count your blessings on one hand

About Me

Paramedic and aspiring photographer. A music and film geek...we won't even talk about the crap that makes the radio top 40.
A lot of people feel they have something to say, but it's a lot of noise and wasted time. I don't like wasting my time.
I have a horrible obsession with anything vintage. And by vintage I mean the 40's and 50's. It sits in my mind as a more refined time. I wear fedoras and suit jackets, and hold doors for ladies. I like to think I can swing dance, but in all reality I have two terminally left feet.
It's not uncommon to find me aimlessly driving at 3 in the morning, fighting insomnia, more often than not trying to find a chinese restuarant or decent coffee. I realize coffee probably isn't the best thing for someone with a sleep pattern like mine, but you get to see a side of the city that's hidden to most people who sleep their nights away.
Condos are ruining the architecture of most cities. It's sad to think that the most visual history of any place is destroyed because designers don't like the look of hundred year old buildings.
Peanutbutter sandwiches and I have a torrid love afair. We often talk of running away to a place where a dry sense of humour is appreciated, and dream of having delicious children with blackberry hair and white bread bodies.
I miss living in Vancouver more than I miss the normal functions of my pancreas, but I've learned to deal with both.
chriscarruthers.ca

My Interests

Photography,
manipulating pixels,
applying bandages,
checking my blood sugar and shooting insulin,
people interested in being aware of the world around them, not necessarily afraid to speak their mind about it either.
Bettie Page haircuts and 40's fashion,
pin-up girls,
piercings,
tattoos,
intelligence, and the ability to roll a joint.

I'd like to meet:

Hunter S. Thompson
Joe Perry and Steven Tyler (circa 1986)
Matthew Good (done)
George Strombolopolous
John Belushi
my grandparents
my sister

Anyone who realizes that the skyline of Vancouver looks much better in brick and masonry with a big red W, than chrome and glass.
Interested in meeting and networking with other photographers, media designers, and medics.

Oh, yeah, girls too, I guess.

Music:

in no special order;
Matt Good Band
K-Os
Jurassic 5
Barenaked Ladies (old stuff)
City and Colour
Rage Against The Machine
Nirvana
Foo Fighters
Stutterfly
The Hextalls
Darryl's Grocery Bag
Sons of Daughters
The Rocky Fortune
Sewing With Nancy
Ten Second Epic
The Failure
The Arcade Fire
Mad Caddies
Less Than Jake
Alexisonfire
Thrice
The Decemberists
Reel Big Fish
Led Zepplin
Pink Floyd
Carlos Santana
The Tragically Hip
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Frank Sinatra
Count Basie
Dave Brubeck Quartet
...I'll bet there's even more...

Movies:

Bringing Out The Dead
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Snatch
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Half Baked
Trinity and Beyond
Rejected
Full Metal Jacket
Trainspotting
Ghost World
Operation:Dreamland
Run Lola Run

Television:

Kids in the Hall
Rough Cuts
Daily Show
Colbert Report
Cops
The Oblongs
Venture Bros.
Mission Hill
The Brak Show
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Harvey Birdman
Sealab 2021
Attack of the Show
CBC Television and CBC Radio
any trashy 24hr news outlet (FoxNews, CNN, MSNBC)

Books:

make that authors... Irvine Welsh, Douglas Coupland, Matthew Good, Noam Chomsky, Nancy Caroline

Heroes:

those who practice what they preach...and anyone who can survive the downtown eastside for 10 years.

My Blog

summer of 07...the Bryan Adam remix!

Hey kidlits.Long time no typee.Things are hotter than your momma at a lesbian convention these days, and about the only thing to do is sit in the river and drink beer. Life's tough.Headed up and...
Posted by count your blessings on one hand on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:57:00 PST

Wednesday night thinkin' time

Got a nice coat of mud on the Pathfinder tonight. Hartley lake and River Road Extension trail were both nice and swampy after a few days of rain. Only ditched it once, and the damn thing pulled itself...
Posted by count your blessings on one hand on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:48:00 PST

it's like a gun you wear on your face

He lived in a non-descript city, in a rather average building, in an apartment fashionably furnished from a catalogue with made up foreign names which had more to do with a cleaver title for a waste p...
Posted by count your blessings on one hand on Mon, 14 May 2007 04:44:00 PST

one in the hand, two in the bush

Nobody found it odd that the 32 year old in the shirt and tie had come the aquarium that afternoon.In fact, things didn't really get all that interesting until he was found floating face down in the o...
Posted by count your blessings on one hand on Tue, 01 May 2007 11:04:00 PST

1001 uses for childhood tears

Mike was a former Gen-X'er. The generation that was going to save the world. They had lived through parents who had conceived their children at outdoor festivals and in the back of VW micr...
Posted by count your blessings on one hand on Mon, 07 May 2007 10:43:00 PST

Thursday night 'aint alright

I feel like my heart's in my feet. Leaving my chest empty for some sort of weight that I get to carry around.
Posted by count your blessings on one hand on Fri, 04 May 2007 05:56:00 PST

Bloggity goodness

YesButNoButYes put together a great compilation of Mr. Show sketches for today's lunch hour veg. For those of you not in the know, Mr. Show was an HBO sketch comedy series by David Cross and Bob...
Posted by count your blessings on one hand on Thu, 03 May 2007 01:59:00 PST

Your 6 month review

Tobin left for Ontario this morning.Like many of Fernie's residents, his was a seasonal fling with this strange lover in the Rockies.People speak of this place in hallowed terms. You can see the...
Posted by count your blessings on one hand on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:54:00 PST

I'm not violent, but I'd like to hold them down and skate over their throats...

Hello all my siblings of seperate parentage.We all cool with life and it's assorted suprises lately?Good.0149 MDST here now. At work, night 2 of a 4 night block of shifts.Going to be in Vancouve...
Posted by count your blessings on one hand on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 12:59:00 PST

vaginas and such...

So,there is/was/were a movie in the works based on the auto-biography of Jenna Jameson, "How to Make Love Like A Porn Star". (A good read by the way, 'assisted' by the selection of photos found ...
Posted by count your blessings on one hand on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 01:20:00 PST