Do These Belong to You...?

Do these belong to you?

Hello...we the JB Bonifacio's....

have your Kanye West tix in our possession...

If our demands are not met, we will burn one ticket every hour on the hour starting at 7:00pm on April the fifteenth, 2008 until said demands are met.....

OR

.....Just call me tomorrow on my cell or gmail me and we can arrange an exchange of sorts...

have a pleasant tomorrow.....lol ;)

jb's recap...BEST. WEEK. EVER.-style.

Currently reading: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (Paperback)by Daniel Goleman

Currently (Re)Watching: Battlestar Galactica: Season 1 ---- BEST. SHOW. EVER....A sci-fi allegory of the war on terror? sign me up :) (I don't think Dustin is ever going to relinquish my DVD set either.....:( )

% of taxes Done: I have relied on Future-JB to do my taxes (Present-JB got wasted this wknd) and either Future-JB did it right, ooooorrr Present-JB is going to jail.

Current Pet Peeve: Why the frak won't www.penny-arcade.com open at all?

April Fool's Jokes planned: 2; they don't know what hit them ;)

# of times JB deserves to be slapped: Yeah I'm thinking 2.

What DIDN'T JB eat this week: healthy food.

Life Lesson learned: My XBOX 360 is many things, but a love doctor it is not, alas.

Biggest Poker Accomplishment: Accepting a nice contribution to the "JB-needs-money-for gambling" charity fund, courtesy of www.zoji.com

Influences: I'm under one right now ;)

Most contested word on Scrabble: smad.

On a scale of 1 to landfill, our condo is a: landfill.

Current conspiracy theory: Don Nguyen is, in fact, the 12th and final Cylon model.

Finish this sentence: This Thursday, I'm going to (EXPERIENCE MUSIC PROJECT for Free admission Thursdays)

Quote of the week: You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes...you might find....you get what you need. ---- The Rolling Stones

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Its a party in my mind, but no one accepts the evite...

To anyone that yearns for the days of yore when friends & acquaintances were available at a moment's whim to hang out.....To anyone mortified by the notion of scheduling get-togethers, shindigs, hootnannys with the same cold efficiency commonly reserved for, say, updating your Microsoft Outlook acct. at work....To everyone compelled, deep down inside, to ascend the clocktower, screaming "Where's the time gone?".....

I give you....monday's edition of Penny Arcade (btw, Penny Arcade is a popular webcomic; think The Daily Show, but w/ videogames instead of News)

click here for a bigger version.

...The Greatest Hits

JB: "you know what the best album of ALL TIME is, in fact?"

Dustin: "...what?"

JB: "...my hard drive."

I feel like the time is right (actually, its just a slow Friday at work...hee hee...) to compile my top 10 list of favorite albums ever...but first...a little perspective.

Not alot of ppl notice this right away (being the self-proclaimed music connieseur I make myself out to be), but I got into music relatively late (at 17-18 years old, in fact. I know...pretty n00b). However, between Napster (ok ok, Nirvana, check. Weezer, check. Smashing Pumpkins, check. No Doubt, check. Green Day, check.) and my too-hip-to-be-square parents (mom was a dj in college...true story. And my dad wore his hair down to his moneymaker, so you KNOW he had to listen to some tunes) I was scooping up entire discographies like gold dubloons from the Marianas trench (hmm...i see now why its called 'pirating.')

Back to the subject at hand....Top 10 list of favorite albums. Now, this isn't a list of the "BEST albums ever" cuz those are pretentious at best (btw, mine isn't ;) ). One of the allures of music is that its a strictly subjective experience; certain sounds are going to resonate more with certain ppl, I say.

Rather, the following 10 albums help to forge my musical spectrum; I acknowledge that there are greater ones....but hey....why don't you blog about it if you disagree!

10. Ray of Light, Madonna --- Electronic music with a heart. Madonna's most inspired album to date.

09. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah --- Frank Black's + Sonic Youth's power chord opuses = my #9 pick.

08. Silent Alarm, Bloc Party --- You could listen to Joy Division, Gang of Four, New Order, and all other artists of that ire....or you could listen to Bloc Party and hear the sound of 20 years of rock & new wave funneled through the band's capable & rock n rollin' hands.

07. Doolittle, the Pixies --- There'd be no "alternative music" without them, imho.

06. Play, Moby --- Moby's Play is more than an album, its a spiritual epiphany that coalesced into an album.

05. Absolution, Muse --- You won't find a sound that superbly combines Opera, Queen, Radiohead, or Metallica so deftly.

04. Dude Ranch, Blink 182 --- Everybody should know the words to at least ONE Blink 182 song. They're like the KISS of my generation.

03. Achtung Baby, U2 --- In Bono's own words, "Achtung Baby is the sound of U2 chopping down the Joshua Tree."

02. Joshua Tree, U2 --- No religious experience has yet to match the euphoria that I get from listening to this album, start to finish.

01. Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan --- The fact that ppl continue to emulate him to this day is testament to his legacy as a musican, a poet, an engima, and according to 2007's I'm Not There, a black kid from Tennessee, an androgynous woman, an retiring Billy the Kid-esque deity, a movie star, and apparently, a communist to boot.

Is that a rutabega in your pants?

March 14th, 11:00 AM. Gmail.com..........My friend from Vegas, Sarah S., drops with a tidbit of news...


Sarah: oh yeah. well...my sister's taking a part time job at this place: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/02/vegan-strip-club.php

11:02 AM me: as?

Sarah: a stripper

11:03 AM me: a carnivorous stripper?

Sarah: a VEGAN stripper

me: sarah, can i blog about this? lol

Sarah: sure. enjoy

me: i'll leave last names out

Sarah: np

me: no no i'll put in fictional
ones

11:04 AM me: like sarah skywalker.

Sarah: hey. i'd do it if it were in vegas. but that kinda thing only works in a city like portland.

me: you mean eugene, oregon right? Vegan strip clubs scream "Eugene."

Sarah: no, i mean portland.

Vegan strip-club, eh? Kinda reminds me of how the braintrust behind 2004's "Reign of Fire" must have felt when greenlighting that piece of sh---er, "creative synergy."

I can see it now.....

Person A: Hey i have an idea for a movie.....

Person B: I'm listening.

Person A: Its a science fiction post-apocalyptic movie....

Person B: zzzz zzzz zzz.....

Person A: .......WITH DRAGONS!

Person A: Sold! It'll be just like your future investment into vegan strip clubs. Synergastic!

Red Vs. Green

Show of hands....anybody know what's wrong with this picture?....anybody?

What you just saw is referred to as a "red band" trailer. Traditionally, the previews that appear before every cinematic feature look like this:

As your psychic prowess (coupled with your ability to read) have no doubt surmised, the "green band" trailers are more...family friendly (I abhor this concept as of late, since my 12 year old cousins have proved to be equally, if not more so, densensitized/hip than my relatively square ass). In other words, the content has been MPAA'ed by the MPAA (sorry kiddies, no graphic violence, sexual content, or objectionable imagery for ya).

Understand this first....I LOVE TRAILERS. They were half...no....2/3rds the fun of going to the movies....to catch what was on the horizon. Yes, we can all remember being burned by that "one movie with the awesome trailer" *cough* Episode I *cough* *cough* Hitman *end cough*. However, at their best, trailers...for a lack of a better word...."swede" their own movie, leaving in its wake, an unabashful sense of anticipation and enthusiasm for said movie.

So it comes with grrrreat pleasure to announce that Regal Cinemas has just announced that starting this year, they'll run the aforementioned "red band trailers" in theatres nationwide (hey come back kiddies, j/k. We'll put in the graphic violence, sexual content, and copious amounts of objectionable imagery).

Want proof that "red band trailers" work?

Watch the regular trailer for Forgetting Sarah Marshall....then the Red Band version of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and ask yourself....which movie do you want to see more?