07 4 / 2010
And I was drinking you goodbye, a heart floats in the bay
From sour home Chicago Long beach, I hear it beating far away
Theres no telling what I’ll do, if I don’t return to you….
It’s been 8 days, 16 hrs, and 20 minutes since I’ve left and I’m dying to go back.
I didn’t get to spend enough time with my brother, I didn’t get to eat oysters from Hog Island, I didn’t try a burger from Hubert Keller, I didn’t make it to Bouchon in Napa, I didn’t get to see Brian or Tina in Oakland, and I didn’t spend enough time with certain people up there.
I did get the meat cone at the ferry building, I did have sam’s sundae at bi-rite, I did have prosciutto ice cream from humphry slocombe, I did witness drag queens arm wrestling, I did hang out w/ my bff, I did hang out w/ old HS homies that I miss dearly, I did reconnect with people from my past, I did discover the wonders of grindr, I did play bingo at the knockout, I did get to hear awesome dating stories from Leonard, I did see my little brother for a few hours and receive a mini tour of his school, I did hit up citrus club (my fave spot in the city), I did sail in the bay while drinking wine and laughing with kent on a beautiful day, I did get to celebrate Collin’s bday with a pitcher of sangrias and tapas at cha cha cha.
I laughed a lot, I drank a lot, I ate a lot… I miss it a lot.
30 9 / 2009
Scored $free.99 passes to Septemberfest 2 weeks ago. I guess spending hours reading food blogs really does pay off cause this shit was the BOMB dot com. It was held at paramount studios and only lasted for 3 hours but that was plenty of time. There were 200 beers featured and I probably only got through maybe 10 different ones. But it was a lot of fun and everyone was really friendly and nice. Not to sound like a hippie but it was good vibes all around. Maybe it was because of the sweet jams being pumped out from the Dave Matthews cover band.
30 9 / 2009
Border Grill Taco truck was at the Septemberfest. sooo good! In order from front: chicken taco, asada taco, and avocado taco. Avocado was by far my favorite, look at that rich creamy goodness. man i’m craving another.
13 9 / 2009
What a disappointment. Jigga coming out of retirement to produce this shit? Ugh. worst song on the album. Although Mike loves singing the background in the chorus just to annoy me. 90% of its crap. Theres 1 song besides the single that is decent, the one with Alicia Keys which reminds me of old jayz. Run this town dropped and holy shit so good. Talking about Margiela, black cars, black cards, all black everything. And lines like “shes got an ass that can swallow a G-string” I was thinking this motherfucker IS running this town. Maybe I need to give it another listen.
Kid Cudi on the other hand dropped with the weakest single on his album “Day n Nite” ugh that song turned me off to the guy completely. I hated it that much. Then I heard his remix of lady gaga which I jammed to on the daily. Prefix mag put up a song with ratatat and mgmt which I think brilliantly displays everybody’s style. sold. downloaded the album and its becoming one of my favorite albums this year. Peep it!
02 9 / 2009
Spoiler alert! Don’t read if you are planning on watching Wendy and Lucy.
I’ve proclaimed my love for Will Oldham on here before. I mean the man covers R. kelly, Mariah Carey, and is homies with Zach Galifianakis. Plus his own music is pretty amazing. I know he has dabbled in acting before, mostly indie low budget films which are very hard to find. So I was pretty excited to hear he was going to be in a movie with Michelle Williams, which meant big name & big distribution.
Finally got around to watching it and what a frickin letdown. His part is all of maybe 2 minutes and I wasted 80 minutes of my life watching this bitch search for her dog. Calling the move slow, underwhelming, or stupid is an understatement. Ranks up there in the worst movies of all time. Even Gigli had more going on in it than this piece of shit. I suppose if I really analyze it I might find some deep philosophical symbolism or some shit in there about despair and love. No, its about fucking losing a dumb dog.
There needs to be a movie made about dogs being lost in the stomach’s of the Vietnamese.
18 8 / 2009
Peanut Butter Ice Cream
from The Perfect Scoop David Lebovitz
3/4 cup smooth peanut butter
3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
2 3/4 cup half and half
pinch of salt
1/8 ts vanilla extract
* Puree everything together until smooth
* chill mixture thoroughly in refrigerator (I sometimes forget this step but its really important otherwise you get soup. I recommend 8 hrs or overnight)
* freeze according to manufacturer’s instructions.
* Add in’s (I used Reece’s Peanut butter cups) are thrown in towards the last 5 minutes.
05 7 / 2009
4th of July on Catalina Island
Highlights:
* Snorkeling near the casino
* A Pan crusted lemon caper fish dinner that was freshly speared that day from the boys
* Sipping on descano destroyers under the sun while playing domino’s
* watching fireworks off a balcony overlooking avalon
* 12 yr old cheerleaders dancing to a perfectly choreographed “Thriller”
* 60+ yr old’s square dancing to a midi file of “Billie Jean”
* hijacking a floaty on descano
* BBQing garlic burgers, pork shoulder, and corn off the balcony. Followed by chocolate chip cookies contributed by the bf, prepared by nestle.
* feeding the fish off of lover’s cove
all in all a pretty bitchin’ weekend. more pics to come.
01 6 / 2009
Caught Lykke Li @ Masonic Lodge which is on the grounds of Hollywood Forever cemetery. Hands down one of my favorite venues in Los Angeles. She opened with a new song that was so beautiful, dark, and haunting. Some of her songs worked really well with the low lighting/eerie ambiance but for the most part it was hard to get into since there were chairs set up! I mean bitch has songs titled “dance, dance, dance” which was hard to do in that venue. There was a gay guy to my left that announced he was “going to cry” when lykke li came on stage. They were going ape shit, which I thought was cute at first but after getting whipped in the face by curly hair from his token fag hag numerous times .. the cute factor wore off.
* stole this pic from sleepydoll @ Flickr since I forgot my camera
17 5 / 2009
Saw Mogwai last night @ the Orpheum. AUh-Mazing! I caught a live show many moons ago in San Diego and was blown away then and completely blown away again. This time around they had a fancy light setup programmed to the music. It was completely blinding but pretty fucking cool from our view in the balcony. I was hoping they’d play “the sun smells too loud” it’s my favorite jam off the new album. Seeing the title makes me giggle every time. We hit up little tokyo for daifuku’s beforehand and made a stop back for daikokuya on the way home. Couldn’t have orchestrated a more perfect evening.
Mental note: bring earplugs next time.
