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It’s been a while since I’ve headed into a record store and the one day I do – turned out to be the launch of the latest Alkaline Trio album. I really dig the way these guys they can package sweetness into a song that seems revel in the dark.

Like a song about realizing who you really love:

“you hit me just like heroin/ i feel you coursing through my veins/ i once tried to kick this addiction / i swear ill never kick again / won’t ever kick again, no”

&

“well those others were like methadone / i took to get me through the day / now i’m trying to find my way back home / staying clean along the way /hold out for the real thing, yeah

Silly? Perhaps but I still believe it more than any other pop tune I’ve heard it a while.

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WHAT IT SAID:

You are a person who is very committed to what you believe in, and sometimes very stubbornly so!

You are a true artist at heart–creative to an extreme, and sometimes nervous if you are not channelling your considerable artistic talent constructively. Compassionate and concerned, you care much about others, but often come across in a detached manner.

It is very important that you finish the projects you start, which is not always easy for you, in order to feel content and satisfied.

Grizzly Project is quite possibly the greatest documentary of all time. I saw it once by accident as a child on TVO or something…I watch riveted by Troy Hurtubise’s mission. Only years later, I found out that Quentin Tarantino also thought this kicked ass (see, I had good taste back in 1996).

I even emailed and called the National Film Board of Canada to re-release this film on DVD. I would love to own a mobile copy.

It does kick ass…and now that I’ve had my own personal incident with a bear…it is even funnier. Long Live PROJECT GRIZZLY. This is required watching for anyone who watches anything.

Thank you National Film Board of Canada. The OLD MAN is stuff of LEGENDS.

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I actually had the pleasure to to work with Paul Quarrington via email during a course at Humber – he actually just lived down the street (freak coincidence). During the time that I worked with him, he read my manuscript and said I was pretty talented and some agents in mind for me.

We both also had a thing for being a kid lost in a ravine…

Paul was a very funny, ultra talented guy and I used to call him Sensei Quarrington and I am sure he will take all of that humor with him into the next life.

Sorry…you never got to read the full book Sensei Quarrington…but in your passing, your punk pupil has remembered why we write.

This video is inspired by an awesome experience I had at a Blockbuster. I walked in and the employee waved…now I know that they do that because they want you to know that they are watching you but this employee rocked. I mean, first of all she waved instead of saying “hello” and like a lost and geeky child -- I waved back.

She was downright hilarious and made my experience in the store enjoyable and I was in bad mood. Plus, she had actually heard of Aqua Teen Hunger Force and watches Colbert. That’s just wicked.

So, if you are out there check out the video above, laugh, and be merry. Hopefully, we’ll cross paths again.

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