jarf gone on vacation, snate at work. mets yankees about to start and... yep its starting to pour rain. right on cue. FUCK

chillin with my two friends foster and asahi. one's from australia, the other's japanese. nomimashoo motherfuckers

so last night i got real drunj with the jarf and tried to stay up until six a.m. to wake jarf up for his flight to nc. but i watched swedish television on youtube until about 4:50 and then fell asleep at my desk. still managed to wake up at six to wake up the jarf but i don't really remember much about it. i think i might have blasted an air horn off? i hope not.

listening to wolfgang amadeus phoenix. good stuff, cotton candy in music form, hey why not, it's saturday

so how have i spent my day? well i ended up waking up at 11:30, listened to michael feldman on the radio, read a little news, ordered incredibly spicy mexican food, took the train one hour into brooklyn to meet my friend joel and discuss the new zealand trip. had to shit like a portuguese lawyer the entire ride. we decided we're going to road trip NZ, rent a car in auckland and drive as far south as we can in 10 days, stopping off in various towns. i'm excited. yo, renting a car there is ridiculously cheap. we got some weird sedan called a palmy (i think) and it's about 10 bucks u.s. for each of us per day. although gas is about eight dollars a gallon. driving on the left side is going to take some getting used to.

joel was going to fly back with me to the u.s. but he's decided to go to bangkok instead and teach for six months then backpack through india. so i have a 20 hour flight home by myself. any suggestions for good books? i'm going to go insane.

the longest journey i've taken by myself was a 6 hour drive from dc to greensboro and at one point i sat in a burger king on the verge of sobbing, i was that bored.

oh i guess i flew to california by myself but i think i just slept the entire time.

keith hernandez looks more impatient every time i see him

not sure if it's your thing or not, but how about odd man out?

he was great on seinfeld

i could swing that (see what i did there?). thanks brian! how's things?

they're alright. waiting on my brother to show up from austin, then we're on our way to the 60th birthday party of a family friend. the birthday lady pretty much helped raise us alongside our mom.

so that should be pretty fun

some friends and i have started a CCR cover band, so i've been learning to play bass.

so brian you would have appreciated the happenings in your old 'hood the other night. police helicopter circling our block for about an hour, shining a light into my bedroom and right on me at various times, police swarming the street outside. no idea who they were looking for or why. highlights: our stupid bitch neighbor coming out onto her patio as the helicopter shined the light on her and screaming "OMG WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT??" (it's a ufo, you dumb bastard) and some greek guy just waddling out into the back parking lot with a couple of trash bags, oblivious to the intense manhunt occurring around him. good times.

sounds like a good saturday evening

the bong rattling bass of brian skowron

some trivia for you: CCR has the most number 2 billboard hits without a number 1.

i like the interaction between the fios guy and the cable guy

yeah, that cable guy is so defeated by his obviously inferior product

why would they put an advertisement for a product on tv in nyc and then have "NOT AVAILABLE IN NEW YORK" on the screen

but really when you think about it, the cable guys get paid the same no matter how many installs they have to do, right? so i mean, he should be happy when you think about it. he has less work to do. i analyze commercials too much.

tim redding on the mound NATS MAN

i think he has feelings for the fios guy. he's so confident

it also really bugs me on that southwest airlines commercial when the guy calls customer service and says "hi, my meeting got finished early, I'd like to reschedule my southwest flight". it's so awkward sounding. seems kinda like the equivalent of someone in mcdonald's saying, "hi i'd like to order a mcdonald's big mac."

i've noticed during the rangers games they've started to show an occasional tv ad for scientology which is weird. do you have those up there?

yeah its kind of redundant, i prefer the southwest ads where people irreparably fuck their lives up and then it says wanna get away?

or is scientology targeting the josh hamilton demographic?

no scientology ads up here, that i've seen. still have them doing "stress tests" in the union square subway though

OH I KNOW. those southwest ads were great!

teixiera looks like he can't take a joke

like i could see myself telling him a really good one minute long joke and he just does not get it

i'm not going to waste my time explaining it to him

the teixiera trade is the best trade texas ever made. elvis andrus, matt harrison, saltalamacchia, and someone else i'm not remembering right now

saltalamacchia sounds like something on the menu at la espigua

so how's the old hood doing besides all the chaos and manhunts?

randy is coming over to tell me about his trip to mexico

it's fine. it rains everyday now. there's a new japanese place on broadway but i haven't tried it. it smelled like the beach today. pleasant.

okay. i gotta go. my brother's here.

yesterday i was walking down 9th avenue and i saw about 20 black teenagers beating the shit out of each other in the middle of the street. it was pretty intense. they were stomping some kid out against the side of a parked car. one guy tried to run away and this other kid swept his legs out from under him and then started wailing on him. people were just sort of standing around staring.

later dude, have fun

the neighbors are home

i can't wait to hear the rollersweeping later from upstairs, i find it very relaxing

i thought about getting some ice cream but i don't really like sweet stuff

really that's more of a weekday thing

i REALLY don't like jelly donuts either. i don't see the point of them

i had a very good red bean paste-filled bun in japan, that was delicious

i mean larry david is funny and all but he really annoys me

That movie is going to suck so bad

so my friend took a picture of me and randy standing in front of a wall where someone had spray painted DICKCHICKEN. we were wondering what it meant. last night i saw a sticker that said DICKCHICKEN and had an uncooked chicken with a giant phallus coming out of the neck. i thought, "oh boy! now i know what dickchicken is." THEN, i saw a discreet poster up on an abandoned building next door that said DICKCHICKEN PARTY FRI JUNE 26 148 BOGART ST, COME HAVE FUN.

man i should have gone!

Emz got bored of baseball and changed it to Paula Deen

my friend said it was awesome but he is probably the closest thing to a 28 year old woody allen so it doesn't count

paula deen's husband bothers me

Palu Deen

this weekend in 2006 i got so drunk i peed in the middle of allen street into oncoming traffic and passed out in a greek man's garden

HAY YALL LETS MAKE SOME ICED TEA (dumps entire stick of butter into pitcher)

Paul we've all heard that story a million times

you've changed jopy

Let me tell you about the time emz was having a baby and we were at the hospital and I got food poisoning from this weird burrito place and kept throwing up all over the place.

who misses "father dowling mysteries"?

did you swoon and pass out when the babby came out

now listening to hurrah by versus. versus was FCUUKIN awesome

1500 posts, Paul nair laddies and gentleman

jarf was playing some nada surf last night and it was pretty damn good! i was drunk as a living assbird though so who knows

well i'll be damned

1500 posts, 1398 of which are me telling the same drunken stories during liveblogs

t-pain has a lot of money

how is it that when i was in college and pretty much constantly drunk i did so much fun stuff? i saw jerry seinfeld live, i went to the final four, i went to benihana one night with some friends (the man flipped a shrimp into his hat, which i thought was rather neat) and now i am 28 and have a good job and i don't do shit but drink in my living room and liveblog?

i mean i'm not complaining, just curious

Paul when u coming to pdx YOU GOTTA SEE THE BABBY

to give you an idea of how drunk i was back then, i took my car to get the brakes fixed and whilst sitting in the waiting area decided to go next door to the circle k and get a six pack of bud ice, and proceeded to drink it in the waiting room watching oprah

i will come to portland by springtime. i'm adding it to my bucket list

Well take you to benihana

wait is fall nice in portland? maybe i'll come in october

And we can watch Seinfeld on tbs

i was delirious with a 103 fever when i had the swine flu a couple weeks ago and watching pbs and they had a really long program about portland and how they successfully fought freeway construction and became a mecca for alternative transportation in the 1970s, it was pretty interesting. portland looks cool but everyone looks like they shop at REI and have square glasses

Fall is really dark and rainy. So is winter. And most of spring. BABBY

i can't accurately describe how much i hate this fake old man in the six flags ads

jopy you can't raise henry in portland he's either going to become a goth or a fixed-gear bike hipster

raise him in a normal place like CLACKAMAS

getting this put on a t-shirt is probably the best thing i have ever done. thanks MAYES for bringing this into my life

It's no famous na

listening to novelty by jawbox now. this was the first CD i ever bought. my parents used to go to this greek restaurant downtown when i was a kid and i'd always get restless when they were having after-dinner coffee. they wouldn't let me bring my gameboy with me. so i'd go down the block to this cd store that had listening stations where you could take any cd and sit and check it out. i was going through a bin and found this record and decided to give it a whirl since it was from a label based out of washington dc. life changing. until this point i was listening to shit like the soup dragons and basically anything on G105 like c+c music factory and kriss kross. nothing music-wise was ever the same again. i probably listened to this cd every night from 1993 to 1994. i know every note and drum fill but i still don't have a clue as to what some of the lyrics are actually saying.

i get self conscious wearing the famous nairs shirt. but my friends and family love it

remember "drexell's class"?

I DO

Nope

The nurses at the hospital kept asking about my famous nairs shirt. I was like "hey please just focus on these sick babies"

hay guys

randy is here, he had a good time in mexico

boy i came into this thread at the exact wrong time

MAYES

yeah i gotta catch up with the randyman, talk amongst yourselves

nair, bb's in the guilford college shopping center had cd listening stations like that. the guy who own(ed?)s that place was a pretty cool fellow, i dont think i've developed a rapport with a proprietor of a business like that since then. he was a tubby guy with a sweet ass beard and he would always let me know about the new progressive stuff they were getting in. i once saw him at a power metal festival in atlanta and he remarked on how cool my queensryche shirt was (it wasn't). he eventually started his own record label and we got our guitarist to give him a tape of some of our stuff and he never talked to us again. probably because our music was really awful. last i heard he lost a lot of weight and wears a turtleneck sweater 365

say hi to that randyman. he can really listen to a man's problems.

picture of me aforementioned festival, this was probably 2002. note the shitty haircut and uncomfortable smile

That is a nice shirt

that's actually a porcupine tree shirt, you see this festival was 3 days long so i had to bring a change of cl

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_ant

randy says "what up"

RANDY

emirates 1st class from houston to dubai is 16895 dollars round trip. donations pls

randy is across the street. listening to food and liquor by lupe fiasco. randy odred burger and wings. i got one piece of spinach pie. i am getting drunj

we had a long conversation about michael jackson

no wonder they advertise so much on the soccer

the subway fare is 2.25 as of midnight

its cool i get transitchek, BILL HOOKIN SHIT UP

how's randy handling the fare hike

he walks to work

now we are listening to ready to die. i was telling randy that if you get the trains from here into the city between 8 and 8:30 it is extremely crowded

there was a man on the train next to me wednesday morning who smelled like garlic. his forearm was basically nestled into my cheek

randy and i are having a huge argument about tv shows when we were kids... wha tthe fuck is silverhawks??? this motherfucker has never seen mr wizard or you can't do that on television... wtf??

bravestarr was awesome

i ate some spinach pie and it left a very poor aftertaste. i am quite drunk and star trek is on tv, i have never seen this program before

this shit is fucking disturbing

i'm going to bed, goodnight

but what about kevin mccalister?

joe pesci should've gotten an oscar for that role.

i would like to see nair's face photoshopped on that.