I found this awesome post on albotas.com and figured I need to spread the goodness. Don’t really have time to research and figure out who made these but I thought they did a good job of stating a valid point with very valid imagery without getting too doushey (cough cough truth campaigns) plus I’ve always been a sucker for military stuffs. Either way kudos to whoever brained this campaign as it’s great.
Haven’t really been into toys much due to financial constraints but I recently saw this guy online and thought he looked bad ass. It’s a Real x Head mini figure, the character is Thunder Lagoon. The black rub on green is pretty sick and he just a mean lookin little scaly dude.
Blind Lemon Jefferson is pretty much the first black dude to get paid for making awesome music in the 20’s. He was indeed blind and belted out the blues like nothing anybody had heard at the time. Blind Lemon did pretty good for himself, surely not as good as his record label but somethings never change. Another famous Blind Lemon tune is Black Snake Moan but I chose this song because I would like my loved ones to see that my grave is kept clean. Don’t forget about me when I die dammit! And please don’t let the weeds grow all crazy around it.
I love the way he just has a string holding his guitar up rather than an actual strap. The music is raw, the sounds of bad lighting and thin coats of dirt and grime on a chair in a dingy barn with the door slightly ajar. I can see myself walking up to it and seeing a little bit of the bad lighting escaping the door and with it the sound of the Blind Lemon blues and as I start to take it all in some grown person says “bow you’s butta git beck inside nah!”
I stumbled upon this looking for something different but I found it to be a very interesting (and useful) approach to dealing with the notoriously useless internet explorer browser. This eliminates having to use conditional statements and style sheets just for specific browsers (dreamy). It seems almost too good to be true. The downside of it being your css won’t validate… sometimes I care sometimes I don’t, I dunno. It’s pure genius! Who would’ve known all it takes is a * and an _ in your css!?!?
Kudos to Brian Cray, the article was on his site. Here’s the link: http://briancray.com/2009/04/16/target-ie6-and-ie7-with-only-1-extra-character-in-your-css/
seriously skip to about 2:33 hahah – “Here’s to yeh dawg!” — POW! O.H. is the man and his old lady does not like the sound of his gun cuz it hurts her ears
So I’m feeling good today. Just took advantage of a Mishka 25% off sale, about to go get 40% off at the levi’s store and I still can’t decide whether I’m to get my acoustic guitar repaired or if I’m going to buy a cheap-o uke. I also have a package at my moms pad which I believe might be a zudon from the evil genius Paul Kaiju.
And I’m feeling so I will leave you with this gem to remind you of how good you got it.
Leadbelly is the shit, is that a ten or twelve string guitar!?!?!? see more here
This is the sound I’ve been craving lately. It is of course mountain banjo but there is something to it that is kind of creepy sounding (make the sheep scared). It has a repetition to it that I enjoy a bit more than regular bluegrass style pickin’. Plus Dock Boggs is just a G look at this guy…
and I guess if you want to see what his music has inspired in others
Man there is nothing I hate more than when I buy a cheap lower shelf liquor that turns out to be better than most most mid shelf and dare I say… even some top shelfers! I got this tasty treat for $18.99 and the regular Old Forester is $13.99! I chose the Signature bottle because I figured the 100+ proof would give me more bang for my buck (terrible way to look at things I know but times is hard).
It was like me and this bourbon have known each other all along. It is delicious! At first sip I thought it had a copper flavor thing going but it went away. Now all I taste is good bourbon juice. It’s more on the heavy mellow side with hints of vanilla and is very easy down the hatch. I like it with a splash of water.
I am most interested in trying some of the Old Forester specialty bottles, I am sure they must be great. Just remember that it is what’s on the inside of the bottle that counts.
Anyone could tell you I know diddly about horse racing. I just know Woodford is all up on it and it makes for great Saturday drinking/loafing. Keep it clean Kentucky! Lets not go taking out any horses this year.
EDIT: Yes, I spelled Eight Belles wrong… on purpose… yeah
I forgot I took this picture until last night when I synced my phone to my computer but this was in the Claremont Graduate University bathroom when Xty and I were there for her conference (She did great btw).
Now a reason I enjoy my ionz149 moniker (which about 40% of the time I write ions149 or ions) is that nobody EVER uses it for ANYTHING. It is always available as a login or user name because it’s totally random. I mean really wtf is ionz149 anyways. Not many people know this but I started writing ions in highschool because of some freshman biology class I was taking in my junior year (HAH!) I kid you not, I never paid attention and was always doodling random crap in my dividers that peaked my interest. And like that I wrote ions a few times after the teacher was flappin his face about atomic particles and thought hmm these letters are nice together. At some point the number 149 was appended to it (I blame the hip hop) The rest my friends is history.
All that aside I sleep very well knowing no matter what I am more than likely the one and only ionz149. And here I am taking a piss (yes in a stall, that’s how I roll… the bathroom was empty and I still took the stall) and at first I thought I was reading it wrong and it was some other name but I looked again and it was clear as day… IONS!!!!!!
I instantly fell to my knees looked up at the ceiling and flailed my first while screaming “DAMN YOU IONS FROM UA!!!!! DAAAAAAMN YOOOOOOU!!!” then I got up and snapped a photo with me phone. I think I’m okay with it though, I don’t really write so there should be room for the two of us. Also if I am not mistaken I believe UA is on some hefty, half way decent graffiti for a while now.
The tough take shits in the alley. My alley is often a look at the grim tweeker life that surrounds my little gated complex. This marvelous work of thick, chunky drip was left right next to where I park my car. The dude pooped on the other side of the fence but his dooks managed to slide on down the other side and onto the floor.
Nothing major, carry on… carry on.