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Chevy

let's go make some history before we fall apart

About Me

"People always say how you should be yourself, like yourself is this definite thing, like a toaster or something...like you can know what it is even. But every so often, I'll have like, a moment...when just being myself in my life, right where I am is like, enough."
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My Interests

Concerts, music, fashion, theatre, dance, choreography, writing, current events, parties, drinking...ya know, all that good stuff!

I'd like to meet:

The person who was the best thing BEFORE sliced bread... .. width="425" height="350" ..

Music:

Ryan Adams, Joel Plaskett, Wide Mouth Mason, Jason Mraz, Strokes, Trews, !!!, AC/DC, Agnostic Front, Amy Winehouse, Anti-Flag, Arcade Fire, Beastie Boys, Beck, bigwignj, Big Star, Billy Talent, Black Crowes, Blind Melon, Bob Dylan, Brendan Benson, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Bruce Springsteen, By Divine Right, Clash, Cold War Kids, Constantines, Cure, Distillers, Don McLean, Dropkick Murphys, Elliott Smith, Elton John, Flogging Molly, Foo Fighters, Franz Ferdinand, Fratellis, Gin Blossoms, gob, Green Day, Hank Williams, Henri Fabergé & the Adorables, Hereafter, Hold Steady, illScarlett, Interpol, Iron Maiden, Kaiser Chiefs, Keane, Kooks, Le Tigre, Jarvis Cocker, Jeremy Fisher, Joy Division, Keane, Killers, Carole King, Led Zeppelin, Libertines, Lindy, Ludacris, Mars Volta, My Chemical Romance, NOFX, New Pornographers, Peaches, Pink Floyd, Pogues, Police, Prince, Queen, Queensryche, Rage Against the Machine, Ramones, Rancid, Ray Lamontagne, Reel Big Fish, Richard Ashcroft, Rilo Kiley, Rufus Wainwright, Sarah Harmer, Save Ferris, Sex Pistols, Scissor Sisters, Sepultura, Shins, Stereophonics, Slayer, Smiths, Sondre Lerche, Spill Canvas, Stills, Stars, Streets, Joss Stone, Sublime, Sufjan Stevens, Talking Heads, Tiger Army, Tokyo Police Club, Tone Loc, Tragically Hip, Travis, Tristan Prettyman, Two Hours Traffic, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Weakerthans, White Stripes, Whiskeytown, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Young MC....okay enough!! Suffice it to say I am a music FREAK!!!

Movies:

About a Boy, Almost Famous, Animal House, Breakfast Club, Bridget Jones' Diary, Casablanca, Clerks, The Commitments, Dead Poet's Society, Election, Elf, Garden State, Good Will Hunting, The Great Escape, Hi-Fidelity, How Green Was My Valley, I am Sam, It's a Wonderful Life, Love Actually, Mall Rats, Meatballs, My Left Foot, Mystic River, Napoleon Dynamite, Newsies, No Direction Home, On the Waterfront, Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion, Saved!, Say Anything, Singing in the Rain, Sixteen Candles, This is Spinal Tap!, To Kill a Mockingbird, To Sir With Love, Two Rooms, When Harry Met Sally

Television:

THIS IS DANIEL COOK/EMILY YEUNG!!! American Justice, America's Next Top Model, Austin City Limits, Behind the Music, Corner Gas, Ed, Everybody Hates Chris, Grey's Anatomy, Going Coastal, Hockey Night in Canada, The Hour, Kenny vs. Spenny, Kids in the Hall, My So-Called Life, The New Music, Pond Life, Saturday Night Live, Sex & the City, Speaker's Corner, Video On Trial, The Wedge, The Wonder Years

Books:

In the Skin of a Lion...but pretty much anything by Michael Ondaatje, Jacob Have I Loved, New York Trilogy, My Left Foot, No Logo, Pride & Prejudice, To Kill a Mockingbird, Twelfth Night, the poetry of William Butler Yeats

Heroes:

Avi Lewis, Ben Rayner, Bill Welychka, George Stroumboulopoulos, Gregory Peck, Jian Ghomeshi, Justin Trudeau, Kenny Hotz, Naomi Klein, Nelson Mandela, Pierre Trudeau, Randal Graves (ehhe), Rick Mercer, Stephen Lewis

My Blog

Small Life Lessons

The smallest things can make me so sad... Not like break down and cry sad but make me feel wistful & recall past events with a sigh...that and making me listen to a lot of Dolly Parton lol   ...
Posted by Chevy on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:13:00 PST

A little public airing of my craziness

I've never been one of those people who's easily able to dismiss people things people say in passing.  I remember almost everything in my social life; every under-breath insult, every kind word.....
Posted by Chevy on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:16:00 PST

Summer's End

So summer's winding down. I've gotta say its one of my least favourite times on the whole calendar.  It's when you look back and do one of two things: remember all the amazingly great times you h...
Posted by Chevy on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:54:00 PST

There's a reason why I love this town...

I got this as an e-mail forward awhile back and seldom do these types of things make me cry YESSSS!!! in agreement at my screen, but this is just such an e-mail.  The only one I don't really matc...
Posted by Chevy on Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:48:00 PST

Peach Wallpaper

I arrive lateHe rubs the sleep out of his eyesI stumble through the shoes at the doorWe exchange his CD for my frosty drinkHe throws out the trashI hide his keyHe checks the radio before I even hit re...
Posted by Chevy on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 04:51:00 PST

Perfect Strangers

I clumsily wipe my greasy palm against my denimed thighI smile sheepishly & reach out to greet her perfectly manicured handShe looks as if right through me, unimpressed"I've heard a lot about you"...
Posted by Chevy on Fri, 19 May 2006 11:10:00 PST

Pathetic Fallacy

Pathetic fallacy. Thats one of those literary buzz words which as an English student I'm far too guilty of using to explain away people's actions in novels & in life.  It's easy to blame the ...
Posted by Chevy on Fri, 12 May 2006 09:05:00 PST

Hearts & Stars

I've been home for what 2 weeks now is it?  I essentially haven't seen anyone, barely talked to anyone and I hardly even care.  I've been sitting in my house, quasi-working on school work, b...
Posted by Chevy on Sat, 06 May 2006 04:30:00 PST

Soul Sista

I've been listening to lots of sooooul lately.  There's probably a very good reason why I've been drawn to this lately, okay beside that I can only cry along to Ryan Adams and Whiskeytown so many...
Posted by Chevy on Sat, 15 Apr 2006 03:41:00 PST

Newstand Nightmare

This is what happens when you put all my crazy quasi-poetics on (virtual) paper. I'm sure it won't make ANY sense to anyone who reads it but I was just so totally overwhelmed by this ridiculously...
Posted by Chevy on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 08:07:00 PST