... I can still be mistaken for 18.
Maybe I should grow a beard. Do I get to be evil then?
Err... more evil?
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
TLU: Being "Old" Has an Over/Under
Female Floorie "Come on.", looks in my direction as I'm eating dinner in the common lounge, "Dave, she totally looks older, doesn't she?*"
Me: "Errr... I think I'm being drawn into a conversation I walked into in the middle of and totally haven't been paying attention to. What's going on?"
Instead, I went with: "Of course not!" Safe, right? No girl wants to be told they look old...
For future reference, apparently this is not the correct answer when the girl in question just turned 18 yesterday and has spent the last 30 minutes with the girls on how she doesn't look/feel any older. If looks could kill I'd have died 4 times over that day...
* this is what's called a Tip-Off folks. Have I mentioned I can be a bit oblivious at the best of times... err, yeah...
Me: "Errr... I think I'm being drawn into a conversation I walked into in the middle of and totally haven't been paying attention to. What's going on?"
Instead, I went with: "Of course not!" Safe, right? No girl wants to be told they look old...
For future reference, apparently this is not the correct answer when the girl in question just turned 18 yesterday and has spent the last 30 minutes with the girls on how she doesn't look/feel any older. If looks could kill I'd have died 4 times over that day...
* this is what's called a Tip-Off folks. Have I mentioned I can be a bit oblivious at the best of times... err, yeah...
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
TYL: Sooo.... There's a Hollywood Akira Movie in the Works...
Live action. How can we possibly fuck this up? Oh...
Here's where we're likely to run into what I now dub the "Enders Game Principle": the reality that the source material contains elements that won't get past societal norms/beliefs and therefore must be purged to make it acceptable. As such, Tetsuo and Kaneda likely just gained 5 to 10 years to make them into the grizzled motorcycle gang members people are familiar with from TV.
Be prepared to find the film presented from that context.
There are two major roles, and I'm told that for Tetsuo, Robert Pattinson, Andrew Garfield and James McAvoy have been given the new script. For the role of Kaneda, the script has been given to Garrett Hedlund, Michael Fassbender, Chris Pine, Justin Timberlake and Joaquin Phoenix.Err... disregarding the number of talentless pretty boys in there, aren't the two lead characters in Akira orphaned teen street punks? Yeah... why are we looking to cast people between the ages of 28 and 34?
Here's where we're likely to run into what I now dub the "Enders Game Principle": the reality that the source material contains elements that won't get past societal norms/beliefs and therefore must be purged to make it acceptable. As such, Tetsuo and Kaneda likely just gained 5 to 10 years to make them into the grizzled motorcycle gang members people are familiar with from TV.
Be prepared to find the film presented from that context.
LS: This made me giggle
2. While we appreciate Firefly as much as everyone else, Malcolm Reynolds has never been the leader of the Alliance.While it can be hit or miss, The Daily Blink is frequently a pretty effective piece of satire.
CBC R3 Playlist: Spring 2011 Edition
Subtract:
A.C. Newman - Drink to Me Babe, Then
Caribou - Odessa
Colette Trudeau - I Don't Wanna Know
Great Lake Swimmers - Pulling On A Line
Jason Collett - A Beguiled Christmas in Sales
Jay Crocker - Falling Out of Windows
Jenny Whiteley - Indoor Lightning
The Mountains & The Trees - All Together Now (For The Holidays)
A Northern Chorus - Remembrance Day
Plants And Animals - Lola Who?
The Shilohs - Carolina
Shimmering Stars - Sun's Going Down
Jody Glenham - Snow In New York City
Add
Mathew Joel - Where Are We?
Emm Gryner - Black-Eyed Blue Sky
Local Rabbits - Missing Out
The Liptonians - You Know I Did
Hey Rosetta! - A Thousand Suns
Stars - My Favourite Book
Lady Hayes - So Young
Laura Peek and the Winning Hearts - Stay Sharp
Selina Martin - Public Safety Management
The Love Machine - Love Is On Your Side
The High Dials - Fields in Glass
Elk - Shaking Hands
Pat LePoidevin - The Moonwolf Departure
Tacoma Hellfarm Tragedy - True Love Killed My True Love's Love For Me
Imaginary Cities - Say You
Gramercy Riffs - Oh Linda!
Foam Lake - Die Fighting
Mostly pulling slower songs, or ones that began to grate like Trudeau's, and replacing them with more uptempo or experimental stuff leading to a slight increase to 83 songs and ~6 hours of playtime to be found, as usual, over here.
A.C. Newman - Drink to Me Babe, Then
Caribou - Odessa
Colette Trudeau - I Don't Wanna Know
Great Lake Swimmers - Pulling On A Line
Jason Collett - A Beguiled Christmas in Sales
Jay Crocker - Falling Out of Windows
Jenny Whiteley - Indoor Lightning
The Mountains & The Trees - All Together Now (For The Holidays)
A Northern Chorus - Remembrance Day
Plants And Animals - Lola Who?
The Shilohs - Carolina
Shimmering Stars - Sun's Going Down
Jody Glenham - Snow In New York City
Add
Mathew Joel - Where Are We?
Emm Gryner - Black-Eyed Blue Sky
Local Rabbits - Missing Out
The Liptonians - You Know I Did
Hey Rosetta! - A Thousand Suns
Stars - My Favourite Book
Lady Hayes - So Young
Laura Peek and the Winning Hearts - Stay Sharp
Selina Martin - Public Safety Management
The Love Machine - Love Is On Your Side
The High Dials - Fields in Glass
Elk - Shaking Hands
Pat LePoidevin - The Moonwolf Departure
Tacoma Hellfarm Tragedy - True Love Killed My True Love's Love For Me
Imaginary Cities - Say You
Gramercy Riffs - Oh Linda!
Foam Lake - Die Fighting
Mostly pulling slower songs, or ones that began to grate like Trudeau's, and replacing them with more uptempo or experimental stuff leading to a slight increase to 83 songs and ~6 hours of playtime to be found, as usual, over here.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Rant: Hey, Lets Address that Prostitution Ruling...
... by licensing/building brothels/casinos on Toronto Island.
*sigh*
You know, I'd really like for society to sit down and have some rational discussion on the issues of the sex trade but... this...
*sigh*
Look, this is what's called a False Dilemma or Limited Options Fallacy. At best case, it's essentially setting up what has been, largely, a family park for years as the destination for something no one wants in their neighbourhood such that, when opposition mounts, you can fall back and go: "Well, I tried and if we can't put it there, well, we can't put it in our other neighbourhoods either!", knowing full well that your position never stood a chance to begin with.
Saying: "well, there's a nude beach out there now!", in a corner... generally out of sight of anyone who doesn't go looking for it... as justification is just wrongheaded as well because there's a pretty substantial line between the societal costs and risks of nudism vs. prostitution.
But the wrongness goes entirely past the social issues here. The Toronto Islands also stand out as a largely undeveloped tract of parkland:
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and what's really being proposed here is that we open up the park property, being quite valuable lakefront property, to massive redevelopment. That, for many people who've been fighting to keep the islands "pristine", or at least as much so as they can be with a small airport at one end, is the worst case scenario: that the Casino/Red Light district is just a means to that end. Because, once you've got zoning and political clearance to go ahead with plan A, it's quite easy to "give in" to public pressure and replace those brothels with Hotels, condos and other facilities. They're going to fight the development aspects of this suggestion tooth and nail and if they have to scream "SKANKS IN OUR STREETS!!!" to win they will.
Meanwhile, actual issues facing participants in the sex trade remain unaddressed.
*sigh*
You know, I'd really like for society to sit down and have some rational discussion on the issues of the sex trade but... this...
*sigh*
Look, this is what's called a False Dilemma or Limited Options Fallacy. At best case, it's essentially setting up what has been, largely, a family park for years as the destination for something no one wants in their neighbourhood such that, when opposition mounts, you can fall back and go: "Well, I tried and if we can't put it there, well, we can't put it in our other neighbourhoods either!", knowing full well that your position never stood a chance to begin with.
Saying: "well, there's a nude beach out there now!", in a corner... generally out of sight of anyone who doesn't go looking for it... as justification is just wrongheaded as well because there's a pretty substantial line between the societal costs and risks of nudism vs. prostitution.
But the wrongness goes entirely past the social issues here. The Toronto Islands also stand out as a largely undeveloped tract of parkland:
View Larger Map
and what's really being proposed here is that we open up the park property, being quite valuable lakefront property, to massive redevelopment. That, for many people who've been fighting to keep the islands "pristine", or at least as much so as they can be with a small airport at one end, is the worst case scenario: that the Casino/Red Light district is just a means to that end. Because, once you've got zoning and political clearance to go ahead with plan A, it's quite easy to "give in" to public pressure and replace those brothels with Hotels, condos and other facilities. They're going to fight the development aspects of this suggestion tooth and nail and if they have to scream "SKANKS IN OUR STREETS!!!" to win they will.
Meanwhile, actual issues facing participants in the sex trade remain unaddressed.
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