Sunday, June 28, 2009

sweet weekend (sans pictures)

I picked up James outside his office at around 430 on friday. We took the train downtown and picked up Melanie outside her office and proceeded to Water Taxi Beach, an 18,000 sq. ft. plaza with 3 tons of sand outside of south street seaport. The deal was 50 cent shrimp, oysters, clams and $3 off all booze. (this deal continues 4-6pm thur-sunday for the rest of the summer, bitches)
We hooked it up. I fucking destroyed some oysters and mad clams. Peter joined and smartly picked up a surplus round 2 minutes before the deal ended. It was then that the clouds started to roll in for New York's nightly pour-down of Armageddon for the month of June. We rushed into the tent, squaring up with some hipsters and then the wind started to come on in. I predicted MJ's death to comfortably coincide with the coming Apocalypse while James helped batton down the hatches like a trooper.
The house music started and immediately began to offend, so we climbed to the top deck of the seaport to watch lightning bolts.
The night ended at Melanie's to drink wine, eat her good food and watch MJ classic video's until it was time to realize that the night was ending early.

The next day, Peter and Melanie came to see the last production of "The Brooklyn Play", which I've been working on with some friends for a while. There is a video that will be posted post-haste. I've recieved many good reviews and desires to watch the show. A few hours later, after another downpour and a sweet double rainbow (my blackberry don't save pics, dammit!!??!!), Nick showed up with his friend Lauren at a good bar with good music and an awfully small venue. They were sweet, and they included Nick and Lauren's supervisors band, who had a number of horns equal to the width of the venue and 1/26th the size of the crowd.
It was cool. I went home soon thereafter. What did you guys do next?

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Fucking Got That Shit

So I'll be teaching English in Japan come September through a company called Interac. Its the only company, other than JET, that teaches in actual school classrooms during the school day and not at an after-school English center. That's awesome, and totally how I want to teach. As for JET, I'm still waitlisted, so who knows maybe I'll pick that one up, but whatever, I fucking got that shit.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Movie Idea

The Future. The polar icecaps have not melted, and we are not entirely underwater. Al Gore’s crusade against greenhouse gasses in an effort to stop ebb global warming has succeeded and fostered a new environmentally conscious society. Beginning in 2008, the world no long elects conservative leaders but rather Barack Obama becomes a symbol of the perfect leader after which all other elected officials are modeled. Pollution is outlawed. World peace is achieved. Prisons become vacant save a few of the most hardened criminals. Hunger and starvation are but footnotes in history. Most importantly of all, there is no more litter on our streets—no landfills to be found. The Future. All garbage is shot into the sun.

The Future. Al Gore’s vision has become a reality and the world has become a utopia until one day it becomes earth’s worst nightmare. That’s right. A canister of space-garbage causes a chemical reaction that halts the fusion reaction taking place on the sun. What was once a battle against global warming has turned into a race against global chilling. The source of all life on earth has been extinguished! Something needs to be done but there is no time to train astronauts for this mission. With a ban on pollution, starting fires became highly illegal, Jack London’s To Build a Fire was banned, and the ability to do so fell out of common knowledge. We must call upon the arsonists in our prisons to re-light the sun!

Monday, June 22, 2009

The Hangover

Funny, but really not that great. 2.5/5 Raccoon City Police Officer Heads.

C'moooooon

Nick is gonna be here on Saturday. Andrew is moving here in August. Peter has a new place in...Queens...when are the rest of you chumps coming to New York?

Inversely, I'm very willing to visit Boston sometime this summer. Any draws?

Your love,
Your life,
Your dude,
Yeah
Jonah

Thursday, June 18, 2009

You won't believe what album this description is for

"guys seriously stop posting so much
well i figured i'd take 10 minutes to stop looking for the miley cyrus bj pics and post something
i've been listening to this a lot recently along with the new calexico and for some reason still elton john
i can't really hype this album up, either you like molina and his work with songs ohia and mag elec or you're just some fucking jerk off who is hitting refresh waiting for kylesa to record again
morgan freeman fucked his grand daughter
the world is a pile of asshole
listen to this while you hide yourself from its fucking decaying light of horse shit"

And its posted by Jed... I don't know if you've been checking out my other blog, www.lucidmedia.blogspot.com (no matter how many times I hock it), but if you have been, you know that the guy who runs it, Jed, is the biggest, stinkiest, most prolapsed asshole there ever has been. And he posted this: http://lucidmedia.blogspot.com/2009/06/magnolia-electric-co-josephine.html. WTF. Ya'll'l like it, guaranteed.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Anyone looking for a job?

This one comes courtesy of Meg while she was looking for jobs on craigslist:

Actor needed for emotional role � One day high pay


Date: 2009-04-17, 12:52PM EDT


My deceased aunt gave my two kids a Cocker Spaniel a few months back. The dog has been a terror and become overwhelming for me. I am a single father raising two young children. I cannot face telling the kids that the dog must go. I have found a good home for the dog, and just need someone to transport the dog, and play the villain.

Premise: You will be the dog walker hired by daddy (me) to walk Skittles. I will introduce you to the kids, and you will tell them you are going to help Skittles get her exercise when Daddy is too busy to walk her. At that point you will walk Skittles to your car and take her to her new family 20 minutes from my place. Then return holding just a leash. The story will be that Skittles broke free of the leash and took off. At this point prepare for crying, things being thrown at you, and possibly cursing. My kids are young and dramatic, their girls.

Pay will be $500. The job will take roughly 2 hours at best.

This job is ideal for an actor looking to diversify their role base, or someone who genuinely likes to make children cry. Acting experience is a plus, but not necessary. Please inform me of any prior experience in this kind of situation.


  • Location: DC, MD, VA
  • it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
  • Compensation:
PostingID: 1126876415

Bonnaroo Yo

So this year, as some of you may know, I decided to go to Bonnaroo. Here are some lists regarding my experience there:

Things I Saw a Lot of:
- Bad tattoos. (Sub-category: tree tattoos).Some highlights: a baby lion cub with angel wings in the tramp stamp region done in a biker-y style, a stoned caterpillar...etc.
- Men in speedos/short-shorts/diaper type things. One young man had on a pair of nude colored booty shorts with the word "Valor" printed on the buttcheeks.
- "Earth shoes": shoes one wears when they understand that the earth's terrain can be varied and treacherous, but they still, ya know, wanna feel the breeze on their foot. Heinous all around.
- Poop (from horse)
- Poop (from human)
- Ants (in my tent)
- Adorable children with frightening futures (see: their parents. Probably wearing Earth Shoes).
- People who came solely to see Phish.
- Ladies with armpit forests.

Things I Saw Little of, That I Perhaps Expected to See More of:
- Public drug overdoses. Though I did witness one. Jealous?
- Garden variety jam bands.
- Nudity of the Unattractive-Woman type.
- Lecherous old men.
- Borderline 'needs medical assistance' sunburns.


Questionable Things at the Roo:

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Penguins are real



Stanley Cup Champions!!!

Friday, June 12, 2009

Monsters Are Real

Ideally you'll watch at least some portion of all of these. If you can only watch one though, watch the last one.






Notice he either purchased or already owned a mask for this cover. Not many "artists" get into costumes for this kind of work.







You might think this next one doesn't belong for some reason, but you're wrong. It does. For every reason.



And Finally, The Finest Thing On the Internet Tonight:

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Just a suggestion

If you guys actually decide to listen to the music posts I link on this blog, I'd really love to hear what you think of it, either on the lucid comment's page or on reallife (preferably on lucid). I really try to post a, for lack of a better term, eclectic mix of music (and for lucid, that's a bit unorthodox - granted they post some good free jazz and comics occasionally, but it IS an incredibly metal oriented blog (mind you, mostly good, mind-expanding metal of a number of different sub-genres)). For a bit, I've been posting pop-ier stuff, and I'm now thinking that I'll be going back to the more orthodox black metal, but that of course involves the absolutely incredible neo-classical acoustic work, which occasionally features Gregorian chanting (Colin, I'm looking at you) that a lot of the harshest, most lo-fi BM bands tend to put out (Wolves in the Throne Room, Burzum, October Falls, (especially) Ulver, etc.), so keep an eye on this lucidmedia blog -I'm trying to make it as interesting as I can for people who aren't complete metal-heads.

And I got out of work early today because the power had to be shut off so the secret service, or some government agency, could check out that block for black-out security threats for when the G20 comes to PGH in September.

Oh, and finally, it sucks that there are creepy dudes pursuing chicks who aren't interested, but so long as they exist, I'm so happy that the lead manager of the restaurant I work at is one of them. Why? Because he's been accosting a hostess (keep in mind he's married and his wife is pregnant) and he's an asshole, even before I found out about this, but that's OK because the share-holders in the restaurant had a vote and I guess they voted him out. So, in this case, go creepy-married-sexual-predators, because it means I don't have to deal with yr dirty, offensive, asshole shit any more, and now everyone knows that you are, indeed, a creepy motherfucker. I hope you drown.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Game 7!

Not saying that the Pens WILL win (god knows they seem to miraculously fall apart when they play in Detroit), but god damn it feels good not to have repeated last year. Here's to the Pens taking the cup, and Pittsburgh in its entirety being hungover for a week when that happens.

Oh, and if for some reason you want to come to Pittsburgh to watch the game, I'm throwing a party friday night for it

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Google Reader

So most of you jerks are on The Mail By Google. Good, that's the first step. But by now you're all old enough to take the plunge into the bone-melting world of laziness that is Google Reader: the perfect application for the individual too busy and overworked to type a different URL for every site. Subscribe to a site on Google Reader, check for updates every day, and watch as you go from bright young adult to internet hermit. It's like Facebook, except you read updates about websites and not friends and also the websites don't know you or care about you.

But so OK confession: I'm asking you people to start using Google Reader as a favor. I'm on that shit all of my idiotic day, and I've somehow fallen in with a Weird Crowd. By sharing with three of my friends who went to Brown, I have found myself suddenly in a Brown-dominated sharing community, populated by people I half know who abuse phrases such as "Epic Fail" and "FTW."

Not that I don't appreciate the Browners for bringing a touch of science-oriented light into my eLife, but I'm in serious need of some obnoxious banter from morons I know all too well. Collin's already taken the plunge, y'all should follow suit. Share with me, idiots!

*~*Love, Peter*~*
<3

Thursday, June 4, 2009

More new music, and you might even like it!

I just posted my top 5 shoegaze albums by bands (1st gen) formed before '93 (excluding MBV and Slowdive) on my other blog that yinz all know so well, www.lucidmeda.blogspot.com. You should check it out.

I'm pretty sure I'll be down at Mellon Arena for the game tonight and I'm totally stoked. I saw the footage from last game and it was packed, or at least as packed as a place that is outside can be.

And in other news, I had another interview for a job teaching english in Japan in DC this past weekend which I absolutely dominated. I've never come out of an interview so confident... or even half as confident. I'm around 95% sure I'll be in Japan by September of this year. It really pays off tutoring Japanese, having studied abroad and put together community service projects, speaking frequently with the president of the Japan-america Society of Pennsylvania about planning ideas and volunteer/job opportunities, and having volunteered for an Asian film festival in the past 5 months. Awesome!

Digging Up Bodies for the Mayor

My AmeriCorps year is almost finished and I am no longer in the classroom. The children made some cards, rap songs, and dance moves to say goodbye to me. This week for me is mostly service projects. For instance, yesterday I started some prep work on a community garden for an elementary school (only Nick will know where this is but it is near the Anacostia metro). The first job was to tear down the old garden, which required machetes, chainsaws, and a back hoe. The whole day we kept smelling something that sort of smelled like a wet dog. Well the mayor decided to come to kick off his new garden initiative and hold a press conference.

As the camera guy was setting up he stumbled over something in the ground in the playground. We pushed back the mulch and discovered a dead dog. It must have been there at least three months and the stench was absolutely horrible. The guy refused to film and mayor's aides told us we had to get rid of it. I had to dig up this dead dog and throw it in the back of a van. Later, I was talking to a local resident and he said that it was hit by the car and I thought he said its name was Shotgun. I asked him why they named the dead dog. He replied that the guy's name who buried it was Shotgun. Despite the problems the mayor held his press conference (I am standing in background on local DC TV) and I still smell like dead dog. A pretty typical week for me.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Cross Blogulation

Let me hip you particular individuals to this fantabulous blog of photographical items which evoke a sense of fun within your soft minds.

Keggers of Yore

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Metroid times Team Ninja=semen explosions in the far corners of the galaxy

IGN Video: Metroid: Other M Nintendo Wii Trailer - E3 2009: Trailer

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Too bad I packed my Wii away a few weeks ago when I realized I'd succumbed to scampering around as a tarantula for video game "entertainment"

Monday, June 1, 2009

Troy


It seems like time has sped up since I moved up here, apparently it is now June and I have been in Troy for a little more than two months. Troy has exceeded expectations, tons of cool buildings, a lot of nice people and is full of the kind of faded glory that makes Upstate New York one my favorite places. The whole Capital Region has seen better days, with parts of Troy and Schenectady as run down and filthy as anywhere in the United States



To the left here is an example of one the less desirable neighborhoods in the area, the Hamilton Hill area of Schenectady, and the first stop on Saturdays for the Veggie Mobile. If you look closely at the house on the left, you'll notice that the siding is in fact roofing shingle, a fine example of preservation ingenuity in the face of insufficient maintenance funds.




Probably the best thing about the Veggie Mobile experience so far is how nice everyone that shops on the Truck is. To the left here is Jimmy, a Hamilton Hill regular, who consistently buys 5 cucumbers, 6 vine tomatoes and 2 pounds of seedless red grapes. Jimmy usually cruises up on his bike about 10 minutes after we arrive, and in addition to being slightly crazy, is one of the nicest people I've ever met.



I discovered this little gem yesterday, a pretty dramatic waterfall with a perfect swimming area at the bottom. I'm in the process of researching whether it is in fact swimmable, which given this areas rich industrial legacy it may well not be, but it's existence less than 15 minutes from my garden plot is a bonus nonetheless, and at the very least a good spot to go hang out at.



In other news, my friend/supervisor's band, Sgt. Dunbar and the Hobo Banned is doing a June residency at Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg every Saturday in June. They're fun to see live and since it's been a while since I've been to the big city, I'm going to drive down Saturday, June 27th to see the show then hang in Brooklyn through Monday and hopefully meet up with some of you NYC kids. Let's make plans.