my little corner of the world

this blog is going to be primarily used for posting things i draw or come up with while floating in outer space, hope you enjoy as much as i do

i've also decided to date this entry 12/21/2012, the last date listed on the mayan calender, and use this blog as a guide towards that inevitable rift in space time

26

i turned 26 a few months ago, life, as most things, gets so much more uneventful the older you get, the longer amount of time between life moments. think about it comparatively with the amount of ridiculous things that happen between conception and birth, between birth and age 5, between age 5 and age 15, between age 15 and age 25. then it kind of stops, life's inevitable entropic slowdown. just like the universe, in like a lion and out like a lamb (or depending on your view of things, a much more subtle, sinister lion.) today i was inspired in several ways to make a list of 26 albums that truly defined my life and to paraphrase - came at the right moments rather then those that are loved in a more constant basis - seeing the forest for the trees, and all that jazz. so without further rambling adieu, i present them to you, one at a time of course

1. stone temple pilots - core
this, along with the much less memorable pink floyd - division bell, was the first CD i ever bought, and pretty much my first favorite band. i remember going to the now defunct wall in the phillipsburg mall and being so embarassed to purchase a record with the word "sex" in it in front of my mom, then and now consistantly and unneccesiarely fearing her scrutiny. "plush" was the post nirvana pre-smashing pumpkins powerhouse that literally turned my 10 year old brain into
mush. i remember the next day at school i thought i was so cool that i had just purchased CDs that to me were beyond hip for a 5th grader (i had recieved the CD player as a christmas gift a few months earlier) until some more popular/meaner kid decided he was going to throw my backpack across the recess lot of my elementary school. i flipped, ran and grabbed the CDs out of my bag and lo-and-behold my prized possessions cases were both cracked. pulling them out to show the bully yelling "look what you did to my CDs." him, along with everyone else were extremely non-plussed with (read: lol'ing at) my fledgeling music collection. though not the first time i had felt like an outsider, it was the first time i was made to feel like an outsider because of something i intrinscily knew was cool. also one time at the seaside heights boardwalk i bought a stone temple pilots baseball cap which i wore without any reservation for most of middle school.

next: owen - no good for no one now

whats in that syringe, liquid sour dough bread? zzzzzz

dan on buying girls gifts

dan: see what i do
dan: is get a personalized gift
me: oh yeah
dan: and wrap it in like, something interesting
dan: last time i gave a girl a gift
dan: i got her a personalized smock from neighborhoodies
dan: with her sign on it
dan: and the color was the color of her birthstone
dan: and i wrapped it in a buncha qwantz and pbf comics that i printed out on topics we talked about
dan: and i made the card too
dan: at most, it cost me like 25 bucks

dan: wow dude
dan: i just had a real shameful moment
me: go on
dan: a moment i thought would never come
dan: a crossroads in my pseudo-neo-malthusianism
dan: i went on google
dan: and i got real psyched about the fact that you could customize your theme

extrapolation on returning

3 months and 5 days ago i stopped updating this blog. not because of a conscious choice i made to stop, this site isn't serious enough or widely read enough to even be able to call it "choosing to stop". enough to keep me entertained enough to not even worry about maintaining this site. plus i got twitter which i can use on my phone.

list of the things that i've been occupying myself with, talking about for the past few months

1. the phillies won the world fucking series
2. i voted for the black dude and he won
3. i got a promotion and an office at work
4. RIP david foster wallace
5. rowboat
6. www.youtube.com/mrchicity3

onward and upward

-sf

dusk at cubist castle

this blog is back from the dead

download the rowboat demo
rowboat - science/fiction demo [mediafire]

trains of thought

so i found out yesterday that my little sister keeps a 70 year old picture of my grandfather and great uncle sitting on a stone fence in her journal. i had never met my paternal grandfather, he died when my father was a young boy, and yesterday marked the first time i had ever seen a picture of him

maybe i think too much
i have a lot to think about

we are overdue for a change of seasons, crisp weather this week reminded me of autumn and created an even bigger longing for september, sweet september

god bless this man and his family

never once in my life have i had to deal with the serious injury or illness to someone i've been close too until this week

its a strange feeling

get better soon buddy

god bless america

in other news, my blackberry works again, expect mega-photoblog updates very soon

"the joy of baseball is that the season stretches out over a long period of time, and they play every night. That's what separates the game from other games. Shit's poetic, holmes. Baseball is poetic. It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone."

oh hey

"The world is about to end in 2012… ’cause the Mayans made calendars, and they stop at 2012. I got encyclopedias on the bus. The world is about to end as we know it. You can see it already. A planet doesn't exist - there's no more Pluto. Planes are flying into buildings - and not just the Twin Towers. Mosquitos bite you and you die. And a black man and a woman are running for president."

- lil wayne

so i'm forced to put my photoblog on hiatus for a month or two as the camera on my cellphone started acting wonky the other day and won't take any pictures, i hope i get to pick it back up again soon i really liked maintaining it. i have a few pictures on there now that i will attempt to upload soon

one of my top favorite things in life, as in one of the things that truly warms my heart is when friends think of me in context of my interests and hobbies enough to take pictures of/clip/record/notate things for me.

human beings came and went

finished infinite jest again this weekend, i usually like to avoid saying things like "such and such changed my life" but in a way i think this book sort of did.

dan: like gang thugs
dan: like thugs in gangs and shit all huddled around a cat and its lookin up at them all purrin
dan: and they're posin all tough
dan: and it's just chillin
dan: also the economist's special report for this week is so sweet you'd be real into it

officially my favorite baseball moment of the year so far [mascots]

link from deadspin

-sf

we dum

applebee's drink coaster napkins + blue crayon + hangman + space
in order

the honeydrips

currently opening up for jens lekman. i'd rather be blogging...