Boob attack!

Isabelle says this blog needs more boobs.

I agree!

Blue-footed Booby

Franka Potente

Boo(b) Buddy

Claire Danes

I just realize the girls I like all have the same features as my first girlfriend.

IS THAT ENOUGH BOOBS, ISABELLE?!?!

Where are your homely prairie women looking for husbands?

SWEETBERRY WINE!

Phone fixed – had to do a complete reset at home. Earthquake + T-mobile going down + hacked iPhone = weirdness?

There was an earthquake, it made T-Mobile not work on my phone for hours, then I got home and my phone died in a weird, sad way. So no phone for now. Oh yeah, and the building shook shook shook, and one girl looked like she was going to cry so I said “Hey, don’t worry, it isn’t an earthquake. I was just practicing Hula Hoop in my office and it got a little out of control.”

Meanwhile: I’ve found the greatest video. Hilarity. If WordPress would let me, I’d embed it right here in my blog. But I think you have to pay money for that?!?!

So anyway, it is here on this page. Scroll down to the third one, “Wine Tasting.” The rest are pretty good, too.

Muxtape: Stacked Rock Dictionary

Note: If you go to my MUXTAPE and it isn’t titled “Stacked Rock Dictionary,” then this is an old post and you should click the MUXTAPE tag to find my latest one.

So I was alerted to MUXTAPE a while back, and have been messing around with it from time to time. If you’ve known me for a good amount of time, you know I am a huge fan of mix tapes. Maybe I’ve made you one (if you’re lucky!). But now you can ALL BE LUCKY! Because of MUXTAPE.com. 

P.S. I don’t know why I need to type MUXTAPE in all caps, it just feels right.

Basically, MUXTAPE allows you to upload up to 12 songs and arrange them as you want, then people can listen to the mix. What I especially enjoy about this site is that it requires no additional software for the listener, it has a great clean interface, and it doesn’t allow the listener to skip around the song (just like you are listening to a tape). However, you can skip the entire track. (Click the track to start the song, click it again to pause the track)

The current MUXTAPE I have up is called “Stacked Rock Dictionary.” It sort of came about on accident. I was creating a random mix, and I noticed most of the songs had a theme of escape… especially to the outdoors. This along with my recent purchase of Pacific Ocean Blue, sort of sealed the theme.

The tracks are included after the break. Click here to listen to the mix.

duality

I like:

belt buckles
rough and tumble
things made in the 70’s
cheap beer
going fast
honesty
scars
pool
records
vinegar
long haired girls
hamburgers
tools
breakfast
mario kart
diners
not shaving
late nights/ early mornings
big skies
Vespas
stunts
focal zooms
lying in the sun
smokey and the bandit
cemetery screenings
trouble

I dislike:

intolerance
wool
liars
artificial sweetener
small talk
money
liver
carburetors
pretentiousness
snakes
football
anchor steam
gift shops
new shoes
the eagles
hotels

project: smash cellphone

This will be a ghost town for a little while – but don’t worry, I’ll be dumping some things here from time to time!

Like this. I made you a MUXTAPE, dear reader (constantly updated).

beach invaded – dimestore surfer

I won two helmets, and an awesome Soulside patch. Generally had a blast of a weekend with the best group of people I’ve met in Los Angeles. Next up: surf invasion, San Francisco campout, and the TIJUANA IN SEPTEMBER.

And with that – I quit the internet! Guten tag!

over and out

for quite a few days.

be back with pictures, stories, dehydration.

2 days

Sometimes you get home, and you are really hungry but you need to work on your scooter, and you know that’s going to be messy. And your stomach is like “hey man, get some hummus and crackers. Maybe even those little peppery salami slices you’ve been so into lately!” But then your hands say “whoa, cowboy. You are going to have some seriously greasy fingers in the next 10 minutes, and gloves are for pansies!” When it comes to those times, Goldfish crackers and Peanuttles win out, because I can grab the package and shove the “food” in my mouth without touching it.

No pictures or video, but I started the scooter up last night and it ran. Hooray! Lots of cable stuff tonight, new gas and figure out where all that smoke is coming from.

And for a good laugh, check out what the miracle of the internet found over at SinPies. I remember this day, but I don’t remember being that clean shaven and that damn skinny.

3 Days

Taken two hours before actually putting the engine in the bike.

Tonight – carb and cables. Oil, gas, and kick kick kick kick.

Love is Stronger than Witchcraft

Wow – a video for “Love is Stronger than Witchcraft” that I didn’t know even existed before. It is a really “personal” video with home video of Robert and his wife in their house, driving around, etc. Kinda weird, but it’s great to listen to the song. Check out the “Asshole 2″ cover at the very beginning (I love to put on that record every once in a while).

via Pop Zeus

4 days

Finishing clutch today, setting flywheel timing and putting the engine back in the bike.

We’ll see.

Go Back Snowball’s “Climb”

From Calling Zero:

Climb through the chambers
I’m hiding and seeking
The strangest mask I wore
The dumbest costume I swore
I’d never wear again

I’ve been all over
I’ve been nowhere
I’ll go everywhere
Before it’s all over

Where is the wind?
Where are all my friends?
Where are all my dead friends?

Robert Pollard and Mac McCaughan’s collaboration “Go Back Snowball” has a lot of highlights for such a small record, but “Climb” may be one of the overlooked.

Opening with dischordant guitar and keyboard, it immediately blooms into, quite simply, a really awesome distorted guitar hook that makes me immediately turn the song up.

The song ends on a weird, sad note. Clocks in at just over 2 minutes.

I’ve written about Calling Zero and my favorite song on the album before, right here.

Gold!

Go Back Snowball – Go Gold
Robert Pollard – Gold
Guided by Voices – Gold Hick
Guided by Voices – Gold Star for Robot Boy
Guided by Voices – The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory
Lexo and the Leapers – Will You Show Me Your Gold?

And of course the seminal album “King Shit and the Golden Boys”

Robert - I don’t like gold!

8 Days

Tomorrow evening I’m heading to North Hollywood to get my crank set. Ha! Seriously though, my crank and bearing will get set tomorrow, leaving me to finish up the clutch and the rebuild on Saturday.

Also, Saturday night is “My Generation” with a pre and post party at my place. 

No pictures – but I hung a thermometer in my garage today. It got up to 80.

Plastic scooters are a real bummer.

9 days

Spent 5 hours in the garage tonight, prepping the engine for the new crank, etc. Basically, it is sitting there waiting for the crank to be put in. The crank is waiting for me to put the new bearing on it (as well as the flywheel side bearing) but this is a lot harder than it sound. I had the flywheel engine case in the refrigerator with the bearing sitting on the freezer side for about an hour, but it didn’t budge. Didn’t even try the crank. I’m going to make a phone call to my secret westside 2-stroke expert to see if he can do it, other wise I’m going to shoe cobbler that sucker on there and hope I don’t ruin a brand new $150 Mazzuchelli race cut crank.

After that is done, I can seal up the cases and put the top end on. Last night at Westside Scooter Club’s wrench night, I chambfered the ports on my new cylinder and prepped it to be dropped on the cases. AFter that, I think timing the flywheel will take most of my time. Then I’ll throw the tire and new pipe on there, and I’ll have a complete engine ready to be set into my frame.

I sat and looked at my frame for about 15 minutes tonight. Granted, I’ve been drinking Rolling Rocks all night, and I was listening to Wild Honey, but I had an epiphany about Vespas. They are so damn simple and elegant and beautiful and awesome. Once you get your head around the engine, it is pretty easy to comprehend. And if you are only doing a top-end rebuild, (and own something like a P200) engine access is amazingly simple. The frame is stamped out of a single piece, and everything makes sense if you just look at it. And people wonder why I talk shit about non-Italian scooters. Even modern Vespas are way more complicated and confusing (don’t get me wrong… I really miss my LX150). Basically, what I’m saying is I’m in love with my scooter.