Currently in Montreal, QC, CANADA. I am home. Unfortunately, time is too short. I wish 4 days could be like 4 weeks or so but then again, I'd be shirking responsibility of going to work and getting paid.

I realized i miss montreal.

Sunday. begins at 6:30 am with me dragging myself out of bed and then getting to the bus stop by 6:45 where I wait for the M96 to drag me across town to grab the subway down to 72nd and go to 76th street by 7:30am to setup for service. Then I play two services and then get a short 3 hour break before i head back to the East Side to play another two services. 10pm i get home.

On that note, my new blog site is up: meta4ical.blogspot.com. Just random drivel of my mind so feel free to drop in your thoughts or tickle your brain if you so choose to.

Thanksgiving is coming up. Seems like its a huge holiday here. Too bad its only on Thursday.

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There are days where writing becomes such a pain. This is probably due to a lack of sleep over the last few days. I think most of my evenings were consumed by primal screams resulting from the adrenaline rush caused by Halo 2. A.F. and I have been battling into the wee hours of the morning fighting and shooting aliens who have tried to make our lives miserable by reactivating the mass weapon known as Halo. Of course, we being brave soldiers, will rush like madmen into the face of energy weapons and projectiles, without any fear of death or not returning home to our families. In reality, I do not think I would actually drag an alien bomb into space hurtling towards an alien ship from which the bomb came, then finally escaping by mere kinetic propulsion of my legs pushing off the bomb back out towards my own ship. Even if that were possible, I highly doubt I would do that. Needless to say, if it were for the sake of humanity, my space suit would be a battle in itself to clean out after.

On that note, upon returning to the mothership, A.F. and I have set out to record another one of his ingenious unconventional beats. Indeed, God has blessed this man with many a talent (he's contributed to one of my latest tracks), and it will be fun to go into the studio to see what we can make out of this. My relationship with production especially hip-hop is probably a love hate thing. You love to see where it can go, and you hate to work out the nitty gritty.

Pretty exciting huh?

First and foremost, goodbye to Yassar Arafat the PLO leader. i know my friend A.A. has strong feelings about the passing of this political figure and many questions and doubt about the future of the Palestinians. I won't go into any political discussions as i do not feel i know enough about this world's policies except to know that things aren't going to change until the politics of the heart in people change.

I am sitting in Adrian's apartment waiting for Mel to arrive as Adrian had his concert as I am sure you are all aware of his concert schedule. So in debating whether to read the Uncle John's Unstoppable Bathroom reader while not on the bathroom versus checking my email for junk as none of my friends seem to write anymore because either a) They MSN me at work b) they like to tell me last minute that they are coming to NY (Minus Dave and Fanny who told me WAY in advance).
So what was going to be a nice relaxing weekend is going to be a bit hectic (my feeling) of my wonderful friends doing their whirlwind tour of NYC. Not to say i don't love my friends but I hope I do get to spend some time just chilling w/ them although in a large group and a different city, that we'll get to bond.

Better head back out as AT&T likes to cut out my service in buildings.

It's freakishly scary to think that anyone has access to reading this blog especially if I were to write political rants and raves. So i'll refrain from doing so. All I will say, however, is that politics is retarded. Everyone just wants money. Oversimplified? Probably but the question is, what's in it for me? Hence, we return to Aristotle's question of whether or not today's society is about the behavior that preserves democracy verses behavior that democracy likes, the prior being that if democracy means equality, we behave in a way that exhibits our own rights as individuals rather than the latter idea where we try to make a democracy work by making our lives exist to benefit others. Whether it be marraige definitions or pro-life issues, these issues I believe are brought on by people behaving as a result of democracy and not the idea that we need to think about why democracies exist. Political Correctness is a term that is not political correct. Trying not to offend someone through the use of a euphemism is probably more insulting than anything. In the end, it's about relativism and how we can probably 'lessen' the damage. Too bad it doesn't really work. Freedom of speech has its limits. How far do you go to express your individual 'thoughts'? I think relativism is today's problem. Again, I may be oversimplifying but maybe take a step back and consider if absolutes still exist? Problem is, those with absolutes become 'extremists' and 'narrow-minded'. At the same time, to not have absolutes is like saying that the color 'red' is the color of the sky. I don't know what i'm talking about anymore. I'm going to stop here and write about how Halo brings people together.

put two canadians and a white american in front of a TV on a Saturday night with Halo on screen. After about 5 hours of killing each other, we realized we need a 4th player. So if you're in the NY area, own your own controller, have a lack of interaction w/ people, enjoy multicultural settings, and have a bloodthirsty appetite for conquering hordes of malevolent aliens, leave me a note. I cannot emphasize the amount of bonding that occurs (mainly due to the fact that A.F. will squeeze your arm everytime you make a great kill), you will leave feeling like you have saved the world from the evils of the universe.