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the best is the enemy of the rest... Jul. 29, 2006 - Saturday --- going to sleep vs. passing out --- Going to sleep is a conscious decision that mind and body make and agree on. ... Passing out is not... If someone says: "I'm gonna go pass out" ... they are grossly exaggerating ... ... no one can voluntarily pass out. ... It actually means they're going to go home ... shower ... brush their teeth ... floss ... put on some vitamin B12, aloe vera, exfoliating hydroxy moisturizer ... change into their favourite pair of pajamas and slowly tuck themselves into their bed while listening to the sweet sounds of Michael Bolton. ... Passing out, on the other hand, involves someone stumbling to their door, taking 12 minutes to find the right key, barging into their home like it was a Break and Enter, falling onto the nearest object that they can lie down on (often the floor in the foyer), losing consciousness with their shoes tied and their contacts still in ... and waking up at 4 pm with no idea how they got there. ... Jul. 27, 2006 - Thursday --- The downward facing dog rip --- So... My underwear ripped during Yoga class... Can life for a guy get anymore embarrassing than that? ... This isn't something I can talk about over a beer with my buds. ... This shit is really only reserved for talking to a therapist about. ... Of all the dumb luck; it was my second class ever. The sound of the ripping cotton alone is going to haunt my yoga career for as long as (4 weeks) it shall live... Jul. 25, 2006 - Tuesday --- Come as you are --- Nirvana weren't a terribly great band. ... They were a powerful three piece, no doubt. The ones who almost single-handedly saved musical humanity from the glitzed out, over produced, over coked up 80s ... and brought us into the ripped jeans, anti-fashion, anti-world, "I don't give a shit", heroin heaven 90s. ... But if you think about it... Nirvana weren't a great BAND. ... Kurt Cobain could only write a song with 3 chords. Krist Novoselic had some sleek enough bass lines, but they weren't anything special. ... Dave Grohl is, in my opinion, the most musically talented of the three. He was a hell of a drummer, but half of his kick came from the fact that he just played louder and faster than everyone else. ... Yeah, Nirvana's songs weren't anything special. ... Even lyrically, the songs weren't what I consider really great. ... I loved them and still do, but the themes of the songs never changed and there were too many songs about nothing for it to still be "arty". ... Hindsight is 20/20 (some might say x-ray), and it's easy for the critics to call Kurt a "genius" 10+ years after his death. ... I think his death was a good thing for his music... Cause I don't think his music would've been as good the older he got. ... Three albums, only two of which gained real airplay. ... One unplugged disc .. and a handful of demos here and there. ... A career that lasted all of 5 years. ... In and out. ... It was the way Nirvana were meant to go. Nirvana wasn't a great band and didn't make amazing music. The critics can't call them "genius" for just that. But what they stood for? ... What they meant to the youth of that day? (including me) ... The power that the standalone single "Smells like Teen Spirit" had and still has? ... ... well, let's all remember why Nirvana really were geniuses: Jul. 24, 2006 - Monday --- How rude!!!! --- Surprise of the day: Jodie Sweetin (the actress who played Stephanie Tanner on Full House) is a recovering Crystal Meth addict. Jodie Sweetin loves Crystal Meth Surprise of the day #2: Jodie Sweetin is kinda hot Jul. 22, 2006 - Saturday --- me, myself and yourself --- Do you ever talk to yourself? ... I do it when I'm at home alone sometimes. Most of the time I'm either drunk or high. ha ... But lemme ask you this, have you ever talked to yourself, then stopped yourself cause you were talking too much and said: "geez, listen to myself" ... ... think about that statement for a second. normally you'd tell someone else: "listen to yourself" ... But when you tell YOURself: "Listen to myself" ... the logic is hilarious. 1. You're talking to yourself. this entry was brought to you by: ... A saturday afternoon when I was by myself, talking to myself, caught myself saying: "listen to myself" ... and updating my webpage... Jul. 20, 2006 - Thursday --- Pocket Aces --- Why isn't "Jase" a more popular short form for Jason? ... I mean, we all know there's "Jay" ... But why doesn't "Jase" get any love? ... I myself have been called a multi-tude of different nick names in my time, including the ubiquitous "Jay" ... But no one I know, or have ever known, has called me "Jase" ... ... I'm "Jason" to most people and I'm always "Jason" when I introduce myself to someone new. ... My parents call me "Jason" or "Jai-seu-nee", which is how my Korean-English hybrid name sounds when you mate it with a Korean-accent. ... My brother and sister call me "Jason", the way you'd expect most people to call their siblings by their full name. ... A majority of my friends call me "Jay", which makes sense. ... There was a group of people in high school who used to call me "Jason Ahn". ... Like the full name with last name and everything. And they always said it in this annoying huff-puff voice. ... This group of people were the people who made fun of me all the time and made my high school experience something worse than really horrible shit. ... ... There was another group of people in high school who called me "J-man" ... These were the guys I played basketball with. "J-man" was cause I took good "J"s ... which is basketball slang for "jump shot" ... ... When I got to University, I became "babbo". ... Which is Korean for "dumb" or "slow", but has no bearing or significance on my current rant about nicknames for "Jason" ... right ... uhh where was I? ... ... A girl I worked with at BBT, called me "J-rock" or "J-rawk". ... That was cool cause it had bboy flavour to it. ... I'm all about the bboys. ... Many people, at one point, started calling me "J-dawg". ... (Let's call these people ... "black". ... ... ... ... I kid I kid. ... They weren't black; they were actually all Asian guys I worked with who really wanted to BE black.) ... The people in KCF (Korean Christian Fellowship) called me "Jay-Ahn" to distinguish me from another "Jay"... His name is "Jay Kim"... In true Korean fashion, the group also had two "Esther Lee"s ... They distinguished them by calling them "Esther 1" and "Esther 2: The second coming" ... And last but not least, my arrival in London has birthed a new nickname courtesy of the good folks at Monmouth House. ... "Jahn" ... It's pronounced "John", and the reason for it is because there are also two "Jay"s in London. ... There's "Jay" Cheng, who was here first, which means he gets to claim "Jay". ... But instead of calling me "Jay-2" or "Jay-Ahn" ... Monmouth cleverly (lazily?) decided to shorten it to "Jahn". ... Which happens to be the handle for my work email. ANyway ... Yeah. Why not "Jase"? ... It always made me wonder. Jul. 17, 2006 - Monday --- Yo momma forever --- Yo momma's so dumb she got hit by a parked car. Yo momma jokes, I've learned, can only be used at a certain age. ... This has nothing to do with people getting older and getting more mature... But more with the fact that as people get older, their momma's get ... ... uh ... dead ... As always, I must learn the hard way. So it was all but really awkward when I made a "Yo Momma" joke about someone who was in their mid 30s and had lost their momma 2 years ago. ... doh ... Either that, or he was playing the card where he tells me that his momma died when she really didn't. ... That's the worst ... I hate when that happens... Jul. 14, 2006 - Friday --- updates + Germany --- Here we go! ... Updates with pictures galore! ... And now, the highlights from my trip through the land of the Deutch:
Before coming to Berlin, I thought Germany was actually a country that lived up to it's stereotypes. Maybe it's because the only other time I've been was to get drunk at Oktoberfest. ... Berlin is a stark contrast from the rest of Germany. I had all but 48 hours there, but it was enough to make it one of my favourite cities in Europe. Jul. 10, 2006 - Monday --- Zinedine's a smart player... always using his head... ho ho ha ha ... rargh --- right... So I'm long overdue with rants and pictures and stories of trips and all that. ... But the world cup and Wimbledon are finally over so I have time to do something other than watch (and scream at) the TV. ... More posts to follow, but I'm still in World Cup mode. And now, the only thing that anyone will ever remember about World Cup 2006, and indeed, Zinedine Zidane's entire career. ...
I could honestly smoke a doob, put on some fast and dancy Gino-beats and just watch this thing over and over again... This animated GIF was brought to you by: Wikipedia... ... The website that had the Zidane headbutt story AND the animation posted only 2 hours after the World Cup final finished. ... ... Although France lost, and Italy's win is all but tarnished with the current football bribery scandal taking place... we can all at least take solace in the fact that Wikipedia is always a winner.
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