2:18am
music: attica blues - 808 song, hooverphonic - magenta, rodriego y gabriela - ppa, maktub - motherfucker, kuraki mai - stepping out, attica blues - medieval.
yo quiero hablar en ethpanol (accento del castillianos, si?!) porque no recuerdo nada. pero ya escribe mucho y olvide escribir en espanol… SOOO ENGLISH TIME. oh man i’m going to keep this short for now but there will be more tomorrow. i’m just kind of tired right now. but a lot of shit has been going down and godamnit i want to turn this into a photo blog. so i’m going to hopefully wake up at a decent hour tomorrow and ACTUALLY DO THAT. (not that i don’t have a thousand other things to do.)
just got back from swimming with alex not too long ago. posa and linh’s pool, as usual. it was good times. we talked about starting a “swimming olympics”. i mean, shit, if there can be “leapfrog competitions” in other cities, there sure as hell can be swimming olympics! some aspects of swimming olympics will be:
1) backwards swimming.
2) underwater fireballs at each other to see how far you go back in the water [note to people like joe: you do NOT go back in the water
].
3) discus and javelin… underwater!
4) swimming with legs in front of torso! [makes you kind of look like a boat sorta!]
5) interpretive bubble dancing?!!
on the shallow end of the pool there was this cool light refraction shit which made all bubbles that popped up look like they were neon blue and glowing or something. on the deep end of the pool, those bubbles were white, not blue. anyway. lots of making underwater bubbles and catching them in the hand in an attempt to make the largest single bubble. quite difficult, actually.
before that lanerd and i went to petsmart in woodinville to buy some stuff for red claw crabs (ps - this is an ugly red claw crab below… cuter pics of the red claw crabs to come!).

there was this one red claw crab with only 2 legs HAHAHAHA. out of the 8. he didn’t even have the front claws either HAHAHA it’s so sad. i didn’t think about buying him while we were there, but we had to wait to buy them later because the lady @ petsmart said it’d be better to set up the habitat first and then get the crabs… so yeah. after swimming i came to the conclusion that, “I NEED TO SAVE THE TWO-LEGGED CRAB!” SO HE IS GOING TO BE SAVED. I AM GOING TO BUY HIM!! and or her.anyway, lenny is convinced he/she will die during the first week. we’ll see!

how to feed him!?! i will spoon feed him with a toothpick! or something. anyway, the tank will be half water and half sloped rock stuff that slopes out of the water (wow, terrible description), with extra fixtures they can climb on and junk. nyessss. spent about $100 on tank and tank cleaning junk and shit. the crabs themselves are like, $2 each rofls!!!!!!!!!!!ANYWAY. at work we’re coding in ruby on rails. i wanted to implement a wysiwig editor. see in php this would be easy as fuck to install. someone as nubbish as me could install it without a godamn problem. in ruby it is suddenly sOo complicated. what uselessness.***
tuesday, june 19th, 2007!
so tuesday i went to work as boringly usual. day was kinda fast or whatever. anyway,
facing new york was in town at ground zero. the show started @ 7. they were supposed to go second. turned out they went first, so i missed half their set due to tardiness and the lack of the ability to find parking. good set, although the sound was a little fuxored. dunno if they played “cutting my hair” or not but if they did, DAMN…anyway, couple other bands after them…
by the end of tonight. eh. didn’t really care for them too much. some stuff was interesting… but overall pretty repetitive…
tera melos (the guys who are actually on tour with facing new york) were after them. they were pretty decent, probably the best other band there… very good musicians anyhow. their music probably wouldn’t hurt from a bit more diversity either, but it was entertaining to watch. it was a bit surreal for me though because i just put in earplugs so everything felt a little distant. after them was some band called
red museum who are local.
nathan [jeffryes] was there also because he’s friends with them. another new writer,
karla hernandez, met me at the show cause she’s from chico, california, and knew tera melos (had interviewed them before) and knew facing new york’s music. but uh red museum was alright you know, they had some good songs but again, very repetitive. all their songs seemed to follow the same structure. and these bands seem to be following thomas erak from fall of troy’s instrumentation style so closely… i just hope there aren’t spawns after spawns of fall of troy copycats (there really aren’t, but they’re trying).it was weird though cause after by the end of tonight’s set i went outside and everything looked all foggy but it WASN’T. it was just me and my fucked up eyeballs. too much computer? probably.after the show, i was waiting around for fny a while but they were in tera melos’ van having a listening party to their new track. i got some top sekret informaciones. that is not supposed to be released. suckaz. they ain’t know i got a magazine!! gotta be careful what you say around strangers, sucka! anyway, i guess i won’t say anything because that’s just mean but apparently, tera melos fans should be excited cause they’re changing up their style a bit and have some releases coming out. nyes………………………… … .. . i hope that’s not saying too much. eh, whatever. but yes, the tour van = smelled like sweaty man. :L that’s never fun! and yeah they just sat there talking about recording and tech mumbo jumbo for a while and i’m thinking, “is this what bands do on tour?!” and i’m pretty sure it is.
the last time i saw and interviewed facing new york was like 2 years ago so to be honest i was not 100% who was who. in fact, in the merch room, i was kind of staring at eric forever trying to figure out if it was him (which is kind of pathetic given the fact that there were like, 40 people there total >__< but i suck with faces now i guess)… and yeah, it totally was him but it did not register until later. go meeeee! plus i wasn’t sure either cause he didn’t seem to recognize me or something. anyway, they have this sweet ass fish tee except it was neon green and therefore not wearable by me. lol. well, i guess, technically it is. i can literally put it on and wear it. but i would rather not. even though everything else looked sweet as shit! this morning eric got on my computer and was messing with colors in photoshop and holy crap THERE IS A COLOR REPLACE TOOL IN PHOTOSHOP. man, had i known that earlier, i could have saved a ton of fucking time lol. it’s always interesting what little quirks you learn from watching other people use programs like that. that’s the drawback of learning shit like photoshop on your own, i guess. anyway, he changed up the colors to like, brown and blue… i think it looks good anyhow.
so yeah those dudes stayed over cause they needed to crash. they’re going to spokane tonight (well since it’s 2am, i guess they’ve already been there?!) and are probably going to be homeless in spokompton w00t w00t. they are smart, man. they each brought along a bike so that during offtime before unloading and setting up their equipment they can just bike around the city and explore. fucking genius. i am totally going to do that when/if i go on a cross-country road trip with sherry.
we stopped by this weird safeway i’ve never been to and they had a fucking hayday, like they hadn’t eaten in years or something. bought a ton of fancy stuff to make spaghetti (well, basically as fancy as it gets, you know) and brandon made it and it was damn tasty. omar made a master find of a giant $2 bag of banana chips and bought me one. freaking scoooore! they like, wanted to buy soy milk and watermelon to put in the fridge and cereal and tofurkey (that they actually bought). godamn hippies! not that i mind hippies. but they totally are dirty hippies
facial hair and everything. it’s funny cause all of them have assloads (mm, maybe not ASSloads literally) of facial hair and because of it, i always forget that they are like, 23. like me. people with massive amounts of facial hair just seem so much damn older! funny also cause eric is the oldest and looks youngest because he has no facial hair. hear that kids? if you want to be a man, grow facial hair.
anyway, it was just pretty chill, went back to my apartment and they cooked and i tried to pawn my cds off of them BUT THEY FORGOT TO TAKE THE. assholes
really it doesn’t matter because at least i didn’t GAIN more trash but damn, i was quite happy that i finally had someone to give my CD trash to… but now i’m back at square one. apparently they had some sort of dance party the night before so they just wanted to hang.
played some super mario kart, and finally! a worthy adversary! eric almost beat me but i pulled some last minute bullshit star bumping action and happened to win. but still, man, pretty impressive considering i play like, once every two weeks and he hasn’t played in years. ah, super mario kart. ah, nintendo… you win. fo lyyyyyyfeeeeee. just wish my NES weren’t so ghetto. at least the SNES works i GUESS. :L
they also talked about some freaking chick who got food stuck in her teeth after getting her wisdom teeth pulled and as a result, had to like… push it up out of the bottom of her cheek and out the mouth. that is just about the freaking sickest thing i have ever heard. but yeah. uh. gross.
then we watched some american “the office”… most of the episodes which i had not seen, so that was cool. managed to found blankets which appeared out of freaking thin air, i says! all in all it was pretty good cause they cleaned up and shit except for the root beers that exploded in our freezer, lol! but i guess matt spent half an hour cleaning it up. it was mostly okay with the exception of a small little part. but given the fact that there were like, 4 bottles in there, i bet it was a lot worse before. rofls.
i need to go to bed. good god.
oh yeah this is worth mentioning — omar was picked to try out for wheel of fortune but i guess he was too “normal” to be on the show despite the fact that he solved the puzzle. it IS possible! must… sign… up… for all… game… shows…!!!! ASAP!!!!!