09/08/10 09:21 - 60.ºF - ID#52684

Vampire Weekend

I went last night to Toronto after work and treated myself to a Molson Canadian Amphitheatre Show. I couldn't find anyone to go with me and with the venue being only 40% sold I was lucky to unload my ticket at the gate, even though it was less than cost.

What counted was I was able to make the show for the two bands I wanted to see as I left Buffalo at 5 after work, hung out at the MCA until midnight taking in the big city hipsters, getting home at 1:30 AM and then making it to work this morning 10 minutes early. Needless to say that everything lined up for me as I had a pretty descent time even by myself.

Anyway I was finally able to get floor tickets and take a video that is worth of being one of the "cool" kids at the Amphitheatre:

or if that doesn't work here is the HD link

The only downside is that my battery conked out shortly thereafter and I also realized that my backup was drained as well :-( Anyway watching and dancing hit the spot for all that I have been going through mentally these days anyway.

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Category: concerts

08/30/10 09:17 - 77.ºF - ID#52614

CNE/Ontario Place

So this is the CNE and Ontario Place during and after hours post concert.

Amex Pavilion

Self Explanatory

The Original Hockey Hall of Fame, now part of BMO Field

People Mooching Wifi @ the EX

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Category: concerts

08/30/10 12:22 - 67.ºF - ID#52606

City and Colour

Dallas Green put on a great show Saturday Night. For some reason his music just hits me right to the core. Maybe I'm just bummed about my physical health, getting old, never figuring out life ect. But pretty much all of his set hit the spot with me. The whole night was almost perfect. I picked up a friend of mine who unfortunately is even more bummed out (a friend of her's thinks that she's possessed, but I'm going into any religious debate.) The CNE, Molson Canadian Amphitheatre, the hotel indigo, lunch at Mr. Greek.

I've come to the realization that over the last year I just hate a lot of things about my living situation and you could even expand it to the area in general. Right now I don't know what I'm going to do or even how my quality of life is going to be. All I know is I just want to have fun now and forget about tomorrow.

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Category: horses

08/25/10 09:19 - 68.ºF - ID#52568

Wife Exacta

This is just too funny. Really, The race really starts at 1:00

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Category: clothes

08/20/10 10:04 - 67.ºF - ID#52484

Fashion Mistake

So I realized today after it was too late that I projected the wrong image by the clothes I put on this morning. Basically I wore a plain white T-Shirt since it was clean & topped it off with a Black Chicago White Sox Hat. Needless to say for some odd reason I felt out of place out in the Burbs in the morning and when I was walking and driving around the city later on in the afternoon I felt even more out of place. Basically I my clothes on many teenage boys on random street corners. The topping was when a group of African-American men in a Cadillac SUV were laughing at me was I crossed in front on them at a stoplight. Usually it would happen organically, but today I knew exactly what they were focused on.

heidi writes at 03:28:01 08/21/10 - Comment #57938: (e:tinypliny) - something like this :::link::: counts as dressed up, especially with a pantsuit.

tinypliny writes at 12:19:25 08/21/10 - Comment #57933: And I absolutely detest that you sound like a clippety clop horse gallop on heels. I need to get something to choke the sound out of these heels.

tinypliny writes at 12:15:03 08/21/10 - Comment #57932: Hmm... I wish I had more fashion in my life. I just think it's too tiresome sometimes to worry about it - not to mention the uncomfortable and damaging footwear that comes with the state of fashion.

I have been trying to walk in a paltry 2" heel for some days now and I feel as if the air 2" above is toxically dizzying, that I am going to fall on my nose, that my toes are being murdered in cold blood with a hot axe, that my lower back is complaining to my brain and the spinal cord is conveying the coup messages, that I am committing feet homicide, that I am selling out - all at ones. I have returned no less than 3 shoes through this ordeal. The thing is, I am absolutely convinced that most women are completely unaware of what they are doing to their feet when they wear these monstrosities. The big irony is that the realization is making it even more difficult for me to adjust to the heels.

Aaaargh I hate fashion conventions that say that sneakers are not equivalent to "dressing up". What I really want to do is to defend in bare feet - but then I will have to go and get a pedicure, I suppose.

metalpeter writes at 09:14:34 08/21/10 - Comment #57930: Not sure where you where. But don't people wear white shirt and Yankee's cap with jeans all over NYC. I'm sure if you would have a just carried a skate board you would have fit right in, HA kidding. Yesterday in the falls I saw two cops and a bunch of skateboarders. I thought I wonder if they got that way for being young and doing something, I'm guessing for skating and not doing anything wrong. My point is you had a certain look not sure what that look is and how it compares to where you were, but if it is comfy then fine........

paul writes at 10:57:13 08/20/10 - Comment #57927: I always look stupid and I am sure people laugh. I don't care anymore. One day I realized I had a collared shirt on inside out with the collar tucked in and one leg if my jeans tucked into my sick.

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Category: life

08/09/10 01:15 - 69.ºF - ID#52403

Old Emails

I was cleaning out my gmail account when I realized that years ago I received some interesting monumental text messages that I had forwarded myself to save. All I can say is good thing that i did, as there were some insightful things in there.

The best ones are the old pics from the Cont. All I can say is I realize now why people do porn, it's to immortalize their youth. Needless to say I am pretty happy that I took some pics from the old fetish nights ;-)

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Category: blogs

07/23/10 08:23 - 78.ºF - ID#52263

People of Canal Fest

Yea, we have all seen and laughed at the people of Wal*Mart

But is Western New York really that much more sophisticaled than the South where most of the photos from the Wal Mart Blog came from?

Yea, you go NT/Tonawanda!

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07/20/10 06:38 - 82.ºF - ID#52246

Someone in B-Lo may own Facebook?

If this turns out true this would be crazy!

Anyway Zuckerberg is a total Douche, it would be cool to see Karma catch up with him. After all to him we're just the "Dumb Fucks" that give him Billions...

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Category: concerts

07/13/10 11:38 - 74.ºF - ID#52164

Concert Roadtrip Vlog

I was sorting out all of the vids that I never posted on iMovie/iPhoto and stitched this one together. This is from March when I went to see Silversun Pickups and Muse at the Palace of Auburn Hills. So this is an idea of what going to Michigan was like for me to see a concert last week. I decided to post it since it doesn't seem half bad for a vlog, although I had to cut it down to get under 10 minutes.

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07/09/10 11:48 - 71.ºF - ID#52142

Smashing Pumpkins

I never saw Billy Corgan "back in the day," So when I had an opportunity to grab pre-sales for a week where I already had off I grabbed them. I'm totally glad that I did as it totally worked out even with having a pretty existential week and all. I was lucky enough to get a hotel through hotwire right across the street from the venue.

The building itself was a pretty interesting venue to say the least. My mind just races as to what it was previously, I just have to guess that it was a one or two plex movie theater at one point in time. Anyway the people in Grand Rapids are just really friendly and cool. This guy and his friends took me into their group and midway through the took me upstairs which was pretty sweet.

Anyway here is the setlist

which totally worked and rocked as his new band sounds pretty good.

Here are a few pics