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Text taken from Slamxhype.com:

Quentin Tarantino is a name you associate with greatness, his films are often as eccentric as himself and attract attention like there is no tomorrow. This copy of Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Inglorious Bastards’ Script is over the top and insane, with the cover featuring a mispelt hand written heading with the same mistake made throughout the screenplay it shows how rough yet thought provoking his work is.

“The script is 165 pages long and follows a squad of American soldiers called the Bastards — a guerrillalike force who travel behind German lines in 1944, striking terror into the hearts of Nazi soldiers. The Bastards are headed by Lieutenant Aldo Raine — the role we’d imagine Tarantino is hoping to land Brad Pitt for — described by the script as a “hillbilly from the mountains of Tennessee,” who has around his neck a scar from where he survived a lynching. (”The scar will never once be mentioned,” Tarantino writes.) In a parallel story, Inglorious Bastards follows a French Jewish teenager named Shosanna who survives the massacre of her family and flees to Paris, where she winds up running a movie house during the Nazi occupation. The Bastards’ and Shosanna’s stories intersect when a gala premiere of a Goebbels-produced propaganda film is put on in Shosanna’s theater, with Hitler and most of the German High Command scheduled to attend. Both the Bastards and Shosanna launch plots intending to end the war a little earlier than anyone expected.”
What sounds extremely interesting read the entire story over at NY Mag.

I don’t know how its been so long and I havn’t written anything but to be fair it has been pretty busy. About a month ago I was heading down to Florida for my Grandmas 85th birthday. I wen’t to Orlando, hung out with the family and it was a good time. Bets came into town to hang for a few days so we got to go to dinner with my parents, eat lunch with my grandmas, show her around Boca, ran into some friends, did some night swimming, and then prepped for our 8 hour drive to Tallahassee.

The trip totally flew by. Before I knew it I was back in the city, and I realized how homesick for the city I had been. The good news is when I got home, my Bridgstone frame had arrived from Japan. I have been building it up a little. Got a seatpost, the stem, bars, grips and a chain wheel on it. just waiting for my wheel set and crank and a few random parts and she’ll be ready to ride.

Bets came back on July 3rd to hang out until this morning, what an amazing week. Finally got to spend a solid chunk of time together and we came out of it as officially boyfriend and girlfriend and im pretty happy about that.

Heading back to Boca tomorrow for my parents 25th anniversary surprise party that were throwing them. My application for Parsons is nearly finished so when I get back from florida its time for me to get a job… for real.

Things with YngPro and Feltraiger should be picking up soon, if for no other reason then the fact that im sick of sitting around and waiting, time to get things started. It’s exciting! Hopefully the site will be up soon as well as some samples for tshirts and some new ideas weve been messing with.

brb
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Well ladies and gentleman, its here…

I almost don’t want to even blog about it because I know everyone and their mother has today but fuck it, i love Apple. Im not planning on getting one. I have some other needs for my money including: Building up my new bike that i just bought, my tattoo appointment on the 13th and getting tattooed more since its been a while, and saving up for Betsy and I to go to Japan.

So ya, really the only benefits to buying a new iphone are…
a) its 3G which is significantly faster
b) its 8gb in black or 16gb in black or white, i have a 4gb currently
c) it has gps, which i dont need cause i have google maps and only walk, bike or take a train
So as you can see my 4gb year old EDGE iphone will do me just fine, especially with all the new programs and the switch from .Mac to MobileMe.

Hope you all buy them though and get my stock up and enjoy the shit out of them!!!!!!!

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So much fun this weekend! I really need to start bringing my camera with me for stuff like this, im charging it now so i’ll have lots of pictures!

Friday night was the Peel Sessions comp, so many people came out and kids were going crazy. Everyone so awesome and laid back its a great place to hang and learn tricks.

On Saturday Trackstar put on a little block party and another trick competition right infront of the theatre where they were screen the movies for Bicycle Film Festival. I hung out there for a bit, got some free Red Bull, ran into a few friends and then headed over to Union Sq to see Strangers. Not an amazing movie but not horrible, pretty tense, made you jump alot, and Dennis from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia made a cameo which was sweet. After that I rode back over to get in line for the 9:00pm screening at the Bicycle Film Festival and dove into the book I just started, Invisible Monster… Pretty good so far.

Today my plan is to head over to the new Mishka store, where there having some crazy sale, then meeting up with a friend while she gets her first tattoo, running some errands in the city and then over to a BBQ at Tiffany, Paige, and Carolyn’s Place, should be fun.

Tomorrow I have some business to attend to, some calls to make, all that Jazz. Then wednesday the crazyness starts. Vanessa will be up from Florida through the weekend, my cousin Jenna (who I used to live with and havn’t seen in too long) will be up here for a wedding for a few days, and Betsy will finally be back in NYC. Can’t wait.

Video Blog coming soon as well as more pictures.

xoxo
<3

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Holler if you want one! I just got a bunch in the mail…

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You see those two girls? That’s Paige and Tiffany… they’re trouble makers. I’m pretty sure it’s because Obi’s in town, after last night I didn’t think this one could get more eventful, but sure enough, I was wrong. Some 30 year old woman came up to Obi during his set trying to get him to play hip hop, I’m not really sure what happend but it some how turned into an altercation between her and Tiffany. Not too long after her and her large friend came back over and started bugging Obi again to play shit, well Paige decided to try to shoo them off the stage, that didn’t go that well. Next thing I know the 30 year old is being held back by her boyfriend while yelling shit at Paige and Tiffany, do they ignore her??? OF CORSE NOT! More yelling ensues and that’s about when I turned around to see this girl swing at Tiffany over her boyfriends arm and miss by about an inch. I thought this might scare Tiffany and convince her to calm down… I was wrong, instead she decided to charge at the girl and start swinging back, at which point I had to step in. They continued yelling at each other and shit kinda calmed down… I thought. We continue to dance and hang out when all the sudden I get soaked, I turn around to see that the 30 year old had tried to throw and drink at Tiffany, to which she decided to charge at the girl yet again. At this point I literally had to pick Tiff up while she was screaming and swinging and spitting on her boyfriend and carry her back to the DJ Booth.
Good night all around, I guess Obi brought that Miami Flair up with him.
So, um… when you coming back?

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So i got pretty shitty last night, like… drunker then usual. Left Annex at like 2:30ish and took a cab to san loco. I tried to eat but it wasn’t happening. We went down to the train and I sat there trying to convince myself I didn’t feel like shit and I wasn’t gonna throw up. Finally got on the train when i realized i didn’t have my phone in my pocket. fuckkkkkkkk… we get outta the train and Calla calls San Loco to see if my phone is there, no dice. Then she calls my number and someone picks up, its the cab driver. Calla talks to him for about and hour trying to get it over here and giving him directions and shit. Meanwhile Im in the bathroom throwing up. I get my phone back! i lay on the couch with a rag on my head watching calla video chat and telling Mike Odeao he just got punk’d (for some reason) while texting the girl i have a crush on to tell her what happened. I finally put on Mallrats and climb into bed. Im quickly awoken at 9am, about 3.5 hours after falling asleep by what sounds like a jackhammer outside my window, its coming from the mechanic downstairs and it’s not stopping. Now im up, i dont feel like a million bucks but i have errands to run and it seems pretty nice out. Im gonna throw on my beanie and jeans and go grab some smokes and coffe on the corner.
Anyone down to ride bikes and run some errands?
Thanks
xo

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So this should be a pretty fun weekend…

Saturday:
4th Annual Bicycle Fetish Day
Saturday, May 10, 2008 12:00noon – 6:00 PM
Location:
Havemeyer St. (Grand St. & Metropolitan Ave.)
A street fair for your bicycle! Show off your ride and revel in the beauty of all types, styles, and genres of specialized, customized, and personalized bicycles. CONTESTS throughout the day: Best in Show, Best Vintage, Best Hand-made, Best Chopper, Best Small Wheel (includes foldable bikes), Wheelies, BMX tricks, Track bike tricks, Heaviest Bike, Ugliest Bike, and more…
Contact: The City Reliquary Museum, messages@cityreliquary.org, http://cityreliquary.org, 718. R.U.CIVIC (718.782.4842)
I don’t know the full event schedule but Conrad and I are djing the event.
Possible, unconfirmed afterparty at the Reliquary.
If you want to do anything/sell anything/show anything you should contact the Museum.
Swap stuff? Giveaways? Tricks? Drinking on a street? Let’s make it happen.

Sunday: (p.s. its mothersday… call, send cards and flowers!!)

P.S. My bike is falling apart from practicing tricks. It’s time to build up a new, gorgeous, strong, fun bike! But I need money for it, so give me some. Thanks!

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Met up with Marrisa yesterday and went on a little bike ride, got some pizza, and hung in central park! i love the spring in NYC.

*New Atmosphere record is out today!! Go get it!!

So I’ve been unemployed for 4 days now. I’m no longer working at The Agency Group and i’ve got some new options to explore, i’m just trying to figure out where to start. These last few days have been amazing, crazy, stupid, ridiculous, fun, much needed and completely unbelievable. I’m starting to remember why I wanted to live in NYC, there’s definitely nothing like this city. The timing couldn’t have been better, we’re right in between winter and spring and the weather is perfect… did you get that??? PERFECT!! I’ve been on my bike just about every day (excluding the day I was sleeping from noon until 7pm because 4 of us decided on a drunken whim to drive to Atlantic City and gamble until 8am), and it has made my recent mood do a complete 180. I needed this time, with the sun and street and Atmosphere in my ear, riding my bike around Brooklyn and NYC to look around, explore, enjoy, and think about what I really want out of this life. I couldn’t continue with a job I wasn’t 100% into for the perks and paycheck. I have so many things I want to do in my life, so many things that would make me happy that i’ve been putting off for no reason.

I’m planning on going back to school, going to be taking some classes for graphic and fashion design, both of which i’ve wanted to do for a long time. I will have a lot more time to dedicate to the record label, which is really starting to get going. I can’t say im surprised but some people are starting to get there hands on (or should i say ears on) Real Fake Gold, there just demo versions and it’s already getting crazy. Our clothing company as well, so much is done and waiting for time and money, two things which we are trying to resolve as we speak. We’re so excited for these ideas we have to come to life, were getting antsy. Also been talking to a few people about putting on some shows around town as well as helping out promoting some parties in the city. AND… I cant, and dont want to say much yet, but there might be a new party in the not too distant future, im gonna save that for a later blog.

I decided against a new bike. Mostly because im not working right now and until my financial situation is rolling again I need to conserve, so….

Painted the bike and put it back together, its no gem, but I have been getting new parts for it, fixing it up, trying to make it as nice and fun to ride as possible until i do have the money for a new bike. It’s pretty now, i need a new saddle and a new (bigger) crank, so those are next on the list. It’s so much fun riding. You start to see all these places that you usually take trains to and how there all connected and it helps so much to figure brooklyn out. You also notice a lot of stuff you would never see otherwise, like this picture I took on my iPhone riding over the Williamsburg Bridge today:

I just wish I had more people to ride with… GET A BIKE, ITS FUN, IT SAVES THE EARTH, DO IT… THEN CALL ME. Oh, and get the new ATMOSPHERE too, incase you missed the first line of this blog.

My parents and brothers are coming up this weekend too. Im soo fucking excited, I havn’t seen them in sooooo long, I miss them soo much. Im gonna try to take a lot of pictures so expect a photo blog soon!!

Tomorrow, I have a haircut, a business lunch, a shopping date with Andrew to check out some clothing companys new lines (lets call it research), and then the screening of the music video that Meradith has been working on forever as well as a lot of alchohol, including my new friend, mr. tequila shot.
xo

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and I love Tiffany&Calla.

I also love gum on my dresser, and being unemployed.

yay.

Really? Full story here.

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First: I’ve noticed some people have added me to their blogroll… Thanks! Links page updated. Yell at me if you should be on there.

Second: Day two not smoking… thank you, thank you!

Third: What a fuckin’ weekend. I can’t even remember the majority of it just cause so much happend but I think its safe to say it was hands down one of my best weekends in NY. Beer, very late nights, putting my bike together, 7 hours of riding in one day, learned new tricks with some friends, masses of drunk girls, bar fights, walks from alphabet city to the village in the rain, strech limo rides to AK, smuggling wine into bars, israelis, and getting lost in china town… and not the “canal street” china town that so many tourists know and love, im talking the “i better watch myself or i might end up as chinese food” china town. I hope this weekend is as amazing… definetly bringing my camera this time!

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p.s. im kinda poor, wanna send me money?

April 16th, 2008
Wish me Luck

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SF Macaframa Trailer from W-BASE BICYCLE GARAGE on Vimeo.

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RVCA x Cinelli

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I put up a bulletin a few days ago, the topic being what to do with some money I have set aside. The plan for it was a new bike, but tattoos came up and I realised how long it’s been since I got tattood, and then I got sad. I’ve been thinking about a Star Wars sleeve for a while now, and while having a conversation with one of my bands tour managers, I found out about a tattoo artist in Brooklyn that is Star Wars obsessesed. Seemed like a good fit, so that got me thinking about the sleeve (for my leg) and what to do. I didnt want to do a scene from one movie or one character, I wanted to do something more “big picture” if that makes sense, something that covers more of the movie. If anyone has any idea, please leave me a comment!!

Also, we had a visitor this weekend! Abby Morgan a.k.a. Real Fake Gold, the first artist signed to The Effort Music Co.. We had an awsome time getting to hang out for the weekend, filled with museums, restaraunts, exploring Brooklyn and listening to lots of her music that she brought us! Shes amazing and you need to check out her stuff, I literally get goosbumps listening to it. More HERE.

Oh, and the smoking… Well I got pretty fucked up the other night and messed that up, I smoked, then bought a pack. So, the plan is to finish the pack, only smoke when im out and drinking, and once that pack is gone, im done for good! Ill keep you updated.

Also, its 68 degrees out right now, someone explain to me why im in a cubical. My bikes in pieces right now… cause im painting it!!! hopefully it will be finished tonight and put back together tomorrow so pictures should be up soon!

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Hahahah, looks like the L train going through Williamsburg in the morning…

http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/08040701.html

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*Thank you to everyone at Fixed.gr/nyc for these, most of them made me laugh out loud at work!

A vacationing penguin is driving through Arizona when he notices the oil-pressure light is on. He gets out to look and sees oil dripping out of the motor. He drives to the nearest town and stops at the first gas station. After dropping the car off, the penguin decides to take a walk around town.
He sees an ice cream shop and, being a penguin in Arizona, decides that something cold would really hit the spot. He gets a big cone with a double-scoop of vanilla ice cream and sits down to eat, but having no hands he is forced to make a real mess trying to eat with his little flippers.
After finishing his ice cream, he goes to the gas station and asks the mechanic if he’s found the problem. The mechanic looks up and says, “It looks like you blew a seal.” The penguin says, “No, it’s just ice cream.”

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For his birthday, little Joe asked for a 10-speed bicycle. His father said, ” Son, we’d give you one, but the mortgage on this house is $280,000 & your mother just lost her job. There’s no way we can afford it.” The next day the father saw little Joe heading out the front door with a suitcase. So he asked, ” Son, where are you going?” Little Joe told him; ” I was walking past your room last night and heard you telling Mom you were pulling out. Then I heard her tell you to wait because she was coming too. And I’ll be damned if I’m staying here by myself with a $280,000 mortgage & no bike

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a few weeks ago, i walked in to a bar in connecticut and saw an unusual man. his head wa two or three times the size of a normal head - it’s hard to tell with things shaped roughly spherical, you know - and it was orange. bright orange, from neck to scalp, including his hair.

i had to know why, so i sat down next to him - not a problem, the bar was not crowded - bought him another of what he was drinking (budweiser), and asked him about his head.

“well,” he said to me, “it’s a long story, but since i have this drink in front of me, i may as well get in to it. i was traveling in arabia, and came across a lamp. on a whim, i rubbed it, while posing for a photograph, but a genie actually emerged and offered me three wishes!

“so, first, i wished for riches, because i am that kind of man. with a nod of his head, the genie produced a wad of cash, a debit card - and the appropriate paperwork - that basically confirmed that i had access to unlimited amounts of money. before allowing me to speak my second wish, he cautioned me against unwise spending, which could have an affect on global currency exchanges, inflation, and whatnot.

“for my second wish, i told him that i wanted to meet gallileo, and he confirmed that after the third wish, we could travel through time to meet with gallileo. he was favorable enough to also bestow upon me a thorough knowledge of 17th century Italian.

“and for my third wish - pay attention, now, because i think this is where i went wrong - i said, ‘I wish I had a gigantic orange head.’ ”

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Two cows are standing in a meadow, and one turns to the other and says, “I’m really worried about this mad cow epidemic that’s going around, aren’t you?” The other cow says, “What do I have to be worried about? - I’m a squirrel.”

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a string walks into a bar and orders a pint.
“sorry, we don’t serve string here” says the bartender.
frustrated, the string walks out the door, ties itself up, and messes up its hair.
the string returns to the bar and orders a pint.
“hey, aren’t you the string that was just in here?”
“no, im a frayed knot.”

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!!!!!!!!PERSONAL FAVORITE!!!!!!

A polar bear walks into a bar. The bartender says, “What’ll you have”?
The polar bear replys, “A rum…………….. and coke”.
“Why the pause?”, asks the bartender.
“I was born with them”

I’m not really sure what’s going on… but im not a fan. Everyday just feels “blah”, the days just run into each other to the point that it just feels like one long “blah”. There’s no break, there’s no monthly assessment, there’s no set time to sit down and review your situation and decide what to do about it unless you catch yourself and make the time. So that’s what I’m doing, right now.

I don’t know if its cause im still kind of sick, or living in New York instead of a sunny, slower paced Florida, or not having the down time that I would enjoy while driving my car around town, music blasting, windows down, smiling and really taking in the day. I don’t know if its my job and lack of time for myself, that I could use to ride to central park on a sunny breezy day like today and lay out with a book and that special someone and talk and joke and lay on each other and smile cause we can actually enjoy our lives for a change. I don’t know if its the fact that I was raised with money and knowing that I don’t have to work my ass off to survive has left me unmotivated, or maybe the fact that im interested in so many things that tying the majority of my time to one thing makes me feel unproductive or like im missing out.

I don’t know, I wish I did.

Something needs to be done here. This should be a turning point in my life, but I don’t know where to turn.

Help

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I quit. Finally. I’ve been wanting to for a while now and I guess this Flu was what I needed.
Jesus it’s been a shitty week. Woke up on Wednesday morning and went to wait for the train and I started to get really dizzy and nauseous. I realized I couldn’t go to work and went home and got right in bed. Within a few hours I was at 102.4 degree temp. Yeah… noooo good. I was pretty much stuck like that for 48 hours. I think I got outta bed once the entire two days, and I didn’t eat a thing either.

Woke up friday and although I wasn’t feeling like a million bucks, my temperature was gone so I decided it was time to go back to work. BAD IDEA!!! The train was packed and I guess I was still pretty sick cuase right as we were pulling up to Union Square, I passed out. All I remember is waking up to my feet dragging and overhearing someone ask Andrew if they should call someone. UGH I HATE that feeling… went into starbucks to get water and calm down, hoped in a cab and headed home. I think I am FINALLY starting to feel back to normal. Ive been taking it really easy, not going out at all, and hopefully this flu/cold is done.

Oh yeah… did I mention I quit smoking?

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When I lived in Orlando I started to get into motorcycles. Not those dumb race looking bikes… but classy bikes, old bikes… small bikes. I started looking around at some different things and watching eBay but before I bought one I decided I was moving to New York and kinda forgot about it. Well i’ve been here for a year now. Winter is over and the beautiful weather is getting closer and closer. I have my bicycle, and a new one that i’ll start building up soon, but I really want something with a motor to cruise around and have fun on, and to work on here and there. I came across this picture which is pretty much EXACTLY what I was looking for, but I have no idea what it is or where to even start researching. I know it didnt come stock like that… at least I doubt it, but id like to know what it is so I can start working on something similar. If anyone knows… holler!

email - thedevastation@mac.com

Thanks

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Yng Pro is about us. About our peers. People around our age, that live the kinda life we live and feel similar about our surroundings, at least to some extent. By “US” I am refering to Andrew and I, the owners of Yng Pro. Now let me start this by saying Andrew and I are VERY similar in a lot of ways, most ways really. From our apearance and the way we dress to the way we feel about political and social issues. Us being so similar is the main reason we clicked right away as friends and the main reason we have no issues living together, working across the street form each other, and starting two companys together.

That being said, let me lay this out for you… the way I see it! If Andrew has a rebuttle, I will post it. (It is posted HERE).

A few months back Andrew and I were passed an email with a music video created by this religeous group talking about how wrong gay marrage is. I really wish the video was still around so you could see it, it was super rediculous and over the top. There were shots of choirs of people from prob 14-65 singing a chorus about killing all the gays and how they will burn in hell, all you can really do is laugh and feel sorry for these people. Andrew and I are very liberal, I think that goes without saying. Religion is a pretty big joke to us and the idea that a man and woman that don’t even love each other can get married, but two men or two women that would die for each other cant is pretty much the saddest thing I’ve ever hear.

In this video (again, GOD I wish you could see it) while this 60ish year old woman is busting through a verse she decides to throw the word “fagbeast” in there for some flavor. I literally almost pissed my pants. The fact that you are against gay marrage is funny enough, but the fact that some how in your warped mind you could even fathom a situation where you could couple the word Fag and Beast really was just too much for me. Like really? What do you do with your life when your not making hate videos and spilling sparkles on to your home made “Fags Burn In Hell” picket signs, must be a sad and lonely life to have so much hate in your heart.

What I’m getting at, which I realize is not yet clear, is that as much as this video made me laugh, it made me think about how many people out there are hated for no reason. Because there insane and literally believe some dude is up in the sky telling them to. I loved the word “fagbeast”, it still makes me laugh, and I think it is a perfect staple for the confusion and narrowmindedness of some people. As the Yng Pro line builds you will see some things that might be offensive to some, but they reflect the way we feel about the world, and usually the way our peers feel as well. We might say it in a harsh way, but sometimes its needed, just to make you think about it, for a second. Make you ask questions. I wanted to, and still do, design a shirt including the word Fagbeast as part of our line. I think it would get people talking and asking questions and is a funny way of laughing at those people that hate anything different.

Well Andrew was not having it. He was concerned it would be offensive and argued that he hates the word “fag” and doesnt want it on a line that he is associated with, that it isnt explained enough (and i think hes concerned it wont sell). I think the shirt is HILLARIOUS in of itself, but hes missing the big picture. Some of our stuff doesnt need an explanation, some of it is personal, and some of it needs a little something to let people know whats up. Who ever explains there designs? Shepard Fairy’s (Obey) entire campaign is based around stencils of Andre the Giants head to get people to ask questions and think twice about there surroundings.

What do you think? Is it just offensive, or is it funny and will be affective in getting people to ask what “fagbeast” means…does it serve its purpose? Leave a comment… Sound off!

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*Council of Doom Bike Crew. Can’t wait for the movie, these kids kill it!!

I didn’t know anyone even read this thing, now I get reamed for not creating entertainment for the masses… Its encouraging i guess.

So, even though Andrew and I live together, and work across the street from each other, and are supposed to be at work at the same time, we almost never ride the train to work together. Not because we don’t like to, but because im a lazy bag of shit, and usually wake up at about 9:45am, when I’m supposed to be at work at 10:00am… and my comute is anywhere from 25-65 min. Ya…

I’m kinda baffled by how awake I am, I think I finally got in bed around 4am. We have a new roommate moving in tonight, and an exciting weekend coming and we found it only fitting to clean and rearange the entire apt… starting at 1am. Smart guys, real smart. Well I gotta say, it looks pretty good, if I do say so myself (i’ve watched a little hgtv in my day).

Havn’t been writing much. I was outta town this past weekend for my cousins baby naming and got a chance to see my brother and my parents for the first time in months. Fuck I love them! I have to say I have the most amazing family a kid could ask for. My brothers are just good, sweet, smart, handsome (they get that from me) kids and we are best friends. My parents still amaze me to this day. I woke up saturday morning to my parents running into my room, screaming and jumping on my bed… now you know why I still act like a 6 year old. I actually asked my mom while we were driving to the baby naming how her and my dad have been together for so long and there still so sweet and in love. I cant hold a relationship down for the life of me and they give me hope. I love you guys. There is really nothing in the world like knowing no matter how shitty things get, with school or work or girls or friends or drugs or confusion about life or anything in the world, that I could pick up the phone or hop on a plane to anyone of the four of them and feel like myself again, and know shit will be ok.

ANYYYYWAAYYY…. I have two songs down and done for Terror Is A Man, and half a song that will be done as soon as I learn how to write, and pages of hip hop lyrics that i need beats for. …Since the accident is growing, slow and steady, and getting me excited, just to be a part of it. We will be getting on a more regular tracking schedule soon so things will get going.

The Effort is on a path of glory. We have a nice game plan for our first release, booking studio time to get her in and tracking the first ep. No names yet, sorry! Soon, I promise. I’m so excited to tell you… Sorry that’s just mean, to tease like that, I’ll stop.

We’re assholes, and we’re busy, as you can imagine, and that is the reason we have not yet ordered stickers for Yng Pro. And I can say it, but I doubt it’ll get done this weekend. I’m gonna say Sunday! Stickers will be ordered and the two prints and colorways for our first run will be decided on as well as a printer. I’m gonna make some calls for interviews for the Catalook too…
Ok now im talking to myself on my own blog, officially rambling. Ya thats exciting though. I have been sketching some cut/sew pieces ive been thinking of secretly, cuase i have no formal training and Im embarrased by how much it looks like my newborn neice drew them. But the ideas are good, and thats what counts, right? (yes Dan!) Gonna be learning to sew soon. Im gonna get a sewing machine next weekend and get too it. I’ll be sewing our tags into our shirts and going to fabric stores and maybe start working on some of the things ive been thinking about… the smaller things obviously. But ya still exciting. Oh, and if anyone has the top half of a manaquin for any reason… can we borrow it? ALSO, the Cazal x Dita collab dropped. I’ve been waiting for them for a while and just found out the cost. $750… for a pair of sunglasses… ya, im serious. So f that in the a. But it did get my head cranking about some glasses of our own. Not that hard to do, and I know the proper channels to go through, so maybe some YP glasses coming soon? maybe a line? Who knows. I’m just spit balling here.

Ok. Lets talk about bikes. It’s coming, Spring! Yesterday was day one, and the weather is starting to follow suite. I’ve been riding fixed for a bit now, on a 52cm 1987 Motobecane that was converted to fixed and I prettied up a bit. Katie (my bike) has been good to me, but its time for a real bike, a track bike, a Bareknuckle. Wanna know the plans for my build up??? Ok i’ll tell you!!! As you can see this bike is well over $1k so it might take a bit to get this guy up and running but ill prob start a new page and document the build up…

50cm Yellow Bareknuckle Frame and Fork
Front Wheel: 700c White Aerospoke
Back Wheel: 700c White Deep - V Tied to High Flange Phils
White Selle Italia Gel Flow Saddle
Silver King Headset
Nitto Stem
Riser Bars
White Oury Grips
MKS Pedals/ White Toshi Double Straps
*no idea on my crank and BB yet, gotta do some research.

This weekend is gonna be fucking amazing. Chances are I will be extremly intoxicated so I wont be blogging again until sunday. Blogging fucked up is a horrible idea, especially when your me… Ya, figure that one out. I love you!

-eyes out chin up

Worked on my bike a bit, also should be getting a new frame to build up very soon… pictures when I get home!

council of doom: official full-length trailer from wolfgang on Vimeo.

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Watch This… See how you do!

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So its been a while, I messed up. It happends… don’t judge me.

Crazy amounts of nonsense going on, where do I start? (Im just gonna number this, sorry Andrew!)

1)Baby. My cousin finally delivered. Her names Sydney. She’s beautiful! Im going down to Florida this weekend for the baby naming and to meet the new addition to our family, introduce her to tattoos… gotta start them young. Mozel Tov Danielle and Rob.

2)YngProNyc. Still waiting on some finished designs and finalazing the first line. Hopefully going to find a printer and start getting some things produced, will will obviously keep you updated.

3)The Effort Music Co. Finally have our first “real” artist for The Effort (sorry label mates but you know what i mean). Had a great conf call with her and checked out some of her songs she has “waiting in the wings” (get it? no you dont, cause its an inside joke). We will be flying her up here at the end of the month so start really get things in the works. As far as the other bands on the label.. things are coming, ohhh yes things are coming!!

4)Terror Is A Man. Two and a half songs down… well, written at least. Im into them, they could use some work, but im no Dallas Green. finishing up a fourth song for the split with The Careful Hands of Surgeons, to be released this summer on The Effort.

4.5)…Since The Accident. Oh Sir… just you wait!

5)Photoshoot. Did a photo shoot with Chris Phelps (www.chrisphelps.com) for Inked magazine. It was fun, love the shots. I’ll let you know more when i do.

6)Bikes. Its getting warmer out!!! You know what that means!!!! BIKETIME!!!! Went by Affinity on sunday and got some new bars and cages for my bike. It definetly needs a few more things but at least its good to go so i can start riding again and getting some tricks down. Definetly looking for a track bike. Been keeping my eyes peeled and if you have suggestions id love to hear them. So hopefully ill have a new frame and fork to build up soon. Annnd I have a riding partner… more on that as it developes!

7)Teeth. No not the movie, which was good. Mine, my wisdom teeth, they suck, i hate them, i have to get them pulled out. F teeth.

8)Apple. iChat and Games and iPhone apps in June? Don’t you think its been long enough already? Better late then never I guess. Excited!

9)Updates. Ill be doing them more!

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This would have been cool to see, getting heavy on the updates soon. Lots of progress is being made.

xo

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I know this wont matter to some, but its a pretty big deal to us. Today we came up with a logo that were in love with. Enjoy!!!The Effort and Yng Pro are moving… xo 

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Gears of War 2.
Announced Today.
Out In November. 
That Is All.

Anyone that wants to hang during christmas break can come over and play Gears or not see me, your choice. If you do come over, bring me food. Thanks

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To the best of my memory: 

Thursday, Nov 14th:
4:30pm - Arrive in Orlando, Jenna picks me up and we go back to her apartment, have smokes and patio talks.
7:30pm - Head to Waterford to get a cd at Best Buy, eat, and go see Step Up 2 The Streets.
8:30pm - Kim finally arrives and we realize we don’t have enough time for a movie so we decide to just start drinking and eat.
9:50pm - Head back to Jennas so she can change before we go out.
10:50pm - Arrive downtown, run into some friends at BBQ Bar, drink, take a lot of photobooth pics
12:15am - Decide we’re drunk enough to dance and hop in a bike cab to go down to Firestone
12:17am - Kim gets asked by the bike cab driver if she is “comfortable in front of the camera”
12:18am - Head into Firestone for a night of underage girls, alcohol, and HORRIBLE scenester haircuts.
3:15am - Get back to Kims! Sleep it off…

Friday, Nov 15th:
1:30pm - Wake up, shower, try to get me a rental car to drive home the next morning.
3:30pm - Go to pick up the rental car, then i go to Culture Kings while Kim goes to sign out at work.
4:30pm - Go pick up movie tickets to see Step Up 2 and head into Uberbot to spend way too much money on toys.
5:00pm - Head to Moes to grab some FOOOOOOD.
5:40pm - Head to the pottery place to make each other BFF plaques! You wish your BFF was this cool.
7:40pm - Back across the street to see Step Up 2, with apparently every middle school student in Orlando.
9:40pm - Head BACK across the street to Wazzabi for sushi with Cara and Joel, two of the most awkward people ever!
11:20pm - Come up with a brilliant driving plan which results in all four of us driving drunk, and head to BBQ Bar.
2:20am - Leave BBQ and grab Pizza
3:20am - SLEEP!

Saturday, Nov 16:
11:15am - Wake up, shower, start packing up all my shit.
12:30pm - Go to Full Sail, grab my shit outta Kims car, and hop on the road down to Boca.
3:30pm - Get to Budget in Boca, drop off my car, Vanessa picks me up, back to her place to hang for a bit.
6:00pm - Get home, shower, head to my cousins place for her birthday dinner with the fam.
10:30pm - Finally get outta there, head to some bar to start drinking!
12:30am - Get hungry, off to Brus Room to eat
1:15am - Vanessa and Katlyn show up, we eat and drink.
2:15am - Head back to Vanessas with Katlyn and Pierre (the cutest dog EVEREVEREVER), watch movies and pass out.

Sunday, Nov 17th:
1:15pm - Wake up, watch Vanessa dance to Brittany Spears and Ashlee Simpson while looking for clothes… Why is she so awake??
2:00pm - I go home, shower and get dressed, vanessa goes to eat with friends.
3:20pm - Head to Big Brain 2 to hang out with Ted while he works on some people.
4:50pm - Vanessa shows up, we leave Ted’s shop and head back to Mizner to grab food.
7:20pm - Go to get Sushi with Katlyn and her friend, then head back to Vanessas to hang out.
10:20pm - Go to see Jumper at Muvico, dont make it through the hole thing…
12:30am - Drive Katlyn and her friend home.
1:00am - Head to Coral Springs to hang hang out wit D and Muffy.
2:30am - Go to the Beach with D and hang out in the best weather ever!!
4:30am - Head home!
5:10am - Sleep…

Monday, Nov 18th:
8:30am - Dad wakes me up, pack up, get dressed.
9:30am - Head to the Airport:
11:12am - Fly to ATL
2:20pm - Still sitting in the airport, flight delayed until 5:15pm
4:52pm - RIGHT NOW.. Im writing this, about to bored.

Thank you everyone for an AMAZING WEEKEND, much needed and much appriciated. Miss you! Cant wait to come back!
xoxoxo
Picture updates when i get them all!

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We spent the weekend in our apartment. Pulled out and dusted off the 002 and crates of cables and microphones. Took a little while to get everything set up, updated, get all our plug ins loaded up, get everything wired… but man oh man, finally recording. I havn’t done any form of recording since graduating school, it feels good.

Started off tracking guitar for the song “Royal Oak” for my project “Terror Is A Man”, the only song I have thats completed. Threw my first run of vox on it as well as some pretty amazing harmonies (if I do say so myself). Then a shaker track, which Andrew made out of a vitamin water bottle and some rice. Started to clean some stuff up and mix some things around when Nuwan started adding some bells and piano parts over some empty spots I had in my songs and just completely blew my mind. Once the bass track is on here with some tambourine and maybe violin, its gonna kill.

Now at about 7am, started tracking scratch tracks for Andrew’s first song for “The Careful Hands Of Surgeons” called “Head Underwater”. Did a run to guitar center to grab some percussion stuff and then back to tracking today! AMAZING. Came up with come game plans for samplers and label release dates and some jazz like that and even though we will be out of town this weekend, next weekend were back to tracking and label meetings. Its coming… sooner then we thought!!

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Dear Rachel,

Hi, my names Dan. I know you dont know me but I have been a big fan of your work since your early days on the O.C. …Ok that’s a lie, I just think your absolutly fucking gorgeous. I’ve never even seen the O.C. but I should probably check it out. Theres just something about you, your so cute and sweet and affectionate looking, if that makes sense. You look on the outside the way I want the girl that I marry to be on the inside… and the outside. Ok I’m not very eloquent and your probably creeped out. It sounded better in my head.
Cant wait to see Jumper.

xo
Dan

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Finally got a chance to take some video of some songs that are coming with Terror Is A Man. Keep in mind Im putting a lot of production and way more instrumernts and vocals when these songs are actually recorded so these are very basic versions. Let me know what you think!

“Royal Oak”
 

Theres something stopping me girl, ya something in my lungs
that makes me pull away at any thought of touching you
and im sure that once ive met you you will be a written regret
of a night we spent

ive known you this long and never said a word
now everything im thinking here is all just over heard
now im working for hte weekend, the weekend, the weekend
and all of this has really gone too far

dont do it baby, don talk like that dont mess me up
ive got a good thing going and i wont give it up for you
but maybe if you ask nice, ill think twice and we could lay
together talking about me and you

everyday that goes by is for you

Theres something stopping me girl, ya something in my lungs
that makes me pull away at any thought of touching you
and im sure that once ive met you you will be a written regret
of a night we spent

Ever since iv fallen i cant recall a time ive ever
been this over anxious over girls
so keep that thought in mind for every time we yell and fight
and know that your not just another girl

everyday that goes by is for you

“It’s Been Swell But the Swellings Gone Down”
*TEASER* Just the first verse and chorus.
 

You must be full cause ive been feeding you lines for weeks now
like your all ive ever wanted and your all ill ever need
but you dont see how ive been playing you like a fiddle, sitting first chair
Ive got a look like a fishing bait hook and ive stollen your breath

but dont call me a crook cause thats not fair
so say what you want but your a sitting duck
in a room full of kids that are trying there luck
so dont be so surprised when your so down to fuck
your not that innocent

Its been swell but the swellings gone down
ill blow you a kiss when i see you around
pretend you dont want it, fight it
cause thats the way that you like it, im going to hell

-eyes out chin up 

So I know I really shouldn’t have done this… but it’s done. I know this will probably fuck me up beyond all repair, back down the rabbit hole, back to asking too many answerless questions, but once again… it’s done. I bought a book about 2012.

I don’t know how many people have heard me talk about this… I try to keep it to myself these days cause I think it gives people the idea that I might be insane, and rightfully so, but fuck it, this is my blog, and I want to vent about it. For those of you that don’t know, 2012 is the predicted last year of human existence, to sum it up. This is not a new theory by any means, and just because you haven’t heard about it doesn’t mean its not true… it doesn’t mean it is either. The reason its been coming up everywhere recently is because its getting close… really fucking close. If you want to know what im talking about, google 2012 and start reading, but its pretty fucked up stuff… don’t say I didn’t warn you. The book that I am specifically reading is called Apocalypse 2012 by Lawrence E Joseph. He’s not some looney that its trying to warn everyone that the world is gonna end, and to tell you the truth he seems somewhat skeptical himself, but what he does say, based on 15 months of research in multiple fields is that were headed for something HUGE… and it wont be pretty.

I first came across this when i was a fucking mess of a kid, circa age 12-16. If you were close to me at that point in my life, you know what i’m talking about. If your a family member you DEFINITELY do (sorry i was a fucktard). At this point in my life I was trying to figure everything out… and I do mean everything. I wanted answers to why things were, and why people did certain things, and why I was the way I was, and… on top of all that, why I wondered about everything so much. I think for most people this change comes when there a bit older… when there starting to get out of school and realizes the need to do something with there life, and the pressure of the future starts to bear down on them, that part was easy for me for some reason. In my crazy philosophical stage I came across a few things that really fucked me up… one of which being 2012. Somewhat because I was scared, but mostly because it led to me asking MORE fucking questions. At around this point I started to become convinced by everyone around me that I had some kind of chemical imbalance that needed to be treated with medications, I believe this to this day that that was not the case. Once the pills started, my being was completely dictated by the side effects of these pills, some made me happy, some pissed me off more, some made me confident, others made me consider what life would be like without it. After a few years of many therapist, and medications, against doctors orders, I decided to just stop. I decided I was strong enough to control my head because I knew I wasn’t insane and I knew what the problem was. I had to give up and give in to certain questions I knew I would never have answers to, 2012 being a big part of that.

I’ve been good so far, very good, but I know this conclusion is one of the reasons I’ve keep myself so busy. Its the reason I was always in a band or in a relationship or starting something new like a clothing company or a record label, so I wouldn’t have time to think. Now don’t get me wrong, I know to some people I was a lazy bag of shit, who slacked like crazy in school and talked shit about doing sports or anything active. But I occupied my time with movies, which is one reason Im soo ridiculously into them and the reason for my over costly dvd collection. In doing this you start to come across some topics you know are going to fuck you up… some topics asking the same questions I used to wonder, examples being Pi, I Heart Huckabees, What the Bleep Do We KNow?, shit like that. I guess because I was a little bit older and years past my “breakdown” I stuck to my guns and was able to think about these things again in a limited capacity. At this point I know i’m smart enough to realize ill never have those answers so there easier to give up on. But 2012, fuck!

It all came rushing back into my life during a casual conversation at work. We were sitting in the conf room during an office birthday when one of the agents, one who is really into philosophy, and psychedelic drugs, made a comment about time travel. It started to become a more serious conversation, including mathematical and scientific theories and why time travel could never be possible, and went straight through to drugs and the end of existence. As the room slowly emptied, people either not believing, or not wanting to hear slowly made a comment about work they had to do and headed back to there desk, about 10 minutes later it was just the two of us. He had answers to questions i’ve thought about and that no one else ever seemed to consider. We talked about how many of the things that we had came from people doing drugs and creating crazy things they came up with when they were fucked up and how we wouldn’t have them had they just ignored them like we do today. Ever been retarded high and said something like, “Dude, how fucking dope would it be if we had a —— that you could ——— with and ———–”, and just dismissed them cause we knew we were just fucked up, or we got hungry and walked away. We talked about how being “high” came from the belief that when you did drugs you were literally above the world so you could see further into the past and future. Lost me? Here’s an example… think about standing on a street, a loooooong empty street. You can only see so far in front of you and behind you. Now think about being in that same spot, but on a lift, and as it lifted you higher and higher, you can see further in front of you and further behind you. When they had to make big life altering decisions, they would sit around and smoke a peace pipe in hopes of getting a better view of the world around them.

Then 2012 came into serious conversation and I braced myself, waiting for the point when I knew I should get up and walk out, and it didn’t take long. I asked him how it never fucked him up, and how he knew all this stuff. He recommended some books, let me borrow one and told me if I ever want to talk to come by.
I haven’t.

I’m giving it a shot now, a serious shot. Maybe it will help, maybe not but I want to think again. Hopefully it wont throw me back down the rabbitt hole, but I think I have it under control this time. I hated when people said things like live everyday like its your last, don’t think so far in the future, cause if we did that, we would all be selfish, unemployed theives, taking whatever we wanted to keep us happy for the moment, wether it be property, drugs, money, or women. So Im gonna use this, in my own way, as a reminder. Talk to that girl, move to that place you’ve always wanted to live, learn to do something new, start that company…
Or as its said in the book: “Pass the bong. Build a spaceship. Move underground. Have lots of sex. Commit suicide. See the world. Go about your business. Stop taking your medication. Start taking someone else’s. Write that novel. Euthanize your family. Hit Vegas. Praise Allah. Take revenge. Take a crash course in astral projection. Be sure to get a good seat for the ultimate fireworks display.”

I hope this doesn’t ruin your life, and if it does… sorry? I’m sure most people will never think about this again. But i’ve always enjoyed those long, deep, conversations with my friends and family, whether we were high or not. It made me realize im not crazy for thinking about the things i do, just that im crazy for talking about them in public. Hopefully if anything, you’ll keep this in the back of your mind and let “2012″ be a reminder to stop putting things off and talking, and just fucking do them… cause you never know.

-eyes out chin up

I’ll Take’m!!

Pretty amazing weekend.
Last night I got over to Royal Oak, Tiffany actually showed up, crazy I know. Met this girl Lisa, who knows a shit ton of my friends down south and bunch of people up here, she’s dope I guess… Had a pretty amazing time, got a perfect drunk going and Andrew and I were having a blast waiting for the train. He decided to start pissing in the corner and soon enough I look down the track and see a dude in an MTA jumpsuit heading our way. I made some subtle noises to him so he knew something was up, he caped off just in time for the MTA to come around the corner and catch him spinning around. He threatened to call the cops unless Andrew gave him $150 bucks, but got a good laugh once we realized he was fucking around. He was smoking, on the platform, so I took that as my cue to do the same. Fun!

Got up and hung for a bit today before heading to see Teeth at 5, my advice to you… go see it! We also got a flyer to go see the new Morgan Spurlock movie, “Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden”, which ive been dying to see since i heard about it, crazy. Afterward Andrew and I decided to see how much money we could spend in soho… I won.

No idea if im heading out tonight or not, gonna be tracking some stuff for …Since The Accident and Terror Is A Man tomorrow and updating the website. I really want to go get another movie in before this weekends up, and I need new handlebars for my bike… hmmmmmmmm.

-eyes out chin up

Amazing…
Andrew just sent me THIS, see how many you can get.

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So I’m sitting on a bus right now with everyone from The Agency Group. We have a “company retreat” to some place is NY for a guest speaker from Universal records and then were all going go karting followed by an open bar at 4pm, god I love our industry!

Havn’t really updated in a week so this seemed like the perfect time to do that… Had a pretty crazy weekend, my bff Kim came up cause she’s thinking about moving up here. She wanted Andrew and I to show her a good time which basically consisted of us drinking everynight until about 4am. It was pretty amazing! We met some interesting characters like Juda (pictured below), who talked to us about hippie porn websites while he rolled us a joint and tried to get us to come see his reggea band play at Lava Gina on wednesday nights. This weekend also included things like us getting a cat (Dexter, pictured below), playing “ive never” around a campfire, and eating pizza at alligator lounge while trying to figure out what kind of dogs we would be if we weren’t lucky enough to be born human (guess what i am, pictured below).

Ive been talking to Dan all this week too, he’s been busting his ass for us building the website which should be up at the end of the week (http://www.theeffortmusicco.com).

Finally pulled my guitar put last night and gave writhing another shot. Since I really suck as a guitar player and can’t write on those damn things ive just been coming up with song and lyrics in my head and figuring them out on guitar. Got about half a song written and it should be tracked and on the Terror Is A Man myspace by the beginning of the week. Also gonna finish up the hip hop beat ive been working on and maybe I can get that up as well.

We had a conference call for the effort last night. Went over a bit more about contracts and tour support and we just may have our first band decided on, and Jesus Christ its gooood stuff! We have a meeting on Sunday to go over everything and track some stuff for …Since the accident so I should know more then.

Yng Pro has been kinda sitting. Just waiting on getting some more designs back so we can figure out the first line. I’ll be collecting everything from the designers and printing everything out so we can get all that figured out this weekend. Even feltraiger is making moves. I had an hour long convo with my brother last night going over some design ideas and a feel for the label as a hole. Its gonna start off pretty small, but really impressive.

Well thats all for now. Keep in mind this was typed very quickly on my iPhone so I’m sure there are errors from predictive typing. I’ll be updating with pictures and editing this once I’m on a real comp. Xoxo

-eyes out chin up

EDIT: Jeez, I didnt steal this from Brian, I got it from tuaw.com… great minds think alike. Deal!

Hypebeast HQ: Ugh sooo jealous, full article here

The Hundreds: New season sneak peak!

kingsandqueens23 (1:55:22 PM): i want to get married

kissmissvanessa (1:59:50 PM): U do?

kingsandqueens23 (1:56:26 PM): i want to find a girl, thats adorable and sexy and sweet and fun and fuuny and cutsy and absolutly adores me and just take care of her and love her for ever.. i just want to find that girl already, so bad

kissmissvanessa (2:00:28 PM): Awwww

kingsandqueens23 (1:56:50 PM): what its true

kingsandqueens23 (1:57:13 PM): the girl that i wake up next to and love even more everyday, and that makes me smile whenever i see her

kissmissvanessa (2:01:58 PM): Cutest ever

kingsandqueens23 (2:00:24 PM): ya well, i just see girls that i think are fucking adorable and i think about waking up and cuddling and kissing in our undies and making out in the shower together and holding hand to get breakfast and her sneaking kisses and going shopping together and playing video games to gether and just fucking being adorable and totally in love like that forever, why doesnt that happen? like no bullshit, we dont flirt with other people or two stupid shit to get attention or start fights or anything, just genuinely care about and love each other forever and ever…

So I had a pretty nice day. Went to work, met up with some friends to eat at Curly’s afterwards, my friend gave me a haircut. I get off the train at my stop (to the best of my memory, it all happend really fast) and I start walking down the block when I hear someone say “Oh Shit!”. I look up and down the block see about 5 kids beating on this one kid. At first I think its just some neighborhood kids messing around, but then I hear the kid in the middle say “I don’t have any money” and realize shits going down. They get a few more punches in and take off down the block and the kid opens the door to our apartment and goes inside. Once I get in I followed the trail of blood on the ground and up the stairs to the kids door. I over hear them talking and run upstairs to drop off all my shit and let Andrew know what just happend. Then I head back down to the kids door and knock. I hear some people talking inside and wait until they open the door. I told them that I saw what happend and if they call the cops and need anything that I’m up in my apt. I start walking up the stairs back to my place and I look out the window and see the same kids running by again. I open the window and stick my head out and see a guy with his arm around a girl and another guy standing there and call out to try to get there attention. At this point the kid that got jumped and his roommates come out to go down and wait for the cops and I let them know I think the woman down the street just got jumped to. We all walk down to talk to them and find out this is the case. They took an iPod of the kid and the woman’s purse, he’s bleeding and beat up pretty good and the woman was thrown on the ground by her hair and punched and hit a few times until they could get the purse out of her hands. Right about then the cops show up, someone tells them which way the kids ran off and they tell us to sit tight, they’ll be right back. At this point a few kids from across the street come out and tell us they’ve seen the kids around and knew exactly who we were talking about. Close to ten minutes later the officer comes back in a van to let us know they found four of them trying to get on the train, one of them took of down the tracks. They wanted anyone who was hurt or saw any-part of the situation to hop in the car to identify the kids. Sure enough, there they were 4 kids, about 15 or 16 years old, two boys, two girls, black and hispanic, up against the wall. Between the three of us in the van we identified all of them and they were cuffed. The cops then told us we had to go down to the precinct to place a report and all the legal stuff. I was there until a bit after two in the morning, and the jumping took place around 11:40 pm not even late. We gave them our reports and some EMTs came to check out the two that were jumped. They said they were just kids and were wanted for some of the same kind of attacks in Staten Island and that the two that were assaulted were lucky, cause it was usually with a baseball bat. We talked a bit more and then went over some more legal stuff, like how we have to appear in court, and told us they’d give us a ride home. We all get into the cop car and he tells us he wants to get us home quick and flicks on the lights… realizing that I haven’t been in a car in a while, and there’s an officer sitting right next to me I should probably put my seat belt on so I reach for it as subtly as possible. The officer looks over at me and starts laughing and making fun of me! I explain that if there’s ever a time to put on my seat belt it’s when I’m sitting right next to a cop and he tells me its probably the only time in my life i don’t have to. We all get a chuckle and get on home.  

FUCK TONIGHT! 
And to those little jits with nothing better to do with their lives, FUCK YOU! Your scum bags, your pieces of shit, your the reason you have to lock your doors at night. I hope you end up in jail for as long as possible and you learn a lesson, and i’m gonna do whatever possible to make sure that happens. I got my eye out for you and im gonna be carrying something from now on, so try that shit. This is where I live, this is my block, I work all day and shouldn’t have to be scared to walk home at night cause some little pieces of shit have too much time on there hands. Get a fucking job, and stay the fuck away. Hope you sleep well in all that cold concrete, keep your butt holes tight.

-Eyes Out Chin Up (for real)

New record “Introducing Foxy Shazam” is out Tuesday. Luckily, i’ve had it long enough to listen to it on repeat for days on end, and let me just tell you… you’ll have to listen to it 3 times through just to wrap your head around the amazingness. Get it, tuesday! This Video should hold you over…

Is this coming out at Macworld 2008 tomorrow? Some say no, I say yes! and hopefully a lot more…
EDIT: Check here to watch the keynote live, step by step!

-eyes out chin up

I can’t sleep… so I thought i’d post this, just incase anyone was wondering (hint hint).

Cinelli Vigorelli Track Frame (50cm)

Sigma 8mm Lens

Orange AD 30 Head

Supreme Mesh Tank Sz. small

In4Mation Mesh Tank Sz. small