current selection | the david arnold james bond project – nobody does it better feelin’ | groggy
nothing like monday nite lushing to make tuesdays feel like a bumpy car ride thru a smelly garbage dump. me, alice, and marisol checked out the abitare italia tour yesterday in soho. how can you go wrong with fine italian design, free drinks, and hors’ d’ouerves? so along this design tour, you get this sweepstakes card thing…and if you get it stamped from 4 places along the route, you’re entered to win a trip to italy. (woo!) we started at flou to admire the furniture itd take 4 paychecks to pay for, and then headed to boffi where we actually ran into ppl we knew. each successive place we went to entailed more drinking and less furniture-admiring (tho we did eventually get the 4 stamps…italia here we come). at vivendum…the main vip event, they also had an open bar. after that i knew tuesday wouldnt be very productive.
anyhoo…im eating pocky right now and trying to look productive. i think id better go find some gatorade…
look outside…its super duper shit. rock. jus got back from a nice and relaxing weekend in joy-sey. got home around noon-ish to meet up with my sis and her bf (who came up too) and the whole fam went out to my mom’s fav chinese restaraunt, hunan cottage. we ordered a ton of food (including my fav, yiu tiau with hot soy milk…excuse my bad romanization). after lunch me, my sis, and her bf went mall-ratting. we then came back and lounged on our patio for a while talking about how my sis wants to inherit the house, rebuild the backyard double-patio, and install a hot tub. yea….ok. fish dropped by around 4 and we actually headed back to the mall. we grabbed some food (i got popeyes…yum!) and then headed over to the arcade to rock some soul calibur. then we headed over to the theaters and caught an evening showing of x2. afterwards we hit up our usual starbucks and had some coffee and chess while fish played with his new gundam. i lost the first game, but actually won the second game. holy shit! i had a good start…pushing my knights to the flanks and creating a pawn pyramid straight up the middle. after fish castled to his queens side, i noticed his 2 rooks sitting precariously close to each other. i pushed my kings knight up the flanks and forked them! after one of the rooks went down, i pretty much kept my advantage til i checked him with an aggressive queen and supporting rook. woo. after that, we jus lounged til starbucks closed and called it a nite.
as an aside. after watching x2, i felt a little indifferent. u watch it, u kno its a great film…but u dont feel anything. am i the only person who felt this way? i think it had a great plot, great characters…but i didnt feel any oomph. the “holy shit” factor wasnt there. dont get me wrong…im a big x-men fan. ive been reading since the days of whilce portacio and jim lee. but i jus didnt feel anything for the movie. i had that feeling from the very beginning. lotr and matrix i will (and did) reserve tix a month in advance. but for x2 i fig’d id jus catch it whenever. weird. its a nice appetizer for matrix tho.
current selection | dj food – freedom (fila brazilia remix)
another day at the grind. shit does it look like absolute poo outside. met up with alice and sally last nite for din at yak west, which was coo b/c i hadnt seen sally in forever. the short ribs are almost a given these days, so i decided to mix things up a bit this time. i ordered a side of sasami tempura! earth-shattering, i kno. so this weeks biking excursion is off (again) since i cant seem to get my bike back to nj. well technically i could throw my bike in the lower storage compartments of the bus. but uh…i have a feeling the bikes gonna get tossed around down there. or worse…i get off the bus and forget abt it. feh.
anyhoos…the pic of akikos been pushed off the page! bah, better post a new pic then…woo.
current selection | chemical brothers – where do i begin
sunday afternoon…hoo. allergies have been making me pretty cranky lately. well, not really lately…more like this entire past week. last nite was a nice distraction tho. went bar hopping to some new places we’d never been before. we started at the boxcar lounge in e.village. pretty coo place…very relaxing. they had a garden in the back too, tho it was kinda cold outside so we stayed indoors. after the first round, it was off to drinkland down the street. very chill place…nice crowd and coo music. 2 more rounds and then we’re off to openair. -correction- wow, for once marisols the one refreshing my memory. we hit liquid b4 openair, but the crowd at liquid was bleh…so we left post-haste. then we hit up openair. not much of a crowd, but the interior was pretty sleek. after another round, we’re off to sin sin. there was a cover…so since its cheap-nite for us, we skip it. we then end up at crif dogs to rejuvenate ourselves. i got a new yorker, and was contemplating a chili dog too…but that mightve been overkill. anyhoo, last stop of the nite was lit. the place was pretty….uh, eclectic. 80s music, odd crowd, some vampires downstairs, and i was getting a weird vibe. wasnt really feeling it, so i sprawled out on a bench and professed my utter disinterest. juvenile, yes? woo. we left around 4am. everybody cabbed it home except me….i walked.
i was planning to go biking today since it looked nice out (a little chilly tho?) decided to finish up some illustrations first tho. “finishing up” turned into the entire afternoon…and now its 7pm. so my ass has been on this seat all day…feh. ah well…at least the illustrations are done and up. woo! check it out….ima and matriarch. time to start my next illustration.
current selection | rinocerose – mental mental dub
its already monday? damn…weekend was a little too short. this was my relaxation weekend. no strenuous anything, except for mebbe popcorn-eating. grab food-place in mouth-chew. i met up with fish on saturday in jersey city. we opted to hang out at mitsuwa (aka yaohans) up in edgewater since i hadnt been there in a while. fish had never been, so he was down with it. i picked up a masamune shirow art book from kinokuniya, and then we headed over to the cafeteria to grab some din. we headed down to the edgewater cinema afterwards to catch a 9:45 showing of identity. i dont feel like writing some lengthy elucidation of it, so ill jus say that it was a damn good thriller with a crazy plot twist.
sunday rolls around and i decide to hole up in bed til noon. after some deliberation about the pros and cons of the world outside my bed, i then decide to go back to bed til 1. at 1 i get up again and decided id check out the cherry blossom festival with marisol and paulie. (it was brought up the nite b4) we meet up at 2:30 and start making our way over to brooklyn. the traffic was pretty crap, so we dont actually arrive at the botanical gardens til 4. by then the gardens were packed with ppl. it was nice tho regardless…since how often do u get to see white ppl in yukatas? alot of the cherry blossoms hadnt blossomed yet, but the ones that did were pretty nice. everybody and their sister seemed to have their cameras out too…since what better way to say ur an artist than with an slr in one hand? me included, of course. after some aimless wandering, we sprawled ourselves on the lawn and watched the grass disappear and magically reappear in marisols hair. around this time, i get a call from my friend jane saying she was coming into the city. woo! so after we head back to manhattan, me and marisol meet up with my friend jane. we head to cho dang gol in k-town for some tofu loving. mebbe a little too much tofu loving…ooochies. marisol heads home after din, and me and jane wander around times square. she gets in some shopping at sephoras, and i get a sampling of 5+ perfumes up and down my arms. wait…left elbow was not utilized. i send her off to grand central afterwards and then crawl home. i was hoping that was jus the saturday. shit…nope.
ouch. todays biking excursion killed me. last weekends girly sissy biking gran turismo was a warm-up. no real challenge except for ppl-dodging. so today i decided to take the 6 mile loop around central park…complete with the hills of the northwest quadrant (i believe its called cardiac hill…super). keep in mind im riding a full suspension down-hiller…with big stonkin’ 2.4″ tires. i usually ride around in gear 8…but on the hills…ouch. ok…7? ouch. 6? getting there…no wait, ouch. anyhoo, after i finally make it thru the hills and cruise down the first slope, i crash to the side and hyper-ventilate for about 15 minutes. its great. after re-couping, and then buying a popsicle, i bike on. i head over to the west side highway…and was originally planning to loop down around battery park. but reality sets in and i call it a day once i hit 14th st. whew.
anyhoo…its easter sunday right? woo. that would explain the little kids with baskets wandering around me while i was hyper-ventilating on the side of the road. so in honor of easter, here is the inimitable kozy-n-dan. masters of bunny-art.
rip my sis has jus informed me that my baby celica, which i left in nj when i moved into nyc, is on its deathbed. my sis and her bf were driving it this past weekend b/c the headlights on her civic were busted. as she was driving to her friends wedding (she was the maid of honor), it decided to stall a number of times. when theyre within 5 minutes of the reception, the car decides to start smoking. bleh. by the time it coasted into the driveway, it poo’d and died. as shes telling me this, im thinking to myself…ok, i drove my baby for 18+ months and it drove nearly flawlessly. no problems, nada, nien. but the second she touches it? it dies. this isnt the first time something like this has happened. whenever she used to touch my computer, it went nuts. when i left anything in her care, i usually got it back decidedly crappier. when she touched anything, the forces of chance and probability shat itself and its likelihood to die increased. mebbe thats why her email acct is doublejinx. grr.
argh…i swear ill never win another chess match again as long as i keep playing fish. this is my…what? 6th? 8th? 10th straight loss? this is pretty demoralizing. i even played white this time. bleh. my second game i had a strong opening…but then poo’d out by mid-game. and then i make one mistake and *poof*, queens dead. after queens dead, everybody dies one after another. my kings even chased up to his side of the board, where he eventually gets surrounded and shits himself. fuck. mebbe i should take up checkers for a while…
current selection | fantastic plastic machine – pura saudade
its nice having a stocked fridge. im currently having a bowl of raisin bran. u kno why? b/c i can! later on i can pick from any number of munchies, and any number of refreshments. stocked refrigerators are nice.
mmm…spitze and a bag of kani crackers. yum. this is my version of healthy eating.
i think i could get used to this weekly biking thing. i biked abt 5 miles today down the west side towards battery park city. heading south was gorgeous…the sun was setting, couples were on the waterside, burt bacharach was playing piano, and bits of cheesiness were floating around. hehe. ahem. i brought my cam too to finish off the second roll of film i started on saturday. i biked down to battery park and then double-backed…i got to snap some nice evening/nite-time shots of the waterside on the way back up. if the weather lets up, mebbe i could make this habitual…woo!
so groggy…..somebody’s got a case of the mondays. er. me, marisol, and alice went to the orchid show yesterday at rockefeller. it was nicer than i thought itd be. to be completely honest, i didnt exactly set my expectations too high…i jus wanted photos. but the orchids were actually pretty nice. some were pretty freaky looking…and some looked like “health class diagrams”. ahem. so me and marisol strolled thru the concourse while alice somehow migrated to the banana republic. afterwards alice trailed back home and i accompanied marisol to her church meeting. yup…church. ha. craziness, right? nah…i was well behaved. then we hit up the delta grill afterwards, and i was a happy boy. mmm….cajun.
