This video I found on youtube is stellar. What I find most amazing about it is A.) It’s Woody Guthrie, B.) it’s video of Woody and C.) they are cutting a record outdoors!!! If you watch there is a vintage dub plate machine being operated by some guy in the left corner and going into it is a microphone sitting on a mic stand in front of the van that Woody is playing out of. The fact is they were doing this in 1945, where as now I could never figure out a way to record a song in the wilderness. Surely they were in some country bumpkins front yard or back yard and the power came from the home. Either way it helps me understand that gritty sound that is Woody Guthrie, everything sounds like it’s covered in a lil’ bit of dirt (in a really good way) and this is prolly why.
I was leaving the Burger King after spending my last two dollars and in the parking lot were two black guys staring me down. I continued to look at them while I drove past and of the guys said “THAT’S THE HAT!” I stopped and said “excuse me?” and he continued “THAT’S THAT HAT MY SAXOPHONE PLAYER USED TO WEAR!! THAT’S THAT HAT!! OH YEAH THAT’S THE HAT!!” I concurred that it was indeed a nice hat, threw him a peace sign (two fingers) and was on my way. Made me smile though, black people rule.
On a completely different note while I was attending a memorial for a family friend who recently committed suicide my one black friend from high school had the audacity to ask me if I cried during the ceremony. He then took it one step further and asked “how many tears” did I shed. I instantly turned sour and asked “What type of f*cking question is that!” I then answered my own question by stating “That’s the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard. Get the f*ck out of my face with that bullsh*t.” To which he repiled “I’m going to get some water,” and he walked off.
I mean this has nothing to do with ethnicity and more with the fact that this has been a douche since high school (he just happens to be black) I give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he’s just never been to a memorial service and doesn’t know it isn’t a crying contest. Retarded ass bastard.
I arrived from Orlando with about $480.00 or so in my cheching account. My half of the rent is $525.00. So I borrowed $50.00 from my old lady to be sure I had a little extra once the rent hit. I also had $13.00 in my wallet, of which $10.00 I put into my checking account (KAH-CHING!) Leaving me with $3.00 in cash to my name as well as $3.18 in my checking account. Read the rest of this entry »
This x-mas was cool. I got a few goodies that really hit the spot. My mother supported my booze hound fashions with a nice fedora hat by kangol (cockfosters trilby) and my old lady and friends supported my booze hound lifestyle with a flask, a sexy rocks glass, cigar cutter, cigar transport tube and even a Montecristo cigar. My grandpa got me a bottle of Cognac, which I have yet to try. I also got a cool pillow for resting my boozy head after a few swigs (it’s for me and Christy, but really…)
Since my nerves are getting the best of me before my long flight east I decided to upgrade to WP2.7 aka Coltrane (in this muhfugga) I also upgraded the flickr plugin and everything is working fine! Not that I expected anything less but last time I updated the flickr plugin I hated the plugin for a few hours before it began doing what it is supposed to. So yeah… YAY! 2.7 is pretty bad ass.
Edit: I’ve officially give IE6 the finger forever (F-You IE6!). I am the poor bastard in charge of fixing everything for IE6 at my place of work so I sort of refuse to acknowledge it’s existence in my personal/freelance work. I will charge extra for it in a attempt to deter clients living in the stone ages. I recently worked with a client who still had dial up and IE6! It was mind boggling once I realized I could not talk to him while he was online (no mobile phone either) It was also fun to see wordpress do it’s thing in an lowest denominator scenario, not fun really though.
Brixton makes some pretty rugged hats. I picked up a few at Emerald City in Coronado. I got two of the same hat but they are made of different fabrics. The first I swooped is the Stroll in grey wool with a Lady Guadalupe lining (Awesome… even more awesome if you like to mainline.)
Melton Wool Stroll
The second hat I got is also a Stroll but it has a nice grey herringbone pattern twill (silly flyness!) The hats are very solid, even their straw fedoras are pretty hefty. I am impressed and look forward to owning many a hat by these guys.
Since it will never rain pop corn or actual cats and dogs here are some things you can get me to make the holidays totally awesome. This is not a weak attempt to use my never used Amazon affiliate account (I don’t think I have made a single conversion ever). I will probably just update this thread as a master list of shit you should buy (for yourself or for me!)
I must know how now! Not so much because I want a bigger photo on my twitter profile but because I can’t figure out why only a handful of people have bigger profile photos?? I have found four people with bigger profile pictures and nobody has really spilled the beans. I haven’t gone so far as asking how they did it but I can’t find any information at all.
Anything I did find was a reference to the fact that some person indeed had a bigger profile picture. Google didn’t even come through! I am stuck and will probably ask one of them how they did it.
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