECK us. including the exam, there are 5 tests, which means that he has plenty of time to build our hopes up then just squash them. guaranteed to happen.
guaranteed.
personally, there has been a lot of growth. usually when someone asks me what i do in my spare time at mac i say things like "not much" or "not blog" or "i dunno, something metal", but now its different. now its starcraft. my roomates and i play it friggin all of the time. like its suuuppppppeeerrrrrr fun. it kinda sucks tho. like its soo time consuming. most of the time what happens is that we cant connect to each other, so that takes like 10 mins to do, then we start a few games and someone ends up getting like rushed and killed, so we have to start another game, then once we do get one rolling it takes around 45 mins for it to actually end. then there are arguments about whether or not we should play more and etc like that. thats just an example. i get like nothing done anymore
its basically a huge waste of time. its fun. but its a waste of time.
ALSO youtube has started recommending that i watch starcraft videos. and who can say to no youtube. so theres a LOT of time wasted right there. those videos are about 20 mins each, which eats into my simpsons and other tv show time
so yeah thats cool. i spend like most of my spare time doing that or homework or something, usually not blogging. pretty fun
some more updates
i would like to give HUGE props to matt for jumping in on that flamewar that i was doing. that was super solid.
in case you guys are wondering how that ended, it didnt really. the dude posted something on my youtube like homepage thing about how i was a fag or something and he like took down the stuff that i tried to post on his page and he blocked me from contacting him. then i saw him replying to matts comments on the actual video that matt was a fag because hes canadaian and that his page has a picture of a lego dude. so i jumped back in and got ignored some. its over now. that was really gay.
there were waaayyyy less casualties than i had anticipated. oh well. ive got time, the internet is vast, it will probably happen again
oh also, on thursday i officially went and got my sweat on at the gym. im still sore. im not sure what that means, i did do the rave thing yesterday, but w.e, ill be super ripped in no time. ladies get in line now, save yourselves some time later.
also some general goodness for you, doug piper over at stuff and rabbits has restarted the blog. so check that shit out. go get some info on some youtube action. its really rockin.
http://stuffundrabbits.blogspot.com/
seriously check this one out.
cool so some tv news, then endings, then part 2
tv news. k so as i said earlier, starcraft videos are happening, but im trying to keep that one down. i just finished season 13 of the simpsons and ive been powering through the IT crowd. thats one that you guys should try to watch. if you havent done garth marenghis darkplace, do that first, but then do the IT crowd.
actually. do man to man with dean learner before doing the IT crowd. w.e.
anyways tho the IT crowd. fans of darkplace will notice some familiar faces on the IT crowd. notably, dean learner / thornton reed plays one of the leads maurice moss and todd rivers / lucien sanchez plays douglas, who comes in during the second season.
good show
songs
right now?: missing time - fredrik thorendals special defects
on deck?: a mix of physics homework and part of the post
too much?: straws pulled at random - meshuggah
new stuff?: one of meshuggahs top friends on myspace was a band called decapitated. theyre pretty sweet. im going to give them a second listen sometime soon
shout outs
i HAVE to shout out matt for this one. no question. probably the funniest thing that ive seen in a while was me checking on the position of the flamewar only to see that matt jumped in. i lold. really hard. good show
pretty solid
part 2: the shadiest steve has ever been part 2 will be up soon. i promise
metal
EDIT its 1:08 am ive got maybe a third of the part 2 done. will finish it and post tomorrow
Part 1: Why Starcraft Is Ruining The Blog
ill start with some introductions. stuff has been up lately. its pretty cool. schools in full swing, so blogging is getting really hard to do. i got a 75 on a large math test on wednesday, which is fucking FANTASTIC. granted, it was a super duper easy test, but still. like i would have killed for a 75 on stuff last semester. and this is the harder course too. i am confident that this trend will not continue, however. dr childs is an angry man, and he is going to WRECK us. including the exam, there are 5 tests, which means that he has plenty of time to build our hopes up then just squash them. guaranteed to happen.
guaranteed.
personally, there has been a lot of growth. usually when someone asks me what i do in my spare time at mac i say things like "not much" or "not blog" or "i dunno, something metal", but now its different. now its starcraft. my roomates and i play it friggin all of the time. like its suuuppppppeeerrrrrr fun. it kinda sucks tho. like its soo time consuming. most of the time what happens is that we cant connect to each other, so that takes like 10 mins to do, then we start a few games and someone ends up getting like rushed and killed, so we have to start another game, then once we do get one rolling it takes around 45 mins for it to actually end. then there are arguments about whether or not we should play more and etc like that. thats just an example. i get like nothing done anymore
its basically a huge waste of time. its fun. but its a waste of time.
ALSO youtube has started recommending that i watch starcraft videos. and who can say to no youtube. so theres a LOT of time wasted right there. those videos are about 20 mins each, which eats into my simpsons and other tv show time
so yeah thats cool. i spend like most of my spare time doing that or homework or something, usually not blogging. pretty fun
some more updates
i would like to give HUGE props to matt for jumping in on that flamewar that i was doing. that was super solid.
in case you guys are wondering how that ended, it didnt really. the dude posted something on my youtube like homepage thing about how i was a fag or something and he like took down the stuff that i tried to post on his page and he blocked me from contacting him. then i saw him replying to matts comments on the actual video that matt was a fag because hes canadaian and that his page has a picture of a lego dude. so i jumped back in and got ignored some. its over now. that was really gay.
there were waaayyyy less casualties than i had anticipated. oh well. ive got time, the internet is vast, it will probably happen again
oh also, on thursday i officially went and got my sweat on at the gym. im still sore. im not sure what that means, i did do the rave thing yesterday, but w.e, ill be super ripped in no time. ladies get in line now, save yourselves some time later.
also some general goodness for you, doug piper over at stuff and rabbits has restarted the blog. so check that shit out. go get some info on some youtube action. its really rockin.
http://stuffundrabbits.blogspot.com/
seriously check this one out.
cool so some tv news, then endings, then part 2
tv news. k so as i said earlier, starcraft videos are happening, but im trying to keep that one down. i just finished season 13 of the simpsons and ive been powering through the IT crowd. thats one that you guys should try to watch. if you havent done garth marenghis darkplace, do that first, but then do the IT crowd.
actually. do man to man with dean learner before doing the IT crowd. w.e.
anyways tho the IT crowd. fans of darkplace will notice some familiar faces on the IT crowd. notably, dean learner / thornton reed plays one of the leads maurice moss and todd rivers / lucien sanchez plays douglas, who comes in during the second season.
good show
songs
right now?: missing time - fredrik thorendals special defects
on deck?: a mix of physics homework and part of the post
too much?: straws pulled at random - meshuggah
new stuff?: one of meshuggahs top friends on myspace was a band called decapitated. theyre pretty sweet. im going to give them a second listen sometime soon
shout outs
i HAVE to shout out matt for this one. no question. probably the funniest thing that ive seen in a while was me checking on the position of the flamewar only to see that matt jumped in. i lold. really hard. good show
pretty solid
part 2: the shadiest steve has ever been part 2 will be up soon. i promise
metal
EDIT its 1:08 am ive got maybe a third of the part 2 done. will finish it and post tomorrow
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
EDIT a brief intermission READ ONE POST DOWN!
yeah so blogspot is really cool and my newest post is one post down right now. so just look one down. its good
Original Post
hey
yeah so its been a while.
so right now im actually in the process of writing the blog that would go up today, but it was really terrible. like im super tired and it just wasnt happening.
ill put one up tomorrow. trust me.
like seriously. it was really bad
brb
"dude you should have seen this chick. she was soooooooooo fat"
Original Post
hey
yeah so its been a while.
so right now im actually in the process of writing the blog that would go up today, but it was really terrible. like im super tired and it just wasnt happening.
ill put one up tomorrow. trust me.
like seriously. it was really bad
brb
"dude you should have seen this chick. she was soooooooooo fat"
the wednesday blog take 2...3
yeah its wed...thurdsday...2:37am saturday (i still claim that its friday night tho)
*please note that this note has been written over the course of three days, so please forgive the fact that there are probably pounds of continuity errrors*
i really should be studying right now, but its been like a week since the last post.
kinda shitty, i know.
anyways
in case you guys are wondering i havent done a post in a while because i feel i need to give you guys critical updates about steve and things that steve is affiliated with and there just hasnt been that much up lately. like i would give you more posts, but i dont want the post to be like "its tuesday and today i spent the bulk of my time scratching my ass". like that might be good for one or two posts, but i really dont want my blog to get filled up with this stuff. that wouldnt be too great.
but yeah ill give you some news
as of like right now im in a house for next year. which is really solid. yeah its super awesome. like band house would have been amazing, but like really thinking about it, there was a moderately slim chance of it actually happening. next year things should be sorted out and all of that etc, but for now its cool. just a lot of jamming.
and jamming with my new band at mac. im definitely in a band here too. its really sweet. weve all been like jamming for a while, but weve only recently become an official band. its super sweet. umm no name yet. but im pretty sure that once it happens, it will be super badass.
yeah dude
speaking of music, i definitely went to bradford last weekend. did the fcthing, which was super sweet. i also finally saw inglorious basterds. which was super duper metal. thoroughly enjoyed it.
ummm but yeah this week. pretty cool.
test seasons coming up. thats not going to be cool. its friday night and theres a math super test on wednesday. i was going to do some studying tonight, but that turned into do some drinking and play halo then watch gamer and do a blog at 240am. pretty close tho
ALSO
MAJOR UPDATE
so i might be engaged in my first super gay youtube flamewar!
I KNOW, RIGHT?
so theres an extended intro to this story, you can skip to the main part if you want. ill have a little part down below that will tell you where to catch up
extended set up
here i am, browsing away on youtube, when what catches my eye? but a video that goes by the moniker "nintendocore". now as a nerd, i am immediately drawn in by the combination of nintendo and the core part of the title.
*digression*
the core part of the title. yeah. the suffix "-core". there are many definitions as to what this means, but heres the steve, high levels of awesome approved definition. the core part was originally a reference to the phrase "harcore", which was originally a reference to the hardcore punk stuff from way back in the day. keywords here are "punk", as in "(in the 70s / 80s ish)damn that band is really punk" or "those kids are punks, call their parents so they can come and get them" so yeah generally when you see something with a "-core" suffix on it, you can assume that there is going to be something punk about it.
the thing is that punk died off a loooonnnnnnnggggggggg time ago. and in its place is kids who skateboard and put their hair into emo flicks (hair scarves) and listen to emo music. which isnt punk at all. they also like their breakdowns. oh man do they like their breakdowns.
so like if you were to hear a song with a label like "metalcore" (which is a common term nowadays), you can expect to hear these things:
1. generally fast, aggressive playing (metal)
2. really gay emo parts (core)
3. really gay breakdowns (core)
4. lots of really gay emo singing (core)
5. things like pig squeals and stuff to that extent (core. people might say thats metal, but lets be serious here, it was kind of metal the first time you heard it, but now its just really stupid. you know. -core)
k yeah nintendocore.
going into this, i knew that it was a horrible call, but i still did it. maybe im just naive. maybe i was hoping that the "nintendo" part that was promised would save this probably bad song.
on the inside, i was really hoping that it would sound like the stuff from this link:
http://metroidmetal.bandcamp.com/
(i picked this up from a good pal doug ho. hes one of my followers. really solid. if hes got a blog, you should probably check it out)
no such luck.
heres the video.
it started off with just a picture of the band, because i assume that there isnt anyone around that would fund this (i know that 12 year olds WOULD fund it, but they dont have any money, so it doesnt matter).
also in case you guys are wondering this whole deal is band: sky eats airplanes, song: giants in the ocean. listen to it if you want. i wouldnt recommend it tho. like this way the video gets more hits and hearing this will make you want to drive a spoon into your ear. and thats never good
so here they are. just standing there. 5 dudes, all with hairscarves and their respective characters. theres
the sesitive one: with extra emo hair, and a look that says "i would love to hear about your day, just let me get this dude out of my bum first"
the feisty one: hes little, but im sure that hes talented and brings a lot of emoness to the band
the creepy one: will probably rape you, but its okay because the hair scarf makes him cute
the tough one: hes got tatoos, which make him tough, but that hairscarf strikes again. hes too cute to be tough
the other dude: looks like hes just there. they probably needed a dude to play bass or keyboard or something so that they look like a real band. real punk bands need 5 members. or he was someones little brother and that dudes parents told him that he needed to include him in the stuff that he does
the song:
it starts off with a synth intro-dealie. im going to be honest, i did NOT notice it the first time i heard it. i think it was facebooking or something to that extent and just figured that there was silence.
then there is one(1) bar of sweep pick / screamo / breakdown. then it went reaaaalllllyyyyy emo. and i turned it off.
so, because i do stuff like this, i wrote on the videos wall:
"i got to 0:18, then i had to stop it.
howd anybody else do?"
the video had only been rated 4 / 5 stars, so i figured id get some replies saying "lol yeah this is shit" or something to that extent. that was pretty much my best case scenario.
so today i get home from doing the liqour thing, and i hit the facebook, to see that i have a comment shared with me. i click it thinking that someone else found my comment mildly amusing, so i check it. instead, i read a comment, courtesy of some dude named muffinmystic that read "shut the fuck up". feelings hurt a tad, i responded, loling to myself
"did you not get that far?
i understand, its a pretty terrible song"
personally, i liked this comment, because what i meant was that he didnt believe that i got to the 18 second mark in one try. it made me lol.
so i was feeling pretty good. i figured that i shut down some dude who tried to troll me. but NO.
MAIN PART OF THE STORY (rejoin here if you skipped the start)
so i go to my my channel page of youtube, just because i was taking a detour around youtube to some other channels, when i saw this comment on my main wall. from mystic muffin that read
"Radiohead r gay wannbes who tried 2 start a new trend, and they're fags who sing soft gay music"
yeah. i dont get mad often. but there was QUITE a bit of rage in good ol steve at that point. like this punk (not the music def, the get their parents def) just wrote on my wall that radiohead "r gay wannabes". also they "tried to start a new trend", and "they're fags". like i had SO much rage right there. you dont really understand. like i cant really describe how much rage there was there. like everything was wrong about the post. it was nuts.
but i played this one cool. i replied on his wall
""
actually i cant really remember what i posted on his wall. and i cant go back and check, because he has to approve them first. ill give a detailed explanation of his profile later. its quite a sight
the jist of it was that i expected there to be a really stupid flame war soon and i was just getting the facts first, you know, he says hes metal, hes probably like 12-15, etc. just ground work. nothing yet. im playing this one cool. it will probably get rough tho.
thats it right now. its 341am. and im tired. this might get messy. but then again, super gay flame wars are usually messy.
so yeah.
ill keep you guys posted on how this progresses. im looking forward to it.
kcool.
some bed action now
songs
right now: futile bread machine - meshuggah. this is actually the "campfire version" of the song future breed machine. i really enjoy it. like theyre having some fun with some of the most brutal music that exists.
on deck: probably some more -core music. i know, but you have to be researched to be successful. fear not tho, an increase in -core stuff can only lead to an increase in good metal music. like i need to balance my system after
shout outs
lets do doug ho. because he provided that metroid metal link. also this one, which made me lol my balls off
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/joseph-ducreux-archaic-rap
gg doug. g. g.
awesome.
that post was only a lot late.
ps. im pretty sure that the post will say that i post will say that i wrote this like 3 days ago, but im just finishing this at 350am on saturday (friday night). yeap. rockin
*please note that this note has been written over the course of three days, so please forgive the fact that there are probably pounds of continuity errrors*
i really should be studying right now, but its been like a week since the last post.
kinda shitty, i know.
anyways
in case you guys are wondering i havent done a post in a while because i feel i need to give you guys critical updates about steve and things that steve is affiliated with and there just hasnt been that much up lately. like i would give you more posts, but i dont want the post to be like "its tuesday and today i spent the bulk of my time scratching my ass". like that might be good for one or two posts, but i really dont want my blog to get filled up with this stuff. that wouldnt be too great.
but yeah ill give you some news
as of like right now im in a house for next year. which is really solid. yeah its super awesome. like band house would have been amazing, but like really thinking about it, there was a moderately slim chance of it actually happening. next year things should be sorted out and all of that etc, but for now its cool. just a lot of jamming.
and jamming with my new band at mac. im definitely in a band here too. its really sweet. weve all been like jamming for a while, but weve only recently become an official band. its super sweet. umm no name yet. but im pretty sure that once it happens, it will be super badass.
yeah dude
speaking of music, i definitely went to bradford last weekend. did the fcthing, which was super sweet. i also finally saw inglorious basterds. which was super duper metal. thoroughly enjoyed it.
ummm but yeah this week. pretty cool.
test seasons coming up. thats not going to be cool. its friday night and theres a math super test on wednesday. i was going to do some studying tonight, but that turned into do some drinking and play halo then watch gamer and do a blog at 240am. pretty close tho
ALSO
MAJOR UPDATE
so i might be engaged in my first super gay youtube flamewar!
I KNOW, RIGHT?
so theres an extended intro to this story, you can skip to the main part if you want. ill have a little part down below that will tell you where to catch up
extended set up
here i am, browsing away on youtube, when what catches my eye? but a video that goes by the moniker "nintendocore". now as a nerd, i am immediately drawn in by the combination of nintendo and the core part of the title.
*digression*
the core part of the title. yeah. the suffix "-core". there are many definitions as to what this means, but heres the steve, high levels of awesome approved definition. the core part was originally a reference to the phrase "harcore", which was originally a reference to the hardcore punk stuff from way back in the day. keywords here are "punk", as in "(in the 70s / 80s ish)damn that band is really punk" or "those kids are punks, call their parents so they can come and get them" so yeah generally when you see something with a "-core" suffix on it, you can assume that there is going to be something punk about it.
the thing is that punk died off a loooonnnnnnnggggggggg time ago. and in its place is kids who skateboard and put their hair into emo flicks (hair scarves) and listen to emo music. which isnt punk at all. they also like their breakdowns. oh man do they like their breakdowns.
so like if you were to hear a song with a label like "metalcore" (which is a common term nowadays), you can expect to hear these things:
1. generally fast, aggressive playing (metal)
2. really gay emo parts (core)
3. really gay breakdowns (core)
4. lots of really gay emo singing (core)
5. things like pig squeals and stuff to that extent (core. people might say thats metal, but lets be serious here, it was kind of metal the first time you heard it, but now its just really stupid. you know. -core)
k yeah nintendocore.
going into this, i knew that it was a horrible call, but i still did it. maybe im just naive. maybe i was hoping that the "nintendo" part that was promised would save this probably bad song.
on the inside, i was really hoping that it would sound like the stuff from this link:
http://metroidmetal.bandcamp.com/
(i picked this up from a good pal doug ho. hes one of my followers. really solid. if hes got a blog, you should probably check it out)
no such luck.
heres the video.
it started off with just a picture of the band, because i assume that there isnt anyone around that would fund this (i know that 12 year olds WOULD fund it, but they dont have any money, so it doesnt matter).
also in case you guys are wondering this whole deal is band: sky eats airplanes, song: giants in the ocean. listen to it if you want. i wouldnt recommend it tho. like this way the video gets more hits and hearing this will make you want to drive a spoon into your ear. and thats never good
so here they are. just standing there. 5 dudes, all with hairscarves and their respective characters. theres
the sesitive one: with extra emo hair, and a look that says "i would love to hear about your day, just let me get this dude out of my bum first"
the feisty one: hes little, but im sure that hes talented and brings a lot of emoness to the band
the creepy one: will probably rape you, but its okay because the hair scarf makes him cute
the tough one: hes got tatoos, which make him tough, but that hairscarf strikes again. hes too cute to be tough
the other dude: looks like hes just there. they probably needed a dude to play bass or keyboard or something so that they look like a real band. real punk bands need 5 members. or he was someones little brother and that dudes parents told him that he needed to include him in the stuff that he does
the song:
it starts off with a synth intro-dealie. im going to be honest, i did NOT notice it the first time i heard it. i think it was facebooking or something to that extent and just figured that there was silence.
then there is one(1) bar of sweep pick / screamo / breakdown. then it went reaaaalllllyyyyy emo. and i turned it off.
so, because i do stuff like this, i wrote on the videos wall:
"i got to 0:18, then i had to stop it.
howd anybody else do?"
the video had only been rated 4 / 5 stars, so i figured id get some replies saying "lol yeah this is shit" or something to that extent. that was pretty much my best case scenario.
so today i get home from doing the liqour thing, and i hit the facebook, to see that i have a comment shared with me. i click it thinking that someone else found my comment mildly amusing, so i check it. instead, i read a comment, courtesy of some dude named muffinmystic that read "shut the fuck up". feelings hurt a tad, i responded, loling to myself
"did you not get that far?
i understand, its a pretty terrible song"
personally, i liked this comment, because what i meant was that he didnt believe that i got to the 18 second mark in one try. it made me lol.
so i was feeling pretty good. i figured that i shut down some dude who tried to troll me. but NO.
MAIN PART OF THE STORY (rejoin here if you skipped the start)
so i go to my my channel page of youtube, just because i was taking a detour around youtube to some other channels, when i saw this comment on my main wall. from mystic muffin that read
"Radiohead r gay wannbes who tried 2 start a new trend, and they're fags who sing soft gay music"
yeah. i dont get mad often. but there was QUITE a bit of rage in good ol steve at that point. like this punk (not the music def, the get their parents def) just wrote on my wall that radiohead "r gay wannabes". also they "tried to start a new trend", and "they're fags". like i had SO much rage right there. you dont really understand. like i cant really describe how much rage there was there. like everything was wrong about the post. it was nuts.
but i played this one cool. i replied on his wall
""
actually i cant really remember what i posted on his wall. and i cant go back and check, because he has to approve them first. ill give a detailed explanation of his profile later. its quite a sight
the jist of it was that i expected there to be a really stupid flame war soon and i was just getting the facts first, you know, he says hes metal, hes probably like 12-15, etc. just ground work. nothing yet. im playing this one cool. it will probably get rough tho.
thats it right now. its 341am. and im tired. this might get messy. but then again, super gay flame wars are usually messy.
so yeah.
ill keep you guys posted on how this progresses. im looking forward to it.
kcool.
some bed action now
songs
right now: futile bread machine - meshuggah. this is actually the "campfire version" of the song future breed machine. i really enjoy it. like theyre having some fun with some of the most brutal music that exists.
on deck: probably some more -core music. i know, but you have to be researched to be successful. fear not tho, an increase in -core stuff can only lead to an increase in good metal music. like i need to balance my system after
shout outs
lets do doug ho. because he provided that metroid metal link. also this one, which made me lol my balls off
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/joseph-ducreux-archaic-rap
gg doug. g. g.
awesome.
that post was only a lot late.
ps. im pretty sure that the post will say that i post will say that i wrote this like 3 days ago, but im just finishing this at 350am on saturday (friday night). yeap. rockin
Friday, January 15, 2010
heading back to bradford
bradford this weekend. ill probably do a post on sunday.
i would have felt bad if i just left you guys hangning.
ill get back to you tho, dont worry
super metal.
songs
right now: the simpsons where marge bans sugar from springfield
on deck: the bus after my econ class
good stuff
i would have felt bad if i just left you guys hangning.
ill get back to you tho, dont worry
super metal.
songs
right now: the simpsons where marge bans sugar from springfield
on deck: the bus after my econ class
good stuff
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
A very (adj) man (verb)ed into the (noun) with (proper noun)
jeeze
i got nothing right now.
like i would have posted something yesterday or the day before, but i just havent been in that blog writing groove. i dunno. sometimes the awesome strikes and sometimes it doesnt. its just the way she goes. today she probably wont. lets do this anyways tho. you guys look like you need it.
yeah
also you may have noticed the mad lib as / in the title. i wasnt really sure what to do, so i figure that id let you guys figure it out.
this also adds some replay value to the bolg, because when you guys come back the 8 or 9 times per day, you can read a new post every time! like the content might be the same, but the title is different, therefore, new post. its a pretty sick system.
word
so some steve news.
i guess i havent done a post in like a week. my bad people
k anyways
friday
i did the york thing with tori and her friends. it was a seriously rockin time. uhh we played this game called what, then like kings or whatever that drinking game is called, then angies and this party that one of toris friends had to go to because the dude hosting it was a TA or something along those lines. it was a commitment. anyways i actually had an epiphany or something to that extent. so the party was full of >25 year olds. like there was 5 people in our group and we were CLEARLY the youngest people there. i figured that the people were like 40, but i was later told that the average age was like 27 or so. it was really weird. i had a "this is what my life is going to look like in like 7 - 8 years" moment. and it was really depressing. like i dont really know how to say it. it was really really odd. like we just sorta stood there and i spent a good amount of time just staring at the people in the party. like people who OBVIOUSLY werent the age acting like they were like 18. like i want to say i hope im cooler than that when im that old, but i dont really know. like by then the band will have taken off and ill have legions of fans and groupies to tell me how cool i am, but on the inside i wouldnt be sure. it was rough. still a good time, DO NOT get me wrong, it was a great night. a little scary, but great.
anyways the key point from that paragraph is that you should appreciate your age. ive seen the alternative. its saggy. and it has a surprising amount of pimples.
then 2am chicken wings. deeeeericious.
saturday
its 3am. after completeting a long night of party goodness, you retire to toris couch for some sleep
its 7am. awesome man lets hit the road. tori had to do some teaching in bford at 9am. goooooood times.
its 715am. its friggin cold outside and youre asleep at the bustop at york university en route to the hammer.
transit actually worked out really really well. i only waited like 5 minutes for a bus to the subway, i didnt have to wait for a subway and i just walked onto the hamilton go bus. it was really really nice.
its ~10am. you cant decide whether or not you want to walk back to res from the highway 403 exit on mainstreet, or walk to jackson square from the bus station and bus back to mac. you decide to walk. remember, you didnt bring your appropriate-for-the-weather winter coat, and opted for the exponentially more badass peacoat. its kinda warm, but it was seriously cold outside. seriously cold. like i went to the bathroom and it took me a couple of seconds to locate the steel baton of justice. it was rough
its 1030. you arrive in your room with a core body temperature approaching the freezing point and you are greeted by the pleasant aroma of a roommate who apparently had a good night. you decide that you are too tired to care about the smell of vomit and go to sleep
its hours later: you wake up...and. umm...complete your day. way to go!
successful mission
sunday - today
not really that much went on. school. quite a bit of it. umm i went to the library for the first and second times ever. its actually pretty solid. like i just went and did some work by myself. its a pretty neat concept. they should try putting these libaries in other locations, they might help students out, or make communities better overall.
hmmmmm
also i watched a lot (meaning the whole series) of garth marenghis darkplace. its this super, super dry british show that has definitely become one of my favourite shows ever (dont worry, i still know and maintain that the simpsons is the best (AND im still getting through the whole series, dont worry (FF i started season 13 yesterday)))
some quick facts about the show
- it rocks
- i cant really explain the premise of the show right now, its getting kinda late. but trust me, its a good time
- the whole series is only 6 episodes. that part sucks a lot. but w.e it still rocks
- fans of the IT crowd will be really pleased to see who plays dean learner (the best character anyways)
- dean learner also has his own spinoff: man to man with dean leaner. i will be getting to that shortly
- also dean learner is my current msn picture. so check that out if youre on the net.
- the whole series is on youtube. i recommend watching it right after you finish reading this post and after youve reread all of the other posts, just so you can be reminded of how awesome stuff can be sometimes.
i also watched some like major league starcraft stuff. that shit is terrifying. im TERRIBLE at that game.
ALSO
did some epic jamming with people from around whidden / campus. we might do battle of the bands, which would be super sweet. theres a video of us doing the OC theme song on facebook. and you can rest assured that the stuff we play the battle of the bands will be the same, if not better, quality. suuupppppeeeerrrrr epic
kcool. ima do the bed thing soon.
songs
right now?: the slow wait part 2 - the american dollar. suuupppppeeeerrrrr solid. did you guys check the band last time? you should have
www.myspace.com/americandollarband
theyre coming to canada in like april or june. be there
on deck?: the newest episode of the big bang theory. its hard to bolg and watch it at the same time. its next for steve
shout outs
hmmm. ill do the hardworking people over at 680 news. you guys can trust me, this shout has nothing to do with the fact that i just got an email from 680 and i have no idea who else to shout out. its because they offer great news with traffic and weather together on the ones, or anytime at 680news.com
sure
NEW SEGMENT!
so ive decided to start putting in some playlists. this is an extra credit part of the bolg. if this is your first visit here, you can skip over this part, it might be too much awesome for you in one sitting. you could pull something.
but yeah im going to start putting these in every once in a while. i dunno, it might help you get into the steve kind of mindset
here we go
ps if you do decide to try the playlist out, it is HIGHLY recommended that you listen to all of them at once; the list was made the way it is so that the songs flow into each other. a lot of the time the bulk of the song doesnt matter, its how the songs start / stop. but theyre good songs. thats why theyre on my ipod. lol
Steve Authorized Playlist #1: First Trip To Thode <-- the library
1. Kinetic - Radiohead - Pyramid Song EP
2. Rational Gaze - Meshuggah - Nothing REMASTERED / ReRELEASE / NOT the original one
3. Obstacle 1 - Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
4. Heart Of The City - The Arkells - Jackson Square
5. Ducks Crossing Take 2 - FCG - Super Rough, Super Groove --> check www.myspace.com/freshlycutgrassexperience you should be able to download it
6. Construction Work - Rival Boys - Life Of Worry EP --> SUPER solid band. details on a different post. www.myspace.com/therivalboys i hope its there. if not just go to their show on jan 30th at lees palace and buy the cd. its really really good
7. An Honest Mistake - The Bravery - The Bravery
8. Idioteque - Radiohead - Kid A
FF it actually sort of circles around. it sounds alright if it goes back to kinetic from idioteque. sort of
kcool
so this post actually turned out pretty well. i really was not expecting it. thats just the way she goes some times.
heres my answer to the mad lib / title
yellow
jive
footstool
Patrick Stewart
word. post probably soon.
i got nothing right now.
like i would have posted something yesterday or the day before, but i just havent been in that blog writing groove. i dunno. sometimes the awesome strikes and sometimes it doesnt. its just the way she goes. today she probably wont. lets do this anyways tho. you guys look like you need it.
yeah
also you may have noticed the mad lib as / in the title. i wasnt really sure what to do, so i figure that id let you guys figure it out.
this also adds some replay value to the bolg, because when you guys come back the 8 or 9 times per day, you can read a new post every time! like the content might be the same, but the title is different, therefore, new post. its a pretty sick system.
word
so some steve news.
i guess i havent done a post in like a week. my bad people
k anyways
friday
i did the york thing with tori and her friends. it was a seriously rockin time. uhh we played this game called what, then like kings or whatever that drinking game is called, then angies and this party that one of toris friends had to go to because the dude hosting it was a TA or something along those lines. it was a commitment. anyways i actually had an epiphany or something to that extent. so the party was full of >25 year olds. like there was 5 people in our group and we were CLEARLY the youngest people there. i figured that the people were like 40, but i was later told that the average age was like 27 or so. it was really weird. i had a "this is what my life is going to look like in like 7 - 8 years" moment. and it was really depressing. like i dont really know how to say it. it was really really odd. like we just sorta stood there and i spent a good amount of time just staring at the people in the party. like people who OBVIOUSLY werent the age acting like they were like 18. like i want to say i hope im cooler than that when im that old, but i dont really know. like by then the band will have taken off and ill have legions of fans and groupies to tell me how cool i am, but on the inside i wouldnt be sure. it was rough. still a good time, DO NOT get me wrong, it was a great night. a little scary, but great.
anyways the key point from that paragraph is that you should appreciate your age. ive seen the alternative. its saggy. and it has a surprising amount of pimples.
then 2am chicken wings. deeeeericious.
saturday
its 3am. after completeting a long night of party goodness, you retire to toris couch for some sleep
its 7am. awesome man lets hit the road. tori had to do some teaching in bford at 9am. goooooood times.
its 715am. its friggin cold outside and youre asleep at the bustop at york university en route to the hammer.
transit actually worked out really really well. i only waited like 5 minutes for a bus to the subway, i didnt have to wait for a subway and i just walked onto the hamilton go bus. it was really really nice.
its ~10am. you cant decide whether or not you want to walk back to res from the highway 403 exit on mainstreet, or walk to jackson square from the bus station and bus back to mac. you decide to walk. remember, you didnt bring your appropriate-for-the-weather winter coat, and opted for the exponentially more badass peacoat. its kinda warm, but it was seriously cold outside. seriously cold. like i went to the bathroom and it took me a couple of seconds to locate the steel baton of justice. it was rough
its 1030. you arrive in your room with a core body temperature approaching the freezing point and you are greeted by the pleasant aroma of a roommate who apparently had a good night. you decide that you are too tired to care about the smell of vomit and go to sleep
its hours later: you wake up...and. umm...complete your day. way to go!
successful mission
sunday - today
not really that much went on. school. quite a bit of it. umm i went to the library for the first and second times ever. its actually pretty solid. like i just went and did some work by myself. its a pretty neat concept. they should try putting these libaries in other locations, they might help students out, or make communities better overall.
hmmmmm
also i watched a lot (meaning the whole series) of garth marenghis darkplace. its this super, super dry british show that has definitely become one of my favourite shows ever (dont worry, i still know and maintain that the simpsons is the best (AND im still getting through the whole series, dont worry (FF i started season 13 yesterday)))
some quick facts about the show
- it rocks
- i cant really explain the premise of the show right now, its getting kinda late. but trust me, its a good time
- the whole series is only 6 episodes. that part sucks a lot. but w.e it still rocks
- fans of the IT crowd will be really pleased to see who plays dean learner (the best character anyways)
- dean learner also has his own spinoff: man to man with dean leaner. i will be getting to that shortly
- also dean learner is my current msn picture. so check that out if youre on the net.
- the whole series is on youtube. i recommend watching it right after you finish reading this post and after youve reread all of the other posts, just so you can be reminded of how awesome stuff can be sometimes.
i also watched some like major league starcraft stuff. that shit is terrifying. im TERRIBLE at that game.
ALSO
did some epic jamming with people from around whidden / campus. we might do battle of the bands, which would be super sweet. theres a video of us doing the OC theme song on facebook. and you can rest assured that the stuff we play the battle of the bands will be the same, if not better, quality. suuupppppeeeerrrrr epic
kcool. ima do the bed thing soon.
songs
right now?: the slow wait part 2 - the american dollar. suuupppppeeeerrrrr solid. did you guys check the band last time? you should have
www.myspace.com/americandollarband
theyre coming to canada in like april or june. be there
on deck?: the newest episode of the big bang theory. its hard to bolg and watch it at the same time. its next for steve
shout outs
hmmm. ill do the hardworking people over at 680 news. you guys can trust me, this shout has nothing to do with the fact that i just got an email from 680 and i have no idea who else to shout out. its because they offer great news with traffic and weather together on the ones, or anytime at 680news.com
sure
NEW SEGMENT!
so ive decided to start putting in some playlists. this is an extra credit part of the bolg. if this is your first visit here, you can skip over this part, it might be too much awesome for you in one sitting. you could pull something.
but yeah im going to start putting these in every once in a while. i dunno, it might help you get into the steve kind of mindset
here we go
ps if you do decide to try the playlist out, it is HIGHLY recommended that you listen to all of them at once; the list was made the way it is so that the songs flow into each other. a lot of the time the bulk of the song doesnt matter, its how the songs start / stop. but theyre good songs. thats why theyre on my ipod. lol
Steve Authorized Playlist #1: First Trip To Thode <-- the library
1. Kinetic - Radiohead - Pyramid Song EP
2. Rational Gaze - Meshuggah - Nothing REMASTERED / ReRELEASE / NOT the original one
3. Obstacle 1 - Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
4. Heart Of The City - The Arkells - Jackson Square
5. Ducks Crossing Take 2 - FCG - Super Rough, Super Groove --> check www.myspace.com/freshlycutgrassexperience you should be able to download it
6. Construction Work - Rival Boys - Life Of Worry EP --> SUPER solid band. details on a different post. www.myspace.com/therivalboys i hope its there. if not just go to their show on jan 30th at lees palace and buy the cd. its really really good
7. An Honest Mistake - The Bravery - The Bravery
8. Idioteque - Radiohead - Kid A
FF it actually sort of circles around. it sounds alright if it goes back to kinetic from idioteque. sort of
kcool
so this post actually turned out pretty well. i really was not expecting it. thats just the way she goes some times.
heres my answer to the mad lib / title
yellow
jive
footstool
Patrick Stewart
word. post probably soon.
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