the american dollar (the band)...

I saw this video (made by my heroes at Onesize) a few weeks ago. After watching their new demo reel several times I thought I'd take another look at the video... which is great... but the music caught me this time. At work this morning I bought "A Memory Stream." Actually bought it from iTunes via my phone... crazy times we're living in. I've listened to it at least 3 times today, possibly 4.

Great music, beautiful video (which deserves to be seen in higher quality than youTube so check out Onesize.nl and while you're there check out their reel... they seriously do some of the best work going.

do these things happen to anyone else?

Bored today... thus the multiple posts. I met my buddy Matt (he's the guy on the cover of that magazine) for some coffee in Center City today. It was fairly nice out so I walked up. After hanging out / running errands with him for a few hours we parted ways at 15th and Chestnut. I decided I'd walk down 15th to Federal or so then cross over to get to my place. This seemingly random parting point for Matt and I turned into two very odd occurrences for me on my walk home.

#1. In front of McGlinchey's (Philly's #1 dive bar) I walk right pass a guy in a tuxedo. Full on tails and white bow tie. As I pass I think, "look at that guy, who in the world would be here wearing that." Then I realize that its my friend Ben. I was too far past him to yell, but I know for sure it was him. When I got home I sent him a message on facebook and I saw a status update from earlier to day, "Ben is all tuxedoed up." So weird.

#2. A girl I work with had her car "stolen" over the weekend. She'd parked her car around 13th and Pine and went back to get it and it was gone. There was a no parking sign so she thought it might have gotten towed. She called around and no one had it in their lot. The police were no help, they told her it had probably been stolen and there was basically nothing they were going to do about it. They did tell her that on occasion if people are parked in places with temporary no parking signs posted their cars are towed away and left on a different street... usually within a 3 to 4 block radius. She bought a new car this past Thursday I think, after she'd given up hope of finding her old Corrolla with a Ron Paul sticker on it. On 15th Street between Carpenter and Washington I found her Corrolla with a Ron Paul sticker on it. (almost a mile from where she'd parked) I called her an told her where it was... she was astounded... as was I.

Bizzarro-ville. Do these things happen to anyone else?? What are the chances?

good news... bad news...

This came up on my facebook page, thing, today.
I can't win.

sweet subway poster...

Saw these here. Awesome.

oh-ba-ma!!!

I'm an Obama man, don't misunderstand me... but I've been pretty uncomfortable with all the hoopla the last week. Giant concerts... dramatic orations by celebrities with full symphony accompaniment... multiple gallery exhibitions with massive bodies of work. It's just been a little odd. He's got to be the most well marked man (or perhaps most well marketed idea) that I'll see in my lifetime. And I suppose that's ok... he seems to be a man worth marketing.

I saw these today. (from fffound.com originally here) I like the absurdity of them. I don't want to come across cynical, I love what Obama has said he stands for and I'm hopeful that he really means it.

a networking genius??

I just might be.

A guy I work with has been telling me about how nice it's been since getting an XBox 360 and Xbox live. He mostly uses it to watch streaming Netflix movies. I used to have XBox live, but since moving into the new apartment I cancelled my membership because of how inconvenient it was going to be to network my XBox. My router is all the way down the hall where my desktop computer (which I use as a media server) is so I can't move it. I didn't want to run a 150ft cable down the hall either. So I figured out how to use my laptop as a wireless receiver and boost a wired connection from it to the XBox. It's working splendidly so far and I've enjoyed watching two episodes of 30 Rock. When Haley gets back I'll enjoy "Man on a Wire" with subtitles. It was tough to understand the first time since half of it was in French and the rip I had of it didn't include subtitles. Soon I'll also enjoy getting my butt handed to me by some 12 year olds in Halo.

traveling to nyc?

Here are a couple legit things I learned on my latest trip to nyc.

1. Bolt-Bus on Tuesday night rules. I paid $10 and arrived in midtown in two hours.
I'm almost positive there is no possible way to get there cheaper. If I had driven, the tolls would have cost more. The train costs $35 more at best and is only about 40 minutes faster. (but because of how the schedule worked out I actually only got there 20 minutes later than the train would have gotten me there.)

2. iPhone & Google maps is the smartest public transit navigator that I'll ever be able to fit inside my pocket. We had no clue what we were going to do... and little clue how to get there and we did things and got there fairly easily. We also had no idea how to get to JFK from where ever we might end up that day... but we did that too. And with my iPhone I was able to make it from JFK back to Penn Station all by myself in time to catch my train back to Philly.

That's about it.

so far this morning...

this is what I've done. (A is hidden by D... same location)

and... I was still the first person in the office today.

south philly 6:30am...

Had to take my car to get a few things checked out last week. After I dropped off the Breeze, I had some time to kill before meeting Haley for breakfast so I walked around for about half an hour.

carnival cruise lines = purveyors of lies

Fact: this didn't happen. The crowd in this commercial was definitely not the crowd that the fine folks at Carnival made wait around for more than 3 hours before sending home without the satisfaction of seeing a pinata smashed with a wrecking ball.

The lama stood in an empty parking lot for a week after the "event" then they quietly took it down around 9:00 on a sunday. No wrecking balls, no candy, no fanfare, nothing but a bunch of lies.

a.a. bondy

So Casey posted this link a while back (because he's cooler than me). I've probably listened to these songs 20 times over the past few days. I have a tough time figuring out why I like the music I do.... Scandinavian metal... hymns... southern folk. But whatever it is that makes me like stuff, A. A. Bondy has an awful lot of it. I love it.

Check out some of his stuff.

fishtown...

Haley and I rocked out the last of 2008 (best year of my life) by taking some pictures of Fishtown. It was cold. It was awesome.