Hey Oh

As you may have noticed, I have done some cleaning up of my blog.

I've had to remove quite a number of my posts, as well as other internet entries on other sites that could come back to haunt me in a few years time.
As you know, I'm an aspiring actor, and if things go as I hope for them to, I do not want any thoughts and opinions I have had as an adolescent to come back and ruin somthing for me.

From now on, my blog will be less opinionated and much simpler.

I apologize to you all for what I have had to do.
it was a hard, but necessary decision to make.

Cheers.
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Use Somebody

I think I will be taking a different approach to my blog, and will be posting more random 'tid-bits' and thoughts. Hope you enjoy.

Great new Music from 'Kings of Leon' - First Song is 'Use Somebody', second is 'Sex on Fire'. Make sure to check their newest album out.
(Videos After The Jump)

I've been roaming around
Always looking down at all I see
Painted faces, build the places I cant reach

You know that I could use somebody
You know that I could use somebody

Someone like you, And all you know, And how you speak
Countless lovers under cover of the street

You know that I could use somebody
You know that I could use somebody
Someone like you

Off in the night, while you live it up, I'm off to sleep
Waging wars to shape the poet and the beat
I hope it's gonna make you notice
I hope it's gonna make you notice

Someone like me
Someone like me
Someone like me, somebody

Someone like you, somebody
Someone like you, somebody
Someone like you, somebody

I've been roaming around,
Always looking down at all I see


Lay where you're laying
Don't make a sound
I know they're watching
They're watching

All the commotion
The kiddie like play
Has people talking
They're talking

You
Your sex is on fire

Dark of the alley
The breaking of day
The head while I'm driving
I'm driving

Soft lips are open
Knuckles are pale
Feels like you're dying
You're dying

And you
Your sex is on fire
Consumed
With what's to transpire

Hot as a fever
Rattling bones
I can just taste it
Taste it

If it's not forever
If it's just tonight
Oh it's still the greatest
The greatest
The greatest

And you
Your sex is on fire

You
Your sex is on fire
Consumed
With what's to transpire

And you
Your sex is on fire
Consumed
With what's to transpire

Musical Prose

The Sun is out, and the Sky is blue...
...and where am I?

...in my basement, playing Rock Band 2.

Speake to Me, Breathe

Hello everyone (Ben & Marina).

Im just posting quickly that I am alive, and well (not today, im sick bah!) but will hopefully be posting something very interesting in the next couple of weeks. Make sure you stay tuned!

Anyways, hope all is well with each and every one of you.

Until next time,
C+

The Olympics... meh...

Hello All.

I'm back to inform you that I am alive, well and extremely busy, as is the reason why I havent posted a thing here in quite some time.

I thought I might as well throw in a thought or two while I had some free time, and what better than to dish out on than the Olympics!

A lot of people I know have been following the Beijing Olympics quite closely and good for them, but its not really for me. Dont get me wrong, I enjoy and appreciate the Olympics - especially the Winter Olympics, but am not overly enthusiastic about them for a variety of reasons. Particularily this year.

I think that the Olympics should be a place where every country in the world can have its athletes compete and not have to be pressured by activist or lobby groups no matter what the circumstances. The Olympics should be a place of fair, healthy competition in a enjoyable, inviting environment. After saying that I'll try and not get too political in this post.

First off, I dont feel that Beijing was a suitable host for the Olympics in the first place. Not only is the city/country plagued by over-population, poverty and pollution, they have also been a massive component in unemployment in our own country with head offices, and factories moving their production lines to China where production costs are slashed to miniscule percentages. However, overseeing that, there are still other reasons why I think China has abused their privelage of hosting the Olympics.

Lip Syncing and Voice Doubles:
In what was clearly one of the most shocking deceptions of the Olympics opening ceremonies in Beijing, the national anthem singer was replaced with a “cuter”, younger lip sync artist. Yang Peiyi was actually pre-recorded singing the anthem, but was apparently not attractive enough for the ceremonies and did not meet their standards of “perfection.” Supposedly, it was her teeth that did her in. Chinese officials explained that they wanted the perfect performance - the perfect voice and the perfect look. Perhaps we should forgive Milli Vanilli as well? I mean, they just wanted to be the perfect performers, right? The problem is, and we will see it time and time again, that everyone was led to believe that this cute little girl was actually singing - or at least sang it her self in a studio at some point.



Flawless Fireworks:
Apparently the folks at the Olympics thought it was too dangerous for helicopters to film the actual fireworks at the stadium during the opening ceremonies, so pre-recorded, computer-generated fireworks. Sure. The display we see appears to be miles away (and that is assuming no zoom is used on the camera lense) - not exactly sure how that could be safe. I am not doubting that fireworks were shot off from the ceremonies, but I am not convinced that the Chinese decided that it was too dangerous. My guess is that, just like the fake voice-over used for their national anthem, they decided that the “perfect” image the rest of the world should see is one they can’t really created.



Fake IDs

The most heinous fakery going on right now has to do with the ages of two girls competing on the Chinese women’s gymnastics team. I am not exactly how we can use “women” to describe a team made up of pre-pubescent children, but apparantly that is what they are calling it these days. At stake in this disagreement is the much coveted gold medal in women’s gymnastics. There are only a few medals for which both the United States and China compete closely, and this one is certainly the most popular. Two 14, I mean, 16 year old girls on the team, He Kexin and Jiang Yuyuan are supposedly of age, but records indicate that they are probably as young as 14 years old. China produced passports for the two children which show them to be 16 years old. Of course, birth certificates are unavailable, but even they would be incredibly easy to fake as well. This would not be surprising, considering China’s “Gymnastics Gulag” where athletes are beaten and abused starting at as young as 5 and 6 years old. There is a huge advantage to having young gymnasts - they are much smaller, and thus able to perform more dangerous techniques and, unfortunately, far more willing to perform those techniques despite the risk.




Fake Weather
Even the weather has been faked in China during Olympics. Over 1000 rockets were
fired into the coulds to keep the rain from coming down during the opening ceremonies. The controversial technique of firing silver iodide crystals was the largest known effort in the history of mankind toprevent rain. It seemed to work, as the event went off flawlessly. I certainly understand the wish to make the event go by without any rain, and it wouldn’t be the first time in history that silver-iodide was used to seed rain clouds, but the big question really starts to form — what is the real China like?


False Promises

Perhaps the biggest deceit of the 2008 Olympics is the gross difference between the China that is portrayed and the China that is. This shocking photograph depicting China’s “One World One Dream” slogan on a wall built to shield the true nature of Chinese poverty from the prying eyes of the World. The sad truth is that China is fooling no one, but nearly everyone doesn’t care. Sometimes, it is easier to pretend you are duped than deal with the truth.

Original Source Here.

The main problem I have about The Olympics, no matter who is hosting, is the amount of Bandwagon Jumpers that seem to magically appear. These people become rabid over the athletes and scrutinize every aspect of their performance. These BWJ's as I will call them all of a sudden seem to be the biggest fans of these athletes yet where were they the past 4 years? I'll tell you where they weren't: They weren't there following the athletes training, following their progression, following their funding or following their person lives. Now because the Olympics role around, these people seem to care so much about every athlete that its pathetic.

In all honesty, I present a weak argument, but I thought I would just organise my thoughts and see what you all had to say.

Please comment.

Rotten to the Core

I thought a quick post was necessary, considering there have not been many new ideas being presented on. And I'm kinda pissed off.

Anyways, so today I fly to Vancouver, and after I land my cousin and I head to the nearest Rogers store so he can pick up his brand new 3G iPhone. Awesome right?
Well we stood in line for an hour and a half and endured the nagging, irritating complaints that were projected from this rude womens mouth right behind us. Its a good thing that there were other people in the store because she deserved a punch right in the throat.

So we go back to my cousins place and are messing around with his new 3G iPhone, and my Old-School 8GB iPhone. A couple of hours pass and still enjoying the company of our oh-so-elegant phones. Around 630 hits, and im in the middle of viewing a web page in Safari, when all of a sudden my phone appears to restart, but instead of going to the usual screen, I am presented with an image of a USB cable plugging into the iTunes logo.

Oh shit. What the hell is this?
So I resort to the only precautionary measure I know - Restart the phone!

Well that didnt work, even though I retried a good 5 times, I was still presented with the same image. So we plug it into the computer and supposedly I now have to 'Restore' my phone to default factory settings WHICH MEANS: I lose all numbers, photos, music, games etc. etc.

And then I learn that Apple has been doing this for awhile: remotely updating unlocked/jailbroken iPhones so that it 'reBricks' your phone enabling it useless.

So now im out of a phone, until I get back in a week in which my friend and I can attempt to salvage my beloved communication device.

So all in all, Fuck You Apple for screwing with me and my iPhone.

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Update: After some more research and discussion with friend of mine who is also an iPhone user, and also a friend of my cousin who is a phone-software engineer, it seems that it might either be

a) Apples doing - by remotely updating iPhones to ward off the thousands of unlocked iPhones (but wouldnt that be in violation to their User End Agreement? I dunno.)

b) My own fault for keeping my iPhone at such an outdated, unstable Firmware (1.1.1.)

It really doesnt matter at this point, because I still have a locked phone, but I'm confident that we'll be able to get it back working shortly.

Life, God and Animal Crackers

The following post will have everything to do with Life and God, but nothing regarding Animal Crackers. I'm sorry to disappoint.

A warning in advance - this post will be everywhere. I am about to attempt an explanation of a theory that I have been developing for some time, and call me crazy, which would not be the first time, but I feel that the purpose of a blog is to express all matters of thought - whether they be senile or not.

On that note, enjoy my discussion, and PLEASE post your opinion!


The debate and discussion regarding the purpose and time-line of life is a topic that has crossed everyones minds at least once, I myself am no exception. Many people feel that we are beings put on this world by an all controlling God or 'entity' whose purpose is to live our our lives and meet our creator in a paradise afterwards. Others feel that we are individuals to ourselves, and we are the true decision-makers and shapers of our destiny. Then you have people who feel we are spiritual slaves trapped in carcasses of flesh that need to be released through the praising of some made-up monster, however... that is for a different discussion ;) .

I myself, although I am skeptical of my own discovery, feel that our lives are somehow predetermined by a higher being. *It may not be 'God'* but there has to be something... anything! that is more powerful than humanity. Think about our history - wars, plagues etc. etc.! There is no way when one considers the history of our race, that we should even exist. Yet I think that the reason we still are a thriving society, is because there has been someone, or something guiding us along the way. Who knows, maybe we are all some sick, demented experiment of an alien society (for those of you interested in further research, Google "Planet X" I promise you it won't disappoint.) Now, when one takes into account all the bad that could, and probably should have happened, we must conclude that this force that is 'aiding' us must be present in our daily lifes - and this Dear Reader, is where my theorum becomes evident.

This is somewhat if not directly related to the phenomenon of Deja Vu. For those of you who are unaware of what this is, or those who believe you have never experienced it (liars) Deja Vu consists of "a French phrase meaning "already seen", and it refers to the experience of feeling sure that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously." Now where my idea comes in is that life as we know it, is predetermined - to an extent, and we as human beings have the capability of catching glimpses into our 'timeline' yet we do not fully have the mental capacity, at least not most of us - myself included, to piece these clues and glances together to transcribe a relative guideline. At the time of the "vision" our minds are too preoccupied to fully comprehend the significance of the details presented and brush them off as just useless information.

Now comes time for the example, and oh how I love my examples.

Lets say one day you are minding your own business and somebody mentions Bananas. Now! An ordinary person probably uses the word Banana at least twice a day but lets imagine you are someone who has never EVER heard of a supposed 'Banana.' Now, you just learnt about this supposed elongated fruit, but no less than hours later maybe you hear about a Banana from another media source such as the radio! This link between the two is what my theory consists of. The 'coincidence' of never hearing this word before but then hearing it AGAIN only hours later is what could be concluded as a glimpse into our lifeline. I know how absurd and out there this sounds, and I myself am a skeptic of my own thoughts, but if one takes note, even for a day, I am sure you will begin to see the similarities between thought and action.

In conclusion, the coincidence of a first (re)encounter to a second instance is sometimes too evident to be mere 'fate' and one should consider the idea that maybe it is more than coincidence, but maybe you are actually 'tapping in to' an otherworldly phenomenon.

I know how crazy that is, and I apologize for the confused look you probably have on your face, but I felt compelled to express what was on my mind, and this has been on it for quite some time. Hopefully it made some sense, and hopefully it sparks some imaginative thoughts! Please post your own thoughts and ideas, and be sure to check back regularly for new posts and replies to your comments!