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me being all artsy and whatnot

















Taken by my home in Northern Arm















St. John's
















Once again, back home. The remains of an old treehouse me and my neighbors tried building. It wasn't bad...about as complete as anything we ever did.

















I've gotta fool around with my camera some more. I find that - on a bright day - the sky comes out pinkish

hot change will do you good

I always heard those words when that song would play

"a little hot change will do you good"

I've heard it so much in my head over the past however many years, that I don't think I will ever hear it otherwise.

so, here's a little hot change for you
I'm not gonna be posting here very much anymore.
I have to pick my battles, you see.

I can't have three battles going on at once, it's confusing.

I have a new website -> www.thekirk.ca
there's a blog of sorts there

I have a myspace ---> http://www.myspace.com/majorkirk
both have BLOGS, though I probably won't use the latter one.

I may still post my most innane and inappropriate thoughts here. So I won't delete it for a while

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hey, guys, I'm pregnant

I'm a preggo, and this time I'm not referring to spagetti sauce.
I got knocked up...real old school.

yup...that's me. Look what I've gotten myself into this time, gang!
oh, silly me!


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April fools, bitches!

I really had you all going.

oh, my.
but I guess nobody will read this until after noon (i.e. in the afteroon) when - for whatever reason - the april fooler becomes incapacitated.
But I can totally claim retroactive tom-foolery here

Cake or Death?

I chose Molasses Cake
and I did a decent job. My first time and, if I must say so myself, it ain't far off mom's best.
once I figure out how to make her blueberry pudding w/ brown sugar sauce, I'll have no more need for her.

Future Goals #4 (I think)

I want to be chased by a killer, make it to my door, and fumble with my keys like an idiot. Will I get in at the last minute?
who knows?

it's the little things

like what happened to my milk carton when I tried to open it



<-------do you see this?



<-------SEE IT?!?!







how could I mess up that so badly? there's no way, it was the milk cartons fault. I think the glue they used was too strong

Something new

something new


HA HAH A HA

my v-day tradition

well...this special time of the year has come around again!!

everyone is just so full of love love love

ever since that valentines day is grade 6 when I brought my cardboard heart home empty, I have celebrated my v-day a little differently than most people.

I start the day off with a stiff drink. (when I was younger it would be homogenized milk)
throughout the day I try to ruin the occasion for as many happy couples as possible.
Maybe write a love letter to some girl and put it in her purse, hoping that her boyfriend will find it

stuff like that

I end the day by killing a rabbit and drinking its blood from the hallowed out skull of last years rabbit

I know...it's a pretty humble little celebration, but it's something!

Future Goals #3

I want to say goodbye to somebody, and as I'm walking off into the sunset I want to stop several times, slowly turn my head, and look back at them with a blank, slightly contented look on my face, as if to say...'my time here is done, I hope your days are as sweet as they are numerous"

Future goals #2

I want to say "it's not you, it's me" to someone at some point in the future

Voting

So, come Monday, who di you think you'll vote for?

personally I'm sick of Paul Martin. I don't trust him and I think he's just desperate.
The Liberal agenda looks good on paper but rarely reeps any benefits.
As for Harper and the conservatives...that's the death of Canada right there

So, for better or for worse, I'm voting NDP.
It may be a vote lost...but I won't support any of the others.

I think that every year creates more people like me; those who are disgusted by both major parties and decide to vote for the underdog.
I predict that within 50 years the NDP will be rotating between the opposition and elected parties

Long term goals

my long term goal is to one day spit at somebody's feet in disgust


this is a crude representation of the event:

roast chicken chips fiasco

So I caved and bought a bag of roast chicken chips last night

man can't live on nutritional food alone, afterall
Not that I think chunky soup is terribly nutritional

but anyway, I opened the bag and started eating.
that sweet sweet flavor went right to my head. It's like a good wine, I swear.
all those little particals of real roast chicken.
did you know they actually roast a whole chicken than shave it with a cheese grater over an open bag of chips? It's true.

but anyway, I was minding my own business when I see something in there that isn't a potato chip. You know what it was? You'll never guess.
No...not a human finger...but good guess, guys....good guess.
It was one of those tin foil sheets that comes in cigarette packages. The one where the tin foil can be seperated from the thin white sheet.
There was a crumpled up one of those in my bag of roast chicken chips.

I can't make this shit up...it's true.

But no sense in letting all that real roast chicken go to waste

top 20 of 2005

here we go...true sign of a man with too much time on his hands.
I've already done a top 10...but that was two months ago. it was premature and not fully thought out.

lets do this

old school

this is objective and totally factual
(I've not included EP's)

20. Vitalic - OK Cowboy
19. Caribou - The Milk Of Human Kindness
18. Fembots - The City
17. Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
16. Ryan Adams - Jacksonville City Nights
15. Andrew Bird - and the mysterious production of eggs
14. Antony and the Johnsons - I am a Bird Now
13. Hold Steady - Seperation Sunday
12. M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
11. The Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers
10. Josh Rouse- Nashville
9. Jamie Lidell - Multiply
8. John Vanderslice - Pixel Revolt
7. Lucksmiths - Warmer Corners
6. Clientele - Strange Geometry
5. Constantines - Tournament of Hearts
5. M. Ward - Transistor Radio
4. Decemberists - Picaresque
3. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
2. My Morning Jacket - Z
1. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary

Other albums I enjoyed and/or need to listen to more beofre I include them in a list(including EP's)

Beck - Guero
Laura Cantrell - Hummed By the Flowered Vine
Iron and Wine/Calexico - In The Reins (EP)
Iron and Wine - Woman King(EP)
Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens
Grandaddy - Excerpts from the Diary of Toddzilla
Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice - Harem of the Sundrum & the Witness Figg
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Fruit Bats - Spelled in Bones
Bonnie "prince" Billy/Matthew Sweeney - Superwolf
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

Got Elk?

I have the cute title...I have the boyish charm.

but, do I have the goods?

I don't know

anyway.
Got back from Jasper yesterday where I was for the company christmas party.
it was fun, and frustrating on some levels.
but mostly fun.

One little story I'll share with you concerns me and a herd of nefarious elk. (I just wanted to say 'nefarious'. That word sure does it for me. Like Emporium. sexy words)
anyway, I'm walking back to my cabin on saturday night after all the "hoop-la" and festivities.
Typically, I get lost and wander around for 2 hours. During this time I come upon said elk.

So I decide to stand with them for a while (1/2 hour) and let nature calm my frustrated bones.
After some time passed I thought I'd try and get closer.
There were about 15 of them and most were female.
So I guess the big ol' stag didn't take too kindly to me approaching and he come towards me.
it's at this point that I think it might be better to back up and get the hell out of dodge.

I don't want to be the guy in one of those newspaper stories that majik sznack posts on his blog. You know...the guy that dies from something stupid, and people who read it laugh at him.

I don't want people to laugh at my death, is what I'm trying to say.

newness

I bought a new guitar
I thought of names...like Winnifred
normal-y-ish names
But I think I'll go with a generic name like CRUSHER

actually...maybe something like "the duke" or "major"
maybe "Duke Crusher"
maybe not crusher though.

now that I think about it. Perhaps I should name it after a historical figure.
maybe Karl Marx
if I went with a female....I dunno...Anne Boleyn

Generic Post

just gonna list out some of my favorite albums from this year. This will be the first rough installment (done out of boredom). STAY TUNED FOR A COMPLETELY OVER-WROUGHT AND METICULOUSLY PREPARED TOP 20!!

10. Fembots - The City
It continues to grow on me. A pretty dark brand of alt-country.
Something about how he sings "So long this life is" will make you shiver.
Favorite tracks: So Long, Up From the Ditches, My Life in the Funeral Service

9. Hold Steady - Seperation Sunday
Would it be bad to say that these songs could fit into the soundtrack for That 70's Show.
That's the only way I can describe it. It's really great rock and roll, guys.
Favorite tracks: Cattle and the Creeping Things, Your Little Hoodrat Friend

8. Lucksmiths - Warmer Corners
stubborn optimism, cheerful pessimism, poppy confident arrangements...they live up to their names sake.
Fav tracks: Great Lengths, Sunlight in a Jar, If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Now

7. Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird and the Mysterious Eggs of Production
He'll tell you that you are just what happens when two substances collide...but he'll wink at you when he says it.
Fav songs: Nervous Tic of Motion Of the Head to the Left, Savoy

6. Constantines - Tournament of Hearts
How many rock bands do you know that can hold one chord for a whole song and somehow wrestle a verse and chorus out of it? This is a clever album. I think in ten years The Constantines will be as much Canadiana as Blue Rodeo

5. The Decemberists - Picaresque
Ah, a delicious treat for you linguists, I'm sure. Meloy churns out 5 dollar words like my mom churns out tea-buns. To a backdrop of Early-modern charicatures and chamber pop arrangements.
Favorite tracks: We Both Go Down Together, The Engine Driver

4. M. Ward - Transistor Radio
The "warmest" album of this year, without a doubt. He could have released this in 1940 and nobody would be phased.
Fav tracks: One Life Away, Sweethearts on Parade, Paul's Song, Radio Campaign

3. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Conor is one of those artists that I hope to follow for another 10 years at least. The improvements that he makes with each album is nothing to ignore. Every line is poignant and clever. "We must talk in every telephone, get eaten off the web. We must rip out all the epilogues in the books that we have read. and in the face of every criminal strapped firmly to a chair; we must stare, we must stare, we must stare"
listen to: At the Bottom of Everything, Landlocked Blues, Road to joy

2. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
They got tangled up in the cogs of the 'hype machine' long before the record was even released. Adn whereas bands like Clap Your Hands, Say Yeah seem to have gotten lost in it, the Wolf Parade sound like they could stick around. Queen Mary is cold and empty and desperate. So...if that's your thing, pick it up.
Standouts:
You are a Runner, and I am my Fathers Son
Modern World
Same Ghost Every Night
I'll Believe in Anything
This Hearts on Fire

1. My Morning Jacket - Z
This came out of nowhere for me. I was expecting them to release a good album, but nothing like this. Z feels big and important; cocky and smart. From the very first song to the last.
Check out: Wordless Chorus, Off the Record, Into the Woods, Knot Comes Loose, Dondante

Update

I won something on Saturday night.
I won 3rd place for best dressed at the Blues on Whyte

I think it was more of a "you deserve something cos you had the gall to wear that"

I was just in regular clothes, but I had mouse ears and a tail coming out my ass and whiskers drawn on my face
the dot on my nose got rubbed off fairly quickly

And if you are waiting for me to wax poetic, forget it.

Mother Nature dropped the ball

I got to thinking today.
there are lots of interesting creatures on planet earth.

but, strangely, there's a gap where poisonous bears should be.

There really needs to be a bear that secretes a poison from his teeth and fangs so potent it could kill a horse

Be careful what you say, Leonard is watching