good things happen to those who wait.

i like the parker brothers game, clue (even though i'm really bad at it), and i love the clue books so when i found a VHS tape on our family room shelf a long time ago (i think i was 14 or 15), with "Clue" written on it in my dad's writing, i immediately popped it into our vcr and found out that there was a clue movie!

when i first watched clue i thought it was pretty hilarious. sadly, whenever i brought up the movie i was met with blank quizzical stares; not many people had seen, or heard of, this gem of a movie. so imagine my surprise much much later, while in my second year of university, i was talking about the movie and found out that rani heard of and had seen it. along with the ALTERNATE ENDINGS.

"what?!?! alternate endings?!!" i remember saying.

apparently there are alternate endings to this 1985 movie. i suppose when the movie was taped off the tv, whoever taped it didn't know about these endings so they didn't stick around long enough to tape them. that, or the tv station simply didn't show them. in any case, i didn't get to see them. and since the day i found out about these mystery endings, i have always wanted to watch the WHOLE movie. i remember telling adrienne about it one night and together we tried to rent the movie from the video store so we could watch it, but when we asked the person working there if they had it, he just looked at me with the same blank quizzical stare i got from everyone but rani - he hadn't heard of the movie before either.) after this episode with the rogers employee (i think he might have laughed at me :P) i was pretty discouraged so i decided to stop trying to find the movie, and just accept that i would never be able to see it in its entirety.

well today, that all changed. adrienne found the DVD on the shelf in future shop! needless to say, i bought it. turns out there are THREE alternate endings. AND what makes it even better is that it was going for ten bucks. sweetness. :)

p.s. girls day/night was fun times! yay for SC/congee star/hollywood gelato (minus crazy rude girl. haha)/future shop! you girls are great. :)

bluephoria.

yesterday i went downtown to the panasonic theatre with justin, james and amy to watch the blue man group (thanks for the tickets steve!) it was such an impressive show. so incredibly creative and funny too. (those blue men have quite the sense of humour. teehee.)

but i think the most impressive part was all the percussion...and just how everything fit together. and what they used as instruments. so creative. the music sounded kinda "electronica-y" (for lack of a better word) but with a more tribal sound. almost like john powell in the amazon...? (uhh. ok, maybe not. haha.) but the fact that it was live made it crazier. and the fact that it seemed the bass was turned up really high in the speakers made it that much more cool. it's hard to explain, but it sounded really good.

all in all, it was a great show! if you're looking to see a non-typical show with humour and awesome music played by dirty dirty musicians then you should seriously consider this one. (if you thought those intel commercials were good, the show is just SOOOOOO much better!) :)

oh, and if you do happen to go down to see the blue man group and go the bathroom, while you're in there listen carefully to the song that's being played. ;) *in the bathroom...* (bah hah. such greatness.)

dove and souvlaki.

today adrienne and i went on an excursion to downtown toronto. our first stop: eaton's centre. we went there to see the dove real beauty exhibit after hearing good reviews of it from helen yesterday. though it was much smaller than i had anticipated, it was pretty good. the whole concept behind it was to ask photographers from around the world to photograph what they thought "beauty" was. some of the pictures were pretty interesting and really nice. my favourite was the one taken by a british photographer (i can't remember their name) of three girls riding their bicycles down a street with their mouths wide open in such a way that it was obvious they were having loads of fun. the photographer's caption read something like this: "beauty is being confident in yourself and not caring what others think of you". i like that. oh, and we got free dove samples at the end of the exhibit. i liked that too. haha.

anyway, after wandering around eaton's centre and being disappointed by almost every store we got really hungry so we decided to hit up the taste of the danforth. it was crazy how many people there were there. at one point there was a complete stop in the flow of people walking, and that was a pretty horrible experience. i do think, however, the goodness of my chicken souvlaki made up for it. (well, kinda.) so yummy. it was melt-in-your-mouth-tastebuds-partyin-it-up yummy. :) haha. okay maybe i exaggerate a little bit but it was loads better than the "greek salad" (which consisted of just lettuce and fetta cheese) and the little piece of bread that came in my $5 combo. we also got $2 frozen hot chocolates despite the fact that it's not wednesday. always a plus.

on the way across danforth, we ran into euge and jess so we walked with them pretty much the rest of the way. then we also ran into sam, leanne, will, edmond, selina, janet and keith. i didn't know anyone else was going, so it was a nice surprise to see familiar faces among the loads of people that were there.

despite the fact that the summer sales in the shops were really bad, we walked for like 5-6 hours straight (exercise, whut?) and the taste of danforth was a little disappointing, today was a good day spent with great company...which, when you think about it, is all that really matters.

adrienne, we should do it again. :)

memorable "events" of the day:
- feeling lost in the mens section of gap
- adrienne putting on suntan lotion in that store (gotta love testers. bah hah.)
- being stuck (literally) for like at least 20 mins in a crowd that barely moved
- squishy man *shudders*
- crazy parents who used baby strollers as a means of pushing through the crowd (potentially very painful for the feet)
- punk rock band with the crazy tambourine girl
- old greek man dancing to the sound of the greek band, gipsy (haha, so cute)
- sitting on the steps of temple baptist church (our old church building) reminiscing good times at the old church
- seeing the beloved stores/restaurants around ETCBC when it was still downtown: coffee time, patris, 711, panzerotto pizza, motorola (best milkshakes ever) and of course, the one and only, square boy