Boy did it thunder tonight!

I didn't do much today... had the breakfast buffet at Shoney's which filled me up for the rest of the day.

Most of the day was spent hard at work on redesiging Mortigi Tempo and updating products in the MT Store. I just received some of the products yesterday and they came out really well! Especially the stainless steel travel mug! :)

Okay, this was lifted from Lina and Paul. Just go to Google and type "(your name) is" and see what kind of kooky things you will find. Here's some of mine:

Jonathan is an Object Request Broker.

Jonathan is not currently on tour.

Jonathan is cast in the Radio 4 presentation of The Weather in the Streets.

Jonathan is a teenage boy who lives with his Dad.

Jonathan is a hot tramp!

Jonathan is now a registered Keynote Speaker.

Jonathan is also one of the early GNOME hackers.

Jonathan is not a swot.

Jonathan is a hunk!

Jonathan is available by appointment.

Jonathan is also known around the Labs as 'The Cleaner.'

Jonathan is the turtle equivalent of a toddler.

Jonathan is no longer a loser.

Jonathan is the Pee Wee Herman of rock.

Jonathan is very artistic and draws elaborate robot men.

Jonathan is now in his 16th year of a life sentence.

As some of you know, I haven't had any caffeine for over three months. Well, that changed today. While standing in line at Kroger, I saw a cooler full of Vanilla Coke and I thought to myself, "I should treat myself and try one of these new drinks!" Bad mistake. Vanilla Coke, in my opinion, is the nastiest beverage that Coca-Cola has ever made and now I feel terrible because I threw away three months for nothing. I sort of feel like someone that was celibate for three months and then, in one night of temptation and passion, decided to spend the night with someone and then finding out they have some type of VD and then realizing it wasn't worth it all. Okay, maybe that isn't the best analogy. It did make me laugh though... ;)

It's not that big of a deal. I just won't make that mistake again.

So, anyway, today I decided to head up to Land Between the Lakes on the Tennessee/Kentucky border and it was very beautiful, even though the beach was riddled with dead fish. Hmm... It twas a good day, nevertheless.

With Summer now in season, I decided to make some cosmetic changes around here, as you can probably tell.

I decided to take away the iTunes thing since I haven't been using iTunes except for maybe an hour or two a day. Maybe I'll bring it back someday.

My new favorite show: Monster Garage on the Discovery Channel. Gotta love a Mustang lawnmower and a New Beetle swamp buggy!

Time to go watch Craiggers.

Ciao!

immerse your soul in love.

Had a wonderful day today at the park, though the threat of coyotes were ever present. Unfortunately, I didn't see any but I did get to spend time with my favorite person in the whole world. :)

Well, SomaFM is another casualty of the new webcasting rates which are absolutely ridiculous. When will the RIAA see that by hurting these small webcasters, they ultimately lose sales? I listened to SomaFM's Groove Salad and other streams a lot and discovered a lot of artists that I would of never found before and who's CD I would of never bought. The sad thing is that most of the streams are going to have to shut down now because it will be too expensive to operate.

Amazing.

While at k10k, I came across a fantastic site which displays skyscrapers across the world. You have to love the little pixelated buildings! Check out Nashvegas!

I picked up Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot last night because I had been hearing good things about this album for quite some time. I was not disappointed. It's been in my CD player all day and has already been imported into my iTunes playlist. Check it out!

If you are a Portishead fan then you should also pick up their Roseland NYC 1997 DVD. I can absolutely tell you that this DVD is stunning. Seeing the band and the philharmonic perform together at times brought goosebumps to my skin. Aside from footage of the actual concert, you can also see some of Portishead's wonderful videos including "How to Kill a Dead Man." This DVD will hopefully hold you and I over until their next album is released, whenever that will be.

In a semi-related story, last week I had to retire my favorite t-shirt which happens to be a Portishead shirt that I got in 1995. I'm surprised it lasted me that long! R.I.P.

This is kind of related to yesterday's post about jam bands. In nearby Manchester, TN, there is the Bonnaroo music festival going on starting today and apparently getting there is a little tough for some folks.

*Enjoys the air-conditioned comfort of home*

I'm not into the whole "jam band" scene at all. Sure, I went to a Phish concert once but that wouldn't classify me as a "phan." I am, however, very open to all types of music and can find in just about everything.

The reason I bring this up is that I just found this article about 2 friends I know that run a site back in SF called JamBase. I used to work with these guys at my last job and even helped out with some of the JamBase stuff. I designed their brochures (which I need to put up in the 'folio section along with everything else!) that they passed out at various concerts across the country in 2000 and also some t-shirts. It's so good to read that both of them and JamBase are doing so well in a time when dot-coms are considered taboo.

If you're in to bands like Phish, check out this site.

Had to get up early today to take my car to get it serviced at the VW place which cost me $400. :( Oh well, at least the car is driving like the black she is.

I wish I had something else to report. Things have been boring lately.

I'm a very happy boy today because Reason 2.0 was released by Propellerhead Software. The best part of it? It is available for OS X now! Go and download the demo to get a taste.

Well, I was to go to the park today but instead saw the Bourne Identity at the theater. Yeah, I like action flicks but I have to admit, the real reason I wanted to see this movie was because of Franka Potente:



You'll remember her from Run Lola Run which is one of my favorite films of the last few years. Yeah, I got a little thing for her. ;)

I walked away from the film feeling satisfied. It wasn't the best movie ever but did have some nice action scenes. The chase sequence with Damon and Potente in the Mini was pretty cool. I was pleasantly surprised to see Clive Owen also. I've been a fan of his ever since I saw Croupier, which you should all check out.

All in all, if you're looking for an action film that keeps you entertained, this is your movie. Nothing more, nothing less. It was a pretty good first attempt at the action/thriller genre by director Paul Liman (Swingers, Go).

Pat Buchanan = Deep Throat?

I found a great site called In Passing over at Metafilter, which is basically a log of random overheard snippets of conversation from strangers. One of my favorites:

"I know he's just being nice, but I get to work, and I'm trying to fill out prescriptions, and I know that before 10:15am he's going to walk by and say, 'Are we having pharm yet? Har har!' Every day. I know he's going to come by, and when I see him, I want to scream."

--One woman talking to another on an AC transit bus

The Village Voice has posted an article called Post-War Jazz: An Arbitrary Road Map by Gary Giddens that is an interesting read. Go and check it out.

Apple launched a new ad campaign today to directly target Windows users. Glad I've already made the "switch", even though some still think I'm crazy for doing it... hehe..

Came home to find my Swords Project Tour CD had arrived in the mail! If you haven't checked out this Portland-based band, please do yourself a favor and get their self-titled EP that was released on Absolutely Kosher Records. I've been enjoying it for over a year now...

I hope you are all having a good weekend! If not, maybe some hot love will cheer you up! Hehe...

So have aliens landed in Las Vegas yet? I saw something on the local news last night about Kreskin predicting that UFOs would land sometime this week in Las Vegas or he would donate $50K to charity. Apparently nothing has happened yet as I guess someone would of told me by now... :)

I received a copy of the new issue of Spin magazine (with Weezer on the cover) today from a writer I helped gather some Radiohead fans for a couple of months ago so she could interview them about Phil Selway running in the London Marathon recently. They had to shorten the article (which includes a of Phil running) and couldn't use any of the quotes that she collected from the fans. Sorry about that if you were involved!

Speaking of Spin, the interview I gave them back in January still hasn't appeared in an issue. The guy told me March or April and obviously that wasn't true.

Have you guys seen that new show on Comedy Central called Crank Yankers? Even with Steven Colbert in it, it's still crap. Why did they ever cancel Strangers with Candy?

If I get old

I will not give in

But if I do

Remind me of this

Remind me that

Once I was free

Once I was cool

Once I was me

And if I sat down

And crossed my arms

Hold me into

This song

Knock me out

Smash out my brains

If I take a chair

Start to talk shit

If I get old

Remind me of this

That night we kissed

And I really meant it

Whatever happens

If we're still speaking

Pick up the phone

Play me this song.

Is it proper to tip the carhop at Sonic when you get something to eat? It's been racking my brain all day... ;)

I really hate saying goodbye to people....

:(

Another great day for the race, huh? Yeah, that's right, the human race! Heh.

I picked up DJ Shadow's Private Press and Múm's Finally We Are No-one (recommended by Aurora). The Múm album is just plain awesome and I'm really digging it. I haven't heard the DJ Shadow album all the way through yet but so far, it sounds good. ;)

Periodically, I like to post what words or phrases people type in their search engines (google, yahoo, etc...) to get to Chart Number Three. Here are some golden ones:

gene simmons fresh air

abandoned buildings

deacon effect

narrows harpeth canoe

1985 honda accord

caffine chart

changing of the guard national anthem

erincita

ewan mcgregor about september 11th couldn't believe it

fairmont kea lani s

how to fake out a drug test

i've got my love to keep me warm big band chart

lali puna photos

last song in vanilla sky

paul frank stool

hehe... always interesting!

Oh man, it looks like the music industry has finally worked out a solution for the current music piracy problem. "This is without doubt the best anti-piracy invention the music industry has ever seen." Oh man!

It's been a beautiful day around here but much too hot for me! I miss that soft bay breeze! :) It could be worse, though. Last time I went to Vegas we made the intellectual decision to go in mid July, which was suicide. Hehe... At least I came back with more money I had gone there with... Always bet on black! Oh I love Roulette!

Thanks to a great little program called Kung Tunes, you can now see what mp3 I am currently listening to on my Mac! Just look at the top of the main page and it will refresh often.

I know, it's a pretty useless thing and you'll probably be surprised at what mp3s I have! I do have a very wide love for most types of music.

If I don't have iTunes on, it will display "iTunes off."

:)

Oh, you've got green eyes

Oh, you've got blue eyes

Oh, you've got grey eyes

And I've never seen anyone quite like you before

No, I've never met anyone quite like you before

You may have noticed that some things have changed around here. Nothing much, really, just changed the colors around.

I ran across these amazing Chinese propaganda posters over at Metafilter today. Very interesting...