i’m watching the mtv music awards, and i’ve noticed that in the performances, they have KIISFM-like censorship… like the panic at the disco song (sorry james) that goes something like “i chime in, haven’t you people ever heard of… closing the god damn door, no…” anyway, in the performance he said “odd, ham door” or something unintelligeble like that, and when he’s supposed to say “whore” he just says “shhh!”. anyway, the wack thing is that the closed captioning (that has been turned on on my tv since taka got here =p) actually shows “god damn” and “whore” even though he’s censoring himself. so it’s not ok for people to hear it, but it is ok to see the word? wack.

i made an mp3 cd (my car plays ‘em) with Billboard’s top 100 songs of 1994-1998, the years i went to highschool. it’s insane the emotions these songs drive through me, especially when they’re played back to back. some of these songs bring back memories i’ve completely forgot about.

some of my favorites from 1995:
notorious big - big pappa
soul for real - every little thing i do
boyz II men - water runs dry
sophie hawkins - as i lay me down
better than ezra - good
collective soul - december
take that - back for good
tlc - creep
luniz - i got 5 on it
coolio - gangstas paradise
seal - a kiss from a rose

i remember almost every one of the 400 songs. good stuffs.

so yeh, still in school. i’m sure i will be for the rest of my life. anyway, it started again this week. so i’m now busy every tuesday and wednesday evening. ugh.

i was all into survivor for the first couple of seasons, then it got pretty boring, but i’m thinking that i’m going to have to watch this season, where they break the groups into 4 tribes: brown, black, white and yellow.

without knowing more about the players other than my well ingrained racial sterotypes, and as much as i’m gonna be cheering on the white and asian teams, i’m putting my money on the latinos to take it. they’re used to living in crappy conditions and seem to identify well with other latin groups, so they’re likely to work well as a team. and when it comes to the challenges, they’re gonna take it as seriously as the alamo… except they’re gonna win this one.

the black team is probably the strongest phsically, but i’m guessing the women are gonna be mouthing off the whole time, and watch jeff probst is gonna set their camp up next to a watermelon patch. they ain’t gonna even bother showing up to the challenges.

unlike the latinos, asians of differenent cultures don’t get along all that well with other asians… asian pride is usually in their specific race, not in the asian culture as a whole. plus they have a gay guy. while definitely the smartest team, i bet they’re philosophies are gonna be all fucked up, with the chu-man-fu guy talking about confucious, the gay guy talking about his nails and johnny tran talking about boosting civics. man, and that asian chick in the yellow looks like she’s got that bossy attitude. bitchy, bossy asian girls = nails on a chalkboard.

the white team prolly has the second best chance of winning, while dumber, weaker and not as used to living in fucked up conditions as some of their competition, in past episodes they’ve got along alright. although this is the first time they’ve had so many minorities with them, let alone against them. i bet one of the white bitches are gonna freak out about being surrounded by brown, black and yellow people and go nuts. the white team’s prolly gonna be the most nervous about racially offending anyone else, and be fucked up in the head beacuse of it. anyway, it’s gonna be a great show. may the best race win.

it’s been on myspace for a while, but i know a lot of you cats don’t do that. actually, maybe i’m just talking to shali and takako, but anyway, it’s even funnier now in contrast to the pic a couple posts below:

ah elementary school. that’s my trendy ass in the top left corner, the chubby girl next to me was kristen and her father was a congressman or something. maggie to her left was one of my first crushes ever. natice next to her sent me this picture and was my body guard. kirk in the corner opposite me used to be one of my best friends. second row, from left to right: kenya, whom i used to make fun of for having parents who were both blind. jason, who ben would fight daily. horatio sanz, who went on to become a successful comedian. i don’t remember the blonde kid’s real name, but i called him ’small fry’ since everything is relative. next to him, mellissa whom i remember once kissed a girl and it really confused me. that red-head kid was max, who was good at soccer. third row from left to right: my good friend kenny who got me into cycling. lara who i had a crush on and her parents were rich podiatrists and ended up moving to northern california to start an ostrich farm. tandy, who’s father managed the local mcdonalds and would always hook us up… and skinny, freckly, ben… oh man, how we’ve all growns up ;)

14 lines about 14 friends

went and saw costin’s practically new band play at the good hurt in venice last night. they have this sexy nurse motiff, although there was only 1 sexy nurse bartender there :( it was actually pretty empty other than all the action item’s groupies, but whenever there’s that many friends there, it’s always a good time. mike was good enough to drive me, taka, taka’s friend satomi and brit in his spacious ride and yeh, the band sounded great, especially having only been together in that form for about a month. anyway, now i’m at work, hungover as hell and have to work a full day, then go to class until like 10p :( yo, ho. a pirate’s life for me.

but it was the only picture of the weekend. got to have something to remember it by.

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was fucking amazing. no details to follow ;)

man, that r-134a stuff sucks. it smells bad and makes me dizzy as hell, but last night i finally was able to fix the leak i had (i think) and recharge the system. i actually ran outta the gas before i could fully recharge it, so it doesn’t blow that cold, but anything is better than nothing as hot as it’s been getting lately. i also changed my rotors/pads, changed the oil, a few hoses and some other random maintenance stuff. 185k miles and ticking (like a time bomb). =p