Happy Zack and Miri day! Oh yeah its also Halloween

Hey everyone! Zack and Miri comes out today! That right new Kevin Smith!! A whoo hoo! Can't believe how big an event a Kevin Smith film is with Kath and I. His films were one of the first things we bonded over. Kath and I are going Sunday and she's invited a billion people! Thats cool. Can't wait. There's also a Kevin Smith Batman mini series that starts in 2 weeks. Ah the geek in me is huge.

Jack is back!

Man I'm excited. There's a new 24 tv movie coming out next month! Saw a trailer for it today! On top of that saw a preview for the upcoming season 7. This is definately my favorite show and have been pretty much in withdrawl since the last episode aired in May of 2007. Stupid writers strike. As long as Keefer Sutherland shoots people and yells dammitt!! I think I'm gonna be pleased. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6whQylqa5Ko&feature=related


Man I cant wait. Its been a long time since I've seen Jack Bauer chop a dudes head off. Good times!

a couple Halloween memories

So halloween is less than a week away. I'm looking forward to taking Diana trick or treating again. Last year was her first time and she was a little shy but by the end of the night she was getting the hang of it. This year she is dressing as a princess and Kath and I will be dressed as Batman and Batgirl. I havent dressed up in years. I was thinking about some of my past halloween memories as a kid. Luckily I had an aunt who made me a lot of my costumes. Remember those old costumes where they would take a character like say Darth Vader and you would get the plastic mask with the string that held it up and the additional smock that would have the picture and name of the character? Lame. I never had to deal with the humilliation of those costumes. Also i seem to remember trick or treating until 10 or 11 at night. It seems like theres no kids out after 9 anymore. I remember one of the first times i trick or treated in the 70's. We knocked on a door and no one came out. I remember getting pissed and i kicked the door and exclaimed "I'm the six million dollar man!" The owner of the house came out and we ran. One year i was Superman but the lame thing was i had broken my arm. So i was superman with a big ass cast on his arm. Good times. Actually the last time i dressed was to go to a bar with my friend Dennis in the mid 90's. If you wore a costume there was a specific hour in the night where you could drink for free. We got the cheapest costumes we could find. I put on a mechanics suit and Dennis got one of those lone Ranger masks. They were the worst outfits in the place but they did the trick. I think we crammed 10 or 11 free beers each into that hour. I learned the hard way that a mechanics suit with no zipper is not the best thing to be wearing when you've had a ton of beer. So be responsible don't drink and dress like a mechanic. Happy halloween kids!

Long Live the Amigos!

Today at work a song I hadn't thought about in a long time popped into my head. The song? A ditty called Auntie Sylvia. If you havent heard of that song no worries, it was a song my friend Scott had written for his band The Raging Artichokes back in 1989. Thinking about that tune reminded me of the first time I heard it. Back in 1989 Scott and I along with our friend Colin were not the most popular kids at our school. We were't preppy or rich enough to fit in. We didnt mind though. We started calling ourselves the 3 amigos. Well it was cool at the time. Anyhow in the spring of '89, Scott made it into our school's battle of the bands. Colin and i showed up to support our friend. The odds were stacked against Scott. He was going to be playing almost all originals and would be steering clear of preppy favorites like Depeche mode and the Cure. These groups would be covered by just about every band that night. Anyhow Colin and i had been drinking beer for a few hours before the show and showed up just a bit tipsy. A couple of the cool teachers who were admitting us noticed but just laughed and let us in. We took a seat and the beer really kicked in. We were going to be ok as long as we stayed clear of our vice principal mr Vrieswick. He had a reputation of sucking the fun out of everything. We had secretly nick named him Indiana Vrieswick as he always seemed to be on an adventure when he would put an end to our good times. Anyhow about an hour in we had to use the washroom. Four pitchers of beer will do that to you. On our way out Colin went up to a blond female and commented on her breasts,i chimed in as well and commented they were nice. Unfortunately it turned out to be our writers craft teacher. Don't worry though she was cool about it when we appologized the following Monday. After we finished up in the washroom,who was waiting for us? Indiana Vrieswick himself on his own last crusade. He said he was tired of watching us stumble around all night and asked us to leave or we would be suspended. I started to protest. Scott hadnt been on yet and no way was i missing his set. Colin shut me up and told Indy we would leave. Of course he was lying. We hid in the upstairs girls bathroom for about half an hour in the dark. Then we snuck into the room where the spotlights were being shone an the bands. Also from this room the show was being recorded. Scott came out and kicked ass and totally rocked out. The preppy bastards in the audience as expected didnt care for his music and some boos were heard. Of course i decided i should yell my appreciation as loud as i could. This didnt sit well with the 7 a-holes lighting the stage and taping the show. They surrounded us and started telling us to shut the f up and asked us to get out. Colin looked at them and said "make me." Colin is about 6'5 tall and kind of scary but lets be honest 2 drunken guys against 7 sober guys? We were about to get our asses kicked. Apparently these guys didnt like the odds and one of them said "we better go get help." Remembering that we were facing suspension if we got caught by Short Rounds buddy Indy,we left. We hung around ouside for about 15 minutes until people started coming out. We figured we would ask who won and see what "cure" cover band beat our friend the 3rd amigo. We were pleasantly surprised when we heard Scott had won!! Good triumphed over evil! The Amigos ruled all!! What we didnt know was that in his victory speech he had thanked "the drunken duo" of Colin and Jay. After the show Indy had walked up to Scott and true to form attempted to ruin his night. He told Scott he shouldnt have mentioned we were drunk and went on to say he had kicked us out. Scott was a little surprised and shocked when we came running in and started hooting and hollering. I tried to high five him and fell on my ass. We managed to escape before Indy could find us and whip us. Anyhow it was a long story today. Its amazing the memories that came back today all because that song popped into my head. Cheers!

Thanksgiving is a special night Jimmy Walker used to say Dynomite

Well another Canadian Thanksgiving has come and gone. Really only one family arguement of note this year. Thats a record for our family i think. I couldnt help but remember my favorite Thanksgiving moment. It occurred four years ago. Kath was pregnant with Diana and we figured we would announce it to my family that night. We were trying to pick a good moment during dinner to make our big announcement. Somehow my sister and I had a disagreement about something and an arguement broke out. This was followed by my mom yelling at my step father and then my mom and sister yelling at my brother in law. Somehow i got out of the fight while evertone duked it out. I whispered to Kath "I think we better tell them our news now and end this war". I told everybody " hey i think i know what i can say to stop this fight,Kath and I are having a baby!" Everyone stopped shouting,mouths wide open not believing what they heard. It was priceless. Good times. And that was my favorite Thanksgiving moment, The end!

Countdown part 2

Oh yeah since I am a huge geek I am also counting down to the October 14th dvd release of Indiana Jones and TheKingdom of the Crystal Skull. I'm the only person I know that didnt have a problem with the movie. I guess people had a hard time with Indy meeting an alien. Oher than a couple of bad cgi shots of monkeys I loved the movie! Seriously it was so cool seeing Harrison Ford back in his most popular role. Well next to the guy in Random Hearts. I can only hope I look half as good when I'm 65.

The countdown begins!!

Good day and welcome to October. October is going to be great,especially October 31st. Not because thats Halloween. That's the day the new Kevin Smith move Zack And Miri make a porno comes out. What can i say I'm a huge fan of the man and have been since i first saw Clerks back in 1994. I totally related to that film as i also had my share of asshole customers on a daily basis. As a matter of fact Kevin Smith is one of the things that brought my wife and I together in 1999. We met each other on the internet and met for a date. We both agreed that if we didnt hit it off we would still go see the movie Dogma together. We did see it together and luckily we did hit it off well. Since then we've enjoyed Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Jersey Girl and Clerks 2 as well as his comic book work on Green Arrow and Daredevil. One time we were in the same room as Kev. Last year we went to a taping of the CBC show The Hour. Didn't get a chance to meet him but it would have ranked up there with our Fonzie meeting. I wonder if i should just skip trick or treating and go see the movie. I'm sure Diana would understand. Not.