The Feeling @ ToneVendor

The Feeling @ ToneVendor
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Here are some pics from last nights show

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To-Do List



Go home

Let the dog out to go pee

Feed dog

Go to Berkeley

Eat dinner at Long Life Vegi House
(vegi chicken with green beans in black bean sauce, long life vegi chicken...occasionally sweet-and-sour vegi pork...it's all about the vegimans baby!)

Drive to SF

Watch the New Pornographers

Drive home and arrive super late at night

Get up bright and early and go to work!

No-To-Do list



Wanna get something done today? Here's what NOT to do!

Great advice taken from 52projects.com

Do not check your email.
Do not go to nytimes.com.
Do not decide to organize your cd rack.
Do not turn on the television.
Do not clip your nails.
Do not stare at your bald spot in the mirror and begin to calculate how much time your hair has left.
Do not start catching up on the DVDs that have arrived from Netflix.
Do not update your Netflix queue.
Do not Google all your Exes.
Do not Google yourself.
Do not dust the house.
Do not sweep the floors.
Do not take out the trash.
Do not get sucked into the argument when your significant other starts screaming about the fact that you drank the last of the milk and even though you said you would get more you didn't. Just apologize, apologize, and then apologize again. (But don't be tempted to apologize "for being such a horrible person" – that is a sign that you are getting drawn into a bigger dust-up. Stay on target with your apology, explain that you have serious work to do, and get back to your project.)
Do not decide to make yourself an elaborate lunch.
Do not take a nap.
Do not change the cat litter.
Do not decide to figure out the calorie count of your recent meals.
Do not pay your bills.
Do not balance your checkbook.
Do not freak out that you have no money.
Do not go into the bathroom and give your Academy Award acceptance speech.
Do not put on Prince and party like it's 1999. (Well, okay, maybe ONCE, just to get you fired up about your project.)
Do not start going through your closet.
Do not decide to floss.
Do not organize your spice rack.
Do not update your address book.
Do not make a list of things to do.
Do not watch Oprah.
Do not listen to NPR.
Do not start to think you don't have what it takes to actually do your project.
Do not read any further on this post – caught you! Stop reading now and get to work on your project.
Do not check what time the movie is playing later.
Do not decide to send an angry email to that annoying friend who recently pissed you off.
Do not play with the cats.
Do not clip your nose hairs.
Do not start trying to organize a dinner party.
Do not start wondering if that mole that seems a little bigger than the last time you checked it might be skin cancer.
Do not start going through all the papers on your desk.
Do not make a list of all the things you have to get done at work.
Do not start thinking you are never going to finish.
Do not make a quick run to the grocery store.
Do not search for gray hairs.
Do not start fantasizing about sex.
Do not decide to make a call to your significant other to tell him or her that you don't think you've been getting any, and that you better damn well get some tonight (you know, because that one works every time).
Do not go to IMDB to see who that actor was in that movie you saw the other night. Or what that girl from that show from way back when is doing now.
Do not start perusing your own bookshelves.
Do not organize your computer files.
Do not clean out your inbox.
Do not click into the online gossip sites.
Do not pick your nose.
Do not start reading old letters from old flames.
Do not crack open a beer.
Do not pluck your eyebrows.
Do not to give yourself a facial.
Do not start going through your photos.
Do not return your phone calls.
Do not start reading your old journal entries.
Do not start thinking about how your project is lame.
Do not scrub the tub.
Do not clean the toilet.
Do not open a bottle of wine.
Do not start wading through all the magazines you subscribe to but never read.
Do not decide to start a screenplay (unless, of course, that is your project).
Do not post to your blog.
Do not pull the ATM receipts out of your wallet and start entering withdrawals into your checkbook.
Do not get up and keep getting yourself a glass of water.
Do not refill the ice trays.
Do not do the dishes.
Do not start picking off the wax on your candle holders.
Do not start worrying about all the time you've already wasted.

New Reality Show

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iPod swap: Staring Leon S. Levinstien and Suresh J. Chackowski.

Two every day dudes with two similar iPods and two similar yet slightly different tastes in music. Suresh really likes that folk music. Leon likes that hip-hop. What will happen when the two of them swap iPods?

Tune in next week to find out.

Completely ripped off from Chris's online thingy...

Turn on your randomized mp3 (or similar such device) playing program or device and list the first 20 songs that plays on it, then with the title and artist name of each song, post a picture which you find on google image search of said artist along with it. Skip any artists that might appear twice. You also must post anything that appears, no matter how lame or retarded. You have the song, if you hate it so much as to be ashamed of it, you should have deleted it.

Here's mine:

1. James Brown - I Feel All Right (which is a pretty amazing interlude from Live At the Apollo Vol2 but best heard along with the songs it's sandwiched between)


2. Stark Reality - Comrades


3. Kenny Rogers and The First Edition - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town


4. Bob Dylan - To Ramona


5. Beat Happening - Dreamy


6. Madvillain - Eye


7. Haircut 100 - Love Plus One


8. Monk Hughes & The Outer Realm - Liberated


9. Th' Losin Streaks - Tried To Tell


10. The Zombies - A Rose for Emily


11. The Jesus and Mary Chain - You Trip Me Up


12. Radiohead - We Suck Young Blood (Your Time Is Up.)


13. The Clean - At The Bottom (had to fudge a bit and type "The Clean New Zealand band" to get a picture of the band)


14. Erland Øye - The Athelete


15. Broadcast - Hawk


16. The Who - Lubie (Come Back Home)


17. Pipas - Jean C


18. Fast Cars - The Kids Just Want to Dance


19. Crimpshrine - My Friend


20. Fried Chicken - Funky DJ

Cool flask



I kid you not...A co-worker of mine just came back from a developers conference and brought me back a metal flask with "Microsoft Windows SDK" printed on the side. Tight!

New carpool partners



This week I started carpooling again. These gas prices were blowing my mind and I had no other choice. Luckily all three of them are pretty cool. We're getting a late lunch together at BJ's Brewery then going home today. Perfect!

Fear is the mind killer...



If you've been following this fascinating blog of mine, you know I'm reading and watching the Dune series. Right now I am reading "Children of Dune", and so far it's great.

All of the Dune books take place in our universe, but over ten thousand years from now, therefore the story is considered Sci-Fi, but really the whole focus of the [book] series is religion, politics and how they can be used to manipulate societies and power. There is also a strong emphasis on character development, which causes the story to move at a snails pace, but makes for a great, involved read.

David Lynch tried making the story of Dune about spaceships and laser guns, which made the movie pretty convoluted and confusing to watch if you are actually trying to figure out the plot. No character development, and the storyline seems secondary to making a weird sci-fi movie geared towards the post-Star Wars crowd.

I tried watching Dune the mini-series, and although it follows the storyline almost annoyingly perfect as far as dialog is concerned, the production is one step up from an Ed Wood film. Maybe Ed Wood meets Dr. Who. It seems like whoever directed/cast the series didn't really even bother to find actors that matched the description of the characters in the book. I figured the Fremen would all be mysterious, fierce warrior types who were advanced in technology, yet in the miniseries, Stilgar, the leader of the Fremen tribe who had to basically kill his way to the top, is a fat, balding white dude with a weird Italian-ish accent. That was just one example of misrepresentation of characters. There are many more flaws that I wont go into right now. The Fremen thing pushed me over the edge and I couldn't stand it anymore, so I sent the whole thing back to netflix without even finishing. I know I know...the movie is never as good, but come on man!!! At least try.

Sorry, I got a pubic hair stuck in my throat



People think Larry David is a jerk. I think he's just displaying brutal honesty, even if it comes across as offensive/insensitive at times. People don't like to hear the truth most of the time.

Just an observation. Nothing more...nothing less.

Show of the summer? Party of the year?



Fun times...Courtesy of the oldest Chris in the world.

I was up by 7:00am the next morning due to prior obligations called frisbee golf. I made it, but it was tough. I spent the rest of the day laying around, watching Dune the miniseries (terrible acting, but way more true to the book than the movie, which had even worse acting), mowing the lawn and baking banana bread.

More pics of Seattle





From EMP




Niki got to meet Lemony Snicket


That weird thing in the sky people associate with Seattle


Famous Flying Fish


Dudes makin' cheese

Term for the new generation of hipster youth: "the white belts"



Back from Seattle/Bumbershoot!

I'll have more pictures tomorrow (when Niki comes back with the camera).

Seattle is a nice clean city, but I think I still like SF best. Nothing there really rocked my world except maybe the quiche I had at Cafe Ladro.



Breakfast at The 5 Spot was pretty good. I pussied out on getting the french toast (made with pound cake) but I got a pretty killer omelet instead, but I'll take my two sac breakfast locations over that place any day.

Hung out with some white belts at the Cha Cha Lounge

Kicked it in the posh hotel

Got rained on.

Glad to be home.

Black people do this... White people do that.... Do those pics really need to be posted on anymore blogs? Nope.
more puppy instead...