cody bown?

calvin decline

2009-01-23T05:21:00.000-08:00

you know what i remember?

when XL meant, XL. nowadays you have shirts that say they are xl. but once you put them on they fit like a medium. american apparel is one of those brands that likes you fuck you. i cant order shit online anymore because if it doesnt come in xxl, it probably wont fit me.

the other thing i remember, when vintage clothing stores, sold their shit for cheap. nowadays where the sizes are so fucked, the only place to get a fitting xl shirt, is at a vintage store. problem is that since vintage is so 'in' these days. shirts have gone up about $70 in price. so instead of finding a shirt that fits for $10, im finding a shirt that fits, thats soul'd out because some guy thinks vintage is in and cant decide for himself what he should wear.

ps. im going to see animal collective on may 24.

the tallest man on earth

2009-01-11T19:57:00.000-08:00

im dont want to write anything.

school shootings.

2009-01-04T02:11:00.000-08:00

i get goose bumps when i think about killing people.

2008-12-28T16:57:00.001-08:00

im 22 today.

213j

2008-12-26T16:06:00.001-08:00

only 5 people or less, a day visit this website.

what a waste of time.

the rules are there are no rules

2008-12-21T21:30:00.000-08:00

i fucking HATE that line... like... its not COOL to say it.. ugh, i just. FUCK. dont ever say it around me or i'll murder you.

i also wrote a new script. two new scripts actually. two shorts. one was for the competition i am in. it was about aliens, because i had to do sci-fi. "snuffing out alien predators".

because you wont get it, it spells out S.O.A.P.. it'll play a part in the reading.
the other one just has some fine tuning to do before i upload it.

my son will know animals never live forever, nor are they cuddly

2008-12-19T08:21:00.001-08:00

a bad day to get the runs

2008-12-16T08:12:00.000-08:00

yesterday was my first day of work, at the glasses factory.
im a little bitter that its not film, because thats what i came out here to do. and its really just the final nail in the coffin i think. i will probably never get into it.

anyways, work. i was early to hand in some papers, and got the tour. the 'lab' where i'll be working is very small. the rest of the work area is designated for warehousing. mostly for contacts. so i was told that i would need to learn the jobs of the entire place (incase i need to fill in for someone or whatever) so they had me packing orders. i packed orders for japan until about 2. then i packed orders for canada until 5, and i had one for fort mcmurray. neat. then at 530 i packed orders for usa. it was alright i suppose. my feet hurt by the end of the day, and so did my back because i was standing all day. but today im supposed to get a 'project' to work on, so that should be fine.

im about to go to work, jesse starts work today too, so i wish her luck. wish me luck too.

laine and retards (the same)

2008-12-14T18:49:00.000-08:00

instead of eating christmas dinner with my friends. im watching 'the santa clause 2'. and ive came to this conclusion, there are only two kinds of people who like 'the santa clause 2':

the first one which was pretty funny, and decent for a christmas movie. this one is just plain RETARDED. i cant even go into how stupid this movie is.

FUCK. LIKE MAKING THE REINDEER TALK, ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME... CHET?! WHERES FUCKING RUDOLPH. WHY DO THEY GRUNT LIKE IDIOTS> JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.

this is how you enter the app store

2008-12-14T15:44:00.000-08:00

of course.

our washer broke this afternoon. we tried to do some laundry because we were supposed to go to a dinner at julias tonight, and i start work tomorrow. so i need clothes. and our washer was filled up with water, and it didnt spin. so its broke. i went to the landlord and told her about it. and she said she'll dispatch someone tomorrow. lovely. jesse starts work tuesday so she needs clothes too. so our tub is full with clothes. and we can only put 2-3 items in the dryer at once because they're so wet. after that, we have to manage to get showers and get ready and make it to julias for 6. its not looking so good.

christ sakes. when anything could go wrong, it will. we were really looking forward to going for fuck shit fuck.

served with a side of rude

2008-12-12T23:08:00.000-08:00

vancouver, is a great city. i love everything about it. the people especially. when i first moved here and rode a bus, people said thank you to the bus driver. unheard of in fort mcmurray.

jesse and i, eager to celebrate our recent job success, we wanted to go out and eat. so we walked all over some near by streets that have the most restaurants. we chose 'hamilton grill'. we walked in and the woman greeted us and said "hi. how are you" good... for two. "we're all full".. but two people just walked in right in front of us. and they were standing there. we left immediately, and it never hit me until later that, hey... we were victims of a fucking jerk off. how rude was that woman. i could NOT believe it.

unimpressed we walked around until we found 'the players chophouse'. we checked out the menu, and were greeted without rudeness. but our service sucked. we had awesome appetizers which turned out to be free. a total of $23.. which i guess makes up for the bullshit that happened earlier.

WORK

2008-12-12T15:26:00.000-08:00

following such a shit night, today actually brought some good news.

i got a call at about 230pm saying that coastal contacts is giving me a job! hooray.
28 minutes later, jesse got a call from the breast cancer society and offered her a job!

thats just excellent.

my schedule sucks though. i'll work monday to friday, 10am to 630pm STARTING while i train. then after that i'll work 2pm to 1030pm. which sucks... but whatever, its only temporary i hope.

if anyone needs glasses or wears them or whatever, KEEP COMING TO THIS WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO, i get money if i refer you to buy glasses.

cash

2008-12-11T20:47:00.000-08:00

hows this for a slap in the face.

so with this cleanse im doing it limits what im allowed to eat. but one thing i can eat is popcorn and nuts. so i had popcorn for lunch and i decided i wanted cashews for a snack while jesse and i watched the sound of music.
lastnight when i had one it made my throat swell up and turned it all red.

after i had some today i started to itch, ALL OVER. then i noticed these little white bumps, ALL OVER... im fucking allergic to cashews?! what the hell. ive had cashews before and i LOVE cashews. its one of the nuts i do enjoy. and now i cant eat it. jesus christ.

look out for deeetox

2008-12-11T09:47:00.000-08:00

jesse and i started a 12 day herbal d-tox cleanse. today is day two.
yesterday for breakfast i had left over ground beef, jess had eggs. then for lunch, popcorn, then for supper, chicken and potatoes. but my stomach hurt alot and it made me question the cleanse. it could have been one of a few things though. the cashews i had eaten a little before, or the tap water i drank (filtered by brita, but not good enough). then i felt better. today for breakfast i had an apple, and we're having fish for supper. should be interesting.

pigs

2008-12-09T20:44:00.000-08:00

ho-ly-shit.

this has got to be the biggest news to come out of NYC since 9/11.

to the 13th prescient
-detective sully alvarez
-sgt. len leonoid

to the 48th prescient
-future considerations
-top pick at the academy draft

vanaheim

2008-12-08T11:08:00.001-08:00

i had a dream, i worked at a hotel. and my specialty was getting celebrities list of things they want for when they're there. lastnight my dream was of brian burke. he came into our hotel. and jesse and julia were working the front desk. this was brian burkes list of demands:

-potato skins from moxies.
-cheeseburger from mcdonalds.
-pretzels, and crunchy cheezies.
-filet mignon from earls.
-m&ms, peanut.

the best part about it was that, i had the ability to glide on my wooly socks. so i slid up and down the street. the only thing was, it was in a city ive never seen before. for some reason i picture chicago to look like this. anyways. i wound up not getting it in the time limit and then i got --- *insert wake up here*

pokemon #102

2008-12-08T00:53:00.000-08:00

76 toros

2008-12-07T11:25:00.000-08:00

on the side you'll notice a section id like to call 'gone but not forgotten'. they're old website i did or was apart of or designed. they're still active mind you, so check them out. i really like the warsaw template, i think i'll use that again for something.

uwfawjf dfusdfg

2008-12-06T16:10:00.000-08:00

i cant keep food in my stomach. ive shit so many times this week. its insane.

on a side note, ive been writing. thats good!

on the other side of this note. we might be going to fort mcmurray for christmas.

death by anus

2008-12-02T21:07:00.000-08:00

after a lovely evening with jesse, we were winding down, watching music videos because thats her favorite tv show. and during that time we were watching, green day came on with their song american idiot. and it got me thinking...

how many bands came out with some form of anti bush song/album?

ALOT

now that bush isnt in office, who are you going to write an album about now? you fucks.

ps. 500th post.

athlete

2008-12-02T13:52:00.000-08:00

omsk

2008-12-01T04:53:00.000-08:00

when i write, i do things a little differently. sometimes i cant even start to write my name on the title page, until i can picture it. i imdb actors until i find exactly what each character should look like. if i cant find it, i usually dont write it. sometimes i take it a step further, i'll make playlists in itunes with a soundtrack or songs i want to be in there. sometimes i make movie posters. concepts mind you. but still. here are some of the posters i came across that ive made.

from left to right:
slow motion animal attacks: this was a short i had an idea written out, it was supposed to star my cousin mathew and be about a very bad drug trip, but then i realized i know nothing on the subject.
sick: currently i am writing this one. the poster pretty much tells you whats going to happen. ive even gone as far as making the credits on there. you cant read it but i credit radiohead for the music.
heartbreak in the city of love: this image was made from like 12 or 13 different images all put together. im proud of it. i have some written but i took time off of it to write sick.
fox roost: was supposed to be my first feature written. i had it all mapped out. i just. stopped once i made this poster because i didnt like it.
boxed love: this is a three part series short co written by lindsey tyree. i wrote part three.
i have the largest biceps in the world: written about my friend laine. the funny thing about it is, while i was making it, i forgot the title of it. some of it says 'biggest biceps' while the other says 'largest biceps' notice 'i have the world' is singled out.
jungle green: this is a script i wrote for jesse. its a short. and i have the template for a feature to be written too. i like this one.

no rest for the wicked

2008-12-01T04:29:00.000-08:00

its 430 in the morning. ive shit 5 times since midnight. dear lord.

triple j smith

2008-11-28T22:29:00.001-08:00

across the street from our apartment is a place called 'yaletown shops'. we went in there to check it out and there was a gelato place. so we went in there. i wanted french vanilla and lemon gelato. jess being lactose intolerant so she didnt want any. so the woman who was helping me as chinese or... asian. so i was like yeah i want french vanilla and lemon. so she got it for me no problem, but then jesse wanted to try the panini that they have. so i said 'can we have the vanilla and blueberry panini'. so she gets a container ready to scoop up vanilla and blueberry, and i said no no. the panini. so she was like 'which sorry' so i said vanilla and blueberry... so then she was like 'which?' ...

IF YOU CANT SPEAK FUCKING ENGLISH DO NOT WORK IN THE SERVICE INDUSTRY.

holy shit!

2008-11-25T20:35:00.000-08:00

jesse and i went to joeys tonight. we tried to go there a couple of weeks ago but it was packed. so we went this time. we shared a caesar with no cheese, and we each had steaks. crispy potatoes? wow man. AWESOME. then we had dessert. it was good. but it soon RAPED ME:

queers with careers at sears

2008-11-24T22:04:00.001-08:00

whats the rule on being or having a best friend. can i be three or four peoples best friend? or is it more of a mutual agreement. im yours, your mine? i think ive learned the hard way finding out im no ones best friend. there is always a instance during conversation or storytelling where someone says 'my bestfriend blah blah' then in my head im like 'well id consider you mine?' too many times that has happened. and i remember back in like.. grade 3 or 4 or 5. we had to write down on a piece of paper who our best friend was, and i said brian bugden. and then someone read his and it said graham hurley. i wondered if grahams would say someone different too? how many best friends do you have?

stop crying in restaurants.

2008-11-23T22:39:00.000-08:00

i cant stand kids today. or kids during my era of being a kid. i just dont get it. when i look back now, i think 'why the hell couldnt i decide on a future'. or 'why didnt i write scripts or get into movies earlier'.. like i look back on when i was a kid, hell even during high school, i should have focused more on the future instead of the present. so much time wasted, so much money wasted. back in grade 5 if i knew i was going to get into film, i would have focused more on english and said fuck everything else so by the time i graduated id be able to write every emotion, every idea, and every feeling onto paper and translate it into a script. then i look at kids. like children. stop crying. don't you understand it's annoying everyone around you. i just dont GET how babies dont GET things. it frustrates me.

when the time comes for me to have children, im going to sit them down early, introduce them to film, very early. i want their first words to be 'gee dad, the dark knight wasnt that good of a movie... i much prefer the work of something you enjoy...' i want them to be fluent in english at age 8 months, fluent in russian by age 2, and fluent in swedish by age 3. i dont know if i'll be able to handle a child who doesnt understand, or doesnt have goals for the future, immediately. by grade 3 i want my kid to know what he/she wants to do for the rest of their lives, and i want them to not waste their youth the way i did. theres nothing more embarrassing than sucking at what you do, and theres nothing more embarrassing than not doing what you do but holding it on the top shelf of your 'dream pantry' in hopes of one day, that being your signature dish. by the time my child has invested 8 or 9 years into what they want, they'll excel, instead of not achieving anything the way i am now, three years into a 'film career' that is as full as an empty glass.

benno

2008-11-23T10:56:00.000-08:00

benno dvd stand. now, world trade center.

back to the past

2008-11-22T14:52:00.000-08:00

so i jumped on the bandwagon of those yearbook picture things. some of them are actually pretty funny.

script writing competition

2008-11-21T21:35:00.000-08:00

i joined up for a script writing competition. the first round is complete. the rules go as this. you get a genre, which it has to be. an item that has to be in the script. and a location which has to be the primary location of the script.. my group of 16 got: drama. a shoe store. dentures.. i wrote about a boy who lives in a shoe store, who rebuilds his dad through mannequin parts and a pair of dentures he finds in the lost and found. i called it 'lost and found'. i placed 9th.

the second heat began just a few moments ago. and i got what i didnt want. romantic comedy. set in a comedy club. with a refrigerator. im so lost in this genre, as i cant write it for shit. wish me luck i guess. i have until sunday to achieve it.

welcome. again.

2008-11-21T21:05:00.000-08:00

welcome to the new old cody bown blog tentatively titled 'disaster'. i'll go into that more another time. in the mean time this is just a formal 'hey im blogging again'. be sure to check back all the time. because i will post all the time.

i will attempt to tag as many posts with 'labels' as i can. but dont count on me getting through much of that. you'll have to search the old fashioned way.

sdphif

2008-01-31T12:39:00.000-08:00

i updated my dvd list.
lastnight i wrote a 15 page short.
today im trying to write another short.

im on imdb son

2008-01-17T14:01:00.000-08:00

yeah. im on imdb.

http://imdb.com/name/nm2786007/

check it son.

l.;n

2007-12-12T15:05:00.000-08:00

i have the biggest biceps in the world

2007-11-28T00:40:00.000-08:00

click here for the script (5 pages)

friends on imdb.

2007-11-20T14:45:00.000-08:00

so, my friends who are more succesful than me are on imdb, and ive stalked the pages, and i think its about time we do a little submitting.

most of them dont have pics or bios attached to their profile so why not.

julia niendorf
james schlittenhart
meagan oravec

the waiting game.

2007-11-04T23:32:00.000-08:00

with 917 posts under 5 different websites, but the bulk of them on this and the truth, its hard to be original anymore. but originality isnt the topic of this post. this is based on choices..

please, read on.

my last post was on september 24th and ive had no real intention of posting another topic or post or pool or anything until my mind was made up 100% on something.

please, read on.

my father came to me and said, if you want it its yours.. ive never had this kind of chance just offered to me like that. no way have i ever recieved something so easily.

please, read on.

a job. yes. my dad offered me a process operators job. i never have had that good of a connection anywhere to land me a job. a job which i would make alot of money. people come from all over the world for jobs like these, and here it is on a silver platter for me, just because of who my dad is. i have not once thought about going into his line of work. claiming im an artist of sorts. but an artist i may be, yet unproven in most arts, i am still a failure. i attended vancouver film school and one year later, i walked out with a degree and two sound credits under my name. i would have attended vancouver sound school if that was what i wanted. i gained the knowledge i needed to be a director but the fact of the matter is i couldnt prove myself. somebody saw something better than what i have, in alot of useless assholes in my school. did they deserve it? no. not one fucking bit. sure some did. but most never.. since school i was in a funk. claiming i would never succeed in my art. and i moved home where the money is. i am a contractor now for nts, working in a lab. walking around, and collecting samples, in the area i would be working. i still write ideas here and there, but im not good enough to develop them into something real. the point again. im not good enough, just like i wasnt good enough to direct 'the healing booth'. just like i wasnt good enough to turn 'swan' into a movie.

please, read on.

my last nightshift of work on my most recent cycle, a woman yelled at me for 'backstabbing her' because i asked her to do her job. ive been reported for looking up baseball scores on my computer on my break. ive been written up for not calling my boss at 3am on her day off when i sprained my shoulder. i was written up for leaving the lab at 7pm, when we're supposed to be leaving at 715pm. i tried to get dave smith a job, instead a dozen people have come and gone because they cant do the job. that was two months ago. newfies come fresh off the rock, and land a job there. really asking the question. what is this job. what am i doing here. if some joe shmo could get this job just for being newfie. what the fuck am i doing here. ive questioned this for a while now, and being yelled at by a butch, former bartender who says 'like frig man' after everything she says - doesnt help the cause. the money is good. but its not enough. loan payments, rrsp's, phone bill which gets more expensive every month, satellite bill, and rent take up all my cash leaving me with little to save.

please, read on.

we wanted to save up and leave. i say we as jesse and i. we dont want to live in my parents basement forever. our plan was to save $30,000 and head out west to bc. somewhere where i could persue film, and jesse could get out of this city she hates so much. we wrote down on paper how much we'd have to put away each check and tallied that by august of 2008, we'd have $35,000 between eachother. with $19,000 coming out of my pocket. since making those calculations. i have $200 in savings. a massive phone bill which just was paid off earlier today was my last bill to pay off. and sadly, christmas is coming. a christmas where i actually have to buy something for somebody i love. i never usually have someone around this time. and since its nearing a year of me being with someone, christmas is a great time to let her know i love her. her birthday is also this month. and i want to make her have a good birthday. money is hard to save people. without being a hermit who is single, it is very hard. $35,000 was enough money for us to live job free for roughly 2 years (based on $1000 a month rent) and me not to worry about getting a job so quick so i could work on my movies. sure it sounds like a great idea. but what happens when the money runs out. do i work a job that doesnt pay in what im paying out? i wouldnt want to move to vancouver or area and then be forced to move back to make money because i failed again. especially with jesse at my side.

please, read on.

after work i was sitting in the lunch area where all the syncrude guys hang out to make passovers, and one guy said "fred went to cnrl. billy jo went to cnrl. olivia went to investigating. mike went to team 1". days earlier on the walk to the bus, i was talking to a process operator named jesse parker, and he gloated 'i'll make $170,000 and this job is easy'. he drives a lincoln navigator, has a house in wood buffalo, and has a wife and 4 kids.

today i wrote a resume for syncrude. it doesnt matter what it said, or how well it was written. i have the job. practically. i just have to send it off to my dads email at work. he goes back to work on tuesday. i might be even available to start the job by the end of the month. ive been contemplating it now for two months. stating no because 'i dont want to be stuck here forever'. repeating that over and over. not only me, but jesse, the love of my life. one day my dad said to me, if you want it, its yours.. and talking with jesse she said, id stay for you. i never actually thought about taking the job because i knew jesse would never want to stay here, and could just say, well she doesnt want to be here, so lets go.. but when she said, id stay, i actually had to think about it. the idea of staying here like everyone else and working for the oil industry, doesnt appeal to me. the security however does. full benefits for me and jesse. money like you wouldnt believe. i did a mortgage calculator thing, and with an average salary, i should be able to get a house priced aroun $650,000. which is pretty good if you ask me. everything i always wanted, a house and a family, was always an unanswered question until now. i have my answer. the ability to go wherever i want on vacation, instead of picking the cheapest places, is going to be awesome. the ability to have and furnish and live in a house where i can walk around naked and hang up 'boss nigger' posters is also going to be awesome. coming home from a days work knowing 'this is mine'. is awesome..

what does this mean for my film career? well i never had one to begin with. movie credits under my name after school are 'treeness' and 'snakes on a bicycle'. two movies i did for free to help my friends.. what does this mean for forest lawn? that is my production company, which im making legal this christmas. well, now i'll have money to fund my friends' movies. people who didnt sell out. people who took the time to take the shit jobs while they got to where they wanted. i can and will, save money to fully fund my own movies. mark my words, i am not giving up despite how many times ive failed in the industry. i failed to log the show 'the two corys'. i failed to assemble a crew of 10, and fork over 500$ for 're-birth'. i couldnt even make $500 in film. now im making over $100,000 a year, at the age of 20. i can retire at 40 if i want to.

this doesnt mean im stuck here friends. this just means that im sticking around for a while and milking the company to help me achieve a bigger goal. right now, jesse is a big part of my bigger picture. i want to marry this girl one day. i want to be able to take her places she has always wanted to go. working for $9 an hour at the video mart, might not help me achieve this goal.. i only plan to work here for a few years, maybe 2 but max 5. with half a million in salary made (excluding overtime and raises and tax returns) and a house which is going to only gain value in the next 10 years (my dad bought our house at $60,000. its worth over 10x that amount now) i can pay back my mortgage, with an extra 100-200k in my pocket, with our life savings, and pack up and move. take that extra money and live job free and just pay rent for 8 years. take that time to become a filmmaker... who knows. im not planning that far ahead.. but im not stuck here friends. im not stuck here. if for some tragic event like both my parents dying, or jesse leaving me, i will be staying. if my parents died, id probably take the money they leave me, and just leave. no matter what the amount. if jesse left me, id have nothing to strive for. no family to support. i would just leave.

dont be mad friends. you turn up a secure future, and then try to be mad at me. this is an opportunity of a lifetime. i dont have to go to school for this like most people have to now a days. i just. because my dad is highly regarded there, i can get that job.. so you turn that down. and then try to get mad at me.

the next week or so is going to be an interesting period. playing the waiting game is what im going to do. and see where my future lies. with syncrude. or not.

vancouver recap

2007-09-24T04:40:00.000-07:00

so jesse and i are back from vancouver, and it is too bad because the time we were there wasnt enough. we flew out in the afternoon and in the edmonton airport we picked up some books. i bought 'haunted' by chuck palahniuk and jane austens 'pride and prejudice' (for jesse) and she bought 'choke' which was also written by chuck palahniuk. i started reading haunted on the flight to vancouver and sofar it was a pretty good book. we got into vancouver and byron was there to pick us up. we went to his and megs new pad and hung out. we met up with brent and julia and went to milestones downtown to eat some food and catch up. there was alot of silence which sucked, especially for jesse. but that night jesse, julia, and myself went to go see animal collective at the commodore ballroom. we went in and hit up the merch table, and i picked up a t-shirt and the show poster. the first band was just noise. he sucked. the second band sucked too. then it was time for animal collective. they opened up with peacebone, which was sick, and then after the show we were loud enough for an encore. they came out and played a few songs, the last being 'we tigers'. it was amazing. easily the best show i have ever seen, and it was all thanks to animal collective. on the other days we were there we did alot of shopping. i picked up a polka dot sweater at american apparel, a pair of circa jeans at west 49, a sweet plaid shirt also at west 49, the royal tenenbaums and kicking and screaming (noah baumbachs first movie) both on criterion collection, annnd another sweater at urban planet. one day jesse and i had to ourselfs for a day date. we went to the art museum, which sucked because floor 1 & 2 were closed because they were taking crap out of a new exibit. so the price was cut in half to $11 each, then she asked if we were students, we said yes and named off our previous schools (which clearly we do not attend anymore) and we got in for $12 total. haha. we were in there for 15 minutes. it sucked. we walked to the harbour and whatever and went and saw a canucks vs calgary pre-season game. 12 rows from behind the canucks net, for $45 a piece. they were normally $93 tickets too. it was a great game. canucks won 4-0. then we ate at the revolving restaurant right after. our last day in town we went to another canucks game this time vs the horrid oilers. we got tickets 8 rows behind the canucks bench. for $60 each. the tickets were $120 normally. so it was good. there were these two annoying oiler fans that sat right behind me, talking very loudly about who is the best player on their roster and such. so the game was 4-4 with 2.5 seconds left and brad isbister scored. i jumped out of my seat, cheered, and with my fists in the air, i turned around to these oiler fans and went 'wooooooooooooooooooooo'. it was awesome. we had to fly out at around 7am, so it was an early wake up. we packed the night before and so we just had to get up and get dressed and go. we did. on the plane i read more of haunted and i fell in love with the book, it is so amazing. i might try to write one of the stories into a script. im not sure yet. we got home at 11am, and hung out, both sick as dogs. jesse napped, i played nhl 08, and we watched the royal tenenbaums. a perfect end to a pretty good trip.

pictures coming soon.

dr.nhl08: or how i learned to stop what i was doing and wait two hours at eb games for a video game

2007-09-14T14:53:00.000-07:00

yeah, as the title reads i waited two hours at eb games for a video game. i was on my shortchange and i had to go to work in the evening, and i got up at around 8am, just to see jesse goodbye then i stayed up until eb games was open. so i called them and they said 11pm our shipment comes in and we will forsure have it. i told dave that i was heading down and he agreed to join me. i got my things ready (games to trade in) and i walked down at about 11am. i met up with dave at his place then we went to eb games. when we got in we saw about 5 guys standing around, so we knew it wasnt in. we checked at walmart if it was in but nothing. so we hung around the store and played ps2 while we waited. finally the purolator truck had arrived and some of the guys waiting asked if they could deliver eb games first. so they did. in the end there were 20 guys waiting in line for this game. i was third in line. awesome. the game is well worth the wait too.

wicked jimmy : 2007

2007-09-12T23:09:00.000-07:00

here is my baseball trip journal wfrom a trip that took place september 4th to september 9th in baltimore, and washington dc.

after 12 hours of work i came home and slept for an hour and a half and packed and then went down to the bank to get american currency. we were there for an hour and cutting it close. we drove out to the airport and i got ready for my 3hr 10min flight to tornton. i wanted to sleep so this was sweet. i bought a roast beef on onion bun sandwich on the plane which was sweet. then as i started to doze off, the movie 'surfs up' was on. i watched it. then we were landing so no sleep for me. toronto is a nightmare of a place. i walked out to find food but wound up at customs. after 25 mins of asking for a pen, someone finally lent one to me. i filled my form out and tried to go through, but apparently i had to claim my baggage and then go through customs. i wandered forever and by sheer lick i stumbled uopn it. i was wearing my nwa shirt and the two securtiy people were black and gave me a hard time about it. i went through and saw my gate was 252. so beside this sports bar reads a sign '200-299' sweet. i go into this bar and had a few glasses of wine, and a steak sandwich. so i go to the sign '200-299' and i notice it points an arrow down to a set of stairs which then leads to a bus depot. i got on it and waited 10 mins and then we drove 5 mins to some tarp which happened to be my new terminal. i got on some shitty properller plane and went into baltimore. i landed and met up with jos and we shot the shit for a bit and drove to his place. and then i went to bed.

i got up around 630am and we hung out and watched tb until it was time pick neal up at 9am. we left to go pick him up. in the airport i went into a store to buy a whatchamacall it but they never fucking had any. so i got a milky way. when neal arrived we went to 'bob evans' where it was 80% black. im sorry, i never knew how dark it was out there. but we were served by this nice guy named roberto. i had a fried chicken burger. from there we went to hit uip a gas station to get whatchamacallits and arizona juice. then we came back to joshs to rest for a sec. then we headed to college park, MD whihc is home to the university of maryland. that place is huge. we rolled around campus and stopped to get authentic philly cheese steaks. they were good. from there we decided we should do a roadie to philly josh wasnt down though. we drove to a metro station, which is a cross between a skytrain and a subway. it was a 43 minute trip into DC and we got off our stop into the biggest ghetto with nothing around. we went into the team shop and i got a nationals hat. we hung out outside the RFK stadium for a bit with an hour and a half to spare. so we took the train into town at the capitol building and walked 5-10 blocks lookiing for aplace to get water. i had to shit real bad. i went into a quiznos and destroyed their toilet. by now if we walked to the train to get back to the stadium we'd get there on time. so we did. when we got off and out of the metro station, some girls from 'stride gum' asked to pose with us for a picture. we were like sure. we got 14 packs of gum for our efforts. when this was going on, we were the only white people within a 77 km radius. we got into rfk stadium and went to right field to catch batting practice balls. i found one laying there so that was sweet. then miguel cabrera (florida marlins) hit one two rows behind us and i hosed neal and took the ball. although he hasnt ever gotten one in 25 years. and this was my 3rd in 3 years. we went to find our seats which was weird. they were closed in. no baseball atmosphere whatso ever. there were these guys from boston, who in every picture were like 'give the shockiz' (shockers). so they did, IN EVERY PICTURE. i gave neal one of the balls i got. we left the game after the bottom of the 8th inning because neal was tired. he'd been up for 24+ hours so we left. in the metro, some sweaty fat fuck was grinding up on me, and getting my hands/arms sweaty from him. it was gross...

the next morning we were up at 1040am roughly and headed into baltimore. we went into a small record shop called reptillian records. neal brought 44$ worth of shitty vinyl. i only say shitty because it wasnt new found glory records. from there we went into the harbour area, we found out then our tickets for that night, were actually for the next night. so we parked and went into this mall where i needed to score a sox hat. i went into this store called DTLR (downtown locker room) which was all black attire. but they did have one sox hat. and it was a perfect fit. so i bought it. from there we decided to hit up camden yards to see if we could get ticfkets. and we did. we got $20 seats. first row just behind the home team dugout, in the upper deck. we were hungry and wanted food so we all got subway. after that we went into an urban outfitters store. i stumbled upon a pair of jeans. the only pair in the store above a 33W, and it was a perfect dreamlike fit. so i bought them. neal bought a beanie with a uk flag on it. from there we went to the 'espn zone' which was an arcade/restaurant. upstairs they have this batting cage that is really just a video screen that throws out a pitch at you, you can select the pitcher, it was aweosme. we left and saw a paddle boat section, so we hit it up. $15 for the first half hour. and we got this big fucking dragon. neal and josh paddled a short distancfe and we realized why they only sell it in 15 mins a time. after this we went to the ball diamond and outside there were guys doing bbq which looked amazing. we bought water there because you can take food inside. we went into right field again and saw baltimore do some hitting. then boston was up. boston was jacking them. josh just missed one then one was hit a few rows behind us where neal was, and as i turned to give him the 'what gives' arms. i hear, 'heads up' i turn around and BAM. the ball lands right infront of me and bounces up and off joshs' hat and back onto the field. later on boston prospect brandon moss hit one that hit the top of the wall and i justm issed it. and devern hansack tossed it up to me. i caught it with my hat. josh got one shortly later but gave it to a burn victim kid. the game was good, during the game i was hungry and went to get a burger, and i went to hang out in the standing zone and as i was, david ortiz hit a homer that landed 10 feet behind me. 20 drunk guys all ran for it and they got soaked by beer. during the 9th inning we hit up LF and watched papelbon close out the game for a victory. i was hungry after the game, so on the way home. we stopped at taco bell. i got one of those fucking things that was 'good to go' and i just had lettuce and cheese on it because they fucked up my order. it was cheeze whiz too. YUCk.

when i woke up someone (neal) ate half of my whatchamacallit. i wasnt happy. we wanted to eat and neal wanted to ship his vinyl to himself so we hit up columbia and ate baja fresh and went to a fedex kinkos. then we hit up a minigolf / batting cage place. i was -3 on the mini golf and won. neal finished dead last. in the batting cages josh raped real hard.. we wentr back to joshs place to relax before the game. we headed to the stadium and parked and walked to the park. we had to wait a bit outside though. no worries. we went into rf again but nothing was getting hit there. so we went to LF and it was so close to the sox players. you could see their sweat we were that close. a few homers that were hit came close. one again hit right off the wall. gagne threw up the ball and this girl around my age caught it beside me, and then thanked me for not making an effort to snag it from her. game time came around and we hit up our seats. along the first base line in the outfield. it was awesome. during the game, there was a bench clearing altercation. baltimore has great food. when we were leaving we heard two guys with thick boston accents say 'were wicked friends' haha. thus our baseball tour became the 'wicked jimmy tour'. we went back to joshs. i showered and got ready for bed. tomorrow we do dc shit.

my back hurt when i woke up but josh made us pancakes. so it was a little better. i had 3 and a glass of orange juice. joshs girlfriend megan joined us today. we went back to the metro and hit up washington. we went to the ford theatre where lincoln was shot, but it was closed. we went across the street to where he died. it was kinda neat. from there we went to a statue garden and then we went into the smithsonian museum of art. it was great. got to see some original warhols, matisses, picasso's, and lichtensteins. from there we went to the indian smithsonian to eat. i had a buffalo burger, and fries. it was pretty good. then we walked through a football sized field filled with black people. a sign read the '22nd annual negro womens coalition'. awesome. we went to checvk out washington monument which was huge. then the whitehouse, which wasnt so cool. then we hit up a ww2 memorial, which was really cool. then ugh, we did the reflection pond and the lincoln memorial which was pretty fucking cool too. then josh and megan told us the smithsonian museum of natural history (the only one i really wanted to go to because jesses uncle hyped it up so much) would be closing in 30 mins, and it was a 45 minute walk to get there. so we never went. we walked to a metro station stopping along the way, and went back to joshs. that night we went to millahsville for dinner. we ate at a greek restaurant called 'hellas'. i had tzatiki with pita bread for an appetizer, and then a roast beef sandwich for my meal. it was pretty good. on the way home we stopped at a gas station where i went to grab all the whatchamacallits i could find. i found 11. i put them all in a box and just bought the box. it was roughly midnight when we went to bed. and had to get up at 330am because neal had a stupid fucking 5am flight.

we slept for a few short hours and headed to the airport for neals flight. when we dropped him off, josh and i drove around looking for somehting open to eat at. but nothing but motels were open. i wanted to sleep so bad. by now i cannot wait to go home and see jesse. i finally got through and parallel to my terminal was an air jamaica flight. there were 7 guys standing and then dancing around a cell phone that played sean kingstons 'beautiful girls'. i flew out at 9am and got into toronto later. customs went through my luggage. fuck sakes. then i went to some random sports bar and got drunk and ate another steak sandwich. it was good. i also watched football. on the flight to calgary i watched some VFS movies, one of which i worked on, and then spiderman 3. whichs ucked dick.real bad too. i got into calgary and got some tim hortons and then got to fort mcmurraY.. i was so tired. i just wanted to crash. the end.

pictures now: (click for larger)

when fireworks went off this kid went to hide. pussy.

shockiz!

check out the DS kid behind josh. he was yelling for balls, very retardedly.

the ds kid followed us to the cages.

shocking the nation.

ive now seen 14 mlb games. of those games i have seen:
boston red sox - 7 times (5-2)
toronto blue jays - 6 times (2-4)
baltimore orioles - 3 times (0-3)
new york yankees - 2 times (2-0)
seattle mariners - once (1-0)
washington nationals - once (1-0)
los angeles dodgers - once (1-0)
houston astros - once (1-0)
cincinnati reds - once (1-0)
san fransisco giants -once (0-1)
san diego padres - once (0-1)
anaheim angels - once (0-1)
florida marlins - once (0-1)
colorado rockies - once (0-1)

there. now shut the fuck up for a while. i go to vancouver on saturday. animal collective!!

hockey pool 01

2007-09-02T03:02:00.000-07:00

hey jerks.
i assumed the usual suspects would be making this years hockey pool. so i went ahead and made the forsure forsures.

byron fudge's logo is the logo for the 'kamloops blazers'.

meg oravec's logo is two 'atlanta flames' logos put together to form an m.

mike boones logo is two minnesota north stars logos put together to make an m.

perry newhooks logo is a boston bruins one that took me ages to create, then i learned that there is a p team with this logo already, the 'providence bruins'

dave smith joined up on the hockey pool, and i edited the hartford whalers logo to make a d. hahah.

adam hussynec joined in also, here is his logo. oilers patch from when they actually made the playoffs.

finally myself. being the creator of these logos, i had the pleasure of having options. here is what i have for myself.

this is cleveland barons logo with cleveland barons being replaced by cody bown.

cccp but the p is flipped upside down to make a b.

the russian iihf logo, the d is the upside down 'p' or in russian, 'r'. and the russian 'a' i turned into a y.

i took the new york rangers' third jersey logo, and replaced nyr with cb? i like the rangers jersey.. sue me.

if you want to join, go nuts, ill make you a logo. or try to. or you can make your own logo if you want. but it has to be hockey.

mr. sandman, bring me some porn

2007-09-02T01:39:00.000-07:00

dear friends.

i was randomly looking through myspaces' of people i went to film school with and i came across one fellow who i had mixed feelings about. did i hate him, did i like him? sometimes both. anyways. he got to direct this movie which apparently made him god of the universe (or so ive heard), and the movie wasnt even that good. trust me.. it sucked.. anyways, a self claimed model, actor, director and photographer, justin close takes pictures and is even in some. lets take a look at a few yes.

this one justin is clearly going to murder a naked girl in a tub of film. sweet crip bandana too. minus you're supposed to hang it from the left side, yeah thats the crip side. according to snoop. i dont know whats more disgusting, justins mad comb over (because he is balding) or his absent stomach that appears to be eating itself alive.

this one is the best. its like 'hey, my mind is so intense, you cant enter it'...'like, srsly, i need to bandana some construction tape just to prove it'. and whats with the screws in his mouth... he wouldnt look like such a pussy if they werent wrapped up preventing his mouth/gums from getting annihilated... and finally.

the biggest waste of film since 'play on words'

thug wife

2007-09-01T11:29:00.000-07:00

i was pretty sure i was going to quit my job yesterday for this reason... nts, hired two new people. one has been trained (erin) and is now on our team full time. the other, al, is a 6'2 black guy from toronto. but his first day was 3 days ago. so with 4 people in the lab, nalini trained al, i was floater, and basically i had to show erin everything over again.. no big deal if she stays with the company. so. day one i can see that al, (who looks like a mix of tupac and kevin garnett) was struggling. so i was saying to everybody i know that 'he isnt going to last'. next day, im helping erin again, and al is still being trained, etc. and fucking now al has become entirely lazy and not doing a fucking thing.. so nalini who was tired pawned off al to me, to train him on the hardest plant (plant 5). awesome, not really. so i was informing him how big plant 5 is. so yesterday i came into work, we were early, so i got maps ready, and bottles done and such prepping to go early because the run was going to take us an hour to an hour and 15. i wait. i wait. and i wait. its 740 now and he hasnt showed up, so i said fuck it and i went on my run. came back, turns out he quit... then later the day i found out erin souled her house and is moving back to newfoundland... ive been trying to get dave smith a job there for a while now, but nooo they cant hire him. but we hire two useless people just here to collect a paycheck for a few days. fuck sakes..

i go to baltimore and washington dc, in 3 days! thats right, the 'stop touching my shoulders baseball tour' is going to be on in full force. im pretty excited to see josh and cn again. should be a blast.

the canucks debuted their jersey. and if you know me, you know im a huge canucks fan. and that i wanted to see this jersey forever. the apparent leaks had the canucks jersey looking awesome, but now its just one big piece of shit. they just made a new vintage jersey which im pretty sick of anyways.

i updated the forest lawn website. but i still need to do much much more. but im not worrying about it right now because its on hiatus for financial reasons. so when it gets going again i'll let you know, but its not like you guys give a shit about that..

im going to be doing a hockey pool this year. who wants in? let me know now. so i can get everything ready and prepared for opening day!

your doll.

2007-08-26T16:44:00.000-07:00

so this weekend ive sampled some very fine wine.
ive had:

2 bottles of lindemans bin 45 cabernet sauvignon
1 bottle of jackson triggs cabernet sauvignon
and a bottle of wolf blass red label cabernet merlot.

it fucked jesse right up real good. it was kind of funny to watch her rush to the bathroom every 5 minutes to puke.

i saw some people this weekend, which was refreshing. i saw ed, laine, matt, and.. jesse friends. it was a decent night out. the nexxt day i was supposed to go to rock out against cancer, which mr. jerkewick (laine) was supposed to inform me of. haha. instead, we went and saw superbad, which was supernotasgoodaseveryonesaysitis. it was funny here and there but not hilarious.

today we went downtown, i paid for my trip to baltimomre which was a pretty penny but will be worth it in the end. thats it for excitement in my life really.

oh yeah.

the filing cabnet of life

2007-08-13T20:19:00.000-07:00

so, this weekend can be filed under disaster.

after i got home saturday morning off work, i caught the 830 bus, which yes means i had to cab into town $70 and i went out to red arrow and caught a bus to grasslands, so i could go to our lot at north buck lake to help my dad build the guest house. so i went and i had to pay for my ticket, another $70. and when i get there, not sleeping at all on the bus my dad puts me to work to build the truss' so i did three in 4 hours and said finally i have to nap. napped til 3 and then woke up and my dad had finished the rest. so it was time to put them up. we put them up, they were perfectly level which was odd and we put them up no problem. so it was supper time and we had pork chops which i wasnt really a fan of.

sunday morning we had to board up the roof and do some shingling. so we did the boarding first and then had to drive into boyle to pick up the shingles. my dad climbed down first, and then i was going to, but because the roof was angled so stupidly i slipped, feet first going down, no problem. its only 10 feet up i'll land and roll. but as i was sliding down a fucking nail head sliced right through my achillies. and i fell on my side not my feet. so my sock was bloody and my dad drove like 120 to boyle hospital which you'd think was in fort chip or something, it was so redneck there. but i needed immediate surgery so i got helicoptered to edmonton and went into sugery if i wanted any chance of walking normal again. my health care doesnt cover it, a $4000 surgery, out of my dads pocket, which was going towards the guest house siding. soo. i got my surgery, i can hardly walk. and my mom flew down. she brought my laptop so id have something to do. the food here at the university of alberta hospital is great, i had beef dip lastnight. anyways. so fucking. im out of here on thursday, and go to work friday. sweet.

just kidding, i went and saw rush hour 3.

i used to touch my sisters cat

2007-08-10T15:31:00.000-07:00

hey all.

sorry for the lack of updates, but sympathize for a moment.
after staying at jesse's aunts place for a month, it was awesome. cooking food every night, dishwasher, and playing a wii -- we had to relocate to jesse's place. the cat, im going to murder. 'sissy' is walking all over my shit. stepped on my laptop 4 or 5 times, while im on the fucking thing, stepping on the power button. shutting it off..

now i never had a chance to get on the computer because, her desktop is so filled with stupid google applications and shit, that its really slower than mo vaughn. so i rigged up my laptop and such so now i can make a few updates here and there.

im still working on the forest lawn website. and still working on getting people involved. i was talking to casey today, i miss him, and he started his own company 'cm productions' and went entirely by the book and got lawyers and shit. now, if i were to go 100% legit, it'd cost me a few grand.. which i cannot spare. so im hesitant to say that forest lawn might be just a pipe dream. i know i know. its not something i want to do but i'll do it to avoid legal problems and such.. anyways, here is another website teaser. this time showcasing a member of our creative department, lindsey tyree.

work is going okay. i got written up for not being a team player, and this prompted my boss to come on our shift and watch us like hawks. so yesterday i got an email from her saying 'since joining shift, i am very impressed with your work ethic and willingness to help out the new hires'.. and yet i cannot get that write up revoked... see, when one person complains about something, i got written up. and really i work like a slave. so. fuck that shit. tonight is my last night. im excited. ahah she came into work, and our team (me, mark, nalini, sarah) arent very vocal. we focus on our work and do it. then my boss was like "i was working with you guys for 2 hours, and i already wanted to shoot myself in the fucking head" hahah. welcome to my world nikki..

i think im going to go see rush hour 3 the weekend. i want to ssee alot of movies. i got 'color me kubrick' in the mail b ut have yet to watch it. and i have one more package at home waiting for me. im pretty sure its 'the motel'. there are some good directors putting out movies, that im not too excited about. like wes anderson and michel gondrys new movies. HOWEVER, there are good directors putting out what looks to be good movies. werner herzog, PTA, noah baumbach. etc.

i got this fucking wound on my toe. skin ripped off on the bottom of my big toe and now its just out of control - maury povich teenagers out of control. this morning after my shift i looked at it, and the entire bottom of my toe was white and pussing. how hot am i?

i got two trips coming up in september. im pretty pumped. baltimore/washington dc, for the annual 'stop touching my shoulders baseball tour' with neal and josh. we're supposed to hit up the smithsonian too which i hear is amazing. then after that i come home, work for 5 days and then jesse and i goto vancouver for an animal collective concert. im fucking so excited for that.

ive been so sick of music, as you know, and thanks to julia niendorf, i fell back in love with it. daytrotter.com has turned me back on to music that isnt rap. ive downloaded 160 songs from there, and for the last 3 weeks, it was the only thing on my ipod. the ONLY thing. everybody check out 'two gallants'. or else i'll kill you.

bare is going.. well since i buckled down and actually wrote 12 pages, i havnt done anything. i got ahead of myself in the script and wrote a day ahead of the story. so i have to go back and re-evaluate and re-write act two. so. i might post it. i might not. haha. actually, i wont. sorry nigs.

im out.

seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, year.

2007-07-26T20:16:00.000-07:00

jesse and i have been together for 6 months now.

no, not bear masturbating, bear baiting.

2007-07-24T21:11:00.000-07:00

theres a little cb in all of you

2007-07-20T20:37:00.000-07:00

so today i was making biography pages for forest lawn, and how it goes on the header:
cody robert bown.
and on the very top like the page title:
cody robert bown: independent artists.
so i was doing all of my IA's for fl and i came across julia niendorfs... does she have a middle name? what the fuck is it? bonny? i forgot. so i asked her, and she doesnt have one...

lets create a legend here. click on the pay pal button on the left to donate money to the 'lets make julia niendorfs middle name 'cody bown''.

that is all.

nokia backwards sounds like akon.

2007-07-19T17:03:00.000-07:00

i downloaded the new silverchair album. i like it. ive listened to it almost all night sofar.

i did more forest lawn website updates. but just getting bios and such figured out. im going to be sending out 'invites' soto speak soon here once i get the website up and running which i expect to be soon. i want to write hero's today. but i dont think i will. im too. bored.

and for julia, ive been pooping okay. one day at work i went on my run and i had to shit so bad. so i ran into this random HOT bathroom. and they only had paper towel. it cut my asshole and i was bleeding everytime i whipe. im pretty regular now. i poo every two days or so. no need for q-tips anymore. haha. how have you been pooping?

saskwatch

2007-07-18T15:53:00.001-07:00

alright folks. time for a real update. and i have news this time. im not on a wii. im on my laptop. that new fucking rhianna song is on tv in the background.

so work has been terrible. i came into work one day and during my shift, i had burned my hand real good with toluene. now. i used a size 9 glove (im a 10) to do dishs, cuz the only size 10 is a big fucking acid glove that i reffer to as beef mitts because they make my hands smell like raw beef. anyways. i called my boss and refused to do dishs until she got me size 10s. she said i needed to compensate for the dishs im not doing. so whatever. she coems into work. nalini, the indian woman, walks in and goes to nikki (my boss)'s office. they talk for 15 minutes and then nikki comes out and is like 'cody can i see you in the office' so i go in there. and i get just fucking reemed. i left the office the day before, 15 minutes early. nalini skipped her last run and so did i because i was actually so busy. she just was jealous and skipped hers too. anyways. i got in shit for that. and then i got in shit for leaving and going 20 feet over to hang out and wait for the bus with my dad.. i got written up and a written warning. next written warning from nikki and im suspended or fired.

so on monday night after i am working night shift in plant 5. its so fucking hot. and to get to this place. called 'tors' i have to climb two flights of stairs. and then i have to climb a ladder in between two pieces of machinery that need water tos pin.. so my feet are soaked and i climbed up the ladder, and got my sample. climbing down my foot slipped. the rung of the ladder didnt have grip on it so it was just me falling. and i grabbed the ladder with my left arm and it supported the snapping of my body weight. it sucked. i went to the medical center, and it turns out, i have a sprained shoulder and elbow.. shittty.

lastnight at work i got reduced duties and i was only in the lab. and the shit i was doing was adding up and it hurt. so i called jesse and got her to pick me up. today i went home, got my laptop and came back here (jesses aunts place) and wrote out the script for 'if this wasnt heaven'. im going to write the script for bare OR hero's. i came up with the idea for hero's the other night at work. i wrote a first draft treatment for it. so read it. dont give me pointers because, ive changed it already. i just want to know if you like it or not..

well click below for the treatment and the script.

http://members.shaw.ca/codyrbown1/youre gay

the other night i almost commited a crime against a 14 year old. jesse and i went to go see the new harry potter. and fucking people in this city are already stupid fucking people. at movies, they're worse than stereotypical black people. 3 kids sat infront of us and were being so loud and supid. i almost punched one in the back of the head. i swear to god... almost did it.

marians trench- dumbest band ever... ever. i hope they get in a car accident. if you're a fan of their music. you're a fucking iddiot.

forest lawn website is coming. i updated it some. more needed though.

gbfucct

2007-07-16T14:40:00.000-07:00

so im making this post from a nintendo wii......
i will do a better post when im at a computer with a keyboard...

love,..

forest lawn website teaser

2007-07-07T21:07:00.001-07:00

a cb.com download

2007-07-07T16:11:00.000-07:00

dear friends.
here is a codybown desktop for your enjoyment.

cb

remember when codybown.com didnt suck?

2007-07-07T15:08:00.002-07:00

hey all.

you know. im kinda sorry that ive been neglecting ol cody bown.com. i understand i have a fanbase that i often believe does not exist. i will try to post three times a week now.

this weekend was a time to get away from the city. jesse and i went to north buck lake to visit / surprise my parents at our cabin. so jesse and i left around 130, which was late for us haha. then we got mcdonalds, hit up the dump and then peaced out. you know those old sketchy run down barns that are randomly on the side of the road? well we stopped to go inside one, and then birds flew out and scared us so we left.. we made it into the lake and surprised my family as expected. jesse and i hung out and visited. my dad is building 'me' a guesthouse / shed for quad and ride mower. so he had the base built and i wasnt there to work so jesse and i went for a quad ride for a while. it was lovely.

then we came back and i had to run the fucking bbq. so i made t-bone steaks. it was pretty good. we sat around the fire for a while and such and then it was getting late so we went to bed. about 1 hour into sleeping, it was thundering and lightninging. it was insane. the rain came and it basically was a mini hurricane. it pushed pieces of 2x4 wood across our lot, our lawn chairs were annihilated and 40 feet away ahah. it was a little scary, not going to lie.

in the morning jesse and i woke up, went for a bike ride, which killed us. and we quadded for a bit more. and then went to different parks of the lake. and then we ate again and came home. it was too short which sucked. it was nice to get away and not have to look at a cellphone or anything. well i did because i had txt messages i never replied to. sorry boone. and then we came home that night.

when we got back into town i came home and tried to get inside my house. the keyless entry buttons are worn out and they never worked. so i called my dad on my dead cell phone, i got to talk for 5 minutes then my phone died. apparently my aunt has keys. but they turned out to be both for the handle, and not the keyless entry. so i stayed at jesses aunts place (with her) lastnight. this morning when we woke up, jesse dropped me off here and i called a locksmith, who came and was done in 4 minutes. it cost me $70 i dont have to get inside. fuck sakes. i did laundry and dishs today and im watching baseball. i need a shower. so im going to do that soon.

tonight i think jesse and i are hanging out. im not 100% sure. but chances are we are. perry is on opposite schedule of me, so we dont really hang out as much as we should. which is too bad. he sends me pictures of his balls all the time. i'll post them for you. anyways. here is a couple lake pictures.

ok turns out. my fucking internet is down and images wont connect. so there it is.

baseball pool: 08

2007-06-21T16:38:00.000-07:00

HEY JERKS. i finally rememberd to post a pool on my night shift works. anyways.. this week, we're doing 2 days. and sunday is worth double..

SATURDAY
interleague at AL
chicago cubs at chicago white sox
colorado at toronto
houston at texas
los angeles dodgers at tampa bay
pittsburgh at los angeles angles
cincinnati at seattle

interleague at NL
philadelphia at st.louis
detroit at atlanta
new york yankees at san fransisco
cleveland at washington
kansas city at milwaukee
minnesota at florida
oakland at ny mets
baltimore at arizona
boston at san diego

SUNDAY
interleague at AL
chicago cubs at chicago white sox
colorado at toronto
houston at texas
los angeles dodgers at tampa bay
pittsburgh at los angeles angles
cincinnati at seattle

interleague at NL
philadelphia at st.louis
detroit at atlanta
new york yankees at san fransisco
cleveland at washington
kansas city at milwaukee
minnesota at florida
oakland at ny mets
baltimore at arizona
boston at san diego

update: as you see it v2

2007-06-13T14:44:00.001-07:00

hey niggers.

i dont update because no one gives a shit.
so here it goes.

alot has happened. well not really.
i wrote a treatment for 'bare'. and i re-did re-birth. its better. im also executive producing a movie (sofar. more details to come) its titled 'summers monster'. its pretty fucking good. theres a good chance it'll be the first movie to come out of 'forest lawn'. just some paperwork and such needs to be done before i get too excited over this.

i hate working. its fucking frustrating. i was technically in charge for three days because the senior tech on our team went to saskatchewan to check out real estate. haha. lame. so i kinda slacked but at the same time i was non stop. we never had running water at work so i pissed in the sink, twice. we got water back but we're still using pure toluene as our cleaning agent, which hurts my nostrils to breathe in. i started to use methanol, which removes marker a hell of a lot better than toluene. anyways. enough about work...

since the last update ive basically been all about film and film stuff. i am working on two people for the 'creative' department right now. one guy from la, who attends NYU. and a girl from long beach, who lives in ohio right now. im also working on a guide book for independant filmmaking. something to keep myself refreshed and others aswell. i lost ALL of my film school papers and shit because i stuck it in the box with all my dvds which got lost in the ship up..

im getting a haircut soon. like on friday. i'll post picture maybe. im sick of this hair thing. i hate having it. but i look like a fag with short short hair so. i just am hating the way i look lately. my forehead isnt as id like it. my work helmet and some sites i go into are just so hot, and they make me sweat and it builds up in my helmet and thus doesnt keep my skin clean. i clean when i shower and such but still. i hate it. i hate it. i hate it...

i want to get out of this city. i want to be able to do things. but i want to keep making the money i am making. i plan to move this time next year, so watch out chumps.

i guess this is it, oh yeah. AS YOU SEE IT version 2.

this time, i'll let you fags go first.
ATTACK!!

"you learn something new every day, thanks cody bown dot com!"

2007-05-24T21:06:00.000-07:00

hxc dancing started because of this girl.

baseball pool: 07

2007-05-24T15:46:00.000-07:00

because we missed last week. points are doubled.

american league
los angeles angels at new york yankees
cleveland at detroit
tampa bay at chicago white sox
seattle at kansas city
toronto at minnesota
oakland at baltimore
boston at texas

national league
chicago cubs at los angeles dodgers
philadelphia at atlanta
new york mets at florida
pittsburgh at cincinnati
washington at st.louis
colorado at sanfransisco
houston at arizona
milwaukee at san diego

ben afflack.

2007-05-10T12:07:00.000-07:00

so what has been new with me. not alot.

i have been pretty flu sick lately. i hate it. i got jesse sick., hhaha. sucker. anyways. a home made bracelet i made titled 'the umbillical chord' broke today. good thing i made many and have back ups. it was getting pretty dirty and was starting to actually resemble one. awesome.

i finally cleaned my fucking room. took me from 11am to 3pm. then i had to help my dad build my moms lawn furniture... minus it was only me doing it because my dad said "you know how to build these things"... yeah dad. clearly because ive worked in the lawn furniture building business... you idiot. so i built two tables, and 4 chairs, in the shade because my dad said 'it wont take long'. so i couldnt move out into the sun. so im sick again. god damnit.

there really isnt much new with me, i swear, so when i dont post its really because i dont have anything to post about.

ive been trying to write more lately. i went though the old truth posts, and read all of my exerpts from beating an albatross and i realized i was a better writer when i didnt know how, as apposed to the kind of writer i am now. i hate it so so much. but i will try to work on it as best i can. in the mean time:

website coming soon nigs.

baseball pool: 06

2007-05-10T12:01:00.000-07:00

hey jerk offs,

american league
baltimore at boston
tampa bay at toronto
los angeles angels at texas
detroit at minnesota
cleveland at oakland
kansas city at chicago white sox
new york yankees at seattle

national league
milwaukeee at new york mets
chicago cubs at philadelphia
arizona at houston
atlanta at pittsburgh
florida at washington
san fransisco at colorado
st.louis at san diego
cincinnati at los angeles dodgers

hockey pool: round up

2007-05-10T09:25:00.000-07:00

hockey pool

name	points
	711
	699
	618
	607
	601
	596
	411
	371
	357

rules/sign up

week: 1 | 2 | 3 |
4 | 5 | 6 |
7 | 8 | 9 |
10 | 11 | 12 |
13 | 14 | 15 |
16 | 17 | 18 |
19a |

winner: meg.

baseball pool: 05

2007-05-04T11:54:00.000-07:00

american league
chicago white sox at los angeles angels
seattle at ny yankees
cleveland at baltimore
boston at minnesota
detroit at kansas city
oakland at tampa bay
toronto at texas

national league
washington at chicago cubs
houston at st.louis
philadelphia at san fransisco
los angeles dodgers at atlanta
pittsburgh at milwaukee
san diego at florida
colorado at cincinnati
ny mets at arizona

neuva ring.

2007-05-01T04:33:00.000-07:00

i fucking hate. hate life right now.

can you believe that im still getting crap for not cleaning my room? seriously. im getting shit on every days off for not cleaning my room. i cant fucking stand living here anymore. i cant even talk to my mom without her raging at me for something. im seriously not saying a word to my parents on these next six days off. i'll let you know how it goes.

this past days off has been okay. i got deathly sick and had to go to the hospital basically with a terrible migraine. it hurt so bad. i ended up saying fuck it and went home. i wokr up at 10pm and went to the pod. haha. it was okay. i dont care much for the drinking scene anymore. jesse and i went to the tradeshow and ate mini donuts. they never had snow cones this year. what gives? ive started to buy movies to re-buiild my collection. some movies that i picked up this days off: shortbus, lord of war, adaptation, clockwork orange, eternal sunshine, manderlay, entourage season 1, good will hunting, american psycho, babel, borat, broken flowers, hard candy, we dont live here anymore, the weatherman, conair, you and me and everyone we know, anddddd finally the science of sleep. yeah 18 movies in 6 days. its going to come to a halt though. ive scowered every store that sells dvd's in this city and it basically ends there. im going to have to look to hmv's to finish off the collection even though my idiot parents should be buying all of these back because they're the reason they got lost...

im starting a production company. but not just any production company. we will sign filmmakers like labels would sign bands. to an x many movie contract. neat no? while im at work im typing out contracts and sending out offers, etc etc. thats basically how im consuming my time and why i dont really update my website ever. im sorry for that but. yeah.

im out. i have to go to work now, just killing some time.

baseball pool: 04

2007-04-26T19:34:00.000-07:00

hey jerks.

heres how it goes.

american league
minnesota at detroit
texas at toronto
boston at new york yankees
tampa bay at oakland
los angeles angels at chicago white sox
baltimore at cleveland
kansas city at seattle

national league
chicago cubs at st.louis
cincinnati at pittsburgh
florida at philadelphia
milwaukee at houston
new york mets at washington
atlanta at colorado
san fransisco at arizona
los angeles dodgers at san diego

baseball pool: 03

2007-04-19T21:19:00.000-07:00

hey folks.

pool is going great sofar. here is the games this weeeek.

american league
chicago white sox at detroit
minnesota at kansas city
new york yankees at boston
toronto at baltimore
cleveland at tampa bay
oakland at texas
seattle at los angeles angels

national league
atlanta at new york mets
st.louis at chicago cubs
arizona at san fransisco
houston at milwaukee
washington at florida
philadelphia at cincinnati
san diego at colorado
pittsburgh at los angeles dodgers

doing gniod

2007-04-18T20:58:00.000-07:00

so i got a new television... i have to pay off this and my edmonton trip. then i can start paying back my friends. should be nice to have money again...
its a 40" lcd tv.

an edmonton journey

2007-04-16T20:46:00.000-07:00

so this weekend jesse and i got out of this city and headed to edmonton.
it was fun.
after work on thursday night (to friday morning) i took a nap and woke up at about 330. and then jesse came over and we went down to red arrow and headed to edmonton. we ate spitz and listened to music til grasslands. i ate a burger.. okay two burgers and fries. then we watched 'flight plan' which is just rediculous.. then when we got in it was roughly 1020 and we went to our room. king size bed was fucking awesome. we were right across the street from the hotel we stayed in while we were on the post secondary trip. but there is this bar connected to it now, and its fucking the equivalent to senor eats... aka a crack bar.
we heard people screaming all night. it was pretty good. hahah. we ordered bp's and whatever and it was recchid. why does mcmurray have the best boston pizza?
the next morning we went to west edmonton mall. i wanted to pick up a sweater and a new hat... which i could not get either of. we went caught a cab to 'wok box' on jasper ave (3 blocks away from our hotel) and we got soem chinese food which came in those little containers like in seinfeld and every movie. it was pretty sweet i wont lie. i had szechwan pepper beef with chow mein, and jesse had the same, but chicken and udon.
yesterday we walked all of jasper ave and ate at some fancy restaurant and came back. eating pistachios and spitz the entire way.

its nice to be back.... except not...

ps. im thinking of starting my own group of independant artists. i'll keep you posted.

baseball pool: 02

2007-04-10T11:59:00.000-07:00

okay fools. new rules. you will not lose points anymore. thats really the only change.

oh and if you bat 1.000% then you get 5 points

american
detroit at toronto
anaheim at boston
texas at seattle
chicago white sox at cleveland
kansas city at baltimore
tampa bay at minnesota
new york yankees at oakland

national
cincinnati at chicago cubs
milwaukee at st.louis
washington at new york mets
houston at philadelphia
florida at atlanta
san fransisco at pittsburgh
colorado at arizona
san diego at los angeles dodgers

everyone crenshaw

2007-04-09T04:36:00.000-07:00

i guess i should do a post that isnt pools eh?

well heres the news. the steps im taking to rebuild my movie collection is going good. my mom bought me like, 21 movies off my list that i arranged in two orders. important, and not so important. ofcourse the majority of those movies are from the not important list but thats okay. im still gettin my movies back.

im going to edmonton on friday for the weekend. im sick of mcmurray. even when i work and dont really have to deal with idiots of the city, i still hate it.

lastnight byron, my cousin shawn, perry, mike and myself set up a pool just like we had in highschool for money. $20 each for a total of a hundy. should be fucking sweet. here is a link so you can track how we're doing. we set up a draft lottery and ofcourse i picked second last. awesome... no not really. i have a decent team though which im pretty stoked about.

hockey pool (money

i am getting a little tired of work. only because my back hurts like a bitch almost every second of my day. i hope surgery is an option because i am fucking sick of this shit.

there is a mini update. im on shortchange tonight so i might post again, or i might not. haha. fags.

hockey pool: playoffs 1

2007-04-08T20:30:00.000-07:00

hey folks. new setup for the playoffs.

just like the playoffs, not everybody can get to the finals.. this year we're doin the same.

(1) MEG vs (6) PERRY
(2) CODY vs (5) MAT
(3) BYRON vs (4) MIKE

among active players, this is how we rank. best vs worse, etc.

the rules will be the same.
you pick 1 player from each conference and 1 goalie.
you only get points for the first 4 games. after 4 games, whoever has the most points advances to round 2. the loser will not.

in round two.
it'll be everyone vs everyone (3 people) and then the person who finished last is eliminated leaving the next two rounds up to two people.

you're allowed to pick people who are already picked as long as your opponent has not picked them.

west
detroit vs calgary
anaheim vs minnesota
vancouver vs dallas
nashville vs san jose

east
buffalo vs ny islanders
new jersey vs tampa bay
atlanta vs ny rangers
ottawa vs pittsburgh

baseball pool: 01

2007-04-05T22:00:00.000-07:00

hey jerks,

you know the rules. anyways here are the games. good luck fools.

american league
baltimore at new york yankees
detroit at kansas city
minnesota at chicago white sox
seattle at cleveland
toronto at tampa bay
boston at texas
oakland at anaheim angels

national league
chicago cubs at milwaukee
la dodgers at san fransisco
new york mets at atlanta
arizona at washington
philadelphia at florida
st.louis at houston
pittsburgh at cincinnati
colorad at san diego

hockey pool: week 20a

2007-04-03T17:08:00.000-07:00

hey jerks one of two pools this week.

boston at buffalo
montreal at ny rangers
new jersey at philadelphia
dallas at columbus
pittsburgh at ottawa
toronto at ny islanders
st,louis at nashville
edmonton at minnesota
detroit at chicago
colorado at vancouver
los angeles at phoenix
calgary at san jose

baseball pool sign up.

2007-04-02T19:46:00.000-07:00

hey jerks.

im doing a baseball pool for the upcoming season. and i want you to sign up.
i'll go through the rules for the pool and aswell a guarantee that im going to update it everyweek (saturday), as you know im pretty passionate for baseball and i watch practically every game on television regardless of whose playing.

you pick two players and and one teams pitching. you also guess the score.
ex:

rose - cin (4-3)
strawberry - nyy (2-9)
mets (4-2)

you get 1 point for a win. AND 10 points for guessing the score correctly.

so the rules.

batters
singles = 1
doubles = 2
triples = 3
home runs = 5
rbi = 1
run = 1
walk = 1
hit by pitch = 2
stolen bases = 1

pitchers
inning pitched = 1 (.1 gets rounded down. .2 gets rounded up)
strike out = 2
60% of pitches are strikes = 10
no homeruns given up (atleast 5 innings pitched) = 5
walks under 5 = 1 point each
earned runs under 4 = 1 point each
perfect game = 100
win = 5 points

inning 7, 8, 9
if your pitcher has been pulled, relief pitchers are in effect. you get 1 point for a strike out, and 1 point for a save.

here is where this years baseball pool has a twist and makes it more interesting.
you can lose points this year. yes, lose points. its not as many points as you gain (if you pick the right people) but you can lose points.

batters
strike outs = 1
.000 batting average (no hits, no walks, no HBP) = 2
caught stealing = 2
3+ left on base = 1 each

pitchers
pulled before 4 innings = 5 points
hits over 6 = 1 point each
homeruns over 3 = 1 point each

your pitchers will really suffer this year when you pick poorly. your relief pitchers will not have points taken away.

ps. you have to send me a picture of a headshot just like the hockey pool. thanks.

indie scent exposure

2007-03-28T20:35:00.000-07:00

here is a cody bown update. its been 6 days since my last confession (post). nothing really has been new with me. ive been listening to alot of music, and it all bores me. i am sick of music. please for the love of god someone suggest something to listen to.

today at work, i was sending neal and joshness emails back and forth and what we got goin on was planning for the next baseball trip. the original plan was to go to mt. rushmore and then drive to denver to see a rockies game. but because of scheduling conflicts we had to re plan the trip. so to save josh some money who would have to take time off of work, we're going to go to maryland to see a game in baltimore. then josh informed us that washington, dc is just 45 minutes away. so we're going to see a nationals game too.

washington vs florida
baltimore vs boston

yeah we see boston again, but its going to be sweet. maybe i'll see dice-k?

while in washington we plan to check out lincoln memorial, the white house, and all that cool junk. the trip is in september and i cant wait...

rfk stadium (washington)

camden yards (baltimore)

my mom calls it the nanu.

2007-03-22T15:56:00.000-07:00

turns out i kinda like her..

in other news. i bought a $317 ipod nano... how fucking sick is that. i hate the nanos. but regular ipods have gotten so stupid.. so i refuse to own a video/image based ipod when i really only want music. i was sick of the shuffle, which i will be giving to amy. i practically was suicidal every time i had to use it. it wouldnt fucking plug into my computer either... well it did, but it would never be recognized. which in turn would never charge. i hate technology.

trevor and i are getting tattoos tomorrow i think. or maybe saturday. i cant tell you all what its going to 'say'. but its going to be sweet to me. and me only. trevors is badass too. the end. no more updates yet.

OH i almost forgot. im doing more shirts soon! and its not going to be draped with codybown. so you faggots can actually buy and or wear it. but first before i start designing them i have to pay neal with coffee crisps and tim hortons coffee. soo if you jerks wanna help out send him some too.

hockey pool: week 19b

2007-03-22T10:34:00.000-07:00

hey jerks.

rangers at boston
islanders at philly
atlanta at pittsburgh
st.louis at detroit
buffalo at toronto
washington at montreal
san jose at carolina
ottawa at tampa bay
new jersey at florida
los angeles at minnesota
dallas at phoenix
nashville at edmonton

hockey pool: week 19a

2007-03-18T14:13:00.000-07:00

daily pool #1.

TUESDAY
boston at montreal
florida at philadelphia
chicago at columbus
new jersey at toronto
ny islanders at tampa bay
ottawa at st.louis
phoenix at minnesota
detroit at calgary

WEDNESDAY
washington at buffalo
philadelphia at ny rangers
san jose at chicago
colorado at edmonton
nashville at vancouver
dallas at los angeles

13 laughing hitlers

2007-03-17T15:43:00.000-07:00

hey assholes.
sorry i havnt been around. ive been making a living. and as much as i want to make posts and do the hockey pool when i have spare time, its with my girlfriend. anyways i'll give you all a little update of whats going on with my life, kinda.

first off, this has happened in januaray but ive been too upset to fucking post it. when i shipped all of my shit up to mcmurray i lost 1 box. one box which meant the most to me. it had roughly 216 of my movies in it. not to mention all my vhs'. i had the osker watermelon throwing incident on there, a video of which only few have seen. and a few bootleg'd fingers cut megamachine shows. amongst my movies and all of my tv sets (especially all my seinfelds
but since thats old news. there hasnt been much new going on. *cough*. um. i work 6 on 6 off. it kind of sucks but im making (some) money. i have started to think more about movies when i am at work and im going to write every brreak i can. that way i figure i should have a script done in no time. i had one started the other day called 'shoelaces'. about a kid named dallas. who is gay. i based it on a combo of josh, mike, and neal. haha. but not really.

im getting really pumped about baseball season coming up and taking random trips with jesse. im not sure if the baseball trip is still on but jesse and i are going to visit neal in random usa. current place figured right now is mt. rushmore. but that can change when something cooler comes along. im going to take jesse to fenway park in the later end of the season. i hope so anyways. that would be a fun trip..

i think what im going to do with my life is, im going to.. ugh. i hate to say it. but im going to work here for a bit (atleast 2 raises which equals r oughly 10 more months) and then im going to apply to be a process operator. my dad and his buddies were talking at work that an average process operator makes $170K a year. and thats average. im sure my dad is making close to 190K. but anyways. if i do that for a while and put away money then within my 5 year plan, i could have enough money to make one of my movies, not to mention the ability to take my holidays to make the movies. so it should be alright. we'll see how things go though. i was also thinking of buying a house in random alberta and just commute up and work sick stupid shifts and live out at camp. but then i would never see people. it would be strictly a money move. but i'll do that when/if im single.

not much else is going on really. this is all my life has become. its work work and more work. then when im not working its. jesse. sorry folks.

as for the hockey pool. whats going to happen is, tomorrow im going to put up a posting for mondays games, then we're going to have a pool every day that has 5+ games being played up until saturday then we're going to go back to how it was. im sorry for neglecting the pool but hey, get over it.

anyways niggers,
cb out.

this is how retarded byron is

2007-03-11T17:50:00.000-07:00

observe:

today byron said to me that nikki reed is staying at the hotel that is next to the production company that he works for. then he proceeds to tell me that hes going to work up the nerve to say hello to her.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
this coming from the guy who cant talk to girls he knows let alone this cute celebrity. ohhh bryon.

there is no subject.

2007-03-07T16:21:00.000-08:00

i. dont know.
i posted lastnight while shaking like i had parkinsons.. the song calmed me down. for the close ones, you already know. for the distant. you might never have known. all i can say is that. the website might be on hiatus for a while i take care of the troubles that have come into my life recently.

i conformed to fort mcmurray's standards and have recently started doing cocaine. i never knew the severity because it was strictly social use and i love it, until i hit jesse one night when she tried to stop me. im taking my 6 days off work and going to figure things out and try to get better before i lose my job and fuck up my life more than it already is.

'troubles come and go. anyway the want to. doing what the ought ta. ive got miiiine'

wow.

2007-03-06T16:26:00.000-08:00

listen to this song..

my myspace.

jew kebob

2007-03-05T15:36:00.001-08:00

me and jesse are writing a book.
its called jew kebob.

more info later.

hockey pool: week 18

2007-03-01T21:52:00.000-08:00

because i missed lastweekend. everything is doubled..

st.louis at ny rangers
nashville at los angeles
montreal at boston
buffalo at toronto
ny islanders at washington
tampa bay at florida
columbus at phoenix
calgary at edmonton

picturessssssssssss

2007-02-25T10:52:00.000-08:00

soo. i was at work and i was trying on coveralls. and the largest pair they had was two sizes too small for me. hahah. look at my package.

ps. look how cute i am when i puke.

winnipeg crips, what

2007-02-24T13:38:00.000-08:00

i have updates. when roberto leaves. i'll edit this post... stay tuned folks. alot has happened.
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fuck so much has happened this week. im sorry for not updating but you will begin to understand why i couldn't. tuesday morning i got picked up at 7am from my house. we then went to timerblea to pick up russel noseworthy, and some other woman, and drove out to aurora. dropped them off and then me and my boss (the woman who picked me up) went to syncrude to try and score me an id again. oh yeah prior to us dropping them off we went to the id station and fucking... the server was down. so we basically had to get temp passes. then i got taken to the lab where i work. i got a walk through of the building and whatver and then i got thrown right into training. the girl who was training me is a fucking bitch. she looks like a fat, uglier, jodi johnson. pure bitch. she treated me like trash. day one i had to do plant 6-4. which is super easy for collecting samples. when i collected those samples i had to analyze them. to do that i had to take syringes of sample and put it into an api machine, then a different machine into a karl fisher machine to give me readings. then i enter the data on the computer and it'll tell me what percentage of the sample is water and bitumen. its alright. i caught the bus home with my old man which he was a little surprised to see me because he thought i was going to be out at aurora.

the next morning since i never had my pass, i got a ride once more. so we went to the id station, after picking up russel and the other woman, and fucking the power was out... and they werent even issuing temp passes. so i almost got to go home. but i never because they did end up giving temp passes eventually. i was on my own on plant 6-4 and because i was still new i was struggling a little bit. so for cleanup i was late and i almost missed my bus. my dad wasn't on the bus so i rocked out to akon the entiiiire way home it was pretty sweet.

day three i got another ride into site and this time, third times the charm, i got my pass. i was pretty happy. i look so newfie in it. primarily because i have a sweet mustache. but im slowly growing out my beard now because respirators are optional so. i'll try and get away with it. day three i was doing a new plant. plant 5 is fucking insane. i have to collect like 17 samples as apposed to the 6 o 7 i had to get in plant 6-4. and in this plant (5) i have to climb 2 ladders. one is a scaffolding ladder so its pretty fucking sketchy. i was a little afraid. when i get these samples, i have to add 100ml of toluene to it. and 10ml of NaCl (sodium chloride) and match some that are similar in size. when i do that i put them in this spinning thing that mixes up the samples. after i do all of that i have to draw a little bit of the top of each sample and put it into a small test tube. which then gets measured for absorbancy. then i dump out the water, and solids remain. i weigh the solids and log them. i put the info in the computer and this data tells me the percentage of water, solids, and bitumen in the last last last dirt they use. they want to make sure they're getting every bit of oil they can out of the soil they take from and i test it to make sure that they are. the numbers are usually around 0.15% bitumen left in the soil. its pretty good.

my next day was sweet because i got to take the bus into site with my dad. its alright. i fell asleep listening to akon again. my day was basically the same as the one prior. only i was doing it so fast that i started to actually have 45 minute breaks. the day before my longest break was 7 minutes. so it was pretty rough. at the end of the day plant 5 is responcible for cleaning up alot of shit. so when i was done i had to hustle to fucking clean and whatever. i ended up finishing at 715pm. and everybody else finished at 7 and no one offered to help out, cunts. so because i had to leave and catch a bus that takes me to my bus to get home, i had to fucking rush so hard. sprint to the bathroom to take off my boots and coveralls, and get changed, then sprint up 5 flights of stairs to where the bus is and i just caught it. then me and my old man sat on the bus and went home. this was lastnight.

lastnight was going good. i came home and took a shower. i wanted to go out. i havnt sseen alot of my friends this week so i wanted to go out. perry boone and perrys cousin shane came over and we played nhl 07 and got drunk. i put back some wine and then we headed out to the pod to see people. jesse was there and i kinda missed her. then this is where shit started to get stupid.. perry and shane went to earls to see people. i went there eventually and came back to the pod with roberto. and then boone made his way over. and i was standing there kissing jesse and i can see out of my perif, two dudes looking at us. and one guy saying "fuck him man. see his shirt, zero (i was wearing my zero sweater) more like zero loser" and all of this shit. so i shoot him a look and he doesnt say shit. then he goes to the bathroom. i follow to see if he has beef with me. but no nothing. we come back and i was telling mike and roberto about it. then i sit with jesse and her friends for a bit and look over at mike and some big guy is right in his face, so i decide to go see what its all about. i guess mike gave the skinny kid who was trashing me the finger, and this kid was like 'you got a problem' and boone was like 'you're a fag'. so then he turns to his buddy to go fight for him. thats what i hate about mcmurray the most. its not just you vs someone. its you vs someones friend. so i step in there with one of this big guys friends to seperate it and this guy tells me that hes like a pipefitter or scaffolder from camp and they're just there to have a good time. so we made peace for a bit.. 10 minutes later, i look over to boone (i was sitting with jesse again) and this guy is back in his face, and then he turns to roberto and says something along the lines of 'shut up or i'll punch you in the face'. and now it got retarded. the bouncer never did shit at all. and this guy is just ripping mike a new one it was insane. so mike is just throwing it back at him then i step in once more to push the skinny kid away. some girl drags the big guy outside and whatever right and fucking, this skinny kid is like "im from the winnipeg crips, what.. what.. what.. you want to get bottled" ahahahah. fucking fag. so im like 'kid get the fuck out of here. dont be stupid. you're friends left, and we'd fucking murder you on your own so just get the hell out of here before we both do things we're going to regret' then hes like 'do you want to get bottled' and i was like 'fuuck you get outta here'. and then he left and whatever. two minutes later, perry and shane and about 10 people from earls come to the pod looking to kick some ass. and then ed comes down also ready to break someones face in. it coulda got really ugly. so the bouncer kicked everybody out and whatever which was stupid because. he just watched all of this happen, and then he sends us outside to deal with it. it was retarded. then we went to the garden. because service was so terrible mike, danny, and ed all left. i hung out with amy and jesse and two douche bag newfies who i fucking hated so much that night. on the way to the garden they were lighting up a joint and had to offer it out. which in turn m'lady smoked some. which was a little weak but whatever... jesse and i never made it to the garden right away. we made it there about 40 minutes later because we were talking.. got to the garden and had some of jesses fries and we left.

this morning roberto came over since it was his last night in town, right after jesse left. i schooled roberto at hockey. i miss hanging out with him.

winnipeg crips, out.

soo....

2007-02-16T14:50:00.000-08:00

hover the mouse over the picture.

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2007-02-15T17:23:00.000-08:00

i think my cousin is going to commit a crime or kill himself.

negroskeet

2007-02-15T16:24:00.000-08:00

here is an update of my last couple days. aka valentines day..

i had physio at like 1 or something so i went down, got in early. then just missed the bus. so i went to visit trevor and we set a play date for a day after valentines day. i walked back to city hall, stopped at subway and got a sub. i caught the bus home and had a few things to do before i got ready for my big date. i shoveled some snow and did some things for my old man and then i got dressed. i put on some slacks and a nice sweater and headed out the door. i caught the bus down and waited in the lobby of le nomad for m'lady. when she arrived we went into the keg and got seated. we were there about quarter to five so it was certainly not packed. we got a bottle of wine, had some salad, then got our steaks and plate of asparagus. it was a lovely dinner. when we left we visited syd for a big and then got on the express south bus. we decided to go for a lovely cruise in the city... aka riding the bus until we had to get off. the bus went down franklin, down to waterways, up to beacon hill where the bus died. we managed to get to gregoire and get to the depot. we sat there for fucking ever while the bus' had to switch. finally we got going again and made it home to abastab. we watched 'united states of leland' and drank wine and the rest is history.

today i woke up with too much pain in my back. i shoveled the drive way and jesse and i ordered donairs. then i got a phone call. tomorrow morning i have to go in for my drug test and my orientation. worst part about it all. i STILL might fail my drug test, and i have to shave off my beard... wish me luck for tomorrow.

hockey pool: week 17

2007-02-15T16:19:00.000-08:00

you know the rules.
here is the games..

philadelphia at ny rangers
atlanta at ottawa
boston at buffalo
edmonton at toronto
carolina at montreal
new jersey at ny islanders
tampa bay at florida
minnesota at nashville
detroit at phoenix
colorado at calgary
anaheim at los angeles

valentines day

2007-02-12T23:20:00.000-08:00

im struggling to think of something romantic and lovely to do for valentines day. i was never really good around this holiday so i cant even rip myself off from previous years. i could but that would be really rude to do... again. anyways. this is going to be a year to forget because im going to suck so hard. and its in like a day. tomorrow im going to try and wing something together.. girls like spontenaity right? *cough*

what do you have planned this year to do? i know alot of you are hurtin fucks, and i anticipate alot of 'chillin at home eating ice cream' responces but for those of you who might do something, fill us poor saps in.

those pictures i was supposed to post

2007-02-11T16:08:00.000-08:00

vfs transcript

2007-02-09T14:19:00.000-08:00

well folks, i just got my transcript in the mail. here is how i did if you care..

cinematography | - 73%
post production | - 90.4%
cinematography || - 85.7%
documentary - 70.6%
short script - 80.1%
assistant directing - 67.3%
cinematography ||| - 63.5%
directing - 86.2%
post production || - 86.4%
producing | - 76.4%
midterm drama production - 87.9%
art direction - 84.8%
film theory and genre - 47%
final projects - 87.3%
post production ||| - 78%
producing || - 100%
sound - 55.4%

average- 80.49%

hockey pool: week 16

2007-02-08T23:20:00.000-08:00

you know the rules. here is the games..

anaheim at dallas
ny islanders at boston
calgary at buffalo
pittsburgh at toronto
ottawa at montreal
st.louis at philadelphia
ny rangers at washington
phoenix at florida
los angeles at nashville
carolina at minnesota
atlanta at vancouver

hallways.

2007-02-08T00:14:00.000-08:00

jesse let me spit on her face yesterday... twice.

in no time i will be peeing on her back.

fuck black history month

2007-02-07T16:09:00.000-08:00

i hope you loyal codybown?com fans are doing like i am and boycotting black history month.. if you're like me you hate seeing commercials on tv every time a show cuts to a commercial and seeing something about black history month. my least favorite of them all, and one that drives me the most insane, is the one where all these people are wearing shirts that say "no rock, no funk, no jazz, no blues" etc.. well what the fuck do you want from me. do you want a letter saying "dear blacks, thank you for music". no fucking way, get over yourself already. you mother fuckers only came to america because of white people. how about that. bb king only played the blues because he couldnt be a lawyer, and who wouldnt let him be a lawyer... white people. so there. i for one do not agree with giving a month to remember a bunch of shit black people did. okay okay i will give martin luther king his credit, but im pretty positive he has his own day? yes. he does. jan 15th. who else in the history of black people really deserves a day, i know there arent 28 different people who all deserve their own day, enough so to fill up the entire month of february. lets think of all the willing candidates who deserve a day.. well martin luther king, muhammad ali, but hes not fucking dead yet... ummmm.... thats. fucking. it.. no other african american that is dead and apart of "history" could be included.. i say that black history month should begin in like 2050. when all the present day negro's are dead then we can truely appreciate black people..

oj simpson- who taught us that its okay to kill your wife when she hangs out with other dudes
kobe bryant- who taught us that its okay to cum on a girls face, even if she isnt your wife
barry bonds- who taught us that its okay to cheat at a national passtime
janet jackson- who taught us that its okay to expose ourselves on national television and blame it on wardrobe malfunction
ike turner- who taught us that its okay to hit your wife over and over and over and over again.
michael jackson- who taught us all that its alright, to be white.

these are just some of the modern day heroes that we need to give a day out of a month to and really sit down, skip work, drink a 40, rob some white guys, kill a nigga or two, eat some fried chicken, corn row your afro and celebrate what its like to be black.

an otter weak end tail with picked yours

2007-02-04T17:12:00.000-08:00

lets see here what have i been doing lately. thursday night we all dressed up to go out for trevors birthday. i wore a classy suit and went down to trevors. johnny b was there and we shot the shit while we waited to go to earls. when we finally did we looked like we ran the place, with johnny b being our body guard. then bryce, jhole, chris and rob came. none of which i know. and we sat down to have drinks and eat food. we stayed for an entire hockey game and then some i had a bunch of drinks then finished with some wine and what not and we headed to showgirls. i was in showgirls only for a bit when i ditched out and took a cab to the garden cafe to see jesse. then i came home and went to bed. the next morning trevor told me he was coming over, but was walking. so i met him halfway down the hill and when we got back to the top, he said "i have only $10 i'll just hit up the liquor store before we go out.... man i shoulda got alcohol from home" so we walked back down town, stopped at jomaas and had a couple slices, and then picked up the texas mickey from trevors place and walked towards abasand. we decided to take this semi sketchy path at the bottom of abasand hill, ive always wanted to take it but never did. it wasn't steep at all and it cut the time considerably. so awesome for that. we got to my place and went to the store to do some slush buying and came home to a cooked meal of spaghetti that my mom prepared. it was goodish. then we got on the booze. i killed a bottle of gin before we left. and we played demos on xbox all night. we left around midnightish? went to the pod, trevor wanted to hit up earls first so i bailed to the pod. our cab driver was telling us a story of how he literally just got into a fight and punched out 3 women. man i love this city. i make it to the pod and meet up with jesse and some of her friends and we bailed to the garden once more. it was a goood night. yesterday i never did much at all but hang out with jesse once more. today i rented tony hawk for xbox, and fucking bob sagets new movie 'farce of the penguins'. i'll let you know how it is. im watching the super bowl right now and its the half time show. so im typing this. anyways here is some pictures from the weekend.

[i'll upload pictures when im on my mac tomorrow]

hockey pool: week 15

2007-02-02T12:46:00.000-08:00

players:
-goals are worth 1 point each.
-assists are worth 1 point each.
-power play points are worth 2 points each.
-short handed points are worth 5 points each.
-1st and 2nd period shots are worth 1 point each.
-shootout goals are worth 3 points each.
-game winning goal (regulation or overtime) is worth 5 points. (10 if on PP, 25 if SH)
-if your player is a star you get points (1st-3, 2nd-2, 3rd-1)
-having a + +/- gets you the players +/- in points (bure is +3. you get 3 points)

goalies:
-3rd period saves are worth 1 point each.
-if your goalie is a star you get points (1st-3, 2nd-2, 3rd-1)
-shutouts are worth 10 points
-shootout saves are worth 3 points each.
-if the goalie you pick starts, you get 10 points. if he doesn't start, you get the back up's points

washington at pittsburgh
ny islanders at montreal
edmonton at colorado
chicago at san jose
toronto at ottawa
philadelphia at atlanta
buffalo at new jersey
ny rangers at tampa bay
los angeles at florida
dallas at st.louis
anaheim at nashville
boston at colorado
minnesota at phoenix
vancouver at calgary

when in mcmurray...

2007-01-28T11:37:00.000-08:00

"do as the newfies do-- get fucking drunk"

the last two nights i have been the drunkest ive been in the week ive been here. friday night.. hold on. i have to see if i already posted about friday night.. okay so friday night, i wanted to get mega hammed because i planned to throw down some game, which if you know me is pretty weak to begin with. so i got bundled up and headed down to trevors place. he gave me $45 for the texas mickey of wisers i sold to him that day.. we went to the liquor store, i bought 3 bottles of baby duck and a bottle of 'barefoot' chardonnay. it was pretty gross.. prior to me going down i got pretty dressed up. i wore my pink gap shirt, a sweater, my coat, a scarf i jacked from my mom, some mittens, also jacked from my mom and my toque. im not going to lie, i looked pretty cute. anyways, i swung by amys place and had a drink and discussed the plan of attack with the girls there. then i peaced to trevors. then the liquor store, then we went back to his place where we got drunk and planned a trebor re-launch.. we're going to make a 5 song EP of covers to get people excited about trebor again. then a full length. it should be better than 'puss of the max phenomenon'. hard, i know. ahah, anyways. so then we decided to hit up this kegger that was going on at keyano. so me and trevor went and hung out there with the not so lovely c-west, and her friends, and jesse and all of her friends. oh yeah i asked jesse out. she said yes. anyways. then they all went to the pod and i had to wait for trevor to finish a pitcher of beer. we got in the cab, blasted some nigger beats and then went to the podollan. jesses friend syd completely raged on trevor and it got pretty awkward for a while. then trevor left. i went to the garden with a bunch of folks and then had a clubhouse. it was good. katie was there by the way.. so that made everything pretty awkward for me. especially because she sat right across from me and jesse...

yesterday i wanted to get goood and fucked, and let me tell you folks, i got fucked. i woke up with a sever pain in my right hand, i think i broke my knuckle because its painful to type. i hung out with jesse syd and jamie all day and then i came home to eat wings my mother had made. they were delish, i just shit them out. the hockey game was on and i wanted to kill a bottle of gin before i headed out, mission accomplished. i picked up at the end of the 2nd period... then i was ready to walk to showgirls because perry and ed were trying to get me out all day. so i called them and they said they were at fitch's place. so perry came and got me and fucking. went down to fitch's. i tooker easy for a bit then perry and i killed some sourpuss bottles and then some blue caracao. and then we, and ed bailed a few hours later to go to the pod. i hit the ponys then jesse showed up. i sat with them and whatever, and i went to buy two pony's and i bumped into danielle. always nice to see her. i sat at the table for a while and then danielle came and invited me to cowboys, which im sure looked terrible but whatever. amy pulled out a tampon and i pulled a legendary scene from kids, where casper pulls out a tampon and dips it into his juice. i did it but into a gin and seven. so trevor was there for chris' birthday and he tried to get me to showgirls, and so i bailed on the vagina fest i was sitting at for tits and vagina fest. so we had this real niggerish - speaking of niggerish, i rocked my eazy e shirt lastnight ahaha - cab driver who was blasting that song "shake ya ass" we were busting out singing and shit, it was good times. went into showgirls which was FUCKING PACKED. we hardly got a seat. so i hit a gin and then did a shot, which in turn made me throw up because lets face it i cannot do shots. jesse showed up with some of her friends who years ago tore me a new asshole so, awkwaaarrdd. trevor then left, so i was there with jesse. and when she was finished her drinks we were going to leave. on our way outside she bumps into brian wheeler who theyve known eachother for a while and he invites us to joels place for a little get together. then joel came over, i havnt seen him in like two years. and outside ran into matt eigner and whatever. so we went up to joels in gregoire, where two years ago i had a beer bottle thrown at my head, which in turn missed me and hit blairs truck. anyways, i was getting introduced around the table and i already knew 80% of everybody so before they could say their name id say it. and somehow i managed to impress everybody there. ahah. poor jesse ended up throwing up, so i had to take care of that. i went inside and while jesse was using the bathroom i took a hit off a joint, which i crazzily regret. i had puke on my hands, and on my sweater. we went outside to catch a cab and jesse fell off the stairs the second i let go of her to grab my phone, and then to get her up, i had to kneel in a pile of her puke.. we got into the cab and i gave her my mittens, which she again, threw up on. we got to amys place and i hung around for a while and then i walked home... now im home. stinking of vomit... that isnt mine.

ROFLZZW@@!#

2007-01-27T14:16:00.000-08:00

LOLZ!!@!@2