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I’ll take swords for 400 alex…

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

Oh. My. God.

The Sword

I saw these guys at subterranean last night. Davie came into the city on a Monday night to see them, so I knew they’d be good! He heard them on pandora after typing in black sabbath.

It’s amazing how great I felt after being barraged with drop-c tuned guitars, thundering bass, and lots and lots of crashing cymbals - banging my head like I was 15 again. Luckily, I was able to keep myself from throwing the devil horns (those are strictly ironic these days)

paprikash

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

i was inspired by the food nerd cooking with only what was on hand in the house for a month… I’m not that ambitious, but I’ve vowed to cook 1 thing per week using something that’s been around the house for a while.

sunday’s dish was chicken paprikash, using the spaetzels that I’ve had sitting around for a while… I’m using the recipe from paprikash.com.

I modified it a bit and used chicken legs, and probably not enough becuase there was soooo much sauce, and not much chicken. plus the boxed spaetzels were a little on the tiny side… overall, it was a 6, but I’ll give paprikash another chance. I don’t know that I’ve every had it, so don’t have anything to compare it to…

this week I’m making dulac dirty rice using the zatarain’s dirty rice mix we have. and some chicken kabobs with an orzo pilaf using the orzo that’s been sitting around for along time… full report soon.

food stuff

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

a shit factory needs raw materials, and shana and i really want to cook more - so this will be the first of hopefully many food posts…

todays concerns microwave food. in an effort to eat out less, I bought some microwave food from trader joes this week. I haven’t eaten microwave food more than once every couple months since my sound warehouse days when i ate stouffer’s lasagna just about every day…

today, i had the “expensive chicken burrito” which was ok, just slightly too tomato-y… good enough to eat the other one in the package, but I’ll probably try another flavor.

yesterday it was the red curry shrimp rice bowl, also from trader joe’s - all I can say about that was that it was bland bland bland…

the monkey monk

Monday, July 10th, 2006

ok, so I’m a dork. I sometimes sing songs replacing a word with our dogs name ( oh monkey you’re so fine, you’re so fine you blow my mind hey monkey). shana says i should post them, since i don’t post anything else to my lame blog, so here’s one I came up with last night, my most ambitious rewrite yet…

The Monkey-Monk (sung to the tune of the humpty hump by digital underground who rocked at summerfest last thursday)

All right!
Stop whatcha doin’
’cause I’m about to chew on
the tongue and the laces of your new shoes.
I look sunny
and I’ll eat thru all your money see
so yo shawn I hope you’re ready for me.
Now gather round
I’m the new dog in town
and my crate’s laid down in the Underground.
I eat up all the dog treats that ya got on ya shelf
so just let me introduce myself
My name is Monkey, pronounced with a Onkey.
Shawn’s guests, oh how I like to jump thee.
And all the studs over at ko-ven–don’t you dare try to hump me.
I’m jumpin’ tall, y’all,
and just like Humpty Dumpty
jason’s fallin in the back-yard when I jump he.
My licks are slime,
and at times I smell real funky,
I’m spunky. I make my master’s husband grumpy.

i decided here that I’d taken it too far, but here’s the chorus for good measure…

{Chorus:}
The Monkey Dance is your chance to do the monk
Do the Monkey Monk, come on and do the Monkey Monk
Do the Monkey Monk, just watch me do the Monkey Monk
Do ya know what I’m doin’, doin’ the Monkey Monk
Do the Monkey Monk, do the Monkey Monk

stay tuned for more!

yay! another month

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

i’m the worst blogger ever. just got back from vegas. hooray for scorpions and bacon martinis!

momentum

Friday, March 17th, 2006

I took a dorky beer quiz and got something to put on my blog.. I’m a guinness… so I guess I’m thick, murky, and give you the shits in the morning… stole the link from jenny. thanks jenny…


You Are Guinness


You know beer well, and you’ll only drink the best beers in the world.
Watered down beers disgust you, as do the people who drink them.
When you drink, you tend to become a bit of a know it all - especially about subjects you don’t know well.
But your friends tolerate your drunken ways, because you introduce them to the best beers around.
What’s Your Beer Personality?

i know. like all my other posts are so deep, and this one takes the cake… but if I don’t keep posting, i won’t keep posting… right? stupid blog…

cool pictures

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

found this link somehow. it’s a bunch of aerial photos of mexico city.

http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/PhotoAlbum31.html

digg that crazy arcade thingy

Monday, March 13th, 2006

so i started getting e-mails today about eve today, turns out that someone I used to work posted it on digg… go digg that

i gotta post more. it’s really not that hard…

just like heaven

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

the basementok, so the basement is basically done, there’s some outlet covers and a little trim, and the closet to finish still, but the major work is done. the lights are up, the floor is down, the walls are painted. I’ve moved my stuff into there. I think it may be the happiest place on earth…

click the picture to see more on flickr.

100,000 + 1 years

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

since my last post. my blog posted a comment to itself yelling at me about the neglect, telling me how the basement has taken me away…

well i’m here to tell you… there’s something else. the afterbasement. the basement is almost done actually, i have a few hooks to hang in the bathroom, I have to fill in the giant holes around a couple of outlets (what was I thinking?), I have to hang light fixtures in the green room, and figure out just where I’m going to put the drums (yes, drums. I got a drum set!!!)

i suppose I should post some pictures, but I stopped taking progress pictures a while ago (the progress was too painfully slow) so I think I’ll wait til the lights are up…

just got back from new orleans. shana, the saint, is coming back today, after working her ass off for common ground for 4 days. I was supposed to help for 1 day when i was there, but we missed the parades on saturday (sitting in a bar at noon will do that) and everyone else wanted to go to parades sunday, and well, if you had a choice between gutting a house or standing on the side of the road while people in strange costumes on giant crazy floats pulled by tractors throw beads at you… yeah I thought so.

well, that’s it. see you in 4 months