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That is the home of my new blog. One of which I plan on actually using a bit more often. And damn is it ever shinny.

My Story

So today I asked my followers on twitter to send me one word replies, for which I would create a story using said words. That was a bad idea. You people sent nothing but crazy words that were impossible to work into a story 😛 But I tried my hardest and this is what I came up with. The words in ALL CAPITALS are words that were suggested by you. I apologize if your word wasn’t used, I tried to use every word i received before calling for an end to the words (but they kept coming) so without further ado.

FRACK! yelled the RETIRANT TAXIDERMIST as the TITMOUSE continued DICKING with his MANGLED METATARSAL. DOM was to busy DISSECTING a SMURFS STROMBOLI sandwich to help the TAXIDERMIST or even notice the ASHES being EXPUNGED from his HELMET. Luckily their SALACIOUS YORKSHIRE terrier (known to be quite the SPRIGHTLY BREPHOPHAGIST) who was eating CANDYFLOSS in a BOXCAR had an IDEA to avert this CRISIS. He pulled out his lucky GOONCH tail, and called up the ANTIPODEAS and ESTOVAN, who were all known for their SMOOTH GESTICULATING abilities. Hoping to INVALIDATE the situation DOM broke into a BOISTEROUS SOLILOQUY about MICSELLANEOUS aspects of his ILLICIT lifestyle. DOM was quickly DEFENESTRATED which lead to the TRANSCEIVER being destroyed. Oh the IRONY!

The End.

Neglect

I have been a bad blogger, but such is the ways of a lazy sack such as me. I stole this from Jeremy, who in turn stole this from a blogger by the name of Huckdoll. I encourage you to read both their blogs as they are far better at updating than I.

1. What is your current obsession?

I would say photography, and not so much in the getting out and taking pictures (though, I have been doing that) but more about reading about it. I am looking to upgrade my camera body sometime in the near future so I have been spending a lot of time different forums.

2. What is your weirdest obsession?

I don’t think I really have one to be honest. I don’t really obsess over anything for a long period of time.

3. Recall a fond childhood memory?

When I was 8 years old me and the local kid I hung out with (my parents hated him, he was a bad influence) were running around and catching and drowning wasps (good idea, I know) and about half way through our day a couple of them got super mad and ended up chasing me through this kids backyard and I stepped right on a rusty nail. I had to go to the hospital to get a shot and it wasn’t pleasant but for the next couple days my parents took care of me and fed me lots of ice cream. It was pretty awesome.

4. What’s for dinner?

I think Duncan just brought home some pizza actually, so hellz yes!

5. What would you eat for your last meal?

It’s a toss up between a really stellar pizza or my dad’s Roast Beef.

6. What’s the last thing you bought?

Cheap headphones for my mp3 player I use at the gym.

7. What are you listening to right now?

Pink Floyd – Another brick in the Wall Part 1

8. What do you think of the person who tagged you?

I wasn’t tagged. I just stole it off Jeremy

9. If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished, anywhere in the world, where would it be?

Right here in Victoria to be honest. I love this town and could see myself here for the rest of my life.

10. If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?

Either Iran (would be super interesting) or just LA or NewYork

11. Which language do you want to learn?

Anything really.

12. What’s your favourite quote (for now)?

I got nothing.

13. What is your favourite colour?

Green

14. What is your favourite piece of clothing in your own wardrobe?

I’m a big fan of my Threadless shirt of the gamer fist (http://www.threadless.com/product/1779/The_Gaming_Revolution)

15. What is your dream job?

Being able to do the Website (LoadingReadyRun)

16. What’s your favourite magazine?

Haven’t really read a magazine for ages, I guess I was a big fan of Wired.

17. If you had $100 now, what would you spend it on?
Goalie Equipment for Road Hockey.

18. Describe your personal style?

What the hell I want.

19. What are you going to do after this?

Eat some pizza. Figure out what to do with my night.

20. What are your favourite films?

To many to list.

21. What’s your favourite fruit?

Kiwi

22. What inspires you?

Peoples stories. Just hearing about another persons life is something I enjoy a lot and find a lot of inspiration in.

23. Your favourite books?

Not a big book person.

24. Do you collect anything?

Not really. I use to collect hockey cards, still have them I think. But other than that, not much.

25. Any advice that’s come from bitter experience?

Always wear a clean pair of underwear.

26. What makes you follow a blog?

It’s ability to tell a good story.

Ashley

Ashley, originally uploaded by JamesLRR.

This is my girlfriend, shes pretty and this is one of my favorite pictures of her. Mind you I took it so I am a little biased.

My Music listening habits

Something that my brain is always been fascinated at, is peoples stories, I love them, sometimes I can’t get enough of them. Its the reason the only books i read anymore are biographies or even better, auto-biographies. I love to read about people growing up in far different circumstances than I, hearing about their little quarks, and odd tenancies. The thought that there are over 6 billion other people in the world and that everyone of them has their own story to share is something I love to try and wrap my head around. So if anyone still reads this blog and has any reading suggestions for me please let me know in the comments. The last couple books I have read are Bill Clinton’s, Anthony Kiedis and Steve Martin’s of which i would recommend any of them. Mind you the Bill Clinton book is a pretty long read.

So in keeping with the theme of this post I wanted to share with you how I go about listening to a new album. For this particular example I am going to be talking about Coldplay’s newest album, Viva La Vida. First and foremost I want to go ahead and let you all know I throughly enjoy this album, I am a sucker for Parachutes (their first album) so this comes a close second. In fact musically, this is far and away Coldplay’s best album, but I have other reason’s as to my liking for their first.

So it goes something like this, when i get the album I listen to it on average 2 or 3 times the first day I get it. In that time I will judge weather I want to even think about spending more time with it or if it gets shown the door right away. If it can pass my first day, I will listen to it a couple more times all the way through for a couple weeks. No real rhyme or reason to when I listen to it, but I make sure it stays in my mind for a couple weeks. Something new I have been doing ever since I started to drive is I will take the album with me for a couple days to be able to listen to it while driving around. I find it gives me a really good chance to have it on while not paying 100% attention to it. Then I’m done, if a song pops up while I have my media player on random I will listen to it and enjoy it but other than that I won’t go out of my way to listen to it, and then after a good couple solid months of not listening to the whole album all the way through I will pull it out again. I would say 90% of the time this will be my favorite listen through of the album (it reigns true with Coldplay)

I couldn’t tell you why i do this, its just something I found myself doing a couple years ago and didn’t make any effort to stop myself from doing it. I can guarantee it pisses Ashley off when I start a new album, she hears the same songs over and over again and gets pretty angry, its cute really. I’m not suggesting anyone else goes out and does this. I wager many of you have your own specific ways of tackling a new album, or even a movie for that reason. Anyone out there got any good album listening techniques you want to share?

I don’t Know

Sorry for the lack of updates over the past week but I haven’t had much time to get out and take some pictures, which in turn has hurt my Project 365. Hopefully I can get back into it this week and get myself caught up.

Some things I want to share with you folks today. I was watching Colbert last night and he had a women by the name of Lisa Hannigan on. She’s an Irish musician and actress that played the song “I Don’t Know” off her new album Sea Sew. I really dug it and grabbed her album this morning before work. Managed to get through it when I came home for lunch. I really like it.

I honestly thought I had more to share with you all today but alas I can’t for the life of me remember what else I was going to show you. Sorry to get your hopes up but you will just have to enjoy that album and check back here in a couple days for more interesting stuff.

So its no surprise that I read a lot on the net. Like more than I should. Seriously you should see my RSS Reader is rediculious. But once again I was graced with yet another perfect reason why not only do I love the internet, but also my reading habbits of it. Because I wouldn’t have come across this amazing video if not.

World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.

Project 365: Day 11

Project 365: Day 11, originally uploaded by JamesLRR.

My first solid attempt at a picture of the moon. Not horrible but could have been far better if I had actually bothered to take my tripod with me on my walk. Oh well, beggars can’t be choosers.

God bless the iPhone and people like this

So this is a video by a group called the Mentalists who have taken their iPhones and iPod Touches and recreated a very immpressive cover of MGMT’s “Kids”

Project 365: Day 9

Project 365: Day 9, originally uploaded by JamesLRR.

Me and Ashley had a quick trip up to Tofino this weekend for a little job I had to do. Long drive for just a one night stay but accommodation was on them and it was a really nice place so I figured what the hell.

I have gone up to Tofino about 10 time in the last year. I started taking advantage of that drive, its beautiful. This picture was taken at Lake Kennedy, just between Port Alberni and Tofino. If you haven’t done that drive yet, you should find an excuse to.