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The Exorcist in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies.

Well, I finally got my hands on a copy of The Salads’ CD… sorta. I borrowed it and copied it.

Please be aware that the next Salads concert I go to, I’m picking up a disc. I just don’t want to pay two times the price at my local Sunrise, when I know that hardly any of the twenty-four bucks will be going to the band.

Anyway, even after I get the “official” CD, then I’ll still need a copy for the car. CDs don’t tend to stay in a state of good repair after being tossed in my back seat.

I just put 2 + 2 = 5 together today and realized that I’ve got a three-day week coming up. In combination with Good Friday at the end of the week, The Toronto Blue Jays are having their home opener on Monday in a day game. It’s rather inconvenient, so I’m taking a vacation day in order to go. I haven’t decided yet if I’m going to class that night or not ,^_^

Speaking of my classes, I dug out an old VHS copy of the series premiere of Sliders. It turns out that Yee Jee Tso is in it. He just has a face and a style that is so unique, I’m not surprised I recognized him on the first day of class. A lot of people probably wouldn’t be as star-struck as I am, and I’m confident that it has more to do with me than the people I meet. I still brag about how I saw Graham Greene in a Bank of Montreal.

I am confident that even if I became the next Steven Speilberg or Ang Lee, I’d still meet up with all the cast extras, act all giddy, and keep asking “didn’t I see you in that episode of My Secret Identity???”

Gawd, I’m a geek.

Umm… Who asked for a 20th Anniversary Edition of Splash?

My two cents on the Dean Blundell Show getting suspended (and yes, I did email this to The Edge)

If Dean never plays Toronto airwaves again, I won’t miss him. His kind of un-Canadian, insulting humour is the same schlock we USED to have to listen to on late night TV before Bullard finally got canned.

Dean Blundell should be eliminated from the radio. The Dean Blundell show is why I had to get a CD player installed in my car.

If The Edge canned a talented DJ like Josh Holiday for one skit, then the Entertainment-challenged Dean Blundell should be ridden out of Toronto on a rail.

Put in Derek Welsman… he’s 102.1’s best chance of real entertainment on the radio.

I don’t know what’s more pathetic… the fact that Blogger refused to publish my entries for a full week, giving me errors every time I tried to post my pointless thoughts, or the fact that that I got discouraged and stopped writing for two weeks. It’s not like there wasn’t anything to write about. For example:

Almost every day on my way to work, I see at least one Hummer H2. If I don’t see one on my way to work, I’m sure to see a few throughout the day. And for someone who doesn’t go outside very often, that’s really something! I’m willing to bet that I see more H2s than Topaz’s. In a way, it kinda makes me laugh that these morons spend in excess of $100,000 to buy a ‘unique’ vehicle, and now they’re all over the place.

“I know,” says the moron-with-too-much-money, “I’ll get a butt-ugly colour, so that my car will be the only one like it on the road!” Too bad everyone else thought that way, and now it seems that the most popular colour for the H2 is yellow. So not only are these people driving a truck that’s the size of a mini-schoolbus, it’s the same colour as one too.

I’ve taken to flipping them off. Something I picked up from that horrible influence of a site, dedicated to the H2. It’ll probably have more impact when it gets warm enough for me to drive with my windows down.

And speaking of morons, how can anyone lean on the NHL for letting violence get out of control, chastise the gaming industry for promoting violence in games like Grand Theft Auto, then take their 10-year olds to go see Dawn of the Dead? The movie has the new 18A rating, which means you can get in to see it if you’re with an adult. When Simone, John and I went to this movie, there were no less than a dozen kids WELL under 13. Some of them I would bet serious money that they were under 10.

In John’s words, this was “the goriest movie I’ve ever seen”, and he’s seen a lot of them. In my words, “those parents should have their kids taken away. This constitutes child-abuse”. How can you teach a generation that terrorism is wrong, when so many of us are willing participants in desensitizing the generation to violence?

On a tamer topic related to the undead, I think I’ve mentioned before that Dawn of the Dead was filmed just around the corner from my work. In fact, I drive by the mall every morning. The first workday after I saw the movie, I drove past it while there was a hearse (in use) in the next lane… sorry for being insensitive, but having a dead body within 15 feet of me that soon after watching Dawn of the Dead, which was filmed 90 feet from my car at the time…. I just had to punch the accelerator and get out of there!

Yesterday, I received an even more intense experience. I had to actually GO INTO THE MALL! Well, not the exact mall. I had a dentist appointment in the building right next to it. However, I don’t know whether the butterflies in my stomach were from the anticipation attributed to having my teeth inspected for the first time in over two years, or fear of the undead roaming the halls!

After loading the shells into my shotgun, I braved inside and found the office for Dr. Berger. There’s a lot of maintenance that has to be done on my front teeth. I figure it was at least 8 or 9 years ago that I smacked my face onto the back of that car. Turns out that I’ve also got a few cavities that need filling. I dunno how much it’s going to cost. Even with my health plan at work, I get the feeling that this is going to hurt me a lot more in the pocketbook than any freezing needle or drill can do.

The one big improvement over my last dentist… this one has TVs. I can watch a Classic Star Trek episode while my teeth are getting all shiny.

Hey! They decided to take our recycling today! That makes a grand total of 3 times since the beginning of December!

Of course, they didn’t take ALL of it, there was a bunch of crap left all over the lawn… However, they took almost all of the stuff. Considering the fact that they didn’t take anything the last two times, that totals up to a LOT!