Looks awesome!

Barf.

Shuffle yer iPod

This is what came up when I put my iPod on shuffle.

Portastatic - Through With People
Gwen Stefani - Serious
Vampire Weekend - Campus
Saves The Day - Cars and Calories
Neko Case - Lion's Jaws
They Might Be Giants - Hot Cha
Melpo Mene - Hello Benjamin
The Faces - You're So Rude
MIA - Hombre
Olivia Newton John - Banks of the Ohio

I work hard for the money

If you ever wondered what I do at work. It's a lot of stuff like this.

Sometimes you just gotta say fuck it

My friend Jeff

I was born in the summer but I'm a fall baby at heart

Well it seems that the days are getting much shorter and the temperature is a little bit crisper. I gotta admit..I really love this weather. As a matter of fact it's my favorite time of the year. Hey, I like the summer but let's be honest....nobody likes a sweaty crotch.

Pro Chicken/ Fried Life

My friend Kara (sister of Moira/daughter of Kevin) and I were hanging out last night and we started talking about her life as a vegetarian. The subject of eating eggs came up and she said it's okay to eat eggs. I argued (and when I say argue..I mean I didn't really argue) that eggs were unborn chickens and felt that eggs should be off limits for vegetarians. Then I thought about it for a second and wondered...does that make me pro-life? More like pro-eating them!

Alright..time to go. I'm gonna go get me a 20 piece McNugget.

UPDATE
I only ordered a 10 piece because I thought 20 was a little too much...and that turned out to be a bad idea. Oooo ooo my stomach.

"How You Did That"

This is Moira. Pronounced MORE-AH. Not MOY-RA.

In the past month she's threatened to physically harm me with a golf club (see photo), promised me a pumpkin pie (never got it) and started a book club with me (she's read maybe 50 pages).

I once walked away from my desk and when I returned there was an IM from her. All it said was "idiot". That was it. Totally unprovoked.

When she talks it starts off like a statement and ends like a question.

She claims I've never said anything nice to her..this is probably true.

She can speak Italian and once showed me the hand gesture for "Your wife is sleeping with another man". Sadly I've already forgotten this gesture.

If you see this girl stumbling around the Boston area buy her a Molson for me...and find out if she's ever gonna bake that pumpkin pie for me.

In case you are wondering, the quote "How you did that" is from the time I made a backwards facebook post by typing backwards (I'm so clever) and Moira asked with enthusiasm.."How you did that" and I said "umm...I typed it backwards". I should add that Moira wasn't feeling well that day and normally not so stupid....she's actually very smart. I mean, she knows Italian hand gestures. This was also the day I told her she looked "crappy"..or maybe the word was "shitty". Anyways, that didn't go over too well with her. She showed me another hand gesture that day..this one is a little more well known.

UPDATE - I've just been informed by Moira that she never said "How you did that" and is claiming she said something more like "...hey, how did you do that". I mean..I guess it's possible..but it sure as hell isn't as funny.

Sunday Funday Mother Fffffffff

"Look man...those breasts were alive when I last saw em! I swear! I didn't kill no breasts! You've got the wrong man!"

Yes, that was indeed a quote from one of the many classic moments that Ally and I shared. Yep. Classic.

Have fun in Chicago Brisbin.

A message for George Lucas

Please stop making movies.

Funny metaphors used in high school essays

This is an attempt to keep all of you entertained until I come up with something clever and witty to post here. Yeah, thats right..I said clever and witty.

Thanks for the link Derek.


Just in case you need some writing inspiration. Every year, English teachers from across the USA can submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of teachers across the country. Here are last year’s winners:

1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.

2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.

3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli, and he was room temperature Canadian beef.

5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.

6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.

8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife’s infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine.

9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t.

10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.

11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another
city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30

12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.

13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.

14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.

15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan’s teeth.

16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.

17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River.

18. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.

19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.

22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.

23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.

24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.

25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.

You either shut up or get cut up, they don't wanna hear about it. It's only inches on the reel-to-reel.

In response to Radams post of great teevee moments. This isn't as great as the original moment...but it's still fun.

The day mom bought cocaine

First thing you have to know about my mother...she is a small Vietnamese woman with an incredibly heavy Vietnamese accent. This conversation happened about a month or so ago. I'm just getting around to telling it cause I'm lazy...and I forgot all about it..until I was reminded of it this morning.

Our conversation went something like this......

Mom: I bought cocaine today.
Me: What?
Mom: (big smile on her face) I bought cocaine today.
Me: What do you mean by that?
Mom: (annoyed look on her face) What do you think I mean? I bought cocaine. Thats what I mean.
Me: You bought cocaine?
Mom: Yes.
Me: (shocked look on face) You bought cocaine? Today? It's here? Where is it. Show me.
Mom: (now pissed at me) Whats the big deal! It's out on the porch.
Me: What!! It's on the porch!! Are you serious!! What are you thinking! Show it to me.
Mom: (walking out the front door and cursing me under her breath) It's out here!! See! (then she pulls out a CROQUET set), cocaine. (then mutters under her breath "asshole").
Me: (relieved) Jesus Christ Mom...you bought a croquet set...not cocaine. Don't tell people you bought cocaine.
Mom: (now obviously very pissed at me) That's what I said....cocaine. (then storms off back into the house).
Me: (yelling from the porch) It's called CROQUET!!!
Mom: Thats what I said!...COCAINE!

This morning my mom asked me if I wanted to play cocaine.
Turns out mom is actually pretty good at the game.

America The Beautiful update

So the movie opens in NYC today as well as other cities across the nation over the next couple of weeks. I spent the last couple of days scrambling around trying to get all of my paperwork in to complete the whole process for the licensing. It was a bit stressful..but I got er done. Thanks for your help Matthew!! Sushi is on me buddy. Not ON me...I'm just paying. And thanks to Donna for putting that contract together for me. Who knew your experience with Jimi Hendrix would come in handy.

I am happy to announce that I was notified this morning that the film makers did get a distribution deal for the movie....which is great for the film makers, the film and myself. Not sure if it'll play in this area. If it does, I'll go...anyone want to join me?

Recent reviews. Some good, some bad.

NY Times
NY Post
Variety
Roger Ebert
IndieWire
TV Guide

2008 Comic-Con in San Diego

wrong wrong wrong wrong!

rock music ain't dead

Found this on Pitchfork.tv. Jay Reatard live at the Cake Shop in NYC. Enjoy. For some reason you only get a part of the video on my site. To see the entire show in fullscreen go to www.pitchfork.tv, click on "pitchfork live", scroll down and look for Jay Reatard.

three is the magic number

Why is it that there is always one member of any three piece band that I can never remember their name. I thought it was me but then I started asking some people to name all three members of some well known three piece bands and only a few people actually knew all three. Pretty much everyone could only name two of the members and then stumbled on the third.

Here's what I could think of. I mean..maybe it's just me.

RUSH
Geddy Lee, Neil Peart and whats his name.

THE POLICE
Sting, Stuart Copland and whats his name.

THE MINUTEMEN
D. Boon, Mike Watt and whats his name.

NIRVANA
Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl and whats his name.

ZZ TOP
The two dudes with the long beards and whats his name.

THE JAM
Paul Weller, Bruce Foxton and whats his name.

GREEN DAY
Billie Joe Armstrong, Tre Cool and whats his name.

DRYER
Rachael Sunday, Joel Lilley and whats his name.

You think I'll be in IMDB?

I've been keeping this a bit of secret for awhile now because I wanted to make sure it was actually going to happen. Some people knew about it..but that's only because I either needed some advice or I was tired about hearing how great their life was. Well, I can now say it's actually going to happen. Over the past month I've been working out details with a production company for them to use a song I wrote back when I played in a band called Dryer. The movie is a documentary called America The Beautiful and the song they are using is called "MTV". It looks pretty interesting, and I'm not just saying that because they are using one of my songs. Here's what they say at Netflix.com:

Director Darryl Roberts' provocative documentary examines America's fixation with outward appearance and the unrealistic standards of beauty dictated to the public by the media, pop culture and the fashion industry. Featuring interviews with fashion experts, media personalities and celebrities such as Mena Suvari and Aisha Tyler, the film looks at everything from plastic surgery's growing popularity to widespread concerns about eating disorders.

Interesting, right? It comes out on August 1st and it looks like it'll have a limited release in the United States. After that it seems it's going to go directly to DVD.....unless the movie gets picked up by a worldwide distributor. (Fingers crossed) Please get picked up, please get picked up, please get picked up. If it doesn't get picked up..well then sadly there will be no red carpet stroll for me. Hey, I'll be happy with a free copy of the DVD. And if I must, I'll even settle for previously viewed copy for $5.99.

You can check out the movies website here. I've also taken the liberty of posting the trailer below. Sadly the trailer does not include a clip of my song. It should. But it doesn't.

Oh yeah...you look great..

Look, if you are wearing cut off jean/shorts, and we can see the bottom of your pockets hanging out. Let me be the one to tell you that you've cut them way too short. It's not a pretty look. I don't care how hot you think you look in them. I'm here to tell you that you don't. While I'm at it...the popped collar look...yeah..that looks stupid too. What I find amazing is when people combine both of these looks. So stupid..yet so bold. It's almost genius.

And fuck you Cat Power....whew...there..got that off my chest.

Hmm...strange

FYI. I have never, in my entire life, have ever held a loaf of bread in my arms like this. Never.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream

I went to Cold Stone yesterday for some ice cream and I have to say, I really don't get it. It just seems like a lot of extra work to me. For both the customer and the person working. If you are not familiar with the place, it's the ice cream joint where each flavor is hand mixed right before your very own eyes. It would much easier if they just made all the flavors in a big tub ready to go, instead of having this long process of watching them throw it all together and mix it up as if they were making the polio vaccine and saving the world. I mean...polio is pretty much gone but you get my point. No offense to anyone out there with polio. My 9th grade history teacher had polio. Her name was Ms. Dobbs. She was a real hoot. She liked ice cream. I think she's dead now. Man, 9th grade really sucked. But seriously...no offense to anyone with polio.

I'm just saying....why all that mixing? Just scoop it out and put it into a dish for me.