Sufjan Stevens

Feeling this new Sufjan Stevens song.

Mellow, melodramatic, melancholy, but I like it.

Maybe that means I need to cheer my ass up?

At least I've got my alliteration down.

What to think

I tried to open a can a few nights ago,
but without the right opener I couldn't do it.
I squeezed and prodded.
Hell I even talked to it.
Tried the opener with the broken handle, and
the electric one with the shitty magnet.
None of them worked.
Who knew a can could become a puzzle?
A labyrinth with no exit?
I read the labels, but still no answers to this test.

Eventually, I just stared and thought...
if only I had the right opener.
One with a good handle,
or an electric one with a working magnet.
Yeah, that would've made it easy.
Now I just sit here hungry
and think
about those with the power to solve riddles.

The Sidecar

I had never had this drink, nor made it before tonight, but goddamn it is pretty good.

Here's the Sidecar.


2 oz Cognac (or Brandy), 1 oz Cointreau, 1/2 oz lemon juice, shake until chilled, garnish with a lemon peel.

Special shout out to Unika, because she's the only person I know who enjoys Cognac/Brandy.

**Quick follow up. Don't drink any of these drinks that I post on an empty stomach. Most of them are pretty damn boozey, and they'll either make you a little more intoxicated than you cared to be, or they'll put you to sleep. The latter is nice if you're looking for a nightcap.

A spacey love song

Great love song.

Cosmic video.

Cosmic great love song video.

Starting the night with some classicsss

If you're looking for some stuff to get your ass in the mood to crank it up, and let the eff loose, then look no further.

Here are some classic jamzzz to get shit started tonight!!!!


Math Head-Turn the Music Up (AC Slater mix).


Steve Aoki, Bloody Beetroots-Warp 1.9. I never get tired of this song ever.


Silvio Ecomo and Chuckie-Moombah (afrojack remix). Major Lazer played Warp and Moombah, back to back, at Coachella and the the crowd just lost their damn minds. It was pretty amaze!

Tonight's pre-game

It's my friend Randy's big b-day bash tonight, and because I can't afford to be drinking at the bar, I'm doin' the pre-game something special.

It'll feature my good friends the Dark N' Stormy, The Moscow Mule, and probably a visit from the Old Fashioned, and perhaps the Martini.

It's going to be fun!

Come by and meet them if you like. I'm sure it'll be a grand ol' time.

Wish me luck

I don't want to work any more damn retail jobs, or after school recreation jobs, or any job that I feel wastes my life.

I WILL not be some old man, 35 years from now, who has watched his life pass him by, while he worked the same job that he despised during all that time.

So tonight--or this morning now (thanks coffee)--I finished another step in getting somewhere in my life.

I've decided that I want to do what Scott Schuman, Guerre, Tommy Ton, Gordon Von Steiner, etc... do, which is photograph all the wonderful people in the world, and how they express themselves through the way they dress.

I just finished sending a pitch letter to the lifestyle producer of SF Gate.com. I don't know how many people visit that site, but I KNOW I can improve the traffic of it with some great street style photos.

Anyway, wish me luck my loyal followers.

Love you guys!

Swagggggg

Ya'll know my favorite shit is street style.

Check out some of these shotz!

The first two are from Guerre's street style blog, Swagger 360.


Greg Sato of Gentry Man


Gettin' '80s steez so hard!


And from Tommy Ton, for GQ


Angelo Flaccavento, Italian fashion journalist.

Boredom, side parts, and pomade

Super bored right now.



Oh well, at least my side part is looking good right?

J/k, I'm really blogging about this, because I'm excited over a new product I started using; not because I'm that into my hair.

This is Sweet Georgia Brown's pomade, and it's pretty slick--literally.



It doesn't really work if you want a matte look, for anything, but it does work amazingly well if you are trying to achieve some serious sheen '50s and '60s style!!!!

iTunes shuffle is a funny feature sometimes

Listening to my iTunes library, on shuffle, and it came up with these four songs in succession. The first two took me all the way back to high school. Ohhhhh man that was awhile back lol.





and then promptly...



followed by...

Don Draper

Because I love Mad Men so much, here's a little photo tribute to Don Draper.

Enjoy.

Melanie Laurent

Was watching a little bit of Inglourious Basterds, and I remembered Melanie Laurent.

I don't even like blondes, but she's super sexy.

She definitely needs to be in more stuff!!!

Can I make it better with the lights turned on?

Stadium style and this weekend's games

So a part of me was just being lazy, but a part of me was also waiting until after tonight's Monday Night Football game, between the 49ers and the Saints, to post about this weekends block of games.

Anyway, the Raiders won, and that made me happy.

We finally benched Jason Campbell, and put in Bruce Gradkowski, and all of a sudden the Raiders looked like they had an offense.

Gradkowski, did an excellent job of anticipating receivers coming open, and delivering balls on time on all the timing routes. He's also much more adept at extending plays from within the pocket. The team seems to respond to him--on both sides of the ball--and he definitely needs to stay the starter.

The 49ers meanwhile, (all of my friends favorite team) played good enough to win, but made too many costly mistakes. Alex Smith looked like a legitimate NFL QB, especially during that two minute drill, but unfortunately the D didn't get it done when it had too. The 49ers did such an excellent job of using different pressure packages to throw off Drew Brees and the Saints O, but when it mattered, seemed to just fall apart.

It's okay though, because it looks like Bay Area football might finally be back on the rise.

Interestingly enough though, I regretted not bringing a camera to the Raiders' game on Sunday, because I missed a grand street style photo.

While I was walking up to the stadium--away from a glorious tailgate--I spotted an a-typically dressed Raider fan. The dude was wearing one of those vintage NWA style Raider jackets, black skinny jeans, a black almost U-neck t-shirt, and a pair of Comme de Garçons Play Converse sneakers. He also had a pretty cool top knot hairstyle, with some Buddy Holly style glasses, and a thick beard. Unfortunately, my lack of a camera will leave this post without a cool image of the dude.

This time tomorrow

This photo made me think of this song.



The photo is from W, and it's of Jon Hamm and Rebecca Hall. (Yes it's Rebecca Hall day. The Town was really good, and she was really good in it, plus she's really nice to look at.)

Certainly, it's a stylish photo.

But doesn't this picture perhaps tell a story?

Not many photos, from fashion magazines, actually make you wonder what was happening at the time of the picture, but this one does.

You could write a poem about it, or maybe even a piece of flash fiction.

I'm going to work on that.

But for now, play the song, and imagine what you think is happening in the picture.

Ya' know, besides obviously two really good looking people, dressed nice, sitting together at a diner, and drinking coffee.

Beautiful things Saturday

Watching the beautiful game (soccer/football) on Gol TV, and enjoying a relaxing Saturday afternoon.

Why not share some more beauty?

Here's Freida Pinto murdering a pomegranate.



I love how GQ manages to combine sex appeal, with a sense of humor. Like seriously a pomegranate lol.

Also, fresh from The Town, (great movie btw) here's the lovely Rebecca Hall.

TGIF

Hopefully I get to check out The Town tonight, but we'll see.

And even if I don't, I just enjoyed my favorite cocktail, the Old Fashioned.

Sooo good.

I think I've finally perfected my recipe.


1/2 oz simple syrup, couple dashes Angostora bitters, stir, then add 2 oz bourbon whiskey, stir again, add ice and garnish with a lemon or orange peel. (Personally this comes down to personal preference. The lemon peel was in the original recipe, but a lot of people like the orange peel. I like them both, and switch between the two depending on what I have at my house. Also as an additional garnish you can throw a maraschino cherry on top. No muddled fruit, no soda water.)

Again, sorry for my crappy ass photos lately. I promise one day I'll get another camera.

Shark night

Randomly, tonight became shark night.

It started with my roommate and I watching Jaws, because he had somehow never seen it. My favorite animal is a shark, and it was watching this movie growing up that really got me into them.

Thankfully, my roommate really liked it. He was even surprised that it didn't feel as "dated" as he thought it would.



During Jaws, (and perhaps because of all the drinking Chief Brody, Quint, and Hooper manage to do in the movie) I felt like making a drink, so I mixed up a classic martini. I'm not the biggest martini fan, but I must say it definitely felt right tonight. Perhaps because it was a nice change of pace from a beer, or from anything bourbon related.


The Dry Martini (because you use dry vermouth instead of sweet vermouth... not because you use less of it).
1 1/2 oz of gin, 1/2 oz of dry vermouth, couple dashes orange bitters, garnish with a lemon peel.

After Jaws, we channeled surfed for awhile, watched the latest Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and then remembered we had Ultimate Air Jaws on DVR.

Ummmm, talk about amazing.

Nothing is crazier than watching a 20', one ton, animal hurling itself out of the water, and torpedoing its prey. And to make things even more amazing, was ace nature photographer Chris Fallows, using some camera called the "Phantom." Apparently, it has a frame rate of 1,000 frames a second.

Let's just say shit was beautiful.

Here's one of Chris' picks.

Continuing on with our Wes Anderson theme

I'm too tired to post anything original, but I don't want to not post, because I don't want to disappoint my loyal three followers.

So in light of that last statement, here's Wes Anderson's short-film prequel, to the full-length feature, The Darjeeling Limited, entitled Hotel Chevalier (in two parts).

I have no idea why the subtitles are in Spanish btw.

Part 1


Part 2


Love the song in the movie... so silly.

I don't have a speedo, but I do own a red cap

One of my favorite movies ever is Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

I love the movie's sense of humor, and I love its style.



It also has a bunch of quite simply amazing, David Bowie covers by super talented Brazilian Seu Jorge.



In honor of this movie, I'm wearing my "red cap" tomorrow.