the ramones, cheap champagne and digital pictures of my friends and fam is what is standing between me and super sulker mode this neglected bingo night. folks who criticize the ramones for being idiots (who only talked about hamburgers and male prostitution) end up underestimating their power to make anyone, even Debbie Downer, super pumped for retarded behavior. I love The Clash but they couldn’t make me escape quite like the Ramones. Ay Romeo! I don’t wanna go down to the basement

today your love, tomorrow the world

havana affair

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sorry for the language, but it’s the only way i can describe this scene from nick cage’s latest movie, Bangkok Dangerous (shouldn’t it be called Bangkok IS Dangerous?)

first cage beats up women and terrorizes kids in the wicker man remake and now he’s in a movie where he beats up and severs asians. i wonder what he is going to beat up in his next movie. it’s probably going to be sea otters or something random. he’s running out of things to beat up.

young and mike both randomly sent me a link to this guy’s loteria style illustrations this week. they are fun and funny

Scientists threw a coming-home party Wednesday for 20 African penguins at the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park and I’m offended that I was not invited. They were on the news the other night and looked like they wanted to get snuggled by me. I’m not a penguin stalker or anything. the news also showed some images of the reconstructed Cal Academy of Sciences building and it’s incredible, I get giddy just thinking about it. I think the 2nd grade field trip here was a universal experience for many who grew up in the Bay Area so I am really happy that it’s been rebuilt and modernized. this is what it looks like:

all that green on top is a living roof, 2.5 acres of native plants will thrive there. 99 days til the grand re-opening! i feel like i’ve been waiting forever.

to break out Zen Arcade again

husker du 1987, “Pink Turns to Blue”

remember when i posted about being addicted to making these readymech paper dolls a while back? now they are back with a bunch of downloadable pdfs for making your own functional pinhole camera! pick em up picklehead, they look nice.

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so i got this portable karaoke adapter for my video ipod. i don’t know why, because it would require me getting really drunk to use it. thought it would be good to have for house parties or as an alternative to paying Do Re Mi in japantown for a private karaoke room.

anyway, you plug it into your tv from your ipod and it comes with a microphone and a reverb knob to disguise your horrible vocals. i was kinda sad when i realized that it didn’t come with a full library and i had to pay for each song like the itunes store, but then i found out that there are a mess of karaoke ready song files out there on the interweb for enjoying (read: stealing). and i mean surprising ones, not that typical benatarsherylcountingcrows crud. exhibit a & b:

on flickr. just testing out a new pic player so there isn’t scrolling for days.

look at these bizarre animal hair pieces (hair hats?)

sometimes i owe my frienemy Young money for taking care of camping stuff or when he puts dinner on his card. most of the times, it’s just easier to direct deposit the cash into his checking account since we both have the same bank, so these obnoxious memos for the transactions always come up on his bank statement.

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ugh, i drank a bunch of miller high life last nite at the neighborhood bar and remembered this morning why i kinda hate drinking. may 2008 = best gift my liver has ever received.

i’m off to this place this weekend and i am super excited because i just found out tomorrow is Free Fishing Day in Cali which means I don’t have to buy a fishing license. young rented a patio boat for us! man i freaking love camping

on monday nite i ate at COCO500, the restaurant that the lesbian with the lame faux-hawk on Top Chef is the executive chef of. it was really good, but i ordered the flank steak so i didn’t feel compelled to take a picture of it. i cannot not order steak if it is on the menu, i don’t know what is wrong with me. i actually just had ordered a rib-eye a few days earlier at lunch with co-workers.

anyway, after dinner we all went to the Great American Music Hall to see the Long Blondes play. i took some video footage during one of their songs, something i have never done and felt kind of weird about because i always get irritated at all the undesirable live footage of bands i like on youtube clogging up my search results. i made an exception here because they are one of my few favorite modern bands and i really like this song. plus i thought it would be nice to have something more vivid for thee ol’ memory vault/private mind garden.

young got a pair of rats as pets. yeah…wtf

(11:26:35 AM) audrey: where is your rat sleeping
(11:26:43 AM) Young: in their cage in the middle of my apt
(11:27:02 AM) Young: i’m gonna bring them over and have them play on your bed
(11:28:43 AM) audrey: i’ll put down a trail of cheese leading to my toilet bowl
(11:29:03 AM) audrey: and then they’re getting flushed…bigtime
(11:29:36 AM) Young: you’re rude!
(11:29:46 AM) Young: n o brulee for you!
(11:30:21 AM) audrey: rats
(11:31:10 AM) Young: rude and not funny
(11:32:32 AM) audrey: once i flush your rats they can meet Splinter and learn martial arts
(11:32:44 AM) audrey: in the sewer
(11:32:52 AM) Young: and come back and kick your ass for flushing them down the toilet
(11:33:02 AM) audrey: i don’t think so
(11:33:11 AM) Young: big time

Lydia, Brandon and I are going to cash in on this recession and make an escapist game called Virtual Baller for the Wii. for the bonus round after each level ends, you have to strut into the clurb and make it rain with your wii remotes. we also decided there could be different levels of balling such as a gambling high roller to thuggy rap mogul who starts his own telecommunications company. brandon suggested a hipster baller role where $20 could take you a long way. i wish i knew how to make video games.

i’m fascinated by this news story

Amazon Indians from one of the world’s last uncontacted tribes have been photographed from the air, with striking images released on Thursday showing them painted bright red and brandishing bows and arrows.

The photographs of the tribe near the border between Brazil and Peru are rare evidence that such groups exist. A Brazilian official involved in the expedition said many of them are in increasing danger from illegal logging.

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