What's this?

Okay, don't be alarmed..... but I think it's snowing. Yeah, I know it's not supposed to snow in Vancouver, I'm just tellin' you it's snowing. Don't shoot the messenger! I mean, I was dumbfounded, I guess me and the other 2 million plus who live here... we've had like 10cm of snow here in Vancouver alone. Some places have had up to 50cm! honest to goodness! It was one thing to have like a torrential dowpour of rain that rendered our water undrinkable by sliding tonnes of dirt into the resivior, I mean, thats life..... but now it's a huge snow storm!!! I mean Come' ON!!! I went walking today and when a vehicle would pass by it would slosh a bunch of snow everywhere. I was like being attacked by slushies all day!........okay......... I guess that whole begining came off a little pejorative... now let me juxtapose that with the catharsis of a more positive point of view. The snow reminds me of my praries! which can't be a bad thing. And it just screams Christmas, which also, can't be a bad thing...... and now the news is on.... and they are talking about like 50 car crashes and whatnot.... the weather here is trying to kill us... I'm not even joking.....help... okay, I am joking (for those of you who have no clue what sarcasm is....or is it irony? or both...?)







It was funny, I went to a Macs store to buy some bus tickets.... seems normal and boring right? Wrong! you should know better than that, I always tell awesome storys.... shame on you.... okay, there i was at the counter, buying my bus tickets and this girl walks in and slips on her way to the drinks, probably some health drink crap... and she condisendingly tells the cashier "You should really have a sign saying it's slipery here, I almost fell and hurt myself! You know there are some really crazy people who would sue over this!" (note the condesencion!!!)! and then she moved the slippery sign to the back corner where she slipped from where it was in the front of the store.... warning people that the floor was slippery..... I tell you... She was even wearing rubber boots- the most slippery footwear (I mean it was snow, not rain sheesh).... and the floor itself was not slippery, it was the snow on footwear and the linolium floors.... so....it was her own fault.... I thought it was funny anyhow. stupid store not having signs everywhere!!!!!!sooooo.... the weather is a big deal..... that being said, there isn't much else going on....















Heres me and my documentary crew being all cool and whatnot.... we work in a sexy business..... or so I've been told. Oh, and introductions..... The one on the left, that's Casey Li, our documentary director, and thats Arjay Joley our cinematographer... and in the second picture, thats me on sound, it looks cooler when I have the pole and mixer going.... really.... I'm an expert!!!!

New Stuff

Well, it's been a little while. I guess thats what schooling will do. But honestly, does it have to take up all my time? Jeesh.



So, I finally decided what to do with my hair.... I got it cut short again, as shown by the picture. I was just getting a little annoying being so long. I may go somewhat long sometime again, but short is good again. Doesn't look half bad if I do say so myself.











Another new addition to my life is Ipod..... ohhhhh ahhhhh! How can I afford that being a film student (one of the poorest of all students) you ask? well, I found it.... yeah thats right. A guy dropped it in the intersection, hoped on a bus and took off. I tried to catch him, and waited to see if he came back, but he did not. And it would have been crushed in traffic had I not picked it up.......So now I guess I have a new Ipod.
















So I guesss this blog is just about how awesome I am.... I mean, I look super cool now, and I found an Ipod.... things are coming up Andrew!

but I gotta crash, on account of having to do school stuff all day tomorrow

Peace Out

Attack of the KILLER TREES!!!!

Link to Global BC

The Trees are trying to kill us all!!!! this is a land of extremes!

"A powerful Pacific storm packing strong winds and heavy rains walloped British Columbia’s south coast Wednesday, barely a week after record rainfalls forced hundreds from their Fraser valley homes." -"The Province"

Trees have hit many homes, a steel building colapsed... one house was almost completly destroyed.... quite a few houses were hit. a trailer mart and a bunch of trailers were destroyed. Power poles leaning at an excess of 45 degree angles. Port Alberni on Vancouver Island was almost completely under water. hundreds of houses went without power and the roads were closed.

I mean, I knew it was windy and all, but I guess all the builings in the downtown block wind pretty good.

Watch out for the trees... they're everywhere.......everywhere........ they are trying to kill us all!!!!!

Western Semi Final

It was a cold rainy day here in Vancouver, but that didn't affect the football. At 1:00 today the B.C Lions and the Saskatchewan Roughriders played to a croud of over 50 000. The Riders got off to a bad start and by the half they were down 32 to 4. I thought I would have been happy watching the riders lose... but I ended up cheering for them as they were the underdogs. But they also deserved to lose because they beat my Stamps. So there. The game ended at 45 to 18.














This was the first of four arrests of people who ran out onto the field.















Some weird B.C Lions gopher exterminators just killed Gainer the Gopher! They did it!!!! they tried with TNT first, but Gainer was to smart to fall for that.... but the poison got him.... poor poor Gainer........ but then he woke up? I guess he's one tough gopher.















The trophy ceremony for the western confrence champs the Lions















The mighty throng of fans leaving BC Place down Robson Street. They blocked off traffic for many blocks... I wonder why they didn't just use the sidewalk like in Edmonton? And the Cops at the library.

What to do?

I was just wondering what I should do about my hair, Keep it long or get a cut short again? So I figured I'd ask my blog. What do you think?

So much famous I can hardly stand it!

This is David Orth, a Canadian actor. You may know him from such low rate television series as Mutant X and more so from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World as the reporter Ned Malone. Why am I telling you this? or why should you care? Well I'll tell you. He was on the number 16 bus to Arbutus, the bus I take every day. How did I recognize him? well... I used to watch The Lost World from time to time, so sue me. I totally felt like I was stalking him, mainly because I wasn't sure it was him and I kept looking at him. It was totally him though. I was going to talk to him but I chickend out, I think he went to Future Shop.... I guess even lame, Canadian actors need electronics.... I have so many brushes with fame I can hardly handle it.

This is going to be another pictue heavy blog. I just love having a picture phone. You can take pictures without the risk of looking like a tourist, or a "photographer". But that being said on to my point.


So of you may remember the post about me being in New York... if you don't you could scroll down and look at it.....if you want.... I mean you don't have too..... anyhow.... yeah so I posted pictures "from" New York... well I have a new treat for those of you who liked those shots. Shots from Seattle!!! again, not really... it's just in front of my school... and I guess Seattle is just across the border so maybe it's not that cool..... but what have you ever done thats so cool.... These pictures are from the set of "Battle in Seattle". They set up right in front of our school, and even paid the school to use the Cafe for the crew to hang out in and hold their equipment. I totally love this industry, it's just so cool!... and I saw Kolchak the Night Stalker there... right in front of my school.... The honest to goodness Night Stalker!! well, it was Stuart Townsend, but he's pretty famous too... but sadly I didn't see Charlize Theron, Stuart's girlfriend coincidently... or Woody Harrleson...or Andre Benjamin....Michelle Rodriguez... I guess they were somewhere around...but I didn't know they were in this movie...damn...So many famous people walking down the same street I do every day. just for your information, I didn't take the red carpet picture, it's just for reference... So this movie is about the riots in Seattle during the World Trade Organization summit there... pretty neat stuff.




As for my life in the filmmaking idustry...well it's not near as exciting as Stuart Townsend... and I don't have a super hot actress girlfriend...... sigh..... but we did do some more interview projects in our documentary project... we had to find a random person and interview them for 20 minutes... It's really hard to find someone to talk to you on camera for 20 minutes... most people were too busy or they couldn't do it because it was against work policy.. but then we found a sweet chinese guy and we got our interview...... so I'm well on my way to reaching the ranks of David Orth and Stuart Townsend.....

Again, so many brushes with fame I can hardly handle it!

Peace out,
Andrew

Banks are the Devil

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."
- Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US President.

Okay, I mentioned my little bank problem last time, but it was a way bigger pain today when I tried to get the problem rectified. I went to the bank here, and went to start an account.....but, apparently I don't have proper I.D.... I guess my government sanctioned I.D is not worthy of banks....

so then I was just going to cash a cheque to myself... but they said they couldn't guarentee that I had money in my account... so then I phoned my bank to see if there was any way I could get my money here, because I needed some money.... So they told me to get a "Hold Funds" on that cheque which basically means my bank would vouch for the fact that I had money and that it would work.... So I went back in and tried again... but they don't hold funds between provinces I guess you can't trust an albertan bank in B.C.. I don't know why a credit union would lie to another one about their customer having money in their account, but hey...
so then they suggested I get a wire transfer.. I gave them my banks number on a card.... but they had to verify the number through their channels... so they called my bank to verify who I was, and they asked them about a zillion questions..... my bank had no problem verifying me, but the B.C branch wasn't convinced..... they went over my physical traits, my drivers lisence, all the little numbers and info on my checks.... I guess they wanted to make sure I wasn't a criminal master mind who had surgery to look like Andrew Sorenson, stole his government ID and his personal checks and then created a fake credit union bank in viking and hired staff there to create the perfect ruse to steal 250 dollars!!! MUHAHAHAHA!!!!! I'm pretty much the best criminal ever...

Eventually I did get that to work, but I had to pay 25 dollars and spend my whole morning at the bank to get it... so as you can tell by my long and rather irritated blog I loved the whole experience.... it's funny that all of this work wouldn't have needed to happen if I had a credit card.... I dunno, that sounds like some sort of descrimination to me....

So this has been my rant to tell the world that banks are the devil incarnate.. They hold your money and they have all the control... like my good bud Jefferson said at the beginning of this blog they are more dangerous than armies...... man I hate banks.... they never give me money, or make my life easier... they are always either just okay, or else they are making my life a living hell.... like not giving me my money..... jerks..... okay okay okay, enough ranting... sorry.....




It also has started to rain quite heavily, which is kind of fun. Here is a poem that my other good buddy Carl Sandburg wrote

Fog

The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

Carl Sandburg

I read this poem like a million years ago in middle school and I just remembered it today for some reason.. .and it fits with the weather here in Vancouver... imagine that...

anyhow, there's the rant and poem combo... hope you all enjoy,

Andrew

More life Ramblings

Well, I guess it's that time of year again, Christmas.....? yeah I guess, halloween is but a day in the past and it's already on to the next major holiday. You'd better get out there and spend all your money, because that proves to people that you love them... Gotta love the corprate juggernaut.

what else is new..... umm... I freakin' love "The Office". It's so awesome, it's probably the best show of all history. Toby is my favorite character... he totally was going to ask pam out, but then didn't because he got awkwarded out... thats freakin' awesome... although pretty much all the characters are the best... but that doesn't sound very decisive does it.

Today they started selling the monthly bus passes and I stopped by the bus station to purchase said pass, but to my dismay the ATM ate my bank card... needless to say I was a little irritated (to say the least). So then I had to leave the station empty handed and a little late for class....and now I have only like 6 dollars..... it'll get me to school and back till the weekend, and by then I'll have my replacement card..... it was a wonderful morning. Classes were okay, we were learning Avid.. ohhhh ahhh....Avid.... it's a movie editing tool....yeah...it's awesome.

tut tut it looks like rain,
Andrew