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"Jay Leno's mark on entertainment is a grease-stained slide. Huge damp fingers gripping tightly at something that's inevitably being taken away from him."

-videogum

Kanye West is such a dick and he is so full of himself. Dont believe me? Watch his terrible vh1 storytellers performance, and listen to his super awkward impromptu speeches about himself.

Also, read anything he rants about on his website, he sounds like a middle schooler. Read this, and then this.

Heres a photo of Kanye standing next to a track bike. Do you think he really rides it that much? Or even knows how to ride it?



I know I shouldn't really care about these things, but I suddenly got a wave of pessimism during his vh1 storytellers. You will too if you watch it.

started a new blog:

http://shadetippin.blogspot.com/

today i decided to be humble like obama, so i watched the inauguration on my smaller television and not on my big screen. i think it is what obama would have wanted me to do.

also, today is the first day of classes here at MCAD AND deforest kelley's birthday. today is so eventful.

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i have a new website im working on. its sortof a portfolio site, but we'll see where it goes. tell me what you think:

http://thearchersguild.com/

this week:

bought a couch and a 32" TV. jenna and i bought these as our christmas presents to each other so we don't have to live in an empty, echo-ey apartment.

i also saw twilight for free on the internet, i'm not paying for that bullcrap. anyways, i looked up the town it takes place in (forks, WA), and this is what the almighty wikipedia has to say about it:

"A large percentage of Forks visitors are fans of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series who seek the attractions mentioned in the novels, and other related places such as La Push and Port Angeles. The town has embraced fans of the books and its newfound popularity. Local restaurants have added "Twilight-themed" options to their menus, and the local hospital has reserved a parking space for 'Dr. Cullen'."

what a waste of a parking space


also, this is what i look like now:

these are some excellent photos


http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/the_next_president_of_the_unit.html

i probably wouldn't wear it, but its still sweet. why hasn't this been made earlier?


anyways, i moved to minneapolis and have been living here since early august. i'll make a post sometime with pictures, but we need to get a couch first :)

jenna got a real life grown up job!! with a fixed yearly salary!! i'm still a wittle baby gwad stewdent.

for the next two weeks i will be spending every waking moment with some of the best people around: ian dudley, will farina, matthew mcqueen, sofia romanowski, nicole miglis, and david geis.

the woods have played 2 shows so far: tallahassee and chapel hill. the tallahassee show was amazing, so many people, so many friends... exceeded my expectations.

after tallahassee we drove up to NC and slept in an ingles parking lot for one night, then in the morning we set out to find sofia's family cabin up in the highest mountains of bryson city, NC. "the view is very powerful" said matty, and i agreed.

after a few days of asheville vegetarian food and tubing, we played our second show in chapel hill, NC. the turnout was the complete opposite of tallahassee, but we made new friends and i bought an art zine from a book store with an employee who was too high to remember how to scan a debit card.

we are now in a comfort inn and managed to be chastised by the desk employee for having too many people in a room. we are tired, we are aggravated, and we will have our revenge by eating ALL of the food the hotel serves for continental breakfast.

tomorrow we head to baltimore for a day, then our next show in massachusetts the day after that.

here are our remaining dates, go to myspace.com/thewoodsmusic for the venue names and times, i'm too tired to write them.

MAY 29 - northampton, MASS
MAY 31 - brooklyn, NY
JUNE 1 - philly, PA
JUNE 2 - arlington, VA
JUNE 3 - norfolk, VA
JUNE 4 - greenville, NC
JUNE 5 - charleston, SC
JUNE 7 - gainesville, FL
JUNE 8 - merritt island, FL



ingles in the morning


fire crew / smore factory


feeling the music, obviously


ironing clothes

----FROM CNN----


The California Supreme Court struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage Thursday, saying sexual orientation, like race or gender, "does not constitute a legitimate basis upon which to deny or withhold legal rights."

In a 4-3 120-page ruling issue, the justices wrote that "responsibly to care for and raise children does not depend upon the individual's sexual orientation."

"We therefore conclude that in view of the substance and significance of the fundamental constitutional right to form a family relationship, the California Constitution properly must be interpreted to guarantee this basic civil right to all Californians, whether gay or heterosexual, and to same-sex couples as well as to opposite-sex couples," Chief Justice Ronald George wrote for the majority.

The ruling takes affect in 30 days.


this is a step in the right direction. the next step is barack obama.

done with college.

this summer im working on screen printing posters for a bike race, and also t-shirts for the woods before we go on tour in the summer.
check out our dates on our myspace: http://www.myspace.com/thewoodsmusic

also, our album will be released on itunes may 13th by plug research records: http://www.plugresearch.com

also, after this summer im moving to minneapolis for graduate school at MCAD


heres some recent work:


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so i now have a star trek club consisting of danny russy, kristen garcia, and myself. we just watched "star trek: generations" and "star trek: first contact" back to freakin back.

we are also going to make borg costumes. i will have the robotic arm with the saw on it, dan will have two robotic arms with glowsticks attached, and kristen will have a robotic arm with a strobe light from spencer's gifts attached.

does anyone else want to join our borg collective?


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also: this has been bugging me for about a week now:

21 of your friends joined the group Prevent the "Artistic" Death of an Innocent Animal-SIGN THE PETITION!

a petition on the internet will do nothing to stop guillermo from exhibiting in a country that may not have strict animal cruelty laws. he is only drawing more and more press from all of the animal rights activists who are pooping their pants because they heard something about it on facebook.

this is how i feel about it: he did this exhibit once in a small gallery, and it got a lot of press (which he wanted). he was asked to do it again and he AGREED. now.. i don't really care about the dog at all (since it would have died without his help), i actually think the exhibit was extremely powerful and somewhat beautiful (call me names later).. but repeating the exact same gallery show somewhere else is like selling a one-of-a-kind painting, and then painting a copy of it, and selling it again. maybe i am wrong in the eyes of PETA and PETA2, but this is how i feel at the moment... traveling art shows are usually reserved for dead artists' retrospectives, not for emerging artists.

though i do not think guillermo vargas habacuc should be censored, i would like to see him follow up his "eres lo que lees" exhibit with equally powerful imagery using an artistic medium other than "shock value"

so next time you hear your friends at applebees saying "oh, did you hear about this asshole...", try to listen to what they have to say.. but also create your own opinions about what is going on.


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also, check out adult swim's latest mix:
http://www.adultswim.com/williams/music/ghostlyswim/

most notably: "then it happened" by milosh

also, mates of state have a new music video + song :) :)
http://www.myspace.com/matesofstate

look at these photos from marcel dzama's latest show in NYC. wish i could go

http://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/148/index.htm

im going to be moving to minneapolis, minnesota at the end of the summer for graduate school and probably never coming back to florida again.

also, my desktop rules.



click for a larger photo

best music video of all time?

http://media.ghostrobot.net/7020_wanderlust.html

pppsssshhhh ya!