1.07.2008
1.02.2008
Tumblr? WTF?!
So, it's been a year. I did a little recap. I went through all my old posts to get an idea of what happened last year. I saw my blog evolve from a writing thing to a picture posting thing. Well, the writing thing was sporadic, and if I put anything up it was a ramble.
But then Tumblr happened. I saw a fantastic blog... er, tumblr, The Triumph of Bullshit. What can I say? I fell in love.
So, to those of you who've peeked at bag coffee dot blogspot dot com can now head over to the other Coffee In A Bag.
I guess this blog will be shuffled away with my three other non-functioning blogs, my Livejournal, and my countless email accounts...
12.31.2007
12.30.2007
12.29.2007
12.28.2007
12.27.2007
Psychopath Bitch
Sitting around reading Kanji lessons(PDF link). Checking out teaching blogs. Learning on how to learn.
12.26.2007
Shikata ga nai
sutonga = stronger
So, I set out to do an exhaustive breakdown of the characters which flash in the "Stronger" video. But, the info's already out there...
I think it's hilarious they don't make any sense in the context of the video. Perhaps Hype was looking for a Batman style of onomatopoeia. Perhaps we're getting payback for Engrish.com
12.25.2007
Just a Guy
***
So, the Wii is wonderful. I was told they're being put into elderly homes to get the tenants active. After boxing for 20 minutes, I felt active, and in need of some prune juice.
So, the Wii is wonderful. You really can't play sitting down, so you have to stand up looking all ham-fisted, shaking the plastic controller. Golf was rather interesting, considering I don't enjoy golf. Well, I'm not in love with golf, per se. But golf, nonetheless, was the most exemplary. I don't think you can make golf more boring, so the Wii people had a lot of leeway.
So, the Wii is wonderful. But I wonder, can it take something I am in love with and make it better? But I don't love too many things... Never enjoyed the gym. Most physical activity is a pain for me, never really like the repetition. It just doesn't jive with my motor function. But, I do like to bike. Can Wii make biking more fun?
But, then again, I don't bike. I don't cross-train. I get on that bitch and ride 'til the sun slides off that slice of sky. So, I'm aimless. I don't need a speedometer, or a cadence meter (even though I dropped $60 on one so I can tell I've maxed 10 mph for the last hour). Can Wii simulate the arrogance of a fixed-gear rider? Can it simulate the shit I'm probably doing to the cartilage in my knees? I think the closest Wii can get to that is to have my Mii sport a cycling hat (where the brim flips-up and it says "Brooklyn" underneath). Maybe they can simulate a road race around Prospect Park, where all the Bianchi riders have espresso pit-stops? Fuck yeah!
So, the Wii is wonderful. It now can simulate my favorite past time. I can set it to destroy my body and be a poseur for me. I don't think it will make me any deeper of a person, but I believe. Only problem is, that's only part of the experience. Perhaps the Wii can slowly grind down it's parts for me? I need that realism, I need the experience of the pitted bearings in my head tube. I need the feel of a loose chain, that will most likely seize during an evasive maneuver in heavy traffic. I need all of the things that I'd just be blatantly regurgitating from the Bike Snob.
So, the Wii is wonderful. It gets me out of the house by not getting me out of the house. I have become larval.
12.24.2007
12.20.2007
12.19.2007
JT? You Really Let Yourself Go...
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So, at some point Friday, we're going to throw Justin Timberlake into the Hudson... All so we can sell some sugar water...
12.17.2007
12.15.2007
Cast System
***
So, the only thing I got to look forward to is spinach and artichoke dip...
...'cause it's bitter and heavy
12.14.2007
State Of The Blog, 2007
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So, it's been a year since I started this blog. Most people have a recap post or some kind of anniversary entry. Not me.
This is probably the 4th or 5th internet journal I've done. The others fizzled after a year or so. I don't have much hope for this one. It's just nice to be able to look back over the last year of my life and see what happened.
So far I've finished another year working as a production assistant. I took Japanese classes. I split-up with my girlfriend. I went to numerous shows. My photographs improved when I switched from a basic handset cell phone to the enV. I switched my bike from a 15 speed to a fixed.
It's a year later and I feel only a little different. I'm still stressed about the same stuff. I think I've grown less content with production. I don't know what I'm going to do with myself in the next year, but at this very moment I'm looking forward to anything.
Nothing To You?
***
So I guess everyone is doing their year end music lists. Honestly, I don't remember much of the stuff I bought, but I'll give it a whirl.
1. Saul Williams: Niggy Tardust
2. Justice: †
3. LCD Soundsystem: Sound Of Silver
4. Bjork: Volta
5. Cansei de Ser Sexy: s/t
6. !!!: Myth Takes
7. DJ Mehdi: Lucky Boy
8. El-P: I'll Sleep When You're Dead
9. various artists: Definitive Swim
10. Sa-Ra: The Hollywood Recordings
12.13.2007
12.12.2007
Teamster Days
***
So, life sucks right now. It's nice to be busy right up until the holidays, but it's the holidays themselves I'm not really looking forward to.
Little things make me irritable, which probably doesn't make me anymore fun to be around than usual. I can only naturally assume that things won't always be this bad; to be this uneventful, for much longer.
12.11.2007
Round About
The Brooklyn Academy Of Music, Lafayette Ave
***
"Hey, we're gonna let you go."
"..."
"You're getting close to a double. We want you to go home."
"So everyone else is staying? I get to go home before everyone?"
"Yeah. You can give your keys to A. I'll call you tonight with your call."
"!"
As I feel like a real employee, and not like a hired slave, I'm going out to have a beer.
12.09.2007
12.08.2007
Don't Worry, It's Only Ice Cream
***
John Mayer is in a certain group of people I can't stand, but would totally want to have a beer with. Other's include Ryan Adams and Vincent Gallo...
12.07.2007
Bachelor Stew
12.06.2007
12.05.2007
12.04.2007
It's Complimentary
***
So, last night was Jinner's Anniversary Party at Knitting. And I just realized I missed an oppertunity to see The Big Sleep for free... WTF!!????!!!!!
I'd be more angry, except I had to be up at 7 this morning for work. And it would have been sad to be at the show last night and not have a drink...
But, fuck... it was free!
12.03.2007
Super
Atlantis Super Wash Center, Atlantic Ave
***
The only reason I can remember why my ex-girlfriend broke up with me has something with laundry. She said she didn't want to have to worry whether I had clean clothes or not. I told her I never asked her to wash my clothes, and if she didn't want to do them, she didn't have to do them. Like always, I missed the point of her story, but I still feel like, if she didn't want to wash the clothes I left at her place, I wouldn't ask her to wash them.
For the longest time I dropped my clothes at a laundromat. They would charge me $20 to $25 for around 20 pounds. I would throw them a few extra dollars for a tip when I would pick my bag up. Today I found out that not only can I wash my own clothes for the same price as that tip, but I also don't feel so bad for making my ex-girlfriend do my laundry.
Before, I had money and I was foolish. Now, I'm single with clothes I cleaned myself, and I'm still foolish.
12.02.2007
12.01.2007
Another Sunset
***
Highlights of the night:
1. Finished Battle Royal
2. Ate a pound of plain pasta, ziti
3. Drank by myself, 6 beers
4. Read about the economics, welfare, arts, and regions of Japan
5. Yellow Cat scratched my face
6. Drank with Matt, a Hot Toddy
7. Bitched about work
8. Discussed the nuances of 2 Girls 1 Cup
9. Sleep
It's Saturday, right?
11.29.2007
Shoot Shoot... Ah Shit... Made You Look...
***
Keep thinking:
Some days you sharpen the knife, some days you just shave the stone...
11.28.2007
For Dinner
***
So, my thought has always been, "when I'm taking these classes, what will I have to give up?"
Almost 3 months later, the answer is getting more clear. At the moment, I don't know what I've lost, but there's been considerable strain. I've turned down work, threatened friendships (the same friends who have put up with me for the last 3 years), and possibly damaged my physical health.
Well, the last one I probably would still do, classes or not. :-/
But the truth is, I'm doing much better at learning than I thought I would. It's rather sad, how it takes extreme circumstances for me to take things seriously. But at this juncture, I can speak Japanese like a mildly retarded pre-schooler. I also can read my fair share of hiragana and katakana. Two skills I lacked, and hope to improve on...
But the larger questions still shadows the landscape: at what price.
11.27.2007
Too Tired To Leave, Too Board To Go Back Home
***
Yo, can I be real for a minute?
I have to get this off my chest...
The truth: I am broke as shit! As shit, my man...
But I have this dilemma, considering a it's also a source of my dilemma, on whether or not to keep taking Japanese classes.
See, the deal is, on days I have class I really can't work. The nature of production is if I'm working, it's for 10 hours. So, when someone calls me for something, most times I'll tell them I can't work instead of getting into the whole story. For the most part, people don't care or remember when they call again. So I got the work angle worked out, for the most part. But, see, since I'm not working, I'm not pulling in money.
So, my deal is do I sign up for classes this winter? Work is gonna slow down, so I'll be sitting around most of the time trying to figure out how to rub two dimes together... I really would like to continue my education, but the cost is getting steep. I'm praying, but I don't even thing I have my mind right to hear the answer...
Until that day...
11.26.2007
Still Life
***
Her: well... it's a romantic comedy...
Me: want to know what my favorite romantic comedy is?
Her: ...
Me: Sid And Nancy
Her: (laughs) I think I actually saw that...
***
Hey, people who read this blog...
what's going on out there?
11.25.2007
I - 95, Philadelphia
***
Dad, driving me to the Chinatown bus; after dropping Sarah off at the airport
11.24.2007
11.23.2007
11.22.2007
Translation:
Cat 1: We have destroyed...
Cat 2: Oh, yes we have...
C1: Many lives...
C2: Many productive lives...
C2: Untold numbers...
C1: Don't say that...
C2: Don't say what?
C1: 'Untold numbers'... That's a lot of pressure...
C2: Pressure on the fools who cross us...
C1: That doesn't even make sense...
C2: It makes a lot of sense if you don't over analyze it...
C1: That's it, get away from me...
C2: Hmm?
C1: Hmm.
C2: Hmm?
C1: Hmm.
C2: Hmm.
C1: Hmm...
C2: Where are you going?
C1: I'm done, I'm leaving...
C2: Hmm?
C1: I'm out of Killer Klub for Kitties...
C2: because of 'untold numbers'?
C1: Hmm... I'm just gone... got it?
C2: Fine, how about a bath for the road?
C1: Hmm...
p.s. read jinners.com
11.21.2007
11.20.2007
11.19.2007
11.17.2007
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