The first batch of tomatoes and a few handfuls (of many) of basil from my backyard garden. Delicious.
I installed a 1/4" jack on one of my favorite toy keyboards. It's about the simplest thing you can do, electronically speaking, aside from taping an LED to a battery, but I still feel like kind of a badass for doing it. It sounds great except for a loud hum when the keyboard is shut off (anybody know what would cause that? something grounding something something I suppose...). There's a more detailed view of the jack
here.
Flea market photosI went to the awesome flea market on Capital on Saturday. I hadn't been in years. Here's some pics:
Shoe pile. You seen that thumb in the corner? For you, I throw that in for free.
I want "courage"! I want to BE COOL. I want to LOOK SHARP. Sign me up!
This is the best gay Mexican cowboy store EVER.
At this point do you even need your Power Rangers action figures to be knock-offs? Can't the past ten-fifteen years of figures have trickled down to the third world by this point?*
Some people argue that cheap phone camera's CCDs are shitty because they can't capture the frame all at once, leading to distorted perspectives and swervey lines. My word for these people is "bitches".
This is basically the best car in the history of cars.
I might be going back next week. Get more pictures. Hit me up if you wanna go.
Books readHouse of Leaves. Mark Danielewski. LOVING it. I haven't gotten to the crazy part yet. Sure, the book (a fictional story about a fictional guy finding a nonfictional academic analysis of a fictional nonfictional documentary about a house that may or may not be fictional nonfictional and also there's a labyrinth in the living room or something) is pretty strange from the get go, but it gets ka-razy in a little bit. Anyways, I'm really enjoying it. It owes a lot to
Pale Fire§, but is much less of a pain to read since it uses footnotes instead of endnotes (for the most part). I'd recommend it.
Movies watchedSuperbad. I don't even need to tell you how good this is. Anybody reading this has already seen it. If you haven't, I have one word for you: BLOW-J.
TV seenI've been watching/re-watching
Undeclared. I don't have much to say about it that except for that it is awesome and you should watch it but you already have so you should re-watch it.
Okay, it's late. Time to go to bed.
* Which reminds me, at the Paws for a Cause thrift store across the street they had a Power Rangers Zeo lunch box for sale. I almost bought it. Almost.
§ Structurally speaking, at least.¶ Tonally it's quite different.
¶ Literary/cinematic critique with tangentially related, egocentric endnotes/footnotes. Both are examples of
ergodic literature.
