Sunday, October 23, 2011

Friday, October 14, 2011

Don't believe everything you see

I'll Post the CTD2011 video soon. Here's the amazing [pieced] sequence that didn't make it into the article....too many frames.


Morgan Brown photo

Monday, October 3, 2011

On the Snuff Box next time


(Rich Fulter and Matt Berry at the Comedy Bar celebrating the release of Snuff Box in North America)

The night wasn't really planned out but it was cool to hear the great voice of Dr. Sanchez.





I had work to do so I went home after the show. I found out later that my friend smoked a joint and hung out with Rich. I was jealous.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Sloshers

some photos of a new spot....some lands some no lands












Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Saturday, June 4, 2011

THIS MIME IS A NOTHING MORE THAN A PEICE OF SHIT!



So here's the story behind this guy....

A few months back, I was at a bar and this weird looking guy walks in. He was wearing some leather shirt that had the whole front chest area exposed--with the exception of a bit on lace. He also had a police cap on and a Clockwork Orange type of stick-on eyelash. Later in the night I see this jockish kinda guy yelling at him, calling him a "fag" and whatnot. I thought to myself, "man that's a little harsh, he looks like an asshole but that's no reason to treat him that way".

So some time passes and 751 is a shitty bar so I was ready to head home. While waiting at the bus stop with my buddies Calum and Taya, I notice that this same fellow is waiting for the bus too. While patiently waiting for the unreliable blue night bus, we hear some "gino beats" blaring out of a passing car....it is at this moment, that I realize why he was being yelled at a the bar--because he's a fucking idiot. He turns to us and some uninterested girls and says, "man these black guys and their hip hop [which clearly was not the case], they're taking all of our white women." Everyone stays silent, though I think I do remember correcting him on the hip hop vs. gino beats thing, and he continued say idiotic things to people who obviously had no interest in what he was saying. We even laughed in his face after he said "people always try to fight me because of how I dress, but they don't understand, I just really like rock and roll."
So a few months pass, and we go to a bar after some very heavy pre-drinking. The brothers Calum and Al Murray-Lawson are in full auto-pilot mode at this point; and there he is, the douche from the bus stop. I point out to Calum and Taya that he's at the bar (dressed like an idiot again). Right away, due to his intoxicated state, Calum starts talking shit to him. A fight begins to break out, but I hear "Hey that's my fucking brother"--Al steps in. The Murray-Lawson's are a tight force I tell you. Before much happens the fight gets broken up and the brothers get kicked out of the bar. A minute later, they are let back in, and instead they throw the douche out instead. The guy was just standing at the bar talking to some girls, who probably wanted to leave at the first opportunity, and the next thing he knows someone starts a fight with him and he gets kicked out. I would feel sorry for him if I didn't know the kind of person he is. They won the battle, but did they win war?

YES! they did win the war. The day is May 22nd, 2010. I'm skating with a crew down by the loading area for the Toronto Island Ferry. And I see him on a bench with make-up on his face. I think nothing of it because he's always looked dumb, but then he gets on a milk-crate and starts his mime-routine. He loses....in life all together. Not only is he a mime, but a really really bad mime....even kids tell him he sucks. While we skate, he rudely hassles us about skating too close to his area, because we're "stealing his thunder". He even has the nerve to try and call us losers and tells us to....get this..."get a job!" Pathetic....just pathetic. Eventually he uses his brain and moves his milk crate/stage over. If anyone sees him when going to the Islands, I sincerely encourage you to spit in his face.





VIDEO LINK

I'll save the footage of his routine, but here's Tort giving him some advice

More food







Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Falasca SPQR

My good friend has been the right-hand man to Alessandro Buccianti for quite some time. Alessandro is a gelato maker from Rome, who has a shop at Yonge and Eglington. He is now helping a friend from Rome (who has won a world pizza championship) establish himself in Toronto....directly across the street from his Gelato spot.



It just opened and it is fantastic. Before dinner hours, he serves square slices which are priced by weight. Just delicious...





pizza buona.....smoked prosciutto, brie and walnuts

Here's an article with more info
Postcity.com Review

Monday, May 16, 2011

MORE ?UESTLOVE

In this part of the interview Questlove talks about collecting multi-track recordings. The first time I heard a famous multi-track recording, I was left speechless and in disbelief. It was at my friend Dan's house. Like a lot of my friends, Dan was heavily into sound design/engineering and had a half-built recording studio on his second floor. After scraping away and smoking the build-up of crystals lining his electric grinder, he brought us upstairs to show us these new tracks that he downloaded.....and there it was.....every recorded track of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. We listened to it in every possible arrangement we could think of. "Put it on with just the vocals! Just vocals!". We also listened to Bob Marley (I forget which track) with just drums, bass, Bob, and his background singers....It was as if they were just jamming out in the room with us.




Monday, April 25, 2011

"SPOON!!!!!!!"

I attended my first screening of Tommy Wiseau's The Room. Tommy was there....no words can describe how insane this man is. This night was, by far, the most fun I have ever had in a movie theatre. It is an experience that everyone should have at least once.




(Calum getting a football signed)





I wanted to get a good picture of spoons flying in the air, but i was too busy throwing them into the crowd. So here's a video on Youtube showing what it is like.



Sticker Slap








^WINNING SLAP

Monday, April 11, 2011

Still one of my favourite things on Youtube.......mo613

A while back the infamous Grant Kennedy introduced me to this guy's youtube page. At first, I thought this was just another viral internet moron like Pruane2Forever; but to my surprise, his videos had very little views. Mo is a balding Jewish man, probably in his mid 30s, who is obsessed with his cat, and has the the same taste in television shows as a confused teenage girl. Here are my favourite clips, which display his strange obsession with Dawson's Creek. I hope there are more people out there that find this as funny as I do.

Deep down I still want to believe that this is all a joke. At many points, it really is too hard to tell whether or not he is trying to be funny. I want to believe Mo is somehow a twisted comedic genius, with humour that is so subtle and obscure, that it remains under-appreciated. Sadly, I know in my heart that he is exactly who he makes himself out to be.


"Collateral damage"


"Walking away from Rich Renaldi, clearly a guy who has no idea who he is dealing with"


"Do girls like that really exist?"


I really don't know what this is...

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Second installment of the ?uestlove interview

Friday's work shift

On Friday we set up a video conference for a talk with Noam Chomsky at U of T. I brought my camera hoping to take a photo of the event but I was too busy, and I also wasn't allowed to. What I didn't know, was that I was going to be working another job afterward, for the Governing Council at U of T, where they were to discuss raising tuition fees. I was to sit in a room next to where all the Deans of the university were meeting, and control the audio levels of the webcast. Right when the discussion started, I heard loud voices coming from downstairs. They were student protesters. Next thing I know I get locked inside and all I hear is chaos outside my door. Since I had my camera, I put it to use. It doesn't look as bad in the video, but I thought the door was gonna bust off of its hinges and swing into me. WRONG DOOR FUCKERS!



click to play

Monday, April 4, 2011

?uestlove

This is an edit I made for the Red Bull Music Academy. More excerpts from the interview to come.

Willy at Toys R Us

This spot would have been so much fun. It only lasted for a brief moment and then rails were put up. Oh well.
http://a19.video2.blip.tv/10640008201428/Nickgnova-WillyToysRUs328.mov?brs=1485&bri=0.3

The Sid Smith building at U of T (April 1st, 2011)

My friend took this on his phone during our workshift. I don't think the person who did this really understands how April fools jokes work, but it made me laugh, nonetheless.