Month: November 2005
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Trying To Find A Vein
“Adrenaline is my drug of choice. The kick-drum is my dealer.” Karl Hyde
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The Street Finds Its Own Use For Things
Some of y’all might find this vacant billboard it to be a bit of an eyesore, but I rather enjoy how it’s been appropriated by the street art set.
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Expired Film
FYI: The 99 Cents Only Store is a wonderful place to pick up recently expired 35MM film. In fact, I just picked up 5 rolls of Fuji Superia [24 exposure, ISO 100] that had a “process before” date of September 2005 for 99 cents each. So while I do know that expired stock can give…
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Upgrades
How mediocre a week are you having if the best part of it is that you’re thrilled that you woke up on Thanksgiving morning to find your phone has new firmare waiting to be installed on it?
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The Great Escape
“Can you keep a secret? I’m trying to organize a prison break. We have to first get out of this bar, then the hotel, then the city, and then the country. Are you in or you out?” Bob Harris, “Lost In Translation”
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B Movie
“John Foster Dulles ain’t nothing but the name of an airport now.” Gil Scott-Heron
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I’ve Got Shows In Different Area Codes…
Does anyone want to go with me to see Jello Biafra and The Melvins at The Henry Fonda Theatre on the 16th or Henry Rollins at The Coach House on the 23rd? On their last tour, Jello and The Melvins peppered Dead Kennedys covers in with their original tunes. Hopefully this time around will be…
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Apple Store, Brea Mall
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Exit
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King Kukulele
Wow, that’s a blast from the past… Screenhead just pointed to a commercial for satellite radio featuring the locally infamous King Kukulele. The King was a staple at The Hub in Fullerton before they closed it down for renovations a little more than a year ago. I remember spending countless nights watching him demolish the…
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Bit Rot – 11.10.05
+ Garrett went and got uppity about the web design buzzword du jour, realign. Seriously dude, right the fuck on. + Wikipedia’s List of British English words not used in American English ought to come in handy eventually.
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Jaffa Cakes
Brian: That’s chaos theory. The belief that the future is in fact a mathematically predictable preordained system. Daisy: So somewhere out there in the vastness of the unknown there’s an… equation for predicting the future? Brian: An equation so complex as to utterly defy possibility of comprehension by even the most brilliant human mind, but…
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Commiseration
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Always Coming Back Home To You
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The Fuckest Uppest
Apple just made my week by announcing that they’re opening their store in the Brea Mall this Saturday. Seeing as how I’m planning on attending the This Week In Tech taping at the Portable Media Expo later in the afternoon, it looks like I’m going to have a busy weekend. Anyone want to come line…
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Guilty Pleasures
Friends might laugh or recoil in abject horror when you drunkenly admit that one of your guilty pleasures is Gilmore Girls – but the ones really worth keeping around dismiss your confession with, “Well, at least you’re not addicted to EastEnders…” P.S. I know my geek cred totally went out the window by confessing this,…
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While The City Sleeps
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Foosball
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How’s That For A Slice Of Fried Gold?
Oh. Fuck. Yes. Underworld is apparently going to have new tracks available in their online shop sometime this week! This is quite possibly the best Monday I’ve had in at least a couple months. I just hope whatever it is they’re selling is downloadable. Honestly, I don’t think that I can wait to get something…
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Bittorrent Your iPod
So Podtropolis seems pretty neat. I mean, a torrent tracker for iPod ready audio and video content makes a whole bunch of sense to me. Wonder how long it’ll stay up though… Maybe I’m just jaded, but this sort of thing seems destined to get cease and desisted in short order. *shrug* Time will tell,…