current selection | the cranberries – dreams
feelin’ | weak
i am so weak…so weak. see, i have this thing with toys…
> addendum – and it only took me the full length of high fidelity to untwist all the goddamn twist ties (!@%*) and figure out how to piece together all the damn @!#$ pieces. but shit is it the coolest piece of unplayable toy in my collection…
and big ups to my new favorite toy store…image anime.
current selection | pizzicato five – bossa nova 3003
feelin’ | sleepy
just about every kid grew up playing with legos, right? i used to be a moderate lego junkie…i used to keep all my lego pieces in 2 lunch boxes…one with gobots on the front and another of the long forgotten bravestarr (thirty-thirty rocked!). but they were hardly ever filled b/c id always have at least one big set/diorama made using about 90% of my legos at any one time. shit, if only id stuck with my lego hobby…legoland california is currently on the hunt for their newest lego master builder. according to an article in wired, theyre scouring art colleges for potential candidates who have to not only be lego junkies, but also have 3d modeling experience. too coo…playing with legos all day and making large lego dioramas for a living. i was thinking they should look into some of the crazy mofos over in the lugnet mecha section since i think legoland needs an infusion of some large-scale lego mechs to rock the place. they could build a lego ultraman, a lego godzilla, and mebbe a lego mazinger and have them go at it while stomping thru lego landscapes. specium beam….attack!
current selection | hooverphonic – pink fluffy dinosaurs
feelin’ | slightly sweaty
its cold enough outside to wear a sweater, but gets sweaty while in the subway, but then freezing on the actual subway train, but then sweaty again in the station, and then cold outside, but not if you exert yourself (running, etc) else its jus warm enuf for you to start sweating. my poor sweat glands are utterly confused at the moment…
> sg1: sweat! sweat!
> sg2: dude…its freezing!
> sg3: but he said to sweat!
> sg2: itll be cold in like a minute!
> sg3: it could be cold…you dont know!
> sg4: i say we protest.
> pfc: what are you asses doing down there?
> sgc1-4: hey…stay outta this…
> wernicke: <belch>
i was looking thru my stats today and was seeing where ive been getting referrals from. (im always curious) so heres a shortlist of some of the people/sites ive been able to backtrack to…
> imm.marooned-modernist.net – hi patio. glad u liked my (slightly) photoshopped go go yubari.
> www.flattire.org – who are you?!?!
> www.technorati.com – a link tracker…prolly their spider.
> www.livejournal.com/users/henman – dunno where the link to me is tho. ooh, ok…it was to the purported isabel image…
> www.blogosphere.us – prolly another spider.
> wvs.topleftpixel.com – hi sam…thanks for the link!
current selection | mike koglin (sasha+digweed) – the silence
feelin’ | unhungry
enter the dragon lady mighty ass-kicker. interesting ny times article on lucy liu, kill bill, o-ren ishii, and asians and asian stereotypes in cinema.
current selection | animatrix in the background
feelin’ | stuffed
so full…cant move. oochies. liz’s bday was this weekend, so we went drinky drink saturday nite. i met up with betty beforehand along houston, and we started heading westward to look for the moroccan bar everybody was meeting at…chez es’saada. we stumble on the unmarked bar after i realized that id been there once before…otherwise we mightve jus kept wandering pathetically around the neighborhood. 4 ‘generations’ of cornell archies were there…including my year. alcohol was free-flowing, as it should be during bday celebrations…and i got mojitos since theyre particularly yum there. we headed to drinkland afterwards for more drinky and didnt get there til 3am. more alcohol and some crazy ass-shaking. liz and some ppl headed onwards to arc to see ken ishii. the rest of us stumbled home. im jus grateful that i live around the corner from drinkland. cant…feel…parietal lobe…
sundays brunch with anna was rainchecked b/c of a mild hangover on my part, and a bigger one on hers. so i jus doted around the apt all day, watching matrix reloaded, harry potter extras, and the animatrix. dinner plans were set with liz and the crew (her actual bday was sunday), so we met up in k-town and headed to kum gang san. we ordered an assload of good shit…kimchi pajun, jap chae, kalbi, mandoo gui, ohjing uh bokkum, and soon tofu chige…yuuuum. all while a performer in a hanbok was rocking “hey jude” on the zither. craziness. afterwards, we strolled over to a coffee shop/bakery down the street and ordered overpriced eats. $4 teas for everybody…a swishy $7 mocha shake for me. as good as it was, i didnt think it was $7 good. mebbe $3 good…or possibly $4…but def not $7.
didnt have a dig cam, k? my cam phone still rocks it with its 0.1 megapixel resolution…
current selection | new order – bizarre love triangle
feelin’ | not sleepy
me and fish caught kill bill after work today on 3rd ave. if you were to ask me what i thought, id tell you “viciously ass-kicking…” with mebbe a side of sick and twisted carnage. but just a little bit. call me desensitized, but i dont know what everybodys grumbling about when they say its the bloodiest movie ever made. we headed to yakitori taisho afterwards…but after waiting nearly an hour with no progress (it was already 11pm), we left and headed to cosi instead for coffee and chess…and mebbe even their food too. we ordered half a pepp/half tomatos and (??) pizza…with drinks to boot. the chess game started pretty focused, with calculated positioning from both sides. the game eventually falls into random trades and some pretty bad positioning on my part tho…feh. dora calls me shortly after our food arrives and eventually comes down with sally to join us. spectators again…woo. after some more bad positioning, fish pulls what seems like a lure tactic…but turns out to just be a bad mistake. im going, “you’re throwing the game!” blah…which im pretty sure he was b/c he eventually starts losing piece after piece. even after giving away his pieces, it still takes me a while before i check him with a rook, a fresh queen, and a bishop. fish, you gave me that game! argh!
anyhoo…afterwards, fish takes off to head back to nj and the rest of us go shoot some pool on 4th ave. sally’s a fucking hustler and schools both me and dora. besides learning to never bet against sally, i also learned that knowing geometry (or whatever semblance of geometry knowledge left in my mind) and actual usuage of said knowledge are quite different. in laymans terms…i suck at pool.
the inner geek speaks…it wants a light saber for christmas. while i do think the star wars franchise has…waned a bit since jar jar came into the picture and anakin turned out to be a pissy little fuck, nothing could dilute the coo-ness that is a lightsaber. which is why everyone and their sister should go out and get a damn lightsaber. they even have the skywalker version too! and if you have money pouring out your ass (wait…thats disgusting)…then you can upgrade and get exact replicas of everybody’s light sabers (sans the fx or beam). that includes darth mauls lil bad boy…
kill bill motherfuckers!
current selection | dj shadow – midnight in a perfect world
feelin’ | old school
here’s something i barely talk about anymore…video games! i used to be an addict back in the days…in the worst sense. 3 subscriptions to gaming mags…spending twenties at the arcade…more on my genesis and dreamcast (god rest their souls…) nowadays i dont play much except the occasional game with fonz and a game once and a while on my pc. i still keep track of the industry…just not as much as i used to. anyhoo…one game i have been keeping an eye on is starcraft: ghost. starcraft is and always will be one of the greatest games ever made (up there with fwiffo)…and its a pretty coo idea to expand on it by having you run around as one of the ghosts rather than the omnipotent general sending troops to their death or making marines stimpack junkies (ah…thats the stuff!). so for you starcraft fans out there (that probably includes 90% of south korea), they posted 2 mini-movies of the ghost’s call-downs, including the comsat scan and a vicious mjolnir strike. woo…watch the dragoon go splooch.
