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apartment hunting

current selection | gorillaz – clint eastwood (left hand suzuki method remix)
feelin’ | sleepy

feh. didnt see any apts today…jus talked with a broker. he was pretty helpful tho…and the girl next to him (that i guess was supposed to show us apts if they came up) was cute. we have appointments tomorrow and thurs too…woo. i got to leave the office early at least. i fig’d since i was gonna leave a little early anyhoo…and that today was actually the only sunny day all week, that id get some photographing done. at nyu tisch, the dude at the front desk was saying that no photos were allowed, even if my company was working there. so i got the pm to sneak me downstairs to the jobsite where i just snapped away outta his view. woo. i then trotted down to see the greenwich st project, then varick st (nothing new), and then made my way back up to new school. at new school, i had to call the facilities manager to ask for permission to take photos. when she comes down to talk with me, she looks at me, then walks off “looking” for me. im like, “yo…hi, im the guy who called you.” she goes, “really? oh…im sorry. i thought u were a student.” i go, “s’ok….im used to it…” woo.

so on a complete aside, my friend fish just informed me that my dad is his tai-chi instructor. my dads a freaky tai-chi masta thats skilled in the art of slowly hitting you. jk. he’s pretty freaky when it comes to tai-chi. every morning for as long as i can remember…crazy.

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crawfish yo

current selection | massive attack – mezzanine
feelin’ | refreshed

massive attack block…woo! i took a halfday friday and met up with my friend fonz and a broker to start scouting apts. i was bleh with the ones we saw…so we regrouped today and decided to scour the newspapers on our own instead of relying on jus brokers. we actually only saw 4 or so apts (most within the same block), but did make appointments for monday and thursday. should be interesting. after fonz left, i doted around my apt figuring out what to do tonite. as luck would have it jess contacted me out of the blue to see what i was up to. we ended up meeting for din at go. we got an ochazuke and a katsu curry to share…along with takoyaki as an appetizer. yum. hit angels share afterwards and jus grabbed a couple drinkies. after the obligatory frozen lychee martinis, i ordered a mojito. it was pretty awful….no real mint, too much ice, and waaay too much rum. feh…shouldve jus stuck with the lychee. anyhoo, im washing away the awful taste now with some calpis. swoo. im heading back to nj sunday to meet up with fish and hit the crawfish festival. booya! have i ever mentioned my luv of all things cajun? yea…woo! im getting a pound of crawfish and im gonna luv it.

oh, and in a bit of self-promo. ive been on again/off again bored doting around the apt, so i did some tweaking to my main site and elysium for shits and giggles. go lookie if u wanna.

m3ntal | elysium

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no crawfish

current selection | thievery corporation – facing east

damn the weather this weekend. no crawfish…no biking. grrr. seeing more apartments today…fingers are crossed. anyhoo…nothing outstanding to warrant a new post. im lazy….

cin3ma | international

nerd v geek

current selection | massive attack – unfinished sympathy
feelin’ | uncomfortable…damn this chair

its always a task to explain the difference between a nerd and a geek. see…i have no reservations of calling myself a nerd b/c nerds are redeemable. they’re brainy…not losers. geeks however are more along the lines of fanboys and socially inept ppl. the same ppl who dress up as obi-wan kenobi and gandalf at movie premieres. einstein was a nerd. harry knowles is a geek. easy enuf? so already having scored 50+% on the nerd test, i went ahead and took a geek test too and scored a 33%. total geek. feh. better than extreme geek or geek god i suppose.

tien also sent along this coo article about roy lee…the crazy mofo behind the acquisition of ringu for american cinemas. hes the guy whos bringing over a boatload of asian movies for america to remake…and he doesnt kno shit about asian cinema. scary eh? anyhoo…u have to applaud the guy. even if he’s in it solely for profit-making, he’s at least bringing attention to asian cinema. jus dont piss him off or he’ll sign u up to porn sites.

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basefield

current selection | the prodigy – fire (sunrise version)
feelin’ | laxadaisical, irrational

at this point in the day, im really just counting down to lunch. my projects kinda meandering a bit…since ppl keep shooting holes in my schedule. feh. i get to leave early today at least…have to head down to canal plastics to find some plexi. ill prolly head to the fay da bakery while im at it…grab some yum buns. ok, mebbe the video store too. i couldnt find little match girl at kim’s yesterday. so since i hate walking out empty-handed, i snatched so close. this of course doesnt mean i gave up on little match girl. anyhoos…basefield updated their competition site! guess who has an entry? huppah!

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memorial day weekend

current selection | sol brothers – that elvis track
feelin’ | rested

ah…memorial day weekend. so far so good. i fig’d that id be working on freelance work for my friend derrick all day today and tomorrow, so i got all my craziness goin’ friday and saturday. went on a drink run friday nite with pho and marisol, hitting up baraza and drinkland. saturday i met up with my friend jane and a friend of hers to watch the phone at the asian film festival. after getting freaked out for 2 hrs (that little girl is a crazy biz-atch), we took a bubble tea pit stop at st. alps b4 heading to angels share for lychee martinis. yum. jane and her friend were pretty poo’d out by then and were gonna head off, so luckily my friend jen called jus in time to invite me to go drinking with her and her friend visiting from cali. after saying goodbye i trotted down to the bowery bar and grill to meet up with them. the place was like some kind of haven for post-frat and sorority ppl, so i suggested that we head over to the zinc bar instead. bossa-nova saturdays…woo. we chilled there for a few drinks, and then finally headed to boxers for some late-nite munchings.

so im looking at my bank account right now and its mysteriously missing over $100. hmm…that really sucks alot. vanishing money….

anyhoo, photos are coming along nicely. head over to 030201 for derricks other photos…

cin3ma | international

bounce ko-gals

current selection | supercar – strobolights (yoshinori sunahara remix)
feelin’ | stuffed…oochies

bounce ko-gals tonite….wooha! this is only the third movie im going to see from the nyc asian film festival…but i couldnt find anyone crazy enuf to go to more showings with me. bleh.

cin3ma | international

evangelion

weather update i think its gonna rain…

current selection | photek – ni ten ichi ryu
feelin’ | dandy

eva: the motion picture
apparently peter jackson’s an anime fan. who knew? jk…but according to this article from aicn, hideaki anno, the creator of evangelion, is teaming with adv films and peter jackson’s weta workshop to create a live action film of evangelion. while this initially sounds really coo (and ill reserve my judgement til it actually comes out and i see it) im gonna go into this a little skeptical. live action remakes of anime…or anything of that nature (read: mortal kombat) have always been a little suspect. on top of that, the storyline isnt the most digestible by any account. ah well…mebbe it’ll turn out to be a masterpiece. then it can be featured back-to-back with the forthcoming live-action dragonball z.