Regretfully yours....

Regret: to feel sorrow or remorse for (an act, fault, disappointment)
In my case, all three.

Are you willing to ruin your life for $500,000?

Contestants competing on The Moment of Truth are hooked-up to a lie detector and asked to answer 21 questions without lying, and if they make it all the way through, they win $500,000.
The questions' subject matter grows more difficult with each correct answer given and -- as friends and family members watch from the studio audience -- owning up to the truth becomes harder.

Sample questions contestants could be asked include have you ever lied to get a job; do you like your mother-in-law; do you really love your girlfriend? do you really care about starving children in Africa; have you ever stolen anything from work; and have you ever cheated on your spouse...etc...

WOW! This show is too much. Retarded.

I'm a bad old bear!

I kinda want a baresuit.....



Half robe, half pants, it’s available in six different colors and made of 100 percent pure cotton, medium weight, double-sided terry that pulls on like sweatpants and wraps around top like a robe.

Niiiiiice!

Hey remember??

Remember when bandaids used to have that red string that you would pull to open the package? It kind of made opening bandaid's fun, or was it more of a pain in the ass...I forget :)



I think I should get these ones for N.P.



Not only are they bacon strip bandaids, BUT they even come with a toy!

I don't get it

While looking at cute videos on youtube, I came across this one. It's disgusting.

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CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTE!

Hands down, THE cutest kitty video I have ever seen. The black cat looks totally like my Gibby!
Who's she been makin' out with?



Thanks for this E2.

Erinne!

It's things like these that make me LOVE her as much as I do.

So I'm going in for a doctor's appointment tomorrow, Erinne know's this and she sends me a text tonight saying:

"I hope they find a pot of gold and some lucky leprauchauns....."

I'm leaving the last few words out cause it's just not appropriate! :)

E2, you are a very "special" person, and there are a million things I love about you, I just can't express them in a way that could possibly describe your "wickedness".

Thanks for being there for sooooooo many years, and being my partner in crime for so many events. I could never be an E without my E2.

woops!

Someone was in a bad mood yesterday.....

'The bigger fucking picture' is...

Canada is falling apart. I can't stand listening to anything on the news anymore, has anyone noticed that everything is getting worse? The more we change things "for the better" the worse everything gets. The more surveys that are done, the more lies are told.

We can talk we want. But nothing's really changed. People should stop denying the truth and just do something about it rather than having "dialogue", "think tanks", "committees", and using "language".

How about we stop having kids when we shouldn't or start being better parents when we should. Some parents are overworked, and don't ACTUALLY do enough for their kids, but some parents are just idiots! Let's remember Santa isn't real, and making up for your lack of "being there" by getting them that NINTENDO WII, won't make everything better.

I have to say that Toronto is almost like another planet....sure there are problems but it can't just be blamed on our cultural differences, or race or the school system failing our kids. If you are poor, have a horrible family life, or idiots for parents, it can affect you in so many ways, but we can't always blame society or the schools. Sometimes you just have to choose to do something about it, yourself, knowing RIGHT FROM WRONG, breaking patterns and teaching your kids to know right from wrong.

Teenage years are tough enough, just look at the media these days. I don't remember having any sort of "role models" like teenagers are looking up to, today, but that's not the real issue.

The school system IS NOT supposed to be a second parent. Our failing schools? I sorta believe in that, but only certain aspects of it. Coming from a high school in a small town in New Brunswick I can actually speak about a shitty school system. I can speak about a system with no money, no opportunity, not many chances for further education, no proper planning for the future. None of us really had a great high school experience....This is nothing new.
Toronto is unique in some ways, but it's not the only city/town that struggles. Toronto offers so many opportunities to it's students that most in the entire country will NEVER have. People should appreicate and respect that, rather than bitching, because whether YOU believe it or not, some towns/cities have it way worse than Toronto could ever dream....and I'm not just talking about school. I'm talking about housing, access to clean water, education, job opprotunities, health care, and every day life...etc. etc. How can one advance when there ARE no opportunites.....You have to make "the system" work, not tear it apart, like everyting else.

Toronto is a messed up city.

'The fucking bottom line' is......Nobody in Toronto will ever be happy. NOT EVER. No matter how good things get. This city digs, and looks for issues to bitch about, and the rest of the country will continue to HATE Toronto because they have every fucking right to.

A little New Brunswick for ya!

The Saint John River:
Is a river, approximately 418 mi (673 km) long, located in the Canadian province of New Brunswick and the U.S. state of Maine. It forms part of the Canada-US border in two places along its length. The river drains an area of approximately 55,000 km², of which slightly more than half is located in New Brunswick.
The Saint John is also the second longest river on North America's Atlantic coastline (between the St. Lawrence River and the Mississippi River). Only the Susquehanna is longer. The lower section of the River from Fredericton to Saint John is nicknamed the Rhine of North America,[citation needed] in reference to its popularity for recreational boating.

Mactaquac Dam:

The Mactaquac Damn is a hydroelectric dam on the Saint John River built and owned by NB Power. It has a capacity of 672 Megawatts with its 6 turbines. It is located about 20minutes drive west of Fredericton, New Brunswick. It began operation in 1968, and the headpond that was created extends 100 km upstream to the town of Woodstock, New Brunswick. King's Landing Historical Settlement was built using buildings that had to be moved prior to filling the headpond.

It is currently experiencing a problem of expanding concrete. When built, greywacke which was mined nearby was used as the aggregate and it is responsible for the expanding. Currently the dam is being monitored, and extra work is being done to maintain the dam. It is expected to have a reduced life expectancy due to this.

It is also the site of an Altantic Salmon Fish Hatchery.


The Bay of Fundy: (French: Baie de Fundy) is a bay on the Atlantic coast of North America, on the northeast end of the Gulf of Maine between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with a small portion touching the U.S. state of Maine. The Bay of Fundy is known for its high tidal range and the bay is contested as having the highest vertical tidal range in the world with Ungava Bay in northern Quebec and The Severn Estuary in the UK. The name "Fundy" is thought to date back to the 16th century when the Portuguese referred to the bay as "Rio Fundo" or "deep river".

The bay was also named Baie François by explorer/cartographer Samuel de Champlain during a 1604 expedition led by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts which resulted in a failed settlement attempt on St. Croix Island.


Grand Manan Island:
SETTLEMENT "Manan" is a corruption of MUN AN OOK or MAN AN OOK - meaning "island place" or "the island" from the Maliseet-Passamaquoddy-Penobscot Indians who visited the island from spring until fall when the treacherous waters were navigable in their canoes. Most believe that they fished, harvested dulse and birds' eggs, hunted seals, seabirds and harbour porpoises, and returned to the mainland in winter since no large game was on the island and there were few opportunities to fish or hunt marine life. The Norse are probably the first Europeans to visit Grand Manan, possibly as a headquarters while exploring both Bay of Fundy and Gulf of Maine. Other important events were as follows:
1000 - Norse explorers probably visited the island.
1498 - Sebastien Cabot and 1501 - Gaspar Cortereal likely saw Grand Manan.
1504 - Breton fishermen probably fished bounteous waters around Grand Manan.
1558 - Portuguese map of North America shows cape of many islands including those of Passamaquoddy and Grand Manan.
1583 - Trading voyage to the "Bay of Menan" by Stephen Bellinger.
1606 - Samuel Champlain sheltered on White Head Island during March storm.
1613 - Champlain produced map calling island Manthane which he later corrected to Menane or Menasne; Grand was added later.
1693 - Grand Manan granted to Paul Dailleboust, Sieur de Perigny as part of New France but he did not take possession and it reverted to the Crown.
1713 - Island granted to British in Treaty of Utrecht, but still claimed by United States for nearly a century afterwards.
1779 - First white child born to Joel Bonney and his wife but family remained only a year before leaving with two other families.
1784 - First permanent settlement of 50 United Empire Loyalist families, led by Moses Gerrish, and settling on small island forming eastern side of Grand Harbour, later named Ross Island in honour of settler Thomas Ross. Community had little capital and interest from the outside.
1803 - Seal Cove settled.
1817 - U.S. gave Grand Manan to the British in exchange for islands Dudley, Frederick and Moose (now site of Eastport, Maine).
1851 - Population of 1,187 mostly working in efficient, prosperous fishery.
1854 - Grand Manan incorporated as a Parish.
1880s- Population peaked at 2,616 but began decline as herring stocks were depleted. Communities were North Head, Centreville, Woodward's Cove, Grand Harbour, Ingalls Head, Seal Cove, Deep Cove, White Head, Wood Island, Dark Harbour.
1899 - Centreville (previously Sinclairville) renamed Castalia.
1944 - Board of Trade was founded with the prime goal of improving the ferry service.
1950s- Residents moved from Wood Island, some floating their homes to Seal Cove.
1966 - North Head and Seal Cove/Deep Cove incorporated as villages.
1967 - Woodward's Cove became Local Service District. Grand Manan Museum completed in Grand Harbour as a Canada Bicentennial Project. Grand Manan Curling Club opened.
1968 - Grand Harbour/Ingalls Head incorporated as village.
1969 - Castalia which includes Dark Harbour became Local Service District.
1978 - Grand Manan Tourism Association founded.
1979 - The Grand Manan Rotary Club was organized and remains the only active service club on the island. Board of Trade reactivated after a brief lapse as the Chamber of Commerce.
1984 - 200th anniversary and celebration of the United Empire Loyalist settlement.
1995 - Five communities amalgamated into Municipality of Grand Manan, excluding White Head.
1996 - All buildings given individual addresses and streets named as part of the provincial 911 emergency service.
1998 - Grand Manan Museum addition completed.
Today, fishing remains the major occupation, but small wooden dories and skiffs, and fibreglass vessels are still built here. Tourism is increasing in importance but visitors spend less time than in the past when it was not unusual for guests to stay several weeks or months. Summer homes remain popular (54% of the island is owned by non-residents).

St. Stephen: (2001 pop.: 4,667) is a Canadian town in Charlotte County, New Brunswick.
The town is situated on the east bank of the St. Croix River at 45°11′32″N, 67°16′38″W.
The river and surrounding area was first explored by the French explorer, Samuel de Champlain when he and his men spent a winter there in 1604. Officially incorporated as a town in 1871, five years later St. Stephen's business district was almost totally destroyed by fire when eighty buildings and 13 wharves burned. The population of St. Stephen has declined 5.9% since 1996.
The St. Croix River marks a section of the international boundary between the United States and Canada, forming a natural border between the towns on either side of the river bank. Calais, Maine (pop. 3,447) is connected to St. Stephen by a bridge, which is the eleventh most important link between the world's two largest trading partners.[citation needed]

New Brunswick visitor information centre in St. Stephen's former Canadian Pacific Railway station.
Residents of St. Stephen and Calais regard their community as one place, cooperating in their fire departments and other community projects. As evidence of the longtime friendship between the towns, during the War of 1812, the British military provided St. Stephen with a large supply of gunpowder for protection against the enemy Americans in Calais, but the town elders gave the gunpowder to Calais for its Fourth of July celebrations.
Historically a lumber and ship building economy until the early part of the 1900s, by the end of World War II the town's main employers were the Ganong Bros. Limited chocolate company (established 1873, Canada's oldest candy company), and the second largest textile mill in Canada built in 1882 on the river where it operated with its own hydro-electric generating station. In 1957, the textile mill closed but the confectionery maker remains a key employer.
A hotbed of baseball interest, in 1934 the Boston Braves of baseball's National League played an exhibition game in St. Stephen against the local "Kiwanis" team. The enthusiastic fans in attendance numbered more than half the town's population. In 1939, the local baseball team won its ninth consecutive New Brunswick senior championship, topping off a decade of dominance in the sport at both the provincial and Maritime levels.
The town is also the home of Canada's smallest University called St. Stephen's University.

I HATE TORONTO!!!

There I said it. Sometimes I forget, or other times I'm too jaded by life to remember...but I do. More than anything. EVER. I have no idea what the hell I'm doing here, and I will leave it at that!

Cool Horse

So cute!

Jonestown:Paradise lost

After re-watching "the Scientology episode" of South Park this week it got me to thinking how cracked out Scientology really is. Tonight Nick and I had a brief discussion about it and funny enough the People's Temple, led by The Rev. Jim Jones came up in our conversation. Which led me to remember a "docudrama" I watched on the History Channel last year....Jonestown: Paradise lost. So messed up but such a great documentary.



Director:Tim Wolochatiuk
Writer:Jason Sherman

I give it a 4 outta 5 hi fives cause it's a messed up story, and the survivor stories really add to it and remind you that this ACTUALLY happened and that people ACTUALLY believe in, and get sucked into these sort of cult's. I'm sorry but I'm not willing to end my life for anything or anyone. PERIOD, unless of course I would have to live it in a total vegetative state, but that's whole other story....(I know there's more to it than that, I'm just sayin'....)

Synopsis taken from: HERE

“Jonestown: Paradise Lost” methodically clocks through the cult’s final days, when Representative Leo Ryan of California’s 11th District arrived in Guyana with reporters and family members of People’s Temple followers to investigate continued complaints about Mr. Jones’s mistreatment of his supplicants. Just as the group was to leave, Mr. Jones’s gunmen killed Mr. Ryan and the defectors he was taking back to the United States. Cult members killed themselves later that day.

If Stephan Jones, a trim man on the youthful side of middle age, is mesmerizing to watch, it is because he does not seem to carry the weight of ambivalence with him. He has never grieved for his father, he says dispassionately; he simply doesn’t see the point. “I knew, I had known for a long time, that my father was nuts,” Mr. Jones says.

One thousand questions go unasked of him. In another instance, Mr. Jones says, “Every hour of the day, Jim Jones knew he was a fraud.” At that moment it might have behooved the interviewer to prod with a gentle question like: “Really? How did you know?” But such questions hang in the air like a dense fog.

Mr. Jones is not the only survivor who appears to tell his story, but what drives “Paradise Lost” at the expense of an inquiring spirit is that hallmark of the contemporary television documentary: the re-enactment. It is one thing to recreate the signing of the Treaty of Ghent, but quite another to deploy the technique to depict events for which there are interesting living witnesses, not to mention archival footage (used only sparingly here).

What is the purpose of casting an actor as Jim Jones? The effect, I can tell you, is a reminder that in our collective imagination all cult leaders end up looking like Elvis.

duuuuk errrr durrrrrr!

Probably my fave South Park episode!

Lightning in a bottle

Loved this one!!! Fave quote " When they say blues, heyyyy, it's like being black twice! - B.B. King. I watched this documentary in September, so cool. I love how the singers show so much emotion hen they sing, and I can't deny I'm a huge fan of "the guitar face"!!! Very entertaining. I give it 5 outta 5 Hi-fives cause there are so many wicked artists performing and I love story tellers!



Produced by Alex Gibney
Directed by Antoine Fuqua
Synopsis taken from: http://www.sonyclassics.com/lightninginabottle/poster.html

Click HERE to see the trailer.

On February 7, 2003, renowned artists across multiple music genres and generations commandeered the stage at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall to pay tribute to their common heritage and passion – the blues.

Shared with thousands of fans in attendance, legendary performers from roots, rock, jazz and rap joined forces for a once-in-a-lifetime “Salute To The Blues” benefit concert whose proceeds went to musical education. LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE captures the night’s magic and weaves a history of the blues through the juxtaposition of performances, backstage interviews, rehearsals and archival clips of some of the greatest names in American music, from blues royalty such as Buddy Guy and B.B. King, to their musical heirs ranging from John Fogerty and Bonnie Raitt to Mos Def and India.Arie.

Made possible in part by the generous sponsorship of Volkswagen, LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE follows the story of the week leading up to the concert – including rehearsals and back-stage footage - and the concert itself: a night where the mix of celebration and generosity among the more than fifty illustrious artists pushed all of their performances to dizzying heights. The film brings you into the audience, behind the scenes, and, at moments, back in time. The concert itself takes the viewer on the historical and geographical journey of the blues, beginning with its roots in Africa, up through the Mississippi Delta into the cities of Memphis and Chicago in the 1950s and ‘60s.

It follows the music to England and back to the USA, and ultimately across the world through contemporary rock ‘n’ roll and hip-hop. At times, the film looks into the lives of its writers and performers who have endured the pain of racism and poverty, but all along managed to transform their experiences into a brilliant music. The blues is endowed with a remarkable ability to connect with universal feelings of desire, love, loss and bitter disappointment. In the journeys of these artists in this concert, you see the music for what it truly is: a road map to the human soul.

The U.S. vs. John Lennon

I saw this documentary last year at the Bloor Cinema, I thought it was really well done. Yeah I knoww, Yoko is a total nutcase, I also may not agree with all of the ideas and thoughts from this film but for the most part I do.

I give it 5 out of 5 Hi-fives cause I love John Lennon, and the footage they used wasn't the same old crap you always see about John Lennon and the Beatles.

Directors:David Leaf
John Scheinfeld
Released November, 2006

Review taken from: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478049/



Imagine, for a moment, you could do anything. What would you do? Already at the height of his career, the sheer scale of possibilities before John Lennon amazed even this high-aspiring rebel. Triggered in no small part by his meeting with Yoko Ono, a conceptual artist obsessed with breaking down barriers, Lennon had to decide if there was a greater purpose to which he could devote his musical talent, fame and fortune. Mass protests against the Vietnam War were sweeping America. Lennon's aspiration became quite simple (some would say simplistic): let's give peace a chance. The U.S. vs. John Lennon uses previously unreleased archive footage, plus documentation obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, to chart this ex-Beatle's political activism and his struggle with the U.S. authorities in the late 60's and early 1970's.

It's a remarkable tour de force. Many people know Lennon as an ex-Beatle, for his song Imagine and the fact that he got shot. The extent of his political activism, the method in his apparent madness, would seem more like another conspiracy theory in less capable hands. Lennon's efforts seem directly linked (initially) to getting another activist out of jail and then making sure the war-bent presidency, White House and FBI lose lots of sleep over the war.

Directors Leaf and Scheinfeld are past masters at making serious pop culture retrospectives. In an age of technology and spin, how do we know 'documentary' filmmakers are telling us facts? Firstly, what's on the film. There are interviews with high-ranking former government and FBI agents. Then there are declassified documents, not just quoted but shown on the screen. Finally there is the official website which provides an external way of checking transparency and sources once you get home. If you thought Lennon was a cool guy - or maybe even your childhood hero - this film shows how incredibly cool - and courageous - he actually was.

Says director Scheinfeld: "We live in a time where everything's a reality show. John and Yoko were essentially pioneers in that, but they weren't using it to promote an album. They weren't using it to promote a movie. They weren't doing it to promote anything except peace and that's what makes them heroic artists here. And then to have the courage to stand up to the power of the United States - the presidency, the White House, the FBI and the INS . . ." Lennon's song 'Give Peace a Chance' became the national anthem of the anti-war movement. He linked up with other activists (including the Black Panther movement) using his public persona - and often his own money - to synchronise the peaceful protests and give them such force that, at the point where Nixon was campaigning for re-election, Lennon had been singled out for deportation. He backed down over personal appearances at an anti-Nixon concert tour (which would follow the latter's campaign trail) as government officials stepped up the campaign of harassment against him with wiretapping and surveillance. Rightly or wrongly, Lennon feared for his life. This was a time when the Secret Services had the authority to take people out if deemed in the national interest.

The website documentation shows how the Reagan administration continued to obstruct release of information on Lennon even in April 1981. The FBI cited its authority under the Freedom of Information Act to withhold "information which is currently and properly classified . . . in the interest of the national defense or foreign policy." The downside of the film is that many people simply won't care. Gore Vidal takes a modern sideswipe at Bush and Iraq, but the comparison is weak. Vietnam was not preceded by a 9/11 or a Pearl Harbour and the united opposition to the Vietnam War was on an unprecedented level: protests turned into riots, several civilians were shot, and the powers of the government were far reaching even by today's standards. Although the film sometimes plays like a top-notch TV documentary, the levels of professionalism shown by the filmmakers set it apart. It's also an unsung paean to the most important part of Lennon's life and what he would no doubt like to be remembered for. He might not have been Gandhi, but there was more to him than the wacky, druggy rockstar most of us remember.

"You may say that I'm a dreamer, But I'm not the only one," wrote Lennon.

It is the story of how one man tried to make his dreams reality.

When I grow up....I want to be a magician!

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Bacon, Le Film

This is a documentary I watched sometime in the summer, reminds me why I don't eat porc.
Directed by: Hugo Latulippe
Produced by: André Gladu
Production Agency: National Film Board of Canada (2002)
I give it 5 out of 5 Hi-fives for it's disgusting look at reality.

Synopsis taken from: www.nfb.ca/collection/films/fiche/?v=h&lg=en&id=51004



Several years ago, large-scale hog producers and their political allies in Quebec decided to branch out into international markets. But bacon, like everything else, has its price. Bacon, the Film asks whether we have properly measured the social and environmental impacts of this proliferation of huge hog operations. The soil is already showing signs of sterility. Rivers are contaminated. Water, the very symbol of life, has itself become a hazard in some communities. The situation could be spinning out of control. Abandoned by the state, citizens groups are making their voices heard and taking back democracy. An unexpected grain of sand in a machine well oiled by neo-liberal dogma, they are fighting to keep society on a human scale.

The Edge of Eden

A documentary I watched for the second time a couple of nights ago. It was pretty cool, the landscape, the grizzly bears and the interaction between Charlie and "his" bears.
I give it 4 out of 5 Hi-Fives!



Directors: Jeff & Sue Turner, Canada/United Kingdom, 2006, 89 minutes
Synopsis taken from: http://www.doxafestival.ca/festival/edge_of_eden

The grizzly bear is considered by many to be the most dangerous animal in the world. But Canadian grizzly bear expert Charlie Russell thinks differently. He believes that grizzlies are misunderstood animals and that our fear of them is not only unnecessary, but driving them to extinction. After a life of exploring the relationship between humans and grizzlies in Canada, Russell’s beliefs have taken him to Russia where he has been raising orphaned grizzly bear cubs in the wilderness of the Southern Kamchatka peninsula. For more than 10 years, sixty-five year old Russell has been rescuing orphaned cubs from squalid Russian zoos and releasing them into the last remaining grizzly bear sanctuary in the world. Becoming their surrogate mother, he struggles to teach them everything they need to survive a life in the wild.

The film follows Russell as he rescues two orphaned cubs from a zoo where they are soon to be killed and takes them to his cabin in the remote sanctuary. Over the course of one season he has to introduce the cubs to their new home, teaching them everything he can about a life in the wild. They have to learn the lay of the land, what plants to eat, how to catch fish and how to escape from predatory male bears. The film shows extraordinary scenes of Russell encountering adult grizzlies and holding his ground while protecting his charges.

Raising orphaned grizzly bear cubs, Charlie has been given a rare insight into the world of bears. He has learned that grizzly bears are not the fearsome aggressive killers that so many believe them to be, but rather are gentle, peaceful creatures and that it is possible for humans and bears to live together peacefully and safely, sharing this earth.

With breathtaking footage of grizzlies in a stunning geography, The Edge of Eden brings us closer than most of us will ever be to thesemagnificent animals.

Beef Jerky - Cibo Matto

I used to listen to this band in High School. This is a video someone created for the song, I think it's pretty funny!

Let's eat carrots together........

California Stars - Wilco

I love this song. It's not the real video but I still think it's cool.

Wonder Showzen

Unfortunately this show will not be having a 3rd season. How unfortunate....
My newest obsession.