I've been trying to post a blog for a week now but something always comes up or my browser eats it. So here goes. I just this week's blog theme is Adulthood vs. Childhood.
You know what has been creeping me out lately? Those ads for those "K-Tel Mini Pop Kids" cds that seem to run every ad break no matter what channel I'm watching. Yeah there's something about a bunch of pre-teens singing pops songs about more adult subjects that sort of gives me the creeps and I'm not all that easily creeped out. I draw the line at underaged kids dancing to songs about heart break and being screwed over.
Speaking of being adult. One of the best thinking questions I've been asked was when a guy submitted the following to me: Having experienced being both a kid and an now an adult if you could, would you go back to being a kid with all of it's advantages (not having to worry about bills, work, etc.) and disadvantages (not being about to drive, drink, have a lot more freedoms, etc) or would you stay an adult with it's advantages and disadvantages? I can easily say I would stay and adult. Sure there's a lot of sucky things (work, bills, wondering if that girl you hooked up with last weekend was really a girl [ok so that last one isn't really a problem for me...or most adults...but I digress]) but there is a lot of really good things too (like being able to drink and smoke and cuss and cat ownership [though I don't smoke...hmmm]). Though there's one thing in adulthood that nothing in my childhood prepared me for...the cereal aisle!
A little background: I was at the store the other day because, well my fridge looked like this:
and I ran, of course, into one of the adult problems that nothing in my childhood prepared me for, which fucking cereal do I buy? I mean as kids we're told that we can't have that cereal because it's too sugary or that one is too expensive but as adults we can have whatever fucking cereal we want. You can have the sugary cereal, you can have the 6 dollar heavily advertised cereal, you can have the cereal with the special plastic prize in it, but now you don't know which one to get because I mean you can have anyone you want! So I always stand there staring at the aisle of choices with no clue.
I at least take comfort in the fact that I'm not the only one with this problem. Last time I was at the store I saw a 50 year old man with that same look I get when I'm trying to decided which cereal product to buy.
On the that same adult not, man what I wouldn't give for a bottle of Booker's right now. I don't mean that in a "oh life is crappy I'm going to drink my sorrows away" kind of way. I'm just craving a nice sipping bourbon. You know in nice classy this have a citrus taste with a nice warm vanilla after taste kind of way. Maybe that will be part of tomorrows venture out into the real world. Does the LCBO even carry Booker's? I guess I will find out.
As the few of you who actually know me know I watch mainly two kinds of shows animated shows with adult humor and the BBC (ok with How I Met Your Mother and Two and A Half Men thrown in). Most of the time means The Simpsons (I can't stand Family Guy), Gordan Ramsy, and How I Met Your Mother and Two and A Half Men but, lately I've kind of gotten into Total Drama Island/Total Dram Action.
The only thing is Total Drama Island's plot style and artwork seem very similar to Clone High. Anyone remember that show? But hey Clone High was mildly amusing, I guess the whole historical figures like sort of reminds me of Pinky and the Brain which I loved as a kid and Total Drama Island/Action is too bad. Really to tell you the truth how I even got into Clone High was when it was mentioned in a magizine article that Abandoned Pools (AKA Tommy Walter) had written the theme song.
Oh Abandoned Pools. The only reason I mention Abandoned Pools is that Abandoned Pools along with The Eels pretty much are the best representation of me and my thought patterns from about age 14 (grade 10) to 19 (My year at Queen's U). Pretty much they were the main too bands that summed up some of my most depressed years. Which is kind of funny as heard about Abandoned Pools through reading the blog of a friend of a girl I had a really bad crush on grades 8 to 11 (her name was Sam Woodard and I've since we've since become good friends). Also ironic, I found out that Tommy Walter was actually one of the founding members of The Eels (though he later left) after listening to both for about 4 years.
Yes I was a very depressed kid in high school and early university (just check out my early SG blogs if you need proof) but hey since those dark days I've bounced back into a quote chipper (though still quite strange) fellow. When I read those past entries I am amazed at how much I was obsessed with finding someone to love. Now it seems that obsession has faded and I'm just content with finding a decent circle of friends.
Though on the note of ladies, there is still one that still drives me crazy, Helen Marnie of Ladytron.
I'll save you the youtube videos.
I guess I've rambled on for long enough and I probably should give you what you all came here for:
HARDCORE NUDITY! Well sorry I don't have any so I guess you'll just have to make due with these Cup Cake Toronto pictures that I've been meaning to post.
P.S. I'm glad Michael Phelps is being exposed for the sellout druggie bastard he really is.
You know what has been creeping me out lately? Those ads for those "K-Tel Mini Pop Kids" cds that seem to run every ad break no matter what channel I'm watching. Yeah there's something about a bunch of pre-teens singing pops songs about more adult subjects that sort of gives me the creeps and I'm not all that easily creeped out. I draw the line at underaged kids dancing to songs about heart break and being screwed over.
Speaking of being adult. One of the best thinking questions I've been asked was when a guy submitted the following to me: Having experienced being both a kid and an now an adult if you could, would you go back to being a kid with all of it's advantages (not having to worry about bills, work, etc.) and disadvantages (not being about to drive, drink, have a lot more freedoms, etc) or would you stay an adult with it's advantages and disadvantages? I can easily say I would stay and adult. Sure there's a lot of sucky things (work, bills, wondering if that girl you hooked up with last weekend was really a girl [ok so that last one isn't really a problem for me...or most adults...but I digress]) but there is a lot of really good things too (like being able to drink and smoke and cuss and cat ownership [though I don't smoke...hmmm]). Though there's one thing in adulthood that nothing in my childhood prepared me for...the cereal aisle!
A little background: I was at the store the other day because, well my fridge looked like this:
and I ran, of course, into one of the adult problems that nothing in my childhood prepared me for, which fucking cereal do I buy? I mean as kids we're told that we can't have that cereal because it's too sugary or that one is too expensive but as adults we can have whatever fucking cereal we want. You can have the sugary cereal, you can have the 6 dollar heavily advertised cereal, you can have the cereal with the special plastic prize in it, but now you don't know which one to get because I mean you can have anyone you want! So I always stand there staring at the aisle of choices with no clue.
I at least take comfort in the fact that I'm not the only one with this problem. Last time I was at the store I saw a 50 year old man with that same look I get when I'm trying to decided which cereal product to buy.
On the that same adult not, man what I wouldn't give for a bottle of Booker's right now. I don't mean that in a "oh life is crappy I'm going to drink my sorrows away" kind of way. I'm just craving a nice sipping bourbon. You know in nice classy this have a citrus taste with a nice warm vanilla after taste kind of way. Maybe that will be part of tomorrows venture out into the real world. Does the LCBO even carry Booker's? I guess I will find out.
As the few of you who actually know me know I watch mainly two kinds of shows animated shows with adult humor and the BBC (ok with How I Met Your Mother and Two and A Half Men thrown in). Most of the time means The Simpsons (I can't stand Family Guy), Gordan Ramsy, and How I Met Your Mother and Two and A Half Men but, lately I've kind of gotten into Total Drama Island/Total Dram Action.
The only thing is Total Drama Island's plot style and artwork seem very similar to Clone High. Anyone remember that show? But hey Clone High was mildly amusing, I guess the whole historical figures like sort of reminds me of Pinky and the Brain which I loved as a kid and Total Drama Island/Action is too bad. Really to tell you the truth how I even got into Clone High was when it was mentioned in a magizine article that Abandoned Pools (AKA Tommy Walter) had written the theme song.
Oh Abandoned Pools. The only reason I mention Abandoned Pools is that Abandoned Pools along with The Eels pretty much are the best representation of me and my thought patterns from about age 14 (grade 10) to 19 (My year at Queen's U). Pretty much they were the main too bands that summed up some of my most depressed years. Which is kind of funny as heard about Abandoned Pools through reading the blog of a friend of a girl I had a really bad crush on grades 8 to 11 (her name was Sam Woodard and I've since we've since become good friends). Also ironic, I found out that Tommy Walter was actually one of the founding members of The Eels (though he later left) after listening to both for about 4 years.
Yes I was a very depressed kid in high school and early university (just check out my early SG blogs if you need proof) but hey since those dark days I've bounced back into a quote chipper (though still quite strange) fellow. When I read those past entries I am amazed at how much I was obsessed with finding someone to love. Now it seems that obsession has faded and I'm just content with finding a decent circle of friends.
Though on the note of ladies, there is still one that still drives me crazy, Helen Marnie of Ladytron.
I'll save you the youtube videos.
I guess I've rambled on for long enough and I probably should give you what you all came here for:
HARDCORE NUDITY! Well sorry I don't have any so I guess you'll just have to make due with these Cup Cake Toronto pictures that I've been meaning to post.
P.S. I'm glad Michael Phelps is being exposed for the sellout druggie bastard he really is.
btb4:
I eat oatmeal. 