um, when did Canada sign the Patriot Act?
as I promised my Sebby, I am blogging about this very important matter. yesterday, we met for Starbucks....(grr..no i never warmed up to them, but have their products always been so syrupy sweet, or was I just immune to that shit last year working on Robson Street?) fuckups and stolen cellphones, 24hr parking spots and cock toques, our usual culture exchange. we headed to Paramount (haven't been there since we saw "Monster In Law" with the luscious Lo) because we were using the perks of working at Roots, since it will be a mere few days before he hangs up his hat as well! Yea! Our crew has dispersed...and the one that hated the org the most has now become the one most entrenched..funny how life works. this time, it was a screening of "Just Friends", a "romantic" comedy starring Ryan Reynolds as fat and Anna Faris as crazy...did Lacoste make shirts that big, and were they big in 1995? hmmm...anyways, the takedown at the front door was that of the post 9-11 patdown that we got at Key Arena when we tried to take in a bball game. It was ludicrous. they had it all barricaded off and were searching purses for recording equiptment and cellphones, then unning metal detectors over their sensitive areas to check for what? guns? have these people lost their freaking minds?! who's running to bootleg this flick, huh? what are they gonna do at harry potter, finger print scan?!
second in a series of events involving guns and slowly moving towards being a police state. friday i decided to drop in on "increase the peace", a community forum/hip hop event with proceeds going to the bus rider's union. it was a well mediated talent rich night, with kinnie starr performing, busy bee on the tables and emceeing, KAYA represented to the fullest, curtis clearsky, and with a bit of prompting from a longtimenosee dj sucomandante, i made it to the open mic and followed kinnie's idea of being a voice filling the air as i snaked thru the crowd and busted the poem that's been dying to be performed for months now, and made it on stage to collect my accolades. i got lots of props and daps, and i even inspired a certain curly haired cutie to "accidentally" grab my ass. coloring book was represented, and i can't wait to do more with them.
ricepaper is loving the writing, so look out for me in the hardcopy...10.4 should be in stores with the quickness, i just got a few music reviews there, i'm online at ricepaperonline.com reviewing some films for the VAFF, Filipino horror and the love finale. i'm going to get a computer at some point soon...so look out! and again, i'm extending the invitation to asian artists...send me your cds, books, or films to review or hook me up with a media pass to your event, and i promise i'll write you up! let's bring eachother up, support a movement!
i went to knit at the seamripper's collective on richards and pender, and if you haven't checked out their spot, you should, because it's a great space. i went to see the diarama-rama art exhibit and i was moved to tears with the tiny detail. i'm gonna learn to hem my own jeans and use their sewing machines to make curtains out of the burlap rice sacks i've been hoarding from work!
i took off the doors of my kitchen cabinets the other night, and i love my apartment even more now. it's so open space-y.
other than that, i've been trying to create original and nutritious meals, organize my archives, read, write, otherwise create, get my parcels in the mail, and live my life.
until next time, gadgets....peas.
