Monday, March 27, 2006

Note to Self

STOP GETTING DRUNK ON SCHOOL NIGHTS!

Once again, I chose to go out and get drunk on a Sunday night and once again I was much too sick to get to school this morning. Luckily for me, it was only slated to be a halfday today, but it's still the principle of the matter. Although beer is great, getting up 6 hours after getting sloshed and realizing that if you ride the bus to school, someone's going to get a really good look at what you ate last night, isn't. So once again I resolve never to drink on a school night.

We'll see how long that lasts.

Sunday, March 26, 2006

20 Tips for Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse

Tips for Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse:

1. Do as many drugs as possible. (This doesn't necessarily ensure survival, but you'll be a lot more accepting of the situation.)

2. If possible, attempt to reason with the zombie hordes; they might be more understanding of not eating you if you can explain why you don't want to be eaten.

3. DO NOT SHOOT THE ZOMBIES; that will only make them angrier, and you probably have bad aim anyways.

4. If at all possible, run. Unless you're a woman, then you'll probably just trip and twist your ankle.

5. Zombies are drawn to large population centers, so move to the country if possible, unless you live near one of the following: cemetery, crematorium, ancient burial ground, noisy, shuffling, moaning neighbours.

6. Do not lean against windows.

7. Make sure to travel with a large group of 'feeders', people who run slightly slower than you to ensure your survival.

8. Molotov Cocktails are good for splash damage, but the undead hordes don't feel a lot of pain, so while you may feel "cool" throwing a Molotov, don't.

9. Wal-Mart sells machetes for $7.99, stock up before the Apocalypse.

10. Realize that it's unlikely you'll be able to cut through the undead hordes, as an alternative, you can try to escape, but stay in the open for fuck's sakes.

11. Do not fall asleep.

12. Should any member of your party become infected, be sure to kill said individual immediately; there is no cure for zombie, so don't waste time.

13. Don't assume that the government will rescue you; more likely than not, they were the first ones to be evacuated to the Moon.

14. Compassion will get you killed, be ruthless.

15. In the event of coming across some top secret research facility, don't assume that it's safe to go inside; if you do, you're already dead.

16. Unless you're British, don't think that you can "blend in" by imitating the zombies.

17. Get as drunk as possible; you'll need to do something to take your mind off the end of humanity.

18. Don't assume that everyone you meet is friendly, instead shoot everyone you meet in the kneecaps and run past them laughing. This will slow the zombies down.

19. If you get the chance to have sex, don't; she might have a disease or something.

20. Run.

Sunday, March 19, 2006

A Photoshop Tutorial?!

Photoshop 7.0 Grunge Background Tutorial

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Faber and MxPx

As a bouncer at a night club, there's the odd once or twice a month when a name band will come in on tour and play a show. It helps when your club is affiliated with House of Blues which basically handles all concert bookings in Canada. So after working last night's Hedley show, I just want to extend a warm hand of thanks to my new buddies, the members of Faber and the members of MxPx, you guys had an awesome show and it was great partying with you afterwards.

A huge thanks to Faber for the buds, and as for MxPx's Mike Herrera, you only won the game because I scratched the cue ball on the last shot bud...

Now let's talk Hedley...

Hedley is a band that was formed when the lead singer dropped off of Canadian Idol (Yes yanks, we have one of those shitty reality shows too) because he didn't like the style of music that Idol contestants were into. Now as a band, they're pretty mellow, pushing on the side of bubblegum pop rock almost, let's just say that there were mostly young girls at their show last night. To be honest though, they don't have the greatest reputation; I've actually heard that the lead singer once doped up a girl at a club here in London and proceeded to rape her. Scary stuff, but just like any young headlining band, they were quite arrogant and were pretty much totally ignorant of the world around them.

Let me just finish off by saying that Hedley sucks.

Friday, March 10, 2006

March Break

So next week is March Break, and I'm sure those of you still in the educational system like me have all be looking forward to such an extended vacation. It would be great to be able to say that I have some cool travel plans, or have a seven day drinking binge lined up, but the truth is, I have no plans really. Hopefully I can hook up with some friends and at least get a little inebriated.

Work's going well anyways, it's not exactly the most exciting occupation in the world to be a bouncer at a country-themed dance club... but it's easy enough so far. One good point is that every month or so there seems to be a known band (that isn't associated with country music) who comes in to play a concert. So if I happen to be working the Tuesday during the March Break, I'll get to see a free Hedley concert.

I know these blog posts are getting more an more interesting, but to be honest, I have no idea what people are looking to see here.

Wednesday, March 1, 2006

100+ Hits in February

Awesome.

I didn't realize that my website was getting those kind of numbers, I figured I would have 2 or 3 visitors a week with the amount of comments I get. I'd like to leave the counter up for awhile, even though it's more of an ego boost than an actual site statistic thing right now.

How's everyone else coping with the winter?