New Color Sheme!

Alright, for the two of you that look at this blog occasionally, you may have noticed I changed some of the colors and fonts to make it more aesthetically pleasing. The inspiration for this was found at Anthony Carillo's recent graduation party, which took place at his grandma's house in Cerritos. Not only was it an architectually sweet 1950's home with little changed, but in the bathroom, there were three hand towels that were blue, orange, and bright candy-colored pink. Sort of like one of those spiral candy things you can get at Disneyland. It looked almost planned to have those three towels on the rack right next to each other because each one complemented the other so well.

I'm not sure what spurred my decision to alter my blog based on that, but Matt Jensen inspired me to write a blog about it.

Holy Shit

Jonny goes pretty crazy on guitar at the end of this one, check it out.

Quote Of The Day

I enjoy insightful quotes from observant people. Here's the one I noticed today:

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

- Thomas Jefferson

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I meant to post this link earlier but it seems I forgot. It's disparaging to read this guy's short plays and to think no interventions were undertaken to help him psychologically, because they're an obvious plea for help. I haven't kept up entirely with the details of the case, but these are a couple of the short plays he turned in for a creative writing class.

Things Koala Bears Would Say

Lists on McSweeney's are hilarious if you haven't checked them out. One of my favorites:

Things Koala Bears Would Say.

BY TIM WEINMANN

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Yay!

Love me!

Climbing trees is fun!

Let's volunteer at a soup kitchen this Christmas.

My tongue is funny!

Eating leaves is fun!

Will you help me think of something nice we can do for Grandma?

Look, a pouch!

Let's prevent a forest fire!

No, you're the cutest ever.

Camus is boring. I find Karl Jaspers's philosophy much more enlightening.

Wheeee!

Let's make cider!

I bet I'll live forever!

Recycled Songs

Here's an awesome comparison of two Nickelback songs. Listen, and you can hear that they released two singles that are nearly identical. Pretty funny.

The Magic Bullet

My roomate Sunny bought this blender and holy crap this is amazing, this is one of those "As seen on TV" products that you'd wonder who would buy it. Apparantly South Korean immigrants are incredibly perceptive at recognizing the value of a quality product, becuase this blows my mind. It's sweet because it gives you all these different sizes for cups, and they even call the normal-sized cups "party cups."

The magic bullet features two blades (flat and cross) that can be used for:

• Pureeing!
• Mixing!
• Mincing!
• Chopping!
• Grinding!
• Crumbling!
• Refining!
  

Just like any other smoothie maker you throw the stuff in and it blends it all up. I just threw some of the stuff that we had in refridgerator in: orange juice, ice cubes, strawberries, and a banana and it was amazing. Eating fruits sucks, but drinking smoothies is awesome. In addition, it came with this sweet recipe book to make "adult party drinks," coffee drinks, baby food, and appetizers, like marinara sauce and salsa and other delicious edibles. Ahh man, once the summer hits its going to be cranking out margaritas and stawberry daquiries like no other. One of the adult party drinks in the book is called "A Bullet To The Head," and it looks pretty staggering. Tomorrow morning, instead of stirring up my scrambled eggs in a bowl like some fool, I'll be bulleting them straight to my heart.

Easter!!!

Happy Easter! I hope everyone that was able got to spend some good time kicking it with family. For me, this was the first year without baskets, an easter egg hunt, and dyeing eggs. So, a bit depressing in that regard, but I still got some sweet $$$ and a hollow chocolate easter bunny. Half-price peeps tomorrow, anyone?

Hayao Miyazaki

I've recently watched three of Hayao Miyazaki's films: Spirited Away, Castle In The Sky, and Princess Mononoke. Every one amazes me at its degree of gradiosity, you can't help but feel engrossed in the entire story. I can see a definite hinderance for some people to not get involved if they're are unable to get passed the jovial nature of the story; however, once you do (it doesn't take much convincing on my part), you get to see and hear dynamic characters and really amazing orchestral arrangments. Really, watching these movies takes you back to being a kid again and remembering why you loved all the classic Disney animations, whereas nowadays it seems those movies are just an hour and a half of cheap laughs drawn amid computer drawn illustrations.