Here is the extent of my celebrity worship. This is for you, Michael and Michelle!
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Moremoreenough Intellijunk Litters Twitter
Yeah, I finally hopped on board the twaxi to twitterville.
Here is the extent of my celebrity worship. This is for you, Michael and Michelle!
Here is the extent of my celebrity worship. This is for you, Michael and Michelle!
Monday, May 25, 2009
Shatner, a fellow Aquarian, is really quite absurd!
Just found this little gem. Though a bit tedious in the beginning, I really began to dig Shatner's reflective/projective, Dickensian take on the song. Is that a herbal jazz cigarette he's puffing on?
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
So, what's in my mailbox today?
1. Bill from my telephone/internet service provider. I pay about $35.00 per month for 'enhanced' high speed internet, and another $26.00 for the land line running to my apartments telephone that asynchronously carries the direct internet line into my office.
2. Will it be me? Desperate plea to get me to buy a car from a consortium of car dealerships. "Hurry, even though we've said this during each and every sale, these deals won't last forever!"
You know what? These dealership barons aren't squirming nearly as much as I am without a job right now!
My advice is this: If you do not ABSOLUTELY need a vehicle RIGHT AWAY, keep your purse strings closed and wait until these dealers are forced to clean out their inventory once and for all. They'll have to PAY YOU to take their price inflated lemons off the lot! Otherwise, the deals do seem rather enticing!
3. Live near a freeway! More local lottery bullshit from Capital EX, the event formerly known as Klondike Days. I wasn't aware a 1,697 sqaure-foot bungalow was worth over $800,000 in this rapidly declining market - even if it is located in the "prestigious community" of Citadel. Seems an outrageously high price for a bungalow in Edmonton, but I suppose one would have to first see it to know for sure. Maybe it's that awesome. Oh, and they (the builders) went through all the trouble of including 'the latest in environmentally friendly features, like motion sensing lighting in the walk in closet and pantry, and a high efficiency gas furnace. Wow. Live in a hepafiltered, airtight bubble all winter! No thanks! I'll take slightly drafty with nice, highly efficient radiant steam heat any day. So much quieter, and doesn't blow stuff around. Well hey, I'm sure this Lottery home will be a very nice looking place when it's all finished, and part of the ticket money will go to a good cause as the draw happens to be sponsored by The Lions Club.
But what about conservation minded innovations of thirty years ago, like a solar heated water tank, or thermal heat storage in a sub-basement? Who cares! It's a Green Dream home located in a section of Edmonton that requires driving to get anywhere. Spend an hour of your day commuting between your place of work and your new environmentally concientous home!
"You can visit the dream home beginning in June at its permanent location - 371 McGrath Boulevard." It's supposed to be MAGRATH, not MCGRATH as it's written in the glossy pamphlet! Seriously, folks, you'd have to pay my property taxes to have me live in one of those McMansion neighborhoods. I think I'll keep the $35 entry fee and buy a couple of packs of smokes and a six pack instead!
4. Invitation from the Religious Technology Center, i.e., Church of Scientology, to detoxify my body and mind...but then what? Thanks, but no thanks!
5. Harper Mangled Everything! Return postage paid questionaire designed to fault the Conservatives for the 'economic crisis' from John Cannis, Liberal MP.
1. Bill from my telephone/internet service provider. I pay about $35.00 per month for 'enhanced' high speed internet, and another $26.00 for the land line running to my apartments telephone that asynchronously carries the direct internet line into my office.
2. Will it be me? Desperate plea to get me to buy a car from a consortium of car dealerships. "Hurry, even though we've said this during each and every sale, these deals won't last forever!"
You know what? These dealership barons aren't squirming nearly as much as I am without a job right now!My advice is this: If you do not ABSOLUTELY need a vehicle RIGHT AWAY, keep your purse strings closed and wait until these dealers are forced to clean out their inventory once and for all. They'll have to PAY YOU to take their price inflated lemons off the lot! Otherwise, the deals do seem rather enticing!
3. Live near a freeway! More local lottery bullshit from Capital EX, the event formerly known as Klondike Days. I wasn't aware a 1,697 sqaure-foot bungalow was worth over $800,000 in this rapidly declining market - even if it is located in the "prestigious community" of Citadel. Seems an outrageously high price for a bungalow in Edmonton, but I suppose one would have to first see it to know for sure. Maybe it's that awesome. Oh, and they (the builders) went through all the trouble of including 'the latest in environmentally friendly features, like motion sensing lighting in the walk in closet and pantry, and a high efficiency gas furnace. Wow. Live in a hepafiltered, airtight bubble all winter! No thanks! I'll take slightly drafty with nice, highly efficient radiant steam heat any day. So much quieter, and doesn't blow stuff around. Well hey, I'm sure this Lottery home will be a very nice looking place when it's all finished, and part of the ticket money will go to a good cause as the draw happens to be sponsored by The Lions Club.
But what about conservation minded innovations of thirty years ago, like a solar heated water tank, or thermal heat storage in a sub-basement? Who cares! It's a Green Dream home located in a section of Edmonton that requires driving to get anywhere. Spend an hour of your day commuting between your place of work and your new environmentally concientous home!
"You can visit the dream home beginning in June at its permanent location - 371 McGrath Boulevard." It's supposed to be MAGRATH, not MCGRATH as it's written in the glossy pamphlet! Seriously, folks, you'd have to pay my property taxes to have me live in one of those McMansion neighborhoods. I think I'll keep the $35 entry fee and buy a couple of packs of smokes and a six pack instead!
4. Invitation from the Religious Technology Center, i.e., Church of Scientology, to detoxify my body and mind...but then what? Thanks, but no thanks!
5. Harper Mangled Everything! Return postage paid questionaire designed to fault the Conservatives for the 'economic crisis' from John Cannis, Liberal MP.
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I was accosted last Sunday outside of the Money Mart on the corner of Jasper Ave and 108 Street. Some big dude noticed my camera strap hanging from the inside of my leather jacket and made a grab for it unexpectedly. He caught hold of just the camera's strap, while I had the video camera (Panasonic SDR-S7) in a death lock. A quick twist of my wrist saw me with the camera securely in hand leaving the agressor but with a loop of nylon shoelace! As you'll hear in the recording below, he was rather insistant about 'seeing' my video camera.
I could hardly believe this was happening! Me, in good spirits, and some thug trying to grab Graham's video camera.
The hand strap anchor for the SDR-7 is, lengthwise, located opposite the lens end of the unit.
Calmly, I say, "No man. Get away from me!"
Attacker becomes seemingly enraged!
It was a serious tug of war until I purposefully snapped the handstrap to get the camera out of this goon's reach!
While watching the video, try to imagine me, literally bouncing away from my attacker on my toes. Kind of hopping sideways down the sidewalk....you know, doing my best Mohammed Ali impersonation with the guy. I was just sort of loose fistedly jabbing my knuckles around his facial area after he decided to physically assault me.
Now, I like a bit of boxing or sparring if someone challenges me, but I was rather encumbered at the time, with my 1975 Fender F-95 Acoustic Guitar strapped on my back without a case, and didn't want to risk my inventory trying to best this douche bag, who also happened to be a good head taller than I. Fortunately, I'm light on my heels, have a long reach for my height, and was able to skip sideways away from him while quickly and lightly jabbing him in the face with my left hand. I wish you could've been there to see it!
Here you may see a slight bit of what I did manage to capture on video:
I could hardly believe this was happening! Me, in good spirits, and some thug trying to grab Graham's video camera.
The hand strap anchor for the SDR-7 is, lengthwise, located opposite the lens end of the unit.
Calmly, I say, "No man. Get away from me!"
Attacker becomes seemingly enraged!
It was a serious tug of war until I purposefully snapped the handstrap to get the camera out of this goon's reach!
While watching the video, try to imagine me, literally bouncing away from my attacker on my toes. Kind of hopping sideways down the sidewalk....you know, doing my best Mohammed Ali impersonation with the guy. I was just sort of loose fistedly jabbing my knuckles around his facial area after he decided to physically assault me.
Now, I like a bit of boxing or sparring if someone challenges me, but I was rather encumbered at the time, with my 1975 Fender F-95 Acoustic Guitar strapped on my back without a case, and didn't want to risk my inventory trying to best this douche bag, who also happened to be a good head taller than I. Fortunately, I'm light on my heels, have a long reach for my height, and was able to skip sideways away from him while quickly and lightly jabbing him in the face with my left hand. I wish you could've been there to see it!
Here you may see a slight bit of what I did manage to capture on video:
Friday, May 15, 2009
More fun in the works
"From game shows to alien potlucks, you're liable to find it here on any given day", said the lemur-like man-child hypnotist's apprentice.
Yes, that's right, folks. You're liable to find it here on any given day! To be truthful, I have no idea where this blog might lead. I suppose my number one primary objective is ultimately to ATTRACT FOLLOWERS. This is what many bloggers seek, but the ones who could care less about who reads them (not to imply that they don't appreciate their friends and readers that they blah, blah - you know what I mean) are the ones with the highest ratings and generating the most interest in their on line periodical. That's one key commonality of successful blogs. Consistancy. Periodicy. Delivery.Who wants to sit around digesting some do-nothing's tripe covered self-entitlement rants, especially when they're published under some chaotic, haphazardly intermittent schedule that only your friend 'Mustard' could ever hope to predict with any accuracy. Let's see now...I'll publish one post right after Easter, then another the following week sometime, then every day for a week leading up to may long weekend, then back to schedule A. Wow. So I have to forget about numbers and begin to focus my attentive higher-self on cool shit and stuff, like.
And I'm not talking about no Second Life either, which happens to be similar to a gaming platform I imagined would one day be a reality, when I was a kid playing games like Jumpman and Project Space Station on the old Commodore 64 computer device. Of course I had heard of World of Warcraft, but surprisingly, I hadn't heard of this Second Life shit until last weekend. And through an old friend who was visiting, was only made aware of it's existance just last weekend! Jesus, it been around since the baptism of Christ! - a friend of mine had said. Just kidding, but I was explaining to him about how I derive much satisfaction from writing in my blogs,
Yes, that's right, folks. You're liable to find it here on any given day! To be truthful, I have no idea where this blog might lead. I suppose my number one primary objective is ultimately to ATTRACT FOLLOWERS. This is what many bloggers seek, but the ones who could care less about who reads them (not to imply that they don't appreciate their friends and readers that they blah, blah - you know what I mean) are the ones with the highest ratings and generating the most interest in their on line periodical. That's one key commonality of successful blogs. Consistancy. Periodicy. Delivery.Who wants to sit around digesting some do-nothing's tripe covered self-entitlement rants, especially when they're published under some chaotic, haphazardly intermittent schedule that only your friend 'Mustard' could ever hope to predict with any accuracy. Let's see now...I'll publish one post right after Easter, then another the following week sometime, then every day for a week leading up to may long weekend, then back to schedule A. Wow. So I have to forget about numbers and begin to focus my attentive higher-self on cool shit and stuff, like.
And I'm not talking about no Second Life either, which happens to be similar to a gaming platform I imagined would one day be a reality, when I was a kid playing games like Jumpman and Project Space Station on the old Commodore 64 computer device. Of course I had heard of World of Warcraft, but surprisingly, I hadn't heard of this Second Life shit until last weekend. And through an old friend who was visiting, was only made aware of it's existance just last weekend! Jesus, it been around since the baptism of Christ! - a friend of mine had said. Just kidding, but I was explaining to him about how I derive much satisfaction from writing in my blogs,
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Advocate much?
Putting ads on my site. Wishful thinking. Looking at my own page I got a irritatingly nagging sensation from the "relevant" ads. I had to let them go.
You know, I didn't mind them when they represented interesting and useful products that I myself might use. Like Roland, or Hewlitt Packard, or Sony, or Panasonic. Or cool cars. But all those Nicorette ads were giving me a toothache! I don't mean to knock the product itself - it's great stuff to have in a bind, but sheesh! Pretty boring unless you happen to somehow be profiting monetarily from it, which of course, I was not.
I knew that placing the ads would be financially neutral and so I went for it, mainly to determine which advertisers would populate my abstract blog. Maybe I'm not setting the parameters correctly...I don't know. Advice anyone? Just leave them out, right? Is it possible that one of my previous postings referencing "pot" int the title somehow triggered disassociation from one of my former partners? So many questions! For now, I feel better off just begging you, my dearly appreciated reader, to contribute your valuable time by reading and won't you be subscribing to this strangely unfolding and therapeutic blog of mine?
Feel free to check me out on my myspace, more moreenough.
Anyway, back to work!
P.S. What's in your pipe that it is you're smoking? -Ad-cents
You know, I didn't mind them when they represented interesting and useful products that I myself might use. Like Roland, or Hewlitt Packard, or Sony, or Panasonic. Or cool cars. But all those Nicorette ads were giving me a toothache! I don't mean to knock the product itself - it's great stuff to have in a bind, but sheesh! Pretty boring unless you happen to somehow be profiting monetarily from it, which of course, I was not.
I knew that placing the ads would be financially neutral and so I went for it, mainly to determine which advertisers would populate my abstract blog. Maybe I'm not setting the parameters correctly...I don't know. Advice anyone? Just leave them out, right? Is it possible that one of my previous postings referencing "pot" int the title somehow triggered disassociation from one of my former partners? So many questions! For now, I feel better off just begging you, my dearly appreciated reader, to contribute your valuable time by reading and won't you be subscribing to this strangely unfolding and therapeutic blog of mine?
Feel free to check me out on my myspace, more moreenough.
Anyway, back to work!
P.S. What's in your pipe that it is you're smoking? -Ad-cents
My Space translation. Make any sense?
May 7, 2009 - Thursday
 | Current mood:Ecclisiastical Category: Blogging Уважаемый читатель; Вчера утром все, что я мог услышать были щебетание птиц и вертолетов whirring во вне моей высокий рост строительства. По большей части, моя улица очень тихо для находится только один блок вдали от крупных артерий путь через это столица провинции - в стороне от вечернего часа пик, конечно, когда каждый автомобилист, который в западном приводы для работы в центре города использует его для попасть домой. После четырех лет она, я довольно акклиматизировались на звуки большого города. Я даже приветствую его. Ну скорректирована энтузиазмом и даже в разы - это я, - по крайней мере в моем пространстве. Таким образом, серфер в ночное время, расскажи мне свои мысли на что-то. Завтра я планирую начать работу над двумя новыми рок музыка видео с нескольких горячих птенцов. Что вы думаете об этом? Ecclisiastically С уважением, Блейк Р. Мэтьюз |
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Time to Quit Smoking - You're a POT HEAD!!!
...or at least my affiliates would seem to imply. Not sure if here is where they'll find their target market.
Okay back from the reprise away from structure and form, presentation - correctness.
A beautifully warm day in sunny downtown Edmonton, I'm relegated to the confines of my office with the small humming deep freeze, and very little natural light shining in at this time point in the afternoon. Laundry to be done, and my back aching, I'm not going to be too harsh on myself for staying in. I'm prone to surrendering to reciprocating and negatively reaffirming thought cycles that I reference in forming a rationale that justifies my, " it's preventing me from doing anything constructive" mindset. Pure unadulterated nonsense. That's my thought process, but I strive to...yeah, sure.
Anyway, with this hog-flu going around, I figure that minimizing my contact with others isn't such a bad idea at this time. Lay low for a few days since I can. Maybe go for a run later this evening. I strongly suspect someone will make a point of stopping by the studio sometime this evening. Studio, ha! More like a cramped kitchen/bedroom/small couch that I've crashed in for the last four years. It's not bad for a single guy, but I'd like to be able to crank the guitars without fear of repercussion and a letter head under my door, and also to have room for more furnishings and thus entertaining.
Obviously I enjoy making videos and inviting people to look in on my evolution as a producer of ultra low budget presentations. I'm currently experimenting with video layering techniques in order to take full advantage of Windows Movie Maker's functions and effects by publishing short modules and reintroducing them into the editor. I'm sure I'm not the first to tread such ground, but I really enjoy discovering things on my own when possible. I find that in doing so, one gains a more holistic and fundamental understanding of the subject and is better situated to pass on knowledge of it; though lengthier is the learning process, it's necessarily more in-depth.
Something that amazes me is the fact that once you have a portal to the internet, you may never need another technical manual again! With experts around the world, virtually congregating in discussion forums to exchange ideas and information, all manner of technical issues are being continually addressed which in turn creates mountain covers of chronological help threads free for your perusal if you have the time. Who the hell does anymore? Damn teenagers, that's who! But using Google's advanced indexing, you can retrieve a solution to almost any technical problem ever encountered, be it electronic, computational, biological...incredible in it's immediacy!
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Pat and Aubrey are two Edmonton police officers who run a radio talk show on Saturdays. I don't listen religiously, but I've caught them a few dozen times over the last few years, and must say I get the odd chuckle from the guys' banter and their particularities about their individual tastes when it comes to food, music, and culture. They're quite complex fellows involved in what to me seems as a strange life's calling - being radio talk show hosts! The nerve! But when you think of it, city cops always have great stories about the strangest and most terrifying aspects of human behaviour.
Friday, May 1, 2009
"Moremoreenough" produces new video featuring edmonton rappers
Hey folks;
Can't recall what I said in the last posting, but I'm glad to report that all is well for now on the home front - at least for now. Unfortunately, throughout my young life, I've too often allowed my (decidedly maybe?) impending sense doom rob me of good feelings. Though I watched Mr. Rogers as a child, I've always had trouble making each new day all that snappy!
It's good to count one's blessings in life, and despite my sometimes horribly cynical outlook on life, and though I strive to find increasingly optimistic engagements from a social standpoint, my disposition invariably returns to one of brooding negativity. More than ever before, I feel awfully concerned about our collective, immediate futures as inhabitants of this world.
THAT being said, here's my latest video. Hope you enjoy it and thanks for stopping in.
Can't recall what I said in the last posting, but I'm glad to report that all is well for now on the home front - at least for now. Unfortunately, throughout my young life, I've too often allowed my (decidedly maybe?) impending sense doom rob me of good feelings. Though I watched Mr. Rogers as a child, I've always had trouble making each new day all that snappy!
It's good to count one's blessings in life, and despite my sometimes horribly cynical outlook on life, and though I strive to find increasingly optimistic engagements from a social standpoint, my disposition invariably returns to one of brooding negativity. More than ever before, I feel awfully concerned about our collective, immediate futures as inhabitants of this world.
THAT being said, here's my latest video. Hope you enjoy it and thanks for stopping in.
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