stumbling my way through a digital life
my favorite pair of jeans is quickly revolting against me.
the hole above my right knee has become its own revolutionary movement, complete with a deposed leader and an inspired populace.
my back-wallet-pocket has conspired to give away my entire life’s fortune.
the casual-cool worn spot below my ass, has changed sides and is now intent on showing my boxers to the world. such conspiracy to humiliate the leader will not be forgotten.
i fear that surrender may be my only recourse.
god be with us.
so i’m back in the netflix fold because i’m tired of being an outcast…AND…because Netflix now offers up unlimited online DVD viewing. even though i’m currently stuck watching dvds on my computer, being able to watch the past 5 seasons of law and order SVU (starring ms. mariska hargitay!) makes it worth it.
i digg this photo b/c the security guard totally got caught checking out mariska’s ass. word.
today my first bucket-load of dvds arrived and i need to choose what to watch tonight. i have the following options:
1.) Sunken Treasure: Jeff Tweedy Live in the Pacific Northwest
2.) Inland Empire by David Lynch
3.) The Lives of Others
help interweb! help!
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over the past couple of days i’ve grown the most-awesome-teenage-moustache…ok it’s really been like 5 days. it’s a work of facial art that would make any 15year old jealous.
while it’s been fun having something on my face to play with (besides the obvious), i’ll have to shave it off for school tomorrow. however, having it led to getting carded a couple of times on friday night. apparently, under normal facial conditions i look WAY over 21 but when i’m sporting the high school ’stache i clearly look like an underage boy.
oh and i grew it in honor of heath ledger who could somehow make high-school-type-facial-hair seem bad ass. RIP.
so this morning i woke up at a reasonable hour and ran a ton of errands. top on my list was a trip to petsmart to stock up on some dog food for the buster. as i headed down the ’science diet’ aisle, i was greeted by the science diet rep. he was an older guy and i like to imagine that he’s retired and just works for the dog food company b/c it gives him something to do on the weekends.
as i loaded up my cart w/ 3 cases of food, the rep gave me coupons for $4 off EVERY case. Hell, yes, sir! Dont mind if i dooooo!
i was waiting in line at the register when this tall brunette walked in the door with her puggle puppy. he/she was a spitting image of baby-buster (the dog not the girl). then i did the annoying thing that people do to new puppy owners and asked her about her new puggle. she was surprised that i knew about the designer breed and i explained by showing her pictures of buster.
needless-to-say that after seeing a puggle-puppy, i had no choice but to take a few more laps around the store and find about $110 worth of stuff that buster ABSOLUTELY NEEDED.
so is this what it’s like being a parent of little humans? i doubt it’s as much fun.
so i’ve been digging the “you suck at photoshop” videos from donnie over at my damn channel. episode #3 was so awesome you dont even need to know what photoshop is to enjoy it.
also, for the record i dont suck at photoshop and i’ve got the napp membership to prove it. (thanks josh!)
this kid is my new hero
“i’ll say i’m sorry but i’m not taking off my glasses.”
last night i dreamed that i was wearing this awesome pair of plaid polyester pants. WAIT! it gets better…they were 100% water-proof and for whatever reason this made me very, very happy.
the moral of this post is that if you take a little bit of nyquil before bed you will most likely have awesome dreams about waterproof, polyester-plaid pants. my own personal research in my lab has proven this.
you’re welcome.
i meant to post the rest of the pictures of Buster in the Sun the other day. this gave me the excuse i needed to play around w/ picasa/google’s photo service.
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not bad at all.
my good friend, liz nelson, is an incredible artist and is presently lighting up the local seattle-art-scene with her incredible paintings.
recently, liz has made her paintings available as high-quality prints that you and I can buy and enjoy around our pleather couches and hand-me-down-coffee-tables.
if you’re not in the seattle-area and can’t make it out to olive you to purchase a liznelson original, you can do what i did and order your liznelson prints here.
personally, i’ve always been a fan of ‘phoenix‘ and ‘the beginning of the story‘.
congrats, liz.
with all the news coming out of macworld, i was most excited about the new iPhone firmware release.
“umm…excuse me, what? i can customize the icons on my home screen? in any order my little heart desires? YES PLEASE!”
by 3pm i was fed up with work and school and decided to customize the hell out of my new iPhone WebClip icons and came up with the following (sorry for the shitty photo):
some dude started a flickr pool for iPhone/iTouch Webclip icons and I’m happy to be a part of it…check it out here.
hehe…phones are cool…hehe
without a doubt, the greatest part about living in the age of technology is that one can completely forget that ‘real time w/ bill maher‘ is back from hiatus only to find that one’s faithful DVR has the episode safely recorded for one’s viewing pleasure at one’s convenience.
best.sentence.ever.
so has anyone else listened to the veils‘ album nux vomica?
the album was released back in 2006, but better late than never, eh?
i downloaded this diamond amongst the crap last week based on a suggestion by stereogum and i’ve been digging it…especially the track ‘jesus for the jugular (one at a time)’ and what the hell, give it a listen below if you’re curious.
for xmas, leanne & brandon bought me a set of blues harmonicas b/c sometimes a brother just aint right ’til he plays a harmonica. so it’s a really nice set that included all the important blues’ keys and even one of those neil-young-type-harmonica-holders that go over your neck so that your hands are free to strum the guitar.
needless to say i look like a stud decked out in so much musical metal. (NOTE: this is NOT me in this picture.)
so i’ve been learning the harmonica parts to “you dont know how it feels” by tom petty. the only snag to this whole gig is that after about 2-3 notes buster goes apeshit. as i play, he barks, runs around, barks, runs around, repeat.
at this point, the barks sound like the dog equivalent of “…what the ‘eff man! that hurts my big ol’ floppy ears!” but i’m hoping that soon he’ll just howl along in perfect harmony.
today was incredible 72F in socal. here’s photographic proof…
when i came home from lunch, buster was lounging on the patio soaking up the january sun.
i managed to snap a couple of shots of the buster enjoying unseasonably warm weather.
after taking these pictures, a woman walked by the patio pushing a baby in a stroller. buster proceeded to go into “defend” mode and made the baby cry. i tell you this story should you mistake buster for a timid-emo-puppy.
so i wanted to talk a little about my new header/banner image.
both the new image and the previous one were courtesy of one of the greatest young photographers around. Josh Bradley has been taking amazing photos for years and has been one of my best friends for even longer. Back in 2006, he took an image from my band days and used some photoshop magic to make me look like a rock star. For 2008, I’ve once again made use of his talents.
the new banner image was taken this past December when Josh was giving me a lesson on portrait photography and mobile-flash techniques. Before he took this shot, he had me holding a reflector disc and used an off-shoe flash to produce a great image.
in addition to portrait work, josh shoots amazing nature and wildlife photos. he’s currently working on getting his online store setup and i would highly recommend that you go to his website and browse through his photos.
i am fortunate enough to have two josh bradley prints hanging in my flat and now you too can enjoy his work. head over to joshbradley.net and tell him i sent you—he’s even offering a 10% discount on all prints for loyal/faithful/loving onelonelysuccess.com readers.
again, special thanks to josh for graciously donating his time/skill to helping me give this little blog a fresh new look for the new year.
so i’ve been sitting on about 12,000 photos from xmas/newyears. let’s do something about that shall we?
here’s a bunch of shots of the cats: mork & smiegel
and a few more from all the gift wrapping fun…
if only we could teach our high schoolers history using viral-drunken-internet-videos starring Michael Cera!
courtesy of bwe
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