you can't drown a pig, you can't burn a chicken

I was at The 5 Spot with Chelsea and as we talked, I drew this on a napkin. The color was me toying with Photoshop a minute ago.

nope. still no good reason.

As I made my last post i noticed that my inclusion of those videos were based on the influence that someone in particular has had on me. That someone noticed, too. So for STILL no good reason, here are some that are independent of his persuasion.

Please watch till the end, as a favor to me.



Beautiful song, beautiful video.



Classic.




Could it be true? Indie rock is not dead?

no good reason

There really isn't a good reason for me to go "hey, here's some youtube videos I like!", but I'm doing it anyway. And they suprisingly aren't ironic. Not even the Xanadu one.

waving goodbye

The other day Jeremy touched my head and said "It's almost time." He was referring to inevitable future I face as a bald man. I think my hair is also aware of it's approaching departure and is trying to say "Good bye." Take a look at this picture:

See that little wave? My hair has always been very, very straight. I decided to stop cutting my hair, on the top anyway, until it is necessary due to it's thinning consistency. Since that decision that small wisp of a wave has shown up. I don't do it intentionally, it just happens. If I use hair gel, it may or may not happen, but if I don't it happens automatically. I like to think that this is my hair waving good bye to me.

Another one

Just enjoy it. It's short.

SuperMarketStar

I was messing around with my camera at work to do this project. It's just like an excercise to practice video stuff. I was trying to be corny, but even when I attept cheeseball-ness, it seems restrained so it's like I'm serious. Anyway, I hope I don't get fired.
oh, and ARGH, the sound doesnt synch up right.

i'm totally psychic

Last night I had some dreams. As usual I only remember fragments. I remember ordering a vodka tonic at a bar. I remember my co-worker Pete sitting with me in the audience of some event and the dad from That 70's Show was sitting in front of us. Pete was bothering him making smart-ass comments about Eric Foreman.

The only other thing I remember had to do with my friend Garrett. I was in my bedroom and I received a text message from him. It looked as if he was trying to use his T9word thing but forgot to turn it on. That is to say I could barely make out the message. I could make out a little of it. Something about "beast", which would make sense because he's in a band called "Beast, Please Be Still", and something about a spin-off band, a concept not foreign to me, what with the incestuous nature of all the bands in Arcata while I lived there. After (kind of) reading the message, I heard Garrett outside in the living room, visiting with my roommate, Cesar. I went out there and said "Garrett, you've got to learn how to text message." That's what I remember from the dream.

I woke up this morning and turned on my computer. Garrett ims me, which he hardly ever does, and he uses Windows messenger, which we never use. He tells me that he entered the movie he made about me and my friends into the Northwest Film Forum Festival. Then he tells me about "Beast Wants Eternity". This is an amalgamation of his band and another called "Joy Wants Eternity". They are trying to get a bunch of people together to play with another 30-odd member band called "Dark Meat" from Athens, GA, who he tells me has members of "Elf Power" and "Neutral Milk Hotel". He also said I should play with them.

Needless to say I was taken aback. First, I was reeling from my psychic experience, then from the star power of these indie bands, then from the opportunity to play with them (even though I don't really play anymore). However, Garrett spelled all of his instant message correctly, so I'm probably not psychic after all.

fun web stuff

Canadian illustrator Marc Ngui has done a series of intense if not cool posters for the Transportation Department of Finland, about the dangers of being distracted while driving, called "Final Thoughts."


A very design-oriented site, agrayspace.com, has put up a gallery of Polish Movie Posters. They are a lot of fun to look at. There are about 200 here, on one page, so loading may be a pain. Here are a couple for Alien and Sex, lies, and Videotape. Guess which is which.




Plan59.com is a fun site that describes itself as "THE MUSEUM (AND GIFT SHOP) OF MID-CENTURY ILLUSTRATION". They have oodles and oodles of this stuff. They recently started a blog on there called Pastelogram. I can't seem to find an rss feed thing for it. Take a look for me and tell me if I'm just an idiot.

what am i up to?

let's see...
ITEM I've moved my computer from my bedroom to the living room for a couple of reasons. My room was feeling cramped. If I have it out here, I'm more likely to clean up my beer bottles because I'll be afraid of pissing off my roommate rather than let them collect all around my computer table. Also, if I get my room cleaned up, I won't be in there as much to get it dirty again. Plus, it's cooler out here than in there.

ITEM I'm trying to change a lot of my habits. For instance, I'm going to limit myself to 2 beers a night and try to be in bed by 1am on work nights. I think the fewer beers will be easier to achieve than the bedtime.

ITEM Watched a painfully edited version of Showgirls with Jeremy. It made it pretty fun. I was impressed with the animated top they put on Elizabeth Berkley when she kicked that guy's ass.

ITEM Meditating. A lot. I just started so I'm not that good. It's difficult focusing on...nothing. Still, I feel that I'm accepting things I didn't want to accept, understanding things I didn't understand, and viewing things more objectivlier than before. I'm noticing more about myself, the causes of my problems, and hopefully soon I'll be able to focus enough to solve said problems.

ITEM Trying to stay away from the Ativan. They gave it to me to deal with taking SSRIs, but I stopped taking them. I really don't think I need them (the SSRIs). The ativan is nice, but highly addictive, so I try not to use it if at all possible. Today I took half of one lorazepam, then another half a few hours later. I had my reasons, but I have some pot now so I don't think I'll have to deal with the temptation.

ITEM Got my shave kit in the mail! I'm super excited I can't wait to shave tomorrow. I got some pre-shave oil as well. I'm going to be one slick mother fucker.

ITEM College of the Redwoods says I owe them $72 for something. I guess I'll pay them so I can get my transcripts and see if any of my credits will transfer. I'm taking the COMPASS test tomorrow and I'm planning on taking algebra. 9th grade algebra. For the third time. That and an Intro to Art class I failed about six years ago.

ITEM The Seattle Men's Chorus called me today for a fundraising drive thing. I thought I'd throw them a bone. They're getting twenty five tax-deductible dollars from me each quarter. I am now Philthy Phil Philanthropist.

ITEM I am currently opening my second beer and it's 12:54 am. So I guess it's bedtime at 1 am or when my beer's done, whichever comes latest.

ITEM Just saw a photo of Jodie Sweetin. I know she was all on meth and stuff, and I know I'm gay, but isn't she kind of hot?

ITEM Dammit, I forgot I have clothes in the laundry. Well, until next time.

more old art

I don't know why, I just feel like sharing some of this stuff tonight. This is all from high school, I think. As usual, click them to make them bigger. They're prettier that way.

This is Cesar from "The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari."


I have no idea what's going on in this one, but it probably has something to do with why I want to work in an office so badly.

This is a dude with wings. Please refrain from referring to any theology. I'm agnostic, so I assume anything you say is either right or wrong and ultimately doesn't really matter.

total geek

Click It!
I found this comic page I drew in junior high. I remember drawing it, but not the context it was in. As near as I can tell it wasn't part of any real story, the heroes liked to disable faceless soldiers on space ships but were too noble to kill them, and had no trouble flying into the vacuum of space afterwards. The heroes consist of two people made of slime, one girl made of electricity, a cyborg, a guy who could glide, a guy with a metal face and one made up of cosmic energy. Thay also seem very full of themselves. What a fun bunch.
Here's another space drawing, but i did this last year because Sagar was supposed to make a t-shirt of it. He was supposed to do three that I designed. The two others had robots. He never did...but i might still have the designs around...

paintings from last year (at least)

party video

Here's a short video of Jeremy's birthday party. He's not really in it :( When it starts I am already drunk and get progressively drunker. I seem to do nothing but annoy other party goers including Steve2, Earl Cootie and Bucko, Andrew and Chelsea. The saddest part is that the longest part is of Steve2. That's right, Steve. I find it sad. But it was the most coherent piece of footage I had.

party time

First off, photo credit to the last post goes to Earl Cootie (Sorry, I didn't know!)
Now, here are some photos of Jeremy's party:


Why so sad? Think no one will show up? Hogwash!


A bad picture of Keith and Risa. Sorry my camera is the suxxors.


Left to right: Steve1, Matt, Andrew, Bill, Blair


Bill and Kelley (It was her party, too!)


Janice and Steve2.

There were a lot more people, but that's all the photo evidence I have. If you have some, share!

Happy Birthday...

...to one of the greatest living souls to walk this earth (even if he doesnt believe in them.)

High altitudes leave him breathless.
He leaves me breathless.

art- shoeless lady

Way back when, this woman with no shoes asked us for a quarter. We said only if we could take her picture. Years later I used that picture for this illustration. I'm sure I still have the photo but I'm not going to look for it.

KC- optical illusion

You know the old illusion of "Is it an old woman, or a young woman with her head turned?" :

Well, my best friend was fond of making up his own. See if you can solve this one:

(Click to make it bigger. Hint-the hat is on the left)

how i know it's summer

Just like last year, Passions will showcase Miguel and Fox without their shirts on.

KC

"I don't want to go wherever charisma can take me."

gay lei

When my bosses bought the store I work at, one of them, the one who runs the deli, decided that Wednesday was Hawaiian Day (*shrug*). The best part about this is that they make a SPAM sandwich with pineapple, tomato, red onion and provolone. I like SPAM, but was still surprised by how much I liked this sandwich.
There were a bunch of leis around the deli area today, the deli people were wearing them. I noticed the rainbow ones because, well, I'm a fag. I decided to get a photo of me with it on for fun. I missed Gay Day, and probably wouldn't have donned a rainbow anyway, but here...a rare sight...Phil being all "pridey".

but they're cousins!

I recently shaved my beard. Jeremy shaved his a couple of days ago. I only have one picture of us together with beards and he won't let me get a new "after" picture (yet). So let me just say we look less like Brian Posehn and Steve Agee, the gay couple from The Sarah Silverman Program:

and more like Bert and Ernie, the gay couple from Sesame Street.

i take rad pictures

I went bowling last night and just had to get a picture of Chelsea when I saw her standing like this:

I really like the composition of this picture. It's something about the absurd colors and shapes on her shirt aligned with the bowling balls as well as the row of beers aligned with her head. Too bad it was my camera phone, but it's still a better picture than if I had had my regular digital camera.

Here's another of Chelsea and Nick:

so wierd

At work feeling a lot better. It's so strange, this has happened the last three days. I wake up severely depressed. As the day goes on I battle it in waves. By nine or ten pm I'm okay again feeling silly for how I felt before. Is it work related,since I get off at 10:30? Is it related to the sun? What's going on?
I think blogging about it might help me out a bit, even if no one cares to read about it. It's MY blog, dammit!
later, dudes.

marquis de sade

I signed my car over to a wrecking yard today. It makes me really sad. It also sets my goals back a bit. I loved that car. I drove it into this city when I moved here. It's for the best, but I wish it didn't have to happen while my emotions are already out of control. My stomach always hurts, like I'm about to give a speech in front of a large audience. I've felt like I've been swimming upstream since I got back from California. I thought I was over it, but I'm still having a little trouble. Yet I persevere. This, too, shall pass.

Let it be known

Gaius and Caprica 6 from Battlestar Galactica are an imitation of Irwin and Heidi Ho, the Virtual Reality Hooker from Vice Academy 5.

why i love bacon

I was cooking some last night. What does it look like to you?

i did it again

You may be surprised to see that I've shaved my beard. You should not be surprised to see that I am still remarkably handsome.

homie

I know you must be on the edge of your seats waiting for me to post about other stuff from my trip home -_-
until I get around to it, here's a video of my sister after going out with friends. It's not that interesting.

Welcome Back

I'm happy to announce that Vanilla Coke is back! They stopped making it a year and a half ago. A co-worker and I bought up as much of it as we could when we found that out. Now it's back and I'm temperately excited.
I couldn't find an image of the new label, but it's not that different. I looked for an image on the Coke website and I must say, their site is pretty lame.

oy

I always talk shit about California, but deep down I kind of thought it was just me being my usual pessimistic, cynical self. I say that I will never move back there, no matter what. I just got back from visiting my parents there not two hours ago and I have to say...it's worse than I thought. I don't want to go back ever, not even to visit my family.
The disgusting black hole that is Antioch is crammed with chain restaurants, super stores and cookie-cutter homes with no yards. It is convenience disguised as luxury, catering to people who cannot live within their means. There is not the slightest indication of any sort of culture whatsoever.
Yes there were good parts about my visit, and the first two days were fun, but the last two caused me some great anxiety, enough for me to have to go outside for air when I went to lunch with my mother. Perhaps I'll write about the good stuff (and more bad stuff) later, but now I'm venting.
If my folks want to see me again, they can come visit me here. We can go to eat at a place they think is too expensive, they can tell me how senile my grandparents are getting and what a handful my (adult)siblings are, and they can politley pretend I don't have a boyfriend.
I missed you , Seattle. You are my home.

The sound of bottles crashing is music to my ears

My best friend sent me this banner:

It's a good movement and I support it morally, but I can't say I can participate. Even when I do try to type out all my words, I'm trying to do it so fast that I misspell them all anyway.
However, I do vow never to use a certain term in the context of a blog, except this once, and that is "meme". It's a perfectly valid word, coined in the seventies by Richard Dawkins, but for some reason it bothers me in the context of blogs and internet discussion threads. Is it because I'm an elitist snob? Almost definitely. While the term bothers me, that does not mean I won't participate in what it represents. So here is my media player shuffle soundtrack:

Opening credits:Folk Implosion - Fall Into November

Waking up:Lou Barlow- Alone to decide

First day of school:Supervitesse-Conectivity!
wow, I didn't know I had this one!

Falling in love:Ed Shepp- Eat the Pussy
I shit you not. This one is Scott's fault

First song: Electric six- I'm the bomb
Scott again. Damn him.

Break up: 88 lines about 44 women

Prom:Skankin Pickle- Take a look
I like it because it would be a really terrible prom.

Driving: Animal Collective-grass
Cool! That one works great!

flashback: Sonic youth- Pacific Coast Highway
flashback to something creepy!

New realtionship: Lou BArlow- Cranky
Not a good start to a relationship

Wedding: Hungry like the Wolf- duran duran

Beer purchase: Single girl,Married girl-boontdusties(me!)
I changed this from "Birth of kittens" which was changed from "birth of baby". I'm just being silly. The song is a haunting version of the Carter Family song that I did with friends who didnt practice it with me before recording :(

final battle:Happy Mondays- 24hr party people
That would be an awesome battle!

death scene:Beatles- In my life
Aww...

funeral:madness- our house
uh...okay

End credits:She's a rainbow- Rolling stones
Perfect!

The place I ought not be

I'm flying to California next week to visit my family. California is a beautiful state in some places and I recommend visiting, if you know where to go. Do not go, however, to Antioch, regardless of what this video tells you.

What they don't tell you is that most of what they show you has been built in the last five years. When I was growing up Antioch was just a normal crappy little town. Now that part is just in the center, surrounded by hot, sterile concrete. Any part that looks pretty and scenic in that video is just yards away from a housing development and strip mall.
I am glad to see that the El Campanil Theater, where I saw movies like Ghostbusters 2 and My Girl, is no longer run by the evangelists who would do a Hell House play every halloween.
They also mention Black Diamond Mines, where my friend David's dad gave me my first beer when I was about eleven years old. He's dead now.
Just for fun, also check out this Police Department recruitment video. I once got grounded for saying "I smell bacon." while outside the police station.



You can hear a dispatcher say "behind the Regal" at one point, Regal being the multiplex movie theater. Behind it is where KC and I got stoned before seeing movies like Election and X-men. Good times.

One thing I'm looking forward to is visiting my grandparents. I think I'll get a picture with them this time.

A Public Apology

I want to apologize to anyone who was at Re-Bar this past Sunday night. I had never been there before, even though I had heard about it from my boyfriend since before he and I even met, and I'll be damned if I didn't make a most deplorable impression. The entire day was full of socializing and for me that usually means drinking. It got out of hand pretty quickly. I'm no stranger to drinking, but rarely do I get so shitfaced and embarass my man in front of people he hardly gets to see anymore, what with his unaccomidating work schedule.
Although I don't deserve it, I would ask a favor. If you see me, please do not tell me any of the details. The Catholic guilt I felt for two days is penance enough. I have a great boyfriend, I have learned from this mistake and now that I've cleared my conscience I hope I can put it to rest.

Art

I live in the state of Washington.

Finally!

A stranger's just a friend who doesn't talk

The other night my gentleman friend and I were looking for something to do. We ended up meeting Bill and Andrew at the Madison Pub. I was digging this because I hadn't seen Andrew since I met him and the Mad Pub is my favorite of the like five gay bars I've been to. There I was trying to get a buzz on, but not drink too much too fast, as I had the night before. I was probably on my second beer (I actually had a short pause between numbers one and two) when this dude who was just kind of hovering around decided to have a sit and listen to any conversations going on in our group. And wouldn't you know it, he sits next to me. That's when Jeremy starts with the "Who's your friend?" "Introduce yourself." "He looks lonely." This went on as I drank my next few beers rather quickly.
I'm not sure what Jeremy's motivation was. Was it to get me out of my shell and socialize with a total stranger? Was it to create an uncomfortable situation for me for his own amusement? Was it pity for this lonely dude? All of the above? Whatever the case my problem, most likely induced by beer, was that I somehow felt that I absolutely had to talk to this guy. I didn't want to. He didn't seem the slightest bit interesting and didn't say a word, no matter how many bar conversations he sat in on. But I felt a force that was beyond me, provoking me into doing this chore. Like I said it was probably the beer.
After about four beers I stomp up to this guy. With the combination of my determination and my drinking I must have seemed crazy or scarily intense. "You're here alone, right?! Why? Why don't you have any friends?!? Are you a fucking loser?!" I obviously didn't say it like that, but I don't really remember how I said it. I do remember that when I said my name was Phil, he thought I said "Joel", which was his name. That's how I knew he was really tossed and anything I did or said was really of no consequence.
I introduced him to the others, asked him a question or two, went to get my beer, then started talking to Bill or something. I think a few exchanges were made but the guy still hung around quietly, then went to The Cuff. We went there later and I saw him but didn't say anything.
He was given a prime opportunity to make some friends. Maybe he's a bad conversationalist (I can relate).Maybe he didn't like us. Maybe he just likes to sit there and stare. Whatever the reason, it was a weird experience for me, doing something out of character like that, and if I see him again maybe I'll say hi. If I recognize him. I had had a lot of beer, after all.

Outa Tha Loop

A friend recently posted the chart-topping songs from the year he turned 18. I decided to use his resource, popculturemadness.com, to see just how "with it" I am.
First, I looked at the top songs from 1981, the year I was born, then compared them to last year's hits. Here's what I got:


1981
-December 27, 1980 - January 30, 1981: (Just Like) Starting Over John Lennon
It's John Lennon! Of course it's good! I mean, I always said if the Beatles hadn't done it (revolutionized music) someone else would have, but the fact is they did, and I rarley hear a Lennon song I dislike.
-January 31 - February 6: The Tide Is High Blondie
In High School, My sister got me a cassette of the Best of Blondie. (This was one of the first times I saw a cool side of her. Another was when she dressed up as John Coltrane for Halloween. My folks made her take that make-up off post-haste!)This was a song that stuck out as one of my favorites. I get a little sad when I hear it now because of the opening credits of Longtime Companion, and it always makes me think of AIDS.
-February 7 - February 20: Celebration Kool & The Gang
Anyone who ever went to an adolecent dance after this came out has heard this song.
-February 21 - March 6: 9 to 5 Dolly Parton
Woo-Hoo! Dolly? Lilly? Dabney? Rad!..but that's just the movie. This song is pretty catchy, though, and similar to Lennon, Dolly rarley disapoints.
-March 7 - March 20: I Love A Rainy Night Eddie Rabbitt
I don't particularly like this song, but I DO love rainy nights.
-March 21 - March 27: Keep On Loving You - REO Speedwagon
Sometimes it's hard to tell whether I like a song or not anymore, but I can sing along with the chorus when I hear it on Muzak
-March 28 - April 10: Rapture - Blondie
And now you're in the man from Mars, you go out at night, eating cars...
-April 11 - May 1: Kiss On My List - Hall & Oates
Catchy
-May 2 - May 15: Morning Train (Nine To Five) - Sheena Easton
Fun
-May 16 - July 17: Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Awesome
-July 18 - July 24: Medley - Stars on 45
I don't know this. I guess they did a lot of medleys, but I dont know which one this is
-July 25 - July 31: The One That You Love - Air Supply
Had to look it up because if it's Air Supply there's a good chance I knew it, but didn't know it's them. I don't know it.
-August 1 - August 14: Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield
Another Muzak favorite.
-August 15 - October 16: Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
Dont know this one, either
-October 17 - November 6: Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross
Or this one
-November 7 - November 20: Private Eyes - Hall & Oates
I can still hear Nina Blackwood trying to sell them on an 80's CD comp infomercial.
-November 21, 1981 - January 29, 1982: Physical - Olivia Newton-John
Never saw Xanadu (I'm the world's worst fag), but I LOVE this song (ok, mybe not the worst)

Now let's see what I have to say about the 2006 hits:
2006
January 7 - January 13: Don't Forget about Us - Mariah Carey
Never heard of it
January 14 - January 20: Laffy Taffy - D4L
Never heard of it
January 21 - February 3: Grillz - Nelly featuring Paul Wall, Ali and Gipp
Never heard of it
February 4 - March 10: Check on It - Beyoncé featuring Slim Thug
Never heard of it
March 11 - March 17: You're Beautiful - James Blunt
I finally recognize a song and it's THAT one?!
March 18 - March 31: So Sick - Ne-Yo
Never heard of it
April 1 - April 7: Temperature - Sean Paul
Never heard of it
April 8 - May 12: Bad Day - Daniel Powter
Heard it. It sounded like it came out in 1995.
May 13 - June 2: SOS - Rihanna
Never heard of it
June 3 - June 16: Ridin' - Chamillionaire featuring Krayzie Bone
Never heard of it
June 17 - June 30: - Hips Don't Lie Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean
Never heard of it
July 1 - July 7: Do I Make You Proud Taylor Hicks
Never heard of it
July 8 -August 19: Promiscuous Nelly Furtado featuring Timbaland
Never heard of it
August 19 - September 8: London Bridge Fergie
Never heard of it
September 9 - October 27th: SexyBack Justin Timberlake
Ok, I've heard this one, but not enough to get sick of it. I don't really like Timberlake, but I have nothing against him.
October 28 - November 10th: Money Maker Ludacris featuring Pharrell
Never heard of it
December 2 - December 15: I Wanna Love You Akon featuring Snoop Dogg
Never heard of it
December 16 - February 23 2007: Irreplaceable Beyoncé
Never heard of it

So, I think it's safe to say that I am completley out of the loop. I don't really care, the loop seems to like shitty music.

Gym Dandy

I went to my first session at the gym today. I decided my main concerns at this time are cardio, trying to get my circular system in shape, and tone. I'm fine with my weight, i just want to increase density and definition.
When I quit smoking I was concerned that I would be eating too much. I didn't care if I gained weight but stuffing my face constantly couldn't be good. Turns out, as the dude tells me, I may not be eating enough. How lucky is that? I LOVE eating.
After talking for a bit the trainer dude set me loose. I worked out a bit then hit the showers. Upon doing so I realized I'm going to have the same problem at the gym that I had in high school...I can't see a thing without my glasses.

In Common

Broken cars
Katamari Damacy
Balding
General dislike of home state
General dislike of young people
Quitting smoking
Not quitting drinking
Gym membership

Finally

Some decent pictures from my phone.

Jake got new boots.

I painted today

First I did a skull.

I thought the skull was so cool, I painted flames for it.

Then I did this one of no one. It's funky because the paper was too big for the scanner and I had to paste it together.

My fate is in your hands

My horoscope today said:
"The most direct route to enlightenment right now is communication. So if you're on a quest to learn more -- about your career opportunities, a new romantic possibility or how to get a healthier lifestyle -- you need to talk about it more. Spread the word that you're curious, and you will be rewarded with more information. Plus, you'll get people sharing their own experiences and offering you insider tips on how to get your own thing going faster."

You heard the cosmos, folks. Now go find me a new job.

What kind of bag would you like?

Click to make it bigger.

One more gift

I just noticed this morning that Earl Cootie gave me the gift of website promotion, for my review page. Thanks a lot, Earl!

Back sooner than I thought

But, like I said, I may just want to share my birthday presents with you.
I got emails from my mom and dad, one from each, a call from my best friend in California, and from my sister. I bought myself beer tonight after work, but when I got home, my roommate Cesar had already put a 6er of Weinhard's PR in the fridge for me. MY mom also put a little money into a bank acount thats about to close. I'll probably use that to buy some awesome custom Vans, since they don't have the normal shoes I want in my size.
Jeremy was nice enough to spend some time with me this morning, and naturally bring me presents. One gift I was kind of expecting was a new flatbed scanner. My old one died last summer and I've wanted one ever since. It works like a peach! Or it is a peach. Whatever. Here's a scan of a drawing that I had to take a photo of for a previous post:


He also got me what he said was sort of a gag gift. We had discussed this show before. Are you ready?...

That's right! The first season of Maude. Silly boy ought to know by now, I take classic television very seriously, or at least wouldn't consider it a gag. An old roommate told me he had never seen me as excited as when the first season of the Brady Bunch came out on DVD.
The most unexpected gift came from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The had a feature article on men's underpants.

Granted, I find outrageous underpants like this to be silly (with their crazy designs), creepy (when they look like little kid's underwear), and retarded (when I see how much they cost)but nonetheless...it's a feature on men's underwear.
So, yeah, cool birthday.
Later, dudes.

26 = less blogging

I haven't written in a while. I don't know why, just haven't felt like it. I've been a little preoccupied. Nothing big, just normal stuff people deal with. I have a job that I hate, but my overly-practical nature tells me to stay there for financial reasons. I can save money for school, my car, and moving if need be. I'm also trying to strengthen my relationships, trying to be a half-way decent friend, brother, son, boyfriend, Washington state resident and, oddly enough, employee. With my 26th birthday approaching I'm thinking that these things are a result of getting older. I'm geting to the point where I need to map out my life to come and it's leaving me, at times, exhausted. Or maybe I'm just thinking too much. My brain keeps doing that thing lately where it won't SHUT UP and I keep thinking the same things over and over, much like someone with OCD repeatedly locks and unlocks a door. So, If I don't post as much and the 2-4 people who read this take any notice, that's probably why.

Who knows, though...exciting stuff may occur that I just can't help but share...like kick-ass birthday presents!

Thanks, baby!

Speaking of my birthday, I'm celebrating on Thursday. I'm going to an Elf Power show at The Crocodile. It'll be hit-or-miss, but whatever, right? If you think I'm awesome, you should go and say hi to me.

He is Risen!

I had a pretty cool Easter this year, but I think that's just because Easter happened to fall on a pretty cool weekend for me.

On Saturday, I was noticably depressed at work for, once again, no reason at all. After work I met the guy at Neumo's where DJ Heather was playing (do DJs "play"?). I was with him earlier in the day and could tell that he was excited to see her and go out and dance. By the time I got there I wasn't depressed anymore, got a drink or two, and started feeling the music. Jeremy and his friend Bill both said the opening DJ wasn't as good as DJ Heather. I couldn't tell. I don't know good house music from bad house music.

I had a few more drinks and met some of Jeremy's dancing friends, but there were two other things I did that were really unexpected. First off, I went into the men's room which was rather crowded a was able to pee...with the stall door open (I thought at first it didn't have one)! Huge breakthrough for me. The other thing was I danced my heart out, and had fun doing it. I'm not all hella into dancing now or anything, but for the first time I didn't feel I had to force it OR get incredibly wasted. I only got adequetly wasted, but that would have happened without dancing. I also dance a lot better when I have a drink in one hand.

Hopped a cab back with a driver named Moses who, while J$ was in 7-11, I had no problem conversing with.

Cut to Easter morning:
The day started great, plus I didn't even have a hangover! I was bummed that the sun was out. I went to work and made more money(I think) because Jesus was resurrected today. And then it got gray. The clouds came in and the sun went away and I was as happy as a pig in slops. A couple of times, after it started raining but before it got dark,I went outside. I decided that this was some of the best rain I had seen in a long time. It wasn't cold or stormy, the rain was steady and fell straight down, and it wasn't too hard or light. It was perfect, like a refreshing shower.

So with the exception of having to be at work this easter, I was in elated-ish spirits.

Amen.

I've been too harsh

Maybe I'm getting soft in my old age, but I've realized that there are some things that I always said I hated that I don't really hate. Mostly, I'm just indeifferent to them. Here are some:

Jim Carrey- I really did hate him when he was just playing the same annoying character over and over. However, when put into a decent role, he's not that bad of an actor. Well, my only reference for that is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but it still shows his potential.

Will Farrel See above. Although I don't see an end to his stupid movies any time soon, so I will remain indifferent.

Steely Dan I think when I was young, like eighth grade, someone said they sucked and it remained engrained in my mind ever since. They're actually not that bad, at least not bad enough to hate, and their bass is sweet.

Bruce Vilanch He once said that he thinks straight actors playing gay men is as bad as blackface. He then went on to portray Edna Turnblad in the Hairspray Broadway musical, a gay man playing a straight woman. This seemed hypocritical to me. Still, I can't honestly say that I know enough about Mr. Vilanch or his ideology to say that I hate him. In fact, I think this blurb reports EVERYTHING I do know about him, except he was on Hollywood Squares a lot.

When I think of more things I don't actually hate, I'll post them. Children will NOT be on that list.

Passions

It's finally getting better.