recent goals

my list of immediate things to do
includes stuffing my fat fucking face
with one of these tasty, oversized delights.

c'mon now, the shit looks FILLING
not like some puny apple of thin ass banana.
i want to taste the greasy goodness
of deep fried, low-grade beef shits.

i hope the come out like they come in! :)

the social network review

mmm i'm mixed about it
most of the movie i didn't really like
but overall i could see why people like it

it's an oversensationalized drama based on true events
there are a lot of situations where it just never would have happened like that
it's one of those "let's make a statement about this generation" but from the eyes of someone who only knows it through tons of cliches

they had this scene where his friends were drinking beer, smoking pot and jumping off the roof into a pool to depict how chatoic living in CA was

and justin timberlake just happened to be living across the street and come over to see what the ruckus was about

yeah i can't take justin timberlake seriously as an actor
or in general
he plays the guy who made napster
yeah he looks sooo sophisticated in his wire frame glasses


but overall it was okay
nothing horribly wrong with the movie but overall kind of uneventful

there are these two twin characters that are super over the top
they're the rich twins who had the idea first but are super competive as seen by their drive in their rowing team dedication
and mess up the dean's office to show their spite when he denies them recourse against FB guy
the overall message is to be an asshole and an arrogant jerk but as long as you're smart and condescending you'll get several billion dollars and the admiration of all women except that one girl you liked at the beginning of the movie


but especially the admiration of the random girl from church who told you to facebook her then you did then she sucked your dick in a public bathroom

and your CFO will be getting head in the stall next to you from her other slut asian friend who ends up burning a scarf on your bed because she's jealous and doesn't wear scarves


but in the end that cute woman from the office with a bob haircut will console you and tell you to pay everyone off and you agree and she flirts some more with you then the movie is over

great movie, right? lol

splice review

well so they raise this human/animal hybrid thing called dren (nerd backwards)

and the woman is really attached to it like a daughter and dresses it up like a doll


it finds a cat and is super happy but the "mom" takes it away and when she decides to give it back later dren kills it!

and there are some weird scenes where adrien brody dances with dren and looks into its eyes and feeling gooshy


then things get super fucked up when adrien (sp?) brody fucks dren on a barnyard floor and dren sprout these wing things for no reason

oh and the mom amputates dren's penis tail at one point

so then dren changes gender and becomes a man, flies around for a while and kills a bunch of people, then rapes the woman


GRAPHICALLY

then adrien brody stabs dren, dren stabs adrien with regrown penis tail, adrien dies, mama squashes dren's head with boulder, dren dies

end scene of mama making negotiations with this gene company about selling the monster baby in her stomach (she's preggers), ends with her and random business woman looking out onto the city with the line "what's the worst that could happen?"

END CREDITS! LOL

things do not change

GIFSoup

(and that ain't such a bad thing)
:) :)

detox

as much as i've meant to update, i just simply haven't.
there's no real excuse other than making excuses.

drinking, working, drinking with coworkers,
remembering and not remembering nights,
it's not a lifestyle i can manage easily.
time for a life detox.


cut back on the booze, cut back on the screens,
splice in some fresh creative moments and
healthy life choices and things should be good2go.

life has just been consumed with work, gym & others,
but refocusing... refocusing... refocused.

the screen life

my life has become about staring into
a multitude of electronic screens.

let's count em up:
1. imac (apt) - 2-3 hours, various
2. imac (work) - 7 hours, mon-fri
3. macbook pro - 2-3 hours, weekends
4. nintendo ds (screen x 2) - varies
5. LG Vu Plus cell phone - 30 min, everyday
6. television (apt) - 30 min-1.5hr, most days
7. projector screen (screening room) - 1.5-2hrs, infrequently
8. kindle - growing amounts of time
9. ipod - 20-30min, everyday
---
(i'm still too scared to add up the total hours)

what happened to the carefree days when i
could sit outside and sketch in my notebook?
or read american psycho in a park?
or bike for hours and not feel guilty?
time to shift focus and reprioritize.

music scene

I'm into electronic, electro, indie, house and pop, including:
M83, Daft Punk, Basement Jaxx, Mates of State, Rilo Kiley, Ladytron, Metric, Goldfrapp, Boys Noize, Fear of Tigers, Crystal Castles, The Russian Futurists, The Unicorns, Futurecop!, The Knife, The New Pornographers, Interpol, Digitalism, Deerhoof, The Bloody Beetroots, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Annie, Tiga, Labyrinth Ear, M.I.A., Cansei de Ser Sexy, Architecture in Helsinki, Keane, Feist, Fukkk Offf, Wolf Parade, Siriusmo, The Polish Ambassador, Röyksopp, Blonde Redhead, Bloc Party, Empire of the Sun, Björk, !!!, Girl Talk, The Shins, The Fiery Furnaces, The Cranberries, The Futureheads, No Doubt, The Strokes, Sneaky Sound System, Mylo, Passion Pit, Major Lazer.

Check out my music taste: http://www.last.fm/user/pepacorn

on the job revisions!

how does this (above):








become this (below):


ANSWER: the merchant!

also this is my life now :)

successsssssss

um so yeah i'm employed now.
2nd day on the job.
amazing amazing
livingsocial.com
i design graphics for various markets,
nothing too crazy as of now,
but happily employed
and feeling so fulfilled
FINALLY

practice, revision, and self-assessment

the bad:
unemployed dirty under-utilized scared shaken sore depressed sick exhausted despondent stuck unappreciative negative beaten defeated down obsessive reclusive distorted malformed selfish pig critical traumatized destructive weak

the good:
talented creative intelligent articulate interesting funny open quirky fit caring driven motivated confident deserving upstanding enthusiastic proactive strong responsive mindful renewed

self promo

what else can i use to describe myself
to give myself the best chance possible
to finally snag a decent, creative job?
i've been using combinations of there terms
and nothing seems to stick!!!

birthday pies

fouad is another year older!
and he's got the pie to prove it.
there's a tasty pie place down the street,
and they baked him up a birthday sweet treat.
absolutely delicious!
(can you tell fouad's excited?)


i gave fouad his presents in the container store
equivalent of a mcdonald's happy meal,
but instead of mazes and clown faces
it was just a beautiful teal color.
fouad opened it early just cause.


a few more surprises awaited,
including a coupon, gift card and game.
my mama also got him quirkle cubes.
(quirkle is now a frequently used word in the apt)


i hope he had an amazing day and
i can't wait till next year!

from Aileen Wuornos to Rihanna

stoned with edward norton

go and watch STONE immediately.
oh wait, you can't yet,
unless you buy bootleg DVDs from the flea market.
go watch it as soon as possible, then.
it's really amazing.


what's also amazing is that i got to sit 10 feet
from the very talented and very tired-looking edward norton.
he plays the enlightened convict stone in the film
and is married to the femme fatale milla jovovich,
who screws almost every male character in the movie.
an outstanding performance!


aimee invited me to this early showing and chat with the star,
as part of her AFI membership and benefits package.
also because she's a great friend.
we ate licorice during the milla sex scenes :)

san fran fan

...i really hope blogger doesn't consider this "adult content"
because i really pared down the graphic photos for this post.


the trip to san francisco last week was a blur.
from the culture to the drug use to the people
to the sweaty mass of gays running around at folsom
to the sheer excitement of seeing missed friends
i really had a wonderful and memorable time.


leather daddies and cubs roamed the streets on sunday, sept 25,
looking for hedonism, fulfillment, and perhaps
someone to water their blooming rosebuds.


i caught up with candice and chatted about unemployment.
it's nice to know we're still on the same wavelength about things.
we agreed that folsom was a mere pup in comparison
to our experience at the christopher street day festival in berlin.


digo and katharine rounded out the trip.
can you believe i hadn't seen them in over 14 months?!
we warehouse raved, smoked, SFMOMAed, chatted and ate,
and i really wish we lived closer to one another.


last but certainly not least is anna!
the last 2+ months since germany have seemed a lot longer,
and it was amazing to run through the fields into her arms.
i wish we had more time together, but it was nice nonetheless
to meet her friend cooper and talk about food orgies.

potential job offer!

Hi,
I am interested in working full time at your pumpkin patch.
I am a 25 year old male, able to lift many pumpkins and available to start working immediately.
Please let me know more about this opportunity.

Thanks,
Erich

DC typography

in an attempt to distract myself from unemployment,
i have been biking aimlessly throughout the DC area.


the signs here are pretty interesting -
more interesting than most of the people
to say the least.


there's an interesting back alley full of ethnic stores
that i need to visit soon to find some berbere.
(berbera is used primarily in ethiopian cuisine, btw)


and believe you me i plan on dumping here soon!

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

as candice's omi put it:
"I need a vacation from unemployment"
i couldn't agree more!

i can't even count to how many places i've applied,
and the ones that have responded all seem to
trickle away on the steaming sewer pipe of feces
that has been my job hunt since returning to the US.

i went to SF last weekend with fouad,
to catch up with old and new friends
and to generally forget about the job hunt,
but i often found myself distracted and worried
for the fear of returning to unending unemployment
is both daunting and saddening.

i really, really hope something turns up SOON.

aimless, disappointed, confused

(@ capital one headquarters; hopeful job candidate, eager to work.)

more bad news: i didn't get the senior art director associate
position with capital one.
i had to endure an overextended interview process,
a recruiter who never initiated any contact whatsoever,
and a terrible period of loneliness, self-doubt, and
an ever-draining bank account with no income.


(@ home, alone without job or local friend network, totally devastated)

what to do?
at this point i can't stand the sight of online forms,
am so tired of mass emails for positions that
don't fit my goals whatsoever.
should i settle for lowered expectations,
lowered wages and a lower value of myself?
with this job failure have i accomplished anything
in the past 2 months since being back?
what am i doing here?

caged animals photo series