So, when you're standing in line standing, waiting for your turn to vote, just remember one thing.....VOTE NDP!!!

Do you really want to go with the Conservative party and let your province be run with Christian-American ideals, support for the war (meaning your tax dollars NOT going to what is needed for OUR own people and OUR own country), poor funding for health care, less funding for the public school systems due to cash flow to private religious based schools (of which already get immediate funding for sign up), intollerance for homosexuals (remember the open vote on gay marriage two years ago?)  and "better planning for health care and fighting poverty" ? 

-or-

Do you really want to go with the Liberal party and let your province be run by a liar and a coward, someone that does NOT know how to stand up for the people, who WASTES millions of dollars trying to make a group of "no-ones" happy ($1 million for a cricket team, give me a fuckin' break), who promises lower taxes, of which people are forgetting that we can't afford, who isn't taking the high pertentage of wide spread Cancer in Ontario seriously enough in our health care system (excluding the media converage of the patient who wouldn't shake his hand and the fact that they DO have quite a strong force in health care), someone that is quoted saying "...and I know we can do it the same way we've moved forward these past four years – by working and building and dreaming together" (yes, cause in politics and running a country, it's all about dreams) and the fact that he relied on environmental issues last term's election, about removing the coal burning plants by August 2008 (well they're still here and south Ontario is STILL the highest amongst cancer) ???

-or-

Did you stop and think, that Howard Hampton and his plan for this province with the New Democratic Party, actually knows what he's talking about?! He is there, not bullshitting anyone, telling the facts and who's not campaigning this chicken fight against his other competetion.  This party WILL make this change that Canadians are always bitching about.  It's time our province let a party in that actually stands up for the WORKING MAN, the middle and lower class of this country. Also with helping children get a good start in life with investment in the child benefit to reduce child poverty and more quality child care spaces along with legislation to ensure national standards for quality child care, fixing legislation to stop the spread of private, for-profit health care and concrete improvements in the health care system including first steps towards a National Prescription Drug Plan and training more health care providers such as nurses and doctors and cleaning up government with legislation to ensure politicians can be held accountable and reforming our democracy with a proposal to improve Canada's electoral system.

So Ontario and provinces stretching across this beautiful, multi-cultural country we call home, vote NDP.

You took a risk with the Conservatives leading our country (look where it got us),  so let's start making these small steps and vote NDP to run our provinces.

...and Stephen Harper, ROT IN HELL!!!

So Saturday, September 8th, on bright sunny day, Jen and I packed the car with music, cigarettes, doobies and ourselves and headed for Toronto.

For what you may ask?

Let's start from the top. Animal Collective came into my life roughly four years ago. They're music has affected me so, much like Pink Floyd and Radiohead. It becomes much more than just music, but an experience. When I listen to them, everything around me becomes null and void. I just shut it all off and let myself drift, float and dream. What more could you ask for?

...and that's when it happened. Back in May, after searching and searching for news of any new material from the Collective, I see almost flashing "Animal Collective, Sept. 8th at the Phoenix in Toronto"

So Jen and I smoked ourselves into a nice cloud and patiently awaited the show...anxiously actually...

(note: Figure 1 and Figure 2)


figure 1.


figure 2.

After standing in line to get into the Phoenix and standing in line to pick up merch (which literally felt like hours hanging out in a highschool hallway during lunchbreak) we walk in to see this....



I wanted to SHIT my pants!!!

Soon after, Eric Copeland (of Black Dice) came on stage and played this loud, heavy, noisy set that felt like one big long seizure...except enjoyable. His set lasted for about a half an hour and then it was all about the Collective.

7:30pm on the dot, Avey Tare (David Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox) and Geologist (Brian Weitz) came out on stage to an uproar of applause (minus Deakin aka Josh Dibb).

The set was pretty solid in my opinion, however with Strawberry Jam being released on the 11th, it was heavily mixed with new material. That being said, they DID rock the SHIT out of "Peacebone". My head is still spinning just thinking about it. The show was a musical feast for the ears, just full of energy, complete with unvoluntary movement to the music. They're set also included People, Leaf House, Who Could Win A Rabbit, Unsolved Mysteries and Fireworks (amongst others).

It was all worth the wait. I just CAN'T wait 'till they come back again. They are a powerhouse of talent, bringing such joy into my life.


<3

 

If you ever so get the chance, do yourself a favour...go see Animal Collective!!!



.cheers.

So with much patience in my fiance's hands, he has sent me the file containing over 600 photos from my trip to Indiana and what has been the most amazing week I've experienced in my life as of yet.

With his help (as in he did all of it...hehehe....thanks babe!), there's a handful of photos sized. There's more I'd like to put up one day and others too personal and cherished for me to share. They all are such great moments and memories that I'll hold so very close to my heart, forever.

They're up here to show what a beautiful and handsome man I have in my life and to show that when you find love, it's the most amazing feeling ever.

There's not a day I don't think of him.


i love you.

It's here once again. My birthday is just right around the corner. I love that my parents decided to have unprotected sex when they did. To be able to celebrate my birthday on the May 2-4 weekend is all I could ever ask for.

So to celebrate, my most wonderful, bestest friend Jen has decided to throw, in my honour and of the weekend festivities, a Rod Stewart themed birthday party...yes....Rod Stewart bitches!!



...show us that bush Rod!

Anyways, you must wear or bring something Rod Stewart. That means leotards, fancy scarfs, big hair wigs, etc. I'm bring my "hot legs"!!!

If you can make it out, drop me a message and let me know the low down. It will take place on Sunday, May 20th, a day before my birthday. Be there!



. I LOVE YOU JEN .

...pictures will soon follow but for now, I posted photos from Elliot Lake.

"Scientists cured cancer last week.

Yep.

So, why hasn't the media picked up on it?

Here's the deal. Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada found a cheap and easy to produce drug that kills almost all cancers. The drug is dichloroacetate, and since it is already used to treat metabolic disorders, we know it should be no problem to use it for other purposes.

Doesn't this sound like the kind of news you see on the front page of every paper?

The drug also has no patent, which means it could be produced for bargain basement prices in comparison to what drug companies research and develop.

Scientists tested DCA on human cells cultured outside the body where it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells, but left healthy cells alone. Rats plump with tumors shrank when they were fed water supplemented with DCA.

Again, this seems like it should be at the top of the nightly news, right?

Cancer cells don't use the little power stations found in most human cells - the mitochondria. Instead, they use glycolysis, which is less effective and more wasteful.

Doctors have long believed the reason for this is because the mitochondria were damaged somehow. But, it turns out the mitochondria were just dormant, and DCA starts them back up again.

The side effect of this is it also reactivates a process called apoptosis. You see, mitochondria contain an all-too-important self-destruct button that can't be pressed in cancer cells. Without it, tumors grow larger as cells refuse to be extinguished. Fully functioning mitochondria, thanks to DCA, can once again die.

With glycolysis turned off, the body produces less lactic acid, so the bad tissue around cancer cells doesn't break down and seed new tumors.

Here's the big catch. Pharmaceutical companies probably won't invest in research into DCA because they won't profit from it. It's easy to make, unpatented and could be added to drinking water. Imagine, Gatorade with cancer control.

So, the groundwork will have to be done at universities and independently funded laboratories. But, how are they supposed to drum up support if the media aren't even talking about it?

All I can do is write this and hope Google News picks it up. In the meantime, tell everyone you know and do your own research."

- This is a column of opinion written by Printz Executive Editor David McRaney in the campus newspaper of The University of Southern Mississippi.

....since when was money a bargaining chip for ones life in the eyes of health science?!

Shouldn't discoveries like these be able to receive the funding they need to develop a gurantee?

I'm grateful that there are organizations out there, who continue to find a cure.

This czech filmaker has created such amazing shorts and is a major player in the stop animation genre. Here's two examples of such genious...

Darkness, Light, Darkness

Meat Love

...if ever given the chance, definetly look into the film "Alice". It's based apon the book Alice In Wonderland and is filmed as dark as the story was intended to be told. It too being entirely done in stop animation and for the most part silent.....thanks Jen for showing me this film...however many years ago....

A night that was blanketed in fog, caused for me to break the camera out and start thinking about getting back into photography...