"i still dont know what love means"

_posted in music | 18 September 2006

just got home from the troubador... ray lamontagne... perfect... celebrity sighting... laurence "larry" fishburne sans hot wife gina torres...

friends and family... friends who are family...

_posted in dayedayerocks | 08 September 2006

yesterday was a good day... i spent some time with mark and parisa's family, for the pre-wedding celebration... can i say that being in a room with those beautiful women completely makes me smile... all the mothers are about the same height, lovely, no where near shy and love to dance... i finally got to meet mark's brothers and i cant even imagine how his mom raised that crew... nothing but trouble!

im really excited about the wedding on saturday... no doubt mark and parisa are on my favorite people list... and not only because my grandmother adores them, but because they really make friendship something tangible. when my family were here they spent a lot of time with us and made such an amazing impression on the fam. Its nice to know that there are people who you can pull into more than one area of your life, people who are just as colorful and loud and outrageous as your family and they fit in just nicely.

congrats on the marriage... hugs and kisses... monkeys...

on another note... sp called to tell me that he's having a boy... how awesome is that... "one of each" as he puts it... i opt for the name jackson... just cause it's funny... a half asian, half white kid named jackson, born and raised in the south...

but not a rose for emily

_posted in music | 07 September 2006

i just got home from a fucking rocking show at the avalon. the plan was to get a chance to see the woogles (on the rolling rock and roll tour), but i showed up later than i planned. thanks to buffi and patrick for letting me know about the show and for putting me on the list...

the lineup was great to say the least; the holograms, mooney suzuki, the woogles, phantom planet* and THE ZOMBIES!

THE ZOMBIES. AMAZING! AWESOME! GREAT! LOVELY!
never thought i'd ever get a chance to see the zombies preform... wow! and i loved that rod argent would explain the next set of songs or drop a little history about a song or the group... and watching colin blunstone sing "a rose for emily" man im done! im going to bed with a smile on my face tonight...

_*
im a wes anderson fan therefore ive seen rushmore and thought jason schwartzman was amazing... ergo my interest in his other project, phantom planet. yes, i use to sing california out loud when i heard it... i was still living in atlanta thinking about moving out to l.a. and thought, "theme song!"

phantom planet is a great example of musical tastes gone bad and then reclaiming their rightful snobbish nature. phantom planet is on my rubbish list with matchbox 20... YES! i liked matchbox twenty... like i said, sometimes you can just lose your mind, be it your whole mind or just that part in charge of musical tastes.

night monkeys...

_soundcheck: the zombies, odessey and oracle

catch a fire

_posted in film | 04 September 2006

anyone who knows me knows that africa... music... politics... will pull me in... and let it be south africa... bob marley... and some catching fire and im there... rass!

one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter... speaking of that... i had a conversation with one of my coworkers about terrorism and i love the completely polar nature of some people... "i dont care or need to know why anyone would be a terrorist. i say anyone walking around in civilian clothes with a gun should be shot on sight." i'll let the boys over at the nra know just how you feel...

i love how trying to make the point of understanding someone motives, wrong or right, is not even an option when it comes down to it... i so wish my mind could think in absolutes... good vs. evil... them being evil, us being good, of course...

rass! i lie... you create a vacuum, you create a situation that breaks peoples backs... believe me they will catch a fire, and you will get burned...

the getty

_posted in photography | 04 September 2006

my first attempt at fake model photography... this is a photo of the getty, from my 2002 los angeles visit...

summertime is over... living was never easy...

_posted in dayedayerocks | 04 September 2006

well the summer is over... family came for three weeks... tiger! tiger! was in town for about a week... i accomplished nothing this summer... my goal list is still the same as it was before the summer started...

all my time has been spent on the job, dealing with hardware crashes, ridiculous methods of organization, horrible programming and people who feel they are entitled just because they wake up. eighteen hour days spent on shit you couldnt care less about makes you very grouchy and bitchy... needless to say, im near the breaking point with it all... my stress level is beyond unproductive... and id find it all funny if it weren't for the fact that im the fool in the middle of all this mess...

i took this past week off (a much needed break from the foolishness and fools) to prepare my mind for classes...but i decided i cant do classes this semester... there is too much stress and a feeling of "fuck this shit" in my blood right now to divert energies to classes and studying... so i spent a lot of time just going through old journals, photos and the like... i always get sentimental close to my birthday... im getting old, is all that means... these are two of my favorite photos... thought i'd share...

my favorite person... this is my da, my grandmother, back in the day... 1962 in panama...

this is me at my kindergarten graduation... nothing but trouble and attitude from the beginning... hands on hips... pursed lips... and nostrils flared...