after following leisha hailey's music career since the early days of the murmurs, i've finally seen her live. we drove to montreal last night to see her new band, uh huh her. it was awesome. after the show i did the geeky thing and got her to sign my cds. she was super cute. we also drove back last night/early this morning and now i'm at work which ( Read more... )

a little late but as per indigokare's request, these are my top ten favourite albums, in no particular order, released in 2007:

• Brandi Carlile - The Story
  
• The Cliks - Snakehouse
  
• Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War
  
• Feist - The Reminder
  
• Tegan and Sara - The Con
  
• Girl In A Coma - Both Before I'm Gone
  
• Talib Kweli - Eardrum
  
• Jim Bryson - Where Bungalows Roam ( Read more... )

...even though i won't be able to vote...

91% Mike Gravel
91% Dennis Kucinich
81% John Edwards
77% Barack Obama
76% Chris Dodd
75% Joe Biden
74% Hillary Clinton
68% Bill Richardson
32% Rudy Giuliani
25% Ron Paul
19% John McCain
16% Mitt Romney
15% Mike Huckabee
14% Tom Tancredo
5% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

snow was fun as a kid. snow is not fun when you have to shovel it.
this is the result from 24 hours of snowfall:


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i'm 3/4 through our local queer film festival. since thursday, we've been going to our national library and screening a whole bunch of queer films and shorts. and i think tonight had one of the best films so far. if y'all haven't see small town gay bar, you must run out and rent it or buy it. it's a canadian-made documentary about, you guessed it, ( Read more... )

i just saw an excellent documentary called king corn. it's important that everyone go see it.

since my last entry, lots of fun things have taken place. september started out with a trip to my gfs cottage which of course involves lots of eating, then i got the best haircut of my life, then had a nice low key birthday, got an 80GB ipod, then went on a five day long trip to NYC which i like to call "the ultimate cupcake vacay" namely cause i ( Read more... )

it was ottawa pride this past week. i know it's late in the summer. i think it's so it doesn't collide with toronto pride which is in june and montreal pride which is in july. i didn't realize it was prideweek till midweek. good thing cause i found out The Cliks were going to be there. and i would've been pissed if i had missed them ( Read more... )

since kyle's birthday much has happened...

july 26-31 - went to atlanta for the botanical garden and roxy shows. the highlight was the roxy show. i've never been so hot, sweaty and tired during a show. it was great! i also managed to fit in a trip to the aquarium, the new coke world (yes complete propoganda but i wanted to see the building), the ( Read more... )

today is kyle's first birthday ( Read more... )