Monday, May 31, 2004

Yurkos song of the day: Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da -by The Beatles

"Yes, it's a perfect scale model of the universe's largest bottle. I put a tiny spaceship inside to keep it from being boring."

Ahh goood old not going to school and all, what with the fact that i just got up basically an hour ago. I must say right off the bat however (this might have changed since the last check so bar that in mind) that im rather dissapointed in only 2 comments on fridays post. Regardless i Press on making yet another on on this fine monday morning. You might be asking why the hell is he making one on monday? Well because with the day off and all i figured why not make a new post! (well actually its moreso Hmmm there is nothing at all on tv, no movies to watch, no one is online to talk to, im tired, i have no books to read, no reason to play on the computer, no reason to play on the gamecube, no reason to even play on the gameboy annd i am in no mood at all to start my english project so hey why not make a post). Yes of course i shalt discuss last night/very early this morning later on but first some other housecleaning stuff to get out of de way.


Good song today, really fits with most of my feelings of last night but well that will become rather appearant later on in the post. Whooo that countdown to D-Day movie is tonight, damn does that look cool and boy am i happy that this offday fell upon today so that i can watch a special taht would air on memorial day in the us which sadly we do not get regularly off. Heres hopin its a good one. Grrrr danusia.... damn her and that bloody condescending tone. Nice girl most of the time but whenever she is talking about what one "should" do upon their weekend she kicks into that grating "oooohh Yurko..." well what the fuck lady im sorry that my free time isnt spent getting fucking plastered at every chance i can get and that maby im quite content with the way that i lead my own life but nooooo just because it doesnt fit her bloody fuckin idea of a good time she has to go out of her way to express how my way is completly wrong and that im such a sad little man. Grrr such rage, well not as much rage as i can express but there is a fair level behind this one.

Whooo well that was fun.. Might as well start upon the critique of last night. Well critique is to hash of a word, so lets just say commentary. Firstly gotta say that man do i feel sorry for giacomo, like hell i only stayed out till what 2:30 and i couldnt get up let alone function till getting to sleep in till 12:00. WHereas this kid who appearantly got only around 3hrs of sleep coming into grad has to get up and go to school today, poor guy truly do i feel his pain. Grad ceremony was better than expected, food turned out to be not all that bad, esp the chicken which was actually rather tastey. Pasta stuff that went with it was a tad dry however but meh it was bearable. Dancing was well dancing, what more can be said to that huh? A rather half-hearted techno riverdance did occur, mostly because the D-Jay played just one techno song which wasnt really suited to the whole spectacle but hey it occured on last and final time so thats always up for a hearty huzzah. Feel bad for my sister who was apperantly really bored last night but not much i can do about that now :(
. Hey at least the cold didnt rear its ugly head to much last night, allowing for that aspect of the night to be most berable. Aftergrad was probably more fun in the getting places than the actual getting there. Driving downtown, finding parking (boy what a gongshow) and the subsequent walk through downtown was a blast. Most especially due to brando getting some rather cool shots of us walking, what with 6 guys all in their suits, late a night; made for a very resevoir dogs esh moment. which was very very cool to say the least. Quincy's was a gong show, borderline on the biggest waste of 20 bucks within my lifetime. Hey at least there was good company but meh the lack of people for most of it made for a rather dissapointing part of the aftergrad. Gotta say i feel bad for kinda ditching maitland and his girlfriend there later on but well although im sure it still would have been fun had i stayed regardless i still would have been mostly a 3rd wheel; if not with them but with dez and her bf. That and scott and folk did want (or so i assume, who knows i have been wrong) for us to swing over to his place so thusly what was what we did. Trying to find scotts was rather fun within itself. Which leads to one of the other rather great parts of last night. Ahh stupid erin, but hey im not one to pass up any chance to drive in the fact that i aint talkin to her no more. This of course stemming from firstly when early on she tried to talk to me upon the dance floor, grabbing my arm thusly but of course i act as if i just dont care; yada yada, good song albeit i cant remeber what it is... ergo.. and go talk to tony. That of couse wasnt the best part however. This came when we were lost trying to find scotts and i phone jenns cell to get directions. so as the "conversation" went i shalt quote: .."Hello, Jenns Cellphone" me thinking.. ok? err "Hello, who is this?" of which i get the reply "Erin" and at this point my mind is like... erin?!! what the hell.. hmmm do i talk to the bitch in order to get directions or.. Ahh fuck it, id rather get lost on my own than get help from her in which case i hung up the phone. Whats funny is that i think those 4 words are the only ones i have said to her in the last long while. albeit 4 words to many and to be honest i had no idea i was talking to her, thought that it was maby janelle on the phone or something. But hey i took the risk, luckily Jenn phoned me back so that we wernt lost all evening and such but meh it was rewarding. This of course brings me to scotts house, where i just realised that i had forgotten to say thanks to scott for letting us come over etc. Ah well ill just have to say so on tuesday. Well if anything it was leaps and bounds over the boondoggle that was quincy's. At least there was stuff to do at scotts, that and some rather tasty pizza... Damn candy necklaces and my slippery hands, bloody things explode.. did you know that? although dropping from that height just might be the ticket for why it would do such a thing. (Mmmmm good old canned orange juice... what im drinking now, not last night) The pool was amusing, that and the sight of seeing when edwin and vince start to drink they play chess.. who would have thought?? Too bad i had to jet out somewhat on the early side but meh, at least i got to stay out for that long so whatever, twas better than nothing. Now after all of that you might be wondering how a song about life going on etc has anything to do with last night well for that my friends let me explain. This of course has to do with my realisations last night and well this morning for that matter that there was some rather specific stuff that i did which in retrospect was stupid, idiotic and well my reasonings at the time were rather..ohh whats the word.. shoddy (as good a word as any i guess..?). This of course having to do with my well basically avoiding certain people for most of the entire evening. (no not erin, that was just a fun little diversion on my part) But no, in all honesty it was stupid of me to act in such a way. Probably no one, not even the person/s in which im reffering to will even have any idea what the hell im talking about but meh its something ive got to get off my chest. Stupid especially considering the whole rather close friends factor and that in all honesty that was probably going to be one of the last times i ever see them outside of school, and for that matter once school wraps up in 2 weeks, last time for the rest of mein life. But hey what is done is done, barring that time machine which is still a work in progress, I cannot go back and change what i have done. This not being the normal stance for me but i dont really stand by what i did but i do realise what i did cannot be changed. hence the whole Life going on theme in todays song and honestly thats all that can occur is to say ok i fucked up, lets continue shalt we? Bah stupid pride, making one feel somewhat jealous even when in all honesty and intelligent thought your not even actually jealous. Bah i say. Hmmm mefinks im basically done now, not much more to say on this albeit.. wait no i really am done on the whole grad topic.

SOooo yes this wraps up that particular sting of words that have formed a rather large couple of paragraphs. I really should start upon that english, and by start i clearly mean not do work and surf the internet. So hey.... mongoose??

Till Next Ramble

The Amazing, Boring Yurko


Friday, May 28, 2004

Yurkos song of the day: Milkcow's Calf Blues- by Eric Clapton

"Good Morning! How much does that weigh?"
"Ham!"

Hmm, not really sure why im putting up a post but hey im bored, nothings on tv, only neil is online and hes not really talking and well i dont feel like playing upon the computer. So me being I decided to make up some form of a post in preparation to the madness/probable boredom/extreme overhypeness of this weekend. SO yeah... wow that guys beard is crazy on cbc right now... CRAZY!!!!!

err yeaaahhh. Mostly gonna be a reply one to some of the comments on the last post. Firstly Neil did you not at all read the preceding post to that one? I had a good half a page of rambling on watching the Angel Finale so yes i did indeed watch it, it was thusly commented upon and such and so forth. But to reiterate because granted your to lazy to go and read it again, it was a good way to sum it up; hated the way the killed of wesley but meh thats how it ended so thats what i gotta live with.
Jackie err.. well yah, no im not madly in love with the actor who plays angel; i just like the show considering it was probably one of the few witty, interesting and rather actionfilled shows left on TV. Well written first and for most, and very well acted. Also yeah Doyle was a damn good charachter, too bad they killed him off so early into the show (no he never did come back, they kept him dead b/c i think the actual actor died a little while later.. not sure really but i think so) regardless Wesley made for a rather good replacement although i think they still should have kept him alive and kicking. Also Considering that the leading lady on the show for well 4 of the 5 seasons was really fucking hot im pretty sure that not only girls obsessed with the main guy watched the show; unless they were also going for the lesbian market; who knows im not a TV executive. And well ya thats about all i can say, albeit id love to know if anyone knows of some other show that fits the bill on that because as much as i just love all the wonderful reality tv that currently gracing this new golden age of tv i would be partial to some new good quality scripted television (too bad smallville went all soap-opra ish and totally threw the actual superman backlore out the window otherwise it would have made for a rather good replacement). On a side note, went and bought Season 3 today, yayness only 2 more to go and i own the series... yay? for a rather one topic post...
Moving on from the Angel Bit, hehe thats good to know Jenn that you take my opinons/reccomendations so seriously :P Hehe, nah im kidding. Really though i would probably do the exact same thing if you were to reccomend any sort of newer/punk rock groups or songs so hey its great to see that we have a good informal system going on. Kudos there.
Also managed to find a copy of the old NES Chip & Dales Resuce rangers game. Whooo!!! yay for reliving ones childhood. Damn fun game i tells ya, what with all its 8-bit graphic greatness, craptacular sound effects and the mad crate/apple throwing. Now bring on the ducktales tv show, transformers goodness and lack of responisiblity and i will be one happy camper. Sigh, stupid high school, why cant it have the stress level of elementary school? (this of course equalling next to zero)

Apperarntly people dissaprove of my prediction skills/predicting at all! but id just like to say firstly i did say that it would be a most probable 6 game series which does require 2 wins by the lightning and on that note anyone who thought that the flames would sweep tampa is a total moron who doesnt watch any hockey at all. Tampa has a fuckin strong team and they wont go down withought a fight. No sirreee. Well hey sticking with the predictions lets make one for grad what with it being on the sunday evening and all. Hmmm yes well lets say meals gonna be dissapointing what with my bad luck with catered food latley. The dancing etc will be well expectable, so aka uniteresting for yurko who doesnt really dance; albeit it might get better if there is a return of the mighty Yurko-Tony-Burnside Techno riverdance extravaganza aka browns ball. Aftergrad will be one big gong-show, once we get where we are going it will turn out to be interesting for a good 30min in which case too many ppl will be in our car resulting in a passing by of going to scotts and the night will finish off on that note. So overall im predicting a very underwhelming evening... and in the immortal words of Principle Skinner "Prove me wrong kids! Prove me wrong!"

Well yeah like i said it would be short, so im basically done. OH!! damnit i just remebered i was going to put another song for the song of the day, but well its up there now so nothing can be done. I will however plug it down here, its entitled "Frontier Psychiatrist" by the Avalanches. Rather good song but the entire greatness of this comes not from the tune itself but rather from the fucking great music video. Funniest music video anyone has ever made..ever!! Big thanks goes out to the Gman for bringing this to my attention, kudos sir! Also one last note, todays quote comes from the greatness that is Penny Arcade and their little side charachters known as Twisp and Catsby.. hilarious greatness. The two best (and only) ones with them are at the links to follow... FOLLOWING COMMENSE!!
The Adventures Of Twisp And Catsby;
Twisp & Catsby in: The Crocotillian FINISH FOLLOWING!!

Till Next Ramble

The Amazing, Boring Yurko


Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Yurkos song of the day: It's About Time- by Van Halen

"I could pound your head 'til you thinks that's what happened."

Yet another post, not so much delay ala the last two but still not really a great record; mostly cause for some unknown reason i was waiting for 5 comments before making a new one. That being the case though i clearly realised it would never happen and well all of you readers would start bitching for a new one as is the tradition so i thought might as well jump the shark and make a new one before the complaining commenses. Wow! isnt that an ingenious idear?

Hmm what else to talk about minus that in which makes no sense. The week has been rather same old, long weekend kinda bit chunks; spent the entire bloody thing doing physics only to find that the bumps the test back to well today. Yes i know a later test is always a good thing but well damnit all that work and i could have put it off one more day/actually done something this weekend . DAMN YOU PULLEN!! English is english as always, band has been an utter and complete joke such and so forth... GRRrrrrr have i mentioned how much i utterly hate colds? well i just did so now you know. Most especially when its so god damn close to a big event, this of course being Grad on sunday, which should be at the very least interesting. Not really holding big expectations for it but meh what can ya do. Bitch and complain of course...Commense Bitching!!!!!

Bitching over!!!!!

On to the meat of this post, which is to be of a mostly musical nature. This of course implying a very very short post. First and foremost todays song of the day is the latest release from Van Halen.. and let me tell you everything that i complained about it being fronted by Hagar and not Roth can be flung out a window and thusly stepped upon because that there song kicks huge amounts of serious ass!! THis is the link to download it btw and i really reccomend that you do, because its fuckin sweet and now im really looking forward to their new up and coming very best of collection.
Van Halen- It's About Time This of course means that im rather sad about the lack thereof them coming to calgary with there reunion tour but meh what ya gonna do. And no bitching isnt in order, my bitching points were all used up already :P Moving on, went and bought some new cds this weekend, They being the latest release from Eric Clapton; Me and Mr. Johnson and the cd he put out with B.B. King entitled Riding with the King. Be sure to see a few songs off both cuts in the coming weeks showing up on the songs of the day considering that both are really solid releases. Some good old style classic blues on the one and that solid rockish blues that Clapton does so very well on the other. Top notch on both accounts.

Hmmm..... damnit what the heck else did i want to talk about upon here. Have u seen those american express ads with jerry seinfeld and superman? probably not but regardless there pretty darn funny. Can see them on the web methinks, gotta search for it but be sure to cause there pretty good. Huzzahs abound for the flames and their win of game one, my call is flames in 5 or 6, im leaning towards 6. Albeit i havent been right yet so who knows. Schools almost done, thank god. Ive really lost any and all intrest in school and well high school as a whole for that matter. Bring on the Summer!! Also been reading a rather good book latly. Entitled Radio Free Albemuth (not sure on the spelling of that last word) but its the last book that Phillip Dick wrote before he died in 82 and its pretty cool considering that its remarkably different from most books that ive ever read, although on that note its most definetly not a book for everyone. A good read for me though, what with my quirky tastes and all.
Yeah well im done, ran out of stuff to say, which i remarkable what with my rambling skills and such so yeah this will be it for todays, hopefully some longer ones to come.
(Damn yooouuu WB Yurko wants his Angel back!!)

Till Next Ramble

The Amazing, Boring Yurko



Friday, May 21, 2004

Yurkos song of the day: The End- by The Doors

"So any Plans?"
"Well Personally I want to Slay the Dragon"

Hiya all and such doing me another post. Havent put one up for a while buutt well just like the last one i had planned to make one last weekend but i didnt, on tuesday but i didnt, one yesterday but i didnt; mostly due to the fact that i wasnt able to get around to watching the Angel Finale but ill get into that later.

Today was rather assish, as in crappy. Mostly due to the fact that well physics bit such huge chunks it made my head hurt. THis being because pullen happily reminded us of the crapload of homework thats due tuesday. THis of course being somewhat around the amount of 200ish questions. Yay for a real fun filled weekend in store!! and its a long one too, so i can drag the crap out over 3 days instead of two; ill let ya know when i start rejoicing. Actually other than that the rest of the day was rather the same old grind although ive realised that ive lost all intrest in school completly (well i realised this a good month ago but still). Man ive had just about enough of high school

Saw Troy last weekend, had planned to write about it last weekend but as stated etc etc. Pretty good movie, bout a 3.5 out of 5 in my books i would say. Personally i was really expecting a great deal more, well hmm... moreso the fact that the trailers had more of an epic feel than the actual movie. Basically there was the total lack of that wholey shit that was frikin amazing goose bump inducing feeling. This of course being one of my key indicators of a really really REALLY good movie. If there isnt at least one within the film, its cant get over a four. Not that im saying it was bad or anything but i dont know, i really thought that it would be of that epic quality ala the first two lotr movies. Meh good way to waste ones friday night, so cant complain really.

Huzzah for the flames and its win!! (no im not being a bandwagon jumper, my clear indication was i would cheer for whichever team won the flames-wings series and thusly i have been). Damn good game that game 6, esp when your watching it live... in your dads companies box.. which happens to be the one right beside the one in which steve tyler was found in. Hehe pretty damn cool night there, pretty damn cool. So on to the finals! which would make it pretty darn cool if they won the cup. Pretty darn cool.

Well folks like i was saying i had planned to write a few but i never got around to watching the last episode of Angel till today. Had to tape it cause of the whole fact that i went to the hockey game and all. Prior warning, this is probably going to be THE last time i ever mention the show so for all of you people (this being every single one of you) unless of course there is the unlikly event that the show continues, a tv movie is made or they make that rumoured spinoff starring Spike. Well then again im probably going to give regular updates whencever i buy the various DVD sets (got season 2 today, yayness!). Ergo.. last episode... siiiiggghhh. Fitting song today, it being the end, my friend... sigghh. Really good episode though, pretty much summed everything up nicely while elaving the ending open enough so as to allow for any possible renewal of the show. My only complaint is that it really felt rushed, stupid ass WB only giving them an hour to sum up such a good show. And garrrr!! why did they have to kill off Wesley, second coolest charachter on the entire show damnit! Of course none of this will matter considering that the guy who plays angel said he wont retake the role unless they make a major motion picture out of the series (which is really fucking unlikely). Well at least i will have the show on dvd soon but its never the same, already knowing what happened, whats gonna happen etc. Hmm well thats about all i have to say about that, i would ramble for more but well i know that none of you care anyways. Such a good show, with such a good ending (todays quote being the ending, staying to that style of absurd humour till the end :) ).

Well thats basically all that i had to say for this post. Im really certain that there was a great deal more that I wanted to talk about in this last week or so but well as is the usual case i really cant remeber.
Till Next Ramble

The Amazing, Boring, Rather saddened Yurko


Thursday, May 13, 2004

Yurkos song of the day: Hungry Like the Wolf - by Duran Duran

"Bite my glorious golden ass!"

Huzzahs about for bender, much as always. Sorry bout the gap in post time latly, ive been meaning to put one up since last friday but well you forget; never get around to it etc etc. But hey here i am making yet another one even without the aid of bloggers new crazy and rather distracting interface. Nah im just kidding, your a great person

First off lets discuss today. Rather uneventful really, a great deal of more of the same. Albeit it wasnt all that bad considering physics was a work class which is always better than listening to the "great" teachings of pullen. band was band, what more can be said. Im ready to shoot the guy who came up with reading comprehension tests though, considering Pacone gave us yet another one today, Jesus christ was this one boring though and i thought the modern drama one with Pride and Prejudice was bad.. hooo boy was i wrong. lastly of course was the predicability of social, no movie or film today however but meh it was still rather interesting. Ive just realised though how fast this semseter has passed, christ its almost the end of grade 12; scary thought there.

Man do i need some new songs on my playlist.. but i digress. Yes i know this is becoming incredibly cliche but here i go again with the Angel ranting. Stupid ass WB, they go and renew the crap fest known as Charmed but do they give angel anything?? nooo of course not, and for next weeks series finale do they at the least give it some sort of 2hr special or anything like that which any other finale of a show thats lasted for 5 seasons (a rather amazing thing in this day and age)? of course not. Siigghh im just bitter that this makes for almost every single show now that ive liked to watch ending or soon to end due to bad ratings (Scrubs for example). As stated i had planned on posting this a while ago and talking about how i wanted to get the angel dvds but at 57 bucks a pop i cant afford that but after last nights episode i realised what the fuck, its never gonna be on again so meh might as well go broke. Well thats enough of that, im sure ill be doing much more ranting next week when the show ends and no one bloody watches it...

New upcoming Zelda game=God DAMN amazing!! yes i know im a loser etc but jesus does it ever look sweet. Same goes for the new gameboy, portable Metroid prime *drool* albeit im probably gonna have to go over to the dark side and also pick up a PSP cause its starting to look like a rather cool portable in its own right. Yay for blowing cash on totally pointless crap. On that note, yay for flatscreen monitors, all bright and shiny, making everything so crisp.

Was watching Muchmusic yesterday and ive realised that Avril really needs to get herself a new video director. This now makes for 2 of her 3 videos where she is walking somewhere. But whooah heres the twist in her new one, instead of walking away from someone shes walking towards them!! whoa stop the crazy there avril, i cant take the originality!! Yeah i know im not a huge fan of hers in any regard but still i would think it would be much smarter to come out with new and different looking videos so that you stay current etc. But hey thats just my opinion and well no one listens to me anyways yet i ramble on regardless....Ramble!!

Appearantly CBC is showing the Last Chapter again, and man o man did i forget how fricken sweet that mini series was. I must say that i think its the best that canadian TV has ever gotten by far. Well acted, well filmed, well written; a true classic. Too bad the sequel wasnt as good, was okish but not up to the greatness that was the first one. Meh at least they made the one and i must credit CBC for trying something new and rather edgy for them. Kudos to you.
Hey speaking of CBC ive decided that there hockey announcers are fast approaching the level of total and utter verbal diarehha that is found upon ABC's hockey broadcasts. who the hell cares about how they have to shave the ice thickness down after figure skating in order for them to play hockey?? Hey guys isnt there a game going on for you to comment on instead of waht ever the hell you feel like? Im sorry but when i read commentator in your job description i though that was what you did, my mistake.

Also went and picked up season 1 of Samurai Jack on DVD, which is probably the coolest show one can watch if just for the sheer visual amazement. And hell its pretty well written at that. Not for everyone granted but meh i like it so i just chalked it up to more money to be wasted on stuff that i dont need. Yay bankrupcy!! (yay spelling that wrong!!)

Now i know i had more stuff to talk about that i just cant remeber but meh thats life i guess, and im sure that this has turned out to be a somewhat lengthy post sooo...

Till next Ramble

The Amazing, Boring Yurko