2009

When the year 2009 came, I thought: Cool. The future. The year picked by many an 80’s science fiction writer to avoid the obvious rounding off at 2010 (I presume). It is a Dolph Lundgren movie. It’s also common enough to not be a prime number year. It is innocuous, plain and unsuspecting. So who cares about 2009? Forget 2009. Even the blog had a bad year. I bet even Anonymous (that asshole) had a bad year.

This is 2009

Like a walking shit, it is a creature whose properties do not normally allow for subsistence. It is a monster that has one month left to live. It is what 2007 accidentally created despite 2006’s warning and what 2008 forgot to nurture.

I’m a firm believer in new beginnings so I trust 2010 will be the golden year that 2018 will vainly try to imitate and that 2028 will ignore altogether. And I wish this for everyone whose salad days seem far behind. We’re not getting old. We’re just having trouble adapting. So yes, a month in advance, I bid you all a happy new year.

Plaisirs Coupables Guilty Pleasures

Savez, moi, dans la vie... y a pas grand chose dont j'ai honte, et d'habitude je m'assume pleinement en tant que digne et fier représentant des exclus sociaux communément appelés: les rejets.
Mais, bon, faut dire que je suis, même si ça peut surprendre, humain, et il y a peut-être quelques exemples où cette règle est un peu moins bien appliquée, plus particulièrement dans le domaine de la musique. Et oui, je le déclare, j'ai des plaisirs coupables. C'est-à-dire qu'en éprouvant des sentiments agréables à l'écoute de certaines pièces, et qu'en contemplant l'image sociale renvoyée par l'artiste performant ladite pièce, je peux ressentir une certaine appréhension quant à l'idée de me voir associé à l'artiste rejet.
En guise d'exorciser cette culpabilité déplacée, je me propose donc d'afficher un de ces plaisirs qui me mine la conscience depuis bientôt presque 20 ans et dont il serait inutile et vain de continuer à craindre l'opprobe qu'il m'attirerait indubitablement.



Oui, j'ai toujours aimé, j'aime encore, et j'aimerai probablement toute ma vie cette chanson.
Voilà. Etiquettez moi comme vous voudrez, je fais fi de vos regards désapprobateurs et me drappe dans l'image sublimement rebutante du néo-hippie grunge rejet des débuts 90.

Et le comble dans tout ça, c'est que peut-être, ce serait trop beau, mais peut-être que je vais faire un spectacle avec ce groupe à nul autre date que le 25 décembre. Je souhaite de tout mon coeur que la salle soit plus vide que le vide interstellaire, car il n'y a rien de plus rejet que faire un show en première partie de la tournée de réunion des spin doctor le 25 décembre en 2009, et je mets au défi quiconque de me prouver le contraire.

Weird Al Yankovic explains Auto Tune

The Big Picture

Hmm.. Better...

I don't have cable at home so on many occasions I end up watching politicians yell at each other in the National Assembly. I have to admit that it's been an emotional rollercoaster. I've had a few laughs, got pissed, and even yelled "right on!".



I don't like the Liberals too much under Charest, but I do like his environment minister, Line Beauchamp. She's got a good head on her shoulders and is a good fighter (not to mention that being a woman in that room full of bullies and babies is no easy task). I also believe Quebec should seperate, but in a Quebec Solidaire type of way - Go Amir Khadir! Yel le le le le ayi ayi ayi *gunshot* *gunshot*

Anyways, I'm totally rambling but I just wanted to mention that Quebec isn't following Harper in his "Do nothing despite what the world is telling me" attitude. I'm glad to live in a province that is willing to take things into it's own hands. I guess it's not so bad being a minority in a minority after all.

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Québec fixe sa cible de réduction des gaz à effet de serre à 20 % d'ici 2020 par rapport à 1990.

Le premier ministre Jean Charest a confirmé cet objectif lundi, lors d'un discours devant le Conseil des relations internationales de Montréal.

Son gouvernement s'était engagé à prendre position avant la conférence internationale de Copenhague, au Danemark, qui doit avoir lieu du 7 au 18 décembre prochain.

Lors de consultations préliminaires, la ministre de l'Environnement, Line Beauchamp, avait suggéré quatre scénarios de réduction des gaz à effets de serre: 10 % par rapport à 1990, 12 %, 15 % comme le préconise l'Ontario, ou 20 % à l'image des pays européens.

M. Charest a souligné qu'en réduisant les émissions de 20 %, le Québec émettra huit tonnes de gaz à effet de serre par habitant, comparativement à neuf tonnes pour l'Europe.

Ce scénario est toutefois en deçà des objectifs recommandés par les Nations unies, soit une réduction de 25 % à 40 % d'ici 2020.

Radio-Canada.ca avec
Presse canadienne
Source

When previous generations imagination overcompensates for current hollywood's lack thereof, us nerds may get pleased.

Just thought I'd mention...

I feel like I've been in the city for too long. I think it's time I headed to the country. Email me your schedules for the next couple of week-ends. I'd like to plan something.



...something special.

Since I spend 90% of time right now waiting for shit to compile...

I stubmled upon this. I just realized that I really really love Tim Schaffer and I'm kind of disappointed in myself that I never finished psychonauts. I'm going to be playing all his classics in chronological order and I'll climax with Brutal Legends which hopefully we all get to play at some point in the not so distant future.

Event Next Week

Anybody interested in going? There are going to be some cool artists there. The kind that Karl Hungus craves. I can reserve tickets for anyone that wants to go. Let me know if you're interested.

The only thing that can relativize my troubles is this guy

Spacey!

I thought it would be wise to post the whole thing. Makes you realize how small your troubles are.

New Name

I'm sick of Candyman. I don't even consider myself a Candyman anyways. I shall now be known as Karl Hungus. If you don't know who he is, rent Logjammin'

I'll see your Sigur Ros

...and I'll raise you 5 octaves.

i like this. it made me well up.

Nice...

sigh...

Sommet de l'APEC

"Le professeur Tim Flannery, du Copenhagen Climate Councilque, a déclaré à la Presse canadienne que le piètre bilan du Canada en matière de réduction des émissions de GES lui avait fait perdre toute crédibilité sur la question.

Selon lui, le Canada est « de loin » le pays qui respecte le moins ses obligations par rapport au protocole de Kyoto. Il estime que les Canadiens, par l'entremise de leur gouvernement, ont pris des engagements et doivent les honorer d'une façon ou d'une autre.

M. Flannery ajoute que le Canada devra agir afin de réduire les émissions de GES, notamment celles du secteur des sables bitumineux."

Courage

I don't know any better way to define it.

Brave men die young.

BOB A JOE!!!

The other day I opened ma tv and fell on that part of the Legendary Movie, at about the 12th second of the following video, which led me to believe I might very well be the chosen one:

Too Far?

Brutal

photo unrelated

So there will be no Mont-Tremblant this week-end. In fact, I might not even be able to spend this fine rocktovember week-end with my bum chums. I realised this week that I already have a birthday and hanging of the creamer to go to. I'll try to do both, but this means it can't happen at my place.

Do we even have the game? Is Spazzio's an option? If it is, someone better call him damn soon so he doesn't overdo it on his own tonight.

Dear Reverso

While you wait to protect yourself from quadripedal robots here is something for you to do:

Article

Unreal Development Kit brings Unreal Engine development to the masses
by Christopher Grant { Nov 5th 2009 at 11:10AM }

No, Whizzle and The Ball aren't Cincinatti's crazy drive-time zoo crew, rocking WKRP with six hours of fart jokes, crank calls, and toilet-flushing sound effects – instead, they're two new indie games built entirely using the hey-isn't-that-expensive Unreal Engine 3. Or, if you want to get specific, built using the just-announced (though expected) Unreal Development Kit, or UDK for the acronymical out there. Sure, Unreal Engine 3 is super enough to bring you games like Gears of War 2 and Batman: Arkham Asylum, but as long as you're using it for non-commercial or educational purposes, UDK is available totally free of charge.

You can download the Unreal Development Kit for yourself from Big Download, and while you're over there read their blowout coverage, including interviews with Epic Games, Whizzle's Psyonix Studios, and The Ball's Toltec Studios. We've got images and descriptions of both games, along with a video from Psyonix, after the break.

So why don't you make a game about zombie nazis fighting autonomous all terrain robots while listening to slayer and watching women explosively eject their menses? If that's the sort of thing you're into of course.

They're gonna come steal our water with this

This is the scariest shit I've seen in a while (since I saw Barbie on a shroom hangover actually)

When they run out of water, and that would be approximately within 10 years from now, the US is gonna come at us with those... (picture them with side mounted rocket propeller guns, and a head with lazer eyes... WITH LAZER EYES)

I think my job is getting to me.

I haven't seen you guys in a while and I've been working 40 hours a week at a job I don't like, staring at a computer screen, looking for incorrectly placed apostrophes through hundreds upon hundred of lines of data. It's starting to affect my appearance.



To them, I am a code warrior, sifting though their inadequacies and streamlining a system that is utterly doomed to be wiped out due to inefficiency. I get paid shit and I don't get to see my girlfriend as much as I'd like because my true career passion of painting is worked on during evenings and then all through the night. I am a zombie and unhappy.

Time for a change.

Pressure Lobbying For this Weekend

It's almost been 3 weeks already.
We cant put it off any longer.
This weekend. Preferably saturdah (since its my girlfriend's birthday on friday).
I offer my house, but Bonerpant's or Candy's would be, euphemistically speaking, more convenient.
If none of you answer, I shall proceed on my own anyways.
Else if you didn't understand what this message is about, try sucking on the following putrescent clitoral fermentation...

Nameology

I'm undecided. Should my new name be Tazmin Pergoglu or Constantin Girofle ?

Tazmin Pergoglu is a loveable Moldavian. Slightly lost but with a knack for having fun.

Constantin Girofle is a boringly-dressed dandy. But he's always got the best drugs.

What the fuck am I making up?