Archive for June, 2009
viva la chinchilla!!!!
by josh on June 26th, 2009
have you seen that chinchillas are making it to the big screen?
awesome commercial:
12 years later…
by josh on June 23rd, 2009
so i hung out with an old high school friend this weekend. i found out he was out here about a year ago, but unfortunately i had just missed him at the time. he was off to DC for a new job. well, one shit ass economy and a lay off later….he’s back out in LA. so we got together over the weekend for a BBQ in honor of a friend of his that is moving back to missouri.
needless to say it was great to finally find someone out here on a bit of a familiar ground. i literally hadn’t seen him for 12 years or so, but you couldn’t tell by the end of the night. even better were his other friends that came out. i don’t meet that many ppl out here that don’t generally suck deep down, so it was refreshing to mingle amongst some of the better souls LA has to offer. instead of compromising my caring….i found myself genuinely surround by ppl that were not only just chill…..but interesting to boot.
see, some of them are post grad USC med students. so we hung out with a neurosurgeon, a general physician, and my buddy already has his doctrine in micro biology (or something). yikes…..but the neurosurgeon also is a musician, and this dude who’s BBQ it was….is a musician as well. so the night turned into us drinking like there was no tomorrow while listening to the 2 musically talented ones jam on a guitar.
was refreshing to get out and actually not have to pretend in front of the company i was around.
here’s a picture:
just down the road.
by josh on June 16th, 2009
apparently there was a high speed chase right past my apt. last night. when i say right past? i mean literally! it all came to an end, just a block down the road.
i heard the sirens zoom by while i was watching the brewer game, but my place isn’t facing the road, so i couldn’t see. i thought it was just a fire or something. crazy tho…..i go through that intersection every day to and from work.
making the world beautiful.
by josh on June 9th, 2009
*pukes*
i always laugh when you hear about these magazines being accused of photoshopping (or airbrushing as it’s usually wrongly called) images of people. just in the last few months it was danica patrick in sports illustrated….or that ghetto ho kim kardashian and her non-retouched photo getting out on some website.
hate to break it to the world….but EVERY photo that makes it to the public view…is touched up. i mean, assuming we aren’t talking about tabloids purposely posting nasty pictures of celebs or something. sometimes there isn’t a lot to do, but other times there’s a lot of work involved. here’s just one example i found when cleaning out some stuff….
i was happy with how it turned out. it at least looks real.
what irks me is how a lot of “fashion” and “glamour” photographers/retouchers butcher the hell out of some of their models. they just blur the crap outta their skin completely and call it a day. or worse, call it “pin-up art”. i dunno, maybe it has more to do with personal taste….but i find using today’s tools to go beyond realistic photographs is more of design work than photography.
sad day. RIP ralph’s.
by josh on June 5th, 2009
….so i stop at my local ralph’s today after work. yes, to get beer.
the place is a zoo…..a lot more of a zoo than normal. the weirdest thing though….like half the shelves were empty. holy crap….i am not seeing any great sales or anything…so why all these ppl and why the vacant shelves?
yep…they are closing on june 20th.
that sucks. it’s literally like a block from from me, so i always liked the fact i could just go there for pretty much anything. see….about 2 years ago the CVS (drug store) closed too….but i thought i’d be fine with just my ralph’s.
now….there are gonna be 2 vacant buildings in this tiny strip mall that can really only house a store of that kinda magnitude. meaning…..it’s needs to be a big ass corporate union store….or nothing. judging by the other closings of these kinda stores around the area? yeah….they are gonna be vacant for years.
i mean…this other ralph’s closed down a few years ago in the opposite direction from me. it’s the only store that big…that i’ve seen something else actually go into. what did it get replaced with? some middle eastern run “imports” store. apparently they specialize in gaudy jewelry and old people furniture. needless to say…i’ve never been in there.
….more backstory…..my little indie video store also closed up shop a few months ago too. so…i used to have a drug store, a grocery store, my bank, and my video store all within a block of me. i’ve stayed in my current joint this long because it was nice to have everything i need right there. now all that’s left is my bank…..and i just re-signed a new lease.
fuck. shoulda moved to the beach.
now i have to go to the ghetto albertson’s to get my groceries. either that or the mega-ass target superstore that is always filled with 800 morons. bah….not happy at all.
is the economy that bad….that ppl aren’t even buying groceries? i mean seriously? out of the 4 ralph’s in my somewhat area 4 years ago….only one is left.