After dropping Amanda off at the airport today I decided to drop by Kevin’s work and catch up with him and I’m glad I did. We hung out briefly at his work before heading over to his parents house where we had magic little gems rained down upon us. Several of them don’t really bear repeating but it’s fun to be improvising and on the ball while someone is sortof, vacantly not getting it. Then we talked to Kevin’s uncle who apparently won an academy award (but only got a plaque), kicked ass at Nascar and had the inside scoop on what’s been wrong with Britney Spears for so long. Then we had hot dogs, burgers and Dr. Pepper. Good times were had, bellies were filled and then we headed out to LA where I watched some really crazy documentaries. Hell House, and Animal Passion. The former was about some crazy Presbyterian Church’s Haunted House they do every year and was crazy disturbing. Animal Passion is about Zoophiles and while the general topic is ‘taboo’, something about how it’s handled is disturbing in an amazingly hilarious way. One of the more disturbing lines involved the pleasure one of the guys was giving to his horse by letting it enter him, and how it would bite his back so hard he’d begin to bleed, and when he returned to his house his wife would laugh and say “Oh have you been out in the barn again?”. I don’t know, you have to watch it apparently. We also watched Doug Stanhope, who’se great and Comedians of Comedy and ordered a pizza that took hours to arrive.

Then I got to head out to Los Angeles to see Kevin rock some Roberto Alomar. It was really funny and awesome to see all the people from Ultimate Improv and meet some new people. They kicked ass, but the people that went before them just didnt get it, and all the laughs they got were these horribly uncomfortable laughs, and it was baaad news. I also now have a story that’s amazing to add to my repertoire. This sounds like I’m totally making up a joke, but I’m not. Between the two shows, I stopped into the bar at IO West and decided to get myself a delicious beer. So I ordered a Stella, took out my wallet and waited as the bartender got it. As she returned she said ‘The person at the end of the bar bought this for you’ and waves off my wallet. I confusedly glanced down the bar, and there was a midget, wearing a leather vest and festivly bohemian clothing, who gave me a jaunty, gay wave, and raised his glass.

I was confused on several counts. I raised my drink back, and took a sip, but was instantly confused. I’m not the kind of guy who’se had alot of other guys buy him drinks, so I wasn’t really sure what the drink-buyee etiquette was, and I don’t usually have random drinks sent to random women at the bars. So I sortof stood there awkwardly had a few more sips of beer. And then hastily beat a retreat from the bar. I like to think he bought me the drink because he found how amazing our height differences were, worthy of a delicious drink. And hell even if he buyed me a drink cause he thought I was a sexy looking guy, I guess being tall has its perks.

After rocking the green room some, we headed over to Kevin’s place and watched the most amazing movie I’ve seen in a while. The movie is called “The Legend of the Roller Blade 7″. One of the previews was for a movie called ‘Billy Badd’ which somehow had something to do with a mad-mask esque biker who at one point in the preview kicks a V.W. bug and it flips over. Then there seems to be a lot of tits and violence, and the preview itself took like 10 minutes before ending.

Then was Frogtown 2. Which had to do with the Champion of the Rocket Rangers, and one of his companions being turned into a frog while fighting the evil frog king.

And now, we make it to LofRB7. I don’t even know where to start with this movie, which stars Emelio Estebez and Frank Stallone. There’s ‘combat’ in it, but it’s like, my parents doing the Star Wars kid with plastic swords they bought at costco. There’s a part where the woman catches a plastic knife in her mouth, the cheap kind with the flimsy silver plastic blade, and then slits the throat of her captor. Only imagine a woman with one of said cheap plastic knives with it akwardly in her teeth, slowly trying to drag it over a guys neck, which clearly doesn’t cut him or even have any sort of red line it leaves behind. It’s like… people in rollerblading gear and skates, with a somewhat poorly improvised dialog, and otherwise some creepy Live Action Roleplaying. It’s horrendous in that ‘what the fuck am I watching’ kind of way.

All in all a good day, and it cost me $5 (I totally owe you drinks next time we go out Kevin). That is all for now, I’ll be back in PD tomorrow.

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Posted by admin - 03/06/08 - 0 comments

 

Dinner Tonight Courtesy of Trader Joes:

I just had an amazing dinner. I couldn’t tell you the nutritional value of it or how many calories it was, nor do I care. The flavor content was mindgobbling (Thanks Christian).

So what did I have? Well it was a pretty simple fair. When I was at TJoes I picked up a 4 pack of Organic Artichokes and cooked one of those up. It was delicious, dipped in butter, as predicted and was the least flavorful part of the meal. Part of it was slightly undercooked which was both my fault for not checking the artichokes I bought, and my fault for not using quite enough water when I cooked it.

Next was Trader Joe’s brand Sweet Apple Chicken Sausages and these things pretty much made me mess my drawers. Next time you’re at Trader Joes and looking to pick up something snack-worthy I highly recommend it. They were a mindblowing addition to the meal and gave a nice sweet light taste to the heavier butter soaked artichoke.

Then of course was the piece de resistance (I don’t really know what that means). The Chimay Grand Reserve. I’ll say one thing them Belgians’ sure know how to brew a tasty damn beer. I’ve been growing more and more fond of Belgian beer lately with Blue Moon being good and Hoegaarden being a favorite. But Chimay is mindblowing, and alongside the other two pieces of the meal it was perfect, and it’s nice and thick so I can definitely count it as part of the meal. Next time you think about buying that 6 dollar bud light at a bar, go home and buy a tall delicious Chimay instead.

My god I’m in Gluttonous Heaven right now.

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Posted by admin - 28/02/08 - 0 comments

 

I really need to get a digital camera. Apologies in advance for trying to describe something that could oh so much more gracefully be captured with a picture.

I am sitting in my grandma’s jacuzzi, it’s overcast which is just the kind of weather I like. It’s sunny out, but everything is in the way of that sunlight actually shining through and getting to me, so instead everything looks backlit. As I sit back, relaxing from what seems like months worth of moving crap, finally unwinding I look up and see thunderheads racing across the sky, not moving at slow speeds but practically roiling across above me, and I heard ONE peel of thunder. I debated getting out but the warmth was too great so I just gave a long sigh and sank deeper into relaxation.

So far, so good

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Posted by admin - 19/02/08 - 0 comments

 

It’s kinda funny that it’s going to have taken this long to get to why I made the new journal. With moving to Palm Desert I have the opportunity for a lot of things, and one of those opportunities is to get several facets of my life back on track. While I largely don’t want to think of my move as geographic therapy, which I’ve certainly tried to have my fair share of, this is going to be different than driving cross country to Chicago or moving up north to stay with my Dad in Oregon.

While I may have friends and relatives visit down here, and I may go back to LA semi-often (it’s only a 2.5 hour drive), on a regular weekly basis I’ll be all by myself in a big house in Palm Desert, staring at the walls, so I want to take it upon myself to try to sort out some shit in my life.

As of today I am 100% totally and finally fully moved out of my Van Nuys apartment, and I have 8 dollars in my wallet, I got added to Chexsystems for an overdue balance of $300 to WaMu, I have a rediculously huge t-mobile, electric, and cable bill, and I’m sure a few incidentals I haven’t gotten around to sorting through yet. So one of the first thing I need to do out here is sort out my financials. Trying to go to SMC and get student aid turned out to be laughable at best. I was under this vague impression that with studen aide, since I was making $0 a week, and had no savings to speak of, I’d qualify for… something. Well I did qualify for something, I qualified for a $300 fee waiver for my tuition, which made sure I didn’t wind up that much more in the hole.

I have a chance to apply for Unemployment still, which would be great because the extra money coming in would be awesome to put a dent/take care of that debt, as well as paying for… I dunno… groceries, and I had an unexpected suprise when my landlord mentioned I might be getting some of my rediculously huge deposit back (I had to pay like 3 months upfront because of my shitty credit). I’m just going to funnel this all to my mom who paid my last months rent, and has given me several hundred dollars worth of gas money to get to and fro the desert, and basically covered my ass.

The one large upside of having moved here is I’ve already thrown away a bunch of crap I really dont need, and I plan to sell off/simplify what I own, and hopefully use some of those funds for getting my life a bit back on track. I’ve also decided while I’m down here I’m going to learn to play blues guitar, and try to read more, and I’ll be going back to school in Summer.

In a sidenote, I went to an endochrinologist (however you spell that) to make sure I don’t have lymphatic cancer or something (I dunno, my mom wanted me to go, I don’t really think I’m at risk). He said “You look fine, except you’re blood pressure is high, loose weight and it’ll go down”. Which is good news I suppose, not like loosing weight is a bad idea anyways, but since I’ve been moving constantly, I have eaten more fast food SINCE having that talk with the doctor than I have in the 4 months prior to going in there, and that amuses me.

Anyways more later, must start putting away the giant piles of crap I now litter my grandma’s place with. (BTW, you guys are totally welcome to come visit whenever, just lemme know)

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Posted by admin - 10/02/08 - 0 comments

 

So this is the first post. I have some rather grand aspirations with the new blog. Changing from live-journal to here is just one small change. It’s a step towards taking the longer route, though it might be slightly more of a hassle, because it means a better thing in the long run. In this case I can have something separate for people who are really interested in what’s going on in my life and what I have to say. I think that’s the problem with Livejournal. You glance at your friend’s list and in general it’s a way to look around and see the random stuff your friends you rarely talk to are up to. That’s all good and fine but I want this journal to be something different, I want to generally update it with things that are important or meaningful to me. LJ will continue to hold meme’s and random thoughts and quips. This is the place for stuff that’s a little meatier, and I’m going to try to keep it more accurately updated. I don’t update the LJ often enough for that very reason. I don’t want to just recant my weekend and have people vaguely flip through it, neither party being any better for having read it. If you don’t want to read what’s important to me, you don’t have to read this. If you ARE interested in what’s going on in my life or what I find interesting or important well then…. read on. The first good post is coming tomorrow. I’m just content I got everything up and running tonight, despite it being 3 AM. More fun features coming as I get them figured out (like RSS)

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Posted by admin - 30/01/08 - 0 comments