when i grow up

once in a while, my friend and I would sit down by a computer and exchange music video knowledge with each other and then watch them for some kind of makeshift music video marathon.

well, my friend showed me the video for fever ray's either second or first single from her self titled album.  the album is really ominous and dark... yet surprisingly listenable.  it's actually kind of a breath of fresh air.  anyway, this video is pretty rad for it has two of my favorite things in the world:  dirty pools and wild-ass mysticism shit.

komodo dragons

my current youtube video obsession has been anything that deals with komodo dragons.
footage of them eating an animal or just an exposition of the komodo dragon.

here's a pretty good one:



apparently i'm the only one that didn't know komodo dragons have fucking 8 billion strains of bacteria in their mouth which can cause blood poisoning if it comes in contact with any wound or blood in general. hence why they're called komodo dragons.

do to-do loo loo:

cheers
-ryan

june 5th

fountainbleu hotel

"i'm better than you."

yesterday i went to go see the field/juan maclean at the fountainbleu.
i didn't get in because i wasn't 21. but that's not the point of this blog.
point of this blog is that i witnessed another side of miami i only saw in Ocean Magazine and movies like Bad Boys 2.
it was one of those bars that housed really cool, sheek people. and the tiles under them were neon blue.
I KID YOU NOT.
NEON BLUE.
i swear it was like a present day fellini film.


it was ridiculous and it kind of made me realize i am not part of any upper echelon cool-nessin miami.
even the people that went to the field show consisted of pleather-wearing aging hipsters.
i only saw one person with a beard, tattoos, and skinny jeans. WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS!
also, it turns out only 5 people came to see The Field and the rest were there to see The Juan Maclean.
BUMMER.

stealing everyone's sunshine

summer is cool.
one of the things i love about summer, besides doing absolutely nothing in 90+ degree weather, are summer songs, or summer records.
i'm shoeing in on some potential summer records this coming 3 months.
i can already that the new passion pit cd is gonna be playing everywhere. i heard it a couple of days ago and found it to be obnoxious? i don't know-- it seems like that's the right adjective to describe this record. loud and obnoxious synth pop. a little disappointing but you can't satisfy everyone.

let's see. uhm. i just heard the new grizzly bear record, Veckatimest, and really enjoyed what i heard. this should be a summer record because it contains that lo-fi dream tone that was present in yellow house and relates to the haze of summer, but it might be drowned out by passion pit. or "my girls" by animal collective.

the new phoenix record is really fun. though, i've had a leaked copy for about 2 months, i still think this has potential to be blasting through your ipod while the sun hits your face.

the wavves record, wavvves, which came out earlier this year can still act as a great summer record. no doubt.

i recently listened to the new Juan Maclean album, the future will come, and found it to represent miami in the best way possible: corny as fuck, but still brilliantly tolerable. if this isn't a miami summer cd than i give up.

let's see. anything else? gimme some suggestions.

my panda bear phone interview

here it is.
i mean it's rough edit.
but it's pretty good. the beginning is a little iffy but then it gets pretty good, in terms of sound and what-not. and content as well.



the interview went fucking great, too.
got the scoop on
-Merriweather Post Pavilion (the new Animal Collective album)
-future solo work
-thanksgiving
-video games
-Judd Apatow
-touring
-etc.

enjoy

moving to screwville

haven't really logged in to my blog in a while. i guess i've been having an affair with another blog-- the one on my myspace. i like that blog because it allows me to be more informal as opposed to this one which is set up in a more formal and organized way.

i just saw this great video for electronic/down-tempo artist Flying Lotus. his video is for the song 'parisian goldfish' and it's brilliant... mostly because it was directed by eric warenheim of 'tim & eric awesome show great job' fame. if you know me, you know that i'm kind of a fan of tim and eric but mostly eric-- mainly because everytime i gaze at his face i begin to laugh.
here is the video:



i've been writing a short story for the past month and i still don't know where it's going. it's about this professor of physics who cheats on his wife with a creative writing student. and this professor has been studying and researching the effects of time-travel since he was a student in college-- time travel has been his whole life. now that his marriage and family have fallen apart due to his infidelity and dedication to his work, he has an emotional purpose for using time travel: to prevent himself from ruining his marriage.
my ideas for the ending:
-him going back in time and actually correcting everything but he's stuck in that time so he lives his life alongside himself... which is boring and kind of un-inventive.
-him going back in time but to a time that doesn't pertain to his mistake... which is kind of cool.
-same as the one above except it's a time where you get more depth into his character.
-him never actually going back in time, but he goes through a metaphysical trance of memories that are vital into knowing about his love-life.

i don't know.
my story isn't structured right, so we'll see.

i just got back from eating with this girl, linda. she's cool. i think i like her. but i don't think she likes me. fuck it. girlz, dawg.

A Compilation of Tweets by myself and fellow Tweeters

1. Brand New sucks deez nuts. Making them look like brand New nuts

2. Here's to KC not crashing. Here's also to KC's douche-vertible

3. TORTILLA CHIPS!

4. Dinner verbal collabos... Yep, not good at those.

5. Dan Marino, bro?

6. I feel like a million dollars at this party

7. I've decided that The Substitute is my 8th favorite movie ever.

8. KC's relatives are geniuses! As the prop turns? BRILLIANT WORDPLAY.

9. Xzibit is good.

10. GZA: Wu-Tang Clan member least likely to murder you.

11. The Starbucks logo: a princess wrestling anime rape tentacles or a mermaid whose tail has been split?

12. Fuddruckers has a veggie burger! And you can chose all the toppings you want! I created a burger mountain! You've done it again, food!

13. Spiky redheaded teen at In-n-Out: we all wanna hit him.

14. Cheated death taking photos at what was most likely an underground gov't installation in the Arizona desert. Thanks, Invisibles.

15. My omelette had its own parking structure. As Djello put it, "I think I saw that in Starship Troopers."

16. Realization: John Stockton was Karl Malone's personal ball-wrangler.

17. i'm about ready to straight death kill Djeljosevic.

18. It's not so much the pain, as much as it that I can't feel anything. Btw, I drool blood while I sleep. LULZ!

19. My gay assistant manager just told me his vagina hurt; I can't wait to see the Dark Knight.

20. I have to go out and buy a belt. I just realized that I don't own any belts & probably havent since I was 11...