If I Were a Rapper or Urban Lumberjack...

Since I'm not, this is just a fun timesuck.

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Successories

*please* click the above image to view full size.

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"Estro-Centric Post-Prog Pop"

is how one of the band members describes Swan Island. They sound like an 80's band that with influences by Patty Smyth (from Scandal) & early Go-Gos (or Rush as my comrade so bizarrely stated).

I'm listening to their album, "The Centre Will Hold". Track #2 "Nightowl" is a good one.

Oh, and since we're being all modern and shit, here's their MySpace page.

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Buy Me This

from here

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Flashback :: Brooklyn, NYC

sunrise

This photo was snapped from the window of my brooklyn apartment back when the WTC was still intact, and the world seemed so much better simpler.

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haha you checked my blog!

i know of 2 "parents" out there who are hitting my blog for the first time.
welcome, trashbags.

file under :: inside joke

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Dinner :: Tonight

snapped on a crappier-than-thou cellphone

Some weird-ass porkchops (purveyed from Alpine Village) breaded in smashed up pretzels and plated over a mustard-cream-candied orange peel sauce, side of asparagus, sauerkraut seasoned with caraway seeds, and mashed potatoes, drizzled with a balsamic reduction; paired with a cheap Sauvignon Blanc.
I better get some sex tonight.

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ctrl-freak pho

I guess I'm on a roll in the useless but creative dept.

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That's Why God Made "Spas"

It's almost boring these days to cite an example of the blatant hypocrisy and stupidity that has pervaded the government - I don't even have to dig.

At the risk of sounding crass, this guy is a classA douchebag.

Bush official who promoted abstinence and denounced condoms resigns -- after admitting he used "D.C. Madam's" escort service -- for 'massages only'

Click the link above to simultaneously trigger an eye-roll *and* an ulcer.

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Does He Control the Radio?

[via reddit.com]
*this in no way implies support of wasteful driving or of Hitler.

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An Endless Stream

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Today's Creative Effort

Now before you go judgin' me, incorporate this: I rode my bike to and from the gym today, had a 1.5 hour session with trainer, and tried to play tennis for the first time in my life for 1 hour.

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My Brain's Gonna Splode :: Wii, Orb, Haircut, NY

Begin bulleted list

• [I'd like to file this under 'early adopter'] So I got myself a Wii. It happened somewhat quickly and very nerdily. It's set up in my living room with the output projected on the wall in a nice 3x4 ft window. I already have tennis elbow (no joke) and have successfully sent some Miis over to my buddy who has one (and gets credit for turning me onto it).
  I've been sehr diligent in my training and am already close to pro status in tennis. It gets better though -- after installing Orb on my media PC, I can access all files, pictures, videos, mp3s, and documents from my Wii. I now sit on my couch in the evenings and surf YouTube instead of watching TV. Welcome to the future.
• Orb is a little program that acts sort of like a streaming server.. From any other machine you hit a website, log in, and have access to your host. It's very sweet, if not a bit buggy on my Vista laptop [grrr].
  
• Got shorn today. I'm moving back towards a 'hican [or is it mullethawk?]. Once I sort out exactly how its going to be documentation in the form of pictures will be posted.
• I'm going to New York next week to visit my family -- especially my ailing grandmother. I am very excited to be able to see her, but am simultaneously sad about what I expect to encounter when I get there. She fell very ill on Easter and her status is still somewhat unclear.

And in the same vein -- I share this delectable video morsel with you

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Morning Is* Broken

[*That's the Long-Island way of referring to the Cat Stevens youth-ministry song that was in an orange juice commercial back in like 1979.]

My favorite time of day is are the first quiet hours. I really dig the hour or 2 after waking up (as long as it's not super-freezing and/or still dark) when most others are still asleep and I can sit with my coffee and let my thoughts arrange themselves somewhat spontaneously.

I tend to rouse early and quickly. Shortly after I exit the sleep state, I gotta get my ass out of bed. Occasionally - as on a Saturday like today - I will swear to myself that "I'm gonna sleep in", but without fail sometime between 6am and 8.30am I will wake up, completely lucid but feeling physically very comfy, then try to settle back in to sleep for another 30 minutes or so. This is when the uncontrollable body-fidgeting begins. I can't explain nor control it - but no position in which I configure my body is comfortable for more than like 30 seconds. It's similar to a bout of hyperactivity, but in a stop-motion sort of way. I basically begin sleep-pose 'vogueing' in succession until I a) get reprimanded or b) tire of anticipating getting reprimanded so I just give up and aufstehen.

I make coffee and boot up the news, etc. Until that peaceful quiet is broken by either teeth-grindingly loud construction or the presence of another.

That time just came.

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Where My Head's At :: music

I woke up at 5.45am and was driving to the gym in a somewhat dismal mood when this came on and it had the surprising effect of totally turning my mood around. I'd like to think I kicked ass this morning with my trainer but I think he went easy on me somewhat.

Regardless, it's stuck in my head and the sun's out. I am expecting a very important and exciting delivery from UPS today which further bumps me up. Listen to it thru the opening somewhat played female AppleTalk vocal till the remix kicks in.

Enjoy.

GLOBAL DEEJAYS - THE SOUND OF SAN FRANCISCO (3:36)

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Mythbusting

[snopes.com]

But then again, there's this


[from xkcd, a new habit]

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Hey What Ever Happened to Him?

Steve Kmetko from E!

After a semi-exhaustive search, I've been unable to figure out what happened to Steve Kmetko. He parted ways with Greg Louganis and did a brief stint on some private gay news channel, but the last 4 years, nada.

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