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Wednesday, August 18, 2004
101 Things
Bah, this is so easy, you losers:
1. I was born in Oshawa, Ont. Canada's 'Motor City'.
2. I have one brother, two sisters and ten first cousins.
3. I'm an Aquarius. And a Monkey. And an INTP. And a WASP.
4. When I was little, we lived in Australia for a couple of years. My first memory of a rainbow is seeing one in a sandstorm in the Outback.
5. I grew up in Glencoe, Ont. (pop. 2 200)
6. I have friends from there who I still know after thirty years.
7. In kindergarten I got in trouble for colouring trees a combination of grey and brown. Even though I'd observed that trees were a mix of those colours in real life, it wasn't conceptually correct for my age level. Trees are brown. I know that now.
8. In grade 4 I used a paper cup to create a snout on a lion for an art project against the advice of my teacher. The lion won first prize at the fall fair anyways. I have problems with authority.
9. As kids, we used to enter the costume/bike decorating contest in the fall fair parade every year. I won once or twice.
10. I won the Art Award in grade 8, the Creative Writing & History awards in grade 13.
11. I went to a freaky art school for grade 11, 12 and 13.
12. Art school was the first place where I didn't feel like a complete freak.
13. I draw a comic strip about aliens called Happy Creature. I drew my first comics about aliens when I was in grade 3.
14. As I kid, I was terrified of Bigfoot.
15. Also as a kid, I enjoyed catching frogs, snakes and turtles.
16. I'm happy alone, in a canoe, in a swamp.
17. As a kid I made over 30 Super8 sci-fi movies with my friends between 1977 and 1987.
18. Then we switched to video and we have hours of that stuff.
19. There's no alien costume problem that a little papier mache can't fix.
20. I attended the film program at York U. in Downsview.
21. My first-year university tuition was paid by scholarship.
22. I am currently the art director at the world's second-largest documentary festival.
23. If you watch the low-budget Canadian flick 'Foreign Nights', you can see me at the end during the big dance number. I'm sitting in the audience wearing the red sweatshirt.
24. I was the editor of the Vandoo student newspaper at Vanier College.
25. One cartoon I drew for Excalibur, the main student newspaper, cause 20 000 issues of the paper to be recalled and printed with an apology.
26. That contributed to the editor being fired later in the year.
27. I love videogames and managed a small arcade at York.
28. I badgered the game supplier to get Joust, one of my favourite classic coin-ops.
29. I declined a bribe from one of the game suppliers - the only time anyone has ever attempted to bribe me.
30. My first computer was a Commodore64. We bought it at a K-Mart in the US while on a trip to Washington D.C. in 1984. It had a 1.6 Mhz processor and no hard drive. My current computer has a 3 Ghz processor, 2 Gb RAM and a 250 Gb harddrive and a 21-inch monitor.
31. I learned how to program in C64 BASIC.
32. Animating in Flash is easier.
33. I once played StarCraft for sixteen hours in a row. I don't put in those marathon game sessions anymore because I'm afraid of RSIs. But I allow myself a long evening of SimCity once in a while.
34. I've been a sci-fi junkie since I was a kid. My first sci-fi tv memory is seeing the opening credits of the Starlost when we lived in Australia.
35. My grandpa is a sci-fi junkie, so I must come by it honestly.
36. A kid I knew in Austalia grew up to work on the Matrix sequels.
37. I couldn't believe that Quark or Salvage 1 didn't get picked up as regular tv series.
38. Or Police Squad.
39. One year I ran for College Council and lost by two votes. Both myself and my girlfriend at the time voted for the woman who beat me.
40. I was a lifeguard/swimming instructor for six years.
41. I'm a happy drunk.
42. I eat banana sandwiches almost every day.
43. Sometimes I quit drinking coffee just so I can start again.
44. I draw two comic strips for a group of local newspapers.
45. I draw cartoons for the country's largest bank.
46. I was a shopping mall Santa Claus for four years, starting when I was 23.
47. Hallowe'en is my favourite holiday.
48. Fall is my favourite time of year.
49. I enjoy hosting parties: I have a late-fall party every year to kick off the holiday party season.
50. I organized the monthly beer night for my fitness class, too.
51. But if you met me, you wouldn't find me especially sociable.
52. I suffer from serious 'shyness' and have spent my whole life combating it.
53. I've had two long-term relationships.
54. Brunettes over blondes.
55. I like the girls who aren't interested in me and I'm not interested in the girls who are.
56. I'm very easy-going about most things, but pushed to make a decision, I become extremely stubborn and resolute.
57. Which is probably why I've been single for nearly five years.
58. People describe me as being a 'cold' person.
59. I just think of myself as being 'goofy'.
60. When I was a little kid, I told my mom that I didn't think that I could ever get married because there were just too many beautiful women in the world to choose from.
61. I'm not married.
62. I've vacationed in Cuba.
63. I love road trips.
64. I own a dog and a cat.
65. I go to the Dufferin Mall almost every day.
66. When I taught kids art, we played a long-term game of simcity live, as an art project. Then we did it again in the summer outdoors.
67. The mayor of Toronto at the time, visited our city. She had booze on her breath.
68. I once did an art project with kids where we performed 'alien autopsies'. It was more disgusting than you're probably imagining.
69. I've done papier mache professionally.
70. I worked at the GAP at First Canadian Place for nine months.
71. I chew on my finger nails. It's a bad habit.
72. I've never smoked cigarettes. I think the restaurant smoking ban was long overdue.
73. I think Wendy's has sucked the soul out of Tim Horton's.
74. I have been to Disney World three times. I am too young to really remember being to Disneyland.
75. I have held a very large boa constrictor over my shoulders in Times Square in NYC.
76. When I was a kid my dad took me to the outdoor observation deck at the World Trade Centre.
77. I know how to waterski and downhill ski.
78. I played hockey until the 5th grade, then played soccer until the 9th grade.
79. Team sports bore me. I don't give a rat's ass how the Leafs, Jays or Raptors are doing. Couldn't care less.
80. I saw Blade Runner during its orginal run in 1982. We got dad to take us and there were only five other people in the theatre.
81. A couple of year's ago, I saw Brazil at the Royal on New year's Day. Bruce MacDonald was also in the audience. I think Brazil is more relevant now than ever.
82. I didn't try Indian food for the first time until the late 90s. Now I crave curry all the time.
83. None of my friends like to go and have Chinese on Spadina as much as I do.
84. I have a small group of friends and a gazillion acquaintances.
85. I kinda like the colour green.
86. I like beer, but I don't love it.
87. Sugar-loaded desserts are my weakness.
88. My favourite ice-cream is cookie-dough.
89. My favourite doughnut is the sour cream glazed.
90. I own a bike but I don't own a car. I don't want a car.
91. I love streetcars. The subway is pretty cool, too. We didn't have a subway back on the farm.
92. I once took the train from Toronto to Vancouver. And back.
93. I haven't been on a jet since 1991.
94. I have a book that I started reading in 1982 that I haven't finished yet.
95. I have my great-grandfather's 60-yr-old Underwood.
96. I was supervisor of the village swimming pool for a summer.
97. I like broccoli.
98. I had several friends who died in high school, so I'm always aware that life can be short.
99. My big toes are a ridiculous shape.
100. I'm starting to notice an odd pattern in the years I find personally significant: 1977, 1982, 1985, 1988, 1992, 1995, 1997, 2002 ...
101. I found this list soooooo easy to do and only scratched the surface!
That wasn't so hard. I just dashed that off and with a little more work I could take it up to 200 ... or 500. It was a good little exercise, you should all try it. Gord managed 4 items, so that's the number to beat!
5:29 PM
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