75 posts tagged “omg_wtf_stfu”
Been a while since an update here, and I've hit a lull at work so I figured I'd make an entry.
Summer has begun here in Jersey and I've been enjoying my apartment despite having no money to enjoy much of anything else. There have been some fun things that happened in the past week or so, though.
2 Fridays ago (the 13th, spooky) Cesco and I went into NYC to meet up with some friends, Rachel and Shawn. Rachel lives in Queens and the two of us have become fast friends due to our mutual love of all things Idol and other reality TV. Plus she follows the news and can actually have political conversations! Shawn is from Oklahoma and is Rachel's best friend, the two of them together crack me up. Cesco has been an enormous help to Shawn in terms of coming out and adjusting to life as an Oklahomo, they've all been friends for almost 5 years. Shawn works as a middle school teacher back home and he says he's going to start working on a Master's soon.
Anyway, the 4 of us went to the Museum of Modern Art since it's free from 4pm to 8pm on Fridays. After perusing the museum and spending way too much time making a video in Rach & Shawn's series of impressions of the SNL "Two A-Holes" we jumped on the subway and went downtown to a restaurant in Chelsea called VYNL. There we met up with some other friends.
The restaurant was having a "Friday the 13th" themed night where all the waiters wore "blood" (ketchup, but will get back to that later) stained tee shirts and the host wore a Jason-esque hockey mask. They played the movie on a screen in the restaurant, but everyone was too busy staring at all the waiters. They were, for a lack of words, smokin'. Turns out Rach picked this restaurant specifically because of the reputation they had for a young, hot and male waitstaff. After someone at the table requested some ketchup from out waiter, I quickly cracked a joke that they could take some from his shirt. Without missing a beat, Matt (the waiter) grabbed the right side of his chest and squeezed, as if he was going to lactate ketchup for the table. It was, perhaps, the highlight of the dinner. I haven't even talked about the Justin Timberlake themed bathroom or the fact we ate off of a mosaic representation of Ms. Liza.
After dinner we walked a bit til we got to our final destination of the evening. It was the four of us plus Anghus from dinner, Will and his man were sadly otherwise engaged for the evening. The place was called Karaoke one 7. It was a bar with 9 private rooms that each had their own karaoke machine, that had hundreds of thousands of songs pre-loaded onto the machine. You simply found the code in the piles of books they had, punched it into the keypad and got ready to rock. Rachel and Shawn had the most fun, they had been planning choreographed routines all week and the results were pretty hysterical. The room cost $40 an hour split 5 ways, and the drinks were pretty outrageously priced, so I only had 2. We all sang a few songs, laughed at Mariah Carey's amazing downfall as a songwriter and had an incredible amount of fun. I can't recommend the place strongly enough.
This past weekend I got to see Kim, Xander, Chris & Dave along with some other familliar faces at the BBQ that Kim had in Johnson Park of New Brunswick. There was food, music, frisbee, a pathetic attempt at wiffle ball and pyromania of course. After the sun started setting, we packed it up and headed for Kim & Xander's new apartment in NB and had some fun playing Wii. I owned at Wii bowling, with a record score of 235. 5 Strikes in a row, plus 2 others.
I also started re-watching Arrested Development over the weekend, since Derek kept IMing me with quotes and scenes. I miss this show so badly.
Narrator: Tobias listens to a day's worth of his own words, to see what Michael was referring to...
Tobias Fünke: [on tape] ... even if it means me taking a chubby, I will suck it up.
Tobias Fünke: Nothing wrong with that.
Tobias Fünke: [on tape] Oh, I've been in the film business for a while, but I just can't seem to get one in the can.
Tobias Fünke: It's out of context.
Tobias Fünke: [on tape] I wouldn't mind kissing that man between the cheeks.
Narrator: ...and he realized there is something distinct about the way he speaks.
Tobias Fünke: Tobias, you blowhard.
[chuckles]
By the way, the title of this post doesn't mean anything, it just happens to be the song playing on my iPod right now and I dig it. It's on the LOST Season 2 soundtrack, by Michael Giacchino.
First, there was THIS...
Oh! And KELLY!
So, watching the first part of the Idol finale tonight they showed a new iPod ad featuring Coldplay. Thank god they didn't use "Violet Hill." Instead they used the title track, "Viva la Vida."
Yea, yea. I know. I've been bad an haven't posted in a while. I thought I'd post some pictures of my new place for everyone to see.
Oh Keith... you so crazy.
