09:48 am - bored to death, not the tv show ive been really bored lately. there has been some excitement, but overall... boring. i've been reading a lot but ever since finishing Homicide (aka BEST BOOK EVER) Gomorrah (whcih i was suppppper excited to read) has been kinda boring. It's not bad by any means, but it's translated from italian and has a funky kind of style to it. and lots and lots of similes haha. Not quite the perfection of the prose of David Simon. Oh well.
Saturday was pretty fun though, aside from being late and hitting razy traffic. Jenn got some really great portraits of Ashleigh and I can't wait to help set up her new site. I also wish I lived in Santa Ana. I mean, not really... I'm not sure I can live in OC (maybe?) but man, Jenn's place is SO NICE and SO BIG and the same price we pay for a 1BR here... and her complex has ducks! and blue water! hahaha
You always know it's bad times when you get really, really excited about the FedEx guy making a viist. Saturday when we got home we found a "we missed you!" tag on our door from FedEx Home Delivery (waht exactly is the difference?!). I have NO idea what it could be and of course my dreams run wild - a tv! but why would someone ship us a tv and me not know about it? I waited all day monday.. waiitng... excited.. hoping... and it never came! Then i realized it said on the note that FedEx Home Deliver (FEHD from here on out) doesn't deliever on mondays! And I looked up the "Door Tag" number and it said it's 5 pounds and was shipped from Sun Valley , CA... THE MYSTERY CONTINUES!!!!
I turned down going to a dodger game last nigth because i was too tired and cant afford the $15 to park. I got my last unemployement checck but i am expecting my 2nd extension to start but its that limbo time between getting the last check and waiting for the letter to say "ok, extended!"... whcih I hope i get.. um.. soon. Because while I really want a job, I really don't want to work at like.. trader joes again and never see ashleigh or baseball or friends (which i do ALL THE TIME).
08:42 am - nards and cards i really want to write about my honeymoon here... just to write down and review all the places we saw and went to eat. yes, it may be painful for you to read (and me to re-read) btu i think it would be cool. of course, these big "projects" never get done but its good to want to do them, right?
In other news, I've finally started to hit up the Culver City library in the last few months. I just finished reading Homicide by David Simon. It's one of those "could be great could be boring" kind of books that was AMAZING and not boring at all. incredibly well written in an engaging yet elevated way. super interesting characters, lots of humor.... one of the most enjoyable books i've read for a long time. Next up on my list is Gomorrah, about the Napoli mafia. Woo.
Other books I've read so far this summer: Manhunt (the one about Lincoln's assassination) Generation Kill Kitchen Confidential (By Anthony Bourdain) A Cooks Tour (also by Bourdain... both books are pretty fantastic! i learned a lot and they werent cheeseball or anything. legit, real reading) Freakonomics There are most definitely more but I just cant think of it at the moment. Reading is great. I hate how I read in waves....
11:26 am - re-up like most livejournals, mine has been sitting stagnet. hardly anyone ever posts and even few seem to visit. it's an easy thing to ignore and i've been pretty busy so i've ignored it. but it's kind of a shame that large chunks of my life are not written down. so i'm going to try to do it more.
things that happened in hte last year: I got married went to kauai for honeymoon and want to move there started a blog at http://booyamix.blogspot.com that I post a daily music video and a monthly mix cd school has been sucking, as usual but i'm getting close to the finish line.
yesterday, i spent the day straining myself, trying to spit out 15 script pages for my writers group on thursday (our deadline is sunday at midnight). it was a struggle (as I don't really have an outline, wasn't even sure what i wanted the "bad guy" to be, and had my previous polished and done script get rejected from two screenplay contests in the first round.. not a lot of confidence there). but i ultimately got it done. not hte best 15 pages, but 15 pages none the less.
my cat bobby has been having ear problems. a few weeks ago his ear puffed up and we found out it was a hematoma. we had it drained but it came back within a few hours. so we had the surgery in which they clean it out and restitch it but after a few days the stitches came out and it came back. now the stitches are on much better but they had to redo the surgery. huge pain. but recently, i have been only leaving the house at the bare minimium (groceries, class once a week, writers workshop every 2 weeks) and i have been finding myself with a real close (and crazy cat lady-like) connection with my cats.
that is all for now. hopefully i won't wimp out on posting more often. Current Music: Quiero Que Me Quieras by Gael Garcia // Slough Jams 9/2009
10:12 am - microupdate getting married friday. going to Kauai from sunday to monday. still have a giant assignment (and a smaller group assignment) due in about five hours. my super nice, just over a year old (and out of warranty) imac has stopped working, i think its the hard drive. things are pretty stressful as you might guess. if i make it thru today, i'm cool thou.
everyone, in the meantime, should check out my new blog. every month i post a new "BOOYA" mix. there's some great stuff so you should check it out. i've posted a few here before but this is the new go to place:
04:55 pm - SLOUGH JAMS March 2009 download my mix! check out the mix i made! i should post the previous ones i've made also. please download and let me know what you think!!!!
1. Pick a Piper - Rooms 2. Pitbull ft. Lil Jon - Krazy 3. Warren Zevon - Even A Dog Can Shake Hands 4. West African Instrumental Quintet - Adersu No. 2 5. Asher Roth - I Love College 6. Phoenix - Lisztomania 7. Daler Mehndi - Dardi Rab Rab Kardi 8. Aceyalone - To The Top (Remix) 9. Morphine - Honey White 10. The Black Seeds - Dance Dance 11. Groupe El Azhar - Mazal Nesker Mazal (I'm Still Getting Drunk... Still) 12. Jonathan Richman - I'm Young 13. Röyksopp - Happy Up Here 14. Ween - Friends 15. Alex Konadu - W'awu Do Ho No 16. Pavement - Roll With The Wind (Roxy) 17. Brokencyde - FreaXXX 18. K'naan ft. Chubb Rock - K'naan 19. Van Shipley - Ghar Ki Murgi (From "Street Singer" 1967) 20. Parry Gripp - Cat Yawning 21. Daze - Tamagotchi 22. The Shins - Wipe My Butt 23. Andrew WK - Don't Call Me Andy 24. The Night Marchers - Love, Death, Cellphones 25. John Coltrane - Song of the Underground Railroad
i also really need to write about my time in tucson, which was awesome. sonoran hot dogs rule my world. oh and script frenzy starts soon! boom! anyone else participating??
10:00 pm - super recap bros this weekend has been the most social weekend ever and full of strange and crazy adventures/stuff.
friday were at the westside pavilion... where the sees candy is.. i owed ashleigh some candy from valentines day. its kinda expensive but it was a special occasion and what not so i got her saw. the store was closing. there was one other customer, an older lady tourist who was ordering a bunch to ship to her home, plus a box of stuff for her to have now. ashleigh ordered her custom made one pound box. i paid. and we started to leave when we realized... the box was gone. the other lady took it! so the employees ran around trying to find her, couldnt, and then started to make us another box. then she got kicked out of Macy's because it was closing (where she was trying to escape unseen!) and had to walk by sees. we saw her, they chased after her and we ended up going home paying for one box but getting an extra half of a box free, at least. kinda hilarious and funny.
friday night i met up with a bunch of old emerson comedy friends. kurt, erik, john ford, geoffrey, jeb, jake, etc etc etc. it was at this small divey bar full of riff raff. we were to meet at 10pm there. so i left at 1030pm because i didnt want to be the first person there. i was the first person there. awkward city. how do people go to bars? seriously? its so awkward man. but they showed up and we hung out, caught up and did karaoke. it was a blast. i ended up doing Screaming Infidelities by Dashboard Confessional and uh... it didnt go over too well. no one knew it and didnt find it as hilarious as i do. then i did Fast Food Rockers and BOOM! it brought the house down. hell yeah. everyone else was hilarious. some 60 year old tiny old lady punk rocker tried to hook dan cohen up with her dreadlocked friend who did an MIA karaoke. hilarious.plus one of the tvs had infomericals on all night. entertaining. then afterwards, we hung in the parking lot and talked about random nerdy things, which is always fun.
saturday, willi drove down from SF and we spend the afternoon/evening eating burritos, drinking coke from the bottle, and just general catching up and hanging out. willi and i lived together in cambridge for a year and a half back when i was at emerson and we always got along really well. true bros. it was a great time catching up, seriously.
then today he came back over. today was my fantasy baseball draft, and he is also a part of it, along with a ton of other rad dudes, and we drafted while drinking coke from the bottle, watching italian soccer and WBC baseball. the draft was insanely intense because there were a ton of teams, NL-only, and not enough players. gonna be a very interesting fantasy baseball year....
and tonight indian food was one of the best nights its been for a long time. mmm veggie ball, mushrooms, chick peas, and jackfruit. yum yum yum.
we also booked our honeymoon last week. we are going to kauaii which will be super nice and fun and realxing and great. im excited for the shrimp trucks. i also bought my suit for the wedding.
i want to buy new shoes, but they are so expensive now!
someone stole my debit card number. spent $200 at Wal-Mart. seriously, how does one use a debit card without the actual card at a walmart? and why only spend $200?? i woulda bought a TV, seriously!
theres prolly ton more to catch up on, but flight of the conchords should be on in a min. ashleigh is awesome, but i say that often here. im going to need a job soon. and i need a new debit card. and im going to tuscon arizona this weekend and i hopefully will get to a baseball game or two. we'll see.
im still alive. been busy, kinda. currently working on a new script. excited for baseball. setting up fantasy baseball league. all that kinda stuff. i should start writing in here again but i always say that. this video is AMAZING> your welcome.
11:49 am - big nerd i said i was gonna update this more, with little moments of my day. but i havent been. bad bad bad.
here is waht i remember:
after taking the CSET, as a way to 'reward' myself, i went to the new $1 Book Store, which is kinda amazing. its this huge room between an OfficeMax and a CVS. it has overly tall ceilings. handwritten sheets of paper are used to show what type of books are where but really, its just a huge mess. the only real way to find anything is to search thru all the thousands of books. as someone who worked in a bookstore, this is a bit of a nightmare. regardless, i turned it inot a fun treasure hunt and i cameout with this:
The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Prose and Poetry by Stephen Crane (i own a copy of Red Badge somewhere but i have no idea where... it must be with my copy of Moby Dick and the Mothras live at che cafe videotape... plus this copy has a bunch of Crane's short work which i LOVE).
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories by Mark Twain
The Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes
Oresteia (Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides) by Aschylus (trans. Richmond Lattimore).
Oedipus Cycle by Sophocles (as i flip thru this, i realize a large chunk of pages just fell out. BOOOOO)
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel by Nikos Kazantzakis (this is giant and maybe ONE DAY i will finally tackle it)
overall, I would say not too bad for $6.... can't remember the last time i really bought myself anything anyways....
What else has been going on? I've been obsessed with "put a donk on it" and the elbow dance in "pajama party" but i will spare you the links..> FOR NOW!!!! i also uploaded some of my old short films to youtube. the stuff i made 1999-2001. i'll link them here in teh future... beware!
finally watched Oldboy. it was good! Also saw Young@Heart which was great. And i think "Bad Blood" is one of hte best X-File episodes of all time. Current Music: Charles Mingus - Put Me In That Dungeon - Mingus Dynasty
11:55 pm - promises i am going to try to update a little bit everyday. it will be a challenge, but much like my daily wii fit, i dont always come thru. and with livejournal i dont have a personafied balance board yelling at me asking where i was yesterday and please at least do a body test....
also, who wii fits out there and what excercises do you ususally do? what is your routine?
yesterday i took a chunk out of my thumb on the new cheesegrater. its kinda really bad, right on my joint. bloodybloody and gross.
i read a TON of james kochalka the other day. i think i need to get on buying the books i left off on.
the townhouse across the street that i really wanted to buy (for $579,000 hahah I WISH) sold. thats disappointing.
i had a great time in SB over xmas break. finally met ryan's kid silas was AMAZING. caught up with a ton of old pals and saw some jazz jam (including a mind bending accordian led version of Giant Steps). i want to go into more details on this another time (will i?). i always want to write a year in review, filling in everyone on my life this last year. because im surprised by how many people have no idea whats going on in my life... but then again, how often do i talk to anyone these days?
is it baseball season yet?
i took the English CSET and it kicked my ass. i really hope i pass all 4 subtests but its not likely... ahhh i hope thou!!
12:17 am - blarghboom200920082007 i should write three really long LJ entries. i will start with my first one now and do the others later. its already way late so i cant write the giant one i was planning.
topic number one: BEST OF 2009!!!!!
ok, people have posted their best of 2008 lists and what not. i will do that in due time (i hope. thats part 2 and part 3 is a year in review because ive been so bad with updating lj, talking about my old jobs, engagement, and yearning for hdtv, oh and the awesome last few days in SB catching up with all my old friends that i havent seen for literal years...).
but for now, the BEST OF 2009!!!
Best album of 2009:
ANDREW WK - "THE JAPAN COVERS" this album is AMAZING! andrew wk rocking out as usual, power synths, party vocals, etc... but he is covering a bunch of japanese pop and rock and what not music. it's really, really amazing.
Best movie I've seen in 2009:
THE FOOT FIST WAY this movie was hilarious and well done. it had a Napolean Dynamite vibe to it - lowkey, quirkly characters, weird humor but it also had a *gasp* STORY/PLOT. it did a great job of making the lead character a doofus but not too big of a doofus. actually, it was similar to the balancing act of Michael Scott on the Office. Crazy but still empathic. I really enjoyed this and laughed a good amount. Definitely check it out if you haven't already (it came out a while ago...)
Best TV of 2009:
PROPERTY VIRGINS ok, so i am obsessed with buying a house. i know this won't happen for at least a year and a half. AT LEAST. but watching this show is getting me pumped and prepped. i learn a little bit about buying houses, and at the same time i get to see COMPLETE idiots being idiots, which of course makes for great television. people getting loans for no down payments... a lady who has "plans for a home business" who was a plus sized model and says "cute-atude"... just great weird tv... i approve!
anyways... i'll cut it off there. 2009 has been good so far, even if i havent done anything really. tomorrow i have a day full of doing my group project for my group (about magnet schools huzzah), calling about my fingerprints so i can start subbing, and picking up some supplies for ashleigh's new business shes starting up. also, i need to relearn about html, blog intergrating, and all that stuff to help her with her site. OH AND I NEED TO STUDY FOR HTE CSET in ENGLISH. AHHHHH
here is a SOCCER METAPHOR to round out this post. its actually more of a SOCCER HOPEFUL FORESHADOWING, predicting/hoping for this response to this and upcoming lj posts:
01:51 pm down the street from me, about a block and a half or so at the corner next to the post office, near the bank, sony, and mrs garcias there was an empty parking lot fenced off. the last month or two, they have tore it up and are putting in a five story retail/residental building with underground parking. whenever i walk by, there is a distinct smell of Pez. it's really kinda weird.
i was sending annoying youtube videos to my friends when i noticed something really bizarre in the video up top. please ignore the horrid song and all that, but look at the bottom of the screen... like half the crowd are holding up digital cameras and camera phones. and not just for a few seconds to snap a photo, but for the WHOLE SONG. now i havent been to a concert for ages, especially not one that ahem....caters to the younguns like this (aka sucks?)... but is this becoming common place? is the new "band shirt" a youtube video of the bands hit song?
i dunno, it just freaked me out watching that video (once again, horrible song aside) and seeing so many cameras in the air for so long.
There are a lot of things we see most often in December, like caroling, potato latkes, mistletoe, mulled wine, eggnog, and returning gifts. What's your favorite holiday tradition?
Having both the door open AND the heater on (take that Al Gore! but eh, its usually in the 70's anyways...), eating tamales, and putting together legos...
11:48 pm - zone defence been zoning out like crazy the last few days. been doing a ton of wii fit to make up for gaining 5 pounds last week. running in place for 20 min is kinda redic... but cheap seats! tonight i made turkey chili for dinner and some homemade oven fries. poured that chili all over the fries. mmmmmmm. i also made pumpkin bread and some cream cheese frosting. its cooling now, we will see how it turns out!
what else? i was given a yellow sheet of paper that says OK on it... its for the culver city disaster drill! hooray! hahaha ummm im awful at lj huh. watched more mst3k, fell asleep the other day thou. i HATE falling asleep to mst3k but the other day i was sleepy and sat on the couch and that was it. also, mst3k is so comforting to me.. it does that.
i wanna bake a lot this holiday. im thinking pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, peppermint shortbread, and maybe the revenge of the snickerdoodles. what a name!
i love musicals as sketch comedy and this is pretty much the ultimate one (tied with Joke: The Musical and a nose above Fuzz: The Musical, maybe).
also, Space Mutiny was funny but not amazing. i remember it being wayyyyyy better but still, it was good :D
what else? i cant really remember. my stomach hurts a little bit. i went a week without excerising and i also overate (mostly cupcakes) and i gained five pounds. now i got to "work it".
10:37 pm - spago is french for "bloated" i really feel like i need to get back into writing in this. im sure i say this every 4 months, but i need to get back into the habit of just making small, stupid posts about random trains of thoughts and things ive done. like tonight we went to spago (for ashleighs grandparents "anniversary week", where they celebrated their anniversary at every dinner this week... even though its with the same people each time!!). im also fat. last week i messed up my wii fit schedule when i spent 3 days straight trying to do all the work for my group project for school. then thanksgiving hit and ashleigh and i made a giant dinner for 10 people. i baked my first pies and they seemed to come out well. so that was cool. we also picked out our wedding bands but i gotta wait forever till i can wear mine! tungsten is pretty hardcore!
in other news, ive been watching MST3k like crazy. lately ive been in a bit of a Joel mood, mainly because ive seen so much of Mike and the later episodes and the Joel stuff is much more distant in my past... Teenagers from Outer Space is prolly the best one ive seen lately. Mmmm lobster! ;D
People who still read this journal (who are you?), what are some MST3k episodes you really liked, and which ones should i watch next (joel OR mike!)? I'm thinking Fugitive Alien, but im not sure why (aside from japanese 80's star wars rip off cheese....). I also got all 4 seasons of Cheap Seats. LOVE IT!
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