about time

(via Yimmys Yayo)

a relief

as a man that has felt disenfranchised. as a man who never understood white (take that as you want). as a man who has been completely underwhelmed the past 8 years. i am happy. i am hopeful. godspeed barack obama. may your pans give you the space you need.

eli

OBAMA!!!!!

OBAMA!!!! OBAMA!!!! OBAMA!!!!! OBAMA!!!!!

old school

the last few weeks have been pretty exhausting. we got our ep back from press, and that was cool. fall really hit stride, and that was cool. i found a huge archive of old family photos, and that was cool. one little gold nugget of my early days lies below:



on a sadder note, i had a friend several years younger than myself die in a car wreck over the weekend, and that fucking sucks huge hairy balls. sometimes, death makes sense to me. the natural way of things. the way it is if you dig. other times, it seems like somebody "up there" fucked up. there must be a mistake. it is so utterly wrong in every sense of the word that it makes you physically sick.

which brings me to this video,



jim henson's death was the first time i felt sick from hearing someone had died.

i was in the second grade, and it was in the cafeteria (which smelled a lot like kid puke and dirty bleach water). i remember some dude sitting across from me breaking the news and the fact that i was wearing black white washed jeans.

getting news that hits you that hard is really an indescribable feeling. if you've ever blacked out and thrown up on yourself, while sober, it's as close as i can put into words. the world zooms out and you're stuck there looking at your shitty cheese sandwich on bunny bread.

and so, it is with this video clip of kermit the frog singing "the rainbow connection", that i leave you. a lot of people hate this song, but i get all weepy and shit everytime i hear it. for real.

finally

listening to: jerry reed - jerry reed explores country guitar - georgia on my mind



zd

sometimes you just can't wait to get the fuck out of the weekend...

music

i have to say i'm not the biggest fan of arctic monkeys, but this is interesting...

(i'm a sucker for some qotsa)

something i've thought for quite sometime now

in other words i agree with the below:



not to mention all the "wars"

debacle

jim lehrer kept trying to get the canidates to address each other directly tonight, which i liked. knock the fucking wall down and have some intercourse. you know, simple shit, like refer to the other in second person. obama got the point and addressed mccain directly. i don't think mccain ever even looked at barack. he stared straight ahead with that creepy fucking grin.

that being said, nothing new was said tonight and both candidates avoided hard questions. big whoop.

maybe the vp debates will be eventful.

politics

as far as i can tell when the republicans took the white house and congress:

{} - the economy was in good shape

{} - now the economy sucks (though it's not the only reason, we (taxpayers) do spend $9 Billion a month in Iraq)
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{} - we were in a fair state of peace

{} - we have the worst attack and loss of civilian life on our soil since WWII (for which we had no real response. the taliban has not been defeated nor have the masterminds been apprehended)

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{} - we had a decent foreign policy

{} - now we're in two wars, one that is absolutely pointless (save for the contracts going to the certain interests to manage the war, which, does not benefit me at all)

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NOW.... i understand that you can't blame everything on the GOP. they were elected, and they were not the only ones in washington for the past 8 years.

BUT

for me, there is no way i can sit here and act like all that shit didn't happen. i'm not saying barack has all the answers, but at this point we have to give him a shot. to continue down the same path in the executive is not sensible. now if shit does not improve in his first term, that would lead me to believe that the system that is the federal government is broken.

i hope that's not the case

p.s. john mccain is old as hell. his vp choice still has children who are in her care. now i'm not saying a woman who has had children should not be in the executive branch, but come on. shouldn't they at least be school age or something? if shit goes down for real, and one of her youngest children gets ill, i'd be a little concerned that it would be a huge distraction. and rightly so.

slowing down

and moving.

apparently it made me antisocial and a dumbass

i guess i made the right move when i stopped receiving email on my phone

guilty pleasures

anything by federico fellini

butterfinger crisps

and shit like this... i love me some titans football

now it makes sense...

i always wondered why women were so into cats... now i know

m. louwar dreed

the return of the transformer



and in other news..........

word of the day

fuckshit = performance art

do you want me to stay?

MAN! what a gorgeous april day! i think i'm gonna listen to sly and the family stone all damn day!

hope you people feelin' fresh.

kung fu bear

... just one more reason not to fuck with bears.



neatorama

i am not a man who gets emotional

...but my mind has been blown. i was almost weeping. today i went to lunch at the pfunky griddle. first of all they have the best sandwiches in town period, not to mention the assorted pancakes that rock my amadeus. so i was sitting there with jim munchin on this turkey blt, thinking to myself how freaking good it tasted. the cook came out of the kitchen and asked us if we wanted to try something he was thinking of putting on the menu. we said "fer sure" and he brought out what can only be described as a spiritual experience.

chocolate pancake batter, whipped cream, brulee glaze and strawberries.

o my fucking god.

fireworks went off in my brain, i got a semi, and teared up. it's better than crack.

if you are every in berry hill for lunch, go try it. see if it changes your life like it did mine.

jesus my neck hurts

by far the best show of the year happened last night at the springwater. locals tim chad and sherry put on a great show that paved the way for monotonix, from tel aviv. needless to say 45 min later with a sore neck and lighter fluid on my shoes i was thoroughly rocked out. they moved the drum set all over the place and set it on fire a few times too. if you ever see these guys are playing in a venue close to you, drop your shit and go. while your at it go ahead and schedule an appointment with your local chiropractor/acupuncturist for the next day, you gonna have one stuff neck.

new art fun stuff

every once in a while it's nice to find a new artist whose art really speaks to you. visual art has never really been my fancy, but i have to say i really like this guy i found sigga bjorg. his stuff reminds me of a cross between shel silverstein, winnie the pooh, and ralph steadman. if the US dollar didn't suck so bad i'd get him to ship me over one of his pieces.

and i just got my michael motorcycle print framed and it looks badass in my office i must say.

eye candy

gone so long

sometimes it's good to take a break... so they say.

sunday kicked ass. alley cat has amazing an amazing menu on sunday mornings. pied piper always has sweet creams. 500 is always a good time on any sunny afternoon.

also got to record the hannah barbarians, who rock.

good times had by all...