current selection | method man – release yo’delf (the prodigy remix)
feelin’ | urgh…

mmm…parched mouth, groggy brain…super. made last minute plans last nite to meet my two high school friends christine and suzie at a happy hour event in midtown. i hadnt seen either in a while, so i fig’d itd be fun. after dropping by my apt first, i took a train up to 51st and hunted down the place called k-lounge while pondering what the “k” stood for…(kool? keiser? kraftübertragung?) i met up with christine and her co-workers inside…suzie was apparently stuck somewhere between the lincoln and holland tunnel. so we started drinking and the obligatory people-watching. christines bro joe was there too…the buggers all grown up now! i last saw him when he was wee high. *sniff* suzie eventually gets there and we get another round of drinks. well, i do anyway…theyre just nursing theirs. we leave around 9:30 and grab foodage in k-town afterwards since most of us were starved by that point. mmm…mandu gook.

hmm…so its halloween. wonder what movie ill watch tonite…

current selection | seatbelts – tank!
feelin’ | dunno

halloween’s 2 days away. i don’t particularly like halloween…but i do like parties. so what to do when theres a halloween party that you want to go to, but you dont want to dress up like an arse? well…you suck it up and go hunt down a costume. but what to wear? pirate costumes are reportedly popular this year, but who cares? i don’t want to shiver my timbers. some friends suggested a jedi knight…so i can go around whacking people with my newly acquired light saber. the thought had crossed my mind, but i fig’d id be scared about breaking my $140 “toy” with the aforementioned “whacking.” the thoughts still there…i’ll have to sit on it. what else? neo? i could dig the matrix look…track down a nice long coat and shades. other mooks have suggested dragonball z since im already halfway there. to you people, damn you! besides, my hair doesnt have the volume it used to…id be relegated to a character like trunks. the ideal thing for me is to find myself a nice pair of black wings. ive always wanted wings…goes with everything. tshirt…no prob. suit and tie? wicked. the other ideas harry potter, which involves finding a cloak or robe, a red and gold scarf, and a wand that hopefully throws out curses like a dirty pirates. hmm…pirate. heard theyre popular this year…

addendum
the line at the costume shop on 4th wrapped around the block. i….donthinkso.

current selection | khaled – alech taadi
feelin’ | worky

there seems to be an inescapable dilemma when it comes to weekends. the problem is that if i go out on weekends, i inevitably spend money. most times “lots” of money. if i however, choose to stay in to avert the aforementioned spending of “lots” of money, then i just eat and watch movies. and not even snacking…i cook myself whole meals to accompany my cin3matic experiences. popcorn has nothing on some good pasta. so the problem then is that if i go out, i become broke…and if i stay in, i become fat. what the fuck?

current selection | indiana jones and the last crusade in the background
feelin’ | relaxed

ah…relaxation. so good…so good. todays din was provided by radio perfecto on ave b, at fonz’s suggestion. i had their special of the day…blackened catfish, and ate til i couldnt move. yum. so far on the cin3matic front today, ive watched the first 2 star wars, the making of the indiana jones trilogy, and the last crusade is currently playing in the background. very coo. the last crusade was actually the reason why a number of my high school friends and i started our diary books…b/c we all wanted our own little grail diary. it actually took me two and a half years to fill up the book…from january ’96 to august ’98. i actually still have it! it covers a range of events…from various high school rants, to my burned out college acceptance letter, to my frat bid, to extensive rantings and m3ntal permutations in my formative years of college. not to mention a bunch of cutesy sticky pix. the books now pretty worn and falling apart, but its my own personal grail diary…woot! cheers, mr. jones.

current selection | star wars aotc in the background
feelin’ | lethargic

friday nite consisted of party plans in brooklyn at kevins (aka: the oliver-nator). met up with marisol beforehand to catch a late din at yokochos. she ordered a bowl of spicy tuna and okonomiyaki, and i got my own bowl of spicy tuna and tonkatsu ramen…yum. after din, we made the long trek down into park slope brooklyn. whew…im reminded way too many times that im grateful to live in manhattan. theres absolutely nothing wrong with brooklyn, mind you…but when you’re a lazy bastard like me and everything you like to do is in manhattan, theres just no reason to live anywhere else. we get to park slope 40 minutes later and head to the party. it was pretty chill…people laying around drinking and munching on antipasti. alot of familiar faces again…we got the occasional, “hey…whats up? how’ve you been since i saw you…um, last week at domingo’s?” alot of people went up to the roof to smoke and drink too. it was chilly out, but we still wanted to see the rockin’ manhattan skyline…and possibly the aurora borealis…(?) no such luck.

today is slack off til my mind turns to pudding day. gonna do a little bit of this…a little bit of that. i however don’t plan on leaving my room much today. actually…fonz’s bro pete just arrived. maybe i’ll go say hi.

my supervisor just scrunched my hair. she dies tonite…..

current selection | samurai fiction in the background
feelin’ | clean

i had a lengthy discussion with my friend min today. amongst the topics of conversation were…relationships, the definition of happiness, social and cultural mechanisms, monogamy vs polygamy, and patriarchal vs matriarchal controls (the latter being referred to as “pussy-whipped“). during the car-ride back into manhattan after work, i had another discussion about such things as race, racial generalizations, cultural contributions to society, and nature vs. nurture. i think ive had enough discussions for today.

i met jess for din in chinatown today. i dont think ive actually ever had dinner in chinatown on a weekday. it was oddly empty…oddly empty. i never noticed the obvious, but chinatowns kinda creepy at nite when theres no one on the streets. we ate at the shanghai restaurant on bayard, and afterwards i grabbed bubble tea and came home to swing around my spank new light saber. it was actually delivered yesterday, but i didnt get batteries to power up the baby til today. the red blade fires up when u flick it on (the light actually “extends” as if it were a real light saber) and it makes sound fx when you swing the thing around and/or smack various people with it. very coo. the thing however could do with a damn volume knob. the buggers pretty loud.

current selection | groove armada – chicago
feelin’ | okily

i suppose ive spent enough of the shits and giggles fund now…and ive come away with nothing particularly useful. woo! i went up to midtown yesterday to try my hand at a little snooty snooty since i actually once used to frequent the shops north of the 50’s. ah…a whole different lifetime. as im walking up past 43rd street, i notice light screens and a crowd of people with cameras on the sidewalk, which usually means theyre shooting something. i stroll over and take a look. there wasnt much of a set or anything, but i did see johnny depp in his usual scruffy gig and gilligan hat, so i dont think it was for a movie. mebbe an interview. <shrug> i then swung by rockefeller center to see if i didnt already miss the murakami exhibit (i did) so i instead went to kinokuniya. they had a fresh new samurai fiction in their little dvd area, so i snatched it up since i hadnt seen it offered at kims video in a while. actually…i found out later that they just stocked it too…the copy i bought wasnt an import, but was actually an official american version. go fig. afterwards i went to the sony design center to see if there were any new toys i could possibly buy. there obviously were, but they were just a weeee out of my budget. bollocks. i continued northwards to niketown (suck) and then fao schwartz (where the hell are their transformers?) and then headed home afterwards.

there was a house party at domingo’s that nite, so i met up with marisol, dora, and betty and we headed down ave c. the party was already kicking when we got there…the only alcohol and mixers left were pepsi, oj, and cachaca (brazilian rum…oh shit). so our choice of drinks was cachaca + pepsi/oj…oochies. the party was full of people we knew, and some that you look at and make that “ive seen you before” look, but you really have no idea when or where. i left at 1:15 to meet jane and her friends up in k-town for some late snacking. we went to gam mee ok for some yum ox-tail soup to sober up. well, to sober me up anyway…whew.

today was supposed to be dim sum with jess…but that was shat on by the time 2pm rolled by and there was no call. so i popped in the way home (a korean dvd jane lent me the nite b4) and made myself some chili dogs. yum. i get a msg by 3:30 from jess and we finally meet up at her new apt in chinatown. holy shit is it a dump (no offense)…but its pretty coo b/c its a true loft. former sweat shop, buildable space, etc. and how many 1500 sf lofts can you really find in manhattan for such a good price? after a bit of a tour, we headed out to go shopping. we dropped by zakka first, where i picked up a hajime katoki art book (sweet), and then we headed northwards, hitting up random stores looking for shoes. after we went thru crate+barrel, jess and her bf headed off and i came back home, where now im intent on cooking myself a big fat dinner of i dont know what. woo.

current selection | monty python in the background

i jus got the happy check from my last freelance work…woo! a few more freelance jobs and i jus might be able to finish paying off my cc debts. heres to hoping. but in the meantime, i met up with sally, anna, and annas bf sean for a little celebrating at yakiniku west after work today. i suppose it doubled as dinner too. tempura squid, spicy tuna rolls, and 3 plates of short ribs…..yummm….

as for the paycheck….to be completely honest, ive already spent a good portion of the money that i had set aside for what i generally refer to as “shits and giggles.” things categorized under “shits and giggles” have thus far included the following:

shits and giggles list

> the aforementioned light saber (u kno it rocks!)
> the aforementioned fix figuration gundam zeta plus 0017
> 3 dvds…versus, matrix reloaded, and monty python and the holy grail

and maybe tomorrow ill actually go and use the remainder of my “shits and giggles” fund for things a bit more pragmatic…like new shoes.

current selection | fantastic plastic machine – pura saudade (optiganally mix)
feelin’ | meh

what is it with wednesdays and how it aggregates all the random incohesive bits of note? so akira and his bikes been moved into the living room to make way for the badboy zeta plus 0017b on my window sill. the thing is massive…and um…pretty unstable. so in this regard im thankful i never caved in and bought the dendrobium. it prolly wouldve taken up half my room, leaving me with a nice area to sleep standing up.

ive made it a bit of a habit now to drink milk before i go to bed…and ive been getting the best sleep ive had in years. which is a bit bad in the morning since its also been getting harder to wake up from said cushy-wooshy sleep. ive also been able to remember dreams better actually (tho theyre still as mundane as ever)…go fig. i dreamt last nite that ags was here visiting, and we were cruising around in a convertible. it looks like spring or fall…and ags has dirty blonde and curly hair. eh? for some reason, we accidentally turn into caldwell high school (near my hometown in nj), and as we’re turning the car around she runs into a person she recognizes from her childhood (?!). ok then. anyhoo, i can surprisingly remember visual details, like the driveway leading up to the high school and what the girl looked like. its still boring, dont get me wrong. im moving my dreamcatcher tonite…mebbe it jus needs new scenery. i miss my crazy harry potter dreams…