It’s Just Justin

Feast of Fools

So, my friend Nick Starr had the chance to be the guest of honor on the Feast of Fools Podcast last week.

In the episode, they took a question from me which was, “Hey Nick, what would we be doing had I been able to go with you?”

Well they quoted me differently making it sound like I was going to sleep with Nick, maybe they read it wrong.  They also took out words that made me sound like I couldn’t write proper English.  Hmmm.  It’s ok, I figure they just got it wrong since it was live.

But what actually bothers me is the part where Nick says I’m hot.  Well that didn’t bother me haha, it was when they went to my site and right off the bat said I didn’t have any pictures.  (The second post is a picture of me…)

When they found the picture Fausto or Marc stated that yes, I was hot but also that my picture was heavily airbrushed.

Listen to it here

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And now, here’s the picture. Click it to go to the larger sized version at PiczarPhoto.com

Argh!  Why does that bother me so much?  I didn’t airbrush myself.  Oh well. Mostly it was all compliments and I absolutely adore Marc and Fausto’s show, it’s been on my podcast playlist since Day 1.

Still, I wouldn’t argue with some of you guys letting ‘em know that the reason I don’t have lines and wrinkles in that picture is because I don’t have lines and wrinkles!  I’m barely 24 years old! You can find the post specific to this episode here.

In the end though, it’s great to be heard on a podcast you love so much. I’m not on Dawn and Drew at all anymore, need to catch up with them… And anything with Keith and the Girl has been on the forms or email but never on the actual cast.

It’s a great feeling to have people talk about you, even with some of the bad parts (misquote/airbrush). But to be called sexy and hot for the whole world to hear, that’s empowering haha.

I want to thank Nick for being so nice and saying such wonderful things about me on the show, and for keeping it down to about two minutes, any more and who knows what might have been said tee hee.

Tags: Adam Curry, Airbrush, English language, Famous, Friends, Hilarious, Just My Podcast, Keith and The Girl, Mashable, New media, Nick Starr, Sexy, Ugh, WTF?, Yay

It’s My Birth Day

Twenty four years ago today my parents’ lives were changed forever.  They finally had the son they had always wanted.

Well, I guess that had happened about a year earlier but this time they had the son they…  Ok, ok, I was just the summer release sequel of the last year’s hit, Patrick.

I think I was a pretty cute kid, of course I’m partial to thinking so.  I think I was born to be a model, now I don’t dare claim to have grown into being a model, sadly, but I sure had the look.

Here I am pretending that I’m bulimic.  No, not really, but it’s anyone’s guess as to what the hell I was doing with my hand.

It is crazy to me that I have changed so much, but clearly, I have always been gay.  I mean, look at that picture, gay gay gay!

Today however, 24 years after birth, I’m headed home to Houston with my mom.  With Ryan in Tennessee and nothing really happening in Columbia, I figured, why not?  Sadly, I kinda ruined a surprise birthday from Micheal, Jenny and Co.  That sucks, if I had known I would not have purchased my return flight and just hung out in Columbia.  However, we are planning to do something when I get back in town and you are all invited!

As of right now we have about seven more hours of driving.  I’m lucky to only have the task of sitting in the car since I’m not insured on this rental car.

I’m hoping to be able to visit my cousins in Rockport Texas who I have seen once in like four years and will miss not seeing Joseph who now lives in Seoul Korea!  Joseph has always been the highlight of visiting Houston.

Well, that’s really it for now I guess, I need to read my blogroll which I am way behind in doing.  Catch you guys later!

Tags: Birthday, Columbia, Family, Fun, Houston, Jenny, Joseph, Micheal, Road Trip, Ryan, Society and Culture, Texas, Travel, Yay

Moonshine and the Oasis

My grandmother and I went to Austin on Friday to pick Ryan up from the airport.  We had a scare as he nearly missed the flight out of Kansas city but he got in on time and with his bags, whew, what a relief.

From the airport we went to Moonshine, a great restaurant in Austin.  We shared a large selection of appetizers from spinach and artichoke fondue to grilled garlic cloves to polenta.  It was all so very tasty.

After lunch we drove to the capitol and around the downtown area before heading out of town, making one more stop at The Oasis on Lake Travis.

It is very hard to capture the immense size of The Oasis in one shot.  It would probably require a few shots with my fish eye lens to accomplish that.

The Oasis is a restaurant on Lake Travis (as you might have surmised from the full name above).  Only a few years ago the place burned down to the ground.  Well the place has been rebuilt and the food improved and the view is every as stunning.  The guy behind it all is a friend of my grandmother’s best friend.  He’s a little tiny itsy bit rich.  Check out his home, it’s that giant one.  It looks like three homes, it’s one.  Just so you know…

But like I said, the views are fabulous.  The only thing possibly close to being as good are the drinks.  Fun and funky margaritas and mixed drinks.

We had a few drinks, took a few pictures and then headed to Horseshoe Bay where my grandparents live.

So it was a great day, amazing food, amazing drinks and beautiful scenery.

Tags: Austin, Beautiful, Drinks, Family, Food, Fun, Horseshoe Bay, Lake Travis, Photography, Ryan, Texas, Travel, Yay

The Piano Bar

Last night, while Ryan worked hard all night saving lives, Micheal and I joined Dustin, Annalee and Seema at the Piano bar for some good times.

We drank a top hat.  It’s like Sangria plus hard liquor. It’s like heaven.  It’s $12.

It’s really big and Micheal and Annalee drank it all.  (Well, not really)

It was a really fun night.  I’m glad Micheal called me to go hang out.  :-)  We were txt messaging Jenny the entire time, sending pictures and our love.  Next week Micheal and I are going to Saint Louis to visit her and go to Showtune Tuesday.  How exciting!

Tags: Annalee, Drinking, Dustin, Friends, Fun, Going Out, Jenny, Micheal, Piano Bar, Seema, St. Louis, Yay

Renovation

Dad and I painted the living room today.  We didn’t finish but we got pretty close.  I am going from a dark orange and brown scheme (yick) to a bright white trim with creamy walls.  

     

 

It will be so much brighter in here and I imagine it will make the room seem larger and happier.  That’s the hope at least.

My parents come here and paint, it’s just what they do!

Tags: Family, Paint, Remodel, Yay

My New Lights

I made some cool photography goodness tonight.  I have the stuff to make another set, but just ran out of time.  But basically I turned <$100 in cash into >$1200 of lighting equipment.

My DIY Light Ring

My DIY Softbox

Not bad considering the price and that I did it without that whole making a plan thing, just ran to Lowes right before it closed and the wonderful people there helped me get the stuff I was going to need.  I way over bought and actually am going to be able to return stuff and get money back tomorrow.  How awesome!

Tags: Awesome, Cheap, DIY, Kit, Lighting, Money, Photography, Ring Light, Softbox, Strobist, Yay

Nikon 50mm 1:1.8D

I just got a new toy from Nikon. A relatively cheap one too. It’s a Nikon 50mm 1:1.8D and I’m loving it. I’ve only taken a few pics but that extremely low, but not by any means the lowest from Nikon, aperture makes for quite a fast lens.

I took these pictures in my basement tonight with the shutter at around 120-1200 depending on the picture. What’s great about that is I can turn my ISO down to 200-400 and get a late night shot… without a tripod.

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Tags: Lens, Nikon, Photography, Yay

Apple Wireless Keyboard

I just need to make an entire post about this new keyboard, I love it so much.  I really just can’t handle it, the thing is so awesome!  Kinda feel like a dork over this but damn girl, this thing is fine!

So the wireless edition has no numeric pad on the far right… this is a bummer cause, well, you can’t do the whole ten key touch thing… but that’s ok seeing as I don’t really need it, not yet at least.  The keys are also a little hard to get used to, since there isn’t nearly any depth to each key, you can’t feel your way around the keyboard like you could with any other typical desktop keyboard.  The feel and layout is much like any Macbook or Macbook Pro keyboard you might have used except there is a greater distance between the keys themselves.  I have gotten used to the keyboard’s layout for the most part though I’m still having trouble with punctuation.

The top keys, aka the function keys, are much improved with little pictures telling you what each key does.  Those little icons are great cause no matter how many times I used those keys on my old Apple Wireless Keyboard, I could never memorize what each key did.  I’m just special I guess.

The thing is fucking tiny, that’s just something I can’t get over.  The brushed metal and the solid build are great.  Typical Apple quality here.  I love the thing and really only have a few little updates that they totally should have put on here.

How about a lighted keyboard like the Macbook Pro’s?  I just don’t get why they didn’t do that.  Also… how about a USB port to charge the batteries like a cellphone is charged on your USB port?  That would be super fantastic.  They totally could have put a numeric keypad on this…  How about a similarly designed mouse?  The new brushed iMacs look awesome with the new keyboards but still have those white mouses.

Typing on the new keyboard is so much faster and becomes easier once you get used to the layout.  It’s quiet and easier to keep clean.  It’s got brushed metal and it’s smaller than Mark McGwire’s testicals…

Tags: Apple, Hardware, Review, Wow, Yay

My Birthday was August 2nd

I know it isn’t news but it’s a post with a picture…  Kohl did the artwork on the cake hehe.  Miss you Kohl!

Off to class!

Tags: Birthday, Kohl, Yay

Instant Pleasure

Here you go Geoff.

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Geoff and I went shopping at the lake today and boy, did we go crazy or what?!  $641 each, oh wait, I missed a decimal, $6.41 dollars later… We each bought the same cake riser and bowtie plate.  Haha.  But we had a fabulous time.

It was awesome to talk about just everything on our minds, which, to those of you snickering, is actually quite a bit.  Fun fun fun, so much that I crashed for like three hours afterwards.  I’m still working on being fully awake again.

Here’s to tomorrow!

Tags: Fun, Geoffrey, Just My Music, Shopping, Yay