The Best Of The Best Of The Best......Hey isn't that a quote from Top Gun?
a while ago my buddy Jim did an article with his list of the best albums of the 21st century, it had some really good albums on it but a few of them I really can't agree with, cuz I just really don't like the bands, I despise them, mostly out of spite against pop culture, and by that i mean top 40 pop culture.... but anyways, I have decided to create a list of the best of the best: movies, albums, ideas, crimes against humanity, you name it, I got it. So here goes........

Greatest albums/artists

Led Zeppelin - really anything by them cuz they are the kings of rock'n roll, fuck Elvis
Cold: Year of the Spider - a great album, good groove, varying sound, plus they put limp bizkit to shame as they are also from Jacksonville....Ha! Take that Fred Durst ya stupid piece of shit!
Papa Roach: Infest - really cool CD with alot of anger in the lyrics, perfect for kids from suburbia who wasn't to vent their anger towards mommy and daddy cuz they won't buy them the new Jetta
Linkin Park: Hybrid Theory/Meteora/Reanimation/Live in Texas - I don't have to explain this, they are just killer musicians, if you don't agree get that shit out of your ears and throw out your Wave CD you ignorant prick
Eric Clapton - once again no explanation needed, excellent performer, a straight out classic
Jimmi Hendrix - see above
Hawksley Workman - he writes some crazy tunes, I mean C'mon the course is "striptease for me baby!"
Queens of the Stone Age: Songs for the Deaf - a concept album plain and simple, much like dark side of the moon
Queens of the Stone Age: Restricted - really cool writing, some awesome guitar work and an all around great album
Matthew Good : Avalanche - finally he has a means to vent all him political anger and societal fury without bandmates dragging him down, he should have dropped his band a long time ago, not that his music wasn't good when it was the Matthew Good Band but now the music itself is so much better
Prodigy: Fat of the Land - crazy industrial shit, creating really cool rhythms electronically while still using actual instruments
Cowboy Bebop: Soundtrack(s) - the greatest collection of techno, rock and funk jazz on the planet coupled with the series/movie, it's fuckin' incredible, if someone says the Japanese don't know their shit, smack'm for me
Finger Eleven - most likely in the top five of the greatest Canadian bands, i saw these guys last fall and they were awesome, they know how to put on a show and they write some intense tunes too, which is always good
The Tea Party - one of the world's most unerrated bands, they have more talent for writing and skill with their instruments than 90% of the bands out there, yet their sales outside of Canada have been lackluster, I don't know why, they fuckin rock
Static-X - if you want to hear some really intense techno metal, this is for you

Greatest Movies/TV Shows

Miami Vice - two words, Don Johnson, I just can't wait 'til they put the entire series on DVD
Get Shorty - if you haven't seen it you deserve 85 lashes
The Usual Suspects - see above fucko
Lord of the Rings Trilogy - it makes me want to be a sloppy fat New Zealander, it's that good
Cowboy Bebop: Series/Movie - One of the greatest anime's ever, Shinichiro Watanabe knows his shit
Gundam Wing: Series/Endless Waltz - this introduced me to anime, cool characters, great story, and you can't beat giant robots completely fucking shit up
The Bourne Identity - A great adapted version of the Robert Ludlum classic, and it proves without a doubt that Matt Damon is a better actor than Ben Affleck
Indiana Jones Trilogy - C'mon nothing beats an adventurer that fights Nazis and evil cults in search of riches to contribute to the good of humanity, eat shit and die Lara Croft, you got nothing you little bitch
Star Wars Trilogy - The Greatest in Sci-Fi, better that Battlestar Gallactica by far, but don't even get me started on episode 1 and 2, George Lucas.....what were you thinking, oh right....$$$$$$$$$$
Nash Bridges - Five words, Don Johnson and Cheech Marin
Akira - The West's introduction to anime, a really fucked up movie but nonetheless intense as hell, a must see motion piucture
Super Troopers - I finally saw it, and it was hilarious, you have to see it.
Heist - you never know what is exactly is goin in that movie, both versions, it's fuckin amazing,

Greatest Miscellaneous

Communism - 2nd best political system on the planet
Despotism - the greatest political system on the planet
Tower of London - grestest prison on earth, I mean they would throw criminals off the tower onto the square below where everyone could see, now that prevents crime, say a guy has his hands chopped off, one jammed down his throat and the other up his cornhole crushes his skull and has cranial fluid leaking everywhere after a 100 foot fall, i think the little kiddy that sees that will never steal anything in his lifetime
War of 1812 - greatest American military/political defeat in history, even better than Vietnam, i mean we pushed'm back and burnt Washington to the ground, stupid fucking yankees
SAS - best anti-terrorism squad in the world, no one fucks with them

 
i know there is more stuff that deserves to be on my best of list, but really, i can'thave this thing 20 pages long now can i, but don't worry there will be others, you can be certain of that
adios

This is me as a "hero" and Erin as the clingy girl. This is the reason i earned the name Swordmaster Fanboy wannabe. Both of us thought it was funny that the artist caught Erin's bubbly personality and my barely kept tolerance of her in the picture (hee! Hi Erin!) 

This one is Erin and I as Sally and Jack from Nightmare before Chirstmas. I went to this artist first thing in the morning on sunday but she was going on her break so i had to wait until she got back. For the next hour i was constantly looking over my shoulder to see when she got back. when she finally did we went over there and Erin immediately struck up a conversation with her while i was trying to figure out what i want. She had suggested that she could draw us as these characters simply because Erin's hair reminded her of Sally. Of course Erin fell in love with this idea and really wanted it. It took two and a half hours to finish, but it was well worth it. 

This is seriously my favorite drawing out of all the ones i got. This was the one that caused me to wait two and a half hours for another by the same artist, that plus she was freaking hilarious. We were just siting there and she asked us what we wanted. Just then i glanced over at Erin and she was wearing cat ears so i impulsively said "give her a tail!" and so she did. I still love this picture, we're so happy in it. 

This one isn't really one of my favorites, but it's cause of the gun that i really like this one. It's supposed to be me, but it doesn't have that much ike me...still...that gun is sweet. 

Ahhhh yes, animethon. it was really fuckin' sweet, i got there around quarter after 10 in the morning on satursay, and when i got inside MacEwan, i had no fuckin clue what the hell was goin on, lineups everywhere, people just standing around trying to look cool (what a fuckin joke, tryin to look cool at an anime convention) but anyway, i got there and after wandering around aimlessly in the lobby when i ran into Matt, and then we head to the vendors area, and i got BATTLE ROYALE!!!!!!!!!! in manga form, at least the first issue, i still gotta get the other 7, but i only had 20 on me and i had to steal that from the food money that my mom gave me, and to clarrify i had to take money because i ahdn't got paid yet, in fact i still haven't been paid, and i really need the money.....but ya, it's awesome.....BATTLE ROYALE!!!!!!!!!!!!! it's lord of the flies for the new century, it 's crazy, i recommend it, go out and buy it, it's a great book/movie/manga. well i got to go...........adios
-Errol

This one is just me drawn in a suit. I got it because I liked the other one this person drew of me and Erin so much that I needed another. As a side note, I waited in line for this one to be done for 2 and a half hours. 

This is jake the chain mace ninja that i got at animethon. The person that drew it loved it so much that she begged to ink it and then asked for me to send it to her afterwards.

Super anime tag team Deluxe
 
Well this weekend was the famed Animethon 2004! It's an annual convention that comes to edmonton where geeks, nerds, and dweebs alike can come together and pretend that they belong...i felt a little out of place here but not too much.
 
At the begining of the 2 day ordeal i felt a slight buzz from the atmosphere...then i entered the building. I immediately noticed that it really was a geeks convention, although there were mostly normal people there that may have had some geek like tendeansies, they were dulled by comparison to the stereotypical geeks that i saw. It was a frightening experience at first, people that i thought only exsisted in fairy talesor urban legends had come to life. I'm not talking about the people dressed up as anime characters, i'm talking about the actual, full-fledged, live-in-their-mother's-basement-til-they're-thirty geeks. There were greasy ones, skinny ones, fat ones, short ones, tall ones, every type you could imagine, they had all come out at a risk of exposing themselves to real sunlight. And let me tell you, some of them were really bad...so unbelieveably geeky it's hardly imaginable. Don't believe me? here's a little story to back me up:
 
During his Weekend at animethon Matt decided to take advantage of the slightly cheaper deals on manga so he headed to the dealer room. After some browsing and purchasing several Mangas Matt found his good friend Erin and decided to leave. But on his way out someone had noticed his awsome t-shirt yet again. It was truly one of the coolest t-shirts anyone had ever seen, it was a shirt that had pixilated weapons from Nintendo's "Legend of Zelda" with the words "Don't make me go Zelda on you". Matt had been complimented on is shirt all day, but this time it was different.
"I recognize the silver sword, the potion, the bow, and the hammer." said the geek in the in the booth, "But what's that other one? a wooden sword?"
"Well it's pixilated and they only use 4 colors, of course you won't recognize it." replied Matt
"Well then what is it?" asked the geek.
"I don't know" said Matt feeling slightly annoyed
"you own the shirt and you don't even know what's on it?" accused the geek
"Okay, fine, it's a damned rusty sword" replied an aggitated Matt
"But it can't be, if it was usted it would break and wouldn't be that useful." retorted the smug sounding geek.
"not nessesarily" replied Matt again sounding all the more annoyed.
"Yes it would, rust breaks down the steel at a molecular level, making the sword very weak and causing it to break when it is used."
Erin stepped in at this time and dragged Matt away possibly because she noticed the annoyed look on Matts face thus saving the geek from a retort that may have crushed his little game playing world snding him into an obivion where a gek must finally accept that games aren't the real world and there's life outside of the little cartridges and 16 bit graphics of old games.
 
Actually i thought it was funny because i actually did have several things to say that would have just been really mean, but oh well another time perhaps.
 
for a anime convention i actually did very little anime watching, simply because i wanted to see the cosplay, which i had to wait in line for for an hour and was extremely dissappointed with because i had heard so many good things about it years previous. And i was just plain old disturbed by the guy that dressed up like a girl and started singing show tunes. it was all made better when i found out that my friend had won a prize for his cosplaying though.
 
The next day i spent most of my time in the place called Artist's alley getting drawings done. completely awsome ones at that which i had to wait hours for and fall asleep while waiting.
 
you know...i always seem to do this, i start writing and then lose interest and stop, oh well another time. but i shall put up some of those drawings that i got just because they kick so much ass.
-Matt

Ya know what, i've been lookin at the site and i realized, no one comments on my blogs, except on time but the comments were really fucked up and from that timmy guy, and well he's just weird.....but ya, no one has ever truly commented on my blogs, and that's annoying the fuck out of me.....don't know why but it is.............i'm done now...........so i'm gonna go now an download porn.......... adios
-Errol

Pretty and new
 
Ooooooooooh! Blogger yet again has a new template...don't know why i mentioned that. But whatever.
 
Interesting side note, Jason seems to have this obsession with me now for some reason. I blocked him on my messenger a while agojust because he was a pest but i never have messenger open so i forgot that i had blocked him. a few days ago mind you i went though my contact list and saw that he had changed his name to something about me blocking him. Ok so the first thing that comes to mind is why would he care? the next is why would he change his sign in name to that? and thirdly why would he take the effort to find out that? I've come to only one conclusion about this, he's obviously in love with me and gets jealous when i avoid him.
 
Well Jason i'm sorry to disappoint you but i am straight, i always have been, and i'm extremely comfortable with the fact that i am.
-Matt

Well this it it, the picture comparison between myself and the ever so famous Oscar Wilde. It was kinda creepy when Erin handed me the postcard and there I was...well there he was all looking like me and everything. It's still one of the cooler things that have happened in recent weeks. 

Homeward bound

So in a mere 4 hours i'm going to be on a plane heading for minneapolis and then back home to Edmonton...so what am i supposed to feel here? happy that i'm going home? sad that i don't get to stay longer. i'm both of these...it's weird. i really hate mixed emotions, stupidest things ever. I mean I DO want to go home, i miss it and i can't help it. And people there miss me too, even my dogs are lost without me there so i'm told. but then i'll miss being here too, i mean i've met TONS of new people although some of them i've talked to long before i ever saw them in person. And i've had a blast even when i was doing nothing more then watching tv with louis. I mean i hadn't seen him in over 4 years and the last 2 weeks have been great. but there's the dependability of home, the people that i've been with for years that know me the best. it's strange...although i may get to see louis again if he comes out to Alberta in the fall. but now i must go and make sure that i'm bringing everything with me that i brought here.
-Matt

Going to the Zoo zoo zoo!

Yay! I went to the zoo again today! i like zoos they're so much fun! but i still think it's sad that they have some of these animals in enclosures that are way to small for them. like the polar bears that just pace all day or the wolves that do the same...it's kinda sad. i wish zoos had more money to be bigger.
-Matt

The days fly by

Okay so it's been a bit of time since i last blogged but in my defense i've been more than a little busy what with my trip and all (still on my trip mind you but i've some free time). and i figured i should blog again, so i did. not much to this blog seeing as i need to wait til i get hom to show the comparison between me and oscar wilde and i want to wait til the end of this trip before i post stuff about it. what to post what to post....nothing at all.
-Matt

Did you say.....WIRELESS???????

well that time is upon me now, that time when i must move out of my parents house and start anew on my own. well actuallly it's not really starting over, i guess i kinda had a bit of a bit of time to start running before i hit the starting line (metaphorically speaking of course). yesterday i moved in with my brother in the apartment my parents got for us for when i graduated. the head start, is the fact that my brother's been living in the apartment since april so it was pretty much settled by the time i got there. the apartment is really cool, no carpet so i don't have to vacum, just sweet and mop and hey! i used to get paid to do that shit so i don't think i'm gonna have many problems with that aspect. but the greatest thing about my new place is the wireless network i set up today, it's fucking sweet. i got a brand new laptop for a grad present from my entire family, so my brother and i decided to hook his behemoth of a desktop with my sleek and sexy little unit, remember ladies...it's not the size of the boat that matters, it's the motion in the ocean. but anywaz, it's so cool i can now access my high speed connection fom anywhere in the aprtment, hell i could download porn while taking a shit, or brushing my teeth, or changing my sheets hahahaha..........so ya. that's all for now, i'll be back after these messages from our corporate sponsers

ya, this was me at safegrad.....it was sweet 

As we go on, we remember

Just over a week ago (last saturday to be exact) it was my graduation. I guess for a lot of people graduations are supposed to be a huge thing, they're supposed to be one of the biggest days of your young life. for that reason, due to all the hype surrounding it, that i became excited about it. And although I was also MC i wasn't nervous at all. but it came and went (with me barely paying attention to any of the people speaking and being caught off guard when i had to go up). The most memorab;e part of the whole thing though was when my partner the mistress of ceremonies, after having been told multiple times that the mics were still on and picking up what we said close to them, was trying to put on her hat and grew frustrated and said right into the mic "screw the hat". It was more embarassing to her than anything else.

later on that day, after the limo ride, was the banquet. Sadly the speeches at the banquet i actually listened to and with the exception of the salute to the students, they were all a disappointment one way or another. the tribute to the parents was impossible to hear, the reply from the parents became a little boring at the parts that you could hear. And, like i predicted, the class historians was a roaring failure. I've seen class historian done successfully only one time, unfortunately these two didn't seem to have to ability to get the communication with the rest of the graduating class that would actually make it a good speech. Oh sure some people thought it was great, although tey fail to realize that they were among the minority that the speech catered to. But it's over and a speech is just words right? but all in all the whole nigh was great, to bad it's over and i'm technically supposed to get on with the rest of my life. Psht! screw that, i'll live at home forever! i'll show them...wait a minute...
-Matt

Here I am again on my own

So here i am. Matt in Ohio! So as it turns out, the room i'm staying in at Louis' place has a computer in it that they said i could use anytime...and me being me i leaped at the chance. I already wrote out this whole stupid blog once but it shut down and was stupid because i tried to use the spell check. So if my spelling is really off it's because i didn't use it this time. but anyways, because of this access to the internet, happy death won't be going on too much hold. so here's one of the before promised blogs.

A little while ago there was an event going on that involved hockey. A major event that had most households in Canada watching. this event was the Stanley cup finals, which pitted the Calgary Flames against some other less Canadian more American team. So of course people start to choose sides, and in the city of Edmonton the large majority cheered for Calgary, you saw flags, bumper stickers and the whole sha-bang going down here. But then you had some snooty self centered pricks that started complaining about how people were jumping on the flames bandwagon. That because everyone else in Edmonton was doing it we should too. Now i know that this is a difficult concept to grasp for these people but Calgary was the first Canadian team to make it to the stanley cup final in a very long time. That's right...Calgary, believe it or not, is a Canadian team. And oddly enough, Edmonton is also a city that's in Canada...that's so weird, I mean who would think that people from another canadian city would want a Canadian hockey team to win the stanley cup? Here's a question for you. If in the Olympics there was a canadian competing against atheletes from other countries would it be bandwagoning to do what everyone else in Canada and cheer for the canadian? maybe...i guess i'm wrong. you know, people shouldn't be allowed to root for the team that's from their country, they're giving into conformity...it's so stupid if people could actually think that. sometimes people make me mad.
-Matt