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It Happened to Me Toronto (a.k.a. Accordion City)

Three Bedroom, Two Bath Downtown Toronto House Apartment — Available This Summer!

What with the departure of my housemate Paul for Europe for the summer,

my housemate Rob getting married to his girlfriend Leslie in October,

and me and Wendy getting hitched in September, the time has come for

all of us to seek new places to live. What that means is that my house,

71 Sullivan Street, Suite 1 — a stone’s throw from Queen and Spadina,

Chinatown, the AGO and loads of nightlife — is going to be available

this summer. Consider this blog entry the first announcement, with

details to follow.

Among its features, which I’ll go into detail in a later entry:

  • Lower half of historic brick house — 1st floor and basement
  • Three bedrooms — 2 decent-sized, one small
  • 2 full bathrooms with full tub/shower
  • Washer and dryer
  • Kitchen has microwave, oven, stove, dishwasher, fume hood
  • Exposed brick walls and hardwood floors in the living and dining rooms
  • Back patio leading to garage
  • The damned coolest house on the block

Here are some photos of the place, taken in 2003:

The living room, viewed from the front door, looking into the house.

The living room, viewed from the other side.

A close-up of the living room near the front of the house.

The kitchen, looking one way…

The kitchen, looking the other way.

The dining room, as viewed from one side…

…and the other.

Rent is $2100 a month. My housemates and I currently split in this fashion:

  • Bedroom on main floor (features south-facing glass wall): $835
  • Bedroom in basement (largest, 2 huge closets, built-in-shelf area): $725
  • Small bedroom in basement: $525

You pay for electricity and gas, water is currently covered by the landlords.

The expected date for this place to become available is July 15th.

Interested? Email me at joey@joeydevilla.com!

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Music

Richard Cheese Album Out Tomorrow

Photo: Album cover for Richard Cheese's 'Aperitif for Destruction'.

Speaking of humourous lounge-y covers of pop tunes, Richard Cheese’s

new album, Aperitif for Destruction, hits the stores tomorrow.

The album will feature lounge-versions of the following pop/rock tunes:

  • Me So Horny
  • Man in the Box
  • Let’s Get It Started
  • You Oughta Know
  • Brass Monkey
  • Welcome to the Jungle
  • People Equals Shit
  • The Girl is Mine
  • Add it Up
  • Do Me
  • American Idiot
  • We are the World
  • Been Caught Stealing
  • Sunday Bloody Sunday
  • Enter Sandman
  • Somebody Told Me

For a sample of some of Mr. Cheese’s work, give his cover of Puddle of Mudd’s She Hates Me [explicit language, 2.4 MB, MP3] a listen!

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It’s a Holiday in Canada Today…

…but someone forgot to notify Billegible!

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Music

Even More Paul Anka Wrongness

I found some more Paul Anka goodies (see this entry for his cover of The Cure’s Love Cats)! Richard Cheese, you’ve got some serious competition now!

  • Hello, originally performed by Lionel Richie [4.8 MB, MP3]
  • Jump, originally performed by Van Halen [3.4 MB, MP3]

  • Wonderwall, originally performed by Oasis [3.4 MB, MP3]
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Music

So Wonderfully, Wonderfully, Wonderfully, Wonderfully Wrong!

For your easy listening pleasure, here’s Paul Anka doing his rendition of The Cure’s Love Cats [3.7 MB, MP3]. Go on, annoy your goth friends right now!

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It Happened to Me Toronto (a.k.a. Accordion City)

Found at Bay Street Video

Bay Street Video (1172 Bay Street, just south of Bloor) is one of the best damned video stores/rental shops in Accordion City.

Not only does it have a great selection of videos — many of which

you’ll never find at your local Blockbuster — but the staff are free

to make their own comments about their library:

Photo: Display card for 'Heathers' at Bay Street Video.

(And yeah, while most reasonable high school nerds

deplore the acts of those two yobs at Columbine, you’d be hard pressed

to find one of us who didn’t fantasize about visting some high-velocity lead retribution on their jock tormentors.)

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The Best Laid Plans…

While searching for images of the cantina at Mos Eisley (the bar in Star Wars Episode IV), I stumbled across this scan of People magazine from August 1981 (I was 13 years old then):

Photo: Cover of 'People' magazine circa 1981 featuring Mark Hamill.

Yes kids, for Episodes V (1980) and VI (1983), Yoda was a foam rubber muppet, not computer generated.

As for the “eager for a new life after Luke Skywalker” headline, before

you go feeling sorry for this young Jedi, remember that he had the lead

role in 3 of the top 100 grossing movies of all time. The many Broadway

and animated series and feature roles aren’t anything to sniff at,

either.

(The other big story on the cover — Elvis Presley: Did Col. Parker Rip Him Off? — made me laugh out loud.)