I hate all of you.

nah, just kidding. Jesse came by the studio where Dustin and I were rocking out. he got on the mic and surprisingly sounded pretty rad with what we were doing. I think were on to something!

keep ya posted.

here's some stupid pictures.

this is as close as i come to "southern" rita.

best gift ever!

2nd best would be if someone got me this rad mustard poster. what it was doing on a taqueria wall i'll never know.

i think these are plans for a time machine. they were up in some abandoned store front window.

i love it when stores make their own crappy signs. this one was made with conviction tho.
when they say no minors, they mean business!

thats what a drumset looks like packed away in my car.

I love Martinez!

So down in the news ticker this morning on the morning news i catch my home town "Martinez" abuzz by and wait for it to come around again.. it said.. Shell to pay almost $3M fine for Martinez refinery emissions. Shell being the giant oil refinery i've lived in the shadow of my whole life. The same Shell Oil that sent a spokesman to my high school who told us they didnt release anything other than steam.. water vapor and that it was completely safe.

The web article says;

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District announced today that the Shell Oil refinery in Martinez has paid $2.8 million to settle a series of violations of the Federal Clean Air act and local air district regulations ... beginning on March 9, the refinery released around 925 tons of carbon monoxide over a seven-day period...

i want some of that 2.8 mil! I was waiting for the part where it said it was going to pay the residents of Martinez. but uh.. nope.


anyway i love thier statements in defense.. imagine these read with the tone of a kid who just got caught eating cookies trying to make excuses.

" No one from the public called Shell to complain about the releases during seven days"

how would we know? like i'm gonna call and complain every day and say "are you SURE youre not releasing carbon minoxide into my air today? does carbon minoxide have a scent? a scent different than the fart chemical smell that comes from that place all the time?

they went on in defense of themselves;
"Under normal operations, the boilers convert carbon monoxide, a poisonous gas, to carbon dioxide, before it is released into the atmosphere"

oh nice. dont tell Al Gore. we convert poison into clean good for the environment, carbon dioxide!

but he kept digging...
"According to Ross, the entire Bay Area puts out about 3,000 tons of carbon monoxide per day. With Shell's emissions in March, the Bay Area's total carbon monoxide emissions only went up about 5 percent"

only 5% thats cool. so its like stubbing your toe after you get shot in the face?

they finished the interview with this whopper .."We want to run this place in a way that puts people and the planet first, and in cases in which we don't live up to that, we want to step up and do the right thing."

and "the right thing" i guess includes having minimum carbon monoxide limits. that they claim "had never before exceeded" so the govt. allows "poisonous' carbon monoxide into our air? sweet new born baby jesus!

dude when can we get off oil? seriously? i've been breathing this shit my whole life.
fuck you and your multibillion dollar profits Shell!!

McRetards

no, im not talking about my lunch break today.

I'm talking about mentally handicapped people working there. Remember those commercials in the 80's with the retarded guy who says "I dont know you but i love you" ? if anyone at mcdonalds told me they loved me.. i dont know i would be really uncomfortable.

but he was retarded so we forgive him. which is kind of rude because they're working at mcdonalds so they can fit in with everyone else and not get singled out. but NO mcdonalds goes and makes them the main feature of their commercail... "look we hire retards" even tho he probably just wants to be treated like every other shitty mcdonalds worker. He only wants to be just as sub-par and rude as all the other empoloyees and have people be mad at him for screwing up their order or not bringing it on time.

If you think about it you kind of have to be somewhat retarded to work there anyway. I'm sure they have one average to smart person working there who shoots to managment right away and is like their god. but they are better than mcdonalds and leave for a better job. maybe you should get diagnosed with some kind of mental handicap when you work there so that when you fuck up its cute and people just blow it off because after all you werent drooling and hitting your self in the head when you spilled the coke all over the ladies dress.

sorry about this random rant. and sorry if you know someone that is a retard. maybe you should get them a job at mcdonalds.... hell maybe they'll be smarter than the trash they have working there and they can be the one shooting up to managment. $9.00 an hour here we come!

happy cuatro de mayo

I hope i didnt screw that up.

We got offered Giants tix yesterday. they were great seats 3rd deck box, first row on the 3rd base side... only thing is that it was cold, and raining and the Giants sucked ass.

I'm jamming with a new band tonite. gonna see if they like me. i hope its cool. I'll keep you posted.



anyhoo, here's your friggin' photos.

jackson pollock tagged up the skatepark.

what was it that Mikhial said the cable on the beach was for.. a beacon or BACON!?

our seats... close to the action! we saw 3 foul balls land all around us.. thanks for the tip Val "no you wont need a glove, no foul balls ever come up there"

they should do a remake of Dumbo but use my dog instead.

former home of Ca. Governor from way back in the day. i drive by this daily

"go to the light carolann"

this one is for Jimbo "Surprise.... BOOBS!"

AT&T park from the street.

i dont love him.

by "failure" we mean "broken glass" and "personal injury"

my dad's name is David Shelton... but thats not him. IMPOSTER!!!

piglet... king of the castle.

666AAA

this is the grand lake theater. the one that made history when they waived the PG-13 rating so that all ages could go see Farienhiet 911. they are a totally left wing theater. check out the message they have up this week.. (click for big)

LOST... i dont buy this "were all dead" crap.

Here's my random thoughts on last night's LOST "the brig" in no particular order.


Sawyer and Lockes dad:
that was predicted that Cooper would be Sawyer, but cool to see the final outcome.
i wonder why ben wanted Cooper dead so bad?

Richard Alpert:
Cant trust anything the others say so i'm pretty much disregarding anything Richard said to Locke.

but if you want to lend any creedance into Alperts speech. i kinda thought that all along. that the pregnancy thing was just a side issue. which is why juliete has always seemed like an outsider. and more inclined to be part of a coup against ben who they might think is getting to high and mighty.

whatever "it" is might be blown out of proportion to what it really might end up being. the "others" have a faith or belief in something that isnt as special as they think.
reference the Twilight Zone episode "the old man in the cave"


Kate
... is a lying untrustworthy piece of crap slutface.
(who is using Sawyer for something just like the other men in her life)

They're dead?
OK if they are dead i'm cashing out right now and going home. But IMO they cant be dead because the others come and go, have contact with the outside world. also because Penny detected a signal from the islands coordinates. Unless the others are angels or gods or something they cant be dead.. if they are.. again.. i'm taking my last paycheck and putting in my notice ASAP. Cooper only thinks they are dead because he doesnt know anything except a car crash and then he was there. it was obviously set up by the others.

Juliette and Jack.
ok so, they arent dead...what then? Jack knows the secret and this is obviously why he's been acting like a tard since he came back. many think what "we should tell her" is that Kate is pregnant, that the comms are down or that the Sub (only way off the island) blew up. i still think its none of those things...i want to think it has to do with why the others are so ga-ga over the island and ben. Unless Cindy (the flight attendant turned Ben follower) isnt in on it, i dont understand why she is so into being an other now. i think jack got a glimpse of whatever it is and its enough to trust juliete and not be upfront with the losties right away.

Naomi:
Still an enigma. Sounds like the chain of events we predicted is pretty accurate. Snow guys find anomoly, report it to Penny. Penny disbaches Naomi's company to look for him. Why Penny knew to look for anomalys is another question that needs answered.
Sayid has the right idea. he doesnt and will not trust anyone. I think they need to find patchy to help him fix the radio. If there is a way off the island he knows.
If Jack and Juliet know theres a way off there must be something really big keeping them there. possibly to take down Ben.

also i think naomi wasnt sent to tell them they are all dead. she just happened to know about it through news reports


More Ruins:
not a 4 toed statue but seemed like they were from the same time. more evidence an ancient civilzation once inhabited the island. Locke doesnt ask about it.

Danielle:
what the heck did she need dynamite for? I didnt see Alex or Carl at the camp. maybe she was going to bust them out of a prison somewhere?

Smoke Monster Sounds
the smokey "tick tick tick tick " sounds were heard at the beginning of one of the scenes of locke or ben at the others camp. many have said its not there or that its just jungle sounds. i'll have to watch again. it was pretty distinct tho.

Sayid digging?
Why was Sayid digging in the jungle?

ok thats it... as always cant wait till next week!