the death defying mr. clean


look at this madness.

the other day we had our windows cleaned here at the office. this crazy maniac would hook himself to the window and then climb out and wipe away. it gives me the heeby jeebies just thinking about it.

in other news, it's humpday.
that means that america's next top model is on tonight. don't worry, my vcr is already set as the commercials promised the wildest episode yet. i think they have to make out with each other.

i hope they have to make out with each other.

i also hope to find a large bag stuffed with money on my commute home tonight.

foggy mountain breakdown

ok, it's monday. i watched more television and movies this weekend than i have since high school probably.
here's a list of what i can remember watching:

sideways
predator
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (1 1/2 times)
stoked:the rise and fall of gator
yankees games
military channel
wonder showzen
empire strikes back
the contender (2 episodes)
mayor of the sunset strip

and on and on....

anyways, today my mind is fuzzy and my body feels like it just woke up from a long coma.

this post will probably reflect that.

anyways, here's some photos of some things from last week...


the weather was amazing for most of the week. i spent as much time as i could up on the roof of that apartment having drinks and looking at the city. i don't have roof access at my apartment, so this was very nice. rooftops here are like backyards in regular cities. i really miss having a backyard.


last wednesday (i think) i took jamila to watch the knicks play their last game of the season. it was a great game not only because the knicks came from behind and won, but because we drank budweisers out of straws.


on friday, i came home to my pretend home after work to watch cable tv. i lucked out.

predator was on!


god bless you carl weathers.


later that night, jamila came over to watch the yankees game on the giant tv. she had the awesome idea of ordering indian food.


the food was awesome, but we ordered waay too much of it.

also, the yankees got their asses kicked.


apparently, that combination was too much for some people to handle.

awww....



oh, and before i forget...


my friend elliot jackson told me to watch this show.

and holy shit. it's my newest favorite show ever. it's on mtv2 on friday nights at 9:30 and it's totally INSANE.

don't be a fool. watch it!

i hate these words so much

"panini"

"canoodling"

UPDATE!!

more than both of those, i HAAAATE the word "hemi".
you know, they always say it in those truck commercials.

aaargh.

the body count now stands at one



aww nuts...

body count stands at zero

three days of taking care of the wild kingdom and so far, so good. i have been enjoying feeding the little frogs the most. you feed them fruit flies that, through the truly weird world of science, have been bred so that they can't actually fly. they still have wings though. it's a tad creepy.

tonight i am going to play video games on the giant tv until i can't see straight any more. it should be tremendous.

i'll do this even though today is probably the nicest day of the year so far. it's about 76 and sunny. it appears that i need a girlfriend or something.

ok, i am going outside to read some more kavalier and clay now.

bye.

wait....here's an unreleased apple commercial starring that cute, but totally stoned girl:



and here's the original one.

models (sort of) & anthony's wild kingdom

please allow me one more moment to thank the sweet, sweet lord above for giving us (once again) the greatest television show ever.


girl, you know i'm talking about america's next top model.


if for some reason you are not watching this show, you are absolutely crazy.


i have started taping the episodes even.

in other news, i am taking a little mini-vacation in the city for the next 9 days or so. i'll be apartment-sitting for my boss in hell's kitchen while he's away scuba diving in costa rica.

that's right. just me, a chinchilla, a 57" tv, $6000 worth of tropical fish, 3 poisonous tree frogs, and the internet.

i think what we have here are all of the ingredients for a perfect mad-capped ashton kutcher movie.

i'll keep you posted...

season opener (mega video edition)

so yesterday i come to work and my boss walks up to me and asks if i want to have the afternoon off to go see the Mets' home opener at 1 from his $1400 seats.

guess what my answer was?

soon my friend eric and i were riding the 7 train out to Shea stadium.


here's eric talking to lou reed. he does lou's computer work and every time they talk in front of me, it totally freaks me out. eric's always going over to his house to fix whatever problems that he has. so weird.


the nice thing about the 7 train is that once you get into queens, it goes above ground and into the sunshine. ahhh....nothing beats an afternoon sunny train ride when you should really be at work.

so the seats. i was curious exactly where tickets that cost $700 a piece would get us. when we got to the stadium, the usher led us down to our them. when we finally stopped, we were in the fifth row. only four people were between us and the field!


see??? i haven't ever been anywhere near this close except for maybe at t-ball games when i was a kid.


we were there early enough so that we could watch them warm up a bit. it was funny to see mike piazza and carlos beltran doing funny looking stretches thirty feet from you.

then it was time for the mets to be introduced. click HERE for a movie of that.

click HERE for some video of the national anthem, followed by some truly lackluster fireworks. i guess seeing as how it was 1:00 in the afternoon, we shouldn't have been expecting much.


it was a great game though. oh, they were playing the houston astros. the mets were losing by 1 for most of the game, but then ended up coming back towards the end.

click HERE to see some real, live baseball action. woo hee.


the final score ended up 8-4 in favor of the hometown team. it was a super kick-ass afternoon. the whole game we were talking about how it felt like we were in ferris bueller's day off. it was that kind of feeling.

unfortunately, i wasn't with the lovely Sloane (played by the love of my young life, mia sara).

oh well...eric made for a good Cameron at least.


!!SPECIAL TOTALLY UNRELATED BONUS SECTION!!

my commute this morning sucked.

the train that i take was all messed up and we all waited FOREVER on the platform. everyone was tired and grumpy of course. when at last a train arrived, everyone jammed into it like it was the last train on earth.

it was good to finally be moving. but we all quickly realized that it was bad to be trapped inside of a PACKED subway car with a crazy guy screaming and preaching about the end of days. at first, everyone just sort of rolled their eyes and sighed at the annoyance, but then people started just screaming at him. it was nuts.

my arms were pinned to my sides from the crowd, but i finally was able to film a few seconds of the tail end of the scene. the 'preacher' is the black guy in the navy sweatshirt just over the left shoulder of the tall asian guy.

click HERE to enjoy.

video party!

holy crap. it's been a looong time since i found not one, but TWO totally unbelievable internet entertainment spots.

i would be ashamed of myself if i didn't pass them along to you. please enjoy...


i don't know what in the hell this is, but it's amazing. totally, absolutely unbelievable. at first i thought that this was anthrax's old singer (you know, the one with the 'injun' baseball cap), but thankfully, it might only be his insane little brother.


patriotism is at high tide!

and for our second feature...


belinda would like to thank Spencer Gifts for their amazing light and fog show.

holy sweet mary.

greenpoint blues


so things are sad in my neighborhood these days.

the part of brooklyn that i live in is called greenpoint and it's mostly made up of Polish folks. basically, it's the center of Polish catholicism in nyc.

right down at the end of my block is this big catholic church. the square in front of the church is called "Pope John Paul II Square" and this statue of the pope is there. people have been leaving flowers and candles there since he died. i happened to be at home when the vatican announced this and right afterwards the church started ringing it's bells (for about half an hour).

almost every business that i walk by has a picture of him taped to the front door too.

even though i'm not catholic (but i am part Polish), it's all pretty touching i think.