Belle & Sebastian at the Commodore Ballroom on March 24 sold out quickly. Crappy.

How to turn a coworker into a makeshift unicorn.

Mr.JPG: how's life in the new office
Jay: this is the most wonderful place in the world
Jay: the only thing its missing are unicorns
Mr.JPG: get an ice cream cone and place that in kelvin's head. then you should find one after
Jay: haha
Jay: it'd have to have ice cream too for it to work
Mr.JPG: sorry. then it will over budget.
Jay: I'll just use tape
Mr.JPG: what is unicorn doing now
Jay: drinking coffee
Jay: they can't go a day without coffee
Jay: even if it's only decaf
Jay: unicorns just like the taste

A new year, a new hobby.

I've decided to collect those plastic grass garnishes that you find in Japanese entrées. My goal is to line my cubicle with them to create the illusion that I'm in a field. I will most likely forget to take the garnishes while dining in Japanese restaurants and only do it when I get takeout to eat at my desk so it will be slow going.

Currently Listening
Apologies to Queen Mary
By Wolf Parade
I'll Believe In Anything

No comments for you!

I've removed all comments on this page because all I'm getting are ads and one person that can see right through me and offer deep, earth shattering observations like:

"Still looking for stupid quirky shit to make up for you being so uninteresting huh?
Good luck with that."

The sad part is, the dude is probably onto something worthy of a thesis or a television news magazine segment on the boring lives behind "quirky" blogs. However, even if I'm using this strictly as a means to compensate for something (much like a fancy car or huge biceps) so what? It's effing fun so thanks for the words of encouragement and lets leave it at that chief.

Materials used to craft the makeshift grappling hook below: model airplane, shoe string, tape

This is evidence that the person that used to dwell in my new cubicle had way too much fun at work.

Now I can roll up paper clips, whales, city blocks, etc. on the flight home.

I just picked up a copy of Katamari Damacy for the PSP in Hong Kong. It even has an english instruction pamphlet. Wooptydoo.

should be one of the better movies at the VIFF.

Tapas in. Poo out.

When in Barcelona, eat tapas here. The place is very tourist friendly, but is by no means a tourist trap. The food is delightful, but it can be muchos expensive due to getting carried away and ordering a few too many.

Six Feet Under 512: Everyone's Waiting

I have two things to say about the Six Feet Under finale:

1) The show ended with a Toyota Prius commercial.

2) After the last of many of fade to whites, it should have read "Six Feet Under 2001-2005".

Space Bag

This is one infomercial product that doesn't suck. It gets sucked. This space saving solution has earned my stamp of approval.

Birds have good aim.

Today, a bird pooped on my arm during my bike ride to school. I regret not capturing this milestone (I have never before been defecated on) with my new camera phone. If I wasn't in such a hurry, the thought would have probably crossed my mind. As it stands, you're just going to have to take my word for it and enjoy the dramatization above.

Me & You & Everyone We Know Soundtrack stream

I still haven't been able to acquire this via my usual __ legal means, but I did find out that a stream of the entire album can be found here.

Poo out.

This t-shirt is amusing because it involves poo.

It's hard to believe that all this stuff will be gone in less than a month.

))<>((

Currently Listening Clap Your Hands Say Yeah By Clap Your Hands Say Yeah The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth

If you've seen Me You Everyone and We Know then you'll know what this means: ))<>((. If you haven't, I'll spare you the perverse details. The trailers certainly don't give you any hints.

McGelato

You know that you're getting a quality education when....

..your teacher walks in saying how she was hoping nobody showed up for class and one of the final things she says before telling everyone to go home early is "fuck you" casually and for no apparent appropriate reason.

Sadly, I suppose this is precisely why I belong here rather than at a school with a more demanding curriculum and tenured professors that have a genuine interest in their job. The only thing better than getting out of class early is having it canceled. Go State!

Cinema Indecision

I'm going to be in Chicago next weekend and plan on seeing a movie. I have to choose between Saving Face and Me You and Everyone We Know. Both sound terrific so its a hard choice. Based on Rotten Tomatoes, Saving Face wins out with 87% vs. Me You's 76%. On Metacritic, Me You... edges out Saving Face with 75% vs 65%. Maybe this calls for a coin flip. Serious life decisions such as this one always do. If the coin landed on tails last week maybe I would have stayed at home instead of going to the ER to get my hives checked out. I could have saved myself $214.

Man-like sculpture birthed unintentionally.

One of my many flaws is that I'm often too lazy to pick out my ear wax. When it does come out, it never results in anything too artistic. While cleaning his ears with tissue, someone noticed that he had created something so completely adorable that he put it up for sale on eBay.