tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38445612011-11-27T15:58:11.569-08:00sx70your basic narcissistic, semi-neurotic blog from a guy in los angeles.smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.comBlogger1391100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1101422127368730932004-11-25T14:35:00.000-08:002004-11-25T14:35:27.366-08:00test. test.smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1094713239809858962004-09-08T23:56:00.000-07:002004-09-09T00:00:39.810-07:00Prodigal SonI'm back. It might be for real this time. Lots of stuff going on that I can actually write about. I've been spending a lot of time posting on buzznet.com lately, which you can see by clicking on some of my recent posts in the column on the right there.
Lots of things going on, family crises, possibly relocation, lots of job stuff, planning a vacation, lots of stuff that doesn't really fit in smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1094711914656896222004-09-08T23:38:00.000-07:002004-09-08T23:38:34.656-07:00FlickrThis is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1084983772144226222004-05-19T09:22:00.000-07:002004-05-19T09:22:52.143-07:00i love canadaoh my god. i know this is old, but i'd never seen it before.smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1084900893064045202004-05-18T10:18:00.000-07:002004-05-18T10:21:33.063-07:00i'm a million different people from one day to the nextdiggy-doo, it's a new blogger template. i switched over to a new template for a little bit, and i'm trying out the new blogger commenting, as HALOSCAN SUCKS ASS. i mean, who the hell is reading this anyway, since i spend any procrastination time on buzznet these days.
there are things i am dying to tell you, but until they happen, i can't say. jinx and all that.smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1083041274778737092004-04-26T21:47:00.000-07:002004-04-26T21:52:01.450-07:00a true story. read it and weep.friend via IM: jennifer and i did another 1.5 hour walk on the beach today. hooray!
me via IM: boy that sounds like fun. i had two martinis and a bowl full of pretzels while making fun of english stewardesses. for 1.5 hours.smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1082406854360051342004-04-19T13:23:00.000-07:002004-04-19T13:38:11.543-07:00q1i've been poring over my q1 performance--a mixed bag of results. revenues, while up 7% from the same quarter last year, are still well below expectations, close to 20% down from 2000. the getting-some-action index is also way down from this same time last year. overall satisfaction and morale are taking a beating, no doubt due to the two aforementioned factors. in the positive side, we saw the smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1081293701732823912004-04-06T16:20:00.000-07:002004-04-06T16:25:22.030-07:00ESFPtake this:
http://www.kisa.ca/mbti/
here's me:
http://www.personalitypage.com/ESFP_car.htmlsmooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-108122359385203672004-04-05T20:48:00.000-07:002004-04-05T20:58:54.840-07:00the plan.hey. hi. yeah. i know, it's been a while. sorry. it's been weird lately--busy, you know. i know that even while i've been here, i've been distracted. i mean, i can't get into specifics, but you know, it's been good. it's been good. you've gotta trust me on this.
in any case, allow me to break out of character here by saying yes, things have been good lately, and yes i will be writing more here smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1080695477264385432004-03-30T17:01:00.000-08:002004-04-05T21:04:11.186-07:00it was my birthday.it's true. it was my birthday yesterday. i ate at yabu. then we drank at arsenal. surprise?smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1080082238374218352004-03-23T14:43:00.000-08:002004-03-23T15:04:40.950-08:00while on the google subjectspeaking of google, i typed in "sx70" and lo and behold, this blog is #1. weird, considering that an sx70 is a very popular camera made by polaroid. even more distressing is that my other website (which is firstnamelastname.net) doesn't even come up until page two of google results when you type my name in. wtf?smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1079992409424888562004-03-22T13:33:00.000-08:002004-03-23T14:16:46.140-08:00f*cking ofoto. or how i became an online stalker.alright, by no means is it a secret that i do the online dating thing. whatever, we've gone over that before. (in embarassing detail.)
several weeks ago, i send a little "hello i like your profile" missive to an attractive web-programmer girl. a couple of weeks later, i got an email back. "woo-hoo! i thought. she said she liked my profile and pictures and apologized for writing back so late, as smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1077575414031490012004-02-23T14:10:00.000-08:002004-02-23T14:35:08.153-08:00my pseudo-college weekendit's been all-too-long since i described my offline exploits. since i usually only remember to do this when i do something completely stupid and/or embarassing, you can guess where this post is going. also, since this is no longer linked directly from my personal site, i feel a little more free. anyway...
rewind to friday eveningy happy hour at arsenal with plans to go out for my friend's secondsmooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1076880319883558852004-02-15T13:24:00.000-08:002004-02-15T13:28:28.623-08:00it's over, it's over a post v.d. gift from me to you. woot!smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1076396585686648412004-02-09T22:46:00.000-08:002004-02-09T23:05:31.263-08:00happy valentine's day. or not.valentine's day is just a few days away. here are some cards. some are nice, some are not so nice. most of them are hilarious. pardon if you've seen them before.
http://youyesyou.net/welove/
and no i don't read boingboing.net.
alright alright, anyway--like i was saying, valentine's day is right around the corner. in years past this is a time of much wailing, gnashing of teeth, hand-wringing smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1075245865244282842004-01-27T15:08:00.000-08:002004-01-27T15:26:33.000-08:00ok maybe i'm a metrosexual after alli thought i would just get this out of the way now--there won't be any more "i was having a cocktail in the lobby of the standard reading vice magazine laughing out loud like an idiot while waiting for my haircut" posts.
it's not what you're thinking, though. the 40+ minuite drive to get my hair cut didn't finally get to me. i have not finally given up on the 323. i am not growing my hair out. smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1073541004692146962004-01-07T21:47:00.000-08:002004-01-07T23:09:01.653-08:00oh.my.god.my korean friend emy, sort of quietly and sheepishly mentioned a recent weakness for korean pop music (kpop) the other night, followed by protestations about how i sort of shrugged, i mean... i've never heard kpop but ok that's fine, i see no reason to be embarassed about that. she then mentioned that it was sort of cheesy and pointed me at this video. oh.my.god. watch it. it's an epic. i smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1073343658556493602004-01-05T14:44:00.000-08:002004-01-05T15:02:37.513-08:00what really should have been the first post of the year.this should have been the first post of the year, but it got superseded by that whole "boo hoo i have the flu won't you please feel bad for me?" post. the smart ones among the two of you reading this (this does not include me, i obviously do not check for spelling or grammar errors, much less overly-long parenthetical expressions) might surmise that "well, maybe he just wanted to get it out of smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1073342641306429162004-01-05T14:43:00.000-08:002004-01-05T14:45:39.810-08:00just one link should do itthis should explain how i feel right now. smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1070990615137109882003-12-09T09:20:00.000-08:002003-12-09T09:24:37.890-08:00ritualwalk in the office.
make idle banter on elevator ride up to fourth floor.
turn on computer.
wash coffee cup. (more stylish than paper and reduces waste)
fill with coffee.
return to office.
turn on desktop computer.
take laptop out of bag, plug it in, turn it on.
check office email.
check personal email.
get more coffee.
smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1069780967590269542003-11-25T09:15:00.000-08:002003-11-25T09:23:31.966-08:00battle of the bulge.after a particularly inspired act of self loathing last night (eating at del taco), i pondered the blossoming relationship that my gut has been having with the top of my pants lately.
"i mean shit, i'm fairly active, why is this happening to me? how can i be gaining weight? is it time to do atkins again? i mean, what did i have for lunch, a small salad, right?"
i looked down at my tray--two smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1069137241409484302003-11-17T22:32:00.000-08:002003-11-17T22:37:12.466-08:00ye of great taste!i know i've been sort of lacking lately in the updates section, it's generally been a procrastination activity, and i've been bizzy biz lately. i have a question though maybe if you could maybe answer it...
what is your home page when you start your internet browser? (your start page?) mine embarassingly enough is friendster. i'm stuck at 64. it's killing me.
smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1068672152918157642003-11-12T12:50:00.000-08:002003-11-12T14:39:55.123-08:00sickyso i'm home sick today, for the second day in a row. by sick, i mean really sick. i woke up at 1AM two nights ago feverish and hallucinating and spent the rest of the day in bed or running to the bathroom to take care of business. i couldn't look at a computer because focusing on type that small made me nauseous, much less go into work to finish up concepting for the big presentation later that smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1068491294469763382003-11-10T11:06:00.000-08:002003-11-10T11:08:38.466-08:00odi et amoOdi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiri. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1068399328833617792003-11-09T09:25:00.000-08:002003-11-09T09:40:34.670-08:00i played both parts in "the fool and i"dammit. it's wet outside, which means the farmer's market will be a bust. i can't believe i'm even awake at 9:30. considering that i got home at 4am from a birthday party last night, you can see how herculean an effort this is. i think the aleve is starting to kick in though, so maybe it won't hurt to try to sleep anymore. maybe?
so yeah, last night i was at the sunset trocadero , which was coolsmooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1068079327139153712003-11-05T16:37:00.000-08:002003-11-05T16:50:50.140-08:00the pendulum swingsi was standing at a bar in vancouver talking with someone about how much i was enjoying their city and whatnot, when they mentioned somethinig about "yes, but alcohol is very expensive here, and you have free-pour in the states" as they nodded at my drink, which i had to specifically ask (and pay for) a double shot of gin or vodka or whatever it was. to clarify, in the states, bartenders smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1067840574225843332003-11-02T22:19:00.000-08:002003-11-02T22:30:49.280-08:00a reason to move to canada.the toyota echo hatchback kicks ass. in person, it's as cute if not cuter than the mini and without the hype and the markup, as well as being privity to lots of aftermarket stuff from trd and all the other import tuners, which should make it at least as zippy as the mini. AT LEAST. you'll have plenty of cash to get one as they start at around $12,000CDN, which is somewhere around $10,000USD. smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1067817479507986112003-11-02T13:37:00.000-08:002003-11-02T16:00:08.250-08:00entropyi'm back. seems like not much has changed here in LA in the 10 days i've been gone. my apartment is just as i left it, save for a dog-choking (i wish) pile of junk mail, credit card offers, and bills--it also looks like both the transit workers and the grocery workers are still on strike. there were still hot mamas in their sevens and contrived bedhead looks at the santa monica farmer's market smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1067039657193872842003-10-24T16:49:00.000-07:002003-10-24T16:54:18.530-07:00OOTI'm Out Of Town. In Vancouver, actually. So while you may have read that as the Canadian pronounciation of the word "out", I actually meant it as an acronym of sorts.
Vancouver so far is pretty good. I'll try to update here and there but I'm already doing daily (sometimes more often) updates for the local AIGA chapter, so my blogging bandwidth is pretty much already taken.smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1066675787392556512003-10-20T11:28:00.000-07:002003-10-20T11:56:34.746-07:00on (almost) any sundayalmost any sunday i'm hanging out at the farmer's market on main street in santa monica. what's nice about this particular farmer's market is well, it's sunday morning and there's a nice grassy area to hang out at, lots of fresh produce and tchochkes, lots of good hot food prepared right there, ponies for the kiddies to ride, etc. it's just a fun little neighborhoody kind of scene, exactly what ismooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1066375315876688752003-10-17T00:21:00.000-07:002003-10-17T00:21:55.766-07:00when life gets in the waywhen life gets in the way of blogging, well... we have problems. probably post this weekend maybe, but i'm pretty damn busy.smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1066172617546537172003-10-14T16:02:00.000-07:002003-10-14T16:03:37.686-07:00yes or notorpor. torpor.smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1066156678860964792003-10-14T11:27:00.000-07:002003-10-14T13:41:45.466-07:00next on martha's kitchen: knitted kozys for your forties.so i was up late last night watching the late late show with craig kilborn (whatever) because of course paul weller was on, and multitasker that i am, i was concurrently installing panther on my computer(s). anyway, whatever, the show finishes and i'm still working on the computers and whatnot and martha stewart's show comes on afterwards. whatever, i'm not watching at this point--it's just smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1066037790471388722003-10-13T07:33:00.000-07:002003-10-13T09:50:01.366-07:00the way to my heart.i was longing for a drink to chase away the blues yesterday, and to complete my act of self-loathing, i thought maybe i would pump some of my hard-earned cash directly into governor schwarzenegger's wallet (like he needs it). so i walked up the street to schatzi last night to meet some friends for happy hour. that's right, happy hour on a sunday, and a real honest-to-goodness cheap drinks and smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1065818571603306762003-10-10T13:39:00.000-07:002003-10-10T13:42:51.346-07:00am i crazy?i see these billboards and all i can think is "he really looks like a little noel gallagher"
i need to get out more. oh wait, that's all i've been doing lately. this is why i'm too brain dead to blog. i got booted from house of blues last night for drunkenly taking flash photos. oops. today, i am very tired. back to the regularly scheduled posts next week.smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1065632976803886672003-10-08T10:00:00.000-07:002003-10-08T10:09:36.786-07:00sore loserso i voted and i lost. i blame the rest of the state. at least los angeles county voted against the recall, as did most of nor cal, it ws the pesky rest of the state, the santa barbarians, the people behind the orange curtain (of fucking course), etc. etc.
can we just go ahead and fall into the ocean now?smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1065536363904699822003-10-07T07:18:00.000-07:002003-10-07T07:49:48.236-07:00the civic duty.i'm going to set aside my narcissism for a second and mention that i voted this morning. after half an hour of picking out a voting outfit (too patriotic? not patriotic enough? just kidding), i traipsed down to the local art gallery, (my appointed polling place) waited in line dutifully and cast my vote on the recall (no), possible replacement, and the two initiatives.
i swear to you i gave smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1065377878774182022003-10-05T11:03:00.000-07:002003-10-05T17:07:46.416-07:00Saturday, 4 October 2003 in EXCRUCIATING DETAILYesterday, I woke up at 7am, installed a bunch of software onto a laptop I'm selling, drove across town (with a stop at a coffee shop ) to west hollywood by 8:45am for my every 2 or 3 weeks haircut and a sit down with my favorite magazine, finished up around 10:15, went to the mall to go to a store where i picked up some clothes for a party later that evening. After that, I went to a store onsmooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1065282190734950572003-10-04T08:43:00.000-07:002003-10-04T08:43:10.486-07:00audio post powered by audblogsmooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1065249945166030702003-10-03T23:40:00.000-07:002003-10-03T23:46:46.233-07:00the rumors are true. hell yeah, the rumors are true.a really good friend of mine was out here last week from new york for a job interview and mentioned that there was a steady stream of hot airline stewardesses staying at the hotel he was at, which incidentally was 2 blocks from my office. i found this extremely difficult to believe as my office is in the middle of, well, Torrance, but due to the dearth of decent places to go (redondo/hermosa/smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1065220974081578042003-10-03T15:42:00.000-07:002003-10-03T15:42:53.776-07:00ingrid at the foot doctori�m writing this from the waiting room of discount tire center instead of watching �the best damn sports show period� and reading 3 year old issues of field and stream, us magazine, and time magazine. why is it that no normal people get flat tires? everyody that hs been in here has been sort of the fringes of society:
crazy eastern european family--does it really take two adults and a 9 year old smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1065152160487522572003-10-02T20:30:00.000-07:002003-10-02T22:48:04.986-07:00i swear to you, i am a MAN.i don't want to turn this into a whole "Does that make me gay?" thing (I can assure you I'm not. It's not even a question), but today after work I had a fairly emasculating experience.
There were some after-work cocktails had for someone's birthday (I was lobbying for a bar in a hotel that my well-informed sources say contains hot stewardesses on "LAYover", but I ended up losing to a smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1064524905416169102003-09-25T14:07:00.000-07:002003-09-25T14:22:27.053-07:00dirty little secreti was futzing around here at my desk at the office this morning when one of my friends (ok, my boss) walks into my office with a big shit-eating grin on his face. (As if he would have a shit-eating grin elsewhere on his body) as usual, i pretended to be busy and looked back down to my computer, which prompted him to start talking in fairly recognizable language, as if he was quoting something smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1064376907712031372003-09-23T20:56:00.000-07:002003-09-23T21:34:14.036-07:00i'm going to the 'coov!the AIGA (american institute of graphic arts) is having their national design conference in vancouver late october (23-26), and the Behemoth Advertising Agency is paying my way.
The conference will be ok, maybe. Probably, it will be ok. I am super excited however about vancouver itself, which i am taking a week to explore after the conference ends. Avid readers will remember my excitement aboutsmooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1064347307978721882003-09-23T13:00:00.000-07:002003-09-23T13:01:48.110-07:00classic. There is nothing worse than Wall Street guys that ride Harleys and dirt bikes. It makes you just want to stretch a sharp wire across Park Avenue and watch all their customized helmets go flying through the air like popcorn as your friends pick up the headless bodies and start walking them around like it�s Weekend at Bernie�s.smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1064334789375896772003-09-23T09:30:00.000-07:002003-09-23T09:33:09.243-07:00monday nightlast night i yelled at neve campbell, sang karaoke, and threw a burrito into the street. so far this morning, i drank a full liter bottle of water, a can of v8, and a bottle of gatorade. i am now working on some coffee.smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1064102086463504932003-09-20T16:25:00.000-07:002003-09-20T16:54:45.883-07:00w.w.a.n.p.d? (what would any normal person do?)i was minding my own business riding my bike on venice beach today riding around with the skaters, learning some new stuff. a coupla kids rolled up on bmx bikes and start talking to me--and when i say kids, i mean kidskids, all like 14 or 15 years old and whatnot--young enough to have to wear helmets when they ride their bikes. now this happens a lot, and i don't mind, i was a kid once and i smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1063906736677399232003-09-18T10:38:00.000-07:002003-09-18T10:40:51.360-07:00hmmmmm...oh to be free and easy again. it's good to be free.smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1063590687335054162003-09-14T18:51:00.000-07:002003-09-14T18:51:27.213-07:00actually...it was more helmet-like with a mullet coming out the back.smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1063588636836784922003-09-14T18:13:00.000-07:002003-09-14T23:02:08.300-07:00back in the 3.2.3.i was in the 323 this saturday, as i needed to visit sarah at rudy's. you see, i had the asian mullet thing going a little tiny bit, which is not-so-good for someone as single as i.
anyway, i had a good time. thanks 323.
addendum:
where "anyway, i had a good time. thanks 323." is in the post used to be longer entry, a lot longer. i felt a little guilty for being so self-indulgent, talking aboutsmooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1062968788555629612003-09-07T14:06:00.000-07:002003-09-07T14:06:28.550-07:00so over it.i tried to change my email address that's linked to my friendster account and it didn't work, so i'm locked out. i cannot log into friendster. this has a) greatly increased my productivity at work and b) pissed me off to no end. i've sent like 8 really nice emails to them a week ago and haven't heard a peep. bastards.smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1062643020192275452003-09-03T19:37:00.000-07:002003-09-08T11:27:28.106-07:0090+ dollars for this?That's right, Paul Weller is back for 3 acoustic nights at the House of Blues (2 in Hollywood, 1 night in Anaheim). October 8-9, and October 14. $30 a ticket, 3 nights, do the math.
If you see me at the show and you say "I'm not gay or anything, but I would totally do Paul Weller." to me, then totally I'll buy you a drink.
smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1062468079000917122003-09-01T19:01:00.000-07:002003-09-01T19:01:53.520-07:00hypocrite.read:
http://www.dooce.com/archives/daily/10_13_2002.html
my comment:
sales didn't bother me until i moved into my new neighborhood, where people have yard sales on the small patches of grass in front of their 6 unit apartment buildings, attracting roving bands of families in rusted blue ford aerostars circa 1988 choking up the already narrow streets between melrose and beverly. look, i don't smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1062288005785234622003-08-30T17:00:00.000-07:002003-08-30T17:00:05.780-07:00playstation1. pick up issue 73 of the official us playstation magazine
2. pop the accompanying dvd in your ps2
3. look at "highlights on gran turismo 4 from e3" in the "inside the game" section
4. laugh at mesmooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1061863524668275022003-08-25T19:05:00.000-07:002003-08-25T19:05:24.680-07:00again with the friendster.so i'm at the sunset junction street fair this saturday, right? (a huge street fair in los feliz/silverlake replete with food, drink, and good music. (generally)). this girl walks up to me as i'm stuffing my face with a bratwurst--"Excuse me... hi... uh... ARE YOU ON FRIENDSTER? I just moved here from New York--I wrote to you looking for cool people to hang out with?"
Whoa. Go friendster!smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1060956571446594682003-08-15T07:09:00.000-07:002003-08-15T07:19:45.936-07:00maddeningi've been awake all night, but not for lack of trying. i'm lying here in bed at 6:42AM doing what i've been doing for most of the night, alternately trying to go to sleep, giving up, turning my laptop on, surfing the web til i think i might be tired enough to sleep, putting the laptop to sleep, trying to put myself to sleep, waking up the laptop that so indignantly goes to sleep immediately, smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1059638190027966332003-07-31T00:56:00.000-07:002003-07-31T00:56:30.013-07:00i am so damn addictedto friendster.comsmooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1059614900291281642003-07-30T18:28:00.000-07:002003-07-30T18:28:20.253-07:00audblog audio postsmooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1057904640863402492003-07-10T23:24:00.000-07:002003-07-11T00:09:08.696-07:00buzznetok, one thing you'll start to see is pictures. i've wanted to do this often, but i've started posting stuff at http://sx70.buzznet.com, which you'll see on the right over there above linky links and archives. hells yeah.smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1057817181655073612003-07-09T23:06:00.000-07:002003-07-09T23:06:21.630-07:00holy cow i'm totally going so fast--ah, f**k!clicky
for the rest smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1057812304101467212003-07-09T21:45:00.000-07:002003-07-09T21:45:03.973-07:00one reason i must go back to the 323my hair is as big as a house. the new issue of vice magazine is out and i've read most of it already, so no waiting in the lobby of the standard reading the magazine posts. bleh.smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1057812201041693812003-07-09T21:43:00.000-07:002003-07-09T21:43:20.926-07:00one less reason to go back to the 323Before I beat a hasty retreat to Venice, I lived a block from The Grove, which for those of you blissfully unaware, is a behemolithic shopping centRE smack dab of an area of LA that was already chockfull of shopping areas, just south of clogged and touristy Melrose Ave., east of clogged and boutiquey La Brea, west of clogged and super-consumery La Cienega, and right next door to smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1057640935486138652003-07-07T22:08:00.000-07:002003-07-07T22:12:51.680-07:00323Fuck the 323. If you live in the 323 and are over 27 or so, perhaps you should take a cold hard look at your life. Why are you clinging to the vestiges of the life you still lived when you were in your twenties? Do you like that hot, muggy, inland climate? Do you not realize that the only good things about the 323 are not reasons to live there, just reasons to drive there? (restaurants, record smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1057631024876863652003-07-07T19:23:00.000-07:002003-07-07T19:23:44.856-07:00audblog audio postsmooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1057299299022015622003-07-03T23:14:00.000-07:002003-07-03T23:14:59.016-07:00The First Post With A TitleIt's a test.smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-1057298258581368552003-07-03T22:57:00.000-07:002003-07-03T22:57:38.410-07:00Duck Duck Grey Duck
I'm NOT crazy. People were making fun of me the other day because I insisted that in the midwest (ok, so i find out that it's only Minnesota--still, a "flyover state", big whup) kids played "Duck, Duck, Grey Duck" instead of "Duck, Duck, Goose". It's true. I win.smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-959319822003-06-22T20:01:00.000-07:002003-06-22T20:01:33.496-07:00I'll be back. sorry.smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-949797762003-05-28T01:02:00.000-07:002003-05-28T01:02:10.686-07:00I purchased a laptop a few months ago. My dad was in the hospital (he's doing very well, thank you for asking) and in an inspired bout of retail therapy highly rationalized by the need to get work done at the hospital, I bought a Powerbook G4. It's been great, I've been able to surf porn at work without IT getting on my case, and as evidenced by my last post, write about things pretty much as smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-949733292003-05-27T21:18:00.000-07:002003-05-27T21:37:05.000-07:00Cheap Bastard.
If you've never been in therapy (college. Long story, maybe later), this entry in which I am in fact a cheap bastard at heart will not look familiar.
Ok so I'm like sitting here in the lobby of The Standard again (waiting to get my hairdid), and laughing my ass off AGAIN at the latest issue of VICE magazine, in this case the "I call bullshit on..." article and the "do's and smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-945931452003-05-19T11:53:00.000-07:002003-05-19T11:53:14.476-07:00feeling dorky about:
Wanting a VW Eurovan.smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-944654442003-05-16T12:22:00.000-07:002003-05-16T12:22:32.666-07:00e3.
I did some reportage on e3 for Sony yesterday. They stuck a pen and pad of paper in my hand, put a Sony Cybershot U digital camera around my neck (these things are SWEEEET--so tiny) and sent me off to go play videogames and write horrible little stories. I mean, horrible game reviews. In the middle of the day, we shot a story on Gran Turismo 4, where I layed the smackdown on 3 other videogamesmooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-942701352003-05-13T08:36:00.000-07:002003-05-13T09:01:43.000-07:00laughing like an idiot.
why yes, that WAS me sitting by myself in the lobby of the standard reading a magazine and cackling away uncontrollably on saturday morning. this is what i was reading.
-example
M: MIX TAPE ALERT!
Do not make a mix tape for someone you have not fooled around with yet (said in an "emergency, emergency" robot voice). If she has a boyfriend and you are just courting her, she smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-942260022003-05-12T14:24:00.000-07:002003-05-13T09:24:59.000-07:00dammit, i accidentally erased the "i have a fine ass" post. i do have a fine ass.
repost (i really did accidently delete it):
so this girl was staring at my ass in the elevator today...
there are shiny doors in there, and i was standing there trying to avert my eyes from everybody else's (i'm shy--heh) and minding my own business. they say (whoever "they" are, i agree with them completely), yousmooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-938732452003-05-06T10:21:00.000-07:002003-05-06T10:21:30.410-07:00Dear Exotic Dancers,
Here's a tip: If I'm in the house and you want to earn lots of money, it's easy. You don't need to put on extra Designer Impostors perfume, your cho-cha don't need no fancy do', all you need is to dance to Portishead. Numb is particularly good. got it?smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-938441092003-05-05T22:11:00.000-07:002003-05-05T22:11:19.476-07:00look, i'm back for the most part and i've even done a little redesign. i'll probably even start posting again soon. smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-936376172003-05-01T22:19:00.000-07:002003-05-01T22:19:46.266-07:00audblog audio postsmooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-932040032003-04-24T15:32:00.000-07:002003-04-24T15:32:05.360-07:00me being mean and a little bit funny, too:
"she looks like she copied that outfit from a 3 year old back issue of cosmo that she was reading in the waiting room at the free clinic".smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-925960452003-04-14T11:07:00.000-07:002003-04-14T11:07:49.450-07:00please forgive this temporary bad layout as i re-do things. lots to re-do.smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-924089182003-04-10T22:05:00.000-07:002003-04-10T22:05:22.233-07:00i am installing movable type on my server as soon as i get my domains all sorted. this will only be a mere meta refresh away from my new site. more to come.smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-922563632003-04-08T17:51:00.000-07:002003-04-08T18:32:49.000-07:00audblog audio post
another post from the car. whee.smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-922512662003-04-08T16:05:00.000-07:002003-04-08T16:05:35.326-07:00I need to move out of Los Angeles. Today I said "I'm consoling myself with the fact that my hair continues to look 'salon fresh' weeks after the fact". I am a lousy piece of shit.smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-922369132003-04-08T11:46:00.000-07:002003-04-08T13:58:24.000-07:00Top 5 Essential Paul Weller Albums
It's list time here at the blogspot in lieu of a real entry. Paul Weller of course was the former front man in the highly influential punk-tinged mod band The Jam and the jazz/soul/r+b-flavored 80s pop band The Style Council. I have had an unhealthy obsession with Paul for years now--and now you can too! Just buy these albums in order.
1.Wild Wood
Easily one smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-919300442003-04-03T11:05:00.001-08:002003-04-03T11:13:48.000-08:00i'm usually pretty excited when Javier or Deniecia from the mailroom comes into my office bearing packages emblazoned with the big amazon smile on them, but when the two books are
Living with Stroke : A Guide For Families--Help and New Hope for All Those Touched by Stroke and The Stroke Recovery Book: A Guide for Patients and Families--needless to say, it isn't as wonderful. I
My father had a smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-917355142003-03-31T14:27:00.000-08:002003-03-31T14:27:02.483-08:00So I just got
Paul Weller - Two Classic Performances today from amazon.com. Paul Weller is my hero and this dvd makes me very very very very very very very happy.
smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-914335222003-03-26T12:57:00.000-08:002003-03-26T23:32:03.000-08:00audblog audio post (2 of 2--actually there were three, but one of them was superfluous. it's my blog, i make the rules, you deal with it.)
i cast no aspersions on anybody i know personally in this entry. no, really. this only really applies to native californians, so take no offense. smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-914311892003-03-26T12:17:00.000-08:002003-03-26T23:30:42.000-08:00audblog audio post (1 of 2)
traffic will make you do crazy things, especially when you are forced to listen to the radio because you forgot to charge your ipod. smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-914004362003-03-26T00:35:00.000-08:002003-03-26T00:35:35.920-08:00damn, we are all going through a shitstorm right now, aren't we? war, work, family, friends, there is no end of drama right now on global, interpersonal, and individual levels. all i can say is thank god that dentistry and gasoline are cheaper here than they are in england!smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-913989662003-03-25T23:42:00.000-08:002003-03-26T00:30:37.000-08:00so mark mcgrath was sitting across from me while i was waiting for my hair to get cut. i see that motherfucker everywhere i go. he not only looked like shit, but he looked old.
in any case, today i designated my new haircuttress for life. i usually bounce from cutter to cutter but i think she's the one. she has the "wild" card from UNO tattooed on her upper arm, as if to say "you can trust me smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-913984112003-03-25T23:23:00.000-08:002003-03-25T23:55:22.000-08:00politics, like gun control, abortion, and religion, is one of the topics that i generally try to avoid in order to be polite. one can only estrange so many potential father-in-laws before you get the hint--please, please learn from my mistakes.
having said all that, go michael moore. you fucking kick ass. you should have won best fucking picture, corporate america should have won best actor, andsmooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-906356282003-03-12T22:25:00.000-08:002003-03-26T00:11:26.000-08:00one thing i miss about NYC: billy's topless. screw you, todd levin, for reminding me.
addendum: if you don't know what i'm talking about, google it.smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-905975102003-03-12T09:48:00.000-08:002003-03-12T09:48:06.793-08:00alright fine, stop making fun of me, i'm going to reinstall movable type on my new server. sheesh.smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-905964222003-03-12T09:27:00.000-08:002003-03-12T09:27:17.030-08:00I got pulled over this morning on the way to work by the Royal Torrance Mounted Police for doing 54MPH in a 35MPH zone. This apparently is what happens when you listen to Norwegian electronic music while driving before 9am. The officer, no doubt seeing the danger his family and future generations of offspring would have to endure at my hands, wisely chose to let me off with a warning. Well, it smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-905342372003-03-11T10:23:00.000-08:002003-03-11T10:26:40.000-08:00shakes head.
What time does that train leave for Canada?"
smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-904867232003-03-10T15:57:00.000-08:002003-03-10T16:02:16.000-08:00"i saved latin. what did you ever do?"
everybody has their pet peeves. some people for example, cannot stand personalized ringtones (phones that sing). others can't stand socks and tevas.
me, i cannot fucking stand when people use "persay" when they mean "per se". it's probably some form of snobbery i have since i took latin in high school. latin is actually more useful than you realize. i mean,smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-904809042003-03-10T14:06:00.000-08:002003-03-10T14:06:52.216-08:00first of all, i'd like to welcome any new readers that may have followed the link from my other website. you'll see that i don't write about anything that would get me fired anyway, so...
fingers crossed.
anyway, i did end up getting chosen for that bmx/skateboard/snowboard thing for that new cable channel, and we shot that on sunday. they basically had me blather about why i think bmx gets smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-900658342003-03-03T11:59:00.000-08:002003-03-03T12:04:15.000-08:00audblog audio post
is this a good idea? you tell me.smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-900075742003-03-02T11:02:00.000-08:002003-03-02T11:02:42.840-08:0069 degrees today here. read it and weep, all y'all. i love LA. ok, i love the weather. we clear?smooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-899897372003-03-01T23:39:00.000-08:002003-03-01T23:44:42.000-08:00what the hell?
i had an audition today for this thing on bmx/skateboard/snowboard(ers/ing). it was really strange, i felt like some sort of investigative reporter--this isn't really my sort of thing, you see. suddenly "what do i wear" and "what is my story/what is my schtick" became something i was concerned about _for_money._
reality tv shows are they way they are because the contestants are sosmooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-898679632003-02-27T15:51:00.000-08:002003-02-27T15:54:07.000-08:00hey, i live in venice now, and i'm really mad.
to clarify, i love it so much that i'm really pissed at myself for not moving there sooner. Those who have been reading this for a while may remember posts like that of Thursday, October 10, 2002 when I detailed why I hated my apartment so much. Anyway, those days are long gone, as are the gobs of traffic, the parking nightmares, and my empty walletsmooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844561.post-890776892003-02-13T22:31:00.000-08:002003-02-13T22:35:22.000-08:00things to look forward to in future posts:
- my very los angeles weekend last week
- my increasingly busy life away from they keyboard
- why i am not ashamed to love the new missy cd (i know it's not new anymore)
- what it feels like to sleep after not sleeping for a weeksmooveberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405981196522962272noreply@blogger.com0