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[Apr. 30th, 2007|05:18 am] |
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| | wu-tang clan - forever | ] |
stardate 28384.
first entry in over two years. the Gibbles is back, mothafuckas. lookout. |
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[Mar. 12th, 2005|07:11 am] |
I hate myself for drinking out of depression, but accidentally cutting my forehead up with Boxcar's hand carved wooden knife is kind of funny in retrospect. I'm glad Larissa was around to talk to last night, I kinda wish that I could tell people how I actually appreciate their company, even if I'm all quiet and straight faced. So I guess there's a hardcore show at a house tonight, and there'll be some V.V. shirt stealing for screening, and there'll be some ripping it up on the fixie, and some drinking coffee, and definately some solo-circle-pitting to Life's Halt in my bedroom. |
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[Mar. 6th, 2005|08:18 pm] |
Wow. My past entries have been ridiculous reactionary emotional spurts of stupidity. Well, I'm fine sometimes, I feel like shit sometimes. Deal with it, and read about it! I know that's why you're my livejournal friend anyways. You want my drama.. You need it. You're probably ignoring it.
So, kids, life would rule if there was a rockin' bike thrash band to play in around these parts. So since my talents limit me to vocals, this is a call out for people to come play some fast sloppy music and be enthusiastic about bikes and stuff. I should probably stop talking bikes on here, because it's probably overwhelmingly annoying to read, but it's pretty much all I can think about to make myself happy. Have funs. |
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[Mar. 5th, 2005|12:13 pm] |
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I take it all back. Fuck it. I don't need to meet people or hang out with people right now. There's no reason to be sad. I'll just ride by myself and volunteer at OCB and never hang out with anyone, except in social situations like shows. Thanks for your support through my aggro-emo times. Have fun. |
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[Mar. 1st, 2005|08:05 am] |
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| | fuckin' pathetic | ] |
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| | Yaphet Kotto - Syncopated Synthetic Laments for Love | ] |
I may have said this before, but one can only ride his bike aimlessly around East Van so many times before it feels way too lonely. I miss riding with people, it seems like most would rather ride to a certain destination in order to do something. What happened to kids just wanting to get on their bikes and fucking go, and explore, and get all lost or cold or wet, or maybe not, but it'll all be fun anyways, right? I miss riding to random parks in Kits and sitting around reading and making fun of yuppies, riding even on the rainy and cold nights because it's still so fucking fun. It's been so long since I rode out to UBC just to go fuck around in the basement bookstacks of the library, or found a decent rooftop for ridiculously long nighttime chats. I could go on and on, but basically what I'm trying to say is that I'm lonely as fuck and I'm too goddamn scared to talk to people to make friends. So maybe you should come for a bike ride. |
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[Feb. 10th, 2005|07:24 pm] |
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| | Fifteen - Swain's First Bike Ride | ] |
Wow. It's been well over a month since I was last on the internet. Pretty rad, but depression and boredom drives me back. I'm stoked on my job, and I can't wait to pay off debts then build a new fixie. The new house is cool, but it still feels weird, probably because the landlord is still doing work on it. I kind of wish that I payed more attention to my friends, so when I'm in a shitty situation I wouldn't feel weird talking to them again. I'm kind of a bit (a lot, put modestly) lonely. That would be it. |
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[Dec. 18th, 2004|12:37 am] |
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All I ever want to do these days is ride my bike or eat or snuggle. I do all of them alot, but work always gets in the way. My new fixie could beat up your bike. I hate the rain and the yuppies who buy coffee from me, but I'm totally loving celery. And missing Alden. Umm, that's it.
Playlist for this week:
Tragedy, Cut The Shit, Yaphet Kotto, R.A.M.B.O., Cold Sweat, Hisataka, Doppelganger, Bread and Water.
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[Oct. 31st, 2004|09:11 am] |
| [ | music |
| | Yaphet Kotto - Syncopated Synthetic Laments For Love | ] |
Last night was one to erase from the record books, but not because I did anything stupid or anything. Though I believe apathy is stupid enough. I just stayed home alone, shivering cold in the heatless living room with my winter coat on. I didn't do anything. Well, I watched a movie about Jackson Pollock. Ate some pasta. Threw some clothes in the washing machine. And all of this with the snapping of fireworks outside the windows and hollering of partiers walking by on the sidewalk. I tried to fit some fenders that just won't fit on my bike. Not enough clearance. But I tried, it didn't work, and it got late, so I tried to sleep, and it worked.
This is my last day with in-home internet, so I felt I needed to write in here.
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[Oct. 25th, 2004|02:33 pm] |
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| | stoked | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Cut The Shit - Harmed and Dangerous | ] |
I'm excited to move into the Sc(t)abby House next week. I need to be back in an environment with people who have similar interests, people who can inspire me and people I can inspire. I'm also stoked to have my first room in a year with both a door and a ceiling high enough for me to stand up straight under. It feels funny that the first time I moved into a "punk" house was just a year ago. I should've dropped everything and started this lifestyle when I graduated from high school, instead of waiting around for something to happen those years. Not that its been very long since then, but it can really feel like it. People change. I'm happy with how things are going right now, there seems to be a bright future for the punk scene here, but its still very distant, and will take alot of work and ideas and communication. But now I have to go to my stupid job, so I have to cut this off.
Cheers,
Chris
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| hoist! |
[Oct. 6th, 2004|11:50 am] |
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| | Tom Waits - Real Gone | ] |
I wake up every morning feeling like the circumstances of my life have changed drastically, and they have changed, but not all that drastically.
That's what happened right now.
Oh, and the new Toms Waits album rocks my life right now.
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[Oct. 4th, 2004|09:13 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Crossed Out Discography | ] |
I'm stressing out over work, because my boss is a complete moron/asshole (aren't they all?). I don't want to go much further beyond saying that. But I got a new job, I won't have to work graveyard shifts anymore! I've got 2 more weeks of The Grind, then I'm on to Bean Around The World, a pillar of the Main Street yuppie community. At least I'll get to see my friends on weekends again. Looking forward to a new bike in a few months (savings are going well), and hoping to see everyone alot more than I have in the past while. I miss people. Also stoked about the new Tom Waits album dropping tomorrow. I'm tired and I have too much to do, goodnight.
xo Chris |
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[Sep. 18th, 2004|08:13 pm] |
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| | Tragedy - Vengeance | ] |
I haven't updated in ages. I guess because life's been uneventful, boring, full of working and not enough play. For some reason there wasn't too much of an end-of-summer rush to cram in as much fun as possible. I guess because the year's become so linear and even. Seasons have ceased to exist, there is only the odd weather trend, and changes in clothing. The mood that used to hang over summer now hangs throughout the year. I like it. So we'll put on our sticky rubber raincoats and patch the holes in our shoes (one constant reminder of summer) with layers of duct tape. We'll put fenders on our bikes and slide and fall and laugh, just like the rest of the year. |
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| Over-worked, underpants. |
[Jul. 2nd, 2004|06:25 pm] |
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| | Medium | ] |
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| | Neurosis/Tribes of Neurot - Times of Grace/Grace | ] |
My boss has called me before all of my past 3 shifts getting me to work extra hours. Fuck. It's bad enough that I'm working 7 graveyards in a row, so I don't exactly want 10 hour shifts. Oh well, mad overtime, I guess. I'll probably get tattooed with all the extra dough on my next paycheck. And buy some records. Anyways...
The Stabby House show was awesome. I won't bother with details, it was just rad.
Yesterday I woke up at 6pm and met up with Robyn, Barnacle, Andrew, and Timmy just after the East Vanada Day show got broken up. Robyn borrowed a bike from Frances Street and we all rode to English Bay to swim in the mucky water. It was nice. I had forgotten that Robyn had drawn all over my back and chest with permanent marker a few days earlier, so I got to show off a bunch of smudged blue doodles. It was kind of embarrassing, but who cares?
Come visit me at work, I'm working everyday until next Wednesday, come after 1am and get free coffee. And be my friend. Or pretend. But free coffee!
p.s. playing Neurosis' Times of Grace with Tribes of Neurot's Grace is so good it almost makes me want to be a stoner.
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[Jun. 29th, 2004|02:04 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | Irritable | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Charlie Parker | ] |
Hi, it is the morn of my birthday, and I need some sleep. I hung out with Alden and Marie, which was nice. Marie is nice and she doesn't talk much. Like me. So I thought I'd let some birthday wishes fly, because I'm bored and tired.
1) I would like it to be easier to quit smoking.
2) I would like Parliament to dissolve and everyone to become anarcho-primitivists. I want to go camping, and that would be like camping all the time.
3) I want someone to start a band with me.
4) I want people to not take me seriously, but still take me seriously, and I want to be less confused.
5) I want Micheal Moore to eat a big bag of shit. Well, not really, but he's kinda overhyped.
It's hard to shed the chains of birthday depression, but I'm doing fine. Life is absurd and silly and fun and who gives a rip about the other stuff. Just fucking go and its all good.
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| Why I did not vote today.... |
[Jun. 28th, 2004|08:40 pm] |
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| | Sleep deprived | ] |
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| | Hassan I Sabbah 7" | ] |
I'll just attempt to explain myself, because many people have been on my back about how voting is my duty; how I'm just giving up my freedom and whatnot by not voting. Over the past few years I've decided that the entire party system is a big full-o-shit fraud, and there aren't even any parties that I could get close to standing behind. I can assure you it didn't take me long to figure this out. Just think about it. That said, how could I even think of lending legitimacy to an illegitimate fucking state? Simple. I'm not gonna get into it too deeply.
I have no right to vote for a candidate that would in turn make decisions for millions of other people, those millions of people have no right to vote for a candidate that would make decisions for me. Its a stupid fucking pile of shit. Done.
"You might say, "Voting is consistent with libertarian principles because for me, it’s an act of self-defense." But when you vote, you use a tool of the State to impose your will on everyone else, most of whom are innocent, peaceful people. If an intruder attacked you in your home, would you pull out your own gun and shoot only him, or would you call the police and have them shoot everyone in your neighborhood (including the intruder)? Your vote will not affect the outcome of an election, but your participation in the election will help give legitimacy to the very State from which you seek protection." -Rob Moody
Sorry, that wasn't very well put, but geez, could you stop acting all morally righteous and leave me the fuck alone?
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[Jun. 18th, 2004|06:50 pm] |
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| | Backstabbers Inc. | ] |
I think the bicycle gods have cursed me. A week and a bit after I spend hella money replacing my stolen bike, I get hit by a car that runs a red light and doesn't stop. There wasn't too much damage to the bike so I fixed it up best I can for now. Then, just a few days ago, my bike was stolen from outside my house while I ran inside to grab my lock and backpack. I was inside for about a minute. But the neighbors saw it happen and they told me which direction the guy went, so I took off running after him and, with a stroke of luck, caught him about 5 blocks from my house. He gave the bike back, seemed really intimidated by my raging anger, and started crying, so I just told him to stop taking bikes and took off. Weird stuff. Besides that, there's nothing new in my life, which is why I haven't updated. So here's a dumb top ten list of what I've been listening to, to waste your time and improve my cool points (maybe):
1. Backstabbers Inc.
2. Tragedy
3. eNVY
4. Limp Wrist
5. Cut The Shit
6. The Oath
7. Lightning Bolt
8. Neurosis/Jarboe cd
9. Bucket Full of Teeth
10. Bread and Water
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| aiiaiaiai |
[May. 21st, 2004|11:05 pm] |
Not much is new. I got a few more hours at work, which I totally didn't want. Lame. Oh well, I guess I'll use the extra dough to buy a new bike, since the bike I spent so much time working on just got fucking stolen from the backyard around noon last Sunday. At least I had a bike for a week. It was better than not having a bike for a week. Anyways, I'm trying to talk my parents into lending me some money so I can buy this Kona I've had my eye on. Umm, I'm also moving June 1st. To 57th and Main. Its remote but I'll probably spend hella time at the Alf House still. I'll miss it, but pretty much everyone else is moving out anyways, and what's the Alf House without Kahla and Devon and Altona (well....) and Maggie and so on? Eh. I'm excited about Ordeal tomorrow. It will rip hopefully. |
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[May. 10th, 2004|04:41 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | His Hero Is Gone - Monuments to Theives | ] |
I haven't updated in ages, so I feel inclined to do it. But there isn't much to say. Work is going decently; I miss Robyn hella much, but she'll be back soon. The only cool news is that Kahla found a bike in an alley and I put a bit of money and a few hours work into it and it totally rips now. Having a bike is the best thing ever. Mmmm, I guess thats all.
Top 5 List:
1. New bike.
2. Robyn coming back this week.
3. Tom Waits
4. Wasting my paychecks on good food.
5. Crimpshrine - The Sound of a New World Being Born
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| SHOW THIS WEEKEND! |
[Apr. 13th, 2004|11:38 pm] |
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Come join in on the fun at the Alf House (1342 East Georgia) on Saturday, April 17 (this weekend) at 8:00pm.
VIALKA from Victoria/France/Switzerland (noise rock kinda in the vein of Ruins, Orthrelm, etc.)
GODS AMONG MEN from Seattle (mathy hc/crust with a cello? I hope what I'm hearing is true)
USA IS A MONSTER from New York (prog-punk with a ridiculous name)
It would be awesome if you brought money for these touring bands.
-CJG
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[Apr. 9th, 2004|02:54 am] |
| [ | music |
| | Fugazi - The Argument | ] |
I'm sitting here at work, super bored, sick, tired, and everything that could make work not as fun. Not that work could ever be fun. Sometimes, I guess. Today I was hung over, and then when that had mostly dissipated, I ate curry and then watched Nathan spin fire. It was cool, he even spun fire around me, which is kind of scary, what with all the flames spinning around inches from my face, but it was fun. Yeah, I'm feeling generally posi and excited for the summer and my self-confidence is at an all time high. I feel good, when I'm not feeling sick or something. |
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