vaneigem's Diaryland Diary

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just me and my friends.

ehy whats up.

i just got back from teh train / work and this weekend was my brithday weekend, it was pretty fucking fun.
the window is open and its soo cold right now and I really need to buy sweaters i guess, whoa how.a

so on tuesday or wednesday (i forget) i saw the BEST show ii have EVER seen in TORONTO ever. and i didn't know any of the bands, didn't love any of them, but it was the best atmosphere i've been put in since shows in blvl. so my friend john, who is really fucking cool by the way, possibly the coolest person i know right now and hides away in his room most of the time too bad too bad, has this folk band. he used to be in a band that did bikini kill covers. so he is also too from a small city and knows how to play shwos. so he invited me to see his band at this house party at doug's place (some guy) which pretty much delighted me becuase obvs i think john is cool and i didnt even expect it to be fun, i just really wanted to see john play because he is so shy and it woudl be a sight to see. sorry i really think john rules and i think thats been established.

mer and i went, bc apparenltly i am telepathic.!!, and i was totz just like ok "this is going to be kinda lame" but i was going for john! john. so we went, and i got into this house party... it was FULL of people i had never seen in my entire life. also, coolest house with that really amazing type of wallpaper and like gold crest mirrors, amazing. so i ran into john there and we hung out for a bit and he introduced us to some of his friends.
the guy whose house it was, jarred, is the NICEST GUY EVER. he shook our hands and introduced us to everyone there and it was so weird and personal, but in this really good unfamiliar way. at show syou go with who you go with and say hey to your friends and maybe meeet you'r friends friends and then hang out and do your own thing, bu thtis was like.. if you were there, you were going to hang out with EVERYONE or no one. i met so many people, and everyone was super nice. really genuine and i got along with everyone. i later found out it was a secret party for some small label they run, adn most people there either lived there or were in the bands. EVERYONE there made music, all the girls were not only amazingly cool as shit but NICE in conjunction with that (whci is fucking rare if i do say so myself).

man oh man. best house party of my life. i met john's sister who is in this amazing band with this guy who did all this glitchy (good) shit, sort of kites-y type of stuff but better. he had a smoke gun even, and just started playing with all teh tstuff he had as if it was a walk in the park, or like making dinner or something. his attitude towards it was funny. like after he was done a song or whatever he'd just like throw his hands up in the air and wipe his hands on his shirt, shake his head and shoot the gun and then start something else. liek he thought he was a piece of shit or something but i was really into it. he reminds me of jesse. john told me he's done like 8 or 9 albums or something. where dop these people come FROM!?!? i NEVER had seen any of them at shows, or anything. iguess they just spend their time making their own shit and time off constitutes hanging out together eating ice crema or something, i dont know, or buying smoke guns or something, who knows.

some other band played and they were cool and everyone in this kitchen like knew the words to their songs, they had such a tight communtiy and mer and i really felt a bit out of it but it was pretty cool to see everyone so supportive. like, someone would fuck up, or they'd have to start another song, and you just knew there wouldn't be some fucker heckling them or whatever. jarrod fed everyone cookies and punch, he actually made cookies and punch. then this wicked girl played just with a guitar and i am into slides now for guitars because of her. she is awesome and has a good voice. she made tons of mistakes but didn't give a shit and kept playing. everyone was into it.
some other band played and i had gone outside for a bit to chill with mer john carly and jill, and heard good music so i was all im going inside. turns out everynoe in the kitchen was playing with this band. i got on and started playing drusm! it was so fucking fun. and igot this bracelet tambourine thing too. and it actually sounded good. everyone was laughing and dancing, it was amazing. no one gave a shit! since when does that happen at any toronto show i am at? s0orry to be a drag, and i think i need to go to more punk shows in toronto, so at least im being proactive in saying this, but a lot of shows are so so boring and tasteless.
i met a really cool girl named maggie too, and that jarrod guy is pretty cool, we were talking about weird war for a bit because he asked me if i had seen any good shows lately and yeah weird war were AMAZING/WONDERFUL thx

yeah, so then john's band palyed and man! they are awesome. they are this folk thing, really mellow and chill, but its pretty cool. johns a cool guy.
then we left, mer was in a rush, i rpobably would've stayed there all night.

sorry but i just still cant get over how cool that night was and how cool everyone i met there was! it also sort of made me realize that getting on their label would be cool once i larn the name and i hope john gets on it because that was his deal playing this.
anyway, i hadn't had so much fun in a long time, and ive been having a lot of fun lately so it was hard to top but it succeeded.

man man.

this weekend was my birthday! on saturday. it was soo nice. i decided to take the majority of the day for ME. on thursday i hung out with marc and that was really exciting, he is acutally an amazing dude, and then i worked 2am-5am, and then cauhgt a train at 7am. so id idn't sleep. i came home and collapsed in my giant fluffy bed, and my cat came up and slept beside me. i woke up to him and it was incredibly cute. on saturday (my bday, do what you want day), i had a nice bubblebath in the morning and had ice cream for breakfast. i got taylor some toys for his birthday celebration the next day. i ran into my friend and she took me out for lunch, it was real nice. i did some shopping in blvl and listened to my fav music and went for a drive down this road that is really nostalgic for me. that was kind of my favourite part. i used to go down this one road and to all these farms and it really took me back. im trying to take photos of past meaningful places (houses, a particular bench/area) and how they are now. i think it would be a cool photo project kind of thing. then i came home and spent it with my family, my mum and dad. they are loving people that i can only take so much of. regardless, it was nice hanigng with them. i actually had a somewhat meaningful dialogue with my father.

that night kelly and nick phoned me and so i went over there. eric was there with james and laura came over, jesse, a whole bunch of people. i was hoping andre and dave would come but they never did. regardless, it ruled! we hung out at their house and drank and laughed, and just had really amazing times. they hda a party for me and it was really sweet. saturday night, actually, i think was so beautiful
because it was with people ive known for a really long time. and it had nothing to do with my birthday at all, in fact i kind of forgot abou tthat, it was just amazing what we did together that i cant even talk about. it was amazing to be together at a giant table and laugh and take pictures and talk. then we went out to vic's that same night, and i ran into steve who smothered my face and bought me beer and requested the misfits for me even though they didn't have them, so he played this elton john song that we have an inside joke about. it was great to see steve, what a guy what a guy. it was also fucking awesome to see jesse axlaxeliriuers1!!! ran into some old high school people after we were done there and this guy justin commented positively on my physiical appearance and proceeded to ask me for my msn and i was like nooo wayy and ran away because kelly is nuts. oh and also JASON bought us like 8 boxes of pizza as predicted because he is this guy who is loaded and super generous. hes a bit on the weird side and told me really personal things abou thim and his girlfriend. i told him its cool but maybe he should consult his girl before telling me that stuff cuz maybe she isn't cool with other people knowing about it. seroiusly.

so man thats not even the best of it. after, we went back to kellys and hung out more and everoyne drew me a birthday card. laura drew me witchboots even, classic move on that girl. everyone was so so drunk by then and falling all over each other. nick and i put on master of puppets because thats pretty amazing in my opinion and we kind of ruined his living room. jesse ate my ear or something and then wrestled me again and almost pulled my pants down which was not ocol becuase it tempted me to ruin his really nice jacket but i didn't.

then we all went walking in belleville, its about 3am at this point. kelly is holding a wine bottle, eric says "i have to go to my cottage for 6am!" and then 5 minutes later we see him running back to us "fuck that!!" and he came along still, guy is in my good books. nick put his head between my legs and gave me a piggy back ride while jesse held my hadn and said "i am never going to wash this hand again" and it was weird, he is such a tease that guy but we go back so it is icool and we both understand that it is cool.

we walked across the bridge all of us drinking wine, and there was NO ONE in the city. maybe a couple cars, but it as just ME AN DMY FRIENDS, like 8 of us at that point. it was amazing. this is what i love about small cities; you often feel like you are the only people living there and get this sense of ownership of the streets and beautiful things there, and places are more meaningful. in toronto everything belongs to everyone, yet is strangely individualistic at the same time.
so we went through BCI, jumped the fence, jumped through sprinkler systems. and looked at the stars all of us. i looked at stars with a guy who used to be in a misfits cover band, pretty hilarious . he was wearing a cannibal corpse shirt too. so then we went to the rose garden. blvl has this beautiful rose garden that is to die for. nick and kelly picked me a rose and we sat by the fountain in there and hung out, just me and them. it was aamzing. steve really loved it so much that he decided to stay there forever, he said. and then we all left, and he stayed! and jesse and me walked down the street and picked out a house for kelly and nick to live in when they get married. then we went to the park across from jesse's house and four of us (me jesse kelly and eric) laid on the grass with our backs head to head in a circle and stared up at the stars and then lifted our feet up to make it look like our shoes were a part of the sky. jesse held onto me and half passed out while everyone threw leaves and grass on us. we played on a swingset and we talked about everything and then it was 5:30am and then we were like whoa and hugged and loved and went home. i slept at kelly and nicks and it was cool. i think it was seriously the best most beautiufl birthday of my life.

went back home the next day, went to my grandmother's... so many people. my favourite part is always hearing my uncle scott who owns this pharmaceutical company (loaded) and he invited us for dinner and i am stoked to see his house northern toronto somehwere. he gave some really cool tips on being businessy and getting jobs. skills knowledge achievements relationships. is what i remembered for this one thing he spewed on about. it was great though. scott has a great work ethic and good business attitude. my other uncle won some sort of olympic length triathlon or something. my family is pretty random.

i love my cousins a lot. taylor loved his prresentts and it made me happy. i got him this ambulance truck that sirens and lights up, some bubbles for him and andrew, a "big machines" activity book, thomas the tank engine sticker book and painting book. i totz went nuts in toys r us. spending time with the little dudes was nice, its nice to be a part of their life i think, its cool to play soccer with them and hide and go seek and help sarah out with them and stuff. but i also just genuinely like being with kdis, scary as it sounds. also, i was observing them at the dinner table and i think adults should act the way kids do at the table. looks a lot more fun.

there is more to say but this shit si getting on and i want to go to bed dude

but yeah i came home on the train and i was stuck still in oshawa trapped on it for nearly 3 hours becuase some asshole jumped infront of a train before us and the cops needed to take photos of the remains or whatever, tasty. i was also late as shit for work, so late that my shift was over by the time i go tthere, that's bad. micehlle and jenny showed up with a cake for me, pretty sweet girls. now im home and excited to sleeep

im glad no one reads this anymore and even if you do whatever i keep the juicier things to myself.



also i think i had a life-altering dream on the train 2nite

2:28 am - 10.10.05

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