I'm from the A, I came to party 'til I pass out

Moving will occur in about 6 days. This is a scary proposition as I have no idea how I am going to actually move. I do have a couple friends lined up to throw in a hand, but nothing in terms of a vehicle to accomplish the move. That is actually not even what worries me the most. I have to somehow figure out how one goes about transferring phone lines and cable bills and cancelling all the other bills. I realize this seems like I trivial matter, but I’ll be damned if I can get a hold of a single person at any of these companies to give me a hand. They all seem to work the same hours as I do, which I suppose should be expected, is not very helpful. Today would be a perfect day to do it, because work isn’t busy, but turns out everyone else isn’t at work because it is a holiday. I will have to figure this out at some point.

Other cool shit going down here is that start of big name punk tours. The following line-up will be attended by myself and likely no one else (unless Mark gets in on it):

Feb 24 – Death by Stereo (who ever thought I would be excited to see these guys again?)
Mar 6 – Guttermouth and The Planet Smashers (I don’t like guttermouth but I bet this show will be cool)
Mar 19 – The Brat Attack (I think they are good?)
Mar 23 – A Taste of Chaos (This is bound to destroy every other show I see up to Warped Tour)
Mar 31 – All That Remains and As I Lay Dying
Apr 6 – Strapping Young Lad and The Agony Scene
Apr 13 – alexisonfire and the fullblast (whoever that is)
Apr 14 – Rise Against and Hot Hot Heat (this will be deadly for certain)
Apr 23 – The Weakerthans
Apr 27 – The Killers (with Tegan and Sara? What the hell is that?)
May 20 – Green Day (I will see this just to bug Mike if he doesn’t get a chance to see them)
Jul 14 – The mother of all punks shows and the answer to my wet dreams about seeing Thrice and Atreyu. If either of those bands cancels I will personally kill Mike’s first born child.

Looks like a decent line-up. Throw in a couple hip-hop shows that I plan on finding through looking at the posters on 17th and this will be a good concert season.

On a stupider note, on Friday I passed out on my couch with pizza in the toaster oven. Ash has informed me that this is a “fire hazard” and the situation isn’t funny like I thought it was. From here on out no more drinking til I pass out. I hope.

Tell the kids punk rocks, I’m gonna puke on cops

So it’s been a while since my last post. In that time I have encountered a female versions of Vi, my arch nemesis at work, somehow wormed my way out of a brutal lease, and tried to find a new place to live. I also went to the coolest bar ever, spent more money than I actually have, and drank a single fresca. I suppose starting at the earliest event would be the easiest way to go about running this down, but I will instead start by what I can remember.

Tim and I got out of our lease for the piddly sum of $850. Then I found a place (this should be familiar to many people as the same apartment Mark lives in). This is a 25+ building, which is a problem for someone who is 22 like me. Luckily I got around that by lying. Now the only obstacle is coming up with a damage deposit by tomorrow. If anyone wants to pay $940 to watch me eat supper or do variance analysis, they should give me a shout. My other method of getting this cash is hoping Danielle’s cheque gets here today, cashing that and not paying her share of the rent until I get paid on Monday. I like to call this kiting.

So if we actually get this shit together over night I have all intentions of heading to the bar I was talking about above: Aussie Rules. (Welcome to segue hell). Aussie Rules is home of the duelling pianos, and probably the coolest place in all of Calgary. The bar starts to fill up super early with people who get smashed. The crowd then requests random songs from the guys on the piano (there are 3, and they rotate so 2 are always playing), and everyone rocks out. By rocks out I mean if you want to see the guys playing you had best be on your table or chair, because the people in front of you sure will be. It is honestly an experience to see a large room full of people standing on their tables signing along to Ring of Fire. It is great and I want to go back. I plan on taking every person who comes to visit me there, with Ash and Cristina being to first victims.

Now as for my new female arch nemesis, I had a brutally venomous post up for about 10 minutes before I took it down on Tuesday night. I am fairly certain I would have had to attend counselling had someone from work caught wind of that. Plus Evan and Dave would have taken down their links to my blog for sure. That would have been horrible. Upon further inspection Dave doesn’t have a link to my blog. What a giant ass. I am struggling through this week with someone who has 6 years experience with the firm, but has never seen a public company before. Goddamn the Edmonton office. It is very frustrating to have to explain to someone with their CA what share capital is and how they should go about looking at the share options. I hate, no, really dislike this girl. I hope she never comes back to Calgary, because I won’t miss her.

I’m out. Peace.

The melting point of wax means nothing to me

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

The following bands have confirmed for Calgary's Warped Tour date (according to this site: http://www.warped2005.com/bands.asp):
- Atreyu
- Thrice
- Avenged Sevenfold
- Millencolin
- MCR
- Strung Out
- Tsunami Bomb
- Strike Anywhere
- NUFAN
- Dropkick Murphy's
- Jimmy Eat World
- Boys Night Out,
and a bunch of bands I have never heard of, or am not interested in.

Needless to say this is shaping up to be the best warped tour I will ever see.

This is how we like to do it in the murder scene

It looks really nice out again today, so once again I am planning on taking my bike out somewhere. I have been planning on doing this for a while, but every time I get home from work I am just too damn lazy to get out and do something .What ends up happening is I cook a little something and either sit on the couch and fuck around on the internet, or read a book (I just finished A Cook’s Tour and I think Anthony Bourdain is absolutely brilliant. If I could somehow get Kitchen Confidential back from Vinet I would definitely read it again). Needless to say these activities, while relaxing are not conducive to helping me become less of a fat bastard. I really don’t like this feeling of being lazy all the time, but because I am lazy all the time I can’t seem to get motivated to do anything about it. Hopefully my new plan of a downtown gym membership will help fix this.

Tonight Tim and I need to go tell our landlord that we are planning on breaking the lease and moving out. We also need to request a copy of the lease from her so we can check to see what it says about the penalty for breaking it. We are hoping that we can find something on there that she didn’t live up to so we can get away with maybe just leaving our damage deposit or something. This is going to be a shitty time. To make matters worse I am fairly confident that the lease says if we leave early we need to keep paying until they find new tenants. I am hoping to hell that this isn’t the case, because I honestly think Tim and I would each have to declare bankruptcy or something if that were the case. We were stupid for jumping at this place and signing such a long lease, but I guess that’s what you get when you leave finding a house to the last minute.

See now I normally would have posted this when I finished writing it 10 minutes ago, but now the internet is down. I figure they just blocked our access to it, the way they blocked fark off. I used to read it at lunch everyday and then yesterday I go to check out what ridiculous things have occurred in the world over the past day and the site is blocked by IT due to adult content. This place is starting to suck, let me tell you that much. I am off to play punch-out until my lunch is over.

Peace.