is that casual?

no jamie lidell. no bonfire. but we heard some of beck's set / watched a tiny sliver of it. but we heard fans talking good talks about mr. lidell. anyways.....



over at my old kentucky blog they have a great collection of covers of the Leonard Cohen classic "Hallelujah". so basically anyone who has sung it is up there. enjoy

i want to go to santa cruz

i want to go to santa cruz tonight and do either of the following:

1. find jamie lidell after he plays his set (opening for beck) and talk to him while he puts on his sweet hat.
2. beach bonfire.

who is down. call me and it will happen. its probably too short of notice.

i feel like i should name this compliance

why do i complain? why am i frustrated? there is no reason to be at either state. i should be happy. look at where ive been and where i am and where im going. im happy about it. if i complain or become frustrated......yell at me.

my dumpster diving finds

with the aid of a flashlight, my dumpster diving turned these books up:
John Burchard - The Architecture of America, A Social and Cultural History
C. S. Lewis - The Allegory of Love
Tom Koot - Rembrandt's Night Watch
Geoffrey of Monmouth - History of the Kings of Britain (i just like the cover a lot)
John Steinbeck - Travels With Charley
John Steinbeck - The Pearl
Alexander Pope - The Poetry of Pope
Michael Bruno - Pocket Pal, A Graphic Arts Production Handbook
Diane Wakowski - Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch (poetry with a cool name)
Geoffrey Scott - The Architecture of Humanism, A Study in the History of Taste
Banlieue 300 Communes Autour de Paris (basically all these old maps of Paris in a book)
Czeslaw Milosz - The Captive Mind
David Talbot Rice - Byzantine Frescoes From Yugoslav Churches
John Evans - The Poet's I

almost done

after 2 rolls of double sided tape,
2 cans of spray adhesive
5 trips to university art
1 trip to michaels
6 trips to office max
2 trips to the sjsu print shop
2 trips to sjsu design office
at least 40 trips from my room to my garage
4 cutting blades

i think i am done. well there is 1 more thing i have to do, but i have all day to do that 10 minute piece of work.
but here is the final project of the semester. it is supposed to be a kiosk that would stand up in front of a venue at the olympic games, my event is Freestyle Skiing, so this would stand 10 feet high (1" equals 1' scale), and serve as an informative piece for bystanders to look at.





all the while i listened to the octopus project album about 5 times.
The Octopus Project - The Adjustor

honestly, don't pass this up



jamie lidell is playing at the mezzanine in san francisco on thursday, june 29. i would suggest just buying a ticket ($15) even if you don't know who he is. i'll drive you guys up there to see him. i just think sometime in the next few weeks you all can scrounge up $15 and buy a ticket so that you will be very happy on that night (and probably for a few weeks following).

thats all i ask. who's in?

no stolen ipods or vandalized car

when i came home last night there were dudes in the bushes next to my house. i live on a quiet street, no dudes do stuff like that here.

a conversation on instant messanger today with me and a friend:
-6 45 burrito factory almaden
-?
ok ok ok
i went there yesterday
-totally
what does that mean
-you know
-c'mon
ok
chillax
-sleazy style
cutoff jeans/slicked back sneakers
-jeanless/slicked back sneakers
"why the assholes is bitches?"
-dont you dare start with me
its unheard of. except for that one guys. he/they is not
-if jesus were black, the last supper would have been with chicken and waffles.
and pepsi
-and watermelon and fried chicken
or sprite
-and a 40
of liquid
gatorade
-no
did you hear about speed 4
-the new drug? yeah. someone was telling me about it yesterday....i forget who it was
-it supposed to be crazy

reason enough to why i love my friends

prediction

if, in the morning, my ipod is gone, or my car has been vandalized, i will return by saying i told you so.

maybe this was stress

all the reasons i stressed out this week are over.
survivor.
amazing race.
sharks.

1 of them made me happy.

my portfolio isnt stressing me out. im running around in a very productive manner and i feel good about it. i still dont feel as if my work is good enough to make it to the next level, but i feel good about being productive and taking the time to work out minor details in my pieces. maybe when they are done ill make a little portfolio for you all to see. but im happy about the way i've lived the past 2 days (that sounds weird). but i get up at 8 or 8:30 instead of sleeping in, and i work on my stuff for a bit, grab some tea, work more, print stuff at school, mount the prints, grab lunch, work more. although ive been running around the house a lot, i feel sucessful in a "im not going to make it to the next stage of the program, but i feel good about my work" kind of way.

16 days from takeoff. maybe im excited.

Speed 4: The Lake House




"just when you thought keanu and sandra ran out of speed......they sped things up, down at the lake house"

i dont know why i am advertising this

ok, based on the poster alone, you can tell Neo is a ghost or something of the past.

i really dont know why i care about this, i think i just wanted to be the first person to call it speed 4. mark the date. best week ever will get this at some point

today

this was/is my checklist for my portfolio.


running around my house working on it caused me to:
run out of breath once
get a cramp
enhance my dreams last night.

what has got me through it so far is:


Mylo - Muscle Cars

and

Cloud Cult - Moving To Canada

im addicted to animal collective

two nights of almost hell

the past 2 nights i have had dreams about me going to other countries and not having my passport. causing me to be deported back to america to get it and then return. each dream had me crying at an airport. weird. i feel like i really am going to forget it.

very close

every once in a while it will hit me. the windows down as im driving somewhere after the sun has gone down. myself, dressed in shorts and sandals and a t-shirt. the unknown words from some language being sung in my ear. the smell of a dirty alleyway behind a restaurant.

i know it doesnt sound great, but it reminds me so much of the past. the summers i spent in mexico or china. its not like sweltering heat and terrible smells are reasons to get excited. but tonight as i was listening to carolina by seu jorge, with the windows down, and the breeze that was not cold was blowing in the car, and the rotten smell reminded me of driving through mexico in the high school days (i am not saying mexico smells, nor am i saying seu jorge is spanish or mexican).

i guess it gets me excited:
to leave
to wear sandals
to drive with the windows down and turn the music up
to dance to portugese music
to not worry about the winter olympics anymore
to have extra daylight
to put aloe vera on my sunburns
to read books on airplanes/trains
to hear other languages and not care to know their meaning
to drink iced green tea
to have bonfires
to do sweat-hole en route to the beach
to eat bbq/fresh watermelon
to spend sunday at the beach and then church

hot chip will break your legs

im in this state of loving music. moreso than before. but now im in this "theres so much i want to hear but i have to choose one song" kind of mood, thanks to apple computers. i think coachella brought me to a new level or something. i never danced or clapped as much as i have there. it wasnt applause clapping, but it was to the music. with that attitude mixed with my boredom from local shows, it makes the local shows worse now.

the music that is taking me over:

Candy Bars - Violets
Hot Chip - Boy From School
Akron/Family - Running, Returning

info and prayer

there is this customer at our store who had hung out with us off and on. he got the same thing every day. he is 29, life was going alright. on saturday he had a headache. he went to lay down. he woke up after vomiting and having no control of his bowels (during sleep). on tuesday he calls our friend and she takes him to the hospital. he had an aneurysm (leakage in the brain). they do surgery. he wakes up from the surgery and has a stroke. right now he is in icu. its crazy. again ill say he's 29. his family lives in japan, so we (starbucks) are like his temporary family. pray for him and all that junk.

a new friend



found in the atlantic.

a new tradition?

coachella was superfun. all in all i was able to watch:
the section quartet, infusion, celebration, white rose movement, platinum pied pipers, the walkmen, lady sovereign, wolfmother, animal collective, common, my morning jacket, tv on the radio, sigur ros, devendra banhart, cat power, the juan maclean, depeche mode, daft punk, giant drag, murs, mates of state, amadou & mariam, phoenix, jamie lidell, gnarles barkley, seu jorge, mogwai, mylo, tool, jazzanova and i peeked in the sahara tent so that i can say i have seen madonna.
here are some pictures of giant drag, jamie lidell, daft punk, gnarles barkley and animal collective.