vancouverisms

1. last night cameron, charlene, and i were walking back from a dance party at richard's on richard around 2:30. on our way through the downtown east side there was a bit of drama. as we were walking down abbott street near hastings there was suddenly the sound of shattering glass a few feet in front of us. it turns out a homeless man was breaking into a car through the side window. i walked up to him and asked him what he was doing, at which point he grabbed a backpack off the seat, told me, "go ahead and call the cops", and then ran off down the alley. a couple of people that saw this happen ran off after him, but i don't think they caught up to him. char called the police and they showed up 30 seconds later.

2. i was walking along main street today and while it is my favorite part of the city it is also a hot spot for hipsters. i stopped into budgie's for a burrito, which are delicious and are apparently like soma for hipsters. i was sitting there enjoying my burrito and reading a book, when some girl and her boyfriend (?) sat down next to me. she proceeded to tell this story about how her band played last night and some guy came up to her afterwards telling her how much he liked her "noise band", but apparently this was abhorrent as it wasn't really a a noise show, but was in reality a feedback show. she spent a good 10 minutes talking about how this guy had no idea what he was talking about and didn't know about noise bands. then she answered her cell phone and the guy walked out.