shawn avery

i had some chinese food today in a strip mall in homewood. damn good stuff. i wonder if there is a chinese takeout flavored ice-cream out there somewhere? like spicy-sesame chicken crunch. check this out... a quick graphics based infomercial about bush's plans to dominate the globe, even if it means starting world war three . thanks to my college buddy stev e for posting this on his blog. he's gotten very political on there lately. sides are being taken, and he's hip baby. it's too bad i haven't seen him in four years.

he's apparently the most important dj in music. hmmm. he's described as also being the warhol of the west. that kinda makes sense. celebrities flock to him, and visa versa. he's quiet small, and get's more play than kobe. it's a fascinating movie about fame, the loss of fame, and people who love music. rent it ...

i'm doing a lunch time perusing of internet headlines and i read a news report about a global population trend study. i was floored by how a tenth of a percent increase or decrease in population growth could save or end the human race by the year 2300. notice in the study that if today's current population growth rates go unchanged, we will basically fuck ourselves out of existence. that puts an interesting spin on the pro-life movement. here's an excerpt: If fertility rates stabilize at 1.85, the population would shrink to 2.3 billion. If it went to 2.35, the population would balloon to 36.4 billion. If fertility rates remained unchanged from the 2000 rate of 2.83, there would be 134 trillion people in 2300, impossible to sustain. also... i wanna give some props to the guy who got my vote .

i had my bday party at the coffee shop / art gallery, downtown last night. all week ivan the terrible had been threatening to literally rain on my parade. but he came and went pretty quick. i never lost power at my apt. ivan knocked around all day thursday and fucked up some trees and left over 1 million alabama residents without electricity. friday was a different story. perfect weather. i remember this happening growing up in florida. the night of the hurricane you pack for the beach. because the next day is going to be excellent weather. but back to the party... i ended up having about 25-30 people including jesse and ashby performing some acoustic songs and aaron and shep throwin' down their usual excellent dj umm..."skillz." the cake was killer, the upstairs loft was chill. the entire band made their way there by 10pm. new friends, old friends. i can't complain. the only bummer was not being able to play my version of under the milky way tonight because we onl...