there really are entirely too many people on television that look like barbie dolls. or stepford wives. my gosh. all these tv channels to chose from and i end up watching bbc world news cause most of it is an insult to my intelligence. one thing that contemporary television makes clear: life is a competition.

its been a busy weekend. so busy i had to take a nap this arvo after eating sushi buffet for lunch. it was a sushi buffet that was brought to your table almost a la cart. this place is on the oakville border was found via a friends of a friends birthday party. there was a take away looking menu on the table that you wrote numbers beside how many of each dish you wanted to order. when the food started to come out i think some of us who are not me were a little shocked at how much food was there prompting the comment "thats what happens when you write down the big numbers." i dont know most of what we ordered beyond bbq chicken and california rolls. something called red dragon had a bunch of stuff inside including tempora shrimp and salmon on the outside and that good. the random fish stuff i did not try. not my thing. we had green tea ice cream for dessert that really made me want a green tea latte.

oh and we found a drive thru starbucks. ive never seen one of those before and it seemed to be a novelty.

yesterday was the first of st patrick's day celebrations for some and my only alcoholic acknowledgement to the occasion. rex found there was a party/ celebration going on at the steamwhistle brewery downtown that started in the afternoon. we headed down to that via mississauga transit and the go bus.. and hour later plus walking time we got there. im not a fan of transit, i like walking, but it seems as though that is the way to go when planning to get very very crunk on the weekend. we got to steamwhistle around 2:30 but the event didnt start until 3. that meant we had to have free samples of beer while we waiting. that didnt suck. the place wasnt packed out at 3 but very full. we had some more beers and waiting for another friend to show up. apparently green on st patricks day does not require than one wear irish green. there were people who can cute capes in the shape of clovers and others were doing the funny hat, glasses, antenna thing. but also lots of tops from mainstream mall stores that just happened to be green and a few sports jerseys for countries like mexico and brasil. the most festive i got was a green hairband and barring the one green tshirt i have that says 'australia' across the front, i do not own anything green. we left at 6 and i went home while the others went to madison. i was close to falling alseep on the way home, clearly id had enough. the stories they told me today about being off their faces made me not regret my decision. my parent had friends over for dinner so i got good food cooked for me there.

friday night was the gutter twins (mark lanegan + greg dulli) show at he mod club and it was my first show back in canada. it was really great. saturnalia sounds better live than recorded. considering who is in the band, i would have been disappointed if they had not delivered something awesome, but yah, it was awesome. to my knowledge the mark lanegan band/ mark solo has never played in canada and the last time i heard him sing was qotsa in montreal (oddly i just found the mini disc of that show the other day). meth blues was on the setlist and some of the european shows from this year's tour. towards the end of the set they went into hit the city, fucking rock, but i was so sure that it was going to be the only lanegan that was played. nope. four songs later we got meth blues. even more rock. yah, it was pretty great, even if it was an early show. a friend was trying to get me to go to montreal for the show on saturday but he couldnt convince me. a $30 ticket plus $300 in travel only happens for certain artists, as much as i liked the show im not spending that kinda cash.

i found good underground parking on college street too. in the past whenever ive gone there or when someone else is driving we laywas go for street parking on ossington or college. the snow banks were covering a lot of that, and seeing as my parallel parking skills are a little rusty i was hopeing for paking lot. i found a green p parking that was only a few mins walking away. it was all good.

the gym i joined closes at eight on the weekend. i thought it would be at least 9pm.. not cool.

the internet is being so retarded right now. i feel like im still in australia and i just hit my download cap and was reduced to dial up speed.