Bellybutton

WE MOVED

2010-03-12T18:01:00.001-08:00

WE MOVED! !!!

2010-03-11T12:05:00.000-08:00

Please come see us here!!!!! BELLYBUTTON

we will be settling into our new home shortly!

This weeks winner of the IT COULD ALWAYS BE WORSE award.

2010-03-09T17:14:00.000-08:00

Congratulations!

If you only sign one petition this year...

2010-03-08T14:09:00.001-08:00

....here's one for you that should take priority.

An online petition aiming to give B.C. a statutory holiday in February in honour of the 2010 winter Olympics.

Oh yes... I mean, I'm not so much a sentimental case that I feel the Olympics should be honoured and remembered each and every year (although hopefully the legacy it leaves behind is, in part, a more laid-back and fun-filled city), but i definitely support the addition of a statutory holiday somewhere in between New Year's and Easter!

Come on! All the other provinces have one!

One Last Hurrah!

2010-03-08T14:05:00.001-08:00

The Canadian Gold Medal Hockey Song 2010

In the THICK of it!

2010-03-02T17:33:00.000-08:00

Bellybutton's been on an extended-holiday, but Bellybutton is back and Bellybutton wants you to know that it never left the masses and has always remained in the thick of it!

Bellybutton says: Thank you, Canada, and congratulations, Vancouver, for one kick-ass party of a lifetime!

Bellybutton has never felt so proud, amazed and spirited before.

Photo courtesy of Tom T.

Bellybutton is still hung-over, and exhausted, but what could ever top this?

Ldm.

WE IS BACK BITCHESSS!!!

2010-03-02T17:08:00.000-08:00

Introducing Freddie Stroma...

2009-07-12T13:15:00.001-07:00

.....seriously cannot WAIT for the new Harry Potter. even more so now...

Great Performances

2009-06-22T20:58:00.001-07:00

Does it get better than this? It took 20 years, but Madonna's cone boobs have finally reached the next level.

Where do we get one?!

2009-06-19T12:52:00.000-07:00

Finally, weather's been nice and we'd been dancing up a storm!!

2009-06-15T14:57:00.001-07:00

One person can really change the world, afterall....

Watching this made my eyes water a bit.... Music really does make the people come together!

and frankly, anyone who dances to Santigold is a friend of mine.

oh.

yes.

Weather's been nice, we've been out playing....

2009-06-15T14:46:00.001-07:00

....just a few scrapes and bruises, oh and a broken ankle, but life is short:

must.

have.

fun!

Weathers been nice, we went on holiday....

2009-06-15T14:33:00.001-07:00

......and this is where we ended up.

sorry, folks. took awhile to recover from this particular case of crabs.

Non Stop

2009-05-31T12:49:00.000-07:00

I've been listing to this playlist non stop. Worth checking out. I am now hooked on the band "Glasser"
Feeeel the sun!!!!!!!!!!!

Playlist
via
coolhunting

Photo by me
complements of a cute lil lady on the beach.

Happy Hump Day.

2009-05-27T12:13:00.001-07:00

not only are you not the girl i fell in love with, but from the looks of it, you ate her

2009-05-25T19:26:00.000-07:00

So I went on a date with this girl...and whos our waitress? My girlfriend got a second job she didn't tell me about to afford my bday present.

and then I told her I was too drunk. She started to cry, and told me this always happens to her and that she thinks shes ugly. I pretended I was asleep and then she farted.

I fell asleep next to my cousin and woke up with my hand in her pants because i though it was lisa

dude we were spooning naked in bed with her ass in my crotch. she sharted in her sleep all over my dick.

I hope I'm pregnant just to spite you.

i'm lying on the couch drunk, eating fudge and watching the muppet show. this is my new sex.

It took him longer to undo my bra than he lasted..

Can I crash on your couch? I just came home to find my wife giving two guys blowjobs.
Two?
Two.

the sex was like sticking it in a jar of mayonnaise

So instead of cumming in her, I peed in her...
What did she do!?
I didn't tell her...

just a selection of what you may find here: www.textsfromlastnight.com, possibly the best blog since this one here.

Virtual Clubbing.

2009-05-24T17:51:00.000-07:00

Have you ever felt going out but nothing is going your way...either someone is outta town,broke ass, hot date/booty call, don't feel like dancin or broke their ankle...
Here at b@ you can club from your sofa....bust'a move..or just bob your head with your headphones on. b@ features amazing DJ's from all over the world
ch ch check it out.

**If you want to watch the videos you gotta sign up basically prove that your human...it's free..and worth it. 360 view, see the DJ, the Crowd...choose from many different Genres**

Birds are Evil and I Hate Them

2009-05-22T14:24:00.001-07:00

Apparently (fortunately) I am not the only one who thinks they will grow so big that, eventually, they will eat us and shit on our graves.

Columnist Pete McMartin talks with Ruth Godlovitch Wednesday while out looking for the elusive marauding crows in east Vancouver. 'I happen to be a bird lover and I love all birds,' she says.
Photograph by: Ward Perrin, Vancouver Sun, Vancouver Sun
We got an e-mail recently from a Joseph Z -- no surname, just the Zorro-like consonant. It was about crows.

He wrote:

"I just wanted to know if anyone was doing any stories on the Crow problem in Vancouver. I live at 13th and Main St. and they are starting to become a real problem. They are swooping and chasing people. I recognize that they have nests around but it is getting ridiculous. I watched a little girl get chased down the street yesterday and this morning I had one dive at me repeatedly . . . We can't even go on our balcony with out getting attacked. Something has to be done . . . Come walk by 229 East 13th and you will see for yourself."

I went by to see for myself, mainly because I had nothing else even remotely interesting to write about, but also because crows, for some reason, inspire a wild-eyed divergence of opinion among urbanites that is, well, weird. This may be because, among all birds, they give themselves over easiest to anthropomorphizing (I blame Heckle & Jeckle) and people like to describe them as "devious," "intelligent," "bullies," "resourceful," etc., etc., as if they were talking about an Elmore Leonard character rather than a bird. I am neither here nor there on "the Crow problem," as Joseph Z identifies it; all I ask is they not crap on the upholstery of my convertible, which they do with Stuka-like precision. Which is not to say I believe crows to be the Nazis of the bird world.

Anyway, 229 East 13th St. turned out to be a smallish apartment building a little down at the heels. Joseph Z was nowhere in sight. No one answered the buzzers on the intercom. A single crow sat perched on the edge of the building's roof. It was not even remotely interested in savagely attacking me or Sun photographer Ward Perrin. It just sat there in the sun. Ward took some photos of it.

A man named Roland Chapman walked by on the sidewalk. He lived in a fourplex just down the street. I asked Roland if he had been attacked by crows recently and he looked at me like maybe he was about to become a headline in a crime story. Then I asked him what he thought of crows and he said crows were "pretty smart dudes." Then he said he didn't have problems with crows, but with seagulls and, "in particular," pigeons, which, as he put it, he wished the neighbourhood crows would "destroy."

He and the other residents of the fourplex, he said, were going to have to put up $3,600 -- $900 each -- to pay a guy to put up spikes along the roof line and netting under the soffits because the pigeons had taken to roosting there. We looked up at Roland's roof. Three pigeons sat on the small slope of a gable, cooing. The gable roof and the sides of the fourplex were streaked with what looked like whitewash.

"Oh, f--- those pigeons," Roland said, then he said he couldn't spend any more time talking because he was going to play golf.

At that moment, an elderly lady named Ruth Godlovitch walked by. She was pushing one of those wheeled walkers, the kind with hand brakes. She had a sweet face, and I asked her what she thought about crows. She said: "They're fun! They're interesting birds, but I wonder why people complain about them? I happen to be a bird lover and I love all birds."

Ruth said she happened to be 91 years old. That was how she put it: she "happened" to be 91, as if her age was a source of some surprise to her. She said she was originally from Montreal and wasn't too sure about the neighbourhood when she first moved here but now she loved it and she lived in the seniors home at the end of the block on the corner, which was very nice, and she had lived there for six years, at which point I remarked on the wisteria growing on the arbour on the patio of the seniors home and she said, oh yes, lovely isn't it!

Then she said she lived on the fourth floor of the seniors home, the top floor, and her window looked out on a row of big chestnut trees across the street. The tops of the chestnut trees were level with her apartment, she said, and on a good day she would watch the crows flock into the tops of trees and she would watch them there.

Ruth and I looked up at the chestnut trees. They were in flower -- the flowers were on big upright spikes like bottle brushes. The sky was blue and cloudless above the trees and the trees swayed back in forth in the spring breeze as if they were moving to music. There wasn't a crow in sight.

http://www.vancouversun.com/Technology/McMartin+Vancouver+crows+bullies/1615528/story.html

....Speaking of Drinking.

2009-05-22T12:40:00.001-07:00

I don't think i've ever come across a bottle of wine i didn't like.... hell, if you look closely, you'll see my hand sticking out, holding onto the bottle with all my might!

Happy Friday, y'all.....

it's been sorta lackluster around here lately....

i blame booze and my co-bloggers broken ankle.

Ldm

Drink Not Drunk

2009-05-20T14:40:00.000-07:00

Drink Not Drunk by A/R studio. Drink and drive safely glassware collection. Designer created two wine glasses design, make his response to the drunkenness driving. The Drink Not Drunk design includes two bottles and a wine set made up of glasses and an ice bucket.

Merci

2009-05-20T08:17:00.001-07:00

Thanks for the wishes!! Hope you had a good long weekend.
Fractured my ankle in the last moments of my Birthday...I may now need a pin put in...I am terrified of surgery...so..we will see..not like I can run away from it.
All in all I had an awesome long weekend!!

Happy Birthday, Co-Blogger!

2009-05-18T12:14:00.000-07:00

.....some dark n' stormies are in store, me thinks.xoxo

You Always Lose With Mr. Booze

2009-05-11T15:30:00.001-07:00

Marketing 101

2009-05-08T20:10:00.000-07:00

Possibly the best advertising the iPhone could ever ask for.

Sigh.

Boys will be boys. And thank god for that.

2009-05-08T17:47:00.000-07:00

LOVE This

2009-05-07T20:49:00.001-07:00

How amazing does that look? Oh yes. Hook me up!!!!!!

The 2nd Weirdest, Funniest and Most Horrific thing I've Seen all Week.

2009-05-07T11:54:00.001-07:00

no doubt about it, this is the type of snake I'd be: eat everything in sight and then lay there like a sick, giant lump of wood.

The Weirdest, Funniest and Most Horrific thing I've Seen all Week.

2009-05-07T11:39:00.001-07:00

sometimes life just gets a little.....BUZZZZAY!

2009-05-06T11:56:00.001-07:00

Some Days...

2009-05-05T10:13:00.000-07:00

There are days where I get bored of my 4490 Mp3s while in my car just want to listen to the good old F.M radio. To my surprise..there is a new radio station that deserves the number 1 preset.
100.5 The Peak, Sublime,Metric.MGMT,YYY's,Kings of Leon,Depeche Mode,Mother Mother,Said the Whale,Andrew Bird. Just to name a few.
Happy to know that they are supporting all the lil indie bands that they can find as well as playing some classic's. It's about time!

Check em out!

The Cutest Kittens in the World!

2009-05-04T11:36:00.000-07:00

right here: http://www2.b3ta.com/top-10-cutest-kittens/

2009-05-04T09:11:00.001-07:00

Happy Monday.

(yeah, another utube vid)

lb

Can I Have Mine Custom Made?

2009-05-01T19:09:00.000-07:00

Marc Jacobs? Can't wait for the fashion mags to feature these in their seasonal spreads.

Hot Guys In Flu Masks. oh yes.

Ever have one of those weeks?!

2009-05-01T18:01:00.001-07:00

Thank God It's Friday.

Zanna za zanna za

2009-05-01T16:09:00.000-07:00

It's hard to imagine something that can be so cute..can be such a pain in the ass.
I hope those effected will have a full recovery. If your stuck in an effected area...maybe you should stay there...

Let the media take you into a swirl of paranoia.

I figure I drink enough rum/wine/sake to keep me safe.

Enjoy your weekends! TGIF!!!

P.S

Click HERE for some Green Porn. (wtf?)

Sort of a MUST-SEE for the summer, I would think...

2009-05-01T12:53:00.001-07:00

.....forget Wolverine, forget GI Joe, forget Terminator and Transformers 2.... we've seen it all before. i can honestly say that i've never seen a movie about killer Nazi zombies before, though...

(and i'm not counting Otto; Or Up With Dead People).

Must See. Dead Snow.

Happy Friday!

Kickin' It

2009-04-29T15:42:00.005-07:00

Sometimes you just gotta kick it....kick it right outta here... whether it be the habit, the diet, the boss, the clergyman...the ASSHOLE (*fill in blank _________*), just kick it to the curb.... kick it out the window.... kick it outta your life!

i will try this tonight.

This Will Be Me One Day

2009-04-29T15:10:00.000-07:00

.....anyone who knows me, know that it's true.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090428/oddities/russia_drink_health_economy_offbeat_1

The Media sets us up for PANIC once again.

2009-04-29T14:49:00.001-07:00

Worm Cat

2009-04-28T12:59:00.001-07:00

Jerking It.

2009-04-27T17:22:00.001-07:00

When M. Ward asks in his song, "Chinese Translation,":

what do you do with the pieces of a broken heart...??

he's obviously looking for solutions.

here i am to provide him with a few:

first off.... you find distraction.... and that distraction has got to be bigger, better, badder, and... buffer! and you find that distraction, and you sit around topless, pondering life....

...if that doesn't snap you out of your funk, you can go hang out outside.... get a little sun and work on that magical tan...

....but if you're not in the mood to sit around for hours, or if you've got too much energy stored up, just waiting to be exerted... just take up a sport.... soccer.... football... skateboarding... tennis?

...and nothing clears your mind like a nice, long car ride in the countryside...

...and once you're there, find a locally run boutique and go ahead and try something new on.... we could all use a nice, new shirt to help ease the pain.

but if all else fails here's what you do:

you dust if off

and jerk it.

JERK IT!

dust it off and JERK IT JERK IT JERK IT!

show them that you're worth it.... dust it off and JERK IT JERK IT!....

just my two bits, is all. don't forget to jerk it.

Ldm.

...and if you end up at a boring party this weekend....

2009-04-24T18:13:00.000-07:00

When I was 21, I went on tour with a circus. At a stop in Minneapolis, I met a girl named Gwenevere. She pulled me aside, shoved a canister of butane up her pussy, and lit it on fire. My mind was blown.

Five months later, I returned to Atlanta with my new skill in tow. I moved into Die Slaughterhaus, which at the time was putting on a ton of house shows. One day everyone who was over was tripping on something, and I decided to do it to freak them out. Everybody liked it so much. Around the same time, my band Motherfucking Turrets got back together, so I started burning American flags with my pussy fire at shows. And that’s how it all began....

ya know... just another boring ol' party trick. read the rest here:
HOW TO SHOOT FIRE OUT OF YOUR CROTCH

i wouldn't advise you try this at home, but if you do... please post pictures.

Ldm.

a boy and his bike

2009-04-24T14:31:00.001-07:00

it's starting to look a bit like a youtube worship site around here, but i just wanted to say it would be just amazing to be on that bike.

It's Friday and it's Sunny and it's HOT!

2009-04-24T10:25:00.001-07:00

and it's Pat Benatar. All. Fired. Up.

Raising the roof never looked so cute!

2009-04-23T22:36:00.000-07:00

AWWW!!!

LDM & LB at their best

2009-04-23T22:34:00.001-07:00

Click here to guess who's who

Back on B.C soil...Go Canucks?!?

you keep playing me like a fruit machine you keep playing me like a fruit machine you keep playing me like a fruit machine you keep playing me like a

2009-04-23T18:27:00.001-07:00

...recorded at one of the funnest concerts i'd been to in ages! at this point i was drenched and sweating all over my co-blogger. can't wait for their next stop in Vancity!

Ldm.

Just sayin' is all....

2009-04-22T12:55:00.001-07:00

It's Hump Day, and here is Today's Moron.

2009-04-22T11:54:00.001-07:00

i wonder if this guy actually believes in what he preaches? i wonder if this guy actually understands what he is saying? i wonder if this guy is just deathly afraid of vaginas and sex in general? i wonder where he came up with this concept? i wonder if he drank from that glass after he turned off the camera.

it's called therapy, ya lunatic!

Ldm.

Can anything be creepier than little, tiny, vampire children?

2009-04-21T15:51:00.001-07:00

Monday Morning.

2009-04-20T10:04:00.000-07:00

Fucking Awesome!

2009-04-17T16:39:00.000-07:00

my cinematic hero, David Lynch, teams up with Moby, and animates a music video for his new single: SHOT IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD.

Check it out. Pretty brilliant stuff. Not a bad track, either.

Ldm.

What is More Beautiful?

2009-04-17T12:45:00.000-07:00

What is more beautiful...?

Who would have thought to put hair extensions on horses and use them as a photo shoot? Apparently these guys...

Not only are they hilarious, but quite stunning, if i can say so myself.

....ooooorrrrrrr the photo that finally makes me 'understand' the appeal of Zach Effron, taken from his latest GQ photo shoot......??

Lets have another, closer look.

Happy Friday.

M.I.A

2009-04-16T20:19:00.000-07:00

I'm off to Edmonton tomorrow morning...Don't be jealous.

I LOVE this stamp!!!

Have a great weekend!

Buyer Beware!

2009-04-15T16:21:00.000-07:00

Was this in the instruction manual? Or only in Surrey!

Woman killed by laptop in Surrey crash

Police in Surrey, B.C., are warning people to secure their belongings while driving after a young woman was apparently killed by her laptop last month.

Heather Storey, 25, of Delta died after the small car she was driving was hit by a tow truck turning left.

When investigators looked into the incident, however, they concluded she would have survived if not for her laptop computer.

Storey was on her way out of town for work at the time of the accident and usually kept her laptop in a backpack in the backseat, according to her brother Michael Prat.

"What we believe happened [was] that she was struck in the back of her head and neck with this laptop computer," RCMP Sgt. Roger Morrow said Wednesday morning at the Surrey detachment, east of Vancouver

"She simply didn't have it secured within the confines of her car, and ultimately it has been the instrument of her death," he said

Her brother and mother also spoke at the detachment, warning others to take precautions to avoid similar preventable accidents.

"We miss Heather a lot. There is a whole lot to talk about, but I think mainly we're just trying to address the issue of, maybe, try not to keep stuff that can get airborne or hit you, just because your family, and people that care about you, really will miss you when you're gone," said Pratt.

k-os - 4 3 2 1

2009-04-14T17:48:00.001-07:00

Just picked up K-OS's new Album YES! Just headin out to the gym to see if it's somethin worth sweatin too.
I ♥ this song.

LB

I'd like to see them swap a lot more than jerseys...

2009-04-12T20:40:00.001-07:00

...but it doesn't take away from the fact that this is the most fun i've had with an ADIDAS ad, possibly ever.

Ldm.

Song(s) for HIM

2009-04-11T09:35:00.001-07:00

by, Walter Meego.

i actually got the Walter Meego cd a few months ago, but haven't really listened to it much, until now. now that every song suddenly applies to my big-time-man-crush...er...stalkee/obsession.... soon-to-be-voodoo doll?

here's a review, cuz i'm way too lazy to write one myself. really, this post is review enough, no?

and here are a couple tunes.

the first one takes you to a link to my fave on the disc, my own personal dedication to Him, or anyone i may find myself obsessing over, week in week out. ya know how it is.

More Than I Can Say

...i want you more
than I can say
ooh ooh oh ya
i can say...
i want you more
than i can say
ooh ooh oh ya
i can say!

*insert pillow fight and dancing in our underwear*

but really, in the end, just like any other obsession:
i don't have forever to wait for you, ya
so when i say i want us to be together
just say you want me to and i'll be yours
FOREVER

just like in this video.

how appropriate that my new musical obsession sings songs that i can sing along to as i adorn every wall in my house with images of.... Him.

"so when i say i want us to be together
just say you want me to and i'll be yours
FOREVER"
ooh ooh oh ya....
crazy? who me?? not really. not totally.
well, maybe. sorta... i mean, it's more fun that way, right? besides, it's His fault for having that cute smile and that hot ass....

tonight, tho, i'm going to erase.
...go have fun and search for distraction, in the form of:

ooh ooh oh, ya.

PS: can ANYONE tell me where i can get that shirt? i'm not kidding. it's my fave pic of Our Lady ever and i must have!

Ldm.

Another obsession

2009-04-09T23:29:00.001-07:00

Esser - Headlock

How Cute is he? I can't stop watching the video. I am going to be getting the album asap he is currently playing gigs around Europe with Micachu another great artist that I can't wait to check out if they ever come to the City.

LB

It's all about the bunnies

2009-04-09T20:57:00.000-07:00

Thank GOD for the long weekend!

2009-04-09T13:27:00.000-07:00

Was it something I ate?

2009-04-08T18:07:00.000-07:00

WACO, Texas – Police said a fight over flatulence left one man stabbed and another facing an assault charge. A statement Wednesday said police were called to a motel where several men from the Houston area were sharing a room. Police said a 35-year-old man allegedly passed gas in the room Tuesday night.
Police said one of the other men became upset, picked up a knife and threw it at the 35-year-old man, who was cut in the leg. The suspect was accused of then stabbing the man in the chest.
The 35-year-old was taken to the hospital and police said he was treated for non-life threatening wounds.
The alleged attacker was arrested and faces an aggravated assault charge.

Hrmm.... suddenly i feel very grateful for the roommate that I have.

The worst possible news ever.

2009-04-08T12:31:00.000-07:00

ORAL SEX LINKED TO THROAT CANCER.

god help us all.

Juz Cuz.

2009-04-07T23:07:00.001-07:00

not sure what prompted this. just a thought that entered my mind.

2009-04-07T15:45:00.000-07:00

I think Madonna should stop putting so much effort into her face and start loving her arms and hands...
sick.

2009-04-06T14:52:00.001-07:00

Spring..you were worth it

2009-04-06T13:35:00.000-07:00

I am happy to report I am almost fully recoverd from sneezing every 3 seconds,blowing my nose every 2 seconds and no more watery eyes.

Smallest Bodybuilder....Yep! That sum's it up!

2009-04-06T12:57:00.001-07:00

Harpers Island

2009-04-06T10:12:00.000-07:00

Check out the premiere this Thursday April 9th 10:00pm on CBS (Chnl 15 Vancouver shaw cable people)

The television show is a horror/drama, described as Scream meets 10 Little Indians. The central plot is a murder mystery. Friends and family attending a wedding celebration on a secluded island off the coast of Seattle begin dying one by one. The island was also the scene of a famous series of murders seven years prior.

It's Moooonday

2009-04-06T10:00:00.000-07:00

It's Monday...The Sun is shinning..it's a short week! Then a long weekend for some, What else do you want?

This weekend, do something you really enjoy!

2009-04-03T18:31:00.001-07:00

So much about this picture to desire.... the look, the wardrobe, the smile.... the shoes... the irony.

Work's been insane this week. Hell week 1 of 2.

This weekend, the sun will shine and the boys will come out.

Happy Friday, ya'll!

Ldm

Mountain Cleaners

2009-04-03T18:06:00.001-07:00

Proud to be swiss.

lb

Twitter?

2009-04-03T17:26:00.000-07:00

...What's with this shizz? Something that you update like you would your facebook status excepet every minute of every hour of everyday??? uh....
Then you get followers? Wowsa's. I hope it takes me a year or more to get sucked into this one.
They got the Twit part right. I know I know....I say this now. I will become one as well I am sure.

I am holding off for as long as I can.

It's not my Friday but I am sure it's yours
Enjoy the weekend!

Above...LDM at his best. Doin when he loves the most. SPINNIN! Kick it!

That a Girl!

2009-04-01T20:09:00.001-07:00

Lady GaGa has become the first artist in nearly ten years to reach the top of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart with her first two chart entries.

Now, stand back and watch as she takes over the universe.

This here, btw, is a fan made video done by a friend of a friend. Way to go!

Looks what's rolled into town.

2009-03-31T17:19:00.001-07:00

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....

2009-03-30T13:18:00.001-07:00

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?

2009-03-27T14:59:00.000-07:00

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

2009-03-27T12:54:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-03-27T10:35:00.001-07:00

note the 48 second mark

Article of the Day

2009-03-26T11:47:00.000-07:00

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?

2009-03-26T11:17:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-03-26T10:50:00.001-07:00

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

Wednesday. What Else?

2009-03-25T12:06:00.001-07:00

I've always wanted one of these

2009-03-25T08:50:00.001-07:00

Reading and Recommending

2009-03-24T12:20:00.000-07:00

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

2009-03-24T12:09:00.001-07:00

....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

2009-03-23T16:04:00.001-07:00

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

Cool...

2009-03-22T20:14:00.000-07:00

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...

2009-03-20T16:31:00.000-07:00

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

For all you 2 wheelers out there

2009-03-20T16:25:00.000-07:00

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

One Day You Will Die.

2009-03-20T11:30:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-03-20T09:01:00.000-07:00

I Am Training For This Position

2009-03-19T11:55:00.000-07:00

sign me up.

Nothing comes easy. Unless its your momma.

2009-03-18T11:07:00.000-07:00

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

2009-03-18T11:03:00.001-07:00

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?

2009-03-18T10:46:00.001-07:00

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

lb

One Week

2009-03-17T14:03:00.000-07:00

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

2009-03-17T13:23:00.000-07:00

File this under: Shut The Fuck Up Already

2009-03-17T11:43:00.001-07:00

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.

2009-03-16T17:19:00.000-07:00

I CANNOT FUCKING WAIT.

Ldm

Bellybutton

WE MOVED

WE MOVED! !!!

This weeks winner of the IT COULD ALWAYS BE WORSE award.

If you only sign one petition this year...

One Last Hurrah!

In the THICK of it!

WE IS BACK BITCHESSS!!!

Introducing Freddie Stroma...

Great Performances

Where do we get one?!

Finally, weather's been nice and we'd been dancing up a storm!!

Weather's been nice, we've been out playing....

Weathers been nice, we went on holiday....

Non Stop

Happy Hump Day.

not only are you not the girl i fell in love with, but from the looks of it, you ate her

Virtual Clubbing.

Birds are Evil and I Hate Them

....Speaking of Drinking.

Drink Not Drunk

Merci

Happy Birthday, Co-Blogger!

You Always Lose With Mr. Booze

Marketing 101

LOVE This

The 2nd Weirdest, Funniest and Most Horrific thing I've Seen all Week.

The Weirdest, Funniest and Most Horrific thing I've Seen all Week.

sometimes life just gets a little.....BUZZZZAY!

Some Days...

The Cutest Kittens in the World!

Tweet

Can I Have Mine Custom Made?

Ever have one of those weeks?!

Zanna za zanna za

Sort of a MUST-SEE for the summer, I would think...

Kickin' It

This Will Be Me One Day

The Media sets us up for PANIC once again.

Worm Cat

Jerking It.

...and if you end up at a boring party this weekend....

a boy and his bike

It's Friday and it's Sunny and it's HOT!

Raising the roof never looked so cute!

LDM & LB at their best

you keep playing me like a fruit machine you keep playing me like a fruit machine you keep playing me like a fruit machine you keep playing me like a

Just sayin' is all....

It's Hump Day, and here is Today's Moron.

Can anything be creepier than little, tiny, vampire children?

Monday Morning.

Fucking Awesome!

What is More Beautiful?

M.I.A

Buyer Beware!

k-os - 4 3 2 1

I'd like to see them swap a lot more than jerseys...

Song(s) for HIM

Another obsession

It's all about the bunnies

Thank GOD for the long weekend!

Was it something I ate?

The worst possible news ever.

Juz Cuz.

Spring..you were worth it

Smallest Bodybuilder....Yep! That sum's it up!

Harpers Island

It's Moooonday

This weekend, do something you really enjoy!

Mountain Cleaners

Twitter?

That a Girl!

Looks what's rolled into town.

I wanna drop cash on a Cruiser....

How did your head get so big?

Maintaining Control

TGIF! Don't forget to take your uppers!

Article of the Day

Aren't you forgetting something?

I am looking forward to this!