First, Lindsey Kelk has written a new book. It’s called The Single Girls To Do List and is available to buy in stores at the beginning of August. But I have a pre-release copy to give away… and it’s signed! Now I’ve read the book(I have my own copy) and actually liked it. You get to know the characters and actually care about the main character, who has a really hot name – Rachel Summers. There’s a breakup and she’s trying to deal with it – well after one last breakup hookup. (Let me add, I always liked those.) So now newly single, Rachel with the help of her friends sets out a ‘bucket list’ of things to do now that she’s single.

Two camera pictures... that I put into one picture haha, I didn't rip a page out!

I won’t spoil the rest, you’ll have to read for yourself. But, the writing is fun, upbeat and interesting. Fabio never enters the frame… and there’s more than enough talk of sex to keep a simple male mind interested in it too! My only critique is one that isn’t really a critique at all, Lindsey is English and as such, some of the mentions and word choices aren’t really that well known to most North Americans. You could figure it out (or Google it if you really had to.) An enjoyable read for me which was a shock – I only read non-fiction or violent action books or one’s with pictures.

Secondly, Volkswagen Canada and the Freedriving Experience is coming to Toronto on July 22nd to Ontario Place. I’ve got a VIP Invitation for two to give away. As a VIP, you’ll get to drive every single VW car on site through a test track. With an experienced instructor beside you, you’ll get to really drive the way a nice car should be driven (hard and fast with lots of curves)!  You’ll also get some VIP goodies and treated as such the entire time you’re there. (The event is free, but the VIP allows you to bypass any line, drive as many cars as you like and as I said other VIP stuff.)

Lastly, I have 12 passes to a two week advanced screening (July 21st at Empress Walk) of The Change Up. For a full synopsis visit – http://www.thechangeupmovie.com - God Olivia Wilde is hot. I’d switch bodies with Ryan Reynolds too… just in general. Gah, guess I better go do my P90x after this. The Change Up comes to theaters on August 5th. Oh, and after the movie, join me at @BostonPizzaYS!

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Lots of good stuff if you ask me! So, here’s how we’re going to do it..

Each prize will have it’s own draw. But you can only win once. I’ll draw the tickets first, the book second and the VW experience third. You can only win once. So if your name is called for a movie ticket, you can’t win the other prizes. You CAN put your name into one, a choice of two or all three of the draws though.

Here’s how to increase your odds;

1. Add a comment below of which one(s) you would like to win. This will earn you one ballot for each draw. Limit of 5 comments!
2. Just tweet me directly with an @reply which you’d like to win, that will earn you 2 ballots, just make sure to include one of the three hashtags so I can keep track, oh and a limit of 2 times for this way.
3. Tweet the following (only include the hashtag(s) you want to win). “No one really likes tweet to win contests @zachbussey #thechangeup #vwexp #lindseykelk - http://bit.ly/pN6CxV” (Or just click the Tweet button below.) This will earn you 10 ballots but can only be done once.

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Simple? As simple as it gets I guess haha. I’ll do the draw on July 13th!

YOU MIGHT GET SOMETHING! AND YOU MIGHT GET SOMETHING! AND YOU MIGHT GET SOMETHING!

WINNERS – The Change Up
@Kellyldewolf
@mkshft‘
@gigigamble
@janeccman
@katlikeeyes
@inseansopinion
@shankell
@thedanlevy
@leoraheilbronn
@shwetajacob
@erikanerd
@sadafgee

WINNER – Lindsey Kelk, The Single Girls To-Do List
@pinkkcrush

WINNER – Volkswagen Freedriving Experience
@jkozuch

SocialScratch – Empowering Influence from Social Scratch on Vimeo.

A few weeks ago, filmed a little interview with the folks at Social Scratch, which is launching in July and the finished product is above! I won’t spoil everything, but @socialscratch is going to be a way for advertisers to connect with influencers in a very intelligent way. Giving the influencer more control to absorb and pass on information they are interested in and not just a PR pitch.

That’s all I’ll say! But keep an eye out for me and if possible, snap a picture of my face on these various places! I’d be indebted to you. :)

Oh and here’s the 7 locations!

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When I was a kid, some of the greatest times were playing “War” with the kids in the neighbourhood up at the park in our backyard. My parents didn’t let me have guns like Nerf or even a water gun, but a Hockey stick made for a very effective shotgun or sniper rifle if we used some imagination. Imagination was incredible! Pinecones would result in giant grenade explosions, a chain link fence was always electrified and would kill you if you touched it, and sometimes in winter, the exposed ground became lava. There was so much chaos… we didn’t ever adhere to the Geneva Convention. Our wars were about destroying the other team.

So when I saw this music video I was instantly transported back to those days…. and with cartoons this is pretty accurate to how I envisioned things when these battles would occur.

But I know a bunch of people will complain about this music video… they’ll say it’s sick or twisted or something… shush you helicopter parents! This is the mind of a 7-12 year old boy, back then anyway…. I dunno if kids still go out and play? Too concerned about stranger danger I guess.

Enjoy! Is Tropical By The Greeks

But I figured what better opportunity to watch some end of the world movies to get you right into the spirit! Oh, and quick funny story… when I was searching for images for this post, I found a lot of similar images to the “Rapture” as shown above… doesn’t it look suspiciously like the image from Skyline? Maybe Jesus is an alien wanting to drink our blood? Haha. Had to add SOME controversy to this right?

These are the 10 movies I’m contemplating watching this weekend!

28 Days Later, does it get more ‘real’ than seeing the streets of London completely empty? Waking up to a silent world has to be the closest thing to a post-raptured world if we didn’t have Twitter to inform us of what’s going on.

The Core, Birds start going nuts, major storms… all because the Earths core stops it’s rotation. Birds dropping from the skies, magnetic pole shift, major storms? Where have we heard this before….

Miracle Mile, You pickup an accidental phone call, who’s caller tells you there’s 70 minutes until nuclear missiles hit… you know before everyone else… But not for long. How will you react tomorrow at 6PM if the Rapture happens?

2012, When everything that could go wrong does… The Rapture and the buzz around it will pale in comparison to what the buzz will be for all of next year!

I Am Legend, Ugh, if Jesus Raptures everyone tomorrow except for me… I’m going to be slightly pissed. But slightly happier that I don’t need to deal with rabid zombie humans.

Knowing, Should we consider ourselves in the know? The Rapture is a religious event and all, so I kinda consider this one of the better religious ‘event’ movies. Is there a better ending?

Ever Since the World Ended, Documentary style and the first movie post apocalypse. An interesting take… though, I imagine the first movie post Rapture will be pretty good… I think it’s The Hangover Part 2.

The Day After, there is no Tomorrow in this one. Well, there kinda is actually… how would we survive a nuclear strike? Pre-Twitter? Not great. With Twitter? Probably worse heh.

Escape From LA, If the Rapture happens tomorrow, I’m planning on taking on Snake Plissken’s attitude. So world watch out, because Zach Bussey will not be taking any shit lol.

The Road, It doesn’t get much more grim and realistic than this… with a lot of the disaster footage taken from the Aftermath of Katrina. The book is better (I may have shed a tear), but this is pretty real. A world I don’t want to live in.