Merry Christmas, my buddy James out in San Francisco sent me a Christmas card. Here’s what he wrote inside:
Thanks buddy! Merry Christmas to you too! I hope you come back to NJ soon!
Athlete. Artist. Agnostic. Humanist. Skeptic. Unfinished.
Athlete. Artist. Agnostic. Humanist. Skeptic. Unfinished.
Here’s my design for my 2009 Christmas card that I will be giving out. What do you think?
Last year were hand drawn cards of sardines which came with a can of sardines. This year it’s a collage. I originally wanted to incorporate random images from Wikipedia entries. That was taking a lot longer than I had hoped so I just went with the minimal route, which is more my style anyway. What do you think?
On Sunday my mother and I went to Keris Christmas Tree Farm. I know the owners of the farm. They’ve been customers of mine for years and I recently found out about the farm. So, this past Sunday my mother and I went. It was a cold and rainy day but it was still a nice visit. The trees (from what we saw) looked beautiful. On the grounds there were a few structures up, the main one was a Christmas shop. All kinds of odd and not so odd Christmas ornaments and decorations. Right when we walked in there was Santa sitting next to the fire place. I KNOW HIM!!!! He gave us a candy cane each. My mother bought a couple of unique looking ornaments. Outside there was another structure that was giving away hot cocoa, coffee and warm apple cider. We both had the cider from a big pot and it was DELICIOUS! As we were pulling away I noticed another barn in the back with a sign that read “barbecue”. I wish it wasn’t so miserable outside, I would have certainly investigated that.
On Monday Big Rick and I went down to Philadelphia to pick up honey balls from Cosmi’s Pastries. We went there last year during Christmas as well. Cosmi’s makes the best honey balls. He also got me a tray of Italian cookies for helping him out. They sure were good!
A couple of weeks ago a customer of mine gave me the coolest gift. He works in television and he knows how much I love TV and he got me the series finale of Battlestar Galactica on DVD. I mean, that in itself is awesome, but what he got me is even more awesome, it is the DVD that the Sci-Fi network gives to the judges of the Emmy awards. It turns out that he’s one of the judges and gave me this special DVD. it’s packaged in this red cube that is labeled “For Your Consideration”. It’s so sweet. I’ll post pictures later. I was about to take some but my camera isn’t working. My sister broke it! Check back soon!
I haven’t been leaving many personal blog entries lately. My entries the past couple months have been my Favorite TV Shows of the week list, SNL Digital Shorts or just music videos. I’ve got a day off and thought I’d finally give some updates. I was actually hoping to go to Baltimore today but the snow kept me from making the trip. Kind of a bummer but it gave me the chance to do some work here. I started making my Christmas cards. Did some painting. Some cleaning. Drinking and eating. The usual stuff.
What have I been up to? I go to Jo Jo’s Tavern every Monday night with the guys. Now that Jimmie Johnson won the NASCAR championship (AGAIN) I spend my Sundays watching football and other TV. The Ravens don’t get much TV time here in NJ so I fine a live stream of the game, if not I watch the Giants. A couple of weeks ago I was in Philadelphia to see my friend Leslie from MICA. She had an art exhibit and showed her amazing work. She was my old neighbor when I was living in Baltimore. A couple of weeks before that my dad and I went out with my buddies to play paintball. It was the first time my dad and I played and we were surprisingly good at it.
You can follow my Twitter feeds to see what I do on a more regular basis. I try to do as many different things as I can but it doesn’t happen TOO often.
I honestly believe one of the best shows on TV is Dirty Jobs on the Discovery Channel. It’s funny, entertaining and educational. I wish I could be like Mike Rowe.
I also believe that every NFL team has at least one Predator.
I also want to see the Sherlock Holmes movie, not because the movie looks good but because I love the outfits all the guys are wearing. I want to dress like that one a daily basis.
Lastly, it’s not too late to get me a Christmas gift, here’s my AMAZON WISH LIST!
Oh, and I’ve been raving about Fever Ray all year. Since I saw the concert back in September the majority of my blog entries have been about Fever Ray. Keeping up the trend I have to mention them again. Fever Ray are making many “Best Of 2009” lists including THIS ONE at Last.Fm. It will be a full year of Fever Ray next month and my love for Fever Ray are just growing more and more!
I just found out that the Fever Ray video for “Triangle Walks” is on FUSE On Demand for FREE!!! It’s under music videos somewhere, in the underground section, they also have a Peter, Bjorn and John video. I’ve embedded it below so you don’t have to wait. This video is what their live show looks like. Yes, it’s that awesome!
Here’s the brand new video from Fever Ray. It was released 20 minutes ago! It’s a pretty creepy video but unfortunately does not have Karin or any of the themes that Fever Ray built over the other videos from the album.
Here is the music video for “Fragile Tension”, the fourth video from the album “Sounds Of The Universe” by Depeche Mode. Pretty neat effects.
I’m so happy that baseball is over, now I can get back to my regularly scheduled television programs, maybe even do something productive, maybe a bit of traveling, congratulations to the New York Yankees for winning the 2009 Major League Baseball Championship and great job to the Philadelphia Phillies, you put up a helluva fight!
Today we carved a pumpkin for Baby G. He seems to enjoy it.
It’s been a month since I saw Fever Ray live and the performance still haunts me. Here’s 2 more reviews of the show I was at: