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IWakeUpStrange

The first of the gang to die.

About Me

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My Interests

Sleeping, Waking Up Strange , Navel-gazing, Music , Canada , Music From Canada ,Vegetarianism, Useless Pop Culture andEntertainment Trivia , U.S. History, Politics, Using the Internet to avoid schoolwork,Music Business, Downloading Music ,Concert-Going , CD-Shopping ,Subsequently Going Broke, TheGays , Travel, Nursing crushes on middle-aged actors , musicians , and talkshow hosts , Eatin' crustaceans in the Barenaked Nation , Using obscure references to show the depth ofmy obsession nerdiness love
Music (Top 10) Barenaked Ladies , Sarah McLachlan , The Smiths, Morrissey , Guster , The Bourbon TabernacleChoir, Jason Mraz , GreatBig Sea , MichaelBublé , CrowdedHouse
Bands The Beach Boys, Blue Rodeo , Boyce's Road, Brothers Creeggan, Chris Brown & KateFenner , The Clash, Coldplay , Counting Crows , The Cure, Death Cab For Cutie ,Don't Talk Dance, DuranDuran , Erasure ,Foo Fighters , Franz Ferdinand , Gin Blossoms , The Goo Goo Dolls , TheHousemartins, Indigo Girls, James, The Killers , Live , Maroon5 , MatchboxTwenty , Moxy Früvous, New Order, Our Lady Peace , The Pixies , The Postal Service , The Proclaimers , The Ramones, The Replacements, The Rheostatics, Rilo Kiley , Scissor Sisters , silverchair , Simon &Garfunkel, Squeeze, Sublime ,Talking Heads, Teenage Fanclub, The The , They Might Be Giants , Train , U2 , Vertical Horizon , Violent Femmes , TheWaltons, Weezer , XTC
Singers & Songwriters & Others AimeeMann , AlanisMorissette , AmandaGhost , ,Ben Folds , Beth Orton , Billie Holiday, Billy Bragg , Bruce Cockburn,Butterfly Boucher , Damien Rice , David Gray,Elton John, ElvisCostello , Elvis Presley, Fatboy Slim , Fiona Apple , George Michael,Jamie Cullum , Jane Siberry , Jann Arden , Jenny Lewis , Jesse Malin , Joe Jackson, John Mayer , Joni Mitchell, Josh Ritter , Kevin Hearn , Kirsty MacColl , LeonardCohen, Lou Reed, LucindaWilliams , MelissaEtheridge , MindySmith , Moby , Neil Finn , Neil Young , Neko Case , Nick Cave, Pete Yorn , Rufus Wainwright , Ryan Adams , Sarah Harmer , Tara MacLean , Teddy Thompson , Tift Merritt , Tom Waits , Tori Amos , Van Morrison , The Vanity Project (Steven Page)
Hip-Hop Beastie Boys, Common, Gnarls Barkley, Jay-Z, Kanye West, M.I.A., Matisyahu, Outkast, Pharcyde, The Sreets
Guilty Pleasures Cher, Clay Aiken, Garth Brooks, Gwen Stefani, Justin Timberlake, Ludacris, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Taylor Hicks, Tim McGraw
Television (Past) The West Wing, The X-Files, Arrested Development, Will & Grace, The Kids in the Hall , Mad About You,Family Guy, Roswell , Friends, IDream of Jeannie, NewsRadio, Party Of Five
Television (Present) TheDaily Show , The ColbertReport , The Riches ,Studio 60 onthe Sunset Strip , BostonLegal , Lost , My Name Is Earl , The Office , Scrubs , Andy Barker, P.I. , Desperate Housewives , South Park

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IWakeUpStrange's Music

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Movies:

Gone With the Wind, Secretary, Angels in America, An Affair to Remember, Young Frankenstein, Arthur, When Harry Met Sally, Barenaked in America, Titanic, Garden State, Spider-man 2, Love Actually, Brokeback Mountain, Dogma, Chicago, That Thing You Do!, The Princess Bride, The American President, A Mighty Wind, Anchorman, Zoolander, A Fish Called Wanda, Notting Hill, Pleasantville, The Truman Show, In & Out, The Hudsucker Proxy, Before Sunrise, The Jerk, Back to the Future, Much Ado About Nothing, Airplane!, Gypsy, Dirty Dancing, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Best in Show, Fried Green Tomatoes, Shakespeare in Love, Playing By Heart, The Wedding Singer, Ocean's 11, Stranger Than Fiction, Prelude to a Kiss, South Park: Bigger Longer Uncut, Ghostbusters, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, What Dreams May Come, Indiana Jones, Saved, Little Shop of Horrors, Apocalypse Now, Death to Smoochy, Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Wet Hot American Summer

Books:

Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell), In the Skin of a Lion (Michael Ondaatje), Songbook (Nick Hornby), The Virgin Suicides (Jeffrey Eugenides), America: The Book (Jon Stewart, et al.), Assassination Vacation (Sarah Vowell), High Fidelity (Nick Hornby), Songs Without Rhyme (Various), About A Boy (Nick Hornby), The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky), The Cider House Rules (John Irving), She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb), The Silence of the Lambs (Thomas Harris), The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing (Melissa Bank), The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende), Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden), Girl Interrupted (Susanna Kaysen), Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad), Primary Colors (Anonymous), The Inner Circle (T.C. Boyle), On the Road (Jack Kerouac), The Pleasure of My Company (Steve Martin)

My Blog

MMTV

Another Music Monday. Today, I'm posting some music videos that have caught my attention and/or my fancy of late.One of my favourite parts of summer is getting to stay up even later than I usually wou...
Posted by IWakeUpStrange on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:53:00 PST

Fourteen Again

Oh. My. God.I just found out that, completely unbeknownst to me, the hotel we've made reservations to stay at in Washington, D.C. is across the street from the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building!The voice o...
Posted by IWakeUpStrange on Wed, 30 May 2007 03:09:00 PST

When The Moon Hits Your Eye, Like A Big Pizza Pie...

You may need a visit to the ER, if the pizza pie is anything like this one:Courtesy of Nancy's Pizza in Atlanta.Hell's belles!!!...
Posted by IWakeUpStrange on Wed, 30 May 2007 10:50:00 PST

Best Quote Ever

"Of course [Heroes] saved the world! You can't set a TV show in some sort of post-apocalyptic world where everything's gone to hell! That's what Studio 60 was!"Courtesy of VH1's Best Week Ever.Oh, Stu...
Posted by IWakeUpStrange on Sun, 27 May 2007 12:19:00 PST

Finding MuMo

So today I'm finally starting something I've wanted to do for a while: Music Mondays (MuMo...get it?). I wanted to have a day where I can just bitch/rave/rant about the music stuff I've been following...
Posted by IWakeUpStrange on Tue, 15 May 2007 04:34:00 PST

Smarter Than Your Average Canadian

Literally!It's from the CBC's Test the Nation national IQ test thing. I lied and said I was from Ontario. Not bad, considering I took it at like 1AM.Yeah, I was bored.Speaking of intelligent Canadians...
Posted by IWakeUpStrange on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:29:00 PST

Good Luck Movin' Up

Today was movin' out day, and it lived up to it's name, complete with lavish musical numbers, weird minimalist staging, and Twyla Tharp choreography, although, unfortunately, no one as cute as Michael...
Posted by IWakeUpStrange on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:12:00 PST

Randomicity

Can someone explain to me why NBC's Thursday line-up consisted of re-runs this week? That's a great way to boost ratings, NBC: keep showing re-runs and then don't tell people if and/or when you're goi...
Posted by IWakeUpStrange on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:58:00 PST

A Big If

If I ever get married, I want my vows to come from this poem.The InvitationBy Oriah Mountain DreamerIt doesn't interest me what you do for a living.I want to know what you ache forand if you dare to d...
Posted by IWakeUpStrange on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:00:00 PST

Random Thoughts

I've been neglecting blogging of late in order to continue the farther pimpification (totally a word) of my MySpace profile. I think it's coming out quite nicely. It's a nice complement to the homepag...
Posted by IWakeUpStrange on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:20:00 PST