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i strongly suggest, if you ever have the chance – you should experience 200 people singing you happy birthday. it’s amazing.
so as i mentioned, i’ve been on an event for the past few days. the event was a training for our educators (the people charged with going out into the field and teaching hairstylists our methods). we do this thing called “wellness” at the beginning of most of our trainings. usually it consists of something like a group stretch, meditation, yoga etc. this morning’s wellness was quite the surprise for me.
as david, our technical artistic director, started – he called for me to come up to the stage to “move a box” – as i got up to the stage, he began to lead the group in a rousing rendition of happy birthday.
needless to say, i was surprised to say the least (which is an odd feeling for me – it’s rare that i’m truly surprised) and turned about a hundred shades of red. but it was a helluva feeling to be sure.
after that, i needed to help a guest artist with some shopping for our upcoming show in italy. one of the stores we had to go to was puma – where i found the hottest watch (truth-be-told, i have a bit of a watch addiction – i’ve been fighting it for years, but today i fell off the wagon so-to-speak):
damn, i love this watch – it’s all stainless steel and red rubber and roaring cat. dead sexy.
cause i belive a watch should be seen on the wrist, check me out:
(double-click for a better view; sorry for the “less-than” quality of the image, i was too lazy to get my real camera, and just used the cell phone).
later tonight i get to open my prezzie from cb (excited to finally see what’s in the box) and then i’m meeting some friends for drinks.
a great day to be sure! thank you to all for your emails and calls. 
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the above quote, that’s from john glenn.
the above pic, that’s me about a million years ago (ok, really, just 33 years ago – i was 4).
exactly 37 years and 28 minutes ago, i was born – yup it’s my birthday. not a huge birthday for me (it’s not like its one of the big ones: 16, 18, 21, 30, 40 or 50) and i’m spending the day on an event for work (day 4 of an event; hence the dirth of posts). and not much going on tonight, a drink or two with my friends vicky and bruce – that’ll be nice.
i do have an awfully large prezzie box to open from my good friend cb later today - and i got a lovely itunes gift cert from ray (and his partner jeremy) over at pozzo. and of course, i’m sure mr. patrick warburton will be phoning me later and professing his eternal devotion – that’ll be nice too.
it’s going to be a good day – i can feel it.
yay me!
Filed under: art
i highly recommend you get your laugh on over at the rut. the author/artist, some guy named phil – has a brilliant, witty way about the way he writes/draws. he posts a cartoon everyday (or at least, that’s his goal).
here’s a sample:
(if you double-click it it makes it bigger. [there's a sick joke in there somewhere, i'll let you, my good reader, come up with it yourself])
i work for a fairly liberal company. we have a strict environmental mission that is followed religiously (as opposed to those companies where you see the mission on your first day, and then you don’t hear about it ever again), we’re pretty gay-friendly (hell, we work with hairdressers and fashion designers) – hell, we even have an organic resturant on site.
in fact, even our parent company is liberal (scored a perfect 100 on the hrc corporate equality index).
there is very little that is conservative in working for who i work for.
that said, it’s disturbing to no end when i see pro-bush bumper stickers in our parking lots. now, of course, conservatives need job’s too – and i need to remind myself that sometimes, people just want/need a job, and could care less for the “bigger picture” of corporate politics, but it’s just discouraging when people support a particular political vision that’s so innately opposed to what’s right (yes, i know what’s right is subjective, but in my world, it’s good liberal, environmental, pro-gay thinking!).
i am a bit of a trumpet blower for the companies i’ve worked for and just wouldn’t last long working for a company who’s vision is so different than mine. prior to working here, i worked for a payroll company who was at that time (7.5 years ago) the second largest user of virgin paper (after the fed gov) in the nation. when i would bring up the subject of using more recycled paper in our stock, i was looked at as if i just suggested we use poop as the base in the ceo’s meatloaf. suffice to say, i only lasted there 4 months.
with that said, it brings me great pleasure to provide the following photograph. i’ve seen this truck a time or two in our parking lot, but never had a camera ready. i have no idea who drives it, but i gotta say: i. love. this. truck:
sorry the quality sucks. if you can’t make out the text that is painted on the tailgate it reads: “the united states that i believe in does not believe in torture!“
Filed under: the perfect man
ok, so i have not updated “the perfect man” list since july of last year. for fucksake, july.
it’s high time i get back in the game. and with that in mind, may i present patrick warburton:
patrick, oh patrick. this man is seriously sexy. i’ve had the biggest crush on him since i saw him in “the tick” tv series. he’s tall (woof), hunky (double woof), killer eyes (triple woof) and you just know he’s hellagood (yup, that’s right, i broke out the hellagood – don’t hate the player) in bed.
most know him from his role on seinfield. of course, i’m the only person on the planet who hated that show (much like my dislike for the shins), so i came to patrick-lust late in life, but i’m made up for it ten-fold. i’ve rented plenty a movie he’s been in and of course, there’s family guy…. gotta love him on family guy.
from the glorious imdb, i’ve learned that patrick was born in 1964 (quite possibly the best age for me to date, patrick needs to call me) and that he’s been in 88 separate filmed things (movies, tv shows, etc.). i’ve also learned that he’s a father (dilf), which also unfortunately indicates he is straight (the wife part gave that away) - hate that (tho’ cbwould say it’s more of a challenge that way). he’s also voiced superman twice, once in a commercial and an episode of family guy.
patrick now co-stars in the new cbs show rules of engagement. don’t let the fact that the show also features the hideous david spade, the show on the whole is quite cute – and the perk of it all, more patrick (if only he would do the show shirtless – that would be nice).
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“music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul” plato
over there – to the right, and just down a bit you’ll find: vod:pod – or as it’s horribly titled: “srsl’s video collection“.
i’m trying out a new way to share some of my favorite music with all of you – the content will change from time-to-time, but the goal will always remain – to provide you with a kick-ass video or two.
perhaps i’ll share a bit about why they’re there, perhaps i won’t. in the meantime, just scroll on over and hit play; you might love it, you might hate, hell, you might just discover something cool you’ve never heard or seen.
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“when i was younger, so much younger than today, / i never needed anybody’s help in any way. / but now these days are gone, i’m not so self assured, / now i find i’ve changed my mind and opened up the doors.”
-the beatles, help
(no, this isn’t some veiled call for help – just been humming this lyric all day and was struck by it’s brilliance and had to share. the beatles were the fucking shit, that’s for sure.)
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i love it when a plan comes together (or at least when the powers that be love my plan and greenlight it).
as you may know, i am the ceremonies producer for the mn red ribbon ride – a 4 day, 300 mile bicycle ride to raise funds for hiv/aids charities in minnesota.
today i had my first meeting with the director of the ride regarding my plans for opening and closing ceremonies for this summers ride – she loved ‘em all.
now the fun starts, time to roll the sleeves up, script out the ceremonies, call vendors, arranging talent – i f’ing love my job!
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i’ve been in a terrible funk music-wise as of late. there’s just not much that’s out right now that i find interesting, or challenging, or hell, even fun. even diversions such as jt’s sexyback are boring after more than 2 listens.
as my friend ian was coming to the states from london for the show (he was a guest artist at this past weekend’s show in des monet), i sent him a pleading email a couple of weeks ago asking him to bring me new music from london & europe.
i would have been more than happy with one or two cd’s (or even a mix-disk), but ian out did himself – he brought me ten (count ‘em 10) cds of new (at least to me) music. some of it quite trendy (in that u.k. flavor of the month sort of way) and some of it looks to be quite cool and unique and different and fun. i’m like a schoolboy on christmas morning.
it’s going to take me a while to get through all of this, but i’m more than up for the challenge. i’m giving myself one proper listen (not in the car, not at work) with each disc before i start repeating.
first up; the divine punk-rock jazz singer amy winehouse(http://www.amywinehouse.co.uk/). i was super giddy about this one when i opened up the pack from ian. i’ve been reading a lot about amy and can’t wait to give this a proper listen. the punk-rock tag was given by the u.k. rock press – i’m not sure it fits. sure she has wild hair, old skool tattoos & is a lil’ drunk and trampy (according to the tabloids), but this girl can sing. dark, smoking voice wrapped around cool as shit old skool 70′ rhythms that will become modern classics.
next up we have cicada (http://www.myspace.com/cicada1). i know nothing about this other than they are former re-mixers, doing their own thing now. a quick look at the uk websites says they are doing something interesting. anxious to hear this.
the klaxons with myth’s of the near future (http://www.klaxons.net/) are the latest and greatest thing to make the uk press fall over themselves with adjective upon adjective. i’m only 3 tracks in, but i’m diggin this – musically it’s all over the place. this’ll be a headphone album i think (or something that begs to be played loud in a theatre during a hairshow).
anthony and the johnsons’ i am a bird now (http://www.antonyandthejohnsons.com/) is a few years old now (2005) and something my friend vicky has been trying to get me to listen to for a while now – ok, ok, i give – if both ian and vicky are digging it, i should be too.
pet shop boys fundamental (http://www.petshopboys.co.uk/). i’m the worst when it comes to psb. i’m a casual fan. i always like what i hear, but never really follow the boys (unless of course, they’re working with robbie williams, ha!). i read good things about fundamental tho’ so i’ll give this a good once-over.
mylo destroy rock & roll. (http://www.mylo.tv/). i know nothing about this other than it’s a few years old and the album cover is fucking brilliant (yea, i judge books by their covers too).
alright, still by lily allen (http://www.lilyallenmusic.com/). this is the one i’m most resistant to and i have no idea why – no real valid reason other than sometimes the hype tends to push me in the other direction (which is odd, ’cause traditionally i’m a huge hype whore). i’ve got the single ’smile’ and i like it fine. must clear mind before i give this a spin.
mika’s life in cartoon motion (http://www.mikasounds.com/uk.php) is another that i know nothing about – but again, great fuckin’ cover, don’t you think?
and finally, 2 disks from nouvelle vauge: bande a part & self titled. (http://www.nouvellesvagues.com/) i was vaugely ( ) aware of this band and am excited to give these a spin. nouvelle vauge takes songs you know and turn’s ‘em on their ear - bossa nova style. always fun for a laugh – ya gotta love the french.
update; i’m about 8 tracks into the klaxons and fucking loving it. i’m two for two (amy winehouse kicked my ass too).
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ok, i lied – here’s a comment: year 5 and still single on vd. i hate this fucking manufactured holiday. to quote the card i got from cb today: “cupid, yea, that guy just freaks me out”.
