tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14274092641151969422012-01-29T22:49:08.563-08:00Scary, did the sun come out t'day?required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.comBlogger9821100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-73935207027575657802012-01-29T22:49:00.000-08:002012-01-29T22:49:08.573-08:00Superbowl commericalsDont' be a chump and wait for the super bowl to see all the commericals. Go to adland.tv which is hands down the best coverage you will get of all the super bowl spots well before they've run.
Go there NOW.
I'm not saying, I'm just saying.required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-73155054671000246782012-01-29T20:15:00.000-08:002012-01-29T20:15:07.842-08:00while we're talking subcultresI have a friend named Tess who was gifted with a beautiful voice. Some people think the sounds like Fiona Apple and there is a certain resemblance. However her writing is much more interesting, idiosyncratic, and original. In one day she has achieved half her kickstarter goal.
So what I would say is, if you can spare a few bucks you should.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tessalexandria/required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-8345620444558161782012-01-29T19:31:00.000-08:002012-01-29T19:31:03.832-08:00good eatsI just watched this and had a huge appreciation for it because before good eats, alton brown was directing commercials and also music videos including R.E.M.'s "The one I love" which is awesome.
If you read between the lines with this dvd extra you begin to understand he is most likely a demanding if not mercurial asshole. And you know what? I'm cool with that.
Once upong a time I did a favor required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-55136396075336143062012-01-27T23:23:00.000-08:002012-01-27T23:23:03.852-08:00gas station coffeonce upon a time i used to drive form atlanta to pittsburgh in one straight shot, several times a year.
along the way i stopped for coffee.
for years, starbucks was non-existent along the highways. i used to drive from georgia through the carolinas up through virginia and west virginia to get to pittsburgh. the irony was that for years the only starbucks along the highway was in west virginia-- required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-72759334425115829912012-01-26T00:20:00.000-08:002012-01-26T00:20:00.827-08:00Even Bowie stole.http://youtu.be/iFXsrFo2-bU
You'll have to watch it on youtube as the embedding has been disabled. Stupid, I know, but if you're a Bowie fan is worth the effort.required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-88048124396203344242012-01-22T23:16:00.000-08:002012-01-22T23:16:55.715-08:00the difference between satellites and moonssatellites are forced. someone had to shoot them into the air, defying the odds, cheating gravity to get to a perverted state of orbit.
moons were already there. tied to their planets, irrevocably linked. just the same way the moon effects the earth's tides. the same way we are fascinated by the waxing and waning, occasional eclipses and new moons an blue moons.
there is a tie that goes required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-91267255921331066362012-01-22T19:42:00.000-08:002012-01-22T19:43:30.705-08:00A study in SaltOr rather, Salt-Encrusted Red Snapper. A scientific study in heat conduction. Super easy to make. The only thing i should have done was have the fishmonger scale the fish for me while he gutted it. My kitchen looked like a tranny hooker came in wearing a sequin dress and shook it all over the place.
After that inconvenience it was merely a mater of stuff it with oranges and lemons and parsley required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-4242549712958263722012-01-19T11:21:00.001-08:002012-01-19T11:21:58.496-08:00splitting headachethats the problem with detoxing. the headaches are constant.required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-45695211836702551982012-01-18T16:07:00.000-08:002012-01-18T16:07:42.534-08:00slowly migratingto tumblr....
or maybe i'm just testing the waters n shit.required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-43545182735117804062012-01-18T08:43:00.001-08:002012-01-18T08:43:58.042-08:00While we're protesting SOPALet us not forget that google was gladly censoring information from the Chinese while they were making money from a totalitarian government.
Chew on that for a bit and get back to me.
required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-62935847529979726092012-01-17T08:43:00.001-08:002012-01-17T08:43:19.873-08:00television eventsthey're way more interesting via twitter. i didnt' have to watch one debate. i read tweets instead.required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-38568790437417400572012-01-13T23:39:00.000-08:002012-01-13T23:39:55.907-08:00Controversial StatementAnd I don't care. But it draws the line between British and American late sixties psychedelic music.
George Martin = Cold production.
Brian Wilson = Warm production.
I love "I am the Walrus." I love the Beatles. I love all of that stuff. But none of it makes me well up the way "God Only Knows," does.
George Martin is a very stately, elegant British producer. He puts the record on the best required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-29241683691180351372012-01-13T21:38:00.000-08:002012-01-13T21:38:20.515-08:00What the hell is wrong with google?Double standards? Seriously? You ban the best advertising site on the internet from google adsense for a lingerie ad? Are you kidding me?
Why do you guys suck so much?required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-74279429218172666162012-01-12T15:57:00.000-08:002012-01-12T15:57:52.620-08:00Two kinds of L.A. conversations I hate.And I heard both of them today. And it came form the same person.
1: "Listen, i know (insert director's name) and he's a huge friend of mine. I mean we play basketball every other day. Seriously, if you want me to talk to him about directing your spot, I will. I mean he and I are huge friends. Seriously (insert director's name) and I have known each other for a while, and I'm telling you I can required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-5572978629204133632012-01-10T22:53:00.000-08:002012-01-10T22:53:07.800-08:00Reading RainbowI don't consider this nostalgia, because nostalgia suggest a longing to return to another time. I have no wish to return to this time. I just feel lucky to have grown up before the internet when the shared experiences were less ironic, more special and harder earned. You had to watch this shit on tv or tape it on your vcr to catch it. but it doesn't mean i want to go back to that time. i just required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-82538427248865498162012-01-09T00:14:00.000-08:002012-01-09T00:14:28.928-08:00Transcendent MehSo I watched "Transcendent Man" tonight. The documentary about Ray Kurzweil. It was fascinating for many reasons.
The most interesting part to me is not the notion of being able to reverse aging or creating a super computer that will solve all problems for us. It's not Kurzweil's naivety about how one day we will all link hands and roll up our sleeves and make the world a beautiful place. As a required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-38404167188623350142012-01-08T16:35:00.000-08:002012-01-08T16:35:12.436-08:00adland.tvI am lucky enough to be close to the founder and the force behind adland.tv.
The reason I dig this site is much is that, unlike Creativity and adweek, and ads of the world and whatnot, adland.tv falls into that rare category of 'creative tastemaker.'
What i mean by that is, adland is not only at the forefront of what's going on in advertising, but they are prescient when it comes to what's nextrequired field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-85419850064613961952012-01-07T11:27:00.000-08:002012-01-07T11:27:22.589-08:00Why I loves me Venice BeachPople are cuckoo for coco puffs. I have no idea what this dude is on but boy he's gettin' a nice workout.
Video linked from the excellent @venice311
required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-10575390487725631422012-01-01T02:01:00.001-08:002012-01-01T02:01:05.373-08:002012Happy New YEAH.
Uh.
Whatever.
2011 sucked and then got better. Hopefully 2012 will be a good kind of memorable.required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-48068392543716174912011-12-27T14:19:00.001-08:002011-12-27T14:21:48.179-08:00Poem for Pittsburgh.Poem for Pittsburgh:
You have classic rock DNA somewhere, And sometimes, its laid bare, When you visit your hometownPittsburghBut only rarely.
It's like a vestige, A useless organ.A wisdom tooth with a mulletThe primal scream felt by a Hard drinking sports loving city When Rush blasts on the airwaves.
Somehow here, and only here, it still sounds acceptable.
When radio towers were the only required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-28079942328019829592011-12-25T22:40:00.000-08:002011-12-25T22:40:38.073-08:00IQ84A month and nearly 930 pages later, I finally finished Murakami's 1Q84.
From the first one I read, Wild Sheep Chase, I have devoured them all intently and with excitement. But this one was a large ungainly book that made its conclusion obvious while still leaving more questions than answers about the rest of the larger story.
The first two books of the novel were very well written, so it was required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-56065724003787294372011-12-24T21:25:00.001-08:002011-12-24T21:25:57.011-08:00merry christmas kitsch stylerequired field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-5388550347462634142011-12-23T12:17:00.000-08:002011-12-23T12:17:24.683-08:00I have a weird habit on airplanesWhen I board and airplane I wait until my row is filled and then I fall into a dark slumber. I usually wake before the plane has even taken off. But that sleep is dark and deep and disturbing.
I do not know why this is so. I am happy I have wi-fi on this plane, though.required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-25939953678112569032011-12-21T12:56:00.000-08:002011-12-21T12:56:44.767-08:00Happy winterI miss snow. But I can always visit it somewhere else.
I do not miss living in a house turned apartment with neighbors who never bothered to shovel or salt the spiral staricase. If I didn't do it, it wouldn't have gotten done. For two long winters this was so. Hell, my next door neighbors never even cleaned up after their endlessly shedding dog.
So we can add "dog hair" the list of things I do required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-13064317869857868492011-12-18T21:14:00.000-08:002011-12-18T21:14:02.482-08:00NEW GBV.okya, sorry. Blah blah blah Kim Jong Il blah blah blah Vaclav Havel blah blah blah.
NPR IS STREAMING THE NEW GBV ALBUM IN ITS ENTIRETY.required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-7995476191026604192011-12-18T11:00:00.000-08:002011-12-18T11:00:39.787-08:00straddling the line between epic and obscenesauerkraut and sausage chicken with swiss cheese, and dijon sauce. german pizza. homemade, hence the misshapen crust. and for the record it's epic.required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-63952604383402740272011-12-16T00:31:00.000-08:002011-12-16T00:31:06.875-08:00R.I.P. Christopher HitchensI've already written numerous times about Mr. Hitchens, his work, the profound impact attending his lectures had on me, not to mention seeing his interview with Salman Rushdie before the fatwa was lifted. That was a life-defining moment for sure.
So it goes.
This news was received, as I returned from a holiday party that was crowded, pedestrian and lame. Buffett style dining. Cold beef, dry required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-85531705221426637062011-12-12T06:32:00.000-08:002011-12-12T06:32:00.219-08:00top ten viral ad campaigns of 2011some stuff i did made the list. #9. with 19.9 million views. that's kind of rad, no?required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-36291923637518629772011-12-12T06:29:00.000-08:002011-12-12T06:29:50.695-08:00more scenes from kingston townrequired field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-88319515065183631812011-12-08T21:33:00.000-08:002011-12-08T21:33:44.962-08:00since everybody else posted it i will toocheck out the latest work i did staring ice cube and charles and ray eames. written up in the new york times, huffpo, and the best ad tome out there: adland.
required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-61714637157189948942011-12-08T20:25:00.000-08:002011-12-08T20:26:27.118-08:00Kingston town bauhaus font.
cricket club
now we know where the doping room is
the rain in the foreground, the sun in the distance before it's swallowed.
this is home.
required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-37108842299751009672011-12-08T07:10:00.000-08:002011-12-08T07:10:26.533-08:00greetings from Kingstonwhy yes, that is a fire.
i was told pretty much not to leave the hotel. so i'm not. but it's a nice view. aside from the fire.
required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-31685564999594885052011-12-06T22:27:00.000-08:002011-12-06T22:27:13.598-08:00tomorrowi leave for the most crime ridden city in the north hemisphere. for 5 days. ah hell, at least they have good music.
required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-65423127471649728332011-12-05T13:40:00.001-08:002011-12-05T13:40:20.616-08:00An excerpt from "A child's Christmas in Wales."
"Always on Christmas night there was music. An uncle played the fiddle, a cousin sang "Cherry Ripe," and another uncle sang "Drake's Drum." It was very warm in the little house. Auntie Hannah, who had got on to the parsnip wine, sang a song about Bleeding Hearts and Death, and then another in which she said her heart was like a Bird's Nest; and then everybody laughed again; and then I went to required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-35126095548825141352011-12-04T20:28:00.000-08:002011-12-04T20:28:56.997-08:00Lunopolis and Coq au vinI watched a very strange low-budget sci-fi film called 'Lunopolis' tonight, whilst supping on coq au vin.
The film was good but not great. A bit unfocused, meandering and overarching, trying to involve aliens, time travel Atlantis, Cults and conspiracies, but not enough explanation on any of them to really be successful. Too much exposition and not enough showing.
We had only one person's required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-71342995955789986552011-12-03T20:05:00.000-08:002011-12-03T20:15:49.190-08:00the best part of art & copy is thisfull disclosure. i waited until my douchey ad friends stopped jizzing all over 'art copy' before i watched it, so i cold watch it objectively. i am a misanthropic person. i hate 95% of the people on the planet. the other 5% I love thoroughly and unconditionally and powerfully. but the rest? fuck 'em.
i don't care if people are in advertising or not.
watching 'art & copy' is like watching PBS.required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-7806846271875480252011-12-02T21:14:00.000-08:002011-12-02T21:14:19.433-08:00instagramafter years of resisting i finally started using it.
and i have to say. I hate it. i. fucking. hate it.
sorry but this is faux creativity by numbers and it annoys the shit out of me. once i challenged some friends at my old agency to spend a day not using instagram. one of my friends took the bait and i have to say her photos were infinitely more interesting than the pre-fabbed 'perfect' required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-76774433404958818562011-12-01T20:49:00.000-08:002011-12-01T20:49:06.488-08:00I want to see this.In fact it's the only way I would ever watch "Everybody Loves Raymond." I looks awesome.
required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-49130198973041552272011-11-29T23:34:00.000-08:002011-11-29T23:34:31.057-08:00tonight: occupy L.A.Occupy L.A., at least for now, ending as peacefully as it began.
The police are essentially waiting them out, not pushing them to disperse but allowing them the time to 'end it on their own terms.' I hope it stays like this.
I for one have felt the Occupy movement was a tremendous waste, a naive belief that things would change if we all just showed up. And I don't think thats how it goes. But Irequired field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-82800885037490994542011-11-25T23:22:00.000-08:002011-11-25T23:22:00.951-08:00And the inside smells like woodIn Linnanmäki amusement Park in Helsinki, there are 44 rides. Which apparently is the most number of rides in any Nordic Amusement park.
One of them is a very old roller coaster made of wood. It isn't the fastest roller coaster. It doesn't do loop-de-loops, there isn't any craziness, or potential of getting stuck upside while the people stuck above vomit on you. It's just a basic old school riderequired field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-85013276430426949172011-11-23T23:02:00.000-08:002011-11-23T23:02:08.599-08:00mama-san
71 years young. Just arrived, 9.30PM PST. Ready to rock it L.A. Style.required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-7332165913709952262011-11-23T19:55:00.003-08:002011-11-23T19:55:18.854-08:00I want to see thisrequired field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-46491401257802176602011-11-21T21:13:00.000-08:002011-11-21T21:13:07.764-08:00it's funnyBlack Friday is coming and I have no need to buy anything, or want to buy anything either.
Instead I'm spending my money on transportation. The airlines ought to be ashamed of themselves. It is nearly the same price to go from L.A. to Pittsburgh as it is Scandinavia to L.A.
Ridiculous.
However.
The mama-san and brother come out on Wednesday for Thanksgiving. I'll return the favor next month required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-38138740857526395282011-11-19T00:42:00.001-08:002011-11-19T14:07:23.604-08:00Repo Man
Miller: A lot of people don't' really know what's really going on.They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents and things. They don't realize that there's this like lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything. I'lll give you an example. Show you what I mean.
Suppose you're thinking about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say like "plate." Or "shrimp." Or "plate of shrimp.required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-11540749002183599132011-11-17T21:07:00.000-08:002011-11-17T21:07:44.882-08:00Sometimes you're just gonna leave a carbon footprint.I am usually good about being green or 'environmentally conscious,' if you'd rather. I keep the heat and A/C down. I turn off lights when I'm not in the room. I recycle, despite the fact the recycling portion of my apartment complex is a chore to get to. And I am a big believer in soaps which aren't harmful to the environment, including soap for body, laundry and dishes.
Tonight the dishes got required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-63908709898177238712011-11-16T08:17:00.000-08:002011-11-16T08:17:50.085-08:00Naomi Yang covers Neutral Milk Hotel's "Naomi."Naomi Yang, from Galaxie 500 and Damon & Naomi, covers a song by Jeff Mangum written about her. It's cute. At one point she pulls out all of her earrings from back in the day, and if anyone knows Galaxie 500 then they know her earrings. Fun fun.
Neutral Milk Hotel's "Naomi" from Naomi Yang on Vimeo.required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-26580174974523148842011-11-14T18:41:00.000-08:002011-11-14T18:41:07.749-08:00highly recommended
sauté chicken and bell pepper and onion and garlic. the next day, take the leftovers and reheat in pan with oregano. add to it some capers, sugar snap peas (or haricots verts) top it with a little less than 1/4 cup of alfredo sauce (it will thin out and be lovely) and then lots and lots of fresh ground black pepper.
you're welcome.required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-9781037093602945522011-11-14T15:16:00.000-08:002011-11-14T18:28:01.019-08:00scenes from L.A. bolt barbers. never had a hair cut there but the logo is awesome.
I love graffiti like this.
Hotel Irwin Happy Hour, Venice.
Surprised they advertise so openly.
Lunch in brentwood with the bassist of Devo and a couple other people.
Date night with the Lady.
required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-37634584301020810812011-11-13T15:59:00.000-08:002011-11-13T15:59:15.100-08:00Love this.The top is a hippie dippy peon to mother earth. the bottom, is the exact opposite. what's not to love?required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-63953888134718058542011-11-09T08:37:00.000-08:002011-11-09T08:37:08.339-08:00Week weekend weekBeen working so hard lately, I don't know what day it is. For once I've also been playing hard, too. So it evens out.required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-65364847906840842782011-11-09T08:30:00.001-08:002011-11-09T08:43:32.288-08:00this is so epici love this guy's work. Jason Yungbluth is awesome.
required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-33208407035032086012011-11-08T09:32:00.000-08:002011-11-08T09:32:47.981-08:00words of the dayrequired field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-23873292668463243462011-11-03T21:27:00.000-07:002011-11-03T21:27:11.377-07:00for fans of stieg larsson books.Billy's Pizza is real! And their commercials suck!!!
BUT the song they used is by a, I'm guessing, Swedish band called Atomic Swing. How epic is it?
YOU decide.
required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-64856086780233354692011-11-02T22:46:00.000-07:002011-11-02T22:46:56.413-07:00This week has kicked my assSome weeks are like this. You end up staying till 9 and 10 each night. After declining whatever crap the account people ordered, or whatever 'salad' they ordered because apparently there is only crap or salads for dinner, you leave work beyond starving and raid your pantry for something, anything to eat which generally amounts to the same or worse in terms of fat and caloric intake.
Not tonight required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-83818155296660101352011-10-31T23:09:00.000-07:002011-10-31T23:10:31.791-07:00productivitytoday was quite productive. I know thats vague but sometimes it has to be. some things aren't ready to be revealed.
it's also halloween.
and p.s. i could care less. But I DID make a Halloween Mix. Kind of. Sort of. Or something.required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-539375292816866652011-10-28T08:53:00.000-07:002011-10-28T08:53:24.275-07:00Slowly but surely it is becoming fall.L.A. is disorienting in a lot of ways. The weather is almost always the same. The streets look the same. It's hard to find a center. Hard to know the date and time and month.
But now it's becoming fall. Even L.A. can't compete with the shrinking daylight hours. This morning I got up to work out and it was still dark at 6.30. At night when i go home after 6.30 it is dark.
Soon my favorite monthsrequired field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-77454178838811321802011-10-26T21:50:00.000-07:002011-10-27T10:27:55.717-07:00is every year this hard?At night, it seems like it. In the morning, it doesn't. There's a lesson here, somewhere.required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-9079270249364240892011-10-26T10:45:00.000-07:002011-10-26T10:45:20.424-07:00EpicVia Think Progressrequired field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-71305585805950023632011-10-24T14:21:00.000-07:002011-10-24T14:21:22.864-07:00TodayDown the street from where I live, a twelve-year old stood with her dog begging for money for the second day in a row. They have her in child custody. This either means she's a twelve-year old runaway, or someone is putting her to work.
Yikes.required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-63578778794323842152011-10-21T22:18:00.000-07:002011-10-21T22:18:20.306-07:00Tales from the ScriptJust finished watching 'Tales From The Script." It both made me thankful I'm not a Hollywood writer and also identify with screenwriters.
The film ends with a writer telling a vignette about how his movie was panned by movie critics, which left him immobilized. but then he met a woman whose husband died of cancer, at some party. and she told him she had six months left to live, and that seeing required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-9608512460698331852011-10-19T16:08:00.000-07:002011-10-19T16:08:39.405-07:00new mixand it's called "Con Jury."required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-71956563118024634112011-10-19T08:13:00.000-07:002011-10-19T08:13:50.415-07:00Seasonal EatingI like it more and more. Especially pumpkins. I wanted to make this soup with lobster meat, but Whole Foods here said they were having trouble getting it from their supplier. So I opted for Shrimp instead. One could easily use chicken, or go all veggie by adding carrots, but I like shrimp or lobster for it. The meat stands up somehow. This soup is spicy but not insanely so. The coconut milk in itrequired field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-73377149411851371162011-10-18T09:01:00.000-07:002011-10-18T09:01:12.172-07:00L.A.sometimes, it's okay.required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-80226496234768898562011-10-16T00:08:00.000-07:002011-10-16T00:08:33.639-07:00Amazing.This to me is one of the greatest anti-pot smoking ads I have ever seen. Too bad it's not an ad.
required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-26220052861324506172011-10-14T09:30:00.001-07:002011-10-14T09:30:36.198-07:00The Occupy Movement summed up in a nifty chant.What do we want?
We don't know!
When do we want it?
Now!required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-58908092326743456382011-10-12T08:55:00.003-07:002011-10-12T08:55:18.728-07:00the best commercial this year.Imo, anyway.
required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-60271163510627908742011-10-11T22:03:00.000-07:002011-10-11T22:03:28.925-07:00It's Bootsy, Baby!Have to say one of the highlights in my ad career so far, was working with Bootzilla the funky outer space bassist. And I swear, 2011 seems to be Bootsy 2.0. He's everywhere.
He was on Jimmy Fallon with Yo Gabba Gabba the other day. He has an online bass playing school called Funk University which has super stars like Flea and Les Claypool as professors. And he's dropped a new record Funk required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-16010946079876097142011-10-10T20:42:00.000-07:002011-10-10T20:42:52.476-07:00Tonight whilst working outI listened to two women talk. Or rather, one woman yell incredulously while the other listened, to a story about her ex and how she spent literally half of her salary on him to buy him a bmw and vacations and what not.
what was most amazing is not that the conversation was taking place so publicly but rather, the women were on ellipticals and moving so slowly they wouldn't have broken into a required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-80713925395059878102011-10-09T22:47:00.000-07:002011-10-09T22:47:54.779-07:00Pittsburgh, 1983 or 84Chuck E Cheese's. A pizza restaurant with video games and pin ball and ski ball. It's heyday in the early 80's. Started by the guy who founded Atari before Steve Jobs arrived on the scene briefly.
All that history is beyond me. As a kid, I went to Chuck E Cheeses to witness the endless flashing lights and tokens and animatronic mouses playing music and noise noise noise and did I mention tokensrequired field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-66477458798199007222011-10-09T13:18:00.000-07:002011-10-09T13:18:08.899-07:00photosrequired field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-38722816046004500122011-10-08T18:12:00.000-07:002011-10-08T18:12:49.822-07:00Milwaukee airportModern. blue lights everywhere. The people just as salt of the earth midwestern as ever.
Chili's, alterra coffee. Third Ward (Third World?) Newsstand.
And a bunch of people who would very much like to be somewhere else. Eyes glued to television sets watching college football.
Our plane arrives, and we wait for the deplane, the clean up, the reboard. Los Angeles is three hours away, but really required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-60046920668932305602011-10-06T04:25:00.000-07:002011-10-06T04:25:05.812-07:00Montreal ----> NycIt was a lovely time all up in the Montreal.
required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-53080765023814582382011-10-03T03:18:00.000-07:002011-10-03T03:19:08.776-07:00montreal
adrian belew, tony levin, etc.
required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-82777083274739587052011-09-28T22:38:00.000-07:002011-09-28T22:38:06.092-07:00shana tovahappy new year everyone. i'm officially on vacay and will not be updating till i get back from montreal and new york.
love.required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-25893435054650375962011-09-26T22:25:00.000-07:002011-09-26T22:25:07.432-07:00fun factsa little comic i contribute writing to is apparently going to make a print debut in the netherlands. stay tuned...required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-82156830525975952712011-09-22T23:27:00.000-07:002011-09-22T23:27:50.535-07:00The problem with americaIs its food.
You only sort of know where this is going.
I lived in montreal for two years. the ad industry was just as hectic and chaotic and we worked long hours. but when it came time for lunch or dinner-- that was sacred. you did not interrupt someones lunch or dinner. you just didn't. it would have been rude.
back in the states now for ten months i am appalled at the shit they order for required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-69327829501586224022011-09-19T11:44:00.000-07:002011-09-19T11:44:26.836-07:00Music mixIt's called Nostalgia Allergy. Enjoy, mang.
required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-46565228806994302842011-09-19T11:02:00.001-07:002011-09-19T11:02:43.042-07:00Me at The Eames houserequired field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-73246940748930812042011-09-19T10:50:00.000-07:002011-09-19T10:50:19.286-07:00Reality hits you hard, bro.
Reality hits you hard.required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-92008722810847398652011-09-17T22:48:00.000-07:002011-09-17T22:48:11.971-07:00stuffed poblano peppersnot sure why i've been craving spicy food but i am. is it because I've been working out much more hardcore? could they really be related?
these poblanos are also for some weird reason, known as pasillas.
you char them in the oven under broiler, 5 minutes per side. then you put them in a bowl, cover with plastic wrap and steam fifteen minutes. then you can remove the skins easily.
after that required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-43722075277316997012011-09-16T08:32:00.001-07:002011-09-16T08:32:50.389-07:00FallI know it's technically not Fall, but If I have to use the Neti pot for all the allergens, then it's fall.
That's all.required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-18718441607583320422011-09-16T00:07:00.000-07:002011-09-16T00:07:04.985-07:00the graduate as seen through the eyes of 2011so i watched the graduate tonight. for the third time. but this is the finally time it really 'clicked.'
these are my thoughts.
the graduate is an amazing film and still holds up. it has a weird sort of oedipal theme to it which carries the film. although it isn't oedipal as mrs robinson hates her daughter because of her youth and doesn't want her to marry benjamin because that will be both a required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-9661359064359138052011-09-12T17:05:00.000-07:002011-09-12T17:08:42.323-07:00Beauty Out Of AshesSo my mom is kicking cancer for the second time.
In between chemo sessions, has started a greeting card company for women.
The cards were designed by my lovely and talented female friends. So far there are three cards.
Her goal is to donate 20% of the proceeds to two women's charities.
One charity is called Mercy Ministries, which helps women with everything from addiction recovery to required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-24175677068936960372011-09-11T10:36:00.000-07:002011-09-11T10:38:05.199-07:00A study in scones.I'm not much of a baker. In fact, beyond pizza dough, I don't bake, ever. But for some reason I was in the mood for scones today. So I made some.
This is the kind of baking I can get in to, because it's super easy. Yeah there's measuring, but beyond that, it's a 'mix the dry, add wet to dry, barely incorporate, parcel out and bake' variety. Not counting the measuring it takes maybe ten minutes required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-56495592321986306422011-09-10T22:49:00.000-07:002011-09-10T22:49:05.754-07:00A georgia memoryGeorgia is not on my mind but occasionally flashes burble up from some latent part of my mind.
It was the first place I'd ever truly lived on my own, a place i never thought I'd move to that changed me irrevocably.
I am thinking now of leaving a club in the wee hours of the night with a friend of mine to head across the street to a diner owned by the family of someone I used to work with. It wasrequired field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-4789525806581537992011-09-09T22:22:00.000-07:002011-09-09T22:35:09.139-07:00Poem for Christopher HitchensPoem for Christopher Hitchens:
The last voice of reason
Our adopted American Citizen,
Man of endless letters,
"Rock Star," in ironic quotations.
Science should preserve you in amber.
Saving your lovely brain,
Like the antithesis
Of all those B movies
About Hitler.
In my fantasy,
"They saved Hitch's Brain,"
Would be played
By Steve Coogan.
Romantic interest: An obscure book by Dostoevsky about required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-36527279375164481702011-09-09T20:27:00.000-07:002011-09-09T20:27:31.799-07:00slight pet peevepeople who do covers of songs currently on the radio. unless you are going to radically change the structure. melody, course, rhythm or in any way shape or form reinvent the song, there's no reason to do it. in fact when a band covers a song currently on the radio it reminds me of karaoke.
and this, is never, ever, ever a good thing.required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-3118128951837553022011-09-09T19:54:00.000-07:002011-09-09T19:54:01.125-07:00Venice/Marina Del ReyI started following the twitter LAPD in the Venice area, and they just tweeted this.
"LAPD scanner. Lincoln Blvd. Female Asian w mental illness, shaved head and checkered PJ's holding a metal rod and acting totally nutzo."
And you know the awesome part of that, besides the fact i live on Lincoln?
I saw her moments before at my local Ralph's when I was buying groceries! How awesome is that!
required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-90148713017189890192011-09-05T23:57:00.000-07:002011-09-05T23:57:48.123-07:00Talking Heads: True Stories.First of all, David Byrne was prescient in casting John Goodman in his film "True Stories."Score one for discovery.
The problem, if it can be called a problem, is the same as with everything Byrne does. It's hard to tell where the irony stops the the truth begins. Where reality presents itself and Art takes over. And this is coming from a Huge David Byrne fan.
Talking Heads started as an art required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-81770504797118131532011-09-05T23:17:00.000-07:002011-09-05T23:56:29.649-07:00musicSo it's not even worth it to mention how imusic changed since mp3's have become the norm. It's a no brainer.
But i'm watching this BBC documentary about robert plant and he and lou reed, and so many other people were inspired to take up singing or playing an instrument because of hearing--really hearing--a blues artist, or some other music, on the radio, or on a 45.
i just can't imagine that required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-20083731432968980712011-09-03T23:14:00.000-07:002011-09-03T23:14:00.867-07:00Not all was bad at FYF
Uncle bob was drunk as always. He seemed the only one on stage who was.
they rocked as always but he seemed bitter and it lacked magic.
Uncle Bob on the big screen.
required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-61344056742560065012011-09-03T23:02:00.000-07:002011-09-03T23:02:18.260-07:00Photos from FYF. Or as I call it: Degrassi Jr. high
they aren't old ladies. they just dress like it
amish hipsters
Bandana Man, and Too Short Shorts Girl
bikini on the top, punk on the bottom
chest tattoos were in abundance
Bat Tat? Check. Destroyed lobe? Check. Played-out piercing? Check.
Ah adidas.
tI grew up int he 80's and they weren't as prevalent.
if you have to tell me then required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-52816897452467747602011-09-01T23:32:00.000-07:002011-09-01T23:32:40.564-07:00L.A.It gets a bad rap sometimes from people who live elsewhere, who complain that the weather never changes here. I would respectfully disagree.
Today it couldnt' have been more than 75 degrees. tonight it was 62. And yes just an hour's drive inland and we're talking about 100 degrees during the day.
Despite that wild swing, even within a neighborhood there are what's called microclimates where the required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-77061600708824881162011-08-31T17:51:00.000-07:002011-08-31T17:51:47.848-07:00Advertising.My last job I worked with a guy who was a cross dresser. Every day he wore heels and feminine (although not outrageous) clothes.
My current job i work with an account planner who is also a drag queen.
If corporate North America had any idea who was really creating their ads....
required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-70501419542725711812011-08-30T23:12:00.000-07:002011-08-31T10:06:01.135-07:00paring downa friend of mine started paring down her facebook friends. i think it started upon noticing the sheer number of people who travel to los angeles for advertising, who never bothered to let her know they were in town.
now on one level this seems draconian but on another level i get it.
i have had facebook 'friends' since 2005 or so. these were people i worked with at my first job in some cases. in required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-83898323303312863512011-08-28T17:53:00.000-07:002011-08-28T17:56:37.781-07:00cat show photosrequired field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-59223646398846215162011-08-28T17:49:00.000-07:002011-08-28T17:49:54.533-07:00More Cat Show Videos.required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-18808165935873986762011-08-28T17:41:00.000-07:002011-08-28T17:41:56.952-07:00Santa Monica Cat show.
video one: judging the red abby.required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-13058661584303144442011-08-27T19:58:00.001-07:002011-08-27T19:58:49.710-07:00tagine #3: chickpea, merguez, chicken, tomatorequired field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427409264115196942.post-11315800386149845592011-08-26T10:28:00.000-07:002011-08-26T10:28:50.536-07:00How to write a motivational blog post
Be the own builder of your white picket fence.
First, start with a stock photo that relates to what you're talking about. Choose a really bad stock photo. The first photo on the first page of a google image search will do. If you think people aren't smart enough to understand your incredibly easy illustration, add a caption. It will be more patronizing that way.
Open your post with a required field must not be blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04193121846731558026noreply@blogger.com0