In a Faerie's Mind

Only 2 More Days

marcutio — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:17:18 GMT

What really gets me irked is when I come in at 9am, after having stayed a little late the night before, and offered to stay later to get things under control, and finding out that I have to copy and bind two 100 -age documents 5 times each, and have them served on people all over downtown Ottawa, by noon. They couldn't have had me stay late last night to deal with at least the photocopying? I think they could have, and should have. This deadline isn't a surprise or anything, I was told it would be no problem. And this after I constantly complain to them that they aren't giving me enough time to realistically do this work and do it to the BEST of my ability.

Then I get shit on when a small mistake is made. "Why are Exhibits X and Y on the same tab?" "Well, maybe it's cause the tab says 'XYZ' on it, and I felt that was clear enough, as did you last night..." "Or maybe it was because I didn't want to waste an entire other package of tabs just to get ONE tab out to make a new one for that Y Exhibit?" It's not life-changing. In fact, it doesn't affect anything in this case except for your goddamn sensitivities...

And then, making me rebind two entire booklets just because the title page on our own working copies were incorrect - "No, scratching out the incorrect title and writing the correct one in pen could cause confusion." Fucking dumb fuck.

And worse... "Wait, does this mean that all the ones that went out to parties today were like that?" No, it didn't. It meant that because I was in such a hurry this morning - your fault - I sort of threw everything I didn't need to get to people right away in a pile on my desk. When I grabbed the stuff to make our working copies from, I grabbed the wrong title page. Gods forbid. Too bad I'm human right?

I know I'm just bitching for the sake of bitching, but goddammit I'm so happy that I won't EVER have to step foot into this god-awful place after Thursday at 5pm.

Just a bit of fun!!

marcutio — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:04:45 GMT

Okay... One more...

marcutio — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:26:38 GMT

Alright, so I know I just bombarded you with a bunch of stuff, but I just discovered this, and had to share...

Firstly, I discovered this through the Blogotheque website, a site I just discovered today (thanks to The World Forgot.

So, a little bit of backstory... There once was a group called The Rockets. These guys do Synth/Space Rock, and it's said that The Rockets inspired Daft Punk and other such bands.... Quite interesting to find out that there was a Daft Punk before Daft Punk.

Here's a The Rockets video, just for kicks (they are quite fun!):

Anyway, so the band was produced by a guy named Claude Lemoine, and eventually faded out after getting wildly popular in Italy, and releasing five albums... In the 90s, Claude Lemoine thought it would be great to combine Eurodance with a child's singing... You can see how this is going to be slightly funny, yeah? So he grabs his little 4-year old son, and has him sing 'Dur, dur d'être bébé' ('It's tough to be a baby') and mixes it in... Turns out to be rather hilarious and fun!

From Wikipedia:

"Jordy is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest singer ever to have a #1 charted single. He achieved this feat at the tender age of four-and-a-half with the song "Dur dur d'être bébé!" ("It's Tough to Be a Baby"). "Dur dur d'être bébé" was #1 for 15 weeks in France and was a dance hit across Europe, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia and Japan. It landed at #58 on the US charts....However, in 1994, the French government banned six-year-old Jordy from television and radio, out of concern that he was being exploited by his parents. Rumors of exploitation were furthered when the Lemoine family opened La Ferme de Jordy (Jordy's Farm), a children's tourist attraction which was a financial failure. In 1996 Jordy's parents divorced; he returned to school and was later emancipated."

"On February 28, 2006 he released his first new single in 12 years, "Je t'apprendrai"."

Too good, yeah? LOL

Updates and Music

marcutio — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:28:53 GMT

So... I spoke to my work people yesterday and quit my position. If i don't get one of the other positions I'm waiting on news from before April 17th, I'll be taking a paycut to go back to the PSC. And I've never been so happy to potentially take a paycut. I need the eff outta here, and I'm finally getting out!

The apartment is still fantastic, though living downtown comes with its own downsides... When it's easy to get to all the bars and such, well, you catch my drift! :)

Still waiting to hear back from DFO, and finally people at Finance are doing what I need them to in order for them to pull me into positions there. So stuff is moving.

Partied wildly this past weekend cause I got my backpay cheque. Yes, I probably should have put a chunk of that towards debts, but I decided, well, that I didn't want to. And I had a freaking wonderful weekend because of it! Friday saw me at Dean's for a while, then Rob and Chris' for Rob's little birthday bash, and then off to Strandherd for a party with Alex Vlad's high school buddies.... And then back to my place for the rest of the night and morning... Saturday had me sleeping all day, then off to Erica's to welcome her back to our country... I always enjoy those parties, if only to see the people I haven't seen in ages. I WOULD very much like to reconnect with some of the other people who haven't been showing up to those parties, but I think that may happen sooner rather than later.

I saw Nich the other day. The guy completely cut me out of his life about a year ago. Seriously, took me off his Facebook friends, stopped returning calls, stopped returning messages, blocked me on MSN. Was weird to see him, with other friends, so forced to stand there and listen to us chat. Wonder whatever the heck possessed him to do that.... Again, I suppose. Guy can bite me.

Anyway, life's mostly positive, so I'd like to stay that way too!!! .

Here's some more music I recommend you all take some time to check out!

Scouting for Girls - I Wish I Was James Bond (Sorry, they turned off embedding... so annoying)

This next one's a little older (a year old or something) but it's still one of the greater ones! :D Yelle - Je Veux te Voir... And besides, who could not like that Happy Face shirt, and girls working out to fun music?

I recently discovered this song... Two of my favourite mainstream artists - Alicia Keyes and Jack White (from White Stripes) - get together and, as I'm sure you can imagine, create beautiful music! Alicia Keyes & Jack White - Another Way to Die.

I visit this music blog called The World Forgot that I rather enjoy. Always very interesting music posted by its author. That being said, he recently posted about the Arcade Fire. My favourite part of that post - the collaboration between David Bowie and The Arcade Fire on Wake Up. This is like super old news, I remember reading about this collaboration when I discovered Arcade Fire for the very first time. Bowie's pretty much always been a fan of the bad... Anyway, it was neat to actually hear the collaboration, and I thought I would share it with you.

CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT THE POST ABOUT THE ARCADE FIRE

The fourth link in the post is the Bowie collaboration. Highly recommended! If you take some time to read the comments below the post, you'll notice a link to HERE where there's a video of The Arcade Fire preparing for a show and doing Neon Bible to warm up and yet another version of Wake Up as their first number in the show. Kind of makes me want to see them live.

Some Old, Fun Things...

marcutio — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:24:06 GMT

Anyone remember the old YTV shorts? Here's a few fun ones for remembering!!! You can't help but love 90s 3D animation!

Those are all great, but this one is the BEST!!!!

Job Interview!

marcutio — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:58:45 GMT

So, I got up about 15 minutes before my job interview this morning... Ooops!!! I did make it on time, though. Hooray for living 10 minutes away from everything! Yet again, living downtown is tha BESTEST!

Anyway, so I had an interview for an indeterminate AS-02 position with Department of Fisheries and Oceans, as previously mentioned. It went extremely well, as far as I'm concerned. I've found, however, that it's tough to do an interview and to relate to a job where you do nothing of substance besides photocopying and filing. I ended up having to refer to a position that I held three jobs ago mostly... Luckily that job had me doing some pretty interesting things, so I was able to give great examples and answers to all their questions.

I should find out in a couple of weeks or so how it went. *keeps fingers crossed*

What Am I Listening to These Days?

marcutio — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:10:08 GMT

Been a while since I've posted any new music.... I have recently discovered some rather great groups that I thought I would share with yall!!!

The Ting Tings

I love me Indie chick bands... These guys are like a mix between Rilo Kiley and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs... Or nothing like that... You decide!

(it won't let me embed the video, so you'll have to deal with this link instead)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-E8UlrF_9o

Coeur de Pirate

Yes, it's French music, and it's soft rocky.... But I just can't get enough of this young lady's voice, and the piano accompanying is absolutely beautiful! Another great song by them is called Corbeau.

Fleet Foxes

These guys are like Coeur de Pirate if the lead singer was a man, and if they smoked way too much weed. Or something... I dunno, but there's something about this song that makes me think of sitting around a fire with my family and singing those crazy old campfire songs... Their sound is somewhat reminiscient of Animal Collective with maybe a bit of The Beetles thrown in for good measure, which I do rather enjoy, and hope you will too!

Natalie Portman's Shaved Head

Yep, that's the band's name. These guys are like a group of High School kids having fun being ridiculous, and they're TOTALLY FUN!!!! The song I've posted is Sophisticated Side Ponytail, and that's all I should have to say. I mean, with lyrics like "I like it when you say you're gonna beat kids up, that's so hot! That's so hot!" is it even possible to go wrong? Their song, Beard Lust, is my new theme song.

Thunderheist

So I'll be honest... I'd never heard of these guys until just now, but the song has potential to be a great dance anthem (if it isn't already somewhere) and the video for Jerk It just made me crack up.

Deer Tick

I heard about these guys on www.theworldforgot.com , which is probably the best music blog I've stumbled across on the internuts, and I just couldn't help but to share with you guys. They have the kind of sound you'd want to hear in a small pub while you're pounding back the beers, shooting some pool, and all around enjoying life.

Hating One's Job

marcutio — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:35:22 GMT

RIght, so I hate my job. I'm pretty sure that I have said this previously, but I just wanted to reiterate that. I haven't done a single thing yet today. Granted that I've only been here for 1.5 hours, that's still balls. Last Friday, I didn't do a single thing in the 7.5 hours I was in the office. This is just a continuation of something that's been a problem since I started in this position. I've made it clear to the people that I work for that I no longer want to work here. I'm sick of the bullshit I have to sit through every day all day. I'm sick of being bored outta my skull at work. That being said, I am still here, even though I could end my secondment early and go back to the PSC. I figure that's the better move, career-wise. So I'm sticking it out, getting paid as an AS-02, but doing the job of a CR-04, or nothing at all....

I have an interview tomorrow morning for Department of Fisheries and Oceans. That means I'll most likely get that position. It's rare I don't get a position after doing an interview. I also have a second or third test for an AS-02 pool at the PSC. I wouldn't mind going back to the PSC, really. I just want to stay at the AS-02 level, not have to go back to the AS-01 level.

I also recently did an interview for an AS-02 position for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Internationl Trade. A position where I'd be working in Afghanistan for a year. I'm still on the fence about that one. A part of me knows that it would be a life-changing experience, that it would be smart financially, and that this is the time in my life that I should be doing things like that. The other part of me is screaming that it's dangerous, that I'll be isolated and all by myself in a war-torn country for a whole year, that I cannot possibly leave everyone I love and hold dear to my heart behind for a whole year. I still haven't heard back from them, but everyday I wait, I lean more and more towards the not going side of the fence... but I'm waiting on an answer from them before making my own decision.

So anyway, I hope that one of these positions pans out for me. I would love to be able to get the feck outta here. I am at the point right now where I think that if I don't get the DFO position I'm just going to end my secondment early and head back to the PSC. Sure I'd be taking a paycut, but chances are I could work for the President's Office again, so that would make up for the cut - even if it means overtime a couple times a week.

Apple Bottom Jeans, and the Boots with the Fur!!!

marcutio — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:48:53 GMT

This is WAY too good.... Seriously, watch the whole thing, you'll nearly die laughing!

Music gets the best of me, but guess who gets the rest of me!

marcutio — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:38:26 GMT

So things are finally starting to look up. Karma took its sweet damn ass time to return on this one. Anyway, within the next couple of months, I'm hoping my life will more or less go back to normal. I'm pretty excited about that, lemme tell ya!

In other news, I'm burnt up like a piggy on the BBQ. Playing cards naked in the sun without any sunscreen on is not the best idea... for the record. Gay campgrounds, however, are the shiznit!

And, for your viewing pleasure, two songs that currently make me pretty damn wet in the pants, including what I believe to be the only decent song on Madonna's newest album...

Old Cartoons...

marcutio — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:03:05 GMT

I've been watching a bunch of old cartoon intros... Ah, the memories!

Here's a few of my favourites:

Things are ever-changing....

marcutio — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:47:49 GMT

I'm so sick of curve balls. I'm sick of things changing, and my life being in constant upheaval... I want to find somewhere where I can just be and continue to be without having to worry about what someone else might do to fuck it up... I think I want to disappear for a while, but that's next to impossible nowadays... Think anyone would notice if I ran away to another world? It's taking everything in me not to break down crying here at work... I took a washroom break to do just that.

Top Ten Signs you're a dumbass atheist:

marcutio — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:53:17 GMT

10. You vigorously deny the existence of God, yet you frequently blame him for everything that is wrong in modern society.

9. You repeatedly insist that man did not, in fact, evolve from an ape. Apes and men both evolved from another species who did not resemble Curious George in any way.

8. You criticize Christians who don't know their Bible, yet you have never opened any of Darwin's texts.

7. While all created evidence and reasoning point to a Creator and absolute truth, you prefer to hide behind relativism and a theory of evolution which does not, in fact, describe the creation of the universe at all.

6. You can't seem to understand the fundamental differences between fundamental Muslims and fundamental Christians (hint: strap-on TNT)

5. You willingly attribute all historical atrocities in Europe to a demographic that contained approximately 100% of Europeans during the period in question.

4. You also like to ignore the beneficial discoveries of the aforementioned demographic.

3. You don't realize that a closed system can be defined however the observer wants, so you throw out technological phrases to try to ignore the implications of thermodynamics.

2. You accuse Christians of being hateful and you hope that they DIAF.

1. Your biggest complaint is that these typically hopeful and caring people want to share the greatest single thing in their life with you. You're like an idiot who wipes with winning lottery tickets. Clap. Clap.

*snickers*

Ah, Life!

marcutio — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:17:08 GMT

Hello life,

I understand that it has been absolute ages since I last checked in on you. I realize that I have been neglecting you, and that though you’re still interesting, and sometimes absolutely crazy, that I have been pretending that you don’t exist, but you do, and you remind me of that every now and again, often to my chagrine.

Things have been absolutely nuts over the past few months. My entire life, which was going so fantastically well, got flipped upside down and shaken. After having lived very comfortably and happily with Heidi and Florian for a little over a year, I was given about one a half weeks’ notice by them before they moved out. Given the brevity of the time I had to get things in order for me to take over the lease, I jumped into a crazy situation that I already regret. Suffice it to say that the apartment is now under my and my new roomie’s name, and that our banks are suffering big time because of it.

Luckily, the suffering of my bank account is slightly alleviated by the new permanent for-realZ government job that I now have. Benefits, paid sickdays, paid holidays, it’s all fucking great! Of course, I started this job just before having to change apartments, so the whole “It’s gonna help me get on my feet before Heidi and Flo move out!” thing went down the drain pretty damn quickly. Not terribly impressed by that, but what can ya do right?

I absolutely love the apartment I’m in, and think I will probably be here for quite some time to come. I don’t picture myself living with my current roomie for an overly extended period of time or anything, but he will eventually move out, I expect. For now, it works. Either way, we’re stuck together for a year. Stupid leases…

My new boss is anal about employee development, so I have been taking courses right, left, and centre since I began here. I recently took a Principles of Plain Language course, to teach me how to write properly. Kind of funny, that. Anyway, the next course that I’m kind of excited about is an “Editing Skills for the Workplace” workshop and a “Project Planning and Control: Techniques and Tools” course in October. I am still toying with the possibility of doing the latter in Montreal rather than here in Ottawa. I think it would be lots of fun, and would be interesting in that I would be taking the course with regional operations’ people rather than people who work in the National Capital Region. Once I get my life under control, once my debts are paid, once I have a Bachelors, I would like to start working in the regions on one-year or so contracts. Specifically, I think I would love to live in Montreal for a year, and then Vancouver for a year, then maybe Halifax or Edmonton for a year or six months or something. So that’s something that I’ve been keeping in mind and on the horizon. Some time off yet, I know, but it’ll happen eventually.

By January I should be back in University. I will begin taking one to three courses per semester, making sure, as much as possible, that they would not conflict with my job, and slowly work my way towards a Bachelor of Social Science in International Development and Globalization… If they let me change faculties. Otherwise, it’ll probably be something like a Bachelor of General Arts. Not as interesting, but should do the trick.

In March, just before I started this new job, my last job sent me across Canada to help host Engagement workshops in Saskatoon, Edmonton, Vancouver, and Montreal. For one and a half weeks I was flying across Canada. I went west of Ontario for the first time in my life… Flew for the second time in my life… Got to see an ocean for the first time ever… And had a wonderful amazing time. All in all, I’m pretty darn happy about it!

Anyway, life, you’ve become more or less bearable, these past couple of weeks, but just barely. That being said, when it’s good, it’s god-damned good, so I’ll try not to complain too much.

Vive la résistance! (you boner-biting uncle fucker!)

Blah, just... Blah.

marcutio — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:04:31 GMT

Before I get on to the whole life thing, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year (albeit belated on both accounts) to everyone. Hope you had wonderful holidays, and hope your 2008 will be better than 2007!

And now, on to less interesting things...

Life's kinda kicking me in the face right now. And though I'm sure that part of that is related to the ridonkulous amount of drugs I've consumed over the last week, and the withdrawals my body's currently going through, a lot of it just has to do with life. Plain and simple.

January is not looking like it's going to be a good month. Having missed a week of work in order to go visit family last week is putting me behind on bills. So this month I'll be spending almost all of my money on catching back up, paying rent, paying the cell bill, paying the phone bill, paying the cable bill, paying the hydro bill. Being an adult fucking sucks sometimes.

Anyway, add to that the fact that work is going to be ridiculously busy this month, due to the big meeting taking place at the end of the month, and the fact that we'll be working our ASSES off to get everything ready for that, and then keeping in mind that we have another 6 meetings at the end of Feb and early March which we need to start thinking about... And finally adding the fact that I have a bunch of other, little office duties to do... Well, I'm barely going to have enough time to breathe while I'm here. Not fun.

Prior to holidays, I collected everything I needed to build myself a new computer and to have enough leftovers to build my mom a computer for the boys for XMas. Well, I managed to put everything together. Unfortunately, nothing works. I've tried setting up the old computer, you know, so I can at least have something to use till I figure it out, but it won't work anymore either. Basically, I went and I screwed myself, royally. So, now I don't even have one computer, when I should have two, and that's driving me quite insane.

Having minor health issues that I won't go into detail about, but this has been bothering me for quite some time. Doctors seem to have no fucking idea. I've tried a multitude of things, and it won't go away. The only thing I can be sure about is that it's not an STD, which, at least, is something. Every doctor I've spoken to has denied the possibility that this could be an STD, and I do believe I'll believe them.:)

I'm still not sure how I feel about friendships and stuff. I have my close friends, as I always do, but there are other people in my life, and sometimes I'm happy to have them there, sometimes very indifferent. Sometimes I have them there just cause it's easier than getting rid of them. I don't really know what I want from them, even from my closest friends. Sometimes I let people drift out of my life because I know that if I fight too much for them, they'll just push me out rather than let it drift. Sometimes I think I'm just too nice of a guy, and sometimes I hate that I can read people so damned clearly. Sometimes I don't like the person I'm becoming, and sometimes I love where I'm going in life...

Anyway, I guess all that to say that I'm pretty confused about life right now, pretty confused about what I'm doing with myself and where I'm going. I'm afraid of everything exploding in my face, cause that usually happens when everything is going so spectacularly well... And really, things are going pretty well on a general scale...

I have three doors open to me to finally get a permanent govt. position... This would mean paid holidays, paid sick leave, personal days, benefits... the beginnings of my pension... and eventually paid-off debts, a bed that's not just a futon mattress on a pull-out couch mattress, furniture that wasn't just given to me second-hand... Stuff that works, stuff that I want, when I want it, rather than when I need it. Yeah, so that's exciting... But is it going to happen? I wish things didn't take so goddamned long in the government... I mean, many of these opportunities have been in the works for me for several months now, and I'm just starting to see the end of the tunnel. Is that light I see, or just a mirage?

And then, why can't I just find someone? I mean, I'm always the first to say that if you're looking for something, you're less likely to find it. And I generally live by that philosophy, but every now and again, I wonder if I could get the guys I wanted if I chased them more, or, you know, did stupid shit? Maybe if I was less opinionated, or more of an asshole, people would like me? I'm sick of making "friends". I don't need more friends, I need someone I can curl up with on the couch and know that he's not gonna fuck off when his boyfriend calls... Someone I can bring home to meet my family, someone I can love. Someone I can see myself being with for a while. Someone who's not a complete fucking loser, and who's interested in me for me. Someone who can deal with who I am, or at least be strong enough to get angry at me for who I am, and stick it out to see if maybe I can change? I have this ability inside me to change myself without having to think twice about it.

When I was with Jay and Angie I cleaned up my act pretty considerably. Granted that I did a lot of stupid shit in the end, but up until I knew that we were done, I did everything for them, everything to make us work, everything to make them happy. I'd like to have someone to make happy. I'd like someone to make me happy. It's frustrating to watch people around me date, and break up, and date, and break up, and date, and break up... It's frustrating to see how easy it is for the biggest losers I know to find people to love them unconditionally, when I can't even find someone to like me more than friends... It's frustrating to see others be as happy as I could be.

My whole life seems maleable, and yet, it's anything but. If anything, my life is starting to really put down its roots, and I'm getting myself very intertwined with the people who are currently closest to me. Heidi, Florian, and I will likely live together for quite a while. We're happy where we are, unless they're not telling me something, and we're comfortable. Brandon's not likely to be going anywhere anytime soon, though his mind changes by the minute, so who knows. And I'll always have my steady stream of acquaintances and other friends... People who come in and out of my life as times demand. People who know I'm a good person... Those "just friends" I was talking about... Those people, they'll always be there, and I'm grateful while being ungrateful.

But sometimes it'd be nice to have them just disappear, just go away. Just, not exist or something. Sometimes it'd be nice to just stop existing. I wish I could afford to take another week off, and spend it completely alone, just... By myself. No stimulation, no outside interruption, no nothing. Just me. Thinking. Being bored. Being by myself. Being who I want to be.... And crying if I want to cry, and... I dunno... just, something that's not what I am right now... Just, different.

Everyone around me sees me as this cheery, optimistic guy, who's got things figured out. And yeah, I guess I do have things figured out, and I am pretty self-assured... But there's always a little voice in my head telling me the opposite... Telling me I'm kidding myself if I think I'm good, if I think I like who I am, if I think I'm happy with where I'm going, if I think I'll do what I set out to do, if I think I'm sane, if I think I'm right. And I wish I could strangle that little voice quiet, or rip out its larynx so it couldn't talk to me anymore, or just throw it into someone else's head, to see how they deal with it.

And sometimes I wish I could just blindly go through life and ignore the things that hurt, and love the things that don't intensely. Sometimes I wish I could just not experience, not feel, not think, not analyze, not destroy everything with my mind. Sometimes I wish I wasn't so damned jaded and scared of everything and everyone, of being hurt, of losing the people I care about, of driving them away myself because I couldn't stand for them to leave me of their own accord. Sometimes I wish I could just give up control, let the world go the way the world will go, and just come along for the ride.

Sometimes I wish I could just blind myself to the things going on around me, to the people who are hurting other people, to the pain that is being caused, to the shit that's going down, to the hatred so clearly wrote in people's eyes, to the disbelief, or the denseness in others... To the naivety that so dominates the gay world, to the sureness that also dominates it... Sometimes I wish I could just smack some people upside the head, or scream at them, or yell at them, or just tell them that they're stupid.

Sometimes, I wish I felt like I mattered... To anyone. And not just that "You matter to me" that everyone says when you're feeling down. The only people in my life who ever make me feel like they care about me are Brandon and Mercedes... And my family, but they have to. Brandon and Mercedes. Two people, who let me know when they haven't seen me in a while that they missed me, who let me know in the way that they hug me, and hold me hard and tight, like they'll never let go, that I matter, that they missed me, that they thought of me while I was gone... The only people who will call me up on a whim and just come over cause they want to be around me, or want to hang out, or just want a hug. Two people in my life. Two. Is that normal?

Also....

marcutio — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:57:03 GMT

...thanks to shoooola for this, the best XMas song EVAR!

This may very well have reinforced my respect and love for The Killers. What a frakking great video, and song!

Nullo, the Internal Deordorizer.... and stuff...

marcutio — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:48:24 GMT

So... One of my favourite online comics, Least I Could Do, has begun to do informercials or whatever for other people.

Here's their first one:

Now, granted that I think it's sad that they're making money peddling an internal deodorizer (I mean, seriously?) but the characters are all awesome! I absolutely LOVE it!

Well done Ryan and Lar!

On another note, life's crazy... no change there. Three possibilities of permanent government positions on the horizon. I should have benefits and paid leave and all that fun stuff within about three months, so that's really nice.

Boys are stoopid, that is all on that front.

I'm absolutely fucking SICK of winter. I mean, what is this shit? 2 feet of snow in 24 hours? Mother Nature, I'm gonna have you killed. I mean, there's a line between joke and insult, and you're way the fuck over it.

Christmas is just around the corner. This year will be different from every previous year in that I will be in Sudbury instead of New Liskear until Christmas Eve. I'll be spending the second half of holidays with mom in North Bay, but Suds... That'll be way weird. On the plus side, I will probably be hitting up the ONE gay bar there on Saturday night with Brandon when he gets in that night! :) How exciting! :D

Alright, I am outtie! Bye boys and girls! Hope all is well! Keep smiling, and remember, chickens don't wear pants.

Dealing with Lakitu

marcutio — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:51:48 GMT

Ganked from the_o_in_god

Date Rape Dots!

marcutio — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:51:01 GMT

This is getting kinda ridiculous.

Aqua Dots contain traces of GHB

I think it's ridiculous that kids can now date rape their friends... *sighs*

The Very Secret Diary of Legolas

marcutio — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:11:00 GMT

Day One: Whee!

Day Two: I like to run!

Day Three: I look good when I run!

Day Four: I also look good standing still. Running across Riddermark v. good excercise. I swear my butt has just gotten firmer. Is that even possible?

Day Six: Is Gimli staring at my butt?

Day Seven: No wonder he's always lagging behind.

Day Eight: Unnerving moment when bumped into Eomer. Thought he might be prettier than me until he took off helmet. Fortunately he looks like an aardvark. He hit on Gimli but I warned him right off. Nobody tries it on with my dwarf.

Am still the prettiest.

Day Nine: Pile of dead and smoking Orc corpses so not pretty. Aragorn showed off and went on and on regarding hobbits laying about tied up. Do not know why he thinks kinky hobbit games so important.

Still prettiest.

Day Ten: Bother! Fangorn Forest. Leaf mold terrible for my complexion.

Still prettiest but a bit on clammy, unwashed side.

Day Eleven: Bumped into Gandalf who is all sparkly white now. Asked him, "Who do you have to blow to get last bottle of bleach in Middle Earth anyway?" Gandalf said, "The Balrog." So not worth it.

Am rethinking, though. Roots are showing.

Still prettiest although at this rate for how long?

Day Twelve: Asked Gandalf for Balrog's number. Gandalf said I couldn't call him. I told him not to be jealous and posessive. He said he wasn't, it was just that he killed Balrog last week.

Note to self: never date Gandalf.

Day Fifteen: Arrived in Edoras. V. upset. Suspect Eowyn may be prettier than me. Most unexpected as always thought shield-maidens were more hefty, pear-shaped types.

Not the prettiest! V. bitter.

Day Nineteen: Aragorn stood up to Theoden today. Aragorn so butch. Have goosebumps.

Day Twenty: Poke bonnet absolutely hideous. No longer even remotely pretty. Considering suicide.

Day Twenty-seven: Exeunt Aragorn, pursued by wolves of Isengard. On con side: Am stuck with ugly necklace. On pro side: No longer have to wear poke bonnet. Am pretty again!

Day Twenty-nine: Aragorn back. Apparently taking header off cliff not as deadly as one would have thought. Told him to throw me down and shag me senseless, but he just clapped me on the shoulder in a manly fashion and said, "Yeah, it can get a little chapped sometimes but just put some lotion on it."

Aragorn just kind of a wanker, really.

Day Twenty-Nine: Battle of Helm's Deep so embarassing. If was not bad enough to face thought of death at the hands of smelly Orcs in backwater rural province, have now been saved at zero hour by Haldir showing up with really bad weave.

On plus side, Eowyn stuck in rancid cave. Perhaps will develop cave blight. Then I will be prettiest forever.

Day Thirty: Battle over. Gandalf always fashionably late it seems. Hopes for after-battle quickie dashed because Aragorn sulking over postcard from Faramir. Is jealous over Ringbearer. Told him Sam will kill Faramir if he tries anything but Aragorn not cheered up.

Sod him. Have received suggestive note from Eomer. Will go see if what they say about men of Riddermark is actually true.

No one has bothered to get Eowyn out of cave yet. Still the prettiest by far!

Excerpt from The Very Secret Diaries, courtesy of Cassandra Claire

Quiz stolen from fajita_crunch

marcutio — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:00:26 GMT

***Without looking at the questions under the cut, make a list of your own 6 favorite tv shows and then answer this meme after you've already written them down**

1. Weeds
2. Heroes
3. Dexter
4. Arrested Development
5. Family Guy
6. Drawn Together

1. Who is your favorite character from #2?
Peter Petrelli... He's just got the wickedest coolest power, as far as I'm concerned. Though the whole amnesia thing in Season 2 is stupid...

2. Who is your least favorite character from #4?
Buster... He just annoys the shit outta me.

3. What would a crossover between #1 and #5 include?
Oh geez, Nancy would find a new customer, Chris, and Peter joins forces with Celia Hodes to put an end to drugs not only in the small community of Agrestic, but in all of the United States. In a side story we find out that Meg is actually a drug overlord, and that Quagmire and Silas are having an affair cause Quagmire mistakens Silas for an of age girl, cause of his long hair. *nods*

4. What is your favorite ship from #6?
I assume that ship is some weird new lingo for couples, cause that's what Sarah did. Anyway, Xandir and Captain Hero. Easily.

5. If you were to set one person from #3 and one person from #6 on a blind date, who would they be?
Sergeant Dokes and Foxy Love

6. If you could meet one person from #4 and spend the day with them, who would it be, and what would you do?
Kitty, so we could drink the day away and laugh pretentiously at all the poor people. I just figure it'd be funny to do it... Heh.

7. If you could change one thing about #2's plot line, what would you change?
Sylar wouldn't have killed Candace and they would be slowly taking over the world, again....

8. Explain a relationship between two people (not necessarily romantic) from show #5, and why you like the relationship between them?
Chris and the Angry Monkey. Chris hates that it's there, but accepts it in the end, and they both try not to get into each other's faces unnecessarily. *nods*

9. If the lead title characters (first name in the credit sequence) from #1 and #3 were both drowning, and you could only save one, who would it be?
Nancy Botwin and Dexter.... Shitty decision, but I'd go with Nancy all the way. She's way too fucking hot, she has two kids, and, you know, other problems to deal with. Dexter's a murderer, no matter how good his intentions are.

10. If you could change the title characters' order in the credits for #4, what order would you choose?
Uhmm... Not sure really. What kind of question is this?

11. If you were able to add a new character, any kind of character you wanted, to the storyline for #6, what would the character be like, and what would their role be?
I'd add an emo, japanimated Final Fantasy-esque character who speaks little, though when he does, it's always with pain and sorrow dripping from every word.

12. What happens in your favorite episode of show #2?
Heh, Hiro goes forward in time, four years later I think? Anyway, future Sylar and future Peter have a faceoff, no matter how brief. I don't remember much else from that episode, but the faceoff was frakking hot!

13. If you could kill off one of the characters in #1, who would it be and how would you do it?
I hate this question.. I dun wanna kill anyone!
I suppose if I had the choice, I'd have Helia die in a drive by shooting so that Conrad and Nancy can finally rule the weed selling world together and Kingpin and Queenpin. *nods*

14. If you got the chance to visit the set for either show #3 or show #5, which would you choose?
Dexter... It'd be wicked to see where it's made, and watch while they're filming and stuff. CRAZAY!

...and a little something else that's sure to make ya laugh a little. Made me laugh a LOT!

Freaky Optical Illusion

marcutio — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:30:02 GMT

This is absolutely messed... Is she turning clockwise or anti-clockwise? Maybe she's going both ways? Click on the image for an article which explains it... Absolutely messed up!

Monkey Toys with Baby Tigers

marcutio — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:03:09 GMT

Devious Journal Entry

marcutio — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:33:35 GMT

ytilausnes by ~charkole on deviant ART

So happy that he's back... I effing love his photography, and Jesus, what a beautiful man!

Time Travel Story

marcutio — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:48:45 GMT

So, one thing that tends to be done poorly most of the time is the use of Time-Travel in novels. Manipulating time has so many theoretic ideas attached to it that it's rare to find someone who can write a time-travel piece without fucking anything up.

That being a given, I started reading THIS STORY with some trepidation, knowing that it would be a Time Travel piece.

Turns out it was very well written, and quite an interesting concept all things considered. I really recommend you all read it!

All You Zombies