Filed under: the ussh. | Tags: 2009, Auld Lang Syne, Break, Holidays, Life, New Year's Eve, Paolo Nutini, Winter
These past few days have been super chill. All I’ve done is lounge about in sweat pants and watch sci-fi movies or listen to music. Awesome. It’s too cold outside to even bother going out. New Years Eve is tomorrow night and I’m super excited. It’s still my favourite night of the year.
Filed under: the ussh. | Tags: 2009, 9, Animated, Film, Movies, Review, Tim Burton
Ok, Tim Burton really only produced the film, and for obvious reasons got better billing on the posters than anyone else. I went into this moving with two things:
- “9″ is an animated film about a post-apocalyptic society starring gingerbread looking potato sack people.
- it has to be a kids movie.
I guess I was completely wrong about that second point. I also had no idea what the movie was really about. It’s retarded. The movie is Burton’s darkness and weirdness mixed in with some pretty nice looking animation. There were a lot of loose ends that didn’t really make any sense, and the whole gingerbread looking people thing was kind of creepy. I’m realizing now that this really isn’t helping anyone who wants to get a better sense of the movie.
Just go see it and decide for yourself. It’s got suspense and great animation and cool dystopian future written all over it.
Filed under: Film | Tags: 2009, Books, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Comedy, Film, IMAX, Movie, Review, Trailer
My god. Go see this movie. It’s not what you’d expect. If you’re into copious amounts of food falling from the sky, like I am, then you need to see this movie. Mr. T plays a cop. See it in IMAX. See it in 3-goddamn-D.
Filed under: the ussh. | Tags: 2009, Florida, Miami, Naples, Summer, Travel, Vacation, Video, Vimeo
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Filed under: Interesting | Tags: 2009, Celebrity, Deaths, Music, news, Patrick Swayze, Rant, She's Like the Wind, Social Media, Youtube
This song was so boss. That soundtrack was incredible.
I had to turn off from the Internet after I heard about this. I wasn’t ready for the onslaught of tributes that would pour in and flood my browser. Will we eulogize the guy who created the “Kanye Meme” when he dies one day? Sometimes, the Internet ruins everything.
(Via Nicole)
Filed under: Interesting | Tags: 2009, A Dare to Remember, Africa, AIDS, Canada, Charity, Event, Foundation, HIV, k-os, news, Philanthropy, Stephen Lewis, Unicef, United Nations
Stephen Lewis is a former Canadian diplomat with quite the resume. The former Canadian ambassador to the United Nations was also deputy director of Unicef, and the UN’s special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. The man knows Africa.
This October (17-25), he’s daring Canadians from all over to do something extraordinary for Africa. He’s daring you to do something funny, healthy, sporty, quirky—anything at all. Pledge to raise a certain amount (any amount at all) and get people to sponsor you. Then, between October 17-25, perform the dare.
You can sponsor other people who are daring to make a difference for AIDS affected families in Africa. Or, you can dare someone. Check out the A Dare to Remember website and see what other people, like musician k-os, are doing.
What’s different about the Stephen Lewis Foundation is that there is no middleman. All funds raised go directly to the families who need it.
Are you up for the challenge? I’ve been dared to ride 10k on a bicycle by the bike enthusiasts at work. There are a multitude of dares you can do, and the possibilities are endless. Raise money and dare yourself to stay away from Facebook for a day or a week. Raise money and dare yourself to eat only vegetables for a week.
Maybe raise money and dare Dwyer to live in his tree house for three days straight. Better yet, get him to clean his room.
Dare Kaitlyn to not drink coffee for a week.
Dare Joanna to update her blog for a week with posts only talking about chicken wings.
Dare Lisa to wear the same outfit for a week straight. (Dwyer, this one is too easy for you).
I’ve tagged a bunch of people who I think might be up for it, and if you are, create a dare profile page here. If you don’t want to perform a dare, sponsor someone who is! Or, dare someone you know!
You can take social media to the next level and take this campaign to new heights. Post to your Facebook, Twitter or blog and alert other people about this initiative.
Filed under: Interesting | Tags: 2009, Anna Lenzer, Bottled, Business, Fiji, Fiji Water, Finance, Magazine, Mother Jones, news, Report, Scandal, Tourism
I don’t really get Fiji Water. They have a pretty robust marketing plan in place, but for the most part it’s a total lie. If you’ve been to Fiji—and I mean the real Fiji—you know that how the bottled water company markets itself and the country is totally not speaking truths about the island nation.
Anna Lenzer’s article for Mother Jones magazine is interesting. An investigative look into the relationship between the corrupt and scandal plagued military government of Fiji and the glamorous water company shows a lot of cracks. I don’t think Lenzer gives the people of Fiji or its history much justice, but at least it will finally dispell the exotic myths about a country that barley has any clean water. I also think she embellishes a little too much in an attempt to paint a gruesome picture of the place.
My family is from Fiji. I am Fijian by origin and its high time someone spoke out about the shitshow happening in the country. Unfortunately it just wasn’t the greatest with this article. I guess it’s a start?
Filed under: the ussh. | Tags: 16 and Pregnant, 2009, Canada, Juno, Life, MTV, Pop Culture, Pregnancy, Rant, Stupid, Teenagers
I don’t even know where to start with this show. I was channel surfing in bed last night when I stumbled upon this little gem off of MTV Canada. Seriously, WTF?! I can’t believe how obscenely retarded this show is.
A camera crew basically follows around this random 16 year old who is just about to pop with her child. You see her “struggle” with school, friends, and whoever the father of the child is suppose to be. Juno was one thing, but this, this is just so wrong.
I can see the network trying to create a show that will help other teenagers deal with pregnancy, but when the girls are missing significant amounts of brain cells and the father is too busy partying—I’m sure that’s the encouragement every girl out there needs. The show is literally an outlet for tweens and teens to think that, “hey, pregnancy is cool! I can be on TV!”—or maybe it’s been made for people like me to revel in two people’s unfortunate accident and poor judgement.
“So how did you tell your parents that you were pregnant?”
“I texted them, LOL!”
“OMG!”
“I knoe.”
When you have dialogue like that, I’m sure the world sleeps better knowing that these people could quite possibly be the leaders of tomorrow. I swear it was like watching another Britney documentary.
“Teen pregnancy is so in right now!”
Filed under: the ussh. | Tags: 2009, Albums, Billy Talent, Canada, Connect, Facebook, III, Music, new release, Rare, River Below, Rusted From the Rain, Video, Warner Music, Widget, Youtube
I won’t lie, when Billy Talent released their debut album years and years ago, I liked it quite a bit. I think we all did. Then we grew up and moved on, leaving a new legion of fourteen year olds to carry the torch. If you’re still a fan of the band, or just somehow stumbled upon this post from the caverns of the Internet, then this post is for you.
The band just released their latest self-titled album also known as III. The guys really need to get a little creative on the album naming. The first single, Rusted From the Rain isn’t bad—I’ll admit. It took a little while to grow on me, but you can hear the sounds of men growing older.
To coincide with the release of the new album, Warner Music has released a “widget” for fans to share. Seeking out the “ultimate fan”, users can sign up, share, and vote—the person with most votes, or “ultimate fandom” gets to win a bunch of prizes (I know, I’ve been about prizes a bit this week, but hey, free stuff!).
Along with the chance to win cool stuff, users are given access to a whole range of vids, tracks and interviews—especially in the studio stuff. It’s pretty interesting.
Check it out if you’re up for it.
*River Below is still a sick song.
