unemployment has done me some good. got to travel. lost a whole lot of weight. exercising like a madman, making homemade granola, limoncello, plum wine and now baking...

• fudge with almonds
• banana bread with pecans
• pumpkin bread with walnuts
• snickerdoodles
• brownies

• A new car for my mom (this way I get my accord back)
• A ceiling fan for the dining room at my moms house (looks to be a hot summer)
• Repave the side of the driveway (yeah i know odd huh)
• A new macbook (my 6 year old G4 powerbook the workhorse that it is will finally go to the great laptop heaven in the skye)
• Speakers for the dj setup (i donated my huge bookshelf ones since they weren't space friendly)
• He...

who needs face to face interaction anymore? We getz cyber with it!

• www.linkedin.com (i need a job)
• www.facebook.com (still pretty retarded)
• www.myspace.com (an oldie but goodie)
• www.muxtape.com (yes!)
• www.tumblr.com (the verdict is still out)
• www.___________.com (secret blogs)
• www.yelp.com (by far my most favorite)
• www.twitter.com (crazy)

theres probably more...

• Write my novel.
• Write a screenplay.

• Yogurt (i hope i'm alive to report back on this one)
• Choya (plum wine made with ume and vodka)
• Granola (it rocks)
• Limoncello (i'm excited about this)
• Kombucha (this may be the most difficult of them all)
• Fudge (i've got a sweet tooth right now)

these are movies i need to watch when i get back, hopefully in one sitting but if not i will break it up into two.

• kite runner (just finished the book and its good although it seems to move too fast at the end)
• Juno (michael cera? oh hells yes!)
• dewey cox (the initial previews looked like ass but the extended ones make this look like a real winner)
• I Am Legend (cast away meets 28 days later?)
• Charlie W...

movies i saw over 2 days in nyc and 2 day in sj.

• no country for old men (really good, javier bardem is a badass and one scary dude)
• michael clayton (surprisingly good, not to be confused with the tampa bay buccaneers wide receiver)
• gone baby gone (OMAR indeed! decent)
• love in the time of cholera (wack. wick wick wack! worst dialogue ever)
• lars and the real girl (yeah soft as fuck but good as hell. ryan...

• carne asada burrito
• ribeye steak medium rare
• korean food
• a burger from Sliders
• pho
• pizza my heart
• beer
• wine
• guacamole, salsa and chips
• bacon

• the road - cormac mccarthy
• sound bites - alex kapranos
• the kite runner - khaled hosseini
• a decade of curios people and dangerous ideas - chuck klosterman
• city of quartz - mike davis
• the sushi economy - sasha issenberg
• harry potter & the deathy hallows - jk rowling

too bad i can't drive and read.

1. silver oak napa valley cabernet 2001
2. pine ridge stags leap cabernet 2001
3. jordan sonoma county cabernet 2001
4. joseph phelps cabernet 2001
5. st. supery cabernet 2001
6. cameron hughes napa valley cabernet 2002
7. groth oakville cabernet 2003
8. silverado cabernet 2003
9. stags leap cabernet 2003
10. sequoia grove cabernet 2003
11. pine ridge rutherford cabernet 2003
12. provenance rutherford cabernet 2003
13. st. francis sonoma county cabern...

1. bay 2 breakers (2007)
2. la marathon (2007)
3. rosarito to ensenada bike ride (2005)
4. bike for breath (2003)
5. camp pendleton mud run (2002)

• Jordan 2001 Cabernet Sauvignon (i copped this at the korean grocery store of all places! $45!!!)
• Silver Oak 2001 Cabernet Sauvignon (safeway out in pleasanton, 465 its usually a $100 bottle!)
• Silverado Vineyards 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon
• Franciscan 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon
• Markham 2001 Cabernet Sauvignon (safeway has solid deals on wines as long as you buy 6 bottles oooof!)
• Stags Leap 2003 Cabernet Sauvig...

1. Joseph Phelps '04 Cabernet Sauvignon
2. Pine Ridge '03 Cabernet Sauvignon
3. Groth '03 Cabernet Sauvignon
4. Conn Creek '03 Cabernet Sauvignon
5. Provenance '03 Cabernet Sauvignon
6. Simi '04 Cabernet Sauvignon
7. St. Francis '03 Cabernet Sauvignon
8. Chateau Souverain '03 Cabernet Sauvignon
9. Alexander Valley Vineyards '04 Cabernet Sauvignon
10. Penfold's Koonunga Hill '04 Cabernet Sauvignon

The way i look at it, knowing I have soli...

1. liberty school 2004 cabernet (12bucks!)
2. bv coastal 2004 cabernet (2pk for $13!!!!)
3. alexander valley vineyards 2004 cabernet ($13)
4. simi '04 cabernet ($17)
5. st. francis '03 cabernet ($14)
6. chateau souverain '03 cabernet ($15)

these are the recent ones i bought. I have finally broken into the $10-20 range which is kind of scary since i usually finish a bottle within 2-3 days. I drink for health benefits, rea...

1. silver oak we started off with the cream of the crop and that shit was banging! bottles going for a hundo plus, can i live?
2. plumpjack besides a cool cat chilling outside, the tastings were not very generous but still pretty good, we drank merlot to much of our dismay
3. sequoia grove the most informative of all, the lady behind the counter was very helpful and knew her shit and the wines were delicious...

1. dick starbuck
2. horace rainmaker
3. gordon farmer
4. melvin neeroy
5. enrique maldonado
6. winston benneton III

these sound awfully a lot like porn names too, nothing like a job on the side i suppose.

1. get there late. high probability that folks will be sloshed therefore you have greater chances of engaging in incoherent conversation with them.
2. drink it up! might as well get hammered and get loosened up.
3. stick with the folks you know and then make your way into random fools convos.
4. eat! what better way to introduce yourself then when bumping into peoples hor deurves plates.
5. keep on dranking.

1. christy turlington
2. ed burns

1. Nobu
2. The Good Fork
3. Lupa
4. Shake Shack
5. Pink Berry
6. Gray's Papaya
7. the aforementioned pizzerias

1. Grimaldi's Pizza
2. Lombardi's Pizza
3. Bleeker Street Pizza

1. take the brooklyn lager brewery tour
2. eat at BLT steak
3. have dinner with more celebrities <-- hahaha

1. vitamin water, formula 50 (shit made me bulletproof)
2. dunkin donuts coffee (according to john goodman, NY runs on dunkin)
3. nightly ice cold foot bathes
4. new york city tap water
5. the sightseeing bus w/ a huge picture of kelly clarkson pushing vitamin water
6. the food
7. late night take out from uncle liao's
8. not having to go to freaking work

1. wheres the kfc?
2. ni99a i whooped his ass!
3. want some pumpkin bread?
4. she was caught having gay relations with a prostitute.
5. f*ck all yall! yall keep worshipping idols, yall sports stars. f*ck all yall, im gonna destroy yall!

1. el-p from company flow
2. galt macdermot
3. scarlett johanson
4. danica mackellar
5. rapper jim jones
6. maya rudolph
7. james woods
8. tiki barber
9. jai rodriguez
10. the middle daughter from 7th heaven
11. various consulates from foreign nations?

places i get my coffee/legal addictive stimulant

1. i brews my own shit baby! grind them beans and french percolate that shit and drink it all in, oh yeah drink it in.
2. 7-11 yeah whatever haters hate on but for a quick fix it cant be beat.
3. mcdonalds, youd be surprised how solid a cup they make, they brew constantly and now theyve upped their shit to premium!
4. dunkin donuts, oh what i would do for a simple ...

1. kirkland brand toilet paper (great value, not too thin but not all quilted either)
2. rotisserie chicken (3.99!!! now thats a deal!)
3. dried apricots
4. dannon activia (bifidis cultures is whats up)
5. mountain style plain yogurt (i eat a lot so i need help with digestion)
6. spam (mauwhuwhauwahwauhauhaua)
7. kiwis (furry fruit, mother nature is funny)
8. multigrain bread
9. carrots
10. calistoga mineral water
11. tolberone
12. 1.75liter bott...