Who is You? #3

I enjoy the fact that you own only 1 pair of shoes. Commitment of sorts. But you're also trouble.

You = Barney Rubble

Are spectator sports the only HONEST form of DRAMA we have?

Drama is most often thought of as fiction or a re-telling, or an adaptation, of real life emotion. As people, we enjoy sharing stories and repeating feelings for the purpose of feeling alive. But what about the emotion evoked when we watch something " real" happening?

The kind of drama that needs no storyteller because they don't know the outcome either. Sure we all experience situations in our lives that require considerable thought and the expected blood, sweat and tears, but those span a longer length of time and usually doesn't permit a public view. After all the Greeks had their theater, but also enjoyed gladiator matches. Which brings me to the notion that spectator sports, no matter what the sport, may just be the most unbiased form of dramatic entertainment. No perspective or agenda. Limited predictability. Plenty of emotion. 

Weather Report for Today, 8/22/08

For breakfast, I am having chocolate chip cookies.

Outside, it's partially cloudy. Cool. 

Electronic Bubble Wrap Key Chain

Anyone that's visited my apartment has been curious and played with my bubble wrap keychain. It was a present from my Uncle Les and he'd found it on a Japanese website. Despite the fact that people have made fun of it, the bubble wrap curio has provided hours of snapping entertainment if not some stress relief. To some, however, it's plain garbage.

Well guess what, no fun garbage hater, it's not! New York Magazine has declared it stress-relieving, idiotic, BUT irresistable and its new BEST BET! Take that to the trash, haters.

Check out the article here: NY Mag - Puchi Puchi Bubble Wrap Keychain

2008 Beijing Games: Race Walking

During the late night non-HD NBC coverage of the Olympics, Mike and I stumbled upon RACEWALKING

Our only reaction: WHY???

Miguel Torres, fashion designer

This afternoon I walked around Hollywood just to enjoy some sunshine. I visited a store called Antenna and came out with a lot of cool stuff by LA based designer, Miguel Torres. (Sometimes I have a problem with spontaneity)

His costumy fashions evoke a creative boho style that the Burners crave. It lit my lightbulb.

Love it yourself at Miguel Torres Designs

Lorenzo Style Lab: A Lost Fedora

A recent staple of Lorenzo's fashion was a choice grey fedora. The fedora had met an untimely death due to the incompetent employees of his local drycleaners.

Let's take a moment to enjoy the hat.


OK, so now, we can all join together and find him a new one. Suggestions?

Movie Review: Encounters at the End of the World dir. Werner Herzog

Encounters at the End of the World
Dir. Werner Herzog
99 mins, documentary

After a hike in 90 plus degree weather along the Salmon River in Oregon, it was funny that my friend, Gavin (another Herzog fan) and I decided to watch a documentary entirely about Antartica.

The film chronicles Werner Herzog's journey with the National Science Foundation to an American society of travelers who have come to find home on the most southern tip of the Earth. Gifted with curiosity, Herzog explores the landscape and characters only to present the audience with a graceful and admiring look into a world that would be most likely seen as desolate and miserable. The photography of the glaciers is breathtaking. The colorful cast of characters have inspiring and captivating stories. And lastly, Herzog's heartwarming and very humorous narration was so perfect that it often led to Gavin's uncontrollable elbowing with laughter combo.

Who knew you could feel so warmblooded after watching a movie set on ice?

Weather Report for Today

For breakfast, I am having coffee, strawberry yogurt with a nectarine.

Comfortably warm and sunny.

Someone's got a case of the PDX

You would think that with the use of the worldwide web and mobile technology, that I would update this blog while I travel. SURPRISE I DIDN'T!

I traveled to Portland, OR: a smaller town with bigger town ideals. It's almost aggravating how much cooler Portland is in comparison to Los Angeles. With its ecofriendly lifestyle, efficient layout, overwhelming amounts of food and culture, Portland is a hipster force not to be reckoned with. Resistance is futile.