this would have been easier with a mouse

A friend asked me if i'd be interested in taking a stab at designing an album cover for her punk band's holiday song. I'm not sure I like this, my first attempt.... but it's what I'm doing since I'm not working, and since you're reading this, you must want to know what I'm doing---

labor day? if only i labored....

this morning i woke up early, ignored the cloudy sky and drove to manhattan beach. it was great... no traffic, empty beach, and tons of surfers to watch. slowly the clouds disappeared, the sun came out, and every time i opened my eyes, there were more people, until the beach was finally as crowded as I expected it to be on a holiday... by then we were ready to go. So again no traffic, and except for missing my exit, and adding 15 minutes to the drive, everything was perfect. Except for my skin, which is slightly pinker than I intended.

the rest of the weekend was pretty good too, with lots of reminders of Oklahoma. On Friday I went to a party and met a guy from OKC, who knew tons of people I knew. On Saturday, our new roommate started moving in. Turns out his girlfriend went to OU and lived in Norman for a long time... we also had lots of mutual friends.

yesterday, in honor of last year's labor day, when me and stephanie cooked out on a miniature disposal grill in the back garden of harley grove, and then sat outside playing uke, I lit up the miniature grill sarah and I bought last spring and grilled up some hotdogs. i didn't attempt anything more difficult since the last time we used the grill, our steaks tasted like lighter fluid. The hotdogs were great.... I ate 3. After my private BBQ I went to another party, and met a couple guys who play uke, and we agreed that we would make time for a uke jam soon. i need to start practicing more so that i can actually play, and not just strum a chord or 2.

8 months later

I finally managed to finish my video of the trip to Iceland that Stephanie and I took last year. This is a small sample of the photos and videos that we took.

The music is Sigur Ros - the only Icelandic band (other than Bjork) that I know of. I recommend watching it with headphones or good speakers.

I apologize in advance for our shaky, poor quality video, and for the cheesiness of the whole thing!

The Circus, Joey Fatone, and me

Thanks to Stephanie for the picture. Since the first episode, I've been promoted to Assistant Story Editor (or something like that)...

OMG, it's already almost June

where is my life going?

Yesterday I was forgotten about, and left in a dark closet for 45 minutes. The joys of working as a PA...

a shot of JD straight from the bottle please...

my email to sarah tonight:

"holy smokes.

Petty Cash and their famous friends.

First two members of Suffrajett got up and sang a song with them.

THEN Butch Walker got up and sang a song with them (He's so cute, and my new band boy crush)

THEN motherfuckin PINK got on stage and sang "Freefalling." Later in the evening I accidentally elbowed her in the stomach as she walked by me. She said "sorry", I said "sorry", she said "sorry" again. Having completely turned around to apolgize by this point I saw who it was and said "sorry, sorry sorry!", while attempting to remain cool.

And to top it off, the singer of Petty Cash is also in H20 and is really hot. (i was probably most excited about this, although my attempt to talk to him did not go as smoothly as i would have liked).

It was pretty cool.

I would guess the downstairs capacity to be about 100.... E and I were practically standing on the stage.
Oh yah, the bass player from K's band used to be in Red Animal War - and he recognized me!....kinda.

don't be sad you missed it, we'll do it again."

this video of PINK is from my crappy phone... but it's all I got.