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Number of Songs: 1217
Number of Albums: 291
Most Recently Played Song: The Fratellis "Flathead"
Most Played Song: Tegan and Sara "I Was Married
Most Recently Added Album: Where the Light Is

First Song Alphabetically: Jackson 5 "ABC"
Last Song Alphabetically: David Bowie "Ziggy Stardust"
Smallest Song Numerically: Kimya Dawson "5 Years"
Biggest Song Numerically: Sublime "40 oz. to freedom"

Shortest Song: "Oo-de-lally" from Disney's Robin Hood....what? That's normal....
Longest Song: "Down Once More" from the Phantom of the Opera

First Album Alphabetically: Across the Universe Official Soundtrack
Last Album Alphabetically: Your Favourite Weapon by Brand New
First Album Numerically: *cough* 8 Mile Soundtrack
Last Album Numerically: Sublime's 40 Oz. to Freedom

First Five Songs That Pop Up On Shuffle:
Ben Folds ft. Regina Spektor, "You Don't Know Me"
The Veronicas, “Revenge Is Sweeter Than You Ever Were”
Metric, “Collect Call”
NoFX, “Creeping Out Sara”
Loverboy, “Lovin' Every Minute Of It”

New haircut

There's a big part of me that is sure that I passed up my only shot at being truly happy, and I'm stuck settling for the rest of my life.

That thought sucks.

hiatus

The second you realize that you can relate to the fictional angsty boy billionaire love issues on a series that airs on the fuckin' CW...you need to take a step back and rethink your fuckin' priorities.

Which is what i'm doing.


peace out internet, i'll be back soon.

things of AWESOME

This is what I do in class when I should be paying attention. I find funny videos to post on my blog.

First we have the sheep. These are the most magical sheep I have ever seen. Not to mention the dogs. My god, whoever trained these dogs needs a medal. also, I wish I could get paid for manipulating sheep...wait...that came out wrong....




Second: Katee Sackhoff. Being adorable. AS always. I don't think I need to say more.



EDIT: This is what I do when I lose my homework the day before its due and it threatens my graduation...i find videos of joss being awesome and ignore my imminent failure as a person.



I'm sure i will add more things in between panic attacks. life is fun.

Best Conversation Ever

I just had the best conversation with Jeff about my Bowie obsession and how it defines my entire person.

and I quote:
Jeff: You wouldn't be Mugs if you didn't love Bowie.
I don't know what you'd be...
Just some weird little girl who should like Bowie, but doesn't.
That would be your whole identity!
And that's what everybody would talk about when they mention you...

Goalie fight

Sometimes people ask me why I like watching hockey. Sometimes I answer them with my serious voice. Sometimes...I show them shit like this:




The flying goalie attack is my fave.

I GOT IN TO VFS




that's all.

Why I Love Obama

Red Carpet Magistrate

Tomorrow is the greatest day of the year. It's my Christmas and Hunnukah and whatever other religious holiday wrapped into one. Yes ladies and gentlemen, it's Oscar night.

For those who don't know the Academy Awards trump all of my other obsessions. They trump comics and music and writing and fic and everything...I'd say movie but they sort of are movies...and I'd say Angelina Jolie but she's always there. ANYWAY...

So every year I throw an Oscar party. I can't remember the first one I threw. It was when I was young. Point is now I'm in charge. We have the same crowd every year: My younger cousin Danica, her mom Carolyn, my dad's cousin Brenda, my mom's best friend Sheryl, my sisters friend Kelly, my sister, my mom, me, and Beth. Beth is ditching us this year in favour of being on the other side of the country.

We gather in my basement, which I tend to decorate...my fave year was still when we dressed Buzz Lightyear in drag...ANYWAYS...we gather in the basement with food and ballots and sit and watch the whole thing.

I am aware that I'm the only one who takes it seriously. Most everyone else is more interested in what everyone is wearing than in who wins...and more importantly who deserves to win because they rarely coincide...the Lord of the Rings fiasco comes to mind.

The person who gets the most predictions right, also known as me, gets a prize and bragging rights for the whole year.

This year? Themed pizzas. That's right I have a pizza for Slumdog Millionaire, Frost/Nixon, the Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Milk, The Reader, and Doubt ('cause its the Streep). Have I gone overboard? yes, absolutely. But delicious pizzas are the result. Two sweet pizzas (dessert pizzas) and four savoury pizzas. I'm stoked. Everything is chopped and prepped and awesome.

As for my picks...this year I'm keeping them quiet. I've topped off at 42 out of the 50 movies nominated, two in foreign languages without subtitles...but I couldn't get a hold of the shorts. Still, it's four more than last year.

I'm stoked. I dunno if you can tell.

And it breaks my heart

I'm not a political person. But to quote Keith Olbermann, "this isn't about yelling and this isn't about politics. This is about the human heart."


"Fidelity": Don't Divorce... from Courage Campaign on Vimeo.

So when I created this blog I promised that I would never resort to angsty poetry or rants about my millions of crushes...I am only half-breaking the promise. No rants about crushes...and only one poem...and I wouldn't consider it angsty.
I hate posting my poetry. I don't write a lot and the stuff that I do write I'm never happy with. BUT, that being said, I was cruising my blog list when I read this, and it made me smile. And then my ego interrupted and reminded me that once, a long time ago, I wrote a poem that I'm quite proud of in the same vein and I thought that maybe someone might read it and smile. So...here:

A Nightmare kid I always was
screaming once the lights were off
the monsters 'neath my bed were real
on my toes their breath I'd feel
dark would seem extremely long
even though my nightlight shone
Monsters hid behind closed doors
Watching, drooling on the floor
Creaks of beasts kept me awake
Under the covers I would quake
Surely beasts would come and pounce
They'd gobble me up, ounce by ounce
Couldn't scream, not make a sound
Or from the shadows they would bound
Visions of terror danced in my head
Forever scared of waking up dead

Epic Christmas Mix

So, as I am driving home for Christmas with my mom after these blasted finals are done, she requested that we listen to only Christmas music for the whole drive. The drive home is 5 1/2 hours. So what did I do? I found five and a half hours of Christmas music. I think I repeat....two songs...if that. There are 102 songs, and actually it's over 5 1/2 hours...which is good because I can guarantee my mother will not like all of them. Yes ladies and gentlemen it just may be the most epic Christmas mix ever created. And because I'm a good person...and I'm avoiding homework I thought I would share this epic mix with you:

(In alphabetical order)
1. All I Want For Christmas – Mariah Carey
2. All That I Want – The Weepies
3. And the Angels Cried – Alan Jackson ft. Allison Krause
4. Angels Among Us – Randy Travis
5. Angels We Have Heard On High – Josh Groban
6. Auld Lang Syne – Marc Anthony
7. Ave Maria – Josh Groban
8. Away in a Manger – Reba McEntire
9. Baby, It’s Cold Outside – Bing Crosby ft. Doris Day
10. Believe – Josh Groban
11. Bells Are Ringing 0 Mary Chapin Carpenter
12. Bells Will Be Ringing – Bon Jovi
13. Blame It On the Mistletoe – Toby Keith
14. Blue Christmas – Elvis
15. Breathe of Heaven – Amy Grant
16. Carol of the Bells – Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
17. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) – Hanson
18. Christmas Don’t Be Late – Chipmunks
19. Christmas For Cowboys – Jars of Clay
20. Christmas in Killarney – Barra MacNeils
21. Christmas is All Around – Billy Mack
22. Christmas Medley – Nsync
23. Christmas Medley – Barenaked Ladies
24. Christmas Shoes – Alabama
25. Christmas Song – Michael Buble
26. Christmas Song – The Raveonettes
27. A Christmas to Remember – Kenny & Dolly
28. Christmas Without You – Kenny & Dolly
29. Christmas Wrapping – Spice Girls
30. Christmases When You Were Mine – Taylor Swift
31. Do They Know It’s Christmas? – Band Aid (Original)
32. Do You Hear What I Hear? – Whitney Houston
33. Donde Esta Santa Clause – Guster
34. Driving Home For Christmas – Chris Rea
35. Fairytale of New York – the Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl
36. Feliz Navidad – Jose Feliciano
37. The First Noel – Crash Test Dummies
38. The Friendly Beasts – Garth Brooks
39. Give Love on Christmas Day – Solid Harmony
40. Go Tell It On the Mountain – Garth Brooks
41. The Greatest Gift of All – Kenny & Dolly
42. Hanukkah Song – Adam Sandler
43. Happy Christmas (War is Over) – John Lennon
44. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas – Diana Krall
45. Here Comes Santa Clause – Gene Autry
46. Holly Jolly Christmas – Burl Ives
47. I Believe in Father Christmas – greg Lake
48. I believe in Santa Clause – Kenny & Dolly
49. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause – Jackson 5
50. I Still Believe in Santa Clause – New Kids on the Block
51. I’ll Be Home For Christmas – Josh Groban
52. I’ll Be Home For Christmas – Michael Buble
53. I’m Getting’ Nuttin’ For Christmas – Barry Gordon
54. It Must’ve Been Ol’ Santa Clause – Harry Connick Jr
55. It Wasn’t His Child – Trisha Yearwood
56. It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas – Johnny Mathis
57. It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year – Andy Williams
58. Jingle Bell Rock – Home Alone 2
59. Joseph, Better You Than Me – the Killers ft. Elton John
60. Last Christmas – Taylor Swift
61. Let It Snow! – Dean Martin
62. Little Drummer Boy – Jackson 5
63. Little Drummer Boy/ Peace on Earth – David Bowie ft. Bing Crosby
64. Little Saint Nick – The Beach Boys
65. Mary Did You Know? – Kenny Rogers & Wynona Judd
66. Mary Had a Baby – Bruce Cockburn
67. Maybe This Christmas – Ron Sexsmith
68. Merry Christmas Baby – Otis Redding
69. Merry Christmas Everybody – Slade
70. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays - NSync
71. Must Be Santa – Raffi
72. My Grown Up Christmas List – Kelly Clarkson
73. My Only Wish This Year – Britney Spears
74. O Come All Ye Faithful – Art Garfunkle
75. Oh Holy Night – Chantel Kreviazuk & Avril Lavigne
76. Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree – Brenda Lee
77. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer – Gene Autry
78. Santa Clause is Coming To Town – Jackson 5
79. Santa Clause is Coming to Town – Bruce Springsteen
80. Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy – Garth Brooks
81. Silent Night – Boyz II Men
82. Silver Bells – Stevie Wonder
83. Sleigh Ride – Amy Grant
84. Sleigh Ride – Barenaked Ladies
85. Someday At Christmas – Stevie Wonder
86. Something About Christmastime – Bryan Adams
87. Step Into Christmas – Elton John
88. A Strange Way to Save the World – 4Him
89. Thank God It’s Christmas – Queen
90. (There’s No Place Like) Home for the Holidays – Garth Brooks
91. This Christmas – the Temptations
92. What Child is This – the Judds
93. When Christmas Comes to Town – the Polar Express
94. When My Heart Finds Christmas – Harry Connick jr.
95. Where Are You Christmas – Faith Hill
96. White Christmas – Kenny & Dolly
97. Winter Wonderland – Tony Bennet
98. Winter Sleigh Ride – Kenny & Dolly
99. With Bells On – Kenny & Dolly
100. Wodnerful Christmastime – Paul McCartney
101. 364 days to Go – Brad Paisley
102. 2000 Miles – the Pretenders


Yep. What's Next? Dividing them into CD's. Homework be Damned.

UPDATE

So the headache scenario is either something really not serious or something really serious. Doctors are so reassuring that way. I went to a doctor ho actually took me seriously and did a bunch of really weird tests like "close your eyes really tight and i'm going to try adn open them with my fingers" and "make luke perry forehead hold it and then let it go" etc. And then he prescribed some fancy muscle relaxer thing and some painkillers which are making class quite enjoyable.

Then sent me for blood work and told me it might be some sort of mutant brain infection.

Sigh.

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If that's All You Will Be - You'll Be A Waste of Time

So as hard it is to pay attention and keep up with the ridiculous assignments that keep coming my way it is infinitely harder when I have a headache that simply will not go away.

I have tried the drugs. Of course I'm off the whole caffeine thing so i can't take any of the good drugs. But Advil is supposed to make head aches go away. So I've been taking it religiously for three days at every four hour mark, warning on the label be damned.

I've tried drinking a stupid amount of water with the inane hopes that it was a dehydration thing. It wasn't. And I had to pee for hours.

I've tried the pressure points which mostly just hurt and made it worse.

I have tried everything. Except the doctor. Because I don't want to sit in a waiting room for hours only to have a doctor tell me it's stress and to take some Advil. I swear I would punch someone.

There is nothing i want to do less than sit in the ER waiting room hoping to be taken seriously. Nothing.

At the same time. I would really appreciate if my head would stop pounding because I have assignments to get done and a midterm to study for.

in-class

Professional Prose is boring and lame. I really don't want to learn any more about professional prose or internal communications or annual reports. This is what I was trying to avoid by coming to writing school. SO onto PLAN B

PLAN B
I'm going to apply to graduate in April with a Diploma in Professional Writing, from what I've found it is just as good as having a degree.
THEN I work my ass of all summer at a job that I have yet to acquire and get some money.
THEN I move my ass to Vancouver to go to VFS which was originally plan A but got bumped in favor of a "real education" Well screw a real education, life is too short to not have fun. I mean really.

There are only a couple problems in my plan. One I don't have a job. Two I haven't actually gotten into the school yet. Which is daunting. The program requirements are: A 1-page (maximum) synopsis of a feature film or television project that you are passionate about making. Provide the film genre and utilize references to other movies to explain how you would make the film. Explain the concept, vision or idea. In addition provide a minimum of two and maximum of four other creative writing samples in their original form (no more than 20 total pages should be submitted).

I stole that from the website. Which leads me to another problem...i don't have a movie or script that i'm passionate about making. I mean I have tons. None that I think would actually work. Also explaining the concept the vision the idea....might make me vomit.

Ah finally a class break.

Instead of writing an Advanced Composition Essay...

So while I was looking for Kevin Smith clips from the show I found a few more awesome clips that have nothing to with Kevin Smith on YouTube. Also I found a site called YouPorn which I had no idea existed, but I won't post any of those videos...they were mostly creepy anyway. I mean if you can't get into real porn maybe you should just not do porn. That sounded way wittier in my head. Whatever.

OKAY so non-Kevin Smith YouTube video number one....

The day after the People's Choice Awards where Ellen DeGeneres won best talk show host Stephen Colbert opened his show with this, and then Ellen found it and put a clip on her show:



And I laughed for days and days and days. Especially when Ellen showed the clip on her show...made it that much better.

Non-Kevin Smith video number two:

HEY WAIT so Kevin Smith actually showed up on VMars. I mean he's not in the clip but still....not the point. The point is that someone on YouTube took two of my fave things and added them together to make one AWESOME thing:





Non-Kevin Smith Videos 3 & 4:

I always say that Tegan and Sara have the best onstage banter of anyone ever. So i found a couple videos to prove it. These are from an outdoor concert in Yellowknife that they did a few years back.



The second Tegan and Sara vid repeats a bit of the last video but wade through it, Sara screws up in the song and it makes me happy.



and now I head home for Thanksgiving to eat my weight in turkey and fixins. Hopefully I'll cram everyone in somehow, even though I'm only going to be home for a few days and going to see Deryk is kind of a priority. But yes so I will be home sometime around 7 probably...maybe 8. I'm super stoked to see my dog. I'll take pictures and post them. But just of my dog.

So I'm not a huge fan of putting stuff on YouTube, especially stuff that you don't have the rights to, so I'm not putting my videos of Kevin Smith on the internet. The video I took is for me so I can giggle when I'm depressed.

Luckily someone else did it for me. Of course the video quality is shit but whatever.

the first clip is of the "lecture" he gave when he walked in and was talking about Air Canada:



the second clip is a response to the question "What does 'spiritual' mean to you?" Apparently according to Kevin Smith it means praying right before the plane takes off:



While it's not much it's a little window into what that night was like all night.

enjoy!

Like A Retarded Kid LookIng At A Ferris Wheel

An Evening With Kevin Smith just ended and while I wish it could have gone on indefinitely I don't think my lungs could take anymore.

I have never laughed that hard. Ever. In my entire life. I laughed so hard I got light headed from lack of oxygen. At least I didn't pass out like the one guy who asked him a question. Seriously a dude passed out. Luckily three people caught him.

"You guys are like the Justice League!" Kevin exclaimed multiple times before deciding "Fuck the Justice League you guys are like Alpha Flight!"

The highlights are too many to count. And while i'm trying desperately to cling to all of the memories I'm sure I've forgotten a few. And I'm equally sure that they will come to me at the most inappropriate times causing me to burst into a fit of giggles.

I can't decide on a top story.

Maybe the story about how his miniature wiener dog got fucked by his golden retriever. "He didn't even really fuck her he wore her like a little doggie condom."

Maybe how when Harley admitted her knowledge of Zack and Miri's entire title (Zack and Miri Make A Porno) and they asked her if she knew what a porno was she replied "It's how you make a livin'"

Maybe about the benefits of convenience stores that deliver right to your bedroom.

Maybe about how when you're watching a movie on a 103 inch flat screen it's like you're in the movie. Especially Live Free Die Hard. ""cause i'm sitting there for the first bit chattin with Maclean and then all of a sudden a guy who looks just like me shows up. And i stand up and we're the same height..."

Maybe how he quizzed a gay couple about who was the top and who was the bottom and how much it would cost to get an onstage head-show.

Maybe how he coerced some kid into proposing to his girlfriend.

Maybe the one about how he smoked way too much weed and ate too much and got so big that he cracked the porcelain of a toilet seat. Not pulled it off of the water damaged wall, but actually cracked the porcelain. "Do you know how hard it is to crack porcelain without a hammer?" This was the concluding line to a story that described in-depth description of his wiping technique. HOw he used to pull front, like a chick, but his gut gets in the way now and he can't reach so he has to pull from behind. But it's an art in Kevin's case because he pulls one cheek to one side of the toilet and one to the other so the "shit can drop straight and not hit my ample ass cheeks". Then comes the first wipe where you get the big junk. Then comes a dig. yes a dig. "you wipe the toilet paper around your finger and dig. yeah that's kinda gay but if a chick wants to eat my ass I can be like, you'll have no problems down there."

I know I'm missing so much awesome. But my stomach hurts from laughing. I do have a few pictures and a super-sneaky video about Air Canada's revenge AND a t-shirt. But I don't know how to post videos and I'm too lazy to upload them.

I feel bad for anyone who wasn't there. Especially if they are fans of Kevin.

This man has no share-line. And I love every second of it.

EDIT: I knew I was going to forget a funny part: The first question of the evening was whether or not Jason Lee being a Scientologist had affected their relationship. So Kevin told us how he found out. They were sitting around before a reading for Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and they were shooting the shit, and Scientology came up. So everyone was talking about how they eat babies, and how at the final class you find out that you're and alien. And through all of this Jason Lee was just looking uncomfortable so Kevin called him on it and Jason Lee was like "I know a bit about Scientology and I just want you to know that all of that is wrong." and Kevin was like what do you mean? and Jason Lee was like "I just know a lot about it." and Kevin was being all nice and shit being like "Dude are you a Scientologist? Because if you are that's cool just let us know." And Jason Lee said "Yeah I am." And Kevin responded "Oh you fucking idiot!" and they don't talk about it anymore...