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Friday, October 21st, 2005
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2:28 am
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Ok so me and jon are fucking drunk,
well i ammm and i dunn if he is.. but irs 2:30 and we decide, we had to put the "best rocknroll riffs underated ever" compilation.... so here it is....
Not all of them are underrated, says jon
paranoid by sabbath
sweet child by gnr
and honky tonk by the rolling stones
are pretty overrated
but here we go
janes addiction - stop
metallica - hit the lights
queen - stone cold crazy
tom petty - runnin' down a dream
led zeppelin - the ocean
black sabbath - paranoid
AC/DC - Jailbreak
Foghat - I just wanna make love to you
Cream - White Room
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Sonic Youth - TEen age riot
Neil YOUng - CInnamon Girl
Rolling Sones - HOnky Tonk Woman
Guns and Roses - Sweet Child of Mine
Judas Priest - Breaking the Law
White Snake - Eye of the Tigere
MC5 - Kick out the Jams
Lynrd Skynrd - Free Bird (not so much a great riff as a good closer)
Greatest basslines will be a bit more obscure...... Expect some Cliff solo's from early metallica and some inbreds im sure, as well as some motorhead....
but just you wait for Greatest Piano Riffs
Elton
Paul Mcartney
you name it we'll hit tha tmother fucker
wel love everyone
drunk
as shit
jordan & jonathan
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| Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
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10:55 am - Halloween for the 70's Skid
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Wendy Carlos - Theme From The Shining
David Essex - Rock On
Traffic - Dear Mr. Fantasy
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
The Adverts - Gary Gilmores Eyes
The Stooges - Gimme Danger
The Damned - New Rose
Golden Earring - Radar Love
Donovan - Season of the Witch
Terry Reid - To Be Treated
Crosby Stills and Nash - I'd Swear There Was Somebody Here
Henry Hall and the Gleneagles Hotel Band - Home
Leadbelly - Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World
Neil Young - Don't Let it Bring You Down
Allman Brothers Band - Midnight Rider
Black Sabbath - The Wizard
Led Zeppelin - The Gallows Pole
David Essex - Streetfight
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Terry Reid - Seed of Memory
Wendy Carlos - Theme from A Clockwork Orange
I've been watching too much Kubrick and listening to the Devils Rejects Soundtrack alot, so don't blame me that some of the songs are just ripped from those soundtracks.
If I made a horror movie, this would be the soundtrack.
None of the songs are really about Halloween, I was going for songs that have a certain low slung, subliminal, we're having an orgy later want to come, we smoked alot of cigarettes in the studio and it all went to our heads someone pass the bourbon i've got a headache, who's that blonde behind the mixing desk, that guitar solo is 3 minutes long - but i love it, make it longer, lets go watch texas chainsaw massacre and get fucked up again, kind of mood.
jordan
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| Sunday, May 22nd, 2005
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7:47 am
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There is a stupid nerdy website called YMDB.com that I sit on and dork out about movies all day.
It's one of those list websites (I understand that lists are regressive and a pointless waste of time but I can't help myself) and you list your top 20 favorite films and other people comment on your list.
They also tally up everyones votes and formulate a site-wide list.
This is the site-wide list.
What a crappy list.
1. Pulp Fiction (1994)
2. Fight Club (1999)
3. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)
4. Godfather, The (1972)
5. Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)
6. Matrix, The (1999)
7. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
8. Goodfellas (1990)
9. Godfather: Part II, The (1974)
10. Star Wars (1977)
11. American Beauty (1999)
12. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002)
13. Usual Suspects, The (1995)
14. Memento (2000)
15. Taxi Driver (1976)
16. Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001)
17. Se7en (1995)
18. Donnie Darko (2001)
19. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
20. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
21. Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
22. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
23. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
24. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003)
25. Big Lebowski, The (1998)
Here is my list, what an awesome list.
1. Persona (1966)
2. Rebecca (1940)
3. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
4. Mulholland Dr. (2001)
5. Smoke (1995)
6. Closer (2004)
7. Royal Tenenbaums, The (2001)
8. Bad and the Beautiful, The (1952)
9. Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
10. Kids (1995)
11. À bout de souffle (1960)
12. Shining, The (1980)
13. Herz aus Glas (1976)
14. Star Wars: Original Trilogy (1977-1983)
15. Reversal of Fortune (1990)
16. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
17. Adaptation. (2002)
18. Annie Hall (1977)
19. Citizen Kane (1941)
20. Texas chainsaw massacre, The (1974)
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| Sunday, May 15th, 2005
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8:08 am
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I just watched Eternal Sunshine again. While I think it's a fantastic film, I don't think it's the BEST film I've ever seen. But its presence and existence as a succesful film says something. It's like a small tremor before the earthquake, or the orchestra tuning up before a show.
It's the guy who made the Daft Punk video, and he's made a movie, a good one.
Why does Charlie Kaufman seem to attract music video directors?
Gondry seems to be at the maturity level the Jonze was at when he made Malkovich. This film is far better than Malkovich, then Jonze made Adaptation, a very un-music video movie. What is Gondry going to do next? Will he mature in the same way the Spike did?
We can only hope because it would seem he holds more creative promise and emotional depth than Spike Jonze does, which would hopefully mean that Gondrys next effort will be masterful.
This movie however is masterful because of Charlie Kaufman's script and Winslet and Carrey's acting.
This is the future of American Film, this is Hollywood finally climbing out of 80 years of repression. American film bungled by the studio system, melodrama, genre and smug lip service to the "public"
Fuck the so called "glory years" of the 70's, sure we got lots of good violence (scorcese) and we got plenty of self-concious humor (allen) and some bizarre "auterism" (kubrick - who lived in england but can still be counted as a purveyor of American film).
But what the 70's lacked was a sense of history, the American films of the 70's existed not as an evolution but a revolution and revolutions are generally short lived, and life usually goes back to normal after them.
This is a topic for an essay if I've ever seen one.
What is happening right now is good films being made that fit into the linear narrative of artistic/economic evolution.
The new films will know their place in the canon. They will pay tribute to Bazin as well as Hawks, they will exist without the aid of undergraduate midnight screenings of Clockwork Orange at the Bloor Cinema.
I could write about this forever: So I digress.
Not....(wayne & garth)
We are living in what will be the glory years to come. The next 10 years will yield better films than ever before,
this is simply the jumping off point.
That's a bit of a bold statement, and I don't know if I believe it myself. But I would like to.
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| Saturday, May 14th, 2005
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8:15 am
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Fuck Barry White.
Bobby Womack has the sexiest voice in the world, put this guy on and consider me seduced.
I'm that easy
jordan
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| Wednesday, April 27th, 2005
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1:54 am
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Someone today asked me to justify why I think Kids is one of my favorite movies. So here goes:
I remember clearly when I thought my life had started to go to shit, when I was starting to having sex with girls who cried alot and listened to Lou Barlow, when video-camera's and pretend movie scripts and Souls of Mischief and 411 vidoes meant everything, when i was dropping tabs on weekenights and still trying to pass grade 10 latin with daydream nation in my walkman......when I was, when I was....
When i was 14 years old I went to see a movie called Kids.
For the first time in my life I felt like an adult finally understood how stupid and fucked up me and my friends lives were, how incredibly reckless my generation had become. How obsessed with style, with sex with just plain being a total asshole and anti-social behaviour we all were.
I felt, finally, an adult, an old man even, gets that being 14 is so fucking hard, so fucking manic, so fucking absurd that to put it into a narrative structure that revolved around anything BUT walking around and causing trouble all day would be fuitile.
When I saw this movie I realized someone understood what I was going through and then.
I went took my skateboard to the liquor store and payed a bum to buy me and my friends malt liquor.
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| Tuesday, April 26th, 2005
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11:26 am
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"LESSONS OF DARKNESS"
1. By dint of declaration the so-called Cinema Verité is devoid of verité. It reaches a merely superficial truth, the truth of accountants.
4. Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.
5. There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.
6. Filmmakers of Cinema Verité resemble tourists who take pictures amid ancient ruins of facts.
7. Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.
8. Each year at springtime scores of people on snowmobiles crash through the melting ice on the lakes of Minnesota and drown. Pressure is mounting on the new governor to pass a protective law. He, the former wrestler and bodyguard, has the only sage answer to this: "You can´t legislate stupidity."
9. The gauntlet is hereby thrown down.
10. The moon is dull. Mother Nature doesn´t call, doesn´t speak to you, although a glacier eventually farts. And don´t you listen to the Song of Life.
11. We ought to be grateful that the Universe out there knows no smile.
12. Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution some species - including man - crawled, fled onto some small continents of solid land, where the Lessons of Darkness continue.
- Werner Herzog
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9:46 am
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I watched Melinda and Melinda the other night. It wasn't particularly good nor was it particularly bad, it was a Woody Allen movie with Woody Allen dialogue, Woody Allen sets, Woody Allen plot. Had I not known what I was getting into I might have been either more receptive or less receptive to it, I don't know but I did enjoy it in that "woody allen" context kind of way.
I did appreciate that it was set at Pastis, the best restaurant in New York, I know some reviewers found that insufferably pretensious, but I'm slowly discovering that I AM insufferably pretensious so, take that for what it is.
But it got me thinking about something that David Thomson said about North American film-going taste:
Since Star Wars, the viewing tastes of North American viewers has been swinging towards films that are essentially live action cartoons, or comic book adaptations.
That's a paraphrase because I can't find the original quote, but I was thinking about how true it is. I'm not complaining, I think some very fine movies have been made by Hollywood in that vein. Pulp Fiction, Clerks, Batman etc.
But it seems were so overrun by these types of movies now that it's hard to remember a time when Adult movies (movies made by adults for adults dealing with adult subject matter) have managed to turn a profit.
Melinda and Melinda in 1975 would have made a great deal more money, and a great deal more impact than it did today, because it would have been something grown ups wanted to see. Grown ups today seem to be more inclined to see something like Sin City or Kill Bill, Napolean Dynamite or Donnie Darko. Doesn't this point to some sort of arrested development on our part as a society?
Closer one of the best films of the year managed to bring in a tidy profit, not THAT tidy but it turned a profit nontheless. But it also starred three of the biggest names in movies, had it been cast with a relative unknowns it wouldn't have made a dime.
I know the Aviator and Ray made money this year, but they were Biopics and Biopics seem to be a good bet because they can be grown up movies that require nothing from the audience and can be made with all the filmmaking skill as say producing an A&E Biography special.
I guess watching a Woody film (no matter how questionable) made me think about what it must have been like going into theaters in the late 60's up to the late 70's. Knowing that the movie you are going to see wasn't made by some nerds who read too many comic books and reference too many B-Movies. Knowing that the movie I was going to watch had solid writing, good acting and a plot that actually required me to try and connect the dots and figure it out for myself.
I like comic books, but there is more to life than obscure graphic novels and lost film noir videos.
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| Saturday, January 29th, 2005
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12:30 pm
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| Sunday, January 23rd, 2005
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8:55 am
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| Wednesday, January 12th, 2005
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10:54 am - I'm A Gigantic Dork
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Girls of the World Ain't Nuthin but Trouble!!!
I just finished reading The Two Towers, having not read it since I saw Return of The King.
Shelob is SO much scarier in my imagination than she is on screen.
In my head she has the gigantic Bulbous SAC of bubbling, boiling green puss and thin, lanky arms. Like a really huge disgusting Black Widow.
Not! As Peter Jackson would have us believe, a gigantic clumsy tarantula with hair all over it.
Not that I didn't like the movie version of the Child of Ungoliant, but I like the one in my head best.
jordan
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| Thursday, January 6th, 2005
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11:36 pm
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Nobody Does It Better
Makes Me Feel Bad For All The Rest
Nobody Does It
Half As Good As You
Cause Baby, You're The Best!!
Grandpa decided it was time for me to have Power Of Attorney over his bank accounts. THANK GOD! I am so sick of trying to do his banking for him and having the old crackhead lady at the bank give me a hard time about it.
Fuck lady,
But now I am officially his "Attorney"
When I put him to bed tonight, he said, "jordan, as my attorney, I would like you to turn off the lights for me" It was so cute, in a Hunter S. Thompson kinda way.
jordan
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| Wednesday, January 5th, 2005
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10:24 pm
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Cranky
Pants
Cranky
Pants
Cranky
Pants
I just saw the Stepford Wives Remake, holy shit it was awful.
I sure am glad I saw the original first.
4 academy award winners and no one stopped to say "hey this movie is gonna suck"?
I just got LOTR: ROTK Extended Edition
Then I made the mistake of going on usenet and seeing what other Tolkien nerds thought of it.
Wow big mistake,
Nerds are so cynical.
One guy actually had the balls to say
"how does legolas fill up his quiver with arrows?. Because we never see him picking up new ones and *everyone* knows that Elves can't just make arrows out of thin air"
this was so dork-tastic I almost died.
Someone else (thank god) wrote:
"yeah, peter jackson SOOO should have included the 10 minute scene they shot of Legolas picking up arrows, only of course, if on the Extended Edition they made it 20 minutes long with a documentary on the importance of elven bows to tolkiens mythology"
At least they aren't all nerds
Oh well, I decided I can't be a nerd, because I'm not angry enough to be one. I'm pretty angry, I even understand pretty complex jokes about Math. But I wouldn't ever have the balls to complain about legolas, and his arrows.
jordan
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| Sunday, January 2nd, 2005
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4:09 pm
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Well I ran 13.1 miles today, which to the uninitiated, is the distance of a half-marathon. And the equivalent of about 22 kilometres. My nipples started bleeding at about mile 10 and I bled all over my brand new Dri-Fit singlet, which really pissed me off, but then I went to the bathroom and washed it and the blood came out, which made me happy.
I felt like I could have gone another mile or two, which is good.
That will be the last time I run that distance until the race in april, today I finished with a 2:10 time, I hope to run in Montreal with a 1:45, I think I can do it, because I wasn't running my hardest, and I still had energy at the end of my run.
That was my day. Yeehaw.
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| Saturday, January 1st, 2005
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8:30 pm
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I'm so fucking hungover.
Downing CC straight out of the bottle, after having 6 beers and a bottle of wine isn't the best idea.
Apparently I made out with some chick, she must have been ugly because I can't imagine any hot chick making out with me considering the state I was in.
Jon said I grabbed some random girls boob, I really hope I didn't, then he said it looked like I fell into her and then just grabbed her boob, I hope that was the case, or else I'm more of a perv than I thought I was.
I just kept walking around the party saying really random things to drunk people.
Apparently my line of the night was "I didn't do it, it's not my fault".
I think this made the owner of the house very nervous, trying to guess what it was that I "didn't" do, and how much of a mess he was going to have to clean up when he discovered what exactly it was that I didn't do, and wasn't my fault.
It proved a good conversation started though, Jon said I was talking to every girl in the place, but that they all had a really confused look on their faces, I suppose thats because all I would say was "I didn't do it".
I do remember saying it to Steph, and I remember her say "I know you didn't, don't worry" and then patting my head.
That was nice of her.
I watched Growing Up Gotti all day today on TV, those kids remind me of my cousins from New Jersey. They live in a big gaudy house and talk shit to their parents all day.
I guess it runs in the family.
Now I'm about to watch that bounty hunter show.
Oh yeah and I watched My Cousin Vinny, man what a great movie, and Marisa Tomei is so fucking hot holy shit, I don't know why I didn't pick up on that before.
jordan-drunk-and-hung-over
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| Friday, December 31st, 2004
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8:12 am
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I wish there wasn't this unwritten law about not talking to girls at the gym. It's like, I know it's creepy to talk to pretty girls while they are working out, so I don't. But there are so many damn hot girls at my gym, and I KNOW they all need some Jordan in their lives.
But I can't break the commandment.
Thou Shalt Not Try To Get Up In A Womans Pants Whilst Excersizing.
jordan
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8:08 am
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I dreamt that I had sex with Paris Hilton. But since I seem to be the only person on earth that doesn't have actual sex in dreams, I never actually consumated our relationship. I know what your thinking, Paris Hilton? I know I know, she's pretty horrific but for some reason I can't stop thinking about her.
Oh well, she wanted to have sex, but she didn't want to use a condom, and I considered it for a minute, and then thought, No, this is Paris Hilton, she has a sex movie on the internet, I think I should use a condom, so I ran out to the store to get some but when I got back the paparazzi were there, so we took off to my house, when we got there, I woke up, and instead of going back to sleep and finishing the job, I decided to make coffee and write about it on livejournal.
I'm a fuckin' loser.
jordan
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| Tuesday, December 28th, 2004
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11:46 am
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This girl was on this wierd website called www.rapindustry.com, I think it's a model search for ho's in rap videos.
All I have to say about this is.........
Lean Back
Lean Back
Lean Back
Lean Back
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| Saturday, December 25th, 2004
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11:18 am
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This whole thing with Juliet is just not going to work out in the end. At least not right now, not for a while. No phone call on Christmas, which just kind of pisses me off, but at the same time I understand the distance she's putting between us. If only she wasn't so rational, and me, not so much. I'm always willing to try anything, even if it seems hopeless. I don't feel dumped, or like I do when I get dumped, it's been a long time since that's happened, so maybe I just don't remember what it felt like properly. I guess the fact that we broke up mutually (and it was mutual) makes it a bit easier. Or maybe I'm just less susceptible to "rejection" now because my self esteem is at an all time high, and I'm not taking it as "rejection" as such but as two people with different ideas of where a relationship can go, given the 4000 miles that stand between Toronto and Newcastle.
current mood: accepting
current music: Dry Your Eyes - The Streets
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| Friday, December 24th, 2004
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9:35 am
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Just for the hell of it,
Here's the Wu Tang Clan (aint nuttin ta fuck wit)
I remember how cool I thought these guys were when I was 13/14 and Enter the Wu came out. What happened? Why are most of them so wack now?
jordan
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