Interviewer: Well I find that on Queen-Street. Queen-and-Spadina, it 's super trendy, you cross Queen-street and it 's just like scary. Speaker: Scuzzy. Yes.

Um but ah last time she was in Toronto um I had a big thrill because ah I got to introduce her to my mom, ah which was really really cool, um and because like a lot of the work that I do tends to be at like- not scuzzy places but scuzzy places, like (laughs) part of like...

And of-course that meant much more freedom and study-hall so I read the comics and, you-know we chatted and I didn't do the studying I would have done if I'd been at home so I failed one subject, didn 't get my senior- matric 'cause back then it was senior-matriculation set by the province. Everybody- you could only graduate if you wrote that grade-thirteen exam and passed.

I had my junior matriculation and that's all that you went to- the only time you went and took grade-thirteen or senior matric is if you were going to university. And out of the class that I was in, at Runnymede, there would be about twenty of us and only two went to univesity. Very few people went to university.

... I didn't do the studying I would have done if I'd been at home so I failed one subject, didn't get my senior- matric 'cause back then it was senior-matriculation set by the province. Everybody- you could only graduate if you wrote that grade-thirteen exam and passed. And it wasn't at the school, it was down at the U-of-T as a matter of fact, in some great big gymnasium. Miles and miles of desks.

I still like (inc) and can still smell them. The smell in that subway. Yeah. But I went to Oakwood-Collegiate and got my senior matriculation and um- what else?

Speaker: And out of the class that I was in, at Runnymede, there would be about twenty of us and only two went to univesity. Very few people went to university. Interviewer: And very few girls, right? Speaker: Well yeah. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: And ah so it was strictly- junior matric was it. And you needed junior matric to get a decent job, but senior matric, as I say, the only people that ever got one were those who're planning to go on to university.

... the family needed um some assistance and right after that, I joined the Air-Force. And I know when I joined the Air-Force, fortunately it was getting to the point that they're getting a little hard-up for air crew. At one time, you had to have your senior-matric, or high-school graduation, to go be a pilot or navigator. And at this time, luckily, they ah gave me an aptitude-test and I passed that and they sent me to special schooling for about three months, I guess it was, to learn all the mathematics and everything else ...

Um, yeah it- it 's quite an interesting country as you can drive from like the urban-centres through these shanty towns and really rural areas where people still believe that if you have sex with like a white virgin then you can get rid of your AIDS.

Her roommate works at the same bar. So essentially we could say that we were going to pick up her roommate. When we got there, like, thank-god, there was some sort of shenanigan going on with these guys who'd walked out on like a three- hundred-dollar bill. So all the staff were in their cars chasing these guys down the street ...

Speaker: So I-don't-know, I just- myself looking at that, I mean, i-- it's supposed to look all nice from prim-and-proper but I have a feeling that there's a lot more shenanigans and a lot more other stuff going on than- "Wear your clothes?" you-know. Be fully clad. Interviewer: For sure. Well, I know- you-know, knowing kids that went to a catholic- school compared to a public high-school, I mean, we didn't have uniforms ...

Speaker: Like I- they like, kick you out you-know, type-of-thing and the f-- for water now I can t- I don't know the reasoning behind that um, whether there was shenanigans at the fountain. Interviewer: Water fights maybe.

They look so small, I mean our- our house was twelve feet wide and the other way was five feet or four feet, 'cause I know I could shinny up, to the upstairs bedroom window and get in the bedroom window if my Mom wasn 't home, because I knew that bedroom window was open.

Interviewer: Mm-hm Are there any like special holidays or anything-like that for your family? Speaker: Christmas-Eve my mum always has a big open-house and she puts on a whole shmeer. Interviewer: What 's that like? Speaker: They just invite like immediate family over. Other people come like I 've had friends come before and they just put out like a buffet and people go again and sit down and eat and talk and open presents- nice.

And they were astounded that out of these twenty question, I got nineteen of them right, and I totally chalk it up to the fact that, Adrian comes home and we talk you-know, it 's just- we don 't shoot the shit, for lack of a better word, we talk and you-know it 's just- we don 't sit here eating dinner watching the news, you-know we sit at the table, and we talk, you-know I feel it 's very important to eat meals with families...

Some of them are cool. They 'll let you pick their brains and shoot the shit with you. Most of them are like- if you don 't position the lights right. You put it- the wrong gel on the light they 'll be like "This is a fucking quarter-density light I expect- I except to have fucking density light. I can 't work under these conditions!" They 'll throw their shit down on the ground and have a little hissy-fit.

Oh we probably just gather at- one of our- one of my aunts' house usually one of my aunts on my street and yeah we just exchange gifts, have a big sit-down dinner, or lunch whatever you wanna call it and that 's pretty much it just shoot the shit and- and eat as much as you can. Yeah it 's good times though, good times.

Yeah, you would. It's- it's Ontario, there's lots of corrupt cops. Tons. Giuliani, like, caught a bunch of them. And he- I don't know what he did but it wasn't that much. They were like taking money that was supposed to be given to pay informants and they were like siphoning it into their own bank accounts and stuff. Yeah.

The only thing that I 've ever gotten stolen was- when I- the day I got married, someone stole a case of beer from our backyard, someone stole gas out of the car. Siphoned it out of the car.

We were out ah, unloading the truck. Well the truck was gone and we had the skids out there. It was warm right? It was summer. So we saw, in a distance the other end of the parking lot a blond come out with a white tank- top. And ah I can 't remember her pants. But she was just sitting there in the sun, we were just like, "Wow, I wonder if she 's hot"?