loft405.com

CA Boom 4 was this weekend! It was a cool little modern/contemporary design show at the Barker Hanger in the Santa Monica Airport. After a nice drive up the 405 I met Dave and PA at the event. Registering at the computers was very comdex like, reminds me of self checkout at the grocery store, sometimes I’d rather have someone else enter in all that info. Anyways, we gave the cashier our 20 bucks and ventured inside. The show was small in area but full of interesting eyecandy. The exhibits ranged from furniture designers, furniture distributors, architectural firms, building materials, appliances and other home goods. It was not unlike the modernism show help in Palm Springs each year, I think some of the exhibitors were the same as well.

Cool Glowing tubes above the open area where the bar and DJ are.

(more…)

Just got back from dinner with Mark at Tofu House in Irvine. Its a good little Korean food restaurant off Jeffery and Walnut, if you’re ever in the area craving some Kim Chi Chi-gae (sp?) this is the place to do it. Although a little pricey, as many OC K food is, the quantity and quality of food its well worth it. The variety of small amuse bouche dishes, which also act as palate cleansers, are there for the taking. I have no idea what most of it was, but the little fried fish was tasty. Bi Bim Bap well seasoned, Bul Go Gi fresh, and the Kimchi soup was sizzling and spicy. All this food accompanied with good convo of SB and some previously unknown mutual friends was memorable. *burp* Thats a compliment in some cultures

Tomorrow is Beer Friday, so see ya’ll at happy hour or shortly after!

Modest Mouse – Fire It Up

so… my brother requested i start contributing to the loft… for my debut, i think i’ll chat a little about the interesting night i had last night. met up with a couple friends for happy hour. drank a couple toxic margaritas. we all went back to his place to sober up a bit before heading home. somehow “sobering up” turned into “i’m gonna run down to 7-11 to get more beer.” long and tedious story short – i’m puking by 10:30, passed out by 11:30, and hating life at 6:00 this morning. and, to cap off my already miserable wednesday morning, another wave of nausea hits and i’m getting a toilet facial again. now, i consider myself a pretty experienced drinker. i went to ucsb, i survived. but not until about 6 months ago did this “morning puke” thing ever effect me. i had heard whisperings of the morning after purge, but it didn’t make sense to me. day after alchopoops – sure. i’ll buy that. but puking? the day after? why? i’m fairly certain i purged the vile stuff the night before, what’s left besides shame and regret? a day of reckoning apparently. i gotta get back to my gatorade. happy hump day.

oh, and mikey – your stools will be delivered in 2-3 days. mikey loves bombo!

Another great song from Stockholm Sweden band Peter, Bjorn and John.
Is it a bit idealistic? *shrug* The guy playing the bongos is hilarious.

Take a listen and watch!

Peter, Bjorn and John – Young Folks

Mcfly – Transylvania

(This audio plug-in is neat but it reminds me of myspace…so I won’t have it autostart. Click the triangle to play.)
Give the song a listen… get over the beginning. I know its a little much but I like how the words aren’t happy but the beat is…. hahaha)

I’m patiently waiting to use the family ‘hauler’ to do an Ikea run. Got my eye on the skinny Lack shelving unit in dark brown/black, and some Ikea PS cabinets which look like high school lockers. Also waiting for the stools I ordered from my sisters company to arrive. Sitting at my desk on the “Gunnar Peterson’s Core Workout Ball” is getting annoying, so a chair is in order as well. No, I won’t take a pic of me sitting on the ball!

I was considering building an archive page of old podcasts; since I nuked the SQL database running behind the old site I’d have to start from scratch. I don’t really think its worth the hassle, additionally I’m saving myself from any copyright infringements that previously may have accidentally occurred… Bah!