dissonance

Street Scene 04

Went to Street Scene last night. Utter madness.
Memories:

- While I was waiting in line for the portapottie, the guys in the line next to me started messing with the guy in their portapottie by shoving it, trying to knock it over. When it was my turn to go, my own unit was feeling the motions. I never peed so fast in my life.

- Ludacris concert: I was surprised at his performance, pretty darn good I'd say. Only con was the 2 fights that broke out near us within the first fifteen minutes of the show. One guy had a bleeding forehead. Classy.

- Best overheard conversation between two girls: Girl1 - "My stomach feels sooooooo much better." Girl2 - "Yay! It's da weeeeeeeeeeeeed!"

More pictures in the Memories album.

Mi.. hike??

Yup, I ventured to the great outdoors. Patty, Cindy, John and myself hiked around Torrey Pines tonight. I am not a hiker. I am a walker (heck, I'm about to walk 60 miles in a month), but I am definately not a hiker. Ahh the things I do for friends. Actually, I'm glad I went. There were some really nice views and the breeze from the sea is something I could probably enjoy again. I took over 100 pictures, but I uploaded a few choice ones here.

Here are some of my faves:

We were lucky to see rays peeking through the clouds creating a really pretty effect.

This was at a 'butte' that we hung out at for a few minutes. A lot of the crevices looked like faces to me.

This was in this little trail that was heavily wooded.

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Afterwards, we got some grub at Indian Tandoor. Man, that place is so good. One of the few things I miss about living in Mira Mesa. I got to satisfy my craving for eggplant bhartha.

While we were waiting for our food, John bought some scratchers from the liquor store. My first scratcher won me another ticket. My second scratcher got me $2! Wooooo. I think I should go to Vegas while I'm on a roll. Anyone up for it?!? You know you want to...

Twice in one week

Have you seen Garden State? It hit a nerve with me.

If you haven't seen it yet, you must.

And how cool is it that he has a blog too? And I think it's using Typepad just like me!

Taxonomy of friends

A couple of days ago my morning radio show was talking about how people subconsciously put their friends into different "classes". You know you do it.

Let's break it down shall we?

Class A: These are your homies. You talk to them almost everyday. They know about that time that you did you know what. But they would never blab cause you got just as much dirt on them. And they'll always be on your side. Even if you're being an absolute idiot, they'll help you pick up the pieces. If you are going to have a bbq you plan it with them.

Class B: These are good friends. No shared secrets, but good for a movie or dinner. They get invited to your bbq but you won't change the date for them. Some of them are good candidates for Class A depending on what happens at the bbq.

Class C: You see these guys at other people's bbqs. Conversations run dry after the initial, "Soooo... what have you been up to?" It is rare for them to move from C to A, they would need to be in Class B for a while first.

I think lately I have more Class A friends than Class B friends. Lucky me! But it might be that way just cause I don't have that many friends at all.

It might also be worth mentioning that this is about friends. So just cause someone is Class C doesn't mean you don't like them. I believe there's a whole different classification system for enemies, which may be fun to study in depth one of these days.

I am keeping comments private for this one. The radio conversation got a bit touchy and I want to avoid that here. :)

Take me out to the ballgame

Went to the Padres game on Friday. Big ol' group outing.
The night started with dinner with Patty and John at Sushi Deli on Broadway. It was pretty good. We had about 4 sake bombs so the night was off to a good start.
We got to the park somewhere around the second inning. I think. To be perfectly honest, the rest of my descriptions are pretty hazy at best.
Some pics:

Johnny likes the park very much:

We had a pretty good view of the field:

And the Padres actually won! I don't really remember winning, but I believe the score says 6-1.

We were about to leave to pursue other activities, but Aaron caused a bit of trouble. Luckily for me, *great* photo op!

More pictures in the Memories album.

Anger = Funny?

Went to the Comedy Store in La Jolla last night. It featured a bunch of amateur comedians doing 10-15 minute sets. Let me tell you, amateur comedians are very angry people. And they were angry about everything. Common subjects included: pot(pro), Bush(anti), gays, lesbians, blacks, whites, asians, middle-easterners, and sex. I would tend to call them racist, sexist, or homophobic, except that 1) They made fun of all races, 2) They made fun of both men and women, and 3) half of them were gay.

I think they said a lot of things just for shock value. I still laughed very hard, thank goodness for the two drink minimum and not having any dinner.

I plan to have an insightful piece regarding this thing we had at work today about motivating yourself and finding your passion in life, but I am too lazy to do it right now.

Bling

Are you just dying for a Landcruiser with some spinners, but just can't get quite enough overtime to pay the bills?
Are you environmentally friendly but your Huffy just ain't cuttin it with the ladies?

Your answers here:

Spinners fo da 10 speed

Jamie Foxx thinks they're Foxxalicious.

Garden State (spoilers maybe)

I'm not quite sure what to say besides I love this movie. Zach Braff is very talented (star, director, writer) and Natalie Portman is too cute for words.

The movie just illustrated a lot of the feelings that have been going through me lately. Case in point, if anyone watches it or have watched it recently, do any of my recent entries remind you of the movie (don't click if you haven't seen movie, it may spoil it)? When I saw it on screen I was just floored at how spot on it was. And I wrote that entry before I saw the movie. Amazing.

Anyway, good stuff. Must buy DVD. Must buy soundtrack (although I have 7 of the 13 songs already).

Rules of Friendster

Why do people insist that Friendster is an acceptable form of communication?

I admit, I jumped on the Friendster bandwagon... a year ago. Since then, I have been able to get in touch with long lost friends (even back from middle school) and stay in touch with those "aquaintances" I don't talk to regularly. It's GREAT for that.

But recently it has come to my attention that Friendster is being abused. It is confusing and frustrating people I know and love. Therefore, I propose to introduce the Rules of Friendster.

First, let's establish the forms of communication you may have available to you and someone else.

1) You know their phone number
2) You know their e-mail
3) You know their screen name
4) You know where they live

Acceptable uses of Friendster:

You don't know number 1, 2, 3 OR 4 but you did know them at some point in your life. Great! Use Friendster to get in touch with past friends. Wonderful. But be prepared for a long wait. By now, I don't sit there refreshing my Friendster page anymore and I don't even check on a regular basis so if you want to contact me sometime this MONTH, I still suggest something other than Friendster.

You only know number 4. Then you can use Friendster. Don't just show up at my doorstep. This is not Say Anything and you are definately not John Cusack. And chances are that if you know where someone lives, you probably know 1, 2, or 3 and at the very least, know a mutual friend in real life.

Unacceptable uses of Friendster:

You don't know 1, 2, 3, OR 4, plus you have like 20 degrees of separation between you and that person. True life Friendster message: "Hi. My name is Stranger McWeirdo. Are you Korean? I am Korean. I just moved here. You look nice. Maybe you can show me around San Diego and teach me English?" (my own emphasis) This is creepy. This is not going to work in real life. Why the hell does he think sending it via the interweb will all of a sudden make me want him? No, you are still Stranger McWeirdo, mmmkay?

You know 1, 2, or 3 (or any combination of two of these). Contact them through one of these! Even IMing is better than Friendster.

You know 1, 2, 3 AND 4. If you know all four things, please for the sake of all things decent about human relationships, contact them in some other way than Friendster. Yes, in this day and age, even IMing is better.

And now, the reason why I started this post:

If you know 1, 2, 3 AND 4 PLUS you just talked to them like a week ago and yet you insist on using Friendster to communicate weird mixed messages, you are hereby dubbed a Freak of Nature and I will cease to acknowledge you as a respectable person. I only hear about guys (yes, more than one guy) doing this, so if it's a guy thing... grow some balls already! If you are a girl doing this, ask a friend of yours to bitchslap you. I am used to mixed messages via phone, email, and even IM. But if you proceed to also use Friendster to fuck with my head, consider yourself Friendster unfriendly and you will not be getting Some.

End rant.

PS - I am already bracing myself for a million Friendster messages now. Haha, yes, very funny.

Groovy

Dammit, Apple. Why do you make it so easy to fulfill my desires?

Oh and thanks to Alana for this one:

So I guess the first three are considered chill-out music. Muse is rockish. If anything appeals to you, let me know. I am looking for Hooverphonic's "A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular" (iTunes only has partial album and it's ridiculously expensive). I am also looking for Oasis' "What's the Story Morning Glory" (unbelievable that iTunes does not have this one)

Now to go listen to my purchases and try to look über cool like that girl on the Frou Frou album.