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Dec 12th
along with crystal castles, this year was all about the technostalgia. here, a plucky young lad from scotland remixes radiohead’s “nude” to create a four-part audio-visual symphony: an 8-bit home computer that came out the year i was born, a scanner, a dot matrix printer, and a bunch of hard drive speakers.
another year
Sep 2nd
in what was supposed to be my first september without school, it is now the night before school starts. for which will be grade 21? is that math right? wow, i am a lifer. and lookin at another 4 or 5 for a phd? though now i’m actually in more of a limbo than another proper year of school. my department was in need of another teaching assistant, and my supervisor wanted me to be his research assistant, copy writing for his book series, and my thesis was coming along, but it would have been hell to finish it by august, so i’m a ubc’er for another term (maybe two, i kind of really like being a TA so why not). once i decided i was staying on, the thesis work became almost non-existent. instead, the priority shifted to poutine. figured i would use my magical free flying powers (meg i luv youu) to go to montreal and home again, and since i was checking out mcgill and concordia as potential phd schools, i can rationalize 8 days of visiting friends and boozing as a ‘working holiday’. bri and dal showed me around their envious school and city, despite all their own thesis prep/stress. much thanks..
my battery charger was lost, so i didn’t take my camera, but dallas was there to capture all of the beer-hotdog-and-poutine-fueled sacrilegious, picnic-in-the-park good times.
photo credit: dallas @ rationalpassion.blogspot.com
and then i went to ontario, mostly for paige’s party for mobilemoment.ca, which she booked annie to dj. my favourite part was when she played flat beats.
and annie has a new album, “don’t stop,” which is really good. the indie world has its kylie minogue.
good bye, rudy tuesday
Feb 6th
yeah i stole that from somewhere, big whoop, you wanna fight about it. i’m still torn between hillary and obama, and i think it comes down to pragmatic rationality (clinton actually having experience with the painfully debilitating bureaucracy of transnational democratic capitalism and maybe having a chance of navigating it) and charismatic hope (obama who might actually inspire people, and not being such an easy target to the republican attack machine). but with regards to the whole race-gender thing, isn’t it great that hillary is in many ways the cold-hearted, rational one (traditionally ‘masculine’ traits) and obama the emotional, irrational one (traditionally ‘feminine’ traits)? either way, whoever wins would be foolish not to pick the other as their running mate. for the sake of the fuckin planet they better run together.
but holy fuck did the world dodge a bullet with giuliani dropping out, that man is a nutbar:
i don’t know the ins and outs of the criminal justice system, but isn’t this a hate crime? i don’t mean just in it’s absurd racism with its characterization of “a perverted people”, but in its shocking depravity? like that is some messed up shit.
and giuliani was considering cheney as a running mate! fuck! cheney is like some sort of unkillable super-villain… in alien versus predator versus cheney, alien mother’s blood might be slightly more acidic than cheney’s, and predator is maybe slightly uglier, but cheney will shoot you right in the fuckin face, man.
so mccain looks to be the republican nomination, and even though he’s all pro-iraq and pro-tax cuts for the rich, i kinda have a soft spot for the dude for being somewhat of a moderate (by republican standards), not being a crazy evangelical (at least not yet), and for giving a frank interview about the military-industrial complex in why we fight.
man i wish canadian politics were this exciting. dion and harper are such a bore fest. and while i think layton is quite dynamic (especially after having met him and watching him in action), he’s not lighting any fires either. there are certainly some advantages to our boring system, in which policy is given more priority than personality (as chomsky says, in the american system, “The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television”), in an era of increasing political apathy, we need some new blood in canadian politics. this is no country for old men.
best of 2007 again?
Jan 29th
a commenter (i should say, “my favouritest commenter ever”) made my list of fav songs into a handy zip file, which is like, y’know, totally rad. here’s some more of my favs, plus the rest, in a handy seeqpod (my fav new website) playlist:
(did that work? i find it works better in ie than firefox, for some reason)
music videos are a dying art, but some mighty fine death throes in 2007
i get bug nightmares (where as my brother, as some sort of entomologist probably has wet dreams about them), and this freaked the hell out of me
and then things get complex, as they are want to do
2007 was also the year i finally took some people up on their “the wire” promise, and now i’m a megafan. buy the dvds, or download them, just watch it. you live in a city in the 21st century? then yes. and the new season, woo-eee, mcnulty’s on the sauce, omar is righteously pissed, snoop is, well, snoop. feels like history in the making.
look who’s stalking 2: the wreckoning
Jan 28th
i write this post because no one responded to my call for more sharing, so at least one of you fuckers better start using del.icio.us and then add me as a friend (or digg or last.fm or whatever). or leave your username in the comments section and i will add you… god you’re so lazy, anonymous reader.
and also i write this post because i’ve discovered the perfect metaphor for social networking sites: the reverse peep hole!
“Our policy is, we’re comfortable with our bodies. You know, if someone wants to help themselves to an eyefull, well, we say, ‘Enjoy the show.’ ”
c’mon friends (ian, jeff, biggie, brian, sioned, megs, sarah, anyone?), i wanna read what you think is worth reading, listen to music you think is worth listening to, and such and such.
had we already been e-friends, you could have read excellent essays on the age of ambition (nyt op-ed), age of consumption (nyt op-ed by jared diamond, author of guns germs and steel), and age of quirk (atlantic).
so alberta’s fuckin up
part 1: vice documentary series
part 2: globe and mail – “shifting sands”
don’t worry, alberta has a plan.
2050! 2050! that’s so awesome. it’s such a good idea, you better go
lobby to retain u.s. interest. deja vu.
hey ian, what the fuck?
good thing ol shark eyes gives a shit. the liberals should run on just reminding canadians harper earned us the fossil award, and is an utter failure when it comes to environmental policy, just like his backwards province. they should be taxing the shit out of Sunco and Syncrude. harper’s “Climate Change Technology Fund” only takes $15 per tonne, starting in 2010, while the “National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy” said that if canada wants to meet its pledge to reduce Canadian emissions by 45 to 65 per cent by 2050, it would have to be $190 to $240 per tonne.
i wish alberta would just leave canada, and then the only window into their country was thru a hilarious reality show based on the hills… just need some dumb young spoiled kids (hard to find in calgary, i’m sure), a theme song by a “hot new indie band”, perhaps “a lesson in crime” by tokyo police club would be appropriate… coming to cbc this summer… the tar sands…
look who’s stalking
Nov 2nd
narcissism bad!
sometimes i feel like the internet, more specifically living thru an avatar on the internet, can be pretty self-indulgent (uhh duh, i run a site that’s my own stupid name!), so i think i’m gonna stop the whatever-i-feel-like-writing posts, and just stick to photo-stories. and though i should have some sort of writing outlet other than all the academic mumbo-jumbo i do in school*, i’m not feeling much like writing these days… especially about myself…
* did i mention i’m writing the book on soderbergh? literally: me and “my colleague” (aka my buddy colin) got a book deal to write the book on steven soderbergh (there’s no book out on soderbergh yet, so it technically is: the book on soderbergh). anywho, so that’s happening. in 2010.
and yeah, maybe facebook killed the blogstar. in the very least, i spend enough time on the book of faces, i don’t need a blog to eat my time as well…
narcissism good!
in slightly less self-indulgent, slightly more sharing-is-good! news, i’m linking to all the social networking/sharing sites that i use, so you can stalk me share your favourite links, photos, videos, and music with me. seriously, use these websites if you don’t already, and then add me as a contact. share baby!
delicious (share links) – del.icio.us/adewaard
digg (rate links) – digg.com/users/andrewdewaard
flickr (share photos) – flickr.com/photos/andrewdewaard/
youtube (share videos) – youtube.com/profile?user=walkwithastagger
last.fm (share what you listen to) – last.fm/user/adewaard/
i am familiar with the works of pablo neruda
Jun 1st
If travel is searching
And home has been found
I’m not stopping
I’m going hunting
finished my paper (apparently to be published) and saw bjork and arcade fire on consecutive nights. i lost my shit to declare independence and no cars go, respectively. thankfully, youtube captures these moments. this one is a tad short, but gives a glimpse of the bjork insanity
(hyperballad was incredible too, and a much better video)
and i like to think one of the bony girl arms you see waving around in this video is mine
i also just got back from a 5 day trek to saskatooon to drink beers and talk rhizomes with fellow “colleagues” at a conference. now im off to south america to drink wine and have a beard competition with this jerkoff. the summer of dewaard is in full effect.
I’m the hunter
I’ll bring back the goods
But I don’t know when
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