Wings at Dix with Jon, Jeremy, and Nathan (Pho, movies, food, and more!)

This entry might have come earlier had Shaw not been doing maintenance when we were at Nathan's... *sigh*

Earlier tonight, my brother invited me to go have wings with Nathan and Jeremy. I wasn't going to come out, but then changed my mind half an hour later. Erin picked me up a while later, and dropped us off at Nathan's. On the way there, we discussed plans / Hillsongs (Jon and Jeremy love belting out the chorus to There Is Nothing Like, haha) / The Arcade Fire and their album Funeral / the stress that Erin's brother Darren is feeling over his French provincial exam. Jon should call him up and speak to him in French to make him practice, haha... it's easier if you've been through French Immersion like my siblings!

After Jon and I got to Nathan's, we discovered that he had all sorts of weird NES roms on his computer. Yes, the music DID sound that tacky back then... and not just for Darkwing Duck either! Jon and I looked around his computer, and discovered a list of questionable hacked Mario games... Nathan just grabbed a whole bunch of games without really paying attention to what he was putting on the computer, haha. Here's a selection:

* Mario Satanic Freak
* Mario Potato
* Mario Tokes A Doobie
* Mario Marilyn Manson
* Gothic Mario Bros.
* Mario Fro
* Mario Freddy vs. Jason
* Fucked Up Mario Bros.
* Final Fantasy Mario
* Mario Nude
* Mario Opposite
* Mario Dragon (a Double Dragon hack)
* Mario Line World
* Mario Hyper
* Mario Pimp Bros.
* Mario KKK Bros. 1 and 2
* Mario Mania
* Mario Lottery
* Mario Retro Bros. 3
* Mario Super Fucked Up Bros.
* Mario 69
* Mario Alice Cooper
* Mario Bizzario
* Mario Crappy
* Mario Cigarette
* Mario Diaper


After that, we left to meet Jeremy at this pub called Dix. On the way there, Jeremy called to see what sort of wings we'd like: teriyaki, hot, and whatever else was fine with us! (we eventually finished 60 good-sized wings!) Nathan told us that his Trinity advisor had made a "Michael Jackson appointment" joke earlier: yes, of COURSE he's a Christian! (the teachers have to be, but the students not so much... Jon knew a guy named Trevor Rosencrans who got a soccer scholarship there) We found Jeremy easily enough, and discussed a bunch of stuff there:

* tomorrow's plans with Emily (Steph will be her slow partner for the Grouse Grind, and she wants to go to De Dutch Pannekoek House for breakfast afterwards)
* that Mario Nude thing we found on Nathan's computer (Jeremy says that it would only be one extra pixel, except when Mario jumps... yeah, we don't want to know! o_O)
* Scotch ale / South African Shiraz wine / lager / amber ale (Nathan likes wine better than beer, unlike the rest of us :P)
* tomorrow evening's plans to go eat at Shanghai Wind and see Batman Begins with Citrus, Danielle, Nathan, Jeremy, Eric, Eunice, Steph, and Emily
* how Nathan still owes Danielle dinner for that "motherhood" comment he made two weeks ago (maybe tomorrow will be it, haha)
* Szechuan cuisine and the Chongqing restaurant on Commercial / 12th
* dim sum, Shanghai noodles, siu long bao ("little dragon balls"... Chinese buns with soup and meat inside them), and other Shanghai cuisine
* how Nathan STILL wasn't over his cold after a month (eating ice cream when you've just healed isn't going to help, and neither is not getting enough sleep!)
* how drunk we were after two beers (yeah, I was laughing and snorting :P)
* some website that Jeremy read which mentioned that you can drop your blood-alcohol level every 40 minutes or so by 0.02
* the Oakland Athletics-Seattle Mariners game which went into extra innings
* Faiths In Conflict by Vinoth Ramachandra (Jon got it at Urbana three years ago, and is only getting around to reading it now!)
* a fight over MSN / text messaging / a girl that Nathan kinda overheard while in the pub washroom
* seeing beyond the superficial (50 cents, for example :P) in friendships... they say that there's got to be something more behind Yazmine's ending the friendship than the negligible amount of money involved (true, but I haven't talked to her in the month since she hung up on me!)
* Salo, which is this graphic movie about torture... Jon read some reviews about it on IMDB, but thinks he'd barely be able to stand watching it!
* how Nathan did have a DVD burner, so he can burn Corey's DVD for us (yay!)
* Jeremy and Jon wanting to make a HUGE pot of Pho according to some online recipes they found
* weekend plans, concerts, Broken Social Scene, Anita's wedding, jokes, and the jazz festival


After all that, Jeremy biked home while the rest of us went to Nathan's. Nathan promptly took a nap which lasted from 11:35 to about 1 AM... we blamed the alcohol, even though he's been trying to increase his tolerance. (darn the Asian red-face gene!) I tried occupying myself on the computer, but the Internet didn't work after a while due to the aforementioned maintenance. Jon watched some of The Way Home while bugging me about stuff. The Internet worked a little later on, so the guys did some preliminary research on the Book of Common Prayer for Jon's leading Sunday worship this week.

Later, Nathan drove us home. Jon kept on mishearing things: "full moon" is not "fool," haha. Nathan remarked that Shanghai Wind (this tiny restaurant across the street from Richmond Centre) reminded him of breaking wind, hahaha. We noticed the full moon outside while listening to Sloan, and Nathan blamed his craziness on that. (like the alcohol wasn't a factor, too!) Very good times out! :D