A Blog by Chris

2007-08-11T02:59:00.000-06:00

Life is not a John Cusack film.
I do not think that I have ever came to a better realization than this. Granted I came to this conclusion long before tonight but hey the life we all lead tends to repeat this same message time and time again within our minds.
Expectations never lead to fruition, nothing is ever as easy as the serendipitous world of Hollywood would like us to believe so that we buy our movie tickets, shut up and are happy.
Sure I am a bitter old crank but then again who among us shouldn't be? Nothing ever works out as beautifully simple as we have been expected to believe it should be.
Everything is harder than we would like and the simple step of realizing this only makes it all the more frustrating. Perfection is, and never will be achieved, and even when you come close, she is always from Milwaukee.
Always.
Yes it is self-depreciative, to be only looking towards the dark end of the spectrum but it is a hard place not to turn towards. When your entire life is spent having idealisms built into your core understanding of the world it cuts rather quick to the core to see them proved wrong time and time again. You try to fight above them, telling yourself that fuck what everyone else takes as the ideal of what life means and how they are happy; I do not need it for I am perfectly happy by myself, in my little bubble, but it is all shit. Pure shit.

No matter what we (and I use the royal we, in that I am ranting about myself) feel, solitary confinement is contrary to the human condition. Social animals that we are it makes a certain companionship an ultimate necessity, whose necessity only becomes all the more aggravating the more and more that you rage against your lack there of. The perfection that is obtained within your mind and happily cultivated by the media at large is always there, lurking as a happy crutch as to why you are alone because hey one day you will have your happenstance beautiful little romantic comedy meeting that will change your collective worlds and it will all be all-right.

But it will never occur. And you realize this and your anger at the world increases, down in that part of you that you always push to the side with your mighty intellect because hey it is inconsequential, you have friends and a great life so what does it matter? It really does not matter but that part of you always longing will always be there, making every failure all the more bitter, all the more damaging. All the more crippling, until you are raging at the ear-less, voiceless internet because you lack a common ear to speak into. Everyone around you has their happiness that is unobtainable and for that matter should not be so consuming. But it is
It always is, no matter what you say or ignore
It always is.
So you bitch and whine to the internet over what you are fully aware is inconsequential bull shit and selfish shit at that due to all the actual, physical, emotional, violent strife in the world.
But it does not matter
Because you are drunk,
and life is not a John Cusack movie
and she is always from Milwaukee

2006-10-13T00:59:00.000-06:00

Yes I am fully aware no one reads this at any point ever but I just wanted to make this offical in writing. The Moon and Antarctica by Modest Mouse is Officially my Favourite Album of All Time. Its something thats always been lurking in the back of my mind taunting me but now that its out in the open I feel much better. Sure write it off as just another pretentious college alt-rock indie kid living up to the stereotype but well Fuck You empty internet. Its a brilliant album and there is no other album where any song I listen to at any time. Plus its a very easy escape album which can be good from time to time. So in summary although my top 10 is a very long list indeed, there is now officially a number 1.

Also I enjoy a good cracker now and again. Just thought I would let you know.

2006-06-22T22:16:00.000-06:00

Emergency News Bulletin
Best News since EVER!!!

Well for me anyways.... man alive if Teletoon doesn't pick it up in Canada I will have to just buy the DVD's.... which I would do anyways

Hot Damn this puts me in a good mood.
Oh feel free to read the other posts.

2006-06-21T20:02:00.000-06:00

A very slow day at work by ones self results in a suprising amount of time to think and (for better or worse) much of that thought is going to end up here today.

Foremost of these thoughts with relevance to this site is the thought of why do I even bother? Not a pity plea by any means but the on and off joke for the past while in that 'Pearls before Swine' comic in ze Herald where the Rat is bugging the one character about how if no one reads his blog then why write one got me thinking. If indeed no one really reads this space I can always contain my thoughts to their natural habitat of my mind and the odd conversation here and there. This course of action would definitely save me some time not to mention some grief on the internets part. Well the better portions of it anyways. So yes although I do enjoy doing this, that enjoyment only comes from knowing that others actually read this. That being the case if you do read and wish for its continuation then please leave a comment from time to time. Otherwise I will just file this in the 'failed project' bin and move on.

Moving on

Reading in the ol' tree press news distributary today they had an article on Nelly Furtadoes (spelling?...I can check that on the internet? Get out of here) new sound/image brought up the memories of my commentary on the same back when I first heard about it. Their commentary on the subject of course just fuelled more of the same and so I shall expulge said commentary. Also I have apparently caught some sort of virus that is causing me to write in a far more attempting to be elaborate style than necessary. Hopefully it will pass. Now as you may or may not know on her new album 'Loose' she has forgone the ethnic folk infused music style of old and switched to a more hip-hop, dance style ala Madonna or Gwen Stefani (Hearald comparisons) not to mention changed her look to suit this shift in music style (See more sexed up to put it nicely). Now from the moment I saw her new music video from said album (Promiscuous) and watched ol' Nelly prance around some dank club ala Lindsay Lohan or artists of that vein I thought to myself "Boy has she sold out." Suprisingly (or not depending how cynical you are towards modern media) the Hearald's article went on in length defending her choice of change and lambasting people who claim she has sold out.

Their argument is that why didn't these fans who hate her image change so much go out and buy her last album preventing it from being such a commercial flop. Now in no way do I make claim to be that large of a fan to have had more than a passing interest in her music but I feel that this does not detract from my point. Which is that if she had such desire to do her ethnic roots infused pop then what would sales have mattered. Artistic integrity means standing behind your creation because you believe in it and sales good or bad are just an after effect. The fact that she changed her sound and image to a more commercial friendly one instead of saying record sales be damned! counts as selling out in my books. Having the Hearald make their rather weak point on how artists should only stick to their image if it sells well just accentuates my point. If Nelly Furtado really wanted to express her roots through song then she should have continued to do so rather than team up with some super hip-hop producer just to marginalize her sound. But hey what do I know, maybe she woke up one morning and thought to herself 'you know... my sound just isn't mainstream enough...' Granted I am a rather pretentious 'Indie Rock' jerkass so there is the slight chance that my music mentality (current in any case) might differ from that of the norm. Who knows, but that is my opinion and I am sticking with it.

From the next post onwards I think I shall spotlight some webcomics that I have either came across recently or feel deserve spotlightage. It should be fun as well as recommended reading.

Now if you will excuse me I am going to go watch Extras, a brilliant television programme on channel 50 at 9:30 on Wednesday nights which you should be watching as well and if your not then by all means start! If by chance the humour style doesn't sync with your vibe then I am seriously surprised you have been able to pretend to stand being around me for so long.

Chris
-The Author of this blog has definitely NOT seen Nickleback in concert nor uttered the words 'They put on a decent live show' so there is no risk to his indie cred whatsoever nor of this post being hypocritical-

2006-06-14T19:39:00.000-06:00

*As a heads up this post was written listening to the Home Movies Bonus CD which was a magical little surprise that greeted me when I purchased season 4 of said show and it happens to contain all of the brilliant little songs written for the entire series. This information may be required to put the post in better context*

*...... Further heads up would be that my ability to end sentences at a good length has apparently yet to materialize. Also it would seem that my typing has reduced in proficiency since school.... Carry on...*

For one reason or another I just was not in the mood to make a new blog since April whatever that date below is. What can I say? It wont be sorry because neither you nor I care THAT much. Also there is that point about my computer not being hooked up since this week but that can always be overlooked. On to the bulk of the matter which is um... yeah... about that...
*awkward pause accentuated by Jazz Fight which actually makes it a rather amusing awkward pause*

With the long awaited start of my summer job time is yet again flying by at a greatly accelerated pace. Due to this I shall recount my adventures and mishaps in an equally accelerated fashion!

School ended/last time I will ever see some people, sat on my ass, watched star trek, rediscovered my passion for old Lucasarts adventure games, downloaded a bunch of said games, watched Over the Hedge (far better than Madagascar so a step up for Dreamworks), went to see Sunset Rubdown/Frog Eyes at Broken City which was a double hit of awesome combined with a discovery of one of my new favourite bars, bought some awesome hipster esq shoes (sad this is a milestone I know), saw the Constantines as a pre Sasquatch warm up and they were as great as always, went to the much hyped Sasquatch which lived up to every single aspect, had my cool black/yellow coat and passport among other things stolen at Sasquatch, bought various CD's all of which were good purchases, discovered Bottlescrew Bills for the first time and enjoyed it, discovered an amazing beer at Bottlescrew Bills which I will probably never find again, saw The Breakup which can be summed up by Meh, hung out with various peoples, haircuts were performed, went to my sisters graduation, started a job, and finally got bored enough to write a pointless blog.

If I happened to miss anything it sucks to be you missed event because I'm not going back to that 'paragraph' for quite some time. I have happened to take up the art of reading yet again which believe me has already been the source of much guff due to the paradox of learning on my own time. I blame the schools and their lack of an engrossing curriculum. Just started a seeming interesting one called How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom. Very well written and lets hope I can renew it yet again so that it can eventually be read. The Science of Discworld series has taken up some of my focus due to a few various reasons. My appreciation of the Discworld series for one, but what really gets me is the extremely well written and interesting science that makes up the majority of these books. A very good read for the lay person who wants to learn something about life, the universe, and everything. My favourite portion yet comes from the end of the second book when discussing memeplexes, religion and culminating the theme of the book which was how the mind works and is created. So for your glancing over enjoyment:

Science alone is not The Answer. Science too has its myths... The ideal of the scientific method is often not realized. Its usual statement is an oversimplification in any case, but the basic worldview captures the essence. Think critically about what you are told. Do not accept the word of authority unthinkingly. Science is not a belief system: no belief system instructs you to question the system itself. Science does. (There are many scientists, however, who treat it as a belief system. Be wary of them.)
The most dangerous myths and ideologies, today, are the ones that have not yet been destroyed by the rising ape. They still strut their stuff on the world's stage, causing grief and havoc- and the tragedy is that it's all to no purpose. Most of it doesn't matter. Issues like abortion do matter, to some extent; even 'pro-choice' adherents would prefer that the choice should not be necessary. Issues like short skirts or lengths of beards do not matter, and it's foolish and dangerous to make a big fuss about them on a planet that is bursting at the seams with an excess of people. To do so is to promote the memeplex above the good of humanity. It is the action of a barbarian mind, a mind sufficiently removed from reality that the consequences of its resident memeplex do not affect it directly. It is not the actions of the naive young men who carry the suicide bomb, or fly the airliner into a skyscraper, that lead them to behave like that, all for the sake of a few memes.
The key memes are not religious, in this case, we suspect, even though religion is often blamed: that's mostly a smokescreen. Those old men are motivated by political memes, and the religious memeplex is merely another of their weapons. But they are also trapped in their own stories, and this is high tragedy.

So that was probably needlessly long but I enjoy it and I hope you took the time to read it and enjoy it as well. If not the I officially hate you with the passion of a slightly annoyed muskrat. Seeing as how this has turned out far too long of a post I shall cut things short with just one final thing or two.

First I have discovered what I desire for my annual celebration of the date of my birth. If you do happen to care enough about this information and desire to know what it is (hey I can only lie to myself so much about the readership of this) and maybe even the possibility of getting it for moi I must warn. It will be a race to see if you order it first or if I break down and get it for myself rather than run the risk of leaving its ownership to chance. So..... GO!

Second I had wanted to post another video clip but sadly it was impossible to find at the time of writing so in its stead you get well something else. Enjoy! (Behold My control over this magic called TECHNOLOGY!)

Chris

2006-04-14T01:07:00.000-06:00

Apparently for someone of my personality/body type a collard stripy shirt contains magical powers. Normal pants + normal shoes + one of my funky band t-shirts = normal reaction to Chris. Normal pants + normal shoes + once of my funky band t-shirts + stripy collard shirt = Ladies taking notice of Chris. Not that I am complaining but its interesting that just one addition to the attire makes such a noticeable change. Now if only I can find a way to copy these results with other forms of clothing such that I am not wearing essentially the same outfit every day. (Whooo talking about clothes!!)

I really wish that my facial hair would hurry up and get the memo because damnit I want to grow a beard. Why? Well I just think it would look really rad and be a pretty fun and somewhat drastic change. Can you comment on the matter? Sure why not.

Nifty link you've never seen I am a rocket builder

Go and compliment someone of the opposite sex today, you would be shocked to see what a positive effect it can have (well if everyone else is exactly like yours truly of course).

Oh I forgot to warn you; tonight's post will be somewhat random.
Have a great one

2006-04-09T01:44:00.000-06:00

A whiney half typed post was made but I just did not feel like finishing it. Call it laziness or just trying to get beyond such things I suppose. Instead I will just prattle off a few recommendations.

Jim Carrey is now officially on my list of favourite actors due entirely to The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind. Such great movies and so very different from dregs such as The Cable Guy etc. I will now have to go out and rent Man on the Moon and the Majestic this summer and I recommend you do likewise if none of these films have ever graced your eyes and mind.

Silent Kimbly and Savage Chickens are two webcomics that have recently became a source of much enjoyment on my part. Silent Kimbly is a really great source of whimsical, feel goodery that can basically brighten any crap day and Savage Chickens is just so absurd and often nigh punny how could you not enjoy it? If your a jerk thats how. I'll add them to the links later but this mention will do for now.

Finally I figure that the allocades should be given to those deserving. Not only is Questionable Content a great webcomic but its author Jeph Jacques is a seemingly unstoppable tome of great music advice. The majority of the great bands that I have 'discovered' not through my friends or my sister or a fluke chance on my own have come from his recomended listenings lists. In fact I have yet to take a chance on something from said lists and not fallen deeply into audio bliss. Take a look because you just might find some of the same yourself.

Umm yeah... Carry on.

2006-04-04T19:00:00.000-06:00

Although I am obviously quite biased in this regard, Kevin Drew and Leslie Feists (Broken Social Scene etc.) comments during/after the Juno's are on target as far as I am concerned. What they say is basically anything I would say myself so I'll leave it up to their far greater skill at speaking. In a small way this article has made me second guess the choice to go to Sasquatch because the Olympic Island music festival would have been a damn amazing show. Granted thats more due to the fact that I really want to see BSS again as well as Bloc Party. Oh well, I suppose I will just have to settle for these folks instead.

Cue sheepish grin.

Music recommendation of the moment: Ladytron
Find me some better ultra-relaxing techno/electronica (which is the proper term anyways? Synth-pop maybe? Damnit i dont know) than the above mentioned and I will give you a high five.

2006-04-03T16:27:00.000-06:00

Its somewhat sad but I have officially came to the realisation (after saturday) that yes I do enjoy dancing. Unfortunatly the ol' self esteem has yet to reach a point where I can do it stone cold sobre and not give a rats ass what people think. Oh well, something that has to be worked on I suppose but the fact that I am more willing to do it because it is fun (in the right local mind you, Chris is still deathly allergic to actual clubs) especially witha good group of people is quite the step in the right direction. Chalk it up to university yet again and the people herebouts because I can say with 99% confidence that pre uofa Chris would not be saying stuff like this.
On that note saturday was a damn great night.

Having my mp3 player back has made me realise that as great as music is when in the confines of your room/the indoors the experience is around 86 times more enjoyable when listening to it outside. Especially in this weather.

2006-03-29T21:29:00.000-07:00

What is it about Roman Numerals that makes them so bloody cool? Who wants to use a bland old boring arabic (Although actually created by the Indians but thats a discussion for another day) like '4' when you could kick it up to a epic looking IV. Man if everything started coming in roman numeral form it would make life suddenly feel of movie quality. I would probably be able to stomache LXVII for a mark far easier in this form (only if its presented in a manner befitting its style). Just imagine reading your minimal paycheque out with a background of tympani drums and trumpets. Wait where did that come from?

Oh, now that the tickets are proudly hanging from my wall making it semi-official it seems like a good time to announce SASQUATCH!!! What is this random linking of an obscure music festival you ask? Well if you havent determined from my mention of tickets I as well as my happy group of music appreciative friends will be treking to the states this summer for said festivities. To say that I am pumped is far to weak of a term. So to fully express my excitement I shall now direct your attention to a few solid lines of exclamation points. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Keep on Rockin'

2006-03-28T16:05:00.000-07:00

All of my compounded knowledge derived from lazy sunday watchings of much more music and listening to the evolution of music on sonic caused me to have a startling but somewhat obvious realisation. Music is always in a state of flux and at some point this great music scene that i loves will come to an end of sorts. A very saddening state of affairs considering how much music and the subculture defines me now. All I can hope for is that it lasts until I have officially recieved my 'Suprise! Your Old!" card in the mail and that whatever replaces it is just as good if not evolutionary better. I am fully aware how foolish it would be to hope to remain active in the live music viewing well into my 30's but that doesnt mean i cant enjoy music from the comfort of my home. Therefor for old chris's (i really need to learn how to pluralise things properly) sake I plead now to the gods of rock and/or roll that the death of indie either brings about something along the lines of super indie or something unforseen but still as cool.
Heck just so long as its not a spiritual sucessor to grunge, pop punk, punk (nothing really against punk its just not my cup of tea/doesnt really represent my mentality towards life) or emo I think everything will be ok.

Somewhat of a sad marker of my priorities when this is a concern. Oh well

2006-03-26T15:15:00.000-07:00

Just planned out my schedual for next year and boy did it bring about some scary thoughts. Namely its already 3rd year (almost) and I have no fucking clue what im doing with my life. On top of everything else now there is a sense of forboding dread with everything I do. Of course being the person I am that usually leads to doing stuff that just wastes time and puts it out of my mind. Which just makes things worse.

Fuck

2006-03-21T21:03:00.000-07:00

I just realised that there is an artist I listen to quite a bit and yet has never been mentioned on here. Lets change that shall we?
Kristofer Astrom & Hidden Truck makes for a pretty swell audio experience. If only I could find a copy of one of his albums for sale here in Canada so he could be properly supported. Always the internet I suppose but the bank account should get a slight break after some of my ridiculous purchases of late.

So yes... Check out the Musics!

2006-03-19T11:02:00.000-07:00

I scarcely thought it possible but my faith in the Wachowski brothers has been renewed once again. To put it mildly V for Vendetta is a spectacular film. I go so far as to say it beats out the first Matrix in my mind (most likely due to all around better acting). Granted it is a very political film but then again that is the entire point of the story/message its trying to get across. The fact that Warner Bros. made such a left leaning movie to begin with is somewhat suprising but no matter. What does matter is that you go and see this film asap because I for one wouldnt mind seeing this film become a sucess if only because it might give new strength to the Watchmen being made.

2006-03-17T13:56:00.000-07:00

Just some words of advice, if you have yet to see the somewhat old movie Swingers go out and rent it this weekend and be pleasantly amused. Same goes for Leon the Professional.

Oh and Happy Excuse for College kids to get Hammered to a not really understood Irish Holiday!

2006-03-12T03:26:00.000-07:00

Shame really, I had wanted to make this post along with a new look for the ol' site but after slogging through roughly 200 templates on various sites I realised it just wasn’t meant to be. Unless of course I suddenly become an angst ridden 13 year old emo (used in the derogatory current day definition, not the was a viable music subgenre at one point reference) girl but the odds are not good for that outcome.

Why a new look? Well due to the various trains of thought that have been running past my mind as of late I felt like something a little more in line with what I see as Zen like relaxation. Aka a big sunny beach with lots of palm trees. It would have acted as a focal point for my thoughts much along the lines of my Porsche desktops (yes my obsession with the delightful German automobile is pretty high) but to no avail apparently.

This focal point is required because somewhat recently I have made the decision that certain avenues of life will for the foreseeable future have a complete emotional detachment with your truly. I just don't see why so much time and effort and mental anguish should be spent on something that just doesn't seem to want to change. Life has the tendency of happening and I plan to let it but if that part ever decides to come to the party, as late as it is, it knows where I am. Move up, move out and move on. Its my motto and its all I can do.

Well its late and I think I'm Blogsphered out.
Oh, new haircut on the head. Why? No idea really, boredom probably had something to do with it. Once a picture is available it will be posted so you can all laugh derisively towards me (oh futurama) but until then the best I can come up with is a modish era Pete Townshend but a bit more pretentious (which I am become more and more of lately but that will be for another day)

Go watch something funny, you deserve it.

2006-03-09T18:31:00.000-07:00

Well I can happily add the Most Serene Republic show to the annals of amazing live performances. They and the Acorns (the openers) rocked out quite epically and appearantly so did In-flight safety although I sadly missed them. What truly made the night had to have been just standing and talking with Most Serene's drummer and lead singer for around 20min after the show. As my friend Gordo put it every single band should have that down to earth mentality. Being able to talk with some kick ass artists as though your all just old friends is a pretty amazing feeling.

You know how sometimes a song can just fit your current vibe so perfectly its haunting? Well the current vibe round herebouts is The Upward March by the Bell Orchestre.

Also the era of the cave has officially begun. What does that entail you are most likely not asking? Once I make some changes and get a few things in order it will be divulged in detail.

Rock out and support your local somethings.

2006-03-07T19:07:00.000-07:00

I'm fully aware of how late to this particular party I am (considering it aired in and around 1996) but I just thought I should say that if you are ever wandering around in an independent movie rental place (because blockbuster and radio shack wouldnt have it) and you come across something called "Mystery Science Theater 3000" do not hesitate to rent it.
Amazingly terrific humour can be found as a result of such a rental especially if you enjoy random somewhat corney but ultimatly great comedy.

End Transmission

2006-02-27T17:19:00.000-07:00

The only positive I can find in any of this is that Zoology 242 might have finally given me that crotch kick required to get my bloody priorities straight. This silver lining better not bite me in the ass because I will defeat you Animal Physiology II, yours will not be the deathblow to the mighty champion that is I. Better courses have tried so do not get your hopes up.

Also why the fuck is my room so bloody cold? It's really developing to be a stellar evening.

2006-02-13T21:19:00.000-07:00

I have officially decided that once I have amassed an obscene amount of money and (hopefully by then) when they have private excursions there I will travel to the moon. If I happen to die of old age while standing there looking down upon the earth (ooooh that would be fun and condescending!) or on the return trip back then so be it.

*Christopher Yurkovich for Moon President in 2050*

2006-02-12T16:19:00.000-07:00

During the course of my usual non homework related internet surfing I came across this:

Le Link

Basically its a bunch of songs written using spam emails as lyrics. The comedic brilliance is well as funny as it is smartly...bright...? I don't know, click it and enjoy already.

(thats going to count as my humourous internet link for today as well)

2006-02-05T23:42:00.000-07:00

Well that brings to a close this end of weeks and boy was it a something. aa Sound System was pretty keen, its just a shame that the group they were opening for (aka the actual group most were there to see) was quite the boring blandness. Oh well it was still a great night in a great venue (Oh why must the Sidetrack cafe close in a few weeks. The new location had better been better than awesome, or closer) with some amazing super sample appetizer platters so i really cant complain.
Saturday was bland minus some great pizza.

Sunday however with its concert of concerts was well fucking awesome. The Thurston Revival opened and i was thoroughly impressed. Very unique sound not to mention a blood key-tar so there was no way it could go wrong. The Stars themselves put on a wicked set of their own with some amazing stage prescence (makes all the difference, take note of that The Killers). My only moment of sadness was the lack of them playing Celebration Guns, my favourite of theirs by far, but hey beggars cant be choosers. Regardless them Crazy Frenchmen kicked out some great rocks with the odd roll and when in the Encore there was a Bananna Maracha busted out i nearly lost it. Great, great show that is definetly in the top of this years live musical experiences.

What really made the night had to be seeing the two guys from Thurston Revival outside after the show and, via my friend justin, getting free copies of their CD if we promised to send them some stuff in trade. The barter system is quite awesome folks. Only in Indie Rock could you find such laidback, cool guys.

Thats it for me, have a great one and heres hoping my midterm tomorrow goes well.

Thurston Revival

The Stars

Humour's from the Inter-Net

2006-02-03T14:26:00.000-07:00

And so begins the much needed "Chris Weekend of Rocking Out...atude." Double A Sound System tonight, and then The Stars on sunday its going to be crazy awesome. On top of that I just found out that Franz Ferdinand is coming in April. Franz Fucking Ferdinand people! Barring the Secret Machines or Spoon I don't think there is an act I want to see more. So to sum it up, Epic.

Keep on rockin'

Click for a Laugh

2006-02-02T08:51:00.000-07:00

Damnit! The Crimean War ended yesterday and I completly forgot to celebrate. Granted by yesterday i clearly mean Feb. 1st in 1856 but hey theres always next year I suppose...

Happy Groundhogs Day!

These titles dont show up anyways

2006-02-01T19:54:00.000-07:00

Heart in a Cage by The Strokes also happens to be a good song

Did you know that the concept of people believing the earth was flat is a historical myth? Always a shocking event when you actually learn something at university regardless of how pointless that knowledge may be.
Just thought I would share that. Carry on.

Even more Chris recommended Clickable Mirthmakings

A Resounding Meh!

2006-01-31T22:55:00.000-07:00

Draw Us Lines by the Constantines happens to be a good song

Blame Anthony for this one, or myself for that matter but I am in the mood for crapping out another steaming, whiney post that will not affect the world in any way. Yes the rather odd and disgusting imagery is intentional. Must have something to do with my mood but what does the internet know.

Just curious but did I not attend the mandatory seminar on how to be a success in the far-off land of "Da-Ting"? (terribly lame joke I know) After this many failed attempts, misinterpreted friendliness and a general lack of progress on any front (such as getting on the bus that takes you to the connection so you can reach the branch office to fill in the application to get in the wait line for preparations to put your foot in the door) I am starting to think that maybe I never even received the X-factor. I am not as horribly unconfident as I was back in high school. I would like to think that I am slightly wittier and intelligent than your average person and female friends that I hold in high esteem have said that I am decently non-repugnant looking. One would think that these qualities would have led to some success in the last 3 years but such does not seem to be the case. The only possibility I can think of would be my inability to find situations to meet new people. For such an easy sounding concept it is certainly harder than I would think. Ladies of the inter-nets assist this distraught child of the Ducktales Age (as it will be henceforth referred to) before he gives up on life and joins a one man hermit band. Wow that was rambling and pointless... Ahh its good to be back.

Well now that I have succumbed to that last cliche of an internet blog (whining about failure at relationships, love etc) I will go crank up some Simple Plan and cry about how bad my upper middle class Canadian life is.A touch of humour to leave you with Laughter inducing clickables

2005-12-29T20:24:00.000-07:00

Yurkos song of the day: The Bones of an Idol - by The New Pornographers

Appearantly nostalgia is not enough to get me to focus on doing a new post. Oh well, expect an actual one before i head back to edmonton because ive been bored enough.

2005-10-11T15:08:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: Ageless Beauty - by The Stars

Hmm, slight embassament when one goes to put a post so very long after the last one that it takes you a while to even remeber your login password. Granted I am not entirely sure why i'm doing this again considering the pointlessness of it all but somehow today felt like the right mood.

Essentially not a long post by any means but i just thought that maybe i should let the world at large know that yes i do still exist. School is going much as it always does, although quite a bit less on the crazy factor as last year. This being mostly the fault of a lack of really fun people to hang out with but nothing ever stays the same.

Really thats all i had to say, hopefully I will be coming up with more to say as time moves forwards (it has the tendency to do that, the jerkass) but if not i wish you all the very best. You folks were a good group and hopefully all is going well in your respective endeavours.

As conclusive as that statement sounds i do intend to hopefully pick this up again to a similar extent as the days of old but well the road leads where its led and who knows where it will all end up.

Chris

2005-06-08T20:51:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: Ping Island/Lighting Strike Rescue Op - by Mark Mothersbaugh

Falster (n.) A long-winded, dishonest and completely incredible excuse used when the truth would have been completely acceptable.

Another new post probably filled with rambling will soon commense but until then a brief musical interlude.
*author begins listening to the music playing on his computer in the attempt to give some validity to a very lame joke*
Chances are this will be a somewhat pointless post involving me talking about music mostly because other than work that is the only thing i have really been able to devote any of my attention too. Well there is the obvious time spent playing video games because its what i do but i dont really think i need to go into any detail with that (All i will say is that Ground Control II is pure brilliance, esp when you can find it for 9 bucks like i did).
Funny and useable word from to ever so grand Deeper Meaning of Liff. My goal is to have at least one of you using one of these words regularly by the end of the summer so that some of the magic of Douglas Adams can be spread to the general populace (considering the H2G2 movie didnt seem to do the trick). The song for today is in my opinion one of the greatest ever made based on the sole condition that you have watched the Life Aquatic and futhermore enjoyed the film.

Like i said earlier my time has basically been devoted to my job and then coming home relaxing from standing for 8 hours straight. Yes i know im complaining like the wimp i am but hey this is my first foray into the strange world of the service industry so cut me some slack. Needless to say ive been listening to alot of music to and from work and most notably would be the new CD by Oasis and Coldplay. Both are really good albums in my opinion and i totally disagree with the hack reviewers the Hearald has working for them now. When your complaint against the new Oasis CD is the reason why every other reviewer is praising the album i tend to question your credibility. Oh well music comes down to what sounds good to your ears so to each their own. I still recomend both to all of you folks cause my recomendations count for so very much.

I just realised that I completely forgot to even mention what i thought of the new star wars. Overall it was far far better than the prior two in the prequels but it was still pretty bad compared to the classic ones. Enjoyable but there were many ways it could have been better. Conviently this sums up most of my complaints quite effectivly and in a far more amusing package than i could have ever managed. CLICK NOW
Speaking of Star Wars appearantly they are going to be releasing yet another book series which for me is a great thing. I've been a pretty big fan of the novel side of starwars since elementary (somehow and not suprisingly the books have been far greater quality than the movies) and after the New Jedi Order it didnt seem like there was anywhere else for them to go. So the fact that there will be more books for me to chew through in an afternoon is a cause of merriment and gives me something else to do other than just watching TV (Go out you say? Who the hell does that?).

Sticking to the semi-literature aspect what has really been chewing up the majority of my time lately has been some more rejoicing in the glories of my youth. I doubt any you would have hear of it least of which remeber it but back when i was a kid at least there was this brilliant comic series called Bone that I never managed to find out how it ended. Well the last time i was wandering the ol' illustrated newsprint emporium I happened across their last copy of the entire comic in one beautiful 1300 page tome of greatness. So being the person that I am when it comes to a great read ive been zooming through it over the last few days , preventing me from putting up this post yesterday as was my plan. Without seeing it for yourself its really hard to give the comic any justice but picture some great humour, beautiful art, various underlying themes and an epic scope up there with Lord of the rings all in the guise of a kids comic and i still havent explained it. Yes i know im gushing here and rambing on something you dont care about but then again its what i do. Hopefully this website will express it a bit better even though it is a pretty amaturish website but its the best i can do other than lending one of you the mighty mighty epic. Bone Website

Well I do believe I have wasted more than enough time here/I've forgotten about anything else worth discussing. Oh, a sight that did leave me very happy was that 7 11 is now selling the greatness that is Hires RootBeer again which hasnt been on the market in years. Its the best rootbeer availiable by far and its a nice site to see that it has returned in some form or another. Finally I believe i might have to step up my geekdom another notch and go see Batman Begins at the IMax in chinook just because its being offered, not to mention that its probably a far better use for the IMax than the 2 matrix sequels. Other than that I think I am done here

*Edit I just had to add these links being the developmental biology loser that I am, not to mention the sheer absurd humour in the first one. Enjoy!*
A Creationist's View of DINOSAURS and the Theory Of Evolution

Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant
(note im not anti religion or anything like that, i just find creationism etc stupidly absurd)

Till another time, probably next

Chris still in search of a better nickname

2005-05-25T15:40:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: Best of You- by the Foo Fighters

Pabbay (n.)
(Fencing term.) The play, or manoeuvre, where one swordsman leaps on to the table and pulls the battleaxe off the wall.

Ahh Douglas Adams, I dont think i could ever get tired of his humour. Post coming in slightly later than my planned saturday but at least i have a few good excuses this time. Namely working the night shift on saturday (last one ever hopefully) and then going to see Star Wars last night so i wanted to wait it out a bit so i had something to talk aboot.

*Addition of the actual post (Wed May 25th) and the removal of the half assed placeholder*
Here i go again, taking another crack at this here post. Why am i not just starting a shiny new post? well because i love the excerpt today and it should be actually utilized instead of being forced to be the opening line to what was esentially nothing. Annywho i believe i shall move on. Great song today/yesterday, it being the first single from the Foo Fighers up and coming sure to be epic album In Your Honour. Why do i think it will be epic beyond all belief? Well to answer that question I give you an excerpt from a letter Dave Grohl posted on the bands site recently about it

' "In Your Honor" will be the bands fifth album. Almost exactly a decade from the release of the first Foo Fighters record, it will come out in June. It is a double album, as promised. One CD rock, one CD acoustic. It will surprise you. It surprises me. Almost a year in the making, from 5 hours of bedroom demos, to warehouses being built from the ground up, to months of rehearsals, to the construction of an 8,000 square foot classic recording studio, to the recording of 40 songs, to the final track list of 20 songs, it is by far the most ambitious project I have ever had anything to do with in my entire life.'

So needless to say I am pumped beyond all belief for it. You guys could probably care less but I know it will definetly be a source of musical enjoyment for myself and in my rather selfish little bubble that's all that really matters.
Speaking of music I got the new Weezer CD a weekish ago, along with a few other assorted albums I have been meaning to get for a while. Its a pretty good record even though i am not a huge fan of the much hyped "Beverly Hills" song. Far to repetitive for my liking and overplayed for that matter. My reccomendations are "This is such a Pity" and "We are all on drugs" although i do find pretty much the entire album great listening material.
I also purchased the latest Moby CD which is somewhat of a mixed bag for me. The second ambiant CD is some nice relaxing sleep inducing music which is basically the whole point of ambiant music so if anything that was a worthwile purchase. The first cd (and the album proprer for that matter) I have been yet to listen to. Much of that has to do with the fact that I was such a fan of both 18 and Play that I really dont feel like being let down by an CD that is supposed to be quite the letdown. Chances are I will listen to it one of these days but right now i just cant bring myself to stick it in the old drive and well listen.

Sticking with this trend I might as well mention other purchases of much enjoyment. Biggest of all would have to be getting Scrubs Season 1 last week. Its funny how even with a show that you remember as being great can still suprise you with how many jokes you forgot and somehow become all the better. I had always thought that in its initial run I had missed a few of the early episodes but appearantly all i ever missed was the pilot which is somewhat of nice news to a fan like myself. Regardless the humour of the show still stands after a good 3,4 years and for that I am pleased. Dr. Cox is still my role model in life, if only i could become such a bitter, sarcastic talented doctor. One can always dream... one can always dream.
Earlier today I also found out about and then purchased the second season of Samurai Jack. Yes its a kids show and you all will probably shake your heads but meh in my eyes it is some great entertainment and thats all that matters. For waht it is, the show is very well done. I am hard pressed to find something that can be truly funny at times and then serious at other times all wrapped in a saturday morning "kids tv" package. Maybe it has to do with my enjoyment of comics or my resistance to the concept of growing up but its money well spent for my sake.

Well I did have some other things to talk and rant about but well most of it required a rather jovial tone and after hearing some recent family news its something i just dont have right now. Ill probably (hopefully) be feeling a bit happier by next week when you can expect a fuller and longer post.

Untill then,
Yurko the man using a nickname that has really lost its relivance now that high school has ended.

2005-05-14T18:38:00.000-06:00

Yurko's song of the day: That's Me Trying - by William Shatner

Peening Quarter (n.)
That area of a discotheque where single men lounge about trying to look groovy about not having the courage to ask a girl to dance.

And so with that I am back, an entire reader base shorter and a new template none the less. Why the new template your probably not asking? Well I felt that after such a long hiatus that something had to be done to spice this site up abit not to mention have something to show for being away for so very long of a time. I hope that you like the new look, although I am sad to say that the fancy flash links on the top lead to nowhere due to the fact that its a free template and so i am unable to really edit it. The plan is to replace all of the standard side links with fancy flash ones of my own making but that will take some time but hopefully by the end of the summer there will be a version 4.X that is to my liking. A few changes namely the fact that all of you are now "Affiliates" (it came with the template and i got a chuckle out of it so it stayed) and the addition of all my favourite web comics. That list is definetly in order of my frequenting but by no means are any of them not funny. All classics in their own right and bear a full reccomendation by the illustrious review panel working behind the scenes of this site.

Anywho yes today's song is by William Shatner, from his most recent album Has Been which i urge all of you to at least give a chance before completly writing off because for some strange reason its actually quite a catchy album. Much of that probably has to do with the fact that Ben Folds was involved with all of the real musical aspect but regardless you will be hard pressed to find something so rediculous and enjoyable at the same time (in CD format anyways). For the forseable future the quote of the day will be replaced with definitions from Douglas Adam's brilliantly funny mock dictionary The Deeper Meaning of Liff which i got a while back but well its been a while back plus about 8 since my last post.

Speaking of the absurdly amusing/things long time coming/Douglas Adams I went and saw the Hitchiker's Guide movie waay back when i returned from the blue collar kingdom of Edmonton. I must say that walking into it I was somewhat worried considering how much of a fan I am of his work. I am happy to say though that it turned out to be quite enjoyable. Granted its a film that you would enjoy immensly more having read the book series if only because of the semi-emotional attachment you would have with the charachters. Speaking of the charachters I would go as far to say as the film was perfectly cast, Arthur seemed like arthur, same with ford and the rest but the real show stealer was Zaphoid. Such a great performance as the egotistical, moronic politician. My only real big complaint with the film was the whole romance thing they slapped on just because it was a movie. In the books having Trillian actually liking Zaphoid made more sense, that and the final part of the film with the mice was just lame with the whole romance BS. Sure it was nice to see them get together etc but it just felt like what it was, tacked on and lame. Oh well, it was still a great movie if only because it managed to capture the zany spirit of the books which is no small feat considering how unique the books are. Realising now that there is a very good chance that Jenn and I are the only two of all of you who have seen it it was a moot paragraph. Move on? Lets!

Obviously made it through first year, grades were nowhere near what i had set myself to but ill take them. Next year is going to be a totally different game though mostly because i wont be such a dumbass in some regards and well hey no more chemistry or english for the rest of my existence. A reason to celebrate? I think so. Plus I'm taking 2 history courses next year so coupled with some courses im interested in next year is looking up.

Not much else to talk about, went and saw the Killers which was fun but im too lazy to go into my thoughts on that. Some really good CD's coming out but ill go into those when they come out and i purchase them. Same goes for Season 1 of Scrubs which comes out this week. That being said my plan is to start putting posts on this thing again at a weekly rate which might be complicated by the fact that my video card refuses to do what it should and render 3d things so the computers going to be in the shop for a bit. Still I will try to maintain that schedual because my lack of posts this year was just embarrasing. Well that basically wraps it up for today. Thanks for coming back and keeping the faith if you have read this.

Oh quick side note it looks like Mr.Chris is going to be working in the wonderful world of the service industry this summer. So yeah if you want to dish out some ridicule at that tall lanky kid you used to associate with ill be pedding reheated frozen doughnuts at the Timmy's in northland and hopefully also selling books at chapters in dalhousie if the ladie phones me back like she promised.

Till Next Ramble,

The Amazing, Boring and still as lame as ever Yurko

2005-04-13T13:27:00.000-06:00

Yeah yeah i know, so dont even bother saying it. Someone sent me the link to this survey and well being a fan of zombie movies/games i figured might as well post this because hey its pretty cool.

Official Survivor
Congratulations! You scored 70%!

Whether through ferocity or quickness, you made it out. You made the
right choice most of the time, but you probably screwed up somewhere.
Nobody's perfect, at least you're alive.

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 57% on survivalpoints

Link: The Zombie Scenario Survivor Test written by ci8db4uok on Ok Cupid

2005-04-11T13:13:00.000-06:00

Yes I know there has been a severe lack of posts, my fault etc. and I am certain that because of this i have lost esentially all of my readership but such is life. This is not really a post but more just a notice to any of the folks i still talk to online and may happen to come across this site. Esentially i have hit crunch time so to speak and realising how much time i waste both on the computer and more importaintly on msn from now till the 28th i will be esentially MIA. I will be checking my email once a day still so if you really want to get ahold of me for some stupid reason (because who really wants to do that) there is always that option.

Talk to you all later and see you on the 29th (right after Hitchikers guide to the galaxy comes in to theatres...whoo!!!!)

Yurko the stressed

2005-02-28T15:17:00.000-07:00

Yurkos song of the day: I Don't Like Mondays - by The Boomtown Rats

"At the risk of sounding negative, no."

Well another post, somewhat recent compared to my previous string at the start of this semseter. Putting this one up mostly because i wanted to use todays song of the day eventually and frankly it just doesnt fit as well on any other day but a Monday. Other than that though I really dont have a great deal to talk about so not really sure why im doing this.
Amusing quote for me like always, this ones from futurama. The last one Jenn was funny to me just because it was absurd. I really dont know what context it came from within the Tick but it doesnt really matter to me.

Speaking of which it does appear that this old blog has returned to an audience of one so hey Jenn how's it going? At least its good to know that all the work i put into that new comment system wont go to waste.
School isnt really going all that hot this semester, marks are going down the shitter but honestly i have no one to blame that on but myself. Oh well there is still a half a semester to pull off some better grades/actually do some work so hopefully i can do just that. Reading week was reading week, i went into all of those details last post so there is no need for a repeat.
I did pick up my much searched for MP3 player though, and even if it is a complete waste of money i am definetly enjoying having my entire music library with me on the go. No its not an Ipod, that being one cult/fad i refuse to buy into (damn yuppies) but what is esentially the creative equivalent which i actually find alot better than an ipod. Esentially the same price, 1gb more of storage and replacable rechargable batteries. What i like about this thing the most though is that for some reason its shuffle function seems to be far superior to the rather unreliable one found with windows media player. I have been getting a far more reliable mix of music than i ever have sitting here at the old computer and that is a damn good thing.

So um yeah guess im done here, possibly one of my most pointless posts ever but hey thats ok its not like i have anything better to do right now like say studying or some bull crap like that.

Till Next Ramble

The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2005-02-22T22:10:00.000-07:00

Yurkos song of the day: Slow Hands- by Interpol

"The Fourth Dimension is just one big crazy do not enter clambake jungle of weirdity -- and how does it work? Never mind!"

Another post, trying to stick with the whole relativly regular posts such and so forth. Right in the thick of reading week, and boy is it nice. Mostly due to the much needed sleep on a good bed and the availablility of good food. I can do without the massive and grotesque amount of work i have to do (2 days in and its still not done, hooray procrastination!) but meh better than rez.

Hopefully today's quote isnt a repeat because well its just so absurd that of course i enjoy it immensly. I was hoping that by now i would be able to start putting up quotes from "The Deeper Meaning of Liff" but sadly i forgot to order it in at chapters and its something im going to have to do this week. Great song today by a great group, then again every song ive put up I have felt that way. Regardless download it somewhere and take a listen.

Not a great deal to discuss on this post, life has for the most part been rather mundane as of late. Due to the cold up in Edmonton/midterms i barely did anything at all while i was up there. Went to a friends house party on saturday which i can happily declare is 3 hours of my life i would gladly want back. Man oh man i have never been at a more boring party...ever! Well unless you enjoy sitting on a couch watching a muted skiing video while everyone else around you drinks and socialises because they all know each other already. Thats not saying i didnt try to meet people and socialise (pretty sure ive spelt that wrong twice) because i did but eventually it got to that point where you realise your never really gonna click with everyone else, followed by the why am i still here feeling and then the its nice to be driving home. Good times...goood times

At least sunday made for a better evening, even though saturday was pretty easy to top. Hung out with some old friends from highschool (aka victor, jenn and janelle) plus janelles boyfriend and rob followed by seeing Constantine. Now even though i am appearantly in the vast majority on this one I actually enjoyed the movie, quite a bit. First off the bat i thought that from a technical standpoint it was a very well made movie. Had a very stylish feel too it, CGI was pretty darn good and for me at least it made it easier to buy into the whole premise. Now granted its definetly not a film for everyone. If you dont have even a passing interest in the pseudo-occult, fantasy or what this film basically is comic book style fiction its very easy to be put off. I did find the idea put out in a way so that its realistic within its own world far better than other films of the same type. Keanu was serious when it was needed, but was at times the good old sarcastic wise-cracking action hero you would expect (The sequence when he fingers the devil near the end and the "should i take all my clothes off" scene were classic). Yet like i said it is definetly a film that requires the right state of mind and hey as far as somewhat mindless action flicks go it gets a thumbs up in my books. Plus the fact that the film far surpassed the last two matrix films which automatically makes it more worth that 11 bucks. There is no doubt it was a comic book movie although a far more mature one and hey if they make a sequal i think ill be one of the few who go and see it. (and hey getting to see the batman begins trailer was an added bonus as well :P {yeah yeah jenn like i said im a loser, pretty big one at that})

So yeah thats enough out of me i think for one day. As due to complaints i re-added the blogger comments system to suppliment the haloscan one if anyone has any problems with it. I must say they have made some good improvements to the system, mostly that it now comes out in its own window much like haloscan (or at least it should, who knows if it will work as promised) plus if your a blogger member it shows your profile picture etc. Kinda nifty and i hope at least one person uses it because it took a bit of work to get it going with my template.

Till Next, Ramble

The Amazing, Boring Yurko

{Side note: there is a new Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy trailer up on their site that i have a link for over on ze left hand side so take a look. This one actually shows what the movie is going to be like so umm yeah...sasquatch?}

2005-02-13T02:37:00.000-07:00

Yurkos song of the day: Such Great Hights - by The Postal Service

"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member."

Up at 2:40am in the morning for no really good reason, completly sobre and lots to do tomorrow so what else should i do but make a very long coming blog? Sleep is of course not an option. Of course like always i dont really have much to say or to go on but I have almost let this site lapse into a deadened state that well it deserves something doesnt it?

Great song today by another one of those groups that ive really taken a liking too. Bit behind the times on them though, there all pseudo mainstream etc but whatever, its not like im claiming to be the first person to discover them or anything. Kudos to all who have heard them before and to the rest of you take a listen because nothing gets more mellow and cool at the same time. Also a truly hilarious, witty and well great quote from Groucho Marx today who is one of those great people that i would just love to be able to live up to. Nothing would be more fitting for myself (or at least i think so) to be able to whip off such witty lines at the drop of a hat. Ah if only...

Over this downtime of no posts ive added a few new links around the site. Now you will see links to such sites as The Scumm bar, a great site devoted to a truley great game series. That being the Monkey Island string of games which i urge all of you to try and play, download or hopefully and miraciously find and buy. Next would be a link to another blog, called The Grumpy Gamer which is not so co-incidentally done by the guy who created the previously mentioned game series along with a slew of other games that i thourougly enjoy. Very funny guy but it is a very video-game themed site so if your not really into all that you probably wont get any of it. I also added a link to the site for the up and coming Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy movie. It looks amusing but im somewhat aprehensive about this one because the books were just brilliant (in my limited somewhat skewed perception of brilliance). Hopefully its good but no one can know till it comes out. Finally i switched up Giacomo's link at the top for the one to jenn's new pseudo not really a blog site thing. Sorry giacomo if your reading this but well you update even less than i do so it got the boot.

What has happened since the last blog went up? well like the old cliche that my life is becoming and to a very large extent this site i am sure quite a bit but i cannot remeber as i am writing this. School still remains the tiring monster that it has always been, but well that in itself is nothing shocking. What will be shocking is if i pass this 2,000 word research essay on pride and prejudice. Stupid Jane Austen and her writing of books. Other than that nothing intersting school wise has occured. As for residence stuff well there is a bit more. Since the time of my last posting our tour in residence had the annual event known for some reason or another as "Skulk." Dont ask me why because hell if i know. What it boils down to is everyone doing rather stupid things in a competition for your floor to win stuff. Like going on a campus bar pub crawl on a wednesday night (whee that was fun...) or tequila sunrise (getting up at 5am, running up and down 10 flights of stairs and doing a shot of tequila). The two best events out of all of it mostly for the memories they made was the largest ongoing event and mystery lake. The longest ongoing event was well out back of lister they have an outdoor skating rink and apart of the skulk tradition is that every night from 8-8 the next morning you have to have someone from your floor on the ice at all times. Yes so nothing will make for a more interesting University experience than sitting on an outdoor hockey rink at 2am in the morning playing texas-hold'em poker against 9 other poor saps all in the same boat as you. I challenge you to come up with something more unique, stupid but not degrading and if you do well i tip my hat. Longest night of my life/roughest next morning of my life because my shift was a tuesday night and well yeah. Fun none the less though (damn poker, so bloody addictive).
The best part of Skulk was by far the culminating event, Mystery Lake. Or as it is more affectionatly referred to, Drink a Small Town Dry. The basic premise is that all of Henday hops into busses which take us out to some small non-descript town and its local bar and try to well drink it dry. I cant recall the name of the town but man was the Rush Sport's Bar a quality drinking establishment. What a crazy night, and the addition of there being some locals in the bar when we all came in made it all worthwile. Sounds kinda cruel in some ways, damn uppity university kids crashing a bar but hey it was fun, we probably gave the place more buisness in one night than it would see in a month and no one got hurt. Definetly a memory for the ages. Plus going in lab coats and lab glasses made it all the more abusurd (ahh im a loser, but hey life goes on).

Well that is more or less the end of all this. A few parting comments mostly that you know you are completly immature and extremly bored when you go halfway across the city to get food, liquor etc. you know the esentials and instead end up coming back with nerf guns and video games. The only plus from all of that was that when we got back and then proceded to get in the elevator that decides to get stuck, the nerf guns definetly helped pass the hour waiting for the repairmen to show up. Yeah well im a loser, it was already pointed out so live with it. Finally, today i picked up my ticket for The Killers concert in april which i am expecting to be nothing short of amazing. Had planned on going in calgary but it comes between my last two finals so ill be forced to see them up here in the frozen arctic. No matter though, it should be good fun to see them live and well worth the 30 bucks. Speaking of concerts I am extremly dissapointed/pissed off to no end that U2 is only doing 1 canadian date on the first leg of their tour and its in bloody Vancouver. They had better do a show in calgary or edmonton (hopefully on the eventual second or third leg) because this was one concert tour that i really wanted to see even before there new album came out. Sadly though even if they do come ill probably not go because appearantly all the tickets for all there events on this tour have been selling out in a matter of hours which is just too hard to compete with what with my cronic lazyness.
and now that my head is starting to hurt from staring at the monitor for so long i bring this to a half hearted close.

Till Next Ramble,

The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2005-01-11T17:00:00.000-07:00

Yurkos song of the day: The Ground beneath her feet - by U2

"There must be some kind of disease that causes people to talk like that, and the name for it must be something like Airline Syllable Stress Syndrome. It's the disease that seems to kick in at about ten thousand feet and becomes more and more pronounced, if thats a good word to use in this context, with altitude until it levels out at a plateau of complete nonsense at about 35,000 feet. It makes otherwise rational people start saying things like "The captain has now turned off the seatbelt sign," as if there were someone lurking around the cockpit attempting to deny that the captain has done any such thing, that he is indeed the captain and not an imposter, and that there aren't a whole bunch of second-rate and inferior seatbelt signs that he mightn't have been fiddling about with."

*shifty eyes* Hmm yes well lets just assume that i havent taken an obsenely long time to put up another post and move on eh? We are all agreed? Great. A truly exceptional not to mention my longest quote yet today. Exceptional for a few reasons because well for one its rather humours, two its by one of my favourite authors but most of all not only did i read this while on a plane but just moments after the stewardess had stated "The captain has now turned off the seatbelt sign" The sheer timing alone makes it worthy of being quoted. Ahh Douglas Adams and The Salmon of Doubt, as previously stated its a very sad novel because well it will never end and his endings are usually so random and unexpected there is no way to even guess whats going to happen.

Yeah so i actually do have a great deal to talk about mostly dealing with my trip to mexico. I decided though that because it would make for an incredibly lengthy post to put down all the thoughts i had over the holiday (and yes i had the audacity to write them all down, shame on you Yurko) I figured that i will actually not mention any of it at all. Instead ill make a quick update tonight and leave it up to you the good readers, if you feel that i should slog out the summary of my happy and sunny holiday let me know. Otherwise it will remain forever locked in my mind never to be revealed. Almost interesting and suspenseful if it wasnt coming from me. That being said I have added 30 some pictures of the trip to my MSN photo dump so now you can take a look at my mexican experience along with some shots of my floor.

Speaking of audience participation I have been meaning to change the title of my blog from "Yurkos totally stupid blog" Now granted it fits my usual self depreciating style, it is quite frankly an extremly stupid title and any input on a better one would be grand. Also any help on finding a site for some new templates would be super as well because the massive one that i used to find this one has just gotten far to large and its so ackward to look though that its not worth the effort.

Went and saw The Life Aquatic before i left and oh man is that a great movie. Its not a film designed for laughing out loud but its suttle slow humour seeps into you so that by the end you have enjoyed yourself immensly. Plus it is one of the most random movies ive seen in a long while (random in a good, funny way of course). It wont be everyones cup of tea but if you like Bill Murray and very offbeat movies then i reccomend it wholeheartedly. Of course dont expect a deep life changing experience out of it because it is after all a very silly, nonsensical movie.

School has started yet again, ended up passing last semester with a B avg which isnt all that bad but i know i could have done a great deal better (esp in bio, damn B+ grrr). Meh ill just have to try harder this one albeit considering im now writing a blog instead of reading shows how far thats going to go. Bio should be intersting esp after hearing your Prof on the topic of Fungus state and i quote (this came really close to being the quote of the post but i just had to give douglas adams that last honour) "And then there are the Fungi, who have the monopoly on the kinky sex tactics in nature." It was at the same time the most shocking and funny thing i have heard in a very long time. Org chem will be its usual self, although hopefully this time if i actually do work i will do far better. English im taking a very shocking turn towards decent marks and frankly im scared. A 77 on my midterm, 79 on the last essay; What in God's name is going on??! Its a scary world indeed when i can get 79 on a university english essay.

Esentially that brings this all to a close, but before i go id like to say a thing or two. Jenn yeah haloscan has the happy tendency to eat comments whenever its dark lord requires sustinence. But hey thats the price you pay for using a demonic service. I find copying your comments before you hit publish helps alleviate that problem. Jackie thats fair if you think it looks stupid, everyones intitled to their own opinion etc. The thing is though that in the comics (yes i know i read the comics, clearly previously stated im a loser) they made that change years and years ago to him going around the world for his martial arts training. Frankly it makes more sense that he uses all that money to get the best combat training he can to fight crime compared to the old batman where it was "I am rich...therefore i can kick your ass". But hey we all cant agree now can we? I'll just hold you personally accountable if the film flops :P

Till Next Ramble

The Amazing, Boring Yurko

(p.s. remeber folks participation requires input...not fish, although i could go for some good seafood. Man the stuff they have here is just horrid. So dry and shitty and most likely carrying multiple sicknesses related to ones bowels...what? its still on? BLAST!!)

2004-12-24T20:23:00.000-07:00

Yurkos song of the day: Pinball Wizard - by The Who

"Not baked goods, Professor, baked bads!"

Quite possibly the lamest quote I have ever used for an opening line but well I am inherently lame so life does press on. Also in retrospect there is a very good chance I have used that quote before but do I care? Not enough to change it thats for sure. Normally I would wait a touch longer to put up a new post what with there being only 2 comments thus far, plus the whole fact that its christmas eve but hey not only was it a very dissapointing post to begin with but I am leaving tomorrow on mein vactation to that place starting with an M, rhymes with Exico... you know the place, you were there, I was there, ahh good times...goood times. Needless to say i probably wont be around a computer so I felt i should leave you with something to not read. Consider it my gift to all of you because the Black Death doesnt come in the party packs anymore and well ill be damned if i buy you each a diseased rat separately.

I have realised that most likely my 1 year or something along those lines anniversary of doing this junk has came and gone. Then again i have never really went by date on these things but rather the number of posts. Thanks the the all benevolent Blogger though i cant really do that either because there once helpful little counter of how many blogs you have written decided that 94 is far enough and went and found a nice little retirement cottage somwhere down south. All that can be done is the very slow process of a manual count and I am not about to do that any time soon. So just for the sake of saying things lets say its some evenish number and let out a half assed huurah!

Good song today, an oldie but a goodie. Felt it was time to do at least one song that hasnt been released in the last little while because well whats this world coming too if all i talk about is modern music. Like comon this is Yurko im talking about...(talking about myself? hmm mefinks ive gone crazy). Dont worry though ill be sure to put more of the new music goodness that I have learnt about. Moving onwards!

Well it is obviously the festive time of year such and so forth. Dont really think i need to extoll any of its detals to you folks because if you dont know now what its all about im pretty certain either TV or the Coca-cola corporation will fill you in. I must say though that i was pretty happy with teletoon and their decision to show all their weekend programming every day leading up to today. Allowed myself to take a great deal of both the new duck dogers and the new batman shows. Both damn funny/cool respectivly and since i never have time to watch them in edmonton i was well happy.

Sticking with the Batman theme I completly forgot to mention this last post so i might as well now. The good folks at Warner Bros. have released the new, extented trailer for the up and coming Batman Begins film which I am obviously very pumped for. Of course im guessing that none of you have ever checked the link i have had on the side there for a good 4 months. Comon people its only like 15cm to the left of this its not that hard. Just click the damn thing and watch the trailer... Fine then here is a "more convenient" link for you...lazy sobs... Batman Begins Trailer
Seriously though its pretty damn cool so take a look.

Man the Salmon of Doubt is by far one of the saddest books i have read in a very long time for obviously very different reasons. Not obvious you say? Well i would start calling you a dumbass but then well somehow i think my already shrinking readership would start to suffer. Aaannywho its a sad book because it was the last one that douglas adams wrote and for that matter never finished before he died back in 2000. A real shame because it begins as one of his best, well in my opinion anyways because im such a fan of the Dirk Gently books and its truly funny...and yet never will i know how it ends. Sigh.

Ah well that pretty much wraps it up for me because i tire of this post, marks are yet to come in so i cant complain about that. Hope everyone has a merry christmas/snowflake day/festivus and see you all in the new year.

Till Next Ramble,

The Amazing, Boring Yurko

P.S. Just came across quite possibly THE best background in a long while, esp for the holiday season. If you dont get it well i recomend you read more of VG cats Dr. Hobo's Christmas

2004-12-20T13:33:00.000-07:00

Yurkos song of the day: Powertools and Piss - by Glucifer

"A heart of gold beats beneath that big fiberglass croissant, and thank goodness for it!"

Wow nearly a month since the last post. You guys probably deserve a new one and such and well honestly i had no plan on doing one today but Mauricio came online (he being a really good friend from rez who has now moved back to Colombia, sigh....) and well i figured might as well stay on ze old computer. Moving on shall we?

Havent made a new post in a while because I have been fighting the good fight against the evil that is the final exam. Luckily its all done and here i am back in good old calgary. Hopefully all the exams went well but i wont know for sure untill the marks come in. 1 semester down, many many more to go.

Really nothing to talk about on here today, great song today by a Norwegien group. Has a very 80's vibe to it which obviously fits me like a glove musicially, that and the title is just so absurd how can you resist eh? YOU CAN'T!! so just live with the fact and move on.

Hmm this is really going to a pitiful post but meh ill live. I've started utilizing the MSN answer to blogger, MSN spaces. Its pretty interesting, although i doubt it will ever take the place of this site. I can see why it would be great for a first time person wanting to start a blog, easy to set up, customise to some degree and start posting. The importing of a playlist and allowing people to rate it is pretty cool, as is the picture function which is what im using it for mostly. On that note if you want to see a few shots of where im living 8 months of the year swing over to the link at the bottom of this and take a look. The overall sight is far to rigid and customizeable for my liking though, regardless of the template you pick the site ends up basically looking the same which doesnt really work for me. Ah well it has its good points that i will utilize as an offshoot of this site but the majority of my stuff will remain here. Ergo here be the link Yurko the Boring MSN offshoot.

Yeah well im done, not much for you guys to comment on but hey still just drop by and say hi cause im back in calgary now so yeah consider that an open invite to meet up with all you folks that i havent seen in so very long. (BTW neil good show on updating your site yet again, ill have to get around to commenting on it such and so forth)

Till Next Ramble

The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-12-01T19:58:00.000-07:00

Yurkos song of the day: Miracle Drug - by U2

"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

Thats right people, its a new post straight from the brain of your lovable rambling fool. This probably could have went up far earlier (yet still maintaining the same level of crap) but well i didnt want to put up a new post till i got the new U2 album (giving me something at least to talk about) and then well i got lazy as i normally do and put it off till tonight when i dont feel like studying. Hmm think i can top that "sentence" for lack of well a break? Lets find out!

So yeah lets get the boredom of life out of the way. Semester one is coming to a very rapid and scary car-wreckish ending but at this point i could care less. Damnit wheres my christmas already!! Finally done my chem 101 labs, which is great considering all the other labs are wrapping up next week. Should be working on a rather stupid essay critique but meh its only due tomorrow so life will go on. Thats enough on school because lets face it no one ever wants to hear about that.

Finally finished Going Postal which turned out to be a rather good book, then again its the only real book ive had time to read while up here. Damnit! and reading used to be such a factor in my "down" time. Ah well, good read although slightly odd considering it had actual chapters and well a staple of Pratchetts writing has been the lack of chapters. Gave the book a better flow without them but meh ill live, it passed the time etc.

Floor went to the waterpark in west ed on saturday and boy was it a fun way to blow off a day. Well minus the incredibly cool but incredible rip off thumb-print activated lockers. Somehow i doubt that a space slightly larger than a shoebox is worth 6 bucks to rent, fancy high techery or not (yes thats right techery; what you gonna do about it?). Waterslides were a blast though, especially the blue bullet. Man races in that was so fun especially once we found out which tube went faster and then obviously did a team race. Good times..good times. Just so long as you dont ride the tropical typhoon, aka toilet bowl, aka cheese grater for ones back. Dear god is it so hard for them to just smooth down the edges connecting the plastic sections? Ah well one bad factor of all the slides, plus standing in defiance of the waves was quite fun albeit made us look like fools but isnt that whole point of it all?
Of course it is. Jeeze what a dumb question to ask

Aannywho. Also bought Blade Runner while at west ed which i found for 11 bucks on DVD. this of course made my day because its one of my favourite movies of all time. Such a good film which i reccomend you all go and rent and then say what is this crap and throw a rock at yours truly. Bricks are also fine and Neil the howitzer is back from the cleaners so its available for those who are outside of hucking range. My opinion of the movie will still stand though, regardless of any chunks of pavement flying at my person.

While on the topic of buying things I got the latset CD by U2 whose best song now graces todays song of the day. Its a pretty good album overall i must say, not up to the extremly lofty standards of The Joshua Tree but still far better than their last in my opinion. Also i think its better than some of the reviews its getting but then again i do have a rather odd and random taste in music (considering i like both journey (often credited with being one of the stalest acts of the late 70's) and the police (a part of the New wave movement that brought about the end of such groups as Journey)). So yes expect some of the others songs from the album showing up in that nice happy line at the top of the blog that i am sure no one even pays attention too.

Speaking of music ive also came across another extremly great sounding new group called Metric. Although not really all that new waht with being around since 2001 ish, they are new too me and if anything one of the definite perks of rez is being able to find out about the fact that there still is good new music out there. Closest comparison i have for their style is a killers esq vibe (what with the synthesizers and all) but with a female lead singer. Top notch all around. Be sure to see a few of their songs mixed into the songs of the day along with the new U2 stuff.

Holy cow i really havent posted in a while considering ive now bought Half Life 2 and are at least 3/4 of the way through it. Man alive... well regardless i can happily say it was well worth both the wait and the money. Such a quality game, from the graphics to the story and the gameplay is just so much damn fun. None of the predictablitiy of Doom 3 (well minus the fact that its now commonplace for blood streaked wall to equal zombie attack but for some reason it never gets dull like it did in Doom). Guns all sound perfect, everything just feels right and that reload animation on the pulse rifle is just far to slick for words to do it justice. Near perfection i tell you, obviously not the best game ever but it comes damn close.

Moving on so i dont sound overtly geeky ill comment a bit on you guys and call it an evening. And in retrospect there isnt much to comment on. Ergo actually yeah that is what the backs of our shirts look like jackie. A guy on our floor has a silk screen and he did them all for us so they turned out rather nifty looking. Oh send my thanks over to your sister for pointing out how the bastards at Guinness Canada are lying sacks of shit and its the canned stuff that i want... and in retrospect yet again i realised ive talked to all of you since that post and well replied to all those comments. (btw thanks for the long awaited return to the world of the commenting Jenn, you bumped the avg comments back up over 5; kudos!) So..

Till Next ramble

The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-11-18T01:13:00.000-07:00

Yurkos song of the day: Runnin' Down a Dream - by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

"No one sends the Tick anywhere. Fate is my only master. Destiny signs my checks"

Yeah so why am i putting up a post at 12:18 in the morning after pulling an all-nighter finishing off a formal bio lab? Not sure really, the concept of owing you guys a new post floated around for a bit but then i realised im not one to bullshit on the internet considering its such a bastion of truth and accurate fact and all. Needless to say its moreso the fact that i tire of looking at the last post, but meh what are you going to do? It did have a quality quote which dissapoints me that no one commented on it. Life does press on though so i might as well.

Damn and blast organic chem/english 112; or the one-two sucker punch to my GPA as i like to call them (ok so i just came up with that now but i assure you that ill call it that from now on... of course i will... how will you know if i dont? Huh? punkass? yeah thats what i thought) Granted i have more or less already stated my extreme hatred for the two courses and why that is so i best not get into that again. All i will say is that ive got an essay due in a week (news to me up until today) and after that crap ass midterm i really have to work my sorry butt off to get a good mark in org. Not that you care but then again i dont care that you dont care so it all works out nicely.

Ahh dodgeball, what a blast especially now that we have the kick ass designs on the backs of our oh so ackward purple shirts (its a random selection of colours ok? plus ive heard that is a royal colour or something like that...). If any of you want to see the oh so great design (which i co-designed, esp the usage of the doom logo) here be a fancy little link: Chubby Chicken of DOOM
yeah so enjoy, although i doubt anyone will understand but meh there is a little slice of the rez life for Yurko. If they ever get around to posting some of the many pictures etc up on the internet as planned ill be sure to make a link so you can observe that which is Henday Hall; Lister. Too bad we have to dismantle the Beeramid, a shame really we almost had the base built; so much promise...

What else, hmm provincial elections coming up. Cannot vote due to the fact that i havent lived here long enough to be a member of this riding and i missed the deadline to get an absentee ballot. Life goes on, its not like provincial elections really matter a great deal in Alberta right now. As long as oil prices stay up the PC will stay in power, thats just the way its going to be. Personally i dont really care either way, hooray voter apathy (oh man what a hypocrite i am, how many times have i raged about voter apathy?).

Ill comment on some comments and then wrap this up because although my brain says yes, my body says no and my lower left leg says cheese and who is going to argue with that? Not I thats for sure, only a foolish man disagrees with his lower left leg. I correct myself Neil it is moreso the creative part of my brain that refuses to put in any input most of the time, not so much the rest of the old thinker. (you disgress eh? if your going to mock my spelling at least try to keep yours up to par eh?) It would appear that we were talking about the exact same thing Jackie, you are thinking of part 2 of Another Brick in the Wall with the "you cant have any pudding until you eat meat" such and so forth. Part 3 is pretty much the general chorus of part 2 but sung (sung? im pretty sure thats wrong but word is all the way over there, to far to check the spelling) entirely by the lead singer of pink floyd whos name has slipped my mind at this point in time. Good guitar licks in part 3 but well nothing can compare to the goodness that is part 2.

Actually Keith the majority of the stuff you mentioned i have seen and played so no i dont restrict myself to just the good old GCN. The smaller PS2 is pretty slick looking, and after seeing screenshots of MGS:3 (its like the old school metal gear 2...drool) i am really tempted to pick one up. San Andreas ill wait for the PC release though, cause it is a great game even on the PS2 but oh how i miss my mouse aim/custom radio stations. Halo 2 is the biggest over-rated piece of crap this side of the spiderman movies. Man the game started off so damn promising too, that urban warfare portion was so slick and fun that a game based soley on the invasion of earth would have been a classic guaranteed. Yet no they had to go and leave earth for...another Halo filled with the same attacks by the flood in the exact same bland repetitive hallways. Oh wait! you get to do it all again but as the covenant this time! So much could have been done with the game, and yes the cutscenes are well done etc but your dropping 60 bucks for a good gameplay experience not a movie. Ah well i am sure you and neil will now reply with a "oh how foolish/wrong/biased you are chris" comment or something to that extent but whatever i have my opinion and the ability to duel wield weapons, fancy new textures on the vehicles and giving master chief a voice isnt going to change it. Prime 2 just came out although sadly i probably wont get a copy for christmas... alas theres always the summer. Cant wait till the DS/PSP release, good times should be had there. Oh has anyone played Half Life 2 yet cause i am probably gonna have to pick it up by the end of the month. Considering that the World's of Warcraft beta has now ended I am left with no games upon my computer to pass the time with. Well ok there is Doom 3 but honestly that really isnt a game that screams to be replayed, what with its incredibly varied action and never repetitive events and all that. Sigh i really need a good first person violence fix (note the good part I dont want any comments about go play Halo 2 from you guys, well moreso cause im talking about my computer and not one of the various x-boxes on the floor)

Yes well thats enough for one night, one final parting comment i came across a rather amusing web-comic (yes im a geek but i could care less) that is like Penny-Arcade (sometimes quite a bit funnier) and its Canadian! Great fun for all, and by all i mean well Neil and Keith. Regardless here be a link to it, enjoy and have a good one: VG Cats

Just Giv'r (ahh FUBAR, such a great film)

The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-11-06T13:11:00.000-07:00

Yurkos song of the day: Soft Signals - by Limblifter

"I may be an evil genius, but I can't predict every giant lizard that might wander by"

Giant Brain Fart from this point onwards==>
Yet again my goal of somewhat regularity on this site has bit me within the ass which somehow regulates my ablility to think of stuff to talk about. I question the validity of there being an actual link between my ass and creative ability, well unless you count the fact that thats where it all comes from :P Moving on..

Another rather good modern group, hooray living in Rez and having people to inform me of good new music. It is nice to know that only a vast majority of the music industry is crap and not the entirety of it all. Indeed, such and so forth... blah my brain just doesnt want to write anything today.

Procured the latest Terry Pratchett book this week, Going Postal which thus far has turned out to be a rather good read. Granted when have i not liked on of his novels but this is beside the point. If your a fan i reccomend getting it much as i always do. Of course this just added to my scorn/hatred of chapters because it just reminded me of the fact that a book they claim came out at the beggingin of August (not the pratchett but another book by a diff author) they still do not have even though appearantly the rest of the world does. To top it off there blasted website still says that it should be stock in stores. DAMN YOU CHAPTERS and your lying ways... i will end you chapters...

Yeah so the US election is quite obviously over and it brought with it a very unsuprising result. What i find shocking is all of these Kerry supporters who thought that Bush wouldnt get re-elected. Comon people he is complete common denominator, and clearly had the support of most of the religious groups, gun toting farmers etc who are more likely to go out and vote than them city folk. I am personally sad that Nader did so poorely this election, but it just goes to show that a two party system the states is and a two party system is shall remain. No room for the mulit-billionare, educated little guy i guess. Honestly though i dont see why everyone is getting so freaked out etc that Bush is in power, nothing is really going to happen due to a few reasons. Firstly He IS NOT going to invade another country, in fact no one leading the US could right now. As formidable as there military is their resources are spead out far enough already with the war in Iraq, war on Terror and all the various other police actions, UN stuff etc that they are involved in to go and begin what would be a rather massive military campaign against say North Korea or Iran. Also they will never invade North Korea (or not for a while in any case) because of the simple fact that the South Korean's are looking more towards working on a peaceful relation with the North and much of the populace is dead set against a war on the North. Logistically it would be virtually impossible to stage a war on North Korea without support of the South, unless in some twist China allied with the states and decided to nuke the little nation off the face of the planet and if and when that happens i think we have a few greater concerns (like oh say the creation of one massive military power that could quite easily invade and control all the "superpowers" of the planet). As for Iran somehow i dont think the chiefs of staff are so stupid to piss of the greater muslim world even more by staging an invasion of Iran.
On another point what i dont think many people realise is that due to how the war in Iraq has been handled neither Bush nor Kerry is going to be able to pull the troops out for a long while. So even if Kerry was the president he would have esentially the same effect on the current war as Bush is going to.

As far as the economic condition of the US right now i personally dont know enough about economics and the various fiscal polices etc of the two to comment on that. So that being said ill move on and await your flaming retorts pointing out how im stupid/flawed/satan/unable to spell or punctuate.

I think ill just comment on the two comments and then call it quits. Well more or less in any case, first just a slight point on something that i realised this morning (?) Esentially the reason why i always request commentage from you good reader and also the reason why i still do this site is for one esential reason. This being of course for the fact that well obviously i am never going to get any random onlookers who have never met me personally, so this is esentially a writing for my friends. So basically i write this as a form of low response, slightly faster than actual mail conversation with you guys. For a few of you its pretty much the only way we correspond these days considering i havent seen a few of you online in a great length of existence, not to mention not talked to face to face since in most cases high school ended and at the extreme a good year and a half (possibly even longer). When you comment its a response to what ive said etc, keeps the dialouge going and well allows a semblance of staying in touch which is slightly importaint to well alot of things. Yaay ramble thats starting to sound odd so i digress.

Keith i totally agree that they should have ended it at 300 or possibly at the end of that season cause personally i always felt that 301 made for a far funnier episode. Saying that its just a cash cow now is totally on the mark (esp since theyve moved on to mastercard commercials from the old butterfinger ones). I heard of the infamous stewart appearance on Crossfire but i am yet to see it, and yes i have heard of and watched crossfire before. Frankly all of those shows are pretty stupid, small group of guys shouting there opinions over one another, never conceding anything and refusing to actually think of the other persons opinion. Crossfire is up there on the list of the worst, and after watching there brief snippets during the election coverage i totally agree that the moron in the bowtie is well a moron. Stewart is indeed at his prime, such a good show... Also i clearly pointed out later that i have no qualms with his liberalism on his show, its when a reporters opinion bleeds over into a supposedly nonpartisan news report that it pisses me off. Stewart doesnt hide from his bias and in a show of his format you cant fault the guy for it. Wow for once keith your info is totally flawed and on something to do with videogames no less. SHOCKING!! Considering the fact that neither system is out in japan yet and that the US gets the DS before japan anyways. To answer your question though i do plan to possibly get both systems, although obviously for me the DS will take priority. Now whether or not i have the money to get either or both is another question but in this case my obivous nintendo bias isnt really going to factor into my purchase because they both make for pretty cool systems in my opinion. Jackie, well lets face it Pt. 2 is the far more known portion of the song and although Pt.3 is a quality tune somehow it just doesnt compare (no kids chanting "we dont need no education..." comon what is this?). Pt. 2 for me just captures the essence of the song and all its coolness but meh its a matter of opinion and life will move on. As for my costume well it was rather half assed considering that due to my classes i missed out on the trip down to value village so that being said i ended up going as Steve Yzerman with an eyepatch (Yzerman...no eye...season ending injury...comon!!) yeah so it was slightly clever if your a hockey fan, still very half assed and most likely lame but i could honestly care less now and at that point for that matter.

Till Next Ramble

The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-10-31T14:49:00.000-07:00

Yurkos song of the day: Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2 - by Pink Floyd

"Hey, don't knock crazy. The Romans were crazy, and they got all the girls."

Yay! New post, quite possible not a yay from you folks but it beats doing ones prelabs so its a yay for I. Granted i just realised as i began this that i pretty much have a near deficit of things to talk about so be prepared for another short, pointless and most probably boring post. Good song today, an old classic, great quote today cause well it makes me chuckle and in the long run isnt that all that matters? Hmm well in the very long run it matters for nothing at all but right now my "long run" consists of the next hour or so. Wow not making any sense and im not even a paragraph in... oh wait now i am.

Midterms are half done, which deserves a hearty something or other. Bio went pretty well, considering i got a 88.9% on it, its no 100% mind you but it will do :P Gah youve gotta love the irony on chem though. Blasted midterm was utter crap, considering that there was much more theory on the damn thing than she said there would be not to mention the nice happy questions that expect you to remeber an example that took 5min at the start of the class a month and a half ago. Damn that test and its inherent crapitude, ah well life goes... to an organic chem midterm. Frickin university, it never ends for gods sake! That wasn't the worst part of the week though, for that happy prize is definetly reserved for English. Oh what fun it is to get back your first formal essay to be happily greeted by a sea of red marks and a nice uplifting C. What makes it worse is that i dont even have the satisfaction of being able to bitch at the prof. cause i do agree with his comments. Stupid constructive critcism, ruins all the fun. BTW jackie im fully aware of my lack of punctuation skills, that statement was more of an inside joke between neil and I cause after your english prof says "your punctuation seems hapazard" i think i get the message (of course the fact that minus the period most of my punctuation is pretty much random has nothing to do with it at all). I'd still love a good reason why a pre-med student has to be able to write an english essay let alone analyse 17th century poetry considering all the writing skills needed in science are taught to us via formal labs.

Oh man, last nights halloween dance was probably one of the most boring experiences ever. Due mostly to the fact that i cant really dance so i just looked like a total loser (and i wasnt drunk enough to ignore that fact, frickin vodka jellow shooters having no effect at all (bloody lack of my own alcohol)). Man i miss the days of the techno-riverdance infused stupidity cause at least there it was a group of us acting dumb and hey it was funny/fun so it worked out. Oh well at least the appearant tradition of females competing to have the sluttiest halloween costume held up, made for something good to look at (hides from ensuing beating by all the female readers). Im not sexist, i can just appreciate a good view. Lets move on shall we?

Seeing as how im out of anything else to say, that or forgotten or probably both i might as well comment on some comments. Nothing to say on any of Neil's stuff, so lets skip to Mr. Keith who has appearantly decided to comment on every second post. Less energy wasted so i applaud you sir. Anywho fair enough, i was flawed in saying there hasnt been a good simpsons in 10 years, 4 possibly 5 years would be a better estimate. Of course when i say nothing good im talking more on the general feeling of a season, because there is always the odd good one here and there. Last two seasons though its felt more like a sheer fluke but thats beside the point. I am fully aware of the various stinkers in the futurama run (The Leela blurnsball episode comes immideatly to mind) but it just appeared to me that during the shows 5 year run there seemed to be far more hits than misses compared to the recent seasons of the simpsons. Yes the recent episodes have had a memorable line or two ("looks like your missing a puzzle piece." "looks like your missing a wife") yet it just doesnt seem to have the same quality behind it anymore. A good indicator of that is when a show starts taking various plotlines thats its built up for a good few years (barney becoming sober, principle skinner etc) and either forgetting about them complely for the sake of one rather bad joke or using one bad episode to just toss it all in the garbage can. Regardless i tire of this topic, and i should get back to work so i shall move on.
As for your Metallica analogy Keith it has never been about whether or not they have good lyrical skills etc that prevents me from liking them its just there overall sound. I am sure if i actually was able to listen to a song i would see your point but well i just cant stand how they sound (personal preference and all that) thus preventing me from appreciating these "subtle lyrics." That being said i probably would still scoff and ridicule just cause its what i do plus its always good fun :P (haha crap out a great big sea, i love it!). I do see the point you were getting at though Keith, considering alot of what i enjoy about Futurama does require more viewage/enjoyment than what can be gathered from just casual viewing. Finally yes there be a rather nice shot of ze swedish chef on the poster, in fact he is pretty much right in the centre of the entire group. Im personally pleased at the fact that it has Dr. Teeth on it, who is in my opinion the best Muppet charachter ever created. Its a shame he was voiced by Jim Henson and so that in all the movies/shows made after his death he was reduced to background filler that never talked. Siggghh ah well life goes on.

Till Next Ramble

The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-10-21T14:48:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: Here comes the Sun - by The Beatles

"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."

Ahoy all, making another post albeit on pretty much nothing. Why? cause im extremly bored and i dont feel like beginning my massive amount of studying for next week. Rather amusing quote in the usual winston churchill sense of wit, rather old school-ish song; one that you just cant help but feel happy when listening too. Hooray disjointed sentences? Oh before i continue There will be no commenting on the spelling (or lack thereof) or you will be shot. Honestly i get more than enough of it from my english prof so i dont need to hear it from a frickin engineer for gods sake. Im not bitter... God i really shouldnt be doing a blog right now, damn Math and its inherent boredom completly killing my brain, so my apoligies if this starts to make no sense very quickly. Granted feel free to check out at any point, although be warned there is no stamp for re-entry.

Hooray for the poster sale and its incredible overpriced posters! Ah well it allowed me to get some much needed decoration for the ol' cave. Mostly (and by mostly i mean entirely) in the form of a few movie posters (Back to the Future, Last Samurai, Ghostbusters, a small Blues Brothers one) a very cool shot of Dirty Harry, a beautiful poster of one of mans best cars (the V12 Vanquish) and a very cool poster of the Cast of the Muppet Show (damn right the Muppets). Slightly dissapointed they didnt have any james bond movie posters, nor one of Heat cause well that would have been just great. Ah well it will do, covers up the bland off-white walls.

After a good 4 days of mortal combat i finally defeated the horrid creature that was the bio research lab on tuesday. My god those things are a pain in the old buttox. Well the report itself isnt all that bad (or so i think, but im sure ill be changing that opinion when we get the marks back) but its the stupid and incredibly pointless research portion that is just well stupid and pointless. Why does it matter if you can find and relate some random, barely read japanese science publication on the freezing resistance of certain types of mangoes to your lab? Whats worse is that they dont even make you do this in any second year bio course making all of that effort totally and completly pointless. Gah stupid university and its inherent pointless nature.

Im slightly worried about the upcoming midterms, well not the chem 101 one; the only way it could be hard is if i show up to it drunk, missing one eye, half of my brain (either half will do) and finding out that i actually wrote a third year physics exam. If and when hybrid orbitals, lewis structures etc become hard i think there will be other things to worry about at the time such as oh i dont know the frickin end of the world? but i digress, bio should be painful considering ive got a weekend to relearn all that he taught us (so basically bio 30ap and well we all know how much attention i payed in smiths class). I dread the organic chem midterm, granted if i study ill prob do fine but when will that happen? Jeeze you crazy people. Math i cant understand the prof so what happens there will be a total suprise and english we dont get a midterm (yay!) instead we get weekly quizes, essays and an "online participation mark" (yay....?)

Man oh man this is a pathetic post *hangs head in shame* ah well at least i know how to somewhat use punctuation so its at least not a marathon to read (hehe neil). Considering ive got nothing else to say might as well reply to the massive 2 people who commented. Hooray for you jackie and neil, you win the proverbial cookie (no real cookie, any possible real cookies must be returned immediatly under pain of bubonic plague)! Firstly yes Nutsy is a classic, if it wasnt for the fact that its well the nazi emblem i would make him my display picture cause of the humour value. Ahh good times not politically correct at all. Sadly its a multiple amount of people who dislike futurama, which i dont think ill ever be able to understand. I just think its the lack of oxygen up here in edmonton, that or the lack of intelligence. Either way something is preventing these folks from understanding the brilliant humour abound in the show (and no neil its not all just silly humour, if you do think a bit there is some subtle stuff; far more than what the simpsons has done in a good 10 years). I still will probably never understand why Hollywood is so liberal, considering the amount of money all these folks have and well rich in most normal circumstances = hard ass conservative. Ahh well ill use my standard response of meh they're in (or most likely were) in arts. Ill prob be swinging back at christmas, although there is a chance of heading back during the remeberance day weekend. So yeah anyone who wants to hang out around then sounds good...dont all shout at once...anyone?...at all?...

Till Next Ramble

The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-10-16T15:45:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: Sultans of Swing - by Dire Straights

"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."

Whoa a somewhat regular schedualish post? Madness!! (Hmm i say madness far to often these days during posts) Yes well i really wanted to put up a new post pretty much due to one reason, that i must inform everyone in existence of and get pretty much the same reaction that i am up here (Dear god your a loser, etc etc), plus it ties well into my bitching about the US election etc, and my much felt lack of being able to watch the Daily Show. In fact this pretty much comes as a direct, albeit unintentional response to your comment Jackie, because what i have found is not only the perfect replacement for the Daily Show (not suprising, but that will become appearant in a bit) but quite possible THE FUNNIES/BEST book ever written (wow two posts now where ive declared something the best in existence, gotta feel sorry for everything else now, such high standards to live up to). The best feeling that comes from reading this book is that someone took a firehose and tapped it into my sense of humour and then blasted it full force into the pages of a book. Less than halfway through and ive laughed more times than i can count. Pure satirical greatness. Now what is this book you are probably impatiently wondering considering im yet to say what it is? Why America (The Book): A Citizens Guide to Democracy Inaction by John Stewart no less. So not only does the book manage to make fun of American Democracy, a good chunk of the history/rest of the worlds democracy but it is done in the form of a social textbook so it lampoons them as well. For a self-declared Social loser it is great, and probably out of anyone who reads this you will get just as big if a kick out of it as i am Neil. Everything from the pointless little sidebar info things commonly found in social textbooks (Such as 'Were you Aware? If the president were the longest recorded flight by a chicken, he would be thirteen seconds.) or one of the funniest things ive ever seen in a book; in a section on national mascots they have "Nutsy; Hitlers brief flirtation with a 'warmer, fuzzier' approach to Nazism". Man oh man its just great. Well after all of that im sure that ive bored each and every one of you to the point that you want to come and lobotomise me with a howitzer (yes neil it is a multi-purpose howitzer). Ah well i will just continue to read it on my own, inhance my cynisim of the US and go on with life.

Well on with the other stuff, found out that right now im sitting right on the top of the curve in org chem which bites HUGE chunks, damnit i need to get on the positive side of the bloody curve not fucking "average". Grrr, blasted 10% quiz and its inherent stupidness. I really should be working on my Big formal Bio lab report but noo certain people were complaining at the lack of a "Promised" saturday post, if i fail its all your collective faults NOT MINE. Err why would i care about what Ontario does for the provincial leaders? its not like i live there or anything; and last i checked your pretty close on the Canadian conservative scale as i am sir so shat up.

Speaking of politics i just pretty much hate it when artists of any sort try to force there opinions on me regardless of what they are, damn morons think they are suddenly political genuses just because they made 2 hit records. Hmm im pretty sure ive done that rant before so ill stop. Oh and in case i havent mentioned this before; just so that you people know where i stand, if i lived in the US i would most likely vote Nader just to A) not vote for either of the two morons running and B) throw my vote away (which is what voting for a third party boils down to). Now granted like i said i dont give a rats ass about the US and its election but just so that you folks dont start throwing eggs at me for thinking im a bush supporter, cause clearly all of you are pinko-commie Democrats :P Hooray for having a biased audience! Meh when has that ever changed what i have to say?

Well Bloody 'ell, So now that ive officially transitioned over to the deflatormouse@gmail.com account, those insensitive bastards at hotmail decide to bump the storage up to 250mb which is pretty much all that i require. Gah, and msn works so much better with a hotmail account. Ah well im not going to put myself nor the rest of you through the inconsistency or pain in the assery of switching back to flash_5_@hotmail.com, plus theres too many morons on that list that i dont feel like talking to/to lazy to just delete. Yes a pointless paragraph, LIVE WITH IT

Bah on the geneal populace around here, not only do people up here appearantly hate Futarama, and some especially Bender (which is still a mind boggling concept for yours truly; like comon the show is greatness in animated form) but i am lacking of any worthy adversaries for my sarcasm/unique yurko-style wit. This is a scary thing folks cause without the sarcasm and stupid wittiness who or what am i?? When the best response i can come up with involves a Mullet i know that the formerly oh so very sharp edge to my sarcasm has dulled. Gad damnit! Why did you have to go to UofT neil, 2 years of keeping our sarcasm razor sharp was great, but now...sigh. People even miss it here when im being sarcastic, whats the bloody point if no one but me picks up on it? Damn jerks and there inability to understand the sharp sting of sarcasm. Sarcastro I have dishonoured you!

plus after that im pretty sure i just dishonoured myself, all of you and probably some small island tribe of the coast of paupa/new guinea. Ah well im sure all of us can get over it, except maby keith and possibly the small children of said tribe.

Till Next Ramble,

The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-10-11T20:49:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: Jacqueline - by Franz Ferdinand

"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."

Wow, first off i urge everyone out there who considers them somewhat of a fan of Rock & Roll to go out and buy the cd "Franz Ferdinand" because hot damn this is one of the finest albums ive had the pleasure of listening to in a very long time. Actual melodies from a modern group? Not just routine pop-punk crap? Possibly even better than The Killers? Madness i know but it is very true and so much more. No politics being shoved forcefully down your throat with a hot poker, no constant bland powercords being ripped out to the tune of some moron screaming into a microphone. Pure musical greatness, and hey with a social joke as their band name how can i resist? Seriously its damn good stuff, and im only dissapointed that i took this long to find out about these guys.

Moving on, my apoligies for the constant "my life is rather bland, so lets go through it point by point" style posts; and i wonder why a great deal of the faithful have stopped reading this... my god (haha...haha...hooo) i sound like some cult leader. So that i dont bore you all half to death ill get it out of the way now, lifes been pretty much routine except for coming back down to calgary this weekend for turkey-fest. Man ive forgotten how good real food tastes, that and how much i miss being able to just sit back and watch tv. What i dont miss is wasting most of the weekend writing english essays that are for well rather obviously english (which is now officially my arch-nemisis in first year university course form). Did alright on my math midterm, not nearly as well as i thought i had which somewhat bites; its allright though the class avg was pretty low and i can make up so life goes on (plus the mark was a 77 so its not like i failed or anything). Jury's still out on the Chem quiz, i get that fun news on wed. On a side note if anyone tells you organic chem is fun kick them in the crotch and call the police cause they are a seriously disturbed person that most likely eats small kittens and trips nuns on the way to setting fire to an orphanage.

Gah if only i had the time to do these more often, wouldnt forget half the crap i plan on putting in these here rambles. I will say this though, with the US election coming so close, and all the debates and such wasting air time on TV i officially (as opposed to my prior unofficial stance on the matter) DO NOT GIVE ANY SEMBLANCE OF CARING, AT ALL about the US presidential election. It honestly ranks on my list of cares slightly less than did i get my malaria shots just in case im randomly para-dropped into the congo in 10 seconds. (GAAAHHH!! sorry side note, bloody fucking futureshop crap ass cd player refusing to play 2 songs on this tom petty CD. what is your problem you stupid piece of junk?? bleh, im done) Neither leader likes Canada at all, so regardless of who gets voted in were not really in a great position. I personally dont know enough about the whole Iraq issue to take a stance on it and im not going to be like every other brainless moron and jump on the "Lets hate Bush with a passion" bandwagon just because. Im sorry but i like to be informed before i make a decision, you know something that everyone should do in a democracy. What? Oh im sorry i was thinking of a perfect world, not the one we live in. Bleh to you general populace.

Sticking with politics, saw Bill O'Reilly on the daily show a few days back and i must say i was impressed. For a guy who is often potrayed as just a redneck, rightwing moron he is a pretty intelligent guy who is clearly well educated on both the candidates and even though a staunch conservative considering not voting Bush. That people is what democracy is supposed to be, learning about both candidate and deciding that way. NOT doing what ontario seems to love to do and vote oh say Liberal just because thats what they always vote. Hmm thats enough political ramblings for a science student, im coming far to close to sounding like some moron in poly-sci.

A few comments on the comments before i sign off, firstly Pilsners alright Maitland; never been a big fan of Corona that and when the Mexican guy on the floor laughed for a good 5min on hearing someone say they liked corona and then comment something to the effect that the Corona we get is what teenage girls drink (he was referring it to being as weak as water, aka no good. Im not being sexist, this was his comment not mine) somewhat killed all intrest in the drink. I do visit your blog i just had nothing to say, well unless you want me to get drunk and become the "Rocket Man" ala what Giacomo appearantly did. Hmm on that note theres someone i havent talked to in a looong while, Gman if u read this give me a shout; if not well im sure ill get a hold of ya eventually (via the lazy mans best friend, MSN). You would be suprised Neil at the massive amount of brain mass that is involved in each post. So much that it goes all the way around massive and back to nothing again. Sadly your the only one who commented on the obvious opening to mock and ridicule yurko so alas you win that contest *hangs own head in shame that no one else stepped up to the plate*. Well that pretty much brings this to a close, feel free to comment, cause lord knows im not going to stop you. Far to much effort and im not in the mood for becoming a tyrannical dictator tonight.

Till Next Ramble

The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-09-29T19:47:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: Like a Stone- by Audioslave

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die"

hehehehehehe....... Im sorry but this is now officially THE BEST QUOTE EVER!! bar none; no exceptions; end of discussion. Granted i find pretty much all of Mel Brook's movies extremly funny (he being the one who uttered this magnificient statement) so my opinions might be slightly biased. Regardless of that fact i love that quote. Just thought i would point that out in case you folks didnt gather that from the whole fact that i made it my quote of the day and all.
Moving on, profound apoligies for the massive lapse in posts. 2 plus weeks is a horrendus amount of time to not put up a new one. Rest assurred my head is hung in shame. Of course you people do need to realise that my combination of massive amts of homework plus leaving stuff till the last minute tends to add up to a constant madcaped game of finish whats due in the next 10min which needless to say doesnt leave much time for a blog. I will put in attempts though, such as now so dont forget about this site completly, otherwise i will be sad and comon who honestly wants to see yurko sad? (bonus points to whomever responds to that the wittiest, and yes i know what all you pricks are going to say {most especially neil}).

All that being said, let us see if i can remeber what it is that ive done in the last while. Not a great deal would be the all-encompassing answer. Went drinking again with the floor last friday, yes i know twice in a month is madness huh? (hey ive always said im not a big drinker). Ive decided that the only way one can injest the crap that is Kokanee is by drinking enough good liquor beforehand so as to deaden the tastebuds. And you know what im cutting this paragraph short cause this is all that fucking blogger decided to save after its random spazdic server crash. Bloody hell... bloody hell.

So yeah on to music i guess, originally i did have a rather long winded rambling about TV, movies, all of my courses and the like but damnit ive not only lost all intrest in this post but forgotten much of what i wrote. Have i mentioned that im rather pissed at blogger? Well i just did yet again. Im sorry its not you people faults, but gah all that effort gone. Might as well move on to the abriged rant on U2's Vertigo. Vertigo being there latest single off the up and coming new album. Not song of the day im sure your all thinking? but why is this? do you not like U2? have i asked enough questions to piss anyone off yet? The answer to all of that is a resounding catfish. Seriously though (well as serious as i can ever be when ive just mentioned something utterly stupid {so as serious as i always am}) its not that bad of a song, its one of those songs that you start to appreciate after about the 10th listen. There lies my problems with it, and why its not my song of the day (and most likely never will be). The first single off a long awaited album should smack the listener upside the head with the "BUY ME" two by four, cause thats what leaves an impression not a slight prod to the arm that takes a good hundred more for you to appreciate the effect. First singles should leave you anticipating more, wanting the album etc not saying, as some of my floor mates put it "It sounds more like a garbled mess of sound than a song" or to put it more bluntly "definetly not U2's best". Good impression to get from the first listen, well unless you were going for the apathetic sells no records vibe. And that video, what can you say about it other than a bunch of failing grade 10 drama kids could probably come up with better. Playing infront of one static camera while clearly on a soundstage with a curtain behind you, oh wait sorry a curtain with some lights flashing on it, is obviously up to the high standards that one associates with a labels most prominent groups. Siighh... ah well thats enough razzing on old 80's rock groups. Ive taken quite the liking of the music of both Tom Petty and Audioslave recently. Might have to actually go out and purchase one of either's albums. That being of course when i get some money (so see not for a good while).

That being said i bring to a close this lobotomised version of what could have been a far long, far more interesting and far wittier post but nooo blogger likes to randomly crash its servers just to piss me off. Who am i kidding, no one cares about yurko that much; random chance and all that. One final note if any of you folks see "Reaperman" by Terry Pratchett or "Settling Accounts: Return Engagement" by Harry Turtledove for sale ill gladly reimburse you if you could pick it up for me cause i have looked and am currently unable to find either novel this side of existence.
Till Next Ramble (unless blogger swallows this post as well)

The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-09-12T23:45:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: On Top- by The Killers

"I'm sure millions of viewers out there are just wondering what it's like to wear the tights of justice. Well, it's tingly and it's uncomfortable, but it gets the job done and, oh, the job of it!"

Yes yes i know, long time coming etc but meh school has somewhat taken priority over the blog; sorry folks but its the truth. That being said i did feel that i should throw something up so you dont start tossing virtual mangos or something. Firstly before i forget, damn good song today by what has become my current favourite group. Yes i am sure you have all heard "somebody told me" but these guys have got some other amazing stuff. A real 80's new wave vibe but still modern sounding. A definite thumbs up in my books. On that note, new U2 single comes out Nov.8 which is amazing!!! and a new cd is soon to follow so im pumped for that. Slightly downtrodden that no one wants to go see Van Halen around here, but meh ill live without witnessing sammy fagar fuck up the DLR classics.

So yeah where to start, cant comment on any movies/games/tv cause university has effectivly cut me off from the outside world. I think ive noticed a newspaper like once in the last 2 weeks which i find kindof odd. Ah well im sure if something big happens like the northern half of North America falls into the ocean that ill find out. I must add though that university has officially killed all the love of reading that i used to hold. DAMN YOU COURSES!!! bleh, i spent all of today reading for my bloody courses. On that note i really get the feeling i picked the wrong english course. Gah its full of AP english freaks, all able to understand the "deeper" meanings of shakespear, not to mention the essays every thursday and to add icing on the cake we have to read the one book that after seeing it in a practice diploma i swore i would never read in my life. That of course being Pride and Prejudice, and i might add damn you to hell jane austin.

Anywho, ill switch now to the question answers. Oh first rofl neil, that picture was officially the funniest thing i have seen in a while. It was like charley and the chocolate factory all over again except replace the chick eating the bubblegum with sideburns. Hehehe. Damn straight i drink tea, and hey didnt i ever tell you of my plan to do my residency for med school in london? Hmm thought i did, ah well you know now. Moving on, floor wise it depends on the tower. Henday (the one im in) has only 10 floors so second from the top; some of the other ones have 12. Reason i dont take the elevators often is because they take an ungodly long time to get up to the 9th floor so hence the stairs although happily some girl on the floor has donated her kettle to the kitchen so i can at least get my tea through there. Man its so great that you guys got a kick out of my email adress. No one and i mean no one found it at least a little amusing. My humour is completly unapreciated around here. My full name btw is Christopher Robert Danie Yurkovich; most places (uofa appearantly is one of them) likes to deny the fact that i have two middle names so hence the cry, but hey im not complaining crdy just doesnt have the same kick to it. Yeah i do agree jackie, the new bar is much better looking than the old annoying adbar but the whole seach thing never worked with my site so it was kindof pointless for me, hence the lack of remorse to it being gone. That being all said i should be off, i would like to point out that Koakanee=elephant piss although koakanee gold isnt that bad. I think ill stick to my fancy ass heinekin though, expensive though it may be. (Yes i know i butchered both companies names but what do i care i never could spell anyways) Man i really need to bring the futurama dvd's up cause god am i bored.

Till Next Ramble

The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-09-05T08:06:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: Don't Come Around Here No More- by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

"You're not going crazy! You're going sane in a crazy world!"

Hooo Boy, blogging it up Edmonton style. Heading out for breakfast at 9am and well ive got an hour to kill so i figured might as well post something to kill the time. I dont promise anything of intrest but if it helps kill your boredom than my work here is done.

My god moving in is a pain in the ass. Especially when you live on the 9th floor of your residence builiding. Ive decided that if i ever live in an apartment im going for ground floor and one that comes with a fridge. Damn thing, all that lugging around etc. Oh a word of advice for you folks out there. You know how your parents always told you dont talk to strangers well i would like to add on to that "Dont talk to strangers especially if they are carrying a newscamera on there back." Yeah so like i said moving was a pain in the ass so just to add onto it all, while im unloading the old van this guy from the local A Channel walks by with his camera and asks if he can film me for a second. So im thinking maby he just needs a shot of some people walking into the building or something so i say sure why not. Turns out this camera guy ends up filming me lugging everything up into my room, and then interviews me. So needless to say on my first day here i got to look very very odd to everyone in the entire building (some kid who gets his own camera crew) plus i got to happily look and sound like a moron on the 6 o'clock news. Hooray for Me! Only solace i have is that it was on A Channel and if edmontons is anything like calgarys no one was watching. Siiggh but yeah thats pretty much it for the whole moving in. Im in, everything more or less works. Just have to work out a few bugs with my UofA email; which by the way for those who care/want a joke is cry@ualberta.ca Gotta love my initals, of course i could change my email but meh this is slightly amusing and is a good way to start a conversation so ill keep it.

So yeah tahts enough about university, nothing interesting has really happened to me otherwise in the first day; well other than our floor had a pinata which was good fun and my hallway has 4 exchange students which is rather cool. A guy from india, one from Pakistan and two from colombia. Should be a good experience learning about other cultures etc. Also realised i really need to buy a kettle cause walking down 9 flights of stairs (im to lazy to wait for the slow ass elevators...and yet i take the stairs...hmmmm) just for my morning tea is just a slight pain in the ass.

Oh i was finally able to vanquish my temporary arch-nemisis, that being those bloody A things that were popping up around the site. Big thanks to the guy who made this template originally who was nice enough to actually fix the code and email it back to me. Kudos sir! Kudos. Plus as a bonus my site now somewhat covers up that rather useless blogger top bar thing, which is good cause well why in gods name would anyone search for something on my site anways; plus theres the whole fact that it doesnt work with my site but thats not the point. The point is I am more or less tapped out in terms of creatitivty (hey its 8:30 in the bloody morning, so sue me). That being said I now venture back in to the "fun" world that is pre-university living. Probably going to have to buy my books today (bleh) but with Bender, the always cool stuffed Yoshi and Kingdom Come Superman keeping me company i will press onwards.

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The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-08-31T19:03:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: The Thrill is Gone- by B.B. King

"A day job... in an office?! My worst nightmare!"

Hey folks, felt like post time so here i be. This is most likely going to be the last one i put up prior to when i begin the "fun" that will be university. Fitting that its at post number 90. Not sure what that fits but meh its a nice round number and seems importaint so why not. Mostly a reply to comments post but meh still read if your bored like i am. First though there is the all importaint retellings of my recent occurances so feel free to sleep through this part cause its not all that interesting.

Finally got my computer for next yr, had to tell dell to stuff it and bought one from futureshop but meh it works rather well so im happy. On that note doom 3 is rather fun, if predictable but meh its nice to play when bored. Hooray killing the denzies of hell. Also found (finally, Hooray!!) my police box set which also makes me very happy. Gives me something to listen to up in edmonton. Also got a new watch, not the massive expensive omega that would have been great (if not a total waste of cash at this point in life) but its very nice and i like it so all is happy there. Yes i did pass over the whole mention of my birthday, mostly cause well it was rather uneventful which was the way that i wanted it. Never been a huge fan of the big party myself so i was content, esp since now i have my kick ass Bender action figure mascott which is coming with me to u of a and to your question jenn no bars/clubs yet but like i told victor im in no rush.

Yeah tahts enough of that, on to the replys. Firstly glad you agree neil; you also seem to be the only person who actually read that first paragraph correctly. Keith and Jenn what you said was basically the exact point i was saying. I dont take The Daily show that serious because it is a comedy program and im not complaining about comedians saying what they want political or otherwise because otherwise it wouldnt be funny. Yes Keith i did catch the episode with the republican guy and yes i do agree, the statement about Kerry etc was more of a end note to a discussion that Neil and I were having a while back. Granted Keith he might say that about his films but he doesnt seem to have any complaints with allowing the studios that distribute them to market them otherwise even to the point that they win awards classified as a documentary (of course the whole acadamy awards is politically motivated but thats another discussion entirely). So yeah thats more or less it, noted i wasnt commenting on the films entertainment value cause i must admit i did like bowling for columbine and Canadian Bacon but its moreso the way the guy carries himself etc etc and im pretty sure i went into all of that in more than enough detail.
Vell this brings to a close the last calgary edition of my crummy little blog and well Mars is calling and who am i to deny the hordes of hell a good shotgun blast in the head?

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The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-08-25T23:55:00.000-06:00

"A man with 6 good books is content, A man with time to read those books is in bliss"

Hmm well it would appear that i was bored enough to make this second post. So that being the case if this looks too long/boring for you well then just feel free to ignore and scroll down to the shorter one on the less political thoughts; aka my usual ramblings. If not well feel free to read and comment on this and hey reading the other one wouldnt hurt either. Anywho..

I was going to intially start this off talking about late night talk show hosts etc as a continuation of the last part but i came to a few realisations since then. Just to start it off id like to just say that whatever impartiality John Stewart used to hold just got tossed out the window when he had Kerry on as a guest. If that doesnt cement his political bias i dont know what does. Meh hes still a funny guy so ill let it slide. Really though this brings me to my point. In my last ranting/ramble i talked about how much it bothered me that the media doesnt seem to be able to remain unbiased when reporting the news and fails to use the editorial as the sole means of expressing ones bias as it should be with the media. Now my initial plan was to comment on how a great deal of late night hosts/comedians have been blasting there political views etc through comedy. Putting more thought into this i realised that esentially a comedic monolouge, routine etc is nothing but an editorial put in a more skillfull and amusing style than most of us can manage. You cant really expect a comedian to be completly unbiased otherwise well for one it wouldnt be all that funny and would end up being incredibly unentertaining. So i cant fault a comedian for stating his/her opinions through there jokes and i dont think that anyone really can. Its not like jay lenno is trying to pass himself off as a credible news source and hopefully no one is expecting anything otherwise.

This being the case i now reach what is the focal point of this ramble, why it is that i hate Micheal Moore. Well where to start? hmm not sure really. Damn writers block. Well if there is one thing that you can say about the guy is that he really doesnt try to hide his political leanings, not that im faulting him for that. Nothing wrong with expressing your opinions cause if i was to say that well then it would make me one of the larger hypocrites to walk this here earth. What bothers me about him is that he has such an overbloated ego and is such a blowhard that he feels that not only everyone wants to hear his point of view but appears to refuse to accept that there are other opinions that deserve to be heard. On top of that he then had the nerve to come on canadian tv during the federal election to tell us, the canadian public who we should vote for. Oh yes im sorry, clearly the opinion of an egotistical moron who doesnt live in canada, cannot vote in canada and for all intensive purposes should not give a rats ass who gets elected in canada is far superior to my own opinion. Thank you Mr. Moore for pointing out how i was wrong, ill be sure to call you up for you help with every other decision that doesnt effect you at all.

Moving on from his public actions though, i come now to what pisses me off about him the most. This of course is his films. Now just for the record my politics dont factor into this. There is some stuff that i do agree with that he says, such as gun control etc and some that i do not. That doesnt however have anything to do with my thoughts on his films. My trouble comes with the way that he packages his thoughts. Since his career started, Micheal Moore has marketed his movies as documentary films. Now a documentary is supposed to be a clear, intelligent and most importantly unbiased and uncontrolled telling of events, history etc. A documentary is supposed to bring light to the facts and show you what happened. The filmmaker might bring out his own opinions but the point of documentary film-makings is so that they state there own opinions so long as the real facts are not modified allowing you to draw your own conclusions from the film. There was a rather good article in the Herald back when Fahrenheit 9/11 first came out which first brought this train of thought to my attention and i totally agree with what it said. So yes a documentary is supposed to remain an unbiased viewing into a portion of history etc.

Why does this then bother me when discussed with Micheal Moores films? Well for one thing like i said he markets all of his works as a documentary. If you ever take a look at one of his films, not based on your own personal views but looking at his film techniques its pretty obvious that his films do not try to remain unbiased. Throughout ever one of his films Mr. Moore takes various bits of truth and half truths and arranges them such that they express his own personal opinion. He utilizes humour to esentially make fun of those who he feels are the enemy within his selected topic of that particular film and takes one or two tiny bits of information that are most likely taken out of context and adds them in to make it seem realistic. Hmm dressing up opinion within shreds of facts in order to convert people to your opinion isnt a documentary but it sounds alot like another type of media, rather popular in the 30's and 40's in fact. Whats it called again... oh right! Propaganda! Moore has got the system so down pat that he would put Goebbels in awe. Not only do you have major film studios competing to give him funding for his propaganda movies but as fahrenheit showed has people willing to throw down large amounts of cash to watch. This would boggle Goebbels mind! A society that prides itself on its freedom is happily and enthusiastically lining up to watch some good old propaganda, and all without the threat of a gestapo investigation. Not only that, you now have "credible" awards panels giving what is clearly propaganda awards for being a documentary. Of course im sure that if he came out and admitted what he really was producing that sales wouldnt be as stellar but the fact remains the guy is lying about his predominant source of fame (or infamy whichever you prefer). Granted being an egotistical blowhard is probably keeping him in the spotlight as well.

The fact that he lies so bad throughout his films, and then in the subsequent marketing of the films makes him a rather large hypocrite. Constantly he rants about how Bush lies, how he is a "fictitious president" etc. and yet the guy cant stick to the facts in his own films. Clearly he utilizes just as many lies and half truths as he claims Bush has but because of the rather appearant left bias of the media within the united states no one calls him on this or those who do are seen as a minor newsblip, nothing more (which in my opinion is all that Micheal Moore should be himself but sadly he has seen to it that people think otherwise). This is incredibly appearant within the entertainment based media that seems to have there political leanings shoved so far up there respective rectums that they cant stop heaping praise on moore based just on his opinions that they are unable to take a step back and really look at his film making techniques. You get a scant few reviews that have actually said wait a second and realised that the guy doesnt make the documentaries he claims he does and scores accordingly. So all you get is the happily politically biased media heaping praise on there star propaganda machine so that the american consumer happily pays to have Moore shove his opinion down your throat. Ahh God Bless America. Sadly i cannot see this cycle ending any time soon but at that ive basically ran out of things to rant on. This being the case i urge you people to like neil brought up, next time you watch the news or go and see a film/documentary/propaganda disguised as a documentary take a second to think about the bias the reporter etc has coming into it and view/read accordingly. If everyone did this i think our political system would be for the better but then again thats just my opinion.

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The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-08-25T19:48:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: Love is the Seventh Wave- by Sting

"She had heard it said that humans are supposed only to use about a tenth of their brains, and that no one was very clear what the other nine-tenths were for, but she had certainly never heard it suggested that they were used for storing penguins."

Yes yes I know, long time putting up a new post, yadda yadda yadda. Not going to bother apologizing cause well it seems that only maitland and neil are reading this and if you think im apologizing to you two well your morons. Great quote, a little bit of Douglas Adams for you people. Really good author of whos books i reccomend. Same goes for the song, yes i know another sting song; nice and original there Chris but meh new cd and i like this song so suck it. For the sake of the way it looks etc im going to post the trivial stuff and my opinion on the egotistical blowhard known as Michael Moore in separate posts so comment on which one you care about, or dont cause i dont care.

Finally saw the Bourne Supremacy, really good film. Jason Bourne runs a very close second in the kickass movie assasin category, bested of course by tom cruise in collateral. Now if only they could get the guy from the Transporter to play Code 47 in a Hitman movie i would be one happy movie patron. Speaking of movie and to add to my list of oddball indie films that ive seen/enjoyed i went and saw Garden State today in a packed theatre of 6 total people. Good film i must say though, bit quirky although has a much more uplifting ending than Lost in Translation which i still think is a better film but overall it was rather well done.

Picked up the Futurama season 4 and currently watching all of that. Such a good show cut down in its prime. Really a shame but well nothing you can do about it other than enjoy watching it. Still yet to watch all the seasons of Angel that i own but it is my goal to get done by the fourth and if not meh life will go on. Added a few good books to the old collection, so it should give me something to do till september and long into the coming "fun" of university. Blogger tells me that the annoying random A's should be gone now, but i wont know till i publish this. This being the case i tire of this, typing for no one doesnt really have much appeal. Might put up my thoughts on micheal moore sometime tonight, chances are i wont till tomorrow.

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The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-08-14T22:38:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: Signs of Love- by Moby

"Oh, look, Arthur, it's a completely rehabilitated villain. She's comfortable with herself. Comfort, commitment, marriage, what do these things have in common? The letter 'C' except for marriage, and if people get all British whenever they get knocked on the head, what do British people get? I know... comatose! Another 'C'."

{Added note: Welcome to Version 3 of my crappy little site. The old template; as good as it was; had begun to get on my nerves. Something about all that black on orange, plus with blogger adding that confounded titlebar thing it threw the layout off. Regardless I went and found a new and i might add extremly snazzy template (it being tuesday as i type this) so feel free to comment on the new look, i really like it and i hope you do as well. This being the case dont forget about the poor post below cause it wants you to comment on it as well. Enjoy!}
(GAH disregard the bloody Â's that have for some reason cropped up around this template, everything looked fine when i previewed but after publishing went all wonky, Trying to fix it so just ignore them if possible)

Felt like another one, mostly cause i was finally able to see collateral today. Hot damn thats a good movie. Different pace than Heat, definely a faster pace but it fit the film. Heat still stands as my favourite work by Micheal Mann but this was still a very good film. Tom Cruise made for one kick ass villian and i must say that I personally was rooting for him at the end, although im guessing no one else was or ever will. Hmm im not a psycho, its just that his charachter was so slick i couldnt help but root for the guy. Regardless i was pleasntly suprised with Jamie Foxx in a serious role. Overall really good movie, not Micheal Manns best but still very entertaining, fully reccomended by I.
Rather different song today, somewhat more modern. Good one though, slow one but well its good stuff. Speaking of songs, hooray for random CD buying, finally got The Joshua Tree by U2 which is widly regarded as there best album and thus far im tending to agree. Also got The Dream of the blue turtles by Sting, very good CD as well, alot of jazzy. calypso influences which i must say is nice and refreshing not to mention makes for some good listening.

Ahh Left wing US media, how you bother me. Correct me if im wrong but is not the purpose of mainstream media, especially news networks to be unbiased in there reporting? Especially with this up coming election in the us? Hmm maby im just crazy. I must say that i would absolutly hate to be an undecided voter in the united states. All you ever see when watching the US news nowadays is Bush did this wrong, or he messed this up etc. Now im not saying that i support the guy or not, my problem is that i am unable to get enough info on both sides to properly make a decision. Which is never a good thing in a democracy. The media, and all of its happy left wing friends are so hellbent on getting bush out that you get next to no information on John Kerry. So far the only bad thing that i have heard about the guy via the media is that he flip flops on decision making, and this came via a bush ad not CNN or anything like that. To me this is a very scary thought because, as history will attest to, there has never been a sqeaky clean perfect politician. Never has, never will be so somehow i doubt this perfect image that the media would love you to have. Comon people, in order to make an informed vote you have to know quite a bit about the candidate, his track record etc not just what the john kerry campaign would love for you to hear. Media has done a good job at showing the downfalls of Bush so at least they have that covered but somehow i doubt that he has done nothing at all in the slightest of merit while in office. But hey if you listen to CNN or MSNBC this would seem to be the case. Very fustrating indeed.

Now im guessing while you read this your thinking im some hardcore right wing republican loving person but this isnt the case. I still think that Clinton was an extremly good president, one of the best the Democrats have put out in a long time. What i just dont like, and the point im trying to make is that the point of the media in a democracy is to show an unbiased critique of both canditates demonstrating both there good and bad to the voting public. Its the campaings job to make there candidate seem god like compared to the other one, not the medias. Im sure the Kerry campaign fund is extremly happy considering that they dont have to spend as much what with the constant ads for him being shown via the "news". Democracy cannot work well if you have your supposed unbiased sources spewing biased material. Thats what editorials are for, so the rest of it should be opinon free. My friend neil did point out the fact that US news radio is extremly right wing and that well something needs to balance it out. I say that having the TV news networks become left wing is not the answer. When an undecided voter wants information they are more likely to turn into something like CNN which the expect to be unbiased instead of a known biased source such as talk radio. Plus when it comes down to it who listens to the news on the radio all that much anymore anyways? Sad state of affairs i must say.

Well thats enough from me, to much talking and not enough brining my point across makes yurko tire. Keith i have heard that yes Doom 3 is a demanding mistress but see i wouldnt know cause the morons at dell have (yet again, Grrr) failed to ship my computer by the date that they promised. Damn them and there smelly hides! Ahh well hopefully ill get it before the UofA experience begins. Tune in next time for part 2 of my rant, also known as why i hate Micheal Moore

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The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-08-09T15:26:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: Secret Journey- by The Police

"Life was easy when it was boring..."

Felt like putting up another post here today, why? well mostly cause im rather bored. Good quote today, of course im not saying that my life has become hectic and interesting all of a sudden, im just saying that i agree with the sentiments in the quote. Life is a great deal easier, and to some extents better, when its boring. What can i say, that pretty much sums me up in one nice and convenient line.

Sticking to a theme, life has been rather boring since the last post. Nothing really at all to talk about here in that regard. Went to the Stamps game on saturday, still havent seen The Bourne Supremacy nor Collateral (although if i dont see collateral in theatres ill be very sad indeed). Appearantly my computer is supposed to show up sometime this week but then again i have very little faith in Dell so who knows if this will actually occur.
Wow, brief side not here, but man that sounded crazy. While typing this up i had some def leppard playing and then someone logged on msn (and with msn plus you can attribute songs to certain people logging on) so yeah needless to say the combination of the opening of Blondies "Dreaming" with Def Leppards "Switch 625" resulted in something that sounded pretty damn cool. Aannywho
Something thats rather neat though is when you go back and listen to a CD that you havent listened to in a very long time. Its almost like listening to the CD for the first time again and for me anyways its a very fun experience re discovering these songs. Todays song of the day being a great example of that. One of the cooler and more atmospheric tunes by the Police and up until listening to the CD again i totally forgot about its existence. Good show all around.

Good to hear that you got the army men Keith, too bad that you already had them but meh its good that they got though. My biggest fear was that i would write the adress on wrong and that would be 15 bucks down the drain in postage. Ah well good show, and im assuming that the walrus made it jackie in all its stupid pointless glory. On that note, thats the last time i ever do anything like that. Far far too much work involved.

Thats enough for today, although i basically sat here and wrote at the least a page about a grand total of nothing. Meh thats life, and more or less the point of a ramble. What with the trying to keep the lenght down and all ill get into my rant about how Left wing biased the media in the US is and how its ruining democracy in the united states.

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The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-08-04T13:27:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: People are People- by Depeche Mode

"Roof-pig! Most unexpected."

Yet another quote that is only amusing when you know its context but hell its amusing to me so here it is. Hooray for the Tick. Anywho August is now in full swing, which is a rather startling fact to think that ive been doing my big load of nothing for an entire month. Ah well im enjoying it so who cares. Although the fact that university is fast approaching is not a very happy thought. Ah well what ya gonna do? On that note i think that im changing my official motto from the previous statement to a much more efficient and versatile "No Worries". Has the same basic underlying message but the it also ads in my current laidback mood. Lots of stuff happens but meh, no worries.

Mailed out your prizes jackie and keith so expect them sometime within the next 2 buisness days, could have been there tomorrow but im far to cheap to pay the extra 40 cents for priority post. Damn things were exepensive enough as it is to ship but meh the contest was my invention so i stand by its purpose/prizes. Have fun in the total absurdity that those packages bring. Speaking of total absurdity did you know that according to the Encarta Dictionary (via that scrabble esc game on MSN messenger now) that a Ho, contrary to popular belief, is not a Prostitute but in fact a cross between a Cow and a Yak? I know i sure didnt, you learn something new every day.

Rather good, if not very different, song today. On somewhat of a New Wave kick right now, seems to fit my mood cause i dont know something bout all those synthesizers etc makes for feel good music. Well for me in any case. Regardless its a good song, good message too what with racism being stupid and all. Give it a listen if you get a chance and dont hate me too much if you well hate it. Speaking of music ive decided that along with the SCTV DVD set im going to go out and get the Police Box set for mein birthday. Hooray for 6 CD's packed with virtually everything the group ever recorded. And hey theres 6 slots on my vehicles cd changer, Neat! So yeah i should be more or less set musically for a good long while. Go team

Doom 3 i must say looks fucking amazing. Wont be able to play it for a while though, due to the fact that well its esentially sold out city wide and that i wont have a rig capable of playing it till the 19th. Still though once i can i am sure that ill be happily amused. The next Metroid Prime game looks very cool as well, cant wait till that comes out. That reminds me though i still need to go and beat the first one (bloody last boss, what a pain in the ass), same goes for Legend of Zelda: the wind waker. Hmm ah well ill just add it all to the list of stuff to do by the end of the summer which i am sure i wont get done but no worries.

Last comic standing is on again tomorrow night, last night being my only allocated reality tv watching (Last Comic and The Amazing race, only two i watch). My picks are Gary and Alonzo so hopefully the make it to the final 3. If Jay London makes it i will be so pissed. The guy is just not funny, same goes for the 2 chicks and i must say my old favourite john was kinda dissapointing. Ah well if Gary and Alonzo make it ill be pleased. Amazing race i hope those bloody cousins get kicked out in the next stage, damn midget cheats soo damn bad its not funny. Gah! ah well its just tv and i can see why they have kept them in the race (get people thinking much like i am) regardless its fun to watch so waht can i say.

Well thats pretty much it for me today, cant wait till friday what with the release of Collateral and all. Man that movie looks kick ass. Of course like i said before i have much faith in Tom Cruise now after Last Samurai and well im a big fan of the director (Heat is still one of my top 10 movies of all time) so going into that movie with very high hopes. Granted the way stuff usually works out for me i wont end up seeing it in theatres or if i do ill end up being severly dissapointed. Regardless it gives me something to look forward too.

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The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-07-30T18:10:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: Two Shots- by Matt Dusk

"You know, though today was the worst day of my life, I learned many things. First, the world looks a lot different when you're six inches tall and covered with feathers. Second, two heads are definitely not better than one. And finally, you can lay eggs and still feel like a man. "

Allo, another post mostly cause im bored so what ya gonna do? Well write up another post appearantly. Not a great deal to speak aboot but meh im sure you will all listen anyways.

Very amusing quote that sadly makes no sense at all unless you know the context and well as much faith (cue sarcastic laugh) that i have in my writing skills, somehow i doubt it can be any sort of subsitiute for animation/visuals. Regardless you can trust me that it is rather amusing (involves a supervillan turning the tick into a two headed chicken, hehe oh the absurdity).
Very good song today as i somewhat expressed in the last post i do believe. A rather talented canadian jazz/blues singer here who has a vibe very reminicent of Frank Sinatra and the like of that era which in many respects was the hayday of this form of jazz music. Good song on that note, appearantly it was written by U2 and was originally planned to be sung by Frank Sinatra but considering he became living challenged this guy eventually did the song. Take a listen if u get the chance cause it just oozes cool.

Hmm, well the site has appearantly reached an all time low with having a grand total of zero comments! Whoo moderatly priced beer all around! My guess is that all of you people have moved on with your lives to the point that my ramblings in all there stupidity arent worth the time. Granted its a valid point but i shall remain doing this regardless of comments or not (this isnt to say i dont want em) because well just so long as im bored enough my thoughts will ramble. Well yeah that or i either eventually lose intrest or university starts up; whichever comes first! (When i started writing this there was zero comments on the last one but now i see that this is no longer the case so i dont need you guys pointing out the fact that this paragraph now appears to be flawed)

Added a brand new link to the sidebar there, replacing the one that i used to have for the Q which although is still a grand old radio station, i never listen to the radio anymore anyways so i figured whats the point? Ergo the new link is for the Up and Coming Batman movie (Summer 2005) and i whole heartedly reccomend you take a look. It is looking to be what the Batman movies should have been all along, dark, suspenseful and with no lame ass camp factor. But yeah check out the teaser trailer that they have on the site, cause well i personally really liked it, thought it did what a teaser should (not give too much away but build anticipation). Looks like a top notch effort to revive the Batman movie franchise so im looking forward to it (now if they had only not released Catwoman, all would be grand).

Yeaahh well ive officially lost all intrest in this post. Comment on what little is here if u want, if not meh life goes on. I will say though that keith and jackie expect your letter bombs in the mail by next wednesday (note there not actually letter bombs, its just a very bad joke that i find kinda funny a the moment, dont sent the police after me cause i swear im not trying to kill you)

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The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-07-27T16:16:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: DoubleBack - by ZZ Top

"I'm taking off the kid gloves, and putting on the very mad gloves!"

Man if there was ever a show that fox should put on DVD the old animated tick should be it. I swear hours of enjoyment from that show but alas i doubt it will ever happen. Now if i could only find those tapes i used to have of the show, ill just have to add it to the list of stuff i should do in this quickly dwindling summer. On that note, very amusing quote, cant remeber when on the show or the context but it is amusing and kinda fitting for my mood.

Extremly cool song today, comes from the Back to the Future III soundtrack actually. I was searching for this one for a good long while and i finally found it, albeit im not sure if its the exact song i wanted but regardless its very very cool. Man ZZ Top was the best part of that movie, even though they were only in it for a good 6 seconds. Ok so no THE best part but still i was amused by there spinning guitars/drums so its all good. Get the song, cause its some of there best work and ZZ Top is some great blues rock already so best plus great equals incredible!!

Saw an incredibly amusing commercial a while back, but i forgot to mention it on here. This thing rivals the goodness that was the Red Stripe Beer ad a while back, too bad its from Starbucks what with there damn expensive coffees which i swear have a negative caffeine effect on me. I say this because back in the days of swimteam some mornings after swimming but before school we would head to starbucks and it would be on those days and those days only that i would come the closest i ever have to falling asleep in school. If those desks wernt so damn uncomfortable it would have been lights out Yurko, all thanks to Starbucks, bastards, if i order coffee i should be able to stay awake for at the very least an hour after i drink it. BAH, too bad it tasted good though otherwise well yeah... where was it OH right commercial, got a bit off topic there. Aaannywho they have had lately these genius commercials for their doubleshot coffee drink things, which you can conveniently go and see at this link http://www.starbucks.com/grocery/dblshot.asp But yeah the premise is basically this guy takes a drink from one of these double shot coffees and he ends up getting this arena rock band following him around all day singing this song about him. Its actually quite funny, esp the scene of the drumset being pushed down the street after him. A rather brilliant idea for an ad i must say, hopefully companies keep this sort of quality up, and if it wasnt for the afformentioned caffeine sucking power of starbucks coffee i would buy one of these things. Take a look though, very amusing

Hmmm darnit! Yet again i forget about poor Matt Dusk, my planned song of the day for a good while now. Ah well, hes got some good stuff all in taht frank sinatraish oozing with cool sound. Ill get around to it one of these days, but yeah theres no point putting to much mention in it before i make it the song of the day.
Last thing, if you didnt read the last post or you didnt care then (well then chances are u dont care now) my new email/msn is deflatormouse@gmail.com so add me to your list if ive already added u etc. Hmm although whats the point of a new fancy email with a tick reference if no one gets it. Ah well, amuse myself I guess.

(Come online damn you!! I Demand an explanation!!!)

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The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-07-26T14:11:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: King of Pain- by The Police

"...is like a humiliating kick in the crotch"

2 Days since prior post so time to post has came yet again. Not entirely anything at all to talk about on this post but meh i did say i would make em every 2 days so lets give it a go.

Another one of my favourite songs coming from the Police, really good one off their extremly good final album and i reccomend you take a listen if you get the chance. I had planned on putting some more modern music for today but this fits my mood slightly better. Same goes with the quote which comes from yet another Police song, Synchronicity II but ill get into all of that in a short while.

First a quick note, im in the process of switching my Email/MSN messenger accounts over to deflatormouse@gmail.com (yay for unknown tick reference) so yes if you see that being added to your lists pls accept cause it will make my life easier, or unless you dont want to talk to me then dont accept but either way just giving everyone a heads up.

Just got back from looking at getting a new watch and dear god watches are expensive! Man that bloody pisses me off though, cause i found what i swear is the perfect watch for me, not overtly clunky, looks amazingly cool with the blue inlays etc but no bloody Omega has to make them 2 grand and up. I cant afford a frickin timepiece thats 2 thousand dollars. Why must you taunt me so??!! Bleh, ah well one day when im rich and excentric with millions to blow on everything and anything ill go back and buy that damn watch. Not today but someday...

Ive gotta get around to watching the Manchurian Candidate (original version) so that i can compare the upcoming new one to it. Was on TV last night but i missed most of it and im one of those crazy people who dont like ruining the ending of a film by well watching it before i see the start. And yet you would think i would watch the thing, considering that my family does own the movie but meh, never gotten around to it. Have to though one of these days.

Finally gotten around to reading my Dirk Gently Omnibus book, which if you probably dont know was the other series that Douglas Adams wrote other than the hitchikers guide books. There pretty funny, although ive got to get back into his writing style because ive become so used to that of Terry Pratchett. The two do write in a very similar fashion but there still are differences. Yet another reccomendation on my part, READ THEM!!!

But yeah as for the quote and song etc well ive been in a rather crummy mood since friday due to varying reasons most of which have to do with getting the feeling that someone up there likes to get me all nice and happy just so they can hork a good wad of spit in my smiling mouth. Hence the feeling of it being like a kick in the crotch. Its like Oh yes that was a hell of alot of fun, and then you rember/are reminded of something and its like...... god damnit. And this is what i leave my hermitage for? Ill take living in the cave and not having my hopes crushed thank you very much. Ah well i know, much like the words of Mr. Sideburns (well not his words origninally but he did utter them at a good time so that i remeber them now) i know that ive just gotta get over it and move on but well thinking it and doing it is two completly different things. Damn brain, why cant you listen to yourself? Yeah and thats enough out of me for one day

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The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-07-24T14:51:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: Dreaming- by Blondie

"Isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, ooh ooh ooh, the sky is the limit!"

Another slight delay on the posting but who cares? I know i dont, although i did want to get another one up cause that last one was mostly a garbled mess that appearantly has a rather nasty odor as well what with the lack of comments and all. Regardless a really good song today, from one of the quirkier groups in the 80's. Also i must say that todays quote is probably one of my favourite quotes ever. So amusing and in many ways kinda true. Huzzah for the Tick and all his infinite wisdom!

Not a great deal to talk about, finally got around to watching The Road Warrior which is now within the top 5 of my all time favourite movies. So damn cool most especially that ending. It would be so much fun to make movies like that but meh tis only a dream. Also went and got my drivers license (yes i know finally) on thursday so tahts a definite good thing, now bring on the insurance and im good to go. Also got my marks in the mail, which honestly doesnt matter much anymore cause i all ready knew that they were good enough for U of A but yeah i did pretty good, thought i had done better on my english essay but meh life goes on.

Wow, last night sure was interesting though i must say. BBQ at victors, who i must say can make one damn tasty steak. Kudos to that sir! Last time i check how done a hamburger is by taking a bite out of it though. As fun as it is to take one for the team, me and E.Coli arent really the best of friends. We also ended up much later deciding to head down to crowfoot to catch the Bourne Supremacy and when we get there, me being in the tired and easily amused state that i was said we should go for the 10:21 showing instead of 10:20 because the one makes it cool. Needless to say we sit there in the theatre for a good while and around 10:20ish some theatre employee comes in saying that the motor on the projector has burnt out and they cant show us the film but we will give you free passes and a refund. So yeah while everyone else in the theatre is complaining, all of us just find it rather amusing. It did make for the one time that ive been to a movie and ended up turning a profit. Hooray Cineplex! Headed back to the victors place and i must say that contrary to popular belief two old nerf guns and one nerf dart is a hell of alot more amusing than you would think. Good times, good times. Hooray meeting new people!

And well yeah im done
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The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-07-20T13:41:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: The Party's Over (Hopelessly In Love)- by Journey

"So the cosmic circus moves along, its tiniest clown gone to rejoin it once again."

Too true Tick, Too true... anywho another post, probably just as longwinded and boring as most if not all of mine, but hey why mess with a system that works huh? Some would say for improvement or some garbage like that but to them i say why not 6 fish?

Whats new in the world of yurko since last post. Not a great deal, well theres a few small things but nothing really of massive intrest to anyone but I. Firstly missed out on seeing the finals of the chuckwagons back on sunday cause my sister had to study for a summer school exam. Cant say im crying, what with it being the stampede and all (whooo..ooo) but yeah its something to talk about. Last two parts of that Uncle Scrooge series ive been pursuing finally came in, this of course resulted in a rather happy me cause i can chalk that up to yet another one of my pointless quests completed. Good times reminiscing about time back in the day. Speaking of pointless quests, thanks to the magic of BitTorrent and some site that victor sent me i was finally able to find The Dig, it being probably the hardest to find Lucasarts adventure game, and concurrently one of there best but it didnt sell cause it wasnt comedic like the usual ones they produced; hence rariety. Still though im content, gives me something else to do.
Finally was able to get to the varsity rogers and rent the second mad max movie, The Road Warrior, I havent been able to watch it yet but i should in the coming days and well im looking forward to some damn good post apokalyptic Australia. Hooray Nuclear War!

Its so comforting to know that you morons can read instructions. Comooon keith and jackie how hard is it to just write your damn adress down and email it to me? At least Neil has the excuse of not reading the last post but you guys did AND commented but still no dice. Damnit, its not like i have any use for a bloody bag of army men and a small plastic walrus so dont let me down again. And dont worry this is not some big complex plan so i can get your adresses and stalk you or something, really its not; i havent reached that level of pathetic yet.

Saw an ad for the movie Collateral and i must say damn that looks awesome. After The Last Samurai ive got faith in Tom Cruise to make for a good Hitman esc movie and it looks like Jamie Foxx doesnt do much comedy so it should be good (although i would be much happier if he died in the first 5min but still the trailers look promising).
Was going through the toy department of Wal Mart a little while back and i had what is a rather amusing idea that i must try one of these days. You know how they sell those extra packs of monopoly money well i think it would be so much fun to just buy a couple packs and go through downtown giving wads of monopoly bills to people with the comment "Here, Keep the Change" or "Buy yourself some nice real-estate" etc to that extent. Heheh man that would be some fun, that or go oblivious style (one of the funniest shows on tv btw) and ask some random people a question and give em 20 bucks if they get it right etc. Of course that would ahve to be done when im rich and exccentric enough to be able to spend money like that but it would be rather fun and i think a rather natural transition from putting spare change into random parking metres which btw is a great pass time when your in a different city, esp one with lots of parking meters!
Quick side note, your going to have to tell me some of the movies that this "Jogn Cleese" has been in jackie cause if he is both a relative of John Cleese AND nearly as funny as rowan atkinson i must see some of his or hers stuff. That and Keith I must see this massive Lego collection dating back to the 60(?) cause that would be massive. And yeah ive seen those medival ones, they look pretty cool but there not as good as the ones from back when we were youngin's.

Hmm well i did say i would have a nice rant about how Shania Twain helped to ruin rock music, actually a better term would be music in general but well like always i should have done this on sunday cause most of my rant has farted out my ears some time between well sunday and right now. I think i can get the jist of it down though. Essentially it stems more from her connection with the producer Robert "Mutt" Lange, who during his prime in the 70's to 90's worked with such groups as AC/DC, Def Leppard, Foreigner, Loverboy, Bryan Adam's, The Car's, Huey Lewis & The News etc. Now here was a producer who helped to give all of these groups there well known sound and was the producer on many of there best albums including Highway to Hell and Back in Black for AC/DC, and Pyromania and Hysteria for Def Leppard; with Hysteria being one of the best selling Rock albums of all time. He also did Brya Adam's Waking up the Neighbours which was one of his biggest albums. All great music that he helped to create and then during the mid 90's along came Shania "I live in switzerland all year but still like to call myself canadian" Twain. Bleh. So now instead of working with such great rock acts as previously stated this great rock producer starts helping her churn out that crap ass country pop junk that she has all her career. Which also led to the nice influx of almost every single country act nowadays acting as if there huge rock stars even when 6 of the members of the group are named either "Cyrus" or "Billy Bob" and three of which play either banjo, the jug, or both. Damn stupid country. Whats worse is that once he started to work mostly with Shania Twain, you had these other groups forced to work with other producers like Def Leppard using one of the backstreet boys old ones and creating one of the WORST albums ever (that being X), AC/DC producing there own music in the rather dissapointing and genereally regarded as there worst album ever Flick of the Switch etc etc. Also probably what is the worst part of her influcence is you look at what other groups he worked with after marrying her and we get a bevy of pop drivel artists such as but not restricted to Michael Bolton, the Backstreet boys, Celine Dion, Britney Spears etc etc. Siigghh. Pre Shania AC/DC, Def Leppard; post Shania Backstreet boys, Celine Dion. So yeah tahts basically it, like i said not a very good argument/rant but meh i forgot most of what i was going to say. I do see the point that maitland usually makes when ive tried to bring this up before (albeit the actual point hes trying to make, not how he says it) and well yeah he did marry the woman etc so of course he is going to work on her stuff but all i know is that i would much rather listen to the greatness that was High and Dry or Hysteria then be forced to listen to anything off the horrible horrible X. So damnit Lange go back to your roots, and lets hear some more of that great rock that you used to help create and put an end to the pop bull shit.

Yes well im done, mocking and ridicule will now commense!!

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The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-07-16T23:08:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: Be Good to Yourself- by Journey

"Oh, what a goofy work is man!"

Gah! I hate you Blogger, this new system of inputting type is a pain in the ass, the bold stays on even after entering the first line; right clicking on the window to paste the quote jumps the screen around, and the font size is to damn big; makes me feel like some old person using the Big Font for easy readings books...damnit! im not old yet!!
Enough of my complaining. Hmmm, added another counter to the site which is supposedly able to tell me how many new readers there are compared to return ones. How well or effective this will be only time can tell. Chances are it will be gone by monday.
Another good 80's song, This one from one of my favourites Journey; more of a feel good song cause i dont know maby the heats getting to me but i seem to be in a much better mood as of late. Well it might be that or maby its just the fact that ive found 2 of the last 4 comics in that Life and times of uncle scrooge series of which i love (yay loserage!! but who cares there damn good reads). Now only till the remaining two show up and ill be very happy indeed.

Ive realised that there is one huge way to determine when a passive hobby has reached somewhat of an obsession. This deals of course with me and my like of lego. What im talking about of course is taht they ahve this Ultimate collection with massive things to build with thousands of peices etc. What this has to do with an obsession is when you are looking at one of these things thinking its kinda cool and when you notice the $400 canadian price tag your first reaction is not "Dear god thats expensive" but "hmmm.................. dont got enough cash, damn.." Let me tell you that is a very scary thing to even consider, SCARY!!! of course the fact that i dont have the cash means my obsession should die but still.. it would be a great way to kill the summer....

Rat Race was on earlier tonight, which i might add is probably one of the best movies ever and one of my favourites. Soo funny most especially John Cleese and John Lovitz, cant complain with Rowan Atkinson also. Such a good movie, first time i saw it i laughed sooo hard during the movie, hardest ive ever laughed in any film when seeing it in a theatre. Hehehe but hey if you havent seen it superstation is doing like they always do and showing the movie 8 billion times this weekend. Yay...? Drivers test coming up this week, should be a good load of fun i must say and by fun i mean damnit id better pass or ill be mildly displeased.
Well yeah esentially im done, i did have a very nice and long and rather indepth rant/bitching about why and how Shainia Twain ruined rock music or if not that a rather large piece of it that I for one really enjoyed BUT this post has gotten far to long as it is (ive been trying to cut the length down on these/gotta keep enough material for these regular posts). Oh before i forget it would make my life much easier if everyone who i said won a post would email me there adress unless i already know it (aka neil, keith and jackie) such that if i dont see you guys i can mail you the various stuff cause im not one to chintz out when i promise prizes (and neil by prize i clearly mean those cds u wanted me to burn)

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The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-07-14T15:43:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: Where The Streets Have No Name- by U2

"Yeah, well, don't count your weasels before they pop, dink!"

Another one of my favourites from U2, back in there pre-lets go and make political comments on everything cause were musicicans days (also known as the mid 80's to stick to the theme). Amusing quote as well, from you guessed it the Tick. But yeah enough about that.

Hmmm.. Went to the Stampede yesterday which turned out to be somewaht a source of amusement. Did more rides than normal, all of which turned out to be good fun. Well the one exception would be the zipper, bloody lap bar pressed into my groin every time the damn thing flipped, that was not so much fun. Did enjoy the drop of fear or what have you, and going through/making fun of the haunted houses was rather amusing as well. All in all the rides were a good way to spend time, although once is more than enough for me. It did allow for two very funny instances though, first one happening when we stopped for food at the Big 4 building. Well there is this cafeteria ish thing in the basement and one of the places sells fish and chips. Hmm of course this was definetly something you had to be there for but they ran out of Tartar sauce and there was this one guy who looked like he was going to have a heart attack or something and yelled "There out of Tartar Sauce!" followed by asking everyone around "Whens the Tartar Sauce coming??!!" Was very very funny, and of course he is dubbed the tartar sauce man till the end of time. Second thing was when we were playing the complete ripoff midway games, you know how there is the one where you throw the coloured dice and whicever colour it lands on wins a prize etc. Well after a few of the normal place 1 bet somewhere rounds and subsequent losses me and giacomo got fed up and i pulled out a 10, he pulled out a five and we carpeted the entire damn thing in loonies, this resulted in Giacomo winning another lizard to go with his collection (the first he got while we were milking the guess my weight games; everyone was always off by 30lbs on giacomo=instant prize) so yeah just to be fair he gave me 5 bucks so we were even cause neiter of us knew who put that dollar down, and with that 5 we ended up winning me my big yellow snake dealie. So yeah yay for prizes even if they end up costing a great deal. Not my greatest moment for sure but meh it was amusing.
Well other than that, nothing much is new other than i finally got my Govt cheque for the election work. Huzzah all around cause i like money. Hmm yeah well thats it for today.

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The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-07-12T12:26:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: You give love a bad name- by Bon Jovi

"Well, once again we find that clowning and anarchy don't mix."

Got another post here as promised, albeit im starting to realise the problems with trying to uphold a post every 2 days. Basically because well i have nothing at all to talk about. Regardless i must attempt to press onwards if only because im bored as all hell.
Not much to talk about like i said, it would appear that the vehicle mocking has begun, thanks jackie good to know you want me to flip it thusly killing myself. On that note i hope no one tries to hold up your liquor store and stab you repeatedly with a butterknife.
Its always so saddening though when you finish a book, esp when its at the end of a somewhat series type thing. This being what i did yesterday so now ive gotta go out yet again and find some new books to read. Damnit so much work i tell ya.
Hmm well it would appear that what i thought would play out leading to an outburst of huge rage didnt really turn out as expected. Kinda dissapointing really cause i did have a rather huge rant planned out that would have been right up there with some of my finest. Siiigghh ah well im sure ill have good reason sometime in the future. I would like to note that the whole Hermit thing was in fact a joke and that as content as i am sitting at home there are those odd moments that i do enjoy doing stuff outside. So yes let that be noted such and so forth etc etc. Like i said nothing at all to talk about today so well im basically done.

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The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-07-10T16:45:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: I Will Follow- by U2

"There is no such thing as edible, nay delicious, meat pie floater, its mushy peas of just the right consistency, its tomato sauce piquant in its cheekiness, its pid filling tending even towards named parts of the animal. There are platonic burgers made of beef instead of cow lips and hooves. There are fish 'n' chips where the fish is more than just a white goo lurking at the bottom of a batter casing and you can't use the chips to shave with. There are hot dog fillings which have more in common with meat than mere pinkness, whose lucky consumers don't apply mustard because that would spoil the taste. It's just that people can be trained to prefer the other sort, and seek it out. It's as if Machiavelli had written a cookery book.
Even so, there is no excuse for putting pineapple on a pizza."

A very lengthy quote today by anyones standards but its more of an excerpt than a quote. This one comes from the Novel The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett of which i am currently reading. It probably wont make a great deal of sense to well anyone who hasnt read the book but it comes from one of those little footnotes that he so happily uses throughout all of his novels. Its a rather funny one in my opinion most especially the last line there and more or less one that i agree with. So yes anywho.

Siiggh, you win this round CMT canada; i admit defeat, never to know the title of that elusive song that was actually good and not in the slightest countryish. One day you may allow me to download that song you damn redneck bastards but not today.

Not a great deal to talk about here, but there is bits and pieces here and there of stuff to blather on about for a good 5min or so. Firstly my movie reccomendation for today is a truely great film called "The Sting" Its a great piece of work that takes place in the depression and depcicts a bunch of con artists (led by Paul Newman and Robert Redford) and is actually very funny and suprising both at the same time. Just the sheer slick factor in how they pull everything off is worth watching the movie alone and i couldnt reccomend it more. GO RENT IT DAMNIT!

Wholey crap buying a vehicle is a gongshow. Not that i bought one myself per se (see people do learn all sorts of things off your site there jackie) but we needed a thrid vehicle so after what has been a rather gongshow process in itself for the last while we went to pick it up at the dealership down south in the land I forgot. Getting the damn thing wasnt the hard part, the tricky stuff was getting the insurance because happily the insurance place was closed due to the stampede parade until 12:00 forcing us to wait till then. Once insurance was had there was the happy jaunt trying to find a CAA, waiting in line to get the plate and finally getting the damn plate. Im almost tempted to walk everywhere from now on knowing all the work behind this. But then again vehicles are a necessity in this day and age, plus they make you look somewhat cooler than walking everywhere that and the most importaint reason of all im lazy as all hell. Hooray vehicle! Hmmm odd that ive got something to drive before i can drive but meh its an importaint step in the process that has no been fufilled. Plus 6 disc cd-changers are damn fun, no more switching cds for I.

Gotta go toss another few logs on the smoldering fire of rage there. Grrr... damn people, im not gonna elaborate on this until it plays out but 10-1 it will as im thinking so expect a huge crapload of rage in the coming week so batten down the hatches there cause im probably gonna blow.
Yeah well like i said not a great deal to elaborate on, still awaiting my government check in the mail, same goes for my Alberta Ed marks. Hope they come soon cause it would be great to know if i need to spend the money on the usual nothing importaint or put it towards gas money while i hunt for some menial labour job to do for the rest of my life (I really hope i dont have to elaborate on why i would be searching for a minimum wage job for the rest of my life cause if i do ill be very sad). Oh i just realised i didnt say what kind of vehicle we got, well its a Ford Escape. Yes yes i know, obligatory ford joke here, but meh i could care less; its got 4 wheels, it moves me places, i didnt have to pay for it and i get from point A to Point B so its damn fine enough. Only complaint is its not a car but ill live.

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The Amazing Boring Yurko

2004-07-08T17:27:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: Turn up the Radio - by Autograph

"The human mind is a dangerous plaything, boys. When it's used for evil, watch out! But when it's used for good, then things are much nicer."

Saluatory greeting to all and none, here we be with a very short post just for both the sake of posting and so someone can take the damn frist prize from the last contest of my hands. Another brilliant (well its brilliance in my mind) quote from The Tick, the site got a lot of good ones so this should last me most of the summer. I should mention though that these are all coming from the animated show from back in our childhood not the slightly amusing yet rather dissapointing live action one that was on the air a little while ago. Clearly animated is far superior in this case.
Kudos Keith on your commenting about music and tastes and so forth. 80's metal is god and im as huge of a supporter of Hair Metal (well the good stuff, not all the copy cat crap) as anyone else out there. That was the best part of vice city, such good music on those radio stations. It always pissed me off that you had to buy the damn compliation cds seperatly cause i think those really should ahve been packaged in with the game. But yeah if it wasnt for the fact that im poor i would have got the two that dealt with the rock stations. Good music all around. On that note todays song is a great one (and probably the only great one) by Autograph, incidently its a really good song for when your driving. Yay for continuing the 80's infusion!

I tell you though had i put this post up yesterday the mood would have definetly been a hell of alot more pissed off with a great deal of swearing and a general feeling of how the world can go procreate with itself. Nothing that a good nights sleep, a bit of Journey and some mad japansese video games cant fix though. Well if by fix you mean turn it down to a deep lying simmer of anger then well yeah. On that note though as i was going through Rogers video today (Bloody bastards not having Mad Max:The Road Warrior.. I wanted my post apokalypse Australia damnit!!!) i came across a cheap copy of the Wario Ware game for gamecube and Hooooo boy is it fun! Now the original was pretty fun in itself but they were somehow able to transform all the madness inherent within the GBA version into a crazy party game. Its mad fun esp if you can find someone who has a wacky and mostly insane sense of humour and has the attention span of a hyper squirrel. Thank god my sister fits the bill on that one, fun fun all around. (if anyone else does you should come over and then we can get a mad group of japanses infused madness going and either somehow develop ADD, go insane or have some fun). W00T go fun making.

Yeah so basically im done, like i said shortness would be appearant in this. Angel season two thus far has been a huge thumbs up. Ive realised that strumming on ones guitar with pick in hand is much more effective when standing; Stupid victor, i told him i could learn to use a pick. Peter you should complain to Haloscan saying there biased against russians, maby sue em and make a nice wad of cash before heading up here; hehe. Oh and before i forget, ive been trying to talk to u two in the last few days but neither of you have been on, so yeah Jenn and Janelle im no good for Monday, ive got a drivers ed refresher course that day (if all goes as planned ill be licensed by next week) so yeah cant come monday, i am good on tuesday if you guy are considering moving it but if not no worries its just the stampede and im sure that ill live not seeing the same thing that i see every year (i swear they just stop time ever year when it ends and start it up the next year cause its the SAME DAMN THING every single time).

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The Amazing, Boring, determined to learn Lady Strange on Guitar, Yurko

2004-07-06T15:37:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: Stagefright- by Def Leppard

"Poppa's got a brand-new bag... of fish!"

Heheheheh....hehehe..... oooh man im sorry but i just find this particular quote (from that genius the tick) extremly funny. Then again it might be that my brain is reaching the consistency of warm tapioca due to all the extreme amounts of thinking ive been forced to due this summer (see negative infinity). Regardless its amusing for I so therefore so shall it remain. No Neil my concept of a post every 2 days CLEARLY did not fail, i was just waiting for you to comment....yeeaaahhh thats it... a good story and im sticking with it. Really no ive just became rather preoccupied in boredom and well just havent gotten around to putting up another one. This plus all that re-arranging of furniture in my cave so that its easier to scowl at people who want to make contact with me takes up a bit of time on my part. Sigh well no one ever said the life of a hermit was easy...cause hermits dont say anything to anyone...no one....Bah!
On a side note finally finished watching Angel season one. Dear god i never knew how long it takes to really watch 22 episodes of anything. Well hey on to season 2 i guess which i should be able to skim through what with it being the time i started watching the show. Too bad season 4 doesnt come out till sept 7th which is when ill be in edmonton and not really able to buy anything such as a dvd set of a tv show esp when there is a little thing taged onto it entitled $62.99

Yes yes i know, back to the Def Leppard. But hey it sticks with the whole 80's theme of late with the music so why not? I was for the sake of originality gonna put up some Depeche Mode but i couldnt think of any of there songs at the moment (yay going senile). Still a rather good group though, some of the best of the whole New Wave movement back in the day. Of course that being said 10-1 no ones gonna like em but meh its my song of the day so if you dont like it you can go suck a lemon.
Sticking with music ive recently made yet another one of those rather pointless and slightly (and probably) boring thoughts about myself. This being the fact that ive been going over both most of the songs ive listed here in my songs of the day and those i consider my favourites and there seems to be somewhat of a rather odd trend. This being the fact that a great deal of them well deal with the whole subject of being in love, staying in love etc etc. and this fact streches over to basically ever genre of music so its not that im just listening to crap (ala insert whiney pop crooner here). Granted basically 8 out of 10 songs these days are based around the afformentioned topic yet its still odd all things considered this being a guy who is nice and lonley (hence hermit) and one would thing not really looking for songs that drive that point home. This being said i can think of a few songs that rate rather high which are pretty much the opposite (On any other day by the police coming to the forefront). Odd... hmmm well yeah like always i have no idea where im going with this so for the sake of everyone within a 25mile radius ill shut up.

Now on to the only thing anyone is probably looking for in this post. This being the recap of the preceeding posts rather sucessful (if i do say so myself) contest dealie. Wow i must say it ended up being a rather interesting jaunt which is always nice considering this summer seems to be very intrest free as a whole... dear god now i sound like a credit card ad... shoot me now. Aaannywho the biggest suprise out of all of this was Jackie coming out of nowhere to win the coveted first prize, sort of a Greeceish situation if greece had just shown up at the stadium expecting a concert and ended up winning the Euro Cup. With that said as i have told a few of you Jackie has graciously relinquished the "Fabulous" prize package that came along with the coveted title. Of course she retains the title and all the glory and power fortwith but this brings me to my second point. Since the first prize is back in my hands again ive decided that on the next post (hopefully in 2 days) this prize will yet again be up for grabs to whomever is the first to comment of course with a few exceptions. Firstly I would hope that jackie would not try to compete cause it would make me rather sad if you win twice for a prize you dont want jackie. Yeah so jackie if you see there hasnt been any comments just hold your horses for a second so i dont have a brain anyurism :P. The remaing two prizes do have actually recipients though, second prize i felt should go to Mr. Keith for a few reasons. Firstly his post turned out to be longer than yours jenn and plus his way of padding the length was far more amusing than the one you chose to partake in. Second he already owns most of the games found in the first prize so he has no really need for pursuing it and thirdly neils late entry although longer and filled with more quality, he choose to remain in the running for this reissue of the first prize so to keith goes the army men. Next time i see ya ill be sure to give em to ya. On that note tough since he has already won a prize Keith is also exempt from the reissue. The third prize, otherwise known as the illustrious "Thanks for Coming out Walrus" was a much tougher one to decide on. This one came down to the rather long winded and eloquent comments put forth by Mr.Maitland and the one named Jackie. Even though your rather noteworth effort and total and utter obliviousness to the situation was very well done maitland (worthy of a honourable mention for sure) i felt that being totally oblivious to the situation and somehow managing to win the top prize is more of the epitomy of the phrase "Thanks for Coming Out" Its not an easy task to win a contest that you dont even know exists and so for that reason Jackie is the recipient of the lovable "Thanks for coming out Walrus"
Now for those of you who didnt win prizes dont become disheartened as i am sure you will not because all of you are eligible for the reissue of the first prize coming up in the next post. Also considering that this seemed to be rather sucessful and somewhat fun i think ill do another one of these probably some time in august (sort of a last huzzah before i head off to university) with bigger and fancier (see slightly more expensive) prizes and possibly a few more awards than just the 3. Hooray Anticipation!! Hooray Responsible Drinking!! Hooray Beer!! (and if you dont get that click on that link in the previous post damnit!! or i might be forced to do nothing at all and i warn you i can be very furious when not in motion)

Till Next Ramble

The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-07-02T10:31:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: Turning Japanese - by The Vapors

"Life is a big wild crazy tossed salad, but you don't eat it, no sir! You live it!"

Hey Hey faithful readers, here we are with yet another; albeit slightly late post. This one my friends marks both the commensement of the planned post every 2 days that ill try to uphold this summer (to most probably very bad results) and also the much awaited contest post (yaaay!). Sorry this one took so long to see fruitation but well as sad as it may sound im barely a week into summer and already ive lost track of the passage of time. If it wasnt for the fact that the paper informed me that today is friday i would have had no idea. The main reason though is that i wanted to get the prizes for the contest before posting this here dealie up in which i have done, yesterday in fact.

The prizes you say? Yes prizes indeed! First prize (for being the first to post) is actually a rather good one i must say, it being this very nice prize package including 3 really rather good computer games; they being the game of the year edition of Deus Ex, Thief II: The Metal Age, Commandoes 2 PLUS!! it comes with a very nice coaster in the shape of a CD with the words Tomb Raider Chronicles written across the face; high quality place for you drink i must say! (ok so sue me, 3 of the 4 games are good, it was the best pack i could find so like i said a very nice coaster). SO yes a very high quality first prize to be enjoyed by all. Second prize, this being the one that goes out to whomever makes the best quality comment is a very nice package of assorted Army Men along with various accesories to go towards their enjoyment (barbed wire, sandbags etc). Honestly im kinda dissapointed in these army men, there slightly larger than the normal kind but meh they were the best i could find yesterday and they will rather nicely do the job. Now on to the ever fun that is third prize. Ive slightly changed the requirements for this one though, so as to ensure the validity of its namesake. Originally it was just gonna be the last person who posted gets the "Thanks for coming out Prize"; which i might add is now the "Thanks for coming out Walrus" (hehe walrus, im sorry i find this rather amusing). But yes ive modified the rules behind this one to now it is either the last person to post or the person who puts the least amount of any effort at all into their post OR the person who makes the last comment. Ive added that clause just so that its not someone who is in the running for the second prize who ends up winning the thanks for coming out walrus cause well if they have put enough effort into their post to have a chance at the army men i dont think they deserve the walrus. Complain all you want but thats how it is to remain.

Well enough about all of that and on to some other stuff. Firstly todays song is a little bit of some classic 80's cheese rock. Rather amusing song in all its vapid pointless glory. I had actually had a few other songs lined up for this post but while flipping through after watching the Daily Show (damn hilarious show i must add) Wednesday night i came across the retro boogie dance party on MuchMoreMusic and this was playing. Of course it just begged to be made the song of the day and who am i to deny corney 80's rock that pleasure? Also i think ive finally ran out of futurama quotes to put in the title so today begins the advent of the mighty words of wisdom that came from that genious known as The Tick. Its really too bad that Teletoon doesnt show it anymore cause man was that show a classic. Ah well at least ill be able to remeber it in all its corney animated glory.

Picked up the Good the Bad and the Ugly a while back, ive yet to sit down and watch it but i really want to considering its some good old Spaghetti western at its finest, not to mention Clint Eastwood kicks some serious ass in that film. Ill just have to add it to the list of stuff to do this summer right behind beating countless video games, reading a crapload of books and taking over the world.
Gonna reply to a few comments here and then wrap up this post. Firstly Yes i know Keith there is more to the series than just the original games but i was talking about them due to the fact that i just got the collection that includes all the original games. Not to mention the fact that ive beaten MegaMan X1,2 and 4; halfway through beating 5, nearly done 3 and are unable to find a PC version of 6 (plus i dont want to get my hands dirty touching 7). Plus i own and have beaten both of the current Zero games and remeber i already got your massive collection of SNES and NES roms from you back in the days of calc so for gaming i should be rather good. Plus good show on the Angel/Buff DVD sets there. Never really got into buffy, and i only got into angel cause eventually it became "Hey lets see what this show always on after smallville is like" but yeah its good to support old shows that you like (plus season 4 comes out sept. 7th, whoo!).
Yes Jackie i fully realise how bad that new commenting system is but i was just going all Neville Chamberlain style in appeasing those who were constantly whining about the charachter limit of the Haloscan commenting (although minus the whole slicing up of Czechoslovakia). But yes i do agree that the blogger commenting is ugly, a pain in the ass and very hard to work around (Much like hitler...wow 2 lame ass social jokes in one post, today must be a good day) so dont worry your beliefs are duly noted and agreed upon. It will still remain though so that no one can complain about the charachter limit but like ive said before i would prefer if you used the Haloscan comment system.
Finally this isnt really a reply to a comment but i just have to talk about it. Same night i was watching the Daily Show and came across todays song of the day i also came across probably THE BEST beer commercial ever being played on Comedy Network. Its for some jamaican Beer known as Redstripe Beer and is done in the style of a very corney infomercial. Its a kinda long commercial and near the very end tends to drag a bit but hoooo boy is it funny. Of course this is my sense of humour talking here folks but regardless i implore you to take a look at it
Red Stripe Beer Infomerical. Its not the funniest commercial ever, that crown still goes to the great American Express Sienfield/superman ads i mentioned a while back but for a summer afternoon its still pretty amusing so take a look (its the one marked infomercial).
Yes well it would appear that I have came to the end of this particular ramble, not much has been said and well i am sure you have all fallen asleep from the boredom regardless

LET THE RACE BEGIN!!

Till Next Ramble

The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-06-27T18:26:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: So Lonely - by The Police

"Bleh"

Not really a well famous by any regards quote i do admit but meh quoting oneself cannot be a crime i imagine, esp when it just sums up quite a bit of alot of things going on right now. And yes i know the song is a repeat but well same goes for the reasoning of the quote. Oh and btw this is NOT the contest post so you can rush all you want to get the first comment but no prizes will be awarded, thats for next week people so well be prepared for that.

Was kindof in the mood for a postage tonight, not really sure why but hey here i am. Man im so stupid though, i totally forgot to mention yesterdays song and that was the main reason why it was yesterdays song such that i could mention it. Gah! Ah well, yeah it is probably my second favourite by the police following close behind On Any Other Day which is in my opinion one of the best songs ever (yet no one else seems to agree with me on that, hmm). Yeah so anyways, its moreso of an amusing one although the opening portion, would you be my girl is kinda catchy. What sets this tune apart however is in that halfway through it transitions from the song at the start to Sting (i believe its him doing this) doing poetry about this girl named sally who he falls in love with etc. Now the poetry part alone is rather amusing but its the results of this tale thats great cause well as you find out Sally is in fact a Blow up doll. Kinda dirty yet very amusing in all its glory most especially when its the first time youve heard the song and it just comes out of nowhere with this poetic tale about a blowup doll. Hi-larious. (and yet probably not but meh its down)

Oh on a side note im also trying out that new blogger infused comments system cause as far as i know there isnt a charachter limit on these. Its a big pain to finally get to the part where you can comment (kinda like the one on your site neil) but yeah no limit as far as i can tell so this is good. Its the lower down just regular comment link if you want to give it a try. Id still rather you stick to the old reliable haloscan one but if u wanna give it a shot go right ahead.

YVC volunteer thing wasnt all that bad, got me some free food and was able to wander around some persons house so meh it was something to do. I must say though that i would never want to live in a house like that, looks far to much like something right out of an ad. Man i would feel uncomfortable just sitting down and i couldnt live like that. No siree. Meh like i said free food and some good resume padding so its all worth it.

Aannywho.. sometimes it really sucks to actually be correct in something. Stupid intuition, why must you always be right on the nose when it comes to the things that well really blow huge chunks? Cant you be wrong or something?? cause id really like that. Yeah ah well, at least ive now got some new books and the mega man collection to keep me company. Hehe whoo go 80's 8-bit goodness! 8 games of megaman should keep me very occupied within this summer, and if not theres always angel or futurama dvds so the cave is a lookin good. Go hermatige!

Got the fun fun world of elections canada stooge tomorrow, ill probably make an update on taht sometime afterwards and that will be in the much awaited contest post. Havent decided on prizes yet but i assure you they will be coming.

yeah and now im bored so

Till Next Ramble

The Amazing Boring Yurko

2004-06-25T19:24:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: Be my Girl-Sally - by The Police

"Everyone's always in favour of saving Hitler's brain. But when you put it in the body of a great white shark, ooohh! Suddenly you've gone too far!"

Hey hey allness of the readerage and welcome to my very first summertime blog upon this here site. Now that my exams are completed it is now offically the summer and so here i come with a rather long coming post. Sorry bout that delay there btw but well the fun world that was exams took up much of my time.

Speaking of exams and such, thank god they are all over. Physics test wasnt half bad, wasnt all that great but meh its over with now and never to return for at least another 2 years. Silly victor taking physics next year, hes mad i tells ya. Its kinda odd though cause it really hasnt sunk in yet that my organised and mandatory school career has came to a close. Its not really all that strange cause it is a hard thing to wrap ones mind around the fact that a tradition of 12 years now is over, many people i will probably never see again in my life, many things ill never do again... a rather scary thought to say the least. Meh life must go on, i am sure in the last few weeks of august it will hit me like a mac truck and ill break down into the fetal position cowering in the corner of my basement but hey until then yay for ignorance of the truth!

Speaking of High school and all the boondoggles within this will most likely be my last and final mention of the scourge that was and well is Erin. See didnt i tell you all that her big proclamation that she would be the one to fufill victors wish of seeing me get slapped in the face would not come true (sigh taht victor..) I knew she wouldnt have the guts to pull of anything as well slightly interesting as that, too bad really cause i had a rather amusing reaction planned out as well. Meh life goes on, happily without that crap floating around; have fun with that next year jackie what with you going to U of L much like she is. Wow that would be fun, almost as fun as getting a root canal using rusty tools from a rabid half blind gorilla while his young knaw on your gangrine infested lower legs. Not quite but almost.

yeah well tahts enough about high school for a very very long time. Looking forward to this summer i must say, not so much that im doing anything at all in fact my big plans after monday involve alot of me sitting on my couch downstairs watching tv and/or reading (so if anyone wants to do anything give me a call cause more or less im basically open do do anything). My real reason is that well as i am sure everyone knows i love the whole being able to do nothing on my own terms. Aka being lazy, sleeping till i feel like getting up and basically loafing around. Its always good fun but then again im really lazy so meh its all good. Aaannd im rambling so ill stop

This weekend should be very eventful and very very VERY long. Mostly cause im actually getting out and filling up my sagging resume. Firstly on sunday im doing some volunteering with the YVC which i signed up for over the summer, doing some tour dealie of some house for the alberta ballet. Meh it will be boring but hey ill get some good volunteer credit which always helps with a job. And then there is what will be the borefest of monday. Finally got me that job working the election, contrary to stupid nazi crazy lady who i called 2 weeks ago and said i couldnt. But yeah gotta get to the poll station for 6:45 in the morning and im stuck in the damn building till 7:30 at night. Man oh man is it gonna be a loooonnngg day. Oh well its some rather easy money and ill get some work experience albeit im guessing that somehow ill mess it up and get shot by the government beaurocrats, meh ill just chalk it up to a learning experience ("so thats what the cold kiss of a bullet feels like, good to know")

You can expect may more posts from here on out during the summer, my estimate is about 1 every 2 days, giving them a chance to sink in and get commented on and for me to come up with new and interesting ways to say "hmm well i did nothing in the last 2 days other than watch tv and loaf" so hey it should be good fun. Plus i wont have the tendency to forget much of what i plan to write, such as i have done with this post cause i know since the last one i had a great deal of stuff i wanted to talk about but much like i always do ive forgotten again. So yeah starting some time next week that will be the trend in the 2 months to come.
On that note is the more interesting part of this post (well in my opinion neways) is that whenever that particular post does show up (sometime btw tuesday and friday) it will involve a contest of sorts. Noticing the slight clamouring for the first one to comment position as of late ive decided that for that one particular post there will be a contest involved. So yeah there will be a first prize for whomever comments first on that post, along with another prize going out to whomever puts the most effort into their comment (deemed by my own opinion not some panel of judges or something) and finally there will be a thanks for coming out, pat on the back, dont call us we will call you prize for whomever is the last one to comment on the post. So hey it should result in fun for all, and hopefully release some of the boredom that i am sure to feel during well this summer. yes i know you all probably think im bull shitting that or insane or something along those lines but hey this isnt crap cause i will to the best of my effort give the prizes to whomever wins them even if it ends up being someone like jackie who i never really see anyways but hey the morals of the contest must remain! Dont expect big grandeous prizeage but then again on that note its not gonna be something along the lines of a stale oreo (although as jenn will attest this was considered, hehe). But hey yeah so there will be this contest mostly because well its cool to think (emphasis on THINK) that people actually would be in a rush to comment. Yeah so im totally lying to myself but heey its cool, also makes me think of john cleese from Rat Race, crazy excentric rich guy giving out prizes and stuff in some crazy race. wow thats alot of crazy and well im tapped out for one sitting so..

(damn calgary theatres NOT showing Saved, its a bloody conspiracy i tells ya DAMN YOUSE!!!)

Till Next Ramble

The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-06-17T14:40:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: Lady Strange - by Def Leppard

"I'm gonna go home and relax, the traditional, Jamaican way - a glass of warm milk and a good night's sleep."

Yes I em et it egeeen here-a veet unuzeer pust dooreeng zee foon foon vurld thet is ixem veek. I knoo thet in zee leettle-a pueentless theeng celled zee chetbux i hed seeed i vuoold poot up thees pust dooreeng zee teeme-a im nut et zee gred mess (vhet veet cunffleects und sooch) boot meh i ves bured effter thet physeecs ixem und su i deceeded tu poot oone-a up reeght noo insteed. Bork bork bork!

hehe whooooo gotta love the Swedish Chef. I was incredibly tempted to do an entire post in the dialect as above but meh i thought it would get very annyoing to everyone. Regardless that came from this site called the dialectizer (The Dialectizer)via jenn which allows you to translate anything into various dialects such as redneck etc. although the best by far is swedish chef as you can clearly see but meh its all good and i still find it very funny. Then again if the trend put out by the last post continues this is just one big conversation with the only person who has commented (this being Jenn) so meh im sure you'll find that funny so its all good. Sticking with the topic of jenn induced mirth making she sent over this one site that is hi-fuckin-larious. Its chocked full of lots of great jokes but of a veeerrryy mature satus so if your immature and cant handle dirty words dont click on this link. of course im sure if you fit in that category you wouldnt be reading this blog in the first place but meh youve been warned so now im free of all legalities. Cybersex Jokes
So yah there they be, damnnation are they every funny. in fact this site now ranks up there on my list of funniest moments ever right behind Johnny the tackling alzheimers patient from scrubs and the first half of young frankenstien. Sheerr hilarity and i whole hartedly reccomend you read it. "Then... Egon BLASTS your pasty white ass!!"
hehehehe... oh man. Although theres only one i dont really find funny, with the whole ex gulf war person etc but the rest are classic. Top Notch!...HHAAARRRRRRRRRR

Physics test today was rather easy which made my day. Thank god cause i was in no mood for an actual challenging exam. Hopefully i did well but im pretty sure that i did cause u know subtraction is soooo very hard and all. God damn this cold! i swear if i wasnt so lazy and if it wasnt completly impossible id go and have a good talking too with my damn lazy ass immune system. Comooonn guys not cool, i just got over a cold from grad week damnit!

yeah what else did i want to talk about...hmmm.... Oh right, yet another really pointless realisation/thinking burst from my mind but regardless here goes. Its kind of a saddening thing when you realise how the whole close friends system works. I dub it a system for the sake of this writing. But its just how often a person who for you factors quite high on your lists of friends (aka a close friend) with whom you would be willing to tell pretty much everything to and how often when it comes to them you would rank somewhat lower on their list. Now granted there are those times when your highest ranking person has you ranking high but meh in my experience is a very random occurence and well rarley happens. then again this might just be me and the fact that people see me as untrustworthy but 10-1 im not the only person who sees this. of course everyone else will attest to my wrongness but meh im bored and its something to talk to. If only there was a nice friendship ranking system ala the sims, boy would life be much easier.

Hey do u ever have one of those moments when you plan something out in your head to write down and it sounds great but when actually writing it, it comes out really really confusing and well crappy? Well i just had one of those moments in the last paragraph....yaarrghh?

Grad ceremonys a coming up tomorrow, which is always an odd thing cause its like heeeyy congrats on graduating buuutt youve still got 3 more exams to finish so be sure not to fail so you dont graduate...but....huh? *cue brain anyurism from over thinking* good old school and their clearly logical thinking. Thumbs up guys!

The terminals coming out soon, looks like a very funny movie. Same goes with something else...but yet again it has slipped my mind and well im not about to come back to this post and add it in so well yeah something looks good, cant wait till its out. yeah i need to find out when saved starts, and where its playing etc cause that is one movie that must be viewed, mostly because it looks funny that and i fear the death via jenn if i dont go see it with a jennish infusion. Wow thats 3 mentions of her in one post, normally that would be odd but considering no one else reads this i guess it can just be chocked up to me practicing my ass kissing skills. And hey if anyone else is reading this but not commenting WHO CARES??!!! cause what the hells the point if you dont comment? oh yes right im supposed to use my magical powers to see through the internet and view exactatly who is reading my site at all times. Lazy asses, comon how hard is it u just click on the nice little link at the bottom entitled Potshots at Yurko cause i think its more amusing that just comments and away you go. Now hop to it all of you or ill forget....? HHAAAAAAARRRRRRRRR

Till Next Ramble

The Amazing Boring Yurko

2004-06-15T11:42:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: Hysteria - by Def Leppard

"Childhood is short, but maturity is forever."

Ugh, exam week commenses. Such big fun found throughout i must say, ah well at least the exams come always near the end of the week so as not to ruin mein weekend with some crappy ass monday/tuesday exam. On that note i give you my very first pre summer, not in school post of well ever. Yay! quickly does the short 2 months of freedom approach, albeit this years freedom will be followed by the giganticus workload affectionatly known as university. Ah well its something that must be done so i cant really complain, well i could but then i could do it from behind the cash register at some fast food joint for the next 40 years.

Speaking of which got me the first part of the physics this thursday, which should be a big barrel of laughs, sigh.. did i mention im not a big fan of the exams? really? i didnt? hmm thought i had. After that though is part A of the finishing of highschool with the assured to be very long and extremly boring grad mass dealie; no fun there im predicting. This of course is to be followed by that oh so very fun 3 and a half hour snorefest that will surely be the walking of the stage. Dear god am i gonna have to wait for a veeerrryyy long time to get up there, what with my last name and all, i know for a fact im near the end of the very last row of 250ish graduating people so anyone who complains about having to wait for a long time on friday can stuff it. Methinks ill have to bring a gameboy or something so as to pass the time.

Yesterday was the last offical day of my highschool education which i must say as days go this rated around...bleh. Why was it a bleh ranking day? Well in all honesty im not really in the mood to extrapolate to as why the day was rather on the crap side due to varying occurances/reasons. Yes so for once there will be no long winded ramble about why his day blew from yurko so be happy and rejoice. and no im probably not gonna talk about this one even if pestered...bleh

Only thing i will mention is damn you neil mr "ooohh comon bring me a picture on monday, cause ill be there on monday, youd better bring one...blah blah blah" So i do and whos clearly lacking in a monday infused school experience? why pattie mc pat the fuckin queen of the scotts of course. You bastard all of those 3min wasted in finding that damn picture! I want my time back you...time stealing bastard!

Side notage occuring... its good to see that Teletoon has started re-showing Neds Newt yet again. Damn good peice of quality television there, from waaayy back in the day of the stations inception. Fine canadian made show about this kid and his newt who become giant, able to talk etc via this fancy newt food. Sounds very crazy and well odd i am sure but its funny as all hell. Humour style very similar to Fairly odd parents now that i think about it. Might explain why i like that show so much as well. Meh its all good and yay for clearly remaining immature in your tv viewage! on that note, one of the beatles movies are on tonight, 7 o'clock i do believe on bravo so be sure to take a look cause suprisingly there actually really funny as actors. To go with the funny, theres also a new episode of Last comic standing tonight which i also reccomend. That one comic with the german shepard joke had better not dissapoint, im expecting big things from ya pal.

Yeaaahhh well im clearly done, todays quote comes from the brilliance that was calvin and hobbes, makes more sense in the particular strips context but meh i like the quote so it shall remain.

Till next ramble

The Amazing Boring Yurko

2004-06-10T18:45:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: Dead Man's Rope- by Sting

"Yes, that sequence of words I just said made perfect sense."

Making yet another post. sorry about the rather large delay between this one and the last, very buisy week what with all the crappy exams, even crappier school and my brother taking a deathgrip on the computer being on it almost bloody 24-7 (Grrrr). So hey might as well make with the whole posting dealie-mc-crap

Today wasnt all that bad, well when compared to the utter and complete boredom of yesterday anything seems better. 3 tests in one day is not a feat i would reccomend to anyone living upon this here earth and only a few of those who are dead. At least the physics field test was a joke, but dear god having to write two 70 question tests in half the time you normally get is not cool at all. NOT COOL!!! Bleh ah well spare was slightly amusing as it always seems to be, wholey crap 2 more days of high school; madness!!!!! Yeah as for the rest of the week, both essays turned out rather well i must say. Kinda rambled far to long on the social one but meh life must go on. Problem is with essays ya never know how your gonna do cause of the whole fact that its all subjective marking and such. Ah well, its out of my hands now.

Extremly good song for today, one of my ultimate favourites now in any case but considering i share my taste in music with the wall (aka NO ONE) methinks that none of you will care. Probably one of my favourite futurama quotes today, pretty sure ive used it before but hell im running out and i like it so life will strive forwards.

Striving.... still cant believe schools almost over, such madness inherent. Hmm, movies; good stuff them. An up and coming one that looks incredibly funny is that film "Saved" looks like its gonna be along the same lines as Dogma in terms of a movie, which is not in any way a bad thing. "I ran my van into jesus!" hehe, classic mirthmaking there. so yah chock that up to a movie i wanna take in, and if anyone else does let me know cause i dont feel like seeing any movie by myself; something about that seems odd/wrong. On this note, i still say that the upcoming Garfield movie looks amusing, although im sure much of that stems from the fact that its Bill Murray doing his voice and yes i know there hasnt been a good garfield comic in 15 years but meh im sure ill not see it, catch it on sunday afternoon tv; realise it is the smelly piece of turd that it probably will be and be thankful i saved 12 bucks. On that note, the spongebob movie should be really funny. Ive realised this due to the fact that in my inherent boredom of late have started to watch it yet again on TV; forgot how zany/good it is. Hopefully this translates well into a movie and since its gonna be summer fare how can you complain eh? Now personally im more of a fairly odd parents fan (yet another show that no one has seen, well sans Anthony) but i cant see them making a movie off of that, or a good one for that matter so ill just have to live with the other Nickelodeon brand silly in animated form. SILLY!

On a total and complete (and absurd) side note did you know that shampoo has an expiery date? Hell if i did, was a rather startling revelation to come across when showering. I have to wonder though what the hell happens when shampoo "expires" cause its not like milk or anything that you can clearly tell when its gone death to small babies rancid. Would expired shampoo bleach your hair? cause it fall out? evolve into a sentient lifeform which seeps into your scalp taking over your brain and adding your thoughts to some sort of mass consciousness controlled by the head and shoulders company? Who knows? Well all that i know is that ill never find out cause the bottle was empty and clearly before may 2005. The mystery lives on....

What else to talk about..hrmmm.. Scott brought in his schools grade 9 yearbook yesterday i think, regardless was rather amusing to see all these people i know as youngings which got me thinking and curious to see how everyone i know used to look. Wholey crap i DO NOT remember anyone looking that young back in junior high, its a kinda scary thought; damn brain shifting memories with age grrr... regardless, crap was i that young? and pudgy? sheesh way to stay on the ball there brain. ...BON JOVI BREAK!!... hehe sorry, current song im listening to, jeeze im all over the place today :P but yeah, its weird some people look nearly the exact same today as they did then but jeesus a hell of alot of people sure looked different. Mark for instance looked EXACTALY like boris from the bond movie goldeneye, man its scary how much he looked like him, scary. danusia looks the same regardless, what can you expect eh? Nah thats kinda mean so belay that. But hell while im being mean... wholey fuck erins picture waas Hi-Larious! setting my bias towards her aside, sweet jesus. she looked 45, bloated and slighty inebriated. Ooohhh man did i laugh, gave scott a good laugh today too when it was brought up at lunch....man that was extremly mean but hell you know my policy, ones its been typed i stand by it till death..kills me?..(hehe silly death, such a kidder)

GAH! in case anyone hasnt already heard me bitch, I WANT TO BE IN DALLAS THIS WEEKEND!!!!! Grrrr. this being of course due to clapton having his Crossroads Guitar Festival being headlined by B.B. King, Santana and clapton himself among others. Dear god that would ahve been THE best concert known to man ever. I swear being able to see them all play together i could die a very very happy man. Of course this is just my opinion cause i know most of you probably wouldnt enjoy this concert but damn it would have been fucking awesome. And yes Jenn this would have completly superceded your toga party. Sigh theres always...never... :(

On to the TV front, some better stuff coming out cause it would seem taht the networks have started there summer programing. This would be the only time that i can stand reality tv, two shows in particular (sometimes 3 if im bored/feeling stupid enough). Firstly theres the amazing race which is actually rather interseting, moreso for all the crazy places they go to and the tasks etc. Second is the amazing show Last Comic Standing. Great TV found there, although appearantly the network tampered with the verdicts made by the judges which might mean that the best comics dont necisarrily move on but hell it already gave me THE BEST joke ive ever heard in the last few years so its tops in my book already (and if you havent heard it ask me about the German Shepard joke...ROFL!!!..hehe greatness). Lastly is the latest rendition of the total crapfest Big Brother, such a baaaddd show but its still entertaining enough in its stupidity to watch if nothings on. SO yah mock if you want i dont care cause im lazy. Oh also that show the Collector is pretty good thus far, kinda low budget what with it being canadian made tv and all but meh its yet again something to watch.

DAMN YOU mess.be!!! I want my Mario brothers emoticon pack damnit!!!...errr yeah sorry bout that, kinda pissed and all.... DAMN YOU mess.be!! finally downloaded them and there so fucking small i cant even see them!!! GAH! why must you tempt me so!!! yaarrgh. Mefinks i should sum this ramble up cause its became rather long and incredibly stupid plus the communes bean harvest is calling...yay unknown inside jokes that probably all those inside will not find amusing but hey im usually lame regardless so live with it!

Till Next Ramble (and boy was this a ramble)

The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-06-05T16:37:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: I Just Died in your arms tonight- by Duran Duran

"This is Fry's decision. And he made it wrong, so it's time for us to interfere in his life."

Very bored so meh might as well throw off another post. Gonna be rather short cause i dont have anything to really talk about but hey here we shalt go.

Sigghh not looking forward to this up and coming week, gonna go down as probably one of the shittiest in yurkos school career. A test 4 of the 5 days, two of them essay extravaganzas in the variant that is provincial. Boourrnns! That and toss in two inclass finals and youve got a really fun time there folks. Hopefully they all go well though, and on a slighty okish note thanks to my social exam being on thursday meaning that now i cant do my guitar exam, slighty relieved at this seeing as how it effectivly took the decision out of my hands as to whether or not take the exam. Probably gonna do it sometime in the summer now which would work out good or be really bad but hey we shall see.

Tonights game 6 of the flames run at the cup, kinda hope that they win tonight for a few reasons. Firstly that well it will prove my prediction correcterino, second they will win the cup; a kinda obvious plus there but lastly this will mean that the god damn playoffs will finally be over. Not that i dont like hockey, in fact its probably one of the few sports i can stand to watch upon tv but something about hockey in june just doesnt sit right with me. Can you say dragging something out far longer than it should be? I know i can and now that i think about it i just did. So yes yay for the season finally being over although theres nothing wrong with the flames finishing it with a big happy win.

Latley ive realised a rather large flaw within the personality of yours truly. This being the fact that as of late ive noticed that when im in conversations with any of my friends etc i tend to not know when a joke should be put out to pasture and shot in the head etc. Esenetially when to kill a joke. For some unknown reason i seem to take something that was rather funny at the onset and for the first little while and yet time after time for a good stretch keep brining it up to which im gladly given the whole semi-condescneding smirk and the whole lack of intrest facial expressions indicating "ok it was kind amusing the last 30 times you said it now shut up!!!" Honestly i have no idea where the hell im going with this but the point is i need to learn when to kill a joke. Meh i think i also need to learn when to kill a rambling, mostly pointless paragraph so lets give it a try.

Hey that seemed to work out just.......DAMN!!!!!!

Hmmm yeah like i said a rather short post.. Oh right, got the new Sting cd which is actaully rather good. Not as good as his stuff with the police but meh its a good listen esp when doing boring as hell social economics questions. One thing thats really bad about it is the bloody cover picture. Dear god man! did you have to go and tell the photographer "ok now i want a picture that can make me look as creepy as possible because that will clearly boost sales" See this wouldnt bee so bad if its the way he normally looks but in actual fact the guy looks well normal. Instead they put this spawn of satan floating head picture on the cover just to scar off potential buyers. Meh just so long as the cd remains within a player and the case is buried in a lead box at the bottom of the ocean ill be alright. Also Kudos Mr. Roper (see here i go again with the corney jokes that probably arent funny for anyone else anymore) on getting that first comment status back, im sure if i wasnt so lazy i would award a prize or something but one prize per post would also get rather expensive. So yah im basically done now what with the lack of stuff to say and the fact that ive gotten bored of making this post so

Till Next Ramble

The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-06-02T16:07:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: Stolen Car - by Sting

"Dirt doesn't need luck!"

Damn straight, stupid dirt...yeaah sorry its just another random/pointless quote from the professor upon that show that was once called futurama but is now referred to as cancelled (damn bastards). So hey here i go with yet another post, rather quickly after the last one which was a very very long one i realised. And also i realised that the only people who would read all of that and comment upon it thusly were at grad and sooo making the point of typing up my thoughts on it kinda well moot. Regardless it was typed and such will it remain. Oh to heck with victor and all, i know he was complaining about the white on black colour scheme but damnit i hated that last one and i think that this one looks pretty damn slick. The slightly larger typeface will remain however cause ive gotten more complaints about that from the more regular readers which is why it will stay unlike the one about the colour which came from someone who never reads this regularly anyways.

Moving right along, foot loose and fanncy free!!....... *cough* Time to converse about today!! Firstly a oppertunity for huge rejoicing!! the locker door finally succumbed to the will that is gravity and fell off!!! whoooo! and it happened just as expected, right when i took off the lock it just kinda fell not on my face but kinda close. Made for a really good laugh, soo yeah that made me rather amused all afternoon and now hey if anyone wants some social textbooks or english readers just be sure to open up my locker and take em, cause even though the locks holding the door on its not closed in the the slightest :P actually yeah thats basically it for todays talking about it ness, hehe still cant believe how well that picture turned out; gotta give scott some kudos and yurko does request a copy of that btw jenn. Yearrrgghhh....

Last night turned out to be not all that bad in retrospect. Well yeah of course the actual concert/playing/boredom was well crappy as always but the stuff inbetween was pretty fun. Mostly the mad twister action (grrr i must admit defeat jenn, although Next time let it be known that ass shoves are CLEARLY! illegal procedure!). also i must say that those root beer floats at A&W are incredibly dissapointing. what makes it bad is that they would ahve been really good but no the cheap bastards have to put so damn little ice cream that it doesnt foam up properly. Siighhh and i was looking forward to it so much as well. Meh life must go on, no matter how hard it must be. Hehe yeah good times, but i also realised that locking people out of doors that are also made of glass so they can see you walk away and also herd other people away from the door so as not to open it is actually rather fun (contrary to popular belief) :P

Hmm what else... Oh! yeah that Ike:Countdown to D-Day movie that was on monday was fuckin great. Not the best war movie ever no but it was incredibly good for a made for tv film. Granted tom selleck doesnt really look like eisenhower but he sure acted like him and well thats usually the best you can get so im happy. Made for really good tv so tis all good. Also methinks i might ahve found a replacement for angel on wednesday nights tv, some show called the collector or something. Sounds pretty good within the previews but ill have to let you know if it turns out to be actually any good; damn awards forcing me to tape it grrrr. Also lastly, NBC renewed scrubs which is great news!! although im not sure if it will be any good cause the season finale kinda shook up the show so much that it wont really be like it used to. Ergo i will still watch it hoping for the best.

Till Next Ramble

The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-05-31T13:10:00.000-06:00

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

2004-05-28T22:08:00.000-06:00

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

2004-05-26T18:47:00.000-06:00

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

2004-05-21T21:16:00.000-06:00

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

2004-05-13T16:08:00.000-06:00

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

2004-04-28T16:18:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: Hurt- by Johnny Cash

"Tempers are wearing thin. Let's hope some robot doesn't kill everybody."

Yay again with the posting of pointless proportions! But before we start into todays ramblings i give you now the Kid's Size rendtion of Yurko's blog for April 28th. It is as you will see very short for those who have no attention span, made up of small words and spelt to perfection for ease of reading by those whos brains cannot look beyond spelling mistakes:
Kids size!
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Yurko Is Happy!
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There ya go kids, nice and short for ya! Now if you want you can scroll to the bottom and comment to you hearts content unless of course its past 7:30 and well i dont want to keep you up past your bedtime. So go get your parents permission and comment away!

Allrighty now that the little ones (as in easily distracted) are off to bed lets get into the post with more substance, aka length. Not much has occured since the last gargantuan post, a great deal of more of the same really. So im pretty sure that all of you have read enough of me talking about that so we just wont even mention it other than the fact that i realised that i really want to buy a lizard. Now how cool would that be huh? Pretty damn cool if you ask me, of course no one ever does so meh.
Good song today, one of those ones that give you goosebumps when listening to them, or watching the music video which is the sign of a well put together tune. Big thumbs up to you mr. cash.

Saw the second kill bill on the weekend, quite a bit different from the first one i must say. Not saying that its a bad movie in any regard but there was more focus on the dialouge in this one compared to the out and out blood and guts (which is still a great thing to partake in). Still kinda liked the first film better but overall a top notch effort from Quentin. That and the Kung Foo master guy has now taken a shared spot with the russian zombie from Hell Boy as THE MAN!! Mostly due to the quirky goatee/beard flipping dealie but man if he was in that movie more it would have been a total and utter classic.
Sticking with the theme of movies the first Terminator was on this weekend which brought up again my thoughs on how the movie buisness has gone down the crapper. Here you have two great films in a series, with a really cool dark image of the future that was rather intelligently thought out and with quite a bit of depth (only stuff by cameron that i actually like). Yet the moment the creators of the series dont make a movie it just devolves into a crap fest of standard action sequences, pot shots at itself (which completly kills the theme and feel of the first two) and a utter load of bullshit plot. Ahh but of course predictability makes more money than something cool and original so of course the movies become crap. Sigh... well ive bitched about this more than enough in the mega giganticus post so ill stop.

The fourth last episode of Angel is tonight... sigh the end quickly approaches. Last weeks was a really really great one, what with the cool chill down the spine feeling at the end and such. I would go into more detail buuutt clearly no one else watches the show or even cares about my griping about its end so ill just stop saying i hope it doesnt end such and so forth.

Well thats the end of this, told ya not much happened between now and the mega post so i guess ill be wrapping this up. Happy as hell though as i was able to find a copy of that game Full Throttle at Blockbuster last friday! (did you know blockbuster sold computer games? i sure didnt). So yes the circle of Lucasarts adventure gaming is now complete! Rejoice and such and so forth!!

Till Next Ramble

The Amazing Boring Yurko

2004-04-19T18:42:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: Seperate Ways (World's Apart)- by Journey

"The Motorcity V8's Defeat the Music City Slide guitars"

{Wow.. I just came back from the Future (as in posted this and decided to add on this little warning) and i just realised that this post is easily the longest in a while and might possibly top some of my Erin rants or the reigning king of the long my angry bashing of racism for length of a ramble. So please read cause well i did put work into this one and yes i realise its long so there is no need for 4 comments all saying "dear god this is long, im to lazy to read and comment" etc. etc. stuff to that extent. Plus this should happily allow me to regain my rightful place atop the throne as King of the long ass, very boring ramble; Hail to the King Baby!}

Hehe, oh man that quote. Yes i know many of you have probably already seen this quote if youve seen me online in the last little while but damnit it just had to make another showing. Hoo jeese though, gotta love those idiots commentating over at ABC, dear god who says something like this?? I must say though that it did make for a good amount of laughing after the detroit game (albeit after the sheer adaucity of the comment sunk it).. ah well tis all in good fun.
Here we are again with another post, running out of ways to start off the opening ish paragraph but im sure that you all will live. I guarantee that with this one i wont get easily distracted/lose intrestest as quickly as i did with those ones i made during the holidays and wuss out with a rather short (by yurko standards) post. No sireee bob, well mostly because ive got nothing else better to do and ill be damned if i do any homework..Hey is that a snowflake??......
hmm upon further inspection it appears to be a small duck flying east for the spring, so nothing all that interesting. Back to the post!

God today was long and/or boring. Hmm well actually it wasnt all that bad, minus physics which is the usual snore fest but what made it all the worse was english. Now here i am all pumped due to the teachers promises of a Movieish nature made prior to the holidays only to walk in and discover not a class of blissful non importance but a bloody reading comprehension test (which if you are unware are probably THE most boring tests known to man). Sigh, ah well hopefully she wont lie again and make us do work next class but ya never know (although seeing a movie about Saint Maybe isnt really the greatest of things to begin with). The fluke-fest known as Yurko writing essays contiuned today after getting back my social one and somehow pulling off a 100% which i must say came as a total shock, pretty sure this trend will end with the upcoming essay on Saint Maybe considering i doubt i can say anything nice about the book; or write something non half assed about a novel i hate but we shall wait and see.

Tonights flames game should make for a good showing of the hockeyish type. My prediction is a Vancouver win of 3-2 in regulation. Id love for our guys in red to triumph but somehow after blowing a bloody powerplay in overtime i have my doubts. Kinda hope that they win/lose tonight. The winning because well yay its calagary, chance to see more playoff hockey AND this being huge, a chance to see some Red Wings playoff hockey (which would be sweet). The bad part is that this would mean both my teams would be duking it out and honestly that would make for a tough time trying to cheer for both, or just one, or like anthony was saying go in wearing a black jersey and delcare myself the neutral party! yay neutrality!

Oh todays song, not sure if ive mentioned it before on here but it is BY FAR the ultimate Journey composition ever (my opinion of course). Damn good stuff here, so i really hope that any and all will download it cause its well great. On a side note i realised yet another bone headed move made by yours truly. This came as i was in a bored state last week reading through previous chat logs and came across one where i had just introduced said person to Journey. Now by this time the afformentioned song was already by far my favourite but i had forgotten it had 2 titles, remebering only the Separate Ways portion, not the Worlds apart. This of course meant that when the person says how much the love Worlds Apart instead of me lavishing on they "hey thats cool, it being my favourite song" etc etc i just say the canned response of oh thats neat or something like that. But hey i realised my mistake and im sure no one else will remeber least of all with whom i am talking about that or they wont read this making the whole last paragraph pointless...did i mention its a good song?

Gonna go watch Kill Bill Vol. 2 next week, and if its anything like the greatness that was the first it shouldnt dissapoint. One of those movies though where you definetly have to check your brain at the door otherwise its ruined from the get go. Nothing wrong with a bit of mindless fun now and again, good for the intellect..or something. Speaking of movies, went and watched Mississippi Burning again when it was on A&E this weekend. Now this isnt a check your brain at the door film, no sir. Damn good one though, albeit it just refueled my hatred for the whole racism thing. Not to say that ive ever lost my unbridled hatred of anyone whom is racist its just that it refueled the burning passion behind it. Must say though that the end of that film is probably one of the most rewarding parts of any movie,tv show etc that i have ever watched when they are going around and arresting all the KKK members apart of the murders. Gotta love that feeling of justice being done and such. mmmm satisfying. BTW if you want to see my extent rant about racism, why its incredibly stupid etc just look back in the archives; cant remeber where bouts it is but its one of the earlier posts (and one of the longest).

Been watching a fair amount more of TV latley mostly of the incredibly stupid and/or silly variety. One of these fine shows is a delightful comedy program ive discovered on Comedy Network, its called Buzz and i must say that i havent laughed so damn hard in half an hour since the valentines day special on scrubs (hehe johnny the tackling alzheimers patient still brings up a chuckle). Its well deserving of its 18+ rating and 11:30 at night time slot but hey if you can stand the often swearing and are up for a bit of non-sensical humour the by all means check it out. And hey if you dont like it, dont hate me hate the comedy network. Sticking to the topic of TV just thought i would plug the show This just in again, considering that now ive found out when the new episodes are on; which also happily fills up the times slot vacated by the ever great Futurama (that being 8:30's on sunday). Great episode yesterday although ive came to the realisation that Victor will in no way shape or form like it considering the stance it takes upon bush (it being not of the shotgun in the crotch, dance on your dead body variety). Ah well, his loss; my gain and the monkeys evil arch nemisis..
Sticking with the topic of Victor (hes a good guy, just remeber some stuff i wanted to say) Ive came to the realisation (well by came i mean jenn did and i just agreed) that the perfect image of what he will be in 20 years is the Charachter Master Fnog on Futurama, what with the laugh and everything; if you dont know what im talking about well go and watch more TV damnit (and if you do, and know him well im sure you will see the resemblance)

Hmm, Ive also realised that after watching all the Back to the Future Movies that im adding a Delorian to my list of cars that i must buy once im old and rich. Sigh its too bad DMC had to go under cause damn it was a cool car what with the gull wings and ability to travel through time. Meh no worries ill just have to find one some day and restore it back to its 80's speed glory. DAMN COOL CAR

Yes i know ive complained quite a bit before about my up and coming guitar exam but well im doing it again. Sigh i am not looking forward to that beast considering the fact that ive got to have 26 scales memorized by then, along with 2 pieces, the ear training.. guh not cool in the slightest. Yes i know it doesnt require any sort of physical training such as a sport or dance competitions or what not but well ive never been all that great at the whole memorizing anything least of which 26 scales (and there cadences..DAMN YOU RCM) but i guess ill just have to slug through it, not get all the scales i need; fale the thing and never touch my guitar again. Meh its win win... wait no its not ... damn

Oh, has anyone seen the ads for the new Hitman game, Hitman:Contracts? cause dear freakin god does it look kick ass. Hmm of course the fact that im a rather biased person on this case, what with the liking of the other games and such i still think that the ads look pretty damn cool; and the game for that matter. Sigh too bad ive got such a crap ass computer that wont run the game anways but meh one can dream..err not about being a killer for hire..just getting the game.. Yurkos not that crazy. I Swear!
On a side note, no more Fileplanet bashing coming from Yurko as they seem to have finally gotten the whole waiting in line for a bloody download, public servers thing worked out considering that yes i did have to wait 73min to start a download but i was able to average around 1.5Mbps which is insanly fast for any sort of download. Kudos to you Fileplanet, now whether or not the game i downloaded works is another story (a revolutionary RTS, The world just ended!! to quote the burnside).

Hrmm ive also came to the realisation that latley ive become rather the grumpy old Miser. Which is a rather bad thing because im only 17 and well what the hell am i supposed to do when im retired now?? Damnit i even had the rocking chair and porch all picked out and everything. Of course if i were smart i would become much less grumpy or sarcastic so as to off set this but meh lifes to hard to change, that and those damn punk kids keep stepping on my lawn! Nah i kid, its not my plan to be a cranky old coot when im old, still kinda funny none the less though. But hey if you want to see Yurko far less cranky, crotchity and cranky/sarcastic then well tell me and ill be sure to scold you about your rock music and how you trample my lawn.

Saddened about the news concerning the up and coming next Bond movie. If you dont know what im talking about, well it was in the paper a few days back saying that Peirce wants to do another bond film (it would be his last) but he wants to make it more like the old 60's style Sean Connery Bonds, less over the top special effects and more actual cool spying and junk. Whats saddening about this is that the studio doesnt think that a movie based around more plot development and realistic spying would do well and would rather go the easy route with yet another craptastic overblown special effects epic with a bit of a movie tossed in. Too bad really because i have to agree that making a new bond movie more realistic would result in probably a much much cooler film; maby something along the lines of Goldeneye which was great.
This of course just goes to affirm my total lack of faith/disregard for the film industry as a whole. Yet another great movie license that could become even better thusly ruined because there more worried about making the quick and assured buck. Buisness sound i know, but as consumers i for one am getting very sick and tired of the constant unoriginal, mass produced crap for brains movies being churned out year after year. Now if only i had the chance to make some of the ideas i have for films come to light, but alas the chances of this are slim to nill... Hmm of course if my Master plan/dream ever comes into being then well it will be the truith but somehow i doubt that it ever will. What is this ultimate dream/plan of yurkos im sure you are all not asking? Well if enough of you ask what is this ultimate plan within oh say a comment (and by enough i mean more than 3) well then i shalt be sure to tell you in all its detail within a future post, get laughed at the stupdidty of it all, have my life long dream crushed and be forced to retreat back to within my shell...hmmm a shell eh? this will require some sort of plan.. a Master or Ultimate plan if you will..hmmm

Well i have basically used up everything i had planned to write about (whats sad is i actually had a list and everything... kinda creepy when you start planning a ramble...hmm last time i ever do that). Oh yes Jackie I watch Angel (thought this would be apperarnt after so many times ive talked about it on here) do you have a problem with that? Should my Penis go back into hiding from your unholy wrath? huh? Punk??...... Yeah im done so i guess i shalt wrap up this beast of a post (at least i hope its a long ass one cause thats what i was going for). err yeah well just remeber happiness is found on the back of a spoon!!

Till Next Ramble

The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-04-15T11:54:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: Be good to Yourself- by Journey

"Hey, I have an idea. Let's do that!"

Yes another mindless post coming straight at you from the mindless bored shmuck known as Yurko. MINDLESS!!!... yeah sorry im bored again so this will be entitled a short one but end up being long and rambling as is the usual case. So lets cut with the crap that is this opening and make with the ramble.

Gah i cant believe that i forgot to mention this on the last post. Jeeze i really should have remebered to considering that i was reading through the whole old chat logs and everything. Annywho ive decided that even more so than before the entire system of the Internet survey is a complete and utter load. This of course coming from me getting a 85% score upon a "dateability" survey. Lying punk ass of a survey i tells ya.. if i am supposedly that damn dateable the why in gods name am i still single? huh? riddle me that batman. Stupid survey, its probably in cahoots with that damn lying punk of an automsg (im on to you, you bastard). Regardless its total bull shit, total and utter (im not bitter... )

Moving right along.. Damn happy that Angels back again, albeit this being the last 6 episodes (well 5 now after last night). Kinda saddens you when you know that the show is ending and all. Regardless though i will enjoy them all untill the end when i will most likley put up a post bitching and complaining about how they killed such a great show that no one watched. Im kinda annoyed at how they wrote Gunn out of the show though, going with the whole sacrifice myself because im a mopy loser who used to be an ass kicker but got soft and doesnt care anymore. Really hope they dont do that to wesley, considering he used to be the second best charachter on that show, wise cracking, witty british ass kicker but has latley delved into the whole lets mope in shadow rooms and drink for 10min an episode..fun fun; Meh theres still Spike whos as sarcastic and hilarious as ever so its all good. Yay for talking about stuff that no one else but me knows waht im talking about..
Sticking to the whole TV theme ive discovered a new show thats really damn good. It being "This Just In" on Spike TV. A truly hilarious animated politcal cartoon and me being the loser i am, getting all the jokes and such, its damn good viewage. 10 to 1 it will be cancelled within the year though as is the case with most new shows that are well different and funny but meh ill ejoy it till then. So to all of use who have spike TV watch it! hate it! and kick me in the shins.

Damn Nashville, what with there fast game style and all.. Ah well i have my hopes that detroit will come back although if they actually do thats another story. And btw there my team, have been since like grade 3 so if i want to cheer for them than ill be damned it anyone says otherwise (aka jackie... im not afraid of your threats of bodily harm {please dont hurt me}). It should be a problem though because as much as i hate so say it chances are there gonna be gone this round and ill be devotig my time to the flames. Although i must say jackie, maby you need to get these feelings of uncontrollable rage directed towards a mans penis worked out in therapy; cant see it being helpful within a relationship. (jokes, jokes {yet again dont hurt me})

DAMNIT.. yet again ive forgotten what the hell i was going to talk about sooo i guess i shalt be cutting this off right around these here parts. bloody hell though this is gonna piss me off to no end because i know that there was other stuff i wanted to talk about. Ah well such is life, life goes on etc etc.

Till Next Ramble

The Amazing Boring Yurko

2004-04-13T14:59:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: The Bed's too big without you- by The Police

"I hate the people that love me and they hate me."

Yes another random bender quote to start things off with, bless his shiny metal ass. Havent posted upon here in a little while, the rapid fire action of the crap post gun appeared to have broken so my guess is that they'll go back to coming out when i have nothing at all better to do; what with it being 2:30 on a tuesday, nowhere to go, nothing on tv and well i might as well type. Like dear god im reading previous coversation logs THATS HOW BLOODY BORED I AM!!!
*cough*

moving right along..stupid detroit, i swear that last game they decided to that baths in molasses in between each period. I know there an older team and such but comon nashville was just skating circles around them! truly painful to watch esp since im such a huge detroit fan. Ah well heres hoping they do better in tonights game which i wont be able to watch due to somehow im going to the calgary game tonight (not that im complaining, but still it came out of the blue). On that note ive been watching considerably more hockey this playoffs spurning a renewed intrest in NHL 2K3. I must say though that the realism factor of the game is both a good thing and a very bad thing. I can see why detroit doesnt play such a fast, rough game; considering thats the way ive been playing them and 3 games in 5 guys are out with day to day injuries, yzermans out for 2 weeks and ive had to pick up a good chunk of free agents just to make up the slack. That and methinks ill have to jack up the dificulty slighty because as nice as it is to win games by a 13 goal margine its just slightly unrealistic (although nothing wrong with having the top 3 scoring leaders all from your team). Good fun none the less though. {Grrrrr...... damnit guys why wasnt i told oohh i dont know yesterday that we were playing hockey today *shakes fist* could have been doing something but nooo}

hrmm what else was i going to talk about... Been watching most of the back to the future movies latley, man i forgot how good they are; esp christopher lloyd jeesus he can be soo funny especially with his facial expressions. Top notch films all the way. hehe also been watching a great deal of SCTV which is some top notch canadian comedy right there esp the episode that was on today..oooohh man it was soo funny, probably the loudest ive laughed in a while. What sucks though its that it was one of those jokes that if i tried to explain it here in typed format it would probably not only ruin the joke for all of you but ruin it for me as well. Ah well if any of you ever watch it and have seen the one where the former station head gets kiddnapped by terrorists its the part when hes talking about the threats etc. Good fun...although no one knows what im talking about but thats ok because im NOT PLAYING HOCKEY..asses...

Well i had planned on writing a bit more here/waste a great deal more time but well i forgot most of the stuff i had planned on writing about so i guess ill wrap it up somewhere around this general area. (btw im not really that pissed about the hockey, its just something to talk about). sooo yeah

Till next Ramble

The Amazing Boring Yurko

-parents had damn well better let me go tomorrow or i will be so very very pissed!..Gah rage boiling over if indeed i cant go..RAAaGGEEE

2004-04-09T18:40:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: Fool On the Hill- by The Beatles

"Call me old fashioned but I like a dump to be as memorable as it is devastating."

God bless the infinite wisdom of Bender. How goes it internet land? in a suprisingly good mood right know considering the "Excercise" that i just went though and all. Gotta love street hockey esp when everyones just playing for the fun of it. Damn punk from churchill though slashing me in the hand, bloody hell those tiny cuts start to sting after a while. Good fun regardless though, did a not to shabby job on the defense and ended up pulling off an assist late in the game (of course the fact that the pride of the motherland Brad was the one who scored it might have something to do with me actually getting a point but meh what can ya do). Definetly have to do that again sometime during the holidays considering this time almost everyone showed up which increases the fun factor by a good 8.927 percent.

Gawd damn random factor on windows media player, never bloody plays the songs i want to hear only the stuff thats still on the list that i havent wanted to listen to for a good 2 years. DAMN YOOU MICROSOFT!!! Of course one cannot deny the power of the random song picking, it being the principle of the thing and all. but still damnit i want some bon jovi or motley crue not this same damn aerosmith song ive heard 6 times now!!!....yay for pointlessly talking about things. While were still talking about music i feel that some mention should be directed towards todays song of the day, it being one of my top 10 favourite beatles songs, rather high on the list although my preference for that top 10 has the tendency to shift so im not going to declare any specific order. Damn good song however and totally reccomened to all of use.
(YES now it bloody plays some good stuff, yay for Motley Crue {ultimate pointless music} I showed you windows media player!)

Ahh yes poor Johnny, never to know if he got eaten by Waldorf or not. Yeah i would have kept that up for longer but no one seemed to be paying any attention to the story at all let alone making any sort of comment about it so well i lost intrest (as i often do with most things). Who knows it might make a comeback sometime during this holiday if i get bored enough (see the chances being rather good just not on todays post)....

So yah thats basically all i had to talk about today, stupid holiday messing with my head; i could have sworn it was saturday so i go downstairs trying to find the detroit game on TV which it obviously wasnt but that didnt stop me from bitching at TSN. Ah well its on tomorrow so i guess i can watch it then (unless tomorrows not saturday either... stupid linear time). Oh and yeah Jenn some major Yurko style planning must commense! which is basically similar to figuring something out at 11:45pm at night the day before and nothing gets finalised till 10min beforehand (hmmm well i checked and it does appear that yes tomorrow is saturday; you win this round calendar but next time lets see if your so lucky..) but yes that will commense next time i see you online because hey the phones all the way over there and im faaarrr to lazy to call anyone..... SASQUATCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The Amazing Boring Yurko

2004-04-08T18:49:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: Take it Easy- by The Eagles

"Oh. Your. God."

*nod*
Here we go again folks with another one of the Yurko rapid action crap in a can quickly and shoddily made holiday posts... Oddly enough though this would technically make for the very first one of the holiday postageness but hey im not one for the technicalities and i damn well hope that your not either. hrmm well i honestly have no idea where im going with this rather lame assed intro so lets just end it now and claim it never happend. I wont tell if you dont.

Cant believe i forgot to mention the playoffs in yesterdays post. Jeeeze if theres one thing that i would have talked about it would be hockey. Yes i know some people arent big into the whole sport but meh its the only one i can really get into (well other than televised poker tournaments.....dear god im a loser). Regardless my team the Detroit Red Wings (as you can probably tell due to their link on the links part) are off to a very nice start after beating Nashville 3-1 in the first game. The wings playoff hopes are looking much better this year considering Legace performed much better than Cujo ever did last season, plus Lang is performing as expected which makes me a rather happy fan indeed. I say the wings in 5 games. Poor calgary though, i really thought they had it there after there 2 goal streak in the second but meh cant fault the team what with there lack of any real playoff experience. My prediction is Vancouver in 6 games as sad as i would like to admit that.

Stupid dentist, well most of the actuall stuff isnt that bad considering ive been able to get used to (finally) the flouride and weird drill like toothpaste applicator dealie but damn them and their flossing! It always leaves my mouth feeling soo damn sore afterwards. Of course much of that is my fault considering i dont floss half as much as i really should but hey what can ya do. (yes i know floss more but im a lazy ass so when is that gonna happen)
Damn going out for lunch to market without prior warning such that i cant bring money to buy something ive been looking for, for a while... Hmmm that was incredibly pointless; always fun fun there. But hey im basically done, not much more to talk about on here so i guess ill sign off right around nowish

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The Amazing Boring Yurko

2004-04-07T13:17:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: Livin' On a Prayer- by Bon Jovi

"Its like taking a shit...On a Two-by-four...."

Greetings all, what with the half days and holidays and such im trying to keep up the pace of the quick post in rapid sucession! Otherwise known as a great deal of half assed short ones done consecutivly so that i can claim im devoted or something of that garb. Todays quote comes at ya from well yours truly :P it being in both my opinion and those who heard it the single most stupid thing i have ever uttered. So of course its a fitting quote to toss up here. Hehe, yay Yurko created stupid comments.

Huzzah for the resurgence of the commenting but the "faithful" to the site. Thumbs up Jenn, although it looks like Neil is lacking now but meh as long as i get a few comments that are long winded and have thought put into them its incentive enought to write these because hey as much as i like the generic comments, knowing that people actually read it and are able to well comment on what i say is nice.
Thank god today was a half day otherwise i would have officially gone insane, weeks like this leave you with no incentive in the slightest to do any schoolwork at all. One more half day and then its the greatness that is a week off school. Yes i know i doubt ill actually end up doing a great deal but hey thats preferenntial to the "Fun Fun" world of physics...damn pullen and his stupidness. But hey at least band and social was pretty good today, band because well all we did was sit around and talk and social well we get to watch all of Dr. Strangelove which is a rather odd movie yes but still i find it rather funny (story of my life, liking what is quirky etc).

Damn Teletoon switching up there schedualing just when i get used to how they had everything airing. Although i cant really complain because well im sure that there are people who would watch family guy/futurama at 11:00pm at night but sadly one of those people aint me so meh no more of the daily family guy infusions unless i decide to go out and finally buy season 3 but meh im lazy and lacking of that kind of cash so the odds are slim to nill. Running out of stuff to read again which i always find depressing because well hey i like to read, contrary to what Anthony will tell you *shake fist* meh, still got one more book to read by saturday and then the library Nazi's will come with their Book partrol gestapo and have me shot for holding a book over the due date but hey what can ya do.
Stupid computer stores in the greater calgary area not having a game that is over 8years old. yes i know its not there fault but damnit i want my wise cracking Motorcycle action! Ah well im sure ill be able to find it somewhere, beat it, complain about the lack of anything to play and then eventually burn it for Jenn who will play through it in a night and never mention it again. I have started to become addicted to risk again, damn Red armies what with there prevention of my world domination The Empire of El Yurko will be victorious damnit!!
Hmmm well im totally going nowhere at a mile a minute here so mefinks ill wrap this up before i start saying things that are really stupid. But first to wrap this up i leave you now with an excerpt from the novel Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett. This upcoming excerpt is probably the funniest thing that i have read in any book ever, i swear i havent laughed so hard in such a long time. but hey without further ado:

In the Second Scroll of Wen the Eternally Suprised a story is written concerning one day when the apprentice Clodpool, in a rebellious mood, approached Wen and spake thusly: 'Master, what is the difference between a humanistic, monastic system of belief in which wisdom is sought by means of an appearantly nonsensical system of questions and answers, and a lot of mystic gibberish made up on the spur of the moment?'
Wen considered this for some time, and at last said: 'A fish!' And Clodpool went away, satisfied.

hehe, Till Next Ramble

The Amazing Boring Yurko

2004-04-05T17:04:00.000-06:00

Yurkos song of the day: The Fool on the Hill- by The Beatles

"If I had legs I would kick your ass!"

Today marks the end of the Help inspired quotations, this one coming from a different movie that of course being Hellboy (more specifically the legless Russian Zombie). But hey moving on, greetings to yet another post on the site, in which case i have now said this same intro far to many time but who is gonna stop me huh? (more or less its probably going to be my own brain telling me not to repeat myself but meh i dont listen to him anyways).
Hrmmm.. 2 posts have passed without any sort of comment from Jenn, dissapointed in ya there jenn; what happened to the loyalty? So heres hoping that by reading this you'll get back on the ball and not be kicked from the team (of course you wont be kicked consididering the "team" is so short on players we cant afford to lose any). So i guess this would make for yet another Jenn induced post (albeit for different reasons than usual) of course how bored i currently am might factor in slightly.

Yeaaahhhh boredom... As stated above went and saw Hellboy on the weekend, it turned out to be much better than initally expected, not a great deal of thinking required but it was a good movie to take in. Also ended up watching that "O Brother where art Thou?" on superstation during there "hey we just got a new movie so lets show it 800 times in the next 3 days" as they always do. Dear god i must say that George Clooney is a really funny actor and he does make a good film (well just so long as the words "Bat" and "man" arent included in the title). Good old 1930's deep south, what with there funny accents and all; good good fun. It took alot of effort to restrain myself from talkin like someone from mississippi today, deamnit i want a cool accent!
Hrmm well im basically out of stuff to talk about considering that there was my weekend, but i must say though that eating more than 3 krispy kreme doughnuts in one day can be hazardous to ones good health. Damnit Jenn comment already!
...
MEIN FUHER...I CAN WALK!!!
(hehe good old Dr. Strangelove)

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The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-04-01T21:02:00.000-07:00

Yurkos song of the day: White Flag- by Dido

Clang offering a bagful of gold: "Psst! Hey, Be-a-tle! You shall have fun, yes?"
John: "Sorry, I'm rhythm guitar and mouth organ. "

Well aint this a peachy deal of a crap stick; this marks the VERY FIRST time ever that ive gone on to another post with the previous one having a grand total of zero, yes ZERO comments. Comon people normally i wouldnt make such a fuss or anything but the fact of the matter is that i know for a fact thanks to the handy little site counter that people ahve been looking at the site so well yah that basically explains itself. On to the more pressing issues such as the lack of a duck on the moon.......

Oh a side note, if any of you people viewing this site have a site/blog of their own and its not on my list of friends sites (and yes this does mean i have to somewhat know you before adding it there (sorry to all my devoted non existent japanese fans)) email me with the adress of the site so that i can put it up here asap.

Hmm, moving on to nowhere i seem to have forgotten much of what i was going to talk about. Meh no worries im sure i can think of enough bull shat to ramble about for a good paragraph. Been listening to the KISS Alive IV cd finally (got it a good while ago, whenceever it came out) but yah ive came to the realisation that well a) KISS is one kick ass rock group, b) they appear to put on one fun live show and c) Ace Frehley is a rather odd one but hey good stuff there.

what else.. Oh ive been putting some more thought into that Saint Maybe novel that ive been reading and well after thinking about what Dan (who suprisingly enjoys the novel) has said ive came to a few conclusions. Yes like pacone said it is an easy read but well doesnt Easy read correspond with Trite and simplistic in some circles? Also as Dan was saying "its like you can imagine everything in the book actually happening.." etc etc. Which made me realise that yes everything is realistic in taht sense, life meandering along at a normal pace. The thing is though all of her books follow that same format, people living in a house, shit happens, time passes they get jobs, the dog dies, they grow old etc. etc. etc. This really struck me when reading the part about the kids coming back after getting married, having jobs and the like and it occured to me "Didnt i read this exact same passage in Homesick restaraunt (one of her other books)?" Which of course brought me to my 2 largest conclusions about why i do not like what she writes and why its literary crap. Firstly if you base your novels around day to day life of people it will ultimatly devolve into situations taht are time and time again extremly similar as i stated above which is no fun to read; its like watching the 18th rehash, spinoff or remake of a popular movie/tv show. Secondly i also realised that well i know that when i read or watch tv or movies its not to divulge into basically what my life could be if i were named Ian but for something a little different, adventurous etc. Usually entertainment is a form of escape for people and well to me anyways somehow escaping the humdrum and boredom and letdowns of ordinary life only to come across a new world in print format that is...just as humdrum and boring and with the same letdowns... is rather pointless and to a very large extent boring. The thing is though, the idea of writing a book as a part of someones day to day life is not a bad idea; it just has to be exectuted in a well interesting manner. Take the works of Phillip K. Dick for instance, this is probably one of the things he really excells at; in all his books it really makes you feel like the events are just a small snipped of these charachters lives and that they were happily living their life before the events of the book and well life will go on afterwards. It just sums up what happened in the book but never the charachters lives, which gives the novels a rather refreshing perspective in that everything is not cut and dry but its like they take on a whole life of their own. But hey if you dont like that i guess you can go read a book about some hopeless shlob whos dog just died/fiancee left him/shot himself in the head because he realised his life is one big plot hole in a crapfest of a novel.

Hmm well im almost typed out, this being a post that has taken me suprisingly long to well type out. Ive came to the realisation that i am unable to write an essay using the pen and the paper method. For some reason i write so much slower than my thought pattern that often all the great ideas that are churning through my head end up on the paper as "The UN is a good thang paw" and well i find that the speed at which i type is much more suited to place my garbled and inconsistent thought process in to literary form but then again i am sure youve been able to figure that out based upon the 40 odd posts ive rambled on in here on the site. But hey thats that, the essay is wrote and there isnt anything that can be done about it minus the still in development time machine ("Damn time machine set me back 40 years.." "Too bad it didnt work otherwise you could have went back and stopped yourself from building it")
Latly though i seem to having moments/days where im just to tired or cant be bothered to deal with human contact. Sounds rather odd/insane/depressed yes but well its not really any of the above more of i dont know just a feeling that id rather mull over my own thoughts than deal with people. But hey what can i say, people are still good fun and all but some days it just gets to a point where id rather be at home reading or watching tv or something.. not to sure what to say about that but hey the point of this is my inane ramblings and well that ranks rather high up there on the inaity scale (yay made up words!). But hey all this means is that yurkos either slowly going insane or well something but the other 6 people up here in the brain wont shut up long enough to let me think....

Till Next Ramble

The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-03-30T20:15:00.000-07:00

Yurkos song of the day: Psycho Circus- by KISS

"I thought she was a sandwich"

Salutations of a greeting sort to all of you with whose eyes you are now parusing a read of this "fine" site. Comin at ya with a rather dull and tired tuesday night post. I apolgize in advance if this makes little to no sense as for the fact that i am running off a cold, 3 hours of sleep and currently doing a physics lab (whooo.....oo...o). Err yah, so im not exactaly on the happy side of insanity as of now so we shalt see where this goes eh? Regardless the irony is not lost upon me about how i stated it would be a short post last one but turned out to be a big monster of a snooze fest in typed format. Oddly enough ive realised that usually when i say it will be short they tend to be mostly on the long side; my theory is that usually i say short when i am bored and since when i am bored i tend to ramble on more than usual...

rammblleee... yah i had thought up a few things to say on todays post but rather conveniently i seem to have misplaced those thoughts; methinks i need to get a better filing system but hey those cost money. So yah, stupid colds; i swear there is nothing in the world that i hate more than a god damn cold, especially when its just starting to get damn nice outside!! Well ok racist idiots rate rather hight up there on the list but still colds are evil, pure unaltered evil! Although a mild cold that only affects me during the day i can live with but the kind i have now i cant in any way shape or form. Dear god, sleep is crucial to the yurko machine and when something makes me stay awake for god knows how many hours last night it is not cool at all. Lazy ass immune system if i wasnt so lazy i would whip it into shape.

I must say that guitar lessons are a mixed blessing, sure the songs are a great deal of fun to play/learn (makes me feel intelligent of cultured or something "Gawrsh paw i ken play me an instuiment") but the whole pressure of the upcoming exam not to mention all the scales and such needed for it is not so cool. Sadly though its one of those things that one must suffer through, grin and bear it etc considering that it was my choice to take the damn exam (stupid yurko). Alas, anon etc. etc. Damn rest of everybody now learning the guitar, it used to be one of the few things that made yurko uniqe; the whole fact that he played the guitar but now taht everyone else is doing it i just seem to be yet another follower. Sigh.. of course im not claiming that i am some form of guitar virtuoso, in fact its my opinion that im not all that good but still its disheartening to ahve someone like victor who goes and picks it up and after a year can play circles around me (well if one could play circles around anything).. Damn him and his modesty too.. "oh im not that good.." bull shat idiot, but hey i cant complain that much; im sure that if i sat in my basement and just played my guitar in all of my free time for a year just like he did i would be just as good as him..... hmm thats going nowhere so time to switch lanes!

yah well im basically done for today, other than a mention of yet another "Proud" Yurko moment, its right up there with the face football folks. But yah basically ive decided that next time i am to participate in any form of a waterfight i must be sure to wear kleats, well that or not make random sharp turns when i am clearly gaining ground on whomever is chasing me. Not cool slightly twisted ankles though, nor realising that somehow doing a faceplant/happy slide in the grass leaves on with some nice scrapes across the chest. Stupid physics, not having the test today.. Stupid social essay tomorrow... Stupid, gay and utterly crappy Anne Tyler English book, i swear to god if i ever have to read another piece of shit by her i will scream, cry and then burn the book, damn Saint Maybe...hmmm oh yeah; yay for Ringo Starr and his uttering of todays great quote, sure alot of its hilarity is lost if you havent seen the film but damn i like it.

Till Next Ramble

The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-03-27T21:20:00.000-07:00

Yurkos song of the day: Born to be Wild- by Steppenwolf

"Comedy's a dead art form. Now tragedy, that's funny."

Waffles everyone with a saturday night post from the Yurko of the boring nature. Just putting up this here post because well people want a new one (namley two people, mostly the only two people who regularly read this) so here i am making a new one, although life of late has been rather boring so using my magical powers of telling the future i forsee this being a rather short post.

.. yeah err anywho bored yet again on a saturday night; which i have realised has become a rather cliche thing for me to talk about but meh its not like i have anything else to say really. Well that and the fact that as of late (as jose or jenn will attest to) my brain has been crapping out some rather large and stinky verbal diarehhia (yay lack of spelling skills). This of course being those moments when immediatly after you say something your brains just like "hooolllddd on a second, this makes no sense." or "what the hell did i just say??" etc etc. Regardless it makes for yurko looking like a rather large idiot but hey ususally it gets a good larf so i guess its a trade off (not a very good one but still a tradeoff).

As stated above, been rather bored as of late mostly because i dont know but all the stuff that i used to be able to waste a rather large amt of time with aka the computer, tv etc. i have found rather boring. Basically because well no one seems to be on much anymore to talk to which was what i usually used to spend time doing (talking to ppl and such) so yah without people to talk to, makes for a rather boring internet. TV has been a bore mostly because all the show i watch are either not showing new episodes for some reason (Angel, Las Vegas, Smallville etc) or i can never remeber when the hell they are on (Law and Order: Criminal Intent). Mostly though its just because the current crop of tv is well crap. Now usually if im that bored that tv is not interesting i would normally play that metal gear game that i got but sadly i finished that this weekend due to the incessant boredom that was today....
wow a whole paragraph on why lifes boring... sorry bout that

Finally finished the god awful tiny novel, which is a good thing because no longer will my hands hurt trying to hold the damn thing but no more strain on the eyes; yay!. A rather good book though, considering it focused around Death who is one of prattchets more amusing charachters in the series. But yah a good read although still doesnt top my personal favourite by him, that of course being Small Gods; comon how can no one like a good book that pokes some fun at organized religion while raising a few good points along the way. Well that and the whole last section with Om talking is genius but hey if you dont know what im talking about Read the damn book!. Reading.. its daammnnn good for ya

Hrmm what else to talk about that no one will care. Oh yah, just thought id mention the fact about how saddening it is when youve seen all these varying good movies or shows or songs or books etc but no one else has. This is always a thing that bites because well then there is no one to talk about it with. But hey its not my fault its just all of your collective faults, damn bastards. On that note, everyone should go out and rent Lost in Translation, yes i know ive already rambled about that a while back but i realised that its such a damn good movie and no one has seen it (well minus neil, kudos to you sir); but yeah its billy murray at his finest so take a look.
Finally i just thought that i would mention yet another movie that no one has seen/lay more allocades upon the greatness that is the beatles. I borrowed their movie Help from jenn last weekend but im pretty sure that i forgot to mention watching it. regardless ive came to the realisation that not only are they great musicians but dear god are they funny. Sure the movie has no real point and is totally silly but its a really great film, although my only complaint is that george harrison barley talks; i got the feeling that he could have been pretty funny but he just didnt want to. Regardless a totally zany, hilarious film that all should see (On that note, if i remeber next posts quote will be probably my favourite line from that film as uttered by Ringo Starr). Err yah well thats basically it, normally i would say something like gonna go watch my futurama dvds but alas ive finished those off as well so now ive got nothing at all to do... DAMN NO ONE BEING ONLINE!!!

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The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-03-21T21:39:00.000-07:00

Yurkos song of the day: On Any Other Day- by The Police

"Would you kindly shut your noise-hole?"

Allo all, here we are with yet another Jenn induced post on the site. It has occured to me as of late that i have had no idear how many posts im up to now. So of course me being well me i went and checked. Loe and behold this will make for my 42nd load of bull crap to spew forth from the rather odd portions of my brain that some might label as the "Creative" region (if by creative you clearly mean bored and/or insane). Regardless of what you call it, 42 is a hell of alot of times for me to sit down and type. Ah well its not like ive ever had anything else to do thats better (although that remake of metal gear soild is pretty damn fun.... why am i not playing that now.. oh right because jenn told me to put up a post but hey weve already gone over that).

Oh i have heard that the chatbox dealie floods most people with a bevy of popups when you click on the little bring up the chatbox link or something like that, so yah im trying to find a way to alleviate this but until then or if i cant fix it the best way to leave stuff on there if you really want to is to use the imput area that on the main site, which is found at the bottom of the chatbox because well for me at leas it doesnt result in any popups.

Ergo not a whole lot happend today in the life of yurko, more happened yesterday but first id rather state the little that occured today. Well today consisted mostly of waking up, eating, watching tv, eating, reading the damn hilarious yet sure to make me blind novel Mort, watching tv, attempting physics (and by attempting i clearly mean opening up my binder), watching more tv, playing metal gear soild as already stated and then well eating. The moral of the story kids? Either im a total loser or i lead a very bored life, take your pick i dont care.
Yesterday though was much more eventful. It being the day of maitlands birthday we ended up heading over to that grand prix go karting which was actually a hell of alot of fun (and suprisingly tiring). Took longer to wait for our turn to race than to actually race but hey driving marginally fast against your friends is always a great way to kill some time. Later in the day we ended up back at his hoose which kinda started off boring (well mostly because contrary to popular believe fighting with a dvd remote is not a blast and a half, sorry to break it to ya folks). So yah it turned out to be pretty fun. Oh i also came to the realisation that attempting to play every game on his Xbox with the language set to German adds a totally new dimension to the fun of any game, so that not only are you blowing the bujeezus out of your friends but now your also learning a new language! (Well moreso a language where everyone sounds like their shouting really fits for Unreal Championship, but then again learning "youve been fragged" in german probably wont be all that helpful anywhere). But yah after that i got effectivly schooled in foozeball by jose, although i did come back from a 7 point deficit to almost tie it up so no worries there. The real fun though was when we started up this pool tournament, well mostly because i didnt really know many of the people there and well im not known for my amazing social skills (see afraid of people) but yah somehow the mighty jose-yurko pool team was able to school all; and the fact that 3 of the games were won by sunk 8-balls does not in any way impy we lack skill, our lack of skill implies that we have no skill.....

Concordingly thats all i really had to say today, or tonight, or half past one if you live on some crazy part of the world where its half past one but then id have to ask myself why on earth are you reading this in which time i think you would ask the same thing. and now that ive made no sense at all...

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The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-03-19T22:36:00.000-07:00

Yurkos song of the day: Foolin'- by Def Leppard

"This is the best movie I've ever seen. It has a vampire and an explosion!"

Greetings salutations and such and so forth. yet another friday night post with Yurko being home alone doing nothing. Hence me coming on here to rant to no one. Good old no one, always not there when i dont need him. err yah

Annywho stupid Kim, such a ditzy idiot considering her wide range of insults are either to do with "being gay" "who says that" or something involving the fact that shes brown because everything naturally comes back to the colour of your skin (heavy sarcasm there folks). yeah well regardless today was pretty damn good i must say on Yurkos scale of good days. Firstly physics was a joke, boring but so damn easy (bloody pullen and his damn system of draw out each and every circuit). Spare was pretty fun, mocking Vino's amazing plan of inventing a "weightloss doughnut" yah well it basically made no sense when i heard it so i doubt it will make sense to anyone else. Regardless it was fun, had some good talkin with Jose and Jenn and such so its all good, esp now that ive discovered the greatness that is the Rolo "milk"shakes. The best part of the day by far though was in English; talk about the suprise of the century there folks. Basically we got those essays we wrote a while back well back and Mrs. Pacone comes up to me and says that my essay was phenominal, really well written and asked if she could keep it. Yah so somehow what i thought was a peice of crap that would be insulting to ones ass if utilized as toliet paper is actually a 90% essay. Man was i ever happy, plus the essay happily offset all the 70ish hamlet tests of late (damn hamlet). finishing off the day was social which is always good so basically it was icing on the cake. hmmm what else... Went and got a haircut which im sure no one cares about, went and bought Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes (gamecube remake of the original metal gear solid) which is turning out to be some damn fun sneaky ass spy action, should give me a nice amount of amusement for the long weekend.

Only other thing of note today was heading to the library. See i did this because finally it called saying that the book "Mort" of which i have had on hold for the last 6 millenia is finally in. so Jubulantly i head down to the library only to find that the one copy of the book that ive been waiting for to read forever is the complete book yes but for some ungodly reason its puny as hell. Now im not saying small as in a short book because ive got nothing against reading a short novel, im talking puny as in dimensions of 3inches by 3.5inches. The books so bloody small it fits in my pocket for gods sake, more so that even my wallet! Of course me being the stubborn fool that i am decide to laugh eye injury/strain in the face and keep the puny ass munchkin sized novel because well its the principle of things; after waiting that long im damn well gonna read it. So if you see me squinting a great deal in the future now you know why.

Yeah well im done, considering no ones really talking whos on and well im bored. So thats all for tonight other than the realisation that ive made that well ive got a rather funny looking face/head (damn my ears and round headness). Of course this again being something NO ONE cares about i shalt shut up
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The Amazing Boring Yurko

2004-03-17T17:00:00.000-07:00

Yurkos song of the day: Runnin' With the Devil- by Van Halen

"DAMN YOU OLD MAN!!"

yessirree folks this be yet another one of those posts known to a select few as "short". to the rest of you of course its know as "a crappy waste of my time, stupid yurko ifs hes gonna write something it should at least be long enough to warrant my time; damn bastard.." etc etc..... aaannnywho yah short one cause well nothin much to talk about.

Movin' right along yay for completion of the swimming. It actually wasnt all that bad, kinda dissapointed about how i did on the breastroke but hey its in the past so no worries. plus i survived all the events this year (unlike the year previous) so kudos to that. only downside is that no longer will i get the little amt of excersise that yurko greatly requires. on the upside however, i finally get the sleep that yurko so dearly requires and i am sure that everyone who knows me will attest i get kinda odd when im lacking of the sleep. Regardless tis done, hail some form of conquring hero or something.

Today actually turned out to be not as bad as previously predicted. The english reading thing didnt go to bad, flubbed a line or two but i got it in the end and suprisingly my voice came across as rather menacing, which i must say made me rather happy (now the real question is, can yurko act or does he just have a sore throat?). Yeah well appearantly i did good enough to warrant 15/15 on it so yays go to that, of course no way can i compare to what brian did but it turned out to be not that bad. What angers me tho is that i forgot that we also had to know the first 16 lines of hamlets "to be or not to be.." solioque (spelt that wrong but meh). yeah so that being the case and me not memorizing it i promptly blew that test all the way to the craphole. not a fun place down there but hey at least ill be able to make a much longer stay once i get my essay back at the end of the week (whoooo.....shoot me now)

Yeah somehow i was able to get all my soc done in spare, no thanks to jose and the damn milk bottle! hmm prob not a good sign that im so easily distracted. regardless i got all of that done, which was nice and i think i did a pretty good job on the quiz. (although im pretty sure "the mighty Hypno-Toads" {yes that is actually what i put as an answer, i was tired so sure me} is not a correct answer to one of the two parties involved in the rwanda crisis) but hey it all worked out to moderate sucess so thats good.
well i be done for today, that being all i had to talk about. So i will just re-iterate some key things; Beatles=rock GODS, Grad is going to bite seriously large chunks, Hitler was an idiot, and cafeteria onion rings cause cancer (well by cancer i mean a sore stomach)

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The Amazing, Boring Yurko

2004-03-15T16:09:00.000-07:00

Yurkos song of the day: Synchronicity I- by The Police

"Magic. Got it."

Ahoy hoy all, a short one today mostly cause i felt like bitching about the coming week and junk (hey sticking to the looking to the future slant ;) ).
anywho yeah i forgot to mention this but big thanks to Jackie for reccomending looking elsewhere for a good site template because well lets just say that without that advice the "new and improved" site would have been considerably more bland and well non interesting. So yah, cudos to u.
hmm what else can be said other than anywho.... err yah jeeze not lookin forward to the next 2 days. well first things first as u know ive got the load of crap that will be the swim meet. See i enjoy swimming per se but just like anything else, once competion gets involved all my incentive of doing it goes right down the proverbial crapper. Sadly im more worried about the fact that ive got a shat load of homework due wed that now has to be all done tonight due to afformentioned swimming. Basically it boils down to social and english. The soc isnt all that bad, considering well i like social and i cant see stuff on the UN making for a very hard quiz (after 2 yrs of model UN i would hope not). Whats gonna make wed hell is that weve got not only an english quiz on act 3 of Hamlet (which i can bs my way through like always) but this god forsaken piece of shit project. What is this u may ask? well that would be basically picking 5-7 lines from act 3, memorizing them and thusly getting up and bloody acting it out in front of the class. As im sure you all dont know, I HATE public speaking of any kind, and then you times that by infinity plus one when acting is tossed into the mix. jebus christ i am not looking forward to that piece of dog dung but hey im gonna have to do it regardless so why not just bitch and complain?
Also i have came to the realisation that grad is probably gonna bite, mostly due to the fact that everyone is putting such a god damn empahsis on it and when that usually happens it is of my opinion that it turns out rather crappy. Basically i find when no emphasis at all is put on anything its usually more fun; but nooo its "Grad" so all the shit of everything has to be put into it; and most of that has to do with finding a date for afformentioned grad. Well hey thats my own fault, but ive already griped enough about how i missed my chance by not going etc etc blah de blah and well i must hold to my promise of looking forward blah de blah. But yah basically thats all i had to say today, grads gonna bite, the rest of the weeks gonna bite, The Police kick ass (esp todays song, one of their finest i tells ya)

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The Amazing, Boring (still sick) Yurko

2004-03-13T20:37:00.000-07:00

Yurkos song of the day: Brand New Day - by Sting

Greetings and saluations all to the new and "improved" site of Yurkos stupid rambling. As i am sure you can all tell the layout is considerable different from the site of old. I would like to think that its a little cleaner, more organized and rather snazzy but hey thats just my opinion talking. All of the stuff found on the old site are still lurking around on here, although my only complaint is that the archives to older posts that no one reads anyways now has to have a link to a separate site but hey thats life, what ya gonna do. ummm what else.. Oh yeah, the comments part (recently renamed "Potshots at Yurko" ) is now found at the bottom of each post instead of at the top, this being a part of this new template; so hopefully you people who dont comment anyways will remeber to say somethin there even if it is located in a different spot that before. All the old links are still there, neatly organized into my usless sites that I frequent and friends sites. Hit counter is still there, as is the pointless guestbook that no one ever signs and i never read (so why its there i have noooo idea but hey it is ). The only really major new thing minus the fancy colours to grace the site is the chatbox dealie on the right hand portion of the site. Appearantly its some other form of commenting or something, yet again its a thing that came with the new layout so if you leave a msg there ok but if not i wont really care all that great of a deal. Personally i would prefer if you leave your coments in the tired and true comment system found at the bottom of the post but hey there aint much that i can do about it.

well thats enough talking about just the superficial parts of the site, now on to the life of Yurko latley. Well first things first swimming is coming to a close finally (yay) because god damn does it ever leave me exhausted for the rest of the week. Not really looking forward to the meet but hey its a conclusion to the swimming so thats always a good thing. Umm went to the car show last night, was pretty good fun esp all the drooling over the cars that im not gonna be getting for a looonnnnggg while (if ever) aka the beautiful Porsche Carrerra or the BMW Z4 (which sadly i cant fit in, damn my hight). But hey it was a good way to spend the night (TITAN!!). erhem yeaaahh.
Currently my musical obsession has been that of the Police. Damn good music i tells ya, damn good. Gotta love the 80's New Wave. Only problem is that what with having only 5 albums it kinda limits the musical greatness to not as many songs as say the Beatles but hey i still enjoy it. On that note of music i thought id mention this one online petition that a friend of mines cousin set up. Basically its to try and get Rush to come to calgary on their latest tour. Now i must admit that im not really the worlds biggest Rush fan but hey if they were to come i would definetly go and see them (esp if i got free tickets) but regardless if u like them or not it would help if you went to the site and signed the petition because any name helps http://www.petitiononline.com/ilr2122/petition.html .

Well during this week and a bit ive came to a few realisations. Firstly a while back i had one of those moments of almost total clarity that can only occur at 2 am on a tuesday night when your trying to get some god damn sleep... but yeah anywho i realised that well basically what happens in the past cant be changed minus the advent of a time machine but somehow i doubt that will come around for a while if ever. regardless it was a rather clarifying moment for me considering that i had been doing a great deal of bitching over what i should ahve done, what could have happened etc etc. With this in mind ive basically decided that well that life and time keeps on a going no matter what i do and well its better to look towards what i can do than what i should ahve done. This in mind i just think that i should also state that well no longer do i feel remorse and/or anger towards what i missed out on doing waay back at jenn's party. He had the guts and drive to ask what i should have and well i missed my chance and he took it so for that i tip my hat. Happy about it? of course not but well theres nothing i can do about it, she made the choice and well it all comes down to what will happen in the future.

Pretty sure there was some other stuff that i had planned on talking about but the fact is i dont remeber, im getting a cold and im damn tired. So methinks im gonna go lie down and watch Futurama Season 3 (which i happily just got today, yay animated goodness). So yeah this is the end of this for today.

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The Amazing, boring, rejuvinated (albeit sick) Yurko

2004-03-04T20:07:00.000-07:00

Yurkos song of the day: Bloody Well Right- by SuperTramp

9 Days and Counting

2004-03-01T16:06:00.000-07:00

yeah well i said that there wouldnt be anymore of this for a while but thats pretty much a guarantee after the crap fest that was today, like wholey fuck on yurkos list of total shit ass days this my friends this is pretty god damn high on the list, pretty god damn high.
first and foremost the day was off to a not bad start, swimming was suprisingly fun but well it went downhill fast from there. god for some unknown reason i was so fuckin tired after swimming i could barley keep my eyes open and that was AFTER coffee. so fuckin tired, and having a sub in physics who was incredibly boring did not help.

what was the killer of the day folks was just some added crap onto what was already a stupid stupid moment in yurkos recent history, taht of course being what he did saturday night (or didnt do for that matter). yeah so i find out that of alll the things ALL THE BLOODY THINGS that could have happened at that party it had to be the one bloody fuckin thing thats gonna piss me off for a good good while now. dear fuckin god if there was ever a sure fire example of a missed oppertunity THIS WOULD BE IT. what makes it all the worse is that well no matter what i say, no matter how much i bitch to myself and others, it aint gonna change anything. talk about a great thing to start the week off with eh? bloody hell, bloody bloody hell; and what irony considering the discussion i had with tony on the bus to school. ah well victor i missed it, there aint nothin that can be done now might as well just wallow in the pissed off mood

to add insult to injury after finding out all that crap i had to write an english essay, which turned out to be the biggest turd crapped out on a piece of paper since i took a dump yesterday. god such a peice of shit, if i pass the written this year on english it will be divine intervention, no less. and then to top it all off i head to social which is usually a highlight of my day but what happens? i find out that the god damn map that i worked on for 4 fuckin hours on sunday wasnt complete. so i had to mad scramble to finish the god damn thing, bloody bloody hell.
so yeah after this shit i doubt ill be in any mood to do this anymore, just felt like getting this rage of my chest for today but yeah for the foresabble future this = fin

2004-02-29T18:23:00.000-07:00

Yurkos song of the day: Can't Stop Losing You- by The Police

"Everybody's a jerk. You, me, this jerk."

yeah well here i am again typing up another thing. Just thought id come on to say a few things, mostly just a few responses; The upcoming halley barry crapfest known as Catwoman is a spinoff movie, not the same upcoming bat film i was talking about (and if it is a purple costume i will cry), my spelling i thought was pretty damn good considering how tired i was and how late it was so meh however i spell it thats how i spell it.
well i came to the realisation that last night i really really should have went to Jenns party last night. but no i had to be an idiot and use the excuse of no costume not to even try. why i did that, i am not to sure but its one of my stupider moments. like bloody bloody hell, an idiot i am

yeah well ive also realised that as of late the incentive to do these things has been lacking, all things considered i put a hell of alot of effort into this crap and for what? every time i get 3 or 4 comments about one line in what is usually at the least a 3 paragraph affair? yeah i dont know, its just kinda dissapoiting to put all that effort in and well not a great deal of incentive anymore for various reasons. this being the case i dont know, i might make another one of these in a while or something, then again maby not but well who knows if the incentive comes back i will if not well yeah i dont know

2004-02-28T00:26:00.000-07:00

Yurkos song of the day: I Whooped Batman's Ass- by Wesley Willis

"Its just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus. All year long the grasshopper kept burying acorns for winter while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. Then the winter came, and the grasshopper died, and the octopus ate all his acorns and also he got a racecar. Is any of this getting through to you?"

BLOOODDDYYY HEELLLLL ENMAX!!!!!!!!!!

god damn power outage, i was this close to finishing offf tonights post.. THIS CLOSE!!! but noooo they had to go and have a damn power outage and i lose every god damn word. AARRRGGGHHH!!!!! this angers me to no end! it was getting pretty good too, one of my better nonsensical rantings about nothing but now its lost forever because i cant even begin to recall half of the junk that i had said. GRRRRRR

siiiggghhhh..... ah well liff must go on as they say i had planned on hitting the old sack but jenn wanted me to make up another post so i being the soft touch that i am when it comes to forceful Family Guy requests (COMEOOONNNN) esp when i am tired, here we are: me typing, you reading and germany preparing to invade a small neutral country (yes i know stop with ze german bashing but hey ive been watching alot of stuff on WWII as of late {bloody social} so i find it amusing although no one else will) Basically to sum up a good chunk of what was in my last post, finished off my physics for the week, wasnt fun at all, english we are almost done Death of a Salesman which is a time to rejoice although now i have to write up an essay which is not a time to be happy at all ( i hate essays with a passion) annd social is social what can i say, although i must remeber to ask piitz something about the ruskies from the end of the war on monday (a question which occured to me whilst finally finishing up watching Band of Brothers {damn great series}).

Also been getting back into the reading as of late, mostly the works by my new favourite author; Philip K. Dick. Man this guy has churned out some greats. What got me on to his works was my reccoletion that the movies Blade Runner (one of my all time favourites) and Minority Report were both based off books that he had done. So recalling this (and having my handy calendar reccomend another one of his novels {same one that gave us the glory of Cheese Sunday :P}) I went to the good old libratorium and signed out "Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep?" the novel of which blade runner is based and of course "The Minority Report". Man are these great books, "Do androids.." in particular, never have i read a book so gripping and filled with such plot twists that you actually cant see them coming no matter how hard you think, but whats great is that there all feasable in the constraints of the book, not like some novels where theres a twist just for the sake of fucking with the reader. Damn good reads, damn damn damn damn damn good. On that note go and rent Blade Runner, id reccomend the Directors cut but either or are great movies.

On that note of great movies im not to sure if ive ranted about the movie Memento before but that is one sweet film. The whole concept alone is great, a man with no short term memory who has to go through life, while hunting the man who killed/raped his wife. But to then take the whole idea and run the film in backwards order, sheer genious i tells you, sheer genious. Its not a movie for everyone mind you, it does require a heavy amount of attention and thought but if you can get into it and like stuff like that then well its a great ride. Happily i would also like to mention that the same guy who directed the afformentioned Memento is the one whos going to be making the new Batman movie, which keeping my fingers crossed, will vindicate the greatness that is Batman (yes i know, i r loser) after the horrible crap fest that was Batman and Robin (damn you George Clooney, daaammmmnn yooouuu). but yes i digress.... well i have no where to digress to soo it looks like we are stuck now doesnt it?

well im running out of stuff to say, considering much of my creativity was pumped into the post that no one will see. grrrrrrrr. But yeah i just feel that i will end this off on a note of semi sadness. Mostly to due with the fact that i still wish someone would make a monkey island movie (although now it would just look like a knock off of Pirates of the Carribean..siiigghh) that and its really to bad that the adventure game genre has died and gone off to heaven. Lets face it folks, sure shooters and such are great fun (considering how many i own i can attest to that) but there is a certain charm to be had with the sharp wit that can be found in a greatly written adventure game. Especially those that came from the genious minds over at LucasArts. Well most of that can be attested to the genious that is Ron Gilbert. you look at all the great games that came from this guy and you will be hard pressed not to find a seething pot of witty goodness. From the monkey island games 1-3 (not 4 that was done by a different team, guys who did Sam and Max) to Full Throttle and Grim Fandango, each and every one was great fun to play through and equally witty in its greatness. This does bring up a tang of sadness though because LucasArts was planning on making an sequel to Full Throttle but sadly that got canned, ah well one can hope that the next Sam and MaX game along with the rumoured Monkey Island 5 comes out......
Yes well now that ive offically declared, branded and tried myself as a total loser/geek/idiot methinks that i shalt get me some much needed shut eye. soo..

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The Amazing, Boring Yurko