Not by the hairs of my chinny chin chin!
When I look at old photographs the one thing that dates a picture is the subjects hair and cloths. When I covered the Holy Cross Christmas party this past year I took a stroll down memory lane looking at everyone's grad photo's. Here we see Nicks sportif stacked flat top. There we see Randy's GQ doo. Over here we see Michelle's expensive looking bounty of curls. And finally we see VJ...with the same haircut. My Grad picture I can't even describe my hair cut. Back in the day I'd have described it as an Asian gang cut (since all my friends sported similar doo's). I also had two braids with beads. Today I'd say it kinda looked like a the bastard child of something GQ smooth and a mullet (it was long in the back). What did I wear in those days on a Saturday night? Black shirt, black dress pants with the tight fold, black trench coat, black patent leather sandal's with white socks or patent leather (doll) shoes. Oh I almost forgot about all the silver jewelry. Anyone want to party at Changes??? How about the Paramont??? Club USA anyone??? OMG I was so cool.
Pictures from the 60's 70's 80's etc you can tell bye the dress and the hair. My oldest brother dressed and had the 'fro and mustache that belonged on the set of Welcome Back Carter. My second brother dressed in pink polo shirts. My youngest brother thought he was black with stripes shaved into his head. But underneath it all the ppl look the same, except slightly thinner.
So as I prepare to renew my license I choose a path that will stand the test of time (till the next time I renew) Black collarless shirt, I'll tame my hair, and off go the hairs on my chinny chin chin.
Rhoel.
RIP Goatee (if you can call it a goatee), see you in a couple of weeks.
How much is that doggie in the window? Barf barf!!!
You ever watch one of those cartoons when the dark rain cloud follows the character around when the rest of the world is in sunshine?
Saturday I fly down to Scotia to participate in Marc's Hip Hop class only to decide that I'm still too hung over so I just go home. 20 mins after I had parked my car almost directly in front of Scotia I come out to find that someone had barfed on my windshield. Lucky it was raining.
Tuesday morning I wake up to find out that someone had broken the tiny window in front of my mirror on the drivers side. They rummaged around in my shite making a mess only to leave empty handed. Unfortunately it rained about a foot that night so my car was flooded and my faceplate which was discarded on the floor got wet and the screen shorted. Unluckily it was raining.
Weds driving my dad's new car I stopped into Newtown in Chinatown. As soon as I exited the car I smelled cheese. When I drove away I realized a few blocks later that the smell had followed me. Then I realized that what I was smelling was actually barf and I had stepped in it and smeared it on the rubber mat and pedals. It took me ten minutes to find a puddle so I could stop and wipe my feet. Unfortunately it wasn't raining hard enough.
Today I brought my car to ICBC. 300 deductible on the tiny window, 200 on my windshield...........................I'm just waiting for the rain to stop.
Rhoel.
A paddle or my joystick?
Have I become such a format snob that I turn my nose up at video tapes? Did you at one point snob Beta in favor of VHS? Tapes for CDs, 8 tracks for tapes, records for 8 tracks? Anyone remember what a floppy disk was? What kinda misnomer was that anyways, they weren't even that floppy? (Was that a rhetorical question? BTW what exactly is a rhetorical question? Never mind I think it may be a run on sentence.) Once upon a time one of my little cousins asked my other little cousin what that (record) is? Apparently it's like a big cd.
So today I watched only my second vhs movie in the last probably two years. The movie previous was my KP gift recycle of "Duece Bigalow Male Gigelo". But watching that was more of a requirements since it was a gift, funny ass movie. I think it was better than some of those other gifts. How's the gianormous pants BTW? Picture frame? Lately I only use the video to record all the TV programs I miss. I suppose I was feeling a little nostalgic because I read a write up the previous day about how The Atari 2600 had an incredible production run from 1977 up to about '88 and how the advent of the commodore 64 in 84' and the NintendoEntertainmentSystem in '85 finally rendered it obsolete. Ppl are now scouring the earth for the gameing system and it's cartridges.
So what have I seen lately?:
Napoleon Dynamite. Basically I like pretty much any movie and can usually find some redeeming quality and a movie is going to have to suck something fierce in order for me to not like it. This movie sucked a lot. It was mildly humorous for the first few lines of dialogue then it got so boring that I actually considered stopping it on a few occasions when I didn't think I could hack it anymore but eventually it became a mission to finish it. It was so painful to watch, yet I couldn't look away! Kinda like watching a traffic accident. I'd compare it to a really bad student film staring a bunch of retarded kids.
Ali G Indahouse. Funny ass movie. I'm a real fan of British comedies and to have two in one month is like Christmas all over again. Funniest movie I've seen since Team America. If you're looking for a deep storey line and intelligent witty humor this is not the movie for you. But if you want to laugh your ass off...Basically the British Vanilla Ice goes to Washington.
Shawn of the Dead. Another British comedy. Basically Dawn of the Dead all over again except funny as hell. I actually watched it 3 times in 4 days.
Boondock Saints. PPl have been raving about this movie for two years. Lora wants to ftp it to me. The guys working at Footlocker are raving about it as they fit me. And then I finally watched it. It was alright. But the whole time I was thinking that it was a blatantly rip off of the Luc Besson movies. I'd rather suggest Leon the Professional or the original La Femme Nikita that Boondocks was copying.
Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. Man this is definately the funniest movie I've seen all year. Funnier that Team America. If I was to recomend a movie this would be the one by far.
BTW, I'm loving watching the OC all over again. More on that next time 'cause this is looking rather long. Toddles.
Rhoel.
-FYI the word Boondock is a term brought back from American GI's from the Flipippines. Boondok (sp?), isn't that the word for mountains?
Winter Wonder Land
Well the weather outside is frightful, Ice cream and rootbeer is delightful. I don't have any place to go. No more snow no more snow no more snow!!!
What the balls? There's snow on the ground two days in a freakin row!!! Is this Edmonton??? Don't mind me, I didn't shovel the drive way 'cause I thought it'd have melted bye now, but instead it snowed again and it's gonna suck tomorrow morning if it snows yet again. To get the mail this morning I actually had to put on a jacket and hat.
So I figured out I have Teret's syndrome. I have this propensity for long strings of spontaneous verbal obscenities, usually when I'm driving. It seems to happen a lot in Richmond. Driving pet peeves:
-Ppl camping out in the passing lane. Ever see a sign on the hi-way that says 'slower drivers keep right'??? Translated to English that means if someone is trying to get bye you and the right lane is open, then move your ass out of the way, you should be in the other lane anyways. I swear that 90% of vancoverites don't know such a sign exists and can't identify the passing lane from the express line at the supermarket. I think you should get a clue when there's a convoy of ppl passing you on the right, glaring at you as they try to make eye contact. I don't know how many times I've seen ppl on the freeway all by themselves...going slow in the passing lane. Good grief Charlie Brown!
-ppl that don't use their signals or else turn them on at the last possible moment or as they are in the motion of turning. Dude, now that I'm trapped behind you for the entire length of the light I can see that you want to turn already so the signal is now redundant. What I wanted was a little bit of warning so that I had a chance to get out from behind you when I had the chance.
That's enough for the today. BTW I thought Terets syndrome was when someone has facial ticks, but in the movies they make it sound like uncontrollable bursts of obscenities, maybe I'm thinking of something else.
I found a really cheap place to buy new DVD's. Superstore. I just bought the OC season one for 59 bucks and all three Smallville seasons for 47 each. Everywhere else I've seen them were for 10-15 dollars more. Future Shop OC was 67 loonies, and at Musicworld it's 75. I didn't bother with HMV. I saw a few more things I wanna go back there for. Anywhere else anyone knows where to get DVD's cheap?
Rhoel.
-I used to work in a hydrant factory. I couldn't park anywhere near the place.-Steven Wright.
In My World
I think it's all about the comfort zone. I think as I get older it becomes easier to just stay where it's safe. But to strive for that new horizon one must venture where it is scary and unknown. I remember the thrill I used to get for trying out new things. Give me my cheap thrills again.
How does that saying go? If you always do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. Every New years I realize there are aspects of my life that I'd like to change yet bye the end of the year I find myself in the same place. So how does one go about doing things differently? Does one pull a George and just decide that every decision ever made was the wrong one and just do the opposide? No, too extreme and not very practical, but I think that's the right idea. Start with the basics, baby steps if you will. I think my theme for this year should be 'baby steps'. But isn't this what I thought last year? So if baby steps is out then the only other path for change is fast and loose. Maybe George was right afterall. Maybe if I want to advance the sphere that is my world I'm going to have to break a few eggs. At this point, I want to be at a different point in my life at this same point next year. And don't care how I get at that point by that point. Are you getting my point? I suppose there's more than one way to skin a cat but don't care how that cat gets skinned just as long as it gets skinned. What I want to know is what sick country bumpkin likes to actually skin cats to the point where he realizes that there is more than one method and why there are enough ppl that aknowledged this fact to the point that it has become a cliche in modern usuage.
Speaking of surprising developements I've gotten my parents hooked on the Smallville Series. I had recently bought seasons 1 and 2. While I'm on episode 4 of the first season my mom is on episode 20 whilst my dad is well into season 2. Gotta go purchase #3 pretty soon.
Rhoel.
-Anything is within walking distance as long as you have the time.- Steven Wright.
-...do or do not, there is no try.-Yoda.
