A lot less singing a lot more dancing

I haven't seen this film for a few years, but something seems different. Watch this clip from Singing in the Rain.

hey

what's going on
it's cold like an x out here and i like it.

for now

i tried to get u2 tickets today and was denied. it is the end times when a loyal fan can't get a damn ticket for the show. i think it sold out here i about two minutes and then they added another and it sold out too. i'll figure something, but for now i'm assed-out.

my birds are gonna fly next weekend. anybody wise enough to put money on it?

the new cool thing to do is eat mussels with a dark and heavy belgian beer.

sounded like the party was fun, once again congrats keith, i wish i could be there with you all.

top five songs i can't stop thinking about:
crumbs from your table...u2
love will keep us together...?as performed by wilco
that one jon brion song that's really good
tangled up in blue...dylan
everlong...foo fighters

top one movie i finally saw besides the life aquatic=harold and kumar go to whitecastle.

top one thing in the world=cowboy boots(and i challenge you all to list your top one thing in the world to see if you can beat that)

i was reading the biola connections article about the nytimes article and my favorite part was when jmrenoylds made reference of the nytimes basically having an agenda at the editorial level. This paragraph being peppered with [brackets] to clarify the point he was trying to make. i would have laughed out loud if there was someone else inthe room.

why is the sky blue? it's God's favorite color

best,
brent

I know where I'm going for V-day. WOOo DOGGIE!

Woo at the L.A. Zoo
http://www.lazoo.org/zoo_headline1.asp?id=24 
   
Looking for a creative way to arouse your valentine's animal passions? Bring your mate to Woo at the Zoo or come alone and try out your own courtship skills. At this special adults-only event, February 13 from 2 - 4 p.m.,you'll learn steamy facts about animal courtship and mating habits from the Zoo's charismatic General Curator Mike Dee, enjoy a wine reception with luscious and decadent treats, and take a guided tour of the Zoo's sexiest species. You'll even have the opportunity to bid to name the Zoo's newest celebrity couple, a pair of Australian black swans, animals that mate for life — what could be more romantic?

The cost to attend this very special event is $50 per person, or $75 for a pair of tickets. Proceeds benefit Gita’s Wild Bunch, GLAZA’s animal foster parent program. To purchase tickets online click on the link below, or for more information call the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association event hotline at 323/644-6042.

smoke 'em if you got 'em

so, i was just wondering, does anybody know what time we are meeting tonight? i've been a little out of the loop lately.

thanks!

kindest regards,

andrew j. hamilton

Sweet Hot Pics

I posted some of the pictures from Keith's Bachelor party on my site.

damn, i need me some mastercard

oh this is just craptacular!
linky to flashy {sorry kids, not safe for work!}


as an aisde, i so go for the little sister...
{via MeFi}

The Bible time

Bible time will always be Thursday nights. If it is changed, it will be posted. Those that would like to meet tonight can do so but Andy, Myself, Keith, and Matty Beth will not be there.

Bloody Marys and Macabees

Gentlefolks-

Is yon Bible study tonight? What time? Will Jimmy D. be there with his meat treats?

Rascal,

Andrew

Focus on the Family Daily Devotions

Dr. Dobson Study on Romans

Poor Jesse

Jesse had a run in with poison oak this weekend, as most of you know.


Jesse as Farty 

He now looks like a famous tool man.


Tim Allen 

the bare minimum of window-shoppers

i just wanted to point you guys {save for sycz,dmh,mb & maybe a few others who actually read my site} to a piece i just put up about my zenith h-fi adventure. there are lots of pictures.


Barry: Holy shite. What the fuck is that?
Dick: It's the new Belle and Sebastian...
Rob: It's a record we've been listening to and enjoying, Barry.
Barry: Well, that's unfortunate, because it sucks ass.

hard working, fun, good team member....

Jesse has deemed that I am ready to enter the game... he has officially given me the invite to join the party, I humbly approach all of you in thanks for graciously allowing me to post among yourselves... heres to the virtual porch, love, and much fun to cum...

Dan

my fellows

i must say that i am sad that i missed out on the advetures over the weekend, but I got some much needed rest. Kieth--I celebrate you're journey into marriage and am very excited for you. Thanks for the message Sat night...I hope it was a good time up in the Sur and here's to many more to come. The next month or two have the potential to be very crazy for me...My boss jsut got one of his pilots picked up, so that means many late nights are on the way and the possibilty of being on location for a few weeks at the end of Feb and March. I guess it will kind of be like being on tour or something...so that's that. I look forward to more hanging out soon. until then.

Game on.

Who has a u2.com membership? I've never seen them in concert. I feel that this is my year.


24.01.05 U2 Take 'Vertigo' On The Road
The dates, cities, venues and ticket information on the tour we've all been waiting for!

U2 will begin the first leg of their Vertigo//2005 world tour in San Diego on March, 28th 2005.

Vertigo//2005 will visit 13 cities in North America before arriving in Brussels on June 10th for the first of 24 scheduled European performances, finishing up in Lisbon in the middle of August.

NORTH AMERICA DATES AND TICKETING INFORMATION

March 28th San Diego, CA - Sports Arena
April 1st Anaheim, CA - Arrowhead Pond
April 5th Los Angeles, CA - Staples Center
April 9th San Jose, CA - HP Pavilion
April 14th Phoenix, AZ - Glendale Arena
April 20th Denver, CO - Pepsi Center
April 24th Seattle, WA - Key Arena
April 28th Vancouver, BC - General Motors Place
May 7th & May 9th Chicago, IL - United Center
May 14 Philadelphia, PA - Wachovia Center
May 17 & May 18 East Rutherford, NJ - Continental Airlines Arena
May 21 New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
May 24 & May 26 Boston, MA - Fleet Center

Tickets for performances in Boston, Chicago, Denver, Philadelphia and San Diego will go on sale this Saturday, January 29th.

Tickets for performances in Los Angeles, Anaheim and San Jose go on sale this Sunday, January 30th and tickets for New York and East Rutherford go on sale next Monday, January 31st. (All additional on sale dates will be announced in the next few weeks.)

Once again, U2 will offer General Admission floor tickets giving fans the best view in the house for the lowest ticket price. Reserved seat tickets in the stands will also be available. In North America, general admission floor tickets will be $49.50 (plus applicable service fees). Additional ticket prices will vary per market. There will be an 8 ticket limit per person with a maximum purchase of 2 general admission floor tickets.

Paid-up subscribers to U2.Com http://www.u2.com/subscribe can take
part in a presale of tour tickets which begins on Tuesday 25th January, four days ahead of the general onsale - they will receive an e-mail about this direct with booking information.

More news on Vertigo//2005 as we get it.

This Weekend

This picture was taken this weekend by a stallion named Dan Bush. It is so awesome. More to come tomorrow.

it just goes to show...

i was checking the stats for the virtual porch, since we're getting pretty close to 15,000 hits on the site. last week was a busy time for the porch, logging upwards of 300 hits a day, mostly from people looking for info on the bachelor party i think. then we left town. on saturday there were a total of 4 hits on the site. the graph looked like the stock market back in '29. just thought you guys might like to know.

Rum and Romans

The new bible-time has begun. We're checking out the book of Romans. If anybody wants to join next week, we're reading through chapter 1 to discuss next time. Word. Bring rum next time. Preferably bacardi. word.

To the Weekend

Good times

Nice Weather

Big Sur

Friday: A mainly sunny sky. High 66F. Winds light and variable.
Saturday: Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s and lows in the mid 40s.
Sunday: Mix of sun and clouds. Highs in the upper 60s and lows in the mid 40s.

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funny picture
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=499&e=14&u=/ap/darth_tater

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Get your wives started now!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&e=1&u=/nm/health_drinking_dc

Daily Drink Improves Thinking in Older Women

BOSTON (Reuters) - Women who enjoy a drink of beer or wine daily have sharper minds into old age than women who abstain, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.

The report, based on a study of nearly 12,500 nurses, adds to the apparent benefits of light to moderate drinking, which can also prevent heart disease and stroke.

"Our study suggests that moderate consumption might provide older women some cognitive benefits," said Dr. Francine Grodstein of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, who worked on the study.

Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, Grodstein and colleagues said they found that drinkers aged 70 to 81 were 20 percent less likely to experience a decline in their thinking skills over a two-year period than women who did not drink at all.

On average, the women who quaffed a beer or a glass of wine each day tended to have the mental agility of someone a year and a half younger than abstainers.

oh snap!... oops i mean snip!

sycz, you better thing long and... er, hard, about this

The Digs

Here's the plan, as of now. Jesse, Sycz, Dan, Keith, Darren and I are all going early (5am?) Friday morning to miss traffic and get the jump on all you lazy sum bitches. Everyone else (Drew, Andy, Miller, and Alan) is planning on going up on Saturday. All you people who haven't responded...pony up!

The cost will be a mere 10 bucks a person for camping. 5 bucks a night. Cheap. As for food. Each person will be responsible for certain items that the Big Sur gods will demand from them. The aforementioned gods will come to me in a dream tonight and will tell me what it is you all need to bring, All I knows for sure is that my good Sycz is in charge of meat (because, as we all know, Sycz has really got a handle on his meat)

As for drinks. The Big Sur gods demand that there be plenty. Each person must bring enough for many a drink. Avast!

bur sur on saturday...

is anyone planning on going to big sur on saturday? if so, lets get a ride together....word.

gta

so i found a great new site for gta cheats(via boingboing & everyone else).

this guy took apart his controller, wrote some software, and had his computer run every possible combination of buttons pushed. he was able to then catalouge every cheat and easter egg in the whole game. awesome. go to the site and check it out. those are some sweet cheats man.

Recent Backpacking Trip.

Andy and I recently(today) went on a little trip to a couple remote areas of the world. Here is Andy in Nepal.


And here am I in Las Pampas.

I want to stare into a mirror all day.

Which O.C. Character Are You?
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i will box at the bachelor party.
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Park La Brea for those of you that are interested in shacking up with me.
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who wants to go to a rockshow? i do:

- Thu - 02/17/05 - Interpol - Grand Olympic Auditorium
- Sat, Sun - 02/12-13/05 - Bright Eyes - Orpheum Theatre
- Thu - 02/10/05 - Hank III - Whisky A Go Go
- Mon, Tues - 02/07-08/05 - Modest Mouse - The Wiltern
- Sat, Sun - 01/29-30/05 - Kings Of Leon - The Roxy Theatre
- Wed - 01/26/05 - The Soundtrack Of Our Lives - The Troubadour 
- Sun - 01/23/05 - Maynard Ferguson & Big Bop Nouveau - Santa Ana High School

If you know of any other sweet shows like DC Talk or sumfin let me know.
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Bible and Bourbon time is scheduled to start up this Thursday at 7pm on the real porch. All are invited. BYOB.

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Keith®

Just a reminder, friends. Our delicious comrade Keith® will be celebrating his bachelorhood this weekend. In Bug Sur. Did someone say cheap red? Did someone say box? Yes. I said them both. Those who are coming, respond on the blog so I can get a head count. Also give us a heads up of when you think you'll show up. I know Jesse, Keith and I are planning to skip out on work on Friday and go up early, and Jayson is planing on taking the Yukon later on that night (? or the next day?) Looking forward to hearing from you all.

hometown

A poem

OB,
U
Me
OC
Cafeine
AM
Dial me, bitch.

word.

i'm home.

"down to the lizards"

it's sexy time!

an awesome sighting of our favorite Kazakhstani. i wish i could have been there to see it.

all apologies

What else should I be?
All apologies.
What else could I say?
Everyone is gay.
What else could I write?
I don't have the right.
What else should I be?
All apologies.

In the sun.
In the sun, I feel as one.
In the sun.
In the sun...

Married.
Buried.

I wish I was like you, easily amused.
find my nest of salt, ev'rything is my fault.

I'll take all the blame, aqua seafoam shame.
Sunburn, freezer burn.
Chokin' on the ashes of her enemy.

In the sun.
In the sun, I feel as one.
In the sun.
In the sun...

Married.
Buried.
Married.
Buried.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

All in alone, is all we are. (X 20)

no apologies

here, here. What better way to end a hard year, then to spend some time looking back at it, with freinds. Matt, I feel your apology is unacceptable simply because it is unneccesary. So it was a hard year, lets close it and move forward, together.
In moving forward...this past year we introduced distance into our relationships. We live far apart and our lives are moving forward. Sometimes that can seem like we are moving apart. Well we aren't. Just because we don't experience every waking day together, doesn't mean we can't share in each others lives. It just takes a little more effort. Jesse, maybe we could all learn from you on this. Let us all be encouraged by him. Here's to Gloyd.

Apology...

As I told a few fellows, I thought this was the best affirmation I've been a part of in quite sometime. I think the afirmation usually turns boring when we're giving the same affirmations that we've given about people for the last four years or so. Not that its a bad thing, I just liked the direction of the evening and felt invigorated that we have a group of friends who can be so doggone steadfast and strong for each other in the face of great adversity. Maybe I'm wrong, but I felt that a wrap up of the year's events was a perfect way to show the growth and importance of friendship. Anyhow, liquid courage often makes people very sad and or very happy. It also makes people talk and talk and talk for a long time, which, in turn, makes people sleepy and worried that their lovers are getting tired and ancy in an apartment down the alley. I also liked not having to sit in dirt. Viva not being on the hill and getting leg cramps while dozing off in the middle of person A's twenty-five minute affirmation of person B.

Apology

For those of you who felt that this last Saturday' year-end affirmation time was a downer I apologize. I wanted to have the opportunity to look back as a group on where we've been, what we've accomplished, and where we want to go from here. But I think guess this came across with too much of a focus on the bad times. Forgive me for my improper use of the conch.

still in WA

I am unable to attend the hilltop time. My car is in the hospital.
I hope you all have a good time up on the mountain. Any talk of another postponment? How's the weather down there? The internets said that LA has a 80% chance of rain through monday.
It might be a good thing I didn't try cruising down; the whole west coast is getting hammered this weekend. mucho snowo. no me gusta. don't get cought in a mudslide.

Ka-Blamo!

well at least it ain't 69

this is a weirdo thing {via brendoman} and i thought it would be fun to throw up here and see what you think of what this site does. click on the link and read the explination of their rating. pretty bizare. btw, unit64 got a 78% 'GOOD' rating. i guess my words and phrases are more easily divisable by 7!

An idea for Jesse.

Keith, it might not be too late for you to hop on this train as well...

love will keep us together

wilco played this fabulous song along with some others newyears in nyc. jeff tweedy was wearing pajamas and was jumping around the stage with glee. there was a lot of hugs and kisses and maximum love vibes. i had asked for much guidance in preparation for the whole event...what a party

i'm back at work. i awoke in the middle of the night a few days ago wondering what in the hell was going on as i looked around at this strange place i'm in. i had some kind of dizzy spell. it's great here, but i definitely miss la

i like the cold though, there's something comforting about bundling up. maybe it reminds me of childhood or something. i'd like to go sledding

watch out for the trees

-b

Can you find the other Halfway House?

Hey, for the affirmation time, we should all spend the night at the peak of the wank.

Look at these silly things.

A New Call

Ring Ring. You hear that? It's a call for you. You better answer it. Especially since it's the call to arms (again). This saturday January 8th. On the hill. Let the brothers unite! Hears to you!

C.S Lewis (Jr.)

Watch Clive Jr. give Trace Chutkins a run for his money here

Woody Guthrie Was A Hack

Not really, but...

If you're bored and around my house, listen to Wilco's/ Woody's "Hesitating Beauty." When you're finished, listen to the Carter Family's "Lulu Walls"- both of which can be found on my shelf somewhere. Bob Dylan, in talking about the criticism of Robert Johnson (he may have borrowed liberally from some other less heralded bluesmen of the time) made note of a similar criticism folk snobs made about Woody from time to time. The same could be made about early Bob and Woody and none of it really matters, but it's interesting to see the influence.

Johnny Cash talks about a song Kristofferson had sung to him one time (see my Johnny Cash/ Willie Nelson storyteller's cd) called "Let's All Get Togther and Steal Each Other's Songs" or something of the sort. I don't really give a doggone about people borrowing too much from influences as long as both songs (or books, or movies, or anything for that matter) have the ability to hold up over time, but some people do... and those people are dorks.

It's interesting what makes something last. I've been thinking about it a lot since seeing the mildly criticly panned "Life Aquatic." Many of Wes Anderson's films seem to be universally panned ("Tennenbaums" being the exception) by people who in large part know what they're talking about. His work; however seems to be holding up and influencing people a great deal. Time is the great benchmark, though, and it will be interesting how they hold up in the long run. I believe they will. In the here and now a movie like "Hotel Rwanda" may be recieved better, but will "Aquatic" have the longest lasting impact? Possibly, but then again, I don't think we'll know for a few years. Nirvana has held up, as has Sonic Youth, "Pulp Fiction", and "Owen Meany." Can the same be said for "Forest Gump," Pearl Jam, "American Beauty," and "Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius"? I don't think so, but that's just one man's opinion. One man who has written a song that will most likely last longer than I (S.F.), but one man, with one opinion in a world of several bazillion opinions. It is because of this reality that I am drawn to older things.

I don't think much of the art of our time will be fully realized until our children are old enough to buy things for themselves. Thus; being somewhat on a fixed income of sorts, I would like to save my money for the universally heralded, while waiting for the hidden gem to become substantiated.

If there is one universal thing to be learned, it is this: no matter how great a song Nico is given to sing, she always seems to find a way to mess it up.

.....interesting posting note... I wrote the words "but then again" a couple paragraphs up, at the exact moment Jeff Tweedy sang the words "but then again" in "In A Future Age." It really tripped me out.

song of the moment: itunes on random: Christmas Time is Here; A Charlie Brown Christmas.

i am sad christmas is over. drew, thanks for the house.

i need to watch my mouth from time to time.

ninjaz 

the address project

the address project is the new new hotness in uptown

pick your favorite storefront in uptown, or in whittier anywhere (LBC kids, get out of the house for a bit and come to whittier to play, you too drew, or use your metal plated steal trap memory)

once you pick your favorite store front, post the address. then when you see other people's favorite addresses, cruise on by and check it out. here's my pick

13006 Bailey St., bonus clue, between greenleaf and bright on bailey