october

10.31.04

after our day at the spam museum, i drove two hours in the reverse direction to drop becky back off at her house. re-routing myself in the return direction eastward, i pulled into madison, wisconsin.

i don't know what is it about me and french directors. i love 'em. if the elections give me the wrong results, i should just learn french and leave the country. jean-pierre jeunet has a new movie coming out in december and it's been a very long engagement.

aquarius records does a funny thing to my wallet. before i know it, the money is quickly replaced by music, like jesus turning water into wine. the new japancakes album is good. it's great, even. it's like soundtrack music for my life right now.

bjork's medulla is more like soundtrack music for when my life has that surreal, tripping sort of feeling. i like to alternate this record with japancakes.

i also got the new david cross. i'm ready to give myself some good laughs, (you can never complain about good laughs.)

new photos are up on flickr.

in case you haven't yet, you should go to vote-smart.org.

if you live in san francisco, the sf bay guardian has a good breakdown of who endorses what.

10.30.04

we, the shimmer kids, have done what we always wanted to do and became astronauts. now we're the society of rockets and our debut album is out! check out our new release at parasol records and support some independently made music!

speaking of helsinki (see my terrible pun from a few days ago), here's a great site which tracks helsinki graffiti. (link via gmtplus9)

10.29.04

a few months ago, our company announced that they were opening offices up in frikkin' singapore, which threw a whole mess of people into a bit of a panic because a lot of the work that we wanted to do is now going to be based in those offices. one of conan o'brien's writers looked at the whole outsourcing issue in a really funny way (warning, this is long, but still very funny)

10.26.04

my sister has been visiting me from out of town and is going home to helsinki tomorrow. you might say that her holiday is finnished. (i'm sorry. i couldn't help it)

10.24.04

these are three of my favorite things: time lapse. road trips. michel gondry's brain.

10.22.04

i'm traumatized. i've lost my favorite pen. i've had this awesome cross pen for years and it felt so beautiful when it wrote and... and... -=sigh=-

i pine for my pen. words will taste different now.

fortunately, jason randomly sent me this link about crayons and spiderman. the lack of air and resulting delerium i am experiencing from all the laughing will help me get over the grief of my pen. (deep down, though, i know that a crayon is not a cross pen.)

10.20.04

i was busting up the other day when my co-worker, jim, said (to a female co-worker who had never seen it) "once you watch caddyshack, you're going to understand men a lot better." after i got over the shock of realizing that someone i know has never seen caddyshack (dear lord), i saw this video and thought that this should also be included in the boy manual.

10.19.04

my super funny friend, jason, is now also super broke, which i believe has the potential to make him even funnier, but i don't want him to die of starvation (being a desperate artist is a fine line). he's broke mainly because he spent every red cent he had making oedipus, and now he's gotta sell his shoes.

10.18.04

like millions of other americans, i have the biggest crush on jon stewart. he's like a comedy superhero to me. here he is, being brilliant on crossfire.

10.17.04

fifteen years ago on this evening, i was sleeping on the soccer field of the uc santa cruz campus with the rest of the student population. everyone was terrified of the aftershocks and getting drunk. we had been evacuated from the dorms but fortunately, since we were on bedrock, all the buildings were still left standing. happy anniversary, loma prieta.

oh, yeah... and happy birthday josh!

thanks to my awesomely good pal jon scott, i was able to see a screening of the incredibles tonight! all's i can say is: i can't wait to see it again! (i hadn't realized that this american life's sarah vowell was one of the voice talents. how cool!)

10.16.04

it's been a week of celebration. i went to oqo's launch party the other night over in their old offices. i was telling jory that it felt like the closing scene of a movie - there was the entire cast of characters from the past five years of my life all in one place. i half expected the closing credits of my life to roll through travis' video projections.

the new york times reviews the oqo.

although i'm super bummed that i missed seeing shaun of the dead with lamont and his crew (they dressed up like zombies, went drinking at zeitgeist and then went to see the movie), i'm glad i finally got to see it the other night. european zombie comedies. you can't go wrong.

the wedding had a self service photo booth. it was like do it yourself prom. the thing i like about these pictures is that it makes me remember some of the most important reasons why i hang out with these people - they're all totally adorable and they completely crack me up. as far as i'm concerned, being able to make me laugh means you're ok in my book.

yes, merin & rusty's wedding was a blast. the afterparty at my house was a bit chaotic, but all is well. i drank too much wine. my head hurts.

my housemate, jim, showed me this super trippy link of the zoom quilt. this also makes my head hurt.

there's a new spanish film coming out about a theremin player! i better start brushing up on my spanish.

steve forwarded me this link that answers the age old question: who's missing from your chewable vitamins?

merin and rusty get wed today! two of my favorite people join forces to become one - like chocolate and peanut butter! (mmm... chocolate and peanut butter.)

my friend cassidy has begun promoting the destroy fund. donate your money to the powers of good and (as cassidy says) put your money where your mouth is.

after hitting mount rushmore, there was a quick visit to becky's house and then we both took off for the spam museum.

angela and i threw a stop motion felt board party for her birthday. this is the chaos we created. ben calls it epichaos.

while we were animating the felt, cassidy took his own timelapse of everybody.

this link has been making the rounds quite a bit lately. the powers of editing dissects the gop convention.

merin had her bachelorette party on saturday and i can tell you i was pretty thoroughly damaged by sunday. i think the other girls could tell that i was daunted by the "get your makeup on and be girly" theme, because they were kind enough to not make me really do any of that. now ~that's~ friendship. congratulations, merin!

meanwhile, jory and vance planned rusty's bachelor party for the same night and neither of those boys would let me crash it. they rented a train car and drove it around!! how totally frikkin' cool is that?!

oedipus will be playing at the mill valley film festival. if you missed it at resfest, buy your tickets now! i swear, it's guaranteed ha ha's. (if you don't live in san francisco, you can see where oedipus is playing in your neighborhood here.)