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2 birds

So remember that party we went to well that I finally web chatted that girl and saved the video.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4262372597731133725
What a great marketing ploy...

Speaking of marketing ploys...
Click the link and watch the video on amazon. Kudo's to Norelco.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EG8HLE/ref=amb_link_1425282_2/102-6806124-0133769?n=3760901

Current Music

Pelican: The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw
Mogwai: Mr. Beast
Tool: 10,000 days
Billy Holiday: Greatest
Sunny Day Real Estate: Don't know the album name, but wow this sounds like the nineties.

Sunday Sunday Sundaaaay

(JUMP TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE FOR THE POINT OF THIS POST IF YOU DON'T FEEL LIKE LISTENING TO ME BABBLE)

Yesterday...aka Sunday, was a very productive/fun day I must say. I woke up. Went to breakfast at Squat and Gobble with some friends who were in town from LA for a wedding. Squat and Gobble used to be one of my fav. places for breakfast...but i hadn't been there for quite a long time and for some reason the quality went down a bit. I was pretty disappointed but whatever, maybe it was just a bad batch of egg's benny that i had. They really cleaned the place up so it's still a great breeefist spot when your in a pinch. So yea, did that, then went home and called Kelly who was bored so she came over and we called Jeremie to see what his plans were for the day and while he was 'booked' up for the day we continued to talk. During the conversation i heard a wince and Jeremie explained he just cut his finger with a very sharp knife...after that he explained that he was now free to hang out because his guitar lesson at 4 was not gonna happen due to his slicing of the digit. That made Kelly and I happy because we could then go pick him up and head over to home depot like we planned. The beach was also an option but we ended up passing on that. Anyways, we went to home depot and i got 3 nice new plants for my place, a new pot for one of the plants, and some swatches so i can figure out what colors to paint the walls of my apt. Once we did that we dropped J off at home and Kelly and I went back to my place to figure out what the next move was. We wanted to knock back a drink or two and get some food outside so we decided we'd call up Loren and walk down to Fillmore street and hit up the Grove...another great place to eat btw. So as we were heading out the door the gears in my head started turning....it looked kinda windy outside and i didnt' feel like walking all the way to the Fillmore (even though it's not a far walk). We had talked earlier in the day about how SF tricks you. You may be inside your place...looking out at the city and while it looks amazing and nice...you go outside and it's either cold...but sunny, or whatever. It's just decieving basically. So anyways i had the idea of making a salad at my place and just drinking some beers or something. So we made a quick decision to walk to trader joes and get some materials....we also didn't want to spend much money, or i should say...I didn't want to spend anymore money on eating out, as that's all i've done all weekend, so yea, we went back to trader joes and got some materials for a bomb salad and sangria (and I know buying materials costs money but it was way cheaper than what it would'a cost us going to the Grove). Once we got back Kelly and I made, and i'm not kidding....a killer salad. It was awesome, and it fed myself, loren, AND Kelly for $15 and got us buzzed to boot. (from the sangria of course). Anyways, Kelly, Loren, and I went through 3 bottles of wine/sangria and kelly passed out. Just about 30 min. before we got Jeremie to come over from his "24 party" he went to. We were all glad he made it. Back to the point here......

(now onto the real reason for this blog entry).

Someone...*cough* Loren *cough* started putting things on top of kelly while she was passed out (which is much nicer than drawing on her I must say so she should be pleased with that).....and I took pictures while we all laughed at her trying not to wake her. So I'll stop babbling and show you some pics....but it was a very fun sunday.....just thought i'd share....

Cube
The King
Mr. Potato Head
Chevy's
Bay to Breakers Sombrero

congrats if you read this whole monstrosity or a post. I also didn't proof read...so my apologies.

Fo' mo' years

Happy Anniversary becky and jeremie! i celebrated the anniversary of your love by showing grandma and grandpa the slideshow of all your wedding pics. yea. they fell asleep halfway through. (we had just eaten lunch, you know how old folks are).

sometimes gma would pipe up when she saw herself in a photo. but mainly to comment on her hair. i laughed through most of them...exept the ones of mom giving her emphatic "generosity" toast - that's still painful. everyone looks so young and awesome....too bad i can't find the "afterparty" photos. (ie mark grabbing ass and matt swingin his tie to eminem).

i'm currently sitting at gma/gpa's kitchen table, drinking by myself and burning CDs. i've already made two trips to walmart in 30 hours. becky i can't wait til you get here! dad is around, but he likes to sneak outside to smoke or hide in the media room and watch CNN. aaah family.

well well well...looky what photos i found.....click.

the beautiful bride and her father:

jeremie crying like the little girl that he is:

rocco sandwich!:

wedded bliss:

two generations of bochatey

i dunno. i'm a jackass:

hey, your flowers are better than mine:

mark breaking it down like a whiteboy:

i thought this was a party:

tammy doesn't take shots....oooh yes she does:

did you just grab my.....aaaaaahhahahahhahahahaaha:

(80% of these photos taken by the amazing F.Prouser)

Lost

No comments on the Season Finale?

I've got comments and I don't even like to watch TV.

http://www.sublymonal.com/
The gag is you click on the numbers from the show (4 8 15 16 23 42) and get code: Heir Apparent

http://www.fasthack.com/archives/419
http://www.widmore.com/

Best Game on the Web

Car Wash

basically you just type in what you want to see....and certain words will trigger certain things....that's all i can say without giving this gem away. Just go play...trust me.

I will put some words in the comments section for those of you who get stumped...but i don't wanna give anything away before you play.

Enjoy
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BSG as Simpsons

For those of you that are fans of BSG -- greatest show on TV right now -- here are the charcters as they would appear on the Simpsons.

Soon they will vote...

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/buttrocket.html

I remember when I was a kid..... Ummm... no I don't

Glory Days (sorry Dave)

Holy sh*t. This is some funny-ass goodness. Congratulations to all who played - for surviving another Bay to Breakers.

Evolution of Dance

This is pretty funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIeIWkK0t4s&search=dance%20evolution

GRAF Movement

Get Rocco a Face
Since Rocco now has OCD for bloging, I think its about time he gets a face, Jer.
Oui?

It doesn't hurt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOPXq0sYkGk&search=wax

Wow. What a great video. I couldn't get the sound to work though.

Holy shite...I must interrupt Rocco's flow.

Hilarity: Spam draw-rings

Don't have kids....

http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2006/05/mcdonalds_gives.html

c0dehunters

http://www.boardsmag.com/screeningroom/shortfilm/2866/

Oh, I'm on a role today...........
Good anime trailer

Will it explode in SloMo?

Because we are all vfx tekno geeks and no one is saying anything about it.....

Michael Bay buys Digital Domain

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - George Lucas has Industrial Light + Magic, Peter Jackson has Weta, and now Michael Bay has Digital Domain.

The "Pearl Harbor" director and private investment firm Wyndcrest Holdings, in which Bay is a principal, are set to announce Tuesday the acquisition of the 13-year-old visual effects studio. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Bay broke the news to Digital Domain's 475 artists Monday during a staff meeting at the Venice, Calif.-based studio.

"My simple goal is to make Digital Domain an effects powerhouse," Bay said in an interview after the meeting. "I think we can utilize this platform here to expand on production in terms of feature films and animation."

As a result of the acquisition, Carl Stork, Wyndcrest principal and former Microsoft executive, has been elected CEO. He replaces Scott Ross, who was the last remaining principal of the company he founded in 1993 with Oscar-winning filmmakers James Cameron and Stan Winston. Cameron used Digital Domain to create the Oscar-nominated effects in 1994's "True Lies" and "Titanic."

Relations were strained between Digital Domain's management and Cameron following his "Titanic" production, which went over schedule and over budget. Cameron and Winston resigned from the board at Digital Domain because of differing views on how the company should be managed. They have formed their own shops.

"The old owners are responsible for making it stagnant," Bay said. "They could not get along. The old owners didn't want to infuse it with cash, which is unfortunate because they have very good people and tools here."

Digital Domain has seen its business eclipsed during the past decade by such industry-leading effects shops as Sony Pictures Imageworks, Jackson's Weta, and Rhythm & Hues. In the same period, highly competitive European facilities have risen because of production incentives abroad. Asian facilities also have taken a piece of the major studio effects jobs because of lower labor costs and lucrative co-production deals.

With new leadership and a cash-rich financial group to guide the company, Bay and Digital Domain executives hope to build on the original vision of the company while also expanding on potential business opportunities.

"We have a lot of work ahead," Bay said. "One of the ideas of this company has always been to make it more director-centric. That was Jim's vision; he had a really good vision, and I want to keep it great."

Restoring Digital Domain's former glory will be a matter of aligning with top talent -- directors like David Fincher and producers like Jerry Bruckheimer -- while also expanding the digital studio's business units.

"We're targeting some of the best directors in the industry, and we'll also have key relations with producers, which should open up a whole new world of clients," Bay said.

Additional areas of expansion include computer-animated family films and video games, though Bay said he primarily was interested in those projects as a creative producer as opposed to directing.

"I would rather shoot myself in the head than sit on a greenscreen stage with actors covered in orange balls all day long," Bay said. "But I'm very interested in producing kid-friendly effects films, and I have always had a love for animation -- this could be my way in.

Bay is overseeing projects at his horror production company, Platinum Dunes, and also is in preproduction on DreamWorks' "Transformers." He said he has been taking notes from another famous filmmaker as to how to keep all his balls in the air.

"I'm working very closely with Steven Spielberg right now (on 'Transformers')," Bay said. "And I always ask him, 'How do you do it?' He's simply able to manage his time and do it well. I look at myself as an entrepreneur. I don't like to go out and fail. I've teamed up with very smart partners, and they're very committed. I think we all have a similar vision of where we want to take this studio."

Ross was not available for comment.

http://www.fxshare.com/news/studios/137.html

Vader Calls The Emperor

http://www.devilducky.com/media/45466/

For Jer

New Disease

Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new virulent
strain of sexually transmitted disease. The disease is contracted
through dangerous and high-risk behavior. The disease is Gonorrhea
Lectim and pronounced "gonna re-elect him." Many victims contracted it
in 2004, after having been screwed for the past four years. Cognitive
characteristics of individuals infected include: antisocial
personality disorders, delusions of grandeur with messianic overtones,
extreme cognitive dissonance, inability to incorporate new
information, pronounced xenophobia and paranoia, inability to accept
responsibility for own actions, cowardice masked by misplaced bravado,
uncontrolled facial smirking, ignorance of geography and history,
categorical all-or-nothing behavior. Naturalists and epidemiologists
are amazed at how this destructive disease originated only a few years
ago from a bush found in Texas.

stretched thin

…the following is an email from a friend of mine and is in no way related to me in any way, shape or form...

The owner (big boss) of my company has two assistants. The first being a perfect yes man, who is climbing his way up the corporate ladder of privilege with every helpful suggestion. We’ll call him Keanu. The second assist, well, that’s a revolving door. When I started working at my company, I would often see the poor girl at the desk dozing in her chair or sluggishly clicking her way through a game of bedazzled. I rued the day I ever have a job like that again. Well. Christmas come early.

Four weeks ago, in addition to assisting three other busy execs, I was deemed competent enough to fill in as the second assist, since they’d fired the latest victim. I wanted to have the faux-leather office chair blessed with holy water – a bit extreme, perhaps. Three grueling weeks later, a permanent replacement started and I had survived, with my job and sanity in tact. Woohoo! I was excited to go back to my relaxed old digs and surround myself with friendly coworkers, rather than the stiffness of uber corporate policy in the CEO’s area. Life was good…for a week.

Six days after working as the 2nd asst – the new girl quit. WHAT? Keanu promptly stopped by to report, “pack up your shit, you’re comin back upstairs.” NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Why, why would she quit????? Did she not realize how her actions would affect ME, the innocent victim in all of this. Clearly not. Bitch.

The worst part was the sympathetic laughter that I encountered as I.T. reinstalled all my shit upstairs again …. “welcome back. Heh heh heh.” And that was just from the butler. (yes, we have a butler who tends to the execs for their meals/beverages etc.) “Corazon, I bet you still seeting dere at Christmus.” Thanks dude. Shut up. I feel like a MLB player who keeps getting traded back n forth, but with the same contract. I’ve been trying to figure out a diplomatic way to broach the “renegotiation” topic with one of my many bosses…I’ll let you know how that goes.

a coworker downstairs suggested that I stop being so competent and start to fuck up. A wise suggestion, should I suddenly enjoy living off welfare. I’ll pass on that method for now. Then today happened. I think my brains leaked out halfway through the morning from stress…which would explain the following:

The big boss wanted to know where his kids were, so I emailed the nanny and she quickly responded with their whereabouts. Sadly, she didn’t check her grammar. So instead of reporting that his beloved offspring were with Tata (a relative's nickname) – I confidently reported that they were at Tatsa until three. Please note that “tatsa” is a location in Morroco OR the foundation for Thai After Tsunami Schooling Aid......... idiot .......... He gave me a cautious “wtf” expression then called Keanu. I’m pretty sure dyslexia is not something a CEO looks for in an assistant.

So for now I plug along. I have no idea when a new perm assistant will begin to take the helm, but for the love of God, I hope she’s a career admin and doesn’t quit after six friggin days! Or get fired. Or suck in general. that's not a lot to ask...... so, if I suddenly drop off the face of the earth, please have someone check under my desk at work. I’ve probably just slipped into a catatonic state of schedules, meetings, expense reports and junk mail.

Just another day in paradise.

The end.

Justin's 2005/6 report card

SOCI 2P62 (criminology II)
70 B * Unofficial Mark *

SOCI 2P61 (criminology I)
78 B

POLI 3P11 (Local Government) - Major
75 B * Unofficial Mark *

POLI 2P93 (Political Theory III) - Major
82 A * Unofficial Mark *

POLI 2P92 (Political Theory II) - Major
80 A * Unofficial Mark *

POLI 2P80 (Political Analysis) - Major
80 A

POLI 2P47 (Rights Across Boarders)
75 B

POLI 2F98 (Public Administration) - Major
78 B * Unofficial Mark *

Major Avg = 79 (needed:70)
Brock Avg = 75 (needed: 60)
Moving on to niagara college and skipping 3rd year because my grades are so good = Priceless...

derby days

crap, the weekend's over and i still have a million things to do.....highlights include:

cinco de mayo fell flat when we all ended up too tired and cranky after work to actually go out. 15 margaritas at home and 10 rounds of intense 'egyptian rat screw' sufficed. bess, again, i'm sorry that the tequila inspired us to lock the neighbors' cat in your room with you when you passed out early. hahha, wait, man, that's a hard one, not sure i'm REAALLY sorry. stiiiiiill laughing.

saturday, hmmm what happened on saturday...oh right, only that i was the BIG WINNER at the derby. hell yeah!!! lara convinced bess and i to go out for beers at Barney's with a big group and bet on some horses..... i would like to thank #8 Barbaro (who i called barbacoa) for kicking some serious ASS on the track! tastelessly, i didn't realize my pure bred was winning at the end, so i was heckling my own horse until he passed the finish line. heh. IDIOT. my winnings weren't huge, but they paid for my lunch and a couple pitchers of beer. =)

Saturday night some coworkers and i had agreed to attend a benefit that my company supports. the cause was "Rythyms of Justice" -- for women's rights and all that healthy altruistic stuff -- so how could i say no? it was a salsa-themed party at the Ebell theatre, however, we never salsa'd. we were too busy drinking the gratis sangria and bidding on silent auction items (missy has her priorities straight). you will be saddned to know that i did not win the auction book, "laughing on the outside, crying on the inside." um, who donates that? i DID "win" four tickets and a picnic dinner to the hollywood bowl though!

the lawyer who invited us was totally bombed and kept spouting off depressing facts about abused women. he definitely had drunk wandering hands, which were highlighted when he would attack us periodically to get us all to dance -- but we were too busy guarding our silent auction items. ssssuper.

kevin (coworker) was all excited when he thought he had won his very own "in-home personal training session." however when he went to PAY, realized he had bid on THE WRONG ITEM....so now he has a free tennis lesson for 40 bucks. oh yeah and he has to provide the tennis court too. bahahahaha!

today was laundromat day... lucky me, as i rolled my cart up to retrieve my clothes from the washer, some crazy-haired old dude lost his grip on his crappy box of detergent and a million (no joke) flecks of white detergent flew ALL OVER my washer...the handle, door, hinges....everywhere. NOTHING was on the surrounding washers....JUST MINE. and the damn fool just tossed his crazy gray hair and kept walking - right past my baffled expression. WTF DUDE, YOU JUST SHIT ON MY WASHER!

i finally checked out the "Ashes & Snow" exhibit in the nomad museum by the Santa Monica pier. the photos were fantastic, but the videos were totally lame. took the mystique out of the pictures if you ask me. it was impressive and worth the 15 bucks...but i still think the structure of the exhibit was the most fascinating part. the "nomad museum" is made entirely of used railroad cars and white tarps. it's awesome.

for dinner tonight - bess, kevin and i truly followed the john candy diet. i'm almost embarrassed to say it, but perhaps i have a problem. after the exhibit, we definitely drove through In-N-Out for burgers AND shakes....THEN drove through McDonalds to get fries....and not just fries, but LARGE FRIES. i'm now around 200 pounds. or so i feel. i'm never doing that again. but it was such a BRILLIANT idea. i totally recommend it.

man i don't want to go to work tomorrow.

Cinco de........

*burp*

Blacklight tattoos...hmmm.

So I found this little ditty on The Cool Hunter and just have to ask, why?? Does anyone think this is cool? I say it's a fad or a temporary phenomenon like "new coke".



Maybe I'm just old.

KEY-tar anyone?

All of my comments are inappropriate so I'll just leave you with the video....
(and the sound gets outta sync sometimes....but that's not the point really)

Jeremie, should we recruit this chick for our band? LOL.

their cause

this morning a KROQ promo about the "immigration boycott" had me laughing off the road. clearly this won't do any justice to the actual promo, but you might get the point.

(*dramatic announcer voice*)

ARE YOUR LEAVES A LITTLE LESS...BLOOOOWN?
IS YOUR FRUIT A LITTLE LESS...PICKED?
IS YOUR WORLD A LITTLE...WHITER?

IT'S BROWN OUT 2006!

hahahah. aaah, i want to ask the "support staff" at my company why they're at work today....i mean, if they're not supporting their own cause, how am i supposed to? j/k, hooray for legal immigration!

i think i'll go buy something.

Cool

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