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Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah Updaaaaaaaate, update, update! [12 May 2008|01:10pm]
[ music | Ween-Dr Rock ]

Well, ladies and gentlemen, I will have you know I’ve finally broken the 150 lbs barrier. No longer am I a 150 lbs stick-boy, but a robust, strapping 161 lbs colossus…Or something like that. I’m sure for the vast majority of you out there, this seems rather insignificant, but due to my busted throat and insane metabolism, it’s a bitch for me to put on weight. Until I was 23, I’d never weighed more than 125 and that lead to such delightful incidences as my aunt & (former) uncle telling my mom the reason I was so skinny was because I was “obviously using cocaine”, my mom numerous times asking me if I was dealing with ‘man-orexia’, and random people coming up to me at clubs/house parties to ask if they could buy any *makes sniffing noise* from me.   

In other news, as I was driving home from the gym this morning, I pulled up to an intersection near my house and happened to see my ex on her bike. Instead of doing the whole ‘briefly-making-eye-contact-then-not-acknowledging-one-another’ thing, I smiled, leaned out the window, and shouted “Hey! Get a horse!”. Needless to say, this was not taken in the light hearted context it was intended. Wah-waaaaaaaaaaah!

For those of you readers who are photographers, any of you tried redscaling film? I shot my first redscale roll and everything came out bluish/sepia rather than red/orange and also rather soft (as if I were shooting with a toy camera). I need to over expose more to get those reds or what?

Finally, Liz, you gonna be back in town today? Give me a ring!
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Seven years down, like three more to go? [08 May 2008|04:27pm]
[ music | Fortress - I Hate Commie Scum ]

I went to go sell back $300+ worth of books and got offered $7 by the college bookstore. Needless to say I politely informed the woman at the counter she could put my junk in her mouth and left. Oh well, having books about Hungarian folklore on my shelf only makes me look that much smarter…right?

Summer is here and things will be especially interesting. For those of you who haven’t heard the buzz, I’m venturing into summer unemployed and single. Oh, and my lease is up in month or two. No money, no woman, no roof over my head, and surprisingly no real worries. Granted, not having disposable income to piss away on developing film, booze, and impulse firearm purchases is a bit of a pain, but I’ll survive. Although, I’ve suddenly been going crazy for a new set of cowboy boots (my old, white snakeskin pair got scuffed to hell).  And, to be honest, I do sorta miss the former lil’ lady. Hmm…If given the choice between the two, I’d prolly choose the boots thou. LULZ!
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Bro logic... [05 May 2008|01:08pm]
[ music | The Shangri-Las - Out In The Streets ]

Drunken Bro: Sup dude, I’m Jarred, who are you?
Me: I’m uh… Quincy?
Drunken Bro: Alright then, Quentin.
Me: Ahhh, that’s Quincy.
Drunken Bro: Quentin, I’m just gonna call you “Q”. *Turns to Todd* And I’mma call you “Z”.
Todd: What? I just told you my name was “Todd”…
Drunken Bro: I know, but I decided you’re nickname is “Z”. Wait, where am I again?
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Fucking awesome. [30 Apr 2008|02:15pm]
[ music | KARP! ]


Epic win. I so hope this isn’t a joke or falls thru.
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Books read in 2008 [25 Apr 2008|02:32pm]
[ music | King Kut-Word Of Mouth ]

12) The Vratyas in Ancient India- Radhakrishna Choudhary
 
Probably not of interest to most of you readers out there, this is an in-depth examination (on of the few in existence) of the ascetic warriors of Vedic India who had renounced the Vedic Aryan culture. They lived in nomadic bands that possessed advanced war technology (chariots drawn by horses, similar to the Aryans), possessed powerful siddhis (magic powers), and were perhaps the first worshippers of Shiva and practitioners of yogi. Basically, they could kick your ass any day. An excellent read.

11) Naked Lunch: The Restored Text- William S. Burroughs

I actually read the Soft Machine before this, and I think I liked that a little more than Naked Lunch. Naked Lunch was enjoyable, but I don’t think Burroughs had his whole cut up technique and word horde thing as polished as he did with the Nova Trilogy. But, maybe because of its rougher nature, that’s why people like Naked Lunch more.
 
 
10) Our Lady of Darkness- Fritz Leiber

You think Me Talk Pretty One Day was on my bookshelf for a while, this has been on it for well over 10 years. Our Lady of Darkness is a hard book to read, not in that it’s poorly written, but that you have to be in just the right mood to get into. It’s an interesting work, but one that you have to have a whole lot of knowledge in sci-fi, horror, fantasy, and the occult to fully appreciate. The use of ‘false documents’ throughout the story is cool, but the Megapolisomanc seemed almost like a cheap Necronomicon. I’m guessing Leiber wanted to tip his hat to Lovecraft.  

9) Me Talk Pretty One Day-David Sedaris
 
Being a casual fan of Sedaris, I’ve read a couple of his essays, listened to him on NPR, and actually seen him live, but never had read a full book. Ha, that’s just how I roll. Well, I got a copy for my birthday, let it sit on myself for 5 months, and them finally picked it up. I’m sure all of you out there have read it, so do I really need to review it? Yea, it was good. Done.


8) The Lone Ranger and Tanto Fistfight in Heaven-Sherman Alexi
7) Centuries of Owls in Art and the Written Word-Faith Medlin
6) On the Road-Jack Kerouac
5) Travels with Charley-John Steinbeck
4) A Man without a Country-Kurt Vonnegut
3) The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fitzgerald 
2) On The Shortness of Life-Seneca
1) The Magnificent Ambersons-Booth Tarkington
 
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...stuff [20 Apr 2008|08:34pm]
[ music | The Points-I Don't Know About You ]

Nearly drank myself to death last night. Epic fail this morning when I finally woke up at 3pm. Should have been reading about Indian warrior ascetics for my paper, but all I could do was sit on the couch and watch some dumb Yakuza movie I rented. 

On the plus side of things my Minolta Mark II 110 camera is ridiculously sweet. So is the Minolta Zoom 110 that looks like some sort of spaceship/sandwich thing.   Wish it didn’t take Walgreen’s 3 weeks to process the cartridges.
 
Paper, paper, paper, final, final, final, then the sweet, humid kiss of summer. This summer I’m going to write a little, maybe even paint. Try to pick up the ol’ uke too, start strumming again. 
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Books read in 2008 [05 Apr 2008|02:36pm]
8) The Lone Ranger and Tanto Fistfight in Heaven-Sherman Alexi

I’ve been meaning to read this for like 4 years now, ever since seeing Frybread, but you know me and procrastination. A great collection of short stories, although toward the end all the alcoholism really begins to wear on you.
 
7) Centuries of Owls in Art and the Written Word-Faith Medlin

Wow, I was so looking forward to this and it was just epic fail. The book is a haphazard collection of, as the title says, owls in art and literature that seems to have all been arbitrarily chosen by the author. There was some good stuff, but what this book needs is an editor and a whole lot more research.

6) On the Road-Jack Kerouac
 
I purposely avoided reading this book for years because several people whose opinions I valued said it was a waste of time and nothing more than an exercise in typing. Had to read it for my Auto class and loved it. Guess that shows me


5) Travels with Charley-John Steinbeck
4) A Man without a Country-Kurt Vonnegut
3) The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fitzgerald 
2) On The Shortness of Life-Seneca
1) The Magnificent Ambersons-Booth Tarkington
 
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Posty post post post [23 Mar 2008|06:03pm]
Well, a couple of things have occurred, but really it doesn’t feel like anything new. You’ve already guessed spring break was a complete and total drunken waste, so I don’t think I should bother writing about that. Easter dinner  with the extended family was detached and strange.  Who the fuck knows there. 

I narrowly avoided a Constable cruiser that was sent because I was snooping around an abandoned building. And, by snooping, I actually mean I got inside and on the roof. I retrospect the roof was probably why the cops got called on me. I’m sure some of the people who live in that area wondered what the fuck was going on with some scraggly kid taking pictures on the roof of an abandoned building Easter morning. So, yea, that was something…   
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Good by, liver... [20 Mar 2008|04:44pm]
Srzly, this is not fun.   

I also wish the fucking mail would speed up and deliver my shit...
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Bits and pieces... [12 Mar 2008|03:52pm]
“You know, terrorists are pretty rude, but we're rude back…”
-6 year-old at the Rodeo


I have the sweetest telephoto & wide-angle lens set coming to me in the mail…for a Kodak Pocket Instamatic 30! Ha! So, fuck you and your fancy EOS D40 that costs $1300 for the body alone. I’ve got archaic cartridge film technology from the 80s!


Speaking of film, I’ve been abusing it:

Boiled for about 15 minutes… Moar here
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Books read in 2008 [02 Mar 2008|03:00pm]
5) Travels with Charley-John Steinbeck

The third book for my Lit and Autos class, this one started off with a lot of promise, but then just sort of stalled out about half way through. The last time I read any Steinbeck was back around the 8th grade and I’ve never actually read the great three (Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, & East of Eden), but I recalled enjoying what I did read. Steinbeck sets out to “find out about America and Americans,” but nothing ever really comes of it. Closest I could tell, the only thing he finds out is that he thinks America isn’t a great as it used to be. Ah, the good ol’ days, where polio was rampant and discrimination against the Irish was common place. In the end, it was a decent enough book, but it had the potential to be so much better.
 

4) A Man without a Country-Kurt Vonnegut
3) The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fitzgerald 
2) On The Shortness of Life-Seneca
1) The Magnificent Ambersons-Booth Tarkington
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½ Frame Friday [29 Feb 2008|10:30am]
 

Well, this is the last of the ½ Frame Fridays and what you see above is the about the extent of what I got for this week. After taking about 12 photos the camera had a little meeting with Lady Cement and none of the pics taken after that intimate encounter developed. The shutter still works, so who knows? The long and the short of it is I’ve concluded ½ Frame Friday to be a failure so I’m not totally heartbroken at having my Pen EE crap out on me (plus the shutter was a little fucked from the get-go). 
 
Now, don’t get me wrong, I like 1/2 frames a lot and did take manage to snap some decent pics with the Olympus, but the whole point of this little exercise was to get two photos that worked well alone as well as together. I got a few that met the criteria, but none that I felt really stood out artistically. I guess if I’d just photoshopped any two of the 48 photos together, I’d have had a few that I liked, but where would the challenge there have been? Oh well. I think I’mma save up and get one of those fancy Zenit MT-1s when I decide to get my next ½ frame
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Srzly? [25 Feb 2008|04:47pm]
*police car rolls by and stops as I’m packing up my cameras on the hood of my car*
Cop: Hey, were you just taking pictures down by the water purification plant?
Me: Yea… Is there a problem?
Cop: Nah, some people called in to report a suspicious figure photographing the plant and stuff.
Me: Oh, that was probably me. It’s not illegal to be down there taking pictures, is it?
Cop: Not at all, we just thought you were a terrorist. Have a nice day.

Over the course of the next 45 minutes, I had two other police cars trail me around various parts of the city for ridiculously extended amounts of time. As if this all wasn’t amusing enough, the fucking shutter on my Honeywell malfunctioned and not a single exposure was developable. So, looks like I’ll be back down there one of these upcoming weekend having the police called on me…
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Books read in 2008 [25 Feb 2008|03:16pm]
4) A Man without a Country-Kurt Vonnegut
While I’ve enjoyed the pieces of Vonnegut’s fiction I’ve read here and there, I’ve never gone as far as to call myself a fan and certainly wont after having read his ‘memoirs’. Apparently because everyone has to read Slaughterhouse-Five in high school, Mr. Vonnegut thought he could get away with banging out some ridiculous propaganda and we’d all just spoon it down and ask for seconds. The sad thing is, looking at the reviews on Amazon.com, it seems like he got away with it. “OMG, I liked Player Piano sooooo much! I’ll just overlook the numerous factual errors and lies in A Man without a Country.” Kurt Vonnegut is on the same level as Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh, except he’s a socialist and they’re ultra-conservatives.


3) The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fitzgerald 
2) On The Shortness of Life-Seneca
1) The Magnificent Ambersons-Booth Tarkington
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½ Frame Friday [22 Feb 2008|10:35am]
This weeks ½ Frame Friday actually has a bit of an amusing story behind it… Last night at about 11pm I waltzed into the drugstore where I get my prints made (yea, fuck you, I know I need to start developing myself) and behind the counter is this thuggette with a Rick James weave and ghetto claws having it out with the WASPiest soccer mom ever. The issue? Some bullshit about passport photos…Who the fuck gets passport photos at 11 on a Thursday night? Anyhow, I can see my photos sitting in the “B” bin behind the counter and after 10 minutes decided what the hell, I walk behind the counter and take my shit. Needless to say, hilarity ensued.

The thuggette looks at me like I’m crazy and goes “Um, sir? No you di’nt juss walk back heer an take yo stuff!” Of course, I just ignore her and walk up to the check out, which causes her to start shouting “I know you ca’n heer me! I know you ca’n!” and when I get to the register, she starts screaming at the check out clerk “Donchu ring him up. I done told you not to!” Well, needless to say the clerk rang me up and I left the store with Shoqueta screaming at me photo counter.
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Books read in 2008 [20 Feb 2008|11:58am]
 So I did this back in 2006, forgot about it entirely 2007, and now I am getting off to a terribly late start to it in 2008. Oh well, better late than never, I guess. Anyhow, I’ve been really slacking off, having only read three books over the past month and a half, and hope posting the reviews here will encourage me to read a little more.

 
3) The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fitzgerald
The 2nd book for my Automobile and American Lit class, this marks the 7th or 8th time I’ve read the Great Gatsby. It’s weird, the first few times I read the book I fucking hated it, then had a grudging respect for it, finally grew to appreciate it, and after this most recent reading, found myself frustrated with it. I’m not going to get into a whole thing here, these are supposed to be short reviews, but I’ll just say that I’ll be interested to know what I think of the book the next time I read it.
 
2) On The Shortness of Life-Seneca
Containing the Stoic philosopher Seneca’s essays "On the Shortness of Life," "The Consolation of Helvetia," and "On Tranquility of Mind", I started reading this shortly after my 2nd hospitalization at the end of last year. It didn’t provide exactly what I was expecting, but was an excellent and worthwhile read. The part in "On the Shortness of Life" where Seneca goes off on the Roman equivalent of hipster hair cuts was fucking priceless and totally applicable to hipsters today.

1) The Magnificent Ambersons-Booth Tarkington
Had to read this for my Automobile and American Lit class, not a bad book by any means, but defiantly not anything great. It certainly read a lot better (and faster) than I expected a work of fiction from 1918 to.  It’s an interesting look into the Gilded Age of America and the birth of the auto industry, but other than that….Eh.
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Update: [15 Feb 2008|05:57pm]
Not in the hospital, doin’ ok. I’ll post the entire story tomorrow, when I have some time.
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½ Frame Friday [15 Feb 2008|08:23am]
I’m posting this to kill some time as my mom gathers my medical records before we go to the St. Lukes ER. Shit, wish I’d thought to bring the ½ frame to the hospital with me, would have made for some nice pictures for next week…  This week has sucked.
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½ Frame Friday [08 Feb 2008|05:57pm]
This first Friday was a tad bit of a disappointment, only managed to snap 3 (6) photos that were usable or interesting, but I guess that’s part of the challenge.

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A veritable coalition of FAIL. [08 Feb 2008|11:58am]
So, last night I’m pissing behind a dumpster in Rudz parking lot when alarms start going off. No, it wasn’t the police, but rather 4 ½ naked fat guys announcing their entrance into the bar. Oh, and the lead guy had on a custom made helmet that gave him a mohawk out of dildos…


My friend Travis called me up yesterday and said he was going to be in town for a show he booked and wanted to get together for drinks. I asked him about the band and he hesitated for a moment and informed me that “they’re sort of like Gwar, but not really…You know?”   I didn’t know and I wasn’t really interested in finding out, so told him I’d meet for drinks, but would pass on seeing ‘Shat’ play.

Anyhow, after a few rounds and what not, Ali and I decide to call it a night. Well, we see the afore mentioned siren blaring, dildo-mohawk hat parade outside and we we’re like “Fuck, this is going to be a train-wreck; we’re drunk, the shows free, why not?” Needless to say, that was faulty logic. Imagine a poor-man’s Gwar mixed with a 3rd rate Mentors cover band…Well, they were worse than that. It was so terrible I couldn’t even bring myself to heckle them; seriously, what do you say to an obese dude in a leather banana hammock who’s singing about prison sex? 

So, I guess the lesson learned here is: Bands in diy dildo armor will still be fucking terrible and unfunny no matter how drunk you are. Srzly.
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