The Church that Rocks!

Here is my "kids", and I love em! Here we are in "Our Church"

Houses that have happened!

This would be the million dollar dress up, of the house on Elbow Dr.

Pics from the HOOD

God, what a look back....

I'm glad to say that when I look back at photos of me, I'm glad I'm thinner...still fat but not gross!! This is a reminder that I still love the T.O.! T-Dot!

Christ Church Bitches!!

Here is the Christ Church Bitches!!! And with Brad sneaking in no doubt!

UGH! I'm annoyed!

WHHHHHHY? Are some people more "technically inclined" than others? I ask you this as I have spent the last hour reading through my new digital camera "Owners Manual" and can not for the life of me figure out WHY I CAN'T GET THE DAMN PHOTOS ON MY COMPUTER, If I do take the plunge into reading further it requires 15 steps of configuring this to that, and downloading this to that, and connecting this shit to that.......I $%^^@&*(&%%%#%#%^#^%#%#^%*&^*(*) HATE THIS!!! I'm really close to hurling myself off the balcony, and I think to myself in deep vain, I thought these things were supposed to be "EASY". ^&*%## THAT, putting my cassette into in Sony Yellow watersports Walkman was easy, and the feel of that rubber covered button was easy. All these damn cables and downloading shite!!! Sure you want to own it, but do you have the patience to learn how to work it. I should stick to my 8-track, Ghetto and Record Player, GOOD GOD< I live alone, but the neighbours would swear I was talking to someone what with my screaming and crying at a loud register. I must be European! Just think if I had an Ipod Nano? I would have to take a week off work to learn it. Christ, I have to start having kids if only for the sole purpose that they can show me how to work this technology!
Carly, I know Noah is less than 8 months old, but can he come over next weekend to show me how to use my printer????
Sweet Jesus, I am a Retard!@

What am I a Farmer?

2 A holes at Adoption Agency

2 A HOLES!!!

The Final CouTDOWN!!!

Mrs. Featherbottom!

Blades of GLORY

Last Dance Reprise

Well, don't think anything fruity.....but I will miss you

Last Dance

Jean Paul Goude

SO FAR SO GOUDE! Check out this book, his work is amazing! And I can't imagine having sex with that man woman Grace Jones, imagine those man hands wiping food off your face!

So Far, So Goude represents Goude’s work from the late 1960s up to the present. It is, in fact, an artist’s autobiography, the life told through the work, since Goude has never been able or willing to separate his personal growth and personal desires from his art. Beginning with the strongest influences of his early years, it moves with unusual honesty and a good deal of humour through his teenage love of dance (his mother was a Broadway dancer), sport and jazz; his youthful hangouts in the sixties; his years at art school and his discovery of drawing as a means of seduction; his time at Esquire; his revolutionary work with Grace Jones for Jungle Fever; his videos for MTV and for Azzedine Alaïa; his advertising work for Lee Cooper, Chanel, Cacharel; his involvement with the Bicentennial Parade; his wife and family…
Selected and arranged by Jean-Paul Goude himself, written by Goude and Patrick Mauriès, So Far So Goude is the definitive book on the work of an extraordinarily innovative, talented and unorthodox man. With more than 350 illustrations in full color, it will be endlessly fascinating to all those interested in fashion illustration, photography, and all avenues of commercial design and advertising.

My one true love

I fear, too early: for my mind misgives
Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night's revels and expire the term
Of a despised life closed in my breast
By some vile forfeit of untimely death.

I will continue to post lines of Shakespeare, for he is truly my favorite writer.

Oh and about the Psalm

Yes, the Psalm they mention in the book, where they get "Children of Men", Psalm 93? Is not the same line we sang in church just two weeks ago, would you not agree Christopher H.? I must bring home my Psalm book this weekend to re-read the text.
And someone like Sara Smith, can you tell me what your interpretation of all the animals in this film are????
This message comes delivered to you post haste:

Children of Men

So if you have not seen this movie you should, if you have not read this book, (But I warn you you must like science fiction, have an interest in politics and can read into symbolism) then I suggest this. I will admit it, I have not read the book as of yet, I have seen the movie ONLY. Go the Wikipedia website and read what it is all about, the Novel by PD James, THE MOVIE IS A VERY LOOSE TRANSLATION, there are many characters and events that are different. But BOTH have great symbolism and thought provoking scenes and occurances, whether you are visual, a writer, religious, and I hope intelligent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children_of_Men

This book also reminds me of a book I would like to see an Adaptation come to film,
"Blindness" by Jose Saramago. This is book to check out as well, when it does come to film I know it will the shit out of me!

Kill Bunny

Yes this Robot Chicken has one of my favorite characters of all! JESUS!

Greatest Canadian Cartoon EVER!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyRef3-KvGo

I will warn you that this cuts off at the best part, when he gets his Toronto Maple Leaf Jersey, but this is ART!! I still remember seeing it for the first time on film real, and I thought this was the BEST! Made me think of my brother.........and HOckey. Chris, BRO, I Wish you were a Habs fan if only for the accent! I think I will call this my favorite story EVER! And my boy, will be a Hockey Player!

A Travel Story

This "short" comes from shortly coming home from my trip to India and Thailand. Would my opinion change after going back, (which I hope too!), I don't know.
But I watched an episode of "The Hour", with George Stronpuoiuiukhkohihohiohidsolus.
And Henry Rollins was on. And he said something that to me always rings true. You can write an opinion of a country, but where does that leave you if you have not BEEN THERE? "Knowledge is Mileage" "How do you know, if you don't go?" This is a fact that I will always pride myself on, and will continue to do so. I will not make an opinion that I have not seen. I want to continue on this Nomandic lifestyle I have fashioned, I learn so much, and when I talk politics, I can rival the greatest scholar who has not left Toronto or New York. Look outside the box on your next vacation. And I am not suggesting on your next vacation that you take your kids to the heart of Baghdad, but "Sandals" paradise getaway? Have you researched where in the world you are? Or are you too drunk on your Mai Thai's to give a shit about the bartendar who is paying for his extended family of 14? Trying to get a chance to spend overnight in a cargo ship to a distant land for the same "vacation"?
If I could afford to go an island to have someone wait on me hand and foot, I would rather spend that money backpacking through Africa. I guess thats why I'm broke!

Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 2:26 PM
Subject: A Travel Story...


I have written this email to my friend Nathan, who is currently traveling in Asia, just recently Vietnam. He had his own opinion of the culture, and I think as travellers we all gain a new concept on a new land, some loved, some hated. Thats what should keep us all travelling.

** Hey, I never gave you slack about Vietnam...........

I told you I didn't like Thailand, how do like them apples?

Heres my opinion about Thailand: I have never seen a beautiful culture and even more beautiful landscape being taken advantage of by Rich Americans, Canadians, Swedes, Brits.......AND the backpackers that come to "see Asia" think their being all "cultural" and stuff, when more than half of them come to drink Thai whiskey, get laid by "this guy/girl was from like Israel dude!" go to beach raves, and smoke the drugs........I got so sick of seeing fat American men with these Thai women who looked no older than 12 years old. And seeing the beaches littered after another "all night rave".........and the streets just lined with bar after bar, the streets littered with vans driving by with loud speakers announcing the next "beach party", or cab after cab carrying drunk tourists a block. If you've ever been to Ko San road, it's an unforgetable SMELL. If I never hear another Aussie accent, slurring how good the scuba is, I will be thankful. And the "ladyboys" as you term it, the children that come up to you at a bar at 12 midnight to sell you an orchid necklace, the youth are just out there on street selling their bodies, or whatever they can...

I didn't see that in India. It was Different, India didn't wear their poverty like some flashy Vegas strip........

The solice I found in Thailand was on the bus, crashing about......staring out the window, at the lush green trees that seem endless over hills and valleys, passing the sweet famlies on bikes with the dog running behind them. Taking that in while dreading when we pulled up to another busy town where it was another game of stop get out, load up, shout shove, wheeled into another game of find the cheapest accomdation fast. Trusting pimp dealers with the best english not to take you to a hole in the ground. Not too mention being a girl, I HATED GOING TO THE BATHROOM, do you know how hard it is after 3 Singas to pee in that hole and then get that cup thing and swish it down?

I cried seeing elephants tied to palm trees waiting to take tourists up mountians. Thailand to me is all about Toursim, which is especially sad to me now, to see a culture that loses a bit of their religion as is it now represented in the form of a Buddha that sits on the bar with Incense burning....that are so quickly washed out to sea by a Tsunami and the Tourists that have travelled their make the front page. From the screeching ladies on the beach AGAIN I'll repeat it as it still rings through my mind, "you want Thai Massage???" to the men on the streets pulling you into their store to have a suit made???

I went alone one day out, to park which led to a waterfall, which lead to a path, which led to a HUGE white and black Buddha nestled in the rock. Laid out with the prettiest Purple flowers, and it was quite. No honking horns, screeching voices, rumbling of trucks. Quite. So I sat down in front, and just closed my eyes for a bit. I opened them turned around and was startled to see a Monk standing behind me. I was frightend a little b/c I thought I was somewhere I wasn't supposed to be. In his Orange garb he smiled at me, his teeth were all mangled but he had the most sweet face and eyes. He whispered, something I couldn't understand, and then shook his head and I could make out "Canadian?" and I smiled and then he just said the word "happy".

That day I liked Thailand.


Now India, thats another whole story...........

Mozart - Ave Verum Corpus 3:25 Mozart 6 1/13/2007 9:53 PM


Close enough to the POWER OF MY CHOIR! ( now all you folks can know why I get up at 8am on Sunday!)

Clone High, Ghandi has A.D.D.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqVCz04Rlw4

Clone High, Say WHHHHAT?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5tGZHFkbNw

Here is another one of my favorite cartoons that if you have not checked out I suggest you do. Clone High, and of coarse, Ghandi is my favorite character! Re-runs only folks, but you can see a lot of episodes on You Tube. VERY FUNNY!

Music and Lyrics Movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owcQ3E1_fDA

Can't WAIT FOR THIS ONE!

The Muppets Behind the Music, Click it and love it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgJUxn8E9_c

If you ever watched the Muppet show, which I was a true follower every Saturday nite at 7pm! You will love this!!

My Definition!

Do you ever wonder why when someone points out to you daily that they need to lose weight they never do it? Get their haircut, make more money, get a divorce, come out of the closet, or wax their eyebrows? Here is the same case in point that was pointed out to me. Of all the things that we "say" that we really want or don't want in our lives, I think subconsciously we do, and for some reason, fear perhaps, or sheer procrastination, we constantly voice this "thing" we want to have happen, like if it is said out loud to someone, then magically when the change does happen, someone else will be happy for you. You yourself don't really believe that it will, but its something you think you should have, or do, or be.
I like to come across as this woman who shall not be defined by a man. I am a strong single force in this world, and I am too difficult to be a in relationship with. I am too "cool" for most men, I make a better friend, and frankly I can't find the right man for me. This is a load of bullshit, and I'm sure most of the people who really know me right now are laughing at this personal opinion of myself.
It has been pointed out to me that I mention this "lack if being in a relationship" DAILY. That I wine (speaking not drinking!) about not having this all the time! And at first I got really $%#@ mad! And then it was as if a light went off, he was completly right. How can I pass myself off as this 'strong single', when really I want the companionship of a lover and a best friend. But how can I let this DEFINE WHO I AM?
No, I am not going to have some Apifiany where I wake up one morning and say, ^&*%$ Men, I never want to get married and have kids, and I am going to start at bat for the other team! Maybe I can snag a Kate Winslet look - a like, if all the guys just want to be my friend, maybe I am a lesbian! ( and a very cool one at that!). But you are what you make it. And if I have looked at myself for so long, as this "fat funny friend", then indeed that is what I always will be. And that is proably why I am still fat. Hiding behind the face in the mirror that I percieve every morning, that this is ALL THAT I AM. I will not let wanting a relationship DEFINE ME. I will not deny the truth that yes, I do desire a lover, and I want to have babies and form a band. But I cannot let this define who Wendy Ard is. Wendy is single and super right now because I am finding the greatness that will become of me. And I will not let my life be foretold by the chapters that are written for me by some man who has me ironing his shirts and raising his children, and believing that every word out of his mouth is sacred. Men, I am finding, have the egos to over power the world. Humility I think is the greatest quality of all. Behind every great man, is an even greater woman, especially is the art for learning to love that man. You can't have too many eggs in one basket, again that is why I say keep your fingers in a lot of pies. I find myself asking, are we a strong individual, a presence, a contribution, or does our relationship and family define who we are?
I'm going to stop lamenting over something that is very much my own fault. We define who we are. Make excuses for no one, especially not yourself. Be true to your word.
Its funny I write it so much better than I say it.

When Harry Met Sally

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZygVrogcmA

This is one of my all time favorite movies. And this is how I dream one year my "New Years" will be. (Insert here this Wendy's sappy moment.)
"I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."

AC/DC Bag

My first AC/DC concert. Yes, before the dreaded and over crowded SARS Tribute. Four guys and me in an Astro Van, which I think belonged to Drew? I think there was Kyle (of coarse) Drew, Mike, Christopher and little Jamie Donnely, well I guess that would be five guys and me. How I got roped into that concert I don't know, and I know Merl will call me on the crew line up. But what I remember most is crossing the border into the US. As you do in the Southern Armpit of Ontario, you pick two places to cross the border when going to Buffalo, which is where AC/DC was playing. Or maybe that is the Peace Bridge vs the Tunnel, I do appoligize my Ontario memory is quickly disppearing! ANYWAY! At the border, we made little Jamie the driver, who I think was no more than 15 at the time, and we were 19, but I remember having to "shoulder tap" in the US to get us booze! As I recall we all got high at some Tim Hortons along the way and he was the youngest, least suspectful and innocent. The Border Guard asked us the usual questions, "Where are you from, where are you going, etc" and this I remember distintcly, he reached his head into the vehicle and looked at little Jamie straight faced and shouted, "So your going to the AC/DC concert? How much hash have you guys got?" We were all stunned, silent and shocked, little did I know that Kyle had a quarter down his pants and Drew the same in his sock. And there I am the only girl, looking dumb and confused out the window, good trick for me I never lost the look! Little Jamie did not know how to respond to such a question and fearing his life in the border jail simply and sweetly replied, "None!". And this we will all remember: The guard looked at all of us in our hippie gear, long hair, beards ( not me!) and tye dyes, and said "Yeah right! Go On!" And the guard let us go! He didn't care, I think he thought it was funny frightening the piss out of us! And so he did@! Little did we know at this time of day would we 2 hours later be meeting Angus Young at the Sports Bar of the Delta Hotel. Ask Kyle. What a strange little man. Dirty Deeds, Done Dirt Cheap!

Log Driver! You have to CLICK, but its worth it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ngTQNQwlf8

Hey Nate!~Camping?

You remember one of our camping trips? One of many, no, not the time we got high and then walked into the campground "museum" and were mezmerized by all the stuffed animals and the Live Video Animation set ups of the great Logging Ventures. No, not Silken Lama and the great Las Vegas Yatzhee by glow sticks......but did you or did you not play me some Tuck and Patti when were driving somewhere? You driving my car, because I am proud to be a "GIRL" and give the man the wheel! Hummmmm? I do miss our nature walks, and yoga by moonlight!

Random Music Memories

Oh the random things you remember growing up, like you've flipped through your brain files and pulled out sitting on the Family Room floor, the rug rubbing your ankles raw, the smell of the wood cabinet and the sound the needle makes as it hits the vinyl record, looking down at the Blood, Sweat and Tears album your Dad bought. Why is it that I can distinctly remember looking at Boz Scaggs in his Purple suit jacket, or the black and white album cover with Barbara Streisand and her curly afro hair? (which were Boz "Hits" and Barbara "Greatest Vol 2. ) Which leads me to just yesterday I arrived at my parents, they must be a fan of the "Hits" albums because my Mom had laid out as her proud new purchases "The best of Aretha Franklin", "Best of Roberta Flack" and "Etta James, Matriarch of the Blues", I think really I have to give Loren and Kathy props for still having good musical taste! My brain flips to when my sister got grounded and she got her "Ghetto Blaster" taken away, and the night she stole it back when Mom and Dad were out at a "Cocktail Party" and she blasted Scrittipolitti from behind her closed bedroom door. I remember when my brother's friend Glen Piercy came over and he was wearing eyeliner and they were headed to the "China Crisis" concert. I remember the year my sister and her boyfriend at the time Steven were dressed up at Halloween; Cyn, Madonna and Steve, Gene Simmons. I remember my sis coming back from back from the Prince "Purple Rain" concert and having bought a t-shirt, when the Northern Lights were singing Tears are Not Enough, and MAN did that Michael Jackson Thriller video scare the #@!%$ out of me, my big brother teasing me to noooo end! And of coarse I remember when my sister and brother climbed the "Great Wall of China" to see if they could catch a glimpse of The Police playing some Concert at the Glen Abbey Golf Coarse in Oakville, I think it was later played on "Toronto Rocks" hosted by NOW top NBC New Anchorman JD Roberts on City TV. Of coarse those were the days when Chum City still had a video countdown, and I could NOT WAIT to see Madonna's "Dress you up in my love" debut. Or how about when "Material Girl" came out?? Good God, will Andrea Houghton not remember the shows we put on for our parents. A little "Gowen" Your a strange animal and "Culture Club" Karmachamelion, and don't forget "Katrina and the Waves" Walking on Sunshine, no one walks to the mailbox like Andrea Houghton! I think there was even the song they recorded for when the Toronto Zoo got two pandas in 1985, Qinn Qinn and Shyan interlaced in that torrid dance off affair! Oh the days of dancing in my room to Kylie's "I should be so lucky" well really now I just dance around my flat, with no quams who sees me as they drive by. Now I've discovered Donna Summer......and thats a whole other era to explore! This has now become an 1980's rant, but it all relates to when you are standing in line at Walmart, and your brain picks the "Sade, Smooth Operator" music file and it is stuck in your head for the rest of the day!

ITS LOG!

This is one of the first cartoons that changed my life. Classic Ren and Stimpy! And you will be singing this song ALL DAY!

Why so many Cartoons?

Well, if didn't know Christopher Hall and I have a mini creative idea, that in our heads could be the next best thing should we find more time in our busy lives! What with Christopher creating musical genius, and well me, effortless writing to no one and moving furniture! (Kidding). There is the thing we call "Toast". T.O.A.S.T which stands for The Organized Abnormal Super Team. Yes it is a band of every day heroes that are well nerds, that have the most unusual of Super powers, I cannot divulge too much information as of yet, as we are still in the creative stages, but the cast is rather Ethnic. The main character is "Vindaloowho", who is fondly fashioned after Rebecca's name for me, and the Caribbean Rasta "Steely Beats!" (my mom had a hand in that name). There is Cyndi McShanklebee, and well that is self explainatory after my Minnesotan sister, and Tommy Turdsley, who's name will change, but I had to have a Scottish/Brit character. He is not to be assimilated with Fat Bastard, he is more like Kernal Sanuders, yes that "kernal", he is really small and round like a popcorn fart.....So this is why I have this fascination with witty cartoons, this makes me a 30 year old nerd, but then again so is Seth Green and he's a millionaire! Gotta keep my fingers in a lot of pies.....for my fortune awaits. And of coarse there is always the Kids Music CD idea....I'll take B-I-N-G-O to another level!

I love Stewie!

Toons you need to know!

This the last cartoon that was good before Animation was gone. Gone is Saturday mornings with the good cereal that you could only enjoy at a sleepover cause your Mom would never buy it. Trix, Count Chockula, Captain Crunch! The last of the remaining Warner Bros. Cartoons, Pinky and the Brain is a part of "Animaniacs", if you have kids I suggest you turn them on to it. As for adults, this is a gem!

The Devil Wears Prada

On a note for the following Video, do watch this film. For those of you who have met my Mother does she not look like Meryl Streep, its creepy for me! However I am glad to report that my mother is not that bitchy, but she does always look good while cooking. Maybe that is why when I walk through the door I get the stare up and down. "You did not really wear that to work did you?". Thanks Mom!

Excellent best parts!! My new favorite movie! If you have not seen it, then I cannot talk to you!

What I really think...

Not only is Sean Hayes one of my favorite actors, I have to crack up when Jimmy cracks because it IS SO FUNNY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNyJK2lSkao

This one is for Mr. Kuzmanovich

Napoleon Bonamite

This a short from my new favorite show. Robot Chicken, it is a must show to check out. Yeah for Stop Animation!

The Rabbit!

This is made by the Genius of Christopher Hall!

OMGZ IT"S CHRISTOPHER HALLIO!!!

Halla atcha boyz!!

Happy New Year

2007 Shine it On!