A Barrel of Fun!

The April 2009 cover of Vanity Fair was absolutely AMAZING! I was so excited to see Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel and Paul Rudd adorned in barrels in a O' Brother Where 'Art Thou style cover. As Well the inside of the magazine showed Rogen, Segel and Hill in nude unitard bodysuits with Paul Rudd smelling Seth Rogens hair. Calling them "Comedies New Legends" VF opens up to show these people portraying their comedic "part" as well known movie/media figures. Danny McBride "The Breakthrough" as Jack Nicholson in The Shining (I'm a bit confused as to why they chose that instead of something funny) and Russell Brand "The Comic" as Charlie Chaplin. Bill Hader, Anna Farria, Jason Bateman and Leslie Mann as The Honeymooners (my favorite!). Paul Rudd "The Role Model" playing Jack Lemmon in Frankenstein, Jonah Hill "The Chopper" as George Washington? I think? That's the only connection I can make with the picture. As well it shows Amy Poehler, Will Arnett, Jason Segel, Seth Rogen but I don't want to ruin the whole fun of it for you. Seth Rogens is pretty hilarious. 

I Am So Happy This Is Happening

If you have been wondering what has been going up downtown on the Eastside at the site of the old Woodwards building, check it out. Art-chitect Gregory Henriques has designed a multi-purposed giant of a building to inhabit some of the space. "The project is an exciting attempt to, in a single stroke, remake a depressed community"- Globe and Mail. This is truly a vision of how to start cleaning up Vancouvers most troubled streets, in my oppinion.

The building is home to 536 suites. So here's the breakdown; 40% of those suites are going to non-market housing! Basically that means that in this building there will be a vast mix of "classes". . . . a true social expirament. This building will also house SFU's new Centre for the Contemporary Arts, the National Film Board, a Nesters market, the first bank to move back into the downtown east side, and non-profit organizations. Best of all, it won't be a flop. All of the units sold out in the short time of 8 hours! I don't know of anything like this happening before and I think it is absolutely wonderful. There was a lineup around the block the night before the sales office opened. This is the first time EVER that there has been such beautiful real-estate mixed with low income housing. I am so excited for Gregory Henriques, this really is a one of a kind idea and the perfect time to have it moving in. The project will be up and running sometime between May and June and the students will move in months later. I suggest you go check this sustainable building out. Thumbs up Gregory!

".....This is as good a project, program and site and client group that I could ever imagine having. If this is the end of my career then I'm okay with it. I've done more than I ever thought I could do in one life." - Gregory Henriques

This Shit Is BANANAS!

Sorry for the Gwen Stefani because really it's not banana's it's nuts.........robotics. You MUST check out this guys blog. Rob Spence (a filmmaker who lost his eye) decided one day when he was looking at his fake eye that he wanted to figure a way to put a camera in his fake eye. So on his blog it takes you through the movie of "The Two Week Trial" of this guy getting funding and having people fly across the world to be a part of this idea. To try and make him an EYEBORG!!! Dun Dun DUNNNNN. It's pretty inspiring if you think about it. I thought this guy could use a few more people watching him because he's pretty remarkable. Thumbs up Rob!

A Little Bit of a Makeover

So I figure that since spring is.. . . springing my blog could use a little makeover. So my new deal is to seasonally change the look of my blog. I feel that it's needed, just like spring clean up, to keep things new and fresh. Enjoy!

Oh What A Day!

So I'll start this post of by saying that Friday was a pretty random day for me. Worked sucked, as usual and I thought that I had plans with a girl that I had used to work with but they were cancelled and ended up doing what I actually wanted to do which was get some stuff done around the house and hang out with my good friend Cheese. I began the night off by picking her up at her house and we proceeded to my house. We then gathered up all of the bottles, cans and other recyclable drink containers and I expertly tetris packed them all into my hatchback. Worried about time we killed two birds with one stone and smoked a bowl in my car before heading to the Bottle & Return it Depot. Though we had no idea where it was or what time it was open until we were lucky to find that it was where we thought it would be and it was open, I think we were the last two people there and were probably frustrating the couple who I assume ran it. After we did our good deed and cashed in on our alcoholism ($40 later) we topped my car up with some gas and headed off on our wonderful adventure. Dinner was the one and only Pita Pit, of course it was delicious though the girl looked like she could have been 10 years old and when I asked her what the special sauce tasted like I'm pretty sure she said "It's a secret" or nothing I couldn't tell cause she was pretty quiet. From there we headed down towards the Marijuana Party Bookstore, planning on only buying a long stem I was in for a big surprise. It took hours of contemplation for me to finally decide to purchase my new baby, the fabulous piece of art in the picture(s) above ( a big thank you to Stu for his pipe modeling skills). A hand crafted "Hippo" pipe. I was having a difficult time deciding if I should spend the money on it but the wonderful people that work in the bookstore gave me a very large discount and said they had wanted it to go to a good home and could tell that I really wanted it. This pipe was my unicorn, I must have gone in there 10 times and looked at this pipe every time saying that it was my dream to own it and now I do. 

On A Side Note. . . . .

The album cover of "Frances the Mute" the Mars Volta's second album is an interpretation of the Rene Magritte painting called the Lovers. This album came about when Jeremy Ward (one of the members of Mars Volta) found a diary in the back seat of a car when he was working as a repo man. He read the diary and identified with the original owners story as they were both adopted. In the diary the man told the story of his search for his birth parents and the named songs on the album are the names of the diary author's parents. The song "The Widow" (of the same album) has many interpretations as to what the meaning behind it is. One "story" behind it that of Jeremy Wards fight with a drug addiction that eventually ends the reason for his death. The second, more theatrical verson is about a Priest who had been having sexual relations with a young member of the church, Frances. The Priest who was not so much of a man of the faith because of the sounds of it he was a bit of a man whore, had slept with many other women in the town and eventually contracted the AIDS virus and given in to Frances. When he found out he then cut out Frances' tongue making her mute so that she couldn't tell the town what had happened. Personally I like the story of the second one better, and nobody will know for sure unless they've heard it from Jeremy Ward or read the infamous repossessed diary.