September 27, 2004

my

the idea of being a new yorker and simultaneously a college student is really delightful. it is like an awesome piece of bread, to compare.

the majority of people here are from long island, new jersey, or california. I use the fact that I tail from 402 as my guise to do as much random things as possible. not that I need a guise, but it is much more spy, which was the occupation I chose in 5th grade as mine.
for instance, I asserted to my roommates that I have mad eating abilities, citing that my life is a meal. luckily I represent "Rare. Well Done" well:


one day for breakfast, sidney poured a lot of salt on bad fish. for a dollar, I said, this was a fish worth eating. let me tell you, it was a delightful dollar. regardez mon visage: c'est plus sexy qu'une élève de UNL, n'est-ce pas?


a restaurant discovered here on the most hip street in the world (beat that atlanta), st. marks place, is chipotle. chipotle though is not hip at all, but I am frugal. plotted on the frugality vs. hipness curve, chipotle meets expectations.
I threw a burrito down fast as a show of speed (certain people may remember the infamous rice eating contest), but anyone from home who specializes in meat could've done better (as some can remember, I eat best with the top and bottom of the food pyramid). chipotle screws with your digestive system though, so stay aware, and use the buddy system
you are not allowed to comment about chipotle being awesome, nor is rob allowed to comment about how he once beat me in taco eating

on to much more interesting things, I promise
I have mentioned it before, but New York is a haven for shoes. there's a ridiculous amount of manhattanites who are sneakerati, members of the footwear elite. though I may aspire to be in mind, I am limited to what I can afford. this sight

is insane though. the metaphor of kid in candy store may be inserted at the reader's leisure

sometimes I get bored, yet it seems that my boredom here has been far more productive than at home. although it may just be seasonal.
the trade off with my dorm is that it is the most spacious ever, but we have no air conditioning. the noise of fans whirrs constantly. One particularly vapid and heatful night, I was inspired

I remarked to eli that "this is what I expected college to be like." to which he remarked, "wearing a fan backpack is what you expected college to be like?" creativity for me comes when I amuse myself, usually

yesterday, sunday, sidney needed to finish a roll of film. i had just finished one myself, so its a shame i hadn't thought of the idea earlier, but I said "I could probably fit into a dryer"
and so it was. please regard the a okay symbol, fans will notice this found elsewhere on the page, highlights magazine style

hopefully I can post more frequently, although I may be so advantageous to have a separate site specific to photos I take as it is such a pictureworthy city.
people here use adverbs instead of adjectives, so I am attempting to adjust to and use the concept of saying "mad rad" instead of just "rad." are we gramatically backwards or is it just east coast crazies?

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September 10, 2004

famous people and their faking counterparts

one of the benefits of going to school in new york
is that sometimes, as part of my meal plan, I just eat celebrities instead
there are a good deal here
more so in beautiful atlanta
so here, in an exclusive and unheard of topic centric blog, I will present to you, all those people famous and not that deserve to be recognized here aujourd'hui

I will start with the least and work up to the greatest, as due to deceiving Dave most already know the bounty of my work

one night while walking with roommates to get a falafel, we viewed this scene


1.This guy really annoys me. Like not Livejournal annoying, or Avril Lavigne, but seriously is not that funny. But none of that matters when you have a place on Vh1's Best Week Ever. He was so unfamous that he was relegated to the edge of my picture above.


2.Patrice Oneal is on Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn. He is alright but the show in general is whiny and not that funny, but that is entirely depending on who is on the show. He looked hardcore in person.


3.I don't even know why this guy was here. He was in that Dave Matthews band video where he hugged everyone. I'm sure he does other things and looks like he could be really funny, but I have no desire to find out.

Lastly in that same scene we scored a real celebrity.

Dave attell. For those unaware, he is hilarious and drunk all the time. we walked behind him (not on purpose, its a small village the village is) until he went straight to the bar next door.

Okay so now that we cleared those out of the way, we will move on to bigger and better things...

Like my roommates.
The ones in my room are Nick (taking a picture) and Eli (playing bass way in the background). They are rad.

Basically Nick is from Jersey, like a billion kids here, except he is majorly cool. Eli just jams all the time and likes funk. Sorry I don't have annoying roommates. it may even be possible that I'm the most boring.......but that is changing! more later perhaps. Eli looks like Jerry Seinfeld + Napoleon Dynamite


Here are the other kidsss Don juan and Sidney. They are equally as rad. Don Juan talks and freestyles, and when he does so he sounds like Andre 3000. Except he's actually from chi-town, midwest representtt. Sidney looks like the Neptunes combined. By this I mean he looks exactly like Pharrell but his asianness puts Chad Hugo into the picture. Plus he beatboxes as shown here.
I'm sure funny things will happen although none of them have unibrows really.

Lastly, the Olsen Twins
I have no pictures to give to you. It is not that I could not have pulled the picture off. I am a sly badass when it comes to covert camera moves. I even had the camera there (as I have developed a habit here of bringing literally everywhere). The silly saying that seeing that they aren't anamatronic sort of humanizes them and I got shy. Plus with a class of 150 people looking on it would look weird me just like going up to them and taking a picture. I was totally not expecting them being in any of my classes (as they are not in film, but they are in a college that lets them take film classes).
But it's alright, because they are there each and every wednesday. All we do is watch movies in that class, which is awesome, but even then its tough to concentrate. But I won't be in hottie overload, Roxbury style. Cool calm and collected kids

but im sure something awesome will happen and when it does, reppin 402 combatrhino stylee

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