Archive for July 2008

Bootsy’s College of Funk

Think of all the money I could have saved if I had just watched this video instead of getting a music degree.
That will be $200,000. Thank you.

Loitering Around Restaurant Week

Kim and I walked around a bit tonight and observed how unbelievably tacky the rich assholes in this supposed cultural-center of Norfolk are. We wouldn’t live anywhere else, but I am getting a little tired of being stared at every time I walk past Amalfi. Shit.. I get stared at when I walk past the [...]

The Chronic

Kim and I went for a walk around MacArthur Mall tonight and she spotted a big ol’ sack of weed on the ground. Actually, she shouted “Is dat sum weed!!!” really loud and when I turned around I kicked it. There was quite a bit in there because it felt like I kicked a fucking [...]

Getting Better Some of The Time

I am taking some time off of work next month for Kim and I to have a “Staycation.” I wish I could afford to visit so many of you, but we just can’t. Bills suck, work sucks, gas sucks.

Once

As with most things in my life that I love, it took me awhile to finally get around to watching Once, the film by John Carney and starring Glen Hansard (of The Frames) and Markéta Irglová. One of the great benefits of living in the Ghent neighborhood of Norfolk is that I am only a [...]

Rex Navarette

I know that I have been with Kim for a long time now, because I can watch this video and legitimately laugh heartily at 99% of the jokes. The basis of most Filipino-American humor hinges on the clash between the two cultures, particularly the languages and the resulting accent. I’d say the majority of jokes [...]

Cut While Shaving

by Charles Bukowski
It’s never quite right, he said, the way people look,
the way the music sounds, the way the words are
written.
It’s never quite right, he said, all the things we are
taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we
die, all the lives we live,
they are never quite right,
they are hardly close to right,
these lives [...]

AJ Jacobs: A Year of Living Biblically

via Shularbrau

Killdozer

So, Arrested Development wasn’t the only thing I slept through back in 2004. How come none of my friends told me about this guy? It’s a shame he did himself in and surprising that he didn’t kill anyone. How come there’s no such thing as a “moderate whacko” ? Why can’t someone build a Killdozing [...]

T.O.P.

It’s reassuring to know that even though I am a little out of shape on the bass, I can throw on a Tower of Power CD and convincingly play along with Rocco Prestia. I need to funkify and de-rustify some chops but I can DO that stuff. To the point that I am prepared to [...]