Summer

On my desk, and in various drawers of said desk are countless scraps of paper, mostly all ripped out of the same small sketchbook i got in my stocking two Christmas' ago. Upon these scraps are lists, of things to do. Chores, reminders, big things, small things, phone calls to make, things to look up on the internet. In a days work there are usually around 5 or 6 items written down. Upon the end of the day usually only 3 or 4 get scratched off, and scribbled over meticulously as to be sure that they cannot be read and their nagging memory is gone. The paper is then discarded as a new, updated version replaces it the next day, with the uncompleted items of the previous list nearer to the top and adorned with exclamation marks and underlines. A strange phenomenon has occurred though. The most recent lists i can find in the scrap heaps in my room are from months ago.

I have officially ran out of things to do.

Productive things to do that is. Measurable tiny goals that can be achieved within the day. My life is in order, i have a job, a place to live, no homework. No school or banking related paperwork to fill out. Nothing. This is a moment i have looked forward to for over a year now. You see ever since the end of high school i have always had something to procrastinate. First it was looking up university programs, then applying to university and scholarships, then completing my portfolio. Then sorting out my residence and osap applications ect. Then school, i even had an essay to write over Christmas break, which, by the way, i completed in 20 mins and got a C-! Through all those long months, even when i did nothing all day, the nagging guilt of doing so ate away at the back of my brain. I longed for a week or two of no responsibility. Now i have four fucking months of it, and halfway in im starting to lose it a bit.

I dont have a single fucking thing to do. I even invented pointless things to eat up time. I switched rooms with my brother, i painted my room, i have organized my drawers and shelves a few times now. I rearrange my computer desktop and wall paper daily. And still i cannot fill the few hours i have after work every night. Today an hour or two of simcity glazed over my evening quite nicely. Then it crashed. I had not saved. So i opened it up and did it all again. The traffic in the downtown core of "Contra" is moving quite nicely now im sure you'll be pleased to here.

So i sit here. Dreaming of september, when i officially move away from home. It's very exciting. Too exciting. Even more so when compared to the stagnant endless drone of summer in brockville. Im sorry for depressing you with my teen angst, but to be fair i only have a few more months of it left, and blog was at the very bottom of some old list i found. Desperate times.

PS. You happy now grant? It's your turn, and i have nothing other to do than remind you. :)

Star Trek Dubbed

Dubbed from kyle thompson on Vimeo.

This is something my a couple of friends at school and I have been trying to get done for months now. It didnt work out quite as well as i wanted. The beginning is kinda gay, and it sounds like the sounds glitching out when theres no audio clip playing, i had to edit in some background static in places. I wanna try doing another one, ideas?

It Lives!

I was about to go to bed, when i found this on my computer, and i dont want to forget, so here it is.

Biopic

So the blogging all summer thing isn't going quite as planned... in my defense i've been busy doing nothing at my shit-easy job. Anything mildly of interest i've got going on ive probably already told you all. So i'd like to instead share with you something grant and i came up with a while ago. If i, or any one of the gang for that matter where to die in some dramatic, firey, alcohol and methadone fueled, catastrophy, or more likely choking on a mcnugget. I hope that our filmy friends would craft a fitting memorial in the form of an epic biopic. For grant this would be unnecesarry, just edit together "horton hears a who" and "forrest gump". But for the rest of us, the perfect cast must be assembled to do us justice. Our picks are as follows, if anyone as any thoughts, or changes, comment dat shite!

Steve Carell is: Erik Bahm



Gary Sinise is: Richard Withers



Nathan Lane is: Ryan Burton



Carrot Top is: Tyler Wright



Kal Penn is: Amit Ubhi



Zombie John Belushi is: Aaron Armstrong



Alan Rickman is: Ben Kiefer



Will Ferrell is: Grant DeVries



Liam Neeson is: Kyle Thompson

Reel Hype TV!

Oi! So I wont be posting all of the vids on here but i thought id post the first one. Heres the movie review channel Erik and I are doing. Subscibe if you like. Bear in mind that this is the first episode and that they will hopefully get better as we ga ahah.



later alligators!

HI

Internet world, I address thee,

I have been checking this blog on a daily basis for at least two weeks now. No updates. So, I will take the opportunity to provide an insight into my new life on the west coast.
On April 24 I packed up my life and flew to Vancouver. The travelling went well and I was at my home by 4pm that day. I am living in a home in East Vancouver. I rent an upstairs bedroom from a couple in their thirties. There is also another guy from my program who rents a room across the hall. My landlords cook all my food, which is nice. Anyways, thats boring. I had a week off before starting school on May, 3 so i took the time to explore the city. I ventured out to Stanley park and the convention center. I also took in the lower east side and two movies (how to train your dragon, and Chloe - both excellent).
I must say that I am having the time of my life here. The weather is Go-jus, and I couldn't have asked for more from the program. Everyone of my classmates are great. We work well together, and should have fun this year. for the next 8 weeks we will continue to develop our documentaries for shooting in week 8. The night life here is great, and there is no trouble trying to find something to do on weekends (lately we've been busy on weekends). The scenery is absolutely beautiful. This really is one of the greatest cities I have ever been to.
That is all i think. Hope everything is well at home :)
If anyone is ever in Vancouver make sure to look me up.

Your pal,
Grant

Internet Portal

This is a vid i did a few days ago cause i was bored. There are some definate errors in it but wat eves, it was mainly just an experimental video. Hope you enjoy!

Also I'd like to point out that YouTube is increasingly become a huge douche. First they fuck around with the layout, and then they fuck around with the video player, and now the pièce de résistance they've increased their audio security where by all new videos are now scanned by an audio recognition program to identify copyrighted music. This enfuriated me when I uploaded the vid yesterday only to find that the audio had been muted due to copyright infringment. However, all it took was a gquick trip to google to figure out how to trick YouTube and I am now happy to saw that I know how to get copyrighted msic onto videos!

Finally, just thought I'd let you all know that I'v decided to go to Humber!!! I went and saw the campus last weekend and it's pretty sick, and the program is amazing, so thats what I'll be doing!

Wow im impressed that I actually managed to make this into a blogg instead of just a video post. Yay me. Anyways hope everyones exams went well and a reunion dinner/movie night/ party/ gerneral shenanigans is in order very soon!

Later Alligators