Oh no you did not just call me at 0205 and interrupt my watching the Chapelle Show. This had better be good, yo.
Oh yeah, and how about the site? Flame on asshole, right? Yeah, gotta work on that.
vendredi, juillet 15, 2005
jeudi, juillet 14, 2005
Fallen From Grace
So...um....how does one make up for sending a birthday message to one ex-girlfriend with the name of another ex-girlfriend in the subject line (the one I dated after the first, no less). No, really, i'd like to know....you know, in the crazy event that it may or may not have happened....
(Why i'm writing to my ex-girlfriends on their birthdays still is a whole other issue)
sigh.
(Why i'm writing to my ex-girlfriends on their birthdays still is a whole other issue)
sigh.
Aww Lawd, Why Me?
So, I was checking my email this afternoon and got two messages with attachment from two different friends. They BOTH contained the SAME attachment and is as follows:
Hi everyone:
Sorry for the mass email (and sorry to many of you for being so out of touch for so very long!).
I'm currently consulting on a gay & Asian documentary for Logo (MTV's new gay channel) and wanted to forward the casting call to you (it's at the end of the email).
If you know of anyone who might fit the bill or be interesting to profile, I'd greatly appreciate it if you could passed the message along.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Hope you're all well and having a wonderful summer!
Best,
XXXXXXXXX(Name deleted to protect the ignorant)_________________________________________________________________________
--LOGO is seeking people from the LGBT API community for a new documentary project…
We are hoping to find and show real stories to illustrate what it means to be LGBT and of Asian & Pacific Island descent in today's society.
If you are willing to be on camera, WE WANT TO HEAR YOUR STORY.
For instance, are you…
* Planning on introducing your partner to your family for the first time?
* Facing discrimination within the gay community?
* Having a difficult time dating someone with the same background as you?
* Having a difficult time dating people from different backgrounds?
* OR tell us any other stories/journeys that you feel are relevant to this topic.
PLEASE E-MAIL US AT: logoasian@mtvstaff.com
*Be sure to include your name and full contact information in your note (address, phone, e-mail, and best times to reach you). Tell us as much as you can about what your story is and what would happen if our cameras documented your life.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Thank you ~ The Logo Team
Now, hey, that's great that there is frank discourse and that the LGBT community is getting a well deserved national voice with this new station. I also think that the idea of focusing on being LGBT from different ethnic standpoints is a great idea because the experience would be different for everybody. However....and this is the part I really disagree with....is that everyone assumes that I'm gay. I haven't seen the one girl in years...no wonder I didn't get laid in college! Fine. I subscribe to Elle Decor. Fine. I use product in my hair every day. Fine. I hate the way pleated pants fall and how my jeans hang on me. Fine. I sometimes find myself muttering "This years Christian Lacroix's pret a porter fall line looks like it was stolen from meth-head bag ladies". Fine.
revelation
five to seven business days
ridiculous
That's how long they say it's going to take to change my new phone line's voicemail from four to six rings. What kind of technology are they using? Are they using small time machines inside the phones that makes the voicemail think there's only been four rings when there has actually been six? Oh really? Well, then nevermind, if that's the case then five days seems pretty reasonable...especially since they have to invent that technology. Sorry, fellas, good luck with that. And hey, why don't you go ahead and take the full seven days, 'kay? xoxo
Alium
Alium - the latin name used to refer to the ornamental varieties of flowering onion.
Nothin too exciting today. My to do list is ridiculous and it seems i get nothing done. I am also super sleepy today and yes, i just fell asleep and drooled on myselft. pure genius.
I'm also trying to figure out what I want to do in my new house to make it look nicer. This week, the last of the roommates will be moving in, so i'll have a better idea of what the place will look like.
aww crap...my tivo was delivered to my front door but i won't be there for two days. gotta go.
So, I have trouble eating healthily....in fact it's downright criminal what I eat. Here's a bunch of pretty easy recipes that are fairly healthy.
mardi, juillet 12, 2005
Spasm
Last night I went to a pretty good show at the high noon. The first guy (can't remember his name) sang "Oh Comely" originally by Neutral Milk Hotel which is one of my favorite songs and then played the clarinet....automatically in my good book. Then Canasta came on afterwards and I really liked their set; and maybe we'll see them in Chicago this weekend. But....the most entertaining portion of the evening was the two sole figures on the dancefloor. I'm not sure where they bought their rhythm from, but I AM pretty sure it's broke. They better get that shit fixed before they stand in front of a roomfull of people. wow, that was painful...and funny.
Continuance of my flickr obsession: Sigur Ros on Flickr!
I thought it was a joke: The new Harper's Ipod has got to be the strangest idea ever.....and I quote "and each unit comes preloaded with high-resolution photos of every writer whose work has appeared in the magazine during Lewis's long tenure". What the hell? worst. idea. ever.
lundi, juillet 11, 2005
Phenomena
1) Roomba vs Cleaning Lady
My new place is far from as clean as I would like it. I really haven't put the time into it, however. Though, over the long run, I wonder if hiring a person to clean our house (yes, I know, it's sexist of my to call them "cleaning ladies") would help at all. I think perhaps just once a month for the kitchen and the bathrooms. The other thing I'm tossing around....mostly because i like throwing money away (btw, only i can say that, if anyone else does, I take horrible offense)......is getting a roomba; many people say these guys are great. I will continue to resarch this. i'm sure you're all waiting on the edge of your seats. You're tortured.
2) Flickr: I love flickr, I think it's a great idea and I think digital imaging is changing the way we see the world. For example, on 7/7 I was able to see first hand accounts of the damage, the people, and how it affected life. I was hoping for a flurry of activity about the tour de france....unfortunately all I got was alot of this.
However, there is one german guy posting some good pics here....and he has some random pictures of a parade and beach volleyball (mmmm).
3) Other:
A million and one uses for google maps at lifehacker. some of them are very rad.
Soap Box
Alright, a few weeks ago, the ten best albums of the past twenty years as decided by Spin magazine were announced. Yes, yes, I know...sure, all of them are seminal albums in certain genres....but some of them are dated and when i look at this list, I only get really excited about a handful of them. I guess everyone has their own choices, but you know that these were all picked by mid 30's editors that listened to this stuff in college.
the spin list:
1 Radiohead - OK Computer
2 Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
3 Nirvana - Nevermind
4 Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted
5 The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
6 Pixies - Surfer Rosa
7 De La Soul - 3 Feet High And Rising
8 Prince - Sign O' The Times
9 PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me
10 NWA - Straight Outta Compton
The MSNBC list in response to the spin article actually has alot more interesting picks (please don't ever tell anyone that i agree with MSNBC's picks for anything).
1) Public Enemy - fear of a black planet
2) Indigo girls- s/t
3) Joshua Tree - U2
4) Graceland - Paul Simon
5) Pearljam - Ten
6) Unplugged Nirvana - Nirvana
7) Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys
8) Harvest Moon - Neil Young
9) American Recordings - Johnny Cash
10) Rattle and Hum - U2
11) 3 Feet High and Rising - De La Soul
12) Hounds of Hell - Kate Bush
13) OK Computer - Radiohead
14) Exile in Guyville - liz phair
15) Low end theory - tribe
16) fear of fours- lamb
17) Tindersticks - s/t
18 ) Le Tigre - s/t
19) Turn on the Bright Lights - Interpol
20) Debut - Bjork
21) If you're feeling sinister - B and S
22) Emperor Tomato Ketchup - Stereolab
23) Entroducing - Dj Shadow
about 7 more that i skipped because i didn't like them; get over it.
I would have to spend a while thinking about what my top ten would be. I'm sure I will be doing that for the next 48 hours....great. Wait...something's different....did I just lose all my street cred cuz I said I liked Graceland? Dang.
snooze
Ugh, another day of difficulty getting out of bed. My roommates are gonna kill me soon becaue of the snooze. Is it really my fault? I say emphatically, NO! The fault is societies and affirmative action, and el nino, and global warming, and al Qaeda, and communism, and especially the stupid washing machine that was set to soak so i had to wait for it to finish before i put it in the dryer. Why the hell is there a soak function anyway? stupid.
Check out the Intonation line up, it's crazy good. I hope to you both there next weekend.
www.pitchforkmedia.com (click on the icon/add to the left).
I gotta start putting pictures in this, it's fairly boring, sorry.
Links:
Really funny review of the fantastic 4 movie toys:
creepy but cool pics of people meshed with their pics as a child http://www.bobbyneeladams.com/age.html
Dang cingular, i knew things were jacked up with my phone:
The biggest containership in the world is awesome and only has a crew of 19:
Interesting but sometimes disturbing blog about secrets:
http://postsecret.blogspot.com (may be repeat from previous)
dimanche, juillet 10, 2005
Simple Life
There are a few basic things that are just marvelous when they occur:
1) A Good Bowel Movement
2) Good Sleep
3) A Good Shower
4) Good Sex
5) Good food (though, i did write "foot" initially, Freudian?)
[ed note: had to put "good" in front of each of these because a "bad" version can ruin your whole day....like, for example, the cafeteria's attempt at grilled salmon...blech. Shoulda known better.)
In the past 24, and likely 36 hours, I will have had none of these. That makes me a cranky, irritable boy.
I feel that lack of all of these will make my team at work come together and unify. in rage.
1) A Good Bowel Movement
2) Good Sleep
3) A Good Shower
4) Good Sex
5) Good food (though, i did write "foot" initially, Freudian?)
[ed note: had to put "good" in front of each of these because a "bad" version can ruin your whole day....like, for example, the cafeteria's attempt at grilled salmon...blech. Shoulda known better.)
In the past 24, and likely 36 hours, I will have had none of these. That makes me a cranky, irritable boy.
I feel that lack of all of these will make my team at work come together and unify. in rage.
vendredi, juillet 08, 2005
Contact
Alright, I'll admit it. I have a really bad habit. I make eye contact with strangers. There it is. I used to live in Chicago and was really good about completely ignoring the existence of others. But here, people are all up in your grill at all times, so I figure I'd meet their smiling gaze. They're too damn friendly and too damn polite; yeah, I know, it's disgusting.
Well, usually that's the case. Today, I happened to be at work making my usual eye contact with wild abandon and recklessness. I do sometimes forget, however, that people here are crazy....no not just "I like the smell of my fingers because they remind me of chee-tos" crazy....i'm talkin certifiable crazy...I'm talkin Silence of the Lambs crazy....yep, even Fox News crazy. So I look at this dude and immediately catch my error. Whoops. I opened the crazy floodgates. Here it comes. Man, the crazy shit that this guy was spewing was really good. Aliens, and CIA, and dinosaurs... oh my!
Hey, did you know that Babe Ruth was an Alien? It's apparently true. Well, if you didn't know that, I'll bet you also didn't know that he wrestled dinosaurs! I know, it seems so logical now. That's how Korea got all the uranium [didn't know that either!]. This guy was a wealth of information, really helpful, but he did have the not so faint odor of urine and curdled milk. shucks. coulda found a new sidekick.
I need a shower now.
[ed. note: to the comment made about Seal and Klum being married with kids; was it just to point it out or is it because you disagree with me moving in on Seal's "territory"? [first of all, that's objectification of women, they should not be viewed as "territory" and why do you want their kids to be orphans? jerk.]
Well, usually that's the case. Today, I happened to be at work making my usual eye contact with wild abandon and recklessness. I do sometimes forget, however, that people here are crazy....no not just "I like the smell of my fingers because they remind me of chee-tos" crazy....i'm talkin certifiable crazy...I'm talkin Silence of the Lambs crazy....yep, even Fox News crazy. So I look at this dude and immediately catch my error. Whoops. I opened the crazy floodgates. Here it comes. Man, the crazy shit that this guy was spewing was really good. Aliens, and CIA, and dinosaurs... oh my!
Hey, did you know that Babe Ruth was an Alien? It's apparently true. Well, if you didn't know that, I'll bet you also didn't know that he wrestled dinosaurs! I know, it seems so logical now. That's how Korea got all the uranium [didn't know that either!]. This guy was a wealth of information, really helpful, but he did have the not so faint odor of urine and curdled milk. shucks. coulda found a new sidekick.
I need a shower now.
[ed. note: to the comment made about Seal and Klum being married with kids; was it just to point it out or is it because you disagree with me moving in on Seal's "territory"? [first of all, that's objectification of women, they should not be viewed as "territory" and why do you want their kids to be orphans? jerk.]
strange news
I just read a newspaper headline that read "Taliban threatens SEAL"; hmm, I know "A Kiss from A Rose" is a good song, but really is that kind of action necessary? Oh wait, isn't he dating Heidi Klum? hmm. Yeah, go get him Taliban. Heidi, you have a shoulder to cry on right here.
Off to a great start....
Hooray! It's Friday!! Okay, sure, I have to work all weekend, but whatever....it's FRIDAY!!! Anyway, today got off to a bang up start.
~0521-red lights awaken me from sleep....uh oh, did I fall asleep in "the district" again? nope, it's a beautiful sunrise.
0522-fall back asleep
0531-wake up again...why the hell does the sun have to be so bright? I get excited by how pretty it looks
0532-rummage through my room for my camera
0534-still rummaging
0537-find the camera and proceed to take a series of bleary eyed photos of the sunrise through a dirty window and forty feet of trees...brilliant
0538-fall back asleep
0545-alarm goes off, snooze
0552-snooze
0559-snooze
0606-snooze
0612-snooze
0619-snooze
0626-snooze but knock pillows off bed. fuck, might as well get up.
0630-decide to trim my goat-tee, AWW FUCK, one of my roommates (no, not you, the other one) must have switched the trim height....now i look like a friggin seventh grader trying to grow a mustache...great; gotta finish the job
0645-out of shampoo, have to use volume builder shampoo that my roommate uses (don't tell)....the last thing I need is more volume
0648-contact is acting up...oops, i think my right one just fell out! can't see out of that eye. I open a new pack and put the contact in.
0655-nope....looks like my old contact didn't fall out...still in there...with the new one....brilliant.
0700-my roommate apparently spent the night at a friends in milwaukee....he quietly sneaks up on me after I exit the bathroom....says my name...i have a small heart attack.
0715-i get to work to find out that I left my white coat at home....dangit.
The most stolen sign in Austria: Fucking A[ustria]; it's especially funny because i think the sign below it says "please slow down"; check out the list of other interestingly named locations.
A letter to the terrorists from London: We rather like it
Awesome; a sink that backlights the water to indicate water temperature [and a cool ultra-mod design]
jeudi, juillet 07, 2005
Monkey house
Today just blows....there's nothin else to it except that. Everybody is sooo damn needy today. Get off my teet, yo! You can't expect me to carry all y'alls sorry asses all day. Hmmm, random rambling about situations that are nebulously described...yes, this is what the internet is for. Does anybody know about the London bombings? What a horrible disaster. Has anyone claimed responsibility? You know, I know that it is completely horrible, but after the initial shock, I still think in the back of my mind "It's no September 11th"....I know, I'll go to hell for that.
Really sad photo's on Flickr's london bomb blast pool and the guardian has a great blog about it; and even the wiki is pretty comprehensive
Lighter stuff:
Are you sure he's not an jackass?
What do 500 nude sunbathers look like? Like this....exactly like maggots....ewww.
Director's top ten movie lists.
I like this watch, though it would look dumb on me. I'll be cool enough for a nixon some day. some day.
If this were a little cheaper, I'd prolly get this picture frame prefab gallery.
mercredi, juillet 06, 2005
One more thing...
Just to relate to you how ridiculous my life is, in the past ten minutes, I have humiliated myself not once, but twice. I have a penchant for ridiculous situations; I must secretly crave them...since what else am i going to blog about, right?
The following scenarios are as follows, the characters have been changed to protect the moderately embarrassed.
Scenario 1:
Some guy decides to go to the bathroom. He picks the men's room right near his new office. It's a full sized men's room that is fairly clean. That should have tipped him off right there. He DID think as he was walking in "it's weird that a full sized men's room would be down a hallway with 98% women working there." but that thought quickly dissipated as the wonderful, nay, delicious smell of the urinal cakes wafted his way. He siddled up smugly to the urinal, noting that he didn't have to lean in from several feet away to avoid the poorly aimed drops that usually litter the floor around the urinal. The bathroom was empty, too; an added bonus because he didn't have to stand next to anyone; he has intimacy issues, you know. Everything was going great, he was thinking of clever things to scrawl on the clean walls above the urinals. But mid-stream, that's when it happened. The door opened and two female secretaries march right in. The catch me...erm, him.... out of the corner of their eye and their conversation abruptly stops. He franticly throws his shoulder into the wall to block their view of his glorious monument. They act like nothing happened and both silently enter stalls. He hurries the last little bit....quickly washes his hands (he HAD to, or else it would have just compounded the problem) and quickly exits hoping that everything will blow over. Just great. Apparently, the invisible agreement to make this a unisex bathroom was not relayed to me. I did NOT get the memo.
Scenario 2:
Some guy, hurrying back from the bathroom, is stopped by another secretary down the hall, only a few feet from the safe refuge of his private, ridicule-less office. He chats with her, hoping to get out of the hallway as soon as he can. She's a jokester and keeps telling me....oops, him...the most ridiculous jokes. She's part way through some other ridiculous sentence, meanwhile, his head is racing to try to think of a way out of this situation. He's not paying any attention to what she's saying, but something deep in his head picks something up. "I'm sorry, excuse me? I didn't catch that." he says puzzled. She says with a slight smirk, "I said "The horse is out of the barn, I think". I [he] look[s] down towards my [his] pants.
The horse is out of the barn, indeed.
sigh.
More links as I search for my dignity; it's in here somewhere:
He always wears the prettiest of skirts:
http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20050704/capt.wvgh10207041434.bush_wvgh102.jpg
The top sites according to TIME as i promised earlier:
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1072872,00.html
McDonalds re-design of their uniforms; in a related story, MC Hammer will be designing the local hospital scrubs.
http://money.cnn.com/2005/07/05/news/fortune500/mcdonalds_uniforms/index.htm?cnn=yes
The following scenarios are as follows, the characters have been changed to protect the moderately embarrassed.
Scenario 1:
Some guy decides to go to the bathroom. He picks the men's room right near his new office. It's a full sized men's room that is fairly clean. That should have tipped him off right there. He DID think as he was walking in "it's weird that a full sized men's room would be down a hallway with 98% women working there." but that thought quickly dissipated as the wonderful, nay, delicious smell of the urinal cakes wafted his way. He siddled up smugly to the urinal, noting that he didn't have to lean in from several feet away to avoid the poorly aimed drops that usually litter the floor around the urinal. The bathroom was empty, too; an added bonus because he didn't have to stand next to anyone; he has intimacy issues, you know. Everything was going great, he was thinking of clever things to scrawl on the clean walls above the urinals. But mid-stream, that's when it happened. The door opened and two female secretaries march right in. The catch me...erm, him.... out of the corner of their eye and their conversation abruptly stops. He franticly throws his shoulder into the wall to block their view of his glorious monument. They act like nothing happened and both silently enter stalls. He hurries the last little bit....quickly washes his hands (he HAD to, or else it would have just compounded the problem) and quickly exits hoping that everything will blow over. Just great. Apparently, the invisible agreement to make this a unisex bathroom was not relayed to me. I did NOT get the memo.
Scenario 2:
Some guy, hurrying back from the bathroom, is stopped by another secretary down the hall, only a few feet from the safe refuge of his private, ridicule-less office. He chats with her, hoping to get out of the hallway as soon as he can. She's a jokester and keeps telling me....oops, him...the most ridiculous jokes. She's part way through some other ridiculous sentence, meanwhile, his head is racing to try to think of a way out of this situation. He's not paying any attention to what she's saying, but something deep in his head picks something up. "I'm sorry, excuse me? I didn't catch that." he says puzzled. She says with a slight smirk, "I said "The horse is out of the barn, I think". I [he] look[s] down towards my [his] pants.
The horse is out of the barn, indeed.
sigh.
More links as I search for my dignity; it's in here somewhere:
He always wears the prettiest of skirts:
http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20050704/capt.wvgh10207041434.bush_wvgh102.jpg
The top sites according to TIME as i promised earlier:
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1072872,00.html
McDonalds re-design of their uniforms; in a related story, MC Hammer will be designing the local hospital scrubs.
http://money.cnn.com/2005/07/05/news/fortune500/mcdonalds_uniforms/index.htm?cnn=yes
Noontime Food
Well, it's been three years since I've been at this job....and honestly, I think today is the first time in that long that I was able to sit peacefully, without interruptions with a full meal in front of me and finish eating. It was wonderful, really; I don't have the words to describe it. And frankly, I'm moderately aroused now because of it. Oh wait, sorry.... I think I will call this mid-day meal "lunch"....feel free to use it at will.
Anyway, nothing too exciting going on today; apparently, now that i moved into my new apartment, both myself and my current roommate have turned into housecats. It seems that we both end up napping our days away randomly throughout the apartment. Maybe we need a carbon monoxide monitor? Nah.
So, because I had this lunch time, I was able to find possibly the greatest brief summary of major American Historical events: the graphics are low budget, but it does a great job of going through major events.
Yep, stormtrackers are crazy dorks; but their pictures are ridiculous:
Useful advertising, for chi-chi's salsa no less! A surprisingly good food term glossary: i always wondered what zwieback was.
Moderately disturbing flash media of a woman falling and hitting immovable spheres on the way down: somehow it's strangely addicting, i can't stop watching her. the flash on the right follows your mouse movements:
Dangit, I wish i had this BEFORE july 4th, all the pictures I took look like i was having a seizure during the pictures: How to take pictures of fireworks
lundi, juillet 04, 2005
Now for something completely different
So, I'm withdrawing from the internet, but there a few links I've found in my frantic sprint through all the sites I usually go to:
Cycling: The tour started this past weekend, but I haven't been able to follow it. Though I did go for two rides this week (i cannot ride alone apparently, by the way, taking left turns are too scary). But here is a site for adventure touring, some of these routes are just crazy. I can't wait to get more miles under me before I try one of these.
On being a Doctor and a complete Freakshow: I just loved this site about how Apeshit Crazy Tom Cruise is. I actually do think he's a pretty good actor, but it just goes to show you that the people that are in entertainment and that we try to glean as much advice from, are complete morons. There, I said it, and I'll stand behind it.
Another chapter in the lewd but funny Ann Coulter lover series. Did he just write "It’s not how the meat bounces on the girl; it’s how the girl bounces on the meat"? and "it’s a little like trying to fuck a mechanical bull"? Did he just use the terms "uterus poker" and "Intelligent design"? Blech. Definitely not safe for work, and not safe for Fox News watchers.
(And by the same guy, those old Love is cartoons...slightly different...http://theendofhumor.blogspot.com/)
Man, I can only wish my blog was as good as this one.
The suicide girls interview chuck palahnuick.
An interview with Washingtonienne on Gothamist...apparently one of my friends wants to be just like her. We all need dreams I guess.
If anybody happens to be in oh, i dunno, chicago this weekend, here are some non-firework events: http://centerstagechicago.com/recreation/african-carib-fest.html or http://centerstagechicago.com/music/clubs/lakeview-fest.html (which I've been to twice, and it is fun) and especially for the vegetarians: http://www.ribfest.net/
My advice, buy a damn corkscrew: how to open a bottle of wine without a corkscrew
Post it note mosaics. very cool.
Cycling: The tour started this past weekend, but I haven't been able to follow it. Though I did go for two rides this week (i cannot ride alone apparently, by the way, taking left turns are too scary). But here is a site for adventure touring, some of these routes are just crazy. I can't wait to get more miles under me before I try one of these.
On being a Doctor and a complete Freakshow: I just loved this site about how Apeshit Crazy Tom Cruise is. I actually do think he's a pretty good actor, but it just goes to show you that the people that are in entertainment and that we try to glean as much advice from, are complete morons. There, I said it, and I'll stand behind it.
Another chapter in the lewd but funny Ann Coulter lover series. Did he just write "It’s not how the meat bounces on the girl; it’s how the girl bounces on the meat"? and "it’s a little like trying to fuck a mechanical bull"? Did he just use the terms "uterus poker" and "Intelligent design"? Blech. Definitely not safe for work, and not safe for Fox News watchers.
(And by the same guy, those old Love is cartoons...slightly different...http://theendofhumor.blogspot.com/)
Man, I can only wish my blog was as good as this one.
The suicide girls interview chuck palahnuick.
An interview with Washingtonienne on Gothamist...apparently one of my friends wants to be just like her. We all need dreams I guess.
If anybody happens to be in oh, i dunno, chicago this weekend, here are some non-firework events: http://centerstagechicago.com/recreation/african-carib-fest.html or http://centerstagechicago.com/music/clubs/lakeview-fest.html (which I've been to twice, and it is fun) and especially for the vegetarians: http://www.ribfest.net/
My advice, buy a damn corkscrew: how to open a bottle of wine without a corkscrew
Post it note mosaics. very cool.
The Fidelity Wars
I am hungry. I am always hungry. It's likely because I haven't eaten a decent meal in the past two days. Last night, I planned to have this really great dinner, but one of my new roommates (no, not you, the other one) wanted to go see a movie. Shit, I'm usually always game to see a movie. I haven't seen so many in the past few weeks though cuz it's been really busy (though I did see batman returns and really liked it). Hey, maybe I'll watch mean streets again from netfilx today. Ooops, sorry, i'll try to stay focused. So, anyway, I end up going to this movie and being Sunday night, all the food places (in some cultures, these are also known as "restaurants") were closed. Jerks. So I end up going to this movie hungry. Not good.
I have been out of the loop (see previous posts re:"lack of internet" and "really busy") and hadn't heard of the movie but it was called "My Summer of Love". I was told it was a "coming of age" film, it was foreign and had two cute girls in it that fall in love. Nuff said, I can read between the lines; my roommate expected loads of girl on girl action, and hey, i can't say that i'm above that...so there we are.
And true to form, it did have two girls fall in love, and there was some partial nudity. And sure, one of the girls I found to be ridiculously beautiful. But, during the course of the whole movie, I was really kind of annoyed at the idyllic and pastoral love affair of the rich girl back from school and the kinda dirty low down Yorkshire girl with the ex-con brother that recently found Jesus. Ugh. on and on. the lesbians in the theatre bubbly over the derogatory remarks about the characters previous boyfriend; the hippie book club women to our right, giddy over the whole love affair and I dunno...the blooming of the yoni or something. For fuck sake. I thought the characters were trite and boring and actually hoped for more nudity just to take my mind off it. But then [**spoiler alert**]in the last THREE MINUTES of the movie, everything falls apart and the "saved" brother beats his sister up and rejects the Lord, the "poor girl" then goes to the "rich girl's" house to find that everything she has told her was a lie, they meet out in the forest at their secret spot to make up and the "poor girl" tries to murder the "rich girl", then walks home more self assured than at any other point in the movie. Now THAT's a better ending than the "Thelma and Louise" ending I was picturing. Well, it did better at the end, but I can't say i'd recommend the movie as a whole. Yep, I'm really on my soapbox today.
I have been out of the loop (see previous posts re:"lack of internet" and "really busy") and hadn't heard of the movie but it was called "My Summer of Love". I was told it was a "coming of age" film, it was foreign and had two cute girls in it that fall in love. Nuff said, I can read between the lines; my roommate expected loads of girl on girl action, and hey, i can't say that i'm above that...so there we are.
And true to form, it did have two girls fall in love, and there was some partial nudity. And sure, one of the girls I found to be ridiculously beautiful. But, during the course of the whole movie, I was really kind of annoyed at the idyllic and pastoral love affair of the rich girl back from school and the kinda dirty low down Yorkshire girl with the ex-con brother that recently found Jesus. Ugh. on and on. the lesbians in the theatre bubbly over the derogatory remarks about the characters previous boyfriend; the hippie book club women to our right, giddy over the whole love affair and I dunno...the blooming of the yoni or something. For fuck sake. I thought the characters were trite and boring and actually hoped for more nudity just to take my mind off it. But then [**spoiler alert**]in the last THREE MINUTES of the movie, everything falls apart and the "saved" brother beats his sister up and rejects the Lord, the "poor girl" then goes to the "rich girl's" house to find that everything she has told her was a lie, they meet out in the forest at their secret spot to make up and the "poor girl" tries to murder the "rich girl", then walks home more self assured than at any other point in the movie. Now THAT's a better ending than the "Thelma and Louise" ending I was picturing. Well, it did better at the end, but I can't say i'd recommend the movie as a whole. Yep, I'm really on my soapbox today.
Independance day
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Alright, I figured I should just stop the last post where it lay. Anyway, I'm living in this new house and unfortunately don't yet have broadband access. Sux. And this place is so damn old, I'm not sure where the ports or the boxes are for the utilities. However, in anticipation of getting TV for the first time in 2 years, I have decided that I would like to maximize time wastage by getting TiVO (nay, I think it will minimize time wastage and cut out the fat, only the gravy for me from now on). I feel like i'm behind the times without it...i can't let that happen, right? I mean, embracing technology and adopting early is the crux of what makes America great. Our country was founded on not only the strength of our forefathers arms, but also on their technological acumen. The greatest inventions of man have been created in this young, august country of ours. We shall NOT forget this as we celebrate our independence today not just from the tyranny of other countries, but the torpidity of the "status-quo mindset".
Yeah, all that, and I have to figure out if I can set the TiVO to record anything that has "nudity" in it's rating warning.
Alright, I figured I should just stop the last post where it lay. Anyway, I'm living in this new house and unfortunately don't yet have broadband access. Sux. And this place is so damn old, I'm not sure where the ports or the boxes are for the utilities. However, in anticipation of getting TV for the first time in 2 years, I have decided that I would like to maximize time wastage by getting TiVO (nay, I think it will minimize time wastage and cut out the fat, only the gravy for me from now on). I feel like i'm behind the times without it...i can't let that happen, right? I mean, embracing technology and adopting early is the crux of what makes America great. Our country was founded on not only the strength of our forefathers arms, but also on their technological acumen. The greatest inventions of man have been created in this young, august country of ours. We shall NOT forget this as we celebrate our independence today not just from the tyranny of other countries, but the torpidity of the "status-quo mindset".
Yeah, all that, and I have to figure out if I can set the TiVO to record anything that has "nudity" in it's rating warning.
Off the grid/At the Summer Home
Greetings! Well, I know both of you are at a wedding, so my readership is currently zero; however, I thought I would restart posting! Yes, excitement all around. Maybe soon I will also restart exercising? Meh.
So, I was just thinking the other day that my life has completely changed in the past few days. I've moved into a new house that completely reminds me of a summer home (because when it was built in 1915 it WAS a summer home). I now have roommates(!). I started a new job that I didn't think was going to be as different as it is. I'm driving a new car now, too. Oh, and I also realize that I'm gay....with roommates(!). Ha ha, just kidding...the readership just got rilly nervous. Wait...would you have a problem with that? Why couldn't you [hypothetically] accept me for who I am? Jerks. I'm changing the locks. And you SO can't borrow my Neutrogena Deep Cleaning Face Cloths.
So, I was just thinking the other day that my life has completely changed in the past few days. I've moved into a new house that completely reminds me of a summer home (because when it was built in 1915 it WAS a summer home). I now have roommates(!). I started a new job that I didn't think was going to be as different as it is. I'm driving a new car now, too. Oh, and I also realize that I'm gay....with roommates(!). Ha ha, just kidding...the readership just got rilly nervous. Wait...would you have a problem with that? Why couldn't you [hypothetically] accept me for who I am? Jerks. I'm changing the locks. And you SO can't borrow my Neutrogena Deep Cleaning Face Cloths.
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