It’s Just Justin

I Need a Bog Friiedn!

Um, so I totally brain farted the other day and spelled Boy Friend… um, wrong.

San Francisco With Seth

Seth and I had some wonderful sushi and miso soup in the city the other night. I went there to visit him and do some browsing shopping. I am picking up a TON of makeup too, from MAC.

I’m sure you are all huge fans of the Dawn and Drew Show. Dawn has this thing with “Buy American”… mind is featured below. Argh, it drives me crazy!

And Seth’s roommate is a total freakshow. We got to his place the other night to find this note on his door…

Seriously, who has to say something like that? Closet the door when your in the bathroom in a two bedroom, one bath, TINY apartment? I really just want to cut him sometimes, I’m not sure how Seth lives there.

I just wanted to show a picture of the flower on his dresser, I love gerber daisies and this one was just so perfect…

I am officially a huge fan of Jonathan Adler, read their manifesto below.

Going Back

I drew this picture ages ago. I think I am finally outgrowing its meaning, as it was back then.

It is both a sign of tremendous growth and a sign of how much futher I have yet to accomplish.

Because It’s Fun

Haha!

How could you not laugh when your with a guy that does this? haha

Of course, now his hair is jet black… ummmm… hot!  haha

The Light Tower

So, home now. I went to this place in the city called Dwellings Within Reason, really awesome furniture with really awesome prices, awesome as in, way outta my price range. But it gave me some ideas for new lamps and such for my new apartment in Columbia. I designed one today using Google SketchUP.

The Light Tower stands at 5′7″. The front and two sides are clear plexiglass, the top is open with a fine, industrial wire mesh (for heat exhaust). The back panel is plexiglass with foil and gold leafing.  This will help push the light out of the box and create some really cool light textures and colors.

You see here four levels. The top is the glass tower, the next is the light tray. I plan to create this trays to utilize Cold Cathode Flourescent Lights.  Four bulbs (tubes) will be places along this level allowing for red, blue, green and ultraviolet (black) lights.  These bulbs require very little power while emitting a pretty impressive array of light.  They are sound sensitive (though that can be switched off).

Below that is an airspace that has a plexi-magnifying sheet, picked up at Barnes and Nobles or Home Depot.  This layer also houses the standard bulbs and other electric components. I am thinking that Edison bulbs would be the best here, great distribution of light and natural color temperature.

This view shows two arcs reaching from the bottom to the top. This is another sheet of the plexi-maginifying sheets. One this large will be hard to find so I am thinking of another material that will have the same effect. This material splits the light into thousands of different directions to make it appear the light is being equally emitted all around the light tower, instead of directly from the bottom.

The depth in this pictures has been exaggerated, it will probably be only six inches deep, such a shallow depth will require a weighted base. The absolute layer will allow a sand or lead base, keep it bottom heavy.

I am also going to put a thin metal strip up the side of the light, mostly hidden from view, on an external corner, which will connect to the base as a dimmer. Ever touch the dimmers that the longer you touch them the brighter and then dimmer the light gets? Well, that is what this light will feature.

The basic “gist” of the light box is this.

The Edison bulbs will create a light tower that will provide efficient light into the room, low physical temperature and high color temperature.  The CCFL tubes above the Edison bulbs will create a fun light show for music and movies.  Another model I have thought up places these bulbs individually horizonal, as the climb up the back of the box, red at the bottom, middle is green, blue at the top with the UV (black) bulb closest to the top.  This would definitely look cool, and is likely going to be the plan in the finalized edition.

I’m super excited about building this. What do you guys think of it? Should be pretty easy to do and hopefully will start a lineup of lamps and furniture I design and build.

Post (double meaning) Disclaimer

The following, and as such, prior, post is an uncomplete work, unexpectedly and abruptly halted in mid-production.  Consider yourself… futher disclaimed.  Thanks :-)

Where Did I Leave Off, Oh Yes, The Pool

I must warn you, this is a bizzare post…

I have been a terrible blogger… My humblest appologies. A lot has been going on in the past few days, growing emotions, painful conversations, new expectations and powerful revelations.

But first, the pool. Seth and I spent the afternoon… last Saturday, at his aunt’s house and her fabulous new pool. Sharing a sunbathing hour in the hammock, a quick dip into the icy (72 degree) pool and a famous spat in the hot tub, the two of us had a blast, so to speak.

Just the day before, I had my usual trip to the spa in San Francisco. I found the house I am going to buy, it is just to the left…

Nice place, a bit up the street from the Castro, just two blocks away! Fantastic neighbors and a view that is only as stunning as the imagination can develope.

I do plan to live here, within ten years. I am sure these homes cost around one or two million, but I have no doubt that it will be a possibility for me, even if I just rent one for a bit (hehe).

Massage was fantastic. Sadly, my next one, this weekend, will probably be my last. I’m moving. Moving back to Columbia. I was officially requested (in one’s words) back into the University May 7th, sadly they sent the letter to the wrong address. Most upsetting, they gave the word a month later than expected.

I am not going to enjoy leaving my Starbucks, my real home. Until recently, I spent more time in Starbucks than at my own casa. Realizing that my time here is short, I have begun to appreciate my little cottage in the woods a bit more. This place really is stunning. I love it here and cannot wait to return, a learned man. I will require a handsome income to afford life here, but there is little doubt in my mind that I will obtain just that. I have a lot going for me.

Intelligence, endurance, blood, a socialibility described to me as “chameloenesque”, daft good looks (don’t look this word up unless you have a 1913 Webster dictionary or a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary, my prized posession.)

let me interrupt myself to explain, myself. daft comes from the Old English word, gedæfte, to mean soft or gentle and becoming. In the Middle English to be “deft”, meaning apt or skillful, these two words are called “doublets”. Also, in the Scotish venactular, daft or daftly was to mean gay or eccentric. There, I believe now that I have properly explained my usage of the word “daft” in its proper usage. Sadly, daft’s meanings of OE/ME and Scots mixed and as cognates often do, these words reversed their meanings. Gay/Different mixed with Skillful/Apt reflected a person who was “frivolously gay” or “dimwitted”. So sad the declination of words… But, I digress

and a penchant for knowing how to get things done; someday will bring me great successes, beyond what I can capture in my own dreams. My grandmother has these ideas in her head, she believes in me!

Never the less, I must continue with my retellings of the week.

Seth did Linda Ronstadt’s makeup. Yes. That lucky bastard!

I am going to miss my RTD case…

I am also going to miss fabulous Mexican food

The gas prices, yeah, I won’t miss those as much

Or the terrible trouble I got myself into

Everything that happened, well a lot of what happened, in California was necessary to my growth as a person. With Seth I grew leaps and bounds where Geoff left off. I learned more about relationships, trust, love and friendship from Seth as well as following your heart and believing in yourself; than perhaps from any book I have read, any person I have met and any thought I could think. As the weeks have passed, these last few months, Seth and I have really started to remember each other, to appreciate what each has brought the other. Our relationship could quite possibly be the most rewarding relationship of which either had been apart. I will always love Seth and from what he has told me, he will always love me. An unmistakable, unbreakable bond has been set between us and though our time together is nearing its end, I cannot wait to see him again, years later, how his life and mine have both progressed. Maybe we will be roommates when I move back to California.

Continuing with my journalization of this week.

SICK.  My eye did that wonderful thing again, the one where it turns red, swells up and refuses to allow me vision.  Don’t forget the searing pain, the blinding (quite literally) pain.  Went to the doctor, gave me some steroids, after admitting he had no idea what was going on.  Two days later, my eye is perfect and my life is great… oh, except for that nasty sinus infection care of… Luther Burbank and his mother fucking hybrid flowers!

Email to Landon (c/p because I’m lazy)

So I’m so lazy that I have gone to just putting my emails as posts?  Oh my!  In other news I bought like 30 cd’s today, it had been a long time since I’d gone crazy and spent too much money on CD’s.  In related news, I just spent my $400th on music today so they bumped me a 20% discount.  Worthy, I’d say.  Now for the email… (portions at least)
…I had a great day yesterday as well.  i mean, it was shitty with the keys and stuff but once i got out of the massage, all that stress was gone.  greg, my super sexy masseur is amazing.  I linked the word masseur because if you search it on Google, the top four and the number eight results are all aimed at the gay community.  Haha.  Nice.  But yeah, afterwards, I picked Seth up from work, we watch Jeopardy and The Wheel of Fortune, he took a shower while I watched some-sitcom-thats-name-now

Mother Frick’ing Flat Tire

Most of you probably already know the issue of flat tire, not to be mistaken with one of my favorite beers, Fat Tire.

This happened as I was off from Aaron’s place just north of San Francisco after a night of lots of good clean fun.  I really had a wonderful night there and with him; I feel bad that I didn’t have time to write about it.  I recently put down $500 for new tires on my car, sweet tires I might add.  Their cruising speed is 160 mph!  Awesome!  And they are made for snow, rain and high speed hair-pin curves; we know how I love two of those things.

It just sucks that I had to spend all the money on new tires, all this money I had saved up for the changes in my life that soon will be occuring.  Argh.  Guess not.  Still got enough for my weekly massage haha.