Pardee for the KG eyes

Alex Pardee makes art that I like. Some...ok...most of it is pretty dark. But the colors and the style are super fly. Granted, I know less about art than about how someone can sit and enjoy watching a soccer game on television, but I have no problem with the shallow proclamation, "I like to look at this."

And on that note...er, brush stroke...check out the red hotness of Kelly Grenard. Not only is she the sweetest lady you'll ever meet, she is also wicked talented. I worked with her (in a less creative forum) while at UCSD.

Listening to
Mogwai - Mr. Beast
Portugal The Man - Censored Colors
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid

Watching
The Matrix
Super Troopers
Big Bang Theory
Arrested Development
NBA Playoffs

Drinking
Sangria
Home made smoothie with strawberries, raspberries, apple, and orange...left over from aforementioned sangria
Water

Fish are friends, not food...

Weekends are great. Those in Nor-Cal can agree the weather was fetch this weekend. Probably my homies in So-Cal can argue their weather is ALWAYS amayonaising...but some of us get suckered in to heading North...and eventually get happy and settle in.
Played some volleyball this weekend at the park with a grip of Canadians. Got hella sun and now I wear a wife beater even when I'm naked...
Then I went to the fish store and picked up a "cleaner crew" for my salt water tank, a hand-me-down from my future brother-in-law. A cleaner crew is called as such because they keep the algae and other dirtinesses in your tank in check. So I got some snails and some zebra hermits. Also got two damsels.
For those, like me, who know more about worm holes than keeping a salt water tank in their living room, the idea is to cycle the tank for at least a week or two, then test the water, then put in some creatures. To cycle the tank, you first put in the filters, add the salt water, some sand, condition with some chemicals, get some live rock, and...small version of a violin, swap 'o' with 'i'! You are committed.
This is turning out to be an expensive hobby...but what hobbies are cheap these days? I will single-handedly restore the economy with my fishy purchases.


Finally, thanks to this girl:

I have discovered jícama. Add chili powder and lime, delicious.
I love them both.

The guy that knows nothing...and knows it

I enjoyed reading this guy's blog the other day. Apparently he seems to have more depth than he appears to have in the real world...just kidding Alex...you don't...no, just kidding...seriously...
And while I have the depth of a bottomless order of chips from Chili's (seemingly, apparently, and in appearance), I thought to myself, "Wow, how egotistical to think one's ramblings might be browsed in such a forum...wait a minute...I'm egotistical...match."
Likely, this will just turn out to be another diversion from elsewhat...like figuring out how to use my MOTU both as the interface to my DAW as well as a surround sound decoder so I don't have to keep hard-swapping the speaker cables when I want to watch a movie or decide to lay down some tracks...