2008

Jul

“My point is that whenever that someday comes, when I slide...”
— John Mayer 2008 Summer Tour

“It’s the “Godfather II” of comic book films and three times...”
— Kevin Smith on The Dark...

Rags: A new era of boom box has arrived: while getting gas, a young gangster across the way pumped petrol while blasting his cell phone...in all its cell phone glory.
Me: Spike Lee is going to make an updated version of Do the Right Thing featuring the new character Razr Raheem.

frickin cool. via blog.iso50.com

Drivel

thehotness: Patrick hesitated to go grocery shopping with Harris following the disaster that took...

Facestalk.

I have recently kicked into active Facebook usage and subsequently have petitioned a decent number...

Jun

If I ever have a cat, I am going to name it Copy. Second choices would be Smelly or Handy. That...

true blue.

I was driving to San Jose today and on the electronic signs where they give general driver...

Eight more years.

I texted the numbers 4-6-7-3 earlier tonight. I was trying to use the word H-O-P-E and my phone...

My word. Could a movie have any more all-stars? This...

Jon Foreman dropped his fourth season EP on Tuesday. I seriously love this series of releases.

“Kobe can go sit with Richard [from Top Chef] in...”
— txt to JRich

Sale away.

Krystal: It's 40 cent wing night!
Me: But...you got chips.
Krystal: Yeah. I don't like wings.
Me: Then why are you excited?
Krystal: Because I love SALES!

Choo Choo.

While celebrating my amazing Dad at the Cleveland Indians game tonight, my brother noticed a sign at...

Sigur Ros is still as gorgeous as ever.

If only life were more like 1984.

There are some times that I might not mind an Orwellian present. Big Brother might come in handy in...

“I wish I was more quotable.”
— Nate Richards (via...

Lord Baron Von Don Steely Eye Catfish Rastlin’ King...

Living Live.

I was driving again today. The iPod was charged up this time, and I decided to indulge in my yearly...

TwoRepublic

The iPod I’ve been using on my 45 minute commute died 30 minutes in today. So, I used that...

Off the Wall-E.

In an effort to nosce te ipsum [know thyself; thanks Wikipedia] I’ve decided to practice...

Mr. Shogue Wave. [too far with the pun? point taken.]

alive and blinking.

I like the idea of being thankful for blinks. It’s one of the first things that people do when...

Coldplaying.

Viva La Vida Or Death and All His Friends hit the michevious internets today. I’m three songs...

A better title for this would have been FaceOffice. The Office : Jim vs. Dwight (via )

May

Dan Le Sac vs Scroobious Pip - The Beat That My Heart Skipped. I am a sucker for a British accent. ...

“Do not fold, spindle or mutilate ticket. Not to be...”
— The ticket to get into...

I hope I can finish this before I die kenny hogan? is that...

I can do anything if I try

LOST Thoughts.

I continue to think that LOST, when all is said and done at the end of its six season run, will be...

If you have facebook... now's the time to use...

Its dot com!

Actually, its dot tee vee. I finally took the time to escape from Tumblr subdomain...

teamcarryon: Its like the kids ministered to us more than...

The National have released twelve songs [some old, some new] called The Virginia EP. It’s...

Catching Up.

1. Lost my bags for the first time on a cross-country flight. It was also the first time...

“The scene here is really inspiring. It makes me want to work...”
— Nick Gray. It’s true. You want...

The Big O. I honestly just want to post every video they have. Waste an hour and watch them all. ...

Really loving the new Mates of State album, Re-Arrange Us. This is the first song, “Get...

Stephen Colbert Imitates O'Reilly's "Inside...

Shouting Heads: Bill O'Reilly Meltdown...

You should know that I am virtually obsessed with J&A. This is a great introduction post if I...

I was going to call, I promise.

me: oh...uh...hi.
brianstorm.tumblr.com: uh...hi.
me: Funny seeing you...uh...on the internet like this.
brianstorm.tumblr.com: yeah...pretty crazy huh.
[beat]
me: so, uh...how've you been?
brianstorm.tumblr.com: good....good....good.
me: thats...really great.
brianstorm.tumblr.com: how about you?
me: good...good... i've been pretty busy.
brianstorm.tumblr.com: oh, sure. yeah. thats good. thats great.
me: yeah....I meant to write...
brianstorm.tumblr.com: yeah...no...thats fine. i understand.
me: i mean...its just...its been a few days...
brianstorm.tumblr.com: hey...i know you've been busy...its really fine.
me: you sure?
brianstorm.tumblr.com: yeah, totally.
me: well...you want to do something tonight? maybe a video or a text post or something? i saw some stuff on digg i thought would be cool.
brianstorm.tumblr.com: that sounds great. i'd really like that.

This is the first of a short series of videos on YouTube of Ira Glass, the host of This American...

The Temp.

Tonight, I attended at talk at UCLA by B.J. Novak. You might know him as “Ryan the...

Apr

Anger Management

I don’t get pissed I just piss. Like, in my pants.

Job Opening

johnnyrichardson: rickyv: Are you smart and motivated and good at keeping your shit together? Are...

I have one thing to say

alectheviking: “Tumblin that sh*t” is pretty hard when the quoter (and computer holder) is in KY. ...

“A Night At Home” Brianstorm Photog. Watch...

Man vs Ants

Question. Do ants have the mental and/or psychological capability to learn behavior? I am hoping...

Glennz Tees These shirts are amazing. Clever jokes, well...

alectheviking: This is for Brian, who has [had] no idea what Hancock is about. When I asked what...

I wish Maeby did this.

Letter A on Vimeo (via Vimeo) I am at once repelled and drawn to this.

Pizza wanna do….for free.

I am very excited about Mitch Hurwitz's new...

Just finished my taxes. I enjoyed using TurboTax to file my...

Riot Hour wouldn’t be Riot Hour without The Dead Guy. ...

Ben Gibbard and the Meaning of Life

Ticketmaster has a new captcha system. Not sure whats going...

This is where my time is going.

“Keep Making Art, and when you get tired; eat, and/ or watch...”
— My newest follow: Ryan Adams. ...

The new My Brightest Diamond leaked. I loved her first album, Bring Me the Workhorse, so I am...

POD is still making music!

The Grand Illusion

Mar

"It costs nothing to be honest, loyal,...

Things I want to remember about the Avett Brothers show tonight: 1. The greatness of singing along...

workgrrs: Stop going into the sandbox. I have to watch to make sure you don’t go in and it breaks...

“This is about us all. Every one of us. Who all seem to know...”
— John Mayer’s newest blog...

A Story Two Sentences Long.

johnnyrichardson: You know, sometimes the best stories have very little that are actually told to...

This American Live.

I was thinking about what to put in my first muxtape and I ran across this song. One of my friends,...

johnnyrichardson: I saw this band (Scroobius Pip vs. Dan Le Sac) at The Roxy in West Hollywood...

All About Walken. I live two blocks from where this is showing. Any given Thursday between now and...

This is one of my favorite XKCD comics. [Dave, you’re...

This is officially my new roommate. [Not because she moved...

Ask Goog.

I wish I had a Google search for real life. Lost remote; Google it. WTF are my keys? Google has...

First Death Cab single from Narrow Stairs. At 8:35, its a marathon of a single; but I like the slow...

I filled out four brackets this year. This is the one I...

fireworks.

A few things I want to remember about the Explosions in the Sky show tonight: 1. I always feel...

The only non brain/heart souvenir I have of the Explosions...

“Art slips past our brains straight into our bellies. It...”
— Shauna Niequist, Cold...

“That’s what makes movement more interesting than staying in...”
— The Believer - On the Road

Gentrify That Too. I have just recently become aquainted...

speed demonized.

Last Wednesday I drove from Colorado Springs to Salt Lake City via I-80. Google Maps says its about...

going back home to the west coast.

You know you’re on the west coast when you see an IN-N-OUT Burger. You know...

Change Win Butler Believes In.

I have a newfound respect for The Arcade Fire. They have just returned from a year long tour [122...

The Arcade Fire + Barack Obama [He actually wasn’t...

Thanks to Barack Obama [and the piles of inspiration he...

postleap depression.

Leap day is over, and i am regreting that i didn’t do something better with my extra day than...

getting Lost.

I wrote this about Lost on a different blog, and i wanted to put it here too. For me, Lost’s...

Feb

This is a chair-on-the-street video that my friend Ezra made for my church in San Jose. They were...

radical honesty.

oprah? really? really.

three little letters make all the...

me: is he on chat?
v: not right now
v: but he's on yahoo
v: [lame]
me: oh, thats shit
me: not to be confused with "the shit"

Bargain shopper.

Thanks Apple for [1] making me feel inadequate for having a...

“Make art. Make art. Thanks.”
— the end of Glen...

syntaxual lethargy.

there is a war that is waging inside of me. its a pretty superficial war, i think. fought only on...

hoss. tadge.

i probably could have posted stuff the past few days, but i wanted my first thing after the flu to...

this is my visual depiction of how i felt last week. that...

“That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that...”
— Marilyn Manson illustrating...

effort means something, just not...

me: do you still hate the west wing music?
johnny: negative. i love it.
me: i had the same progression with the intro music from The Wire. i didn't like it at all at first. And now i just got the sound track
johnny: you got it, meaning you downloaded it?
me: well. it took some effort for me to find it.
johnny: ha! as long as it took some effort, i guess.
me: effort is a commodity out there online.

/STRIKE

Finally. That pesky writer’s strike is, for all intents and purposes, over. In fact, the...

following my nose.

We got some new Dial body wash. [Imagine that, another post perpetuated by bodywash.] It smells...

dog day afternoon.

my dog placed a giant pile of crap [actual feces] next to my computer chair this morning. i only...

“…no one who sees HBO’s [The Wire’s] take on the...”
— Profiles: Stealing Life:...

can a mac ad change its stripes music? [variant 1 of 3]

do i still want a macbookair? yes. [2of3]

if i wrote out the lyrics to this song, i wouldn’t use the space bar. [tree of tree]

“But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never...”
— YouTube - Yes We Can - Barack...

“Decisions are made by those who show up.”
— Aaron Sorkin via Jed Bartlett...

scar(red).

i was pretending the blood red axe bodywash i was using in the shower today actually was real blood...

“If I was one of those fans who got to run on the field for...”
— my brother

those clever clever journalists.

Super Bowl XLII headlines: Defiant Giants! Giant Upset! Giant Killers! David’s a Giant this...

Jan

LOST. new seasons. new questions.

everyone knows that damon lindelof and carleton cuse like to eff with our heads by spurring fifteen...

slogan pitches for a mailer for an aids kit assembly day.

so what if its been on for three years?

Deal or No Deal has been on for quite some time now, and i’m sure that everyone has taken...

“I do not need to see, but I need a vision.”
— Chris Walla - Field Manual; A...

saw this for the first time today and laughed til i cried. (via )

“I started to think that maybe there are times when mystery...”
— JJ Abrams, the video directly...

The man behind the curtains. Specifically the Lost and Cloverfield curtains.

“While this is the golden age of this kind of reporting and...”
— The New Kings of Nonfiction -...

vanity is al pacino’s favorite sin.

absinthe makes the heart grow hipper.

cones: isn't there a saying, 'absence makes the heart grow fonder?'
me: i think so.
cones: if there isn't, there should be.

what do you think this is, wordpress?

i was going to do some sort of top seven favorite movies of 007. and then i thought, “hey,...

“I feel like music has a sublime ability to transcend a lot...”
— jon foreman, random YouTube...