Last night I went out to Eastside Tavern to watch my friend Chase’s band, Scouts, battle out against three other bands for a chance to get to the finals.
Well they won. Awesome. Congratulations Scouts!
Tags: Chase, Concert, Just My Music, Photography, The ScoutsIt has only been like 30 hours since I left Columbia and I can’t believe it but I’m homesick!
I went on Back to My Mac, which by the way, always works for me and checked in on my apartment using Photo Booth.
I use the PrePane hack, Secrets, to do some extra fun things with MobileMe’s Back to My Mac, you should all get it, btw.
Here’s the picture I got from Photo Booth.
I really need to take hots of the apartment with the new furniture, sorry I didn’t do that before I left.
Anyways, looking at a live shot of my apartment made me all sad that I wasn’t there. I want to see my fish, I want to enjoy my 55″ HDTV and I want to gaze into my 24″ iMac and ponder over government homework or what I should blog about next.
Never did I ever think I would miss Columbia, and maybe I don’t, I just miss my apartment. I love my apartment. It is big, it is clean, it is decorated, it is well equipped from the kitchen to the entertainment. It has 8 bottles of tasty wine waiting for me. I just spent $180 buying groceries that are waiting to be eaten.
The floors I just waxed and the new couch and chairs need to be worn in. I have only slept one night on my new bed!
But all of it is nothing when I keep it to myself. Happiness is nothing if not shared and with Ryan out of town, I can’t really share so much of it; but he returns Monday and I return Friday.
Well, I guess Micheal will keep the fish company, I miss him too. And Jeremy, and Max, and Brittany. And Kaldi’s and Starbucks.
I will have to find a way to keep myself occupied here. With my closest friend in Houston now in Seoul Korea, I can’t see him when I visit and I miss him so. We were best friends through high school helping each other out in so many different ways and through all the moves and the distance and the changes in our lives, we are every bit as close as ever.
Except that he’s in Seoul Korea and I’m in Houston, alone.
Wow, I need to get my head straight! I’m in Houston, I love this city.
Downtown Houston Skyline
Let’s go out in the world, maybe buy something for my camera, maybe eat something totally delicious. Stop personifying my apartment, no matter how much I love you.
Now if Chase could maybe make another trip down here from Columbia, I’d have a buddy with whom I’d waste time and money and enjoy every second of it.
We have all at one point been obsessed with a reality show, whether it was Real World (back when it was awesome), Survivor or Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire.
Back in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s I really loved watching MTV for two reasons. First, Undressed which pretty much was my first porn though officially it was a…
sexy, late night soap opera Undressed, which gave viewers a peek behind closed doors at the intricacies of modern relationships. Each episode featured three different fictional stories and followed various characters to see what happened during their most intimate moments. No subject was too taboo.
No kidding. They did everything and back then that was a big deal. They took mixed race relationships, gay, lesbian, step siblings… in school, in the dorms, in the bedroom, in the car… they had sex everywhere and it was HOT. I really can’t beleive it was on basic cable. But boy howdy did I love it.
Now we have Gossip Girl, the new MTV Undressed but this time with lots of high style and much better dialog (well, it’s all relative). While Undressed was made to appear like a reality show/soap opera, Gossip Girl is clearly a drama, but it’s got all the sex.
In fact, they are sexing themselves up, actually advertising the fact that many family groups are greatly opposed to their show.
I have to admit, I’m a huge fan of Gossip Girl, it’s so scandalous and sexy, how could you possibly say no?
The other night I was hanging with Ryan at his base watching television and eating some dinner I made for him at home. We turned on the television to see what was on.
Disturbing things were seen. First up, and most disturbing, The Baby Borrowers.
Yes… a show where people borrow other people’s babies and kids. It is called a social experiment. So was Dr. Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment and I’m sure we all know how that ended… What the hell is wrong with us? Borrowing babies? I mean, come one, this isn’t an opium den in China! Not yet at least.
Even more disturbing, on at the same time on another network, Super Nanny. On this episode, there was a family of five; the oldest daughter was a goth punk girl who swore and screamed evil at her father, the middle child was wheelchair bound and greatly ignored by her father and the youngest was one hell of a bratty little bitch girl who beat the shit out the mom both physically and emotionally. It was one hot mess and of course, put on television for all to see.
Why do people do that kind of shit? Show off how they have been terrible parents, the most important job a parent can have. That’s like having a show called, “Watch Me Suck at Everything I Do”… oh wait, that’ why we have VH1’s Celebreality.
We still have Jerry Springer too. Last night I hung out with Jeremy, we watched Resident Evil (which I give a C-) followed by whatever was on TV at 1:00am. Hillybilly fighting was on… Well at least you can say he’s consistent. WTF is wrong with these people?
And while I might be confused, upset, disturbed or down right pissed off at the quality of television these days, there are a few gems. Damages is incredible, Saving Grace is rich with raw sex and emotion, Mad Men is terribly entertaining and shows like Burn Notice and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia make the summer television season quite bearable.
Oh yeah, and then we have the hilarity that is true reality television. It is hard to find these diamonds in the rough where someone isn’t putting on an act, when they really are who you see on the screen. Here’s a great example. Don’t worry, it’s ok to laugh, she signed some sort of “I’m a fucking weirdo, jackass, dumbshit or otherwise” agreement.
Ahhhh, crazy Asian girls and their love for COOOOOOKIEEEEEEESSSS!
This post dedicated to my good friend, Jonathan. One of the best guides to today’s entertainment.
Another post dedicated to my fellow super-nerd, Chase. This has got to be like the funniest videos I have seen in a while, especially one of the funniest nerd videos. Reminds me of the BBC’s IT Crowd.
Check out their site for more fun. The Website is Down.com
Did you like my drawing of the nerd? :-)
Last night, after enjoying a meatless bar-b-que with Geoffrey I went off to The Blue Note to see Chase’s band, Scouts, play.
I hung around for the first band to play, headed by a feisty lesbian (broad assumption), they rocked pretty hard. Not my particular style, but I did enjoy their sound. I had not been to The Blue Note in a while so that was fun in itself. Not many people were around for the first band, but as they left the stage and Scouts went on to setup, people starting coming in through the woodwork.
I watched them set up their stuff. Glad I didn’t have to do it.
They were awesome, of course. Just for who cares, my friend Chase is the guy directly above this picture. It’s pretty cool, like three of the guys in the band all play percussion, keyboard and guitar. Something like that. I thought that was pretty awesome, but maybe that’s cause i don’t play any of those things…
I went upstairs to waste some time while their broke down their stuff and saw a sign for the women’s restroom and it totally reminded me of how Chase says “ladies”. So… I took a picture of it. Of course I did.
The concert was great, I look forward to hearing them play again, hopefully a longer set. I’m also hoping to do some photography for them, just like some studio type work, but we’d need to find a cool set/place and I’d probably need to get some new strobes (read, an SB-800 or two) to do it properly. Course, for that money, I could get an AlienBees strobe light setup which would kick 20 SB-800’s collective asses!
Tags: Chase, Concert, Fun, Geoffrey, Just My Music, Money, Photography, The Blue Note, The Scouts
Only I’m not single and the only hot singles with whom I chatting is my friend Chase so, once again, the New York Post gets it all wrong. It’s just another round of targeted marketing going amuck.
I am here in Birmingham Alabama to do a photoshoot with the Taste of the South Magazine and the National Sweet Potato Commission. Right now I am sitting at a two story Starbucks in their old downtown.
As the plane made its rough, really rough, landing, and as I looked out of the window to what would surely be the city I would die in (I swear we all thought the plane was going down) and took a look at my final destination, I had a revelation.
I love Birmingham. Right now, after spending a few hours in the old downtown and just really falling in love with the old downtown, I am just certain that I need to live here. I even picked out an apartment for Ryan and I with it’s own Bar/Restaurant on the ground floor. How sexy is that? I have even planned out our lives here. Oh my!
I had dinner at this awesome restaurant/bar that had all sorts of fun food and lots of veggie foods… Great wine selection of which I had the Bacarro Pinot Grigio. I also passed probably 10 gay people so far, which is not what I expected for a city in Alabama. They rank 47th in hate crimes based on sexual orientation and 50th in overall hate crimes! Awesome (unless I’m reading the statistics backwards…
Look at that adorable fountain. Oh this is lust at first visit. Below is my new church… haha, well it is a Methodist church!
I’m sorry that I’m stuck using my iPhone to take the pics, with it’s new broken camera. I didn’t want to walk around town with my camera bag, but if the weather is nice tomorrow, I certainly will.
What do you think about Birmingham? hmm? Can I convince Ryan to move here? haha, not likely. Cost of living is 4.8% lower and income is 2.5% higher. How awesome is that?
So far Chase, Ryan and Landon think I’m crazy.
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Check the out online at www.scoutsmusic.com
Tags: Awesome, Chase, Concert, Just My Music, Scouts Music, Shout OutI’m Back! (Once again)
My family has finally left the building. For the past two weeks I have had either my mom or my grandmother with me, taking care of me, etc. It was great to have them over, they were of infinite help to me, but a little space sure is nice haha.
My family has been very concerned about my health as of late. With the seizures and extreme changes in blood pressure and pulse, I guess they have some reason to their paranoia. Still, I wish they wouldn’t worry about me. Despite being put through the ER three times in a week and then being put on a “toxic” dose of medicine on accident… I have been doing ok. I missed about two or more weeks of school, much of the time I don’t remember care of Keppra, Depakote and Ativan. Yay for perscriptions.
I haven’t seen much of Ryan during this time which has been the worst part of it all. You really don’t what you’ve got till family comes in town and it’s gone… Something like that.
Either way, a wonderfully good thing came of the visit. I came out to my mom, for the fourth (?) time. This will be the last, we talked openly and things just really seemed to work out. She understands now that it isn’t a choice, that I didn’t hide it from her/the family because I wanted to have a secret and… well, it just is no longer that big ol’ white elephant in the room.
Speaking of rooms… I have been doing some remodeling at the apartment. I have much more to do yet, new chair, new couch, new TV, new coffee table, new dining table and chairs. Once I change out all that to smaller, thinner, sleeker items, the large livingroom will appear full sized again haha.
As you can see in the top picture, I have done a little re-arranging of my workstation. I added an Epson Perfection V500 Scanner, a Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet, two shelves for my photography toys and a new light. The light made the biggest difference, I swear. No longer do I get down sitting at the computer, it really, and literally, brightens up my day.
You might also notice the new laptop sitting next to the iMac. Yep, I got a new Macbook Pro! It’s so wonderful, I’m using it right now to write this post! Got a stellar deal on it at the bookstore. Chase and Ryan got one each as well!
Now that I’m back to feeling better, hopefully I will be able to post more often and do more photography. First, and unfortunately, I have to catch up on my class work and make my nearly thirteen doctor appointment. Even more unfortunate is the sad story that I had to leave my job at the hospital in order to make these doctor appointments and catch up with my school work.
That means that I will be having a social life again, eventually, but also means I will be poor and won’t be able to buy all the things I’ve been wanting… Sad story!
But having friends and keeping them is more important that having fun toys, any day.
Time for bed. Going to finish the load of laundry for Ryan. He takes flight later today for Miami and then a cruise. Lucky!
Tags: Apple, Chase, Friends, Health, Job, Macbook Pro, Photography, Ryan, School, Social, Work Loading ...
