i was just on vacation in NYC. the crew was myself, nina, and our friend nik. nina wanted to check out fordum university, and visit our friend john who lives in yonkers. not to mention that she had never been to the big apple before. we spent four days in the city, spending 75% of our time in museums, 15% in restaurants, and the remaining 10% walking/riding public transport. but when the sun went down we had a shofer. john (aka jaze juce) is a native new yorker, who nina met at school. jaze is a rapper, a life gaurd, and all around man about town. we saw a lot of the city from in the car at night, wich was awesome.




so day one we went to the guggenheim museum, they were camera-nazis so no photos from there. the place was filled with basically nothing but sexual art. lots of giant slabs of stone carved into mountains of phallises, boob caverns illuminated with red lights, and servered scrotums suspended from the ceiling. and then out of nowhere... the top floor had like 20 of these werid little rooms made out of old doors. some where blank, some had names of people, businesses, all with cracked paint and rusty hinges. you could peer in threw the few doors that had windows to view uber creepy scenes streight out of a serial killer's childhood memories. *shivers* the building architecture was cool parking garage meets modern adobe. but on the way there we stopped in front of a random office building and found these giant hello kitty metal sculptures!!!!



the next day we went to the museum of modern art (MOMA) witch was amazing! the place was 5 stories high, and was filled wall to wall with art! there was a lot of stuff i wasn't allowed to photograph, like the entire floor of picasso paintings/sculptures, or the HUGE salvador dali exhibit featured on the top floor! they had 250 of his painting, tons of props, backdrops and other stuff from his films. and they were playing ALL movies he made, including a DISNEY FILM he animated!






after that we went to a museum of modern architecture and design. you really weren't supposed to take any photos there, but there were a few i just couldn't resist!




the last museum that we went to was the museum of natural history. which was really cool, but very busy. a lot of my photos from here didn't turn out as i hoped, so here's a few of the good ones.




and they had a REDICULOUS amount of dinosaur bones!




so, they don't let you inside the statue of liberty anymore. so what's the point of going to that tiny super crowed island just to try and look up lady libery's dress. so instead, we went to liberty park in new jersey to check out the statue.

 

"lady liberty is just like any new yorker, she hates jersey!
just look at the statue, shes farting on us!"

jaze juce

 

"xero, how come yew can build and program computers
but cant figgure out how to use a new tire jack?"

nik

to kick off the pittsburgh zombie film festival, lloyd kaufman and the troma crew, made the venture down to the iron city to premiere their new film poultrygeist at the andy warhol museum. my buddy smitty and his girlfriend amanda decided that they would accompany nina and i. we didnt want to miss the show, so i preordered our tickets on the internetz. ok, so the other reason i preordered the tix was because i love just walking into a venue, and saying "im on the guestlist..." ++lol. anyway, so the cats that run the warhol's website posted the time wrong :P we misses the first hour of the movie. but for anyone who as ever seen a troma film, we just missed one horrifically bloody death scene. after the movie, we got to listen to lloyd talk about the state of troma, and whats in the works for 2009. after that he just hung out in the hallway and signed autographs, took photos, chatted up the horde, and hit on all the ladies. man, mr. tromavision was a mach and a half! he almost got nina and amanda to make out! ok, im exaggerating... after getting these flix, we just walked around the warhol for a few hours. then met up with my main man mccarthy, and hit the bar. it was a blast!

my pal nonfinite has finally released his long-awaited album entitled northbridge. listening brings you right back to your childhood (or yer whole life in my case :P) sitting in front of the tv wasting the hours away playing video games an enjoying their repetitious bleep-bloop style beats. and nonfinite has his sounds on point! by using a homebrew gameboy cart called LSDJ he produces his new music on old hardware, giving him that pure old skool "chip tune" sound. grab your copy of the album here, FREE! nonfinite also does custom gameboy mods, check out his work here, or peruse his ebay auctions for gameboy mods and LDSJ carts!

this year's halloween was a bit different. our friends opie and jessie had a pirate themed wedding! so deciding was to be this time around was pretty obvious. they had the ceremony and the reception at the same hall in Pittsburgh, but since we were late as usual, we missed the first part. but they didn't seem to mind, since the actual wedding part took about 10 minutes! ++LOL!

the reception was crazy! all the guests were dressed as pirates, i mean EVERYONE! at one point i saw this 80 year old main in a tux with an eye patch. i leaned over to nina and said...

 

"ARRG! yew think that be his costume? or he be a vietnam vet?"

capt'n mint beard

on thursday will calls me up and says...

 

the nhl draft is this weekend in columbus ohio.
you and nina are coming with me, i already have tickets."

weird willy

 

i swear i hear motley crue in the distance. Yeah!
its either them, or the best crue cover band alive!"

weird willy

so donovan did it again! so he calls me at 9:45pm (he lives like and hour away) and sez his flash project is due tomorrow and has no voice acting. so after some guniness & chr0n.job related persuation i come over to watch zhang's revenge. we probally watched it w/o audio like 50 times discussing the plot, what we wanted to convey, what he was thinking. all durring this time the guiness is flowing...

so eventually, in a totally enebriated state, we recorded the drunken audio of zhang's revenge. it got better as we got drunker. it is really funny, but its REALLY funny when yer smashed. so seriously zhang is a friend of mine who ownz a chinese joint in downtown steubenville. his boss was a bitch and fired him so he opened his pwn place. and it rulez so no one goes to the old place.

check out zhang's revenge here.

make sure yew listen to the outtakes hidden after the movie in the "watch again?" screen.

 

x:: what did yew do this weekend?
s:: i gave rumpelstilskins a cauliflower ear.
x:: i should have never axed.

 

so skools is ready to begin, nina, saunda, and i decided to take a vacation. we hit up ocean city, and stayed with one of my dad's old navy buddies (since hotel prices are astronomical these days.) the first day was awesome, the weather was nice, the beach wasn't crowded, and we ate at spiffy italian place. day two however was rainy and overcast. so we decided to kick it on the boardwalk. we ate some ubber-sweet cotton candy, i bought an aqua-teen poster, and we were just chillin' on a bench trying to decide what to do when out of nowhere we see this dude with a pink mohalk and foomanchoo side burns. it's fukkin sean mccarthy and natalie from jester's court! we went to a bar called the bearded clam with them and met up with other people from pittsburgh. it got crazy when the found out that nina was only recently 21. there were toasts to pittsburgh, to nina, to the oc, it was a blast. but after that it got better. nina was annihilated, i tried to buy here a veggie-sub, but all she would eat was the bread (while i ate green peppers off the sidewalk.) saunda was laughing at us. nina was puking out one car window, while i was pissing out the other. the final day we went to the beach in the day (gorgeousness) , then hung out with this guy mccarthy introduced us to (madness). the return trip was just that, a trip. the girls had to pee for miles, and i kept missing exits, or be passing other cars, until finally we ended up at this crazy redneck gas station in wv. they had a singing deer head mounded in the bathroom, so when yew wash yer hands it sang like country roads or something. no one was messing with me (unbelievably) because there was a black family there, i felt pretty bad fer them. the perfect end to a great summer.

pete bortz is drunk at the stateline restaurant (the border of west virginia and pennsylvania). in the video i shot he recants how the reason yer car doesnt work is gary busey, easter clause and david the nome. .. funny stuff

so the other night, or weekend that is, my friend pat was back from school. i got seriously fuuuuuuuuukt up, but not like pfunk did. schmitty was drinking the corbys + the ol'e. 'he wasnt ready for the malt & the aged goodlyness'. either way he ended up spewing in eat'n'park, in the bathroom + on the way there. after that we were just drivin' around getting our 5m0k3 on. we caim up to this stop sign + pat said lemmie' get out and stretch. he did some yoga fer a sec, then proceeded to accost this street sign! the next day him, luke, nina + myself tried to go to this sk8 demo, but was missed it. then we went pickin' also w/ no avail. it was a good time-taro. dont ask-aro.

we decided a few years ago, about the time that we almost got arrested for trick-er-treating at age 19, that our crue was going to have a halloween swaraay at someone's house. this year it was the knight residence. the crazyness including zak's new baby( who left early), that i got trashed more than nina, and zak changed costumes 5 times. check out all the maddness.

hellyeah! on july 14, 2003 i turned 21! i also threw a drunkin' ass bash. i made sure to take lots of pictures. there is an entire directory. but here is a few samples. { 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 }

well let's just say iv had a very strange week. iv been writing down quotes from our very, very, very stupid conversations. here ya go:

 

"i love you baby, every day my light is being swayed by your darkness..."

nina harrison

 

"blaster baiter",

xero

 

"he's a clever hobbit",

weird willy

 

"Mike's a thick lipped bastard"

nina harrison

 

"hell yeah! bring on the elvis bitchs!"

weird willy

so the funniest thing ever happened last night, pete, nina, and myself were checking out the madness last night and we decided to see what was going down at k-mart. we were in the car talking when out of nowhere we heard insane screaming. we really thought that someone was being raped. but then we saw this little kid with his mom screaming! then out of nowhere he stopped, looked at his mom and said: "what are you doing mom? but... i wanted that game that i wanted!" then continued screaming.... i guess it was funnier at the time.

yes, you read the title correctly.yesterday we went skateboarding naked.

it was me + kaila (naked) and nina + kira (clothed). and i'v got pictures to prove it. but dont worry we're covered by out boards in the pictures.

it was actually a lot of fun. we weren't naked too long though. kaila chickened out, and i didn't wanna' be the only naked one.

today we went to club laga to see blanks 77 along with sixer + the macarthy commission. 6er was ok, and macarthy sounded like normal, and blanks were really good. they cover my shernoa, but mike blank only knew part of the 1st verse and the chorus, it was still hilarious. i saw lots of old friends, chris watson, drunk mike, pogo, mike doc, bill, etc, etc, etc... but mike doc (amanda's skinhead boy friend) wanted to kill chris watson (the 'punkest man alive') because of some old shit between him and amanda. but drunk mike and i were trying to stop the whole think, so we missed some of sixer. eventually i talked doc out of it, atleast for today. after the show we (me, nate, lukkas, nina) were hanging out side lage with drunk mike. i was bumming for money off all the goth kids the come to see 'ceremony' (aka goth night) after the punk shows. we were running the streets shouting 'BRING OUT YOU UNDEAD!' it was really fun, then some random goth girl kissed us, and nina got kinda jealous. all and all a good show.

just sitting there waiting, nerviously, anxiously, dreading it's arivial, yet at the same time delighted to know that it'll all be over soon. i look over at geoff, his face is pale, expression blank, and his eyes turned inward, as if he was deep in thaught. i laughed, just to break the tention of the forboading silence that incounpased the room. "lemmie' hit that." i asked as geoff handed me his ciggerette. i took a long drag, untill i could feel the paper burning my fingers, and taste the tar dripping down my throught. i handed it back to him. he hit it again, and put it out. my eyes turn and gase out the window. it's dark and pouring. 6:13, the clock read. i sighed. another 47 minutes till the bus gets here i thaught. time crept by, all of us bairly talking, and never about anything important, smoking heavly, and slowing loosing touch with each other. i could feel it coming, 7:05 the clock said. i could hear it's screaching brakes floating around the bend. i stood up, and announced it's arival. "the big grey dog is here," i said with an obviously fake chuckel. we all grabbed a bag, i ended up with the lightest due to my size, and we clammered out into the pouring rain. the man in the dark suit took his ticket, and we threw his bags under the bus. everyone said there good byes except me, he turned, laughed and said to me, "what the fuck am i doing?" "being retarded," is the only answer i could think of. i smacked him in the back of the head, he gave my the steubenvillan hand shake and got on the bus. it drove away, as did we, but in an oppisite direction.