even the bear reads this blog

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2009-10-30T19:06:00.001-07:00

i got a new car. five days later the skies grew angry and dumped 2 feet of snow on us in 2 days. it was awesome. brandon and i finished our box, and we drug it out into a golf course and hit it. good times.

update

2009-10-21T20:57:00.001-07:00

so, this is the second snow in october. not much of anything, slushy, and all the remaining green leaves dropped. currently at cafe europa. it's 3 streets over from us and its our first time here. casey and tracie are here with me, and we're all sipping our respective drinks. i've got a large bhakti chai latte, which is excellent. very spicy.

that's all i s'pose

love,
anthony

who knows where the time goes?

2009-09-28T19:23:00.000-07:00

Life Update.
Been doin stuff. Camping at Royal Gorge being the most recent. Brandon and I now each have full park board set ups and are building a box rail. It just needs sides, paint, and some HDPE plastic sheeting for the top. Somehow surviving my job, searching for others. Working on building a website for my portfolio.

Excited to see Where the Wild Things Are. I hope spike jonze does a good job, it looks excellent. I've heard also that spike jonze is adapting the short story, Light Boxes. Which could also be very amazing.

That's all I guess, got bloggers block.
Bought 3 series of shows that got cancelled before their time for like $3 each on amazon marketplace. Watching one now, Mission Hill. Great stuff, can't wait to watch through the Oblongs, and Nighty Night.

love,
anthony

reign in blood

2009-08-17T20:20:00.001-07:00

i just saw a man get a beer mug smashed on his face while walking down broadway. me and my roommate tracie got showered in beer and broken glass. the assailant ran across the street into the goodwill, and 3 guys chased after him. after he ran out the back, he ran back past us and disappeared around the corner. the man who got hit was bleeding a lot, and had a huge gash above his left ear. blood was running down his neck and chest. he was chasing he man with a police baton.

love,
anthony

watch the fireworks

2009-08-13T22:46:00.001-07:00

just got a slew of comments from a bot named julie. i'd delete them but they're way funny. just no one click on her name.

love,
anthony

wild child

2009-08-08T18:10:00.000-07:00

after leaving my friend tash's cabin in the mountains, i was driving the windy mountain roads. a cop driving an suv flew past me. a couple miles down the road i saw three cop cars with their lights flashing. as i got closer i noticed several motorcycles parked on the side of the road. as i passed, i saw an old biker sitting on the side of the road. cops were talking to him. it looked as though we laid down his bike on the turn. the grass in the median was all tossed up, and there where scraps and scrapes on the road. the biker was probably at least 50 years old. he was sitting up, and he wore black cat glasses, and a long sleeve t-shirt under his leather, biker, vest. blood was soaking through the white shirt, road rash probably. the man looked a little thrashed, but ok. i've never seen carnage like that. i've never really been in a car accident, never seen someone completely wrecked.

love,
anthony

get excited

2009-08-04T09:28:00.000-07:00

yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes

http://www.fantasticmrfoxmovie.com/

thank you wes, finally.

also, home from work, sick. ugh.

-anthony

me want

2009-08-03T21:53:00.001-07:00

i cannot wait for snowboard season. i kills me to think that mountains don't open until november. think i'm definitely buying a rail, and we're going to head out and find snow ASAP, to have some small jib sessions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmjMeGv59eU

want to do this.

love,
anthony

so cooooold in the 'd'

2009-08-01T20:52:00.000-07:00

posts have been few and far between. been busy i guess. miquelon, marcus, and myself are working on music. we hope to have a house show very soon, like in the next 2 weeks. its about half and half covers and original music. going to need to practice.

i had to work today. my first saturday so far. pretty awful. its hard to get stuff done when there's hardly anyone there. i did however finish up our new senior website. i just replaced the old one without asking, didn't seem worth it. link here if you want to congratulate me on a fine job. i really struggled through it. i have forgotten a lot of html and css. enough that this site is only html. it'd be nice with some flash, but who has the time to figure that out?

here's some lyrics i came up with the other night.

black forest indigo
stump trunks vertigo
wolf eyes dodge glow
they come for you oh

crawl on your frostbite
the forest black white
tree trunk dead hollow
forest forest swallow

owl howl wing flap
black star pine sap
needle cedar stench
frozen limbs wrench

bear paw south paw
north pole wind blow
dancing star night lights
winter deadened nights

love,
anthony

its full of stars

2009-07-23T16:50:00.000-07:00

this illustrator is extraordinarily excellent. His work looks like a modern take on Dali meets 60s sci fi illustrations. Check it out here...http://www.danmcpharlin.com/

love,
anthony

yup.

2009-07-18T22:13:00.000-07:00

today was crazy with no major events. it's been beautiful, but hot recently. i slept in really late this morning, and didnt do much of anything until tracie and i went to the bank, watched edward scissorhands with israel, and then took some jimmy johns to wash park. we lounged for a couple hours and then went down to the platte river by rei, and tubed a little and swam around. it was wonderfully refreshing. then i jetted off to golden for a coworker/friend's birthday party.

the party was odd, but was fully of sweets and homemade sangria (with white wine and grapefruit juice). i got home not long ago, and i don't know where anyone is. so i'm watching highlander with cooper. cooper doesn't seem to be following the story well, though.

love,
Anthony

you can run but you can't hide

2009-07-14T16:54:00.001-07:00

wow. so, its been a long while since i've posted.
updates. i have a job, working for a photographer, doing design work.
now i'm watching fear and loathing in las vegas with israel.
been making music with my friend miquelon.
marcus lives here now, and will probably also partake in music.
at any point right now, 7 people are crashing in our house (including us 4).
i had dinner with angie (who is in town) and melissa last night. we ate at jerusalems.

enough for now
love,
anthony

I'm not spartacus

2009-06-24T17:19:00.001-07:00

so on my way home today there was a car with a bumper sticker that said, "Who Is John Galt?" and i thought to myself, isn't that from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged? and then i looked at the man's vanity plate; SHRUGED. what is he like her publicist? why would you put that on your car?

love,
anthony

2009-05-04T13:00:00.000-07:00

so, thinking of using a new blog as my portfolio.
this is what i have up and running so far
http://anthonygroenportfolio.blogspot.com/

love,
anthony

somehow the animals are always the first to know

2009-04-28T12:25:00.000-07:00

more art. here's some lyrics by Ms. Joanna Newsom, from her song Emily. this piece is purely digital.

love,
anthony

time takes a cigarette, and puts it in your mouth...

2009-04-27T10:19:00.000-07:00

Seems like I have been sending out applications like crazy.
Need to start following up.
thought i'd make another weathered, vintage logo. this one is a cracker box

love,
anthony

squit skyward and listen

2009-04-23T16:07:00.001-07:00

so many friends coming to visit soon.
the weather is so nice.
marcus and micah are moving here too.
tracie and i may be working with a lady she met at walmart today.

love,
anthony

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Now playing: Grizzly Bear - On a Neck, On a Spit
via FoxyTunes

super runaway!

2009-04-22T13:16:00.001-07:00

i was bored, so i made this.

love,
anthony

april scenes

2009-04-21T19:37:00.000-07:00

love,
anthony

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Now playing: Islands - Swans (Life After Death)
via FoxyTunes

wasn't worth it.

2009-04-07T12:35:00.000-07:00

in this day in age where teh internetz rules the world and provides the most sway with the impressionable, it seems that print is going the way of the condor. which is a shame, because there is an art to it that is totally lost in our 72ppi screens.

it's also a shame because flash and web design are painstaking and brutally run by code. the more i job hunt, the less likely it seems i'm going to find a job without having to compromise and do web design. which is a painful thought, because i've done it, and its awful. web design is for computer engineers with design sense, not a designer suffering through lines of code.

"Did you try to sew it back on?"

Wasn't worth it,
Anthony

Take a walk on the wild side

2009-04-06T11:07:00.001-07:00

Well, I finished my portfolio. Sadly, there really isn't a website that I can upload a PDF file, though that's usually what people want to see. So, I uploaded it to MediaFire. Here's a link if you want to see the whole thing.

HERE

Now, I need to write a bunch of cover letters, and all that fun stuff.

love,
anthony

*also! Foxytunes for firefox is amazing. you should get it if you use firefox and listen to music at the same time.

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Now playing: Lou Reed, John Cale and Nico - The Biggest, The Loudest, The Harriest Group of All
via FoxyTunes

portfolio lio lio lio

2009-03-31T11:21:00.001-07:00

working on my new portfolio. this is the main page and will be the template for the rest. prolly gonna throw some arrows on or something.

love,
anthony

MINIONS!!

2009-03-30T20:23:00.000-07:00

i worked for around 3-4 hours today on revamping a porfolio to start sending out. i'm still sore from snowboarding on saturday. it was probably the best weekend to go before winter park closed. i got venture bros. season 3 the other day and it's great. i'm excited for the new season coming up.

life.

love,
anthony

you've been smooching with everybody!

2009-03-26T09:59:00.000-07:00

it's snowing outside. some are saying that it may be a historical blizzard for denver. the snow has been coming down steadily since the early this morning. there's probably only about 2-3 inches on the ground right now. i've just been sitting here eating oatmeal and drinking coffee with a hot chocolate packet in it. it feels christmas-y. yesterday amber, brandon, and i watched home alone 2. i'm not sure why it was on tv. they're missed it by about 4 months.

still no job. amber and lizzie where here for spring break and looking for design internships. it made me sit down with them and find good design firms around denver. i'm probably going to get a nice portfolio together to send to them. i bet nothing comes of it, but it's worth trying.

love,
anthony

boop borp

2009-03-22T13:01:00.000-07:00

there are so many people traveling through denver. friends from jbu, friends from high school, roommates' families. pretty crazy. we had 4 people stay at our house last night. i woke up early this morning to drive marcus to the airport. it was sad to see him go so soon.

i want to see micah and emily. they're so far away. i'll probably see you soon.

love,
anthony

FROZEN DEAD GUY DAYS (pictures)

2009-03-16T14:49:00.000-07:00

WE MISS YOU GRANDPA!!!

2009-03-08T20:17:00.000-07:00

so, on saturday i attended Frozen Dead Guy Days (pictures up soon). it's a festival in nederland, CO that you should read more about on that link. anyway, our friend, travis and his friend, ben joined us as they were finishing their american tour on their way back to arkansas. leah joined us and we met her friend, stavros in boulder.

we drove up into the mountains sitting on a futon mattress in the back of a van that travis and ben had been driving. the temperature dropped dramatically as we made our way into the mountains. when we arrived it was 28 degress.

we showed up just in time to barely miss the polar plunge. this is when they use a chainsaw to cut a hole in a frozen pond, and people jump in, get pulled out by firemen, and jump in a hot tub.

we did, however, catch the coffin carry. that is where people create and submit their team, build a coffin, and then carry a friend in the coffin through a obstacle course against another team. very interesting.

afterward, we headed to the beer tent. this proved to be the most overwhelming ordeal of my life. outside, we purchased a pint glass and were given a ticket for our beer. then we headed inside a tent that was probably 50' by 80' with tables all the way around each side with dead guy merch, food, a booth to take pictures with grandpa, a stage, and beer. this little tent probably had 150 people attempting to mosh their way to the brewery tables. meanwhile, people who've got their beer are trying to find their way back. the real kicker was that no beer was allowed outside, so once all of these hundreds of people had their beer, they could not leave.

then we saw mountain standard time, a hippy bluegrass jam band, who stavros knew a few members from bluegrass jam sessions. it was good, it was cold, it was fun.

then we headed to boulder for food, and a jam session between stavros and travis.

love,
anthony

so i drove into the woods and wandered aimlessly about...

2009-03-04T16:02:00.000-08:00

today i went to a coffee house reccomended to my by leah miller's roommate, megan. we met a few days ago and informed me that she was leaving her job. she said that i should go apply. so, i went and got a latte and talked to sandy. she asked me a few questions and told me to bring her my resume.

so i sat sipping my latte and reading national geographic. i read a lot about CO2 emissions and this whole story about a husband and wife trying to cut their output by 80% and how hard it was. things like central heating and driving are really the biggest problems in our society. i read this making mental notes on what i should change to at least help in my small way.

after i finished my latte, i said goodbye to sandy and said i'd bring back my resume. i hope she liked me. i had my holga with me and i've been shooting my very first roll of medium format 120 film. i'd really been wanting to get a cool landscape shot of the mountains, which is hard living south of downtown, and in that instant i started driving west.

at first i felt odd, because i just started driving on a whim, with no ending point. i was just going to stop when i found a good spot to get a shot. i also kept thinking about how my random road trip without a certain end was not very emissions friendly. nevertheless, i drove and drove, and stopped in what i found out later was Golden, CO. I drove along the mountain range and stopped just on the outside of a large, empty, nature preserve. i snapped off 2 shots, and then started driving home.

i hit rush hour traffic on the way home, but then i finished off the roll of film and dropped it off. hopefully i'll have some stuff to post here.

love,
anthony

an important blog

2009-02-26T09:24:00.000-08:00

i need to throw out props to demetri martin's new show, important things. i only really laugh hard at the skits, but the whole show is just a great experience. it's like if wes anderson made a short comedy show. lots of text thrown onto the screen, 8mm sequences, funny demonstrations. it all just works really well. if you've never seen demetri do stand up, you'd probably think this show is a lot funnier. if you're used to seeing his drawings and jokes based on wordplay and equations, then this is old hat, though the jokes are still good.

Another great thing about this show, is the amount of work that demetri apparently puts in personally. his handwriting and drawings pop up all over the place, as does his music throughout the show. obviously, he has to go out and film all of the odd segway sequences and set up all of the cards and cartoons.

really, check out this show if you haven't already.

love,
anthony

leaving in the fairest of the seasons

2009-02-06T11:53:00.000-08:00

last day at work, crystal gave me some plants she potted with a cat in it that looks like scooter. katie also gave me a shirt that she had printed. and jasper gave me a 7" split from his old band, hooks and ladders with pixel panda.

love,
anthony

polar bear parade

2009-01-28T18:31:00.000-08:00

i got off of work 2 hours early today. there just wasn't anything to do. that means i actually worked an 8 hour day. weird. as i was driving home, i started writing this story in my head.

as i open my eyes the world slowly focuses
everything is blurry and gray and blue
i look at my feet, they are bare and cold
i am standing on ice. when i look up i realize i am in the arctic
the walrus sees me freezing and sheds his flabby skin
he is pink and begins to freeze without his skin
he slips into the raging, deep, blue, sea
he immediately becomes a giant icicle
the icicle grows and grows and floats further from shore
it runs into a whaling ship and the ship capsizes
all of the whalers on board freeze and drown
the whales of the north rejoice

my eyes are beginning to freeze inside my head
ice clings from my eyelashes, nostrils, and mouth
i step into the walrus skin, it is warm
when i breathe, water crystallizes in my lungs
my breathing becomes more labored and hoarse
my face is gray and i collapse and my frozen legs shatter

mother polar bear and her cubs are out and about
mother polar bear takes my body and feeds it to her young
the cubs are nourished and run and slip and play
the bears return to their den

love,
anthony

the moving cycle

2009-01-26T18:31:00.000-08:00

i must fit my life into boxes.
there are no boxes that appropriately fit a life.
there are always too many gaps to fill.
so your life must be divided like cells.
split to fit into many boxes.
some large some small some medium

as my life divides some does not make it.
natural selection.
the weak is pruned and left to die.
as leaves or spoiled fruit decompose
so does my life disintegrate.

i don't feel like packing today.

love,
anthony

You are too beautiful, my dear, to be true, and I am a fool for beauty

2009-01-25T15:09:00.000-08:00

this weekend i went to target. i saw this woman with two daughters and they were both riding in the cart. the younger one kept picking her nose. the woman sternly told her daughter to look at her. when the daughter looked up the woman flicked her wrist and smacked the back of her hand into the girl's face. the sound of her fingers made that hollow noise in the girl's mouth. the girl instantly started screaming, and her mother replied with, I told you to keep your fingers out of your nose. it made me feel sick inside and i walked past them to look for my brother.

love,
anthony

sha la la live for today

2009-01-21T18:55:00.000-08:00

in the last 72 hours i have:
1. discovered a cool house in wash park, denver
2. had house scoped out by brandon and amber
3. had renter app sent to me by brandon
4. filled out app and returned to brandon
so, by tomorrow i will know if brandon, amber, tracie, and myself will be living here...
http://denver.craigslist.org/apa/982037508.html

should be fun. this is crazy and feels like its happening so fast. i didn't know what i was going to do with my life as college came to a close, because living with mar in denver seemed to be falling through, so i moved home. 6 months later, and melissa asking me 100 times if i was actually going to move out, and now its down to 3 weeks before i'm moving out and it all feels like its happening so fast. at least i have a place to stay, and now i just need to find a job.

i'm already missing my friends from work, and hope that i have fun coworkers in my next job. marcus is staying with my on his way down to dallas to live with will. i still haven't seen my friend lauren since she moved back to kc at least 2 if not 3 months ago. i feel like a terrible friend. sorry to everyone i haven't kept in touch with, which is most of you.

love,
anthony

owl's go

2009-01-19T18:29:00.000-08:00

at work today, more people talked about how sad it was that i was leaving. outside of work i spend little to no time with these people. i do not think they understand that i have no friends nearby. no one who spends time with me when it matters.

harm and vance's wedding was a very good time. i feel like it is the last time i will see a lot of those people. everyone promises to visit, and i do not doubt that i will see most of them in the future, but that seems far away.

this morning a wall of clouds looked like mountains in my rear view mirror on the way to work. the sun was coming up and it was yellow and orange, but the clouds were black and blue.

i am excited to move to denver; for the weather, friends, mountains, dry air. i hope we find a cool house to live in. i have been looking so much, but things are always so different when you're 800 miles away looking at a bad photo on craigslist. sometimes the first thing i check for is where the house pops up on google maps. if it's not south of denver and near downtown i move on. if we don't find something soon i'll stop doing that.

i have a page of thumbnails in front of me for a guitar company my friend andrew is starting. i have yet to start working on these more in depth. i wonder if he's given up on me. i feel bad.

i'm very ready to move and start what i perceive to be a real life for myself. i just wish i could take a few friends with me. i still have not found a job in denver. no one posts good jobs online, and it's depressing to apply for shitty jobs online when you're so far away. why do graphic design agencies use shitty words like "fast paced" and "hip" and "self motivated." i feel like i have to have messy, gelled hair and sketcher's loafers while i sit in a windowless room drinking red bull and crapping out tons of crappy logos for companies that will be belly up in 6 months.

maybe i'll just serve coffee again. free lattes is something i greatly miss.

love,
anthony

nobody knows who you are!

2009-01-14T18:52:00.001-08:00

so, bands that i am really into right now that i didn't think i would be:
devo
modern english
bauhaus
cat stevens
you might know modern english from their 80s hit, "I melt with you." the rest of the cd is actually really amazing, unlike other one-hit-wonders. devo is just odd, but also brilliant, kind of like joel storie. bauhaus is "the original goth band" but not in an awful way. actually, in the coolest way possible, and the guy's super low voice and just atmospheric early 80s sound, much like joy division's, just all works really well. and ol' cat stevens is a dude who's voice and certain songs bothered me at first, but now i really like it. and Harold and Maude really sold me on him.

love,
anthony

bela lugosi's dead

2009-01-10T13:11:00.000-08:00

i finally printed my skeletor shirt. it's pretty great.
i'm going to arkansas next weekend for harm and vance's wedding, which should be wonderful. and then a couple weekends after that i'm headed to denver to apartment hunt with brandon. see you around.

love,
anthony

2009-01-06T17:56:00.000-08:00

how about an update?
christmas;
had an awesome party at work. it was real fun, played a lot of the new guitar hero.
at home, it was very good, i received many things i really wanted. it was good fun. next, went to a friend's wedding and then immediately started driving to michigan. made it to michigan with a night at a hotel in between.
spent week in michigan at grandparents'.
went snowboarding in michigan, fell real hard on my ass.
had christmas in michigan. it was good fun.
went back to work. not as much fun as christmas, still good.
bought waaaaay too many records.

love,
anthony

2008-12-12T15:01:00.000-08:00

holidays are weird times of the year. certain people act differently, or think they need to. some people are exactly the same throughout an entire holiday. when i am around these people, i forget that there is a holiday season i am currently time warping through, and then i realize that i had some sort of holiday mentality.

the new album is most excellent and i am enjoying it quite a bit. after typing that i immediately remembered that when i ventured to my local record store [love garden} yesterday i was going to look for it on vinyl. it and their last effort. they're both really great.

i am streaming "my library" from last.fm because i didn't want to wait for itunes to load. joanna newsom started playing, and much of her album Ys reminds me of winter. especially emily and only skin. Emily is currently what i am listening to and maybe you should see this, because i enjoy it quite a bit.

The meadowlark and the chim-choo-ree and the sparrow
Set to the sky in a flying spree, for the sport over the pharaoh
A little while later the Pharisees dragged comb through the meadow
Do you remember what they called up to you and me, in our window?

There is a rusty light on the pines tonight
Sun pouring wine, lord, or marrow
Down into the bones of the birches
And the spires of the churches
Jutting out from the shadows
The yoke, and the axe, and the old smokestacks and the bale and the barrow
And everything sloped like it was dragged from a rope
In the mouth of the south below

We've seen those mountains kneeling, felten and grey
We thought our very hearts would up and melt away
From that snow in the night time
Just going
And going
And the stirring of wind chimes
In the morning
In the morning
Helps me find my way back in
From the place where I have been

it's really great and the way it is written has a sort of rhythm to it that i can't quite explain.
i think that i am not going to attend my friday yoga class anymore. it costs $10 and i really never feel that much better or worse after going. everyone always acts like it was the best thing ever afterward, and i always think, "that was ok." so, i could probably save myself the $10 from going, and save more money from not driving to lawrence every friday.

hope all is well on your side of the screen.

love,
anthony

such distance from our friends

2008-12-05T18:53:00.000-08:00

i am going to go watch my friends' band snugglebugs tonight. i will probably see courtney simmons there. and probably my friends from work jasper, and maybe crystal. maybe glen will show up as well. glen has a gallery opening tomorrow with 2 of his friends. it is called beastiary, and involves art about beasts. i know that glen's paintings have self-portraits of his body with different animal heads instead of his. i think he is very talented. i wonder if he devised the name for their gallery. the last gallery he had was called pompadouria, and was about hair, and was in a salon. i didn't make it to that one because i decided to see stephanie durkopp become dustin's wife.
art is a crazy thing. i hope to create a large sketch of skeletor to become art for a t-shirt i ordered. i think that i have too many clothes. i sold 3 coats and a cardigan today. i took the store credit because it would be more money, but then i used the store credit on another cardigan, a v-neck sweater, and a polo. i still think my swap was justified.
i raked a bunch of leaves in our yard today because my dad asked me last night. i ddin't get home until 330 because of yoga and errands. then i ate a late lunch. by 4 i started working on the yard, by myself. it took a while, and i was finishing after then sun went down. i have been in a daze ever since. i think it is because my day has had the following factors: yoga + yard work + hot shower. everything seems to have happened delicately, if that makes sense to anyone besides myself.

i do not exist.

love,
anthony

nobody broke your heart, you broke your own cause you can't finish what you start

2008-12-01T18:19:00.001-08:00

paying for fonts online is so ridiculous. i can understand if you are purchasing classic type like helvetica or futura, or something! but when its something that someone has designed that is essentially scanned typewriter text, it is not worth $226. it would cost you less to buy an old typewriter and type what you needed, AND you wouldn't have some font that anyone else in the world would be throwing on some poster or church, youth group bulletin.
i guess it all comes down to you deciding how much your time and integrity are worth. would it be easier for you to just pick a distressed font from your dropdown list, or should you just pick some classic font and do your own distressing? for me, quirky fonts only work when you design them yourself. and after you do so, you shouldn't just zip the file and barf it up on some font website for lazier designers to desecrate.
design is so frustrating, and i'm only a printer.

love,
anthony

orange you glad...

2008-11-24T18:18:00.000-08:00

i recently purchased and received my 15w orange practice amp. it's awesome. i finally restrung my old guitar, which turned out to be the first time i've ever replaced strings on any of my instruments. andrew or someone always did it for me. weird, eh?

anyway, i've been totally wailing on it, and it has basically identical tone to pedro the lion's "control" album. pretty fun. maybe i'll record something fun, and post it somewheres.

love,
anthony

i like this band

2008-11-23T16:09:00.000-08:00

love,
anthony

It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best

2008-11-18T18:31:00.000-08:00

karen dalton is amazing.
i recieved the latest ganzfeld book (number 7) in the mail today.

love,
anthony

gifts in the post

2008-11-16T18:50:00.000-08:00

this is the package i recieved from mr. israel. i just thought i'd share it with you.

love,
anthony

furr

2008-11-15T13:33:00.000-08:00

Yeah, when I was only seventeen
I could hear the angels whispering
So I drove into the woods
And wandered aimlessly about
Until I heard my mother shouting through the fog
It turned out to be the howling of a dog
Or a wolf, to be exact
The sound sent shivers down my back
But I was drawn into the pack and before long
They allowed me to join in and sing their song
So from the cliffs and highest hills
Yeah, we would gladly get our fill
Howling endlessly and shrilly at the dawn
And I lost the taste for judging right from wrong
For my flesh had turned to fur
Yeah, and my thoughts they surely were
Turned to instinct and obedience to God

You can wear your fur
Like a river on fire
But you'd better be sure
If you're making God a liar
I'm a rattlesnake, babe,
I'm like fuel on fire
So if you're gonna get made
Don't be afraid of what you've learned

On the day that I turned 23
I was curled up underneath a dogwood tree
When suddenly a girl
Her skin the color of a pearl
She wandered aimlessly, but she didn't seem to see
She was listening for the angels just like me
So I stood and looked about
I brushed the leaves off of my snout
And then I heard my mother shouting through the trees
You should have seen that girl go shaky at the knees
So I took her by the arm
We settled down upon a farm
And raised our children up as gently as you please

And now my fur has turned to skin
And I've been quickly ushered in
To a world that, I confess, I do not know
But I still dream of running careless through the snow
Through the howling winds that blow
Across the ancient distant flow
To fill our bodies up like water till we know

You can wear your fur
Like a river on fire
But you'd better be sure
If you're making God a liar
I'm a rattlesnake, babe,
I'm like fuel on fire
So if you're gonna get made
Don't be afraid of what you've learned

these are from blitzen trapper's album and track, "furr." i like it a lot, and listen to it a lot.

love,
anthony

leadbelly!

2008-11-13T20:41:00.000-08:00

love,
anthony

holdy paws

2008-11-11T17:52:00.000-08:00

i had sweaty, itchy feet at work all day today. i keep thinking that the weather is going to plummet below freezing and so i put on wool socks. it was miserable.

love,
anthony

here comes the sun

2008-11-10T17:59:00.001-08:00

work went by very quickly today. it was strange. i almost think it's because we didn't open up any of the doors. winter's a comin. or it's already here? i need more fall weather where i don't need a coat and gloves and a hat on outside.

love,
anthony

No One Conquered, Wyoming ; a review

2008-11-08T19:47:00.000-08:00

artist: No One Conquered, Wyoming
album: "Vega"
rating: 7/10
genre?: indie/acoustic/lo fi/ambient
for fans of: Panda Bear | Grizzly Bear | Bon Iver (those all rhyme!)
myspace: HERE!

The latest effort by Mr. Wagner Israel Cilio III is a dreamy soundscape titled "Vega." Whether it's named after the brightest star visible from earth, the street fighter character, or the protein, it is an excellent album.

This album is 9 tracks and alternates between the instrumental "vega" tracks 1-ultra(5). Some of the "vega" tracks are dreamy and sound like there is almost emotion breaking through to touch the listener. The other "vega" tracks are overbearing and unsettling. Listening to this album is the equivalent to being lost in a large, underground, concrete, hallway. Sounds echo, and come and go from indecipherable locations. The vocals are never really loud enough to actually engage or address the listener. And after the album is over, who knows if you've found your way out of that dark tunnel.

The second track "Golden Spools" is basically the first track of the album, since it follows the album opening, "Vega I." "Golden Spools" is easily my favorite track of the album. It features some audio samples from what i believe is the episode of the twilight zone where the man survives the nuclear blast and has the rest of his life to read books, and then his thick, thick glasses break. Anyway, this song is upbeat, and has a positive tone to it, but is also very sad at the same time. Kind of a Belle & Sebastian sort of deal, and i just cannot get enough of it.

"Vega II" features a lot of sounds that i believe are crumpling paper and handclaps, but sounds like galloping horses, crunching leaves, and giant insects. There's also some nice thunder-like noises, and the song slowly devolves into a noise, sound collage. Much like a Hella song, this song loses all structure and starts tumbling out of control, and then somehow regains its balance and finishes nicely.

"The Panda" is a nice song. Pleasant finger-picking guitar, seagulls, and lyrics about a stop-motion forest and all it's woodland inhabitants. At 6:12, it's actually the longest song on the album. This track also features some audio samples, but i can never quite pinpoint or remember what it's from. They give the song an unnerving edge.

"Vega III" is my least favorite track on the album. This is mostly because some of the sounds flicker out of control and redline, making this track a little louder than most of the other songs. However, it gets points for being very short, and setting up very nicely for "The Fox in the Sand."

"The Fox in the Sand" is also a very amazing track. The guitar is a little creepy, and the overall tempo is very agreeable. I'm not quite sure what it is, i think it's that the vocals almost follow a waltzing pattern. I don't really know what else to say about this track. It's great.

"Vega IV" is similar to the other vega tracks, except it seems to feature more instruments, some whistling, some feedback, and some groaning/moaning/heavy breathing by Israel that sounds questionable. Fathers, keep your daughters away from this one.

Next up is a cover of Rio en Medio's "Tiger's Ear." I have never listened to Rio en Medio, but this song is very nice. There is some especially nice, "la la la's" that are very melancholy and apathetic. This track also features some nice whistling that sounds almost like a theremin, which makes this track floating and dreamy with a 50's sci fi twist.

Finally, "Vega Ultra" is a track that I can really only describe as a collage of all of the previous vega tracks. It's almost like you go through a progression of some of the major themes that made up all of the instrumental tracks. And yes, the sexual groaning makes a reappearance as well. What is really great about this track though, is that it basically begins the same as "Vega I" and ends the same also, which really helps round out the entire album. There's also those neat "yip yips" that i enjoyed from the first track as well, but didn't mention until now.

Well, there you have it. Overall, this album plays really well as a whole. It all works together, and seems to have little, slight features that pop up on several tracks. This album is an entire experience, and it's very much like a sunday drive in the sun, or dazing off on your roof, watching birds... However, the more you listen to the album, the more you go back to the tracks with vocals and structure. Not to say anything against the instrumental vega tracks, but you'll want to sing the other songs more.

Tracklist:
1. Vega I
2. Golden Spools
3. Vega II
4. The Panda
5. Vega III
6. Fox in the Sand
7. Vega IV
8. Tiger's Ear (Rio en Medio cover)
9. Vega Ultra (bonus)

Vega can be found here, as well as other EPs and such.

love,
anthony

i've got a date with the niiiiight...

2008-11-06T17:51:00.000-08:00

today at work i was printing tags on shirts all day long. it's weird to look at a shirt from alternative apparel that says "made in peru", and then print a tag made of ink that says "made in usa", and then to know that crystal is across the room cutting out the original tags. these same people printed some bags, and i put tags in them also. however, the tags said "made in china", just like the original ones. we wondered if the designers just didn't realize that alternative apparel is not american apparel. or if maybe they were intentionally lying to people.

don't believe everything your t-shirt tags tell you. they're not always true.

today was surreal in a way that i cannot describe. however, i can tell you that since we altered time by moving the hour hand on our clocks, i drive to work when the sun is rising, instead of in blackness. but now i drive home in the dark. it makes me feel like i have been gone a long time, and that for some reason i'm exhausted, but emotionless. today was colder than usual. we went from having open doors and windows in our building, to closing all of them. and sometimes i would have to put on a sweatshirt because we would have to open the garage doors for package delivery men.

i'm glad that obama is president, even if he hasn't done anything yet. the radio said that the bush administration wouldn't be out of the white house and obama wouldn't be in full control until january 20th. that seems like an awful long time away. maybe not. only a month and some until christmas. i've been debating playing christmas music at work to bug everyone. crystal said there is a radio station already playing christmas music. what a silly mentality.

love,
anthony

oh, mister postman

2008-11-05T18:44:00.000-08:00

i received a neat little package in the mail today. it was from my friend, israel, who has recently finished a new album and wanted reviews on it. he was kind enough to send it my way, along with a couple other goodies.

a proper review and photos to come. hopefully this weekend.

also, a wonderful painting that i had purchased, and later gifted upon my friends, heidi and kirk, is now on kirk's blog: SECRET FUN SPOT!

love,
anthony

you guys, i'm seriously

2008-11-04T17:24:00.000-08:00

it is amazing to me how the presidential election in america has a great enough effect on the residents that it splits people groups into angry, opinionated, halfwits. i, of course, am included in this bunch no matter how much i despise it. i honestly hate the whole process of these elections, but this year has especially weighed on me, and i cannot wait for this to be over. there's only a few hours before we will know the next leader of our pathetic country, and i'm still irritated by the wait.

at work a couple hours ago i was discussing with my coworker, katie, the horribly somber mood our entire press will be in, if a certain somebody is not elected. it was honestly upsetting katie to think about it, to the extent that she was fearing an anxiety attack. i wasn't quite as upset, but i will definitely be irritated and depressed tomorrow if these things pass.

in conclusion, i hate you, all of you, and all of your opinions. keep them to yourself.

love,
anthony

dear great pumpkin...

2008-11-01T12:52:00.000-07:00

if you really are a fake,
don't tell me.
i don't want to know.

love,
anthony

it's the great pumpkin, eventhebear!

2008-10-31T16:33:00.001-07:00

beware of Ignis fatuus this night of all hallows eve.

love,
anthony

tell my wife, i love her very much...

2008-10-30T18:05:00.000-07:00

space is a riveting place. i don't know how many of you have had the chance to visit, but it's pretty wild. i'm sure most of you are reading this and are totally jealous because all you're doing is sitting in your parents' basement blogging and watching constantine on AMC's FearFest. meanwhile, i've drifted in the infinite blackness. floating amongst the twinkling of long dead stars, and experiencing cabin fever followed by the calming acceptance a la Major Tom.

assuming the universe expands infinitely, we can easily and logically come to terms with the fact that in some number of miles, probably equivalent to 100 billion to the billionth power, there are other civilizations bent on finding and destroying us. this is something that i have finally accepted and am finally at peace with. i welcome our impending demise by the ever-powerful, ostrich-robot, overlords.

frank r. paul is very much the man when it comes to sci fi pulp covers from the 20's-60's.

love,
anthony

They locked me in a world of darkness without your sexy hands...

2008-10-28T18:36:00.000-07:00

mar sent me this.
and this one is my favorite.

love,
anthony

2008-10-26T18:07:00.000-07:00

it's really fun to have a large group of your friends in one city at the same time.

it's really sad to realize that this may not happen often, or ever again.

love,
anthony

take my bones i don't need none

2008-10-13T18:12:00.000-07:00

scott campbell is the man.

love,
anthony

2008-10-09T18:14:00.000-07:00

posting, why not? so, this weekend i am venturing down to homecoming for jbu. i actually NEVER thought that i would do that. of course, i didn't expect to be friendless and living with my parents either. so, i am going for the friends. i hope i see everyone. if not, i'll be down in 2 weeks for steph's wedding. which should be good.

in other wonderful happenings. i received a ticket for 129$ for failure to stop for a pedestrian at a crosswalk. thanks police force of lawrence. and thank you for tacking on the 61$ fee on top of my 68$ fine, accompanied by no explanation. that's neat. AMERICA!

there's nothing like not getting enough sleep, hearing sarah palin's voice on the radio, getting a ridiculous ticket, and printing tons of jackopierce shirts to make for a crappy day. i'm glad i always have a 3 day weekend.

sorry for dumping on you, even though you read this voluntarily.

love,
anthony

who loves the sun?

2008-10-04T14:20:00.000-07:00

well, in case anyone ever reads this. i have not been up to anything lately. i went to worlds o fun with the blue collar gang, and it was pretty great. for some reason the halloween haunt was already in full force in september, and the parade of masked and macabre teenagers was leaving children in tears.

been listening to blitzen trapper's newest release, "furr," lately and it's pretty good. it's definitely been pulled back since last year's release, but it still works great, and there's that wonderful mountain, indie, sound.

also, i cannot take anymore presidential talk.i was sick of it in august, but ever since palin joined grandpa mccain i have to muster all my strength not to scream when i hear her voice on NPR every morning. blue collar has taken these measures...

personally, i thought "McCan't" was better than mcsame, but whatever.
tired of singing.

love,
anthony

now you've got a kid with hooves instead of hands

2008-07-18T17:12:00.001-07:00

so, i am working at blue collar press, and i DO get to be a printer. it's not that hard, but there's all sorts of little tricks to learn, and details to remember. it's hot, but i get to work with neat people, listen to good music, and it's only 4 days a week. tomorrow they're having a garage sale at the shop to promote themselves. some stuff is things they're getting rid of from the shop, and the rest is stuff employees are bringing in. should be cool, and really fun.

also, adam, a coworker and good friend, turned me onto watching tv on hulu.com. it's really amazing. you can watch full seasons of tv shows, and it doens't get shut down because they show you 15 sec or less commercials every now and then. adam showed me an episode of "its always sunny in philidelphia" on it and the commercials were for the show. its pretty great, and i've already watched 3 episodes of 30 rock today. and now i'm going to watch another one.

remember, if life keeps giving you anchovies, just add some cheese and make a PIIIZZZAAA!!

love,
anthony

jobbed

2008-07-03T18:02:00.001-07:00

so, i gots myself employeds. gonna do some stuff at blue collar, not screen printing, but something. i think i'm dealing with ordering shirts and stuff? sure, why not. either way, i'm going to have some income again, which is always a plus. and this way i can fuel my shopping addiction. more on that later.

love,
anthony

anthony the author

2008-06-25T20:09:00.000-07:00

so, i've decided in my unemployment to write short stories for my friends. so, if you want one, let me know, and i'll type it up on my dad's old typewriter, and mail it to you. errors and all. these will not be perfect as far as type-o's go. i already finished one for emily moberly. also, give me your address, otherwise i can't mail it to you.

love,
anthony

feed me to the forest

2008-06-24T17:50:00.000-07:00

so, i'm getting pretty stir crazy at home. i am definitely going to hook up my computer (yes i haven't done that yet) and start coloring my old robot comic. it's been disgustingly humid, and when i have no reason to go anywhere i don't leave the house. i got some more old mcsweeney's in the mail today, which is good because i just finished 27 last night at 3 am. issue 16 is absolutely amazing. a true feat in odd package design (it's also the one with the comb and deck of cards with a story printed on them).

anyway, give me something to do.

love,
anthony

in case you were wondering...

2008-06-21T13:26:00.001-07:00

i would kill someone for one of these. the farfisa combo compact. the ultimate 60s gigging organ. oh man, i discovered these the other day and was thoroughly disappointed that i didn't have $700 to procure one. so, if you have anyone that you need murdered, and would be willing to barter with a farfisa organ, drop me a line.

love,
anthony

2008-06-20T13:16:00.000-07:00

i miss jim varney. not that i wished there were more ernest p. worrell movies. i actually think that he could have made some cool "serious" movies. jim carrey has done that somewhat. right? i don't know. he started off with some more serious, drama, background.
think about it.

love,
anthony

summertime

2008-06-19T18:58:00.000-07:00

is the living easy? yes, it is. for anyone who is still wondering... i am at home, basically just bumming around. i've been really wanting to work at blue collar again. so, i've gone and talked to them and filled out an app. they've basically said that i have a printing job when this guy glen leaves. they're pretty sure it's sometime soon. i guess i'll see how soon that is. i've also gone in another time to model some shirts for them, which was fairly regular for me when i interned there. each time i've visited i've come home with an amazing poster, and it makes me want to be there so bad.

so here i am sitting in my parent's basement, watching rushmore with the commentary on, blogging. ugh. i've been trying to draw pretty regularly, and i've liked what i've been coming up with. i feel like i'm getting better. i've also been trying to take advantage of not doing anything by reading more. i've finished my joan baez book, daybreak. it was pretty good, interesting. i've also been working through the latest mcsweeney's.

i've also been buying a bunch of records lately. partly out of boredom, and partly out of guilt that i actually need to support the starving artists that i've been stealing music from. most of the time you can find vinyl records for just as much as a cd. other times not. like sigur ros' new album is 24 euros. that's like 40 dollars or so? come on. probably not going to preorder that. however, norma jean finally released all of their albums on vinyl and you can get it all for $45. this and many others i've been dying to buy. gah.

more later i guess.

love,
anthony

SPIKE

2008-05-28T12:16:00.000-07:00

eats bbq

love,
anthony

even if it never gets better

2008-05-22T12:32:00.000-07:00

new case at the cafe.

also, the new mates of state is pretty nice.

love,
anthony

i made a pattern

2008-05-12T14:07:00.001-07:00

i was inspired by Julia Rothman. Also her book blog, Book By Its Cover is amazing and has lots of great art and sketchbooks. The most disappointing part is when the books are already out of print.

love,
anthony

books, books, everywhere...

2008-05-06T15:49:00.000-07:00

Books on Broadway

A Book About a Book...

By Anthony Groen

Book Preview

love,
anthony

would you be an outlaw for my love?

2008-04-28T00:12:00.000-07:00

excerpt from a comic i'm working on called trunk & hoof.

C3dRiC

2008-03-25T17:05:00.001-07:00

this is a page from a comic i drew for one of my classes called "C3dRic." Hopefully sometime soon i will be able to get it finished, a little more refined, and maybe colored or something. we'll see.

love,
anthony

behold, the interweb

2008-02-16T15:30:00.000-08:00

so i bought a website. soon it will be a portfolio site, but for now it is sketches and nonsense.

www.anthoneygrewin.com

love,
anthony

THE INVASION

2007-11-16T15:49:00.000-08:00

Marcus added the storyteller at the bottom, then I did some editing in Photoshop.

love,
anthony

face:face

2007-10-28T21:24:00.000-07:00

india ink and then colored in photoshop

the lazy shall inherit the earth.... later

2007-10-28T15:24:00.000-07:00

so, i've done about nothing today. not that i have anything due anytime soon, but i still feel crappy. i've had a terrible cough lately and it keeps me up at night. sometimes it's fine, other times i'm choking to death. kinda sucks. i've watched way to many horror movies lately. it's awesome. AMC's monsterfest has been 10 days of only horror movies. i still need to see hellraiser, though, and hopefully i'll catch the friday the 13th movies they're playing tomorrow. it's odd that they haven't played any of the nightmare on elm street movies. they're about the same caliber as all the others they've shown.
whatever.
and ever.

amen.

love,
anthony

i like sigur ros.

2007-10-21T13:30:00.000-07:00

man, i've had to work quite a bit this week. i'm going to go watch 30 days of night with the boys, and then head back into work. awesome. i'm having a hard time finalizing my logo for my coffee company project. i just can't get the right feel to it. oh well, i just need to have it done for tuesday.

i got my accordion out today. it influenced me to buy new straps for it, since the old ones have basically deteriorated. but i did write a song on it. i really want to get it fixed up, because it plays fine, but some of the keys are a little sludgy sounding. i think somethings a little goofy with some of the reeds. hopefully it won't be to major to get fixed. i'm hoping my parents will do it for me for christmas.

whatever.

ok.

gonna go now.

love,
anthony

2007-10-07T13:51:00.001-07:00

it's hot today.

2007-09-27T16:14:00.000-07:00

school was almost entirely worthless today. however, i did receive a tea kettle and an accordion in the mail today. ebay purchases. both were fairly dirty, and the tea kettle reeked of cigarette smoke. i washed most of it out, but it's still kind of stinky. prolly just going to be ornamental or something for now, cuz it's a little rusty inside. maybe i'll make it into a flower pot for my grandma for christmas.

life.
i'm tired and have to go to work.
i also need to know all of the human body in spanish.
ay! mi cabesa! no estoy bueno!

love,
anthony

you're here to get this baby dancing

2007-09-20T16:16:00.000-07:00

i drew this in class today. i'm actually pretty proud of it. it just started as an eye, with no concept. but the more i drew, it just sort of fleshed itself out. the heart is directly influenced by the fact that i saw a drawing of jason flack's before i went to bed last night, and for some reason popped into my head.

love,
anthony

you idiot kid

2007-09-19T22:56:00.000-07:00

oh stuff. i really wish i was just working right now, instead of school. you don't bring work home. then, when i was home i wouldn't have to be thinking about school. just relaxing, hanging out with friends. not that i have a huge load right now. but there's just little spots of the days that i really enjoy. i guess instead of just enjoying those little spots, i'm feeling selfish and wanting them in mass quantities. but I'm an american, dammit. i deserve it!

love,
anthony

(new jose gonzalez is really good)

2007-09-16T23:27:00.000-07:00

i went climbing with josh, megan, and micah. it was really fun. megan is surprisingly awesome, but i guess i would be also if josh was my boyfriend. not that that is what i want.i feel like my forearms may be pretty sore tomorrow. anyway, we got back and then micah and i grilled ourselves some steaks, potatoes, tomatoes, and onions. it was delicious. and then i played pool with brandon, and then i watched the usual suspects with micah. it was pretty good. i thought the end was pretty predictable. i bet i would have liked it more if i'd seen it when the movies with crazy plot-twist endings were really big. oh well. what an incredible, lazy, sunday.

love,
anthony

i want skulls

2007-09-15T16:11:00.000-07:00

cold weather, yes!
i turn 22 in 2 days
life

love,
anthony

judy is a punk

2007-09-12T16:57:00.000-07:00

love,
anthony

needle in the hay

2007-09-11T15:00:00.001-07:00

today the weather was amazing. it was like 75 and sunny, with a cool breeze. and now i just cashed my paycheck and am enjoying an orange freezepop. i really need to work on my blue collar poster, but i just want to relax awhile. school was really crappy, long, and boring. i learned a little about our studio in my commercial photography class. that was helpful. but 20 minutes of information doesn't seem worth being at school from 10:30am - 4pm. lame.

enjoy the weather, wherever you may be.

love,
anthony

we can't get much higher

2007-09-10T13:16:00.000-07:00

so, i watched the movie the doors, and was inspired to take photos as a coked up junkie, dazed and barely clinging to life.

love,
anthony

it's raining today

2007-09-07T09:41:00.000-07:00

i enjoy rain, but usually only from a window looking out. it has pretty much died down, but hopefully it will pick up again so i can stumble to class, through cats and dogs, in my members only jacket, which keeps me 50% dry. then i can sit in class for an hour, stumble to the next building, and sit for another hour, just as wet as before. then i can stumble back to my car, in the rain, then stumble from my car to apartment, in the rain.
i need an umbrella.

love,
anthony

oh, my bones, they are gone gone gone

2007-09-05T14:52:00.000-07:00

look everyone! i changed my website, and i stayed up until 3am doing it. i hope the possible 3 people who look at this like it. if you haven't heard of scott walker, then hear of him, and listen to his albums. i've worked my way up to Scott 3 (the title of his 3rd album). it may be my favorite so far, because it is so mellow.

i wrote an incredibly depressing story for a class, which will be turned into narrative via a family photo album. so, i made the decision to make all the photos realistic, except the family will be dolls. i figure that may lighten the dark subject matter.

i'm listening to smog right now. i like it a lot.

love,
anthony

why not?

2007-09-04T23:17:00.000-07:00

so, for graphic design 4 i am working on an informative poster for blue collar press. why not, eh? so, here is my basic mock up. i figure one side could be hung up if they don't need the info on the back anymore, or if it is sent to existing customers as a kind of sign of "thanks for your business" or something.
so, here's the front:

and here's the back:

this side will basically be a collage, with the photos corresponding to the text nearest to it. the rest will be random, fun things, that show how laid back and personable the workers are. whatev.
>LISTEN TO SCOTT WALKER<

love,
anthony

blerble

2007-08-30T20:45:00.000-07:00

we finally have cable and internet at our apartment. so, that's nice. much easier to get homework done/ check email/ find out any information that is vital to my job and school. i work at the coffeehouse that's 50 steps away. it's very convenient and it's a low stress job with a bunch of my friends. also, we have tons of friends living in the apartment building with us. and antics sometimes break out. like this:

and enchiritos and gold ankle boots

and i work at the building on the corner

love,
anthony

bluh

2007-08-12T15:19:00.000-07:00

ok, so one week left of work. i'll be glad to be done with it. though i am getting paid and fed very well, this job is draining. from the minute i walk into the office i cannot wait to go home.

i need to find a bike, but i don't know if i'll be able to transport it to arkansas. so, i might just find one there.

it is damn hot, i am looking forward to fall.

my friends just got married and they're both like 20 years old. i was happy for them, but it's weird when people younger than you get married. i talked to my old ex-girlfriend at the wedding, she was one of the bridesmaids. she's been going to school in chicago and now she's graduated and has a job there and is getting married in 3 weeks. crazy. she also gets to hang out with our old friend, lauren, which i am jealous of.

it's insane how fast life moves, and how slow time goes from 1:00pm to 4:00pm when you are working.

love,
anthony

this has been bothering me...

2007-08-05T13:44:00.001-07:00

before:

after:

love,
anthony

ding ding ding ding ding ding

2007-08-02T17:21:00.000-07:00

my brother got simpsons season 9 for his b-day. he's 23 now, crazy. there are so many awesome episodes that i forgot about on it. i'm excited to finish watching all of them. i think i'm going to go buy my friend, Ross Brown's, new cd. should be good. then i'll probably watch everything is illuminated.

i found my (blue collar) boss' blog. it's absolutely hilarious. it makes me ashamed of how lame and boring this blog is. (sorry about that by the way). it's on my links on the right 'burton+wife', check it out.

so, there's this guy i work with at SYSCO who sounds like a stuffed-up patton oswalt. thing is, he sounds like this ALL the time. and he's in the cubicle right next to me so i hear him talking to people all day. today a woman came and talked to him for awhile and they started talking about their kids.... then they started talking about child birth. and that is when i overheard the ladies own story of giving birth to one of her children. it went something similar to this:

well, i knew i was going into labor, but i hadn't been sure my water had broke. but i was POSITIVE it had, and my husband believed me. (i'm sure you already understand the inflection in this woman's voice) so, when we got to the doctor, he didn't really think that i was in labor because my water hadn't broke and he was saying like "i can SMELL IT, but it doesn't look like it's broken." well then my husband made me laugh and then it just GUSHED out...

you can imagine the horror i felt, sitting 6 feet away and being forced to hear this story. "gushed"?! jesus. how can you talk about that, with the most disgusting terminology possible, so nonchalantly? dear god. on the brighter side, when i walk into work and see endless cubicles my stomach completely drops and i feel like leaving immediately. if i seriously worked in a place like this, i feel like i would either

a. just get in my car and drive until i couldn't drive anymore
or
b. kill myself

it is seriously such i terrible feeling i get when i walk into work. its creepy.
welp, see you on the flipside!!!1 LOL!!11

love,
anthony

werkin' fer 'the man'

2007-08-01T18:52:00.001-07:00

so, my dad got me an internship at SYSCO (where he works) because they were really backed up on making menus, logos, etc. This is a free service that they offer to clients, and now people are really taking advantage of it. originally, the menus were done in powerpoint by my dad's old assistant. she would just do one every now and
then. then more and more people wanted them and she took it on as her full time job. now there's 2 professional designers who do it all, and right now they're backed up on 85 orders. granted, some of them are just pricing changes, but it's still kind of daunting.

so, for the next 2 weeks i'll be a temp making menus in an office. it really kind of sucks because it's just a gigantic office, and i'm stuck in a cubicle for 7-8 hours a day with no music or anything, only designing stuff for these restaurants. it's nice for practice though, and i'm sure i can learn something.

bright side, though, it is a food company i'm working for. and they do these in-house demonstrations for clients, trying to improve technique and effeciency for the restaurants. since our department is super small, pablo and i get to go eat and have the chefs prepare food for us right there. today i had a ribeye, some salad, and fries. it was the best meal i've ever had on lunch break.

downside; there's a lot of douche bags who work in offices. i ran into several guys today who reminded my of the 'o' face guy from office space, and andy from the office. they all tell really boring, stupid, stories they think are hilarious, then pound it. they're really obnoxious. the combination of those people, and working in a cubicle for 40 hours a week is easily grounds for suicide. i hope i never end up doing this as a career.

love,
anthony

zeitgeist

2007-07-30T18:40:00.000-07:00

smashing pumpkins
zeitgeist
rating 4/5

I think that i would have loved this record back when i was still a huge SP fan. that said, this album is still really good. if you can like or can get past the kind of straight on/radio style rock, then you will enjoy this record. I was disappointed to hear that d'arcy didn't play on the record, but more becuase it's not really an SP album without her, kind of like MACHINA. Besides that, though, this album is solid. it gets a little repetitive at times, and i miss some of the slower songs that they used to throw down. the very last song, "pomp and circumstances" is the only the really truly slow song on the album, which features a super cheezy metal ballad guitar solo, so i'm not a huge fan of it. Welp, it looks almost like i had nothing but bad things to say about this record, but i promise you it is good. it's especially great to have playing but not really intensely listen to. check it out if you haven't already.

-anthony

statements.

2007-07-28T13:49:00.001-07:00

today is my dad's birthday.
i think i'm going to see the simpsons movie tonight with my brother
i watched the shining last night, finally
i'm probably going to live in the chamber building now
i plan on watching i am the cheese and everything is illuminated soon
i hope all is well with you
i bought some kitchy, old photography books at a garage sale
i also bought a funny fold-open metal frame
i need a desk and stuff if i'm going to be in an apartment
i got my dad goose head beer for his birthday, i want to try it
i am listening to the new feist cd
i miss my friends from school and places beyond
hopefully i'm going to see harry and the potters 8-15-2007

love,
anthony

harry potter and the deathly hallows

2007-07-26T08:39:00.000-07:00

author: JK Rowling
rating: 4.5/5

This book is absolutely incredible. I read it in about 12 hours (cumulative). Of course, if you haven't kept up with the series, this book will mean nothing to you. It will make absolutely no sense if you try to read it. Anyway, it is incredibly well written, as have all the books been, and truly engrossing.
Let me say though, that anything you thought you knew about the harry potter series, you don't. This book rewrites and reveals so much that you could have never guessed. It is incredible.
I only have a few complaints, but of course putting them here would definitely ruin the book for anyone who hasn't yet read it, so i won't. However, i found the last chapter of the book extraneous, and a little too story booky.

that's all for now.

love,
anthony

everything is illuminated

2007-07-24T11:39:00.001-07:00

author: jonathan saffron foer
rating: 3.5/5

Ok, so this is foer's first big novel. I found it pretty disappointing. I read his latest novel, Extremely Close and Incredibly Loud, first, and it is one of the best books i have ever read. That may have contributed to the already high expectations i had for Illuminated. now, while this book is well written, i just felt that it lacked subtlety and direction. The book jumps around a lot between time periods, which is fine and well done, but the story being told in the past (like 1800s and previous) seemed very far fetched and boring. I had a hard time believing most of the characters and confused as to the relevance of the story being told in the present. Either way, it is a good book, but if you want a really good read, read his latest work.

-Anthony