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I’m going to be watching this tonight. Seems interesting. I had a few friends that were really into him. I just thought he talked funny. Most of the action heros of the 80’s talked funny.

Apple Trailer 6 sizes

JCVD Trailer

It realyl is nothing special to get in the RFT. Everyone knows someone thats been in it. So heres my fame.

http://www.riverfronttimes.com/slideshow/view/195043/8

So I was at my profile page on youtube by accident. I noticed they keep tabs on shit. check you youtube account and see what you got.

Was looking for a Themos and found this under “Sexual Wellness” at Walgreens.com

The Shag Throe at Walgreens

Description

The Fascinator Throe is a portable, slip-sliding surface that shields sheets, comforters, quilts and furniture from stains. Feels like fur on one side, satin on the other with a water barrier in-between. Toss it on top of sheets, els like fur on one side, satin on the other with a water barrier in-between. Toss it on top of sheets, sofas an

I was suppose to be off since they were closing both streets at my corner with the hot dog stand. They were having the funeral for the firefighter at Harris Stowe right down the block and the body was then driven right past my corner down olive.

So I get a call at 6am and the guy that owns the cart was thinking maybe we should go up there anyways. Which I did and it was harder than I had expected. I set up and then all the fire engines started rolling down Compton onto grand to line up and raise their ladders to make an arch across the street. It was hard not to get choked up when you saw the firefighter grow from a few dozen to hundreds. There were engines rolling in from Ladue, Hazelwood, and even Cedar Hill. Yes they were the only yellow truck there. We decided to sell the dogs to anyone in uniform for $2 instead of $3.50. It just sort of seemed like the right thing to do. I had one firefighter come get a dog early that morning and ask if the gas station sold beer this early. He didn’t ask in a shady way He was asking as if to say I can’t handle this shit today. Which is funny I was thinking the same thing. I don’t get choked up on patriotic stuff often. To see so many firefighters coming together to show honor to a fallen firefighter was overwhelming at times. When John the guy that owns the cart showed up around noon he got there right as they were driving the casket down Compton to Olive. He said shit I didn’t think this was going to get to me, but it really is. He had to walk away and then told me that his father was an IL state trooper and had died 5 years ago.

Out of all the firefighters I severed dogs to today only one made a shitty comment about being down there only to make money off the crowd. I think the exact wording he used was “So you tough you could come down today and make a little money” I was polite and said Sir we are down here on this corner 5 days a week. He just said “Yeah ok” Also everyone coming up to get a dog was expecting full price and when I told the police and firefighters it was $2 today for anyone in a uniform they were genuinely appreciative. They also went out of there way to thank me. Rough fucking day is all I can say.

Heres Fox 2’s coverage

http://www.myfoxstl.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=7858988&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1

I’m stealing the title from Merlin Mann. So I’ll be brief. I’m working a Hot Dog cart stand now. I’ll see what happens. Might turn out to be a living. There is a lot of money potential.

this is the location Gogole Map

Dumb stupid love songs.

More Kyle Andrews Songs on Last.FM

Ok so I was playing around with Logic Pro again tonight. I started playing this melody on the keyboard and it sounded familiar. I was like what the hell is this tune. Then it dawned on me. It was the guitar riff in Basketball Jones.

This lead me to reminisce about the first time I heard cheech and chong albums. Which lead me to my favorite line. “How many joints in a lid” from “Lets Make a Dope Deal” When I googled How many joints in a lid to find out the name of that track I got this.

of course we all know the answer is 2. Answers.com says so

I had two fired chicken thighs cooking for dinner. When I sat down to eat them I started watching the online CNN stream. Then I learn that Obama took Ohio. Im not racist, but racist humor is always funny. Especially when its not intended.

I then almost choked on that chicken when the CNN anchor lady (in and english accent) says that Obama is leading in Mexico. I had to look up and make sure she meant New Mexico.

Only thing I’m missing is hot sauce.

So I’m in line at the grocery store when a Bosnian in his mid 50’s starts chatting me up. Bosnians 60 and up don’t even speak English and the ones in there 50’s speak very broken English. So HEs going on about “today we get a new president” The next thing he said I didn’t understand, but ended in “this just crazy.” The last thing he said to me was “I hope Obama win tonight. Then I can go home.

I could tell the guy behind me really wanted to say something to him along the lines of “you ungrateful immigrant.”. I’m sure the guy behind me wouldn’t have said it as kindly as I just typed it. Fortunately he guy behind me just kept his mouth shut. The first thing I was curious about was why this guy thought Obama would make it easier for him to move back to his homeland. I totally understand someone his age wanting to to go home. I just couldn’t understand why he thought a new president would allow him to go home. Does he think hes being held here like hes in some an interment camp? Or does he think a new president is going to make his homeland a better more stable place? I really wanted to ask him more on the topic, but I just didn’t want to ruin his happy mood.

Of course DAG explains its much better. I think the brown paper bag test visual helps a lot.

It came out a week or so ago. I had it for a while and didn’t bother upgrading to it. I hate trying to figure out the new or changed features. So for me playing around with it is the best way to figure it out. So far everything has been positive. Nothing changed that I don’t like. I have not done any photography work with it yet. I’ll get to that soon.

I had a set of grunge brushes I have also been meaning to play around with. I’m not a big fan of grunge in general. I prefer a more clean design. I got inspired by this one site that did a decent job using a grunge look on some papers on the top header. So I decidedto make an old worn out looking Ace of Spades. Then I thought what the hell they call Andrew Ace so why not put him on there.

I was going to do a Halloween one, but I just can’t do a pumpkin

I got turned on to this song yesterday from a twitter post. The rest of the album/EP is really good too. I can’t find the song anywhere on youtube or online. The bands called Passion Pit.

Cuddle Puddle has everything I’m into at the moment. Stomping compressed drums that seem flat yet correct, distorted synth piano and soulful vocals from the 70’s that make you want to go sailing with a bottle of wine and make pointing hand gestures like Isaac from Love Boat.

It took me more than 24 horus to figure out what “Cuddle Puddle” means. Hopefully you won’t have to think as hard as I did about it.

This is the only online link I could find of it streaming online.

Passion Pit - Cuddle Puddle

Bless you Ted Lange. It takes courage to server tasty sweet poisson with a smile.

So I swallowed my pride a long time ago and went as low as looking for work in fast food restaurants. Its been almost 5 years or more since the last time I was job hunting in this area. Long gone are the “Now Hiring” signs in store windows. When you walk into a fast food place asking about employment 95% of them direct you to their webisite. Once at their website you fill out the same info you would on a paper application with the exception of those dumb tests that you’d have to be an idiot to answer wrong. So the online application is good for 2 weeks most times. Then they require you to fill out another online one to continue to be considered. I am in round to of applying to all the fast food restaurants in the area. One of them has to call soon. In case your interested they all seem to pay $6.65 an hour. At this point that sounds really good.

I almost forgot about this song. It came out at a time when I was working overnights at the news paper. Sort of a meaningless song, but has some great lines

“All talk of circadian rhythm….”

“I see today with a newsprint fray
My night is colored headache grey
Don’t wake me with so much…”

“Fluorescent flat caffeine lights
Its furious balancing…”

Something was bound to happen soon. There can only be so many years of stagnation. It makes some sense given the global climate we are coming into. Americans can only be so selfish for so long. This is going to be confusing if you can not shake the old image of hippie out of your mind. The reason it failed over 30 years ago was the lack of incorporating capitalism into the scene properly. When you want change you can not expect to change everyone. You just want to sway the majority to your side. Without the opposing side there is no way for your side to even exist.

There is no real freedom. Never has been. Even when your total free you are always facing the opposition that wants to control your behavior. That is the reason you “feel” free in the first place. When you opening buck the system you get attention and get people thinking. Their conclusion and who they side with is not the important part. It is the fact they are thinking that is important. Lead by example and that that risk. When the opposition confronts you then you need to dare them to look the other way. Hence my statement of lead by example. Anyone forcing there ideas on you is not genuine or rightious, they are afraid.

Your going to see communal activity is all matters of life. From work to the home. If you look hard enough you will see this happening already. Take myspace for example. As useless as the information most people post on there is its still communal. In fact its communal and individual at the same time. Its sharing, gathering, and exploration. You might think this is a bad example of things to come. Think again. Everything starts out poorly in its infantile state. A baby looks awkward when it first learns to walk. Yet they still getting from point A to B and with time it becomes as natural as breathing.

I have no idea how long America is going to be in denial about the fact that we are not the greatest country in the world anymore. When that time comes I think we will be a much more productive, positive, and humble as a country. After all what makes you get your ass off the sofa when you are spending that 3 hours in front of the TV. Its the urge to piss or eat maybe. Basically you get up out of necessity. So far America feels there is no necessity to be a better country. Why would we, we are number one, right? So our current behavior must be correct.

The obama campaign is correct in saying change. Problem is that everyone thinks Obama is going to bring that change. Thats typical America logic. ” We want change and THEY should give us that change. No we need change and WE are the ones that can make it happen. Its going to take some very dark times for people to understand this as a whole. Look at a drug addict. Look at what lengths they go to to get what they want. We are all drug addicts to the American way of life. So far our stash has not run dry. When the day come and there is no more “American way of life” to get high on then we will be that junkie doing whatever it takes for a fix. That is if we can get our asses off the sofa. I’m afraid the “high” might take a generation or two to fade into dope sickness. Even in a dope sick state you only have two choices. Get high again and return to that comfortable feeling or quit and start a sober life. If you continue to get high it will kill you. If you get sober its never as fun as getting high, but you will live to see another day. Getting sober takes courage. Our we really the home of the brave? We shall see.

I feared the day google invaded my space with ad’s. I don’t use yahoo for a reason. I don’t want a homepage full of crap and ad’s. You already have the google ads in the search results. I’m ok with that. I don’t have a screen shot of the ad I got while on google maps.

I understand googles only revenue is advertisement. I go to great lengths to block ads in my browser and it blocks 99% of them. I’m not your target market. If I’m smart enough and take the time to avoid ad’s then chances are I’m not clicking thru when they are scattered on a web page. I’m not going to go into a long rant on how online advertising works in the 21 century.

The google phone ad on the homepage.

The youtube ad while a video was playing. This is the most offensive one. I need a break today Mc D. Stop it with the ad’s I’ll still buy your fries I’m already addicted.

The ice cream man did not just drive by my house in late October.

I jsut watched it again its really well done. Subject matter aside its one of the top documentaries I’ve ever seen. I spent a good 5 minutes looking for it on my external hard drive. I forgot the title. Its simply called “Joy Division” Go figure.