Friday, March 28, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
bullseye!
Artist: Cold War Kids lyrics
Album: Robbers & Cowards
Year: 2006
Title: Hair Down
Conversations that went on terrible paths
don't talk about that
No no, don't talk about that
We're coming back loud
and end this conversation
Said you let your hair down
you got enough to go round, oh mine
Said you let your hair down
but you've been telling me that since the day we meet
She's laughing like a choir girl
She's laughing like a choir girl
She's laughing like a choir girl
when she doubles over sounds like Hallelujah
She's talking to my mother
She's on the phone with my mother
She's talking to my mother
She's looking up at me like I'm a criminal
She bargains like a lawyer
sacrifice like a martyr
She's just her mother's daughter
cutting cloth and washing a pan
Man, we were still just babies
dreaming of the sixties
Man, we were still just babies
dressing up in rags with our wallets full
Now our pockets are shallow
our quart running low
I saw their empty but I'm just a fool
A woman in the kitchen told me that true love it waits
but of all the rules he lives by that's the one that he hates
Album: Robbers & Cowards
Year: 2006
Title: Hair Down
Conversations that went on terrible paths
don't talk about that
No no, don't talk about that
We're coming back loud
and end this conversation
Said you let your hair down
you got enough to go round, oh mine
Said you let your hair down
but you've been telling me that since the day we meet
She's laughing like a choir girl
She's laughing like a choir girl
She's laughing like a choir girl
when she doubles over sounds like Hallelujah
She's talking to my mother
She's on the phone with my mother
She's talking to my mother
She's looking up at me like I'm a criminal
She bargains like a lawyer
sacrifice like a martyr
She's just her mother's daughter
cutting cloth and washing a pan
Man, we were still just babies
dreaming of the sixties
Man, we were still just babies
dressing up in rags with our wallets full
Now our pockets are shallow
our quart running low
I saw their empty but I'm just a fool
A woman in the kitchen told me that true love it waits
but of all the rules he lives by that's the one that he hates
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
I'll know I'm old when...
I find Robin Williams' movies funny.
There will be a day that I'm in a movie theatre just rolling with laughter and I stop dead in my tracks in realization of the fact that I am suddenly old. It will be a sad sad day.
There will be a day that I'm in a movie theatre just rolling with laughter and I stop dead in my tracks in realization of the fact that I am suddenly old. It will be a sad sad day.
thoughts o' the day
1. Seagulls are not that great. Ok, so I bought a new alarm clock, and it has a bunch of bells and whistles including "soothing" sounds to put you to sleep. One of them is the sound of the ocean. I thought that this would be my favorite by far, but after listening to it I've decided that seagulls are effing annoying. Seriously I just want the whoosh sound, not a bunch of high pitched squeel screams in my ear when I'm trying to sleep. I mean honestly the only time we really enjoy that sound is when it's faint and far away. So would we really miss those birds if they were completely gone? I submit that we would not. Also, has anyone ever done the thing where you feed a seagull an alka-seltzer and it makes their insides explode? Yeah I guess it's kinda cruel, but it seems neat as all get out. I wanted to do it one time when I was in Boy Scouts, but my stupid scout master was being a bee-yotch. Mr. Gipson...or was it Gibson? I dunno, but he and his punk-arse kid were annoying. Plus he looked like this dude on Star Trek. No I'm not a Trekkie. Star Wars 4 Life!
p.s.- Englebert Humperdink has a song about homosexual seagulls. Yeah his name is awesome. This concludes the seagull portion of my thoughts.
2. Dangit, I know I had more thoughts than this...
3. SXSW (south by southwest) is coming up. I actually never went during the 5 years I lived in Austin, but it's a super cool event and I support it whole-heartedly. I hope it doesn't get much more popular though. There's a blog that I've mentioned before (gorilla vs. bear) that will be hosting/dj'ing a bunch of parties/shows during the weekend. they've got a bunch of playlists of some of the bands/artists coming on this website that I just discovered: imeem.com It's pretty cool. It's a lot like myspace but a little sleeker and way more geared towards music and video geeks. Anyways, check out his playlist and blog and check out info on SXSW. I like The Cool Kids in particular. Straight outta Chi-town! The beats are durty! that thought was heavily saturated with /s.
4. Gah I miss Austin. someone please help me plan a trip.
5. I like being a graphic designer.
6. Niko Cafe & Deli on Broad St. makes a mean salad. Moe's anywhere makes a punk-arse burrito.
7. Laughing is fun.
p.s.- Englebert Humperdink has a song about homosexual seagulls. Yeah his name is awesome. This concludes the seagull portion of my thoughts.
2. Dangit, I know I had more thoughts than this...
3. SXSW (south by southwest) is coming up. I actually never went during the 5 years I lived in Austin, but it's a super cool event and I support it whole-heartedly. I hope it doesn't get much more popular though. There's a blog that I've mentioned before (gorilla vs. bear) that will be hosting/dj'ing a bunch of parties/shows during the weekend. they've got a bunch of playlists of some of the bands/artists coming on this website that I just discovered: imeem.com It's pretty cool. It's a lot like myspace but a little sleeker and way more geared towards music and video geeks. Anyways, check out his playlist and blog and check out info on SXSW. I like The Cool Kids in particular. Straight outta Chi-town! The beats are durty! that thought was heavily saturated with /s.
4. Gah I miss Austin. someone please help me plan a trip.
5. I like being a graphic designer.
6. Niko Cafe & Deli on Broad St. makes a mean salad. Moe's anywhere makes a punk-arse burrito.
7. Laughing is fun.
Monday, March 10, 2008
I'm going here...
this is the website of the parent organization organizing or facilitating the mission trip I'm going on in June/July: http://www.410bridge.org/If you go to the "where we serve" and go to the Joska village, you can see a really cool video. I'm going to Ngaamba, but you can get an idea. I'm getting stoked! Pray for Kenya and yer boy!
Random thoughts from the weekend...
1. Indian food is very good if you get the right thing. The rice is different, and gooood.
2. 10,000 B.C. was a BAD movie.
3. Texas won the Big 12 regular season championship and my favorite NBA team (Phoenix) beat my least favorite team (San Antonio) , so it was a good basketball weekend.
4. Lindsey has cool style and is attractive.
5. Trivial Pursuit isn't fun when you're getting hosed by the question selection gods.
6. I ate pretty heartily and heavily, I gotta chill and get more consistent in my workout.
7. my phone broke. me angry.
8. I can't roller skate and I wish I could.
9. lust is bad.
10. I love my small group fellas.
2. 10,000 B.C. was a BAD movie.
3. Texas won the Big 12 regular season championship and my favorite NBA team (Phoenix) beat my least favorite team (San Antonio) , so it was a good basketball weekend.
4. Lindsey has cool style and is attractive.
5. Trivial Pursuit isn't fun when you're getting hosed by the question selection gods.
6. I ate pretty heartily and heavily, I gotta chill and get more consistent in my workout.
7. my phone broke. me angry.
8. I can't roller skate and I wish I could.
9. lust is bad.
10. I love my small group fellas.
Friday, March 7, 2008
I'm real.
faint of stomach be warned:
you know you're in trouble when a dude comes barrelling in the bathroom like he's just seen a great white shark, and almost knocks over the stall when trying to get to the toilet.
so it should be of no surprise when that dude's crap smells so incredibly bad that you have to quit your session because you're afraid the air in the room may be toxic now.
you know you're in trouble when a dude comes barrelling in the bathroom like he's just seen a great white shark, and almost knocks over the stall when trying to get to the toilet.
so it should be of no surprise when that dude's crap smells so incredibly bad that you have to quit your session because you're afraid the air in the room may be toxic now.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
My werk pt. dos
Alright kiddos, here is some more of my graphic design that I've done at the AJC. Let me know what you think. Be honest. brutally honest.
Here's a piece that started out much more modern and clean but was changed through a number of revisions into this. I don't hate it, I mean it works, I just like the previous version a little better. I'm still proud of it though. My previous idea is below it.
Next are a couple of ads we did for a promotion with the Braves. I was really proud of this one. I had less creative restrictions and the campaign was huge. It included: print elements (in the paper, posters at Turner field), online elements (banner advertisements on ajc.com and braves.com, and email blasts), a tv slide that would pop up during the games while you were watching, and some of it was even seen on the LED boards and jumbo-tron at Turner Field. I was very proud.
This was a print ad for this contest we had to promote school spirit. I liked it, it was a good collaborative effort.
Finally, this project was fairly frustrating. I created a look that I thought was very creative, classy and unique. My problem is that I created it for a bunch of auto dealers, a group for whom those words have never been used to describe. They thought it was weird and slightly trashy because of the Vegas reference in the sign. I hope you agree that the eventually design is much more gaudy and "trashy" but whatever, it's the biz. The first was my original design, the second is what they eventually went with. The designs I chose were a flyer, but there were multiple print executions.
Here's a piece that started out much more modern and clean but was changed through a number of revisions into this. I don't hate it, I mean it works, I just like the previous version a little better. I'm still proud of it though. My previous idea is below it.
Next are a couple of ads we did for a promotion with the Braves. I was really proud of this one. I had less creative restrictions and the campaign was huge. It included: print elements (in the paper, posters at Turner field), online elements (banner advertisements on ajc.com and braves.com, and email blasts), a tv slide that would pop up during the games while you were watching, and some of it was even seen on the LED boards and jumbo-tron at Turner Field. I was very proud.
This was a print ad for this contest we had to promote school spirit. I liked it, it was a good collaborative effort.
Finally, this project was fairly frustrating. I created a look that I thought was very creative, classy and unique. My problem is that I created it for a bunch of auto dealers, a group for whom those words have never been used to describe. They thought it was weird and slightly trashy because of the Vegas reference in the sign. I hope you agree that the eventually design is much more gaudy and "trashy" but whatever, it's the biz. The first was my original design, the second is what they eventually went with. The designs I chose were a flyer, but there were multiple print executions.
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