Dave Kellam

Here’s one of those phrases that I never really envisioned being published:

“In theory you could phone up and listen to dolphins while sitting in a traffic jam in Dublin,

Technology is a wild and wonderful thing. Someday, I want to be able to talk to the penguins or monkeys, give me my monkey-phone dammit.

In news that seems surprising to some, Arnold has announced that he will be running for governor of California. I want to think that politician’s and analysts shouldn’t have been fooled by the smoke screen that the actor put up, but I really don’t know. In completely unrelated news, the now appears to be a monkey vaccine that is resistant to ebola.

I think it’s a great idea to deploy only 7-10 troops in every country that request military aid. That way if one of them gets killed, you can claim losses at over 10% and use the statistics to force a political pullout. It’s great.

Here are the results from my personality disorder test, coutesty of Riz. It’s on and off, but looks kind of pretty (or ugly) on the webpage.

Disorder	Rating
Paranoid:	High
Schizoid:	Moderate
Schizotypal:	High
Antisocial:	Moderate
Borderline:	Moderate
Histrionic:	Low
Narcissistic:	Low
Avoidant:	High
Dependent:	Low
Obsessive-Compulsive:	Moderate
Personality Disorder Test

It was a long long weekend. I made it to the Warped Tour, but didn’t end up getting in until after three… so we missed a couple of bands like The Used and Thrice. There was also a downpour, so it turned everything into a nice big wet muddy mess. The sky cleared up later in the afternoon, but everything was till soaked. Some of the bands I got to see were: Poison the Well, Mad Caddies, Bigwig, Pennywise, Dropkick Murphy’s and Rancid.

My runaway favourite for the show was Letter Kills; they played on a tiny stage hidden within the merch booths. The band put on a great live performance and the lead singer has an amazing stage presence, he was swinging off the bars of the tent and came into the crowd, singing into people faces, crawling along and diving onto the crowd, singing the entire time. He sold the band’s cd after the show and personally thanked everyone for buying it and showing up. It was pretty wild. Their website is pretty cool looking too, props on design.

Alanah and I stuck around in downtown Toronto for a bit before catching a mid-afternoon train back to Kingston. I picked up a couple used albums (Pixies, Slaves on Dope, Harvey Danger) and t-shirts to go along with the samplers and stickers that I picked up from the booths (I didn’t spend much time in the pits, it felt like I had elves inside me punching me stomach). We had some lunch and vowed not to drop any more cash with the devil piece of plastic.

There were massive quantities of water pouring out of the sky last night, so I opted not to venture into the outside world. Watched a few movies and some episodes of Invader Zim, a cartoon that’s hit or miss. It has the whole alien invaders thing going on, so it’s targeted at the geeks and dorks among us. The show isn’t limited to that, when it’s on, it’s on. The best character is a really stupid but incredibly funny little robot called GIR. The first episode is a must, he has some choice lines and bits.

I didn’t feel much like updating this week; it’s been a lot of camp and chilling. I’m gonna head to the Vans Warped Tour in Toronto tomorrow, it should be a good time. I’m not as into the punk scene as i used to be, but i recognize some of the bands. Wheeee, long weekend!