March 2007 Archives

in the latter-day incarnations of this journal, ive been wont to keep work-related topics out...for privacy, disinterest, or whatever. but this shit is too funny. curbed just posted about the new residential development going up on the upper east side called lucida, replete with renderings offered on their website. guess who did those renderings?

of particular note is the last one they mention, which they went ahead and called "daddy got a brand new mom" (i lol'd). its a shame they didnt see some earlier incarnations of that render, which ran the gamut of "daddy i wet my bed" to "its a cold and lonely world".

> lucida lovin' (via curbed)

so how longs it been since i posted about movies? a while eh? yar...too bad. heres a post to hearken back to the heady days when i posted like ten times a day...a new trailer! for pirates of the caribbean 3! yar! its one of the movies i have on my "to do" list for this year (the other ones should be like "dur" obvious). trailer looks hot, and i definitely dig the walk down fantasy the franchise took in the last movie. anyhoo...dig the new trailer.

> pirates of the caribbean 3 trailer (via aicn)

the weathers still being indecisive. do you want to be warm? cold? dude, throw us a bone here. after the blistering cold, then warm, then cold weather of the week, the weekend was somewhere in the middle. which was fine because i had to you know…actually go out in that weather. this weekend was (finally) 300 time…woot. 300 was originally pushed back from its premiere week b/c fish had to take care of his dog (it just had surgery), but still couldn’t make it this weekend. so the rest of us (me, my roomie fonz, and mel) soldiered on to the lincoln square imax for some spartan carnage...in imax! all in all wow. mass carnage, and enough plot to say “ok, the story wasnt shit”. it doesn’t need a plot so much as a skeleton from which to hang fight scenes off of. massive, bloody, holy shit fights that make you pee a little in your pants. and it didn’t hurt that there was both the graphic novel and you know…actual history…to progress its story.

speaking of the story, i heard iranians are thoroughly pissed at the movie. are you serious? b/c you know…were you offended at the fantasy portrayal of one of the ancient persian rulers? the inaccurate depiction of ancient persian saw-for-hands executioners? or maybe the grossly inaccurate portrayal of rampaging mutant rhinoceroses? crissakes it’s a movie…and a fantasy one at that (based on history)…but seriously, didn’t the oracle girl floating in mid-air give away its fantasy setting? on the bright side, i think i saw one of my chinky ancestors amongst xerxes’ horde…woot.

we got stuffed at kun jip in k-town afterwards too. oh, and i did nothing the rest of the weekend. hooray!

addendum | speaking of spartans, i also got in some god of war 2: every other game sucks this weekend. yea...wtf holy shit. penny arcade sums it up pretty much with the following excerpt.

h'ok, late posts. good thing i jotted down notes last week...woot.

LAST WEEKEND
we had our family new years lunch a week after chinese new years, since the parents were oot and aboot and sis was in another state. it was the usual panda house yummage, which is never anything bad. we also talked about my sis' new house which they just bought. its bigger than my parents house...yar. and my sis said that if i ever fucked up my life majorly, i could always move in with her. super duper!

side bonus. before lunch, my mom was supposed to teach my sis her super-shecret recipe for her dumplings...except my sis got back late. so she told me the recipe instead, we made some, and i scarfed them before my sis even got home. yum yum.

i grabbed drinks with di later at nite too. di had to work the weekend, so some liquoring at decibel helped take the edge off. still can't remember what sake we had...never can. yar.

THIS WEEKEND
wait, what did i do? oh right, met up with meltron friday nite for rairaiken. but first we went sneaker shopping at shoe mania in union square, where i picked up a new pair of adidas. woot. i was kind of hesitant to retire my old ratty formels til then, but finally tossed them when i got home...woot.

satty had two friends visiting town. we grabbed lunch at luca bar, chilled the afternoon away, then grabbed dinner at bone lick park...yar. id never been there for anything besides lunch, but it still rocked. texas bbq...yuuurm. i headed off afterwards to scratcher for seans berfday drinking. surprise guest of the night was little alice...who was in town. yar! she's still waiting for replies from grad schools, so she came up for some r&r. cheers alice...and happy 27th sean.

oh shit...its already march?