Looks what's rolled into town.

been waiting for years to see this performed live. might end up missing it due to WERKKK! damn it.

I wanna drop cash on a Cruiser....

Rented us some cruiser's...Went round the sea wall in the sun this weekend. Ate a bug, but it was worth it. Beautiful day...Hot cruiser boy beside me...Pefrect Sunday.

How did your head get so big?

When did peoples ego's get so big?
Who do you really think you are? We are all the same people unfortunately . If your head looks anything like the picture above, don't you miss wearing hat's?




Alas...




Stay tuned..... I will be working on a Anti-Parking ticket post...where there will tips and advice on how to get out of paying for that lonely piece of paper on your windshield that makes you curse and sometimes rage.

Maintaining Control

we here at Bellybutton tend to lose control every now and then. and we here at Bellybutton aren't afraid to admit that there are at least a couple of self-help books that we have utilized to regain our sanity and integrity. both these books were recommendations that changed our lives, and we here at Bellybutton think it's a great time to give the books, and the writers, a kind little shout out.

kudos to Alan Carr.

we here at Bellybutton have had issues with cigarettes. every attempt at quitting smoking was greeted with anxiety, depression, anger and overeating. until we read this book. Alan Carr wrote the book over 20 years ago. at one point in his life he smoked 5 packs a day. there are no gimmicks here, no delusions, no hypnotic spells or injections. you just read the book, take as long as you'd like to finish, and by the time you get to the end, quitting the habit will be the most exciting thing imaginable. a one-time remedy for a horrible habit, at a one-time cost. buy the book. its saved the lives of many, and is truly the most effective tool that actually helps.

a couple links to make it easier. click here and here.

kudos to Sherry Argov.

we here at Bellybutton tend to obsess, and sometimes we tend to obsess about boys. the boys who strut their stuff down the hall in their tight t's and dimpled smiles. those kind of boys who, with one little glimpse, have you scrambling to pick up the words (and your jaw) that just scattered off from your tongue. it's easy to forget yourself, or your integrity, and easy to lose control. sometimes those boys just ask for everything, and you hand it over on a silver platter. along with your heart, your soul, your tears and your...sanity. some boys send you straight to therapy. if this sounds familiar then this book is definitely for you... you don't need to admit it to anyone, you don't need to flaunt it anywhere. if some boy's got you bedridden, hiding underneath the covers, let go your grip from the phone, grab your ice cream, flip to the first page and regain authority.  

click here for more.

Ldm.

TGIF! Don't forget to take your uppers!

note the 48 second mark

Article of the Day

From Beyond Robson. Pretty much sums up the feelings of most people in this city right now.

Usually when I wake up in the morning it goes like this: yawn, coffee, feed cat, read paper, coffee, and go out to greet the day. But lately there has been a thorn in my morning routine. A thorn causing outbursts of swearing and erratic movement. If anyone were to walk by on the street they would see me gesturing wildly to my cat, or the houseplant, or the next nearest object, hands flailing, spittle flying from my lips.

That thorn is the Robert Dziekanski taser inquiry. I have been following the trial for a while now, and each time I read something new it prompts involuntary foot stomping. My blood pressure rises, and I'm sure my downstairs neighbours are wondering what's up. Can't they see what they're doing to me? At this rate I'll be evicted and treated for a heart condition within the month.

The thing about it is that it's all so ridiculous. So now we learn that one of the officers involved was given an award for bravery after he helped arrest a man wielding an ax and a bat. This is the same guy who felt threatened by a stapler. Given an award. For bravery. Did I mention he said he was afraid of a stapler? One time in elementary school, I accidentally stapled my finger and you know what I did? I pulled it out. I put a Spider-man band-aid over it and went outside to play tag. Even CSI and Law & Order don't get this ridiculous, and they have episodes with grown men dressing up like babies and taking acid.

But alas, the tragedy of errors continues to roll forward and each day it seems we are greeted with new reasons to be angry and outraged that our tax dollars are going to fund an RCMP force that uses tasers as if they were a light tap on the shoulder and not potentially deadly weapons, and then openly lie about what happened in court. It's just that gosh-darn annoying video evidence. It keeps refuting everything they say. Don't you hate when that happens?

And now we have the recent case of a police officer in Vancouver deleting the video a man took on his cell phone of the officers shooting a homeless man. I thought it was illegal to delete evidence. Wait, can cops be illegal? If they enforce the law, does it apply to them also? I forget.

In more talk of video recording, it seems like Vancouver wants CCTV cameras in place to monitor everyone during the Olympics. So let me see if I got this straight. The police want to record our actions on cameras to catch us doing something wrong, but when a citizen records a police officer the video is deleted. Just making sure I was following correctly.

All of this brings to mind the phrase used in the graphic novel Watchmen: Who watches the watchmen? Apparently, the watchmen watch the watchmen but when someone else watches the watchmen the watchmen get nervous. It's enough to make you yell at your houseplant in the morning and stomp the floor.

Aren't you forgetting something?

SANTIGOLD is doing a North American Trek.Just not in Vancouver. Yeah, she dropped the 'o' for an 'i'. Apparently she is not letting anyone know why she made the change. Change yo playlist's!

Here are her dates in Canada.

June

3 Toronto, ON Phoenix Concert Theatre
4 Montreal, QC Metropolis

I am looking forward to this!

I loved the book as a kid. Hope they didn't eff it up by making a movie!!

Wednesday. What Else?

I've always wanted one of these

LB

Reading and Recommending

Dave Eggers WHAT IS THE WHAT

Separated from his family, Valentino Achak Deng becomes a refugee in war-ravaged southern Sudan. His travels bring him in contact with enemy soldiers, with liberation rebels, with hyenas and lions, with disease and starvation, and with deadly murahaleen (militias on horseback)—the same sort who currently terrorize Darfur. Based closely on actual experiences, What Is the What is heartrending and astonishing, filled with adventure, suspense, tragedy, and, finally, triumph.

i haven't had much time to read lately, so not too far into the novel/biography, but so far it's excellent. i've read a couple of Eggers' books in the past. "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" definitely lives up to it's title. "You Shall Know Our Velocity" you shall probably pass on.

with "What Is The What" i am quite impressed with Eggers' voice. it is more mature, and very respectful of his subject. will keep ya posted as i get deeper into the tale.

Ldm.

My Favorite Band Right Now

....and they have a Boxer in their video! Makes me just appreciate them more, as do the wacky outfits and antics.

Empire Of The Sun.

I listened to them first a couple months ago, yet somehow keep coming back to it, week after week. The disc is pretty brilliant. Looking forward to them rolling into my lil' town one day....

Ldm.

The Original American Idol

Outside, it's wet and dreary yet again. How is it on your end of the world?

Cool...

Not at every meal you have to feed a large italian family requiring a complete kilo packet of spaghetti. Whereas formerly la mamma proportioned the right amount as judged by the eye nowadays noooodle takes over. The chrome spaghetti is twisted in such a way that 4 loops will provide the right portion for 1 to 4 people thus satisfying anybody´s hunger. When serving the steaming delicacy you can at the same time use noooodle as a practical and decorative stand.


v.i.a
Ding3000

My Birthday is in May...

Just stumbled upon this verameat. jewelry and I am in I love.

For all you 2 wheelers out there

This looks pretty cool! Hope to see colorful streets soon!

One Day You Will Die.

But when will that be? Take this test and you will soon find out. Warning: It might force you to change your weekend plans.

Happy Friday!

Ldm

TGIF!!! Now let the rain stop! Hahahaha.

I Am Training For This Position

sign me up.

Nothing comes easy. Unless its your momma.

They just dont make them like this anymore.



*Disclaimer. I dont really mean your mom. All Mom's are amazing and should not be made fun of*

Fail

Looks like this rainy day is going to be a good day to post some short but sweet video's.

Point and shoot.

Seriously? WTF?

Sheep..LED "art"?!?!
I kinda feel for the sheep...talk about putting in overtime.



lb

One Week

When a young man is confronted with his mortality, he takes a cross-country road trip on a vintage motorcycle. One Week tells the story of Ben Tyler (Joshua Jackson), in his mid-twenties, who flees from the confines of his life—an impending marriage, a job he's not entirely happy with and a recent diagnosis—in order to attempt to live more fully. What starts off as an ill-defined venture soon morphs into a quest for the West Coast.



My toughts....
Lame story .but cool to see Canada on the big screen esp Tofino. He somehow bypassed Edmonton? How does that happen? Anyways...Rent it!

Green Day

File this under: Shut The Fuck Up Already

Enough with the damage, already!

The Pope courted further controversy on his first trip to Africa today by declaring that condoms were not a solution to the Aids epidemic – but were instead part of the problem.

In his first public comments on condom use, the pontiff told reporters en route to Cameroon that Aids "is a tragedy that cannot be overcome by money alone, and that cannot be overcome through the distribution of condoms, which even aggravates the problems".

Pope Benedict has previously stressed that the Roman Catholic Church is in the forefront of the battle against Aids. The Vatican encourages sexual abstinence to fight the spread of the disease.

After his election as Pope, Benedict described Aids as a "a cruel epidemic which not only kills but seriously threatens the economic and social stability of the continent", but reiterated the Vatican ban on the use of condoms.

The Pope, who will also visit Angola, is making his first trip as pontiff to Africa, the continent where the Roman Catholic Church is growing fastest.

Two years ago there was speculation that the Vatican might amend its ban on condoms after Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, the former Archbishop of Milan, said that in couples where one partner had HIV/Aids, the use of condoms was "a lesser evil".

Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan of Mexico, the Vatican Health Minister, also said condoms could sometimes be exceptionally condoned, for example when a married woman was unable to refuse her HIV-positive husband's sexual advances.

"You can defend yourself with any means," he said. A subsequent Vatican study of the issue reiterated the blanket ban on condoms, however.

In 2003 a senior Vatican official claimed condoms had tiny holes in them through which HIV can pass, exposing thousands of people to risk.

The then head of the Vatican Pontifical Council for the Family, Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, said: "The Aids virus is roughly 450 times smaller than the spermatozoon. The spermatozoon can easily pass through the 'net' that is formed by the condom."

He added "These margins of uncertainty... should represent an obligation on the part of the health ministries and all these campaigns to act in the same way as they do with regard to cigarettes, which they state to be a danger."

The World Health Organisation responded at the time by saying that "These incorrect statements about condoms and HIV are dangerous when we are facing a global pandemic which has already killed more than 20 million people, and currently affects at least 42 million."

The WHO said that "consistent and correct" condom use reduces the risk of HIV infection by 90 per cent.

Introducing: the biggest Austrian celebrity since Hitler.

I CANNOT FUCKING WAIT.

Ldm

Fuck Monday

and fuck this bullshit. it's just turning out to be ONE OF THOSE DAYS! but it's always nice to know there are people out there who are just more fucked up, crazier and a lot more misinformed than you ever can be.

and they are great to laugh at.

Ldm.

All I gotta say is...It's monday.

Best idea I have seen all day

If your really jone'sin for a smoke..just Smoke Smarties

wtf?


lb

The Zeitgeist Movement

I was not aware of Z-Day, but just read this article written for Canwest by a friend of mine. And I am more than thrilled upon learning that ZEITGEIST has not been forgotten, brushed aside, or swept under the rug as just some silly conspiracy theory.

Instead, ZEITGEIST has lived on and has become quite the phenomenon. As it should. It is important that as many people as possible watch these movies.

http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com

CELEBRATING Z-DAY
BY TIFFANY CRAWFORD

Film fans are mobilizing in large numbers this weekend to share their global passion for a film franchise — and it isn't Star Wars or Star Trek.

Instead, the craze has been stirred by two recent films produced called Zeitgeist, written and directed by Peter Joseph.

But unlike Trekkies, who dress up in Star Trek outfits and collect memorabilia, fans of Zeitgeist and the sequel Zeitgeist Addendum view themselves as part of a movement for social change. And those fans are gathering by the hundreds at conventions across the globe this weekend to discuss the film and its ideas.

On Sunday, according to the Zeitgeist Day organizers, there will be more than 365 events in 63 different countries, including most major urban centres in Canada. For example, nearly 1,000 people will attend the sold out main event at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York. Organizers charged $10 for tickets in order to partially cover costs, keeping in line with their not-for-profit ideals.

Zeitgeist is an op-ed documentary that explores the sources of societal woes such as war, poverty and corruption. It purports to tell the truth about Christianity, 9/11 and the banking system. It was released in 2007 on Google video for free and quickly spread through e-mails, blogs and social networking websites. The sequel was released, in the same technological fashion, in October 2008.

The first film argues three main points: that Christianity and other organized religions are myths used "to manipulate and control societies"; that the U.S. government was involved in the 9/11 attacks as a justification for war; and that the U.S. entered three major 20th century wars in order to financially benefit the international banking community.

Critics largely ignored Joseph's first film, while a few labelled it as little more than a conspiracy flick; something the Skeptic Society calls "the Da Vinci Code on Steroids," while dismissing its fans as tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy theorists.

However, while the Zeitgeist films invariably do attract 9/11 conspiracy theorists because the first film challenges the mainstream explanation for the attacks on the World Trade Center, the film-based phenomenon has spilled beyond basements into huge venues in major cities around the world, attracting thousands of people of all stripes.

Take one of the organizers of Sunday's Vancouver event for example, a medical doctor with not a tinfoil hat in sight.

Dr. Gwyllyn Goddard, 33, believes the two films have taken the online world by force because they hit a nerve with many people who are frustrated with the current economic climate and looking for answers.

"People generally know there is something wrong right now," he said.

"When (they) watch the news, or when (they) see the different wars that are being fought and then they question why there is so much scarcity and poverty in the world when there is so much abundance."

Goddard joined the movement and organized Vancouver's Z-Day, as members call it, because he wanted to get people discussing the ideas brought forth in the films.

The second film, Zeitgeist Addendum, focuses more on Joseph's tips to fix society. Much of the film is dedicated to interviews with Jacque Fresco, an engineer, inventor and industrial design instructor who has spent his life creating something called the Venus Project. Walter Lapichier, the organizer of the Toronto event and a member of the Venus Project, describes the project as a plan for a new society based on human and environmental concerns, using technology to advance to a resource-based economy.

"All his life Jacque has talked with architects and engineers, and with all this knowledge he tried to design cities with a social view," Lapichier said. "And he's come up with a plan to live without money."

Fresco's elaborate futuristic blueprints of a world run on solar and wind power can be viewed at thevenusproject.com. Sunday's live event in New York will feature Fresco and his team.

Throughout history, grassroots social movements have sprang up from various forums.

In bars over glasses of bright green absinthe, the Romantic poets discussed ways to challenge a science-dominated society by fighting to keep unscientific concepts such as love, beauty, myths and religion from being marginalized. In the 50s, members of the Beat Generation, as they would later be called, gathered on the dusty top floor of City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco where they hatched plans to challenge politics and culture by defying conventional writing.

But today's forum for social dissidents is vaster and faster. They have the Internet and it's a technological dream for activists who want to connect with other like-minded individuals.

"It's massive. I think globally there's awareness, just with computers and informatics and communication capabilities that we didn't have even five years ago in some places," said Goddard.

What is unusual about this particular Internet phenomenon is how much the viewers claim to have been "awakened" and how they profess their lives to have been altered.

"I think Zeitgeist goes hand in hand with a growing worldwide consciousness for change, waking up to the problems we face and realizing that so many people are in pain because of not only the recession, but poverty all over the world," said Andrew Miller, of Barrie, Ont.

The 30-year-old organic farmer organized one of Sunday's events in Barrie, a city located about 100 kilometres northwest of Toronto. The venue is a homeless shelter where he also volunteers regularly.

"By doing this as a giving event we've just had a lot of generous folks who donated the space and donated food and then hopefully we'll raise money for the homeless too."

Both of the two-hour length films are posted for free at www.zeitgeistmovie.com.

Sunday's New York event will be streamlined live at 7 p.m. EST at 

www.thezeitgeistmovement.com

Ldm.

My friend LDM spent to long at the beach again.

lb

Just Because It Is Friday....

just a random picture that's, pardon the pun, sprung up this week of Josh Duhamel back in his pre-film career modeling days. enjoy.




or, if this is more your thing... .THE BEST CAT VIDEO YOU'LL EVER SEE. and yes. it lives up to the hype! just check out the poor lil' bear running in fear from the crazy tiny kitten...

have a great weekend!

Ldm.

My latest obsession...

Last week it was Mango's..which I am still into....But I am having an affair with a pomelo. While eating my pomelo I am listening to my OTHER obsession...Critical Element. A lil indie band that my boy was shooting for a t.v show that had 30 indie bands in 7 days...I be live it's called "Roadhouse"(Kinda like Austin City limits). There were many others that were good as well.. but Critical Element stole my ears.





Go Get a POMELO !!!!

Happy Friday the 13th.

TGIF!

Ever wonder (still) what we here at Bellybutton do?

I spent the afternoon researching videos such as the one above. Is it any wonder i drink?

For Those Midnight Drug and Alcohol Induced Cravings

My friend Mike recently emailed me something which he will soon, no doubt, himself regret. I feel it's my duty to pass on this remarkable recipe for 5 min instant cake. I bet you everyone already has the ingredients in their kitchen cupboards. Easy to make.

5 MINUTE CHOCOLATE MUG CAKE

4 tablespoons flour
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
2 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)
a small splash of vanilla extract
1 large coffee mug

Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well. Add the egg and mix thoroughly.
Pour in the milk and oil and mix well. Add the chocolate chips (if using) and
vanilla extract, and mix again.
Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts (high).
The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don't be alarmed! Allow to
cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired.

But if you are looking for something more.... substantial, my friend Chris (who loves to eat) suggests there's nothing better than a sandwich at midnight to wash down that bottle of vodka.

That will surely soak up any left-over residue from the empties you may find laying around your passed out body. Mustard Fingers. Mayo Lips.

For more yummy scanwiches: http://scanwiches.com

Ldm

In Case You've Seen It All

What can I say? It's Wednesday afternoon. It's stuffy and gross in here. The office has gone to the dogs. My assignment was to find recent peanut butter TV commercials, and this is all I can find.

I am going coooooookoooooooooooooooooo......

Oh, and ONE CUP of smooth peanut butter has 1517 calories. I'm not even kidding. ONE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED and SEVENTEEN.

What. The. Fuck. Now i can never eat the shit again.

Ldm

RELIGION IS A NEUROLOGICAL DISORDER.

That's a direct quote from the movie. The documentary alone doesn't reveal anything you might have not known about religion and its zealots (or maybe it will), but it's hilarious just to see Bill Maher not-trying-at-all to keep a straight face as he scrapes the Christians, the Catholics, the Jews and the Muslims for any sign of common sense whatsoever. Overall, his message is quite clear: Grow up or die.

Check it out.

Ldm

Middle of the work week.

Words From a Wise Man

I found this on another site and had no choice but to steal.

Bukowski
so you want to be a writer? by Charles Bukowski

if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don't do it.
if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don't do it.
if you're doing it for money or
fame,
don't do it.
if you're doing it because you want
women in your bed,
don't do it.
if you have to sit there and
rewrite it again and again,
don't do it.
if it's hard work just thinking about doing it,
don't do it.
if you're trying to write like somebody
else,
forget about it.


if you have to wait for it to roar out of
you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else.

if you first have to read it to your wife
or your girlfriend or your boyfriend
or your parents or to anybody at all,
you're not ready.

don't be like so many writers,
don't be like so many thousands of
people who call themselves writers,
don't be dull and boring and
pretentious, don't be consumed with self-
love.
the libraries of the world have
yawned themselves to
sleep
over your kind.
don't add to that.
don't do it.
unless it comes out of
your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to madness or
suicide or murder,
don't do it.
unless the sun inside you is
burning your gut,
don't do it.

when it is truly time,
and if you have been chosen,
it will do it by
itself and it will keep on doing it
until you die or it dies in you.

there is no other way.

and there never was.

From me to you

lb

Who needs Breakfast when you got these 2?

lb

Back on the LOT!

My co-blogger is so happy I am back on the Lot that he took it upon himself to go on letterman and really show me how happy he was.

Thanks! I missed you too!
xox



lb

P.S my name is not Gloria!

Watchmen....

My Watchmen review is in. I give it 3 out of 5 stars....It was cool..then kinda boring..then cool....not to mention looong. Maybe I was just tired because of daylights saving. Or I really was just bored. I gave a star towards the fact that it was filmed in Vancouver and employed lots of people.(BEAN)
Lot's of cool effects and nicely done. I am sure Mr.Skin's review will be kinder.

Congrats to Anne!

Apparently Anne Heche has had a happy bouncing baby boy.on saturday or something..not that I have inside information or anything....His name is Atlas.


Congratulations Anne & James!!!

xo

Get Crazy....or maybe it will just come naturally today

Happy Full Moon!

My Co-Blogger is Back!

Back at work, on the lot. Back at her desk, in front of her computer. All. Day. Long.

She didn't realize that I caught her on video this morning, as she was crossing the street on her way in to work....

Ldm.

Decide

Listen UP, Bitches!

Because MIRWAIS is back, and with an awesome remake and a video that'll give you the jitters and nightmares. This is life after Madonna, where Mirwais has discovered Y.A.S! Do take a look (and turn it up!)

I am READY to get my drink on!

Happy Weekend, Y'all!

made me smile

Everything is amazing, nobody is happy..

The Day we have no eyebrows.

Yea these are real and if you want to learn more about them..click here...

Mom

Yoooooooooo,

Hawksley Workman was FANTASIC..amazing. Love him. I would love to follow him all-over the world. Sold out the Commodore. Such a fun show.


Me mom's in town so it's Mother, Daughter time. ALTHOUGH she has a hot date....ldm, Go easy on her.




HAPPY Hump day.

Wednesday. Getting over that mid-week hump.

Happy climbing.

Disc of 2009 (thus far) PART TWO

Sometimes hip hop just sounds perfectly okay.

Disc of 2009 (thus far)

....you know, or at least until the end of the week. Pretty stellar stuff. Franz Ferdinand Tonight.

Monday Morning. It Could Always be Worse.