Xmas is done, but the ride ain't over yet

This picture is a sign of things to come, and a scene from one of the premiere afterhours in the world, the warehouse project in Manchester England!!! This pic is an inspired post with regards to this no-mans-land time of year, the inbetween of xmas and nye. A time where less of us work, more of us play and the vast majority of us spoiled North Americans unleash the fury of heavy partying with true abandon! The year is almost over, so I'll be following up in the coming days with some best of links and lists to 2009's most promising and least favorite achievements...

PS-For those train spotters out there, there's a recording of an essential mix featuring the sounds of pete tong and calvin harris, recorded live on December 19th at the warehouse project, the set should be up on BBC One until the end of this week

What that there ice

so, my stairs are officially iced up, ya, it's winter alright. Last year I went through about 5 bags of salt, I wonder what it'll be like this year...

Johnny Cash Hurt

SO, I was ridiculously busy today and wasn't able to accurately check my stairs or myself... Car troubles, meant to wake up for a mechanic appointment, slept in and missed it, car almost died on me today, ran around for hours getting details sorted for a corporate gig I had this evening, weirdest gig in a while, but thankfully I think everyone got home safe.... So, I'm posting this song cause this is how I felt after my long ass day, so glad it's done, and this song is a perfect lullaby for me to fall to sleep to, gosh life is funny sometimes... RIP Johny, I was too young to appreciate you as much as I do now while you were still alive...

Today's garbage, brought to you by...

So, today was a welcomed change from the regular, as the garbage on my stairs was supplied by the mother of all mothers, mother nature... When I was a kid, the only thing we referred to them as was helicopters, but thanks to the second mother of all mothers the interweb, I can now supply the scientific name : maple seeds!!! (I know, I was kindof let down by that myself)

But there is science behind their helicopter-like descents, so here's the science thanks to www.grc.nasa.gov :

Maple seeds are superb autorotating helicopters. They begin rotating almost from the moment they are released from the tree. Even seeds that are poorly shaped or have badly damaged blades (wings) rotate with "ease."

Autorotation takes place because of the asymmetrical nature of maple seeds (and of paper copies). The center of mass of the seed is shifted well to one end while its center of lift is approximately in the middle. In a complicated process, the forces at work as the seed falls combine to begin a circular rotation of the seed about its center of mass. The rotation actually inscribes a cone around the axis of fall. The shape of the cone will vary depending upon the aerodynamic qualities of the seed's blade (wing). A blade with minimal lift properties will inscribe a steep-side cone while a blade with strong lift properties will inscribe a very flattened cone.

God I love sciency stuff...

Yo Gabba Gabba clean???

Thanks to my friend Marry, I rediscovered one of my favorite kid TV shows this morning upon my glorious wakeup and reconnection with the web, I gotta say, though I'm not a huge fan of Chromeo, I feel this performance is tantamount to what was achieved not so long ago when they teamed up with the legendary Darryl Hall...

Stairs related update : I haven't shoveled them since yesterday, I promise a pic before I do, cause I have a feeling I'm snowed in :/

Ah yes, the lips are poison...

So, I'm a huge Vitalic fan and decided to spend 3mins today making this horrible pic of me hanging with ol' poison lips... I would actually hang out with her, as long as she kept the poison to herself...

for those interested in knowing more about Vitalic or sampling his latest and greatest work, go to http://www.vitalic-flashmob.com/minimix/

Step 2, add a picture of messy stairs...

ok, so it's snowing and has been for sometime, so this is just a shot of said stairs, unfortunately, you can't see the garbage, cause it's covered in a blanket of snow, I'll shovel later when I'm not feeling like a lazy panda and there will be a fresh pic of the stairs sans garbage, but don't worry, garbage will appear soon...

The first step...

To all blog readers, this blog is special because it's written by a man so devastated by his own dementia that he was forced to write it because the voices told him to... Ok, so that first part is a lie, however, for months I've considered starting a blog about my messy stairs (hence the title for you wouldbe Sherlocks). You see, I currently live in a cute little cave of an apartment in downtown Montreal, it's in the basement, so my front stairs are constantly filled with other peoples garbage (thought frankly I've thought of joining the fun numerous times). I plan on taking pictures and posting them on the regular so as to keep you fine reading folks entertained and amused with my random findings...

Notable findings to date :

-chip bags

-used maxi pad (so gross)

-pizza box (dominos with an address from accross the street, thanks neighbors)

-running shoe (as in 1, kinda freaky)

-big mac boxes (there isn't a micydees for blocks)

-tooth brush

-dead bird (positioned at my doorstep, feet up, probably an offering from a local alley cat who was giving me props)

On a more interesting tip, I think that the title of my blog also should be interpreted in the sense of being a description of the cosmic journey of ones life, starting at the bottom of a staircase and slowly working one's way up... So I'll be posting lots of other crap about my life and funny or retarded things I find online...

*WARNING : For all of the writing Nazi's out there, there will be spelling/punctuation/grammar errors as well as run on sentences, so either remark in an entertaining way or keep your hate to yourself, this is the interweb, where freedom of speech is in tandem with creative writing(literally creative)