November 2008
105 posts
It's all coming true...
Remember the Benglert Productions logo? (Which sadly has not found its way onto a CD case since August…)
So close.
I didn’t even realize it until I saw myself in the window of the train and was like… WAIT. Where have I seen that before?
True love.
Ben: *notices a strip joint on Broadway*
Ben: Wow, sushi, sake, and strippers. All the essentials.
Midori: oh, yeah, I think that's the one where you actually eat the sushi off naked girls while they hold interesting poses.
Ben: ....why did you tell me that? Now I want to go!
Midori: It's very hard to get into. I'd get you a reservation if I could!
Ben: ....
Midori: What, it's not like you're fucking them.
Ben: ....
Where did I find this girl?
PS - Anik D? You and I are hitting this place up at our earliest convenience.
Lol @ the economy
One of my travel traditions is overpaying for a copy of Wired at some airport newsstand. I’ve paid $13 for a copy of Wired (though that might have been New Zealand dollars, I can’t remember). Today? $4.99.
Peace out, bitches.
Time for a real vacation.
To do list includes:
-see Repo: A Genetic Opera (hailed as this generation’s Rocky Horror, yet released in only six theaters, one of them being in NYC)
-see Young Frankenstein (which I only found out the other day was a Mel Brooks show!)
-see Spring Awakening (long overdue, missed it whenever it was in SF, must see it before it closes)
-ice skate under some...
Those three little words
Ben: HA
Ben: hahahaha
Ben: ha.
Ben: windows now recognizes forward slashes
Ben: in vista
Ben: for changing directories
Midori: !
Ben: hAAAAAAA.
Ben: win.
Midori: dows.
Ben: fuck you.
Midori: *mwah*
Sweet.
I just checked into my flight tomorrow online and saw the option to receive a paperless boarding pass on my mobile device.
Apparently tomorrow they’re just going to scan a square barcode off the screen of my phone, and that will be my boarding pass.
The future. It’s finally here. (Took you guys long enough!)
Ode to the Mac Pro
And I thought my public lust-wanks about my gorgeous laptop were bad. Go ahead, click on to read my vindication.
marco:
I’ve said so before, but my computer makes me incredibly happy that I have it every time I use it. Yes, it was expensive, but I don’t feel that a penny was wasted.
He's well raised.
Andreas Englert: Oh also, I have read that the Dell Inspiron Mini 12 also has no fan.
Andreas Englert: Makes me wonder why I got an X300...
Ben Englert: because having a dell would make your soul cry?
Andreas Englert: No, dells are fine, acceptable computers.
Andreas Englert: There is more to life than what computer you use, unless you see the computer as a transitory element in humanity's ascension to the internet's societal superstructure.
Ben Englert: so you're the james may of computing
Andreas Englert: No, everyone is the James May of computing, except for you.
Andreas Englert: And the people in your flat.
Andreas Englert: By "most people" I mean hicks in Alabama.
Andreas Englert: Which represent a better part of the US.
Andreas Englert: Better in numerological terms only.
Found Footage: live rig with TouchOSC. Awesome. →
A must-read for all my nerdy folk →
“My boyfriend and I knew we had to do something important or else our...”
– an email sent to the Post Secret blog on other creative ways of sharing secrets
Change my pitch up
Midori: rawr.
Ben: you seem to say that a lot
Midori: yeah, so?
Ben: so you must find yourself backed into verbal corners a lot, then
Midori: yeah, by you!
Ben: :)
Midori: where's my wit when i need it...
Ben: awww
Ben: here let me make it all better
Ben: i'll send you a song that describes how i feel about you
Midori: ..."smack my bitch up"?
I miss recording orchestra concerts.
I say this now because after Berlioz ran out, the only other classical music in my iTunes were the recordings I did of Harker’s concerts over the years.
The sweet sweet sounds of coughing parents and chair creaks
It pains me to see my babies sit unused. Don’t they look so much happier in their natural habitat?
Funky coincidence
I sat down to work in the library and found myself craving darkly romantic piano music. I know I’m in a library and they probably have mountains of CDs but I decided I should focus.
(Tangent: Whenever my mother used to force me to go to the library to study, I would evade/procrastinate by browsing CDs and ripping whatever looked cool to my laptop. Part of the reason my music library is now...
Now you’re thinking wi- What? Another video...
It's up! IN HD!! →
In my car, you just can't hear the engine over the... →
This is what they use us for.
Bonnie: i am not going to survive boston.
Bonnie: i am going to invest in a boy.
Bonnie: body heat.
She had to be REMINDED??
Sharon: i feel like i've created a monster
Ben: oh? which?
Sharon: i took a badass player and turned him into a sap who gazes at me with tenderness in his eyes and tells me how much i mean to him and texts me throughout the day saying "i miss you"
Sharon: i mean, i enjoy it
Sharon: but i also feel like dr frankenstein
Ben: isn't that every girl's dream?
Sharon: hm
Sharon: i am living the dream
Sharon: amazing :D
Ben: i can't believe you had to be reminded
Sharon: i am in a state of disbelief
Speaking of that girl
Behold the new blog look! She was kind enough to make some adjustments to the template for me, and now I have a commenting system, a color scheme I like better, and a cool background.
I did pay a heavy price for it though.
This is the girl.
Ben: the new office assistant uses outlook
Ben: so she always has winmail.dat attached
Ben: so annoying
Midori: om nom nom
Midori: what did the prev use?
Midori: tb?
Ben: no idea
Ben: probably
Midori: i miss tb terribly.
Ben: tis what they set up for me on my dell laptop
Midori: ...
Ben: before i gave it back because i never used it
Midori: YOU HAD A DELL LAPTOP!?
Ben: yes, work gave me a dell
Midori: OH MY GOD, BEN
Ben: and i was like, guys, i'm doing iphone stuff on my mac anyway
Ben: keep this
Midori: and i've touched you?
Ben: what, it wasn't mine
Midori: i've never even had a dell.
Midori: oh god, ben....
Midori: my soul.
Midori: it burns.
Yeah, she's perfect. But we knew that.
For trading disc images at LAN parties? →
Hey, he suggested it.
xo, M.
And another one!
Everyone, please welcome the lovely and talented Molly to the Tumblr-sphere.
Some of you may know her better as Roonil Wazlib. She came by ye olde garage/studio in San Jose from time to time to do one-offs, EPs, and albums. Since then we’ve somehow both made it to Boston.
Be warned
Midori currently has full access to my tumblr account. So, if my theme suddenly becomes pink riceballs it was NOT me.
This Blu-Ray lust must end.
Wall-E (the three-disc version) and Need for Speed Undercover are both arriving today from Amazon.
I HAVE TO STOP BUYING BLURAY DISCS BUT I THINK ABOUT 50GB OF TASTY TASTY HIGH DEFLICIOUS AND I CANT STOP MYSELF HELP ME
Introducing...
Another has fallen to the scourge of blogitis. In an email announcing her defeat to me, she wrote:
“inkless-pen.tumblr.com
of course i’m going to quote indie music
of course it’s going to be cynical
i can take out the snark
but i can’t take out the pretention.”
So, if you want to find yourself on the receiving end of my dear friend Bonnie’s harsh derision...
Download the Wall·E script! →
allthingspixar:
In pdf format, courtesy of the Walt Disney Company.
Speaking of Bubb Rubb,
Where the heck is Deltron Event II? How many years now have I been waiting for that album…
He must be from the Bay Area.
Midori: you know what i'm watching for the first time in 'ever? Milk and cereal.
Ben: oh god
Ben: the original?
Midori: no. the asians.
Ben: that is the original
Ben: .....
Ben: or it was where i used to live.
Midori: HAHAHA
Ben: is there a more original original?
Midori: yeah
Midori: it's white kids.
Ben: oh.