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Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
1:11 pm	Carlito wants his hand back. I can't remeber when I last updated, I believe it would have been more then a year ago. A lot has happend in the last little while. And I've been very reclusive, trying to strengthen the friendships I have... Insterestingly enough a few months ago, I had to make a life altering decission, some of you know what it was, and some of you don't, although I'm sure gossip will catch you up eventually. In the months following the decision, I have had time to look back on the decision, after all, hindsight is 20/20. Everytime I look back, I realize it was the right decision, and in the end it benifited everyone involved. That was a little cryptic... In the last couple months, I've been living back with my parents (boo). But that's because I have a great apartment ready for the 1st (yah!). So yes, after a couple months of living in a suburb of a suburb I'm moving downtown (english bay actually). It's a great place, cheap rent and a massive patio. Although, I don't know if I would recomend anyone coming over till the 5th, the majoritry of the comfy furniture is going to be there on the 5th and 6th. I've offically given up djing (well for the most part). I am selling my turntables and giving away my records. I've discovered recently, that it's not fun. With the imending move, I've been pretty hectic, so much so that I haven't been able to practice bass or violin much. I was pretty terrible about regularly practicing, but I've gotten much worse in the last little while. It's not just the move that's taking a lot of my time, getting student loans ready, work, cancelling my bills, registering for school... I know it sounds like I'm making excuses, which I am. It's hard to be motivated when your living in a town you hate, and half you stuff is in boxes. A lot of friends have been commenting that I've become a lot more relaxed and fun over the summer. I think without the stress I had on my shoulders before, I've become a better person. So yeah other then the fact I'm stuck in delta for another couple weeks, everything is going perfectly. Oh yeah, for those who may have been trying to get a hold of my, I've got a new adress, phone number etc... MSN me at shinchuck@hotmail.com. And I'll fire off my contact stuff. Current Mood: excited Current Music: Kate Bush - Architecht's Dream (Comment on this)
Monday, March 14th, 2005
9:03 am	Going going gone! Off to work, just watched up to episode 23 of beck. It's slow to start but really damn good towards the end. And the music in it is great! Full moon sways… Gentle in the night of one fine day. On my way… Looking for a moment with my dear. Full moon waves. Slowly in the surface of the lake. You are there… Smilling in my arms for all those years. What a fool… I don’t know about tomorrow… What it’s like to be. Ah~ I was sure, couldn’t let myself to go. Even thoght I feel… The end. Oh my fair… Floating like a bird that’s in her wings. You are there… Smiling in my arms for all those years. What a fool… I don’t know about tomorrow… What it’s like to be. Ah~ I was sure, couldn’t let myself to go. Even thoght I feel… The end. Full moon sways… Gentle in the night of one fine day. you are there. Smiling in my arms for all thoses years… (Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 1st, 2005
5:03 pm	that should read two days ago in the last post. Like I said, I'm out of it. (Comment on this)
4:34 pm	It lives again! Yes, I'm back. Amazing no? I've left this little bastard idle for almost a year now. You’re probably thinking, "Damn chris, some interesting shit must have gone on during that time!" And for you people who are curious, yes. A lot of cool shit has gone on over the last year. However I don't feel like typing too much now. So here's a little breakdown of the last 30 days. -laid off from one job. The new boss told everyone that we would still be having a job; in fact we would have more hours. Come in today, entire staff laid off for good. -Broke hand. It hurts. -Car died and cannot be fixed. Live in North Delta, girlfriend lives in east van. Have just one more payment till the car is paid off. -Can't work other job because of broken hand. I'm a sound tech/Dj, so I can't lift up speakers with a broken hand. -In debt. Because I can't work. It's not getting any better as time goes on. Am I worried? Not really, because I've learned in the past that I fucking rock. And so does my girlfriend, and together we are going to rip the fucking tits off of my problems. A nice little thing that should be noted is that 2 or three years ago, I wrote an article with Kent for his site (ishkur.com). Two days, a rebutul was posted attacking the review. Annyoing and stupid at the same time. http://www.ishkur.com/community/comments.php?thread_id=1066 Also, a couple quick notes. Tomorrow I'm heading to the lotus. Go there on Wednesdays. They rock period. 80's 90's and electro all together living in harmony. This isn't a cheesy classics night either. This is probably the only place you'll hear shit like bomb the base mixed in with electroclash. Then on February 26th, I'm playing at Hynotica. It should be pretty good, the only time you'll hear more then one freeform Dj in Vancouver. Now you are updated to my life. I shall begin posting useless info again. PS my brain hurts right now, so my typing skills are lacking. Current Music: Bomb the bass- Megablast (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 25th, 2004
3:10 pm	Note: If you ever have akeel over to your house to look at turntables, make him take a shower first. Damn it's going to take the entire day to air this room out. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 22nd, 2004
11:50 am	Two tech 1200 Mk3's w/stanton 500al cartridges -Perfect working condition -Cosmetic scratch's along sides. -Missing one foot (20 dollars to replace) With One stanton Sk-two http://www.stantondj.com/alpha44/mixers_sk-2.asp 2 line and 2 phono inputs Channel faders are close together for easy one handed dual fader use Three-way, 8 position line/phono toggle switches with FLASHª feature (optional 2 way switch available separately) Gain, 3 band EQ (+9/-26dB), and Pan control on each channel Mic input with volume control, 3 band EQ (+10/ -10 dB), and Pan control Headphone input with volume control, cue pan fader, and Master/Cue select (when set to Master, the headphone level will not be affected by the master output level). Master output (TRS balanced 1/4" and unbalanced RCA) Sold together as a package: $900 firm. (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 11th, 2004
8:45 pm	Perfect day: Good times at work, played bass till fingers got very large blisters, read comics, hot date tommarow. (Comment on this)
Friday, March 26th, 2004
8:35 pm	While the city sleeps... Well my computer finally kicked the bucket... The hard drive decided that it had enough and decided to pack up and crash. Most people might be miffed by the loss of their C: drive. However luckly I was in the middle of moving shit around to format and reinstall windows. Total loss: 3 gigs of Mp3's and videos, a few documents, and a couple pictures. It appears every program on my C: Drive (about 10 gigs worth) were useless as I've been trying to figure out what exactly was missing but couldn't. Anyways this topic is really boring. I was lied to and honnestly impressed yesterday. Lied to in the sense that despite their claims, blegium fries on Commercial drive, does not have the BEST poutine. Impressed by the sheer greatness that was "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". Damn. What a fine movie, probably the best of the year, if not of the last 5 or so years. Easily the best dramatic movie I've ever seen. Sunday I played at Doki Doki, I don't know if anyone saw it... My triumphent return to Djing at raves. My impressions: Meh. It's not like I had a sub par preformance. It's just Djing has kinda lost it's magic for me (for the most part). I still enjoy occasionally doing it. I just don't think I'm going to push myself as much. Maybe playing actual instruments has made Djing seem cheap? Probably not. In the end it falls down to: I've been djing now for four years. I've played at probably over 50 raves. You probably don't even want to know how much money at time I've spent on this hobby. My turntables have spent the last two months outside of my house, and I really didn't miss them. So for now, they will sit on my desk, like your old childhood toy you used to play with. And just like that old toy, I'll occasionally play with them. But more for the memories than anything else. This could all be cause I've to busy to really get into the "groove" we'll see. Maybe I'm just saying all this for no reason. Bleh, I'm tired and rambling. The local rave scene just dosen't hold the same draw for me anymore. I never enjoyed drug use, and every rave I go to seems so desprate to limit the types of music played it almost depresses me. If I'm going to spend 8 hours in a stuffy room, I need more than 8 diffrent dj's who play music which isn't that diffrent. Maybe I'm getting older. Maybe I just don't get it. It seems as if every party tries to be as generic as possible. Sure you can bring in diffrent dj's, but live djing just dosen't impress me anymore. Espcially the type that is present at most parties. If that's the case so be it. So don't expect to see me at too many raves. I'll be playing in April or May sometime, then in the summer once or twice. But I'm not going out of my way to dj anymore. What a boring update for my journal. I'm really tired. (Comment on this)
Saturday, March 6th, 2004
5:33 pm	Breakin' Two: Electric Boogalo Recently 3 Games have come into my possesion: Ninja Assault, Persona 2, and Hosigami. Since I feel like talking about them... Ninja Assault is a standard guncon game. For those who don't know what guncon is: You know those arcade games with the guns? Yeah, that's guncon. There are a few things to know about Guncon games. One they are either duck and reload (which is hella fun) or shoot of the screen and reload. Two they are all made by namco (that's not exactly true but close). Three they NEVER ever EVER have a good story. It normally involves a kidnapping of some sorts (Little girl/boy or girlfriend) And four I love them. I've played almost everyone. Ninja Assault? It rates right in the middle, where as far as I can tell is where it wants to be. It dosen't try, at all, to be orginal or diffrent. The only differance between this and say House of the dead is in one of them your a Ninja, using a ninja pistol. However, this game was on sale for $29 cdn, so it was a steal, and it came with the gun. 6/10 Hosigami is a standard stratagey came, a'la Final Fantasy Tactics. Except this game tries to break the sterotype. But not in the good way. In a kinda half assed way. Like shopping at the mall for clothes to make you look punk, this game makes itself stupid. Graphics, sound and story are on par if not better then FFT, but it makes itself unplayable. For those who haven't played any tactics games, they are pretty straightforward and fun. You have a small army you move, you attack. Tactics games normally have a simple yet in depth system and amazing story. This one... Here's how it tries to be diffrent. It has a points system so you could move then attack then move or heal as long as you have the points. That's fine and dandy. Then in includes elements. This is where the game breaks into retardedville. Lots of games include elemets (Earth, Wind, Fire, Water), but not his horribly. Lets say I wanted to attack someone who was an element that was weak against my element. I would get a bonus, so lets say I would have a 90%chance to hit doing 20 dmg. That's pretty good. If they aren't my element I would have a 10% chance to hit doing 1 dmg. It makes turns longer (there are about 20 fighters on the board) cause you have to consider each element before you move each guy five times or so cause of the point system. Not to mention sometimes you end up in battles where you might fight mostly fire element guys, well if you water the fight is way to easy. However it goes the other way the as well. And that's only the begining of it... (I should also mention elements effect your weapons and equipment so you get negitive modifiers for using certian weapons regardless of class) 4/10 (would be 8/10 if not for the elements) Persona 2 is a game that breaks all standards. It's an rpg. But it's a horror rpg. Kinda. The story is suprisingly indepth. It starts out with the main character that is a magazine writer who is looking into the urban myth that if you dial your own cell phone number soon the person you hate the most will die. However a recent string of murders have begun to share similarities to close to the joker incident to ignore (especially the notes left by "joker). The combat system is amazing. If you fight (notice the if) combo attacks are avaliable, if flows wonderfully. Now for the if: For the most part you fight demons from hell. But generally they don't care to fight they just happen to be wandering around like you. So you can strike up conversations with them and make firends with them, in the hope that they will give you items and such. However you do need to kill a lot of them because you need experiance points and that's the only way to get them. Kinda makes you look like an ass eh? You do this by having your characters talk to them one on one or combine them. Here's a typical conversation I had with a spector: Spector: "I'm kinda sad about some trouble at home" Mayia: "You just need to relax" Other girl: "Turn that frown upside down!" Resident badass: "You can go wipe my F##kin ass, stop complaing!" Spector: "Yah! I'm happy you guys are so nice!" Kinda makes you look like an ass eh? Oh and when I say you need them. You need a lot. The game's one minor point is the need to build levels. A lot. It's a small pain but alright cause the comabt makes it easier to bear. The characters are great! And it has a lot of fun features, for example you have to use internet message boards to spread rummors. Good Graphics, Rich game play. Almost perfect 9/10 (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, February 8th, 2004
10:55 am	HARD ROCK SAVES SPACE!!!! For those who are wondering, the day after my last post, I did indeed purchase a fender P-Bass. It's good. That has led me to yesterday's activities. I reorganized everything in my room (which included removing a rather large U computer desk, if anyone wants it). This new room (from now on refered to as "destructor) is much better. Destructor is good for a few reasons: A- I have space. Not just desk space. Space to walk, laugh and play. B- My bass has been moved next to my bed. Don't ask. C- I can now record music from my turntables to my computer. D- The mess of wiring that previously resided in my room has been fixed. Moving on. Music is good. Especially when played loud. And more importantly when it is "Go!Go!7188". I spent the better part of yesterday (about 8 hours) listening to one of their cd's. Quite simply it's amazing. The amazing factors are to many to count. http://www.projectj.net/gogo.htm <- for info. If you haven't downloaded them, go. Also for those wondering, my soulseek account is running for the next few days. If you want any of my video's/music. Then mosey on over. User name "ninjaboy". Meeting with max today. Plans: Playing bass, going to radio station. It's odd, playing bass has been something I've actually been comited to. More so than anything since I begun Djing. Oh yes, Since my turntables are set to record, I'm going to be getting some sets together. Need webspace though (I think I have some somewhere...). If you would like a mix set, please ask. I'll mix up any genre you want (that I have, which is still a lot). P.S- I WANT YOU FOR THE WORST BAND EVER! Do you have over 2 years of experiance on drums? Would you consider yourself an advanced drummer? Then get the hell out of here. Novice drummer needed. Inquire within. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 21st, 2004
8:14 am	Not really much to say. Went to SFU to volunteer at the radio station, and hopefully get a show on air. Afterwords played bass with max for a couple hours. Which has lead me to the conclusuion that my bass is going the way of the pawn shop. It's not that I don't like playing bass (the little I know) it's just my guitar. It's just.... well it's not a fender. And that's a problem. I'm finishing up 20 hours of training that all Ikea staff have to go through. It's for a new computer system we're using. The sad thing is, during the 20 hours, they haven't actually taught us anything about the computer system. Since all the training courses are done by diffrent people and at diffrent times, a lot of it is repeated. Add to that the fact that a lot of it is really silly and time consuming. They show us a picture of something, discuss it, then for some reason we go to the into the store to discuss the picture at the place where the picture was taken. As you can probably tell there is a step that is not really needed. I guess my other complaint is that the training takes place after I get off work (still paid though). That wouldn't be so bad, but if you've been up since 3am sitting in a windowless room for 3 hours is pretty shitty. Aside from playing bass, I've also been djing a lot more. Moving into the electroclash (ladytron, felix da housecat, adult, tiga). There's just something so comforting about a gay remix of "it's getting hot in here). (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 8th, 2003
9:11 pm	One of those days... It's been a while since I sat around the house depressed. It's actually pretty refreshing. I was in a very anti social mood today. I don't know what I'm actually depressed about though, it's odd. It dosen't seem to be anything. Maybe it's just that nobody really takes me seriously... It's just been a feeling of being alone... I dunno, bleh, don't like talking about feelings, but had to get it off my chest briefly. Been playing a lot of FFXI lately. Excellent game. And um... yeah. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, October 27th, 2003
11:53 pm	Got a computer with the internet up and running.Time for updates to my life More then a month ago: Got hired at Ikea. Which translates to employee discount, good wages, goode benifits, and a lot of video's on ikea culture. Honest to god, I had to go through a six hour shift of eating sweedish food and learning about ikea. Purchased a New car: A 1993 Nissian Sentra. From one old economy, to a slightly newer economy car. Within the last week: Had one year aniversery with Leslie: Ended up being a three day travel banaza. Went to bellingham, and Victoria. Didn't plan any of it. It just happend. I had a lot of fun with the whole spur of the moment trips though. Pics here ---> http://public.fotki.com/stabmyhead/victoria/ I think that's it for this week. Future Plans: -More groovy times with Leslie -Playing at Organix on friday. Be there. I have new records. -FFXI comes out tommarow. Current Music: Cube Juice - Head Long (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, August 23rd, 2003
11:21 pm	In the last 48 hours, I have downloaded of 1000 mp3's consisting of the top songs of the last 10 years, classics, and R&B. If your wondering why, it's cause I have a wedding to dj, and have to update my music collection. There are a LOT of bad songs. I mean. Wow. Just wow. I can't believe how many. Luckly there have been many songs that have been forgotten in the sands of time. So here is a list of some of these diamonds in the rough. A Flock of seagulls- I ran Alan Parsons Project - I can read your mind Arrested Development- Mr. Wendal Grand Master Flash- Rappers Delight Men without hats- Pop goes the world. Ben. E king- Stand by me Billy Idol - Rebel yell SkeeLo- I wish Coolio - 1234 Ps Barbara Streisand is probably the worst singer I have ever heard in my life. Went to the Pacific National Exibition with Leslie, watched the pigs race, and dogs attacking people's feet. It was super good. Starting school soon, and hopefully at the comic store. Current Music: Arrested Development - Mr. Wendel (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 1st, 2003
11:20 am	Quick and sweet. Much like... uh, me. This is a quick entry. My journal lately has fallen into a state of... er... not being writen in. I never have the time it seems, nor the inclination to write about my life. Ah well. Here's a little update: Some of you may recalling the firing of NinjaBoy from his previous job as lumber associate at home depot. This happend on my birthday. Since I was fired I was unable to collect EI. This posed a rather large problem. However. Now I am employed. Amazing? YES. But not as amazing as you would think. I now work at United Furniture Wharehouse. Yes that's right. I work in a furniture wharehouse. Enjoyable? Yes. Not something that impresses the general public. However, what's this? A silver lining to this? Of course! I have been told that at the end of august I will be employed at a comic/game/card shop. Amazing. Simply amazing. You dream of something for so long, but when it finally happens all you can do is shed a tear. But alas, this journal entry ends. Sadly, i must leave you. For today is Canada day. Which means that I am heading to a bbq. But not before blowing someone else's money on overpriced geeky things! BTW- I'm listening to Queens of the Stoneage. For those wondering. They still amaze me. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 14th, 2003
3:57 pm	Updates to my life! It's been a while again since I updated. Well, I finally fixed my internet connection. But other then that, things recently have sucked. Couple key points to remeber: -I lost my job. -I'm flat broke -I signed up for BCIT (I start this fall, for radio broadcasting) -Being unemployed has led me to spend most of my evenings, at home bored. Bleh. -I'm in a pretty shitty mood these days (being broke will do that to ya'll) Bleh, just a bad day. (Comment on this)
Saturday, May 17th, 2003
9:32 pm	Well, I'm back After a long long break from LJ, I'm here once again. It's been several months in fact. I don't have any idea what you woulda have done without me... For those who care, the last few months have included: -NinjaBoy Starting school -6 Months, with stabby. (which have just rocked) -A couple of misc raves that I played at/did sound/chill rooms for. -And lastly, a trip to Kelowna with stabby. Lets run down the points. School, has been good. It's been tough, but I knew that ninja school would never be easy. The courses are very challenging, I am having quite a time with stealth killing. I always hated group work when I was in high school, I don't like the idea of my grades relying on others, but I've been forced into group projects in both of my classes. (Mental note to self. Pay for school tommarow). 6 Months, with stabby. There's not much to say except that it has rocked. It's been awsome with a few side notes of physical abuse on myself. A couple of raves, nothing interesting, that you would care about. And if you did, then you were probably there in the front row screaming "GO NINJABOY! PLAY THAT RECORD!!!!" I just got back yesterday from a trip to kelowna. Which has been basically the best trip I have ever gone on in my short 19 years on this earth. It started with a relaxing drive up to kelowna. AT HIGH INTENSE SPEEDS. This was done thanks to leslie's parents who for some reason gave me their car for 3 days. Got there a lot earlier then I thought I would. The reason this trip ruled is cause: A- I chose the company B- I got to do things that I want to on a trip. I never really enjoyed sight seeing in places (unless it's something really groovy) C- I was with stabby. I'll write the details later, but I have to leave now. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 28th, 2003
12:27 am	And the murder is: Work, work work. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. getting on with things, due to a lack in buisness, I've been forced to work as a cashier in work (for those who are paying attention to my life, I work in the lumber department, which is really quiet when it's winter). Surrounded by middle aged ladies, who stand around and gossip. During work. DURING WORK! There were 3 cashiers, yet I was the only one taking customers, since they all decided to have a group talk... ARGH! But getting onto bigger and better things: Saturday, played at rave. Very good. Very Fun. Played Happy Hardcore. Apparently a lot of people liked it. WA~~! Spent the last four days straight with Leslie, which is a very good thing. 'specially when spinning happy Hardcore. I work tommarow, I'm really tierd, so I'm going to bed. Current Music: Tokyo Ghetto Pussy - I Kiss Your Lips (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2003
2:08 am	Starburst I feel like crap. I dunno. It's wierd. It was wierd, I was walking around in my house after everyone went to bed, then went out for a smoke. It seemed the whole time that someone was there. Argh, i've been on edge all day. School begins in July. I'm most likely going to CDIS to start my Recording arts program. Oh yeah, I'm BROKE till friday. Not a dime on me. Which is bad, cause I just smoked my last cigarette an hour or so ago to try and calm my nerves. It worked but I think I'll need another one later... Current Mood: irritated Current Music: Asa Chang - Traccia 8 (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, January 13th, 2003
1:01 pm	Henry Rollins For those of you who didn't go. Shame. You should rot in hell with a bunch of U2 records. It was 3 hours and rocked it in all the right places. And for 25 bux a ticket, it was 10 gallons of kick ass in a 5 gallon drum. Current Music: Pizzicato Five - Twiggy vs. James Bond (2 Comments |Comment on this)