Category: Etc

I’m not sure exactly why you aren’t at the Cabaret du Plateau right now, watching Evil Dead 1&2, The Musical, but I am sure that it isn’t a good enough reason. It is a rare beauty in this life to experience something so eloquently violent, musical, campy, awesome, ridiculous, funny and above all bloody take place live and in such close proximity to yourself. Those within the city of Montreal should feel free to not live with the regret of missing it for the rest of their lives.

(for those out of town, the films on which it is based, Evil Dead 1, and, conveniently enough, Evil Dead 2, are an almost-satisfying substitute, along with their sequel [seeing as the first two films are essentially the same, the latter being a confused remake of the former] Army of Darkness, which takes a less “cabin in the woods” and more “unjustified mideival times setting” approach)

Seriously though, how can you go wrong with zombies, shotguns, chainsaws, s-mart (shop smart, shop S-mart), and such gratuitous use of the expression “stupid bitch!”, all presented alonside tunes you’ll be tapping your foot to all night long!? You just can’t, you stupid bitch.

(p.s. when buying a ticket, the word on the street is that a significant deal/price reduction can be had by mentioning your “boomstick”)

seriously.

They’re no ndp, but the Liberals are also no Conservatives, and that’s good enough for me.

I knew you had it in you Canada, you’re no fool. The Bushes of the world can stay in their own crappy countries.

(image from cbc)

I urge anyone of voting age in Canada to get the hell out to their voting station and give this democracy thing a running chance. Even if you can’t bring yourself to really believe in what any of the parties are saying, even if you can’t bring yourself to not hate them deep in their souls, you still have a responsibility to choose the lesser evil, or at least stop the scariest of evils.

seriously guys,

FUCK STEPHEN HARPER!

VOTE ZOMBIE TRUDEAU!

New design for a blog louisa started to keep everyone up to date while she’s away doing secretarial at a summer camp for rich american girls in Maine.

Unfortunately the little yellow cutie at left didn’t make the final cut. I’m sure he will find some love nonetheless.

Strange and fun little thing found via diepunyhumans. Just keep hitting refresh to see more comics.

As I type this my computer is deleting over seven gigabytes of illicit images and videos for me, almost 4000 files. Hours of indecent labor and searching, essentially a year worth of wasted time and energy.

I will kick this habit yet.

[next time: regret!]

I originally borrowed The Perks of Being a Wallflower, generally considered to be the official novel of Emo-Kids everywhere, from a friend out of a sense of irony. Like I would read it and laugh at all the emo-kids and their silly book about mix-tapes and breaking up.

It is very very very good. The kind of sad that can only make you feel happy to have experienced it, and the kind of weird that makes you sad because the book isn’t very long. It’s a kind of Catcher in the Rye but with more sincerity and less indignation.

It is 08:44 and i’ve been reading since 03:00 when I woke up. At the risk of blogging my sleep cycles, I will say that this is a book you should be reading regardless of how much sleep you’ve had. And that I will lend it to you once I get my copy in the mail.

Found this fun but perhaps shaky comic on the website of something called the Canadian Action Party, which I stumbled upon randomly in my search for local poll statistics for Quebec.

They appear to have a nice enough platform, though it seems to be a bit too far on the radical/econocomic-quack side of the spectrum for me. The comic details a monetary theory that I am completely unqualified to assess, but which seems like it’s built on ground none to solid.

Of course, the best part is the art which just can’t bring itself up past the level of the religious missionary style that always makes me smile (note the basic cinematic rules broken by the artist, CROSSING THE AXIS!?).

Also, vote NDP. Jack Loves You.