since then it's been a book you read in reverse,

i do this now

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:30:39 GMT

http://mtlst.blogspot.com/

christmas LOL'ing

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:18:04 GMT

1. i have been embarrassingly neglectful of my christmas calendar this year. i just caught up on chocolates Dec 8th through 18th. unghhhh they have a strange aftertaste, especially when consumed en masse.

2. wednesday, december 13th: i send out 5 christmas cards to my extended family back home. monday, december 18th: i receive 5 christmas cards from my extended family back home. (i have a feeling it was one of those "oh shit!!!" last minute sendings - you know?) but s'cool.

3. hahaaaa vancouver, looking gooood for the coming week ; )

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 06:12:51 GMT

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH THE ARCADE FIRE ARE PLAYING FIVE SHOWS IN MONTREAL FEBRUARY 6 FEBRUARY 7 FEBRUARY 8 FEBRUARY 9 FEBRUARY 10 AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/40130/Arcade_Fire_Announce_More_Shows

overheard at mcgill

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:54:49 GMT

[Preppy girl walking up to a hipster guy on the corner of Parc and Mont Royal ]
Girl: Ou est le Plateau? The Plateau? Where is it?
_

Girl on cell: “…and he was like, “If you’re from British Columbia, how come you don’t have a British accent?”
_

Ambulance Driver: “Are you sure you want to go to the hospital with her? It’s only midnight – I’m sure you could hook up with someone else tonight.”
_

(in a conference)
Girl: So is Marx a capitalist? The prof wasn’t really clear on where he stood on the spectrum…
TA: (silence)
_

Jewish Guy: Next semester I’m taking a class called ‘The Holocaust.’
Girl 1: But you’re Jewish!
Jewish Guy: I figure it’s a bird course.
Girl 2: But it’s all about how your people DIED!
Jewish Guy: But I’ve taken 4 classes on it, I’ve become so desensitized
_

Guy: Let’s have sex.
Girl: Are you sure? I’m a necrophiliac, so if we were to have sex, I’d literally have to kill you first.
Guy: Well, I’ve got a severe case of rigor mortis in my pants right now.
_

[Two guys standing by the stove in res kitchen, one with a pizza box]
Guy 1: “You might want to take that out of the box.”
Guy 2: “Why?”
Guy 1: “Um…it’ll catch on fire.”
Guy 2: “Really??”
Guy 1: “Yeah, it’s actually pretty cool to watch…but then your pizza gets ruined.”
_

girl: I thought that hermaphrodites were something made up by the media…like amnesia.
_

Frustrated Girl: my roommates are really pissing me off right now - i’m the only one who does any chores. if it was up to them our garbage would just sit in a pile in the hall.
Friend: oh my god, i know what you mean!! like i’m always the one who has to write the cheque for the cleaning lady!
_

[Waiting in line at the dep, theres two girls and a guy in line. Girl #1 buys four energy drinks and pays with her debit card. Then she proceeds to walk back through the store to talk to some friends. The cashier begins to walk after her waving a reciept. The girl returns to the cash]
Cashier: “You forgot your forty dollars cash-back”
Girl #1: “Like, oh my god thank you. I can’t believe I keep doing that”.
Guy #1 to Girl #2 [her friend]: “I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess you guys are from Toronto”
Girl #2 [softly]: “Yeah, Why?”
_

“So at what point does CPR become necrophilia?”

is it really so strange?

Sun, 03 Dec 2006 08:32:48 GMT

sometimes my fridge is so cold that ice forms in my water jug, is that strange?
i have a newfound affinity for mending clothing, is that strange?

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:22:35 GMT

attention: new favourite hobby!

listening to broken social scene's self titled album starting with 7/4 shoreline and going to the end while drinking apple juice from the dollar store straight from the carton and washing dishes.

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:33:17 GMT

sunday night = library + elbow through lcd + wheat paste + art works + running from the metro police + chocolate cake + bright eyes = monday morning

i always cry at endings

Thu, 16 Nov 2006 03:24:53 GMT

sometimes i like to thing about progressions. like, how funny is it that we took "oh my god" and turned it into "omg" and then it morphed into "omgz" and "zomg" and i'm predicting the next thing will be the "zomgz" sandwich. well, maybe not for certain.

another thing i like to think about is michael jackson. and his life progressions. the child star to teen icon to child whateverer, not to mention the plastic surgery comedy of errors. and neverland ranch! and the child-dangling! and elvis' daughter! wow!

oh and the olsen twins! how great is it that they grew up in the spotlight, completely, so like every stage of their life is completely documented? and how they sort of laid low for a while but then emerged as these emaciated hippie/homeless-dressing starbucks-addicted teen fashion icons with drug problems and 30-year-old hotelier boyfriends?

how great is that?
how fun is it having a hingsight perspective on the entirety of something and being able to appreciate the sheer humor of the situation?

robbers like sweets, too

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:50:24 GMT

Q. when is having your apartment broken into a good thing?

A. when your roommate is super brave and faces off against the thief and he drops all the goods and runs, and amongst all your almost-stolen possessions you find an enormous box of chocolate bars that he probs got from his previous gig.

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 22:54:44 GMT

"hey, do you guys know how long it takes to make a hard-boiled egg at this altitude?"
"do you want it medium-hard or hard-hard?"

"what's the difference between david boone and davey crockett?"

um, apparently, nothing.

the importance of being earnest

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 21:57:34 GMT

"if i am occasionally a little overdressed, i make up for it by being always immensely overeducated."
"i never travel without my diary. one should always have something sensational to read on the train."

oscar wilde <3

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:19:22 GMT

"after this i got embraced, told to wear flannel, be sure to write often, and so on - and i left."

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:09:16 GMT

i feel like times new roman is a font i will enjoy using when i'm a grown up.
it has many redeeming qualities, but right now i just prefer courier new.

ps: i formatted my hard drive and it feels so good. i feel like i went for an hour long run on a chilly weekday morning. yeah, that's how good it feels.

lame

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:12:10 GMT

sometimes you've just got be all like "ftw!!" and admit that you prefer mild salsa, even though it's not a socially acceptable thing to do.

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:42:53 GMT

She said it was all make-believe, but I thought you said maple leaves.
And when she talked about the fall, I thought she talked about the season.
I never understood at all.

adventure

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:31:07 GMT

i just booked a train ticket to new york and seven nights accomodation from december 25 to january 1.
yes!

"the obvious isn't always obvious to me"

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 03:33:07 GMT

also, can i just say that my life has drastically improved since i discovered that thing where you put phrases in quotation marks when searching on google?

thanks, giving.

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 05:10:04 GMT

home

as in, FIRE?!

friends

a friend is a DO in this issue (therefore we're all totally famous)

art

music

friday night: islands
saturday night: the lovely feathers + tapes n tapes
sunday night: regina spektor (who actually blew me away with the best live show of my life. and i haven't said that since i saw the pixies when i was in grade ten, ha.)

plus a potluck thanksgiving dinner, the best i've ever had, with our makeshift family (each other).
and today we discovered a nearby apartment building that has a ladder leading up to the roof. result: best new perpetually sunny reading spot.

pretty much,
one of the best weekends.

we are adventuring, we are adventurers

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:28:08 GMT

We are adventuring, we are adventurers
And in the heart of Nepal we ran into trouble

And he's caught sight of our elegant rubble
And they ransacked our camp without saying goodnight

(note my awesome hat)

Okay so yeah it's cool
Cos we're like, adventurers

We are adventuring, we are adventurers
We've been to every place anywhere in the world
We are adventuring, we are adventurers

We are adventuring we are adventurers
And in the fall it was blazing hot

Below the equator, the sunlight would start
We travelled through jungles and the tigers we've fought

I'm having such fun the wonders we've seen.

sleeping is giving in (no matter what the time is)

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 03:18:33 GMT

am i the only one who organizes their itunes obsessively as a procrastination tool?
moving here and trading music collections with everyone in my apartment has exponentially increased the "problem".

i now have 7220 songs, or 34.78 GB, or 20 days straight of music.
i shall never be in silence again.

montreal might eat its young but montreal won't break us down.

Sun, 01 Oct 2006 18:36:48 GMT

Teenagers are especially drawn to, and productive of, subcultures, for they have the means to express themselves through consumption, they desire to differentiate themselves from other age groups and even other teenagers, and they are not yet anchored by the institutions of adult life. (Hebdige 1979)

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 02:39:22 GMT

Tolstoy has given the simplest answer, with the words: "Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: "What shall we do and how shall we live?"

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 02:35:23 GMT

"He intended the expression 'sweetness and light' to refer to beauty and wisdom, respectively. He took the idea of sweetness and light from Jonathan Swift's parable about the spiders versus the bees. Everyone thinks spiders are very industrious, Swift observed, but in fact, spiders work only for themselves; all that web spinning is just to catch their own dinners. Bees, on the other hand, are more properly admirable, for they unselfishly produce benefits for others: honey and the wax used in making candles or, in other words, sweetness and light."

today

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:15:38 GMT

"Four people were killed and at least 16 were injured when two gunmen attacked a college in downtown Montreal."

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 04:08:00 GMT

OK SO TODAY I WAS WALKING DOWN THE STREET AND I SAW A GUY THAT TOTALLY LOOKED LIKE WAYNE FROM THE FLAMING LIPS.
SO I SAID TO MY FRIEND, "WOW, THAT GUY TOTALLY LOOKS LIKE WAYNE FROM THE FLAMING LIPS"

AND THEN I JUST TALKED TO SOMEONE WHO RAN INTO WAYNE FROM THE FLAMING LIPS ON SHERBROOKE STREET TODAY.

THE WAYNE LOOKALIKE AND THE WAYNE REALALIKE WERE TOTALLY THE SAME PERSON.
WTF I TOTALLY MISSED MY ONE CHANCE AT A BRUSH WITH FAME.