i saw michael moore's farenheit 9/11 last night. it was a great movie in my opinion, although it seemed editorialised to a fault at times. but, this does not take away the anger, and feelings of betrayal i have for the US government. OK, betrayal is a stretch - i guess you have to be loyal before you're betrayed. the most outrageous things i noticed:

the bush family ties with the bin laden family
the soldier who said what a rush it was to listen to music while killing people
the corporate scandals that have caused this war for oil
the mindless and blatant disregard for human life and family
that a republican regime that has created so much poverty over the last 20 years, now calls on the impoverished sons to join the military and fight to protect the ideal of american life, which because of the economy they will never enjoy.

i move to impeach.

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i just heard about a fellow cyclist getting hit by a car, and losing her life. i promise to wear my helmet A LOT more when biking around town, no matter how lame it looks. that's no longer an excuse.

r.i.p. lady k. as it went for us at Start!, i never met you, but i think you look familiar.

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this weekend was fun. on friday after drinking with teh CL peeps beck and i headed over to the paradise rock club to catch a band her friend was seeing from work cause we were on the guest list. this hobbirle WB / FOX drama ally mcbeal soundtrack type stuff was playing (i won't mention the chick's name, cause it seemed like she'd rather be playing something different). it was bad, but the beers were there, and it was comfortable i guess. we ventured to the bathroom where after doing our business we heard none other than quiet riot's c'mon, feel the noise. it turns out that none other than kevin dubrow was playing that night with his backup band. we "snuck" in (it was late) and caught the rest of the show. AWESOME stuff. metal felt good again. there was a long blonde-haired floozy dancing in front of us, and my inner 13 year old probably popped a woody - i don't know, as it was so high from sniffing gasoline in the garage for the lawn mower. saturday was the usual at great scott for "the plan". saunday we biked all over the city after i further fixed beck's bike up.

today there was a company sponsored thing i had to go to call LIEB - leadership is everybody's business. it was line after line of empty corporate buzz words brought to you by the tom peters company and wrapped neatly in a powerpoint presentation complete with bottled water and "bio breaks". in the afternoon they made us climb trees and walk across ropes. it was scary. i don't like heights like that. i don't like corporate buzzwords being shat at me. i especially don't like the two simultaneously.

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kicking my ass around. it is stealing away my youth! i want to be drunk on robin's couch on the cape for july 4th again. not so much this year (although i'd go) but last year. that was so much fun. so much fucking fun. tonight i went over to ricardo and meghan's, and ended up with 6 bottles of booze, and my old acoustic guitar that jenny tse had given me back when i lived 153 brighton ave.. i knew that kara wanted a guitar to play around on, so i got over to her house afterwards, and gave it to her. we had a cigarette, and chatted, and i was out. along the way to kara's i called dana and jess to see if they were up for anything, but it seemed like there wasn't anything really going on. dana's good to have as a friend i decided. it's been too long since the last bout of weirdness for me to have any more problems with her. it's cool. i want to cut my hair again. i'm debating going completely bald - just for fun. but i know i'd catch hell from becky if i did, plus i do kinda want to keep my hair for a little bit longer. all in good time, i'll be naturally bald ;) i just haveto be patient.

biking was very good today. it went surprisingly quick, and i realised i am having more energy to bike around now. after 3 weeks i am able to keep a good pace up, and i think i managed to raise my average speed to 16 mph, from 15.4. tomorrow i'll do both ways - so i better get to bed soon. i'd be lying if i said i didn't miss that around a year ago - or even 6 months ago, i was probably at the model or the sillhouette getting drunk with my friends. i miss that, but that topic is getting old i think. another good thing happened while i was biking home today. i felt like a kid again. i felt like i used to biking around pretending i was a jet pilot or something. the trees were clouds, and i was zooming over the landscape. i didn't know shit about the military back then, i guess.

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it's wednesday nigth and i'm home alone. i miss "the scene". i miss mod night. i miss going out on wednesday to a crowded dance floor, and having it all be so new. all of it, so new.

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i love biking to work and back.

cars to me are a whole different animal now. when i was driving (like 3 weeks ago) i could identify several discerning features of cars. now, they seem like they're all the same. sometimes i'm on the train and all i see are streaks of colour passing by, all with black windows, encasing their drivers deep within. biking has been great. i have energy all through the day, i'm in a great mood, and i'm feeling a lot more healthy than i did. i can even go out drinking on nights before, and feel better when i get to work. of course, i can't do that too often. but that was true before too.

when i biked in critical mass last friday, i heard one guy chanting to the people on the sidewalks "biking makes you smart." i think he was on to something. when i was in high school, i had to bike everywhere. i didn't own a car, and while other kids were driving in their new cars, i had to pedal my way everywhere. well, it did three good things fo me. i grew some nice thigh muscles, which have reamained good base muscles that can emerge whenever i need them, it taught me humility, but most of all - it made me smart. i guess it was more generating character than anything, but when you have a lot of good time on your hands to think by yourself - bitter and disenfranchised by your driving peers - your mind gets working on overtime, and some pretty good ideas come to mind. of course, if you can remember them.....hmmm....

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if you are a boring person, but feel compelled to blog everyday, this may be of some help:

annoy your friends

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