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.

cant find a picture!