Sunday, December 1st, 2002
It’s nice to have one’s own personal shopper… Okay, it wasn’t quite like that but I was taken clothes shopping by Vic’s girlfriend Liz today. Or yesterday. I’d mentioned mostly in jest a few weeks ago how much I hate shopping for clothes because I never know what to buy, and she said she’d take me shopping – turns out she was serious. Terrific – my ideal shopping trip would be someone telling me what to buy (with my having veto power if necessary), and that was today. Came out of it with a couple sweaters and a shirt. Not a lot, but nice stuff that has the approval of someone besides myself since I don’t think I can be trusted on such matters.
After shopping we hooked up with Vic and Ian and ended up picking up booze and going back to my place, intending to watch Leon – The Professional. Instead we ordered pizza and got drunk. Some aborted attempts at drinking games, some geek computer talk (more Ian and Vic than me, I don’t know what they’re talking about). Sorta planned on going out, Kevin and Sudeep also came over under that pretense, but it was just more sitting around and drinking. Which is fine.
Dundas Square at Yonge and Dundas, across from the Eaton Centre, is now open. At least the fences have been taken down and people can wander around in it now. There’s… not much there. It’s a great big expanse of asphalt. Some benches, a canopy of some kind, but pretty barren. Not sure what the overall purpose of the ‘park’ is. It looks pretty much like the picture, but somehow I thought it’d look less gray. Maybe it was partly the dreary overcast weather today, though I can’t imagine it’d look much more vibrant in the sunlight. Colour me perplexed.
Friday, November 29th, 2002
George Harrison died a year ago today.
I have this bitching Code Monkey t-shirt en route from Think Geek.
Fun link – We Are Robots. Robokopf is a personal fave.
Anyone who can offer a translation of this, please do.
np – The Velvet Underground / Peel Slowly And See – The Velvet Underground
Friday, November 29th, 2002
A terrifically drab and wet day out today. Lots of wind, too.
The new Bettie Serveert album Log 22 is getting a North American release on March 11 on Parasol. Yay Betties.
np – The Shins / Oh, Inverted World
Thursday, November 28th, 2002
Watched Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back. Urmm. Not worth spending too much time discussing. Liked – monkey content, Shannon Elizabeth and Eliza Dushku a) in leather cat suits and b) wrasslin’, the genuine albeit lowbrow satirical content. And that’s about it. Yeah.
I think my main complaint is that Smith doesn’t stand behind his work. Explain? He hedges his bets all the way through – on more than a few occasions, the characters would crack a joke about how stupid this movie was, then mug at the camera knowingly. It’s like Smith was leaving himself get-out-of-criticism-free cards so if anyone complained the film was dumb or sub-par, he could just say, “Even I knew it was stupid, you complaints are wasted on me!”. The overall impression I got was that he wasn’t willing to stand behind his work 100% or that he didn’t care that there was material in there that he knew wasn’t up to snuff. And I’m sorry, but I can’t accept that.
Look at me, panties all in a bunch over the artistic intent of Kevin Smith. But I think that’s been my overriding complaint with all his work – it’s never as good as it could be because of creator carelessness or indifference. It’s like when he was the writer on Daredevil – the work was good, but as one guy put it, ‘he’s the biggest pot-head in the industry’, and successfully turned a monthly comic into maybe 8 issues a year. Sorry man, but that just sucks. Anyway.
Thursday, November 28th, 2002
So my friend Ross is now engaged to a girl he met four months ago in Colombia. This was unexpected. Congratulations.
Scored the new J Mascis & The Fog disc today, used. It’s ostensibly a concept album about skydiving? I dunno. J was phoning it in on the last couple Dinosaur Jr records, but the last Fog disc was surprisingly good. The recipe never changes much – J will always sound like J – but it sounds like he’s having fun again, and that’s good enough. If nothing else, it’s like a fuzz pedal clinic.
Another fun link… Ben Affleck is such a lucky man.
np – J Mascis & The Fog / Free So Free
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