House of Blues

My house has been pretty depressed these past few weeks. 3 out of the 4 of us are in various stages of the blues. It's like living in a live version of some really horrible Victorian novel that a Bronte sister would write about.

Thankfully tomorrow is Friday and we're having a Girls' Night. Gonna go out to drink, be merry and forget all this stupid shit :)

This site has some pretty good stuff. I cannot imagine the thought process involved in creating such astounding pieces of visual cinema.

Hi

Hi, I'm going back to H.K. this summer from end of June to mid of Aug. Should we arrange a trip for all cousins next year?

The Strokes

I am off to see the Strokes tonight. Eagles of Death Metal are opening. I saw them 5 years ago on the Is This It tour. They played the Cat's Cradle in Carborro. Cave In opened (on a side note the Icarus Line were playing down the street that night and spray painted $UCKING DICK on their tour bus). The Strokes were completely wasted. During the last song Julian Casablanca whacks himself in the head with a Heineken bottle. The bottle did not break, but he was pretty dazed. I thought he was going to pass out. At that point, one eye was looking left and the other was looking right. For all of us Canucks, Narduar is in this picture. I love Narduar, he is the only annoying person I like if that makes any sense.

PS. For some reason every time I see the singer I think of my younger brother Irate J. Must be something to do with the bags under the eyes.

Vacation time

Ok, time to get it together again. Who's up for summer vacation? If so, who's up for going somewhere like hawaii? If we go to hawaii, there's an off chance that hawaiian 5-0 can get discounts on hotels or other conveniences.

Or is everyone busy coming to HK?

I need to know right away because vacation during peak season really sucks. Well, the vacation itself is sweet. It's the damn airlines that arbitrarily decide to make things hell for travellers. Down with Air Canada! Burn starbucks!! Burn GAP!!! @#%*$*!

Hijinks at the Gym

I was at the gym today and while doing "clean and press"-es I hit myself with the crossbar...again :(

With the clean and press you lift the bar up and pop it above your head in order work out your legs and back. Well, on the way up I hit myself in the chin with the bar. Thankfully I didn't have the full momentum going otherwise I think I would've knocked myself out. That would've been embarrassing. More embarrassing than the time I hit myself in the forehead with the crossbar while doing "skull-crushers".

If you are wondering ....

what the hell me and Little Thingies are commenting about, then you should head over to www.sickanimation.com and watch the Red Dragon Club cartoon (run-on sentence). That is some ill shit. Some of you with more polite sensitivities may want to stay away from this (NSFW).

The weekend

I went to go see V is for Vendetta this weekend. I liked it, but thought it lacked subtlety. I wonder how it will do in the red states. Will they even get it?

Went to West Hollywood last night to the Vine bar. Nick Jago (who for some reason reminds me of Little Thingie) from BRMC was DJ'ing. Some dude grabbed my head as I was walking by. He felt bad when I turned around. He thought I was someone else and offered to buy me a drink. Later that night, he introduced me to the guy who he thought he was grabbing. His friend was a good looking guy! The guitar players from NIN were there. It was pretty good night- good music, good crowd, cool location - except that drinks were not cheap. They even played Spacemen 3!!!!

Countdown to Sweet, Sweet Freedom

I have exactly one month to go before I'm released from my prison that is school. But before I'm free I have to write 5 exams, 4 of which are weighted at 100%. Meaning, those exams have the power to erase my existence at school. I predict Good Times.

I still don't know where I'll be this summer. I don't want to work, but I'm being told that being a bum for four months is not an option. I don't know what to do. Maybe I'll just sell my car and use the proceeds to run away for the summer to go to the North and participate in the seal hunt.

Has this ever happened to you???

I went to the cafeteria today to buy lunch. I bought an egg salad sandwich and added mustard. While eating at my desk the egg salad fell on my pants!!!!! My crotch was covered in mustard and egg salad. I had to go to the bathroom to wipe it off. In the end my crotch was wet and yellow.

Luckily I have a sweatshirt in the office to tie around my waist.

Surfin' USA

I am glad I went to the beach today. I busted out of work at 3:30 headed down to LJ shores. It was clear blue skys and 70 degrees. The water was 56, definitely chilly. I am glad I wore booties. These are one of my most cherished posessions. 3-5 ft sets were rolling in with decent shape. Someone got in my way only once today. I was in a good mood so I did not try to run him over. We surfed for about an hour. I got 2 pretty decent rides.

No jellyfish, clean water, no aggro dudes in the line-up. My body is tired and sore now. I have not surfed since I busted my hand in October.

It was a good day. Ask Little Thingies about surfing. He knows.

Next generation hardness

I just didn't believe he got the xbox 360 until i went over and saw it myself. But anyways, there it was. You should see the power brick for this thing, you could brain someone with it. I tried out Perfect Zero...WOW. Unbelievable I grew up playing the Atari.

But first person shooters aren't my thing. So i'll be going out to pick up some driving games. You can party with those. And Fight Night! Awesome!

When he's gone back to Canada, it'll become my domain ha ha.

Bustin' Out!

Another crappy day at work. I have decided to bust out early and meet C-Smooth to go surf.

Yeah! That is what I am talking about. It is sunny and 75! Waves, smell of surf wax, dank wetsuit ...

Summer Fun

Is anyone going to HK this summer? I'm thinking of going there May to Mid-August.

Art Gotham Over

so the gallery show i participated in is over. and nobody bought my crap. boohoo...
maybe you would like to buy them? $300 each for a 1'x1' canvas...it is suggested to buy all 4 of them for the full effect. and then you can hang them up in a 2 x 2 square for a bigger "1 piece" painting.
if you don't want to have them, i'll still take your money though.

I AM 33 TODAY.

The times on this blog are all wrong, but it is 3/21 today in sunny San Diego. Too bad I have work today and the water is too cold and polluted to go surfing. I am sure I can find some other trouble to get on in!

Today will be one of those "Taking drugs to make music to take drugs to" days.

Birthday Greetings and a Story

It's xcharlesbronsonx's birthday today so let's all give him a set of birthday bumps.

Going down memory lane I want to re-tell the tale of how he nearly let me drown when we were younger. We were on a family vacation and one day we were all at the outdoor pool having fun in the sun. He met some other kids his own age and decided to play with them in the big-person swimming pool. I wanted to play in the pool with them so our parents set me up with a floating tube since I didn't know how to swim while xcharlesbronsonx was supposed to look after me.

Well, I was cramping xcharlesbronsonx's style and him and his friends swam to the deep end. I tried to follow them but I let go of my tube and fell below the surface of the water and freaked out underwater. A very nice gentleman noticed my predicament and rescued me.

So the moral of this story is don't cramp xcharlesbronsonx's style.

Sworn to pleasure, loot and treasure!

I had nice birthday dinner last night. C-smooth gave me a surf magazine and a bottle of Patron Anejo. If you don't know Patron, I feel sorry for you man! I also got an Ugly Doll from my pal Scottish Kate. Pretty good times. The food and company was brilliant (anchovie and capers on my pizza yo!).

Battle of the Dishwasher

Today's post will be an opinion poll. I'll tell you guys about my roommate and you guys can tell me if my OCD is too much.

One of my roommates is a perfectly nice girl but she's a slob. This week it was just the two of us in the house since our other two roommates were on Spring Break. I could tell she was putting in an effort to be neater, she would actually put her dishes in the dishwasher right away as opposed to leaving them on the counter or in the sink.

But whenever she loads her dishes she loads them in the most random places. A bowl in the middle of the rack (so that you can't place anything around it), cups where the bowls go (bowls have their own special place because they don't fit neatly anywhere else), etc...

My beef boils down to the fact that it's not an efficient use of space; if you don't stack the dishes properly then you can't maximize the number of dishes you can fit in and will then have dishes leftover that you'll have to wash by hand.

Should I just be happy that she loads the dishwasher, period and invest in some meds to relieve my OCD?

Ichi the Killer

We finally watched Ichi the Killer at Wayne's recommendation. Sick shit. Made me feel a little queasy. Another other flicks I should catch?