has anyone ever read this thing?

This is me begging for comments from strangers. Maybe it would help if I told more than two people about my online journal.

Perhaps I need to make porn and post it here. That's all people use the net for anyways. That and sending huge files to each other via email. Usually that's just porn, as well.

random thoughts

National Geographic- good to read, too interesting to throw out, too bulky to store- the ulitmate white elephant.

Sloan- the best Canadian 70s band ever. Even though they were snotnosed brats like me when the boys were in their Bright White Sportscar or Carol was having her High School Confidential or when Business was being Take(i)n Care Of.

There is a history to the ever-changing medium of the WWW- the internet wayback machine -find out what a website looked like back in 1998- ancient history in brave new world of internet.

I want to read Cyrillic.

I am still embarrased by the fact that I have to prove I can drive to the government again, cause I let my license expire. I can operate most vehicles better than most people out there AND more safely. I've extensive experience cycling and some motorcycling. You learn to look far ahead.

I'm thinking about switching to Livejournal.

I saw Dancer in the Dark. What a beautiful movie. Damn, what a sad movie. One of the best btw a rock and hard place decisions I have ever seen anyone put into in any movie. A very human story. Life is sometimes beautiful in it's cruelty. Finding that beauty makes it worthwhile. I could relate to Selma's view of the world.

What I really loved about the movie was the music she found in everyday sounds, the sounds of industry, sounds of the machinery of our society that surround us and how these sounds formed the soundtrack of the musicals in her head.

I loved how the movie criticised so many things, like musicals from Hollywood's golden age, but paid tribute to them at the same time.

The only living boy in New York

I live in a multi-cultural city, in fact today I was the only white person on the bus during afternoon rush hour. Interestingly, only me and the driver were non-asian- he was indo-canadian. I was the only whitey, though.

Sometimes parts of Vancouver feel like microcosms of Asia. We are multi-ethnic, but seem dominated by particular nationalities. In my visits to Germany, that country has always felt more truly multi-ethnic than Vancouver to me, despite the misconceptions those who have never been visited might have about it being some kind of racist, all white society. It's more mixed and no less racist than Vancouver. We just hide our intolerance better behind our outwardly multi-cultural sleeves.

Never been to Belgium

Going to Amsterdam, Brussels and touring through Germany in April/May. I may take side trips to other towns in Benelux and/or France. Exciting.

I just renewed my EU passport at the German consulate this morning. It's much easier than a Canadian. No guarantor required. Just a couple of photos and a photocopied form and $63.00. Plus the little bastard' s good for 10 years, not 5!

Good to see that 9/11 hasn't driven the whole world crazy- just North America.